Chapter Summaries

A wandering blacksmith and Soul Emperor accepted a high-risk Heartless Tower mission to break through his cultivation bottleneck, only to learn that the targets were Chen Xiaojun and his team. During the ambush, he held back against the young defenders and witnessed the arrival of an unimaginable monster.

• After losing his home and family, the narrator survived as a mercenary and arena fighter before finding steady work as a master blacksmith in Tianling City.
• Seeking resources to advance beyond Soul King, the narrator joined the Heartless Tower's outer assassin organization and rose from Level 54 to the peak of Level 68 Soul Emperor.
• The narrator accepted a lucrative team mission and joined two Soul Douluos, three Soul Saints, and Shadow Butterfly in hiding near Chang'an City.
• The mission briefing revealed that the targets were Chen Xiaojun and his team, leaving the narrator trapped with no safe way to withdraw.
• When the ambush began, the narrator faced young geniuses wielding a Nine-Toothed Rake and a Golden Trident, but held back to avoid provoking the Chen Clan.
• As the battle shifted, the narrator witnessed an enemy whose power surpassed anything he had thought possible.

Tang Yuchen recounted how the Chen Clan spared him after he confessed to his role in a plot against Chen Xiaojun, and how blacksmithing and a new life in the clan led him to become Tie Fu’er’s master. After the Chen Clan ordered their “Like a Flower” creations tested, Tang Yuchen learned he would face Chen Xiaojun, the young master whose power had once destroyed his companions.

• Tang Yuchen and the Shadow Butterfly Soul Emperor were captured after the Chen Clan slaughtered their allies, and Tang Yuchen confessed the Heartless Tower’s plans and participants.
• The Chen Clan sentenced Tang Yuchen to atonement in Chenlin Village, where he worked as a blacksmith and reunited with Tie Buyi and Lu Xiaoxiao.
• After two years, Tang Yuchen joined the Soul Tool workshop, had his soul power seal lifted, and advanced to Level 69 Soul Emperor.
• When the elders offered Tang Yuchen freedom, he asked Elder Clan Chief Chen Yu to stay and was accepted into Hundred Flowers Village.
• Tang Yuchen accepted Tie Fu’er as his disciple and helped him develop the “Like a Flower” creations.
• After Chen Yu fell into a deep sleep and Chen Xun took charge, the clan ordered “Like a Flower” tested, setting Tang Yuchen on a confrontation with Chen Xiaojun.

Tang Yuchen analyzed the limits of the basic “Like a Flower” units and proposed developing specialized models, especially a command model that could coordinate them in battle. Chen Xiaojun approved the concept and heard what rare materials were needed to build an expensive prototype.

• Tie Fu'er relievedly praised Chen Xiaojun for letting the past go, clearing the way for Tang Yuchen to settle in Chenlin Village.
• Tang Yuchen explained that the basic units could not withstand the exceptional Sword Intent attacks of Zhouzhao and Jie Qi, and that Mechanists could coordinate groups of units against powerful opponents.
• Tang Yuchen recommended specialized “Like a Flower” models as the most practical improvement, since they could enhance key functions without making every unit prohibitively expensive.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized the potential for a command model to direct other units, and Tang Yuchen described its need for costly transmission materials, stronger alloys, and a tactical-memory core.
• Tang Yuchen urged Chen Xiaojun to fund a top-quality command-model prototype first, then seek cheaper substitute materials once its design had been proven.

Chen Xiaojun reviewed Tang Yuchen’s plans for the Hundred Blossoms Throne, a command module designed to coordinate Like a Flower puppets. He approved it as a key project and ordered further testing and a formal report.

• Tang Yuchen explained that a Soul Saint could broadly command about five hundred puppets or precisely control around one hundred and fifty to two hundred, while a Soul Douluo might command over a thousand broadly.
• Chen Xiaojun told Tang Yuchen to consult Grandpa Xia Yun to obtain more rigorous test data.
• Tang Yuchen proposed the name “Hundred Blossoms Throne,” and Chen Xiaojun approved it.
• Chen Xiaojun ordered Tang Yuchen to submit a detailed report to the Customs Department and the Soul Power Technology Department, and promised the project priority resources.
• Tang Yuchen thanked Chen Xiaojun on behalf of the artisans in the Hundred Flowers Village project team.

Tang Yuchen explained the Hundred Blossoms Catalog’s three paths of puppet specialization and how the Hundred Blossoms Throne would coordinate them. He outlined a tiered Puppet Army Project spanning basic soldiers to strategic deterrence puppets.

• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen to explain the essential principles of the Hundred Blossoms Catalog’s three specialization paths.
• Tang Yuchen described Heavenly Craft Creation, Earthly Ingenuity Into the Mystical, and Human Spirit Returning to the Source, including their strengths and limitations.
• Chen Xiaojun challenged Tang Yuchen about his knowledge of Commanding Spirits, and Tang Yuchen said he had overheard Su Rong and Xia Ying discussing it.
• Tang Yuchen explained that the Hundred Blossoms Throne would connect specialized puppets and harmonize their powers to suit battlefield conditions.
• Tang Yuchen presented puppet grades from King, Emperor, and Saint models to mass-produced Soul Ancestor elites and Soul Elder-level Like a Flowers, naming the design the Puppet Army Project.

Chen Surong arrived at the Practice Ground and revealed that she and Tang Yuchen had fought in the same tournament twenty years earlier, where his hammer blows defeated her team. She praised Tang Yuchen’s Hundred Blossoms Catalog legion-building framework, and he credited the work to his team of craftsmen.

• Chen Surong approached Chen Xiaojun and teased him about appearing to glare at her while speaking with Tang Yuchen.
• Chen Surong recalled facing Tang Yuchen at the Gaoying Tournament, where his forty-nine hammer blows helped the Gengxin Blacksmith Academy defeat her team.
• Tang Yuchen apologized for the force of his blows, and Chen Surong reassured him that the old defeat was nothing more than part of competition.
• Chen Surong praised Tang Yuchen’s blueprint for the Hundred Blossoms Catalog and its coordinated legion-building strategy.
• Tang Yuchen accepted her praise and said the framework came from months of work by the Hundred Flowers Village craftsmen.

Chen Surong praised Tang Yuchen’s strategic vision and entrusted him and the Workshop with developing the Chen Clan’s future. After she left with Shadow Butterfly, Chen Xiaojun and Tang Yuchen discussed Shadow Butterfly’s lifeless state and her constrained refuge in Chenlin Village.

• Chen Surong praised Tang Yuchen’s ability to coordinate complex plans and urged Chen Xiaojun to nurture talent without demanding perfection.
• Chen Surong thanked Tang Yuchen and left with Shadow Butterfly to visit the children.
• Shadow Butterfly silently bowed to Chen Xiaojun, then followed Chen Surong with an unnaturally light step.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen what he thought of Shadow Butterfly, and Tang said she could not return.
• Tang Yuchen explained that Shadow Butterfly had been raised by Heartless Tower, endured a harsher interrogation, and now lived under restrictions while teaching at Zhejiang Studio.

Chen Xiaojun reviewed Tang Yuchen’s mental fission network blueprint and questioned the secret testing behind it. Tang explained how rune force fields and neural cables improved long-range commands, leaving Chen aware that the Hundred Blossoms Throne prototype had already been tested without approval.

• Tang Yuchen explained that precise lens placement was crucial to the Spiritual Link Lens Array and admitted that the team had secretly built a half-finished Hundred Blossoms Throne prototype.
• Chen Xiaojun questioned how the design addressed signal loss, and Tang described using Rune Force Field Inscription as a low-loss Soul Power Waveguide.
• Tang reported that the rune force field improved command transmission and that the neural cable network could support precision control of three hundred puppets.
• Chen Xiaojun asked who had tested Soul Douluo-level control, and Tang admitted that he had enlisted Elder Shi Hua for stress testing without formal approval.
• Tang identified the prototype’s core materials and explained how mental resonance guided coordinated action across the Hundred Flowers Legion.

Tang Yuchen explained the mental fission network behind the Like a Flower puppets, and Chen Xiaojun recognized it as a system resembling a local area network. The chapter ended with Tang Yuchen describing how the Hundred Blossoms Throne could command puppets directly or delegate control to specialized units.

• Tang Yuchen explained how the Hundred Blossoms Throne broadcast instructions through mental resonance waves to Like a Flower puppets equipped with Spiritual Link Lens Arrays and preset action logic.
• Tang Yuchen described how the network let commanders control large groups of puppets while remaining resilient when some nodes were damaged.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized that the network's central node, secondary nodes, signals, and action packages resembled a router, network adapters, data transmission, and device firmware.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen whether specialized puppets could command lower-tier Like a Flower puppets, and Tang Yuchen confirmed that they could.
• Tang Yuchen explained the dual-track command structure, in which the Hundred Blossoms Throne directed large-scale tactics while specialized Hundred Flowers puppets led smaller autonomous units.

Chen Xiaojun and Tang Yuchen discussed the Hundred Blossoms Throne’s limited puppet-control range and the possibility of extending its mental network with amplified force fields. The chapter ended with Tang Yuchen estimating that a Holy King-tier soul crystal might provide coverage of five to ten li.

• Chen Xiaojun asked whether puppets inside and outside a Hundred Blossoms Throne’s network could communicate directly, and Tang Yuchen explained that their control range reached at most eight hundred meters under ideal conditions.
• Chen Xiaojun argued that even a reduced range of four hundred meters surpassed most Soul Douluo soul skills, but said battlefield use would require multiple thrones to relay signals across a wider area.
• Tang Yuchen explained that puppets could form a primitive point-to-point mental link, but it had very limited range, low capacity, and poor stability.
• Tang Yuchen estimated that a throne enhanced with a high-tier soul crystal and Force Field Runes might cover three li on an unobstructed plain.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized the idea as a soul-power base station system and asked what a Holy King-tier soul crystal could achieve.
• Tang Yuchen estimated that a Holy King-tier soul crystal might extend coverage to five or even ten li, encompassing Chenlin Village and the surrounding mountains.

Chen Xiaojun and Tang Yuchen developed a plan for a colossal Mental Force Field Tower that would connect the Like a Flower Legion through a battlefield command network. Chen Xiaojun expanded the project into three kinds of Chen Xin Towers and left Tang Yuchen preparing a proposal while he considered building a separate communications network.

• Tang Yuchen explained that a large Mental Force Field Tower could extend the Hundred Blossoms Throne's command field across the Chen Clan's territory and connect puppets and constructs into a unified network.
• Chen Xiaojun ordered Tang Yuchen to draft a proposal titled “A leap for civilization-Chen Xin Tower” and promised to sign it after reviewing it within two days.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen to include mental interference, pressure, illusions, and potentially a wide-area Soul Power Energy Shield, allowing separate towers if the technologies proved incompatible.
• Chen Xiaojun divided the project into Spirit Network, Mental, and Soul Power Chen Xin Towers, with research to proceed in that order before combining their abilities.
• Chen Xiaojun considered building communications towers at the village center and three nearby mountain peaks to overcome the range and relay limitations of existing soul power resonance communications.

Chen Xiaojun learned how the Clear Sky lineage’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer evolved from the Mountain-Breaker Forty-Nine Linked Hammers and concealed methods for mastering the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes. Tang Yuchen revealed that the Earth Vein lineage had developed its own eighty-one-strike art, the Ninefold Earth Hammer Method.

• Chen Xiaojun hosted Tang Yuchen and Tie Fu'er at Lakeside Residence and treated them to sixth-grade Wine Reishi Wine.
• Tie Fu'er told Chen Xiaojun he had left the Gaoying Tournament Preliminary to train the Forty-Nine-Link Hammer Technique.
• Tang Yuchen explained that the Mountain-Breaker Forty-Nine Linked Hammers were the shared inheritance of his lineage, while the Clear Sky lineage developed the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and Chaotic Cloak from that foundation.
• Tang Yuchen described the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes as nine ultimate force-exertion techniques whose training methods were concealed within the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Tang Yuchen revealed that the Earth Vein lineage had forged its own eighty-one-strike hammer art, the Ninefold Earth Hammer Method.

Tang Yuchen explained how the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s Ninefold Earth Hammer Method differed from the Clear Sky Sect’s Chaotic Cloak in its origins, use of force, and martial Dao. He left Tie Fu’er with the principle that no hammer was inherently superior and that the Dao depended on a sincere heart.

• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen what distinguished the Ninefold Earth Hammer Method from Chaotic Cloak, despite both having eighty-one strikes.
• Tang Yuchen explained that Chaotic Cloak served as a practice method for the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, while Ninefold Earth grew from the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s Mountain-Breaker Hammers and earth-based tradition.
• Tang Yuchen contrasted Chaotic Cloak’s borrowed momentum and rapid power-release techniques with Ninefold Earth’s self-generated, layered strength that culminated in Ninefold Earth Unification.
• Tang Yuchen demonstrated both methods with chopsticks, showing Tie Fu’er and Chen Xiaojun how one circulated borrowed force while the other steadily accumulated power.
• Tang Yuchen identified Ninefold Earth as the soul of the Yellow Emperor Lineage’s earthly virtue, with its hammer and Dao fused together.
• Tie Fu’er asked whether mastering Ninefold Earth could make it stronger than the Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Yuchen replied that no hammer stood above another and that the Dao lay in a sincere heart.

Tang Yuchen explained the Yellow Emperor Lineage’s earth-based cultivation and hammer method, including their power and the slow progress imposed by their heavy earth attribute. Chen Xiaojun grasped how the Ninefold Earth Hammer Method differed from the Clear Sky Sect’s Chaotic Cloak, while its highest stages remained far beyond Tang Yuchen’s reach.

• Tang Yuchen described the Ninefold Earth Hammer Method’s nine earth conceptions and explained how the Earth Origin Formula, hammer method, and conception worked together.
• Tang Yuchen said the earth attribute made cultivation extremely slow and that the Yellow Emperor Tang Family struggled to produce Titled Douluo before their prime passed.
• Tang Yuchen explained that forty-nine hammer blows created a gravity force field, sixty-four formed a magic domain, and eighty-one approached the domain of a mighty expert.
• Tie Fu'er asked whether the method surpassed the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer in power, and Tang Yuchen said it was stronger in theory but much harder to master.
• Tang Yuchen admitted he could barely reach the sixty-eighth blow despite decades of training, and Chen Xiaojun concluded that Ninefold Earth followed the Way while the Chaotic Cloak relied on technique.

Tang Yuchen explained the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s earth-based arts and revealed its supreme ancestral technique, the Great Kunlun Hammer. Chen Xiaojun was stunned by the name and wondered at its connection to the legendary Mount Kunlun of his previous life.

• Tang Yuchen told Tie Fu'er that mastering the Ninefold Earth Eighty-One Hammers was comparable to Title Douluo combat strength and that no one had mastered it when he left the clan.
• Tang Yuchen explained how the Yellow Emperor path fused Ninefold Earth with Earth Origin, contrasting it with the Clear Sky Sect’s separate forces.
• Tang Yuchen described the Yellow Emperor Family’s Eight Desolations Mountain Suppression, Yellow Emperor Battle Armor, Yellow Emperor Prison-Suppressing Formation, and Ninefold Earth Force.
• Chen Xiaojun asked whether the Yellow Emperor Family had an ultimate legacy comparable to the Clear Sky Family’s Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation, and Tang Yuchen revealed the Great Kunlun Hammer.
• Chen Xiaojun choked at the name and recalled that Mount Kunlun was a legendary divine mountain from his previous life, though he had never found it in Douluo Continent’s records.

Chen Xiaojun learned that the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s Great Kunlun Hammer drew power from earth veins, and he suspected its connection to the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Sumeru Hammer concealed an ancient secret. After hearing of the technique’s petrifying backlash, he asked Tang Yuchen whether it qualified as a Divine Skill.

• Chen Xiaojun grew alarmed at the resemblance between Great Kunlun Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer and pressed Tang Yuchen to explain the former.
• Tang Yuchen explained that Great Kunlun Hammer used Soul Rings as nodes to draw earth-vein power, strengthen its user, and manifest a giant hammer.
• Tang Yuchen described Nuclear Explosion as releasing concentrated earth-core power, while Chen Xiaojun reasoned that the surge could damage the Soul Rings acting as channels.
• Tang Yuchen revealed that an ancestor who repeatedly used Nuclear Explosion turned entirely to stone after a desperate battle.
• Chen Xiaojun attributed the petrification to uncontrolled earth power and asked Tang Yuchen whether Great Kunlun Hammer was a Divine Skill.

Chen Xiaojun proposed that the Great Kunlun Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer might be complementary techniques, then asked Tang Yuchen about their origins. Tang Yuchen revealed that the ancestors Tang Xuan Yellow Emperor and Tang Haotian developed the techniques after returning from an ancient ruin, and both died from the aftermath of fighting Crimson’s level 99 Peerless Douluo.

• Chen Xiaojun suggested combining the Great Kunlun Hammer, the Great Sumeru Hammer, the Earth Origin Ninefold Earth Formula, and the Clear Sky Sect’s Nine Suns Force.
• Tang Yuchen explained that twin ancestors Tang Haotian and Tang Xuan Yellow Emperor entered an ancient ruin and adopted the names Clear Sky and Yellow Emperor after returning.
• Tang Yuchen said the Great Sumeru Hammer and Great Kunlun Hammer first appeared after the brothers returned, though the family records no longer revealed whether the ruin had given them the techniques.
• Tang Yuchen recounted that the two ancestors, both level 98 Supreme Douluos, killed Crimson’s level 99 Peerless Douluo through their combined efforts.
• Tang Yuchen said Tang Xuan Yellow Emperor died and became a stone statue, while Tang Haotian succumbed to his injuries a few years later.

Chen Xiaojun explained to Tang Yuchen that the Great Sumeru Hammer evolved the Martial Soul Avatar into a colossal, physically solid hammer, making that transformation the foundation of its monstrous power. Tang Yuchen understood the implications for the Great Kunlun Hammer, but neither he nor Tie Fu’er knew the mountains Mount Sumeru and Mount Kunlun.

• Chen Xiaojun argued that the Martial Soul Avatar was a rule-level ability that formed the foundation of the Great Sumeru Hammer’s power.
• He explained that the Great Sumeru Hammer reshaped and enhanced the Clear Sky Hammer far beyond an ordinary Martial Soul Avatar, giving it a mountainlike scale and physical substance.
• Tang Yuchen realized that the Great Kunlun Hammer might similarly transform the Yellow Emperor Hammer into a true, immortal mountain.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Tang Yuchen whether he had heard of Mount Sumeru and Mount Kunlun, but Tang Yuchen said the names were unfamiliar.
• Chen Xiaojun lowered his eyes and kept his thoughts to himself.

Chen Xiaojun proposed that the Chen Clan support the Yellow Emperor Tang Family against the Clear Sky Sect and potentially bring them into the clan’s fold. The joint meeting began weighing the proposal, with Lu Xiaoxiao supporting it for its technical potential and the artisans it could bring.

• Tang Yuchen told Tie Fu'er that he had spoken candidly because he wanted to see how Chen Xiaojun would respond to what he had learned.
• Xia Qingyun, Chen Xiaojun, and the department ministers attended the Chen Clan’s first joint meeting since its reforms, where the departments reported their work and plans.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed that the clan help the Yellow Emperor Tang Family withstand the Clear Sky Sect and possibly accept them as vassals or followers.
• Chen Xun asked whether Chen Xiaojun understood the consequences, and Chen Xiaojun firmly confirmed his proposal.
• Lu Xiaoxiao argued that integrating the Tang Family’s rune system with the Chen Xin Tower could improve energy efficiency and strengthen the clan’s forging capabilities, so he supported the plan.

Chen Shihua and the others weighed the risks and strategic benefits of bringing the Yellow Emperor Tang Family in Lankai Commandery into their sphere of influence. Chen Zhang proposed a new north-south strategic route, but Ximen Shaoping raised a practical concern before the discussion could continue.

• Chen Shihua warned that openly supporting the Yellow Emperor Tang Family could provoke the Clear Sky Sect and unsettle other powers in the central and western regions.
• Ling Yunxiao explained that the Clear Sky Sect wanted the family as a foothold near Tianling Pass and said open intervention would make conflict nearly inevitable.
• Chen Hua cautioned that a western territorial struggle would drain resources and threaten the Chen Clan’s developing ties with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Imperial Family.
• Chen Zhang proposed using Lankai Commandery to build a new strategic route linking the Silves Kingdom, Tianling City, Marinford, and Chang'an, while acknowledging its weak foundations and risks.
• Ximen Shaoping said the Yellow Emperor Tang Family was not essential to Chen Zhang’s proposed route and pointed to a practical concern.