Chapter Summaries

Chen Xin trained Ling Yun to control his sword by challenging him to cut one of three wind-tossed threads without touching the others or the pine tree. Ling Yun succeeded after learning to read the wind, but Chen Xin left him facing a harder ten-thread challenge for the next day.

• Chen Xin ordered Ling Yun to cut the middle of three red threads without damaging the other threads or the pine tree, and Ling Yun's first attempt froze all three.
• Chen Xin explained that Ling Yun relied too much on his Water-Cooling Sword's cold and on his speed and senses instead of precise sword control.
• After repeated failures left Ling Yun's wrist swollen, Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan brought him lunch and urged him not to overwork himself.
• Ling Yun used Aura to study the wind and the threads' movement, then cut the middle thread cleanly with a controlled thrust.
• Chen Xin assigned Ling Yun a new challenge: cut one designated thread from a group of ten during a raging gale without harming the other nine.

Ling Yun uncovered a planned campaign by Evil Soul Masters to abduct people for experiments and ordered Dugu Bo and Ning Fengzhi to trace the captives. In their hidden den, Yu Xiaogang prepared to test a blood-Qi cultivation theory derived from Tang San’s Man Faced Demon Spider research, while Ling Yun resumed his sword training.

• Dugu Bo told Ning Fengzhi that three southwestern villages had vanished without signs of struggle, and evidence pointed to captives being transported along secret routes.
• Ling Yun studied the map and suspected the abductors were targeting Soul Masters as experimental materials, then assigned Dugu Bo and Ning Fengzhi to investigate the trails and supply shipments.
• In the underground den, Yu Xiaogang explained his plan to develop a new cultivation route for absorbing blood Qi and asked for more powerful Soul Masters as test subjects.
• Bai Tu warned Yu Xiaogang that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had begun investigating and forbade him from letting his grudge against Ling Yun disrupt the cult leader’s plan.
• Yu Xiaogang vowed to finish Tang San’s research on the Man Faced Demon Spider’s evolution through devouring, while Ling Yun began another round of sword training on the back mountain.

Dugu Bo reported that the massacres were part of an unstable blood-refinement experiment, then revealed that a tracking substance found near the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect reacted to Xiao Wu. Ling Yun and Chen Xin prepared to hunt down the people targeting her.

• Dugu Bo barged into the council hall, drank Ning Fengzhi’s tea, and presented evidence from three massacred villages and towns.
• Dugu Bo explained that the victims’ blood had been deliberately drained and used in a blood-refinement formation that had repeatedly exploded.
• Dugu Bo showed the group a vial of Blood Lure found in the woods where Ling Yun had sensed a spy.
• Dugu Bo tested the Blood Lure on those present, and it reacted only when he stood before Xiao Wu.
• Ling Yun vowed to deal with the hidden enemies, and Chen Xin offered to search the surrounding area and kill them.

After discovering that the Blood Lure was meant to draw Xiao Wu into danger, Ling Yun decided to use her as bait to uncover the people behind the Blood Refining Experiments. Xiao Wu insisted on joining the plan, and the group set out under the secret protection of three Titled Douluo, waiting to see whether the enemy would take the bait.

• Ling Yun stopped Chen Xin and Gu Rong from hunting the Blood Lure's handlers, explaining that he wanted to keep them unaware that their plan had been discovered and trace the people behind them.
• Ling Yun told Xiao Wu that she would serve as bait, but Xiao Wu insisted on doing it so she would not have to keep relying on others for protection.
• Ling Yun agreed to let Xiao Wu go, on the condition that she stay within ten meters of him, and Dugu Yan teased them about tying Xiao Wu to his belt.
• Ling Yun, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan left the sect under the pretense of gathering medicinal herbs, while Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo secretly guarded them.
• Ning Fengzhi reminded the three Titled Douluo to leave some attackers alive for questioning, and Dugu Bo promised to restrain himself as the group waited for the enemy to strike.

Ling Yun led Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan into the forest as bait, where masked attackers staged a diversion while an unseen assailant targeted them with a hidden weapon. After Dugu Bo identified the weapon as a blood extractor meant to harvest Xiao Wu’s blood, Ling Yun ordered the attackers captured for questioning.

• Ling Yun explained that the attackers would come because they urgently needed something, while Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s seal made his Soul Power seem weak.
• Masked Soul Masters ambushed the group with poisoned arrows and short blades, but Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan defended themselves without killing the attackers.
• Ling Yun realized the attack was a diversion, then used his hearing and Water-Cooling Sword to intercept a concealed Black Needle aimed at Xiao Wu.
• When the attacker fled, Ling Yun called on Chen Xin to block his escape, and Dugu Bo stopped him from biting a poison tooth to kill himself.
• Dugu Bo found that the hollow Black Needle was a blood extractor, and Ling Yun concluded the attackers had come to take Xiao Wu’s blood before ordering their capture.

Ling Yun and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect uncovered why a hidden mastermind was targeting Xiao Wu: her blood could serve as a catalyst for a dangerous bloodline-fusion experiment. Yu Xiaogang learned that his hired attackers had been captured, leaving him exposed to an investigation.

• Ning Fengzhi told Ling Yun that six captured attackers had been hired anonymously to obtain Xiao Wu's blood and deliver it to an abandoned post station.
• Dugu Bo discovered that the needle was coated with an agent designed to draw a target's most potent source blood, and explained why Xiao Wu's unique nature made her valuable to the experimenters.
• Ling Yun realized Xiao Wu was being targeted as a catalyst for the mastermind's bloodline-fusion experiments and vowed that the hidden culprits were courting death.
• Yu Tianheng told Yu Xiaogang that the operation had failed because Ling Yun was present and that every hired attacker had been captured.
• Yu Xiaogang panicked that the captives could lead investigators back to him, then injured his already wounded lower body when he angrily struck the stone table.

Yu Xiaogang explained that he wanted Xiao Wu’s blood to stabilize his forbidden experiments, while Bai Tu abandoned plans to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and decided to wait for Ling Yun and Xiao Wu in the wilderness. Ling Yun anticipated an ambush beyond the sect’s protection and resolved to turn the enemy’s pursuit into a game of hunter and prey.

• Yu Xiaogang told Bai Tu that Xiao Wu’s blood could serve as a neutralizing core for blood-fusion experiments, and admitted he was only sixty percent certain it would work.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed using mass blood samples from Soul Masters, Soul Beasts, and ordinary people, while Yu Tianheng objected to the deaths this would cause.
• Yu Tianheng identified Dugu Yan as another possible target, and Bai Tu ordered all surveillance and operations near the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to stop.
• Bai Tu decided to wait until Ling Yun and Xiao Wu left the sect’s protection, then ambush them in the wilderness and take Xiao Wu’s blood.
• Ling Yun broke the Black Needle and told Xiao Wu he expected the enemy to attack when they were forced to travel outside the sect.
• Ling Yun resolved to use his knowledge of the enemy’s goal to predict their moves and play their hunter-and-prey game to the end.

Ling Yun, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo planted a fake blood sample at Blackstone Post Station and tracked the disguised collector who retrieved it. After the collector passed the sample to a vegetable cart, they continued following the cart.

• Dugu Bo prepared fake blood and coated its tube with tracking powder, while Ling Yun placed it in the hidden compartment beside the third dry well.
• A lame old man arrived at Blackstone Post Station, waited to check for watchers, and carefully collected the tube.
• Ling Yun held Xiao Wu back as the group waited, then they followed the old man using Dugu Bo’s tracking scent.
• The old man changed his clothes, sold firewood at a roadside market, and secretly transferred the tube to a vegetable cart.
• Dugu Bo sensed the tube on the cart, and Ling Yun and the others shifted their pursuit to it.

Ling Yun, Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu followed the blood vessel through a series of covert handoffs until they found its carrier near a forest. After Dugu Yan discovered a trap designed to detect Dugu Bo’s poison, the others prepared to scout ahead while he guarded the perimeter.

• Dugu Yan and Ling Yun realized the blood vessel had passed through three likely unwitting pawns, and Dugu Bo agreed that the careful handoffs suggested a powerful organization.
• The group followed the scent to a gray-clad Five-Ring Soul King, who scattered powder beside the forest path before entering the woods.
• Dugu Yan recognized the powder as a version of Dugu Bo’s Snake-Repelling Powder, modified to react to his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison and expose him.
• Dugu Yan applied Concealing Breath Liquid to herself, Ling Yun and Xiao Wu, then warned Dugu Bo that his poison made it too risky for him to follow.
• Ling Yun, Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu went ahead to scout while Dugu Bo stayed behind as backup and guarded against anyone escaping.

Ling Yun, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan uncovered an underground Blood Sacrifice Grand Array where Evil Soul Masters drained blood from seventeen captives, including children. Ling Yun chose to save the victims rather than pursue the fleeing black-robed leader, while Dugu Bo intercepted the leader at the exit.

• Ling Yun sensed seventeen captives and a blood-draining array beneath the abandoned dyehouse, then led Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan into the underground chamber.
• The black-robed Deacon tested the array with fake Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast blood, and Ling Yun revealed himself after the array rejected it.
• Ling Yun, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan attacked the Evil Soul Masters, quickly defeating several and forcing the Deacon to flee.
• The Deacon triggered the unstable array to drain the captives faster, and Ling Yun abandoned the pursuit to try to save them.
• Ling Yun called for Dugu Bo, who intercepted the Deacon at the secret passage exit and knocked him into the dirt.