Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun warned Xia Qingyun that the Tang Clan’s discovered ruins might hold a divine inheritance, but accepting it could bind the inheritor to a god’s will, and he argued for pursuing godhood through one’s own power. Outside the hall, the Chen elders discussed Xiaojun’s schemes and the coming Gao Ying Competition, expecting their clan’s young prodigies to draw attention and make the clan a target.

• Chen Xiaojun told Xia Qingyun that the ruins Tang Haotian and Tang Xuanhuang found might be connected to a god’s inheritance and warned that such power could enslave its inheritor.
• Chen Xiaojun urged choosing the difficult path of proving one’s own godly position rather than accepting an unknown divine inheritance.
• While waiting outside the hall, Chen Zhang, Chen Shihua, Chen Wu, Chen Hua, and Lu Xiaoxiao talked about Chen Xiaojun’s ability to plan and lead others into his way of thinking.
• Lu Xiaoxiao explained that his son had gone to Moonlight Academy after Yan Wu trapped him in a bet at the Grand Clan Ceremony three years earlier.
• Chen Zhang and Chen Hua discussed Sword Rain Academy, Chen Feng, Chen Mu, and Jian Jun, while the elders anticipated a lively Gao Ying Competition featuring their clan’s young prodigies.
• Chen Zhang, Chen Hua, and Chen Shihua agreed that the Chen Clan’s prominence at the competition could make it a target and would require its branch halls to stay alert.

Chen Xun made countering the Clear Sky Sect’s expansion a strategic priority for the Chen Clan, with negotiation preferred and force authorized if needed. He assigned strict secrecy levels to the operation and gave Chen Xiaojun authority to act during his upcoming trip to Heaven Dou City.

• Chen Hua and Chen Wu suggested that Chen Zhang recruit Uncle Panda and capable members of the Ji and Liu Clans to strengthen the External Affairs Department.
• Chen Xun declared that the Chen Clan would use courtesy and negotiation first to stop the Clear Sky Sect from expanding in the Central Western Region, resorting to any necessary means if negotiations failed.
• Chen Hong set the operation’s strategic direction at Level Seven secrecy and its possible threat from the Great Sumeru Hammer and Great Kunlun Hammer at Level Eight.
• Chen Hong instructed Chen Xiaojun to approach the Clear Sky Sect during the Gao Ying Competition in Heaven Dou City and authorized him to make decisions on the spot if circumstances changed.

Chen Xiaojun was assigned responsibility for contacting the Tang Clan and helping direct the campaign against the Clear Sky Sect. Three days later, Tang Yuchen received approval and a senior appointment for the Chen Xin Tower project, while urging Tie Fu'er to leave for the Star Luo Empire qualifiers before the Clan Leader summoned him.

• Chen Hong told Chen Xiaojun that he had to bear responsibility for the strategy he proposed, and Chen Xiaojun jokingly protested that he was still a child.
• Tie Fu'er brought Tang Yuchen the approval for the Chen Xin Tower project, which received Grade A Superior priority and full resource support.
• Tang Yuchen learned that he had been appointed project leader and Deputy Technical Director, giving him new authority and hope of finding resources to reach the Soul Sage realm.
• Tang Yuchen encouraged Tie Fu'er to leave for the Star Luo Empire qualifiers, reminding him that the Gao Ying Competition was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
• Tie Fu'er agreed to go, then returned to tell Tang Yuchen that the Clan Leader wanted to see him.

Xia Qingyun reduced the Rakshasa poison in Chen Yu’s body to its final stubborn remnant and discovered that treating him had fused her Great Sun Burning Heaven Art with the Nine Yang Divine Skill, producing signs of the Ten Yang Sacred Fire. Xue Shiqiong proposed that Xia Qingyun might use this power to surpass Nine Yang, leaving Xia Qingyun contemplating a path to a form of godhood beyond established divine beings.

• Xia Qingyun told Xue Shiqiong that she had forced Chen Yu’s mixed toxins down to one remaining clump, centered on Luo Ping’s Rakshasa God Power.
• Xia Qingyun demonstrated a strand of True Qi formed as her Great Sun Burning Heaven Art and Nine Yang Divine Skill fused under the pressure of the god-level power.
• Xia Qingyun explained that the new power showed early signs of the Ten Yang Sacred Fire, a rule-level flame distinct from the Chen Clan’s Nine Yang Return to One path.
• Xue Shiqiong suggested that Xia Qingyun might master Ten Yang and discover a new form of Ten Yang Return to One, possibly culminating in Divine Flame.
• Xia Qingyun wondered whether true gods existed beyond beings bound by divine positions and faith, and privately imagined claiming an Origin Point of her own.

Chen Xiaojun and Chen Hong collected Xiao Yi from the Vine Sea Secret Realm, where Old Green gave them Life Spiritual Milk and explained the secret realm’s life springs. As they prepared to leave, Black Old urged Xiao Yi to return after reaching Level Sixty to receive an undisclosed request, and the three departed.

• Chen Xiaojun and Chen Hong met Luo Qingrui and several high-level soul masters studying in the Vine Sea Secret Realm.
• Old Green gave Xiao Yi two bottles of Life Spiritual Milk and Chen Xiaojun one, asking him to protect Xiao Yi.
• Old Green explained how the secret realm’s Life Spring Water compared with the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Black Old appeared, asked Xiao Yi to return after reaching Level Sixty, and refused to explain what he wanted to entrust to her.
• Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Chen Hong thanked the elders and left the Vine Sea Secret Realm.

A newly born Super Martial Soul drew the attention of Spirit Hall and Sea God Island, while Qian Xizi considered confronting the Chen Clan. Bo Saixi prepared to travel to Heaven Dou City to observe the young contestants and challenge Eastern Emperor.

• A golden-haired man at Spirit City’s Worship Hall sensed a new Top Martial Soul and discussed its mysterious, piercing aura with Qian Xizi.
• The golden-haired man reminded Qian Xizi of Chen Zixiu’s past aid and warned him to consider the power shown by Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan before moving against the Chen Clan.
• Bo Shala sensed that a Super Martial Soul had appeared on the continent but could not pinpoint its location.
• Bo Saixi told Bo Shala she would travel ahead to Heaven Dou City to study the top young contestants and face Eastern Emperor.
• Bo Shala agreed to Bo Saixi’s plan, assigned Long Ma to accompany her, and asked her to deliver a letter to her grandmother in Chang'an City after the competition.

Bo Xian'er sensed Chen Zixiu's breakthrough as his Seven Kill Sword surpassed the top-tier Ninth Grade limit and became a Super Martial Soul. She explained why he might not yet have reached level 99, but concluded that his progress toward the peerless realm would now accelerate.

• Bo Xian'er sensed a transformation in the Chen Family's core lands and confirmed that Chen Zixiu had cut through the Seven Kill Sword's Heavenly Gate.
• Chen Cong sensed a faint bloodline resonance, while Chen Hong and other Titled Douluo of the Chen Family experienced weaker responses.
• Chen Cong asked whether Chen Zixiu's breakthrough had also advanced him to Peerless Douluo.
• Bo Xian'er explained that Chen Zixiu's early insight into Shattering the Void and his path rooted in space had made his fusion with the rules take longer.
• Bo Xian'er said the Super Martial Soul proved Chen Zixiu had deepened his understanding of Shattering the Void and would likely progress much faster toward the peerless realm.

Chen Xiaojun revealed that five of his Sword God Pearls had reacted to Chen Zixiu’s breakthrough, and explained that two of their conceptions were shared with Xiao Yi. Chen Cong concluded that the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword’s powerful resonance with Chen Zixiu’s new Super Seven Kill Sword had let Chen Xiaojun sense the breakthrough especially clearly.

• Chen Xiaojun rushed into the hall and asked Bo Xian'er whether Chen Zixiu had advanced to a Super Martial Soul.
• Chen Xiaojun showed that five Sword God Pearls had reacted strongly and explained the conceptions he had comprehended, including a shared conception with Xiao Yi.
• Chen Cong speculated that the five pearls might be approaching Super Martial Soul quality, while Bo Xian'er asked how clearly Chen Xiaojun had sensed the breakthrough.
• Chen Xiaojun summoned the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword, whose reaction was stronger and clearer than that of the Sword God Pearls.
• Chen Cong explained that the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword resonated with Chen Zixiu’s newly awakened, same-origin Super Seven Kill Sword, allowing Chen Xiaojun to sense the breakthrough exceptionally clearly.

Chen Cong, Chen Hong, and Bo Xian'er discussed why Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun had sensed a subtle, limit-breaking fluctuation from Ji Tiantian’s room. Chen Cong proposed that the four Martial Souls of Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun might already have achieved unity of void and reality in some sense, leaving the clan stunned by the possibility.

• Chen Xiaojun revealed that Xiao Yi had also sensed the fluctuation, and Xiao Yi explained how her Void Willow God Vine and Ageless Evergreen Ivy had resonated together.
• Chen Hong reasoned that the Void Willow God Vine’s affinity for spatial rules and its deep connection with the Ageless Evergreen Ivy had amplified Xiao Yi’s perception.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested that sensing fluctuations depended on a perceiver’s ability and compatibility with the source, prompting Bo Xian’er to consider the implications for Xiao Yi’s cultivation.
• Chen Cong agreed with their analyses but proposed that the Sword God Pearl, Nethersea Seven Kill Sword, Ageless Evergreen Ivy, and Void Willow God Vine might already have reached unity of void and reality in some sense.
• Chen Cong cited the unusual shared origin and symbiotic connection of the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword and Void Willow God Vine, as well as their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, as grounds for his theory.

Chen Cong proposed that God-level Martial Souls were complete Dharma Idols suppressed by the world's rules, so their breakthroughs released rather than fused their power. Bo Xian'er confirmed that her Sea God Martial Soul had simply returned to its true form, explaining the resonance between Chen Xiaojun's sword and Xiao Yi's vine.

• Chen Cong argued that God-level Martial Souls such as the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword and Void Willow God Vine had been suppressed from a higher state and might already unite their virtual and real forms.
• Chen Cong asked Bo Xian'er whether her Sea God Martial Soul had bypassed the usual fusion trial when she broke through to Titled Douluo.
• Bo Xian'er recalled that her Sea God Martial Soul Phantom vanished and entered its entity without a painful collision, then confirmed that it had merely returned to its true form.
• Chen Cong concluded that a God-level Martial Soul was a complete, miniature Dharma Idol, with its Upper Soul Nest phantom acting as a synchronized projection.
• Bo Xian'er connected this explanation to Zi Xiu's Super Seven Kill Sword and the strong resonance it shared with Chen Xiaojun's sword and Xiao Yi's vine.

Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong analyzed how God-level Martial Souls could have innate coordination between their entity and phantom, giving them a foundation for Dharma Idols and a strong resonance with Chen Zixiu’s Super Seven Kill Sword. Before leaving the council hall, Chen Xiaojun learned that Chen Zixiu had named his newly advanced sword the Azure Sky Seven Kill Sword.

• Chen Xiaojun questioned whether the Sea God and Six-Winged Angel Martial Souls were suppressed in the same way as his and Xiao Yi’s Martial Souls, and compared their forms and growth.
• Chen Cong reasoned that God-level Martial Souls might retain exceptional coordination between their entity and phantom, enabling deep resonance and an innate foundation for a Dharma Idol.
• Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Ji Tiantian left the council hall, while Bo Xian'er and Chen Hong felt reassured by Chen Cong’s deductions about the young clan members’ potential.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Chen Cong what Chen Zixiu planned to call his newly advanced Super Seven Kill Sword.
• Bo Xian'er said Chen Zixiu had named it the Azure Sky Seven Kill Sword, later to be called the Azure Sky Sword, and Chen Xiaojun memorized the name.

Chen Cong explained why the Chen Clan suspected Progenitor Chen Ling’s Seven Kill Sword had become the clan’s first Super Martial Soul, while Chen Xiaojun celebrated the breakthrough that strengthened the clan’s future. Xiao Yi reflected on her divine-grade martial souls and her profound bond with the Ageless Evergreen Ivy.

• Chen Cong told Chen Hong that Progenitor Chen Ling’s strength and Seven Kill Sword had left mysteries in the Chen Clan’s history, and he suspected the sword had reached the Super Martial Soul realm.
• Ji Tiantian realized that Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi, like her, possessed Twin Martial Souls, including legendary divine-grade martial souls.
• Chen Xiaojun felt encouraged by his great-grandfather’s Seven Kill Sword breakthrough, which promised the Chen Clan a Peerless Douluo and bolstered his resolve before the trip to the Central District.
• Xiao Yi considered the Ageless Evergreen Ivy’s growing abilities and its natural harmony with the techniques from her previous life.
• Xiao Yi felt that the Ageless Evergreen Ivy was an intimate part of her life and a more natural partner than the powerful but distant Void Willow God Vine.

Xiao Yi experienced an epiphany and entered the Spirit Vine True Heart Intent Realm, merging her will with her Ageless Evergreen Ivy. Chen Cong explained the realm’s significance and suggested that Tang Hao’s mastery of the Clear Sky Hammer might have relied on a similar fusion.

• Xiao Yi merged with her Ageless Evergreen Ivy as jade light, living patterns, and self-moving Nine Palaces formations appeared around her.
• Chen Xiaojun stopped Ji Tiantian from approaching, while Bo Xian'er, Chen Hong, and Chen Cong rushed into the courtyard to investigate.
• Chen Hong recognized Xiao Yi’s state as an epiphany, and Chen Cong identified it as the Spirit Vine True Heart Intent Realm.
• Chen Cong explained that the realm made a Martial Soul an instinctive extension of its wielder’s life and will, reducing reaction time and energy consumption.
• Chen Cong proposed that Tang Hao’s mastery of the Chaotic Cloak hammer technique might have depended on a similar True Heart realm, uniting him with his Clear Sky Hammer.

Xiao Yi entered a sudden enlightenment, manifesting her Great Void Domain and perfecting her Life Intent before comprehending the Five Elements Intergeneration True Intent. Chen Xiaojun then suggested that the opposition between the Great Void and the five elements helped trigger her breakthrough.

• Chen Cong explained how a True Heart Intent Realm could aid cultivation of Sword God Descent and other Martial Soul breakthroughs, using Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor evolution as an example.
• Xiao Yi's meditation awakened her Great Void Domain, which Bo Xian'er identified as a high-quality Mental Domain.
• The Ageless Evergreen Ivy displayed nine golden tree-ring marks as Xiao Yi's Life Intent reached perfection.
• Five-colored light formed a Law Robe Body around Xiao Yi, and she comprehended the Five Elements Intergeneration True Intent.
• Chen Xiaojun told Chen Cong that the opposing natures of Xiao Yi's Great Void Domain and the five elements may have helped her draw forth the new intent.

During Xiao Yi’s sudden enlightenment, Chen Cong recognized that her Mental Domain could let her study the Chen Clan’s Great Void Sword Art. Her awakening then produced enormous energy eyes that exposed the gathered soul masters to a terrifying power of insight.

• Chen Cong told Chen Xiaojun that Xiao Yi’s Mental Domain made her a strong fit for the Great Void Sword Art, whose prerequisite was the Primal Spirit Brilliant Star Sword.
• Members of the Chen Clan and the Chang'an Academy Team gathered in the courtyard to watch Xiao Yi’s enlightenment.
• Yang Jingxue sensed the pure Five Elements Origin flowing through Xiao Yi’s ritual robe and wondered what the girl had comprehended.
• Five-Colored Divine Radiance surged into Xiao Yi’s eyes, and enormous rainbow-colored eye phantoms appeared above her.
• The giant eyes’ insight pierced the gathered soul masters’ defenses, prompting them to raise shields as Yang Jingxue questioned the nature of Xiao Yi’s awakened Pupil Power.

As Xiao Yi manifested the Eye of the Five Elements during her enlightenment, Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun considered its abilities, its effect on her pupil powers, and how it might complement her existing techniques. The eye’s power then analyzed the defenses and perceptions of everyone in the courtyard, prompting Yang Jingxue to act as the soul masters began to falter.

• Chen Cong judged that the Eye of the Five Elements might reveal the foundations and transformations of matter, and could stabilize Xiao Yi’s pupil powers rather than burden her.
• Chen Xiaojun asked whether the balance between the Five Elements and the Great Void had brought Xiao Yi unique benefits, and Chen Cong said the eye’s abilities still needed testing.
• Chen Cong proposed exploring how Xiao Yi’s Eye of the Five Elements might interact with Five Elements Divine Light and the Primal Spirit Brilliant Star Sword.
• Xiao Yi’s five-colored eyes sent out a ripple that mapped the structure of the soul masters’ defenses and exposed their workings within their own perceptions.
• Yang Jingxue called for quiet and rapidly drew complex runes in the air with Seven-Colored Mist as the soul masters struggled under the eye’s pressure.

Xiao Yi’s Five Elements giant eyes underwent a dangerous transformation inside Yang Jingxue’s Seven Absolutes Glazed Seal, but the upheaval subsided and her powers settled into a new balance. Chen Cong confirmed that the breakthrough’s chaotic agitation had passed, leaving Xiao Yi stable.

• Yang Jingxue formed the Seven Absolutes Glazed Seal around the courtyard, containing the giant eyes’ soul-piercing insight.
• Chen Cong warned everyone to restrain their Soul Power and mental perception as the five-colored eyes began transforming.
• The giant eyes’ conflicting energies collapsed inward instead of exploding, and the External Soul Bone marks on Xiao Yi’s hands, feet, and hair briefly glowed before settling.
• The giant eyes vanished as Xiao Yi’s Mental Domain, Life Cycle Intent Realm, and Five Elements True Intent robe stabilized together.
• Yang Jingxue withdrew the barrier, and Chen Cong announced that the chaotic breakthrough period had passed and the rules had settled at a new balance.

After Xiao Yi’s Five Elements True Intent clashed with her Law Robe Body, Chen Cong explained how the Power of Rules helped stabilize the dangerous transformation. He said the Five Elements Dharma Robe had likely advanced and advised Chen Xiaojun on how to develop Xiao Yi’s newly gained abilities.

• Yang Jingxue said she was fine, and Chen Xiaojun asked Chen Cong what had caused the pressure and energy fluctuations.
• Chen Cong explained that Xiao Yi’s Five Elements True Intent had clashed with the Origin Power in her Law Robe Body, while the crowd’s Soul Power had nearly triggered an uncontrolled eruption.
• Chen Cong said the Five Elements Giant Eye had combined Xiao Yi’s mental, life, and five-elements powers, and that the Power of Rules had suppressed the resulting instability.
• Chen Cong judged that the Five Elements Dharma Robe had been deeply tempered and its year and quality had likely risen; Chen Xiaojun considered that it might now rival his own Yin Yang Dharma Robe.
• Chen Cong advised Chen Xiaojun to help Xiao Yi integrate her new abilities and use the Gao Ying Competition to test her four-line combat system.
• Chen Cong learned Xiao Yi had not begun the Primal Spirit Brilliant Star Sword and recommended teaching it to her, then scolded Chen Xiaojun for not reporting her Mental Domain earlier.

Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong connected Xiao Yi’s Spirit Vine True Heart to a theory of the true self, ego, and Super Self. Bo Xian’er grasped the idea and began transforming her Sea God Martial Soul, revealing power close to the Peerless Douluo realm before leaving with Yang Jingxue.

• Chen Cong urged Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi to rebuild their combat coordination through real battles after years apart and rapid growth.
• Chen Xiaojun compared Xiao Yi’s Spirit Vine True Heart to the Daoist Sect’s True Self Manifestation, and Chen Cong developed a theory linking the true self, ego, and Super Self to cultivation.
• Bo Xian’er understood the three-selves theory, and her Sea God Martial Soul began evolving to resemble her own feminine appearance and Soul Imprint.
• Bo Xian’er’s Emperor Will swept across the courtyard, overwhelming the gathered soul masters and startling Zhuo Qianren, Wang Wei, and Lian Changzhi.
• Bo Xian’er left the courtyard with Yang Jingxue, telling Chen Hong and Chen Cong to handle the place.

Ming Xiangyun and Li Lingfeng discussed the Holy Sect’s covert mission in Heaven Dou City and the risks of acting too openly before the Holy War. Li Lingfeng confirmed that the Gray Snake advance team would only observe the Chen Clan and warned that anyone who broke the rules would be punished.

• Ming Xiangyun questioned whether the Holy Sect’s repeated operations before the Holy War risked exposing its forces, and Li Lingfeng said the higher-ups set the plans.
• Ming Xiangyun congratulated Li Lingfeng on becoming a Titled Douluo, and they reaffirmed the long-standing alliance between the Ming Family and the Li family.
• Li Lingfeng explained that the Gray Snake advance team would infiltrate Heaven Dou City only to observe, record, and report on Chen Xiaojun and the Chen Clan.
• Ming Xiangyun warned Li Lingfeng to proceed cautiously against the Chen Clan, whose strength and past actions had repeatedly thwarted the Holy Sect’s plans.
• Li Lingfeng vowed that no subordinate would attack Chen Xiaojun or his associates, and threatened to punish anyone who endangered the Church Master’s Seed Plan.