Chapter Summaries

Feng Sha left his encounter with Shan Wei angry, while Shan Wei worried that Chen Mu would be a difficult opponent. Chen Xiaojun and his companions met Chen Yanwu and the Moonlight Team, then watched Chen Yanwu lead them to a decisive victory over Glazed Tile Academy.

• Shan Wei teased Feng Sha about losing to Chen Mu, admitted he had come to make sure his old friend did not lose heart, and considered how to prepare for a possible fight with Chen Mu.
• Chen Yanwu praised Chen Mu for defeating Cen Pengfeng, while Chen Mu tried to hide how much damage he had taken.
• Zhu Wuxin warmly questioned Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan about their relationship, while Yun Yingluo introduced herself to Chen Xiaojun and asked him to sign her book.
• Chen Yanwu and the Moonlight Team departed to compete against Glazed Tile Academy, and Chen Xiaojun's group went to watch from a private room.
• The Moonlight Team defeated Glazed Tile Academy with precise tactical control, prompting Chen Mu and Chen Xiaojun to assess Chen Yanwu's mental abilities and hidden strengths.

Chang'an Academy prepared to face Thunder Academy, a powerful team backed by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, after Fasinuo Province’s academies surged in the first round-robin cycle. Chen Xiaojun identified Thunder Academy’s strengths and weaknesses as his team awaited its first major test.

• Chang'an Academy completed its first round-robin matches with victories, while Fasinuo’s five academies all reached the upper half of the standings.
• Five Mountains Academy used new Soul King Wei Yelin to defeat Moon Bay Academy, and Yuesi Academy integrated Shen Yuan and Lu Kun to beat Vast Sea Academy.
• Chang'an Academy supporters discussed Thunder Academy’s strength and wondered how Xiao Hongchen would arrange the team.
• Chen Xiaojun briefed Chang'an Academy on Thunder Academy’s six Soul Kings, dragon and lightning attacks, and tactics centered on Yu Zhijun.
• Chen Xiaojun warned that Thunder Academy lacked a healer, relied heavily on Yu Zhijun, and could be worn down if Chang'an disrupted its tempo.

Chen Xiaojun’s Chang’an Team faced Thunder Academy with a resilient defensive lineup, and Xiao Yi’s Sky Azure Cage withstood the opening combination of Thunder Academy’s strongest lightning attacks. The chapter ended with the cage still standing, though badly scorched and damaged.

• Bo Saixi recalled Chen Xiaojun’s birthday gathering and explained that she had joined Chang’an Team’s tactical discussions as an adviser.
• Chen Xiaojun rejected Bo Saixi’s suggestion to meet Thunder Academy’s speed with a head-on clash and chose a resilient lineup for the match.
• Chen Xiaojun and Yu Zhijun exchanged pointed remarks before the referee called both teams to their positions.
• Gu Wuyan enhanced Chang’an Team’s attributes, and Xiao Yi boosted He Qiang as Thunder Academy powered up its six Soul Kings with Lei Jiuchong’s Thunder Essence Conduction.
• Lei Dong’s Heavenly Net of Thunder and Yu Jingzhe’s Thunder Jiao’s Raging Tide struck Xiao Yi’s Sky Azure Cage, but its renewing vines absorbed and dissipated much of the assault.

Thunder Academy's fighters clashed with their opponents in fierce battles across the Soul Fighting Platform. The chapter ended with Chu Youwei slowing Lei En's aerial charge, while the other contests remained unresolved.

• He Qiang met Yu Zhijun's Thunder Dragon Claw with Dragon-Shadow Combo, and the two exchanged blows without either retreating.
• Lian Shouzhong blocked Ao Lie's Flame Dragon Shattering the Sky Strike and used Crystal Prism Countershock to stagger him with a reflected icy impact.
• Zhu Wuneng forced Long Qi backward with his Nine-Toothed Rake, then countered Long Qi's Earth Vein Tremor with Earthquake Wave.
• Chu Youwei unleashed Crane Dancing Across the Nine Heavens against Lei En, whose Wind-Thunder Barrier slowed the feather barrage but held firm.

Lei En and Chu Youwei clashed in a fierce exchange while Chen Xiaojun repelled Yu Awakening of Insects and Lei Dong’s combined lightning attack. As the battles continued, Xiao Yi supported Chang’an with a healing field instead of using Life Force Awakening, whose risks the team had recently learned about.

• Lei En used Lightning Flash Assault against Chu Youwei’s Crane Spiral Nine Heavens, and their attacks became locked in a clash of lightning and ice.
• Yu Awakening of Insects and Lei Dong combined Thunder Jiao’s Raging Tide with Heavenly Net of Thunder against Chen Xiaojun, who blocked both with his Yin-Yang Mystic Shield.
• Lei Jiuchong empowered Thunderclap’s fighters with lightning armor and speed, while Gu Wuyan strengthened Chang’an’s allies with power and defense buffs.
• Pu Shuirou and Mu Zilian had warned Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi that repeated Life Force Awakening could conceal accumulating strain and harm teammates’ future development.
• Chang’an agreed to reserve Life Force Awakening for critical situations, and Xiao Yi supported the team by sustaining her Life Force Field.

Yu Zhijun and his allies trapped Chen Xiaojun with powerful lightning attacks and launched a devastating spear strike, but Chen Xiaojun answered with his Yin-Yang Dao Domain and held it off. The chapter ended with Yu Zhijun's spear and Chen Xiaojun's shield locked in a fierce contest.

• Yu Awakening of Insects bound Chen Xiaojun with Dragon-Binding Thunder Lock, and Lei Dong surrounded him with God-Locking Divine Ring.
• Yu Zhijun abandoned his clash with He Qiang and charged at Chen Xiaojun while Long Qi blocked He Qiang and Ao Lie trapped He Qiang, Zhu Wuneng, and Lian Shouzhong in fire and lightning.
• Lei Jiuchong channeled lightning into Yu Zhijun, who empowered himself with Dragon's Wrath and Overlord Dragon Art before hurling Dragon Emperor Evil-Breaking Thunder at Chen Xiaojun.
• Chen Xiaojun summoned Moye and Gan Jiang and formed the Yin-Yang Mystic Shield, strengthened by his Yin-Yang Taiji Water Seal and Yin-Yang Dao Domain.
• The Yin-Yang Mystic Shield ground down Yu Zhijun's spear, and Chen Xiaojun and Yu Zhijun strained against each other as the attack and defense remained locked.

Chen Xiaojun purified Yu Zhijun’s combat enhancements, then Xiao Yi unleashed her Forest of Lightning against Yu Zhijun, Yu Awakening of Insects, and Lei Dong. As their restraints on Chen Xiaojun collapsed, Lei En trapped Chu Youwei in his Hurricane Thunder Domain, leaving her surrounded by wind blades and lightning.

• Chen Xiaojun used Green Lotus Divine Light to strip away Yu Zhijun’s enhancements and deflect his weakened spear attack.
• Xiao Yi unleashed her left arm bone skill, Forest of Lightning, severely injuring Yu Zhijun, Yu Awakening of Insects, and Lei Dong.
• With Lei Dong and Yu Awakening of Insects unable to maintain their soul-power restraints, Dragon-Binding Thunder Lock and the God-Locking Divine Ring’s lightning pillars collapsed around Chen Xiaojun.
• Lei En and Chu Youwei fought to a stalemate as their respective allies’ soul skills strengthened their defenses and abilities.
• After Yu Zhijun called out Thunder Kill, Lei En used Hurricane Thunder Domain to engulf Chu Youwei in a storm of wind blades and lightning.

Chu Youwei, He Qiang, and Lian Shouzhong countered Ao Lie’s attacks during the battle, breaking through his defenses with a golden dragon strike. Ao Lie survived but was badly injured as the dragon’s phantom faded.

• Chu Youwei used Crane Shadow Nine Heavens to evade Lei En’s attacks, while both fighters withdrew briefly from the central melee.
• He Qiang summoned the Yellow Thunder Dragon of Imperial Veneration to shield Zhu Wuneng, He Qiang, and Lian Shouzhong from Ao Lie’s Hong Lian Thunder Prison.
• Lian Shouzhong formed a crystal greatsword and unleashed a freezing torrent that engulfed Ao Lie’s scarlet lightning-fire.
• He Qiang’s golden dragon descended on Ao Lie, who met it with Flame Dragon Shattering the Sky Strike, but the dragon overpowered his attack.
• The golden claw broke through Ao Lie’s armor and defenses, hurled him into the platform, and left him severely wounded as the dragon phantom dispersed.

Zhu Wuneng used his Five Elements Destruction Divine Light to destroy Long Qi’s defenses and grievously injure him, leaving the Thunder Team with one final attack. Xiao Yi then stepped forward and unleashed an empowered Forest of Lightning against the Thunder Team’s combined lightning torrent.

• Zhu Wuneng’s Five Elements Destruction Divine Light shattered Long Qi’s Immovable Dragon Rampart and Dragon Turtle Unarmoring Shield, then struck and gravely injured him.
• Long Qi lost the ability to fight, and Yu Zhijun told Chen Xiaojun that the Thunder Team would concede if Chang’an withstood its final move.
• Yu Zhijun and four teammates combined their lightning skills while Lei Jiuchong’s Ten-Thousand-Jun Thunder Attraction fused them into a massive torrent aimed at Chang’an’s formation.
• Xiao Yi moved to the front, activated Life Force Awakening, and raised her soul power to a level comparable to a Level 62 Soul Emperor.
• Xiao Yi unleashed her Fifty-Thousand-Year soul bone skill, Forest of Lightning, against the incoming torrent.

Xiao Yi used a Heavenly Talisman to summon tribulation lightning and help Chang’an withstand the Thunder Team’s combined attack. The Thunder Team conceded defeat, Chang’an was declared the winner, and Chen Xiaojun led his exhausted teammates away.

• Xiao Yi told Chen Xiaojun to let her handle the Thunder Team’s lightning attack and drew on heavenly power with the Five Thunder Talisman.
• Xiao Yi’s Forest of Lightning met the Thunder Team’s combined attack in a massive explosion, while the Stars Bell shielded her from the blast.
• Chen Xiaojun checked on the exhausted but uninjured Xiao Yi as the Thunder Team’s members lay severely injured and unable to continue.
• Yu Zhijun conceded defeat for the Thunder Team and thanked Chang’an for showing mercy.
• The referee declared Chang’an Advanced Soul Master Academy the winner, prompting cheers and astonishment across the arena.
• Chen Xiaojun told Xiao Yi to rest, acknowledged the Thunder Healing Soul Masters, and led his teammates away.

Ming Xiangyun and Li Lingfeng discussed killing Chen Xiaojun, Chen Xin Yi, and Zhu Wuneng as they awaited their arrival. At the Chen residence, Xia Yun warned Chen Xiaojun that the powerful figures who watched the match had noticed his hidden abilities and might target him for them.

• Ming Xiangyun said Chen Xiaojun, Chen Xin Yi, and Zhu Wuneng could no longer be allowed to live, and Li Lingfeng recalled seeing the pair's rapid rise in power.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xia Yun discussed Chen Xin Yi's Fifty-Thousand-Year Soul Bone and Heavenly Talisman, as well as Zhu Wuneng's Five Elements Destruction Divine Light.
• Xia Yun explained that the match had drawn attention to Chen Xiaojun's toughness and his ability to command divine swords while restrained.
• Chen Xiaojun told Xia Yun he had used Commanding Spirits and methods from the Hundred Refinements Art to control the swords.
• Xia Yun warned Chen Xiaojun that observers suspected he had opened the Upper Soul Nest or possessed a rare secret art, and cautioned him about exposing his abilities.

Chen Xiaojun and Xia Yun assessed Five Mountains Academy’s prospects in the National Tournament and discussed how it could exploit rivalries to qualify. Elder Shi then reported that Tang Yuchen was nearing Lankai Commandery, and Chen Xiaojun said events were finally about to begin.

• Xia Yun described the tournament’s powerful sect-backed academies and worried that Five Mountains lacked the strength and trump cards to secure qualification.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xia Yun planned to prioritize reliable wins, exploit favorable matchups, and rely on stronger teams weakening one another.
• Chen Xiaojun compared Five Mountains’ prospects with Qing Lin and Yuesi Academies, arguing that Five Mountains and Yuesi could contend for open qualification spots if seeded teams fell.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that tournament success could raise Five Mountains’ standing and help establish a major cultivation ground in Fasinuo Province, while Qing Lin could build its reputation through its Blood Spear Formation.
• Elder Shi told Chen Xiaojun that Tang Yuchen had left Chang'an City and should reach the borders of Lankai Commandery within days.
• Chen Xiaojun looked toward the moon and said that it was finally about to begin.

The Yellow Emperor Tang clan learned that the Seven Kill Sword Chen clan had arrived in Lankai City with Tang Yuchen, missing for four years, and prepared to receive them. Chen Zhang led the delegation into the Tang residence, where both sides exchanged formal greetings and began their meeting.

• Tang Jigen and former clan head Tang Jinghe learned that Chen Zhang’s party would visit and that Tang Yuchen had joined them in Lankai City.
• Tang Jinghe decided the Tang clan would open its central gates and receive the Chen clan according to proper etiquette.
• Tang Yusheng welcomed Chen Zhang and five companions into the residence the next morning.
• Tang Jinghe and Tang Jigen recognized Chen Zhang and Shen Tao as Soul Douluos, and Tang Yuchen and three others as Soul Saints.
• Chen Zhang and Shen Tao greeted the Tang elders, and both families sat down for courteous conversation.
• Tang Yusheng exchanged a brief glance with Tang Yuchen before the meeting continued.

Chen Zhang proposed three forms of cooperation between the Chen Clan and the Yellow Emperor Tang Family to address the Chen Clan’s shortage of forging labor. The Tang family considered the lucrative terms, while Chen Zhang revealed Tang Yuchen’s senior role and salary in the Chen Clan’s Research Department.

• Tang Jigen asked whether Panda served the Chen Clan, and Chen Zhang explained that Panda helped lead the new External Relations Department.
• Chen Zhang said the Chen Clan sought the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s help with forging as production demand outpaced its workforce.
• Chen Zhang presented three cooperation models, beginning with long-term contracts for the Tang family to manufacture civilian goods.
• Chen Zhang proposed hiring Tang family craftsmen for military production, offering substantial salaries and an annual talent support fee to the family.
• Tang Yusheng asked about the third model, and Chen Zhang described Research Department positions focused on development and innovation.
• Chen Zhang revealed that Tang Yuchen was the Research Department’s Deputy Technical Director, with an annual salary of five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Chen Zhang and his companions offered the Yellow Emperor Tang generous terms for a forging partnership, including wages, medicines, and cultivation techniques, and Tang Jinghe asked for three days to consider. Chen Zhang then proposed a second partnership: giving the Tang Family a twenty-percent stake in a new Medicinal Herbs Market in Lankai City, leaving the Tang men to weigh a lucrative opportunity and a deeper alliance with the Chen Clan.

• Chen Zhang explained that the Chen Clan paid its craftsmen and technicians well and offered workers access to discounted goods, spirit medicines, and inherited secret techniques.
• Tang Jinghe asked why the Chen Clan had approached the Yellow Emperor Tang instead of the Clear Sky Sect, and Chen Zhang and Shen Tao explained that their interests aligned and that the Tang Family could supply skilled craftsmen.
• Tang Jinghe requested three days to consult the clan, while Tang Jigen asked about the forging commissions and Chen Zhang introduced Xia Ying and Ding Lang to explain the product requirements.
• Chen Zhang revealed plans to open the Lankai Market and introduced Chen Chen, who outlined the site's advantages, operating plan, and coordination with local authorities and the Heavenly Spirit Legion.
• Chen Chen offered the Yellow Emperor Tang a twenty-percent stake in the Medicinal Herbs Market, establishing a substantial potential partnership between the Tang Family and the Chen Clan.

The Chen Clan secured Tang Jinghe’s agreement to establish a Medicinal Herbs Market in Lankai and asked the Yellow Emperor Tang Family to help obtain land for a large warehouse. After weighing the benefits and risks of the proposed cooperation, Tang Jinghe called for a full clan debate before the family made its decision.

• Tang Jinghe agreed to the Chen Clan’s Medicinal Herbs Market venture, seeing it as a source of income and influence for the Tang Family.
• Chen Zhang asked Tang Jigen and Tang Jinghe to use the family’s local connections to obtain land for a warehouse, and explained that it would complement a planned warehouse in Glazed Tile City.
• Tang Jinghe agreed that the Tang Family would help clear the way for the warehouse site.
• After the Chen Clan left, Tang Yuchen listed their valuable gifts, and Tang Yusheng argued that the proposed market share and craft hiring fees could help stabilize the family.
• Tang Jigen warned that contract manufacturing and hiring craftsmen could make the Tang Family dependent on the Chen Clan, and said Yuchen’s four-year absence and the Chen Clan’s ambitions remained unclear.
• Tang Jinghe ordered the clan elders and heads of every house to meet in two days to review the contract manufacturing standards, hiring regulations, and gift list before deciding.

Xia Ying and Ding Lang presented the Chen Clan’s civilian product orders and manufacturing standards to the Yellow Emperor Tang Family, then Xia Ying revealed the scale of the Chen Clan’s new supermarket business. The Tang elders learned that the Chen Clan guaranteed at least ten million gold coins in annual purchases, and the discussion ended with their surprise.

• Xia Ying outlined the Chen Clan’s civilian goods specifications, and Ding Lang set out strict manufacturing standards while withholding classified applications.
• Tang Jigen, Tang Yusheng, and the other Tang Family leaders recognized that the orders suited their accumulated forging expertise, then questioned Xia Ying and Ding Lang about production requirements.
• When a Tang elder doubted the Chen Clan could absorb the family’s spare capacity, Xia Ying described the Chang’an Supermarket and the planned continent-wide retail network.
• Xia Ying guaranteed a minimum annual purchase value of ten million gold coins and offered to include the commitment in the cooperation memorandum.

The Chen Clan offered the Yellow Emperor Tang Family a massive civilian contract backed by a two-million-gold deposit and quarterly payments. Tang Potian arrived from the Clear Sky Sect and challenged Chen Zhang over his visit and the relationship between their clans, leaving tensions high in the council hall.

• Chen Zhang assured the Tang Family that the Chen Clan's ten-million-gold minimum order was genuine and promised a two-million-gold deposit within ten days of signing, with quarterly payments.
• A steward announced Tang Potian's arrival, and Tang Potian entered the council hall to greet Tang Jinghe and Chen Zhang.
• Chen Zhang congratulated Tang Potian on his father's rise to Titled Douluo, while Tang Potian probed Chen Zhang about the purpose of his visit to Lankai Commandery.
• Tang Yusheng challenged Tang Potian for entering the Tang Family's council chamber uninvited, but Tang Potian said he had come to meet Chen Zhang and questioned why he had visited the family twice in three days.
• Tang Yusheng rejected Tang Potian's claim that their families shared a clan, and Tang Potian replied that their common ancestry could not be severed.

Chen Zhang rejected Tang Potian’s attempt to involve the Clear Sky Sect in the Chen Clan’s cooperation with the Yellow Emperor Tang Family, and Tang Potian left to report the confrontation. The cooperation plans passed and the Chen Clan began implementation, while Tang Potian sent an urgent message to the sect’s leader warning that the Chen Clan’s intentions were firm.

• Chen Zhang cited the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s suspicions as a reason the Chen Clan could not cooperate with the Clear Sky Sect, and he repeatedly refused Tang Potian’s appeals.
• Tang Potian ended the negotiations and left the Tang Residence, then ordered his subordinates to report everything they had witnessed to the sect.
• The next day, the Yellow Emperor Tang elders approved the Chen Clan’s three cooperation plans, with seventy percent supporting the core proposals and eighty percent supporting joint market building.
• Chen Zhang assessed the risks of sharing technical information, and the Chen Clan’s prepared coordination team arrived in Lankai Commandery three days later to begin implementation.
• Tang Potian ordered an urgent message sent directly to the Sect Master, warning that the Chen Clan was firmly committed to intervening in the Yellow Emperor Lineage.

Tang Yifei defeated Tang Xu in a decisive clash of their rival hammer techniques, while Chang'an Academy's team reflected on its hard-fought victory over Heaven Dou Royal Second Team. The chapter ended with Ji Boda linking the young teams' rivalry to the Temporary Challenge Tournament four years earlier.

• Tang Yifei's Ninefold Earth Forty-Nine Hammers overcame Tang Xu's Chaotic Cloak Forty-Nine Hammers, leaving Tang Xu injured and unable to rise while Tang Yifei stood victorious.
• Tang Chen reacted angrily to Tianshan Academy's loss to Lankai Academy, while Tang Xiao recovered from his injuries after Heaven Dou Royal Second Team's defeat to Chang'an Academy.
• Ma Wencai and Dugu Fu's Poison Cloud Twin Sunburst broke Huyan Zan's defense, and Chang'an Academy turned the match in its favor.
• Zhu Wuneng and Chen Shurui reviewed Chang'an Academy's six matches, while Dugu Fu described how Yu Zhengjun and Tang Xiao had tested him.
• Chen Mu praised Su Ningxia for holding off Huyan Zan and Mu Xingyun, and Dugu Fu admitted she had borne a heavy burden.
• He Qiang called the match an early clash between future leaders, and Ji Boda connected it to the Temporary Challenge Tournament four years earlier.