Chapter Summaries

Chen Yu told Chen Xiaojun how twelve top-tier families founded Soul Fighting City and negotiated an agreement with the continent’s major powers after facing widespread suppression. The account ended with Chen Xiaojun hearing the main terms of the Jingkang Agreement.

• Chen Xiaojun asked whether the Chen Clan was behind Soul Fighting City, and Chen Yu revealed that twelve families founded it.
• Chen Yu listed the twelve families and explained that their small numbers had led them to unite against outside powers.
• Chen Yu described how the major powers, including Spirit Hall, privately coordinated to suppress Soul Fighting City until conflict threatened to become a great war.
• Chen Yu said the threat of a cataclysm forced both sides to negotiate rather than risk a large-scale civil war.
• Chen Yu recounted the Jingkang Agreement, under which the Ning family withdrew, Soul Fighting City could expand under restrictions, the families dispersed, and the Ning family received protection and compensation.

Chen Yu and Chen Cong explained how the Ning family’s departure weakened Soul Fighting City and how its families survived by supporting one another through great calamities. Chen Yu warned Chen Xiaojun about Evil Soul Masters and revealed that a god stood behind the Crimson Church.

• Chen Xiaojun deduced that the Ning family’s departure cost Soul Fighting City much of its strength and left its leadership vulnerable, and Chen Cong confirmed his reasoning.
• Chen Yu described how the families moved away, stayed secretly connected, and endured several great calamities together.
• Chen Cong explained that great calamities involved threats such as Soul Beasts, Evil Soul Masters, and powerful nonhuman races, which had joined humanity in signing the Jingkang Agreement.
• Chen Yu warned Chen Xiaojun to flee or kill any Evil Soul Masters he encountered, especially members of the Crimson Church.
• Chen Xiaojun asked why the Crimson Church could not be destroyed, and Chen Yu revealed that a god stood behind it.

Chen Yu explained the Crimson Church’s ties to the Rakshasa God and its role in the Chen Clan’s past tragedy, then described why Soul Fighting City and the major powers united against outside threats. Chen Xiaojun learned why his innate soul power must remain secret as Chen Yu ended by praising Spirit Hall’s defense of humanity.

• Chen Yu told Chen Xiaojun that the Crimson Church repeatedly survived its destruction because the Rakshasa God could raise new Evil Soul Masters and human darkness kept drawing people to it.
• Chen Yu revealed that the Crimson Church ambushed the Chen Clan fifty years earlier, killing Duke Wen of Jin and devastating the family; Chen Xiaojun comforted his grieving grandfather.
• Chen Yu explained that the Chen Clan and other families faced danger because rival powers and evil cults feared their potential, so Soul Fighting City had been founded to shelter them together.
• Chen Yu described how the empires and the Seven Kill Sword fought other races during catastrophes, while Spirit Hall guarded dangerous places and led the defense against threats.
• Chen Yu said Spirit Hall had earned its standing as a banner for humanity, then brought the discussion to an end.

Chen Yu explained the Jingkang Agreement and why Soul Fighting City had acted against the Demon Sheep Sect, revealing the forces involved and the alliances behind the city. Chen Xiaojun ended the conversation by describing Soul Fighting City’s structure as an “eleven plus one” model.

• Chen Yu and Chen Cong explained how martial soul evolution took centuries to stabilize and why the Demon Sheep Sect’s Three-Eyed Demon Sheep was a recent development.
• Chen Yu said the Demon Sheep Sect and Yier City’s lord had violated the Jingkang Agreement by suppressing the Great Soul Arena and demanding a fifty-percent profit share.
• Chen Yu revealed that the operation involved two Titled Douluos, ten Soul Douluos, and more than 250 Soul Kings or stronger from the Soul Fighting Legion, while the Demon Sheep Sect had four Soul Douluos and about a dozen Soul Saints.
• Chen Yu explained that the Ning family had supported the operation initially and maintained ties with Soul Fighting City under an old protection agreement.
• Chen Xiaojun summarized Soul Fighting City’s current arrangement as an “eleven plus one” model, and Chen Yu approved the description.

Chen Cong explained the Ximen Family’s Karmaflame Demon Blade and the Yang Family’s Seven Extremes Bow to Chen Xiaojun, describing their powers, paths, and inherited techniques. Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong ended up discussing how five-element mutual restraint might be used to create powerful attacks, while Chen Yu watched them drift off topic.

• Chen Cong described the Ximen Family’s ninth-grade Karmaflame Demon Blade, its metal, fire, and mental attributes, and the danger it posed to its Soul Master.
• Chen Cong explained that the Ximen Family had six cultivation paths and that its inherited methods could slow, but not eliminate, the Martial Soul’s corrosive effects.
• Chen Cong explained that the Yang Family’s Seven Extremes Bow used seven attributes and gained two Soul Skills from its seventh Soul Ring, including its Martial Soul Avatar.
• Chen Cong described the Yang Family’s Myriad Fusion Art and Turning Wheel Art, including the Five Spirits Radiant Wheel.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested that five-element mutual restraint could produce destructive power, and he and Chen Cong discussed the risks of researching such an attack.
• Chen Yu watched Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong lose themselves in their discussion and pressed a hand to his forehead.

Chen Xiaojun and Chen Cong discussed combining yin, yang, and the five elements through divine swords and a Five Elements Formation before resuming their review of the Twelve Families' martial souls. Chen Cong described the Yang, Fang, and Gui Families, ending with the revelation that the Fang and Gui Families could fuse their martial souls into Baxia.

• Chen Xiaojun proposed applying yin, yang, and the five elements to the divine swords and using a Five Elements Formation with the village's martial souls.
• Chen Yu interrupted Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun and reminded them to continue discussing the Twelve Families' martial souls.
• Chen Cong explained the Yang Family's Myriad Fusion Art, its three development paths, and its ninth-grade bow martial soul.
• Chen Cong described the Fang Family's Heaven Suppressing Mystic Stele and its powerful immobilizing and suppressive abilities.
• Chen Cong introduced the Gui Family's ninth-grade Mountain-Bearing Tortoise, its strength, defense, and doubled lifespan, then revealed its Martial Soul Fusion Skill with the Fang Family: Baxia.

Chen Cong explained the powers and limitations of three top-tier Martial Souls and revealed how the Xue Family developed long-distance communication through its Brightlight Mirror. Chen Xiaojun learned that the ancient Cherry Blossom Bright Mirror linked Soul Fighting City with the Twelve Families, but its continent-wide transmissions were costly and reserved for emergencies.

• Chen Cong described Baxia as a powerful fusion of the Heaven Suppressing Mystic Stele and Mountain Bearer, and compared it favorably with the Hell White Tiger.
• Chen Cong explained that the Mysterious Heaven Gourd let its users apply most support skills to themselves while requiring them to master both support and combat techniques.
• Chen Cong introduced the Brightlight Mirror Xue Family's eighth-grade Martial Soul and explained its light, flame, illusion, and space attributes.
• Chen Cong said the Xue Family had adapted long-distance text and image transmission from the ancient Cherry Blossom Bright Mirror, though using the Brightlight Mirror required Soul Saint-level cultivation.
• Chen Cong revealed that the Cherry Blossom Bright Mirror had one mother mirror and twelve daughter mirrors, with each family holding a daughter mirror and Soul Fighting City holding the mother mirror.
• Chen Cong explained that the ancient mirror could transmit text across the continent but required immense Soul Power and stored energy, so it was used only in emergencies.

Chen Cong showed Chen Xiaojun the Sakura Blossom Mirror and explained the Zhong Family's Primordial Yellow Bell and the Ma Family's Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix. The chapter ended with Chen Xiaojun praising Chen Cong's deep knowledge.

• Chen Yu showed Chen Xiaojun the Sakura Blossom Mirror, which Chen Xiaojun examined before passing it to Xiao Yi.
• Chen Cong explained that the Zhong Family's Primordial Yellow Bell used sonic and physical attacks and could manifest an Ancient Primordial Yellow Dragon from soul rings tied to nine kinds of beasts.
• Chen Yu told Chen Xiaojun that the Zhong Family and the Brightlight Mirror family belonged to the secretive Apocalypse Society.
• Chen Cong described the Ma Family's Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix, its fire-based powers, physical strength, and distinctive inherited soul skills.
• Chen Xiaojun praised Chen Cong for his thorough understanding of the Ma Family's legacy.

Chen Cong explained the Dragon-Pattern Long Family’s unpredictable bloodline martial souls and revealed how the Heavenly Book Bu Family’s unique super martial soul evolved and was passed down. He also outlined the Bu Family’s power and protection, then clarified the history behind the shifting counts of the great families.

• Chen Cong described how Long Family members awakened random dragon-pattern martial souls, which he ranked eighth overall despite their wide range in power.
• Chen Xiaojun asked about the Heavenly Book Bu Family, and Chen Cong explained that its unique martial soul evolved into a super martial soul after the previous wielder died.
• Chen Cong said the Bu Family could have only one heir per generation, yet its members possessed top-tier lesser martial souls and almost always produced Titled Douluos.
• Chen Cong explained that the Heavenly Book borrowed the soul power and laws of heaven and earth, wielded two sets of soul skills, and had helped the Bu Family produce Peerless Douluos.
• Chen Cong recited the poetic couplet identifying the twelve families, and Chen Yu warned Chen Xiaojun to keep a low profile.
• Chen Yu explained that Soul Fighting City had concealed four families, the Ning family’s withdrawal led to talk of seven great families, and the Bu Family later remained largely out of public view.

Chen Yu explained how the Chen Clan and the other ancient families of Soul Fighting City were connected to powerful alliances and organizations. He revealed that Chen Ling and Ximen Zhenyang became Slaughter Gods in Slaughter City, while Chen Xiaojun learned more about the Yang, Gui, Ma, and Long families.

• Chen Yu described the Chen Clan’s longstanding alliances, branch network, influence in the Swordsman Alliance, and honorary dukedom in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Chen Yu said Chen Ling and Ximen Zhenyang survived Slaughter City’s hundred battles, gained Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and evolved their Martial Souls.
• Chen Yu explained the Yang Family’s influence in the Archer Guild and Plant Association, which also counted the Chen Family among its important members.
• Chen Yu described the Gui Family’s leadership in the Spirit Turtle People and its hidden strength, then outlined the Ma Family’s place in the Flight Alliance and its ties to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Chen Yu explained that the Long Family rarely appeared beyond Soul Fighting City, had fewer than fifty members, and included at least two level-ninety-five Titled Douluo.

Chen Yu explained the origins of the Heavenly Revelation Sect and the ancient Three Heavenly Sects to Chen Xiaojun, tracing their divisions, wars, and ties to Spirit Hall. He ended by noting that the Qiangu Family and its allies remained friendly with the Chen Family as fellow members of the Seven Heavenly Martial Weapons.

• Chen Yu told Chen Xiaojun that the Xue, Zhong, Fang, Chen, and Ning families were connected to the Apocalypse Society, while the Bu family had declined to join.
• Chen Xiaojun realized that the Heavenly Revelation Sect's martial souls were ritual vessels and sacrificial objects, and Chen Yu explained their traits and the difficulty of evolving them.
• Chen Yu described the ancient Three Heavenly Sects and how the Heavenly Weapon Sect split into the Heaven-Grasping Sect and the Heavenly Soldier Sect.
• Chen Yu explained that the Heaven-Grasping Sect destroyed the weakened Heavenly Soldier Sect after a devastating calamity and later became a dominant power.
• Chen Yu said Chen Feiyi helped destroy the Heaven-Grasping Sect as the Angel Church's strongest enshrined elder, and that the Chen Family later drifted from Spirit Hall.
• Chen Yu told Chen Xiaojun that the Qiangu Family and its allied factions remained on good terms with the Chen Family as fellow members of the Seven Heavenly Martial Weapons.

Chen Yu and Chen Cong revealed the Chen Clan’s roots among the Seven Heavenly Martial Weapons and explained how the ancient families survived the Heaven-Grasping Sect’s persecution. The chapter ended with the families’ alliance against the sect and Chen Xiaojun moved by the history.

• Chen Yu explained that Chen Ling and Ximen Zhenyang fled the Heaven-Grasping Sect, and that their Azure Steel Sword and Huo Yun Blade evolved into the Seven Kill Sword and Karmaflame Demon Blade.
• Chen Cong demonstrated the Azure Steel Sword form and told Chen Xiaojun that the Chen Clan had changed its surname and hidden its lineage to escape the sect’s hunters.
• Chen Yu identified the Seven Heavenly Martial Weapons families and described how the Qiangu, Yang, Xiang, and Tang families sought protection from different powers.
• Chen Yu connected the Clear Sky Hammer, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to the ancient Three Heavenly Sects, and described the Chen families’ cooperative but competitive ties with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Chen Yu revealed that the Annihilation Axe family was destroyed and that the Heaven-Grasping Sect may have plotted the War God Church’s later destruction.
• Chen Yu recounted how Ancestor Fei Yi united major powers against the Heaven-Grasping Sect, while Chen Xiaojun listened in admiration.

Chen Yu explained why the Ye, Xiao, and Xu families had different ties to Soul Fighting City, then recounted the catastrophe that caused the dynasties to change 2,500 years earlier. He left Chen Xiaojun with the story of the Lei Xie emperor’s downfall and the Heaven Dou Xue Family’s rise.

• Chen Yu explained that the Ye Family declined to join Soul Fighting City because neutrality served its interests and supported its work with the Medical Alliance.
• Chen Yu said the Xiao Family had suffered repeated disasters after the Heavenly Revelation Sect’s destruction, though it later maintained close ties with Soul Fighting City.
• Chen Yu revealed that the Star Crown Xu Family had founded the Star Luo Kingdom and helped shape the Star Luo Empire.
• Chen Yu described how beast tides, foreign races, and the Evil Cult Society devastated humanity 2,500 years earlier, leaving both empires responsible for the catastrophe.
• Chen Yu said the Lei Xie emperor refused to accept blame, was overthrown by his people, and lost power to rival factions, with the Heaven Dou Xue Family emerging as the greatest winner.

Chen Yu explained the history behind Douluo’s New Dawn, and Chen Xiaojun reacted with intense fascination. After Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi left, Chen Yu and Chen Cong agreed that the boy was unusually mature and resolved to give him more opportunities and challenges.

• Chen Yu explained how the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires changed their systems of rule, how the churches gained authority, and how the Heavenly Soldier Sect was destroyed as the new calendar began.
• Chen Xiaojun eagerly absorbed the history, lamenting that he could not witness the continent’s past firsthand, while Xiao Yi turned to watch him with curiosity.
• Chen Xiaojun reflected on the gaps in the history books he had encountered and considered what Chen Yu’s account revealed about the Douluo Continent and the Chen Clan.
• After Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi left, Chen Cong told Chen Yu that Xiaojun’s knowledge, judgment, and maturity far exceeded those of a six-year-old.
• Chen Yu and Chen Cong agreed to pay Xiaojun more attention and expose him to more of the outside world and its challenges.

Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Little Wuneng practiced at dawn before running the Village-Circling Road with Ma Wenyu. They reached Picturesque Shaolin Lake, where Chen Xiaojun’s eldest sister Chen Yanwu was playing the guqin as part of a task assigned by Chen Hanxin.

• Xiao Yi practiced the Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow while Chen Xiaojun sparred with Little Wuneng and teased him about his Earthflow Fist.
• Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Little Wuneng ran the Village-Circling Road and encountered Ma Wenyu completing his morning laps.
• At Chen Xiaojun’s request, Xiao Yi used her Immortal Evergreen Vine to ease Ma Wenyu’s fatigue and steady his breathing.
• The group reached Picturesque Shaolin Lake and found Chen Yanwu playing the guqin in a pavilion by the water.
• Chen Yanwu continued the zither performance she had been assigned by Chen Hanxin.

Chen Yanwu taught Chen Xiaojun about a zither piece that cultivated soul power and offered advice on swordsmanship while showing concern for Xiao Yi. The group then went to the Practice Ground, where Chen Jianjun and Chen Jianzun had just finished an impressive sword spar.

• Chen Yanwu explained that Ancestor Chen Mingxiu's zither piece helped cultivate soul power and offered to teach Chen Xiaojun Sword Sound: Great Sound Has No Voice.
• Chen Yanwu spoke gently with Xiao Yi, learned that she liked watching the stars, listening to rain, and watching sunrises and sunsets, and comforted her about her difficulty speaking.
• Chen Yanwu advised Chen Xiaojun to improve his swordsmanship by understanding sword techniques and tempering his emotions through actual combat.
• Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Little Wuneng left Chen Yanwu and headed to the Practice Ground, where Chen Jianjun and Chen Jianzun were sparring.
• Chen Jianjun and Chen Jianzun stopped their spar, and the gathered onlookers began discussing their sword techniques.

Chen Xiaojun reflected that Chen Jianjun and Chen Jianzun’s swordsmanship had gained spirit as they pursued its essence and made it their own. Chen Feng and Chen Mu then teamed up to defeat Zhao Mingsheng in a spar, leaving Chen Xiaojun thinking about the power of twin swords.

• Chen Xiaojun said Chen Jianjun and Chen Jianzun’s swordsmanship had more spirit, prompting them to discuss mastering their techniques’ essence and tempering their minds and souls.
• Chen Jianzun revealed that he had changed the character in his name to mean “sword” and vowed to pursue the path of a swordsman.
• Zhao Mingsheng challenged Chen Feng and Chen Mu to a two-on-one match using only their families’ martial techniques.
• Chen Feng and Chen Mu coordinated their Green Duckweed Sword Technique and Lone Peak Thirteen Swords to overwhelm Zhao Mingsheng and knock him down.
• After the others praised the fight, Chen Xiaojun murmured that Twin Swords Combined was extraordinary.

Chen Cong told the villagers that the clan chief and other senior Soul Masters had gone to confront Holy King-tier Soul Beasts in the mountains, and urged everyone to stay in the village. Chen Xiaojun learned the beasts were a pack of Silver Moon Wolves, linking the mission to the earlier attack on Old Black.

• Chen Cong and Chen Wu brought Chen Xiaojun and the others to Shaolin Square, where they learned many senior Soul Masters were missing.
• Chen Cong, Mu Lingyun, and Qi Shuiyue reassured the villagers that the clan chief and other elders had gone to deal with dangerous Soul Beasts and would return in a few days.
• A villager asked why so many leaders, including elders from the Nine Surnames of Zhaowu, had gone; Chen Cong revealed that some of the beasts were at the Holy King tier.
• Ximen Shaoping rallied the crowd, and the older Soul Masters urged everyone to stay calm and remain inside the village.
• Chen Cong reassured Chen Xiaojun, Chen Jianjun, and Chen Zhang that their elders had prepared carefully, then Chen Wu dismissed the villagers.
• Ximen Shaoping invited Chen Xiaojun, Chen Jianjun, and Xiao Yi to eat at her home, and she confirmed to Chen Xiaojun that the mission concerned a pack of Silver Moon Wolves connected to the attack on Old Black.

Yang Chenglin’s arrows devastated the Silver Moon Wolf pack, and Chen Yu’s group trapped the Silver Moon Saint King and nearby wolves inside the Seven Kill Sword Formation. Chen Qiujun unleashed Greedy Wolf, filling the formation with a rain of swords, but the Saint King roared that the humans had underestimated him.

• Yang Chenglin used Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Clouds to slaughter Silver Moon Wolves at Liuguangbo.
• Chen Yu and six companions arrived as the surviving wolves gathered around the Silver Moon Saint King.
• Chen Yu activated the Seven Kill Sword Formation, pulling the Saint King and nearby wolves into its star-filled world.
• The Silver Moon Saint King attacked with Moonlight Rending the Sky, but the blows failed to affect the formation.
• Chen Qiujun unleashed Seven Kill Sword Formation: Starlight Annihilation-Greedy Wolf, summoning a torrent of swords from the stars.
• The Silver Moon Saint King roared that the humans had underestimated him.

The Seven Kill Sword Formation used the Silver Moon Wolves’ own frost against them, breaking through their defenses and devastating the pack. The Silver Moon Wolf King survived alongside a handful of wounded wolves and faced the slaughter with sorrow and resolve.

• The Silver Moon Wolves combined their Moon Wolf Guard barriers and howled at the moon, exposing the seven stars anchoring the Seven Kill Sword Formation.
• Chen Hong used Frost Across the Nine Provinces-Army Breaker to absorb the wolves’ Moonfall Frost and shatter their Moonfrost Silver Blade, barrier, and Moonlight Divine Radiance.
• The giant frost sword struck the Silver Moon Wolf King and destroyed itself, blasting the wolf pack apart.
• Chen Wenchao unleashed Seven Stars Shining Together-Seven Kill, and seven enormous swords tore through the wolves, killing and wounding nearly the entire pack.
• The Silver Moon Wolf King looked over the corpses of its descendants and turned its sorrow into resolve.