Chapter Summaries

After learning that the Sailfish's Banner Tribe planned to attack Vast Sea City, Bo Saixi decided to meet Chen Xiaojun and ask about his group. Chen Cong revealed that they belonged to the Seven Kill Sword Chen Clan, and Bo Saixi formally introduced herself as Sea God Island's candidate for High Priestess.

• Long Zhenrang confirmed that Chen Cong's attendant was a Title Douluo with deep-sea Soul Power, and he and Chen Cong agreed to monitor the situation without involving the authorities.
• Chen Xiaojun warned Zhu Wuneng and the others that Xixi was exceptionally strong and not someone to provoke.
• Over several days at the Great Soul Arena, Xixi and Xiao Yi grew close while their groups shared gifts and competed in Soul Fighting.
• Ou Ya reported that the Sailfish's Banner Tribe was behind the unrest outside Vast Sea City and might attack within two days.
• Xixi chose to meet the Great Siming, then asked Chen Xiaojun's group to reveal who they were.
• Chen Cong introduced himself as a member of the Seven Kill Sword Chen Clan, and Bo Saixi returned his formal greeting as Sea God Island's candidate for High Priestess.

Disaster Fish led a Sailfish assault against Vast Sea City, whose forces mobilized to defend the walls and harbor. Chen Xiaojun and Bo Saixi discussed the creatures and how the Sailfish controlled them as the battle began.

• Disaster Fish surged toward Vast Sea City, capsizing ships and battering the city walls as the alarm rang.
• Vast Sea City's garrison and navy took up their prepared defenses against the approaching sea beasts.
• Chen Xiaojun teased Bo Saixi about the Sailfish and examined the Disaster Fish, which he recognized as Winged Fish from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Bo Saixi explained that the Sailfish used secret rituals, incantations, collars, and training to control the Disaster Fish.
• Chen Xiaojun insisted that the city had to be defended, while soul masters from across Vast Sea City answered the forced conscription.

Disaster Fish led the Sea Soul Beasts in a devastating assault on the city, overwhelming its walls, ships, and streets. When the City Guard Army struggled to hold the defenses, conscripted Soul Masters joined the battle and helped turn the tide, though the fighting and casualties continued.

• Disaster Fish led the Sea Soul Beasts in attacking the city walls while the guards fought back with shields, arrows, and incendiary bombs.
• The Sea Soul Beasts attacked ships and struck the city’s streets and houses, causing injuries, fires, and destruction as residents fled to safe houses.
• The City Guard Army defended the walls, docks, and waterways with defensive equipment and long-range weapons, but the growing assault began to overwhelm the guards.
• Conscripted Soul Masters arrived and used defensive, offensive, agility, control, support, healing, and mental skills to strengthen the defenses and attack the Sea Soul Beasts.
• The Soul Masters helped the guards reorganize and resist the assault, while the battle continued and casualties remained inevitable.

Chen Xiaojunjun, Bo Saixi, and their team fought together to hold off the Sea Soul Beasts attacking Vast Sea City. After hours of battle, stronger beasts joined the siege and broke through sections of the battered wall.

• Chen Xiaojun and Bo Saixi led their combat team in killing the Sea Soul Beasts climbing the wall, while Xiao Yi and Rhea supported and healed the fighters and guards.
• The team's coordinated defense helped stabilize its stretch of the wall as Soul Masters across the ramparts repelled the first attacks for two or three hours.
• The Disaster Fish Chieftain roared, and stronger Sea Soul Beasts, including sharks, giant whales, sea serpents, and sea turtles, joined the assault.
• The new beasts struck the already weakened wall, causing numerous breaches to appear.

Chen Xiaojun and Bo Saixi fought a nearly ten-thousand-year-old Disaster Fish as its attacks battered their group. After the Disaster Fish blinded itself with rage and unleashed a devastating Water-Fire Storm, it appeared directly before Chen Xiaojun and attacked him with flames.

• A Disaster Fish used Water-Slapping Glide and Flame Impact to charge Bo Saixi, but Chen Xiaojun knocked it off course with the Chengying Sword and Bo Saixi evaded it with the Water-Avoidance Art.
• Chen Xiaojun's Twin Invisible Hanguang Sword pierced the Disaster Fish's right eye, and Bo Saixi warned everyone that the wounded beast might become more violent.
• The Disaster Fish went berserk and showered the group and city wall with fiery rain, while Chen Xiaojun defended against the flames with the Chun Jun Sword and Cloudwater Sword Technique.
• The Disaster Fish unleashed its Water-Fire Storm, which threw the group around and burned or battered several people.
• The Disaster Fish used Water-Slapping Glide to reach Chen Xiaojun and swept flames toward him with its tail.

Zhu Wuneng shielded Chen Xiaojun from Disaster Fish, and the group worked together to attack the powerful Soul Beast. Bo Saixi struck Disaster Fish with a mental attack that exploited its weakness, leaving it confused and in pain.

• Zhu Wuneng used Golden Bell Shield to block Disaster Fish’s flaming tail sweep, and Xiao Yi pulled him and Chen Xiaojun out of danger with Immortal Evergreen Vine.
• Xin Mengshen and Luo Zhenjun attacked Disaster Fish, distracting it and giving the group an opening to regroup.
• Chen Cong and Sea Dragon watched from the Watchtower as Chen Cong said he trusted the youngsters to defeat the beast.
• Chen Xiaojun attacked Disaster Fish with Void Star-Shattering, but its crimson scales blocked his sword strikes.
• Disaster Fish unleashed Water and Fire Double Strike, forcing Chen Xiaojun and the others to dodge and block while Zhu Wuneng struggled to hold the front line.
• Chen Xiaojun called for mental attacks, and Bo Saixi struck Disaster Fish with Sea Wave Pattern, reducing its mental strength by half and leaving it confused and in pain.

Chen Xiaojun and his teammates combined their Soul Skills to overcome the Disaster Fish’s formidable defenses. Zhu Wuneng’s Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light opened a devastating wound, allowing the group to finish the creature.

• Zhu Wuneng used Phoenix Eyes to inflict pain and hallucinations on the Disaster Fish while Bo Saixi struck it with Water-Control Art-Wave Stabilization, freezing it in place for three seconds.
• Chen Xiaojun and the others attacked the immobilized Disaster Fish, and Chen Xiaojun boosted his attributes before striking it with Starstream Thunderstrike and the Nine Yang Divine Skill.
• Chen Xiaojun called for Zhu Wuneng to use Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light, which blasted a huge wound into the Disaster Fish and trapped it in a field of elemental power.
• Chen Xiaojun pierced the wound with Hundred-Step Flying Sword, while Xixi struck the Disaster Fish with her Sky-Piercing trident attack.
• The Disaster Fish lost its strength and fell to Chen Xiaojun and his teammates.

Chen Xiaojun chose to absorb the nine-thousand-year Disaster Fish’s Soul Ring as his third ring, deciding that a ten-thousand-year ring would expose him and endanger the Chen Clan. He began absorbing it in the Watchtower, where his Nine Yang Divine Skill helped him endure the process as the ring strengthened his body and Soul Power.

• After the Disaster Fish fell, Chen Xiaojun dragged it to the Watchtower while Xiao Yi told Bo Saixi he planned to absorb its Soul Ring.
• Chen Cong offered to capture a ten-thousand-year Disaster Fish, but Chen Xiaojun chose the nine-thousand-year ring to avoid drawing dangerous attention to himself and the Chen Clan.
• Chen Xiaojun argued that the Disaster Fish’s quality and his body’s conditioning made its Soul Ring a suitable choice, and Chen Cong accepted his reasoning.
• Chen Xiaojun killed the Disaster Fish and began absorbing its Soul Ring in a secluded part of the Watchtower.
• The Soul Ring’s power injured Chen Xiaojun, but his Nine Yang Divine Skill and Fish Intestine Pearl helped him absorb it as his body and Soul Power grew stronger.

Zhu Yanfeng, Ou Ya, and Luo Zongyan fought to contain the Sea Soul Beasts at a breach in the city wall. Their attacks and defenses stopped the horde from breaking through, leaving the breach impassable.

• Zhu Yanfeng used Petrification Eye to freeze a True King tier Disaster Fish in place.
• Ou Ya struck the petrified Disaster Fish with Raging Sea and Surging Waves Fist, destroying it and scattering nearby Soul Beasts.
• Luo Zongyan used Shadow Strangulation to attack and tear apart Sea Soul Beasts underwater.
• Zhu Yanfeng raised Stone Armor Shield and Golden Bell Shield while Ou Ya and Luo Zongyan guarded the flanks, preventing the Sea Soul Beasts from passing through the breach.

Long Zhenrang and Ning Chi fought together against the sea soul beasts, while Gui Mingyun used his Mountain Bearer martial soul to seal a breach in the city wall. Their defenses held, and the sea soul beasts were unable to break through the section entrusted to the Great Soul Arena.

• Long Zhenrang transformed into his Jadeite Dragon martial soul avatar as Ning Chi boosted his attack, soul power, and water abilities with his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Long Zhenrang charged through the sea, killing sea soul beasts with his Jadeite Dragon Claw and using Jadeite Dragon Roar to disorient enemies within a hundred meters.
• Long Zhenrang's Jadeite Dragon Dance battered the ten-thousand-year Deep-Sea Giant Whale until it sank into the depths.
• Gui Mingyun unleashed Mountainous Peaks to raise a powerful barrier and seal the enormous breach.
• Zhu Yanfeng, Gui Mingyun, and the other soul masters held the wall, preventing the sea soul beasts from breaking through.

Chen Xiaojun reunited with the system after three years and drew a new reward: the Complete Breathing Techniques from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He took the techniques book from his Storage Soul Tool and showed it to Chen Cong.

• Chen Xiaojun met the system in the void, where it praised him for reaching Soul Elder rank at nine years old.
• Chen Xiaojun began the prize draw, and the wheel landed on the reward category "method."
• Chen Xiaojun selected the middle silver card and received the Complete Breathing Techniques from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in his Storage Bracelet.
• Chen Xiaojun considered how the breathing techniques could strengthen his cultivation and the Chen Clan.
• Chen Xiaojun took the breathing techniques book from his Storage Soul Tool, and Chen Cong asked whether it was the reward for his third Soul Ring.

Chen Xiaojun gave Chen Cong the Demon-Slaying Breathing Technique, and Chen Cong recognized its potential to strengthen the Chen Clan’s combat and cultivation systems. They discussed how different breathing styles could fit the clan’s paths and Retainer Families, leaving Chen Cong ready to organize its study and revealing the Seven Kill Sword may possess a hidden slaughter attribute.

• Chen Xiaojun gave Chen Cong the breathing-technique manual, and Chen Cong read it with growing excitement.
• Chen Cong concluded that the techniques could bridge gaps in the Chen Clan’s martial arts and help develop its physical cultivation.
• Chen Xiaojun matched styles such as Sun, Moon, Thunder, Wind, and Water Breathing to the clan’s martial paths and suggested suitable techniques for Retainer Families.
• Chen Cong agreed to report the techniques to the clan elders and lead experts in studying them.
• Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun discussed the clan’s planned moon attribute and the Seven Kill Sword’s suspected hidden slaughter attribute, which the Ximen Family had also noticed.

The Disaster Fish Chieftain joined the assault on Vast Sea City after Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters began gaining ground under Sashanghai’s leadership. It unleashed a massive Wind-Fire Cyclone at the city wall, leaving the defenders facing imminent disaster.

• Chen Cong heard the explosion and left to investigate, while Chen Xiaojun began studying a breathing method.
• Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters fought the sea soul beasts at the main gate, suffering heavy casualties but refusing to retreat.
• Sashanghai used his Fourth Soul Skill, Chain Piercing, to tear through the sea soul beasts and help the defenders gain the upper hand.
• The ninety-thousand-year Disaster Fish Chieftain entered the battle and launched a hundred-meter Wind-Fire Cyclone toward the city wall.
• The cyclone’s fire trail reached the wall, terrifying the Soul Masters defending it.

Sashanghai and Xu Xin held back the Disaster Fish Chieftain’s Wind-Fire Cyclone until Xue Bentao arrived and helped destroy it. The attack ended, leaving the battlefield devastated and the Soul Masters exhausted.

• Sashanghai used his Deep-Sea Silver Chain Shield to defend against the Wind-Fire Cyclone, but the attack drove him back.
• Xu Xin arrived and used Energy Infusion to strengthen Sashanghai, helping him hold the shield against the cyclone.
• Xue Bentao reached the battlefield and unleashed Blood Feather Wheel Slash against the Disaster Fish Chieftain and its Wind-Fire Cyclone.
• Xue Bentao weakened the cyclone, and Sashanghai and Xu Xin joined him in neutralizing it.

Chen Xiaojun’s knowledge of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s Swan martial soul gave way to the battle against the Disaster Fish Saint King. Xue Bentao, Sashanghai, and Xu Xin launched a coordinated attack, but the Saint King’s energy dome swallowed their assaults.

• Chen Xiaojun learned that the Swan martial soul was a versatile seventh-rank inheritance known for producing powerful mutations throughout the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Xue Bentao activated his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked the Disaster Fish Saint King with Bloodfeather Detonation Claw.
• Sashanghai cast Deep Sea Seal, while Xu Xin strengthened both allies with Brilliant Golden Radiance.
• The Disaster Fish Saint King created an enormous energy dome that swallowed Xue Bentao’s claw and Sashanghai’s sealing attack, leaving the battlefield waiting for the outcome.

Chen Xiaojun explained the Blood Swan Martial Soul to Xixi and revealed that absorbing the Disaster Fish’s soul power had raised him to level thirty-four. As the sea beast battle intensified, the group faced a ten-thousand-year sea turtle whose shell resisted their attacks, and Zhu Wuneng could not use his powerful skill to break it.

• Chen Xiaojun told Xixi that the Blood Swan was a mutated Swan Martial Soul associated with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Xixi learned that Chen Xiaojun had reached level thirty-four after absorbing the Disaster Fish’s soul power and reacted with surprise and frustration.
• Chen Xiaojun reflected that his physical enhancements and recovery ability had helped him safely absorb a soul ring over nine thousand years old.
• Xiao Yi warned that another wave of sea soul beasts was approaching, and Chen Xiaojun, Xixi, and the others fought them back.
• A ten-thousand-year sea turtle appeared, and its shell resisted the group’s attacks, including Xixi’s mental skill.
• Luo Zhenjun urged Zhu Wuneng to use his Five-Colored Divine Light, but Zhu Wuneng said he lacked enough soul power to unleash it.

Chen Xiaojun used his newly acquired Third Soul Skill, Sweep Through a Thousand Armies, against the Ten-Thousand-Year Sea Turtle while Xixi and Xiao Yi held it in place. His three sword strikes pierced and shattered the turtle’s shell, leaving its fate unresolved.

• The sea turtle attacked the city wall with a powerful column of water, scattering the guards and prompting Xixi to seek a way through its defenses.
• Chen Xiaojun stopped Xixi from using Water-Control Art: Pressure Damage and said he would test his Third Soul Skill instead.
• Xixi immobilized the sea turtle with Wave Stabilization while Xiao Yi bound it with the Evergreen Vine Tree.
• Chen Xiaojun summoned the Fish Intestine Sword and unleashed Sweep Through a Thousand Armies, striking the turtle three times with increasing force.
• The first strike dented the turtle’s shell, the second cracked it and drew blood, and the third shattered the shell.

Chen Xiaojun and his companions finally killed the ten-thousand-year sea turtle after a prolonged battle, with Chen Xiaojun’s Sword God Pearls delivering the finishing blows. The exhausted group collapsed after the fight, grateful that Xiao Yi had sustained them with soul power.

• Xiao Yi warned the group that she could not restrain the sea turtle much longer, while Luo Zhenjun, Xin Mengshen, and Zhu Wuneng struck its back wound.
• Xixi hurled her Golden Trident at the sea turtle with Water-Control Art: Sky-Piercing, carving a deep wound but failing to kill it.
• Chen Xiaojun unleashed the Chengying Pearl, Pure Jun Pearl, and Fish Intestine Pearl in his Sword God Pearls Spiral Sphere, shredding the sea turtle’s defenses and body.
• The sea turtle died while hanging from the Immortal Evergreen Vine, and the companions watched its body fall limp.
• Chen Xiaojun’s companions collapsed from exhaustion after fighting for two or three hours, with Xiao Yi’s soul power support having helped them endure.

Xixi questioned Chen Xiaojun about his mutated set martial soul and tested the strength of his three swords with her Golden Trident. After apologizing, she learned that his sword pearls were the original form of his martial soul and that the technique he had used was his second self-created soul skill, leaving her impressed and increasingly curious about him.

• Xixi asked Chen Xiaojun about his triple-attribute soul skill and discovered that his martial soul was a set of swords.
• Xixi unleashed killing intent with her Golden Trident, and Chen Xiaojun's Chengying, Chun Jun, and Fish Intestine swords appeared to protect him.
• Xixi withdrew her trident after confirming that Chen Xiaojun's three swords could withstand its pressure, then apologized for testing him.
• Xixi asked about Chen Xiaojun's pearl-based attack, and he explained that Sword Pearls were the original form of his Sword God Pearls martial soul.
• Xiao Yi revealed that the attack was Chen Xiaojun's second self-created soul skill, leaving Xixi impressed and questioning how she compared with him.

After the battle, Chen Xiaojun and his companions surveyed the devastation as Xixi explained why Sea God Island had joined the fight and praised Spirit Hall's defenders. At the main gate, Xue Bentao, Sashanghai, and Xu Xin faced the Disaster Fish Saint King's expanding water barrier, leaving their struggle at a dangerous turning point.

• Chen Xiaojun checked on Xixi, Rhea, and Xin Mengshen as they struggled with the sight of the battlefield, while Xiao Yi used life energy to ease their distress.
• Xixi told Chen Xiaojun that she stayed to make Sea God Island's peaceful position clear and to protect trade routes from the Banner Tribe.
• Xixi and Chen Xiaojun watched Spirit Hall's Soul Masters endure heavy casualties while holding the main gate against the soul beasts.
• Xue Bentao, Sashanghai, and Xu Xin continued attacking the Disaster Fish Saint King but could not break through its defenses.
• The Disaster Fish Saint King used Elemental Control to draw power from the ocean and expand its barrier, forcing Xue Bentao and his companions to fight for their lives.