Chapter Summaries

After the families regrouped, Li Xuanqing and Dongyue Huaiyu began a friendly spar to test their skills. Their opening exchange showed the power of Huaiyu’s Stargod Sword and Xuanqing’s Azure Flame Phoenix, and Huaiyu escalated the fight with his fifth Soul Skill.

• Li Xiaochen discussed improving his Buzzing Reconnaissance Ball, while Dongyue Huaixin, Dongyue Chuxuan, and Dongyue Huaiyu planned ways to combine foresight with coordinated attacks.
• Dongyue Huaiyu challenged Li Xuanqing to a spar, and the watching elders approved after the two agreed to keep it controlled.
• Dongyue Huaiyu opened with Starlight Blade Infusion and Meteor Thrust, but Li Xuanqing deflected the sword and countered with his Azure Flame Halberd.
• Dongyue Huaiyu used Stellar Vortex Slash, and Li Xuanqing endured its penetrating strikes with Azure Flame Guard before countering with Azure Flame Impact · Phoenix Nod.
• Dongyue Huaiyu evaded the phoenix-shaped flame attack with Starlight Step and then launched his fifth Soul Skill, Starfall Strike.

Li Xuanqing and Dongyue Huaiyu traded powerful attacks, then countered each other’s domains and continued fighting. The chapter ended as Huaiyu activated his Stargod True Body while Xuanqing pursued him through the air.

• Dongyue Huaiyu’s Starfall Strike collided with Li Xuanqing’s Azure Flame Phoenix Dance, and both fighters suffered injuries but remained standing.
• Huaiyu unleashed his Nebula Domain, and Xuanqing countered with Azure Flame Heaven-Burning Prison, neutralizing much of the domain’s suppression and strengthening his own attacks.
• Xuanqing dodged Huaiyu’s seven Meteor Thrusts with Phoenix Wings Soaring and pierced through Huaiyu’s second Starfall Strike.
• Xuanqing pursued Huaiyu’s true body through the air, prompting Huaiyu to activate his Seventh Soul Skill, Stargod True Body.

Li Xuanqing defeated Dongyue Huaiyu by using his mutated Soul Bone Skill to break the Stargod Sword Martial Soul Avatar, and the two became friends as they recovered and resumed the journey. The group continued toward Blue Moon City, while the elders warned that dangerous Soul Beast areas and hostile territories lay ahead.

• Dongyue Huaiyu unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and powered up Starfall Descent, but Li Xuanqing used his Soul Bone Skill and combined three Soul Skills to shatter the star giant's brow.
• Dongyue Huaiyu conceded defeat, and he and Li Xuanqing clasped hands and praised each other's fighting skills.
• Dongyue Qingxuan and Li Qianqian checked the fighters and gave them pills, while the young people discussed the battle's tactics and techniques.
• After recovering, Dongyue Huaiyu and Li Xuanqing continued trading insights as the group took flight and traveled on together.
• At camp, Dongyue Qingxuan told the elders that the group would reach the Blue Dynasty border in about eight days and Blue Moon City in about fifteen, while Li Qianqian and Dongyue Qingmu noted dangers along the route.

After days of training together, Li Xuansheng led the mixed Li and Dongyue teams in defeating a pack of emberwing lizards in the Ashen Hills. An eighty-thousand-year mutated Lizard King then emerged, and the group agreed to fight it themselves.

• The Li and Dongyue youths traveled in mixed formations and practiced coordinating their abilities during their journey.
• In the Ashen Hills, dozens of emberwing lizards attacked the group, and Li Xuansheng organized the youths to defend against their fire poison and counterattack.
• The mixed teams killed the lizards with seamless coordination, impressing the elders and prompting Dongyue Qi to acknowledge their tactical strength.
• An enormous mutated emberwing lizard king with lightning-infused flames emerged and attacked the group.
• Li Xuansheng asked the elders to let the youths face the Lizard King, and all twenty-nine answered that they would join him.

Li Xuansheng coordinated thirty young people in a battle against the Emberwing Lizard King, an eighty-thousand-year Soul Beast. They killed it through a series of coordinated attacks, and its black Soul Ring rose unused because none of them had reached a bottleneck.

• The Emberwing Lizard King attacked with blazing lightning breath, and Li Xuansheng divided the group into defensive, control, and assault teams.
• Dongyue Huaixin predicted the Lizard King's horn attack, allowing Li Longyue to retreat while Dongyue Zhong and Li Huajun blocked the strike.
• Dongyue Huaiyu, Li Xuanqing, Dongyue Chuxuan, and Li Xuanshu tore open the Lizard King's left wing root with simultaneous attacks.
• Dongyue Ji, Dongyue Si, Li Yuan Ran, and Li Tianyin interrupted the Lizard King's area attack, giving Li Bing'er and Li Xuanbing time to freeze its right wing.
• Li Longyue and Li Aotian staggered the Lizard King, and Li Xiaochen, Dongyue Huaiyu, and Li Xuanqing struck its wounded wing and vulnerable neck.
• When the Lizard King tried to detonate its crystal core, Li Bing'er froze the sphere and Li Xuanyin severed its nerves, killing it.

After the young fighters defeated the eighty-thousand-year Emberwing Lizard King, they recovered its exceptional fire-and-lightning left leg Soul Bone. Li Xuansheng proposed a dice contest to distribute it fairly, and Li Xuanyin won and began absorbing it as the group guarded her in the Ashen Hills.

• The thirty young fighters defeated the Emberwing Lizard King, and Li Qianqian healed their fatigue and minor wounds.
• Dongyue Qingmu extracted an eighty-thousand-year fire-and-lightning left leg Soul Bone, and Dongyue Qingxuan proposed awarding it to Li Xuansheng for his leadership.
• Li Xuansheng declined to claim the Soul Bone alone and organized a dice contest among the thirty fighters, divided into five groups.
• Li Xuansheng, Li Longyue, Dongyue Huaiyu, Dongyue Ling, and Li Xuanyin won their groups and advanced to the final roll.
• Li Xuanyin rolled three sixes to win the Soul Bone, which Li Xuansheng handed to her.
• Li Xuanyin began absorbing the Soul Bone while the others formed a guard around her.

Li Xuanyin successfully fused an eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone with help from Li Xuansheng’s stabilizing potion, gaining two Soul Power levels and powerful new abilities. The group resumed its journey, and Xuanyin began testing her improved speed and battlefield-control skill on the road.

• Li Xuansheng exchanged Summoning Points for a Soul Bone Fusion Stabilizer and gave it to Li Qianqian to help Li Xuanyin through the dangerous fusion.
• Li Xuanyin completed the fusion by dawn, reached Soul Power level seventy-three, and gained dramatically increased left-leg speed, strength, and flexibility.
• Li Xuanyin demonstrated her Soul Bone skill, Thunderfire Prairie, which spread paralyzing fire and lightning across an area.
• Li Xuanyin thanked Li Xuansheng, and the young members of the two families celebrated the successful fusion and grew closer.
• After resting for half a day, the group continued its journey, while Li Xuanyin sparred with Dongyue Changming and Dongyue Si to master her new abilities.

Li Xuansheng and Dongyue Qi discussed battlefield command before their families reached the Blue Dynasty’s border and encountered the Mountain-Suppressing Sect. After Li Xuansheng identified himself as a member of the Li Family, the sect’s leading young disciple challenged him to spar.

• Li Xuansheng taught Dongyue Qi about coordination, timing, and understanding the strengths and temperaments of each team member.
• After five more days of travel, Dongyue Qingxuan explained that the group would pass through Eastern Garrison Pass and still had three provinces to cross before reaching Blue Moon City.
• Li Qianqian warned everyone to be cautious in the Blue Dynasty, where rival factions and tournament competitors would be watching them.
• Yue Qianshan of the Mountain-Suppressing Sect stopped his group near the Li and Dongyue families and rudely questioned why they were resting on the official road.
• Li Xuansheng answered Yue Qianshan’s young disciple, then revealed that he belonged to the Li Family of Eastern Heavenly Phoenix City.
• The Mountain-Suppressing Sect’s leading young disciple challenged Li Xuansheng to spar.

Li Xuansheng accepted the Mountain-Suppressing Sect’s best-of-three challenge and selected Li Xuanshu, Li Xiaochen, and Li Longyue to fight. Li Xuanshu opened against Yue Ling, and their first clash began with his precise counterthrust against her diving attack.

• Yue Qianshan’s disciples challenged the Li Family to a best-of-three match, and Li Xuansheng set the rule that only tournament participants under twenty could fight.
• Li Xuansheng chose Li Xuanshu, Li Xiaochen, and Li Longyue, balancing their chances of winning with the need to conceal the Li Family’s strongest abilities.
• Yue Qianshan named Yue Ling as the Mountain-Suppressing Sect’s first fighter, and she faced Li Xuanshu on the road.
• Yue Ling armored herself in rocklike feathers and dove at Li Xuanshu with her Earth-Shaking Pounce.
• Li Xuanshu charged upward with Sky Phoenix Thrust, aiming his halberd between Yue Ling’s talons.

Li Xuanshu battled Yue Ling and overcame her powerful soul skills with precise halberd techniques. He defeated her Martial Soul Avatar with his sixth soul skill, winning despite being a level below her.

• Li Xuanshu broke Yue Ling's Earth-Shaking Pounce with a concentrated halberd thrust, forcing her to fight seriously.
• Yue Ling used her fifth and sixth soul skills to attack Li Xuanshu with sparrow clones and a rain of phantom boulders.
• Li Xuanshu combined his second and fifth soul skills to shatter the boulders and strike Yue Ling's merged sparrow phantom.
• Yue Ling activated her Martial Soul Avatar and pressed Li Xuanshu with powerful stone-spike attacks.
• Li Xuanshu spotted an opening and cleaved Yue Ling's Rock Sparrow avatar in two with his sixth soul skill, defeating her.

Li Xiaochen faced Yue Feng in the second match, using his Heaven-Devouring Golden Toad abilities and Soul Tools to slow and harass the powerful rhino Soul Master. As Yue Feng attacked in his Martial Soul Avatar, Li Xiaochen donned golden Soul Tool armor and activated his own Avatar, leaving their clash unresolved.

• After Li Xuansheng declared the Li Family's first victory, Li Xiaochen entered the arena to fight Yue Feng of the Mountain-Suppressing Sect.
• Yue Feng used his Earth-Rending Rhino Martial Soul and charged, but Li Xiaochen's Swallowing Absorption slowed him and drained some of his Soul Power.
• Li Xiaochen deployed metal spiders, his Golden Toad Domain, and Golden Toad Mucus, then used the spiders' paralyzing blasts and a Soul Tool hand cannon to keep Yue Feng at bay.
• Yue Feng broke through much of Li Xiaochen's defenses with Earth-Shaking Shockwave, then activated his Earth-Rending Rhino Avatar and charged with Rhino Horn Drill.
• As Yue Feng's empowered attack bore down on him, Li Xiaochen equipped golden Soul Tool armor and activated his Heaven-Devouring Golden Toad Avatar.

Li Xiaochen defeated Yue Feng with his Rune Golden Toad Avatar, giving the Li Family its second win against the Mountain-Suppressing Sect. The final match began as Li Longyue faced Yue Qing.

• Li Xiaochen trapped Yue Feng's Earth-Rending Rhino Avatar with the Heaven-Devouring Earth-Eater and bound it with the Thousand-Mechanism Lock.
• Li Xiaochen struck Yue Feng with the Heaven-Devouring Cannon, defeating him and winning the second match for the Li Family.
• Dongyue Qingxuan announced the Li Family's victory as Yue Qianshan ordered Yue Qing to win the final match.
• Yue Qing challenged Li Longyue, who introduced himself as a level seventy-seven Assault- and Defense-type Battle Soul Sage.

Li Longyue overwhelmed Yue Qing in a contest of strength, then defeated his Mountain-Shaking Giant Ape True Body with the Mountain Dragon King True Body. The Li Family won all three sparring matches, leaving the Mountain-Suppressing Sect in stunned silence.

• Yue Qing used three enhancement soul skills and struck Li Longyue, but Li Longyue met his punch with pure martial-soul power and knocked him back.
• Yue Qing transformed into his Mountain-Shaking Giant Ape True Body and attacked Li Longyue with his sixth soul skill.
• Li Longyue activated four soul skills and transformed into his Mountain Dragon King True Body, then endured Yue Qing's attack with his shoulder.
• Li Longyue shattered Yue Qing's true body's arms and forced it to disperse, leaving Yue Qing injured and defeated.
• Li Longyue returned to human form and conceded politely as the Li Family completed a clean sweep of the three matches.

The Li Family defeated the Mountain-Suppressing Sect in all three matches, establishing their strength and forcing Yue Qianshan’s group to retreat. The group continued toward Blue Moon City, where Li Xuansheng expected greater challenges from the Blue Dynasty’s tangled factions.

• Li Longyue’s victory over Yue Qing left the Mountain-Suppressing Sect defeated, and Yue Qianshan apologized to Dongyue Qingxuan and Li Xuansheng before leading his sect away.
• Dongyue Qingxuan and Li Qianqian praised the Li Family’s fighters, while Dongyue Qi and Dongyue Qingmu noted that their public display of strength could deter troublemakers.
• Li Qiuqiu, Dongyue Caiwei, and Dongyue Zhong praised Li Xuanshu, Li Xiaochen, and Li Longyue, and Li Xiaochen explained how his Soul Tool worked.
• Li Qianqian urged everyone to leave, and the group smoothed the damaged road before flying west toward the Blue Dynasty’s border.
• As they traveled, Li Xiaochen offered to share Soul Tool interference runes with Dongyue Si, and Li Xuansheng warned Dongyue Qi that the real storm awaited in Blue Moon City.

Li Xuansheng and the others learned that powerful teams from across the continent were gathering for the tournament in Blue Moon City, then reached the Blue Dynasty’s Eastern Garrison Pass. They crossed paths with a carriage from the Northern Yuan imperial family, and Li Xuansheng led his group into the Blue Dynasty.

• Dongyue Qi told Li Xuansheng that Lan Mengge and powerful teams from several dynasties and sects were headed to Blue Moon City for the tournament.
• Li Xuansheng welcomed the chance to compete against the world’s best as the group traveled toward the Blue Dynasty.
• Three days later, the group reached Eastern Garrison Pass, where travelers discussed the Li Family’s recent victory over members of the Mountain-Suppressing Sect.
• A luxurious Northern Yuan imperial carriage passed through the VIP lane, and its occupant fixed Li Xuansheng and several others with a cold, arrogant gaze.
• Li Xuansheng told the group to proceed through the pass and enter the Blue Dynasty.

Li Xuansheng and the Li Family and Dongyue Family teams entered Blue Dynasty territory and traveled to Blue Moon City for the All-Continent Youth Soul Master Tournament. After settling into the tournament’s guesthouse district, they prepared to register the next day as the competition drew near.

• The Li Family and Dongyue Family teams passed the inspections at Eastern Garrison Pass and continued through Eastern Garrison City toward the Blue Dynasty’s heartland.
• On the road, Li Xuansheng sensed the Astral Sect’s convoy and briefly met the probing gaze of someone who seemed to notice his secrets; his Divine Phoenix Halberd aura blocked the sensation.
• The teams encountered other tournament delegations while traveling and used their breaks to train and discuss tactics without getting into trouble.
• The convoy reached Blue Moon City, passed through the participating teams’ entrance, and received adjacent courtyards in the Guesthouse District.
• Dongyue Qingxuan and Li Qianqian told everyone to rest and prepare for registration and qualification review the following day.
• Li Xuansheng looked toward the city’s white spire and resolved himself as the tournament approached.

Li Xuansheng and his companions explored Blue Moon City’s Guesthouse District, where they confronted Whale Fall of the Sea Whale Gang over the old feud between their factions. Whale Fall prepared to attack, but Li Xuansheng reminded him that fighting was forbidden, and a mocking voice interrupted the standoff.

• Li Xiaochen and Huaixin went to Moonlight Market while Li Bing’er and Li Xuanqing stayed behind to spar, and Li Xuansheng toured the Guesthouse District with Li Longyue, Li Xuanyin, Li Qiuqiu, Dongyue Qi, and Dongyue Ling.
• The group encountered Whale Fall and the Sea Whale Gang pressuring Soul Masters from a small faction to leave a roadside gathering spot.
• Whale Fall recognized the Li Family emblems and confronted Li Xuansheng over the death of Sea Whale Gang Supreme Elder Du Yunhe.
• Li Xuansheng argued that Du Yunhe had violated the Continental Pact and brought about his own death, while Whale Fall threatened to attack and unleashed his Abyssal Demon Whale martial soul.
• Li Xuansheng warned Whale Fall that private fighting was forbidden in the Guesthouse District, leaving Whale Fall hesitating as onlookers watched.
• An unseen man mocked Whale Fall as a brainless stupid whale.

Ye Zhongguan intervened when Whale Fall confronted Li Xuansheng and his companions in Blue Moon City, forcing the Sea Whale Gang to withdraw under the city guards’ warning. He then invited the group to the Wind-Listening Teahouse, where he warned them about Whale Fall and revealed that Princess Lan Mengge would compete in the tournament.

• Ye Zhongguan challenged Whale Fall and greeted Li Xuansheng, making clear his hostility toward the Sea Whale Gang.
• Blue Moon City guards forbade fighting in the Guesthouse District, so Whale Fall left after threatening Li Xuansheng and Ye Zhongguan.
• Ye Zhongguan, Li Xuansheng, Dongyue Qi, and their companions exchanged friendly introductions and went to the Wind-Listening Teahouse.
• At the teahouse, Ye Zhongguan explained that the Ye Family and its allies had reclaimed territory from the weakened Sea Whale Gang after Du Yunhe's death.
• Ye Zhongguan warned Li Xuansheng that Whale Fall would target them during the tournament, especially in team battles on aquatic terrain.
• Ye Zhongguan told Li Xuansheng and the others that the Blue Dynasty's young princess, Lan Mengge, would compete in the tournament.

Li Xuansheng and his companions gathered intelligence on the tournament’s formidable contenders and considered alliances as rumors about their strength spread through Blue Moon City. With the competition approaching, they prepared for the registration and eligibility screening.

• Ye Zhongguan described the tournament’s top contenders, including Lan Mengge, Yuan Zheng, Tang Wu, Xing Xuan, and Yaguang, and offered to cooperate with Li Xuansheng during the team battles.
• Li Xuansheng and the others saw Moonlight Fairy Su Qingshuang of Flower-Washing Valley pass by the teahouse, and Ye Zhongguan left after inviting them to visit the Ye Family’s quarters.
• Li Xiaochen and Dongyue Huaixin reported that Xing Xuan’s spiritual power had nearly overwhelmed Huaixin and that Yuan Zheng had defeated a level-seventy-five Blue Dynasty genius in three moves.
• Li Xuansheng’s team refined its tactics, while rumors about the Li and Dongyue families and their ties to the Ye Family spread throughout Blue Moon City.
• The day for tournament registration and eligibility screening arrived.

Li Xuansheng and the Dongyue Family’s team passed the tournament qualification review, drawing wary attention from rival factions. As they left, Lan Mengge briefly met Li Xuansheng’s gaze, and their Martial Souls reacted with a strange resonance and rejection.

• Li Xuansheng and Dongyue Qi led their teams through the tournament’s document and bone-age checks, where all thirty members qualified and received competition tokens.
• Observers recognized the Li and Dongyue teams’ strength, while Whale Fall grew more hostile and Ye Zhongguan, Yuan Zheng, Tang Wu, Xing Xuan, and Yaguang each took notice.
• Lan Mengge arrived with the royal team and briefly fixed her gaze on Li Xuansheng.
• Li Xuansheng felt his Divine Phoenix Halberd Martial Soul react to Lan Mengge, and she murmured in surprise before turning away.
• Li Xuansheng led his team from the square as the crowd’s attention followed them.