Chapter Summaries

Xue Shiqiong accepted Chen Hua as Ji Tiantian’s master after recognizing the Chen Clan’s carefully planned approach and deciding that his guidance was best for her daughter. Chen Hua gave Tiantian a year’s worth of cultivation supplies, and Bo Xian'er presented Xue Shiqiong with a first-meeting gift.

• Xue Shiqiong considered who had arranged the apprenticeship and concluded that Chen Xiaojun was likely behind the plan.
• Xue Shiqiong decided to accept Chen Hua as Ji Tiantian’s master because his swordsmanship and position offered her daughter a strong path forward.
• Xue Shiqiong bowed to Chen Hua, who promised to devote himself to teaching Ji Tiantian.
• Chen Hua gave Xue Shiqiong a storage bracelet containing one million gold coins’ worth of cultivation supplies for Tiantian’s first year.
• Bo Xian'er urged Xue Shiqiong to accept the supplies and call Chen Hua Sixth Brother, then gave her a separate bracelet as a first-meeting gift.

Bo Xian'er gave Xue Shiqiong a premium Three Thousand Cloudwaters storage bracelet filled with rare treasures, while Chen Hua’s revised resource standards raised allocations for the clan’s gifted youths. Xue Shiqiong realized the lavish gift was the Chen Clan’s way of repaying its debt to her.

• Bo Xian'er insisted Xue Shiqiong accept a welcoming gift and proposed holding apprenticeship ceremonies for Ji Tiantian and Chen Hua that afternoon.
• Chen Hua explained that he had revised the clan’s talent tiers and resource allocations, raising the Big Dipper Nine Stars’ benefits while leaving Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi’s allocations unchanged.
• Xue Chuxin brought Xue Shiqiong to her private courtyard and explained that the bracelet Bo Xian'er gave her was a premium Three Thousand Cloudwaters model.
• Xue Shiqiong inspected the bracelet’s vast storage space and found treasures worth at least five or six million gold coins, many suited to her attributes.
• Xue Shiqiong understood that the Chen Clan’s extraordinary gift showed special favor and repaid the debt it had owed her.

Xue Shiqiong examined the lavish gifts from the Chen Clan, including a Ninth-Grade Dark Nether Feng Xian Immortal Lotus perfectly suited to her Bright Ice Jade Luan Martial Soul. Her gratitude deepened as she compared the Chen Clan’s care with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family’s neglect, while Xue Chuxin reflected on how their alliance had transformed their standing.

• Xue Chuxin recognized that Xue Shiqiong had received many valuable gifts, and Xue Shiqiong said they could sustain ten years of cultivation.
• Xue Shiqiong opened a Xuan Bing Cold Jade Box and found a Ninth-Grade Dark Nether Feng Xian Immortal Lotus that matched her Bright Ice Jade Luan Martial Soul.
• Xue Chuxin explained that the Chen Clan had prepared the lotus based on the Swan’s attributes, while the narration revealed Chen Qiujun had brought it back from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xue Shiqiong estimated the gifts were worth about twenty million gold coins and saluted Bo Xian'er’s pavilion, moved by the Chen Clan’s care.
• Xue Shiqiong criticized the Imperial Family’s treatment of her family, and Xue Chuxin acknowledged the difficulties her great-aunt had faced.
• Xue Chuxin recalled how the Chen Clan’s support helped her become a Title Douluo and how her faction gained military and political power in Fasinuo Province.

Xue Chuxin gave Xue Shiqiong the Dark Nether Feng Xian Immortal Lotus and protected her while she absorbed it. The lotus transformed Xue Shiqiong’s Bright Ice Jade Luan into a king martial soul, raised her soul power to rank 76, and showed signs of a future super martial soul awakening.

• Xue Chuxin gave Xue Shiqiong the Dark Nether Feng Xian Immortal Lotus and urged her to absorb it at once.
• Xue Shiqiong summoned the Bright Ice Jade Luan while Xue Chuxin, Bo Xian'er, and Chen Zixiu shielded the courtyard.
• Xue Shiqiong absorbed the lotus, and her Bright Ice Jade Luan transformed into a powerful phoenix with nine tail feathers and a Primordial Ice Phoenix aura.
• Xue Shiqiong’s soul power rose from rank 74 to rank 76, and her Heavenly Feather advanced to its third layer.
• Xue Chuxin told Xue Shiqiong that her martial soul had become a king martial soul and showed signs of an impending super martial soul awakening.

Xue Shiqiong and Xue Chuxin discussed Chen Xiaojun’s strategic talent and considered how to approach him through Xiao Yi. Later, Xiao Yi formally accepted Su Ningxia and Gao Cuilan as followers, leaving them with the titles Heavenly Stem and Heavenly Artifice.

• Xue Shiqiong told Xue Chuxin she suspected Chen Xiaojun was behind the Chen Clan’s recent plans and asked about his weaknesses.
• Xue Chuxin explained that Chen Xiaojun’s loyalty and affection for others were both his strengths and vulnerabilities, and Xue Shiqiong decided to have Jixiang seek a position with the academy’s competition team.
• Xiao Yi began the investiture ceremony for Su Ningxia and Gao Cuilan at Blue-Stone Plaza, and both women agreed to bear the karma of the contract.
• Xiao Yi bestowed the title Heavenly Stem and a Mithril Token on Su Ningxia, then bestowed the title Heavenly Artifice and a Mithril Token on Gao Cuilan.

After Xiao Yi’s solemn ceremony and impressive demonstration, Chen Xiaojun explained why he had let her take the spotlight and concluded that she had awakened memories from a previous incarnation. The chapter left him reflecting that, as fellow transmigrated souls, they could be together without guilt, though Xiao Yi’s charms were becoming difficult for him to handle.

• Chu Youwei and the others discussed Xiao Yi’s precise techniques and wondered about the ancient ceremony she had performed.
• Chen Ze asked what Xiao Yi’s invocation meant, and the group speculated that she came from an ancient sect lineage.
• Chen Xiaojun and the elders praised Xiao Yi’s control and Su Ningxia and Gao Cuilan’s responses, while Chen Qiujun suggested expanding the personal attendant positions.
• Chen Xiaojun explained that he stayed away so Xiao Yi could stand out on her own, and he confirmed that her ceremony was based on Yin-Yang School traditions.
• Chen Xiaojun concluded that Xiao Yi had awakened memories of her previous incarnation and realized that both of them were transmigrated souls.

After Ji Tiantian became Chen Hua’s granddisciple, Chen Cong summoned Zhuo Qianren and gave him a collection of rare medicines to support his advancement to Titled Douluo. Zhuo Qianren returned to the Academy with his colleagues and said the gifts had raised his chances of breaking through to at least sixty percent.

• Chen Cong announced that his son Chen Hua would take Ji Tiantian as his disciple, and Ji Tiantian completed the formal ceremony.
• Chen Xiaojun, Bo Xian'er, Chen Zixiu, Chen Xun, and Chen Qiujun gave Ji Tiantian gifts as the spectators recognized her newly elevated status.
• Xue Shiqiong greeted Chen Cong as her uncle and Chen Hua as her sixth brother, prompting Academy staff to suspect she had a powerful background.
• Wang Wei, Zhuang Mocheng, and Zhuo Qianren discussed Xue Shiqiong’s level 68 Soul Power and wondered why she had revealed it.
• Zhuo Qianren returned to the Academy with Wang Wei and Zhuang Mocheng, then showed them the medicines Chen Cong had given him.
• Zhuo Qianren identified the gifts as a comprehensive breakthrough set, including a ninth-grade Wind-Thunder Soul Tempering Fruit, and said they raised his odds of becoming a Titled Douluo to at least sixty percent.

Zhuo Qianren and the Chang'an Three Elders debated whether accepting the Chen Clan’s priceless treasures and a chance to become a Titled Douluo meant choosing sides. Zhuo decided to accept the gifts and watch the Chen Clan’s intentions, while Wang Wei openly supported joining its allies.

• Wang Wei celebrated the sixty-percent chance that Zhuo Qianren could break through to become a Titled Douluo, then questioned why the Chen Clan had given him such valuable treasures without asking for anything.
• Zhuo Qianren explained that Chen Cong had asked him to protect Xiaojun and the others at the Gaoying Tournament, and had said the gifts fulfilled a bond between colleagues.
• Zhuo Qianren said he had asked whether the Chen Clan intended to make Chang'an Academy its private property, and Chen Cong told him to keep watching its actions.
• Zhuang Mocheng pointed out that Xue Churan’s presence and silence meant the gifts implicated both the Chen Clan and her faction, and that Zhuo’s breakthrough would place him on their side.
• Zhuo Qianren accepted the treasures, saying everyone had to choose sides, and worried that his choice could draw Wang Wei and Zhuang Mocheng in with him.
• Wang Wei said he was willing to join the allied factions, while Zhuang Mocheng teased him for being especially loyal to Dean Cong.

Yang Jingxue confronted Xue Chuxin with her suspicion that Xue Shiqiong was Chuxin and Chen Yu’s daughter, then urged Chuxin to visit Xia Qingyun. Chuxin finally agreed, while Chen Yu remained bedridden and Xia Qingyun had yet to return.

• Yang Jingxue praised Xue Chuxin’s rise to ninth-ring Titled Douluo and brought up Chen Yu.
• Yang Jingxue revealed that Xue Shiqiong’s resemblance to Xue Chuxin and Chen Yu had led her to suspect the girl was their daughter.
• Xue Chuxin denied Yang Jingxue’s claims and said that her choices and difficulties were not as simple as they appeared.
• Yang Jingxue reminded Xue Chuxin of their sworn sisterhood and urged her to visit Xia Qingyun and Xue Shiqiong.
• Xue Chuxin recalled the Nine Divine Maidens’ secret alliance and finally agreed to go see Xia Qingyun.

Yang Jingxue told Chen Xiaojun that her meeting with Xue Chuxin had gone smoothly, then accused him of arranging events to bring them together. Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan realized that Chen Xiaojun had used Yang Jingxue as an emissary, and Xue Chuxin took his approach as recognition of her standing in the Chen Clan.

• Yang Jingxue met Chen Xiaojun and said she had secured Xue Chuxin's agreement to meet Xia Qingyun, then reminded him of his promise to her.
• Yang Jingxue suspected Chen Xiaojun had planted the idea of meeting Xue Chuxin and deliberately influenced her.
• Xue Churan asked Xue Chuxin whether she had agreed to meet Xia Qingyun, and Xue Chuxin said she had accepted because some ties of cause and consequence could not be avoided.
• Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan concluded that Chen Xiaojun had carefully arranged Yang Jingxue's visit as an emissary from the Chen Clan.
• Xue Chuxin said Chen Xiaojun's indirect approach meant he acknowledged her and her standing as his second grandma, while she hoped Brother Yu would recover and stressed that Xia Qingyun and the Chen Clan mattered most.

Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan discussed their plans to strengthen their faction through the Chen Clan and help Xue Churan reach Title Douluo. Chen Xiaojun then persuaded Chen Hua to train Tiantian using brush-based sword techniques and Nine Yin Manual skills, before Chen Hua asked how he would handle the Big Dipper Art.

• Xue Chuxin explained that she had visited Xia Qingyun to resolve old emotional knots and build ties with Xiaojun, while Xue Churan noted his growing influence in the Chen Clan.
• Xue Chuxin and Xue Churan agreed that helping Xue Churan become a Title Douluo would give their faction the leverage it needed to secure its position and future.
• Chen Hua confronted Chen Xiaojun for making Tiantian his disciple without telling him, and Chen Xiaojun apologized while arguing that Chen Hua was best suited to train her.
• Chen Xiaojun proposed teaching Tiantian sword techniques through brushwork and recommended skills from the Nine Yin Manual, along with foundational training.
• Chen Xiaojun mentioned that Chen Shiwen had left brush-and-sword techniques in the clan's Sword Canon, prompting Chen Hua to admit he had never found them.
• Chen Hua asked Chen Xiaojun how he planned to handle the Big Dipper Art.

Chen Xiaojun agreed that Ji Tiantian should be taught the Chen Clan’s Big Dipper Art if she swore not to reveal it, and helped Chen Hua feel ready to lead the Organization Department. He urged Chen Hua to involve Fifth Brother Mu'er in the work so the responsibilities could temper his character.

• Chen Xiaojun said Ji Tiantian could learn the Big Dipper Art if she swore not to pass it on, but said Chen Hua would need approval from Great-Grandfather and Second Granduncle.
• Chen Hua attacked Chen Xiaojun with Sword Qi for maneuvering him into seeking approval, then agreed to go with him to ask the elders.
• Chen Hua admitted he lacked confidence about taking charge of the Organization Department and feared disrupting the clan’s complex relationships.
• Chen Xiaojun told Chen Hua to follow the clan’s strategy and act freely, saying the clan had room for mistakes and could rebuild after setbacks.
• Chen Xiaojun suggested Chen Hua involve Fifth Brother Mu'er in organizational work to make him steadier and temper his unorthodox swordsmanship.

Chen Zixiu settled a dispute over heavenly stem tier quotas between the Yang and Ximen Families, compensating them with spirit treasures and secret techniques. He then agreed to exchange the Chen Clan’s Golden Bell Shield with both families, restricting access to their Main Lineages for now.

• Yang Jingxue, Ximen Xiaoran, and their relatives argued over how many quota slots each family would receive, while Chen Zixiu recognized that they were putting on a show to press for better terms.
• Chen Zixiu granted each family three heavenly stem tier quota slots and gave Yang Jingxue Wine Reishi Wine, an Ice-Fire Twin Lotus, and her choice of skill; she chose Five-String Plucking.
• The Yang Family chose Stars Formless Canon, while the Ximen Family chose Pure Yang Limitless Skill.
• Ximen Xiaoran offered the Ximen Family’s secret techniques in exchange for Golden Bell Shield and Fierce Yang Saber, explaining that his family needed the defensive technique.
• Chen Zixiu agreed to exchange Golden Bell Shield with both families, and they accepted the restriction that it was for their Main Lineages only.

Xue Churan proposed that Chen Qiujun bring her adopted daughter Xue Shi Qing to Sword Rain Academy to meet Chen Chenghui, and Chen Qiujun welcomed the match. At Soul Fighting Academy, Chen Jianjun discussed his worries about the Advanced Elite Tournament with Ximen Chuixue, Gui Dang, and Xue Wanni as another young woman approached to inspect his tactical diagram.

• Xue Churan asked Chen Qiujun to take Xue Shi Qing to Sword Rain Academy so she and Chen Chenghui could get to know each other, and he supported the proposal.
• Chen Jianjun told Ximen Chuixue that three Titled Douluos from the Crimson Church had ambushed his grandpa, leaving him bedridden and unconscious.
• Gui Dang encouraged Chen Jianjun, who said that his grandpa's injury was not what had been occupying his thoughts.
• Xue Wanni recognized Chen Jianjun's drawing as the School Team's tactical diagram and asked whether he was thinking about the Advanced Elite Tournament.
• Gui Dang and Xue Wanni traded insults before a third young woman approached and reached for the tactical diagram.

Chen Jianjun and his companions reviewed intelligence about Chang'an Academy and discussed their rival team’s strengths. Ma Yin Qi delivered a new poem by Chen Xiaojun to Xue Wanni, while the rankings showed that Chen Jianjun’s group had a stronger overall roster despite Chang'an Academy’s rise.

• Fang Yiling asked Chen Jianjun whether he was worried about Chang'an Academy, and he said they were already rivals.
• Xue Wanni complained that Chang'an Academy had taken Chen Xiaojun from her academy and praised his poetry as Ma Yin Qi arrived with his latest verses.
• Ma Yin Qi sold Xue Wanni Chen Xiaojun’s poem and sold Chen Jianjun intelligence about Chang'an Academy for five hundred gold coins.
• Gui Dang objected to being called a beauty, while the group discussed the Four Great Beauties and Chen Jianjun’s awkward arrival among the female heirs.
• Chen Jianjun read the rankings, which showed his team’s leading Soul Kings and Chang'an Academy’s cluster of lower-ranked members.

Chen Jianjun warned his teammates that Chang'an Academy was a much greater threat than they had expected, especially with Xiao Yi’s return and her partnership with Xiaojun. He left them facing a difficult tournament battle against a strong, strategically minded team.

• Ma Yin Qi and the others discussed Chang'an Academy’s Xiaojun and the powerful rival academies they expected to face.
• Chen Jianjun revealed that their chances had fallen to twenty or thirty percent because Xiao Yi had returned.
• Gui Dang read the intelligence report and learned that Xiao Yi was a level 51 healer with a life ancient vine martial soul, while Chen Jianjun explained she was Xiaojun’s childhood sweetheart and sister-in-law.
• Chen Jianjun disclosed that Xiao Yi was a dual-type soul master skilled in healing and control, though the report had concealed her true abilities.
• Chen Jianjun warned that Xiao Yi and Xiaojun’s combined strength, their teammates’ abilities, and Xiaojun’s tactical planning could overwhelm the opposing team.

At a Heaven Dou Royal Academy meeting, Yu Tianya briefed Xue Shiming and the other team members on upheavals at Chang'an Academy and its weakened tournament lineup. He revealed that Chen Xiaojun's reserve team had recovered and won three battles against the Wolf Bandits, leaving the Heaven Dou team to reconsider the threat.

• Xue Shiming called the meeting to review intelligence about rival academies ahead of the Continental Advanced Elite Tournament.
• Yu Tianya reported that Chang'an Academy had suffered a major assault involving Wolf Bandits, powerful soul beasts, and Titled Douluo, leaving Heaven and Earth and Sword Hero gravely injured.
• Yu Tianya said the attack had injured several Chang'an team members, and Chang'an planned to send its reserves to the Fasinuo Province preliminaries in place of its starters.
• Bai Tianrui questioned why Chang'an's lineup changes mattered to the Heaven Dou team, while Ling Xinyao asked about the reserves' injuries.
• Yu Tianya explained that Chen Xiaojun and the reserve players had recovered, won three battles on Zhongnan Mountain, and killed thousands of Wolf Bandits and over a hundred Silver Moon Wolves.

Xue Shiming’s team learned that Chen Xiaojun had commanded the destruction of the Heavenly Wolf Sect and would likely lead Chang'an Academy’s tournament strategy, prompting them to prepare for him as both a battlefield and arena opponent. The briefing also revealed a new healer at Chang'an Academy, and Heaven Dou Academy began finalizing its teams for the Gaoying Tournament.

• Yu Tianya reported that Chen Xiaojun had planned the destruction of the Heavenly Wolf Sect and won three battles, killing thousands of Wolf Bandits.
• Xue Shiming told the team that Chen Xiaojun would likely lead Chang'an Academy’s competitors and declared that they would learn from, surpass, and defeat him.
• Yu Tianya reported that Chen Xin Yi, a Life Ancient Vine healer from the Chen Clan, had joined Chang'an Academy, and Ye Zijun suggested she was Chen Xiaojun’s childhood sweetheart using an alias.
• Yu Tianya briefed the team on rival academies, including Star Luo Academy, while Xue Shiming asked about the competitors’ progress toward level fifty.
• Ling Xinyao said she could reach level fifty before the June fifteenth National Semifinals, while Huyan Zan and Yan Zaiyang could not; Xue Shiming assigned Ge Tianhao to captain the second team.

As Chen Xiaojun returned to Chang'an Academy after a week of clan and departmental work, he learned that Xiao Yi’s attempt to combine her sword techniques into the Seven Wounds Seal had damaged her meridians. After helping ease the strain, he asked whether she knew any sword techniques, suggesting a possible way to help her progress.

• Chen Xiaojun managed the Chen Clan’s expanding departments, Brocade Guard recruitment, and cooperation with the Yang and Ximen families while the clan rushed to meet its many new responsibilities.
• Chen Xiaojun reunited with Xiao Yi and learned that her Big Dipper Art had stabilized, though she still could not awaken the Moon Divine Venerable Body.
• Xiao Yi told Chen Xiaojun that she struggled to combine the Nine Yin Divine Sword Finger into the Seven Wounds Seal and felt ice-and-fire clashes at her Shanzhong acupoint.
• Chen Xiaojun guided moon-attribute soul power through Xiao Yi’s meridians and determined that the Seven Wounds Seal had strained and slightly damaged them because her foundations were not strong enough.
• Chen Xiaojun warned Xiao Yi against rushing her cultivation, then asked whether she knew any sword techniques.

Chen Xiaojun gave Xiao Yi a sword forged from rare metals and named it Zhaojun, while naming its paired sword Qingyi. As they shared food, Xiao Yi told him that Academy students were fighting over the Middle Division’s selection for the Provincial Preliminary, and Chen Xiaojun decided to see what was happening after lunch.

• Chen Xiaojun suggested Xiao Yi practice swordsmanship, and she formed a blade from fallen leaves to demonstrate her control.
• Chen Xiaojun offered Xiao Yi two swords forged from five metal essences, and she chose the black sword modeled after Chun Jun.
• Chen Xiaojun named Xiao Yi’s sword Zhaojun and his own sword Qingyi, and Xiao Yi stored Zhaojun in her Nine-Turn Exquisite bracelet.
• Xiao Yi and Chen Xiaojun shared fried potatoes and other food, and she told him that the others had gone to the Soul Fighting Arena to fight over the Middle Division’s Provincial Preliminary selection.
• Chen Xiaojun asked whether the dispute had troubled Xiao Yi, then said he would go see the fighting after they finished eating.