Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun discussed the Sword God Pearls’ qualities and his plans for his first three Soul Skills with Chen Yu and Chen Cong. He prepared to train in the Black Moon Woods and pursue a powerful first Soul Ring, while Chen Cong suggested viewing the ten pearls as an embryonic Super Martial Soul.

• Chen Xiaojun identified the first three Sword God Pearls as representing an elegant sword, Peerless Nobility, and a fearsome assassination sword, then proposed speed, enhancement, and attack Soul Skills for his first three rings.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that his pearls absorbed Soul Power during Soul Ring absorption, allowing him to aim for a roughly fifteen-hundred-year first Soul Ring, and said they could help manage the added danger.
• Chen Xiaojun chose a Pegasus as his preferred first Soul Beast, and Chen Yu ordered Chen Wu to take him to the Black Moon Woods to face Soul Beasts under Old Black’s watch.
• Chen Yu gave Chen Xiaojun a Storage Soul Tool, which he named the Radiant Light Bracelet.
• Chen Xiaojun described the pearls’ special abilities and connection, and Chen Cong explained that they formed a rare Set Martial Soul and might be an embryonic Super Martial Soul.

Chen Xiaojun entered the Black Moon Woods alone to gain combat experience and hunt Soul Beasts, testing his sword skills against dangerous opponents. After surviving a Shadowless Leopard’s ambush and spending the night at a Chen Clan camp, he fought more beasts the next day and found his Soul Power surging as he meditated.

• Chen Wu sent Chen Xiaojun into the Black Moon Woods alone, warning him to watch for stray Black Moon Gray Wolves.
• Chen Xiaojun killed a two-hundred-year-old Gale Wolf with the Wind Luan Sword, then hunted a Yellow Cattle Soul Beast for meat.
• A Shadowless Leopard ambushed Chen Xiaojun while he butchered the cattle, but he exposed and killed it after recognizing its Shadow Clone Technique.
• Chen Xiaojun cooked beef stew at a Chen Clan rest camp and reflected on his plan to find Hei Yue and challenge a Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The next day, Chen Xiaojun fought more than a dozen Hundred-Year Soul Beasts, then meditated as Soul Power surged through his Meridians.

Chen Xiaojun heard a battle between the Gale Wolf Pack and the Black Moon Wolf Pack and realized the clan had been alerted to the invasion. As clan experts rushed toward the woods, the outnumbered Black Moon Wolves continued fighting for survival.

• Chen Xiaojun heard chaotic wolf howls and sensed a massive battle near the Black Moon Wolf residence.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized Uncle Wu's yellow warning signal and stayed by the cave rather than enter a battle beyond his strength.
• Chen Xiaojun saw Uncle Wu's Seven Kill Sword attack collide with the Gale Wolf King's Dark Azure Hurricane, and the clash's oppressive force reached him.
• Ling Yunxiao ordered Cheng Hao to scout ahead, then led Ding Lang and Chen Chen toward the woods while Zhao Lin guarded the North Gate.
• Around three hundred Gale Wolves and Azure Wind Cang Wolves attacked the Black Moon Wolves, whose leader Old Black and the Wolf Queen fought powerful opponents despite being outnumbered.

Chen Wu fought the True King-tier Hurricane Demon Wolf Leader while the wolf pack battled Old Black, the Black Moon Wolf Queen, and their allies. Ling Yunxiao arrived to protect Chen Wu, and they prepared to attack the leader together.

• Cheng Hao reported that the wolf pack had surrounded Old Black and the others, who had suffered heavy losses, and that Chen Wu was in danger fighting the leader.
• Chen Wu arrived to rescue Old Black, grievously wounding one Hurricane Demon Wolf with a surprise attack before facing the leader’s tornado and dark azure Wind Blades.
• Chen Wu used his sword techniques and Soul Skills to fend off the leader’s attacks, then fired a Signal Flare after recognizing its True King-tier strength.
• The Demon Wolf Leader shifted its attacks toward the Black Moon Wolf Queen, hoping to break the stalemate and turn the battle in its pack’s favor.
• The leader’s howl briefly dazed Chen Wu, but Ling Yunxiao arrived and blocked the next attack with his Wind and Cloud Fan.
• Ling Yunxiao told Chen Wu he would attack the leader head-on while Chen Wu waited for an opening to strike.

Ding Laosan, Chen Chen, and Cheng Hao fought back the Gale Wolf Pack while Ling Yunxiao and Chen Wu battled the Hurricane Demon Wolf leader. Ling Yunxiao’s tactics and combined attacks left the Demon Wolf gravely wounded as Chen Yu explained the fight to Chen Xiaojun.

• Ding Laosan, Chen Chen, and Cheng Hao used their Soul Skills to inflict heavy losses on the Gale Wolf Pack and gain the upper hand.
• Chen Yu arrived at the Rest Camp and took Chen Xiaojun on his Seven Kill Sword to watch the battle at Black Moon Ridge.
• The Hurricane Demon Wolf used Swift Traversal to wound Ling Yunxiao, who then restrained it with his clone while Chen Wu struck it with Seven Kill Annihilation.
• Ling Yunxiao summoned his Wind-and-Cloud True Body and struck the Demon Wolf with Azure Sea Sky Fan, piercing its body despite its Wind Cone counterattack.
• Chen Yu explained to Chen Xiaojun that Ling Yunxiao had lured the Demon Wolf into a trap and described the strengths of his Wind and Cloud Fan.

Ling Yunxiao broke through to Level 80 and absorbed the Demon Wolf leader’s Soul Ring, becoming a Soul Douluo. After the battle, Chen Yu recovered a Soul Bone from the wolf and rewarded Ling Yunxiao and Chen Wu, while the survivors mourned their losses and returned to the village.

• Chen Wu’s Sword Momentum: Blue Sea, Bright Moon overwhelmed the Demon Wolf leader as the Gale Wolf Pack fled, leaving several wolves behind to cover their retreat.
• Ling Yunxiao stopped Chen Wu from delivering the final blow, then killed the Demon Wolf leader and absorbed its Soul Ring to reach Level 81.
• Old Black mourned the dead of the Black Moon Wolf Pack, and Chen Yu extracted a Right Leg Bone from the Demon Wolf leader’s corpse.
• Ye Xiuxin healed the survivors, and Chen Yu gave Ling Yunxiao the Soul Bone while promising Chen Wu a Ten-Thousand-Year Wind Type Soul Bone from the Clan Treasury.
• After the group returned to the village, Chen Yu explained to Chen Xiaojun that True King-tier Soul Beasts were equivalent to advanced Soul Saints.

Chen Yu explained the Martial Soul Inheritance and Affiliation Treaty to Chen Xiaojun, including how it shaped Chen Chen’s family and surname. He also revealed the Ye Family’s Begonia Martial Souls and explained that Chen Xiaojun’s mother’s Seven-Color Begonia Bracelet was a rare Tool Martial Soul Plantification; they then headed to the Ancestral Hall.

• Chen Xiaojun asked whether Great-Granduncle Yunxiao had been sensitive, and Chen Yu explained that they needed to talk through the misunderstanding because Yunxiao was family.
• Chen Yu described the treaty’s rules for deciding which family a child joined based on the child’s Martial Soul, explaining that Chen Chen took the Chen surname after awakening the Seven Kill Sword while his second son inherited the Wind and Cloud Fan.
• Chen Yu told Chen Xiaojun that Yunxiao and Grandma Han Xin had a second son, Ling Xinghe, who worked with Chen Zhang and might return for the clan celebration.
• Chen Yu revealed that Chen Xiaojun’s mother, Xiuxin, came from the Begonia Ye Family and that he might have had the Ye surname if he had awakened a mutation of the Seven-Color Bracelet.
• Chen Yu explained that the Seven-Color Begonia Bracelet was the Ye Family’s main Inherited Martial Soul and a Tool Martial Soul Plantification, then invited Chen Xiaojun to go with him to the Ancestral Hall.

Chen Yu and the elders discussed the Gale Wolf attack, and Chen Xiaojun reasoned that some unknown danger in the mountains had likely driven the wolves to strike. After ordering an investigation, Chen Yu learned where Pegasus Soul Beasts could be found and planned to take Xiaojun to Wild Horse Plain the next day.

• Chen Wu reported that the surviving Gale Wolf Pack had retreated to Qianqiu Ridge and that no large Soul Beast Groups remained near the Black Moon Woods.
• Chen Xiaojun considered three explanations for the attack, dismissed a deliberate attack on the Chen Clan as unlikely, and suggested that trouble in the mountains had driven the wolves to attack the Black Moon Wolves.
• Chen Yu explained that the Chen Clan concealed its Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul with the Sword Sheath Secret Technique and said the clan had stayed hidden from local forces.
• Chen Yu ordered Chen Wenchao to send people into the mountains to investigate and asked Mu Lingyun to check for unusual events through her family.
• Chen Wenchao reported that Wild Horse Plain had a Pegasus Herd, and Chen Yu decided to take Chen Xiaojun there the next day.

Chen Yu flew Chen Xiaojun toward a Soul Beast hunting ground and explained why the Star Dou Great Forest, Sunset Forest, and Frozen Forest were called the continent’s “Great Three,” though the title was largely Heaven Dou’s perspective. Chen Xiaojun then outlined Wind Type Soul Beast skills, and Chen Yu affirmed that the Divine Horse was a worthy target for his Divine Sword Martial Soul.

• Chen Yu shielded Chen Xiaojun with Soul Power and flew him at great speed while Chen Xiaojun asked whether three famous forests were truly the continent’s greatest Soul Beast gathering grounds.
• Chen Yu listed many other Soul Beast habitats, explained the forests’ varied terrain and relative safety, and noted that the “Great Three” claim favored Heaven Dou over Star Luo.
• Chen Xiaojun concluded that the claim broadly praised Heaven Dou’s own hunting grounds, and Chen Yu agreed that it was most accurate within the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Chen Yu asked about Wind Type Innate Skills, and Chen Xiaojun classified their support, strength, attack, defense, healing, and combined applications before listing abilities associated with the Divine Horse.
• Chen Yu praised Chen Xiaojun’s preparation and explained that the Divine Horse was a powerful, degenerated descendant of Divine Beasts, worthy of Chen Xiaojun’s Divine Sword and Sword God Pearls.

Chen Yu and Chen Xiaojun found a powerful Pegasus herd on Wild Horse Plain, where Chen Yu defeated and restrained it with his sword techniques. Chen Yu took a young Pegasus and flew away with Chen Xiaojun.

• Chen Yu and Chen Xiaojun arrived in Babel City and learned from Cheng Yun and Ma Fan about a Pegasus herd near Wild Horse Plain.
• Chen Yu and Chen Xiaojun found the Pegasus herd and blocked its path as the Horse King led a combined attack.
• Chen Yu used Azure Sea Heavenly Sword to pierce the herd’s Cyclone Heavenly Shield and knock the Pegasi down.
• Chen Yu trapped and suppressed the herd with Sword Light Seals the Heavens and Swords Ravage Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Yu drew a young Pegasus to him and flew away with it and Chen Xiaojun.

Chen Xiaojun asked Chen Yu to release an injured 1,500-year-old Pegasus so he could challenge it himself, then fought it using his sword techniques. After breaking through its defenses and wounding it further, he faced the Pegasus’s final charge as it split into two bodies with Light-Splitting Shadowless Form.

• Chen Yu identified the Pegasus as roughly 1,500 years old and said it was suitable for Chen Xiaojun, who asked to face it without his grandfather’s suppression.
• Chen Yu enclosed Chen Xiaojun and the Pegasus in a Sword Light barrier, and the wounded beast charged with its wind abilities.
• Chen Xiaojun dodged and counterattacked, then shattered the Pegasus’s Wind Vortex Heavenly Barrier with a three-part sword strike and opened a deep wound in its side.
• Chen Xiaojun pressed his attack and inflicted several more wounds, but the Pegasus used Fierce Wind Rebound to deflect his Sword Qi and retreat.
• The exhausted Pegasus charged again and used Light-Splitting Shadowless Form to create two horse-shaped bodies, concentrating its power in its wings.

Chen Xiaojun killed the wounded Pegasus with the Sword-Drawing Technique, then began absorbing its 1,500-year Soul Ring. After enduring the violent energy, he completed the absorption and emerged with a stronger body and a formed Divine Sword in his Lower Soul Nest.

• Chen Xiaojun sheathed his sword, closed his eyes, and killed the charging Pegasus with one strike of the Sword-Drawing Technique.
• Chen Xiaojun was injured by the Pegasus's lingering spatial force, and Chen Yu gave him medicine and told him to recover before absorbing the Soul Ring.
• Chen Xiaojun used the Sword God Pearl and the Impartial Sword Qi Art to absorb the Pegasus's Soul Ring as its energy battered and repaired his body.
• The Soul Ring's power formed a Divine Sword in Chen Xiaojun's Lower Soul Nest, while the remaining Pegasus soul consciousness was absorbed.
• Chen Xiaojun completed the two-hour absorption, opened his eyes, and released a flash of white light.

Chen Xiaojun tested the Chengying Sword’s powerful first Soul Skill after absorbing a Pegasus Soul Ring, but the Horse King returned with the Heavenly Horse Saint King. Chen Yu fought the Saint King, defended himself against its Innate Skill, and left with Chen Xiaojun after the Saint King accepted that the slain Pegasus had died honorably.

• Chen Xiaojun revealed the Chengying Sword and used Fleeting Light, Passing Shadow to cut down an Ancient Pine from a distance.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that his Soul Skill boosted his attacks and allowed invisible long-range strikes, and said his Soul Power had reached level thirteen.
• The Horse King brought the Heavenly Horse Saint King, and Chen Yu used his Eighth Soul Skill to clash with the Saint King’s Astral Wind.
• The Heavenly Horse Saint King launched its Innate Skill, Pour the River Across the World, and Chen Yu countered with Changing Stars and Shifting Constellations.
• Chen Yu told the Heavenly Horse Saint King that the slain Pegasus had fought and died honorably, then departed with Chen Xiaojun.
• The Heavenly Horse Saint King told the Horse King that Chen Yu had spoken truthfully and admitted it would have lost if the battle continued.

After Chen Xiaojun obtained his First Soul Ring, his Power-Up System activated and awarded him a lottery draw that produced Lesser Siming, a six-year-old girl brought from another world. The system told him she had appeared at the entrance to Chenlin Village, where he could collect her.

• On the way back, Chen Xiaojun learned that the Power-Up System granted one fixed draw for each Soul Ring and offered techniques, classic texts, and treasures.
• Chen Xiaojun used his draw and received the Companion category, then chose the middle card.
• The card revealed Lesser Siming from The Legend of Qin, whom the system said had been created with her original-world techniques and abilities.
• Chen Xiaojun learned that Lesser Siming was six years old, had appeared at the entrance to Chenlin Village, and could use a Martial Soul to spend Soul Power without shortening her life.
• The system explained that it only stayed active for 72 hours after a reward, and Chen Xiaojun set out to collect Lesser Siming.

Chen Xiaojun brought the silent girl Xiao Yi home after she appeared at the village gate, and she chose to go with him. Ye Xiuxin began examining Xiao Yi, while Chen Yu urged her to check the girl's throat and vocal cords.

• Chen Yu and Chen Xiaojun returned to the village and found Xiao Yi standing at the east gate with the Garrison Team.
• Xiao Yi offered Chen Xiaojun a Forget-Worry Flower, gave her name, and indicated that she could not remember her family.
• Chen Xiaojun invited Xiao Yi to come with him, and she took his hand and followed him home.
• Chen Xiaojun introduced Xiao Yi to Ye Xiuxin, and Chen Yu asked Ye Xiuxin to examine her throat and vocal cords.
• Ye Xiuxin reassured Xiao Yi and used her Soul Power to gently examine her body.

Chen Yu and Ye Xiuxin discovered that Xiao Yi had a Manifest Soul Physique and treated the blockage preventing her from speaking. Chen Xiaojun learned how rare her physique was, then showed Ding Dang and Zhu Wuneng his invisible Chengying Sword and purple Soul Ring.

• Ye Xiuxin identified Xiao Yi's Manifest Soul Physique and found that a blockage between her spirit and soul caused her speech difficulty and might be connected to her amnesia.
• Chen Yu used his Mental Power to clear Xiao Yi's soul blockage, and Ye Xiuxin healed her when she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Chen Yu explained the benefits and rarity of the Manifest Soul Physique, warned Chen Xiaojun to keep Xiao Yi's physique secret, and asked him to help plan her cultivation path.
• Ding Dang and Zhu Wuneng visited Chen Xiaojun, who demonstrated his purple First Soul Ring and revealed his invisible Chengying Sword to Zhu Wuneng.

The Soul Fighting City forces prepared to punish the Demon Sheep Sect for its greed and arrogance. Yang Jingxue led the opening attack, unleashing a massive rain of arrows over the sect as the assault began.

• Guido Weiss worried that Wan Yingyi had not responded to the Demon Sheep Sect after nearly a month, while Wilbur Weiss ordered tighter defenses.
• Chen Hong, Chen Xun, Ximen Rongcheng, and Yang Jingxue assembled their forces near the Demon Sheep Sect and planned a coordinated attack from all four sides.
• Cheng Nanxing reported that all 255 elite members of the Soul Fighting Legion were in position, with Fang Yuan and Gui Changhao sealing the northern approach.
• Yang Jingxue activated her Seven Extremes Bow and, aided by support from Ning Ze, Chen Jingyao, and other Soul Masters, fired arrows that multiplied into tens of thousands.
• The Yang Family's arrows rained down over the Demon Sheep Sect as the assault began.

The Ximen Family and its allies launched a surprise assault on the Demon Sheep Sect, using Yang Jingxue’s Seven Extremes Bow and Fang Yuan’s Heaven-Suppressing Mystic Stele to devastate and surround Red Forest Mountain. Ximen Rongcheng clashed with Guido Weiss as fighting spread to Vanguard Town, where Ma Zhibin attacked the sect’s flying Soul Masters.

• Guido Weiss and Wilbur Weiss rushed out after the alarm, but waves of arrows battered Red Forest Mountain, killing and injuring hundreds of the Demon Sheep Sect’s people.
• Wilbur Weiss recognized the Seven Extremes Bow and feared the attack, so Guido Weiss ordered him to take the children through the secret passage.
• Ximen Rongcheng confronted Guido Weiss and revealed that the assaulting force included Chen Xun, Chen Jingyao, Zhu Tianhao, and others.
• Fang Yuan raised his Heaven-Suppressing Mystic Stele, sealed Red Forest Mountain beneath an energy barrier, and challenged Bartosz Weiss as the sect’s elders prepared to fight.
• Ximen Rongcheng and Guido Weiss exchanged attacks, beginning a large-scale battle between their forces.
• At Vanguard Town, Ma Zhibin attacked the Demon Sheep Sect’s flying Soul Masters with his Demonflame Soul-Burning Formation, while Long Wenkai urged his allies to advance toward the main peak.

Soul Fighting City’s forces overwhelmed the Demon Sheep Sect on several fronts, leaving the sect’s defeat inevitable. Solidas Weiss was severely wounded by Cheng Nanxing and Qu Yixiang as the battle continued.

• Long Wenkai led a company of Soul Masters in a charge across the battlefield.
• Ma Zhibin fought Meilun Cox in the eastern pass and battered him into a mountainside.
• Xue Tianming bound Demon Sheep Sect Soul Masters with his Brightlight Mirror while Zhong Kui killed them with his bell.
• Soul Fighting City’s squads hunted the outnumbered Demon Sheep Sect forces as their support and healing Soul Masters fell.
• Qu Yixiang struck Solidas Weiss with his Shadow Scorpion Lion attack, and Cheng Nanxing followed with a lightning-charged blow that shattered Solidas’s arm and left him badly wounded.

Jonah Weiss tried to escape Red Forest Mountain but was intercepted by Yang Jingxue, while Chen Xun overpowered Wilbur Weiss in battle. Just as Chen Xun prepared a devastating finishing strike, Jesus Weiss launched a powerful sneak attack at his back.

• Jonah Weiss led trusted subordinates toward the mountain gate and claimed he could break through Fang Yuan's seal.
• Yang Jingxue and her squad confronted Jonah Weiss and blocked his escape route.
• Chen Xun used his Seven Kill Sword and Soul Skills to break Wilbur Weiss's illusions and earth wall, leaving Wilbur numb and exposed.
• Wilbur Weiss used Repulsive Force Tide to halt Chen Xun's thrust and fired the Demon Sheep Divine Light, but Chen Xun's Brilliant Star Primordial Spirit Sword destroyed the mental attack.
• Chen Xun unleashed the Self-Created Soul Skill Sweep Across the Eight Directions toward Wilbur Weiss.
• Jesus Weiss appeared and fired his Eighth Soul Skill, Demon Sheep Space-Breaking Strike, at Chen Xun from behind.