Recaps

Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Zhu Wuneng fought a seven-hundred-year Sword Willow Vine while Chen Cong, Chen Xun, and Zhu Hongzhen kept the other vines at bay. The youngsters pierced its core, and the surrounding Sword Willow Vines cried out as it began to wither.

• Chen Xiaojun asked Chen Cong, Chen Xun, and Zhu Hongzhen to hold off the other Sword Willow Vines while the youngsters fought the youngest vine.
• Xiao Yi bound the Sword Willow Vine with her Immortal Evergreen Vine, Chen Xiaojun attacked with his twin swords, and Zhu Wuneng used Marshal Tianpeng's possession to strike from the front.
• The Sword Willow Vine weakened as the three youngsters continued their assault, and Zhu Wuneng smashed its branches into the ground to create an opening.
• Xiao Yi restrained the vine while Chen Xiaojun's Sword God Pearls blasted holes through it, then he cut through its roots.
• Xiao Yi's Immortal Evergreen Vine pierced the Sword Willow Vine's core, causing its branches and roots to wither as the neighboring vines cried out.

Xiao Yi used Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow and her Immortal Evergreen Vine to endure and absorb a seven-hundred-year first Soul Ring, raising her strength beyond the usual limit. After the absorption, her Martial Soul began to transform, while Chen Xiaojun hinted that one step remained.

• Chen Xiaojun urged Xiao Yi to rest and asked Chen Cong to watch over her as she began absorbing the Soul Ring.
• The Soul Ring’s energy overwhelmed Xiao Yi, so Chen Xiaojun told her to activate Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow.
• Xiao Yi used the technique with her Immortal Evergreen Vine to break down the energy, recover, and gradually adapt to it.
• The vine absorbed and refined the Soul Ring’s soul power as Xiao Yi’s level rose and her body and sea of soul consciousness strengthened.
• Chen Cong said Xiao Yi had safely absorbed a seven-hundred-year first Soul Ring, and Chen Xiaojun said one step remained.
• After absorbing the Sword Willow Vine’s energy, Xiao Yi’s Immortal Evergreen Vine began to transform.

Xiao Yi successfully absorbed a soul ring beyond her normal age limit, awakening a metal attribute in her Immortal Evergreen Vine. Chen Cong revealed Chen Xiaojun’s broader plan to develop Xiao Yi’s martial soul toward a super martial soul, and Xiao Yi emerged with her soul power at level fifteen.

• The Immortal Evergreen Vine gained a metal attribute and changed as it absorbed the Sword Willow Vine’s soul ring.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the vine’s devouring and life attributes could help it absorb and evolve soul-ring attributes.
• Chen Cong outlined Chen Xiaojun’s plan to give Xiao Yi all five elemental attributes and yin and yang attributes, supported by her cultivation arts and vine-type soul rings.
• Xiao Yi finished absorbing the hundred-year Yellow Soul Ring and rose to level fifteen in soul power.

Xiao Yi demonstrated her first soul skill, which greatly increased her soul power and agility while making her movements light and swift. After naming it Willow Catkins Drifting with the Wind, she tested Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow and showed how its transformed leaves could slash deeply into a tree.

• Xiao Yi activated her first soul skill and danced through the woods with remarkable speed, grace, and control.
• Chen Xun and Chen Cong praised the skill’s effects, and Chen Cong explained that the seven-hundred-year soul ring and the Immortal Evergreen Vine’s absorption of the Sword Willow Vine’s benefits made it exceptional.
• Chen Xiaojun reminded Chen Cong that Xiao Yi also had the passive effect Sword Form Transformation.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested names for Xiao Yi’s skill, and Xiao Yi chose Willow Catkins Drifting with the Wind.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Xiao Yi to try Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow, and she used transformed leaves to cut deep gashes into a tree while moving through the air.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi sparred, and Xiao Yi’s Immortal Evergreen Vine defenses held against most of his attacks. After the fight, Chen Xiaojun explained his plans to develop Little Wuneng’s elemental abilities and revealed he had been preparing him with the Divine Wood Heart.

• Xiao Yi used the Immortal Evergreen Vine to block Chen Xiaojun’s attacks and knock the Chengying Sword away with Green Vine Thorn.
• Xiao Yi defended against Chen Xiaojun’s increasingly fierce attacks and counterattacked with Flying Leaf Vine Whip until he stopped and praised her strength.
• Zhu Hongzhen asked Chen Xiaojun to guide Little Wuneng, and Chen Cong pointed out that Wuneng had four of the five elemental attributes.
• Chen Xiaojun said he was considering a wood-attribute soul beast for Little Wuneng but thought a first soul ring alone would not be enough.
• Little Wuneng showed the Divine Wood Heart he had been holding while cultivating, and Chen Cong realized Chen Xiaojun intended to expose him to its wood aura.

Chen Xiaojun obtained a three-thousand-year-old Five-Colored Deer's soul ring after the noble soul beast willingly accepted his death. The ring transformed his Pure Jun Pearl into the Chunjun Sword, leaving Chen Xiaojun and the others solemn and grief-stricken.

• After six days of searching for a suitable soul beast, Chen Xiaojun and his companions encountered a three-thousand-year-old Five-Colored Deer.
• The Five-Colored Deer approached Chen Xiaojun, communicated with him by thought, and accepted that Chen Xiaojun would take his soul ring.
• Chen Xiaojun bowed to the deer and apologized before the adults intervened and the soul beast died calmly.
• The Five-Colored Deer's purple soul ring gently entered Chen Xiaojun, strengthening his body, soul power, and mental power.
• Chen Xiaojun's Pure Jun Pearl transformed into the Chunjun Sword, bearing a Five-Colored Deer watermark and star-like patterns.
• Chen Xiaojun and the others remained silent and mournful as they reflected on the Five-Colored Deer's composure.

Chen Xiaojun used his second system prize draw and won the Nine Yin Manual and Nine Yang Manual, a pair of cultivation methods he considered well suited to himself and the Chen Clan. He showed the books to Chen Cong, who eagerly read the Nine Yin Manual and praised its teachings.

• Chen Xiaojun started the prize draw and the wheel stopped on the cultivation slot.
• Chen Xiaojun chose the middle card and won the Nine Yin Manual and Nine Yang Manual, which the system identified as a set of foundation-building methods.
• Chen Xiaojun compared the two manuals with the other possible prizes and concluded their yin-yang principles best suited him, Xiao Yi, and the Chen Clan.
• Chen Xiaojun took the metal volumes from his Shining Ring and explained to Chen Cong that they were rewards from his master.
• Chen Cong read passages from the Nine Yin Manual and praised its profound teachings.

Chen Xiaojun explained the Nine Yin and Nine Yang Manuals’ cultivation principles and shared selected techniques with his relatives. Chen Cong recognized that the Nine Yang Divine Skill’s nine stages matched the Clear Sky Sect’s Nine Yang Art, leaving him to consider the connection between the two inheritances.

• Chen Xiaojun explained Taoist and Buddhist cultivation philosophies to Chen Cong and compared them with Soul Master cultivation.
• Chen Cong noticed that the Big Dipper Art resembled the Chen Clan’s Impartial Sword Qi Art and suggested combining them.
• Chen Xiaojun gave Zhu Hongzhen metal pages containing the Heart-Shattering Palm and Golden Bell Shield, which Zhu eagerly accepted for the Zhu Family.
• Chen Xiaojun distributed the Muscle and Bone Forging Chapter, the Big Dipper Art, other techniques, and the Nine Yin Manual’s general principles to his relatives.
• After reading the Nine Yang Manual, Chen Cong connected its nine stages to the Clear Sky Sect’s Nine Yang Art and described how the Tang Family practiced that inheritance.

Chen Shihua and Yang Bu'er fought off Xuan Ye Pavilion assassins while fleeing through the Sunset Forest after Chen Shihua rescued her grandson from a secret training camp. They escaped the first encirclement but remained in danger as a Night-Rank Killer arrived outside the forest.

• Chen Shihua and Yang Bu'er used their soul skills to repel Silver-Rank Killers and fled deeper into the forest.
• After escaping the assassins, Chen Shihua told Yang Bu'er that the Xuan Ye Pavilion had pursued her and her daughter Su Rong for half a month because she rescued her grandson from a secret training camp.
• Yang Bu'er explained that he had intervened because of his friendship with Chen Shihua and the longstanding ties between their families.
• Chen Shihua said Su Rong had taken her grandson ahead, and she and Yang Bu'er set out to find them.
• Two Xuan-Rank Killers waited outside the Sunset Forest as a Night-Rank Killer arrived.

Xing Ye Douluo ordered Xiu Sha to eliminate Chen Shihua and her companions before the Chen Clan and Soul Fighting City could respond, then led the attack against Chen Shihua and Yang Bu'er in the Sunset Forest. As Xing Ye Douluo unleashed his eighth soul skill, Chen Shihua countered with her Dawn Blade, and their powerful attacks were about to collide.

• Xing Ye Douluo berated Xiu Sha for provoking the Chen Clan and ordered him to kill Chen Shihua and erase all traces of the incident.
• Xing Ye Douluo and his killers cornered Chen Shihua and Yang Bu'er in the Sunset Forest.
• Xing Ye Douluo attacked Chen Shihua while two Xuan-Rank Killers held Yang Bu'er back, gradually exhausting both fighters.
• Xing Ye Douluo unleashed his eighth soul skill, Xing Ye Descent, and sent a powerful beam of starlight toward Chen Shihua.
• Chen Shihua combined three profound arts with her eighth soul skill, Dawn Blade, and prepared to meet Xing Ye Douluo's attack.

Chen Cong arrived as a newly ascended Titled Douluo and saved Chen Shihua from Xing Ye Douluo, while Chen Xun struck the killers attacking Yang Bu'er. Chen Cong and Xing Ye Douluo tested each other’s strength, then agreed to give the Chen Clan an accounting.

• Xing Ye Douluo nearly defeated Chen Shihua, but Chen Cong appeared and blocked his attack.
• Chen Xun used his eighth Soul Skill to blast away the killers surrounding Yang Bu'er and urged him to retreat.
• Chen Cong and Xing Ye Douluo exchanged their ninth Soul Skills, and their attacks ended in a draw.
• Xing Ye Douluo and Chen Cong acknowledged each other’s strength and agreed to give the Chen Clan an accounting.

After the Xuan Ye Pavilion assassins withdrew, Xing Ye Douluo chose not to investigate the Chen Clan’s secrets and planned to send them a gift. The reunited clan members learned of Zhu Hongzhen’s breakthrough and new title, Mountain Stone, while Chen Cong remained confident that their abilities would stay concealed.

• Xing Ye Douluo warned Xiu Sha against needless sacrifices and revealed that an unfamiliar beast-soul Titled Douluo with ties to the Chen Clan had watched the battle.
• Xing Ye Douluo ordered Xiu Sha not to monitor or publicize the Chen Clan and to send them a generous gift instead.
• Chen Cong and Chen Xun heard a battle nearby, recognized Su Rong’s Seven Kill Sword and Sword Wings Like Flight, and rescued Chen Surong from Xuan Ye Pavilion assassins.
• Chen Surong thanked Chen Xiaojun for healing her and reunited with Chen Shihua, while Chen Shihua and Yang Bu'er were astonished to see Zhu Hongzhen had become a Titled Douluo.
• Zhu Hongzhen told Yang Bu'er his new title was Mountain Stone, chosen after Chen Xiaojun’s earlier suggestions were rejected.
• Chen Cong reassured Chen Shihua that Xing Ye Douluo would not expose their cultivation, and Yang Bu'er rested briefly before leaving.

After waking in the Chen Clan’s newly discovered secret realm, Chen Shihua learned that the Xuan Ye Pavilion had apologized for the trouble she suffered and offered substantial gifts. She judged the gifts sincere and weighty, accepting that the dispute had reached its end.

• After Yang Bu'er left, Chen Shihua collapsed from exhaustion and injuries and remained unconscious for about ten days.
• Chen Shihua woke in the Chen Clan’s secret realm, where Chen Zixiu explained that it lay within the Sunset Forest and aided recovery and cultivation.
• Chen Wenchao arrived and reunited with Chen Shihua, then reported that the Xuan Ye Pavilion had offered five hundred thousand gold coins, high-grade plant seeds, and a low-level soul master training manual.
• Chen Zixiu and Chen Wenchao discussed the value of the gifts and the Xuan Ye Pavilion’s apparent attempt to build friendly relations with the Chen Clan.
• Asked for her judgment, Chen Shihua called the offering substantial, sincere, and weighty, and accepted that the matter was settled.

Chen Shihua and Chen Surong explained how they found Jiu Sheng and brought him back, while the Chen Clan planned to use Xuan Ye Pavilion’s training methods and reorganize its operations around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The family agreed to enter the child into the clan genealogy as Chen Shurui.

• Chen Zixiu asked Chen Cong, Chen Menglin, Chen Qiujun, and Chen Shihua to study Xuan Ye Pavilion’s training methods and improve coordinated combat among lower-ranking Soul Masters.
• Chen Wenchao told Chen Shihua that she would oversee Sword Shadow Hall’s communications near Sunset City after recovering, while he remained in Chenlin Village.
• Chen Surong recounted that she and Chen Shihua had recognized Jiu Sheng at a Xuan Ye Pavilion training camp and tried to take him back, prompting the Pavilion to pursue them.
• Chen Surong said the people who attacked her family years earlier had likely been Evil Soul Masters, not members of Xuan Ye Pavilion.
• Chen Surong revealed that she and her late husband had chosen Shurui as Jiu Sheng’s formal name, and Chen Shihua approved of the name.

Chen Xiaojun demonstrated Chun Jun and revealed that his second soul skill, Peerless Nobility, greatly enhanced his abilities. He then used an advanced technique on Chen Menglin, leaving its effect to be revealed.

• Chen Zixiu assigned Chen Surong and Shi Hua to stay and help, while Shurui was to study with Chen Xiaojun.
• Chen Surong praised Chen Xiaojun’s strength and told Shurui that his sixth elder brother was a level twenty-two Soul Grandmaster.
• Chen Xiaojun summoned Chun Jun and explained its abilities to resist and suppress martial souls and charge its next attack.
• Chen Xiaojun demonstrated Chun Jun’s charged strike, carving a deep gash into a cliff.
• Chen Xiaojun revealed Peerless Nobility’s one-hundred-percent boosts to attack, defense, speed, resistance, and stamina for half an hour.
• Chen Xiaojun activated Peerless Nobility Advanced Technique and enveloped Chen Menglin in a multicolored radiance.

Chen Xiaojun tested an advanced form of his Second Soul Skill, which boosted other Soul Masters’ abilities and proved effective even on powerful elders. After revealing its effects and limits, he suggested that blessings from immortal herbs had transformed his Sword God Pearls and enabled the technique.

• Chen Menglin discovered that Chen Xiaojun’s advanced technique increased all five of his attributes by 100% for ten minutes, and Chen Cong received the same boost for five minutes.
• Chen Xiaojun concluded that the enhancement stayed fixed at 100% while its duration decreased with the recipient’s level, then used the technique on Chen Zixiu.
• Chen Zixiu reported a 30% increase in all five attributes for five minutes, prompting Chen Cong to speculate that the skill’s effect declined above a certain level.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the technique might have come from the blessing of the immortal herb Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and its resonance with his Sword God Pearls.

Chen Xiaojun demonstrated the evolved Hanguang Sword and gave the clan copies of the Nine Yin and Nine Yang Manuals. The clan classified the manuals as top secret while the village families requested exchanges for several martial techniques.

• Chen Xiaojun tested his evolved Chengying Sword on Chen Cong, revealing the invisible Hanguang Sword and its child sword.
• Chen Cong agreed that the immortal herbs had likely helped evolve Chen Xiaojun’s Sword God Pearls and Soul Skills.
• Chen Xiaojun gave Chen Zixiu and the elders copies of the Nine Yin and Nine Yang Manuals, explaining their potential to heal injuries and strengthen health.
• Chen Zixiu ordered Chen Cong to classify the manuals as top secret and set their merit-point exchange costs.
• Zhu Hongzhen and Zhu Yanfeng requested exchanges for the Heart-Shattering Palm and Golden Bell Shield, while the Cheng, Ma, and Ding Families requested exchanges for other techniques.

Chen Xiaojun discussed how the Nine Yin Manual could strengthen the Chen Clan before Zhu Wuneng revealed his unusual first soul skill, Wind-Calling Ears. The skill let him hear at great distances and fly, while his wood attribute remained only partially awakened.

• Chen Xiaojun asked Chen Cong to study whether the Big Dipper Heavenly Dipper Formation could be combined with the Seven Kill Sword Formation.
• Chen Menglin and Chen Qiujun argued about the Xuan Ye Pavilion's hidden strength until Chen Wenchao stopped them.
• Zhu Wuneng showed Ye Xiuxin and the others his Wind-Calling Ears, which enlarged his ears and let him hear distant sounds.
• Zhu Wuneng used his soul power to make his ears flap and carry him through the air, demonstrating the skill's flight and sensory abilities.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that Zhu Wuneng had not awakened the wood attribute yet, but further wood-attribute soul beasts might help him integrate it.

Three years after awakening his Martial Soul, Dugu Fu accompanied his grandfather into the Sunset Forest to hunt a second Soul Ring. Their attempt to claim an Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix was disputed by Zhu Wuneng, and Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi arrived to weigh in.

• Dugu Fu’s grandfather explained that the Dugu Jade Phosphor Snake lineage relied on poison and brought him to the Sunset Forest to find a suitable Soul Beast for his second Soul Ring.
• Dugu Fu’s grandfather spotted a roughly seven-hundred-year-old Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix and used his Fourth Soul Skill, Shadow Snake Hands, to surround it.
• Zhu Wuneng flew in and claimed the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix, pointing out wounds from his rake and saying he needed it for his Soul Ring.
• Dugu Fu’s grandfather argued that Zhu Wuneng had lost his chance by letting the Soul Beast escape.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi appeared nearby, and Chen Xiaojun challenged the old man’s claim that the escape meant Zhu Wuneng was not fated to catch it.

Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Zhu Wuneng faced Dugu Lin’s challenge to prove they were strong enough to claim the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix. After they defeated his Fourth Soul Skill, Dugu Lin honored his wager, then called out someone hidden nearby.

• Chen Xiaojun argued that his group had discovered and hunted the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix first, and Dugu Lin challenged them to take one attack from him.
• Chen Xiaojun gave the name Xiao Hongchen, while Xiao Yi and Zhu Wuneng joined him in facing Dugu Lin’s Fourth Soul Skill, Shadow Snake Hands.
• The three children combined their Soul Skills and destroyed Dugu Lin’s energy snakes, astonishing him and Dugu Fu with their strength.
• Dugu Lin demonstrated the gulf between their abilities by appearing behind the children, then agreed to give them the Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix.
• Dugu Lin addressed someone who had been watching from a massive tree and told them to come out.

Dugu Lin reunited with his old classmate Zhu Yanfeng and met Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun in Sunset Forest. After learning that Chen Xiaojun knew of a soul beast suited to his grandson, Dugu Lin heard the name of the Netherworld Green Snake.

• Dugu Lin recognized Zhu Yanfeng, his former Exotic Beast Academy classmate, as Zhu Yanfeng and Chen Cong emerged from behind a tree.
• Dugu Lin greeted Chen Cong and learned that he was the Heaven and Earth Swordsman, a Titled Douluo of the Chen Clan.
• Zhu Yanfeng revealed that Zhu Wuneng was his grandnephew, and Dugu Lin congratulated him on Zhu Wuneng's beneficial martial soul mutation.
• Chen Xiaojun apologized to Dugu Lin for concealing his real name and explained that he was Chen Cong's elder brother's youngest grandson.
• Chen Xiaojun offered to guide Dugu Lin to a seventh-grade snake-type soul beast compatible with the Jade-Scaled Snake martial soul.
• Chen Xiaojun identified the soul beast as the Netherworld Green Snake, delighting Dugu Lin.

Dugu Fu absorbed a Netherworld Green Snake Soul Ring and demonstrated his new second Soul Skill, Netherworld Poison Shadow. Dugu Lin and Zhu Yanfeng praised its power and discussed the boys’ promising prospects.

• Chen Xiaojun offered to lead Dugu Lin and Dugu Fu to Netherworld Green Snakes after explaining their value to the Dugu Family.
• Dugu Fu absorbed a Netherworld Green Snake Soul Ring and gained the Soul Skill Netherworld Poison Shadow.
• Dugu Fu demonstrated how Netherworld Poison Shadow created toxic mist, obscured his movements, and left hindering snake shadows on a target.
• Zhu Yanfeng praised Dugu Fu’s Soul Skill, and Dugu Lin explained that it complemented the Jade-Scaled Snake Martial Soul.
• Dugu Lin and Zhu Yanfeng compared Dugu Fu’s aptitude with Zhu Wuneng’s, noting their young ages and potential.

Zhu Wuneng demonstrated his mutated second soul skill, the Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light, which destroyed a massive tree with five elemental forces. Chen Xiaojun concluded that the skill awakened Zhu Wuneng’s wood attribute and multiplied the power of the five elements, leaving the group impressed by his strength.

• Zhu Wuneng revealed that absorbing a seven-hundred-year Emerald Cloud Luan Phoenix soul ring had raised him to level twenty-two and granted him a strange second soul skill.
• Zhu Wuneng fired five-colored divine light from his eyes and pierced through a massive tree, astonishing Chen Xiaojun, Dugu Fu, Dugu Lin, and Zhu Yanfeng.
• Chen Xiaojun examined the five elemental marks left on the tree and named the skill the Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light.
• Zhu Wuneng explained that the Divine Wood Heart had activated during his absorption, flooding him with wood-, water-, and fire-attribute soul power before shattering.
• Chen Xiaojun concluded that the soul ring had awakened Zhu Wuneng’s wood attribute and formed a five-elements cycle that multiplied its destructive power severalfold.

Chen Xiaojun had Zhu Wuneng test his second soul ring with different elemental soul powers, revealing that wood-attribute soul power activated Zhu Wuneng’s true soul skill: an illusion that disoriented those around him. The chapter ended with Zhu Wuneng learning that only wood-attribute soul power and five elements destruction power could activate his mutated eyes.

• Chen Xiaojun explained to Chen Cong that five elements overcoming had greater destructive power than Xiao Yi’s five elements generating, and recalled how Xiao Yi had absorbed the two immortal herbs and awakened water and fire attributes.
• Chen Xiaojun told Zhu Wuneng to channel soul power of different attributes through his second soul ring and into his eyes.
• Zhu Wuneng used metal-attribute soul power, but his eyes showed no change beyond their usual green ripples and peach-blossom shape.
• Zhu Wuneng used wood-attribute soul power, and his eyes released an illusion that left those watching dizzy and disoriented.
• Chen Cong recognized the illusion as Zhu Wuneng’s actual second soul skill, and Chen Xiaojun explained that the earlier Divine Light was an inherited ability produced by his mutated eyes.
• Zhu Wuneng tested other attributes and found that only wood-attribute soul power and five elements destruction power activated his eyes.

After Zhu Wuneng gained a second Soul Skill that included the Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light, Chen Xiaojun helped name his abilities and explained how they worked. Dugu Lin learned that nine-year-old Chen Xiaojun had a three-thousand-year Soul Ring and invited him to attend the Exotic Beast Academy.

• Chen Xiaojun explained that Zhu Wuneng could use the Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light as a powerful trump card that could grow with his cultivation.
• Chen Xiaojun named Zhu Wuneng's regular Second Soul Skill Phoenix Eyes, and Zhu Wuneng accepted the name despite the teasing.
• Dugu Fu and Dugu Lin congratulated Zhu Wuneng, who resolved to keep cultivating so he could master his two Soul Skills.
• Dugu Lin asked about Chen Xiaojun's level and learned that he was level thirty, had a mutated Martial Soul, and had absorbed a three-thousand-year Soul Ring for his Second Soul Skill.
• Dugu Lin invited Chen Xiaojun to attend the Exotic Beast Academy, hoping his grandson would benefit from being around him.