Recaps

After recovering from the inheritance that overwhelmed him, Chen Xiaojun organized the care and assessment of captives rescued from the Bone Excavation Group, while shaping opportunities for the Chen Clan’s recruits and cooks. The arc left him heading to a meeting about Huagai District, with a suspicious woman still concealed among the rescued group.

• Chen Xiaojun awoke after two days unconscious, reunited with his recovering companions, and learned that Xiao Yi was likely safe.
• Chen Xiaojun authorized the rescued children and women to have their restraints removed, and Chen Mu assessed their martial souls and potential.
• Chen Mu discovered Lin Dong’s Ice Blood Dragon Martial Soul and high aptitude, but Chen Xiaojun insisted he would earn advancement under the Chen Clan’s ordinary rules.
• Ma Liang defeated Lin Dong, Bian Zhu, and Xiang Feng in a courtyard match, revealing his strength and identity as a highly ranked young genius.
• Chen Xiaojun arranged Xin Shouyi’s instruction for Bao Ruoxi and made her Mai Zheleng’s goddaughter, while she chose to remain with the girls and offered Lin Dong a healing bun.
• Chen Xiaojun outlined a Warrior Chef force and directed Gu Yuanchao to train Gu Zijian, including teaching him the Starry Sky Formless Scripture while keeping the possibility of a Secondary Awakening secret.
• Chen Xiaojun used the Eye of Judgment on the rescued group and noticed a woman surrounded by dark red karmic fire, who stayed hidden.
• Du Gu Fu told Chen Xiaojun that Tang Hengyu and Tan Yashuang had arrived to discuss Huagai District, and Chen Xiaojun headed to the Council Hall.

Chen Xiaojun and the Chen Clan reorganized Huagai District after defeating the Bone Excavation Group, bringing rival factions into an alliance and proposing the Evil-Absorbing Formation for Iron Jaw Fortress. Interrogations exposed Barton’s rise and the Bone Excavation Group’s ties to Spirit Hall, but the questions surrounding Spirit Hall’s use of trafficked soul masters remained open.

• Chen Zhang offered the Rust Brothers Company, the Shadow Sisterhood, and the Jingcheng Merchant Association terms for joining the Chen Clan’s new order, and Tang Hengyu and Hahn Connally agreed to cooperate.
• Chen Zhang divided the Bone Excavation Group’s captured assets and prisoners among the allied families, ordered the fortress sealed, and assigned investigations into Barton and his suspected Spirit Hall connections.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed rebuilding Huagai District with trade routes, soul beast farms, refugee registration, and a training base for Soul Masters with negative martial souls.
• Chen Xiaojun presented the Evil-Absorbing Formation, and the alliance made it a priority for Iron Jaw Fortress after learning it could manage baleful energy and support the families’ martial souls.
• Chen Xiaojun and Qin Luguang interrogated Dou Jing and his captured subordinates, and Chen Xiaojun absorbed Dou Jing’s concealed attack as negative energy.
• Chen Xiaojun pressured Dou Jing into revealing Barton’s history and disclosed the Bone Excavation Group’s expansion, hidden channels, and human trafficking.
• Dou Jing revealed that trafficked young soul masters were sent to Spirit Hall’s Garrison Army, while Blood Fang’s faction controlled trafficking and special resources within the group.

As Heaven Dou City descended into panic over the Lord of Corrupt Blood, Chen Xiaojun investigated the danger of Da Siming’s cocoon and strengthened ties with his allies. At Iron Jaw Fortress, Bi Qing Xiu’s escape attempt caused chaos before Chen Xiaojun captured and restrained her.

• Dou Jing told Zhu Yanfeng and Qin Luguang that Barton had once held principles but had become trapped by the Jin Family and Spirit Hall.
• Ma Yinqi confronted Chen Jianjun with revelations about Donghuang Xiuyi and Chen Xiaojun’s strength, while Chen Jianjun’s team prepared for a deadly tournament clash with Xiao Yi and Xiaojun.
• Ye Xiao’s team attacked Crimson Embrace cultists preparing Qinghuang Sword Monarch as a vessel, but a dying priest’s seven-day prophecy triggered panic throughout the Underground World.
• Chen Xun and Zhu Hanshu arranged reinforcements and clan expansion, while Chen Hanxin helped establish the ancestral land as a second headquarters and Chen Xiaojun beheaded Xue Li Luke after he led captives in protest.
• Chen Xiaojun investigated the Black-Red Light Cocoon’s influence and cautiously fed it Nine Yang True Qi, then gave Ma Liang the Flame Breathing Technique and discussed the coming unrest and a possible Young Master’s Guard.
• Qingluo escaped her restraints and fought Zuo Jinhua and other Chen Clan fighters across Iron Jaw Fortress, unleashing waves of poison spiders that injured and killed people while she tried to reach the wall.
• Chen Xiaojun waited in Qingluo’s escape route and identified her as Bi Qing Xiu, then used Da Siming’s Mind Reading Technique and the Yin Sha Deep Abyss Seal to restrict her powers.
• Chen Xiaojun sealed Bi Qing Xiu’s Soul Nests as Qin Luguang locked her meridians, and Chen Mu escorted her to a private room where she accepted being called his big sister and teased him after he treated her wound.