Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun persuaded Zhuang Mochen to support the Chen Clan and proposed hunting the Thunder Warhawk Saint King for Zhuo Qianren’s Ninth Soul Ring. Back at the Small Courtyard, he told his exhausted companions that the arena challenge matches would continue for three more days, then saw the badly injured Ma Wencai arrive.

• Zhuang Mochen agreed to lend Chen Xiaojun his full support for Chang'an Academy and said Zhuo Qianren would protect him on the journey north.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested the ninety-thousand-year-old Thunder Warhawk Saint King as Zhuo Qianren’s Ninth Soul Ring, and Zhuang Mochen considered the dangerous hunt.
• Chen Xiaojun left Zhuang Mochen’s residence, prompting Zhuang Mochen to reflect on his cleverness and the changes he might bring to the academy.
• Du Gu Fu and Zhu Wuneng complained to Chen Xiaojun about their exhausting arena defenses, and he told them the challenge matches had three days left.
• Ma Wencai arrived at the Small Courtyard supported by Ma Liang, pale and weak from severe injuries and blood loss.

Ma Wencai fought through nine matches and entered the tenth, badly injured, where he faced level 45 Soul Ancestor Aaron Frayke. As Aaron’s strongest fire attack descended, Ma Wencai unleashed his final trump card, Corona Radiance.

• Chen Xiaojun told Ma Wencai that he had passed, and Zhu Wuneng and Su Ningxia praised his victory in the Ten-Win Streak.
• Ma Wencai’s earlier matches left him wounded and exhausted, especially after he defeated Tom Sack and endured a trading-blows tactic in the ninth match.
• Aaron Frayke opened their tenth match with Flame Lion’s Roar, sending Ma Wencai crashing to the ground.
• Aaron pursued Ma Wencai with Flame Lion Claw Strike and Flame Lion Shadow Clone, worsening his injuries as Ma struggled to stay upright.
• Ma Wencai gathered his remaining Soul Power to meet Aaron’s Flames Burn the Heavens with Corona Radiance.

Ma Wencai defeated Aaron Frayke with his Corona Radiance combination skill, earning his teammates’ respect. Three days later, the school formally established its competition team and appointed Chen Xiaojun captain and commander.

• Ma Wencai’s Double Sun Burst shattered Aaron Frayke’s fireball and knocked him unconscious.
• The referee declared Ma Wencai the winner, and Ma Wencai collapsed from exhaustion as his teammates supported him.
• Aaron Frayke’s teammates accused Ma Wencai of going too far, but Zhu Wuneng defended him until the referee ordered both teams to stand down.
• Three days later, Yan Chengyi announced the school team’s formation and named himself team leader and Ji Xiang deputy team leader.
• Yan Chengyi appointed Chen Xiaojun captain and commander, with Chen Mu and Chen Xinyi as vice captains.

Yan Chengyi announced that Chen Xiaojun would lead and coach the school team, then Chen explained that the recent arena battles had been the first phase of special training and warned that anyone who failed would be sent home. He ordered the selected students to pack for the second phase, leaving the team preparing to depart at one o’clock.

• Wang Baoqiang asked Yan Chengyi what it meant for Captain Hongchen to also command the school team, and Yan explained Chen Xiaojun’s responsibilities as captain and coach.
• Chen Xiaojun congratulated the selected students and revealed that their arena battles had tested their combat ability, endurance, and tactics as the first phase of special training.
• Wang Baoqiang asked what happened to students who failed, and Chen Xiaojun said they would have to leave; Seven Neil teased Wang about arriving just in time.
• Chen Xiaojun reflected on the selected commoner students, including Wang Baoqiang, Meiji Bo, and Sai Wennier, and on the strengths and roles of the school team’s candidates.
• Chen Xiaojun told everyone to pack their clothes and gather at one in the afternoon to travel to the second phase of special training.

Chen Xiaojun began a week of intense special training for Chang'an Academy at the Chang'an Great Soul Arena, setting demanding fight quotas and win-rate requirements. The team prepared to begin their matches, while Chen Xiaojun kept the nighttime training plan secret.

• Ma Rulong met with Chen Xiaojun, offered his support, and told Ma Liang and Ma Wencai to perform well in the Continental Elite Competition.
• Chen Xiaojun told the team they would train at the Great Soul Arena for a week, fighting at least ten matches a day against a range of opponents.
• Chen Xiaojun required the students to achieve at least a 90% single-fight win rate and an 80% double-fight win rate, or be removed from the team.
• Chen Xiaojun assigned the initial doubles partners, distributed blank cards and masks, and explained that their soul-fighter records had been re-registered.
• Chen Xiaojun said the second part of training would happen at night, and Zhu Wuneng guessed that it involved something fun.
• Ma Liang asked what his combination with Chen Mu was called, and Chen Mu named it the Three-Five Combination.

Chen Xiaojun learned that Wang Baoqiang's martial soul had risen from third grade to sixth through repeated growth, and watched him fight on the Soul Duel Stage. Chen Mu explained why the academy had kept Wang hidden and speculated that they had now released him to gain experience and impress Chen Xiaojun.

• Chen Cong approved Chen Xiaojun's training outlines, judging the team's individual strength sufficient but its coordination and composure still untested.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Chen Mu about Wang Baoqiang, and Chen Mu said Wang had been orphaned young and entered Chang'an Academy with a third-grade martial soul.
• Chen Xiaojun watched Wang's Dark Gold giant ape fight and judged its aura to be that of a sixth-grade martial soul.
• Chen Mu explained that Wang's martial soul had climbed to sixth grade after repeated growth, aided by Yuan's mentorship and Wang's hard work to fund his cultivation.
• Chen Mu said the academy had concealed Wang's details and likely released him to gain competition experience and make a good impression on Chen Xiaojun.
• Chen Mu left to take his turn on the Soul Duel Stage.

The chapter explained Chang'an Academy’s factional leadership and reorganized departmental structure, including Yuan Tieshan’s role as head of Academic Affairs. Chen Xiaojun realized that the Earth-Metal Faction wanted Wang Baoqiang to earn his attention and considered how the academy’s factions were positioning their younger members around him.

• The chapter introduced Yuan Tieshan’s background, his position as Dean of Academic Affairs, and his place as a leading figure in the Earth-Metal Faction.
• The chapter described the Three Major Factions and outlined how Zhuo Qianren, Zhuang Mochen, and Wang Wei led the Wind-Thunder, Plant, and Earth-Metal factions.
• Chen Cong reorganized Chang'an Academy’s departments, reclaimed the Institute Office, established a separate Soul Power Research Department, and planned a Competition Management Department under Academic Affairs.
• Chen Xiaojun inferred that Wang Baoqiang’s Gao Ying Competition entry was meant to win his approval and possibly secure his support.
• Chen Xiaojun considered the factional affiliations of the academy’s younger generation and noticed the Earth-Metal Faction lacked a strong connection to him.

Xiao Yi entered the Soul King-level tournament disguised as Shao Siming and fought Flame Hell to train with her sword. After Flame Hell wore her down with webs, poison, and fire, Xiao Yi revealed a purple soul ring and healed her injuries, leaving him shocked.

• The narrator reasoned that the Water-Ice Lineage and Molten Fire Faction had held back their strongest students from the provincial contest, likely to make way for the Earth-Metal Faction.
• Xiao Yi, wearing Shao Siming's mask, began a Soul King-level battle against Flame Hell at the Great Soul Arena.
• Flame Hell attacked Xiao Yi with a spider web, fire thorns, poison mist, spider silk, and demonic flames, while she countered with sword techniques and took a wound to her arm.
• Xiao Yi resisted Flame Hell's assaults but grew exhausted as the battle continued and he taunted her about being poisoned.
• Xiao Yi leapt away from Flame Hell, then revealed a deep purple soul ring and healed her injuries with Soul Power.
• Flame Hell realized Xiao Yi had a healing skill and was shocked by the sudden reversal.

Xiao Yi fought a Flame Hell Demon Spider, and Chen Xiaojun and the others discussed the flaws in her sword technique. After the arena match, the group traded jokes about their chosen names, leaving the gathering in laughter.

• Wang Baoqiang cheered for Xiao Yi as she fought the Flame Hell Demon Spider, while Chen Xiaojun noted that poor conversion and control weakened her sword qi.
• Su Ningxia explained that the opponent’s stronger Spirit and fire attributes made the spiderweb especially difficult for Xiao Yi to cut.
• Chen Mu reassured the others that Xiao Yi had only practiced for a few days, and Chen Xiaojun said the difficult matchup would help her improve.
• Chen Mu teased Chen Xiaojun about their Green Emperor and White Emperor names, prompting the group to exchange jokes about names such as Five Virtues, Guizi Liu, and Ikyu Brother.
• Wang Baoqiang argued that Monkey Brother was a decent name, but Sai Wen and the others mocked it and teased Meiji Bo about being a normal man.

Xiao Yi defeated Inferno in the arena, healed her injured teammates, and prepared them for the next stage of special training. The chapter then shifted to Hai Hai Ge and Hei Hei Di commentating on the Soul Ancestor battle between Kong Jun and Wolf Devourer, which remained underway.

• Xiao Yi struck Inferno with her sword qi and won the arena match as he collapsed and spat blood.
• Wang Baoqiang celebrated Xiao Yi's victory, and she healed him and the other injured team members.
• Chen Xiaojun told the team to rest before the second part of special training, while Su Ningxia handed Xiao Yi a cup of water.
• Hai Hai Ge and Hei Hei Di introduced the upcoming battle between Sword Antelope Kong Jun and Scarlet Blood War Wolf Wolf Devourer.
• The commentators described Kong Jun targeting Wolf Devourer's waist and discussed both fighters' strengths, weaknesses, and battle records.

Chen Xiaojun assigned his companions to commentate on spirit arena matches as special training, and they reluctantly took the stage under their soul-fighting names. Xiao Yi avoided commentating by choosing to fight at night, while the others began hosting matches until the arena closed.

• Soul Ancestor Kong Jun wounded Soul Ancestor Wolf Devourer with a strike, and Wolf Devourer counterattacked as the commentators described their ongoing fight.
• Ji Bochang and the others recognized the captain and Wu Neng as the famous match hosts Hai Hai Ge and Hei Hei Di, then discussed the benefits of commentary as training.
• Gao Cuilan worried that Xiao Yi would have to commentate, so Xiao Yi left to fight at night and assigned daytime fighting to Su Ningxia.
• Wang Baoqiang and the others complained about commentating all night, but Chen Xiaojun ordered them to host matches until the Great Soul Arena closed at ten.
• Chen Mu and Du Gu Fu introduced themselves as Five Virtues and Ikyu Brother, while Ma Liang and Ma Wencai used Three Wheeler and Second Slider, and Ji Bochang and Meiji Bo used Tide Manipulator and Ice Seal.

Chen Xiaojun’s team completed intensive live-commentary training at the Great Soul Arena, developing several strategic skills and resources. After receiving Su Henhan’s investigation report and discussing the training with Ma Rulong, Chen Xiaojun prepared to leave that afternoon and begin the team’s final tactics stage elsewhere.

• The team paired up for hours of live commentary, improving their commentary, coordination, prediction, and mental control.
• Chen Xiaojun expanded the training into six described strategic programs, including a martial soul handbook, a weakness database, tactical prediction, stress resistance, soul power control, and personality correction.
• Su Henhan presented Chen Xiaojun with an investigation report compiled by the Brocade-Clad Guards and promised to continue following his instructions.
• Ma Rulong praised Chen Xiaojun’s carefully documented training program and regretted that the Great Soul Arena could not provide more team battles.
• Chen Xiaojun decided to leave the Great Soul Arena that afternoon and conduct the final team tactics drills away from public attention.
• Ma Rulong asked to read the report, and Chen Xiaojun handed it to him.

Su Ningxia and Su Henhan discussed the Su Family’s recovery and the scrutiny that came with her becoming Xiao Yi’s follower. Su Henhan revealed that the Chen Clan’s Main Family might formally accept the Su Family as a follower family, giving them protection and a potential role in building Xiao Yi’s support within the clan.

• Su Ningxia met Su Henhan, who thanked her for helping him handle a task for Young Master and for supporting the Fierce Tiger Gang’s survivors.
• Su Ningxia mourned the family members lost in the disaster, and Su Henhan urged her to carry on and act carefully in her new role as Xiao Yi’s follower.
• Su Henhan warned that Su Ningxia’s actions and conduct were being watched because of Xiao Yi’s prominence and the attention surrounding her marriage connection.
• Su Henhan told Su Ningxia that the Chen Clan’s Main Family might take the Su Family in as a follower family.
• Su Henhan reasoned that the Chen Clan might be building a force for Xiao Yi within its own system, with the Su Family well suited to become part of it.

Su Ningxia accepted the Su Family’s inheritance-level soul bone and agreed to become its next head, while her uncle urged her to prepare for the Gao Ying Competition. Two days earlier, Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi encountered a powerful visitor in the bamboo forest and recognized him as their long-lost friend, Zi Xiu Ge.

• Su Henhan gave Su Ningxia her father’s inheritance-level soul bone and told her the family had chosen her as its next head.
• Su Ningxia worried that she lacked experience, but accepted the responsibility and promised to restore the Su Family’s glory.
• Su Henhan urged Su Ningxia to prepare for the Gao Ying Competition before leaving.
• Two days earlier, Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi sensed a formidable newcomer approaching in the bamboo forest and readied themselves to fight.
• Zi Xiu Ge appeared and greeted Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan, who were astonished to see him again after more than ten years.

Chen Zixiu reunited with Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi after advancing toward level 99 by fusing with rules, then told them the Crimson Church had attacked his clan and that another catastrophe was approaching. The chapter ended with the three preparing to take the threat seriously as Chen Yu remained in a wooden-stupor state.

• Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi sensed Chen Zixiu’s extraordinary power, while Xiao Hui panicked at his presence.
• Chen Zixiu met Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi in their bamboo house, where they congratulated him on his recovery and breakthrough.
• Chen Zixiu told Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi that the Crimson Church had attacked the Chen Clan and harmed A Yu and A Cong.
• Chen Zixiu explained that A Cong needed a year to recover, while A Yu had fallen into a wooden-stupor state with his survival uncertain.
• Zhang Xiaofan revealed that Chen Yu was his nominal disciple and heir to his teachings, and he reacted angrily to the attack.
• Chen Zixiu warned that another catastrophe could erupt within ten or twenty years, and Lu Xueqi said the Crimson Church’s attack signaled its approach.

Chen Zixiu told Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan that six Chen family members, including Lu Xueying, would attempt to break through to the Titled realm under the Sunset Glow plan, aided by treasures from a newly discovered secret realm. Lu Xueqi agreed to help protect them, and the three shared wine before the planned breakthroughs.

• Chen Zixiu revealed that Lu Xueying would soon attempt to reach the Titled realm, stirring Lu Xueqi's memories and concern for her younger sister.
• Chen Zixiu explained that the Chen family had selected Lu Xueying, Tian Jun, A Lang, Chen Liang, Ruo Yu, and Qing Qiu for the Sunset Glow breakthrough plan.
• Chen Zixiu disclosed that the Main Lineage had found a new secret realm containing spiritual treasures that could help them break through.
• Chen Zixiu asked Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan to protect the six during their breakthroughs, and Lu Xueqi agreed at once.
• Lu Xueqi described how the Chen family's medicines had healed much of her and Zhang Xiaofan's lingering injuries, and Chen Zixiu poured wine for them to share.

Chen Zixiu revealed to Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan that Bo Xian'er was his wife, then demonstrated the advanced techniques he had cultivated. He left them with evidence that his powers had advanced into deeper realms of star and time-space cultivation.

• Chen Zixiu told Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan that Bo Xian'er was the mother of A Yu and A Cong.
• Chen Zixiu asked why Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi had been testing their Soul Devouring Rod and Heavenly Zenith Divine Sword, and Zhang Xiaofan explained he had hoped to break through his cultivation bottleneck.
• Chen Zixiu asked whether they wanted to advance to a higher cultivation realm, and Lu Xueqi described her long-standing Level 97 bottleneck and the limits of the Xuanqing Dao for her ice sword arts.
• Chen Zixiu demonstrated Moon Cold Qi and the Star Domain created by the fifth, sixth, and seventh layers of his Big Dipper Grand Technique.
• Chen Zixiu displayed Da Luo Dongguan, using time-space power to transform a bamboo leaf into vanishing fireflies.

Chen Zixiu explained how Zhang Xiaofan’s Martial Soul had evolved and offered Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi the Big Dipper Grand Technique and other secret techniques. They were especially drawn to its star-based cultivation and sword formations, and the chapter ended with Chen Zixiu inviting them to refine A Cong’s sword formation.

• Chen Zixiu described how the Soul Devouring Rod had gained its attributes and evolved through the Netherworld Ghost Fire and Blood Devouring Pearl.
• Chen Zixiu revealed that his clan had obtained the Big Dipper Grand Technique, the Nine Yang Divine Skill, and the Eight Wonders, including Da Luo Dongguan.
• Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan recognized that the Big Dipper Grand Technique suited their Martial Souls and cultivation.
• Chen Zixiu told them that A Cong had developed a personal version of the Heavenly Dipper Big Dipper Sword Formation and invited them to improve it.
• Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan grew eager to learn the technique, especially after hearing it included the Seven Stars Sword Formation.

Chen Zixiu advised Zhang Xiaofan to strengthen his other attributes and explained how the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well might advance Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi’s Martial Souls. The revelation that its spring water contained divinity left them stunned and raised new questions about the secret realm.

• Chen Zixiu told Zhang Xiaofan that relying too heavily on the Blood Attribute hindered his cultivation and urged him to strengthen the foundations of the other Heavenly Book volumes.
• Chen Zixiu suggested using the Big Dipper Grand Technique to develop Zhang Xiaofan’s stars, spirit, and Nether Attribute, and explained that the Soul Devouring Rod could awaken its latent Fire Attribute.
• Chen Zixiu proposed that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could stimulate the Netherworld Ghost Fire brand in Zhang Xiaofan’s Soul Devouring Rod and the Ice Attribute in Lu Xueqi’s Heavenly Zenith Divine Sword.
• Chen Zixiu explained the Dao of Taiji, and Zhang Xiaofan revealed that the first volume of the Heavenly Book had mentioned Taiji without clarifying its meaning.
• Zhang Xiaofan questioned whether the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could truly advance their Martial Souls, and Chen Zixiu vouched for its power by recalling how a similar opportunity had strengthened his Seven Kill Sword.
• Chen Zixiu revealed that the Two Forms Spring water contained divinity, startling Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi.

Chen Zixiu explained how the Two Forms Spring water and divinity could help Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan evolve their Martial Souls, with the Soul Devouring Rod possibly reaching God-level. He revealed that Zhang Xiaofan’s Innate Soul Power had risen to level 11.7, leaving the group to consider how his rare treasures and evolved Martial Soul could help him reach Peerless Douluo.

• Chen Zixiu told Lu Xueqi that the Two Forms Spring water could help her Heavenly Zenith Divine Sword become a Super Martial Soul and aid her cultivation.
• Chen Zixiu said the spring water could give Zhang Xiaofan’s Soul Devouring Rod a Fire Attribute and a chance to evolve into a God-level Martial Soul.
• Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi recognized that Chen Zixiu and the Chen Clan had carefully prepared ways to help them, and Chen Zixiu agreed that their well-being benefited everyone.
• Chen Zixiu explained the Chen Clan’s theory that God-level Martial Souls required multiple attributes, strong foundations, and possibly divinity and great luck.
• Chen Zixiu gave Zhang Xiaofan a special Sea God Island Soul Power Testing Ball, which showed that his Innate Soul Power had reached level 11.7.
• Chen Zixiu attributed Zhang Xiaofan’s extraordinary soul power and prospects for reaching Peerless Douluo to his Martial Soul evolutions, rare treasures, and powerful soul rings and bones.