Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun discussed the Chen Clan’s new martial techniques and heard Zhu Wuneng demonstrate his unusual first soul skill, Wind-Calling Ears. Zhu Wuneng revealed that it let him hear distant sounds and fly, while Chen Xiaojun suspected it was bringing him closer to awakening the Wood Attribute.

• Chen Xiaojun suggested that Chen Cong study the Big Dipper Heavenly Array and combine it with the Seven Kill Sword Formation.
• Chen Menglin and Chen Qiujun argued about Mystic Night Pavilion’s strength until Chen Wenchao stopped them.
• Ye Xiuxin asked Zhu Wuneng about his new soul skill, and he revealed that Wind-Calling Ears enlarged his ears so he could hear from far away.
• At Chen Xiaojun’s urging, Zhu Wuneng used Wind-Calling Ears to fly and sense changes in the surrounding environment.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that Zhu Wuneng’s soul skill might be connected to the Wind Attribute and said that more Wood Attribute soul beasts could help him awaken the Wood Attribute.

Three years after awakening his martial soul, Fu'er accompanied his grandfather into Sunset Forest to hunt a second soul ring. When his grandfather restrained a suitable Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix, Zhu Wuneng claimed he had been pursuing it, and Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi arrived to challenge the old man's decision.

• Fu'er asked his grandfather why the Dugu Clan relied on poison, and his grandfather urged him to train until he could control it.
• Fu'er and his grandfather spotted a roughly seven-hundred-year-old Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix, and his grandfather used Shadow Serpent Hand to hem it in.
• Zhu Wuneng flew up and said he had wounded the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix during his own pursuit and needed its soul ring.
• Fu'er's grandfather argued that Zhu Wuneng had lost his chance when he let the beast escape.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi appeared on a nearby tree, and Chen Xiaojun said the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix could still be caught.

Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Zhu Wuneng challenged Dugu Lin’s claim to the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix and proved their strength by withstanding his fourth soul skill. Dugu Lin conceded the beast to them, then called out to people hiding nearby.

• Chen Xiaojun argued that his group had found and hunted the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix first, while Dugu Lin insisted they prove their strength by taking one move from him.
• Chen Xiaojun gave false names for himself and his companions as Xiao Hongchen, Xiao Yi, and Tian Peng before Dugu Lin unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill, Shadow Serpent Hand.
• Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Zhu Wuneng combined their soul skills to destroy the flying serpents, impressing Dugu Lin and his grandson Du Gu Fu.
• Dugu Lin demonstrated the gap in their power by appearing behind the children before returning in front of them, but he did not attack.
• Dugu Lin awarded the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix to Chen Xiaojun and his companions, then called for the people watching from behind a distant tree to come out.

Dugu Lin met his old classmate Zhu Yanfeng and learned that the Chen Clan’s Chen Cong was a Titled Douluo. After Chen Xiaojun offered Dugu Lin’s grandson a suitable seventh-grade soul beast, the group was left with a promising lead: the Nether Azure Serpent.

• Dugu Lin sensed others nearby and reunited with Zhu Yanfeng, who was protecting the Chen Clan children.
• Dugu Lin recognized Chen Cong as a Chen Clan expert and respectfully addressed him as Qiankun Crown after Zhu Yanfeng revealed his title.
• Zhu Yanfeng explained that his grandnephew Zhu Wuneng had a beneficially mutated martial soul and was absorbing the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix’s soul ring.
• Chen Xiaojun apologized to Dugu Lin for concealing his identity and introduced himself as Chen Cong’s elder brother’s youngest grandson.
• Chen Xiaojun told Dugu Lin that the Nether Azure Serpent was a seventh-grade serpent-type soul beast well suited to his family’s Azure Scaled Serpent martial soul.

Chen Xiaojun guided Dugu Lin and Du Gu Fu to Nether Azure Serpents, allowing Du Gu Fu to obtain a powerful second Soul Skill. The chapter ended with Zhu Yanfeng and Dugu Lin praising the boys’ talent and discussing their promising futures.

• Chen Xiaojun explained that the Nether Azure Serpent suited the Dugu Family and offered to lead Dugu Lin and Du Gu Fu to one.
• Du Gu Fu successfully absorbed a Nether Azure Serpent soul ring and gained the Second Soul Skill Netherworld Poison Shadow.
• Du Gu Fu demonstrated how Netherworld Poison Shadow cloaked him in poisonous mist, obscured his movements, and left hindering snake shadows on a target.
• Zhu Yanfeng praised Du Gu Fu's Soul Skill, and Dugu Lin celebrated how well the Nether Azure Serpent matched the Azure Scaled Serpent.
• Zhu Yanfeng and Dugu Lin compared the ten-year-old Du Gu Fu's talent with the nine-year-old Zhu Wuneng's potential.

Zhu Wuneng demonstrated the powerful Five Elements Extinction Divine Light he gained from absorbing a seven-hundred-year Soul Ring. Chen Xiaojun traced the mutated Soul Skill to Wuneng’s awakened Wood Attribute and the shattered Heart of the Divine Tree.

• Zhu Wuneng revealed that absorbing the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix Soul Ring had raised him to rank 22 and then demonstrated his Second Soul Skill by blasting through a great tree.
• Du Gu Fu, Dugu Lin, and Zhu Yanfeng praised the destructive power of Wuneng’s attack.
• Chen Xiaojun examined the tree’s five elemental marks and identified the Soul Skill as the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Wuneng whether he had awakened the Wood Attribute, and Wuneng described how the Soul Ring and the Heart of the Divine Tree caused Soul Power to surge into his eyes.
• Wuneng showed Chen Xiaojun the shattered Heart of the Divine Tree, and Chen Xiaojun explained that the five elements had cycled together and mutated the Soul Skill through the destructive power of Five Elements Counteraction.

Chen Xiaojun explained how Xiao Yi awakened water and fire attributes and the Five Elements Intergeneration power after absorbing two immortal herbs. He then helped Zhu Wuneng discover that Wood Attribute soul power activated his true Second Soul Skill, leaving him with a newly identified ability limited to Wood Attribute and the Five Elements Destruction Power.

• Chen Cong praised the destructive force of Zhu Wuneng's Five Elements Counteraction power, and Chen Xiaojun contrasted it with Xiao Yi's Five Elements Intergeneration.
• Chen Xiaojun recalled that Xiao Yi absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Spring, awakening water and fire attributes and Five Elements Intergeneration.
• Chen Xiaojun told Zhu Wuneng to channel different attributes of soul power into his Second Soul Ring and eyes.
• Zhu Wuneng's Metal Attribute soul power produced only the familiar green ripples in his eyes, but Wood Attribute soul power caused them to shine and cast disorienting Phantoms around him.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the Five Elements Destruction Power released through Zhu Wuneng's mutated eyes was an Inheritance Soul Skill, while the newly awakened ability was the soul skill of his own soul ring.
• Zhu Wuneng tested other attributes and found that only Wood Attribute soul power and the Five Elements Destruction Power could activate his eyes.

Chen Xiaojun explained Zhu Wuneng’s Five Elements Extinction Divine Light and helped name his Second Soul Skill Phoenix Eye. After learning that Chen Xiaojun was level 30 with a three-thousand-year Second Soul Ring, Dugu Lin invited him to attend Exotic Beast Academy.

• Chen Xiaojun explained that Zhu Wuneng’s Five Elements Extinction Divine Light arose from his awakened Five Elements Destruction Power and could grow stronger with cultivation.
• Chen Xiaojun named Zhu Wuneng’s Second Soul Skill Phoenix Eye, and Zhu Wuneng accepted the name amid the group’s teasing and congratulations.
• Dugu Lin asked Chen Xiaojun about his cultivation, and Chen Xiaojun revealed that he was level 30 and had a three-thousand-year Second Soul Ring.
• Dugu Lin invited Chen Xiaojun to attend Exotic Beast Academy so his grandson could benefit from being near a peerless genius.

Dugu Lin invited Chen Xiaojun to attend Exotic Beast Academy, offering him dedicated resources and even proposing to give Zhu Yanfeng the vice dean position. Chen Xiaojun thanked him but made no immediate decision, leaving the invitation unresolved.

• Zhu Yanfeng mocked Dugu Lin for seeking Chen Xiaojun after becoming Exotic Beast Academy's vice dean.
• Dugu Lin formally invited Chen Xiaojun to attend Exotic Beast Academy, but Chen Cong explained that Chen Xiaojun had an earlier arrangement with Soul Fighting Academy.
• Dugu Lin argued that Exotic Beast Academy could offer Chen Xiaojun focused resources and offered Zhu Yanfeng the vice dean position.
• Chen Xiaojun calmly said he would consider the invitation, and Dugu Lin became discouraged.
• Dugu Fu praised Chen Xiaojun and offered to acknowledge him as his oldest brother, but Chen Xiaojun said they were friends instead.

Chen Xiaojun explained possible ways to suppress the Dugu Clan’s Poison Backlash, including hot springs and poisonous soul bones. Dugu Lin judged the ideas feasible and thanked Chen Xiaojun, while Du Gu Fu declared him his big brother.

• Du Gu Fu praised Chen Xiaojun and revealed that the Azure Scaled Serpent’s poison caused dangerous aftereffects for his family.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that his clan had overcome a similar martial-soul backlash but said its method would not suit the Dugu Clan.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested using extreme heat to purge poison and storing excess toxins in soul bones from poisonous soul beasts.
• Dugu Lin confirmed that the ideas could buy the clan time and extend its members’ lives, though someone would need to test the method at personal risk.
• Dugu Lin bowed and thanked Chen Xiaojun on behalf of the Dugu Clan, and Du Gu Fu called him his big brother.

Chen Xiaojun proposed three ways to address the Dugu Clan’s Azure Scaled Serpent poison: forming a poisonous Inner Core, using the Lower Soul Nest as an extra storage space, and fighting poison with poison. Dugu Lin saw new hope in the ideas but recognized that they would be difficult and dangerous to carry out.

• Dugu Lin promised that the Dugu Clan would follow Chen Xiaojun alone if he could resolve their thousand-year hidden danger.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested condensing the essence of poison into an Inner Core to increase the Azure Scaled Serpent’s poisonous Soul Power storage.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed modifying the Meditation Method to use the empty Lower Soul Nest as a second space for storing poisonous Soul Power.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed using the Five Poisons to suppress the Azure Scaled Serpent’s venom and strengthen the Dugu Clan’s poison arts, warning that the method could be fatal.

During the journey to Sunset City, Chen Xiaojun shared soul master knowledge with Dugu Lin and Du Gu Fu and gave Du Gu Fu a Heart of the Divine Tree to help suppress his poison. After parting, the grandfather and grandson discussed Chen Xiaojun’s interest in their family, and Du Gu Fu resolved to pursue the five-poison soul-ring path.

• Chen Xiaojun discussed soul beasts, soul rings, combat techniques, and poison-related knowledge with the Dugu grandfather and grandson on the way to Sunset City.
• At the city gates, Chen Xiaojun gave Du Gu Fu a Heart of the Divine Tree and explained its healing and growth-enhancing uses.
• Du Gu Fu accepted the gift, and he and Dugu Lin parted from Chen Xiaojun with their bond strengthened.
• At the Dugu Family’s residence, Du Gu Fu and Dugu Lin recognized that Chen Xiaojun’s gift and proposed poison treatments represented a substantial favor and a sign of his interest in their family.
• Du Gu Fu decided to choose the five poisons as his soul rings, inspired by the Five Elements abilities he had seen and determined not to fall behind.

Chen Xiaojun explained his plan to recruit the Du Gu Family and the Soul Breaking Spear Yang Family to strengthen the Chen Clan. He left the group considering how to approach the Yang Family, whose long-standing relationship with the Chen Clan made joining a delicate matter.

• Chen Xiaojun told Chen Cong and Zhu Yanfeng that he had befriended the Du Gu grandfather and grandson to make the Du Gu Family consider joining the Chen Clan.
• Chen Xiaojun argued that the Chen Clan needed to recruit small and medium-sized clans to offset losses and prepare for a future upheaval without changing its cautious, semi-secluded system.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the Du Gu Family’s poison skills could give the Chen Clan a major advantage in large-scale warfare.
• Chen Xiaojun named the Soul Breaking Spear Yang Family as another target, citing its combat and poison expertise, its recent losses, and its interest in the Chen Clan’s resources.
• Chen Xiaojun noted that the Yang Family had been the Chen Clan’s equal for years, so he needed to find an opportunity that would make joining easier for them.

Chen Xiaojun outlined plans to bring the Du Gu Family and Yang Family into Chen Lin Village, explaining their character, needs, and the effects their arrival might have on the village. He won Zhu Yanfeng’s support and left with Chen Cong and Zhu Yanfeng discussing how to prepare for the families’ arrival.

• Chen Xiaojun told Chen Cong that the Yang Family’s loyalty and current predicament made him confident he could persuade them to join.
• Chen Xiaojun described the Du Gu Family’s emphasis on trust, righteousness, and family honor, and compared it with the Yang Family’s loyalty.
• Chen Cong asked about the impact of absorbing the families, and Chen Xiaojun said the main changes would affect the Zhaowu Nine Clans’ interests.
• Zhu Yanfeng declared the Zhu Clan’s support and agreed to alert the other families and prepare them for the Du Gu Family.
• Chen Cong realized Chen Xiaojun had shared his plans partly to gain their backing and help persuade the elders.
• Chen Xiaojun, Chen Cong, and Zhu Yanfeng discussed winning over the Du Gu Family, plotting for the Yang Family, and preparing for future changes.

At Sunset Great Soul Arena, Chen Xiaojun competed under the name Da Siming, Xiao Hongchen, in his first Soul Duel against Fang Yongsheng. He defeated Fang Yongsheng with his swordsmanship and Chunjun Sword, leaving his victory declared but the story’s next step unstated.

• The host introduced Fang Yongsheng, a four-match winner, and newcomer Da Siming, Xiao Hongchen, before their duel began.
• Chen Xiaojun used his swordplay and footwork to overcome Fang Yongsheng’s Iron Armor Enhancement and Iron Sand Palm attacks.
• Fang Yongsheng unleashed his Air Heavy Cannon, but Chen Xiaojun dodged its force with Spiral Nine Shadows and counterattacked.
• As Fang Yongsheng tired, Chen Xiaojun used Chunjun Sword’s charged sword-energy attack to break his defense and send him flying.
• Chen Xiaojun pointed his sword at Fang Yongsheng and told him he had lost.

Chen Xiaojun won his first Great Soul Arena battle without using soul skills, then reunited with Xiao Yi and Zhu Wuneng at the Sunset City arena. As they waited for Chen Shihua to return and help arrange Chen Xiaojun’s Third Ring soul beast hunt, the group discussed their arena names.

• Chen Xiaojun defeated Fang Yongsheng without using a soul skill and registered his first Great Soul Arena victory.
• Chen Qingrui praised Chen Xiaojun and explained that he had become the Sunset City Great Soul Arena’s new chief manager while the Chen Clan strengthened its defenses around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Chen Xiaojun asked when Chen Shihua would return, and Chen Qingrui said he should be back soon with news and instructions.
• Xiao Yi and Zhu Wuneng returned after winning their own battles, and Zhu Wuneng complained that his opponent had been weak.
• Chen Xiaojun explained the meanings of Da Siming and Shao Siming, leaving Xiao Yi blushing when Zhu Wuneng wondered whether the titles made them a pair.

Chen Xiaojun and Zhu Wuneng watched a Soul King-level Life and Death Battle begin at the Sunset Great Soul Arena. The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep fighter and the Thunder Wolf fighter traded powerful skills, and the duel remained unresolved as the Thunder Wolf appeared behind his opponent.

• Chen Qingrui announced that the arena’s main event was a Soul King-level Life and Death Battle, exciting the audience.
• The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep fighter and the Thunder Wolf fighter entered the arena and activated their Martial Soul Possessions.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized the Three-Eyed Magic Sheep, and Chen Qingrui explained that its fighter was a survivor of the Magic Sheep Sect, wiped out three years earlier.
• The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep fighter unleashed his Third Soul Skill, Dark Mist, filling the arena with poisonous black fog.
• The Thunder Wolf fighter used his Fourth Soul Skill, Lightning Speed, vanished into the fog, and reappeared behind the Three-Eyed Magic Sheep.

The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master defeated the Thunder Wolf soul master in a Life and Death Battle by deceiving him with a phantom and using Magic Sheep Divine Light to freeze him. The match ended with the Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master celebrating his victory in the Sunset Great Soul Arena.

• The Thunder Wolf soul master clashed with the Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master’s Dark Magic Horn, then appeared to stab and destroy him with his lightning longsword.
• The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master revealed that he had used Multiple Demonic Shadows to create a phantom and evade the fatal thrust.
• The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master used Magic Sheep Divine Light, leaving the Thunder Wolf soul master frozen with fear as the fighters clashed again.
• Chen Qingrui and Chen Xiaojun recognized that Magic Sheep Divine Light had turned the fight in the Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master’s favor.
• The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master controlled the fight, knocked the Thunder Wolf soul master down with his Dark Magic Horn, and stopped once he could no longer fight.
• The Three-Eyed Magic Sheep soul master raised his hands and celebrated as the spectators cheered his victory.

Chen Xiaojun traveled along the Heaven Dou Yangtze River with his companions and discussed whether to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring as his third ring. He remained undecided after Chen Cong advised him to weigh the risks against the strength it could bring.

• Chen Xiaojun and his companions admired the river scenery and joked together aboard their boat.
• Chen Cong noticed Chen Xiaojun had been restless and asked what was troubling him.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that his third Yuchang Pearl could increase his soul ring age limit by 4,000 years, potentially allowing him to withstand a ten-thousand-year third ring.
• Chen Cong said Chen Xiaojun could attempt it if he had enough confidence, but advised caution if his strength was not stable.
• Chen Xiaojun pondered Chen Cong's advice and continued weighing the decision.

Chen Cong explained the importance of the Fifth Soul Skill to Chen Xiaojun and shared how She Yaolei of the Serpent Spear She Family had once wounded him. He described the family's powerful Thunderclap Burst Kill and the perilous evolution faced by Violet Thunder Golden Light Pythons, leaving Chen Xiaojun intrigued by the rare soul beast.

• Chen Cong told Chen Xiaojun that the Fifth Soul Skill was a crucial link in a soul master's combat system and that Chen Xiaojun's Third Soul Skill could rival another person's Fifth.
• Chen Cong showed Chen Xiaojun a long spear wound and revealed that level 92 Titled Douluo She Yaolei of the Serpent Spear She Family had inflicted it decades earlier.
• Chen Cong explained that the She Family's Fifth Soul Skill, Thunderclap Burst Kill, came from the Violet Thunder Golden Light Python and could outmatch many ten-thousand-year Soul Skills.
• Chen Cong described how Violet Thunder Golden Light Pythons faced a deadly lightning tribulation and spiritual cleansing when they reached ten thousand years of cultivation.
• Chen Xiaojun became fascinated by the soul beast's evolution process and wondered inwardly whether it resembled a tribulation for a demon race.