Chapter Summaries

After the Gale Wolf Bandits attacked the village while Chen Zixiu was suppressing the Rakshasa God Power, he arrived at the Southeast Gate with Zhu Hongzhen and confronted the attackers. His overwhelming presence left Muhammad Basque and the bandits intimidated as the standoff continued.

• Chen Zixiu had been unable to defend the village earlier because the Rakshasa God Power had run wild, forcing him to remain in the Ancestral Hall while Zhu Hongzhen guarded him.
• After the power settled, Chen Zixiu and Zhu Hongzhen rushed to the battlefield, where the Gale Wolf Bandits had attacked the Chen Clan.
• Chen Zixiu appeared above the Southeast Gate with his Seven Kill Sword and nine soul rings, and his pressure stopped the bandits from approaching.
• Muhammad Basque recognized Chen Zixiu as a Titled Douluo whose strength surpassed any he had encountered and tried to find a way to break the standoff.
• Chen Zixiu watched Muhammad Basque in silence, making the Wolf Bandits feel that he could suppress them with ease.

Zhu Hongzhen used Earth God's Wrath to counter Gunter Strick's Earth Devouring Fangs, sending Strick crashing to the ground. Strick recovered and resumed fighting Zhu Hongzhen while Muhammad Vasquez and Darcy Rahman Khan prepared to confront Chen Zixiu.

• Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammad Vasquez recognized Chen Zixiu as a Titled Douluo and decided to test his strength with Gunter Strick.
• Muhammad Vasquez signaled Gunter Strick, who broke away from his fight with Zhu Hongzhen and ran toward the Southeast Gate.
• Zhu Hongzhen trapped Gunter Strick with Gravity Mire, but Strick escaped using a powerful vortex of wind.
• Zhu Hongzhen unleashed Earth God's Wrath, and Gunter Strick answered with Earth Devouring Fangs; their attacks collided and the shockwave hurled Strick to the ground.
• Gunter Strick recovered and charged Zhu Hongzhen, and the two resumed their fierce battle.

Chen Zixiu repelled Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammed Vasquez with his sword technique and Soul Suppression Domain, then faced the charging Gale Wolf Bandits alone atop the city wall. He continued fighting with the battlefield under his control.

• Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammed Vasquez attacked Chen Zixiu together with Ghost Wolf Shadow and Gale Tornado.
• Chen Zixiu used Dipper Turns and Stars Shift to dispel both attacks and counter them with sword light.
• Chen Zixiu unleashed Soul Suppression Domain, immobilizing Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammed Vasquez and striking them with two sword beams.
• Darcy Rahman Khan recovered from his wounds while Muhammed Vasquez called thousands of Gale Wolf Bandits to attack Chen Zixiu.
• Chen Zixiu moved through the bandits' assault atop the city wall and held his ground against their charge.

Chen Zixiu held off the Gale Wolf Bandits at the Southeast Gate, then unleashed his Sixth Soul Skill and destroyed a hundred meters of the weakened wall. Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammed Vasquez watched from the rear and planned to wear him down while waiting for the fighting inside the village to end.

• Chen Zixiu used his swordsmanship and Fourth Soul Skill, Overlapping Sword Shadows, to stop the wolf bandits and tear through hundreds of attackers.
• Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammed Vasquez discussed Chen Zixiu's strength and decided the wolf bandits should wear him down before they struck.
• Chen Zixiu flew back and prepared to unleash his Sixth Soul Skill, Move Mountains and Fill Seas.
• Chen Zixiu sent twelve sword shadows into the Southeast Gate, destroying a hundred meters of wall and killing the Gale Wolf Bandits caught on it.

Chen Zixiu used his Eighth Soul Skill to raise a massive stone sword peak across the southeastern approach, dividing the Gale Wolf Bandits and stopping their reinforcements. The village soul masters counterattacked as the Wolf Bandits outside tried again to scale the new barrier.

• Chen Zixiu gathered nearby rubble and reshaped the broken wall into a towering stone sword peak that blocked the Mountain Hollow and split the Wolf Bandits inside and outside the village.
• The villagers recognized Chen Zixiu's feat and launched a counterattack, forcing the Wolf Bandits within the village onto the defensive.
• Muhammad Basque and Darcy Rahman Khan reacted with disbelief, but Darcy Rahman Khan warned the Wolf Bandits that Chen Zixiu's powerful skills must have drained much of his Soul Power.
• The Wolf Bandits outside the village renewed their attempt to climb the stone peak, but a powerful resistance drove them back.

Chen Zixiu’s sword-peak soul skill changed the battle at the Southeast Gate as Chen Xiaojun prepared to help him. On Green Peak Mountain, Ma Suyun ordered the outer forest burned to drive out the Wolf Bandits, then led the Flying Soul Masters west as the fire devastated the bandits and the mountainside.

• Chen Xiaojun and the other youths marveled at Chen Zixiu’s defensive soul skill, and Ling Xinghe explained how it had aided the Chen Clan during the great calamity.
• Chen Xiaojun said the group would carry out its plan to end the fighting in the village and help Chen Zixiu.
• Ma Suyun arrived with Fei Xiang and relayed the main branch’s order to set fire to the outer side of Green Peak Mountain.
• Ma Suyun used her Glass Cleansing Fire and Fifth Soul Skill—Phoenix Fire Rain to ignite the mountainside, while the Flying Soul Masters drove the flames toward the Wolf Bandits.
• Ma Suyun ordered the soul masters to blast a firebreak, then sent Zhu Hefeng and the Zhu Clan southeast while she led Cheng Yun and the other Flying Soul Masters west.
• The fire burned most of the two to three thousand Wolf Bandits alive and left Green Peak Mountain’s outer slope charred and ruined.

Chen Xiaojun set a plan in motion to trap and destroy the Wolf Bandits inside Chen Lin Village, using a fire on Green Peak Mountain to force their retreat and free the village’s fighters. As the blaze raged, he prepared to join Uncle Wu and the others while worrying about his great-grandfather’s strength at the Southeast Gate.

• Chen Zixiu’s Ninth Soul Skill revealed him as Chen Xiaojun’s great-grandfather, a Level 97 Peak Douluo who was holding back the Wolf Bandits at the Southeast Gate.
• Chen Xiaojun estimated that several thousand Wolf Bandits remained inside the village and explained that trapping and scattering them would let the villagers defeat them.
• Chen Xiaojun assigned Fei Xiang, Zhen Jun, Ling Xinghe, Mo Xuanbing, and the other young Soul Masters tasks to coordinate the village’s forces and prepare the fire plan.
• Fei Xiang and the Flying Soul Masters started a fierce blaze on Green Peak Mountain, while Chen Xiaojun explained that Fragrant Snow Mountain was spared to protect the village’s crops.
• Chen Xiaojun warned that his great-grandfather might be injured or running out of strength, then prepared to go find Uncle Wu and the others.

The Luo Family and Flying Soul Masters broke Chen Lin Village’s dike and directed a massive flood through the village to devastate the Wolf Bandit forces. The waves swept through the battlefield and finally crashed against Chen Zixiu’s sword peak.

• The Luo Family unleashed Blackfin Overturning Wave while the Flying Soul Masters added wind skills, creating enormous waves that destroyed the dike.
• Ling Xinghe’s warning let Chen Wu and other village Soul Masters retreat to rooftops, while Ximen Shaoping’s group sheltered on a hill.
• The flood raced along Ring Village Avenue and submerged most of the Wolf Bandits surrounding the Ancestral Hall, killing more than half.
• The waves turned toward Southeast Avenue and swept away Wolf Bandits pursuing Chen Wu’s group, while Soul Masters held the high ground against those seeking refuge.
• The Luo Family and Flying Soul Masters continued steering the flood through the remaining Wolf Bandits until the waves crashed into Chen Zixiu’s sword peak.

Chen Zixiu’s fire and flood devastated the wolf bandits, while Chen Cong realized the village’s strategy might have come from Chen Xiaojun. Aleksey Astana confronted Chen Cong and launched an attack, leaving the battle at the North Gate poised to escalate.

• Chen Zixiu held his sword peak against the flood, while the wolf bandits fled and suffered further losses.
• Darcy Rahman Khan realized the assault had cost his tribe thousands of fighters and a chief-level wolf bandit.
• Chen Cong considered who had planned the village’s linked fire-and-flood strategy, suspecting but dismissing six-year-old Chen Xiaojun.
• Aleksey Astana arrived after committing nearly all his forces and threatened Chen Cong over the wolf bandits’ deaths.
• Astana howled and hurled his spear at Chen Cong.

With the Wolf Bandits and soul masters locked in a fierce battle, Chen Xiaojun came up with a way to help despite being kept off the front line. He led the Chen family youths in singing a battle song that inspired the soul masters and threw the Wolf Bandits into disarray.

• Astana reinforced the Wolf Bandits at the North Gate while soul masters inside the village returned to fight the remaining attackers.
• Chen Jianjun asked to join the battle, but Ling Xinghe refused and said the defenders already had the advantage.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed that the children inspire the fighters from outside the battle, recalling the clan competition’s opening ceremony.
• Chen Yanwu, Zhu Wuxin, Yang Chunyuan, Jian Xinyue, and Xia Yiping sang the refrain of “Victory” while the boys played gongs and drums.
• At Chen Xiaojun’s direction, the youths continued singing, boosting the soul masters’ courage and disrupting the Wolf Bandits’ attacks.

The Soul Masters routed the Wolf Bandits and celebrated their survival, while Zhu Hongzhen continued fighting Gunter Strick. Zhu Hongzhen unleashed his modified Mountain God Descent, crushing Gunter Strick beneath a massive mountain and standing afterward in exhaustion.

• The Luo Family and Soul Masters from sea, land, and air drove the Strick Tribe’s Wolf Bandits into a retreat as the battle song strengthened the defenders.
• The Wolf Bandits were utterly routed, and the villagers cheered their victory under the Chen Clan’s lead.
• Zhu Hongzhen continued his duel with Gunter Strick, using the muddy ground to strengthen Gravity Mire and impede his opponent.
• Zhu Hongzhen activated his Martial Soul True Body and Stone Armor Rampage, then launched his modified Eighth Soul Skill, Mountain God Descent.
• Gunter Strick countered with his Right Arm Bone Soul Skill, Earth Devouring Fangs, but the giant mountain overwhelmed him and buried him beneath it.
• Zhu Hongzhen watched the dust settle, feeling exhausted rather than triumphant.

Chen Zixiu fought off the wolf bandits attacking the village while Chen Cong unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill against their forces at the North Gate. Astana blocked Chen Cong’s follow-up attack, leaving the two peak Soul Douluo preparing to continue their duel.

• Chen Zixiu recognized the youths singing in the village as possible descendants of Xun Er and Cheng Lin, then faced the wolf bandits’ encirclement.
• At the North Gate, Aleksey Astana led the wolf bandits’ final charge and fought Chen Cong while their allies and defenders battled across the field.
• Chen Cong used his Eighth Soul Skill, Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin Universe Throw, to devastate the wolf bandits in its path.
• Astana hurled his spear into Chen Cong’s second wave of Sword Shadows and blocked much of its power.
• Chen Cong gathered his Soul Power to face Astana’s next counterattack.

Chen Cong used Mu Lingyun’s healing and empowerment to unleash the Qianhua Qiankun Sword Array against Astana and the Gale Wolf Bandits. After Astana’s defenses saved some of his forces, Chen Cong continued fighting him with Qiankun Reversal, and their clash remained unresolved.

• Astana teleported behind Chen Cong and struck him, but Mu Lingyun healed and strengthened Chen Cong with her Azure Lotus soul skills.
• Chen Cong unleashed the Qianhua Qiankun Sword Array, cutting down most of the Gale Wolf Bandits until Astana raised an Earth Spirit Wall Pillar to shield the survivors.
• Astana charged Chen Cong with Wolf Shadow Traces as Chen Cong used Qiankun Reversal to attack him and the remaining bandits.
• Astana summoned Wrath of the Wolf Shadow, and his attack collided with Qiankun Reversal as the two fighters continued their fierce battle.

The Xia Clan, North Gate soul masters, and Old Black’s soul beasts turned the battle against the wolf bandits. Chen Cong awakened the Yin Yang Universe Domain and defeated Astana, leaving the bandits’ defeat certain.

• The Xia Clan used illusions to trap wolf bandits, while North Gate soul masters joined them in a counterattack.
• Old Black led its Black Moon Shadow Kill Wolves and over a thousand soul beasts from Black Moon Forest to block the bandits’ retreat.
• Chen Cong unleashed Dragon and Phoenix Bring Auspiciousness, and Astana answered with Wolf God Descent.
• As Chen Cong weakened, a black-and-white Seven Kill Sword appeared in his sea of consciousness, and he activated the Yin Yang Universe Domain.
• Chen Cong’s domain empowered the sword array’s dragon and phoenix, which devastated the Gale Wolf Bandits and overwhelmed Astana.
• Astana cried that he refused to accept defeat before the storm hurled him to the ground and shattered his body.

Chen Cong defeated Astana and the Gale Wolf Bandits alone, then comprehended Sword Array Intent and reached level 90 Soul Power. His new mastery brought him to the final step before becoming a Titled Douluo.

• Chen Cong used Dragon and Phoenix Auspiciousness to defeat Astana and the Gale Wolf Bandits, revealing his control over the sword array.
• The battle left Chen Cong exhausted but gave him a deeper understanding of combining his Yin Yang Attribute with the sword array.
• Chen Cong entered a state of insight and comprehended Sword Array Intent, an inherited power rarely attained by Chen Clan Sword Array Masters.
• Chen Cong realized that Sword Array Intent let him control his sword as part of himself and communicate through the sword array.
• Chen Cong's Soul Power naturally reached level 90 as he completed this new step in his cultivation.

Chen Cong comprehended Sword Intent and reached Level 90, then hurried with Mu Lingyun toward the Southeast Gate to check on his father. Meanwhile, Chen Xiaojun led the young soul masters to hunt the remaining wolf bandits as Chen Zixiu fought their leaders on Sword Peak, where the bandits resorted to a combined formation.

• Chen Cong told Mu Lingyun he had comprehended an intent and reached Level 90, and she restored his strength with soul skills.
• Chen Cong put Zhao Lin in charge of cleaning up the battlefield, then took Mu Lingyun toward the Southeast Gate to check on his father.
• After the group praised Chen Feng’s song, Chen Xiaojun led the young soul masters out to hunt wolf bandits, with Ling Xinghe agreeing to go.
• Chen Zixiu used Selfless Sword Intent and Rakshasa God Power to fend off Darcy Rahman Khan, Muhammad Basque, and the other wolf bandit leaders on Sword Peak.
• Unable to defeat Chen Zixiu through their ongoing assault, the wolf bandit leaders called for the Wolf Pack Combined Attack Formation.

Chen Zixiu used Soul Suppression Domain and his Sword Stance High Mountain Flowing Water to break the wolf bandits’ assault and force their leaders to retreat. With the village battle ending, he remained atop the sword peak as Rakshasa God Power’s backlash overwhelmed his exhausted body.

• Chen Zixiu used Soul Suppression Domain to stall most of the wolf bandits and disrupt their attack formation.
• Chen Zixiu unleashed Sword Stance High Mountain Flowing Water as Darcy Rahman Khan, Muhammed Vasquez, and the leader-level wolf bandits attacked with their combined formation.
• Chen Zixiu’s sword stance overwhelmed the wolf bandits, seriously injuring Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammed Vasquez, disabling the chiefs, and killing many lower-level bandits.
• Darcy Rahman Khan and Muhammed Vasquez ordered the surviving wolf bandits to retreat, and the fighting in the village subsided.
• Chen Zixiu watched the battlefield from the sword peak as his Soul Power ran out and Rakshasa God Power’s backlash began tearing through his body.

Chen Zixiu urged Chen Cong and Zhu Hongzhen to pursue the retreating Gale Wolf Bandits despite his severe injuries, while Mu Lingyun treated him. The pursuit threw the bandits into disarray, and a powerful voice rang out as one leader prepared to cover their retreat.

• Zhu Hongzhen, Chen Cong, and Mu Lingyun reached Chen Zixiu after the fighting, and Chen Zixiu praised Chen Cong’s level 90 domain intent realm.
• Mu Lingyun used her Azure Lotus skills to treat Chen Zixiu, but her healing had little effect on his injuries from Rakshasa God Power.
• Muhammed Vasquez and Daxi Rahman led the surviving Gale Wolf Bandits away, mourning Alexei Astana and Gunter Strick and vowing to seek revenge.
• Chen Zixiu insisted that Chen Cong and Zhu Hongzhen pursue the bandits, and Chen Cong summoned the village’s remaining fighters to join them.
• Chen Cong, Zhu Hongzhen, and the Flying Soul Masters attacked the bandits’ rear, scattering their ranks as one leader volunteered to hold them off.
• A thunderous voice recited a sword verse as the wolf bandit leader prepared to cover the retreat.

Chen Hong returned to Chen Lin Village and used his Ninth Soul Skill to devastate the fleeing Wolf Bandits, then killed Muhammed Vasquez, though Darcy Rahman Khan remained missing. As the battle ended, Mu Lingyun used her Life Force to save Chen Zixiu and collapsed just as Chen Cong and Chen Hong reached them.

• Chen Hong intercepted the fleeing Wolf Bandits with his Ninth Soul Skill, trapping and killing many of them as Chen Cong and Zhu Hongzhen pursued from behind.
• Muhammed Vasquez escaped the sword-rain vortex, but Chen Hong fought him in the air and killed him with a strike through the head and heart.
• Some Wolf Bandits escaped into the mountain forests, while Darcy Rahman Khan's body was nowhere to be found.
• Mu Lingyun tried to restore Chen Zixiu with Soul Power, but Rakshasa God Power repelled her efforts as Chen Zixiu told her he could not hold on.
• Mu Lingyun used her Sixth Soul Skill, Blue Lotus Chain, to share her Life Force and Soul Power with Chen Zixiu, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Chen Cong and Chen Hong rode toward Mu Lingyun and Chen Zixiu as Mu Lingyun lost consciousness.

Chen Yu led a meeting to review the Gale Wolf Bandits’ devastating attack on Chen Lin Village and the village’s heavy casualties and property losses. The report ended with Zhu Yanfeng accounting for the campaign’s spoils and confirming that twenty-nine soul bones remained.

• Chen Wenchao reported that the Gale Wolf Bandits had planned a four-sided assault in revenge for the death of the Hurricane Demon Wolf King’s son, and that nearly all the attackers had been killed.
• Ling Yunxiao reported that the village’s forces had lost thirty-four soul masters, including two Soul Emperors, five Soul Kings, and twenty-seven soul ancestors.
• Chen Yu’s younger sister reported that more than thirty villagers had been killed, bringing the village’s total losses to nearly seventy people.
• Zhu Yanfeng reported major damage to village industries, farms, ranches, and other properties from the fighting and flooding.
• Zhu Yanfeng listed the soul bones, wolf corpses, and other spoils recovered from the campaign and village battle, then stated that twenty-nine soul bones remained after prior allocations.