Chapter Summaries

After thirty-six hours of fighting and travel, the Soul Douluos camped while Zhuo Qianren absorbed his ninety-thousand-year Soul Ring. The group reflected on the Chen Clan’s growing strength and Chen Wu’s lucky Soul Ring, then turned to discuss Xiaojun’s mention of the Super Douluo Rankings.

• The Soul Douluos divided into three groups around Zhuo Qianren, and Panda shared wine as they settled in for the night.
• Panda and Chu Tianshu traded jokes while Panda described the Chen Clan village, and the others considered the clan’s forces and decisive response to Chen Cong’s injury.
• Ma Zhibin praised Chen Wu’s luck in obtaining a Phantom Saber-Toothed Leopard Soul Ring and a powerful Eighth Soul Skill.
• Ma Zhibin complained that the expedition had found no hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, prompting the others to tease him about wanting the Soul Bones.
• Ning Jiang stopped the banter and asked what the group thought of Xiaojun’s suggestion, and Ma Zhibin eagerly asked who was on the Super Douluo Rankings.

Chen Hong revealed the Chen Clan’s method for helping soul masters break through and offered a high success rate for Yang Jingxue’s younger brother. The chapter left Yang Jingxue preparing to send him to Chenlin Village while the Chen Clan kept its breakthrough resources exclusive and valuable.

• At the Duke's Mansion, Chen Cong and Chen Xiaojun gathered their allies, who agreed to join the Chen Clan’s retaliatory hunt against soul beasts.
• The Chen Clan warned the group that the Super Douluo Rankings were nearly full, reflecting a growing number of powerful soul masters and likely soul beasts.
• Yang Jingxue questioned Chen Hong about the Chen Clan’s newly advanced Titled Douluos, and he confirmed Zhu Jiazhen was one of the clan’s four Elders.
• Chen Hong explained that the clan’s breakthrough method had a fifty-percent success rate overall, rising by at least twenty percentage points for Zhiqiang because of his age and constitution.
• Chen Hong said younger soul masters and beast martial souls had better prospects, and Yang Jingxue decided her younger brother should prepare and go to Chenlin Village.
• The Chen Clan chose to offer the Yang and Ximen families breakthrough slots rather than freely sharing its replicable resources.

The Eagle Emperor arrived at the Xieluo Mountains with vast hordes of flying and ground soul beasts, threatening the group while Zhuo Qianren absorbed his soul ring. Chen Hong organized the defense and distributed Wuji Pills, and Yang Jingxue opened the battle with a powerful volley of arrows.

• The Eagle Emperor's arrival sent thousands of soul beasts surging toward the group, while Zhuo Qianren remained vulnerable as he absorbed his soul ring.
• Chen Hong promised to hold off the beasts for the hour Zhuo Qianren needed and assigned the soul masters to defensive roles.
• Chen Hong distributed three Wuji Pills to each soul master to replenish their soul power during the fight.
• The Gilded Sky-Rending Roc commanded nearly ten thousand birds to attack as ground beasts charged from the east.
• Yang Jingxue, enhanced by Zhu Jiazhen and Ning Jiang, used Seven Extremes True Body and Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Clouds to fire seven-element arrows at the birds.

A coordinated assault devastated the flying Soul Beast flock with a massive arrow volley and the Chen Clan’s sword attacks. The high-ranked beasts survived the first strikes and clashed with Chen Hong’s forces as the battle continued.

• A Seven Extremes Bow Titled Douluo unleashed more than twenty thousand elemental arrows, killing three or four thousand flying Soul Beasts and thinning the flock.
• Zhu Jiazhen and Zhu Hanshu strengthened and shielded the fighters with their support skills, while Ning Jiang and Gu Qianli boosted their allies.
• Chen Hong led Chen Shihua, Chen Wu, Chen Hua, Xi Li Dao Gao, Shen Lang, Panda, and the other Chen Clan sword cultivators in a wave of area attacks.
• The Fear Griffin and an azure-feathered goshawk combined fire and wind to block the advancing Sword Qi, but Chen Hong’s Ninth Soul Skill broke through their defenses.
• The Sword Qi struck the flock, killing low- and mid-ranked beasts and injuring even the high-ranked Soul Beasts.

Ma Zhibin and the other Soul Masters fought the aerial Soul Beasts while Chen Hong guarded Zhuo Qianren as he absorbed a Soul Ring. On the ground, Zhuang Mocheng and Xia Yun slowed the charging herd, and Dugu Lin unleashed his poison miasma.

• Ma Zhibin and the Soul Masters launched three coordinated assaults, thinning the vicious birds before the Blue-Feathered Goshawk rallied them into attacks from every direction.
• The Ji brothers, Liu Yirong, Gao Ying, Chen Xuanqi, Yan Jinzhong, and the Chen Clan's sword cultivators used their abilities to control and kill the attacking birds.
• Yang Jingxue, Yang Zhijia, and You Dongshan fired arrows at the Wind-Thunder War Eagle and the Fear Griffin while Chen Hong protected Zhuo Qianren as he absorbed a Soul Ring.
• Zhuang Mocheng deployed his Life-and-Death Bamboo Formation at the narrow pass, draining the advancing ground beasts and slowing their charge.
• Xia Yun cast Illusory Sea Cherry Tree Realm, confusing the mid- and low-level Soul Beasts until they were trampled by the herd behind them.
• Dugu Lin released Azure-Heaven Poison Miasma over the battlefield.

Soul Douluos defended the mountain pass while poison, bamboo, and illusions destroyed waves of weaker Soul Beasts. When two Holy King beasts broke through, Ximen Rongcheng faced the Purple Lightning Rushing Tiger, and their battle left the mountain foot in flames and ruins.

• Xia Yun’s illusions, the poisonous mist, Withered Glory Bamboo, and cherry blossoms trapped and killed large numbers of low-ranked Soul Beasts.
• Zhu Yanfeng, Gui Mingyun, Wang Wei, and the other Soul Douluos held the mountain pass while Chen Jingyao and the support Soul Masters strengthened their formation.
• The Purple Lightning Rushing Tiger and Beaconfire Iron Elephant charged into the battle, unaffected by the poison, bamboo, and blossoms.
• Ximen Rongcheng flew forward to fight the Tiger King and asked Gui Mingyun to take on the Beaconfire Iron Elephant.
• Ximen Rongcheng’s Sky-Shattering Explosive Flame Dragon collided with the Tiger King’s lightning sphere, and he followed with Hong Lian Thousand Tribulations.
• The Tiger King regained his footing with a thunderstorm and clashed claws with Ximen Rongcheng’s blade at the mountain foot.

At the Mountain Pass defense line, Zhu Yanfeng endured the Beaconfire Iron Elephant’s fiery assault while his allies shifted formation and supported him. He returned to the front and joined Zhong Bai in stopping the elephant’s charge with their bell-shaped defenses.

• The Beaconfire Iron Elephant launched flaming boulders at the defense line as thirteen Ancient King tier soul beasts charged behind it.
• Zhu Yanfeng withdrew to meet the meteor barrage while Ding Bingyuan, Ma Zhaoyang, Ling Yunxiao, Fang Yuanbo, Gui Mingyun, and Zhong Bai adjusted their positions.
• Zhu Yanfeng used his Martial Soul Avatar and Stone Armor Berserk to form a massive shield and withstand the falling boulders.
• Zhu Hanshu healed and shielded Zhu Yanfeng, who then used his Moon Wolf Guard torso bone skill to endure the impact and rush back to the front.
• Zhong Bai activated his Primordial Yellow True Body as Zhu Yanfeng formed a Golden Bell Shield, and their defenses met the Beaconfire Iron Elephant’s descending feet.

Baxia drove the Beaconfire Iron Elephant down the mountain pass, easing pressure on the land-based defense while the flying Soul Beasts continued to overwhelm the group. The chapter left Chu Tianshu badly wounded and the defensive formation under growing threat from relentless attacks.

• Gui Mingyun and Fang Yuanbo fused into Baxia and battled the Beaconfire Iron Elephant, rolling both giants down to the mountain's base.
• The Soul Beasts fled from the beasts' struggle, letting the defenders restore their vitality and stabilize the Poison Bamboo Flowers defense line.
• The flying Soul Beasts pressed the raised platform's defenders from all directions as their numbers fell below two thousand and their supplies of high-grade arrows dwindled.
• Three Iron-Winged Bats severely wounded Chu Tianshu, and Ma Zhibin was also badly injured while trying to help him.
• Panda caught Chu Tianshu as he fell, while Shen Lang killed the pursuing birds with his Jade-Blood Sword and Sixth Soul Skill.
• Chen Hua ordered Yu Zhengrong to complete the Sword Light Seals the Sky formation, but the birds continued their assault and the defenders' situation grew more critical.

Chen Hua used his eighty-thousand-year soul skill to hold back the frenzied flying soul beasts while the defenders maintained their circular formation. The battle remained fierce as the wounded regrouped and Ma Zhibin and Chu Tianshu recalled their longstanding friendship and family ties.

• Chen Hong ordered Cheng Nanxing, Cheng Yun, and Ma Zhibin to retreat, and they fought through the bird swarm to return to the formation.
• The Fear Griffin used [Frenzy], driving hundreds of raptors into reckless attacks on Chen Hua's sword formation.
• Chen Hua unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill, [Dark Binding Sword Domain], binding birds with Shadow Spider Sword Threads and concealing the area in darkness.
• The defenders held their three-layered formation as the flying soul beasts' assault intensified and their casualties mounted.
• Zhu Jiazhen healed the wounded, and Chu Tianshu thanked Ma Zhibin for saving him; Ma Zhibin replied that their friendship was forged from iron.
• The narration described the Ma and Chu families' alliance ties and explained how great houses built relationships with other families and organizations.

Chu Tianshu and Ma Zhibin discussed their desperate defense against a frenzied beast tide while Zhu Jiazhen healed the wounded and Zhuo Qianren continued absorbing a soul ring. Ma Zhibin explained that their all-Soul Douluo force could endure the battle because they had faced a similar crisis before, recalling the Flowing Light Slope Wolf-Slaying War seven years earlier.

• Zhu Jiazhen used his Sixth Soul Skill, Flower Dance, to heal the fighters around him.
• Chu Tianshu and Ma Zhibin watched Zhuo Qianren's soul power stabilize and hoped he would soon finish absorbing the soul ring and become an Official Title Douluo.
• Chu Tianshu and Ma Zhibin described the beast tide's unprecedented strength and the exceptional all-Soul Douluo force holding it back.
• Ma Zhibin said their team could endure because this was the second time they had faced such a battle, prompting Chu Tianshu to recall the Flowing Light Slope Wolf-Slaying War seven years earlier.

Ma Zhibin and Chu Tianshu discussed why the Chen Clan would not let their group die, then a new Holy King-tier Soul Beast arrived with a vast flying force. The Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc and its Iron-Feather Guards descended on the battlefield, and Ma Zhibin and Chu Tianshu prepared to fight.

• Ma Zhibin reasoned that the Chen Clan needed the group alive to protect its rising reputation and momentum.
• Chen Hong interrupted Ma Zhibin, just as a cry revealed the approach of another Holy King-tier Soul Beast.
• Chu Tianshu identified the newcomer as the Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc, a powerful beast from Mysterious Crystal Mountain.
• A huge host of flying Soul Beasts arrived behind the Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc, including a flock of Iron-Feather Guards.
• Ma Zhibin finished his liquor, stood up, and urged Chu Tianshu to prepare for battle.

Zhu Jiazhen used his ninth soul skill to restore and cleanse the wounded fighters, while Chen Hong unleashed his sword domain to slaughter the avian soul beasts and counter two Holy King-tier beasts. The fight continued as Yang Jingxue used her arrows to drive the Wind-Thunder War Eagle higher.

• Zhu Jiazhen cast Jadeite Star Healing, sending ninety-nine life-filled stars into the fighters and converting corrosive soul power into healing flames.
• Chen Hong unleashed Myriad Swords Return to Their Source: Deep Sea Vortex and Azure Sea and Sky, killing many avian soul beasts in his sword domain.
• Chen Hong used his sword momentum to redirect the Wind-Thunder War Eagle's lightning and the Fear Griffin's corrosive attacks.
• Yang Jingxue fired five arrows that formed a Five Spirits Radiant Wheel and forced the Wind-Thunder War Eagle to fly higher.

Chen Hong fought the Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc, countering its crystal-and-flame attacks with ice and dark nether sword techniques. He created a miniature black hole from the clash of extreme cold and heat and sent it at the Roc, but it exploded across the battlefield before the outcome was revealed.

• The Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc struck Chen Hong’s jade-green dome barrier with its crystal wind saint flame, and Chen Hong repelled it with a towering ice sword.
• The Roc unleashed a Crystal Dust Storm and wrapped its chain wings around the dome, but Chen Hong froze the dust and countered with his Dark Nether Sword Lotus.
• The Roc fired its Crystal Core Fission beam, melting the dome, and Chen Hong shaped the resulting energies into a Bing Huo Taiji Diagram.
• Chen Hong collapsed the diagram’s ice and fire into a miniature black hole and launched it toward the Roc.
• The miniature black hole exploded before reaching the Roc, shaking the battlefield as the Origin Luo Soul Fighters formed a circle and raised a protective barrier.

Chen Hong nearly killed the Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc, but the Eagle Emperor, the Gilded Sky-Rending Roc, intervened and forced him into a standoff. The two powerful opponents faced each other as the Eagle Emperor demanded Chen Hong's name.

• The explosion devastated the Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc and scattered or killed many flying soul beasts, while Chen Hong and the Soul Douluos sheltered behind a Soul Power Shield.
• Chen Hong used Sword Aura: Hundred-Step Flying Sword to strike the wounded Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc, shattering its wings and sending it crashing to the ground.
• As Chen Hong prepared to finish the fallen Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc, the Eagle Emperor, the Gilded Sky-Rending Roc, arrived and caught his sword with its talons.
• Chen Hong and the Eagle Emperor entered a fierce standoff, while the Eagle Emperor's arrival relieved the gravely wounded Crystal-Winged Dragon Roc.
• The Eagle Emperor demanded the swordsman's name, and Chen Hong introduced himself as Sword Might Douluo, Chen Hong.

Chen Hong challenged the Peng Emperor in a fierce battle atop the clouds, wielding the Chen Clan’s Seven Kill Sword and invoking his ancestor Chen Haoran’s legacy. Both fighters were wounded, and the chapter ended as Chen Hong unleashed his strongest techniques against the Peng Emperor’s Gilded Fall into the Nine Hells.

• Chen Hong declared that he would test the Peng Emperor and carry on Chen Haoran’s sword legacy.
• The Peng Emperor attacked with golden feathers, wind, and thunder, and Chen Hong met its assault with his sword aura.
• Chen Hong taunted the Peng Emperor about the half-feather kept in the Chen Clan’s Sword Pavilion and struck at it with the Seven Kill Sword.
• The Peng Emperor revealed the Hundred-Thousand Golden Feather Wind-Thunder Formation and its Nine Heavens Astral Wind-Thunder Tribulation, while Chen Hong unleashed Sword Momentum: Seven Kill Heaven-Cutting.
• The clash wounded the Peng Emperor’s left wing and bloodied Chen Hong, but both fighters prepared to continue.
• The Peng Emperor gathered energy for Gilded Fall into the Nine Hells, and Chen Hong activated Ring Embedding Art, My Body Is a Sword, and Slaughter Character Art before launching a devastating sword strike.

Chen Hong and the Soul Masters fought through the flying soul beast army and moved to join the Land Battle Soul Masters at the Mountain Pass. After the groups clashed, Yang Zhijia and You Dongshan opened a huge gap in the flock, leaving the Soul Masters with a clearer path to unite.

• Ma Zhibin, Chen Wu, Chen Hua, Xi Li Dao Gao, Shen Lang, Panda, Chen Xuanqi, and Yan Jinzhong unleashed powerful attacks that devastated the flying soul beasts.
• After Chen Hong attacked, the Soul Masters withdrew their protective barrier and charged toward the Land Battle Soul Masters while Zhuo Qianren finished consolidating his absorbed soul ring.
• The Wind-Thunder War Eagle and Fear Griffin led the remaining soul beasts in an assault to prevent the two Soul Master groups from joining forces.
• Yang Jingxue fought the Wind-Thunder War Eagle, and Zhuo Qianren engaged the Fear Griffin, while Yang Zhijia and You Dongshan attacked the flock.
• Yang Zhijia's Five Elements Turning Wheel True Art arrow killed or wounded more than a hundred soul beasts, and You Dongshan's arrows helped open a vast gap in the flock.

Zhuo Qianren battled the Fear Griffin, using his soul skills to exploit its weaknesses and bring it close to defeat. The griffin recovered with its innate abilities, but Zhuo Qianren struck it with Void Thunder Smite, leaving it badly weakened.

• Zhuo Qianren used Wind Falcon True Eye, Sky-Thunder Claw, and Three-Aspect Law Chains to evade the Fear Griffin and wound it.
• Zhuo Qianren dodged the griffin’s Fearful Scream and Ultrasonic Shockwave, then used Dimensional Leap to position himself above it.
• Zhuo Qianren unleashed Silver Emperor Judgment, breaking the griffin’s wings and carving a deep wound across its chest and belly.
• The Fear Griffin spread Netherworld Corrosive Mist and used Blood Curse Regeneration to suppress the silver light in its wounds and begin healing.
• Zhuo Qianren cast Void Thunder Smite, striking the restrained Fear Griffin with a lightning pillar and weakening it further.

After Chen Hong was badly wounded in his clash with the Peng Emperor, Lu Xueqi arrived to protect her disciple and challenged the Soul Beast Emperor. Their battle escalated into another exchange of powerful techniques, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The Peng Emperor's Gilded Fall into the Nine Hells clashed with Chen Hong's Seven Kill sword, wounding them both and sending Chen Hong flying backward.
• The Peng Emperor mocked Chen Hong and prepared to kill him, but Lu Xueqi appeared and declared that she would protect her disciple.
• Lu Xueqi introduced herself as Tianya Douluo and recalled fighting the Snake Emperor alongside Chen Tianlin fifty years earlier.
• The Peng Emperor attacked Lu Xueqi, and her ice dragon met his golden lightning in an evenly matched collision.
• Lu Xueqi severed the Peng Emperor's nine lightning chains, and he retaliated with the Golden Feather Wind-Thunder Formation as she summoned nine profound-ice flood dragons.

The chapter explained the Chen Clan’s secret-technique ranks and Lu Xueqi’s qualification to learn the third-tier Seven Kill Heaven Severing. As Lu Xueqi and Chen Hong fought the Peng Emperor, a messenger reported that Chang'an Fortress had attacked the Sky Eagle Domain, and the Peng Emperor accused the humans of engineering the assault.

• The chapter described how the Chen Clan ranked its secret techniques and guarded its rare third-tier arts.
• The chapter established that Lu Xueqi had earned the right to study third-tier techniques through her years in Chenlin Village.
• Lu Xueqi and Chen Hong exchanged attacks with the Peng Emperor as their icy and golden forces clashed in the sky.
• A Golden-Crowned Eagle reported that Chang'an Fortress had launched a massive assault on the Sky Eagle Domain’s southern territory and asked the Peng Emperor for aid.
• The Peng Emperor realized that the human attacks and the deaths of several Saint Kings had trapped his forces in a planned conspiracy.
• The Peng Emperor accused Lu Xueqi and Chen Hong of conspiring against the Sky Eagle Domain, and Lu Xueqi mocked him as his fury surged.

Shen Tianjun, Lu Xueying, and Leng Qingqiu joined the battle and used their combined formation to grievously wound the Beaconfire Iron Elephant. They then attacked the Purple Lightning Rushing Tiger, leaving it badly injured as the fighting continued.

• Shen Tianjun, Lu Xueying, and Leng Qingqiu flew to the battlefield and unleashed the Dustbound Three Absolutes Formation.
• Their colossal sword struck the Beaconfire Iron Elephant, extinguished its flames, and pierced its body.
• Gui Mingyun and Fang Yuanbo’s Baxia summoned the Mysterious Stele and brought it down toward the wounded Beaconfire Iron Elephant.
• Shen Tianjun, Lu Xueying, and Leng Qingqiu rushed to help Ximen Rongcheng fight the Purple Lightning Rushing Tiger.
• Leng Qingqiu’s sword radiance struck the tiger and sent it flying, while Shen Tianjun’s Azure Sea Tide-Rising sword radiance was barely repelled.
• Lu Xueqi’s Skyya sword radiance pierced the exhausted Purple Lightning Rushing Tiger.