Arc 59The Two Hammer Inheritances

Chen Xiaojun learned about the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s hammer arts and persuaded the Chen Clan to prevent the Clear Sky Sect from absorbing the family. The clan prepared to negotiate or intervene, while Chen Xiaojun’s projects advanced and a new super martial soul stirred interest across the continent.

  • Chen Xiaojun learned from Tang Yuchen about the Hundred Blossoms Throne’s puppet network and ordered a proposal for Chen Xin Towers to extend communications and other powers across the clan’s territory.
  • Tang Yuchen explained the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s Ninefold Earth Hammer Method and Great Kunlun Hammer, and Chen Xiaojun connected their history to the Clear Sky Sect’s hammer inheritance.
  • Chen Xiaojun proposed that the Chen Clan protect the Yellow Emperor Tang Family, despite warnings that intervention could provoke the Clear Sky Sect and disrupt the clan’s trade, alliances, and forest route.
  • Chen Xiaojun argued that the two hammer traditions might combine into a formidable path, then revealed his master’s visions of their potential connection to godhood and convinced the clan leaders to act.
  • Chen Xun ordered the clan to pursue negotiation with the Clear Sky Sect while preparing to stop its expansion, and Chen Hong tasked Chen Xiaojun with contacting the sect during his trip to Heaven Dou City.
  • The Chen Xin Tower project received top priority and full resources, Tang Yuchen became its lead, and Tie Fu’er left to compete in the Gaoying Tournament.
  • Xia Qingyun discovered that fighting Chen Yu’s Rakshasa poison had fused her arts and produced signs of the Ten Suns Sacred Flame, while Chen Xiaojun and Chen Hong visited the secret realm and received Life Spirit Milk from Elder Qing.
  • Qian Xizi and Bo Shala’s group sensed a new super martial soul, while Bo Saixi set out for Heaven Dou City to observe the younger generation and challenge Donghuang.
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Ch. 1478Shadow Butterfly

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.

Ch. 1479Mental Fission Network

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.

Ch. 1480A leap in civilization: Douluo's local area network!

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.

Ch. 1481Coverage: How Far Could It Reach?

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.

Ch. 1482Chen Xin Tower

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.

Ch. 1483Not the Chaotic Cloak, but the Ninefold Earth!

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.

Ch. 1484Chaotic Cloak and Ninefold Earth

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.

Ch. 1485The Way of the Yellow Emperor Hammer

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.

Ch. 1486The Tang Family's Great Kunlun Hammer

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.

Ch. 1487Sumeru and Kunlun: Terrifying Implications

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.

Ch. 1488Tang Haotian and Yellow Emperor Tang Xuan

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.

Ch. 1489The Great Sumeru Hammer: The Foundation of Its Monstrous Power

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.

Ch. 1490Even war with the Clear Sky Sect would be worth it (Part one)

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.

Ch. 1491Even War with the Clear Sky Sect Would Be Worth the Cost (Part Two)

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.

Ch. 1492Even war with the Clear Sky Sect would be worth the cost (Part two)

Ximen Shaoping, Chen Wu, Mu Lingyun, and Yu Jinghan warned Chen Xun that intervening in the conflict involving the Yellow Emperor Tang Family could provoke the Clear Sky Sect and destabilize Sunset City, damaging the Chen Clan’s trade, resources, and secret-realm access. Chen Xun then asked Xue Shiqiong for her opinion, and she began cautiously.

  • Ximen Shaoping argued that intervening would break the tacit noninterference among the Seven Heavenly Martial Weapons and risk retaliation from the Clear Sky Sect and other powers.
  • Chen Wu warned that conflict near Sunset City could disrupt medicinal-herb supplies and harm the development of the clan’s young Soul Masters and warriors.
  • Mu Lingyun outlined how a Clear Sky Sect blockade could collapse Sunset City’s markets, paralyze logistics, halt cooperation, and endanger the clan’s hidden passage into the forest.
  • Yu Jinghan warned that turmoil around Sunset City could expose the hub connecting the clan to the forest’s depths and threaten its foundations.
  • Chen Xun asked Xue Shiqiong to share her thoughts, and she said she was still learning the clan’s strategic deployments and feared her views might be shallow.

Ch. 1493Even war with the Clear Sky Sect would be worth the price (conclusion)

Chen Xiaojun insisted that the Chen family preserve the Yellow Emperor Tang Family despite the risks of provoking the Clear Sky Sect. When challenged to explain, he began recounting the history of Tang Haotian and Tang Xuan Yellow Emperor and how the Clear Sky and Yellow Emperor lineages might complement each other.

  • Xue Chuxin's daughter explained the Clear Sky Sect's expansion and outlined the Imperial Family and Silver Plume Alliance as possible but risky sources of support.
  • Ye Xiuxin silently abstained, leaving Chen Xiaojun isolated as most of the family opposed his plan.
  • Chen Xun asked Chen Xiaojun whether he still intended to pursue taking control of the Yellow Emperor Tang Family despite the costs.
  • Chen Xiaojun declared that the family would preserve the Yellow Emperor Tang Family even if it meant war with the Clear Sky Sect.
  • Chen Hong demanded Chen Xiaojun's reason, and Chen Xiaojun asked whether the elders knew of Tang Haotian and Tang Xuan Yellow Emperor before beginning their history.

Ch. 1494A revolutionary deduction (Part One)

Chen Xiaojun argued that the Clear Sky Hammer and Yellow Emperor Hammer might share techniques and cultivation foundations that could be combined, potentially creating a widely applicable path to overwhelming combat power. He left the elders stunned with the possibility that paired Soul Douluos could rival Titled Douluos.

  • Chen Xiaojun recounted how two Level 98 Peak Douluos had defeated a Level 99 Peerless Douluo and suggested the Clear Sky Hammer and Yellow Emperor Hammer might ultimately be merged.
  • Chen Xiaojun argued that Ring Detonation and Nuclear Explosion could be universal techniques rather than secrets exclusive to either hammer, while the Great Sumeru Hammer and Great Kunlun Hammer remained distinct attack methods.
  • Chen Zhang questioned why the Tang Family had not discovered the fusion path, and Chen Xiaojun suggested their ancestors may have lacked the strength and resources to endure its backlash.
  • Chen Xiaojun said soul-bone armaments could help two Super Douluos fuse their hammers and briefly reach Peerless Douluo combat strength.
  • Chen Xiaojun proposed that the Clear Sky Nine Yang Force and Earth Origin Ninefold Earth Formula could resonate, allowing paired Soul Douluos to reach the combat strength of Level 91–92 Titled Douluos or even Level 95 at their peak.

Ch. 1495A radical projection (part two)

Chen Xiaojun warned the elders that the Clear Sky Sect could use the Yellow Emperor Tang Family’s strength to dominate the central and western regions, making intervention essential for the Chen Clan’s survival. Xia Qingyun challenged his explanation and pressed him to reveal his real reason, and Chen Xiaojun began to answer.

  • Chen Xiaojun argued that the Clear Sky Sect could assemble many teams of twin-hammer Soul Douluos and purge its rivals across the central and western regions.
  • Chen Xiaojun warned that the Chen Clan would lose its footholds and face a far worse fate if it let the Clear Sky Sect absorb the Yellow Emperor Tang Family unopposed.
  • Xia Qingyun dismissed the other elders and asked Chen Xiaojun to explain his real reason for urging intervention in Lankai Commandery.
  • Xia Qingyun questioned Chen Xiaojun’s claims about universal Profound Arts, the two factions’ ability to reconcile, and the level of threat the Clear Sky Sect would pose.
  • Chen Hong urged Chen Xiaojun to speak honestly, and Chen Xiaojun’s smile faded.

Ch. 1496A revolutionary deduction (part two)

Chen Xiaojun argued that the Great Sumeru Hammer and Great Kunlun Hammer might lead to the divine path, making it dangerous for the Clear Sky Sect to obtain both inheritances. The Chen Clan abandoned its cautious stance and reached a silent consensus to prevent the Clear Sky Sect from absorbing the Yellow Emperor Tang Family.

  • Chen Xiaojun told Xia Qingyun, Chen Xun, and Chen Hong that his master's visions suggested the two hammer arts could lead to godhood.
  • Chen Xun explained that Chen Xiaojun's mysterious master might be a God King and that Tang San was a figure from visions of the future.
  • Chen Xiaojun said the future Clear Sky Sect had never absorbed the Yellow Emperor Tang Family and insisted that they must ensure the same outcome in their own time.
  • Chen Xun recalled that the clan had previously chosen to monitor the Clear Sky Sect and Tang Chen because it considered them manageable threats.
  • Chen Xun, Xia Qingyun, and Chen Hong silently agreed that the Chen Clan needed to intervene and stop the Clear Sky Sect from gaining both hammer inheritances.

Ch. 1497Deity Inheritance

Chen Xiaojun warned Xia Qingyun that the ruins Tang Haotian and Tang Xuan Yellow Emperor discovered might contain a deity inheritance, but accepting divine power could bind them to a god’s will. Outside the hall, the Chen Clan members discussed Xiaojun’s schemes and their young talents’ upcoming tournament clashes, leaving them wary that the clan would draw even more attention.

  • Chen Xiaojun told Xia Qingyun that deity inheritances could impose spiritual shackles and argued that people should forge their own paths to godhood.
  • Chen Zhang, Chen Shihua, Chen Wu, Chen Hua, and Lu Xiaoxiao waited outside the hall and joked about how Xiaojun had persuaded them to support his plans.
  • Lu Xiaoxiao explained that his son had gone to Moonlight Academy after Yanwu trapped him in a wager during the Clan Sacrifice.
  • Chen Zhang and Chen Hua discussed their sons’ progress at Sword Rain Academy and in the Soul Fighting team.
  • Chen Wu listed the Chen Clan’s promising young talents expected at the Gaoying Tournament, while the others worried their success would make the clan a target.

Ch. 1498Intercepting the Clear Sky Sect

Chen Xun formalized the Chen Clan’s strategy to contain the Clear Sky Sect through negotiation first and force if necessary, while imposing strict secrecy around the operation and its deeper origins. He authorized Chen Xiaojun to make personal contact with the sect in Heaven Dou City and act as circumstances required.

  • Chen Hua and Chen Wu suggested that Chen Zhang recruit Uncle Panda and capable disciples from the Ji and Liu families to strengthen the External Relations Department.
  • Chen Xun announced that the Chen Clan would seek courtesy and negotiation with the Clear Sky Sect before using any means necessary to stop its expansion into the central and western regions.
  • Chen Xun directed all twelve departments to draft action plans, and Chen Hong set Level 7 and Level 6 classifications for the strategy and its implementation, with some details eligible for Level 5.
  • Chen Xun classified the origins and potential threat of the Great Sumeru Hammer and Great Kunlun Hammer as Level 8.
  • Chen Hong told Chen Xiaojun to make personal contact with the Clear Sky Sect during his trip to Heaven Dou City and authorized him to decide as circumstances demanded.

Ch. 1499No One Can Be Young Again

Chen Xiaojun was given authority over operational decisions for the plan to strike the Clear Sky Sect. Three days later, Tang Yuchen received approval and senior appointments for the Chen Xin Tower project, while Tie Fu'er prepared to leave for the Gaoying Tournament.

  • Chen Hong told Chen Xiaojun that he had to take responsibility for the plan he had designed, and Chen Xiaojun jokingly protested that he was still a child.
  • Tie Fu'er brought Tang Yuchen official notice that the Chen Xin Tower project had been approved at Grade A Superior priority with full resource support.
  • Tang Yuchen learned that he had been appointed project lead and Deputy Technical Director, giving him new authority and hope of securing the resources needed to reach Soul Saint.
  • Tang Yuchen urged Tie Fu'er to leave for the Star Luo Empire's Gaoying Tournament rather than miss his chance to compete.
  • Tie Fu'er agreed to go, then returned to tell Tang Yuchen that the Clan Chief wanted to see him.

Ch. 1500Flame of the Ten Suns

Xia Qingyun continued purging the Rakshasa poison from Chen Yu and discovered that the struggle had begun to fuse her Great Sun Heaven-Burning Art with the Nine Yang Divine Skill into a nascent Ten Suns Sacred Flame. Xue Shiqiong suggested that this power might lead beyond Nine Yang, and Xia Qingyun contemplated pursuing it while questioning what it truly meant to become a god.

  • Xia Qingyun told Xue Shiqiong that only one stubborn clump of Rakshasa poison remained in Chen Yu, though Luo Ping's divine power made it difficult to remove.
  • Xia Qingyun revealed that battling the poison had forced her Great Sun Heaven-Burning Art and Nine Yang true qi to fuse, producing signs of the Ten Suns Sacred Flame.
  • Xue Shiqiong proposed that mastering the Ten Suns might allow Xia Qingyun to surpass Nine Yang and discover a new path of Ten Suns Return to One.
  • Xia Qingyun considered whether the Ten Suns Sacred Flame could reach a higher rank and become a divine flame.
  • Xia Qingyun asked whether gods truly existed, privately reflecting on Chen Xiaojun's claim that one could attain godhood through oneself.

Ch. 1501Life Spirit Milk

Chen Xiaojun and Chen Hong prepared to leave the Vine Sea Secret Realm with Xiao Yi after visiting the high-level Soul Masters training there. Elder Qing gave them precious Life Spirit Milk, while Black Elder appeared to ask Xiao Yi to return when she reached level sixty, leaving the reason unexplained.

  • Chen Xiaojun and Chen Hong met Luo Qingrui and the Soul Saints training in the secret realm.
  • Elder Qing gave Xiao Yi two bottles of Life Spirit Milk and Chen Xiaojun one, then charged him to protect Xiao Yi.
  • Elder Qing explained how the Spring of Life compared with the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
  • Black Elder appeared and asked Xiao Yi to return to the secret realm at level sixty so he could entrust something to her.
  • Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Chen Hong left the secret realm.

Ch. 1502Advancing to a Super Martial Soul

The birth of another super martial soul stirred the Spirit Hall and Sea God Island, while Qian Xizi considered confronting the Chen Clan and Bo Saixi prepared to travel to Heaven Dou City. The chapter ended with Bo Saixi setting out to challenge Donghuang and agreeing to deliver a letter in Chang'an City.

  • Qian Xizi sensed a new super martial soul, and the blond youth with him noted its piercing, mysterious aura and wondered whether one of his descendants had awakened it.
  • Qian Xizi raised concerns about the Chen Clan, but the blond youth reminded him of Chen Zixiu's aid and warned him to consider the traces Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan had left in the Xieluo Mountains before sending anyone against them.
  • Bo Shala and Bo Saixi sensed the new super martial soul but could not identify its location, and Bo Saixi confirmed that Uncle Carol would lead her team on its training journey.
  • Bo Saixi told Bo Shala that she planned to go ahead to Heaven Dou City to observe the younger generation and challenge Donghuang, the top-ranked Heavenly Prodigy.
  • Bo Shala agreed to let Bo Saixi take Long Ma for safety and asked her to deliver a letter to her grandmother in Chang'an City after the competition.
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