Chapter Summaries

Chen Hanxin used the Seven Kill Sword Formation’s Ethereal move to cripple the Blood-Armored Beast King, which survived but was left near death. Chen Zixiu ordered Zhu Hongzhen to absorb its soul ring and sent Chen Yu’s group to clear the surrounding beasts while he guarded them.

• Chen Hanxin manifested Ethereal, and its seven swords wounded the Blood-Armored Beast King before colliding with its Atmospheric Shockwave.
• The Blood-Armored Beast King collapsed near death, and the Chen Clan withdrew the Seven Kill Sword Formation.
• Chen Xun and Chen Menglin compared the beast’s endurance with the Silver Moon Wolf King and the Nine-Star Demon Leopard.
• Chen Zixiu told Zhu Hongzhen to absorb the Blood-Armored Beast King’s soul ring and ordered Chen Yu to clear the nearby beasts.
• Chen Yu led the others away while Chen Zixiu stayed to guard Zhu Hongzhen.

Zhu Wuneng revealed his unusual martial soul, astonishing the elders gathered at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. At Chen Yu’s urging, Chen Xiaojun named it Marshal Tianpeng, and Zhu Wuneng gladly accepted the name.

• Zhu Wuneng greeted Zhu Hongzhen and Zhu Yanfeng, and Chen Yu explained that he had asked for Wuneng to come despite the rules limiting access to family elders.
• Chen Yu asked Zhu Wuneng to summon his martial soul, revealing a stone-armored boar wielding a Nine-Toothed Rake.
• Zhu Hongzhen, Chen Xiyuan, Chen Hanxin, Ma Zhaoyang, and Cheng Nanxing reacted with surprise and debated what kind of martial soul it was.
• Zhu Wuneng reminded everyone that Chen Xiaojun had predicted his boar-and-rake mutation, prompting Zhu Yanfeng to suggest that Chen Xiaojun name it.
• Chen Xiaojun listed several names before Zhu Wuneng endorsed Marshal Tianpeng, and Zhu Hongzhen approved the name.

The adults examined Little Wuneng’s mutated Marshal Tianpeng martial soul and identified it as a ninth-grade humanoid martial soul with five attributes. After it showed spiritual awareness and a deep connection to Zhu Hongzhen’s Stone-Armored Boar Emperor, Chen Cong suggested it might be an embryonic super martial soul.

• Chen Cong classified Little Wuneng’s Marshal Tianpeng as a special humanoid martial soul and estimated it was ninth grade, with at least four attributes.
• Little Wuneng told Chen Cong that Marshal Tianpeng had metal, earth, water, fire, and strength attributes.
• Zhu Hongzhen revealed his four-attribute Stone-Armored Boar Emperor, which had sublimated after his breakthrough to Title Douluo.
• Marshal Tianpeng opened its eyes, and the Stone-Armored Boar Emperor responded with wary reverence as Little Wuneng felt a profound connection to his martial soul.
• Chen Cong explained that Little Wuneng’s beneficial mutation inherited Zhu Hongzhen’s martial soul and might be an embryonic super martial soul, though it remained at the threshold of that stage.

Zhu Wuneng revealed that his mutated martial soul had reached the metamorphosis phase and that his innate soul power was level 9.1, leaving Zhu Hongzhen overwhelmed with joy. The elders prepared to guide Wuneng’s development, while Chen Yu’s decision to bring him to Chenlin Village also strengthened the Zhu Family’s ties to the Chen Clan.

• Chen Cong concluded that Zhu Wuneng’s transformation signaled the Zhu Family’s Stone Armor Boar martial soul had entered its metamorphosis phase, and Zhu Hongzhen and Zhu Yanfeng celebrated.
• Chen Yu asked Zhu Wuneng to announce his innate soul power, and Wuneng said it was level 9.1.
• Zhu Hongzhen was moved by Wuneng’s rare talent and recognized his potential to become a Titled Douluo.
• Zhu Yanfeng asked Zhu Hongzhen to help guide Wuneng, and Zhu Hongzhen proposed that the elders discuss the best path for his mutated martial soul.
• Chen Yu’s reasons for bringing Wuneng to Chenlin Village included training him alongside Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi, pooling the elders’ expertise, and drawing the Zhu Family closer to the Chen Clan.
• Zhu Hongzhen resolved to oversee Wuneng’s development, while Chen Zixiu watched with a faint smile.

The Zhu family discussed strengthening Zhu Hongzhen and choosing Little Wuneng’s first Soul Ring, while Chen Xiaojun learned that Xiao Yi’s chosen Sword Willow Vine was seven hundred years old. The chapter ended with Xiao Yi choosing to risk absorbing its Soul Ring despite Chen Cong estimating only a fifty percent chance of success.

• Chen Zixiu urged Zhu Hongzhen to absorb the Blood-Armored Beast King’s Torso Bone, and Zhu Hongzhen agreed after Little Wuneng asked him to grow stronger and protect the family.
• After learning that Little Wuneng had reached rank ten, the Zhu family asked Chen Xiaojun to recommend his first Soul Ring skill.
• Chen Xiaojun recommended a buff for Little Wuneng, whose Mutated Martial Soul’s abilities were still unknown.
• Chen Cong revealed that the Sword Willow Vine chosen for Xiao Yi was seven hundred years old and estimated her chance of absorbing its Soul Ring at fifty percent.
• Xiao Yi volunteered to absorb the Sword Willow Vine’s Soul Ring, believing it was the best choice for her.

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.