Chapter Summaries

After Chen Xin Yi decisively defeated the Infinite Hall Team, rival teams assessed her overwhelming abilities and prepared to face her. Chen Yanwu reflected on the aloof, world-overlooking eyes associated with Chen Xin Yi as the story left the Moonlight Team anticipating their upcoming match.

• Chang'an Team supporters celebrated Chen Xin Yi’s victory, while Xue Shiming ordered his team to review intelligence ahead of their dangerous match the next day.
• Tang Chen, Ning Zhongtian, Bai Tianrui, and Zhi Xuan discussed how Chen Xin Yi’s powers had overwhelmed the Infinite Hall Team and worried about countering her abilities.
• Ling Xinyao reacted with apprehension and disappointment as Ye Zijun reminded her that she could not compete with Chen Xin Yi.
• Chu Tianshu told Zhou Tianshu that Chen Xin Yi’s win vindicated his ranking, but Zhou Tianshu replied that Chu did not understand.
• Yun Yingluo worried about Chen Xin Yi’s eyes, while Hua Xiyan warned that the Moonlight Team could not leave them unguarded.
• Chen Yanwu recalled the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking poster’s image of eyes looking down on all living beings and silently considered Chen Xin Yi’s gaze.

After Chen Xin Yi defeated Infinite Hall, the Ghost King and Xiao Yicai clashed subtly on the dais while the assembled powers discussed threats across the empire. The chapter left the officials trading intelligence about suspicious activity in the east, frontier conflicts, and newly found ruins.

• The Ghost King told Chen Hong that Chen Xin Yi had disgraced Infinite Hall, then accepted the team’s defeat.
• Xiao Yicai urged Chen Hong to let the Ghost King vent, then exchanged a silent clash of power with the Ghost King.
• Prince Xue Jiqing and Mo Tiancheng raised the injured Youguang Zhou, Northwest beast tides, and suspected Sand Mother Cult activity.
• Xue Jiqing reported abnormal soul power readings at eastern Black Market outposts, and Xiao Yicai tacitly acknowledged the intelligence.
• Yu Yongyuan, Long Jing'an, and the others discussed eastern disturbances, frontier clashes in the Three Rivers Basin, and a newly discovered ancient-ruins entrance.

After the competition, Chen Hong returned to the Chen Residence for the seventh-night rite, where the Ghost King acknowledged that the Chen Clan had helped deliver Youguang Zhou a grievous blow. Chen Hong arrived to find the household prepared for mourning and learned which guests had gathered and where Xiao Yi had gone.

• The Ghost King told Chen Hong that the Infinite Hall owed the Chen Clan for his blow against Youguang Zhou.
• Chen Hong returned to the mourning-draped Chen Residence in Heaven Dou City, where Zhu Yanfeng received him as chief steward.
• Zhu Yanfeng explained that he had traveled from Chang'an City on a Golden-Crowned Eagle and reported that guests from several sects and families had arrived for the rite.
• Chen Hong instructed Zhu Yanfeng to carefully receive Zuo Tinggang and Xiao Yicai when they came on behalf of the Imperial Family and Nine Heavens Sect.
• Zhu Yanfeng told Chen Hong that Xiao Yi had gone to the rear courtyard to see Xiaojun and change for the ceremony.

Chen Hong visited the memorial in Central Courtyard Square for those killed defending the Chen Residence, offering support to the bereaved families and honoring the fallen. Mourning ceremonies also took place across the Chen Clan’s strongholds as the survivors said their final farewells.

• Chen Hong comforted Ji Chengjian and Yan Jinzhong beside the coffins of their sons, Ji Shuran and Yan Chengyi.
• Chen Hong greeted Chang'an Academy vice deans Zhuo Qianren and Wang Wei, then spoke with Jian Hezhi and Jian Xinyue at Jian Hesong's coffin.
• Chen Hong walked past the coffins of the academy teachers, Five Mountains Academy Soul Masters, and Chen Residence guards, where Lin Jingshu, Xia Yun, and Ding Bingming oversaw the mourners.
• Funeral ceremonies were held at Chang'an Duke's Mansion, Chenlin Village, Mountain Fort, Star Luo City, and other Chen Clan strongholds.
• Chen Cong, Xia Ruxin, Shen Tianjun, Chen Xun, and Leng Qingqiu each presented funeral tributes as the living bade farewell to the dead.

Chang'an Academy and Chen Clan defenders fought against invading black-clothed soul masters in the Central Courtyard. Ji Shuran and Yan Chengyi were killed while protecting their allies, and Jian Hesong’s defense at the last gate to the Inner Residence was close to breaking.

• Ji Shuran’s flute attack briefly stalled three Soul Saints, but an ice element Soul Douluo ambushed him and an earth-type Soul Saint impaled him on stone spikes.
• Yan Chengyi deflected a chain spear aimed at Feng Min, but a Netherworld Claw Soul Douluo struck his exposed back and killed him.
• Jian Hesong and several Chen Clan soul masters tried to defend the last gate to the Inner Residence as three enemy powerhouses battered his Ink Crystal Bottle’s protective halo.
• A wounded Chen Clan Soul Emperor warned Jian Hesong that they could not hold the position.

Jian Hesong sacrificed himself by detonating his Ink Crystal Bottle Avatar, killing two Soul Saints and mortally wounding the enemy Soul Douluo. The Chen Clan then held a funeral for the fallen, and the chapter ended as their coffins were carried to the cremation grounds.

• Jian Hesong activated his Ink Crystal Bottle Avatar and unleashed a massive suction that disrupted the Axe Douluo and two Soul Saints.
• Jian Hesong detonated the avatar, destroying the nearby artificial hill, erasing the two Soul Saints, and leaving the Axe Douluo's upper body buried in the ruins.
• The Chen Clan and their allies gathered in the Central Courtyard to mourn the fallen, with Chen Xiaojun standing at the head of the youths beside Chen Xin Yi.
• Chen Hong read a eulogy honoring the dead, including Shuran, Chengyi, and Hesong, and Chen Zhang led the offerings and funeral rites.
• Zhuo Qianren, Wang Wei, Ma Zhibin, other cultivators, and disciples including Chen Xiaojun carried the coffins toward the cremation grounds.

The Chen Clan mourned its dead as their families lit the soulfire and received their remains. Feng Min decided to become a counselor at Chang'an Academy to watch over Yan Xiaolai, who had also been promised Chen Zhang as a personal disciple.

• Ji Chengjian and Liu Ru Yi lit the soulfire for their family, while Yan Xiaolai and Jian Hezhi helped send off their loved ones.
• Families watched the soulfire consume the dead, then received their remains in funerary urns.
• Feng Min told Feng Qisheng she had applied to become a counselor at Chang'an Academy so she could look after Yan Xiaolai.
• Feng Qisheng told Feng Min that the Yan Family had received substantial compensation, including a martial skill inheritance and a soul bone.
• Feng Qisheng revealed that Chen Zhang had promised to take Yan Xiaolai as his personal disciple, reassuring Feng Min about Xiaolai's future.

Ye Xiuxin examined Zhu Hongzhen and confirmed that he would awaken, though Rakshasa divine power had severely damaged the bloodline foundation of his martial soul. She outlined a theoretical recovery path involving a matching restorative force and a large energy supply, leaving the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a possible but untested option once Zhu Hongzhen had recovered enough to endure it.

• Feng Qisheng explained that taking Yan Xiaolai as a disciple would benefit the Fifth Master because of Xiaolai's rare Wind Lord martial soul and high innate soul power, while Feng Min hoped the apprenticeship would bring Xiaolai and Ji Tiantian closer.
• At the Chen Residence's Council Hall, Ye Xiuxin reported that Zhu Hongzhen's soul power seed remained functional and that he could awaken from his coma.
• Ye Xiuxin explained that Rakshasa divine power had destroyed some of the bloodline factors sustaining Zhu Hongzhen's Stone-Armored Boar Emperor martial soul, making its repair extremely difficult.
• Ye Xiuxin proposed that recovery would require a force capable of countering the damage, matching the martial soul's attributes, and providing sustained energy.
• Chen Hong raised the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as a possible energy source, and Ye Xiuxin said its suitability remained unverified and that Zhu Hongzhen must first awaken and regain his strength.

Five masked leaders of hidden factions met beneath Heaven Dou City to discuss the Dusk and Dawn Office and the threat it posed to their networks. They agreed to share intelligence and suspend major operations, but ended the meeting after considering whether to withdraw from the capital.

• Number One reported that the Crimson Church’s attack on the Chen Residence had caused limited damage and that the Dusk and Dawn Office was preparing to target hidden factions.
• Number Five confirmed that the Dusk and Dawn Office would hold the Clear Shadow Command and could mobilize imperial forces, including Title Douluos.
• Number Three proposed letting the Crimson Church test the new office while the masked leaders hid deeper and gathered intelligence.
• Numbers One, Two, Three, Four, and Five agreed to share information and secret channels and to suspend major operations until the office struck the Crimson Church.
• Numbers Two and Three discussed why the Ghost King and Xiao Yicai had come to Heaven Dou City, then Number Three suggested withdrawing from the capital.
• Number One ended the meeting, and all five figures vanished into the shadows.

At a memorial gathering in the Jiannan Marquis Residence, Chen Hua proposed an annual day to remember the Crimson Church’s attacks, while Chen Yinzu reported how the attacks and the revelation of the Chen Clan’s strength had unsettled Star Luo City. The chapter ended with Shen Tianjun calmly saying that the Xiang Family and other factions would get used to the Chen Clan’s growing power.

• Chen Hua proposed observing July fifth as Crimson Calamity Day to remember the Crimson Church’s attacks on Chen Clan strongholds.
• Chen Yinzu suggested alternative names and dates for the commemoration, and Chen Hua accepted his reasoning.
• Chen Yinzu reported that the attacks and the revelation of Chen Qiujun’s Titled Douluo cultivation had made Star Luo City’s factions wary of the Chen Clan.
• Chen Yinzu added that news of the Heaven Dou Chen Residence battle and the Chen Clan’s powerful relatives had spread, bringing the number of Titled Douluo under its banner to nine.
• Shen Tianjun said the Xiang Family’s cautious response was understandable and declared that others would get used to the Chen Clan’s growing power.

Chen Clan leaders debated how to respond to the Crimson Church after its attack and considered the threat posed by its three southern legions. Shen Tianjun ordered the discussion sent to the main clan for a decision while Chen Hua prepared contingency plans.

• Chen Hua, Chen Yinzu, and Chen Hua discussed the Xiang Family, the Star Luo Imperial Family, and whether the Chen Clan should retaliate or bide its time.
• Shen Tianjun asked Feng Tonglong to assess the Crimson Church's Black Crow, Demon Bull, and Devouring legions, and Feng argued that the clan needed a unified strategy before striking.
• Shen Tianjun invited Qing Yuzhen to share intelligence; she said the legions' strength and intentions remained unclear, noted Black Crow's limited role in the attack, and called for further investigation.
• Qing Yuzhen described the southern legions' territories: Demon Bull controlled the east, Devouring the central region, and Black Crow the western mountains.
• Shen Tianjun ordered an account of the discussion and the clan's stance sent to Chenlin Village for Chen Zixiu's review, and asked Chen Hua to prepare detailed contingency plans.

Sword Rain Academy’s injured team regrouped after narrowly winning a match, and Chen Jianzun planned their next lineup for the Star Luo region semifinals. Chen Feng promised Shen Youxi they would help her face her sister in the finals, while the team prepared for tougher opponents.

• Chen Feng comforted Zhu Wujie over missing the family shrine visit and promised they would return to the village together if the academy qualified.
• Chen Feng assured Shen Youxi that Sword Rain Academy would qualify and said their team would likely face the Chang'an Team before the finals.
• The group recalled the attack by a Soul Douluo and three Soul Saints, the deaths of three attackers, and the injuries that left Chen Jianzun and Chen Feng unable to compete.
• Chen Feng teased Feng Xiao Xiao about his past defeat, but Chen Jianzun stopped their banter and emphasized the difficulty of the coming matches.
• Chen Jianzun assigned Feng Xiao Xiao to lead the next match, with Wei Qingfu as deputy and Gai Rongliang, Xi Li Deng Yuan, Qin Yiming, Yan Qin Xue, and Shen Youxi on the lineup.

Zhou Yi and Jin Xin discussed Chang'an’s match against the Heaven Dou Royal Team and learned that the Banished Immortal would face the entire team alone. The arena fell silent as she entered the fighting platform, leaving the showdown about to begin.

• Zhou Yi sat beside Jin Xin, who had bought tickets for the same seats after winning money betting on Chang'an.
• Zhou Yi and Jin Xin introduced themselves and talked about the cost of following Chang'an to Heaven Dou City.
• Jin Xin told Zhou Yi that the Banished Immortal would fight alone because Chang'an had not submitted a lineup change in time.
• Zhou Yi warned that the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s Three Heroes—Xue Shiming, Tang Chen, and Ning Zhongtian—were stronger than the Banished Immortal’s previous opponents.
• Jin Xin urged Zhou Yi to trust the Banished Immortal, citing the high odds on her victory.
• The Banished Immortal entered the arena, and the crowd fell silent as her presence pressed over the fighting platform.

The Heaven Dou Royal Team began its battle against Chen Xin Yi, whose overwhelming twin seas of life and destruction vines faced their coordinated buffs and defenses. The chapter ended with the teams’ abilities clashing, before the fight’s outcome was clear.

• The Heaven Dou Royal Team revealed its members’ martial souls and soul rings, while Chen Xin Yi refused to summon hers.
• Tang Chen charged Chen Xin Yi with his Clear Sky Hammer as she unleashed a hundred-meter Thorn Wall of life and destruction vines.
• Xue Shiming and Ning Zhongtian used Divine Blessing and Holy Radiance Resonance to strengthen the Heaven Dou team.
• Zhi Xuan raised a vine net and sent Azure Vines forward to contain the advancing thorns.
• Bai Tianrui slowed the vines with Falling Star Barrier and sent Scattering Starfire sweeping toward them.

The Heaven Dou Team’s coordinated assault tore through Chen Xin Yi’s twin-vine formation, destroying nearly two-thirds of it with freezing mist, hammers, holy spears, and golden feathers. As the team neared her, spectators observed that Chen Xin Yi had finally gotten serious.

• Ling Xinyao spread freezing mist across the vines, chilling them and corroding their soul power pathways.
• Tang Chen smashed a breach through the vines with his Clear Sky Hammer while Ning Zhongtian and Xue Shiming supported him with volleys of holy spears and golden feathers.
• Zhi Xuan and Bai Tianrui held the flanks as the six Heaven Dou fighters advanced through the collapsing vine sea.
• Xue Shiming recognized that their speed-based assault had destroyed nearly two-thirds of the formation, while Chen Xin Yi remained still at its heart.
• Zhu Wuneng, Chen Xiaojun, Chen Shurui, and Chen Mu discussed the team’s performance, and Chen Bin remarked that Chen Xin Yi had gotten serious.

A purple-clad fighter unveiled a third Azure Vine Martial Soul and overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Team’s counterattack, stunning the arena and its spectators. The chapter ended with Zhan Ruoxi’s dormant resolve stirring as she watched the display.

• The purple figure evaded the Heaven Dou Team’s attack and declared that their assault was still not enough.
• She used Modified Second Soul Skill: Azure Vine Formation, unleashing a vast sea of powerful vines that crushed the team’s counterattack.
• Zhi Xuan, Zhi Xing, Bai Canhong, and other spectators reacted in shock to the Azure Vine’s overwhelming power and apparent third Martial Soul.
• The crowd erupted as observers across the arena called the purple figure a monster beyond imagination.
• Ji Bingyan and Bo Huaiyu recalled their defeat, while Zhan Ruoxi’s ice-blue eyes began to glow with renewed resolve.

Xiao Yi’s King Azure Vine overwhelmed the arena and trapped the six members of the Heaven Dou Team in a shrinking pocket of space. The team combined their defenses and counterattacks to halt the vines’ advance and push them back slightly.

• Xiao Yi’s enormous azure vines erupted across the arena, engulfing it and surrounding the Heaven Dou Team.
• Ling Xinyao used Ice Cage to shield the six members, but the vines shattered it after only a few breaths.
• Tang Chen formed a defensive sphere with his Clear Sky Hammer, and Ning Zhongtian reinforced it with Holy Light Barrier.
• Xue Shiming unleashed Sacred Rain, briefly suppressing the vines with its purifying power.
• Bai Tianrui raised Starlight Barrier and used Stars Repulsive Force while Zhi Xuan strengthened his vines with Greenwood Magic Domain.
• The Heaven Dou Team’s combined defenses and counterattack halted the vines’ advance and pushed back a small section of the azure-green boundary.

Ling Xinyao and Xue Shiming combined three layers of ice power to blast a fifty-meter clearing through Xiao Yi’s Vine Sea, but Xiao Yi quickly sent a renewed three-colored wave after the charging Heaven Dou Team. Tang Chen activated his trump cards and raised his attack power to near the threshold of a level 75 Soul Saint before confronting Xiao Yi through the vines.

• Ling Xinyao unleashed Ice Seal Three Thousand Li, freezing the Azure Vines in front of the Heaven Dou Team.
• Xue Shiming combined the Sacred Rain and his Frost Left Arm Bone Soul Skill with Ling Xinyao’s ice, shattering the frozen vines and carving a fifty-meter clearing through the Vine Sea.
• Tang Chen charged with his Clear Sky Hammer as Xiao Yi revived the Life, Falling Star, and Azure Vines into a slower Three-Colored Frenzy.
• Tang Chen activated Thunderclap Rampage and World-Shaking Power, combining his lightning, Ironblood Tyrant Body, and physical strength into a tremendous boost.
• Tang Chen reached High-Rank Soul Emperor strength and raised his hammer’s attack power beyond the Mid-Rank Soul Saint threshold as he fixed his gaze on Xiao Yi.

Heaven Dou’s coordinated assault pushed Tang Chen to within thirty meters of Xiao Yi, combining Tang Chen’s hammer, Ning Zhongtian’s holy light, Xue Shiming’s clone, and a brewing attack. Xiao Yi unleashed her Withered Vine Song, and its destruction waves overwhelmed the attackers, leaving Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian badly injured as the battle continued.

• Dugu Fu, Zhu Wuneng, and Chen Shurui mocked Tang Chen’s claim to world-shaking power and compared him unfavorably with Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun.
• Tang Chen and Ning Zhongtian broke through the Falling Star Vines while Xue Shiming created a clone to attack Xiao Yi and prepared another powerful strike.
• Xiao Yi used her Fourth Soul Skill, Withered Vine Song, to send successive waves of destruction toward Heaven Dou’s advancing fighters.
• Tang Chen’s hammer strikes and Ning Zhongtian’s Holy Tower Annihilation Blast pierced several waves, while Xue Shiming’s clone sacrificed itself to break through others.
• Tang Chen was struck by the continuing waves, spat blood, and was hurled backward, while Ning Zhongtian suffered severe recoil and crashed into Bai Tianrui’s Stars Barrier.

Xiao Yi revealed a fourth martial soul, the king-tier Sword Willow Vine, and used it to destroy Xue Shiming’s Flowing Wind clone. The arena’s spectators and experts struggled to comprehend her impossible display as the vine aimed its blades at Xue Shiming’s true body.

• Xiao Yi struck the Flowing Wind clone with three finger swords, then the Sword Willow Vine’s hidden blades cut it apart.
• The colossal azure-and-gold Sword Willow Vine emerged from the earth and targeted Xue Shiming as he gathered flames of light.
• Ji Bingyan and Bo Huaiyu realized Xiao Yi had a fourth martial soul, while the arena fell silent in shock.
• Zhi Xing recognized the Sword Willow Vine as a king-tier martial soul and rejected the possibility that it could have risen so far.
• Bai Canhong questioned how one person could possess four martial souls, while Han Yiyu and Xuan Qingya reacted to Xiao Yi’s power.
• The Sword Willow Vine’s blade-covered whips remained aimed at Xue Shiming’s true body.