Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi and Ah Yin shared a private conversation beneath the stars, discussing mortality and a future spent exploring Douluo Continent together. Ah Yin’s emotions overcame her, and she pressed herself against Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi sat beside Ah Yin at Blue Silver Valley, and they exchanged quiet words about being together without angering someone else.
• Ling Yi spoke of fearing death after witnessing an old villager die, and Ah Yin realized she feared losing him as much as she feared death.
• Ling Yi imagined that they would attain Level 100 Godhood and travel across Douluo Continent and beyond together.
• Ah Yin agreed and impulsively closed the distance between them, pressing down on Ling Yi.
• At City Lord Manor, Yang Shelly sneezed while comprehending Spear Technique.

Tang Yuehua fought a Two-Ring Great Soul Master at the Fire Maple Great Spirit Arena and revealed her Clear Wind Sword Intent. Her brothers Tang Hao and Tang Xiao watched in surprise as two other spectators also noticed her achievement.

• Tang Hao worried that Tang Yuehua was challenging an opponent too strong for her, while Tang Xiao said she had more strength than she showed.
• Tang Yuehua struggled against the battle-saber Soul Master, then merged the Azure Nether Divine Sword with her Ruyi Ring and activated her First Soul Skill, Clear Wind Ruyi.
• The wind-enhanced sword transformed Tang Yuehua’s bearing, and her opponent sensed her Clear Wind Sword Intent and cautiously retreated.
• Tang Hao reacted in shock, while Tang Xiao remained calm and said it was only sword intent.
• A middle-aged man watching with a white-haired companion exclaimed that Tang Yuehua had comprehended sword intent.

Tang Yuehua defeated her opponent with the Azure Nether Divine Sword, drawing the admiration of Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin. Outside the arena, the Chen father and son approached the Tang siblings after hearing Yuehua explain Ling Yi’s sword-training plan, while Tang Xiao and Tang Hao moved to protect her.

• Chen Jianjun recognized that Tang Yuehua’s Azure Nether Divine Sword carried its own sword intent, and Chen Xin praised the weapon’s potential.
• Tang Yuehua defeated her opponent by placing the Azure Nether Divine Sword at his throat.
• Outside the arena, Tang Xiao warned Yuehua not to grow complacent, and she described Ling Yi’s plan for developing her sword intent.
• Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin decided to approach the Tang siblings after hearing Yuehua’s explanation.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao sensed the approaching experts, stepped in front of Yuehua, and asked what business they had.

Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua considered the mysterious Seven Kill Sword Titled Douluo and planned to find Ling Yi. In Lingyun City, Ling Yi began testing his theory of wave compatibility with Ah Rou’s Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul.

• Tang Yuehua asked Tang Xiao and Tang Hao whether they knew the Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul, and they speculated Chen Jianjun came from a hidden family.
• Tang Yuehua worried that Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin might seek out Ling Yi, so Tang Xiao proposed sending a message to their father and finding Ling Yi first.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao agreed to take Tang Yuehua to Long Xing City, where they would ask the Yang Clan to contact their father and learn Ling Yi’s whereabouts.
• In Lingyun City’s City Lord Manor, Yang Shelly glared at Ah Yin while Liu Erlong watched Ling Yi instruct Ah Rou.
• Ling Yi used his Green Wood Blue Silver King Martial Soul, Blue Silver Domain, and Heart Power to detect the wave of Ah Rou’s Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul.

Ling Yi tried to guide Ah Rou’s Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul toward the wind attribute and fuse it with his Green Wood Blue Silver King. Their first attempt at a Martial Soul Fusion Skill came close but failed, leaving Ling Yi hopeful that they could succeed next time.

• Ling Yi found a trace of wind-attribute energy in Ah Rou’s Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul and matched its fluctuations with his Blue Silver Domain.
• Ah Rou struggled to control her Soul Power as Ling Yi’s Heart Power stirred a strange sensation in her soul, while Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, and Liu Erlong watched from outside the arena.
• Ling Yi surrounded himself and Ah Rou with Blue Silver Grass and carefully tried to synchronize their martial souls.
• After about an hour, Ling Yi ended the unsuccessful attempt and reassured the awakened but embarrassed Ah Rou that they had come close and could try again.

Ling Yi reviewed Lingyun City’s growing Three Departments and Six Ministries system and gave officials guidance on recruitment, records, and public order. He ended by asking Ling Si whether the Medical Department had faced any difficulties.

• Ling Yi met with Zhang Lei, Long Yin, and the other department leaders to hear how Lingyun City’s departments had developed.
• Zhang Lei reported that the Ministry of Personnel had filled the city’s posts and handed Ling Yi a personnel register.
• The department heads outlined the work of the ministries and other departments, which were largely staffed by Ling Yi’s fellow villagers.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Hai to recruit skilled craftsmen and advised Ling Shan to record detailed information about Lingyun City’s residents.
• Ling Yi directed Zhang Mufeng and Dugu Xin to strengthen the Guard Team and recruit and train more constables as the city’s population grew.
• Ling Yi asked Ling Si whether the Medical Department had encountered any difficulties.

Ling Yi and Ah Rou successfully formed a new wind-based Martial Soul Fusion Skill, which Ling Yi named Fei Lian. Days later, Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin witnessed Lingyun City constables fighting a Soul Elder and noticed their unusual methods.

• Ling Yi connected his Blue Silver Domain with Ah Rou's Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul, and together they transformed into a giant wind-powered rabbit that flew above Green Cloud Mountain.
• The fused form created a tornado before Ling Yi caught the exhausted Ah Rou as they fell and glided them safely back to the arena.
• Ling Yi explained that the fusion had produced a new Soul Beast form and named its state Fei Lian.
• A dozen or so days later, Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin watched three Lingyun City constables intervene in a street dispute and noticed the constables' auras differed from those of ordinary Soul Masters.
• A Three-Ring Soul Elder transformed into an Iron Back Wolf and charged the constables, breaking one constable's arm when his claws struck a buckler.

Constable Chen Ningqi and two fellow constables subdued a Three-Ring Soul Elder during a street dispute, using teamwork and Soul Tool shackles that suppressed his Soul Power. Afterward, Chen Ningqi healed his broken arm with his Full of Vitality soul skill, while Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin watched thoughtfully.

• Chen Ningqi and the other constables broke through the Iron Back Wolf Soul Elder's defense and forced him to surrender at swordpoint.
• Chen Ningqi locked the man in Soul Tool shackles, which suppressed his Soul Power and dispelled his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Chen Xin and Chen Jianjun recognized that the shackles were Soul Tools designed to suppress Soul Power.
• Chen Ningqi revealed his Green Skin Gourd martial soul and used Full of Vitality to heal his broken arm, aided by Chen Zhishen and another constable.
• The constables took away the Soul Elder and the other person involved in the dispute, while Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin watched them thoughtfully.

Chen Xin told Chen Jianjun that Lingyun City had over a thousand locally trained One-Ring Soul Masters who relied on physical training, weapons, and support skills rather than the conventional martial soul system. Chen Jianjun concluded that Ling Yi was trying to create a new era beyond that system and demanded to learn everything about him, unaware that pale-blue grass was listening outside their window.

• Chen Xin reported that Lingyun City had more than a thousand One-Ring Soul Masters spread across its official departments.
• Chen Xin explained that Lingyun City trained these soul masters with Hundred Year Blue Silver Grass rings and support skills, while they relied on physical conditioning, armor, weapons, and combat techniques.
• Chen Jianjun realized that Chen Ningqi and the others did not see themselves as conventional soul masters and wondered whether Ling Yi had gone mad.
• Chen Jianjun inferred that Ling Yi intended to create a new era independent of the martial soul system and ordered Chen Xin to tell him everything about Ling Yi.
• Pale-blue grass swayed on the hotel windowsill as Chen Xin began sharing what he had learned about Ling Yi, though neither man noticed it.

Ling Yi used Superego Mode and the Blue Silver Domain to turn the plants around Lingyun City into a biological supercomputer, briefly gathering information about Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin. The father and son accepted Ling Yi’s invitation to City Lord Manor for a banquet that night, confident their strength would protect them.

• Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin dismissed the consequences of Ling Yi’s plans for the Martial Soul System and focused on their own sword cultivation.
• Ling Yi activated Superego Mode and spread the Blue Silver Domain across Lingyun City, using Blue Silver Grass as a network of neurons before the strain overloaded his brain.
• Chen Jianjun sensed something unusual in the hotel but could not locate its source, while Ling Yi recovered from the effort and obtained information he wanted.
• Chen Ningqi delivered Ling Yi’s invitation, and Chen Jianjun agreed to visit City Lord Manor that night.
• Chen Jianjun warned Chen Xin that Ling Yi might have been monitoring them, but both men remained confident that their strength gave them the advantage.

Ling Yi received Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin at the City Lord Manor and explained that he had invited them to answer their questions about Lingyun City. When Chen Jianjun suspected he meant to detain them, Ling Yi admitted that he did, and Chen Xin summoned his Seven Kill Sword.

• Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin arrived at Lingyun City and were surprised by Ling Yi's appearance and warm demeanor.
• Ling Yi welcomed the two swordsmen to the City Lord Manor and invited them to discuss what Chen Xin had learned while investigating the city.
• Chen Xin asked Ling Yi why he had invited them, and Chen Jianjun demanded that he state his purpose directly.
• Ling Yi said he wanted to address any incomplete impressions Chen Xin had formed while exploring Lingyun City.
• Chen Jianjun asked whether Ling Yi intended to keep them there, and Ling Yi said that he did.
• Chen Xin released his Soul Power, summoned the Seven Kill Sword, and aimed his sword intent at Ling Yi.

Ling Yi invited Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin to join Lingyun City after effortlessly neutralizing Chen Xin’s sword intent, while the two men realized he had mistaken their identities. The conversation ended with Ling Yi withdrawing his invitation to Chen Jianjun after learning he was a Titled Douluo, while still treating both guests respectfully.

• Chen Xin released sword intent at Ling Yi, but Ling Yi silently erased it with the Blue Silver Domain.
• Chen Jianjun recognized Ling Yi’s unusual ability, while Chen Xin was surprised that a Healing System Soul King had blocked his attack.
• Ling Yi sincerely invited Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin to stay in Lingyun City, prompting Chen Xin to ask whether Ling Yi knew who they were.
• Ling Yi learned that Chen Jianjun was a Titled Douluo, toasted him with tea, and explained that he had assumed the two were unaffiliated reclusive experts.
• Ling Yi said he no longer dared hope Chen Jianjun would stay in Lingyun City and expressed gratitude for having hosted the pair.

Ling Yi hosted Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin at a banquet and introduced them to Li Zhishu, using the dinner to strengthen their favorable impression of him. After several cups of wine, Chen Xin asked Ling Yi to explain something he did not understand.

• Ling Yi stopped pressing Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin to settle in Lingyun City and led them to the dining hall.
• Ling Yi introduced Li Zhishu as Lingyun City's Food Department head and revealed that Chen Jianjun was Chen Xin's father, Seven Kill Your Excellency.
• Li Zhishu respectfully introduced himself to Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin, then returned to the kitchen to finish preparing the banquet dishes.
• Chen Tianqi and Gao Yanlun served the food, and Ling Yi toasted the guests as they sampled the dishes and wine.
• Chen Xin grew warmer toward Ling Yi during the meal and asked him to explain something he had not understood.

Ling Yi used historical records and a wine-cup analogy to explain to Chen Xin and Chen Jianjun how the Douluo Continent’s people might resemble those who lived there in earlier eras. He left them contemplating the difference between the continent ten thousand years ago and the present.

• Chen Xin asked Ling Yi why Lingyun City’s Soul Masters seemed different from Soul Masters elsewhere.
• Ling Yi described the historical works he had read in Spirit Hall’s Library Tower, drawing Chen Xin and Chen Jianjun into the continent’s past.
• Ling Yi compared the Douluo Continent to a wine cup, draining and refilling it to show that the cup remained the same.
• Chen Jianjun inferred that the people living on the continent might be like the wine in the cup, resembling those who had lived there before.
• Ling Yi murmured about the Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago and the present as he gazed upward.

Ling Yi explained his ambition to change Douluo Continent by creating new paths beyond the Martial Soul System, with Lingyun City as the source of a wider transformation. Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin imagined the diverse, thriving era he described and were left longing for it.

• Ling Yi described Douluo Continent as stagnant, where people followed the same path of Martial Soul cultivation and even Titled Douluo left little mark on history.
• Chen Jianjun asked whether Ling Yi wanted to make his mark on history, then warned that even thousands of One-Ring Soul Masters could not overturn the continent’s established order.
• Ling Yi said he did not intend to topple the existing system by force and instead wanted Lingyun City to become a source of new talent and ideas.
• Ling Yi envisioned expanding paths such as body tempering, forging, sculpting, painting, and music until their practitioners could stand alongside Titled Douluo.
• Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin imagined people from these new disciplines challenging traditional Soul Masters and felt longing for the Glorious Era Ling Yi described.

Ling Yi described Lingyun City’s body-tempering cultivators to Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin, who became interested in testing the new path for themselves. Chen Xin asked to spar with Li Zhishu, leaving the proposed fight yet to happen.

• Chen Jianjun stopped himself from declaring that he would join Lingyun City and asked how far its new cultivation path had progressed.
• Ling Yi listed the ranks and numbers of Lingyun City’s body-tempering cultivators and explained how their physiques, weapons, and spiritual conceptions strengthened them.
• Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin watched Li Zhishu carve meat and recognized the Blade Intent and skill behind his knife work.
• Chen Xin asked Ling Yi for permission to exchange moves with Li Zhishu, and Li Zhishu restrained his Blade Intent before the spar could begin.

Ling Yi introduced Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin to the four young women training in Lingyun City, whose exceptional talents surprised the visitors. When Chen Xin asked for a sparring partner, Ling Yi revealed the armored figure Erlang, leaving his identity a mystery.

• Ling Yi declined Chen Xin's request to spar with Li Zhishu and promised to find another opponent.
• Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin stayed overnight at the manor after sharing a lavish meal and conversation with Ling Yi.
• The next morning, Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin watched Ling Yi, Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, Ah Rou, and Liu Erlong cultivate, and were astonished by the women's abilities.
• Chen Xin proposed sparring with Ling Yi, prompting Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, and Liu Erlong to volunteer instead.
• Ling Yi soothed the eager women and introduced A'Huang, Meow Meow, and a Wind Shadow Leopard before presenting the armored Erlang as Chen Xin's sparring partner.

Erlang fought Chen Xin in the Martial Arts Arena, demonstrating formidable physical strength and combat skill without using Soul Power or Soul Skills. As Chen Xin struggled to keep up, Ling Yi revealed that Erlang was his independently acting Second Martial Soul, created from a body assembled from his own tissues.

• Erlang fired three pellets from his slingshot, forcing Chen Xin to block them with his Seven Kill Sword.
• Erlang summoned a Tri-Point Double-Edged Blade and shattered Chen Xin’s Spirit Sword Protection before driving him back with a powerful strike.
• Chen Xin and Erlang fought at increasing speed, with Erlang activating Thunder Mode while Chen Xin held back his strongest Soul Skills.
• Chen Xin fell behind as his Sword Intent sharpened under Erlang’s pressure, while Chen Jianjun recognized the New Path’s potential.
• Ling Yi’s memories explained how he assembled a second body, awakened its consciousness as Erlang, and refined it into his Second Martial Soul.

Chen Xin and “Erlang” escalated their duel until Chen Xin used his self-created “I Am the Sword” technique and Erlang answered with overwhelming strength. The God Sealing Armor began to fail as Erlang’s power surged out of control, leaving Chen Xin and the onlookers alarmed.

• Chen Xin unleashed his Sixth Soul Skill, and Erlang shattered his giant Seven Kill Sword with a lightning-charged strike.
• Chen Xin and Erlang resumed their close-quarters fight, pushing each other to greater speed and strength while Chen Jianjun examined Erlang’s armor and gloves.
• When Erlang asked to see Chen Xin’s Martial Soul Avatar, Chen Xin angrily activated “I Am the Sword” and launched a powerful thrust.
• Erlang entered “Current Drive: 500,000 Volts” and clamped Chen Xin’s sword between his palms with immense force.
• Ling Yi sensed the God Sealing Armor reaching its limit and shouted for Erlang to stop, while Chen Jianjun and Chen Xin noticed Erlang’s armor cracking and his eyes turning deranged.

Ling Yi used a God Sealing Array to restrain Erlang after Erlang pushed Chen Xin in a fierce contest, and he healed Erlang before the warrior withdrew to recover. In Suotuo City, Tang Yuehua fought Aode, gained a clearer grasp of Clear Wind Sword Intent, and left determined to cultivate, while thinking of Ling Yi and the Clear Sky Sect’s fragile strength.

• Ling Yi activated the God Sealing Array, binding Erlang and interrupting the Thunder Power that threatened to overwhelm him.
• Erlang redirected Chen Xin’s Seven Kill Sword and forced Chen Xin to retreat before the formation restrained him.
• Ling Yi healed Erlang, who bowed to Chen Xin and Chen Jianjun before returning to his stone house, and Chen Jianjun praised his combat talent.
• Tang Yuehua faced Aode in the Soto Great Spirit Arena while Tang Xiao and Tang Hao watched from the stands.
• Tang Yuehua’s sword strike cleared Aode’s Ghost King Vines, sharpening her understanding of Clear Wind Sword Intent, and she conceded before returning to cultivate.
• Tang Yuehua considered recruiting Aode and reflected on the Clear Sky Sect’s weaknesses and her feelings about Ling Yi.