Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi set out for Chang'an Academy after their victory at the literary contest, where Chen Xiaojun’s poem moved Xiao Yi and brought him acclaim. On the journey, Chen Xiaojun considered whether Xue Chuanning had targeted him or helped him, and discussed Xue Chuanning’s grandfather, Prince Xue Jiqing, whose political position remained unclear.

• Zhu Hefeng prepared to leave for Purple Cypress Mountain to join the group cultivating in the Vine Sea Secret Realm, while Zhu Yanfeng told Zhu Changyun to follow his instructions.
• Zhu Wuneng praised Chen Xiaojun’s poem, which had moved Xiao Yi and helped the Winding Stream Party win its contest against Cultural Brilliance Pavilion by a score of 6:4.
• Xiao Yi recalled her shared hardships and affection with Chen Xiaojun as they rode together to Chang'an Academy.
• Du Gu Fu asked why Xue Chuanning had acted as he did, and Chen Xiaojun said he could not tell whether Xue Chuanning had targeted him or acted as a plant.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that Prince Xue Jiqing’s relationship with Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan was complicated, since he sometimes helped them while his followers also targeted them.

At Bai Zhang Ji, Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun revisited the place where they had once faced an assassination attempt and shared an emotional moment. Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi then awakened the devoted-love concept of the twin swords Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, astonishing their companions as the chapter ended.

• The carriage reached Bai Zhang Ji, where Chen Xiaojun and the others recalled the attack that had gravely wounded him and left Xiao Yi asleep for a long time.
• Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun walked together along the gallery platform, and he recited a vow about growing old side by side as she called him brother through tears.
• Chen Xiaojun summoned Gan Jiang and Mo Xie, whose sword spirits joined with the Spirit Abyss Black Tortoise to form a powerful display of intertwined forces.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi's sword arts produced golden patterns and images of dragons, phoenixes, and twin lotuses, revealing their shared concept of devoted love.
• Zhu Wuneng, Du Gu Fu, and Su Ningxia recognized the concept, while Cheng Yun checked that no outsiders had witnessed its manifestation.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s shared True Love Intent Realm helped Xiao Yi awaken a Life Intent Realm, linking their powers and impressing their companions. The group continued their journey as Chen Xiaojun explained how Intent Realms related to his Sword God Pearls.

• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s emotions resonated, and Xiao Yi’s Life Intent Realm emerged, causing plants and life throughout the valley to flourish.
• Cheng Yun watched the carriage depart and reflected on Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s extraordinary talents.
• Du Gu Fu asked Chen Xiaojun about his Intent Realm, and Chen Xiaojun explained the unique Intent Realms held by his Sword God Pearls and how they could unleash their ultimate techniques.
• Chen Xiaojun said he had comprehended the True Love Intent Realm himself and praised Xiao Yi’s Life Intent Realm.
• Zhu Wuneng teased the couple, and Su Ningxia sincerely praised how their Intent Realms complemented each other.

Chen Xiaojun discussed the risks of cultivating nine kinds of intent and decided not to use his divine swords’ intent ultimate moves except in life-or-death battles during the Senior Elite Competition. He returned to Chang'an Academy with Xiao Yi, whose arrival drew widespread admiration, while Gao Cuilan was expected to join Xiao Yi and Su Ningxia at their new Small Courtyard.

• Chen Xiaojun explained that too many intents could hinder his cultivation and said he would avoid using the divine swords’ intent ultimate moves during the Senior Elite Competition unless facing a life-or-death battle.
• Zhu Wuneng told Chen Xiaojun that Gao Cuilan planned to pack and move into a Small Courtyard with Xiao Yi and Su Ningxia.
• Chen Xiaojun arrived at Chang'an Academy and was greeted by enthusiastic cheers from students, teachers, and staff.
• Zhu Wuneng and Du Gu Fu left in the carriage for their Small Courtyard, while Su Ningxia stayed beside Xiao Yi.
• Students and staff admired Xiao Yi’s appearance and discussed her reputation as a healer and her relationship with Chen Xiaojun.

Xiao Yi arrived at Chang'an Academy, where Chen Xiaojun and the faculty welcomed her with a grand ceremony. Her reputation and popularity soared across the academy, and she was dubbed the “Banished Immortal.”

• Zhuang Mochen welcomed Xiao Yi to his office, where Zhang Ci and Mu Zilian introduced themselves as her teachers and offered their support.
• Chen Xiaojun led Xiao Yi out to a crowd of prominent students, who welcomed her to Chang'an Academy with cheers and falling streamers.
• Liu Ruyan and other girls escorted Xiao Yi through the academy to her independent courtyard as students watched her pass.
• Stories of Xiao Yi's beauty, Soul King strength, and rescue of injured students spread, and she rose to third place on the Goddess Ranking List.
• Xiao Yi's new reputation spread throughout Chang'an Academy, where students began calling her the “Banished Immortal.”

Xiao Yi underwent a comprehensive combat and pressure test at Chang'an Academy, where she demonstrated strength against three Soul Emperors. The test intensified when the teachers combined their attacks, and Xiao Yi trapped all three inside her Sky Azure Vine Formation.

• Chen Xiaojun asked Mu Zilian whether Xiao Yi's soul skills and secret techniques would be tested, and Mu Zilian explained that some tests could be waived or performed voluntarily.
• Xiao Yi began her combat test against Chu Bohan, whose Guardian Thorns was suppressed by her Ageless Evergreen Ivy.
• Dean Isaac joined Chu Bohan, but Xiao Yi used her first two soul skills and Myriad Leaves Flying Flower Stream to hold them off.
• Zhang Ci entered the battle, and Xiao Yi countered his aerial attacks with her martial arts and remote control of the Ageless Evergreen Ivy.
• Zhang Ci and Isaac unleashed Wind-Thunder Combination Strike while Chu Bohan restrained Xiao Yi's vines with the secret technique Growth.
• Xiao Yi retreated and used Sky Azure Vine Formation, spreading the Ageless Evergreen Ivy across the battlefield and trapping all three teachers.

Xiao Yi overwhelmed the pressure test with her vast control range, and Chen Xiaojun revealed her true Soul Power Level and their plan for the preliminary competition. The teachers praised her combat skill and theory results while noting her academic gaps, which Chen Xiaojun attributed to her years of slumber and limited time to study.

• Xiao Yi controlled the vast Sky Azure Vine Formation, impressing Zhuang Mochen, Zhuo Qianren, and Wang Wei with her range and apparently untapped Mental Power.
• Xiao Yi ended the test and used her Sweet Dew Soul Skill to heal the three teachers, while Chen Xiaojun revealed she was Level 59 and had concealed her level.
• Chen Xiaojun told the deans that Xiao Yi would not attack during the preliminary competition and explained his plan to use the matches to train the team.
• Mu Zilian reported Xiao Yi’s outstanding tactical command and record-setting full marks in combat psychology, while pointing out her weaknesses in other subjects and life skills.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that Xiao Yi’s uneven education followed an attack that left her asleep for three years and that she had only recently awakened.

Chen Hua and Chen Xiaojun invited the Three Elders of Chang'an to Xiao Yi’s ceremony and visited Ji Xiang’s family, where Chen Hua revealed that Chen Xiaojun had comprehended an intent realm. Ji Xiang’s family was left shocked by the revelation.

• Chen Hua gave the Three Elders of Chang'an invitations to Xiao Yi’s ceremony as Yang Jingxue’s Adopted Granddaughter, and they agreed to attend.
• Zhuo Qianren said the elders needed to clarify their position on Chang'an Academy’s plan for a forward camp in Zhongnan Mountain, and Wang Wei agreed to pass it.
• Chen Hua and Chen Xiaojun visited Ji Xiang’s home with generous gifts, prompting Ji Xiang to suspect they had come with a purpose.
• Chen Hua told Xue Shiqiong that Chen Xiaojun had comprehended and formed an intent realm, despite Ji Xiang’s earlier promise to keep the matter quiet.
• Ji Xiang angrily accused Chen Hua of messing with him, while Xue Shiqiong and Ji Tiantian reacted with astonishment.

Chen Xiaojun and Chen Hua visited Ji Xiang’s family to invite them to Chen Xinyi’s ceremony, where Yang Jingxue would make her an adopted granddaughter and she would take followers. Xue Shiqiong learned that Chu Xin had also been invited, leaving the family unsettled as the ceremony approached.

• Xue Shiqiong questioned Chen Xiaojun’s use of “Sixth Brother,” and he explained that Ji Tiantian’s classmates called him that to mark seniority.
• Chen Xiaojun asked to call Xue Shiqiong “Aunt Shiqiong,” and she accepted the form of address.
• Chen Hua and Chen Xiaojun delivered Ji Xiang’s family an invitation to Yang Jingxue’s ceremony adopting Chen Xinyi as her granddaughter and establishing kinship.
• Chen Xiaojun gave Ji Tiantian an invitation to Chen Xinyi’s ceremony formally taking Su Ningxia and Gao Cuilan as followers, and asked her to pass along invitations to their friends.
• Chen Xiaojun told Xue Shiqiong that Chu Xin had been invited to the ceremony the day after tomorrow, startling Xue Shiqiong, Ji Xiang, and Ji Tiantian.

Chen Zixiu discussed his family’s plans and the likely Plant Guild role in an old blood debt, while Bo Xian’er met her granddaughter Xue Shiqiong and uncovered her concealed strength. The chapter ended with Xue Shiqiong revealing level 74 cultivation and Bo Xian’er asking whether she had hidden her martial soul too.

• Chen Zixiu told Yang Cheng Lin and Ximen Xiaoran that the Red Lotus Grand Dao Hidden needed further guidance and explained that he planned to spread his family’s strength to cool public opinion after A Yu’s ambush.
• Chen Zixiu confirmed that Qiu Jun, not Xiao Xun, was among the three revealed sword lights and said he would accept the risk of the Chen Clan being exposed.
• Chen Zixiu told Ximen Xiaoran and Yang Cheng Lin that the Plant Guild was about seventy percent likely to have orchestrated the past events, and Ximen Xiaoran and Yang Cheng Lin vowed to exact blood payment.
• Xue Chuxin introduced her daughter, Xue Shiqiong, to Bo Xian’er, who recognized her as her granddaughter and praised her appearance.
• Bo Xian’er saw through Xue Shiqiong’s concealed cultivation, and Xue Shiqiong revealed that she had reached level 74.
• Bo Xian’er observed that Xue Shiqiong must have high Innate Soul Power and asked whether she had concealed her martial soul as well.

Bo Xian'er discovered that Xue Shiqiong had concealed her extraordinary martial soul and cultivation potential, then offered to acknowledge her as a granddaughter. Xue Shiqiong accepted the family bond while declining a public ceremony, and Bo Xian'er left with growing affection for her.

• Bo Xian'er asked Xue Chuxin whether Xue Shiqiong had hidden her martial soul, and Xue Shiqiong revealed her Saint Radiance Mystic Ice Swan, also called the Bright Ice Jade Phoenix.
• Xue Chuxin explained that Xue Shiqiong's martial soul was a rare Ninth Grade evolutionary form, and Xue Shiqiong disclosed her Innate Soul Power was Level 9.4.
• Xue Shiqiong said she had lived quietly at Chang'an Academy by choice, while Bo Xian'er realized she had concealed her identity and potential for decades.
• Bo Xian'er asked Xue Shiqiong to call her Grandmother and offered to acknowledge her as an Adopted Granddaughter.
• Xue Shiqiong declined a public ceremony but accepted Bo Xian'er's affection, easing Xue Chuxin's concern and pleasing Bo Xian'er.

Bo Xian'er met Ji Tiantian and warmly welcomed her into the Chen Clan. She proposed that Chen Hua become Tiantian's master, leaving Xue Shiqiong to consider the suggestion.

• Bo Xian'er asked Xue Shiqiong about Ji Tiantian and summoned the girl to meet her.
• Ji Tiantian mistook Bo Xian'er for a young woman and praised her beauty, then learned she was her great-grandmother.
• Bo Xian'er revealed that she had reached Level 98 and affectionately questioned Ji Tiantian about her cultivation.
• Bo Xian'er told Xue Chuxin to bring Ji Tiantian to visit more often and suggested that Chen Hua become Tiantian's master.

Xue Shiqiong agreed to Ji Tiantian becoming Chen Hua’s disciple, recognizing the Chen Clan’s careful plans and the benefits for her daughter. Chen Hua gave Tiantian a year’s worth of cultivation resources, and Bo Xian'er offered Xue Shiqiong a separate first-meeting gift.

• Xue Shiqiong realized Chen Xiaojun and the Chen Clan had carefully arranged for Chen Hua to take Ji Tiantian as his disciple, and she concluded that refusing was neither practical nor best for her daughter.
• Xue Chuxin showed relief as Xue Shiqiong agreed to the apprenticeship and asked Chen Hua to teach Tiantian strictly.
• Chen Hua promised to teach Tiantian with care, and Chen Xiaojun was pleased that the arrangement had strengthened the family’s ties with Xue Shiqiong and Xue Chuxin.
• Chen Hua gave Xue Shiqiong a storage bracelet containing one million gold coins’ worth of cultivation resources for Tiantian’s year of training.
• Bo Xian'er told Xue Shiqiong to call Chen Hua Sixth Brother, then gave her a second storage bracelet as a first-meeting gift.

Bo Xian'er welcomed Xue Shiqiong into the Chen Clan and gave her a valuable storage bracelet as the clan prepared to hold disciple-acceptance ceremonies for Ji Tiantian and Chen Hua. Chen Hua’s revised cultivation-resource standards placed Ji Tiantian in the highest tier, while Xue Shiqiong discovered that her bracelet held rare treasures worth millions of gold coins.

• Bo Xian'er insisted that Xue Shiqiong accept a welcoming bracelet, and Xue Shiqiong accepted after Xue Chuxin nodded.
• Bo Xian'er proposed holding disciple-acceptance ceremonies for Xiao Hua and Tiantian that afternoon, and the others agreed.
• Chen Hua and Chen Xiaojun discussed Ji Tiantian receiving the new top resource standard of one million gold coins.
• Xue Chuxin showed Xue Shiqiong the small courtyard reserved for her and explained the Chen Clan’s Cloud Water Three Thousand storage bracelets.
• Xue Shiqiong found that her Boutique Model bracelet contained a vast collection of rare treasures suited to her attributes.

Xue Shiqiong opened the Chen Clan’s generous gifts and discovered a Mystic Nether Phoenix Immortal Lotus that suited her Bright Ice Jade Phoenix martial soul. She and Xue Chuxin reflected on the Chen Clan’s support compared with the imperial family’s neglect, while Xue Chuxin recalled how their faction’s rise had reshaped their fortunes.

• Xue Chuxin recognized that Xue Shiqiong had received many valuable gifts, including the Cloud Water Three Thousand bracelet.
• Xue Shiqiong opened the Mystic Ice cold jade box and found a Ninth Grade Mystic Nether Phoenix Immortal Lotus compatible with her martial soul.
• Xue Chuxin explained that the Chen Clan had prepared the gifts without knowing Xue Shiqiong’s martial soul, and Xue Shiqiong bowed toward Bo Xian'er’s pavilion in gratitude.
• Xue Shiqiong said the Chen Clan had treated her and her daughter better than the imperial family, which had ignored their needs and failed to compensate Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan.
• Xue Chuxin recalled how the Chen Clan’s rise and her faction’s growing influence in Fasinuo Province had led to political upheavals.

Xue Chuxin watched Xue Shiqiong absorb the Mystic Nether Phoenix Immortal Lotus, which transformed her Bright Ice Jade Phoenix into a King Martial Soul and raised her Soul Power to level 76. The chapter ended with Xue Chuxin telling her daughter that the frost aura showed signs of a future Super Martial Soul awakening.

• Xue Chuxin recognized that Xue Shiqiong was growing closer to the Chen Clan, then gave her the Mystic Nether Phoenix Immortal Lotus to absorb.
• Xue Chuxin raised a protective shield around the courtyard while Bo Xian'er and Chen Zixiu added barriers of their own.
• Xue Shiqiong absorbed the lotus, and her Bright Ice Jade Phoenix transformed with nine tail feathers, heterochromatic eyes, and dark phoenix plumage.
• The lotus strengthened Xue Shiqiong's Ice and phoenix attributes, advanced her martial soul to King Martial Soul, and raised her Soul Power from level 74 to level 76.
• Xue Shiqiong woke and addressed her mother, and Xue Chuxin told her that her frost aura indicated a Super Martial Soul might awaken.

Xue Shiqiong and Xue Chuxin discussed Xiao Jun’s hidden influence and considered how to approach the Chen Clan. Later, Xiao Yi’s ceremony to recruit Su Ningxia and Gao Cuilan as followers began, and she bestowed their positions and tokens.

• Xue Shiqiong told Xue Chuxin that she suspected Xiao Jun had devised the Chen Clan’s recent strategy and wanted to understand him.
• Xue Chuxin explained that Xiao Jun’s strategic skill and loyalty had helped him become the Chen Clan heir, while his affection for others could also be a weakness.
• Xue Shiqiong decided to have Ji Xiang seek a position with the academy’s Senior Elite Competition team and to consider her next move afterward.
• Xiao Yi began the ceremony to recruit Su Ningxia and Gao Cuilan as followers, and both women agreed to bear the contract’s karma.
• Xiao Yi bestowed the Heavenly Dipper position and token on Su Ningxia and the Heavenly Ingenuity position and token on Gao Cuilan.

Chen Xiaojun's companions discussed Xiao Yi's impressive ceremony and wondered why he had left her to handle it alone. In private, Chen Xiaojun explained that he wanted Xiao Yi to shine independently and concluded that she had awakened memories from her past life in the world of Qin.

• Chu Youwei and the others admitted they could not perform Xiao Yi's two techniques, Light Tail Dragging and Circling Three Times, and discussed the ancient ceremony she had conducted.
• Chen Ze asked whether the Chen Clan always held such solemn ceremonies for followers, and Chu Youwei speculated that Xiao Yi came from an ancient sect orthodoxy.
• Shen Youchu, Liu Ruyan, and Ji Boda said Chen Xiaojun had stayed away from the ceremonies, while Chu Youwei criticized him for leaving his girlfriend to face them alone.
• Chen Xiaojun praised Xiao Yi's techniques and explained to Chen Menglin and Chen Qiujun that he had stayed back so she could demonstrate her own ability and stand out.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized Xiao Yi's ritual as an orthodox Yin Yang School ceremony and concluded that she had awakened memories of her previous life in the world of Qin.

Chen Hua accepted Ji Tiantian as his disciple, revealing the Ji family’s connections and prompting speculation about Xue Shiqiong’s strength and background. Zhuo Qianren returned to the academy with rare spirit medicines Chen Cong had given him to support his breakthrough to Titled Douluo.

• Chen Cong announced that his son Chen Hua would accept Ji Tiantian as his disciple, and Ji Tiantian completed the grand disciple-acceptance rites.
• Xue Shiqiong greeted Chen Cong as her uncle and called Chen Hua her sixth brother, leading the academy staff to speculate about her background and Level 68 Soul Power.
• Chen Cong spoke privately with Zhuo Qianren, who then hurried back to the academy with Wang Wei and Zhuang Mochen.
• Zhuo Qianren showed Wang Wei and Zhuang Mochen three jars of Eighth Grade Wine Spirit Wine, three rare eighth-grade spirit medicines, and a Ninth Grade Thunder Soul Tempering Fruit.
• Zhuo Qianren and his colleagues recognized the gifts as a carefully prepared package for his advancement, which raised his estimated chance of breaking through to Titled Douluo from twenty to thirty percent to at least sixty percent.

Zhuo Qianren received rare medicines and spirit items from Chen Cong that gave him a sixty percent chance of becoming a Titled Douluo, prompting the Three Elders of Chang'an to weigh the political cost of accepting them. Zhuo decided to take the aid and continue watching the Chen Clan, while Wang Wei and Zhuang Mochen accepted that Chang'an Academy was already aligned with City Lord Xue Churan’s faction.

• Wang Wei celebrated Zhuo Qianren’s chance to reach the Titled Douluo realm, then grew concerned when Zhuo and Zhuang Mochen remained solemn.
• Zhuo told Wang Wei that Chen Cong had offered the Titled Package without conditions, asking only that Zhuo protect Xiao Jun and the others at the Gao Ying Competition.
• Zhuo revealed that he had asked whether the Chen Clan meant to take over Chang'an Academy, and Chen Cong had told him to keep watching its actions.
• Zhuang Mochen reasoned that the prepared gifts and Xue Churan’s silence showed the academy’s leaders were choosing sides between the Chen Clan and the city lord’s faction.
• Zhuo accepted the spiritual items and said that everyone had to choose a side; Wang Wei supported joining their allies, while Zhuang Mochen acknowledged Wang’s straightforward pragmatism.