Chapter Summaries

Chen Surong visited the Martial Arts Training Ground, revealed that she and Tang Yuchen had fought at the Gao Ying Competition twenty years earlier, and praised his design for the Hundred Flowers Compendium and Hundred Flowers Throne. Tang Yuchen accepted the praise on behalf of the craftsmen from Hundred Flowers Village.

• Chen Surong arrived with a quiet female attendant and teased Chen Xiaojun about his wary glance and his talk with Tang Yuchen.
• Chen Surong recalled how Tang Yuchen's forty-nine chained Mountain Piercing Great Hammer blows defeated her at the Gao Ying Competition.
• Tang Yuchen apologized for the force of his attack, and Chen Surong assured him that their old match had been a natural contest.
• Chen Surong praised Tang Yuchen's corps-style design for the Hundred Flowers Compendium, the Hundred Flowers Throne, and resonance-based enhancement.
• Tang Yuchen credited the design to the months of work and all-night deductions by dozens of craftsmen from Hundred Flowers Village.

Chen Surong praised Tang Yuchen’s strategic abilities and urged Chen Xiaojun to support his work on the Chen Clan’s blueprint. After she and Shadow Butterfly left, Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen about the former assassin, whose life in Chen Lin Village remained restricted and directionless.

• Chen Surong praised Tang Yuchen’s ability to understand and organize complex systems, and thanked him for his work on the Chen Clan’s blueprint.
• Chen Surong told Chen Xiaojun to cultivate talent carefully, then left with Shadow Butterfly to visit the children.
• Chen Xiaojun acknowledged Shadow Butterfly, who silently curtsied before him and followed Chen Surong away.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen what he thought of Shadow Butterfly, and Tang said she could not return to her former life.
• Tang Yuchen explained that Shadow Butterfly was an orphan raised by Unbenevolent Tower, remained under restrictions in Chen Lin Village, and taught at Ze Ji Study after Chen Surong brought her there.

Chen Xiaojun examined Tang Yuchen’s unauthorized Hundred Flowers Throne prototype and its Mental Split Network, which used rune force fields and nerve cords to transmit mental commands to puppets. Tang’s tests suggested the design could coordinate large groups over long distances, and he explained how it drew on collective behaviors observed in the Soul Beast World.

• Tang Yuchen showed Chen Xiaojun the blueprint and admitted the team had secretly built a half-finished Hundred Flowers Throne prototype using preliminary research resources.
• Tang Yuchen explained that precise Spirit Mirror Lens Array alignment was needed to prevent delays in the mental link network.
• Tang Yuchen described how rune force fields could reduce signal loss and filter interference during long-range mental command transmission.
• Chen Xiaojun questioned Tang Yuchen about Soul Douluo-level testing, and Tang admitted that the team had used Elder Shi Hua in extreme stress tests without formal approval.
• Tang Yuchen explained that the prototype used a Soul Saint Level beast’s Spirit Type soul crystal, mithril, and Demon Eye Magic Tree heartwood sap as core materials.
• Tie Fu'er listened as Tang Yuchen connected the Mental Split Network’s group-coordination principles to cooperative behavior among Soul Beasts.

Tang Yuchen explained the Mental Split Network’s layered command system, and Chen Xiaojun recognized it as a soul-powered analogue of a local area network. Tang then described how the Hundred Flowers Throne and specialized puppets could command units at different levels.

• Tang Yuchen explained how the Hundred Flowers Throne broadcast commands to Ru Hua Puppets through Mental Resonance Waves and Spirit Mirror Lens Arrays.
• Tang Yuchen described how puppets used preset action logic to carry out commands, coordinate attacks, and keep operating when some network nodes were destroyed.
• Chen Xiaojun connected the network’s components to Wi-Fi, network cards, data packets, and firmware, realizing it resembled a local area network.
• Chen Xiaojun asked whether specialized puppets could serve as secondary nodes and command lower-tier Ru Hua.
• Tang Yuchen confirmed that specialized Hundred Flowers could command five to twenty lower-tier Ru Hua, while the Hundred Flowers Throne retained direct command over the wider network.

Chen Xiaojun and Tang Yuchen discussed the Hundred Flowers Throne’s communication limits and how force-field amplification could extend its Mental Power Field. Tang Yuchen estimated that a Saint King Level Soul Crystal might expand coverage to five or even ten li, enough to encompass Chen Lin Village and the surrounding peaks.

• Chen Xiaojun questioned whether puppets could communicate beyond a Hundred Flowers Throne’s Mental Network, and Tang Yuchen explained that direct links were possible but short-range, inefficient, and unstable.
• Tang Yuchen said a throne’s effective control range reached eight hundred meters in ideal conditions and could fall to about four hundred meters in harsh environments.
• Chen Xiaojun identified force-field amplification as a way to extend network coverage and envisioned a base station system for the Soul Power world.
• Tang Yuchen estimated that an amplified throne using a high-rank soul crystal could cover up to three li under ideal conditions.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed using a Saint King Level Soul Crystal, and Tang Yuchen estimated its field might reach five to ten li and cover Chen Lin Village and nearby peaks.

Chen Xiaojun expanded Tang Yuchen’s Mental Power Field proposal into the Chen Xin Tower project, a network of towers and Hundred Flowers Thrones meant to transform battlefield command. The chapter ended with Chen Xiaojun considering a separate tower network for long-distance communications.

• Chen Xiaojun urged Tang Yuchen to build a massive Mental Power Field Tower that could connect puppets and command nodes across Chen Family Village and its surrounding territory.
• Tang Yuchen explained how the tower, Hundred Flowers Thrones, and Split Soul Crystal Core could form a unified battlefield command network, and Chen Xiaojun named the project “Leap of Civilization - Chen Xin Tower.”
• Chen Xiaojun instructed Tang Yuchen to submit the revised application within two days and said he would find the manpower needed to investigate the tower’s capabilities.
• Chen Xiaojun expanded the project into three kinds of Chen Xin Tower for information command, mental effects, and Soul Power defenses, with the eventual goal of combining them.
• Chen Xiaojun recalled the limits of Bright Light Mirror communications and considered building four communication towers around the village.

Chen Xiaojun learned how the Zhaowu Nine Elders fit into the Chen family's administrative system, then heard Tang Yuchen explain the Clear Sky Hammer lineage's secret techniques. Tang revealed that his branch had developed its own eighty-one-hammer art, the Nine Heavens Hammer Technique.

• The chapter described how the Internal Affairs Department managed the Chen family's resources and how the Zhaowu Nine Elders used their temporary vice-minister posts to coordinate across departments.
• Chen Xiaojun treated Tang Yuchen and Tie Fu'er to sixth-grade Wine Spirit Wine at Lakeside Residence.
• Tie Fu'er said he had left the Gao Ying Competition preliminary rounds to practice his moves and explained that Tang Yuchen was training in the Forty-Nine Chain Hammers.
• Tang Yuchen clarified that Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer belonged to the Clear Sky Lineage and evolved from the Mountain Piercing Forty-Nine Chain Hammers by incorporating the Clear Sky Nine Wonders.
• Tang Yuchen revealed that his branch had developed its own eighty-one-hammer art, the Nine Heavens Hammer Technique.

Tang Yuchen explained to Chen Xiaojun how the Clear Sky Sect's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer differed from the Mystic Yellow Tang Family's Nine Heavens Hammer Technique in foundation, use of power, and martial intent. He left Tie Fu'er with the answer that neither hammer was inherently superior, because the Dao depended on the sincerity of the practitioner.

• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen to explain the difference between the two eighty-one-hammer techniques.
• Tang Yuchen said Disorder Splitting Wind used the Forty-Nine Mountain Breaker Hammers to train the Clear Sky Nine Wonders, while Nine Heavens grew from the Tang family's Mountain Piercing Forty-Nine Chain Hammers and earth-based inheritance.
• Tang Yuchen explained that Disorder Splitting Wind borrowed and circulated momentum, while Nine Heavens accumulated the practitioner's own power through ninefold stages until the final hammer erupted.
• Tang Yuchen demonstrated the techniques with a chopstick, showing Disorder Splitting Wind's flowing strikes and Nine Heavens' steadily stacked force.
• Tang Yuchen said Nine Heavens embodied the Mystic Yellow lineage's Dao, and told Tie Fu'er that neither technique was superior because the Dao lay in sincerity of heart.

Tang Yuchen explained the Mystic Yellow Lineage’s earth-based cultivation, the Nine Heavens Hammer Technique, and why its slow, demanding path left the family overshadowed by the Clear Sky Sect. Chen Xiaojun grasped the contrast between the technique-focused Disorder Splitting Wind and the Dao-focused Nine Heavens Hammer.

• Tang Yuchen described the nine earth concepts and explained how the Kun Yuan Art and Jiu Gai Jue guided cultivation of the Nine Heavens Hammer Technique.
• Chen Xiaojun identified the mental art as the guide, the hammer technique as the furnace, and the earth concept as the soul.
• Tang Yuchen explained that the earth attribute’s slow cultivation and demanding advanced mental art made it difficult for Mystic Yellow Tang Family disciples to reach Titled Douluo before eighty.
• Tang Yuchen described how forty-nine, sixty-four, and eighty-one hammer blows could create increasingly powerful force fields and domain-like pressure.
• Tang Yuchen admitted he could barely strike sixty-eight blows after decades of training, while the eighty-one-blow peak remained far beyond his reach.
• Chen Xiaojun concluded that Disorder Splitting Wind was founded on technique, while the Nine Heavens Hammer was founded on the Dao.

Tang Yuchen explained the Mystic Yellow Tang Family’s earth-centered cultivation, secret arts, and rivalry with the Clear Sky Sect. He revealed that the clan’s ancestral ultimate art was the Great Kunlun Hammer, leaving Chen Xiaojun stunned by the name’s connection to myths from his previous life.

• Tie Fu'er asked whether anyone had mastered the Mystic Yellow Tang Family’s Nine Gai Eighty-One Hammers, and Tang Yuchen said no one had when he left the clan more than ten years earlier.
• Tang Yuchen explained how the Mystic Yellow path fused the Nine Heavens Art with the Kun Yuan Art, contrasting it with the Clear Sky Sect’s separate forces and their combination into yang thunder force.
• Tang Yuchen listed the Mystic Yellow Tang Family’s inherited arts, including the Eight Desolations Mountain Suppression, Mystic Yellow Battle Armor, and Mystic Yellow Prison-Suppression Formation.
• Chen Xiaojun asked whether the Mystic Yellow Tang Family had an ultimate inheritance to rival the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation, and Tang Yuchen revealed the Great Kunlun Hammer.
• Chen Xiaojun choked on his wine and realized that Sumeru and Kunlun were familiar mythic mountains from his previous life, though he had never found them in Douluo Continent’s records.

Chen Xiaojun learned the Mystic Yellow Tang Family’s Great Kunlun Hammer drew power from the earth, and he recognized its name might share a deeper origin with the Clear Sky Lineage’s Great Sumeru Hammer. After hearing that overusing its ultimate technique could petrify the user, he asked Tang Yuchen whether the Great Kunlun Hammer counted as a divine skill.

• Chen Xiaojun became alarmed by the shared Sumeru and Kunlun names and resolved to investigate their possible connection.
• Tang Yuchen explained that the Great Kunlun Hammer linked soul rings to earth veins to draw in power and strengthen the user or form a massive stone hammer.
• Tang Yuchen said its ultimate technique, Nuclear Explosion, released earth-core power through the soul rings without sacrificing them.
• Chen Xiaojun reasoned that channeling such immense power could overload and damage the soul rings.
• Tang Yuchen revealed that a clan ancestor who repeatedly used Nuclear Explosion had turned entirely to stone after a battle.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen whether the Great Kunlun Hammer was a divine skill.

Chen Xiaojun theorized that the Great Kunlun Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer could be complementary techniques, then asked Tang Yuchen about their origins. Tang Yuchen traced them to Tang Xuanhuang and Tang Haotian, whose battle against a rank-99 Peerless Douluo ended in victory but cost both ancestors their lives.

• Chen Xiaojun proposed that the Great Kunlun Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer, along with their ultimate techniques, might be combined with the Kun Yuan Jiu Gai Jue and the Clear Sky Sect’s Nine Yang Force.
• Tang Yuchen explained that Tang Xuanhuang and Tang Haotian were twin ancestors who adopted those names after entering an ancient ruin, and that the Great Kunlun Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer appeared after their return.
• Tang Yuchen said a rank-99 Peerless Douluo of the Crimson Church attacked the two ancestors, who killed him together.
• Tang Yuchen revealed that Tang Xuanhuang died exhausted and became the clan’s first stone statue, while Tang Haotian died from his wounds a few years later.
• Chen Xiaojun suspected that the ancestors’ combined techniques and ultimate moves had let them defeat a stronger opponent, but Tang Yuchen said the details of the battle were lost.

Chen Xiaojun explained to Tang Yuchen that the Great Sumeru Hammer transcended ordinary Martial Soul Avatar enlargement by reshaping the Clear Sky Hammer into a mountain-sized, corporeal weapon. Tang Yuchen recognized that the Great Kunlun Hammer might work by a similar principle, but he had never heard of Mount Sumeru or Kunlun Mountain.

• Chen Xiaojun argued that the Martial Soul Avatar was a universal, Rule Level ability granted at rank seventy, making it an exceptional foundation for further transformation.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the Great Sumeru Hammer amplified the Clear Sky Hammer beyond ordinary enlargement, giving it mountain-like scale and immense corporeal mass.
• Tang Yuchen understood that the Great Sumeru Hammer transformed the Martial Soul Avatar's underlying form rather than merely adding power.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested that the Great Kunlun Hammer similarly reshaped the Mystic Yellow Hammer into an immortal mountain.
• Chen Xiaojun asked whether Tang Yuchen knew of Mount Sumeru and Kunlun Mountain, but Tang Yuchen said the names were unfamiliar.

At the Chen Clan’s first joint meeting after its departmental reforms, Chen Xiaojun proposed helping the Mystic Yellow Tang Family resist the Clear Sky Sect, potentially bringing them into the clan’s service. The meeting began debating the risks and benefits, with Lu Xiaoxiao supporting the plan for its technological potential and the Tang Family’s forging expertise.

• Tie Fu'er questioned Tang Yuchen about his remarks at the banquet, and Tang Yuchen said he wanted to see how Chen Xiaojun would respond to what he had learned.
• Chen Xiaojun returned to Chen Lin Village for the first joint meeting of the twelve departments after the Chen family’s Grand Department System reform.
• The department heads reported on their work before Chen Xiaojun proposed that the Chen Clan help the Mystic Yellow Tang Family withstand pressure from the Clear Sky Sect and possibly make them vassals or followers.
• Chen Xun asked whether Chen Xiaojun understood the consequences, and Chen Xiaojun firmly confirmed that he supported intervening.
• Lu Xiaoxiao endorsed the proposal, citing the potential to combine the Tang Family’s earth-vein energy runes with the Chen Xin Tower and strengthen the clan’s forging capacity.

The Chen Clan debated whether to intervene in the Mystic Yellow Tang Family’s struggle against the Clear Sky Sect, weighing a valuable western foothold against the risks of provoking a powerful rival. Chen Zhang proposed a new strategic route through Lankai Commandery, but Ximen Shaoping raised another practical concern before the discussion reached a decision.

• Chen Shihua warned that intervening in the Mystic Yellow Tang Family’s affairs could provoke the Clear Sky Sect and destabilize the Central Western Region.
• Ling Yunxiao explained that the Clear Sky Sect wanted the family as a strategic foothold near Heaven Spirit Pass and that open intervention would make conflict nearly unavoidable.
• Chen Hua cautioned that a western campaign could drain resources from the Chen Clan’s developing alliances and positions in the Central District.
• Chen Zhang proposed using Lankai Commandery and the Mystic Yellow Tang Family to establish a new strategic route linking the empire’s central regions with Silves and Fasinuo Province.
• Ximen Shaoping acknowledged Chen Zhang’s proposal but said the Mystic Yellow Tang Family was not the only option and that the clan faced another practical concern.

Ximen Shaoping, Chen Wu, Mu Lingyun, and Yu Jinghan warned Chen Xun that intervening in the Clear Sky Sect’s dispute with the Mystic Yellow Tang Family could provoke retaliation, damage the Chen Clan’s reputation, and threaten its interests around Sunset City and Sunset Forest. Chen Xun then invited Xue Shiqiong to give her view, and she began cautiously as a newcomer to the clan.

• Ximen Shaoping argued that intervening in the dispute would break the Seven Heavenly Martial Soldiers’ tacit understanding and could trigger broad retaliation against the Chen Clan.
• Chen Wu warned that conflict could disrupt Sunset City’s stability and the medicinal supplies needed to train low-level soul masters and professional warriors.
• Mu Lingyun explained that hostility could collapse the Sunset Medicinal Materials Market, paralyze logistics, halt cooperation, and endanger the family’s secret passage into the forest.
• Yu Jinghan warned that Clear Sky Sect pressure near the Sunset Mountains could expose the hub connecting the Chen Clan to the forest’s depths and threaten the family’s foundation.
• Chen Xun asked Xue Shiqiong to speak, and she said she had only recently returned and was still learning the family’s strategic deployment.

Chen Xiaojun insisted that the family take the Mystic Yellow Tang Family despite the severe risks of conflict with the Clear Sky Sect. When Grand Elder Chen Hong demanded his reason, Chen Xiaojun began explaining the history of Tang Haotian and Tang Xuanhuang and his theory about their connection.

• Ye Xiuxin described the Clear Sky Sect's expansion and the possible but complicated support of the Silver Plume Alliance and the Royal Branch.
• Chen Xun asked Chen Xiaojun whether he still intended to pursue the plan after the ministers laid out its dangers.
• Chen Xiaojun declared that the family would take the Mystic Yellow Tang Family even if it meant war with the Clear Sky Sect and an unpredictable cost.
• Chen Hong demanded to know Chen Xiaojun's reason, and Chen Xiaojun asked the gathered elders whether they had heard of Tang Haotian and Tang Xuanhuang.
• Chen Xiaojun recounted the brothers' history and explained his conjecture about how Haotian and Xuanhuang complemented each other.

Chen Xiaojun argued that the Clear Sky Hammer and Mystic Yellow Hammer might share a path of fusion, with Ring Detonation and Nuclear Explosion as broadly usable techniques rather than sect-exclusive arts. He left the elders considering how paired Clear Sky Sect and Mystic Yellow Tang Family fighters could threaten the balance of power.

• Chen Xiaojun cited the legend of Tang Haotian and Tang Xuanhuang, then proposed that their martial souls’ different paths might ultimately converge.
• Chen Xiaojun argued that Ring Detonation and Nuclear Explosion were independent power techniques that could potentially be mastered beyond their original families.
• Chen Zhang questioned why the Tang Family had not discovered the fusion path, and Chen Xiaojun suggested their ancestors may have lacked the resources or physical strength to overcome its burden.
• Chen Xiaojun warned that soul bone armaments could let two Super Douluo unleash power comparable to a Peerless Douluo.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that Clear Sky Nine Yang Force and Kun Yuan Jiu Gai Jue might complement each other, allowing paired Soul Douluo to reach Titled Douluo-level battle power and leaving the hall stunned.

Chen Xiaojun warned that the Clear Sky Sect could become a major threat to the Chen Clan if it absorbed the Mystic Yellow Tang Family, persuading the elders to reconsider intervening. After Xia Qingyun dismissed the others, she and Chen Xun and Chen Hong pressed Chen Xiaojun to reveal the real reason for his concern.

• Chen Xiaojun argued that the Clear Sky Sect could form groups of powerful double-hammer Soul Douluo and use them to drive the Chen Clan from the Central Western Region.
• Chen Xiaojun warned that letting the Clear Sky Sect absorb the Mystic Yellow Tang Family would give it the strength and ambition to expand against the Chen Clan.
• Xia Qingyun sent the other elders out and kept Chen Xiaojun behind to explain himself.
• Xia Qingyun questioned Chen Xiaojun's assumptions about the Clear Sky Sect's secret arts, its relationship with the Mystic Yellow Tang Family, and the threat it would pose.
• Chen Xun and Chen Hong urged Chen Xiaojun to disclose his real reasoning, and his smile faded.

Chen Xiaojun warned that the Great Sumeru Hammer and Great Kunlun Hammer might lead to the Divine Dao, making the Clear Sky Sect’s potential acquisition of them a danger beyond an ordinary power struggle. Xia Qingyun, Chen Xun, and Chen Hong agreed that the Chen Clan had to prevent the Clear Sky Sect from annexing the Mystic Yellow Tang Family.

• Chen Xiaojun explained that future fragments showed Ring Detonation was a rule of energy use beyond any single martial soul and questioned the origins of the Great Sumeru Hammer and Great Kunlun Hammer.
• Chen Xun revealed that Chen Xiaojun’s mysterious Master was likely a God King and that Tang San was a figure from glimpses of the future.
• Chen Xiaojun noted that the Clear Sky Sect had not annexed the Mystic Yellow Tang Family in that future trajectory and declared that the Chen Clan would make sure it did not happen now.
• Chen Xun recalled that the clan had previously chosen to monitor the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Chen, believing the threat was predictable and could be contained as the Chen Clan grew stronger.
• Xia Qingyun, Chen Xun, and Chen Hong recognized that the two hammer inheritances could carry uncontrollable risks and silently resolved that intervention was necessary.