Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaojun gave Yang Bu'er a comprehensive set of top-tier cultivation methods and martial skills after the Yang Family joined the Chen Clan. He then checked Xiao Yi’s rapid progress and handed her the complete Nine Yin Manual, leaving her to study its techniques while keeping the manual inside the residence.

• Chen Xiaojun gave Yang Bu'er six complementary cultivation methods and martial skills, strengthening his combat ability and survival prospects.
• Chen Xiaojun found Xiao Yi practicing the Bone-Marrow Refining Chapter, and Xiao Yi reported that she expected to reach intermediate mastery that month.
• Xiao Yi described her progress in multiple martial skills, including mastering the Lesser Yin Sword and beginning the Seven Wounds Seal.
• Chen Xiaojun gave Xiao Yi the complete Nine Yin Manual and advised her to adapt its acupoint, hidden-weapon, and finger techniques for her Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow.
• Chen Xiaojun told Xiao Yi to keep the manual in the residence and suggested she seek guidance from Liu Ru Yan and Liu Yueyi.

Chen Xiaojun gave Xiao Yi the Chen Clan elders’ cultivation notes on the Six Treasury Immortal Thief, then discussed her Ice Soul Dream Vine Skull and their plans for soul bone sets. He reassured her that they would find ways to obtain suitable soul bones despite the scarcity of powerful vine soul beasts.

• Chen Xiaojun handed Xiao Yi the elders’ notes on the Six Treasury Immortal Thief and explained how the Chen Clan had made the technique widely available to help awaken the Divine Venerable Body.
• Xiao Yi told Chen Xiaojun that her Ice Soul Dream Vine Skull had advanced to 84,000 years and that its original soul bone skills had grown more powerful.
• Chen Xiaojun planned to seek an 80,000-year sixth soul ring and then 100,000-year rings, hoping to complete a red soul bone set for himself and Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi lowered her head as Chen Xiaojun realized that finding 100,000-year vine soul beasts for her would be difficult.
• Chen Xiaojun held Xiao Yi’s hand and promised they would find suitable soul beasts or raise soul bones to 100,000 years by accumulating them.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi considered the difficulty of finding enough hundred-thousand-year vine soul beasts to support the Immortal Evergreen Vine’s advancement, and Chen Xiaojun encouraged her to keep searching. Xiao Yi then explained her mental techniques, prompting Chen Xiaojun to consider using Spirit Seal against mental-system soul masters.

• Xiao Yi worried that the Immortal Evergreen Vine and her second martial soul would require more vine soul beast origins than they could readily find.
• Chen Xiaojun rejected abandoning the origin path and proposed asking Elder Qing for guidance, widening their search, and mobilizing the Chen Clan to find suitable beasts.
• Xiao Yi took comfort from Chen Xiaojun’s reassurance and said that she believed in him.
• Xiao Yi explained the attacks of Nine Yin Soul Transfer and described her Spirit Seal soul bone skill.
• Chen Xiaojun asked whether Spirit Seal could seal other people and suggested testing it against mental-system soul masters, who remained a challenge for their team.

Chen Xiaojun discussed Canghui Academy’s gemstone martial souls and the need to counter its mental-system fighters with Xiao Yi, who revealed her newly comprehended mental domain. Chen Xiaojun named it the Great Void, and Xiao Yi decided to call the eye technique combining her powers Great Void Moon Realm.

• Chen Xiaojun explained that Canghui Academy gathered gemstone martial soul users and could field powerful fusion skills, making it a threat his team needed to prepare for.
• Chen Xiaojun asked Xiao Yi to develop her Spirit Seal and mental abilities to help counter mental-system soul masters.
• Xiao Yi described plans to adapt Spirit Seal into different formations and demonstrated the powerful mental domain she had gained on her trip to Heavenly Water.
• Chen Xiaojun recognized the domain’s significance and suggested naming it the Great Void, linking it to the five elements as a complementary path.
• Xiao Yi accepted the name Great Void and decided to call the soul skill combining her eyes Great Void Moon Realm.

Chen Xiaojun revealed that his fifth Soul Ring’s fixed reward was a Pact that could let him and Xiao Yi achieve Martial Soul Fusion. As they activated it, their Martial Souls combined in successive visions, culminating in the emergence of a powerful phantom that warped space and seemed to rule over it.

• Chen Xiaojun showed Xiao Yi his golden Pact reward and explained that it could create a Martial Soul Fusion Skill between them.
• Xiao Yi agreed to form the pact, and she and Chen Xiaojun sat facing each other as the card dissolved into golden light.
• Their Yin-Yang and Five Elements Immortal Robes, divine beads, and Martial Souls appeared and resonated, producing visions of paired swords, vines, and a sea of blood rooted by the Void Willow God Vine.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s Martial Souls shifted through further fusion combinations before their yin-yang and five-elements forces and celestial treasures merged.
• Lesser Siming and Chen Xiaojun’s Black-Red Cocoon fused into a towering phantom whose emperor-like aura distorted space and opened cracks to another world.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s contract triggered a series of martial soul fusion upgrades, but an anomaly arose while the system copied Dao resonance. In the cultivation chamber, those who gathered witnessed a phantom display power that seemed to transcend the world, though no one else in Chang'an City noticed.

• The system enhanced Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s martial soul compatibility and detected that their two martial souls each could form four Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• The system raised every fusion skill’s fusion rate above 90%, then began copying Dao resonance for a higher-level fusion and reported an anomaly.
• Chen Zixiu, Bo Xian'er, Yang Jingxue, Ximen Rongcheng, and others entered the damaged cultivation chamber and saw a powerful phantom breaking and restoring space.
• Chen Zixiu identified the phantom’s feat as Shattering the Void, while Bo Xian'er sensed an existence greater than the Sea God and saw a new world opening before her.
• The phantom raised its arm toward the sky, unleashing a spectacle that transformed the heavens and left the gathered witnesses awestruck, while everyone outside the chamber remained unaware.

Chen Zixiu and Bo Xian'er underwent breakthroughs after receiving enlightenment from the phantom, each finding a new path toward the Myriad Phenomena Level. The phantom's influence also awakened powerful changes in the martial souls of those watching, including a divine fusion of Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan.

• Chen Zixiu fused his Void Sword Intent and mind will into swordsmanship rules, while his Seven Kill Sword began evolving toward a super martial soul.
• Bo Xian'er discovered that her Myriad Phenomena Level conception was an emperor's aura carried by her Sea God martial soul.
• Chen Cong warned Yang Jingxue and Ximen Rongcheng not to disturb Chen Zixiu and Bo Xian'er, then blocked Chen Mu, Chen Bin, and Chen Shurui from watching the phantom for too long.
• Dugu Fu's Xiu Snake martial soul appeared as he sank to one knee, while Su Ningxia felt her heart pound and her martial soul churn.
• Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan's martial souls fused into a golden-armored divine figure wielding the Nine-Toothed Rake, and it bowed toward the phantom.

The mysterious apparition transformed the Golden-Armored Deity into Marshal Tianpeng and empowered Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan’s martial souls before vanishing. After the Chen Clan silenced witnesses and sent guests to rest, Chen Zixiu demanded an explanation from Chen Xiaojun while Bo Xian'er welcomed Xiao Yi.

• The apparition bestowed light on the Golden-Armored Deity, transforming him into Marshal Tianpeng before he vanished and Zhu Wuneng and Gao Cuilan reappeared with transformed martial souls.
• The apparition dissipated into the deity Lesser Siming and the Black-Red Cocoon, which produced two mysterious Soul Rings before disappearing.
• The Chen Clan's Titled Douluos forbade anyone from discussing the events and sent the children, Yang Jingxue, and Ximen Rongcheng away to rest.
• Chen Zixiu questioned Chen Xiaojun about what had happened in the Cultivation Room.
• Bo Xian'er defended Chen Xiaojun and warmly invited Xiao Yi to come to her.

After Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill summoned divine power, their family questioned them about the apparition and the Siming deities. Chen Xiaojun concluded that the phantom may have been Donghuang Taiyi, a supreme god whose rank could exceed God King level.

• Xiao Yi greeted Bo Xian'er, who welcomed her warmly and invited her to sit beside her.
• Chen Xun ordered Chen Xiaojun to explain the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Chen Xiaojun said his fifth Soul Ring reward, Pact, had linked his twin martial souls.
• Chen Zixiu and the others questioned Chen Xiaojun about the phantom, and Xiao Yi confirmed that the blue-white figure was Lesser Siming residing within her.
• Bo Xian'er compared Lesser Siming's power to the Sea God's divine sense, and Chen Xiaojun identified the black-red cocoon as Great Siming.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the two Siming deities had fused their power through the Card, then speculated that the apparition might be Donghuang Taiyi.
• Chen Xiaojun told the gathered family that Donghuang Taiyi was at least a God King and might rank even higher.

After sensing the phantom associated with Taiyi, Chen Xiaojun warned his family not to discuss the god carelessly and explained how gods could condense Soul Rings. Xiao Yi confirmed the rings were Lesser Siming’s Divine Skills, then activated one to demonstrate its mysterious power.

• Chen Xiaojun feared the phantom might be Donghuang Taiyi and urged his family to stop discussing the Taiyi God, warning that speaking his name could draw his attention.
• Chen Xun worried about explaining the phantom to the Yang Family and Ximen Family, but Chen Xiaojun advised against discussing gods above God Kings.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that gods could condense their skills into Soul Rings, and Xiao Yi confirmed that Lesser Siming’s black-and-white and platinum rings were her Divine Skills.
• Xiao Yi said she could use the Divine Skills in her God Descent State after three years of adapting, though they still burdened her body.
• At Chen Xiaojun’s suggestion, Xiao Yi activated the black-and-white Soul Ring, forming a taiji pattern that filled the hall with an otherworldly calm.

Xiao Yi activated Lesser Siming’s Divine Ring, but it drained her Soul Power and left her weak. After realizing Xiao Yi could wield the ring as if it were her own Martial Soul, Chen Xiaojun wondered whether Lesser Siming could grant her a third Martial Soul.

• Bo Xian'er and the others urged Xiao Yi to dismiss the Divine Ring, and Bo Xian'er scolded Chen Xiaojun for prompting her to try it.
• Xiao Yi said she was only a little weak, and Chen Menglin gave her a pill while Xiao Yi defended Chen Xiaojun from Chen Xun's lecture.
• Xiao Yi explained that activating the Divine Ring had drained a tenth of her Soul Power, and Chen Cong warned her to practice controlling it carefully.
• Chen Cong and Chen Zixiu judged that the Divine Ring's power might rival a Titled Douluo and could greatly improve Xiao Yi's ability to protect herself.
• Chen Xiaojun realized Xiao Yi could activate Lesser Siming's Divine Ring like her own Martial Soul and privately speculated that Lesser Siming might grant Xiao Yi a third Martial Soul.

Chen Xiaojun reflected on how growing up again and falling in love with Xiao Yi had made him more childish and less emotionally perceptive. He explained their four highly compatible Martial Soul Fusion Skills to his family, leaving everyone impressed as he described their forms and abilities.

• Chen Cong urged Xiao Yi to handle the Divine Ring carefully, then asked Chen Xiaojun to explain the Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
• Chen Xiaojun revealed that he and Xiao Yi could combine their twin martial souls in four ways, each with a peak compatibility above 90 percent.
• Chen Xiaojun clarified that his brother and cousin had greater practical proficiency because they had trained their 85-percent-compatible fusion skill for three years.
• Chen Cong explained that compatibility changed with the partners’ condition and coordination, and that practice was needed to stabilize it.
• Chen Xiaojun described the four fusion skills in detail, and Bo Xian'er told Xiao Yi that a fusion skill might have prevented her and her husband from being separated for decades.
• Xiao Yi comforted Bo Xian'er, then watched Chen Xiaojun speak confidently to the family.

Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi discussed their four Martial Soul Fusion Skills with the elders, who praised their talent and agreed that they should focus on the Sword God Pearls and Immortal Evergreen Vine. The clan then recognized Gao Cuilan as the Heavenly Craft Star and turned its attention to deciding what benefits Zhu Wuneng deserved.

• Chen Cong praised Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s four Martial Soul Fusion Skills and speculated that their Martial Souls shared deeper connections.
• Chen Xiaojun said he and Xiao Yi would first practice fusing the Sword God Pearls and Immortal Evergreen Vine while keeping their other skills secret.
• The elders discussed strengthening Gao Cuilan’s ties to the Chen Clan, and Chen Xiaojun revealed that Xiao Yi had already taken Gao Cuilan as her Follower.
• Chen Xun proposed naming Gao Cuilan a Heavenly Stem Star, and Chen Xiaojun suggested the title Heavenly Craft Star; the elders approved.
• Chen Cong agreed that Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi could inform Gao Cuilan of her new status, then the elders began discussing Zhu Wuneng’s benefits.

Chen Xun approved giving Zhu Wuneng the immortal herb he had earned after three years of proving himself. Xiao Yi then reported a powerful martial soul resonance with Su Ningxia, which Chen Xiaojun suspected was connected to his and Xiao Yi’s recent system modification; Chen Menglin went to fetch Su Ningxia to confirm it.

• Chen Menglin asked whether Chen Qiujun had brought the immortal herb for Zhu Wuneng, and Chen Xun immediately approved giving it to him.
• Chen Cong and the elders agreed that Zhu Wuneng had earned the herb through his perseverance, and Chen Xun said he would summon Zhu Wuneng and Uncle Yan Feng to receive it privately.
• Xiao Yi reported that she had felt powerful martial soul fluctuations when she approached Su Ningxia, leaving the elders startled by the possibility of another martial soul fusion skill.
• Xiao Yi explained that the strong resonance appeared after she and Chen Xiaojun completed their martial soul fusion skill, though it had been faintly perceptible days earlier.
• Chen Xiaojun linked Xiao Yi’s resonance with Su Ningxia to the system’s enhanced martial soul compatibility, and Chen Menglin left to bring Su Ningxia for confirmation.

Xiao Yi and Su Ningxia’s Martial Souls fused into a powerful seven-color vine tree, whose mysterious resonance reached women across the continent. They tested its combat abilities, and it proved tougher and more versatile than Xiao Yi’s Immortal Evergreen Vine alone.

• Xiao Yi and Su Ningxia joined their Martial Souls and formed a towering Evergreen Vine Tree draped in a rainbow.
• The fusion’s strange fluctuations briefly stirred the Martial Souls and curiosity of women across the continent.
• Xiao Yi and Su Ningxia merged into the vine tree, with Xiao Yi serving as its primary controller.
• Xiao Yi and Su Ningxia demonstrated the tree’s attacks and defenses, and Chen Xiaojun was suppressed in their test.
• The seven-color vine tree showed enhanced strength and range, though its roots kept it from moving.

Chen Xiaojun told the elders that Dugu Fu’s martial soul had risen to eighth rank and his innate soul power to 9.2 after taking the Ice-Crystal Star-Anise Stamen. The discussion turned to poison cultivation, possible Five Poison Formations, and Gao Cuilan’s advancement, which Chen Xiaojun began explaining through the dragon-phoenix grass.

• Chen Xiaojun revealed that Dugu Fu’s martial soul had reached eighth rank and his innate soul power had risen to 9.2 after taking the Ice-Crystal Star-Anise Stamen.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that the medicines’ effects depended on their opposing properties, a powerful poison martial soul, and the soul master’s potential, while Chen Qiujun and Chen Menglin praised his research.
• Chen Qiujun and Chen Menglin discussed whether lower-grade treasure medicines could help other poison users, and Chen Xiaojun said Dugu Fu’s advancement also involved the Five Elements Poison Technique.
• Chen Cong proposed using formations of poison soul masters to share the technique’s risks, and Chen Qiujun expressed interest in Chen Xiaojun’s proposed Poison Master Academy.
• Chen Xiaojun raised Gao Cuilan’s advancement to seventh rank and began recounting how the dragon-phoenix grass had contributed.

Chen Xiaojun explained how spirit light grass enhanced dragon-phoenix grass, prompting the Chen Clan to plan how to use the rare resources. Yang Jingxue and Ximen Rongcheng then learned about Xiao Yi’s status and confronted the clan over its hidden Titled Douluo.

• Chen Xiaojun said spirit light grass could amplify dragon-phoenix grass enough to raise sixth-grade Martial Souls to seventh grade, and Chen Zixiu told Chen Xun to have Xiuxin prepare a plan.
• Chen Xun brought Yang Jingxue and Ximen Rongcheng to the hall, where Yang Jingxue recognized Xiao Yi as her honorary granddaughter.
• Bo Xian'er explained Chen Yu's arrangement to Xiao Yi, who blushed and greeted Yang Jingxue as her grandmother.
• Chen Xiaojun confirmed to Ximen Rongcheng that Xiao Yi was Donghuang Xiuyi, the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking's Top Rank, and Yang Jingxue refused to let Ximen Rongcheng claim her as an adoptive daughter.
• Yang Jingxue noted that Chen Qiujun and all five Chen brothers were Titled Douluo, suspected Chen Xun had reached that rank as well, and demanded to know how many more the Chen Clan was hiding.

Yang Jingxue learned that the Chen Clan had a new secret realm and an astonishing number of Titled Douluos, then pressed Chen Zixiu about the family’s ambitions. Chen Zixiu revealed they wanted to become a super family, and Yang Jingxue suspected their secret realm was connected to the deity whose phantom had just appeared.

• Yang Jingxue questioned Chen Qiujun and Chen Cong about the Chen Clan’s recent breakthroughs and suspected they had found a second secret realm.
• Chen Zixiu announced that five more Titled Douluos remained, bringing the total to fifteen when Xia Qingyun and Lu Xueqi were counted.
• Yang Jingxue and Ximen Rongcheng asked Chen Zixiu whether the Chen Clan possessed a new secret realm, and he confirmed that it did.
• Yang Jingxue asked what the Chen Clan planned to do, and Chen Zixiu said they wanted to try becoming a super family.
• Yang Jingxue linked the secret realm to the phantom and asked whether it had been a deity whose descent the continent’s space could not withstand.

Chen Zixiu explained the Chen Clan’s connection to a deity while keeping its secrets, then offered the Yang and Ximen families opportunities to help promising fighters advance. Chen Xiaojun recruited their support for the Chen Clan’s expanding markets and Brocade Guard, laying out a large-scale partnership and military organization plan.

• Chen Zixiu told Yang Jingxue and Ximen Rongcheng that Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun were the deity’s inheritors, and Bo Xian'er confirmed that the deity had no ties to the Three Great Churches.
• Chen Zixiu learned that the Yang Family’s Old Poplar Tree had crossed the hundred-thousand-year threshold and that Ximen Xiaoran had recovered and reached level 97.
• Chen Zixiu invited Yang Zhiqiang and any near-Titled Douluo from the Ximen Family to visit Chenlin Village, then ordered the families to keep their discussion secret.
• Chen Xiaojun asked the Yang and Ximen families to supply three to five thousand workers each year for the markets and Brocade Guard, and both families agreed to help.
• Chen Xiaojun offered each family a five-percent share in the Market Plan and described deputy commander posts and new Brocade Guard units, including the Tiger Guard Battalion, Sharpshooter Battalion, and Imperial Guard Battalion.

Chen Xiaojun, Chen Zixiu, Yang Jingxue, and Ximen Rongcheng agreed on rebuilding the Heavenly Soldier Sect’s elite forces through the Three Great Families. Their alliance’s strategic plan was achieved, though expansion in Soul Fighting City and the Star Luo Empire still required further approval.

• Chen Xiaojun explained that the Tiger Guard Battalion and Sharpshooter Battalion would revive the Heavenly Soldier Sect’s former military traditions, and he said the Sword Hall would also be rebuilt.
• Yang Jingxue questioned whether recruiting Soul Masters and forming elite units would alarm the imperial families, and Chen Zixiu said he had discussed the plan with the Ming King.
• Chen Zixiu limited the three units to Chang'an City and required them to follow the Chang'an Military District in emergencies, while Chen Xiaojun discussed prospects for Sacred Sword City with Yang Jingxue.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed recruiting five hundred Soul Ancestors at first, expanding to more than a thousand, and eventually forming an elite Soul King unit.
• Chen Xiaojun asked the Ximen and Yang families to restore and update their training methods, and Yang Jingxue and Ximen Rongcheng agreed to cooperate.
• Chen Zixiu, Yang Jingxue, and Ximen Rongcheng confirmed their families would advance together, completing the Chen Clan’s plan to bring the Ximen and Yang families into its alliance.