Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi survived an excess of essence that caused her to grow an external soul bone through her skin and hair. With Chen Cong’s guidance, she learned to retract most of its appearance, and the chapter ended with her relieved and embracing Chen Xiaojun.

• Chen Cong told Chen Xiaojun that Xiao Yi was growing an external soul bone because excess essence was manifesting through her skin and hair.
• Xiao Yi’s trembling stopped, she recovered consciousness, and Chen Cong explained that her Immortal Evergreen Vine had absorbed the excess essence.
• Xiao Yi saw her torn clothes and vine-covered body and cried, asking Chen Xiaojun if she had become ugly.
• Chen Cong advised Xiao Yi to retract the external soul bone, and Chen Xiaojun encouraged her to try.
• Xiao Yi focused her soul power and withdrew the greenery, leaving green tattoos around her wrists and ankles and one green lock in her purple hair.
• Chen Xiaojun reassured Xiao Yi that she looked beautiful, and she thanked him and hugged him tightly.

After absorbing the Life Vine, Xiao Yi struggled to accept her strange External Soul Bone but discovered that her Soul Power had reached rank thirty-four. She revealed her Third Soul Skill, Spring of Life, a powerful group-healing domain, leaving the others impressed by its potential.

• Chen Xiaojun comforted Xiao Yi about her Hair-and-Skin Soul Bone, while Chen Cong advised her to learn to control it.
• Ding Daoheng and Cheng Wenge pointed out that Xiao Yi's Soul Power had risen to rank thirty-four after absorbing the Soul Beast.
• Xiao Yi demonstrated her Third Soul Skill, Spring of Life, and its domain quickly healed Chen Xiaojun's self-inflicted cut and eased everyone's fatigue.
• Xiao Yi explained that Spring of Life restored allied living beings' health and vitality, and Zhu Jiazhen praised it as a rare, powerful group-healing skill.
• Xiao Yi said the Soul Skill had mutated through its connection to the Immortal Evergreen Vine, possibly strengthening its healing effect.

Xiao Yi demonstrated that her Spring of Life could instantly restore 70% of one person's health, and Chen Xiaojun encouraged her as she began to accept her power. Chen Cong then visited Black Elder, who warned that the powerful soul beasts of the Vine Sea had noticed Xiao Yi's martial soul and viewed soul masters as potential prey.

• Xiao Yi explained that Spring of Life's range and number of targets depended on her soul power, and revealed that it could restore 70% of a single target's health instantly.
• Chen Xiaojun held Xiao Yi's hand and urged her to believe in herself, and she clasped his hand in return.
• Chen Cong left the group and traveled to a dark forest hill twenty li away to meet Black Elder, a powerful Dark Blue Silver Vine soul beast.
• Black Elder teased Chen Cong about reaching Titled Douluo and said he had sensed Xiao Yi's martial soul aura.
• Black Elder told Chen Cong that other powerful soul beasts had likely noticed Xiao Yi and explained that soul beasts hunted soul masters to gain power for their evolution.

Chen Cong warned Black Elder to stay away from Xiao Yi, but Black Elder hinted that other beings in the Vine Sea were also interested in her martial soul. At the Spring of Life, Elder Qing awakened and sensed Xiao Yi’s Immortal Evergreen Vine, leaving the group braced for his arrival.

• Chen Cong confronted Black Elder over his interest in Xiao Yi, and Black Elder claimed he was only curious about her rare martial soul while warning that others might covet it too.
• Chen Cong threatened to tear up the Chen Clan’s agreement and fight if Black Elder harmed Xiao Yi, then departed with his nine soul rings released.
• Black Elder mused about Xiao Yi’s life and devouring attributes and predicted that an old soul beast would soon awaken.
• A towering vine tree rose beside the Spring of Life, and its mental power swept across the area before identifying the aura of the Immortal Evergreen Vine near Xiao Yi.
• Chen Cong, Ding Daoheng, Cheng Wenge, and Zhu Jiazhen realized Elder Qing had awakened and discussed the danger of his learning that Xiao Yi absorbed a Life Vine.
• Chen Cong warned Xiao Yi that Elder Qing might come to inspect her, and the group waited tensely as his mental power approached.

Elder Qing recognized Xiao Yi’s Immortal Evergreen Vine as the sovereign of the evergreen vine race and bowed to her. He revealed that he had waited a thousand years for the previous sovereign’s successor, leaving the Chen Clan stunned by Xiao Yi’s identity.

• Elder Qing appeared in spiritual entity form and fixed his gaze on the Immortal Evergreen Vine behind Xiao Yi.
• Chen Cong and the others stepped in to protect Xiao Yi, fearing Elder Qing might act against her.
• Elder Qing identified the vine as the Immortal Evergreen Vine and bowed to Xiao Yi, calling her the returned sovereign.
• Elder Qing explained that the previous sovereign had taken human form and left the secret realm about a thousand years earlier.
• Elder Qing said the previous sovereign had entrusted him with guarding the evergreen vine race and the Spring of Life until a new sovereign arrived.

Elder Qing revealed that Xiao Yi was the new Emperor Bloodline Successor of the Evergreen Vine clan and explained the nature of her Immortal Evergreen Vine martial soul. He exposed Black Elder as a dangerous dark blue silver grass who coveted Xiao Yi, while Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun pledged to face their difficult paths together.

• Elder Qing explained the Evergreen Vine clan’s life-type soul power and identified Xiao Yi as its new Emperor Bloodline Successor.
• Elder Qing clarified that Xiao Yi’s Immortal Evergreen Vine was an emperor martial soul that could eventually become an independent soul beast.
• After Chen Cong described Black Elder’s interest in Xiao Yi, Elder Qing revealed that Black Elder’s true form was dark blue silver grass.
• Elder Qing explained that Black Elder possessed life and devouring attributes and had repeatedly survived the Chen Clan’s attempts to kill him.
• Xiao Yi took Chen Xiaojun’s hand and promised they would face their challenging paths together.
• Elder Qing watched Xiao Yi with approval and decided he would need to make preparations.

Elder Qing unleashed his Soul Power to warn the powerful Soul Beasts of the Vine Sea Secret Realm against targeting Xiao Yi. The secret realm settled into a brief calm, and Elder Qing revealed that it contained seven true Holy King-tier Soul Beasts, including himself.

• Elder Qing's Soul Power surged through the secret realm, stirring its powerful vine-type Soul Beasts and prompting several to complain, challenge him, or hide.
• Ding Daoheng and the others gathered beside Elder Qing, who said he had warned the older Soul Beasts and assured them that the younger ones would avoid attacking Xiao Yi unless she provoked them.
• Cheng Wenge said the group could handle Soul Beasts below the Holy King tier, while Elder Qing's display made hostile creatures rein in their auras.
• Chen Xiaojun expressed disbelief that the secret realm held so many powerful Soul Beasts, and Elder Qing clarified that only seven had truly reached the Holy King tier.
• Chen Cong remarked that the Xieluo Mountains' Soul Power reserves could sustain many powerful Soul Beasts in the secret realm.

Elder Qing explained the Secret Realm’s unusual Soul Beast population and assessed the Immortal Evergreen Vine Tree’s imprints and Xiao Yi’s potential advancement. The chapter ended with him advising Chen Cong to seek ninth-grade vine Soul Beasts to strengthen Xiao Yi’s Martial Soul.

• Elder Qing told Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong that the Chen Clan and his allies could contend with the powerful Soul Beasts, and noted the clan’s strength.
• Elder Qing explained that rare vine Soul Beasts had mysteriously appeared in the Secret Realm, increasing its Heaven and Earth Soul Power and attracting more Soul Beasts.
• Elder Qing identified Sword Willow Vine, Azure Vine, and Life Vine imprints within the Immortal Evergreen Vine Tree and explained how they formed part of Xiao Yi’s Martial Soul.
• Chen Cong described Xiao Yi’s awakened Devouring Attribute and five elemental attributes, and Elder Qing welcomed the news and judged her condition stable.
• Elder Qing said nine suitable vine Soul Beasts could elevate Xiao Yi’s Martial Soul, recommending ninth-grade Soul Beasts where possible and eighth-grade ones if necessary.

Elder Qing approved Chen Xiaojun’s yin-yang theory for choosing future Soul Beasts for Xiao Yi, while warning that attribute balance was essential to avoid backlash. He offered to pass on the Evergreen Vine clan’s inherited techniques, and three days later Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong arrived at the Chen Clan’s plantation for an inspection.

• Elder Qing assessed the Soul Beast attributes and said the life-focused Azure Vine, Life Vine, and Sword Willow Vine were suitable choices for Xiao Yi.
• Chen Xiaojun explained the plan to balance Xiao Yi’s life attribute with an opposing yin attribute, and Elder Qing cautioned that death, destruction, slaughter, or devouring could cause harm if not carefully balanced.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Elder Qing to help evaluate future Soul Beast candidates, and Elder Qing agreed to teach Xiao Yi the Evergreen Vine clan’s inherited techniques.
• Three days later, Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong visited the Chen Clan’s plantation, where Ding Daoheng welcomed them and said Zhu Jiazhen would explain the grounds.

Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun toured the Chen Clan Plantation to assess its medicinal herbs and spirit rice ahead of the Medicinal Herbs Trade Market. The chapter ended with Ding Daoheng explaining how spiritual land, soul arts, and magic formations enabled the plantation to grow spirit crystal rice.

• Zhu Jiazhen introduced the Medicinal Herb Fields, Spirit Fields, and Premium Garden, describing spiritheart grass, purple cloud lingzhi, and nightglow grass.
• Zhu Jiazhen and Ding Daoheng explained that diluted Spring of Life water, careful pruning, and weed removal improved the medicinal herbs’ growth and quality.
• Cheng Wenge showed Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun the Spirit Fields, where Ding Daoheng cultivated spirit crystal rice as a signature product.
• Ding Daoheng explained that limited spiritual land and seed degeneration restricted spirit crystal rice production.
• Ding Daoheng described the careful seed management, soul arts, and magic formations required to cultivate spirit crystal rice.

Ding Daoheng explained how the Chen Clan cultivated spirit rice and high-grade fruits and vegetables using special Soul Arts and Spring of Life Creek water. The group discussed the plantation’s potential to raise the clan’s standing in the Agriculture Association, leaving Ding Daoheng determined to produce high-grade spirit rice.

• Ding Daoheng described purifying Spring of Life Creek water and adding spirit herb essence to irrigate spirit rice, while Cheng Wenge explained how Soul Arts supported cultivation.
• Chen Xiaojun said she would ask her mother to teach her Soul Arts, and Chen Cong praised her mother’s contributions to the Chen Clan.
• Ding Daoheng showed Chen Xiaojun a white melon, and she praised its crisp, sweet flavor; he explained that the plantation’s high-grade produce was still experimental and yielded too little to sell outside the village.
• Ding Daoheng said the Chen Clan had little influence in the Agriculture Association, and Cheng Wenge and Zhu Jiazhen encouraged him to keep developing spirit crystal rice.
• Ding Daoheng looked over the spirit crystal rice fields and resolved that producing high-grade spirit rice could help the Chen Clan gain a firm foothold in the association.

Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun toured the Chen Clan’s Premium Garden and learned about its rare high-grade herbs and cultivation methods. They revealed plans for a Chang’an City Medicinal Herbs Trade Market and a wider industry chain, aiming to expand the Plantation and strengthen the clan.

• Zhu Jiazhen showed Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun the Premium Garden’s rare seventh- and eighth-grade herbs and explained how they were cultivated.
• Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong examined purple lotusheart grass, black dragon root, azure ganoderma, and other precious herbs as Zhu Jiazhen described their properties and care.
• Zhu Jiazhen explained how the clan adjusted irrigation and growing conditions for jade wave immortal grass and iceheart lotus, which could potentially reach the ninth grade.
• Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun told Zhu Jiazhen, Ding Daoheng, and Cheng Wenge that they planned to establish a Medicinal Herbs Trade Market in Chang’an City and integrate cultivation, processing, and sales.
• Chen Cong said the clan wanted to introduce more rare herbs and improve cultivation methods so the Plantation could support the planned market.

Chen Xiaojun discussed the Chen Clan’s preparations to leave the mountains, identifying a shortage of high-grade seeds and manpower in the secret realm. Chen Yu challenged his proposal to recruit more Soul Saints, leaving Chen Xiaojun asking his grandfather for instruction.

• Chen Cong told the elders that the Chen Clan was preparing to leave the mountains as the Crimson Church regained strength, and Zhu Jiazhen pointed out shortages of high-grade seeds and manpower.
• Chen Yu arrived, heard about the secret realm’s development plans, and asked Chen Xiaojun how he would address the two shortages.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed using seeds from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and opening the secret realm to Soul Saints and their families to help staff the Plantation.
• Chen Xiaojun argued that the secret realm was safer and Elder Qing would protect it while Xiao Yi was there, but Chen Yu asked how the clan could spare enough Soul Saints.
• Chen Xiaojun admitted he had not considered the Soul Saints’ existing duties and respectfully asked Chen Yu to instruct him.

Chen Yu questioned Chen Xiaojun about his plans to expand the Chen Clan and use the secret realms to nurture talent, then urged him to bring complete proposals to the elders rather than steer the clan alone. He agreed that the clan should loosen secrecy restrictions and recruit families and talent, leaving Chen Xiaojun excited by his grandfather’s support for decisive reform.

• Chen Yu proposed opening the secret realm’s opportunities to Soul Emperors and Soul Kings, recruiting more families, and strengthening the Chen Clan’s manpower and talent.
• Chen Yu pressed Chen Xiaojun to explain his concerns, and Chen Xiaojun said the clan risked missing a rare chance to grow stronger and become the Number One Family Under Heaven.
• Chen Yu told Chen Xiaojun to present complete plans for discussion with the elders and cautioned him to act with restraint and consider the greater prize.
• Chen Yu explained that the Chen Clan had endured by adapting and pooling its members’ wisdom rather than relying on one person’s schemes.
• Chen Yu declared that loosening secrecy restrictions and attracting families and talented people were pressing priorities, and Chen Xiaojun realized his grandfather supported bold reform.

Chen Yu met the Azure Vine Saint King, who revealed his ties to Elder Qing and the wider green vine clan. The Saint King offered Xiao Yi the azure vine inheritance, giving her a major opportunity to strengthen her cultivation.

• Xiao Yi arrived with two Tree People, and Chen Xiaojun recognized one as Elder Qing using an External Incarnation.
• Chen Yu identified the other Tree Person as the Azure Vine Saint King, who introduced himself as Sky Azure and explained his lineage.
• Elder Qing revealed that Sky Azure had come to honor the Emperor and pass the azure vine secret techniques to Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi accepted the inheritance with gratitude and promised to cultivate diligently and bring honor to the green vine clan.

Xiao Yi explained how the Evergreen Heart Art complemented the Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow, and Chen Cong assessed their potential alongside the Big Dipper Art. The group concluded that Xiao Yi’s combined cultivation could form a legacy capable of reaching Level 99 Peerless Douluo.

• Xiao Yi told Chen Xiaojun that Elder Qing had taught her the Evergreen Heart Art, a cultivation method passed down by past sovereigns of the Immortal Evergreen Vine lineage.
• Elder Qing and Elder Tian explained that the Evergreen Heart Art and the Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow used compatible soul-meridian routes, strengthening and refining Xiao Yi’s soul power when practiced together.
• Chen Cong praised Xiao Yi’s insight and urged her to continue fusing the two cultivation arts.
• Xiao Yi said she was also practicing the Big Dipper Art and hoped to combine all three methods.
• Chen Cong judged that the Evergreen Heart Art and Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow could lead to Level 98 Supreme Douluo, while adding the Big Dipper Art could make Level 99 Peerless Douluo highly attainable.
• Chen Xiaojun reconsidered Xiao Yi’s potential and the strength of the Evergreen Vine lineage’s legacy.

Chen Xiaojun encouraged Xiao Yi to combine three cultivation arts, while the Chen Clan agreed to teach the Big Dipper Art to Elder Qing and Sky Azure. Xiao Yi demonstrated that her newly learned Life Force Field could heal people and enhance medicinal herbs, leaving the group impressed.

• Chen Xiaojun urged Xiao Yi to combine the Evergreen Heart Art, the Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow, and the Big Dipper Art into a new cultivation path.
• Elder Qing and the Azure Vine Saint King asked the Chen Clan to teach them the Big Dipper Art, and Chen Yu agreed after consulting Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun.
• Xiao Yi told Chen Xiaojun she had learned the Life Force Field in two or three days, and Elder Qing praised her quick progress.
• Xiao Yi used the Life Force Field to surround the group with healing life energy and then nourished medicinal herbs in the Premium Garden, increasing their vitality and potency.
• Zhu Jiazhen, Ding Daoheng, and Cheng Wenge praised Xiao Yi's emperor martial soul and talent for growing herbs.

Elder Qing explained the difference between force fields, magic domains, and true domains, then described the Evergreen Vine clan’s Life Force Awakening and its role in pursuing the life domain. Chen Xiaojun learned that the Evergreen Vine clan had a long-standing alliance with the Blue Silver Grass Clan, while the Azure Vine Saint King asserted that Xiao Yi’s inheritance could let her surpass them.

• Elder Qing explained that Xiao Yi’s Life Force Field was a direct soul-power technique adapted from the life domain, and said mastering it and Life Force Awakening could help her comprehend that domain.
• Xiao Yi described how Life Force Awakening temporarily increased a healed person’s attributes, while Elder Qing explained that the technique retained its full effect when used on oneself.
• Chen Cong and Chen Yu reminded Chen Xiaojun that the Evergreen Vine clan’s secret techniques formed part of its heritage and urged him to stay curious about the wider world.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Elder Qing and the Azure Vine Saint King about the Evergreen Vine clan’s relationship with the Blue Silver Grass Clan.
• Elder Qing said the Evergreen Vine clan had protected the Blue Silver Grass Clan in the distant past and that the two clans remained allied and interdependent.
• The Azure Vine Saint King pointed to Old Black’s evolution into Dark Blue Silver Vine and claimed the Evergreen Vine clan’s life-attribute mastery and legacy could help Xiao Yi surpass the Blue Silver Grass Clan.

Xiao Yi used supplies from Ye Xiuxin to transform the Premium Garden’s iceheart lotus into a ninth-grade Iceheart Snow Lotus and turn its creek into a miniature Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Elder Qing and the Azure Vine Saint King tested the pool and discovered it accelerated growth and increased strength.

• Xiao Yi poured extreme cold spring water from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well onto the iceheart lotus, advancing it into a ninth-grade Iceheart Snow Lotus.
• Xiao Yi explained that Ye Xiuxin had given her the spring water because it was the key to advancing the lotus, and Chen Yu described the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to Elder Qing and the Azure Vine Saint King.
• Xiao Yi poured two bottles of liquid into the central creek reservoir and placed three Divine Wood Hearts in the water, creating opposing hot and cold currents that nourished the garden’s herbs.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized the transformed creek as a miniature Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Xiao Yi explained how the Divine Wood Hearts and spring water supported plant growth.
• The Azure Vine Saint King entered the pool and felt his body growing and his strength increasing at three times the usual rate; Elder Qing entered to investigate its mysterious energy.

Xiao Yi demonstrated that Bing Huo Yin Yang Spring water and Divine Wood Hearts could rapidly strengthen high-level plant Soul Beasts, prompting the Chen Clan and Evergreen Vine clan to discuss an exchange. The chapter ended with the clans moving toward a closer alliance, while Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun shared a tender moment.

• Chen Xiaojun and the Chen Clan members watched medicinal herbs grow rapidly in the spring water, while Chen Yu warned that Divine Wood Hearts were scarce and slow to replenish.
• The Azure Vine Saint King praised the spring water’s effects and asked Xiao Yi for more; Elder Qing and the Chen Clan then negotiated an exchange of spring water and Divine Wood Hearts for valuable treasures and pledges.
• Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun held hands and shared an affectionate moment as the three great-grandfathers looked on approvingly.
• Elder Qing offered the Essence of the Spring of Life, and the Azure Vine Saint King offered the Chen Clan land and support in building ties with other Secret Realm clans.
• The Chen Clan welcomed the proposed exchange, which would bring resources and strengthen its alliance with the Evergreen Vine clan.