Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi’s Twin Martial Souls and Sealing Technique shocked the intelligence agents and academy leaders watching the Gao Ying Competition. As they reassessed the threat she posed, Bai Canhong privately considered how he might interrupt her technique before it took hold.

• Chu Tianshu and Zhou Tianshu watched Xiao Yi’s vine shadow and realized that Heaven Knows Pavilion’s intelligence had underestimated her.
• Chu Tianshu recalled how the Chu Family and Heaven Knows Pavilion had concealed Xiao Yi’s rise and investigated the aftermath of the violence at the Chen Residence.
• Zhi Xing and Bai Canhong tried to provoke Gui Minghao and Fang Tingbo over Baxia’s defeat, but Fang and Gui dismissed the attempt and discussed the broader danger of the Sealing Technique.
• Zhong Feng challenged Bai Canhong to consider whether his defenses could withstand Xiao Yi’s technique, leaving Bai to privately identify its preparation as a chance to interrupt it.

After Xiao Yi held back the collapse of the Chang'an Team, Chen Zhang and the gathered leaders discussed her exhaustion and the Crimson Church’s attack on the Chen Clan. They agreed to retaliate against the Crimson Church within the Central Western Region and began planning to uncover its strongholds.

• Gui Minghao, Fang Tingbo, and Zhong Feng joined the meeting at the Chen Clan residence and discussed Xiao Yi’s impressive sealing technique.
• Chen Zhang told Gui Minghao that Xiao Yi’s seals on Gui Ran and Yi Rong would dissolve within an hour, then revealed that she had fallen asleep from exhaustion.
• Yang Jingxue said the Crimson Church’s attack on the Chen Clan was retaliation for the destruction of Sea Lake Manor and threatened every family involved.
• Ma Zhibin called for retaliation, and Chen Zhang proposed searching for Black Nether Legion strongholds and buried lines in the Central District.
• Xi Men Wenming agreed to open Soul Fighting City’s intelligence channels, while Chen Zhang said the target was at least as large as Sea Lake Manor.

Chen Zhang and Soul Fighting City's families agreed to coordinate with the Heaven Dou Empire's new Huiming Bureau to strike at the Crimson Church. He also reassured Ning Hai about the Chen Clan's trade arrangements and offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a cigarette agency stake, leaving their business terms to be settled later.

• Chen Zhang warned that the Crimson Church had at least thirty Titled Douluo, and Soul Fighting City's families agreed to act quickly against it.
• Chen Zhang said Emperor Xue planned to establish the Huiming Bureau under Zuo Tinggang, and the families agreed to use the bureau's public campaign to draw the Crimson Church's attention.
• Chen Zhang told Ning Hai that the Long Family supported the Chen Clan and congratulated Ning Hai on reaching eight rings with Meng Lin's precious herb.
• Ning Hai asked about the Chen Clan's dealings with the Clear Sky Sect, and Chen Zhang said reconciliation depended on the sect taking a step back.
• Chen Zhang promised the Chen Clan would not interfere with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's sales channels for twenty years and offered the sect a nonexclusive cigarette agency stake.

Chen Xiaojun gave Xiao Yi a belated birthday gift and demonstrated the powerful magic tools built into its beaded belt. The chapter ended with the revelation that the artifacts came from Ma Xianhong’s artifact-refining path from another world.

• Chen Xiaojun scolded Xiao Yi for neglecting her own health, but she calmly handed him his medicine until he drank it.
• Chen Xiaojun gave Xiao Yi a belt with twelve beads as a belated birthday present.
• Chen Xiaojun demonstrated the Soul-Shaking Bell, the Empty Cry Roar, and the Devouring Beast, explaining their abilities.
• Chen Xiaojun showed Xiao Yi how the Three Treasure Pearls could protect their wearer and repair themselves.
• Chen Xiaojun demonstrated how the Six Harmonies Pearls could bind enemies or form a barrier that could trap a Soul Sage.
• The narrator revealed that the artifacts came from Ma Xianhong’s artifact-refining path from another world.

Chen Xiaojun gave Xiao Yi a powerful magic-item belt for her birthday, and Xiao Yi offered Xi Xi a bottle of Life Spiritual Milk. At a council meeting, the Chen Clan learned that the Crimson Church had devastated its medicinal-material convoys, leaving the clan mourning heavy losses and vowing revenge.

• Chen Xiaojun urged Xiao Yi to accept the belt he had prepared as a birthday gift, and she promised to prepare a gift for him in the future.
• Xiao Yi gave Xi Xi a bottle of Life Spiritual Milk, which Xi Xi solemnly accepted.
• At the Chang'an Duke Residence council meeting, Cheng Nanxing reported that the Crimson Church's Seven Demon Legions had attacked thirteen medicinal-material transport teams around July fifth.
• Cheng Nanxing detailed the deaths of fourteen Soul Emperors, forty-five Soul Kings, and hundreds of other guards, with total losses reaching 683 people.
• Zhu Yanfeng found his nephew Zhu Changhe's name on the fallen list and erupted in anger, already fearing for his gravely wounded father, Zhu Hongzhen.

After the Crimson Church’s devastating attack on the Chen Clan’s transport teams, Mu Lingyun tallied losses exceeding twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins, while Chen Cong confirmed they had received no warning. Cheng Nanxing proposed heavier escorts and expanded recruitment, but the convoy routes still needed protection from Soul Douluo-level opponents.

• Mu Lingyun and Chen Wu reviewed the casualties, including the deaths of Zhu Shiheng, Zhao Quan, Ma Wei, and Meng Sheng, and learned that Cheng Hao had lost his left arm.
• Chen Cong told Mu Lingyun that they had received no warning of the Crimson Church’s attack.
• Mu Lingyun reported cargo losses above eleven million Gold Soul Coins and estimated total direct losses at no less than twenty-five million.
• Cheng Nanxing proposed reducing shipment frequency, increasing each escort to a hundred members, and strengthening the Brocade-Clad Guards with more recruits and specialists.
• Cheng Nanxing said every important transport route needed at least one Soul Douluo and two Soul Sages as escorts.

Cheng Nanxing, Ling Yunxiao, and the ministers planned measures to secure the Chen Clan’s shipments, including recruiting Soul Douluo and Soul Saints, deploying combat puppets, and reorganizing logistics. Chen Cong approved Ling Yunxiao’s plan to expand the Research Department’s puppet arsenal, build nearby warehouses, and strike Crimson hard enough to deter future attacks.

• Cheng Nanxing proposed borrowing Soul Douluo from allied families and posts, while asking Branch Families and cooperative families to provide Soul Saints for escorts in exchange for compensation.
• Mu Lingyun agreed that safer, fewer transport runs could reduce costs and promised to prepare a compensation proposal within three days.
• Ling Yunxiao said the Arms Manufacturing Office would mass-produce Flower-Like puppets and equip the Brocade-Clad Guards with two thousand basic puppets and five hundred enhanced puppets.
• Ling Yunxiao called for specialized puppets and Hundred Flowers Thrones to strengthen each brigade, and Chen Cong approved the Research Department’s expanded role.
• Ling Yunxiao proposed building full warehouses and short-haul relay routes to limit dangerous travel, then urged the Chen Clan to punish Crimson and deter other attackers.

Chen Cong reviewed the Brocade-Clad Guards’ expansion and ordered the Chen Clan to recruit more high-level Soul Masters while strengthening its core forces. He then questioned Cheng Yun about intelligence failures exposed by the Crimson Church’s attack, and she began outlining structural flaws in the Intelligence Department.

• Cheng Nanxing reported that recruitment had brought the Brocade-Clad Guards to 18,200 people and that training camps would open on August 1st at five bases.
• Chen Cong directed Chen Hua to invite Soul Saints, Soul Emperors, and Soul Kings from Soul Fighting City’s families and the Medicinal Materials Market’s partner families, offering Soul Fighting Legion-level treatment.
• Chen Hua warned that outside experts might become the majority, but Chen Cong said the Chen Clan’s Direct Lineage and core forces would remain strong and stressed that assessment and recommendation must proceed together.
• Chen Cong asked Cheng Yun about the Intelligence Department’s plans, and Cheng Yun acknowledged that intelligence work had failed to keep pace with the family’s expansion.
• Cheng Yun said the intelligence structure had deep-rooted flaws and warned that mistakes in intelligence work cost lives, leaving the hall tense.

Cheng Yun proposed building a continent-spanning intelligence network to pressure the Crimson Church and support the Chen Clan’s operations. Before the council could act, they learned that the Chen Clan’s garrison in Star Luo City had suffered a devastating attack, leaving several allies dead or badly injured.

• Cheng Yun proposed linking the Chen Clan’s branches, allied families, and other forces into an intelligence network, with four city branches centered on Chang’an.
• Cheng Yun identified Oswei Province and Silves Kingdom as initial targets, and Chen Cong approved her plan after noting its high cost.
• Cheng Yun brought Chen Cong an urgent letter reporting that the Chen Clan garrison in Star Luo City had also been attacked.
• Chen Cong reported that two Titled Douluo and nearly twenty other powerful enemies had assaulted the garrison, which survived with help from Chen Qiujun, the Xiang Family, and the Wind Sword Sect and Sword Rain Academy.
• Chen Cong announced that Feng Yangbo and several other fighters had died, while Feng Shuiyao, Cheng Hui, Sword Saint, and Xiao Feng had been injured; he concluded that the attackers had targeted the promising younger generation.

Chen Cong reassigned the Chen Clan’s personnel to shore up its strained positions after the Crimson Church’s attacks. Zhu Yanfeng agreed to take over as Grand Manager at the Heaven Dou Chen Estate, while Meng Wei was chosen to fill the vacancy in Chang’an.

• Chen Cong sent Chen Hua to Star Luo City with clan elders to manage rescue work, compensation, and relief, then ordered an urgent request for Shen Tianjun to reinforce him.
• Chen Cong privately told Zhu Yanfeng to go to Heaven Dou and take his injured father’s place as Grand Manager.
• Zhu Yanfeng accepted the transfer and raised concerns about who would replace Bing Yuan in Chang’an.
• Chen Cong rejected moving people from secluded cultivation or the ancestral land and chose Meng Wei to fill the Chang’an vacancy.
• Zhu Yanfeng agreed to settle his affairs and leave for Heaven Dou after Bing Yuan arrived and received the handover.

Xiao Yi coordinated her team’s fight against Oasis Team by controlling the arena with Meteor Vines and sustaining her allies, leaving Long Xiaoqian and several teammates pinned down. Ji Lintong used his awakened Spirit Eye ability to teleport beside Xiao Yi and launched a killing blow at her back.

• Xiao Yi spread her life force through the Meteor Vines, splitting up and restraining the Body Sect fighters while replenishing her allies’ strength.
• Shan Wei clashed with Chen Mu, Zhu Taihong pressured Chu Heming, and Du Gu Fu fought Tu Jin amid the vine forest.
• Chen Bin and Chen Shurui combined their sword techniques to trap Mo Xiaotian, while Su Ningxia forced Chen Haokai onto the defensive.
• Xiao Yi held Long Xiaoqian inside the Seven-layered Azure Vine Prison and supported her team with the Life Force Field.
• Chen Haokai activated Bronze Leg Shadow, but Su Ningxia blocked the attack with her Golden Light Splendor Silk Guard.
• Ji Lintong used Line of Sight Parasite to teleport beside Xiao Yi and drove his space-tearing fist toward her back.

Xiao Yi countered Ji Lintong’s mental attack with overwhelming force, knocking him unconscious and shifting the arena battle. As Chen Mu attacked Shan Wei with a lethal sword technique, Shan Wei unleashed his trump card to suppress it.

• Xiao Yi evaded Ji Lintong’s spatial punch, then struck back against his Lightless Impact with a vast mental domain that left him unconscious.
• Spectators reacted in shock to Xiao Yi’s mental counterattack, while Shen Li recalled how little a combined divine-sense strike had affected her in the past.
• Shan Wei complained to Chen Mu about the vines and the sudden reversal, while the two continued fighting.
• Chen Mu unleashed Sunless and Dark, trapping Shan Wei in a suffocating field of darkness.
• Shan Wei answered with Demon Suppression Without Bounds, sending out a force that flattened the incoming sword aura and shook the space around them.

Chen Mu and Shan Wei continued their sword rivalry while Long Xiaoqian fought Xiao Yi’s regenerating vines inside the Sky Azure Cage. Long Xiaoqian underwent a Silver-tier Secondary Awakening and began using Unity of Man and Nature, leaving his new power’s full effect unresolved.

• Chen Mu and Shan Wei clashed swords and argued over which of them deserved to be called big brother.
• Ji Lintong loosened the invisible restraints on Long Xiaoqian, who transformed his arms into a Dark Gold sword and battle-axe.
• Long Xiaoqian cut through Xiao Yi’s Meteor Vines, but Endless Growth rapidly healed and regrew them, keeping him trapped.
• Long Xiaoqian underwent a Silver-tier Secondary Awakening, changing his appearance and raising his Soul Power from level 55 to Level 62.
• Long Xiaoqian invoked Unity of Man and Nature as his Soul Power and spirit fused together.

Long Xiaoqian broke through Xiao Yi’s regenerating Meteor Vine defenses with his jade-transformed body and giant axe, bringing the attack to within inches of her. As Yu Yongyuan and Long Jing'an discussed the Long Family’s skin-type Martial Souls and Long Xingye’s absence, Long Jing'an sensed that Xiao Yi was about to get serious.

• Long Xiaoqian used his jade-like body and twin saber-axes to hack through the Meteor Vine and charge toward Xiao Yi.
• Long Xiaoqian used his Fourth Soul Skill, Mad God Slash, and transformed into a giant axe that shattered Xiao Yi’s final vine barrier.
• Yu Yongyuan praised Long Xiaoqian’s strength and questioned Long Jing'an about the Long Family’s skin-type Martial Souls.
• Long Jing'an explained that ancestral Dragon Pattern Seal protections sometimes led Long Family descendants to awaken skin-type Martial Souls.
• Yu Yongyuan asked where Long Xingye was, and Long Jing'an suspected he might be probing the family about another potential recruit.
• Long Jing'an warned that Xiao Yi was about to get serious as Long Xiaoqian’s axe neared her brow.

Xiao Yi awakened the Mist Haze Godly Venerable Body and fought Long Xiaoqian with its mist and whip techniques, but their clash revealed her hidden weakness. Long Xiaoqian unleashed Heaven and Earth Transformation and began a devastating Leaping Slash toward her obscured position.

• Xiao Yi’s silver patterns faded as her Mist Haze Godly Venerable Body manifested and her Soul Power surged to Level 67.
• Long Xiaoqian’s great axe and Qiankun Turn clashed with Xiao Yi’s Lesser Yin Finger, after which her Unfixed Whip drove him back.
• Long Xiaoqian struck Xiao Yi’s Ten Thousand Miles of Mist with Dragon’s Roar Power, bursting the mist sphere and sending him rolling backward.
• Long Xiaoqian sensed a trace of weakness in Xiao Yi’s Soul Power and activated his nineteen-thousand-year Fifth Soul Skill, Heaven and Earth Transformation.
• Long Xiaoqian rose fifty meters into the air, reversed his momentum, and plunged toward the clouds below with a powerful Leaping Slash.

Xiao Yi stopped Long Xiaoqian’s descending axe with her Golden Bell Shield, while Su Ningxia turned the battle against Chen Haokai with her inherited Soul Bone skill. The chapter left Chen Haokai motionless in a pool of blood after her strike pierced his defenses.

• Xiao Yi’s Golden Bell Shield absorbed Long Xiaoqian’s axe and rebounded its force, disrupting his attack.
• Su Ningxia advanced against Chen Lü with successive Mist Style techniques, narrowly missing his head as he dodged.
• Chen Lü attacked Su Ningxia with Heavenly Crippled Foot, sending bronze giant-foot phantoms crashing toward her.
• Su Ningxia unleashed Fierce Tiger Mountain-Splitting Strike, breaking through the bronze footprints and tearing through Chen Haokai’s defenses.
• Chen Haokai struck a stone pillar and fell still as blood spread beneath him.

Du Gu Fu and Su Ningxia defeated Tu Jin, breaking through Oasis’s formation and setting Chang'an’s plan in motion. Their teammates pressed the advantage as Xiao Yi turned her full attention to Long Xiaoqian.

• Du Gu Fu froze Tu Jin’s defenses with his Ice Jade Cold Poison Array and pierced his thorny barrier with a wind-blade assault.
• Du Gu Fu unleashed Frostflame Heavenly Waterfall, whose Tyrant Poison shattered Tu Jin’s defenses and left him incapacitated.
• Du Gu Fu and Su Ningxia exploited their victory to attack Chu Heming and Mo Xiaotian from the flanks.
• Su Ningxia joined Chen Bin and Chen Shurui’s sword assault on Mo Xiaotian, intensifying their attack.
• After withdrawing her control from the wider battlefield, Xiao Yi focused her power on Long Xiaoqian.

Xiao Yi used her Nine Yin Star Seven Injuries Seal against Long Xiaoqian’s Silver Dragon inheritance in a fierce clash of purification and elemental power. Her attack destroyed his dragon form and left him defeated, while she concealed the backlash that had weakened her.

• Xiao Yi summoned the seven-colored Seven Injuries Halo, a Third Order Profound Truth she had developed by combining the Nine Yin Divine Sword techniques with her own powers.
• Long Xiaoqian awakened his Long family technique, transforming his skin martial soul into the Silver Dragon Skin and summoning a dragon phantom of frost, lava, and Thunder.
• The Seven Injuries Halo and the Silver Dragon Phantom clashed in a stalemate before Xiao Yi’s Purification Power overwhelmed Long Xiaoqian’s elemental defense.
• The silver dragon and Long Xiaoqian’s armor disintegrated, leaving him injured and kneeling on the arena as he faced defeat.
• Xiao Yi removed her Powder Veil but hid the blood at her lips and the weakness caused by the attack’s backlash.

Long Jing'an learned that Long Xiaoqian had paid a terrible price for using Dragon Origin Returning to the Void and lost to Xiao Yi, whose palm technique impressed him. Yu Yongyuan then pressed Long Jing'an to consider joining their families, arguing that their bloodlines could help each other withstand dangerous mutations.

• Yu Yongyuan explained that Long Xiaoqian had forcibly used Dragon Origin Returning to the Void and Silver Scale Defense, exhausting his life essence and turning his hair white.
• Long Jing'an blamed Long Xiaoqian's loss on the cost of the technique, while Yu Yongyuan praised Xiao Yi's use of the second seal of the Number One Under Heaven Palm.
• Yu Yongyuan suggested Long Jing'an ask the Chen Clan about its Profound Secret Arts, but Long Jing'an rejected the idea despite his interest in the technique.
• Yu Yongyuan returned to his proposal that the Yu and Long families unite, describing how their martial soul attributes complemented one another.
• Long Jing'an angrily objected when Yu Yongyuan mentioned the Yan Family, whose members had fallen to the Rakshasa Evil God.
• Yu Yongyuan argued that a union between the Yu and Long families could protect both from the instability and dangers of bloodline mutation.

Long Jing'an and Yu Yongyuan debated a marriage alliance between their clans to address worsening bloodline mutations, but Long Jing'an insisted on consulting his clan before deciding. He then abruptly tried to recruit Yu Yongyuan for an unspecified major undertaking.

• Yu Yongyuan proposed joining the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Long Family through a marriage alliance, with rules for assigning awakened traits or a small-scale trial.
• Long Jing'an objected that mixed Dragon Soul Awakenings could cause disputes and said he would consult his clan elders and relatives before making any decision.
• Long Jing'an privately considered the alliance’s effects on their clans’ power, territory, allies, and bloodlines, and resolved to examine the proposal carefully.
• Long Jing'an suddenly asked whether Yu Yongyuan had been idle and enthusiastically invited him to join a major undertaking, making Yu Yongyuan suspicious.