Chapter Summaries

The Sea Soul Beasts launched a massive assault on Vast Sea City, battering its walls, ships, and streets as the City Garrison struggled to hold the defenses. Conscripting Soul Masters joined the battle and helped stabilize the defensive line, but the siege continued with casualties mounting.

• The Calamity Fish led the Sea Soul Beasts in a fierce attack on the city wall while guards fought back with shields, arrows, and fire-oil bombs.
• Lobster Soul Beasts, Sea Crabs, and Fish Swarms attacked the navy’s ships and the city’s defenses, while ranged assaults damaged buildings and injured residents.
• The City Garrison deployed defensive devices and split its forces between the wall, docks, and waterways, but the growing assault began to overwhelm the guards.
• The conscripted Soul Masters joined the battle, using defensive, assault, agility, control, support, and mental abilities against the Sea Soul Beasts.
• The Soul Masters helped the guards reorganize their defenses and repel the beasts, though the battle remained underway and casualties continued.

Chen Xiaojun, Bo Saixi, and their teammates fought together to hold back the Sea Soul Beasts at Vast Sea City’s wall. After hours of battle, the Calamity Fish Leader summoned stronger beasts, and their attacks began breaking through the rampart.

• Bo Saixi used her Water Control Art while Chen Xiaojun and the rest of the team attacked, supported and healed one another as they defended the wall.
• The team’s coordinated fighting helped stabilize their section of the wall and reassured the guards.
• After two or three hours, the defenders repelled the first assault, but the Calamity Fish Leader roared and drew stronger Sea Soul Beasts into the attack.
• Sharks, giant whales, Sea Snakes, and sea turtles battered the wall with their speed, strength, venom, and defenses.
• The new assault opened several breaches in the already weakened front section of the wall.

A Calamity Fish attacked Bo Saixi and the others, but Chen Xiaojun wounded its right eye before it unleashed devastating fire and water attacks. The injured beast then used Water-Slapping Glide to rush straight at Chen Xiaojun.

• A Calamity Fish used Water-Slapping Glide and Flame Impact to charge Bo Saixi, but Chen Xiaojun knocked it off course with his Chengying Sword.
• Bo Saixi dodged with Water Aversion Art—Spirit Travel and warned the group that the Calamity Fish was close to Ten Thousand Year Cultivation.
• Chen Xiaojun's Twin Formless Han Guang Sword pierced the Calamity Fish's right eye, enraging it.
• The Calamity Fish unleashed fire rain and a Water-Fire Storm that battered and burned the defenders.
• The Calamity Fish used Water-Slapping Glide to appear before Chen Xiaojun and attack him with flames.

Zhu Wuneng shielded Chen Xiaojun from the Calamity Fish as the group fought the powerful Soul Beast. Bo Saixi struck its mental weakness, leaving it confused and in pain while the battle continued.

• Zhu Wuneng used Golden Bell Shield to block the Calamity Fish's attack on Chen Xiaojun, and Xiao Yi pulled them out of danger with Ageless Evergreen Ivy.
• Xin Mengshen and Luo Zhenjun attacked the Calamity Fish, distracting it and giving the others room to regroup.
• Sea Dragon asked Chen Cong whether he would join the fight, but Chen Cong trusted the young fighters to handle the less-than-ten-thousand-year-old Soul Beast.
• Chen Xiaojun attacked with the Chunjun Sword and Void Star Shatter, but the Calamity Fish summoned two water-fire copies with its Water-Fire Dual Strike.
• Chen Xiaojun called for mental attacks, and Bo Saixi used Sea Ripple to strike the Calamity Fish's mind, weakening its mental strength and leaving it briefly confused and in pain.

Chen Xiaojun and his teammates coordinated their soul skills to restrain and overwhelm the Calamity Fish. Zhu Wuneng’s Five Elements Extinction Divine Light opened a devastating wound, and the team brought the beast down.

• Zhu Wuneng used Phoenix Eye to confuse the Calamity Fish, while Bo Saixi bound it with Water Control Art—Wave Stabilization.
• Chen Xiaojun and the others attacked the immobilized Calamity Fish as Xiao Yi’s Ageless Evergreen Ivy tightened its hold.
• Chen Xiaojun boosted his attributes and struck the Calamity Fish with his Chunjun Sword, but its reinforced scales resisted his attacks.
• At Chen Xiaojun’s signal, Zhu Wuneng unleashed Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, blasting a huge wound into the Calamity Fish and hindering its recovery.
• Chen Xiaojun pierced the wound with Sword Qi Hundred Step Flying Sword, while Xi Xi and Ruia added another deep strike.
• The combined attacks left the Calamity Fish unable to resist, and Chen Xiaojun and his teammates defeated it.

Chen Xiaojun chose to absorb a nine-thousand-year Calamity Fish soul ring as his third ring, keeping its age below ten thousand years to avoid drawing danger to the Chen Clan. He began absorbing it in the Corner Tower, where the process strengthened his body and soul power.

• After the Calamity Fish fell, Chen Xiaojun dragged it toward the Corner Tower while Xiao Yi told Bo Saixi he intended to absorb its soul ring.
• Chen Xiaojun told Chen Cong he had rejected a ten-thousand-year third ring because it would attract dangerous attention to the Chen Clan.
• Chen Xiaojun argued that the Calamity Fish's bloodline, soul skill, and compatibility made its nine-thousand-year ring a worthy choice, and Chen Cong accepted his decision.
• Chen Xiaojun killed the Calamity Fish with one sword strike and began absorbing its deeply purple soul ring.
• Chen Xiaojun used the Nine Yang Divine Skill to withstand the ring's power as the Yuchang Pearl devoured much of its soul power and his body grew stronger.

As Sea Soul Beasts surged through a breach in the city wall, Zhu Yanfeng, Ou Ya, and Luo Zongyan joined the defense and turned back the attack. Zhu Yanfeng’s shields held the gap, leaving the beasts unable to break through.

• Zhu Yanfeng petrified a True King Level calamity fish with his Eighth Soul Skill, Petrification Eye.
• Ou Ya struck the petrified calamity fish with his Fifth Soul Skill, Raging Sea Surging Wave Fist, smashing it and scattering nearby Sea Soul Beasts.
• Luo Zongyan used his Fourth Soul Skill, Black Shadow Strangulation, to attack and kill Sea Soul Beasts in the water.
• Zhu Yanfeng reinforced the breach with Stone Armor Shield and Golden Bell Shield while Ou Ya and Luo Zongyan guarded the flanks.
• The defenders held the gap, preventing the Sea Soul Beasts from breaking through.

Long Zhenrang and Ning Chi fought together against the Sea Soul Beasts, while Gui Mingyun used his defensive skill to seal a breach in Vast Sea City's wall. The Great Soul Arena’s section held firm against the assault.

• Long Zhenrang transformed into his Jade Dragon Martial Soul True Body as Ning Chi boosted his abilities with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Long Zhenrang swept through the seawater, using his Jade Dragon skills to attack the Sea Soul Beasts and disrupt them with his roar.
• Long Zhenrang’s Jade Dragon Dance battered a ten-thousand-year Deep Sea Whale until it sank into the deep sea.
• Gui Mingyun unleashed Mountains and Peaks to block the breach and hinder the Sea Soul Beasts’ advance.
• Zhu Yanfeng, Gui Mingyun, and the soul masters held their section of the wall against the Sea Soul Beast attack.

After three years, Chen Xiaojun reunited with the system and drew the Full Set of Breathing Techniques from Demon Slayer. He received the manual and showed it to Chen Cong, who asked whether it was the reward for his third soul ring.

• Chen Xiaojun encountered the system again and was praised for reaching Soul Elder at nine years old.
• Chen Xiaojun began the lottery and drew the Method category.
• The system awarded Chen Xiaojun the Full Set of Breathing Techniques from Demon Slayer and stored it in his Storage Bracelet.
• Chen Xiaojun learned that the set included fourteen breathing techniques, including Sun Breathing and its derived styles.
• Chen Xiaojun took the breathing technique book from his Storage Soul Tool, and Chen Cong asked whether it was the reward from his third soul ring.

Chen Xiaojun gave Chen Cong the Demon Slayer Breathing Technique, and Chen Cong recognized its potential to strengthen the Chen Clan’s cultivation and combat systems. They discussed matching the different breathing styles to the clan’s paths and allies, leaving Chen Cong prepared to organize a study of the technique and report it to the clan elders.

• Chen Xiaojun gave Chen Cong the breathing technique and explained that it came from another world and included fourteen styles.
• Chen Cong studied the technique and praised how it could combine Soul Power with breathing to strengthen cultivation, blood, and the body.
• Chen Xiaojun explained how styles such as Sun Breathing, Moon Breathing, Thunder Breathing, Wind Breathing, and Water Breathing could suit different Chen Clan paths.
• Chen Cong agreed to organize the clan’s experts to study the breathing technique and report it to Chen Xiaojun’s great-grandfather and grandfather.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested suitable breathing styles for the follower clans and argued that Moon Breathing best matched the Chen Clan’s Seven Kill Sword.
• Chen Cong revealed that the Chen Clan and Ximen Family suspected their martial souls had a hidden slaughter attribute.

The Calamity Fish Leader launched an all-out attack on Vast Sea City as Spirit Hall’s soul masters fought desperately to hold the city wall. Sa Shanghai’s counterattacks began to turn the battle, but the Calamity Fish Saint King entered the fray and unleashed a massive Wind Fire Whirlwind toward the defenders.

• Chen Cong sensed Title Level power and left Chen Xiaojun to investigate while Xiaojun studied a Breathing Technique.
• The Sea Soul Beasts overwhelmed Spirit Hall’s front line, killing soul masters who refused to retreat.
• Sa Shanghai used his Fourth Soul Skill, Chain Penetration, to devastate the Sea Soul Beasts and help Spirit Hall gain the upper hand.
• The Calamity Fish Saint King arrived at the main city gate and gathered wind and fire into a huge whirlwind.
• The Calamity Fish Saint King sent the Wind Fire Whirlwind crashing toward the city wall, filling the defenders with terror.

Sa Shanghai and Xu Xin combined their abilities to hold off the Calamity Fish Leader’s Wind Fire Whirlwind until Xue Bentao arrived and helped destroy it. The attack was neutralized, leaving the battlefield devastated and the Soul Masters exhausted.

• Sa Shanghai used his Deep Sea Silver Chain Shield to resist the Calamity Fish Leader’s Wind Fire Whirlwind, but the defense began to fail.
• Xu Xin arrived and used Energy Infusion to strengthen Sa Shanghai and reinforce the chain shield.
• Xue Bentao reached the battlefield and unleashed Blood Feather Wheel Slash against the Calamity Fish Leader and the Wind Fire Whirlwind.
• Xue Bentao’s slashes weakened the Wind Fire Whirlwind, and Sa Shanghai held off its remaining force until the attack vanished.

The chapter explained the Heaven Dou Xue Family’s unusual Swan Martial Soul, its many inherited mutations, and its influence across the empire. In battle, Xue Bentao, Sa Shanghai, and Xu Xin attacked the Calamity Fish Saint King, whose energy barrier swallowed their assaults.

• Chen Xiaojun learned that the Swan Martial Soul was a versatile Seventh Grade Spirit known for producing many powerful inherited mutations.
• The chapter described how the Xue Family’s mutated bloodlines spread through the Heaven Dou Empire and supported its rise to the throne.
• Xue Bentao summoned his Martial Soul True Body and launched Blood Feather Burst Claw at the Calamity Fish Saint King.
• Sa Shanghai formed a Deep Sea Seal while Xu Xin strengthened him and Xue Bentao with Brilliant Gold Radiance.
• The Calamity Fish Saint King raised an energy barrier that swallowed both attacks, leaving the battlefield waiting for the outcome.

Chen Xiaojun explained the Blood Swan Martial Soul to Xi Xi and revealed that absorbing the Calamity Fish’s Soul Ring had raised his soul power to rank 34. As the group continued defending against the Sea Soul Beasts, a Ten Thousand Year Sea Turtle resisted their attacks, and Zhu Wuneng lacked the soul power to use his shell-breaking skill.

• Chen Xiaojun told Xi Xi that the Blood Swan was a rare swan-type Mutated Martial Soul kept within the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Xi Xi realized Chen Xiaojun had reached rank 34, and he explained that the Calamity Fish Soul Ring and his stored soul power had raised him by more than four ranks.
• Chen Xiaojun reflected that his physical enhancements and recovery had helped him survive absorbing a Soul Ring over nine thousand years old.
• Chen Xiaojun, Xi Xi, and their companions repelled another fierce wave of Sea Soul Beasts as their combat skills improved.
• A Ten Thousand Year Sea Turtle withstood the group’s attacks, and Zhu Wuneng said he lacked the soul power to use his Five Colors Divine Light skill against it.

Chen Xiaojun used his newly acquired Third Soul Skill to attack the Ten Thousand Year Sea Turtle after Xi Xi and Xiao Yi restrained it. His three Fish Intestine Sword strikes shattered the turtle’s shell, leaving the battle at a decisive turning point.

• The Ten Thousand Year Sea Turtle counterattacked the crowd with powerful water columns, putting the guards and soul masters on the city wall in danger.
• Xi Xi prepared to use Water Control Art Pressure Harm, but Chen Xiaojun stopped her and chose to test his Third Soul Skill.
• Xi Xi used Water Control Art Wave Stabilization to hold the sea turtle in place while Xiao Yi bound it with Evergreen Ivy.
• Chen Xiaojun summoned the Fish Intestine Sword and released the first two strikes of Sweeping Through Thousands of Troops, denting and then cracking the turtle’s shell.
• Chen Xiaojun’s third strike shattered the sea turtle’s shell.

Chen Xiaojun and his companions finally killed the ten-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast after a prolonged battle. The exhausted group collapsed to rest after the beast’s life ended.

• Xiao Yi warned Chen Xiaojun and the others that she and Xi Xi could not restrain the sea turtle for much longer.
• Luo Zhenjun, Xin Mengshen, and Zhu Wuneng attacked the wound on the sea turtle’s back while Xi Xi struck it with Water Control Art Piercing the Sky.
• Chen Xiaojun unleashed the Cheng Ying Pearl, Chunjun Pearl, and Yuchang Pearl in his Sword God Pearl Spiral Pill, tearing through the sea turtle’s defenses and killing it.
• Chen Xiaojun sighed with relief as the group, exhausted from hours of fighting, collapsed to rest.

Xi Xi questioned Chen Xiaojun about his mutated Sword-Type Set Martial Soul, then tested its three swords with her Golden Trident. After apologizing, she learned that his Sword God Pearl was the source of his second Self-Created Soul Skill.

• Xi Xi asked Chen Xiaojun how many swords his set Martial Soul contained, but he told her to guess.
• Xi Xi released killing intent from her Golden Trident, and Chen Xiaojun’s Chengying, Chunjun, and Fish Intestine swords appeared to protect him.
• Xi Xi withdrew her trident after confirming that the three swords could withstand its pressure, and she apologized to Chen Xiaojun for testing him.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the pearl form of his Martial Soul was called the Sword God Pearl, and Xiao Yi revealed it was his second Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Xi Xi compared Chen Xiaojun’s strength and achievements with her own and felt both pressured by and curious about him.

After the battle, Chen Xiaojun and his companions confronted the battlefield’s devastation as Xi Xi explained why Sea God Island had joined the fight and praised Spirit Hall’s defenders. Meanwhile, Xue Bentao, Sa Shanghai, and Xu Xin struggled against the Calamity Fish Saint King, whose Element Manipulation began overwhelming them.

• Chen Xiaojun checked on Xi Xi, Ruia, and Xin Mengshen as Xiao Yi used life energy to ease their nausea.
• Xi Xi told Chen Xiaojun she stayed to show Sea God Island’s support for peaceful coexistence and to protect maritime trade from the Banner Tribe.
• Xi Xi and Chen Xiaojun watched the battle at the main city gate and spoke of the sacrifices made by Spirit Hall’s soul masters.
• Xue Bentao, Sa Shanghai, and Xu Xin continued attacking the Calamity Fish Saint King, but neither side could break the stalemate.
• The Calamity Fish Saint King used Element Manipulation to draw on the ocean and expand its energy barrier toward the three soul masters.
• Xue Bentao warned his companions that the Calamity Fish Saint King was going berserk, and the three prepared to withstand its attack.

Nether Pierce arrived at the battle and used his Nether Asura Star Pierce to shatter the reinforced barrier and badly wound the Calamity Fish Saint King. Xue Bentao then struck the beast with Blood Feather Burst Claw, leaving it gravely injured but still fighting.

• Nether Pierce unleashed Nether Asura Star Pierce, breaking through the energy barrier and piercing the Calamity Fish Saint King's flesh.
• Nether Pierce told Xue Bentao that his section of the city wall was secure and led Mystic Night Pavilion's fighters on the right-side wall.
• Xue Bentao's Blood Feather Burst Claw struck the Calamity Fish Saint King and blasted him backward.
• The Calamity Fish Saint King suffered severe wounds, but continued to show his fighting spirit.

The Calamity Fish Saint King unleashed Sonic Boom and Water Pillar Pierce against Xue Bentao and his allies. Xu Xin, Sa Shanghai, Nether Assassin, and Xue Bentao countered its assault, leaving Xue Bentao and the Calamity Fish Saint King locked in a fierce battle.

• The Calamity Fish Saint King attacked Xue Bentao and the others with Sonic Boom and a barrage of water pillars.
• Xu Xin used Third Soul Skill—Scepter Guidance to strengthen Sa Shanghai, who transformed his Deep Sea Seal into a tentacle-woven barrier that blocked the attack.
• Nether Assassin vanished and dodged the sound waves and water pillars.
• Xue Bentao flew through the attacks behind a protective barrier, then used Eighth Soul Skill—Blood Shadow Instant Hell Kill to split into five figures and strike at the Calamity Fish Saint King.
• The Calamity Fish Saint King countered with sound waves and water pillars, while Xue Bentao evaded them and continued the fight.