Chapter Summaries

The Chang'an Team defeated Five Mountains Academy in a one-sided match, overwhelming its illusions and defenses with coordinated fire and poison. Afterward, Mu Zizhu playfully complained to Chen Mu, while the chapter explained her family ties to him and the Mu Family’s connection to the Chen Clan.

• Five Mountains Academy fielded a balanced team featuring Xia Shuyao, Mu Zizhu, and other powerful soul masters from prominent families.
• The Chang'an Team burned through Xia Shuyao’s illusions, destroyed Li Yinuo’s Poison Thorn Vine, and pressed the Five Mountains Team with fire attacks and Dugu Fu’s poison.
• Gao Cuilan interrupted Xia Shuyao’s ultimate formation, and the Chang'an Team surrounded the Five Mountains Team before securing victory after five minutes.
• Mu Zizhu visited Chen Mu afterward, pouted that the Chang'an Team had bullied her, and asked why they had not let Five Mountains Academy win.
• Chen Mu’s relatives and the Mu Family’s history were explained, including Mu Xuan’s return to the Chen Clan and her role in its administration.
• Xia Shuyao told Mu Zizhu not to take the defeat to heart, saying their team was naturally outmatched by the Chang'an Team.

Xia Shuyao discussed the team’s High-Press Tactic and treated Qin Huabin after his martial soul broke. She then arranged to exchange illusion-technique insights with Xiao Yi, leaving open the prospect of improving her mastery of the Soul-Shifting Technique.

• Xia Shuyao teased Zhu Wuneng and compared her abilities and past setbacks with Zhu Wuxin’s.
• Xiao Yi used [Heavenly Dew] and [Life Force Awakening] to heal Qin Huabin and restore his Red-Tassel Meteor Spear.
• Xia Shuyao praised Gao Cuilan for intercepting her and disrupting her plan to trap the team and ambush Xiao Yi.
• Chen Xiaojun and Chen Mu explained how their Crescent Moon Kill Chain, or High-Press Tactic, linked pressure, defense, long-range support, and healing.
• Xia Shuyao learned that Xiao Yi knew the Soul-Shifting Technique and asked to exchange guidance with her, which Xiao Yi accepted.

Yin Duruo and his allies attacked the Black Jade Alliance, accusing it of colluding with the Crimson Cultists, while Chang'an Academy faced Sauron Academy in the Gaoying Tournament the next day. Chang'an’s team countered Sauron’s attempt to target Xiao Yi, but the match remained underway as the Shadow Blades Mantis struck Ji Bochang.

• Chen Xiaojun saw the battle near the marketplace and sent Qin Ximing to investigate the Medicinal Herbs Market.
• Yin Duruo, Yue Qiansong, and Belon Parker attacked Qiu Ban'an and the Black Jade Alliance, declaring them traitors allied with the Crimson Cultists.
• Chang'an Academy fielded Xiao Yi, Ji Bochang, Gao Cuilan, Mei Jibo, Ma Liang, Chen Shurui, and Chen Bin against Sauron Academy.
• Xin Yu enhanced Sauron Academy with three applications of [Trade Wind Blessing], and the teams clashed across the arena.
• Ling Han used [Phantom Tracelessness] to attack Xiao Yi, but Gao Cuilan exposed his real body and Ji Bochang’s flute technique knocked him down.
• The Shadow Blades Mantis soul master ambushed Ji Bochang and struck his Nine Phoenix Arrival Flute with a Bone Blade.

Chang'an Team overwhelmed the Sauron Team as Xiao Yi used her vine whip to stop Li Feng’s attack and incapacitate Ling Han, while Gao Cuilan and the Chen brothers helped break the opposing formation. Academy leaders studied Xiao Yi’s combat skill and Chang'an Team’s coordination, and Zhu Mobai decided Ping'an Academy should focus on its other competitors.

• Li Feng attacked Mei Jibo with Leopard Shadow Assault, but Mei Jibo’s Frost Dragon Breath collided with Kings Flake’s Molten Lava Rend Claw.
• Chen Shurui and Chen Bin cut through Peng Fu’s Ironwire Ferns while Xiao Yi struck Ling Han with her vine whip and sent him flying.
• Li Feng launched five vacuum blades at Xiao Yi, but she blocked them with Thousand Pythons Devour the Heart.
• Ling Han used Nine Shadows Escape to attack Xiao Yi, but Gao Cuilan trapped his afterimages with Gold-Silver Bind and Xiao Yi knocked him unconscious with a precise whip strike.
• Ma Liang slammed Shan Ling into the ground, and Chen Shurui and Chen Bin broke through Peng Fu’s cage as the Sauron Team’s formation collapsed.
• Zhu Mobai analyzed Chang'an Team’s tactics with Calculation Simulation, then decided Ping'an Academy should focus on its other competitors.

Wang Wei traded insults with the other academy leaders in VIP Room 88 as they debated Chang'an Academy's strength and its prospects in the provincial tournament. After warnings about hidden schemes and talk of the previous night's violence, the gathering ended with the leaders reflecting on the sacrifices demanded by their position.

• Wang Wei mocked Yue Qiansong and the other leaders for accusing Chang'an Academy of gaining an unfair advantage with its talented students.
• Yue Qiansong warned Wang Wei that Chang'an Academy would face strong rivals, while Wang Wei insisted his students could handle any opponent.
• Lu Jingcheng cautioned Wang Wei to protect his students from schemes tied to the tournament, and Wang Wei invoked the Chen Clan's power as a deterrent.
• Wei Xinzhi asked Yue Qiansong what he and Belon Parker had done the previous night, and Yue Qiansong admitted they had acted as hired muscle.
• Wang Wei and Yue Qiansong acknowledged that teachers sometimes accepted violence and compromise for resources and benefits, then discussed the security Chang'an Academy gained from its leader becoming a Titled Douluo.

Chang'an Academy faced the undefeated Heavenly Peak Academy, whose unusual lineup and aerial tactics threatened to overwhelm them. Xiao Yi changed Chang'an’s opening strategy, but Heavenly Peak’s hidden martial soul fusion skill trapped five fighters and left Ma Liang surrounded by their Birdcage Tactic.

• After Mei Jibo recovered from his exhausting victory, Chen Xiaojun told the team to watch Heavenly Peak Academy, their next opponent.
• Heavenly Peak fielded five flying soul masters and two defense-system soul masters, while Chang'an chose Xiao Yi, Chen Mu, Chen Shurui, Chen Bin, Ma Liang, Gao Cuilan, and Ji Bochang to counter them.
• At the start of the match, Xiao Yi changed Chang'an’s planned formation and sent five teammates to break through Heavenly Peak’s defenses while Ma Liang attacked from the air.
• Shen Yuan and Lu Kun unleashed their martial soul fusion skill, Black Mud Torrent, dividing the battlefield and trapping the five advancing fighters in the mire.
• Ma Liang used Phoenix Meteor Shower, but Heavenly Peak’s flying soul masters blocked it, surrounded him, and began their Birdcage Tactic.

Ma Liang was overwhelmed by the Heavenly Peak Academy Team’s coordinated aerial attacks and formation, while Xiao Yi tried to intervene from below. Just as Ma Liang fell, a life vine caught him and pulled him to Xiao Yi, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Ma Liang awakened his life force and raised his soul power from level 45 to 53 as the battle split between the Mudslide and the aerial fight.
• Si Yijing explained her plan to defeat Ma Liang first, then surround Chen Xin Yi, while Si Baining observed the trapped fighters.
• Ronan Bloodfeather and the other four Soul Masters repeatedly attacked Ma Liang, combining their skills to injure him, drain his soul power, and trap him in a formation.
• Ma Liang unleashed Phoenix Heavenly Blade and blasted the attackers away, but their Birdcage Net Closing, Thousand-Wing Resonance shattered the blade and damaged him further.
• Jing Wuying’s stingers tore Ma Liang’s left wing, sending him falling, but Xiao Yi’s life vine caught him and pulled him to her side.

Xiao Yi protected the badly injured Ma Liang and faced the five remaining Heavenly Peak Academy fighters alone. She turned the battle around with her Life Vines and leaf-based skills, exposing Bai Huansha’s true body and revealing herself as a Control Type Soul Master.

• Xiao Yi restored some of Ma Liang’s life force and sealed him inside a Recovery Cocoon while the Heavenly Peak Academy team resumed its attack.
• Ronan Bloodfeather’s Red Eagle Storm struck Xiao Yi’s Sky Azure Cage, but her Life Vines absorbed the attack and formed a fortress around her.
• Xiao Yi blocked attacks from Ronan Bloodfeather, Duan Juekong, Han Poqiong, Jing Wuying, and Bai Huansha with her vine and leaf barriers.
• Xiao Yi’s Leaf Strip Assault forced Bai Huansha to use Butterfly Shadow Clone, and Xiao Yi then found her real body with Nature Perception.
• Si Yijing and Si Baining recognized Xiao Yi’s combined control and support abilities as spectators watched her reversal of the battle.

Xiao Yi revealed herself as a seasoned Soul King-level controller with a powerful inheritance and battled Si Yijing’s team, while the Chang'an Team struggled inside the [Black Mud Torrent]. The chapter ended as several opponents unleashed a coordinated barrage against Xiao Yi in midair.

• Si Yijing recognized that Xiao Yi possessed the strength, experience, and inheritance of a formidable control-type Soul Master, but insisted that she could not defeat five opponents alone.
• Inside the [Black Mud Torrent], Ji Bochang endured the domain’s attacks, then combined [Sonic Shockwave] with his [Feather] formula to assault Shen Yuan and Lu Kun with sound waves.
• Han Poqiong broke through Xiao Yi’s [Thousand-Vine Barrier] with [Iron Eagle Thousandfold Crash], but Xiao Yi evaded his gravitational field and Ronan Bloodfeather’s attacks by maneuvering through the air.
• Xiao Yi dodged Duan Juekong’s tracking [Arrow of Annihilation] and shattered it with [Flying Leaf Binding Whip] and [White Rainbow Piercing the Sun].
• Duan Juekong launched [Arrow Rain Overthrow] as Jing Wuying, Ronan Bloodfeather, Han Poqiong, and Bai Huansha joined the attack on Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi used her new One Thousand and One Nights technique to defeat all five members of the Heavenly Peak Academy Team. The chapter explained how Chen Xiaojun helped her create the technique by combining hidden weapon methods with Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow, establishing it as one of her trump cards.

• Xiao Yi unleashed a storm of life-vine leaves that surrounded and wounded all five members of the Heavenly Peak Academy Team.
• Life vines caught the falling fighters, and Han Poqiong asked Xiao Yi what technique had defeated them.
• Xiao Yi arranged the leaves into the words “One Thousand and One Nights.”
• The narration explained that Xiao Yi adapted the technique with Chen Xiaojun’s help, combining hidden weapon methods with Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow.
• Chen Cong assessed One Thousand and One Nights as a second-tier technique with the potential to grow much stronger.

Xiao Yi overwhelmed Heavenly Peak Academy with her “One Thousand and One Nights” attack, turning the match in Chang'an Academy’s favor. Si Baining conceded, and Xiao Yi healed the defeated team before revealing the name of her technique.

• Xiao Yi’s attack stunned the spectators and other academies, while Si Baining told Si Yijing that talent had overcome their carefully prepared tactics.
• Si Baining explained that Xiao Yi’s strength placed her among the top Heavenly Prodigies and noted that Chang'an Academy’s true captain was an even higher-ranked prodigy.
• Shen Yuan and Lu Kun’s team lost its fighting spirit as the Chang'an fighters broke free of their domain, and both men suffered backlash from extending their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Si Baining conceded the match, and the referee announced Chang'an Academy’s victory.
• Xiao Yi restored half of Heavenly Peak Academy’s members’ life force with Heavenly Dew and revealed the name of her vine-and-leaf technique: “Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow.”

After Chang'an Academy defeated Heavenly Peak Academy, Xiao Yi treated the injured team members while Si Baining and Si Yijing wondered about her origins and unusual technique. Chang'an Academy began studying its upcoming opponents, while other teams revised their plans for dealing with Xiao Yi and the tournament standings continued to take shape.

• Si Baining told Si Yijing that Xiao Yi's Ten Thousand Leaves Flying Flower Flow was unknown to her, then lamented that Xiao Yi was mute.
• Xiao Yi explained that Ma Liang had broken ribs and internal injuries from Desolation Power, but her Spring Recovery Cocoon had cleared his toxins and foreign Soul Power.
• Chen Xiaojun and the Chang'an Academy team discussed their injuries, limited lineup, and upcoming matches, then watched Qing Lin Academy face Marseille Academy.
• The Chang'an Academy team identified Qing Lin Academy as a difficult opponent they would face in three days and agreed to focus first on Nice Academy and Heavenly Wolf Academy.
• Other academies discarded their plans targeting Xiao Yi after learning she had become a powerful support and control fighter.
• After five days of competition, eight teams had five consecutive wins, including Ping'an Academy, which had placed sixteenth in the previous tournament.

Chang'an Academy defeated Nice Academy by using the Whirlwind Flame Prison Formation to counter its water-and-mud terrain and Ma Wencai's eclipse blast to finish the match. Afterward, the team discussed its exposed tactics and continued refining plans, while Chen Xiaojun remained away observing other matches.

• Bai Ruoshui, Lin Jingshu, Yan Chengyi, Chen Xiaojun, and other academy officials discussed preparations for an important academy matter.
• Chang'an Academy fielded an earth- and fire-focused team against Nice Academy, whose Soul Masters specialized in water.
• Xiao Yi, Ma Wencai, and Niel Seven disrupted Nice Academy's formation with Life Force Field, Thousand Plumes Weaving Dreams, and Raging Quicksand, but Nice Academy countered with a defensive sludge field.
• Wang Baoqiang battered Nice Academy's terrain, while Zhu Wuneng, Su Ningxia, and Dugu Fu combined fire and poison in the Whirlwind Flame Prison Formation to suppress the opposing team's mudflat advantage.
• Dugu Fu's poison attacks helped bring down two opponents, and Xiao Yi boosted Ma Wencai, whose Eclipse Shadow Burst defeated Nice Academy's remaining members and won the match.
• Chang'an Academy's members discussed the victory and their four revealed tactical formations, while Gao Cuilan said Chen Xiaojun was observing other matches.

Chang'an Academy capitalized on its winning streak by securing a lucrative sponsorship and selling uniforms and team merchandise, while its members complained about the new nameplates. As the chapter ended, Chang'an Academy faced Heavenly Wolf Academy, whose traditional attack-focused formation suited the matchup its opponents preferred.

• Zhu Wuneng, Gao Cuilan, Chen Mu, Chen Shurui, Chen Bin, and Dugu Fu joked about the uncomfortable sponsor nameplates on their uniforms and Chen Xiaojun's role in adding them.
• Chen Xiaojun and Liu Ruyan secured a sponsorship worth three million gold coins, with bonuses that could raise it to five million, as Chang'an Academy earned substantial merchandise revenue.
• Chang'an Academy's popularity filled the venue with thousands of supporters in matching uniforms, while Chen Xiaojun stayed away to avoid his teammates' complaints.
• Yue Lexing, Lu Jingcheng, and Belon Parker praised Heavenly Wolf Academy's winning streak and roster, while Wei Xinzhi defended his team and described his grandson Wei Yelin's mutated Netherworld Blood Wolf.
• Yang Guisan and Yue Qiansong discussed the Wei Family's strength and its position after the Heavenly Wolf Sect's destruction.
• Heavenly Wolf Academy lined up in a traditional attack-focused formation against Chang'an Academy, whose seven listed competitors included Chen Xin Yi, Chen Mu, Zhu Wuneng, and Ma Wencai.

Chang'an Academy faced Heavenly Wolf Academy in a revenge match, and Xiao Yi revealed a black sword as she fought Xiao Tianjin. Xiao Yi defeated him with a powerful ice sword technique, leaving him frozen and unable to move.

• Chang'an Academy and Heavenly Wolf Academy began their match with unusual formations, while Wang Baoqiang and Su Yiner boosted their teams with different soul skills.
• Chen Mu charged at Wei Yelin, while Dugu Fu, Ma Wencai, and Zhu Wuneng engaged their respective opponents.
• Xiao Yi gave Ma Wencai a boost, then advanced on Xiao Tianjin with the black Zhaojun Sword.
• Xiao Tianjin attacked Xiao Yi with hellfire, poisonous flames, and a magma-wolf charge, but she countered each attack with sword techniques.
• Xiao Yi pierced Xiao Tianjin's magma wolf with Yin Fiend Ice Seal, froze him solid, and left him kneeling helplessly.

Chen Xin Yi, revealed as the Azure Emperor, helped Chang'an Academy overwhelm Heavenly Wolf Academy in their tournament match. With Heavenly Wolf’s fighters conceding or falling, the chapter left the veteran spectators arguing over the teams’ chances in the tournament.

• Chen Xin Yi swiftly defeated Xiao Tianjin, and spectators from Chang'an recognized her as the Azure Emperor, the masked swordswoman who had won thirty-seven consecutive matches.
• Xiao Yi attacked Cen Hanyi while Su Ningxia healed and supported her teammates, shifting control of the battle in Chang'an’s favor.
• Zhu Wuneng broke through Shi Tieshan’s defenses with the Heart-Shattering Palm, knocking him out and advancing toward Su Yin'er.
• Su Ningxia joined Dugu Fu against Ye Wuhen, while Wang Baoqiang and Ma Wencai pursued Fu Zhuiyun, leaving Heavenly Wolf Academy outnumbered.
• Chen Mu defeated Wei Yelin’s Wolf King Sacrifice, and Cen Hanyi conceded after being wounded.
• Yue Qiansong and the other academy leaders discussed Heavenly Wolf Academy’s missing formation and its chances of qualifying, while Lian Changzhi steered them toward watching the day’s remaining matches.

Chang'an Academy prepared for its grueling schedule as Chen Xiaojun assessed Qing Lin Academy, whose Yang Family spear formation proved powerful enough to make them a serious threat. The chapter ended with Chen Xiaojun recognizing that Qing Lin’s coordination and formation could match or surpass Chang’an’s Wind-Fire Sword Vortex.

• Dugu Fu, Zhu Wuneng, and the others discussed Chang'an Academy's victory over Heavenly Wolf Academy and the exhausting matches ahead.
• Chen Xiaojun warned the team that Qing Lin Academy would be their first real hurdle and described its powerful Soul Masters and spear specialists.
• Qing Lin Academy used the Qing Lin Peerless Spear Formation to overwhelm Sauron Academy with Yang Yanlang's rapid, wide-ranging spear attacks.
• Chen Xiaojun and his teammates identified the formation as a Yang Family secret inheritance and understood it as Qing Lin's answer to Chang'an's tactics.
• Chen Xiaojun judged that Qing Lin's formation, team coordination, and Yang Family support made them at least as strong as Chang'an's Wind-Fire Sword Vortex.

The chapter recounted how Chen Xiaojun’s punishing training forged the youngsters through nearly a hundred defeats, then followed the tournament’s major results and standings. It ended with Yang Yanlang preparing to test the Chen Clan’s strength by having the Yang Family demonstrate its spear formation.

• Chen Xiaojun’s trainees endured increasingly powerful opponents, losing thirty consecutive matches in the final days and nearly a hundred overall as their teamwork and resilience improved.
• Zhong Weifeng and Yang Yanyu defeated Zhu Mobai and Zhu Luoxi, ending Ping'an Academy’s challenge against Yue Si Academy.
• Canghui Academy defeated Yellow Emperor Academy by using its Gemstone Reflecting the Sun technique to focus sunlight into a Fierce Yang Dharma Body.
• After more than a third of the tournament, Chang'an, Canghui, Yue Si, and Qing Lin remained undefeated, while Heavenly Wolf, Yellow Emperor, Ping'an, Heavenly Peak, and Five Mountains each had one loss.
• Yang Yanlang told Yang Tiexin and Yang Yanyu that the Yang Family would demonstrate its value to the Chen Clan with its spear formation, and Yang Yanyu wished him luck.

Chang'an Academy faced Qing Lin Academy, whose seven spear fighters unleashed a newly revealed Blood Spear Formation against them. Yang Yanlang used General Soul Possession to form a towering blood-colored avatar and attack, leaving the dangerous clash unresolved.

• Chen Xiaojun warned Chang'an Academy that Qing Lin had replaced two members and would field seven spear fighters, then sent the team to the arena.
• Yang Yanlang opened with Overwhelm, raining spear shadows down on Chang'an, but vines pulled the team out of their path.
• Wang Baoqiang boosted Chang'an's attack power as the three Chen youths formed a typhoon, which Su Ningxia and Zhu Wuneng strengthened with fire to break through the spear barrage.
• A blood-colored avatar bearing Yang Yanlang's face emerged in Qing Lin's formation and thrust its enormous Soul Breaking Spear toward Chang'an.
• Wang Wei questioned Yang Guisan about the dangerous technique, while Qin Ximing and Qin Xihui identified it as the Blood Spear Formation powered by General Soul Possession and worried about its risks.

Zhu Wuneng failed to stop Yang Yanlang’s Soul Saint-level spear attack, leaving Xiao Yi to counter it with a powerful sword technique. The spear was frozen but remained dangerous, and the chapter ended with the spectators arguing over the competing academies.

• Yang Yanlang launched a locked-on Soul Saint-level strike at Xiao Yi after Zhu Wuneng stepped in to block it.
• Zhu Wuneng used his Rage Wheel and Nine-Toothed Rake to clash with the spear, but the attack overwhelmed him and injured him.
• Xiao Yi drew the Zhaojun Sword, raised her soul power to Level 59, and used Ice Cave to freeze the blood-weeping spear in midair.
• The frozen spear continued to shake as the collision’s force drove Xiao Yi backward and carved a long scar through the arena floor.
• Yue Qiansong, Wang Wei, Lian Changzhi, Zhong Feng, and Lu Jingcheng discussed Xiao Yi’s abilities before trading jabs about their academies and teams.