Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun discussed Ma Rulong’s succession as steward of the Chang'an Great Soul Arena and guided him toward recommending Zhong Kui. The families agreed on a three-candidate proposal, while Chen Xun planned to bring Chen Xiyuan back to the village as she prepared for a transfer of power and her attempt to become a Titled Douluo.

• Chen Xun reminded Ma Rulong that his breakthrough required him to step down as steward and asked whom he would recommend as a successor.
• Chen Xun proposed Ma Zhibin, but Ma Rulong worried that choosing a Ma Family member would look like a private handover.
• Chen Xun suggested Yang Zhijia, then Ma Tianyang proposed Zhong Kui as a qualified, less controversial candidate.
• Ma Rulong agreed to recommend all three candidates to the Elder Council, with Zhong Kui favored as the most balanced choice.
• Ma Tianyang jokingly asked Chen Xun for a discount on the next Titled Douluo Quota, and Chen Xun laughed off the request.
• Chen Xun considered bringing Chen Xiyuan back to the village so she could prepare for the transfer of power and care for her young daughter.

Chen Surong showed Zhu Qianqing around Zhejiang Studio, discussed its growth and plans to coordinate guard training through the Ministry of Education, and learned from a Heaven Dou City report that Sirong was still alive. The letter revealed that Sirong had been sold to an underground human trafficking syndicate, leaving Chen Surong overwhelmed by grief and relief.

• Chen Surong left the Rebirth Hall with Tang Yuchen, Lu Xiaoxiao, and Butterfly Shadow after reflecting on the insights they had gained.
• Zhu Qianqing joined Chen Surong and the children, then accompanied her to Zhejiang Studio and learned about its curriculum, enrollment, and need for expansion.
• Chen Surong and Zhu Qianqing discussed the proposed transfer of long-term guard education and training to the Ministry of Education, with the Internal Affairs Department agreeing to cooperate.
• Zhu Qianqing gave Chen Surong a report from Heaven Dou City, and Chen Surong discovered that Sirong was alive and had been sold to an underground human trafficking syndicate.

Chen Surong learned that Ye Sirong was alive but faced troubling questions about her past, and she decided to seek leave to tell Ye Zhengxin the news herself. At the Hundred Crafts Workshop, Lu Xiaoxiao’s team successfully fitted Cheng Ran with a Soul Power-conducting prosthetic arm, letting him perform the Cheng Family’s Space-Rending Claw and proving the project could restore a Soul Master’s combat ability.

• Zhu Qianqing gave Chen Surong a letter reporting that Ye Sirong was alive and warned her that Ye Sirong had married the older Deputy Regiment Commander of the Bone-Digging Corps.
• Chen Surong considered her guilt and how the Ye Family might react, then decided to ask Third Brother for leave so she could tell Ye Zhengxin herself.
• Lu Xiaoxiao began fitting Cheng Ran with a specially designed prosthetic arm, while Zhu Shili and Liu Yingxu prepared his stump and stabilized his condition.
• Cheng Ran guided Soul Power through the prosthetic arm, which responded to his intent and conducted Soul Power through its artificial vessels.
• Cheng Ran used the prosthetic arm to perform the Space-Rending Claw, carving five deep marks into a rock target and celebrating his restored ability with Cheng Nanxing.

Lu Xiaoxiao and the others discussed how Cheng Ran would adapt to his new prosthetic arm and how they would test and improve it. They estimated it could restore combat strength equivalent to a High Soul Saint, with brief bursts near early-stage Soul Douluo, and left Cheng Ran hopeful about its future.

• Lu Xiaoxiao, Liu Yingxu, and Zhu Shili outlined Cheng Ran’s adjustment, medical monitoring, and recovery needs after the prosthesis’s initial success.
• Tie Buyi asked Lu Xiaoxiao to cover the prosthesis’s glowing pathways, while Tang Yuchen proposed extreme-environment tests and explored using Yin-Yang Spring Water in future versions.
• Lu Xiaoxiao estimated the calibrated prosthesis could sustain High Soul Saint-level combat output and briefly approach the early-stage Soul Douluo threshold.
• Tang Yuchen and Ding Lang proposed add-on modules for specialized combat functions, and Ling Yunxiao promised the Armaments Department would fund further research and upgrades.
• Lu Xiaoxiao assured Cheng Nanxing that the prosthesis should not significantly hinder Cheng Ran’s cultivation, while Cheng Ran felt strength returning to his left arm and grew hopeful.

Xixi launched a relentless attack on Chen Xiaojun during what he thought was a spar, forcing him to defend himself with his Black Tortoise Shield. She stopped after more than half an hour, called him a “sword jerk,” and stormed away without explaining what had angered her.

• Xixi attacked Chen Xiaojun with her Golden Trident, using her Sky-Piercing move and Sea of Annihilation skill while he focused on blocking.
• Xixi intensified her assault with the Water Breathing Technique as Zhu Wuneng, Chen Mu, Dugu Fu, Ma Liang, and Ma Wencai watched from the sidelines and refused to intervene.
• After more than half an hour, Xixi abruptly stopped and told Chen Xiaojun she had finished stretching her muscles.
• Chen Xiaojun asked what he had done to offend her, but Xixi called him a blockhead and left the practice ground.
• Chen Xiaojun was left alone amid the wreckage, bruised and baffled by Xixi’s anger.

Xixi visited Xiao Yi while she recovered and basked in the sun, teasing her about secretly flicking a soul-power figure and about the letter Xiao Yi had sent. Their conversation turned to Xixi’s choices and Xiao Yi’s change from an unusually composed girl into someone more vulnerable and real.

• Xixi found Xiao Yi resting in the sunlight and joked that she had beaten Chen Xiaojun for both of them after discovering Xiao Yi had secretly flicked a tiny soul-power figure of him.
• Xixi asked what Xiao Yi’s earlier letter had meant, and Xiao Yi silently recalled the confused feelings behind it.
• Xixi said that she and Xiao Yi had grown up, and Xiao Yi told her that her choices were her own to make.
• Xixi described how Xiao Yi had once seemed far too mature and detached for her age, making her suspect divine possession.
• Xixi told Xiao Yi that her embarrassment, anger, and playful acts now made her feel more real, and said the title Banished Immortal suited her.

Xiao Yi and Xixi shared a playful courtyard visit with Chen Xiaojun before attending Moonlight Academy’s thank-you banquet. Chen Yanwu performed “Moonlight” to great acclaim, while Xixi noted that Chen Xiaojun had missed his elder sister’s performance.

• Xixi thanked Xiao Yi for smoothing things over, and Chen Xiaojun arrived to visit Xiao Yi.
• Chen Xiaojun told Xiao Yi he was heading to the underground Iron Jaw Fortress and asked Xixi to keep her company; he left milk and Osmanthus Cake for them, provoking Xixi’s furious chase.
• Xiao Yi and Xixi decided to attend Moonlight Academy’s thank-you banquet, and Xixi said she planned to get on good terms with Chen Yanwu.
• Xiao Yi and Xixi arrived at Moonset Manor’s banquet, where Chen Yanwu performed the song “Moonlight” to thunderous applause.
• Xixi remarked that Chen Xiaojun had missed Chen Yanwu’s performance, and Xiao Yi smiled softly.

Ye Sirong descended into Iron Jaw Fortress to visit Dou Jing, reassuring him that she and Tong'er were safe. After sharing a meal, Dou Jing noticed her combat clothes and warned her not to try to break him out of the prison.

• Ye Sirong entered the prison with Zuo Jinhua and passed the Chen Clan token through the guarded checkpoints.
• Li Wuyaya recognized Ye Sirong and greeted her, then directed her to Dou Jing's inner cell.
• Ye Sirong reunited with Dou Jing, who anxiously asked about her and Tong'er before she reassured him they were well.
• Ye Sirong inspected Dou Jing's relatively comfortable cell and served him his favorite dishes while he loudly complained about the prison food for the guards to hear.
• Dou Jing quietly noticed Ye Sirong's combat clothes and warned her that there was no way to break out of the prison.

Ye Sirong visited her imprisoned husband, Dou Jing, who mistakenly believed she had come to help him escape and that he was about to die. As he urged her to flee with their daughter, Dou Congtong, he revealed hidden family assets and possible refuges, leaving Ye Sirong with the information she needed to secure her daughter’s future.

• Dou Jing warned Ye Sirong that the Chen Clan’s strength made a rescue attempt too dangerous and urged her to take Dou Congtong and flee.
• Ye Sirong told Dou Jing her real name, but he misunderstood and thought she was giving him a final farewell before escaping.
• Dou Jing believed the lavish meal was his last and, when Ye Sirong asked about their retainers, advised her to help them flee if she could.
• Ye Sirong raised Dou Congtong’s future cultivation needs, prompting Dou Jing to reveal family treasures stored in the Longevity Treasury and the hidden location of their key and documents.
• Dou Jing admitted he had secretly saved some money himself and suggested Ye Sirong seek shelter with his main family or her Ye Family.

Ye Sirong revealed that she had joined the Chen Clan and helped bring down the Bone-Digging Corps, then told Dou Jing that the braised pork he had eaten was made from their daughter’s flesh. As Dou Jing collapsed in horror and rage, Ye Sirong struck him with a powerful Ye Family technique.

• Ye Sirong let Dou Jing finish the meal and drink her Fragrant Snow Spirit Tea before revealing that she had brought the food in a Storage Bracelet and cooked it in Bone-Digging Fortress.
• Ye Sirong explained that she served as personal attendant to Chen Clan Matriarch Ye Xiuxin and came from a high-ranking Ye Family among the Chen Clan’s Retainer Families.
• Dou Jing realized Ye Sirong had helped the Chen Clan destroy the Bone-Digging Corps, and Ye Sirong confirmed his accusation.
• Ye Sirong told Dou Jing that the braised pork he had eaten was their daughter’s flesh, leaving him horrified and vomiting blood.
• As Dou Jing cursed Ye Sirong and moved as if to attack her, she struck his back with the Ye Family’s Moonlight Meridian Tempering—Return to the Source Form.

Ye Sirong confronted Dou Jing after tricking him into believing she had fed him their daughter, then explained how she joined the Chen Clan and why his life depended on her and Dou Congtong. She offered him a chance to choose his future, revealing that Chen Xiaojun believed Dou Congtong’s martial soul could evolve into a super martial soul.

• Ye Sirong revealed that the black blood and braised pork were part of a deception, scolded Dou Jing for his accusations, and explained that his injuries had worsened before she treated them.
• Ye Sirong explained that she became the Chen Clan matriarch’s attendant because she was useful, the clan was magnanimous, and she had made a major contribution; Dou Jing realized she had been taken by the Bone-Digging Corps for a reason.
• Ye Sirong told Dou Jing that Barton had been captured, and Dou Jing wondered how the Chen Clan had found the suspicious fugitive so quickly.
• Ye Sirong rebuked Dou Jing for attacking Chen Xiaojun and said she had risked her future and the Ye Family’s guarantee to protect him and Dou Congtong.
• Ye Sirong told Dou Jing that he could choose whether to seize his one remaining chance, then revealed that Chen Xiaojun believed Dou Congtong’s Medicine-Pounding Spirit Rabbit martial soul might evolve into a king or super martial soul.