Chapter Summaries

Ling Yunxiao and Chen Xiaojun reached Heavenly Wolf Gate’s summit, where the Chen Clan’s forces fought the gate’s elite defenders. Ling Yunxiao took command and coordinated the allied clans’ attacks as the battle became more organized.

• Cheng Hao reported that Dugu Lin and Yang Buren had secured the Poison Forest Array, and Ling Yunxiao ordered them to support the assault while Sword Shadow Hall blocked escape routes.
• Ling Yunxiao and Chen Xiaojun led their troops up the mountain and arrived at the battle outside Heavenly Wolf Gate’s grand gate.
• The allied clans clashed with Heavenly Wolf Gate’s elite forces, whose four powerful wolf martial soul users and Guardian Spirit Wolf supporters formed a strong defensive line.
• Chen Xiaojun spotted the young Chen Clan and allied fighters in the melee, including Chen Jianjun, Chen Yanwu, Chen Jianzun, and the high-level Soul Elders Chen Feng and Chen Mu.
• Ling Yunxiao took charge of the rapidly changing battle and assigned the allied clans specific targets, formations, charges, and support roles.

The allied clans overwhelmed the Heavenly Wolf Gate with coordinated attacks led by Zhao Lin and directed by Ling Yunxiao. The Gate’s defensive line collapsed into chaos, leaving its forces trapped with nowhere to retreat.

• Zhao Lin’s Zhao Family took over the front line and held off the Heavenly Wolf Gate’s attacks while the allied clans countered the enemy’s different wolf Soul Masters.
• Xia Yun and Xia Ying’s illusion barrier suppressed the Nether Dark Eye Wolf Soul Masters, while Ding Hui’s assault shattered the Frost Howling Moon Wolves’ barrier.
• Yang Buren led the Qin family in a Blood Spear Formation charge, and Ma Fan and Ma Kui’s team followed with a fierce assault.
• Dugu Lin spread his Azure Sky Poisonous Miasma through the Heavenly Wolf Gate’s middle and rear, devastating its support forces and throwing the rear into chaos.
• Ling Yunxiao coordinated the clans’ advancing forces as the Chen Clan’s Soul Douluo and Soul Sages overwhelmed the Gate, driving its defensive line back to a dead end.

After the battle, Chen Xiaojun asked Ling Yunxiao about the tactics and histories behind their victory. Ling Yunxiao explained the clans’ alliances and the lost Blood Spear Formation, while Chen Xiaojun concluded that the battle’s success came from strategic command.

• Chen Xiaojun praised Ling Yunxiao’s command, and Ling Yunxiao explained how the Zhao Family’s linked defensive skills and the Zhu Clan’s reassignment helped turn the battle.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized that the Xia Clan’s focus on the Nether Dark Eye Wolf and Dugu Lin’s attack on the Guardian Spirit Wolf Soul Master had crippled the enemy’s support.
• Ling Yunxiao revealed that Yang Buer’s and the Qin family’s coordinated fighting drew on their ancestors’ shared spear traditions and the Blood Spear Formation.
• Ling Yunxiao described the former Tyrannical Blood Spear Formation, its connection to the Xiang, Yang, and Qin families, and the losses they suffered during a super Beast Tide.
• Ling Yunxiao said the Qin family welcomed Chen Xiaojun’s proposal to bring the Yang Family into the clan, and Chen Xiaojun summed up the battle’s strategy.

Xue Shiming confronted Ge Laizheng about corruption within the Chang'an military after revealing that three of Ge’s trusted subordinates had colluded with the Crimson Church and Wolf Bandits. Ge accepted responsibility for failing to see their crimes as Xue Chuxin’s forces moved to arrest them and attack their allies.

• Ge Laizheng recounted his battle scars and asked Xue Shiming why he had come to Chang'an with Zhi Xing and Ge Tianhao.
• Xue Shiming told Ge that the attack on the Ji and Liu Families had exposed failures in the Chang'an defenses.
• Xue Shiming named Lang Yongyi, You Mingkuan, and Luo Zhongshan as traitors involved in the attack.
• Xue Shiming revealed that the three men had colluded with the Crimson Church and Wolf Bandits to traffic slaves, with evidence proving their crimes.
• Xue Shiming said Xue Chuxin had taken the three men into custody and sent troops against Heavenly Wolf Gate and Battle Dragon Sect with Xue Churan and the Chen Clan.
• Ge Laizheng acknowledged that he had failed to recognize the treachery of his subordinates and accepted punishment.

Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan led an imperial assault on Battle Dragon Mountain to destroy the Battle Dragon Sect, which had colluded with the Crimson Church and infiltrated the army. As they flew toward the fighting, the imperial forces had the advantage, though the battle remained fierce near the summit.

• Xue Churan questioned whether Xue Chuxin would punish Ge Laizheng for negligence, and Xue Chuxin chose to spare the loyal general while acknowledging he would likely be sidelined.
• Xue Churan explained that the Battle Dragon Sect had deeply infiltrated Chang'an County, while Xue Chuxin said the sect had secretly allied with the Crimson Church and endangered the army.
• Yu Nanyu reported that the City Garrison had nearly finished sweeping Chang'an City's underground black markets and gray forces, and Xue Churan ordered the troops to kill any remaining fugitives.
• Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan flew toward Battle Dragon Mountain with their guards as the imperial army advanced for the final battle.
• The sisters saw imperial soldiers, academy students, and Battle Dragon Sect Soul Masters fighting across the mountain, with imperial Flying Soul Masters helping tip the battle in the army's favor.
• Thousands of imperial troops had been killed or wounded and over a thousand Battle Dragon Sect Soul Masters had fallen, while the sect's defenders near the summit faced an increasingly clear disadvantage.

Xue Chuxin used her healing, domain, and defensive abilities to rally and protect the Heaven Dou soldiers, while Xue Churan joined the battle against the You Clan. Xue Churan shattered You Donglong’s defense and struck him down, as the wider battle continued.

• Xue Chuxin unleashed her Emerald True Body, Emerald Light Wave, and Emerald Domain, healing wounded Heaven Dou soldiers and restoring their strength.
• Xue Chuxin used Emerald Firmament to block the Battle Dragon Sect’s attacks, then strengthened the soldiers as they charged.
• Xue Churan flew to the central battlefield, where Zuo Tinggang drove You Zhenglong back and You Donglong fought three Chang'an Academy elders.
• Xue Churan attacked You Donglong with Phoenix Dance Sky, cracking his Obsidian Dragon Ring.
• Xue Churan fused Light Judgment and Phoenix Dance Sky into Sky Light Decision, pierced You Donglong’s defense, and blasted him across the ground.

As Wretched Companions fought Chen Cong, Chen Xiaojun learned how martial soul fusion skills were ranked and asked Ling Yunxiao about famous entries on the Thousand Year List. Ling Yunxiao revealed that Heavenly Moon Palace’s third-ranked Heavenly Moon Palace fusion skill had been made public after the sect beat up the ranking compilers.

• Chen Xiaojun watched Wretched Companions battle Chen Cong and learned from Ling Yunxiao that it ranked thirty-third on the Thousand Year List.
• Ling Yunxiao explained the ranking system and told Chen Xiaojun that the Bei Chen Ling Family’s fusion skill ranked twenty-seventh and Hell White Tiger ranked fifteenth.
• Ling Yunxiao said Netherworld Dark Night Demon Dragon was among the top ten, while Baxia ranked eighth with a ninety-percent fusion degree.
• Chen Xiaojun asked about perfect fusion and the first-ranked skill, and Ling Yunxiao explained that the top five could keep their identities secret.
• Ling Yunxiao revealed that Heavenly Moon Palace ranked third with a fusion skill made from the Moon Rabbit, Jade Toad, and Moon Laurel, and said the sect had beaten up Spring and Autumn Pavilion and Heaven Knows Pavilion after they disclosed it.

Ling Yunxiao explained the Martial Soul Fusion Skill rankings to Chen Xiaojun before the Hundred Wolfs Howling to the Sky Formation collapsed. Elsewhere, Lang Tiexin unleashed a desperate final attack, and Chen Wenchao and Chen Shihua countered with their Light and Darkness Two Extremes Sword, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Ling Yunxiao told Chen Xiaojun about the hidden top rankings, the Chen family’s past fusion skill, and the Genius List, then urged him to help finish the battle.
• The Hundred Wolfs Howling to the Sky Formation collapsed, and Ling Yunxiao said the Chen family’s Seven Kill Sword Formation was sufficient for its small main lineage.
• Lang Tiexin, badly wounded by Chen Wenchao and Chen Shihua, activated Wolf God Possession and Iron Blood Loyalty before unleashing his Eighth Soul Skill, Thousand Wolf Devour.
• Chen Wenchao and Chen Shihua combined My Body as the Sword, Ring Embedding Technique, and Slaughter Word Art to launch their ultimate attacks.
• Chen Wenchao’s Sword of Submergence and Chen Shihua’s Dawn Blade fused into the Light and Darkness Two Extremes Sword and collided with Lang Tiexin’s wolf pack.

Chen Xun and the Chen Clan crushed the Heavenly Wolf Gate’s resistance, while Chen Xiaojun’s allies intercepted the sect’s escapees. Lin Feng escaped through a hidden tunnel but was ambushed by Mo Yuqi and Cheng Yun.

• Chen Xun used his Seven Kill Saint Body to overwhelm Lang Weiyuan, while Ye Xiuxin supported him; Lang Weiyuan fell, and Wang Zhen died after crashing to the ground.
• Lang ChengMing threatened Chen Cong, but Chen Cong revealed that the Chen Clan knew about the secret passage at North River Creek, leaving Lang ChengMing in despair.
• Duan Ziyue led Lang Xingyin and the young disciples toward North River Creek, but Luo Zongyan and the Blackfin Topminnow Luo Family ambushed them and killed them all.
• Lin Feng fled through a hidden tunnel with a Storage Soul Tool, but Mo Yuqi tracked him using the Firefly Lamp Yang Family’s fireflies.
• Cheng Yun joined Mo Yuqi’s ambush and attacked Lin Feng from the sky with her Nine Yin White Bone Claw.

After the Chen Clan defeated Heavenly Wolf Gate, its members secured captives, treated the wounded, and gathered the sect’s resources and inheritance manuals. The clan discussed its new Light and Darkness Two Extremes Sword and the future of its cultivation theories, while remaining wary of escaped enemies.

• Ling Yunxiao directed the Chen Clan’s Soul Masters as they cleared the battlefield and detained captives, while Ye Xiuxin, Mu Lingyun, Zhu Hanshu, and the Support Soul Masters treated the wounded.
• Chen Wenchao and Chen Shihua told Chen Hong and Chen Cong that Xiaojun’s Yin Yang Theory had helped them develop the Light and Darkness Two Extremes Sword, and Chen Cong discussed its potential to evolve further.
• Chen Cong praised Chen Xun for killing Lang Weiyuan, and Chen Xun warned that some Heavenly Wolf Gate Soul Masters might have escaped into the mountains.
• Cheng Yun brought back Lin Feng’s body and two Storage Soul Tools, while Luo Qingrui arrived with more tools taken from the fleeing Soul Masters.
• The Chen Clan gathered Heavenly Wolf Gate’s wealth, soul bones, and inheritance manuals, which Chen Cong and Chen Hong considered useful for the clan’s studies and cultivation.
• Chen Xun found several valuable soul bones, and Chen Shihua joked that murder and arson brought golden belts.

Shen Lang and Xi Li Dao Gao headed to claim compensation from the Chen Clan, while Yang Buer and Dugu Lin discussed the clan’s hidden strength and its possible plans to recruit their families. Dugu Lin left Yang Buer wondering whether the Chen Clan’s invitation had been part of a broader recruitment effort.

• Shen Lang and Xi Li Dao Gao praised each other’s strength and noted that the Chen Clan’s mobilization seemed unusual.
• Shen Lang decided to ask the Chen Clan for payment for their work, and Xi Li Dao Gao followed him toward the main hall.
• Yang Buer and Dugu Lin discussed the Heavenly Wolf Gate’s destruction and realized the Chen Clan had deployed only a fraction of its forces.
• Yang Buer showed Dugu Lin an Eighth Grade Spirit Herb he had received, and Dugu Lin revealed that the Chen Clan had given him five Hearts of the Divine Tree.
• Dugu Lin mentioned that Young Master Chen had tried to recruit the Dugu Family months earlier, leaving Yang Buer to suspect the Chen Clan was pursuing a larger plan.

After a battle, Chen Xiaojun reunited with his companions and learned about the continent-wide Hidden Dragon and Phoenix Genius List, including its dangers. The chapter ended with Chen Mu predicting that Chen Xiaojun would take Xue Shiming’s ninth-place ranking after defeating him.

• Chen Xiaojun scolded Chen Jianjun for charging recklessly into the battle, then checked that the group was safe.
• Chen Feng and the others explained how clan support and spiritual herbs had helped most of them advance to Soul Ancestor and improve their Innate Soul Power.
• Chen Feng teased Qin Huacheng about Chun Nuan, and Chen Mu and Chen Xiaojun traded jokes about their cultivation levels.
• Chen Feng explained that the Hidden Dragon and Phoenix Genius List ranked powerful soul masters under twenty-five and could also be called the Slaughter Ranking.
• Chen Mu said Yan Wu ranked seventeenth, Chen Jianzun ranked twenty-second, and Chen Xiaojun’s brother ranked tenth, then predicted Chen Xiaojun would rise to ninth after defeating Xue Shiming.

Chen Xiaojun and the Chen Clan discussed the Genius List, its prominent young fighters, and the danger that came with being ranked. After learning the identities of Spirit Hall’s listed members, Chen Xiaojun declared his ambition to rise above them, leaving the clan stirred by his words.

• Chen Jianjun and Chen Mu explained that the Chen Clan’s attack on Heavenly Wolf Gate had also been meant to seek justice, establish authority, and protect the clan’s highly ranked youths.
• Chen Feng described the three great geniuses, including Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian, and the group discussed Tang Xiao’s challenge to Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu and Chen Feng outlined which factions and academy figures had members on the Genius List, including Ling Xinyao, Ji Boda, and He Qiang.
• Chen Feng named Spirit Hall’s seven listed members, and Chen Xiaojun recognized several as familiar figures, including the Death Spider Emperor.
• Chen Xiaojun declared that he would overcome whatever challenges came, and Chen Jianzun and the others reacted to his ambition.

During a gathering, Chen Yanwu and Chen Feng explained the rankings of soul masters and the Goddess List, revealing Xi Xi's place and Qian Daoliu's achievements. Chen Feng's careless comments about Chen Yanwu's beauty earned him a stern order to practice swordsmanship with her.

• Xi Xi learned she ranked twelfth on the Genius List, though Chen Yanwu said the ranking was based partly on limited information and estimates.
• Chen Mu explained how female experts could be selected for the Goddess List, and the group discussed Chen Yanwu's aunt Xi Yuan and her place on the list.
• Chen Feng described the Wind and Cloud List, the Titled Douluo List, and the Peerless Super List as the connected rankings for powerful soul masters.
• Chen Feng said Qian Daoliu had topped the Genius List at twenty-two, later entered the Wind and Cloud List, and now ranked ninth as a Soul Sage.
• Chen Feng predicted Chen Yanwu would enter the Goddess List and joked that men would be smitten with her, prompting her to order him to practice swordsmanship with her for two days.

Seven Titled Douluo stormed Nether Ghost City and confronted Unbenevolent Tower Master Icefire over the assassination contract against Chen Yu’s grandson. Chen Yu rejected Icefire’s offer to hand over the person who accepted the order and demanded Icefire’s head.

• Seven Titled Douluo broke through the aerial patrol and entered Nether Ghost City, while Yang Jingxue shot down at least a hundred Flying Soul Masters with Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Clouds.
• The seven reached Unbenevolent Tower Headquarters and were surrounded by Flying Soul Masters and hidden experts.
• Tower Master Icefire arrived and recognized Chen Yu, Yang Jingxue, Ximen Wenhua, Ma Tianyang, Zhong Yao, Fang Yuan, and Gui Changhao among the seven.
• Chen Yu told Icefire they had come to settle accounts because Unbenevolent Tower had accepted a mission to assassinate his grandson.
• Icefire offered to hand over the person who accepted the order, but Chen Yu demanded Icefire’s head to deter anyone who threatened their descendants.

Ghost Kill intervened as Ma Tianyang’s group confronted Unbenevolent Tower, and the dispute escalated into a battle in Nether Ghost City. Yang Jingxue and Zhong Yao attacked the Soul Masters, but Ghost Kill’s Demons and Monsters challenged Zhong Yao while Fang Yuan restrained Ghost Kill.

• Ghost Kill arrived with four masked subordinates and demanded to know whether Ximen Wenhua acted for Soul Fighting City or for private clan interests.
• Ghost Kill warned that his group would defend Nether Ghost City and Unbenevolent Tower if the conflict was a private grudge, but Ma Tianyang and the others refused to back down.
• Ma Tianyang charged Icefire, and the opposing sides clashed as Yang Jingxue unleashed a rain of arrows against the advancing Soul Masters.
• Zhong Yao struck the Mystic Yellow Bell with his Dog Mouth technique and Soul Bell Tremor Blast, devastating the battlefield until ghostly howls countered the attack.
• Ghost Kill’s four High-level Soul Douluo, the Demons and Monsters, formed the Ghost Kill Formation around Zhong Yao and challenged him.
• Fang Yuan stopped Ghost Kill as he prepared to enter the battle.

Chen Yu, Ximen Wenhua, and Yang Jingxue attacked Unbenevolent Tower’s headquarters and drew out its Level 97 Old Tower Master, Situ Taiyuan. Their combined attacks trapped him, leaving him under immense pressure as he called for help.

• Ma Tianyang and Ice Fire raced into the sky, battling with their powerful Martial Souls.
• Chen Yu’s sword storm tore through Unbenevolent Tower’s headquarters, while Ximen Wenhua’s Karma Fire Red Lotus set the battlefield ablaze.
• Situ Taiyuan emerged and confronted Ximen Wenhua and Chen Yu as the surviving soul masters begged him to avenge them.
• Ximen Wenhua attacked Situ Taiyuan with the Karma Fire Demon Blade while Chen Yu sealed him inside a sword array.
• Yang Jingxue joined the assault with her Golden Crow and Sky Wolf fusion attack, and Situ Taiyuan summoned his Earth Rock Dragon Martial Soul and called for help.

Chen Yu, Ximen Wenhua, and Yang Jingxue unleashed their Trinity Fusion Skill against Situ Taiyuan in a devastating clash that destroyed much of the battlefield. Situ Taiyuan survived but was left gravely wounded amid the ruins.

• Situ Taiyuan raised his Rock Bulwark and Rock Dragon Protection to defend against Ximen Wenhua and Yang Jingxue’s attacks, but the impacts injured him.
• Chen Yu and Ximen Wenhua joined Yang Jingxue to reveal the Three Great Clans’ Trinity Fusion Skill.
• Yang Jingxue invoked Nine Rings Linkage, Heaven and Earth in Frequency Synchronization, and the trio fired their combined attack, Trinity—Demon Slaying Rule the World.
• Situ Taiyuan strengthened his Ninth Soul Skill with Rock Dragon Heart and Rock Dragon’s Fury, summoning nine rock dragons to meet the arrow.
• The collision devastated the battlefield, killed many soul masters, and forced Gui Changhao’s Bearing Mountain True Body backward.
• After the blast, Situ Taiyuan stood alone in the crater, severely wounded, with his nine rock dragons destroyed.

Chen Qianhua’s formation-based three-in-one fusion skill and the Baxia fusion skill were revealed as the allied Titled Douluo turned on Situ Taiyuan. As Baxia prepared to crush him, Ice and Fire Douluo fled from Ma Tianyang.

• The chapter explained how Chen Qianhua used the Yang Family’s Myriad Fusion Art and a formation to create the powerful three-in-one skill Absolute Demon Slaughter Defense of the World.
• Fang Yuan and Gui Changhao summoned Baxia, whose sealing and suppressing power helped them trap the wounded Situ Taiyuan after their earlier fusion attack had heavily injured him.
• Chen Yu accused Situ Taiyuan of failing to help during the catastrophe fifty years earlier and declared that the old score would be settled.
• Baxia lifted the Stone Tablet from its back and enlarged it to crush Situ Taiyuan.
• Ma Tianyang used Fire Fusion Secret to absorb nine Destruction Flame Pearls, prompting Ice and Fire Douluo to flee the city.

Yang Jingxue, Ma Tianyang, Zhong Yao, and Ximen Wenhua pressed their attacks against Ghost Market’s forces as Soul Fighting City’s reinforcements arrived. Ghost Kill ordered a retreat, but the allied assault cut off the escape, while Zhong Yao’s Mystic Yellow Dragon confronted the Dark Skeleton King.

• Yang Jingxue shot at Ice and Fire Douluo while Ma Tianyang unleashed the Phoenix Fire Wing Formation and pursued him with nine purple-black phoenixes.
• Zhong Yao used the Mystic Yellow Bell to withstand the Ghost Kill Formation’s Hundred Ghosts Night Parade and then sent the Ancient Mystic Yellow Dragon to clash with the Dark Skeleton King’s bone blade.
• Ghost Kill was forced back by Ximen Wenhua and learned that more than ten Soul Douluo and hundreds of Soul Masters were approaching from the city gate.
• Ghost Kill ordered the Ghost Market forces and Unbenevolent Tower members to retreat toward the heart of the Ghost Market.
• Yang Jingxue and Chen Yu rained arrows and sword attacks onto the retreat route, while Ximen Wenhua shattered the Ghost Kill Formation with Heavenly Blade Rending the Sky.