Chapter Summaries

Chen Yu lay near death after Youguang Zhou's poison and the battle's other attacks, while Yan Wufeng escaped with Youguang Zhou and Luo Ping had already fled. Back in the present, Ye Xiuxin explained that Chen Yu's injuries left his recovery uncertain and considered treatments for his soul damage.

• Youguang Zhou activated Void Shadow Burst, then triggered the poison inside Chen Yu as Yan Wufeng carried him away.
• Chen Yu collapsed, and the Chen Clan experts abandoned pursuit because Cheng Nanxing was injured and they could not catch the fleeing attackers.
• Ye Xiuxin told Shen Tianjun that Chen Yu's Nine Yang Divine Skill was suppressing poison and healing some injuries, but could not repair his severe soul damage.
• Ye Xiuxin warned that Chen Yu might take years to improve or remain catatonic, and proposed researching mental medicines and seeking ninth-grade mental treasure medicines.
• Ye Xiuxin said mastering Twin Full Hands might improve Chen Yu's treatment, though she had not yet crossed its threshold.

After Chen Yu was badly injured in the Crimson Church’s attack, Shen Tianjun and the others discussed their responsibility and the threat facing the Chen Clan. Shen Tianjun decided to ask Chen Zixiu to begin the sunset glow plan early, while Chen Yu’s recovery remained in Ye Xiuxin’s hands.

• Xi Li Rufeng demanded revenge on the Crimson Church, but Shen Tianjun told him to focus on healing his injuries.
• Shen Tianjun entrusted Chen Yu’s recovery to Ye Xiuxin and asked Cheng Nanxing to inform Chen Cong and the others about Chen Yu’s condition.
• Shen Tianjun said he would personally beg Chen Zixiu’s forgiveness, but the others insisted they would all share responsibility and apologize together.
• Shen Tianjun proposed beginning the sunset glow plan when Chen Zixiu returned, despite concerns about his injuries and the plan’s risks.
• Shen Tianjun reasoned that the Crimson Church and its allies had made the Chen Clan a primary target, then blamed himself for failing to protect Chen Yu.

Zhuo Qianren and Zhang Ci discussed a mountain-outpost proposal drafted by Hong Chen and revised by Zhang Ci, along with the Chen Clan’s growing influence at Chang'an Academy. Zhang Ci argued that serving the Chen Clan could benefit the Commoner Faction, leaving Zhuo Qianren quietly reconsidering his fears about the Academy’s independence.

• Zhuo Qianren asked Zhang Ci about a proposal to expand the mountain outposts, and Zhang Ci said Hong Chen had given him the original draft in the mountains.
• Zhuo Qianren and Zhang Ci agreed that additional outposts could have reduced casualties during the Wolf Bandits' attack.
• Zhuo Qianren explained that Lord Chen Cong had improved the Academy’s finances, strengthened its students’ competition results, and funded Zhongnan Mountain relief and reconstruction.
• Zhang Ci identified the proposal’s broader aim as shifting the Academy toward practical-combat training, and Zhuo Qianren warned that the change could cause conflict.
• Zhang Ci told Zhuo Qianren that the Chen Clan’s service offered commoner graduates good pay, resources, and opportunities, and asked why they could not choose to serve the clan.
• Zhuo Qianren listened as Zhang Ci challenged his fears that the Academy would become an appendage of the Chen Clan.

Zhang Ci and Mu Zilian urged Zhuo Qianren to accept the Chen Clan’s growing role in the Academy, arguing that its influence and plans could benefit teachers and students. Zhuo Qianren remained wary of political risks, but Zhang Ci’s river metaphor left him contemplating the unstoppable change ahead.

• Zhang Ci argued that City Lord Xue Churan’s close ties with the Chen Clan made the Academy’s recruitment of common-born Soul Masters part of her strategy.
• Zhang Ci urged Zhuo Qianren to accept the Chen Clan’s influence, revealing that Xiaojun had rewarded him with Soul Bones, spirit medicine, and gold.
• Zhang Ci said he trusted Xiaojun’s plan to make the Academy financially independent, while Zhuo Qianren worried about future political changes.
• Mu Zilian supported the Chen Clan taking responsibility for the Academy, and Zhang Ci urged Zhuo Qianren to gain influence by becoming a Titled Douluo.
• Zhang Ci recited a verse about a river flowing east and told Zhuo Qianren that no obstacle could stop the rolling tide.

Chen Xiaojun practiced painting while waiting for Gao Cuilan to return from hunting a soul beast, and recalled how he had helped her and Zhu Wuneng awaken a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The chapter left their new bond established and Gao Cuilan still away on her hunt.

• Chen Xiaojun told Zhu Wuneng he expected to finish his painting of Along the River During the Qingming Festival within a few days.
• Chen Xiaojun waited for Gao Cuilan to return from hunting a specific soul beast with her father and the Gao Family's Chief Steward.
• Chen Xiaojun recalled that Gao Cuilan and Zhu Wuneng's martial souls had resonated after he used dragon-phoenix grass to upgrade hers.
• Gao Cuilan and Zhu Wuneng formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, making them the first pair under the Chen Clan's command to do so.

After Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan gained a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Zhu and Gao Families moved to formalize their relationship, while Chen Xiaojun urged the pair to train together. Xue Churan then explained the political fallout from the Heavenly Wolf Forging Market attack, and Chen Xiaojun suggested abandoning her bid to become governor.

• The Zhu Family celebrated Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Zhu Yanfeng and Zhu Hefeng brought gifts to the Gao Family to confirm the match.
• Gao Yunpeng and Chief Steward Zhuang Yucheng took Gao Cuilan into the mountains to hunt for a soul ring, while Chen Xiaojun told Zhu Wuneng to build his fighting coordination with her.
• Chen Xiaojun asked how long Xiao Yi had been away, and Zhu Wuneng said she had been gone for three days and was protected by Grandpa Meng and Poisonous Snake Fu’s grandpa.
• Xue Churan told Chen Xiaojun that court opponents were using the Heavenly Wolf Forging Market attack to target her and challenge her plans to become Fasno Governor and move the Governor’s Office to Chang’an City.
• After hearing that the opposition also wanted control of Chang’an City and sought to block the office’s relocation, Chen Xiaojun proposed giving up the governorship.

Chen Xiaojun advised Xue Churan to abandon her immediate bid to become governor-general and instead strengthen her faction by advancing to Titled Douluo with the Chen Clan’s support. Xue Churan recognized the clan’s growing power, and Chen Cong revealed that it had no fewer Titled Douluos than the Imperial Family.

• Xue Churan agreed that her faction needed stronger foundations and said she would focus on improving herself in Chang'an City rather than pursue the governor-general position for now.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that Xue Churan could overcome political resistance by becoming a Titled Douluo, while the Chen Clan supported her and Senior Silver Emperor in advancing.
• Xue Churan considered how four Titled Douluos could secure her faction’s influence and asked whether Chen Xiaojun could help her advance with a Ninth-Grade Treasure Medicine.
• Xue Churan questioned Chen Cong about the number of Titled Douluos in the Chen Clan, and Chen Cong answered that it had no fewer than the Imperial Family.

Dugu Fu hunted in the Frozen Forest with Chen Menglin, Dugu Lin, and Xiao Yi, then absorbed a six-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion soul ring and gained a cold-poison formation skill. His growing mastery of four elemental poisons left Dugu Lin concerned that the dangerous path of the Poison Five Elements would eventually overwhelm him.

• Chen Menglin, Dugu Lin, Dugu Fu, and Xiao Yi entered the Frozen Forest and located an Ice Jade Scorpion nest using poisons and medicines.
• Dugu Fu chose and killed an Ice Jade Scorpion with roughly 6,300 years of cultivation, absorbing its soul ring.
• Dugu Fu gained the Ice Jade Cold-Poison Formation, which slowed and weakened enemies with freezing poison.
• Dugu Fu's four poisons—fire, earth, metal, and water—made his poison cultivation powerful enough to drain much of Dugu Lin's poison in a clash.
• Dugu Lin remained worried that Dugu Fu's accumulating poisons would make his risky Poison Five Elements cultivation increasingly dangerous.

Chen Menglin and his companions found the hidden ice soul dream vine cave, where its mental attack trapped them until Chen Menglin broke them free. They then faced a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and the chapter ended with their attacks leaving her unharmed.

• Mei Changge led Chen Menglin and the others through Stone Source Ice Valley in search of the ice soul dream vine.
• Chen Menglin sensed a hidden cave behind an ice wall and broke through it, revealing the vine’s hiding place.
• The ice soul dream vine unleashed a mental attack that ensnared all five, but Chen Menglin used Brilliant Star Sword Eyes to sever it.
• An Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion appeared and revealed a powerful ferocious beast aura.
• Chen Menglin attacked while Dugu Lin pulled Dugu Fu toward the exit, and Xiao Yi summoned Immortal Evergreen Vines before warning that something was wrong.
• The attacks struck the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, but she remained completely unharmed.

Xiao Yi saw through an illusion created by a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Ice Silkworm, which fled before the group could catch it. The five then found and defeated a fifty-five-thousand-year-old Ice Soul Dream Vine, and sat beside its remains as its Black Soul Ring appeared.

• Xiao Yi used her Eye of Space-Time to reveal that the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion was an illusion, and the illusion vanished as a surge of Soul Power and mental power struck the group.
• A streak of white light fled, and Chen Menglin identified it as a Holy King-tier Ice Silkworm nearly a hundred thousand years old.
• The five entered the cavern and found an Ice Soul Dream Vine that Mei Changge estimated to be around fifty-five thousand years old.
• The Ice Soul Dream Vine attacked with mental power, and Xiao Yi, Dugu Lin, and Mei Changge joined forces to fight it while Chen Menglin guarded against the Ice Silkworm's return.
• Xiao Yi, Dugu Lin, and Mei Changge defeated the Ice Soul Dream Vine, and a Black Soul Ring rose from its body.

Xiao Yi absorbed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s soul ring and imprisoned its spirit body, while Chen Menglin and Mei Changge discussed her extraordinary talent and the danger posed by the Crimson Church. The chapter ended with Chen Menglin asking when Mei Zhiyu would go to the village as turmoil spread across the continent.

• Xiao Yi absorbed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s soul ring and used the Nine Palace Soul-Shifting Art to imprison its spirit body in the Void Willow God Vine.
• Dugu Lin took Dugu Fu out into the valley to collect things he considered useful, including poisonous materials.
• Mei Changge praised Xiao Yi’s combat ability, and Chen Menglin revealed that she held the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking’s Top Rank and possessed twin martial souls.
• Chen Menglin warned Mei Changge that they still had to deal with the Crimson Church after Old Taro and Old Bookworm encountered trouble.
• Chen Menglin asked Mei Changge when Mei Zhiyu would go to the village.

Mei Changge and Chen Menglin discussed the growing danger in Heavenly Water Province and planned to bring Mei Zhiyu to the Village so he could pursue a breakthrough before the coming Calamity. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi absorbed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s Soul Ring, and a rare skull Soul Bone emerged from the remains.

• Mei Changge and Chen Menglin discussed the Yuwen Family’s resurgence and its attack on the Beichen Ling Family.
• Chen Menglin told Mei Changge that the worsening Calamity had forced the Clan to move up the Sunset Glow Plan and urged him to bring Mei Zhiyu to the Village.
• Chen Menglin suggested Mei Changge use a search for a breakthrough opportunity, or a medicinal treasure as a private pretext, to get Mei Zhiyu away from the Ice Palace.
• Xiao Yi absorbed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s Soul Ring as its power transformed her.
• An icy-blue skull Soul Bone emerged from the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s remains, and Chen Menglin and Mei Changge recognized Xiao Yi’s good fortune.

Mei Changge and Chen Menglin searched the cave but found nothing unusual, while Xiao Yi absorbed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s Soul Ring and reached level 59. Xiao Yi then learned the vine’s Head Soul Bone had fallen, but she already possessed a stronger one, and the new bone stirred a faint resonance in her.

• Mei Changge and Chen Menglin speculated about why the Ice Silkworm had fled and searched the cave for secrets, but found nothing.
• Xiao Yi finished absorbing the Soul Ring and told Chen Menglin she had gained two levels, reaching level 59.
• Xiao Yi noticed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s Head Soul Bone, and Chen Menglin explained that it had fallen off naturally during her absorption.
• Xiao Yi said she already had a seventy-thousand-year-old Howling Moon Silver Wolf Head Soul Bone given to her by Grandpa Yu.
• Xiao Yi felt a slight throb between her brows as she looked at the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s Head Soul Bone.

Xiao Yi manifested her Five Elements Immortal Robe as the Ice Soul Dream Vine skull bone resonated with her Howling Moon Silver Wolf skull bone. The Howling Moon Silver Wolf skull bone absorbed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s energy and transformed, while Xiao Yi’s mental power rapidly expanded; she ended the chapter calm after completing the fusion.

• Xiao Yi manifested her Five Elements Immortal Robe and sensed a resonance between it and her Howling Moon Silver Wolf skull bone.
• Two beams from Xiao Yi’s eyes drew the Ice Soul Dream Vine skull bone to her, and she began absorbing it.
• Chen Menglin and Mei Changge watched as Xiao Yi’s original Soul Bone appeared to absorb the other one, and Chen Menglin explained that Soul Bone fusion was possible.
• The Howling Moon Silver Wolf skull bone absorbed the Ice Soul Dream Vine’s energy, strengthening Xiao Yi’s mental power and extending her perception beyond a hundred meters.
• The Howling Moon Silver Wolf skull bone transformed and merged into Xiao Yi’s head, and she completed the fusion with steady breathing and a faint smile.

Xiao Yi discovered that her immortal robe had evolved her skull soul bone to eighty-four thousand years and could link soul bones into a set. Chen Menglin realized that the Chen Clan might one day gain two god-level soul bone sets, but their advancement would require enormous resources.

• Xiao Yi tested her enhanced eyes and mental abilities after absorbing the Ice Soul Dream Vine Skull, which had fused with her other powers.
• Xiao Yi told Chen Menglin that her skull soul bone had evolved from seventy-one thousand to eighty-four thousand years.
• Xiao Yi explained that the immortal robe caused the evolution and could link soul bones together, prompting her to share Chen Xiaojun’s belief that a full body of red bones was possible.
• Chen Menglin envisioned the Chen Clan acquiring two god-level soul bone sets, then calculated that advancing Xiao Yi’s skull to a hundred thousand years would consume several high-grade soul bones.
• Chen Menglin resolved to find hundred-thousand-year Beast Emperors for Chen Xiaojun to hunt and began preparing the clan for the costs of raising both geniuses.

Xiao Yi showed Chen Menglin how her new skull soul skill, Spirit Seal, could fix her Simulation at an apparent level 51, and demonstrated how widely she could imitate people and creatures. She ended by using a simulated Chen Xiaojun as a punching bag, while thinking she could make one for Cui Lan too.

• Chen Menglin realized Xiao Yi was still level 59 and learned that her pure mental-system skull made her power difficult to sense.
• Xiao Yi used Simulation and Spirit Seal to make herself appear to be a level 51 Soul King.
• Xiao Yi demonstrated simulations of plants, soul beasts, Elder Qing, Elder Tian, Qing Xiu, Chen Yu, Chen Cong, and Chen Menglin.
• Xiao Yi simulated Chen Xiaojun and punched the image into a wall, deciding the skill would make a useful outlet for anger.
• Xiao Yi thought she could create a simulated Zhu Wuneng for Cui Lan.

After Xiao Yi absorbed the red bone, she and her companions emerged from the cave and found Dugu Fu fighting a young woman. Dugu Fu and the woman exchanged powerful soul skills, ending in a tense clash between his poisonous mist and her wind and snow.

• Xiao Yi and her companions sensed a fight nearby and left the cave after Chen Menglin had stored the Ice Soul Dream Vine remains.
• They saw Dugu Lin watching with four others as Dugu Fu fought a young woman.
• Dugu Fu attacked with Poison Cloud Palm’s Poison Serpent Pierces the Heart, but the woman froze the venomous serpent with Frostblade Butterfly Dance.
• Dugu Fu unleashed Poison Cloud Spreads, and the woman countered with Wind and Snow Interwoven, leaving the two forces locked in a stalemate.

Mei Changge stopped Dugu Fu and Ji Bingyan’s fight and tried to settle the dispute over their injured beasts and a piece of thousand-year profound ice marrow. Just as Dugu Lin claimed the marrow, an unseen woman rejected his claim.

• Mei Changge used sword-plum branches to separate Dugu Fu and Ji Bingyan and purify Dugu Fu’s poison mist.
• Bai Jun and Dugu Lin explained that Dugu Fu’s Nine-Section Jade and Ji Bingyan’s Lightning Marten had bitten each other while Dugu Lin’s group excavated the thousand-year profound ice marrow.
• Dugu Fu and Ji Bingyan argued over the fight, while Su Jingming reprimanded Ji Bingyan for insulting the Dugu Family.
• Mei Changge proposed that both sides let the matter go and return their injured beasts home to recover, but Ji Bingyan demanded an antidote for the Lightning Marten.
• Dugu Lin agreed to end the dispute but claimed the thousand-year profound ice marrow belonged to his group, and a woman’s voice declared that impossible.

Han Yiyu, the Level 95 Titled Douluo known as Snow Douluo, arrived to resolve the dispute over the profound ice marrow. She proposed a contest between the younger generation to decide who would receive the ten-thousand-year treasure, and Chen Menglin accepted.

• Han Yiyu appeared above the valley after the Ice Seal Academy members called for their headmistress.
• Han Yiyu greeted Chen Menglin and explained that the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow was rare even in the Ice Palace.
• Han Yiyu revealed that the ten-thousand-year marrow was encased within the thousand-year piece and proposed that one junior from each side compete for it.
• Chen Menglin agreed to Han Yiyu's proposal, confident that Xiao Yi could win for his side.

Han Yiyu chose Zhan Ruoxi, the Heavenly Snow Woman, to fight for the Ice Palace, while Chen Menglin brought Xiao Yi forward as her opponent. The chapter ended with both girls revealing unusual, powerful martial souls, leaving Han Yiyu curious about Xiao Yi and anticipating a surprising match.

• Han Yiyu sent Zhan Ruoxi to fight, and Ji Bingyan urged her to defeat the Chen Clan's challenger.
• Chen Menglin recognized Zhan Ruoxi as the eighteenth-ranked Heavenly Prodigy and privately doubted Dugu Fu could beat her.
• Chen Menglin had Dugu Fu step aside and brought Xiao Yi forward, surprising Ji Bingyan.
• Zhan Ruoxi and Xiao Yi faced each other, and Zhan Ruoxi summoned her Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.
• Xiao Yi summoned a massive purple-black Falling Star Vine, whose multiple powers stunned the onlookers.
• Han Yiyu asked Mei Changge about Xiao Yi's background and wondered what made the Falling Star Vine's unusual combination possible.