Chapter Summaries

Li Xuansheng put Wenying Pavilion’s twelve trainees through harsh gravity training and tactical drills as they prepared for the competition in Blue Moon City. The team began learning to coordinate, but they still needed three more members and would study rival geniuses that evening.

• Li Xuansheng activated fifty-times gravity and trained the twelve in resisting it while destroying moving targets as a team.
• Li Xuansheng showed the trainees historical team-battle footage and divided them into groups for tactical combat drills.
• The assault team struggled against the control team's kiting tactics, and both groups repeatedly reviewed their mistakes and tried again.
• Li Xuansheng warned that training would grow more difficult the next day and told everyone to rest before analyzing rival geniuses with information from Cousin Yuan Qi.
• Li Xuansheng noted that the competition required ten main members and five reserves, leaving the team three members short.

Li Xuansheng reviewed the powerful teams entering the tournament and rallied the Li Family youths to prepare for the competition in five months. After discussing battlefield control with Li Bing'er, he resolved to forge the team into a weapon capable of winning.

• Li Yuanqi presented intelligence on the tournament's formidable contenders, including the Blue Moon Princess, Xing Xuan, Dongyue Qi, Whale Fall, and Ye Zhongguan.
• Li Xuansheng admitted that he feared losing but urged the gathered youths to draw strength from their shared hardships and the Li Family's support.
• Li Xuansheng ordered double training and told Li Yuanqi to investigate opponents' fighting styles, soul skills, and team habits.
• Li Xuansheng asked Li Bing'er about her Ultimate Ice control and explained that the team needed her and the others to provide fine and large-scale battlefield control.
• Li Xuansheng inspected his 3,175 Summoning Points and Level-101 Divine Official Trial Card, deciding to save the card unless absolutely necessary.

Li Xuansheng evaluated the team’s training and chose Li Huayu for a support position, then obtained a supreme immortal herb suited to her Life’s Dew martial soul. He donated the Longevity Myriad Flower Dew to the family treasury and left with its origin still needing a reasonable explanation.

• Li Xuansheng reviewed the team’s performance in the Composite Environment Trial Grounds and noted how each member handled the harsh conditions.
• Li Yuanqi praised Li Huayu’s precise healing, recovery, purification, enhancement, and protection, and Li Xuansheng reserved one of the remaining team spots for her.
• Li Xuansheng searched the system store and exchanged 300 Summoning Points for a Longevity Myriad Flower Dew suited to life-attribute and healing support-type martial souls.
• Li Xuansheng registered the herb as a family contribution worth five thousand contribution points, intending to establish a reasonable explanation for where it came from.

Li Xuansheng gave Li Huayu the supreme-grade immortal herb Longevity Myriad Flower Dew to strengthen her Life's Dew martial soul and prepare her for the tournament. After gaining a sixth soul ring and returning at level sixty-seven, Li Huayu joined Literary Star Pavilion as its thirteenth member.

• Li Xuansheng offered Li Huayu Longevity Myriad Flower Dew for two thousand contribution points, asking her to absorb it, improve her cultivation, and become the team's dependable support.
• Li Huayu absorbed the herb, advanced from level fifty-eight to level sixty, and saw her martial soul's strength increase more than threefold.
• Li Tianji led a squad of Soul Douluo and Soul Sages to Azure Jade Forest to help Li Huayu obtain a suitable sixth soul ring.
• Li Huayu returned ten days later at level sixty-seven with an evolved super martial soul and a formidable support skill.
• The family made an exception for Li Huayu, admitting her to Literary Star Pavilion as its thirteenth member.

Li Huayu officially joined Wenying Pavilion and proved her value as its core support during an intense rotating team battle. After training, Li Xuansheng began assessing candidates for the team’s last two places and became interested in Li Tianyin’s sound-based control abilities.

• Li Xuansheng introduced Li Huayu as Wenying Pavilion’s thirteenth member and assigned her to serve as core support.
• Li Huayu supported the twelve fighters in a three-three-three rotation battle, using healing, purification, recovery, and predictive buffs.
• After three hours of training, the exhausted team praised Li Huayu’s performance as she settled into her role.
• Li Xuansheng surveyed promising young clan members and noted Li Tianyin, a level-fifty-nine control-type Soul King with a Bewitching Demon Bell martial soul.
• Li Xuansheng watched Li Tianyin use her Formation-Breaking Melody to disrupt a stronger opponent and considered her a possible candidate for the team.

Li Xuansheng chose Li Huajun to fill Wenying Pavilion’s need for a dependable front-line defender and arranged for him to absorb the Jade Dew Golden Lotus and obtain a powerful sixth soul skill. With Li Huajun officially inducted as the pavilion’s fourteenth member, Li Tianyin remained the final person to add to the team.

• Li Xuansheng selected Li Huajun as the team’s front-line shield and offered him the Jade Dew Golden Lotus in exchange for two thousand contribution points, payable later.
• Li Huajun absorbed the lotus, broke through to level sixty, and headed with Elder Li Hailong’s hunting party to the Far North for a soul ring.
• Li Huajun endured the attacks of a thirty-five-thousand-year-old Icefield Symbiotic Turtle and gained the sixth soul skill Wall of Shared Sorrow, reaching level sixty-six.
• Li Xuansheng inducted Li Huajun as Wenying Pavilion’s fourteenth member and entrusted him with the front line.
• Li Xuansheng turned his attention to Li Tianyin as the final person needed to complete the roster.

Li Xuansheng gave Li Tianyin a Bewitching Bell Orchid Flower, helping her strengthen her Bewitching Demon Bell and break through to level sixty. After she gained a powerful control Soul Skill from a thirty-three-thousand-year Soul-Seizing Demon-Sound Bat, Wenying Pavilion's fifteen-member team was complete and ready for further training.

• Li Xuansheng exchanged 300 Summoning Points for a Bewitching Bell Orchid Flower suited to Li Tianyin's Martial Soul.
• Li Tianyin accepted the flower and agreed to use her voice to support the team in the tournament.
• Li Tianyin consumed the flowers in seclusion, broke through to level sixty, and transformed her Bewitching Demon Bell.
• Li Tianyin traveled with Li Haiwang's hunting party to Mist Forest, located the thirty-three-thousand-year Soul-Seizing Demon-Sound Bat, and killed it.
• Li Tianyin absorbed the Bat King's Soul Ring, reached level sixty-seven, and gained the sixth Soul Skill Soul-Tethered Dream.
• Li Xuansheng welcomed Li Tianyin at Yinghua Hall, completing Wenying Pavilion's fifteen-member lineup of transformed Soul Emperors.

Li Xuansheng gave Li Mengchen a Jade Radiant Ice Toad Flower that evolved her Vermilion Radiant Ice Toad martial soul into the Jade Radiant Ice Emperor Toad. After hunting a Jade-Scaled Ice Emperor Python for her seventh soul ring, she returned as a level-seventy-four Soul Sage with a Martial Soul Avatar.

• Li Xuansheng spotted the Jade Radiant Ice Toad Flower in the system shop and exchanged 350 Summoning Points for it.
• Li Xuansheng gave Li Mengchen the flower, and she consumed it in seclusion, breaking through level seventy as her martial soul evolved.
• Li Mengchen asked Elder Li Haiwang for a suitable seventh soul ring, and he recommended a thirty-seven-thousand-year Jade-Scaled Ice Emperor Python.
• Li Mengchen and the hunting party fought the python, and she killed it with a beam of Jade Emperor Frostlight after Li Tianji grievously wounded it.
• Li Mengchen absorbed the python's soul ring, reached level seventy-four, and gained the Jade Radiant Ice Emperor Toad Avatar.

As the Heavenly Phoenix team honed its coordination, Li Xuansheng helped Li Xuanqing overcome his hesitation and use the Nine-Dew Flower, enabling him to reach level seventy and obtain a powerful Seventh Soul Ring. Li Xuansheng then acquired a spirit fruit suited to Li Xuanshu, while the team continued preparing for the coming competition.

• The Heavenly Phoenix team improved its teamwork through grueling coordination training, and Li Xuansheng noticed Li Xuanqing's frustration as his teammates advanced.
• Li Xuansheng urged Li Xuanqing to stop saving the Nine-Dew Flower, and Li Xuanqing used it to break through to level seventy.
• Li Xuanqing hunted an Azure Flame Demon Wolf with Chen Jianjun's squad, absorbed its thirty-nine-thousand-year Soul Ring, and became a level seventy-one Soul Sage.
• Li Xuansheng exchanged 300 Summoning Points for a Gilded Armor-Breaking Fruit suited to Li Xuanshu's Sky Phoenix Halberd.
• Li Xuansheng watched Li Xuanqing, Li Xuanyin, and Li Qiuqiu train as the team continued strengthening its fighting coordination.

Li Xuanshu consumed a gilded armor-breaking fruit and advanced to level seventy, awakening a potent edge-breaking intent in his Sky Phoenix Halberd. He hunted an Earth-Rending Golden Armored Beast with Li Tianwu, absorbed its soul ring, and returned as a level seventy-one Soul Sage with the Martial Soul Avatar.

• Li Xuansheng gave Li Xuanshu the gilded armor-breaking fruit and tasked him with sharpening the Heavenly Phoenix Team’s assault power.
• Li Xuanshu endured the fruit’s painful transformation, broke through to level seventy, and awakened edge-breaking intent in his Sky Phoenix Halberd.
• Li Xuanshu asked Elder Li Tianwu for a powerful assault-type soul ring, and Li Tianwu led a hunting party to the Ironspine Mountains to hunt an Earth-Rending Golden Armored Beast.
• Li Xuanshu pierced the beast’s armor and killed it, then endured its soul ring’s fierce power and subdued its lingering will.
• Li Xuanshu absorbed the soul ring, stabilized at level seventy-one, and gained the Sky Phoenix Halberd’s Martial Soul Avatar.

Li Xuansheng organized a strategic exchange with the Dongyue Family and searched the system shop for immortal herbs to strengthen the Heavenly Phoenix team’s core members. He gathered six treasures suited to their differing needs, leaving them ready for the team’s next stage of cultivation.

• Li Xuansheng told Li Yuanhui, Li Yunming, and Li Tiancheng that the Heavenly Phoenix team needed more tailored resources to strengthen every member.
• Li Xuansheng proposed trading Li Family poison research, mining rights, and ancient Soul Tool diagrams to the Dongyue Family for compatible immortal herbs.
• Li Yuanhui traveled to Heavenly Heart City, where Dongyue Qing and Dongyue Xian approved the exchange of three treasured herbs.
• Li Xuansheng spent the following month searching the system shop and used his Summoning Points to obtain three more rare treasures.
• Li Xuansheng assembled six immortal herbs on a jade platform for the six key cores of the Heavenly Phoenix team.

Li Xuansheng gave six members of the Heavenly Phoenix team immortal herbs and two months to strengthen themselves before the tournament. After their seclusion, the six emerged from their assigned chambers having advanced their powers and refined their abilities.

• Li Xuansheng distributed six immortal herbs to Li Bing'er, Li Longyue, Li Xuanyin, Li Yuanran, Li Qiuqiu, and Li Xuanbing, ordering them to absorb the herbs, break through bottlenecks, and return in two months.
• Li Bing'er absorbed the Ice-Soul Heart-Congealing Lotus, strengthening her ice-soul energy and loosening the barrier at level seventy-one.
• Li Longyue absorbed the Kun Origin Thick-Earth Lingzhi and deepened his Mountain Dragon King martial soul's earth power, while Li Xuanyin used the Lunar Illusory Space Grass to sharpen her spatial perception and blade techniques.
• Li Yuanran absorbed the Illusory Sea Star Marrow's spiritual essence, enhancing her illusions, while Li Xuanbing fused the Profound Frost Phoenixblood Flower with her Ice Phoenix bloodline and attacked the threshold of level seventy.
• Li Qiuqiu absorbed the Myriad Forms Wisdom Fruit, improving her Soul Power, spiritual power, and constitution; after two months, manifestations of the six members' cultivation appeared above the family grounds.

The Heavenly Phoenix team completed two months of seclusion, with its members strengthening their Soul Power and gaining new abilities. Li Xuansheng rallied the fifteen assembled fighters to begin forging their power into a coordinated battle formation.

• Li Xuanbing, Li Longyue, Li Xuanyin, Li Yuanran, Li Qiuqiu, and Li Bing'er emerged from seclusion with greatly improved abilities and Soul Power.
• Li Xuanbing slew a Frost-Soul Ice Phoenix and gained a soul ring, while Li Yuanran and Li Qiuqiu later obtained soul rings and advanced to Soul Sage.
• All fifteen members gathered at Wenying Pavilion, including twelve Soul Sages and three powerful Soul Emperors.
• Li Xuansheng declared that the team had completed its transformations and called for them to forge their strength into a battle formation.
• The fifteen members roared together as their Soul Power formed a pillar of light, beginning their push toward peak coordination.

The Li Family’s tournament team sharpened its coordination through demanding battle simulations as a powerful delegation from the Dongyue Clan traveled to Heavenly Phoenix City. The visitors planned to join the Li Family on the journey to the Central Daliang Dynasty and meet their relatives before the tournament.

• Li Xuansheng led the Li Family team through complex simulated battles, where Li Yuanran’s developing spiritual link helped her teammates share tactical intentions and danger warnings.
• Dongyue Qingxuan led four other elders and fifteen young clan members from Heavenly Heart City toward Heavenly Phoenix City.
• Dongyue Qi led the Dongyue Clan’s young generation, while Dongyue Ling looked forward to seeing how much Li Xuansheng had improved.
• Dongyue Qingxuan said the delegation would help the Li Family broaden its horizons before the tournament, and the party approached Heavenly Phoenix City.

The Dongyue Clan visited the Li Family in Heavenly Phoenix City and discovered that its strength had grown far beyond their expectations. The chapter ended with Li Yuanhui presenting the Li Family’s fifteen tournament candidates, whose power stunned the Dongyue elders.

• Li Tongyu and Li Qianqian welcomed Dongyue Qingxuan’s group at the city gates, and their Limit Douluo auras shocked the visitors.
• The Dongyue Clan saw Heavenly Phoenix City’s prosperity and the Li Family’s formidable elders, including Ya Li and several Super Douluos.
• Li Yuanhui introduced Li Qianqian, Li Tongyu, Ya Li, and the other elders, while the Dongyue youths set aside their contempt.
• Dongyue Qingxuan asked about the Li Family’s tournament team, and Li Yuanhui summoned its fifteen candidates.
• Li Xuansheng led the team at level seventy-five, alongside eleven other Soul Sages and three High-Rank Soul Emperors.

After the Li Family revealed its powerful team, the Dongyue Family treated them as equal allies and shared competition intelligence. The two families finalized their support plans and departed together for the competition in the Central Daliang Dynasty.

• Li Yuanhui introduced the Li Family's fifteen competitors, and Dongyue Qingxuan was shocked by their strength and offered an equal alliance.
• Li Xuansheng accepted Dongyue Qingxuan's goodwill, and the younger members of both families met and exchanged cultivation insights.
• Li Yuanhui and Dongyue Qingxuan finalized plans for mutual support and intelligence sharing, while Dongyue Qingxuan ordered his family to strengthen the alliance.
• Li Yuanhui and Li Xuansheng settled the Li Family's travel escort, assigning Li Qianqian, Li Tongyu, Li Lexuan, Li Shaozhe, Chen Xin, and Li Qingluan to lead the team.
• The Li and Dongyue teams gathered outside Heavenly Phoenix City, and Li Xuansheng led their thirty young competitors and eleven powerful elders toward the Central Daliang Dynasty.

The Li and Dongyue families began their journey from Heavenly Phoenix City to the Central Daliang Dynasty for the tournament. After the Li youths quickly defeated a flock of Blackwind Vultures, the two groups began to grow more comfortable with each other as they traveled.

• Li Qianqian and Dongyue Qingxuan led the thirty young people and eleven elders west from Heavenly Phoenix City toward the Central Daliang Dynasty.
• Near the Blackwind Mountains, Li Qianqian shielded the group as a flock of Blackwind Vultures attacked.
• Li Xuansheng assigned eight Li youths to defend the flanks, and they defeated the flock in moments without letting any vultures reach the group.
• Dongyue Qi recognized the Li team's strength and coordination, while Dongyue Ling asked Li Xuansheng if they always fought that way.
• Dongyue Huaixin spoke with Li Bing'er, Dongyue Chuxuan arranged a future spar with Li Xuanqing, and Li Xiaochen introduced himself to Dongyue Caiwei as the travelers grew more sociable.

The Li Family and Dongyue Clan teams shared a night at camp, where their young Soul Masters exchanged knowledge and began building trust. Dongyue Ling warned Li Xuansheng about dangerous tournament opponents, leaving the Li team better prepared for the challenges ahead.

• Li Xuansheng explained how Wenying Pavilion trained its teams to coordinate, and Dongyue Qi asked to practice formations with them on the next leg of the journey.
• Li Bing'er and Dongyue Huaixin discussed their different control techniques, while the other young Soul Masters shared interests and compared their abilities.
• Dongyue Zhong questioned Li Aotian about his physical defense, and Dongyue Ji proposed testing his time-based support on him.
• Dongyue Ling gave Li Xuansheng fruit wine and warned him about tournament teams that used poison, mental suggestion, curses, and other underhanded tactics, especially the Holy Son of Light.
• The elders and young people from both families gathered separately and spoke warmly as their unfamiliarity began to fade.

Around the bonfire, the Li Family and Dongyue Clan teams formally introduced their members, revealing their ages, martial souls, levels, and specialties. The elders praised the young fighters and encouraged them to support one another as rivals and potential allies in the tournament.

• Dongyue Qingyin played her Heavenly Sound Ring zither, soothing the group after their journey.
• At Dongyue Qingxuan's suggestion, Li Xuansheng introduced himself and the fifteen members of the Li Family team.
• The Dongyue Clan members listened as the Li Family's high levels and distinctive martial souls impressed them.
• Dongyue Qi introduced himself and the Dongyue Clan's fifteen competitors, including Dongyue Ling.
• The elders praised both teams and encouraged the young people to learn from and support one another during the tournament.

The young members of the Li and Dongyue families bonded around the campfire while their elders discussed the tournament, its dangerous rivals, and plans to share intelligence. Li Xuansheng and Dongyue Qi agreed that an early team match would not damage their families’ friendship, and the group settled in for the night before continuing toward the Blue Dynasty.

• The youngsters showed off their Soul Skills, played together, and grew closer around the campfire.
• The elders discussed cultivation, praised Li Xuansheng and Dongyue Qi, and reviewed formidable tournament opponents and the need to gather intelligence in the Blue Dynasty.
• Dongyue Qingxuan offered the Dongyue Family’s connections in Blue Moon City to help the allied families obtain information.
• Li Xuansheng and Dongyue Qi agreed to compete fairly if their teams met early and hoped to face the strongest opponents together in the finals.
• Dongyue Ling joined Li Xuansheng and Dongyue Qi for a drink, and the elders later watched over the resting group as the valley fell silent.