Recaps

As the battle pressed Chen Xun's forces, An Mingyuan summoned seven starlit stone dogs to reinforce the defenders. The dogs tore through the Bone-Digging Corps while the white village spitz healed them.

• Chen Zhang held Zuo Jinhua back, betting that Chen Xiaojun and the other young fighters could withstand the Soul Saints.
• Qiu Qingquan replaced Chen Mu in the mobile defenses but struggled against the charging Bone-Digging Corps, while Yuan Run also neared exhaustion maintaining his barriers.
• At Qiu Qingquan's and Yuan Run's urging, An Mingyuan used his Star Extremity skull skill and Earth-Guarding Hound Command secret art to summon seven powerful dogs.
• Six dogs charged the Bone-Digging Corps and attacked in coordinated formations, while the four-eyed dog and five-black dog hunted enemies striking from ambush.
• The white village spitz stayed beside An Mingyuan and healed the summoned dogs' wounds with its stellar and earth-element power.

Chen Xiaojun stopped his advance into the Ancient Castle and began gathering the dangerous power within him while his companions fought to protect him. As the Bone-Digging Corps broke through Yuan Run’s wall, the defense line faced collapse.

• An Mingyuan summoned starlight war dogs, and stray dogs answered his secret art, disrupting the Bone-Digging Corps and easing pressure on the defenders.
• Chen Xiaojun stopped advancing and drew the violent fluctuations inside him back into his body as Chen Zhang and the others waited for him to transform.
• Dugu Fu, Heavenly Marshal Tianpeng, and Chen Mu struggled to hold off the three Soul Saints while the Bone-Digging Corps continued attacking the defense line.
• The Bone-Digging Corps destroyed Yuan Run’s stone wall, leaving him exhausted and injured, and Qiu Qingquan dragged him away from the rubble.
• An Mingyuan sent his remaining dogs to help Qiu Qingquan plug the breach as Bone-Digging Corps members poured into the defensive circle.

Chen Xiaojun emerged from the black-red sword cocoon as his allies’ defensive line neared collapse, but his interrupted enlightenment left him with an incomplete, savage power. The fighting continued around him, and Chen Mu fell wounded nearby.

• Jian Xinyue used her Ink Crystal Bottle’s control and support skills to steady the defenders as their defensive circle shrank and their strength ran low.
• Chen Xiaojun’s sword cocoon cracked and shattered, and he opened his eyes with an overwhelming, indifferent majesty.
• Inside Chen Xiaojun’s upper soul nest, the phantom Nethersea Seven Kill Sword drew in the battlefield’s negative energy to hasten the Black-Red Cocoon’s emergence, interrupting his enlightenment.
• Qiu Qingquan was wounded while attacking a restrained Soul King, Chen Shurui and Chen Bin’s shield wall weakened, Ma Liang ran out of strength, and the defenders’ line remained under pressure.
• The Ghost Bat Soul Saint wounded Chen Mu with Blood Bat Sonic Burst and claw strikes, and Chen Mu staggered down near Chen Xiaojun.

Chen Xiaojun awakened a chilling judgment domain that weakened the Ghost Bat Soul Saint and his attack on Chen Mu. Chen Mu seized the opening and killed the Soul Saint, while the Bone-Digging Corps remained frozen in terror.

• The Ghost Bat Soul Saint attacked Chen Mu with Blood Prison Soul-Shattering Wave as the Bone-Digging Corps charged Chen Xiaojun.
• Chen Xiaojun released the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword’s judgment domain, slowing the Bone-Digging Corps and weakening the sonic attack.
• Chen Xiaojun struck the Ghost Bat Soul Saint’s sinful karma with Sword of Judgment: Sinful Karma Judgment, wounding him and breaking his focus.
• Chen Mu used Lightning Flash to reach the Ghost Bat Soul Saint and shattered his Phantom Bat Barrier with Raging Wave Rending Blade.
• Chen Mu followed with Seven Kill Annihilation and beheaded the Ghost Bat Soul Saint.

Chen Xiaojun unleashed his Mysterious Heaven Frost Realm, freezing and destroying most of the Bone-Digging Corps and the Iron-Winged Bats. With the battlefield cleared, he activated his Nether Abyss Scale Vortex skill and prepared for the fight to continue.

• Chen Mu sealed the wound in his shoulder and killed the Ghost Bat Soul Saint, throwing the Iron-Winged Bat swarm into confusion.
• Chen Xiaojun summoned the Mysterious Heaven Frost Realm, freezing enemies across a wide area and bringing down the bats and Flying Soul King.
• Chen Xiaojun sent thousands of ice swords raining down, wiping out most of the Bone-Digging Corps and gravely wounding the Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Emperor.
• Chen Xiaojun activated Nether Abyss Scale Vortex, covering himself in dark scale armor and transforming the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword with corrosive, tearing energy.

Chen Xiaojun and Heavenly Marshal Tianpeng killed the Shadow Leopard Soul Saint through a coordinated attack. Chen then joined the battle against the Purple Jade Centipede Soul Saint, leaving him targeted by Nine Yang Great Thunderclap with no apparent way to dodge.

• Chen Xiaojun enhanced himself and used Sixfold Flash to catch the retreating Shadow Leopard Soul Saint.
• Chen Xiaojun pierced the Shadow Leopard Soul Saint with Dark Abyss Annihilation Thorn, inflicting petrification.
• Heavenly Marshal Tianpeng used Rage Wheel to smash the immobilized Shadow Leopard Soul Saint with his Nine-Toothed Rake.
• Chen Xiaojun crossed to Dugu Fu's battle against the Purple Jade Centipede Soul Saint and formed Nine Yang Great Thunderclap.
• Chen Xiaojun directed A Fu and Wencai to strike as the crimson sun followed an S-shaped path toward the Purple Jade Centipede Soul Saint.

Chen Xiaojun and his allies killed the third Soul Saint, then Chen unleashed his new One Thousand and One Days technique against four more Soul Saints and the Bone-Digging Corps elites. The barrage overwhelmed the battlefield as the chapter ended in a chain of explosions.

• Ma Wencai struck the already wounded Purple Jade Centipede Avatar with Sunspot Sun, destroying it and blasting its Soul Saint out of the fight.
• The Three Poison Beasts attacked the defenseless Purple Jade Centipede Soul Saint and killed him, leaving the nearby Bone-Digging Corps desperadoes terrified.
• Chen Xiaojun used One Thousand and One Days to create hundreds of Nine Yang True Qi Sword Qi Spiral Spheres and rain them on the Bone-Digging Corps elites fighting Ding Bingming and the others.
• Four Soul Saints activated defensive soul skills against Chen Xiaojun’s barrage, but the spheres detonated in a series of explosions across the battlefield.

Chen Xiaojun’s explosive barrage shattered the Bone-Digging Corps’ formation and prevented its forces from retreating. As his allies launched a counterattack, he absorbed the battlefield’s negative energy and charged toward the wounded Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Saint.

• Chen Xiaojun’s Sword Pellets devastated the Bone-Digging Corps, blocking escape routes and throwing its surviving troops into chaos.
• The routed elites fled while Ding Bingming and the others kept the four enemy Soul Saints from rallying them; Chen Xiaojun swallowed a Wuji Pill and chose the most weakened Soul Saint as his target.
• Zhu Wuneng led the youths in a counterattack, and Chen Zhang sent the fifty-member Reserve Squad into battle.
• Chen Xiaojun used Qi-Concealment to absorb the battlefield’s negative energy into the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword and the Black-Red Cocoon.
• Chen Xiaojun charged through the enemy ranks, cutting down their troops as he headed for the Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Saint.

Chen Xiaojun unleashed the War Sword: Canghuang Army Calamity, using the battlefield’s negative energies to kill the Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Saint and the Dark Rock Turtle Soul Saint in one strike. Zhu Wuneng finished the wounded Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Emperor, leaving the Bone-Digging Corps survivors terrified amid the ruined battlefield.

• Chen Xiaojun summoned the battlefield’s negative energies into a colossal black-and-red sword and targeted the Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Saint.
• The Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Saint and Dark Rock Turtle Soul Saint raised their strongest defenses, but the War Sword shattered through them and killed both Saints.
• The wounded Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Emperor cried out for his brother, and Zhu Wuneng smashed him dead with the Nine-Toothed Rake.
• Chen Xiaojun called the Nethersea Seven Kill Sword back to his hand as the surviving Bone-Digging Corps fell silent in fear.

Chen Xiaojun’s devastating sword strike killed two Bone-Digging Corps Soul Saints and broke the enemy’s morale, turning the battle into a rout. He and Zuo Jinhua charged toward the Ancient Castle’s heart, where a Bloodfang War Elephant Soul Saint forced fleeing soldiers to regroup as the Ximen Family pushed the right flank forward.

• Chen Xiaojun’s Canghuang Military Calamity killed the Earthshaking Rock Rhinoceros Soul Saint and the Dark Rock Turtle Soul Saint, causing the Bone-Digging Corps’ main force to collapse.
• Ding Bingming, Shao Chunan, Gu Yuanchao, and other Chen Clan fighters attacked the remaining Soul Saints while Heavenly Marshal Tianpeng, Chen Mu, and the youth group advanced from the north and Chen Zhang’s reserves arrived from the south.
• Zuo Jinhua joined Chen Xiaojun after defeating two Bone-Digging Corps Soul Emperors, and Chen Xiaojun invited him to charge through the center-right passage.
• A Bloodfang War Elephant Soul Saint ordered the Enforcement Squad to kill fleeing soldiers and forced the survivors, including the retreating Dark Wind Weasel and Black Skeleton Soul Saints, to regroup.
• The Ximen Family Saber Formation continued driving the Bone-Digging Corps back along the outer right-flank street.

Chen Xiaojun unleashed Sword Wheel: Peerless Splendor against the Bone-Digging Corps, slaughtering their ranks before the Bloodfang War Elephant Soul Saint destroyed the sword wheel with a powerful counterattack. With the remaining defenders shaken and the allied counterattack surging forward, Chen Xiaojun and Zuo Jinhua faced the surviving Soul Saints as the battle reached its final clash.

• Zuo Jinhua and Chen Xiaojun charged through the routed troops toward the Bone-Digging Corps.
• Chen Xiaojun formed the six Sword God Pearls into Sword Wheel: Peerless Splendor and sent it tearing through the packed enemies.
• The Bloodfang War Elephant Soul Saint transformed and struck the sword wheel from both sides, causing it to collapse and explode.
• Chen Xiaojun recalled the scattered Sword God Pearls as the Soul Saint and the surviving gang members regrouped amid the devastation.
• Chen Xiaojun and Zuo Jinhua advanced toward the three surviving Soul Saints while Heavenly Marshal Tianpeng, Ding Bingyuan, Shao Chunan, and the others led the counterattack.

Chen Xiaojun and the Chen Clan counterattacked the Bone-Digging Corps, turning the battle against its three Soul Saints. Chen Xiaojun killed the Bloodfang War Elephant Soul Saint, while Zuo Jinhua struck the Black Skeleton Soul Saint down as the Chen Clan forces overwhelmed the enemy formation.

• Chen Xiaojun used Lightning Flash and Nether Abyssal Corrosion Wave to wipe out a flanking squad and open a path through the Bone-Digging Corps.
• Zuo Jinhua charged through the enemy ranks, while the Bloodfang War Elephant Soul Saint and Dark Wind Weasel Soul Saint attacked him.
• Chen Xiaojun used Bloodslaughter Edge and Godspeed to pierce and kill the Bloodfang War Elephant Soul Saint.
• The Dark Wind Weasel Soul Saint recoiled in grief and fled, while Zuo Jinhua used Ferocious Ghost Shattering Prison to strike the Black Skeleton Soul Saint and hurl him into rubble.
• The Chen Clan's counterattacking forces crashed into the remnants of the Bone-Digging Corps' formation.

Chen Xiaojun led the Chen Clan's victorious troops from the center-right flank toward the central battlefield as the Bone-Digging Corps began to collapse. His judgment aura helped the allies capture or subdue the remaining Soul Saints, leaving the corps effectively wiped out while Barton fled deeper into the fortress.

• Chen Xiaojun replenished his soul and mental power with the battlefield's lingering energies, then led his troops toward the central battlefield.
• Barton unleashed his secret art, struck Zhu Yanfeng's shield, and ordered the Bone-Digging Corps to retreat before fleeing himself.
• Chen Xiaojun activated Sin Domain Adjudication, suppressing the outlaws and strengthening the Chen Clan's Allied Army.
• Ximen Wenye exploited the aura's effect to defeat and capture Deputy Commander Dou Jing.
• Qin Lüguang and Zuo Jinhua helped defeat or capture the Bone-Digging Corps' Soul Saints, while Mo Li and Yan Zhen surrendered.

Chen Zhang secured the Rusty Brotherhood’s and Phantom Shadow Sisterhood’s surrender as the Chen Clan allied army captured the shattered Bone-Digging Corps at Iron Jaw Fortress. After the battle, Chen Xiaojun examined dark red crystal fragments that seemed connected to the dormant Black-Red Cocoon in his sea of consciousness.

• Chen Zhang called on Tang Hengyu to negotiate, and Tang ordered the Rusty Brotherhood to cease fighting and assemble.
• Ma Zhibin halted Tan Yashuang’s attack with his Demonflame Soul-Burning Formation, and Chen Zhang persuaded her to order the Phantom Shadow Sisterhood to surrender.
• The Chen Clan allied army captured the Bone-Digging Corps’ leaders and fighters while taking prisoners across the battlefield.
• Chen Zhang surveyed the victory as the Canopy District’s Underworld began to fall under a new order.
• Chen Xiaojun examined the dark red crystal fragments Yuan Run had brought from the Slaughterhouse and sensed that their flicker matched the Black-Red Cocoon in his sea of consciousness.

Xiao Yi found herself trapped in three strange worlds within her sea of consciousness and searched each one for a way out. The chapter left her plunging into the enormous, chaotic qi vortex that seemed to draw all energy toward itself.

• Xiao Yi awoke beneath an enormous Immortal Evergreen Vine in a world she recognized as part of her sea of consciousness, but she could not dispel it or find its boundaries.
• Xiao Yi flew up the vine tree, and the world shattered before reassembling as a dark-water realm centered on the Void Willow God Vine.
• Xiao Yi searched the water realm for an exit, then leaped into the depths and emerged in a vast sea of primordial qi vortices.
• Xiao Yi tried flying through the qi sea, entering a vortex, and attacking with Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow, but none of her attempts worked.
• Xiao Yi spotted the immense vortex at the heart of the qi sea and plunged into it.

Xiao Yi crossed the fragmented spaces of her Sea of Consciousness and found Lesser Siming’s immense dharma form, beneath which sat a second version of herself. When that figure formed an Orchid Finger and began expelling her from the Source Land, Xiao Yi resisted, and the powers of the realms she had crossed suddenly resonated.

• Xiao Yi followed a powerful call through the purple cloud sea and discovered Lesser Siming’s towering dharma form.
• Xiao Yi found a veiled figure identical to herself seated beneath the dharma form and asked whether she had guided Xiao Yi through the strange realms.
• The seated Xiao Yi formed an Orchid Finger, triggering a force that began tearing Xiao Yi’s consciousness out of the Source Land.
• Xiao Yi invoked the divinity of Lesser Siming and fought to hold her place, but the repelling force began to sever her connection to the core realm.
• The immense vine tree and the willow on the island erupted with light as the powers and auras of the realms resonated.

Xiao Yi confronted the Divine Godhead’s will in her Sea of Consciousness and rejected its claim that she was merely a vessel. After Xiao Yi’s Orchid Finger resonated with the seated figure’s, the spiritual realm collapsed into chaos, and the figure asked whether Xiao Yi was truly itself.

• Xiao Yi restored her consciousness projection and demanded to know why the Divine Godhead had trapped her and closed the Upper Soul Nest.
• The Divine Godhead’s will explained that the sealed spaces sheltered Xiao Yi’s fragile consciousness from its overwhelming power, and declared that Xiao Yi was only its vessel.
• Xiao Yi asserted her sovereignty over her body, Sea of Consciousness, and path as Lesser Siming, making the Dharma Form and spiritual realm shake.
• Xiao Yi formed the same Orchid Finger as the seated figure, and their gestures resonated, visibly shaking the figure for the first time.
• The clash between their wills shattered the purple-mist realm, and the seated figure asked Xiao Yi, “Thou... art I?”

Xiao Yi confronted the divine godhead in her sea of consciousness, and their battle escalated into a clash of opposing Nine Palace Soul-Shifting Arts. The chapter ended with their golden and silver formations grinding against each other, while signs of Xiao Yi’s struggle reached Chen Xiaojun and the people at her bedside.

• Xiao Yi’s Orchid Finger radiated mysterious law as Ye Xiuxin sensed her dormant soul power surging and her consciousness changing.
• The Black-Red Cocoon in Chen Xiaojun’s sea of consciousness shuddered, and he wondered if Xiao Yi was involved.
• Xiao Yi challenged the divine godhead, which attacked her with a claw and a sphere of destructive purple qi.
• Xiao Yi formed the Nine Palace Soul-Shifting Art’s Suppression Character Art and sent nine golden spiritual chains against the godhead.
• The godhead countered with a silver Nine Palaces formation and nine chains, and the golden and silver formations collided at the level of laws.

Xiao Yi used the Wood Division’s Nine Palace Soul-Shifting Art to destroy the inner demon that had imprisoned her in her Sea of Consciousness. The chapter revealed how the demon had borrowed power from the Lesser Siming and why Xiao Yi had been able to recognize and defeat it.

• Xiao Yi revealed that the figure claiming to be the Divine Godhead’s will was an inner demon, and unleashed the Nine Palace Soul-Shifting Art’s Extinction Formula.
• Golden chains and World-Cleansing Golden Flame shattered the silver formation and purified the inner demon.
• Xiao Yi remained standing as the golden formation settled above her and the struggle in her Sea of Consciousness ended.
• The narration explained that the inner demon had formed before the Lesser Siming awakened and had used stolen divine power to trap Xiao Yi in layered spaces.
• The narration revealed that Xiao Yi’s connection to the Lesser Siming Origin had guided her through the labyrinth and helped her identify the inner demon.

After defeating the Inner Demon, Xiao Yi approached Lesser Siming’s Dharma Form and met its gaze. Lesser Siming bestowed a flood of divine laws upon her, leaving her unconscious inside a luminous cocoon as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yi recovered from her battle with the Inner Demon as the Nine Palaces Magic Formation faded and the Primordial Chaos Purple Qi settled.
• Xiao Yi ascended to the head of Lesser Siming’s Dharma Form and recognized that she had proven her will could walk alongside its power.
• Lesser Siming raised her hand and formed an Orchid Finger, freezing Xiao Yi and the surrounding space-time.
• Lesser Siming touched Xiao Yi’s brow with the Orchid Finger and sent a torrent of divine information and laws into her Sea of Consciousness.
• Xiao Yi lost consciousness inside an azure-white cocoon marked with golden Nine Palaces patterns as Lesser Siming withdrew her finger.

The author reviewed Volume Six, covering the Chen Clan’s expansion, its wars with the Crimson Church, the Gaoying Tournament, and Xiao Yi’s rise to prominence. The chapter ended by pointing toward the next volume, where Chen Xiaojun would take center stage and the story would climb to greater heights.

• The author explained how the volume’s title referred to the tournament, the Chen Clan’s rivalry with the Clear Sky Sect, and its campaign against the Crimson Church.
• The Chen Clan expanded beyond Fasinuo Province, strengthened its bases, and dealt major losses to the Crimson Church while gaining an early advantage over the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xiao Yi and her allies killed the Titled Douluo Nether Dragon, and Xiao Yi later led the Chen Clan team to victory over Heaven Dou Academy.
• Xiao Yi reached the tournament’s summit, while Chen Xiaojun gained the prerequisite for Great Siming’s divine skill and led the younger members in battle.
• The author announced that there would be no update that day and promised to make up four missing chapters before the next volume.

Chen Xiaojun awoke after two days of unconsciousness in Iron Jaw Fortress, recovering from the battle and the turmoil in his Sea of Consciousness. After reuniting with his injured companions, he prepared to investigate the crystal fragments that had stirred the Black-Red Cocoon and learn the fortress's condition.

• Chen Xiaojun recalled that his injuries, the torrent of Great Siming's legacy, and the Black-Red Cocoon's violent trembling had caused him to lose consciousness.
• Chen Xiaojun found Qiu Qingquan, Yuan Run, An Mingyuan, Ma Liang, Chen Mu, and Zhu Wuneng recovering from their battle wounds in the courtyard.
• Chen Xiaojun thanked his companions for protecting him and recognized the price they had paid in the fight against the Soul Saints.
• Chen Xiaojun sensed a faint resonance between the crystal fragments in his Storage Soul Tool and the Black-Red Cocoon, then decided to investigate what had stirred it and assess Iron Jaw Fortress.

After waking at Iron Jaw Fortress, Chen Xiaojun thanked his companions for their role in the battle by offering to pay for martial skills. He learned that his mother had come to oversee the wounded and heard that Xiao Yi was safe, leaving him ready to ask his mother for more details.

• Zhu Wuneng and Qiu Qingquan bickered over food and contribution points, and Chen Xiaojun offered to pay for martial skills for Qiu Qingquan, An Mingyuan, and Yuan Run.
• Qiu Qingquan, An Mingyuan, and Yuan Run thanked Chen Xiaojun, while Zhu Wuneng complained that he had been left out.
• Chen Xiaojun asked why the wounded remained at Iron Jaw Fortress, and Zhu Wuneng explained that Chen Xiaojun's mother had brought a medical team there.
• Chen Xiaojun asked about Xiao Yi, and Chen Mu said Third Aunt had found no sign of serious danger and that Xiao Yi's fate was linked to Chen Xiaojun's.

Chen Xiaojun learned that he had slept through Chang'an Academy’s crucial National Tournament match against Moonlight Academy and accepted that the team might lose the title. At Iron Jaw Fortress, Gu Zijian brought the group a feast made from inspected supplies, though unfamiliar underground ingredients remained in question.

• Chen Mu and Zhu Wuneng told Chen Xiaojun that the others were busy restoring Iron Jaw Fortress and that Wencai and Shou Zhong had gone to the tournament.
• Chen Xiaojun realized he had missed the match against Moonlight Academy because he had been unconscious for two days.
• Zhu Wuneng and Ma Liang worried that Chang'an Academy might lose the championship without Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi, while Chen Mu urged everyone to focus on the Continental Finals.
• Gu Zijian arrived with food and explained that his father and Xin Cunyi had inspected the fortress’s stores and screened former kitchen staff.
• Gu Zijian said the provisions could feed everyone for nearly a month, but the cooks still needed to identify unfamiliar underground mushrooms and tubers before anyone used them.

Chen Xiaojun approved Gu Zijian’s decision to attend the Combat Profession Academy as a battle chef, despite concerns about Gu Yuanchao and the lower status of combat professions. The chapter ended with Chen Xiaojun hinting that combat professions might have a brighter future and leaving his belief in a possible second awakening unexplained.

• Gu Zijian explained that he was delivering food to women and children abducted by the Bone-Digging Corps, including children with soul master aptitude who had been kept in appalling conditions.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Gu Zijian about his plans for the Combat Profession Academy, and Gu Zijian declared that he wanted to become a battle chef.
• Chen Xiaojun approved Gu Zijian’s choice and encouraged him to train, saying a second awakening of his soul power might be possible.
• Chen Mu and An Mingyuan worried that Chen Xiaojun’s approval could worsen matters with Gu Yuanchao, and Chen Mu pointed out the low status and prospects of combat professions.
• Chen Xiaojun argued that the clan should support every willing member, then hinted to Chen Mu that combat professions might have a different future before telling everyone to eat.