Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun reviewed the commentary-training results and learned that numerous academies, including agents likely connected to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, were investigating Chang'an Academy. After reviewing recent matches against the Brocade-Clad Guards, he ordered tougher training and summoned more experts, leaving the academy preparing for the attention and challenges surrounding its team.

• Chen Cong approved Chen Xiaojun's detailed report on the commentary-training system for use in the official selections.
• Cheng Yun gave Chen Xiaojun a list of nine academies spying on them and warned that some investigators came from outside the province and the Mystic Bird Division; Chen Xiaojun suspected Heaven Dou Royal Academy was behind it.
• Su Henhan reported that the Chang'an School Team had faced the Brocade-Clad Guards for two days, with mixed results against Soul King experts and stronger prospects if Miss had participated.
• Chen Xiaojun ordered Su Henhan to join the next day's matches and summon several other experts, including Soul Emperor-level fighters, to intensify training.
• Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong agreed that Chang'an Academy's prominence had attracted too many challengers, and that keeping the starting players out of the preliminaries had been the right decision.

Chen Lin Village’s Soul Douluo gathered in the Ancestral Hall as they waited for several elders to attempt breakthroughs, discussing the dangers, their past failures, and the powerful experts present to help. Cheng Nanxing suspected the Old Master had summoned him for a larger purpose, while Qingrui was away helping cultivate Soul Douluo in Qu Teng Hai Secret Realm.

• Ji Chenglie, Xiong Mao Er, and Ding Bingyuan discussed the elders’ upcoming breakthroughs and learned that Ding Bingyuan’s father had nearly died during an earlier failed attempt.
• Ding Bingyuan explained that the elders’ Sword Martial Souls made the breakthrough uncertain, while Zhu Hanshu and Cheng Nanxing reassured everyone that powerful experts had gathered to oversee it.
• The group discussed Zhang’s past reputation and the title Xiao Jun had chosen for the Old Master after his breakthrough to Level 98: “Sword Saint.”
• Ding Bingyuan asked why Cheng Nanxing had returned, and Cheng Nanxing suspected the Old Master had a larger purpose for summoning him.
• Ding Bingyuan said Qingrui had gone to Qu Teng Hai Secret Realm to help cultivate Soul Douluo, where his Water Ghost Fish nature suited the Life River.

The Chen Clan gathered to welcome Chen Hong back and prepare Shen Tianjun for a dangerous cultivation breakthrough using the Yin-Yang Two Forms Spring. Shen Tianjun endured the formation’s forces as a seven-foot streak of bloody light split open the space behind him.

• Chen Hong reunited with the Chen Clan and greeted his master, Lu Xueqi, who praised his breakthrough to level 96 and cautioned him against pride.
• Chen Zixiu welcomed Chen Hong back and said he would guide Chen Xun and help the clan.
• Shen Tianjun entered the hall as Chen Zixiu, Bo Xian'er, Zhang Xiaofan, and Lu Xueqi prepared the Yin-Yang Two Forms Spring formation.
• Ye Xiuxin poured one fifth of the Life Dew into the spring, and Chen Zixiu ordered the formation raised around Shen Tianjun.
• The spring’s twin ice-and-fire dragons forced soul power through Shen Tianjun’s body until a bloody light tore open the void behind him.

Shen Tianjun successfully broke through to the Titled realm and evolved his Green Blood Sword into the Eighth Grade Azure Sea Tide Sword. Qin Lang and Gai Chenliang then suffered dangerous breakthrough failures, but Chen Zixiu and the others stabilized them and saved their lives.

• Chen Zixiu ordered the shield raised as Shen Tianjun's sword intent surged and transformed within his Soul Nest.
• Shen Tianjun emerged rejuvenated, having reached the Titled realm and evolved his Martial Soul into the Azure Sea Tide Sword.
• Xi Li Ru Feng celebrated Shen Tianjun's breakthrough and the Shen Family's renewed transformation.
• Qin Lang and Gai Chenliang's Soul Nests shook violently when their breakthroughs failed.
• Chen Zixiu and six others suppressed the turmoil, protected Qin Lang and Gai Chenliang, and left them alive but weakened.

Gai Chenliang and Lu Xueying successfully broke through, bringing another victory to the Chen Clan’s branches and strengthening the Lu Family’s standing. The chapter ended with the Lu Family recognized as a rising power backed by two Titled Experts and Zhang Xiaofan.

• The chapter explained that the Chen Clan elders’ breakthroughs were supported by Sword Ganoderma, their deep sword-intent foundations, their age, and training at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Wei Sangyu rushed to greet Gai Chenliang after Gai Chenliang emerged from his breakthrough, and the chapter described the Wei and Gai families’ complementary sword arts and combined-attack techniques.
• Chen Xiaojun recalled that Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang were members of the two families and added the Soul Sages to his watch list.
• Lu Xueying entered the Gilded Black Iron Door and later emerged with Lu Xueqi after a powerful surge of Spirit Qi and frost marked her successful breakthrough.
• Lu Xueying displayed her sword aura, and the gathered family members celebrated as the Lu Family gained a second Titled Expert alongside Lu Xueqi.
• The chapter noted that the Lu Family’s two Titled Experts, including a Level 97 Peak Douluo, stood under the protection of Level 98 Blood Emperor Zhang Xiaofan.

Lu Xueying’s Sky Glazed Sword resonated with Lu Xueqi’s Heavenly Zenith Divine Sword and advanced to an Eighth Grade Spirit, triggering a Universal Celebration among the Chen Clan’s Sword Cultivators. The Lu Family officially joined the ranks of eighth-grade noble families, while Xi Li Ru Feng and Feng Tonglong joked about the family’s new standing.

• Lu Xueying and Lu Xueqi’s swords rose into the air, crossed, and blanketed Blue Heart Mountain in frost.
• Sword Martial Souls across Chen Lin Village appeared and resonated with the two swords in a Universal Celebration.
• Chen Zixiu identified the phenomenon as a Sword Grade Upgrade, and the Sky Glazed Sword became an Eighth Grade Spirit.
• The breakthrough raised the Lu Family’s regular awakenings to Eighth Grade Spirits and established the family among the eighth-grade noble families.
• Xi Li Ru Feng teased Feng Tonglong that the Lu Family might take the leading place among the Branch Families and Separate Lineages, and Feng Tonglong pointed out that the Xi Li family had also been surpassed.

The Lu sisters named their newly evolved eighth-grade martial soul the Sky Glazed Sword, while Chen Xiaojun considered how luck shaped martial-soul evolution and the Chen family’s growth. After Yan Ruoyu returned injured, Leng Qingqiu broke through the Shackles and evolved her White Robe Sword into the White Robe Mountain River Sword, leaving its true combat potential on display.

• Yan Ruoyu congratulated Lu Xueqi and Lu Xueying, who named their evolved martial soul the Tianya Spirit Sword, or Sky Glazed Sword.
• Chen Xiaojun reasoned that luck governed martial-soul evolution and that cultivating famous people could strengthen the Chen family’s fortune.
• Yan Ruoyu returned from the trial after her jade sword broke and her martial soul was injured.
• Leng Qingqiu broke through the Shackles and evolved her White Robe Sword into the White Robe Mountain River Sword, which manifested the rare Space Attribute.
• Leng Qingqiu demonstrated the evolved sword’s power, and Chen Zixiu recognized that it could carry forward his concept of shattering the void.

Chen Zixiu assessed the mixed results of the six elders’ breakthroughs and explained how the three successes strengthened the Chen Clan’s strategic position. He restored hope to the three who had failed by promising another attempt in a better secret realm.

• Chen Zixiu explained why Qin Lang, Chen Liang, and Ruo Yu’s breakthroughs had failed and described the risks each faced.
• Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan praised the fifty-percent success rate, while the group discussed how the three successful breakthroughs strengthened the Chen Clan’s regional forces.
• Bo Xian'er urged Chen Zixiu to consider the three failed elders’ state of mind, and he called all six before him.
• Qin Lang, Gai Chenliang, and Yan Ruoyu accepted their failures calmly and thanked Chen Zixiu for giving them the chance to try.
• Chen Zixiu promised the three elders they could attempt breakthroughs again in a new secret realm with better conditions, and Qin Lang welcomed the prospect.

Xue Chuxin met Xia Qingyun, who revealed that she had known about Xue Chuxin’s child with Chen Yu and had once urged him to give them status. The conversation left Xue Chuxin stunned by Xia Qingyun’s acceptance of their relationship and her certainty that their past intimacy had been no accident.

• Xia Qingyun welcomed Xue Chuxin with wine, and Xue Chuxin declined to drink.
• Xia Qingyun challenged Xue Chuxin about whether she had come as a princess, a sister of the Pear Blossom Society, or Chen Yu’s second madam.
• Xue Chuxin denied ever seeking the title of second madam, and Xia Qingyun accused Chen Yu of cowardice for refusing to give her and her child status.
• Xia Qingyun explained that she had known about the child for years and had encouraged Chen Yu to recognize Xue Chuxin and the child.
• Xia Qingyun said she had noticed Chen Yu’s actions and insisted that his intimacy with Xue Chuxin had been genuine, leaving Xue Chuxin flustered and unable to argue.

Xia Qingyun told Xue Chuxin that she did not plan to return to the Chen Clan for at least ten years and offered her the position of clan mistress. After their personal conversation, Xia Qingyun shifted to business as Xia Changyuan announced the arrival of several guests.

• Xue Chuxin asked whether Xia Qingyun had secretly watched her during her pregnancy, and Xia Qingyun denied knowing who else had been watching.
• Xia Qingyun revealed she had attended Xiao Yi's Betrothal Ceremony and used that visit to make her position clear to Xue Chuxin.
• Xue Chuxin confronted Xia Qingyun over her hints and provocations, and Xia Qingyun said she could give her things that she could not ask for.
• Xia Qingyun declared she would not return to the Chen Clan for at least ten years and offered Xue Chuxin the Chen Clan madam's bracelet and the choice of becoming Second Madam.
• Xia Changyuan announced that Senior Xi Men, Saber Devil Douluo, and Senior Ma, Rainbow Phoenix Douluo, had arrived.

The Ten Great Families and the Three Elders of Chang'an gathered in the Mist Forest after the Chen Clan summoned them, and they learned that Zhuo Qianren had reached level 90 with the Chen Clan’s help. The gathering’s purpose remained uncertain as Cheng Nanxing and Cheng Yun arrived, followed by more figures approaching.

• Wang Wei, Zhuang Mochen, and Zhuo Qianren inspected the old battlefield and found a bloodied You Family Wolf Fang Arrow.
• You Dongshan and the other representatives of the Ten Great Families arrived and said the Chen Clan had summoned them to hunt a soul beast.
• Shen Lang, Ji Chengjian, and Liu Yirong said they had only been ordered to gather there, while the Three Elders of Chang'an clarified that they had come to hunt for Zhuo Qianren.
• Zhuo Qianren confirmed that he had reached level 90 with the Chen Clan’s help, shocking the assembled Soul Douluo.
• Cheng Nanxing and Cheng Yun arrived, and everyone turned toward the sound of more people breaking through the void.

Chen Hong assembled a formidable team of Soul Douluo and Titled Douluo and led them into the core of the Xie Luo Mountain Range. As Zhuo Qianren absorbed the Thunder Warhawk Saint King's Soul Ring, the team had already slain three Saint King-level beasts, while Chen Hua and Chen Wu gained Eighth Soul Rings.

• Chen Hong gathered the clan leaders and experts, including four Titled Douluo, and confirmed that everyone would join the operation.
• Xiong Mao Er told Shen Lang that their father, Ying Gu, and Uncle Qing Qiu had all become Titled Douluo before returning home.
• Cheng Yun led the forty-four-person team into the depths of Zhongnan Mountain toward the core of the Xie Luo Mountain Range.
• Yang Jingxue, Yang Zhijia, You Dongshan, and the others trapped and killed the Thunder Warhawk Saint King.
• Zhuo Qianren began absorbing the Thunder Warhawk's Soul Ring while the team rested and guarded him.
• Chen Hua and Chen Wu had each gained an Eighth Soul Ring from Saint King-level beasts, and the team's Support Type Soul Masters helped them travel with few setbacks.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The group, led by Zhuo Qianren, has been fighting and rushing non-stop for 36 hours, covering nearly 500 li.
• Zhuo Qianren is currently absorbing a 90,000-year Soul Ring, which will take at least 2-3 hours.
• The group decides to rest for the night, with Soul Douluo from different cities forming triangular protective formations around Zhuo Qianren.
• Xiong Mao Er shares wine with the group and describes the Chen family's village paradise.

Character Developments

• Xiong Mao Er shows his carefree and generous nature by sharing wine and stories.
• Zhuo Qianren is focused on absorbing his Soul Ring, displaying his dedication to power.
• The group shows camaraderie and teamwork, protecting each other during rest.

Significant Themes

• Camaraderie and teamwork among Soul Masters.
• The pursuit of power and strength, as seen in Zhuo Qianren's dedication to absorbing his Soul Ring.
• The allure and mystery of the Chen family's village paradise, hinting at the clan's power and resources.

Character Interactions

• Xiong Mao Er and Chu Tianshu engage in friendly banter, with Xiong Mao Er sharing information about the Chen family's village.
• Ma Zhibin and the group discuss their recent encounters with Saint King Level soul beasts and the possibility of encountering a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Ning Jiang brings the group back to the serious topic of the Super Douluo List, sparking everyone's interest.

Chen Hong explained to Yang Jingxue that the Chen Clan had a method with a fifty-percent success rate for helping Titled Douluo break through, and that younger candidates could have better odds. Yang Jingxue decided to send her younger brother to Chen Lin Village, while the Chen Clan planned to provide breakthrough opportunities to the Yang and Ximen families in recognition of their long alliance.

• Several days earlier, Chen Cong gathered the group at the Duke Residence and invited them to join a retaliatory soul-beast hunt, then briefed them on soul-master population trends and the Super Douluo List nearing capacity.
• Yang Jingxue asked Chen Hong whether the Chen Clan’s new Titled Douluo had benefited from a breakthrough method and whether Zhu Jiazhen was one of its clan elders.
• Chen Hong confirmed that the elders’ opportunity was the same method he could use to help Zhiqiang, with an overall success rate of fifty percent and higher odds for younger candidates.
• Chen Hong explained that Beast Martial Souls were more effective, but age, physical condition, comprehension, and preparation also affected the breakthrough.
• Yang Jingxue decided to have her younger brother prepare and go to Chen Lin Village, and Chen Hong agreed.
• The Chen Clan intended to offer the Yang and Ximen families breakthrough slots because of their thousand-year alliance.

The Eagle Emperor and enormous flying and ground beast tides descended on Chen Hong's group while Zhuo Qianren absorbed his soul ring. Chen Hong organized a defense and supplied pills to buy Zhuo time, and Yang Jingxue opened the battle with a powerful volley as the enemy charge began.

• The Eagle Emperor's arrival drew thousands of flying beasts and a vast ground tide toward the three groups.
• Wang Wei and Zhuang Mochen warned Chen Hong that interrupting Zhuo Qianren's soul-ring absorption could kill him, and Chen Hong promised to hold the beasts off for an hour.
• Chen Hong assigned the soul masters defensive roles and distributed three Limitless Pills to each person.
• The Gilded Sky Splitting Roc ordered its forces to attack, sending nearly ten thousand flying birds and ground beasts charging toward the group.
• Yang Jingxue used Seven Absolute True Body and Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Clouds to unleash a massive elemental arrow barrage.

A Seven Absolute Bow Titled Douluo’s arrow storm killed thousands of flying soul beasts, and Zhu Jiazhen, Zhu Hanshu, Ning Jiang, Gu Qianli, and the Chen Clan sword cultivators followed with amplified attacks. The surviving high-ranked beasts resisted, but Chen Hong’s sword assault broke through their defenses and devastated the flock.

• More than twenty thousand arrows struck the flying soul beasts, killing three to four thousand birds and thinning the flock by half.
• Zhu Jiazhen and Zhu Hanshu used Hot as Fire and Starry Sky Protection to strengthen and protect the allied fighters.
• Ning Jiang applied the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s four amplifications, and Gu Qianli activated Blood Ignition Excitement.
• Chen Hong led the Chen Clan sword cultivators in a barrage of group attacks, with his Deep Sea Vortex breaking through the Fear Griffin’s flames and the Azure-Feathered Goshawk’s storm.
• The sword energy collided with the flying beasts’ defenses, killing more low- and mid-tier beasts and leaving the high-ranked survivors shaken.

The soul masters fought a fierce aerial and ground battle against the Thunder Warhawk’s flock and a surging army of soul beasts. As Dugu Lin unleashed his Azure Sky Poisonous Miasma, Zhuo Qianren continued absorbing a soul ring under Chen Hong’s protection.

• Ma Zhibin and the others completed a third wave of assaults, scattering the birds and killing more of them.
• The Thunder Warhawk accused the soul masters of killing its kin and led the remaining birds into attacks from every direction.
• The Ji Brothers, Liu Yirong, Gao Ying, Chen Xuanqi, Yan Jinzhong, and the Chen Clan Sword Cultivators used their abilities to fight the airborne beasts while the archers targeted the Fear Griffon and Thunder Warhawk.
• Chen Hong guarded Zhuo Qianren as he absorbed a soul ring, while the other Flying Soul Masters struck at the birds near the high platform.
• Zhuang Mochen deployed his Life and Death Bamboo Array to slow the ground horde, and Xia Yun trapped lower-ranked beasts in her Illusory Sea Cherry Tree Realm.
• Dugu Lin unleashed his Azure Sky Poisonous Miasma over the battlefield.

The Soul Douluo fought off the advancing soul beasts while Ximen Rongcheng confronted the Purple Lightning Swift Tiger. Ximen Rongcheng drove the Tiger King back to the mountain’s open foothills, where their clash continued amid flames and lightning.

• Poisonous mist, Xia Yun’s illusions, Withered Glory Bamboo, and cherry blossoms trapped and killed large numbers of low-level soul beasts.
• Zhu Yanfeng, Gui Mingyun, Wang Wei, and the other Soul Douluo formed a defensive line and stopped powerful soul beasts from breaking through.
• The Purple Lightning Swift Tiger and Beacon Fire Iron Elephant charged into the battle, unaffected by the Poison Bamboo Flower Triple Formation.
• Ximen Rongcheng took on the Purple Lightning Swift Tiger and struck it with his Sixth Soul Skill, Dragon Flame Burst Ram.
• Ximen Rongcheng followed with Red Lotus Tribulation, forcing the Tiger King back to the open ground at the foot of the mountain.
• The Tiger King countered with a thunderstorm, and its claws collided with Ximen Rongcheng’s blade amid destructive lightning and fire.

The Yamaguchi Defense Line faced a fierce attack as the Beacon Fire Iron Elephant unleashed a rain of flaming rocks and charged the formation. Zhu Yanfeng endured the bombardment and joined Zhong Bai to meet the elephant’s advance with their defenses.

• The Beacon Fire Iron Elephant hurled flaming rocks toward the rear ranks as thirteen Ancient King Level soul beasts advanced behind it, including an Azure Light Swift Elephant.
• Zhu Yanfeng called out and the defenders shifted positions, with Ding Bingyuan, Ma Zhaoyang, Ling Yunxiao, Fang Yuanbo, Gui Mingyun, and Zhong Bai filling the changing formation.
• Zhu Yanfeng activated his Stone Armor Porcupine Martial Soul True Body and raised a massive shield to block the falling rocks.
• Zhu Hanshu healed and shielded Zhu Yanfeng, who then used his Moon Wolf Guardian torso-bone skill to withstand the impact and rush toward the front.
• Zhong Bai summoned his Mystic Yellow Bell True Body as Zhu Yanfeng formed a Golden Bell Shield, and the Beacon Fire Iron Elephant brought its feet down on both defenses.

Gui Mingyun and Fang Yuanbo fused into Baxia and drove the Beacon Fire Iron Elephant down the mountain, easing the land-front pressure while the flying Soul Beast horde kept the high-platform defenders under siege. The defenders repelled successive attacks, but their formation and fighters remained strained as the aerial assault intensified.

• Gui Mingyun and Fang Yuanbo formed Baxia, which clashed with the Beacon Fire Iron Elephant and rolled it down the mountain, crushing Soul Beasts along the way.
• The defenders recovered with Limitless Pills and Zhu Hanshu treated their wounds as the Poison Bamboo Flower line stabilized against the land beast horde.
• Yang Jingxue helped Yang Zhijia and You Dongshan fend off the flying beasts, but their arrows dwindled as the encircling horde continued its assault.
• Iron Winged Bats wounded Chu Tianshu and Ma Zhibin while they were airborne, and Xiong Mao Er caught Chu Tianshu as Shen Lang fought off the pursuing raptors.
• Chen Hua and Yu ZhengRong restored the sword formation, but more vicious flying Soul Beasts rushed toward the defenders.