Chapter Summaries

Qian Lingye reached level 20, unlocked the Authority of Pride and the Faith System, and used a new advanced draw to obtain two Kyrieloids. After ordering them to establish the Great Old One Cult across the Douluo Continent, he turned toward the stirring Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Qian Lingye learned that Golza and Gagi had fused the Earth Vein's essence, then absorbed its power and surged to level 20.
• Qian Lingye unlocked the Authority of Pride, which made him immune to suppression from powerful opponents, bloodlines, skills, and formations.
• Qian Lingye killed a group of mountain horse bandits with Netherworld Hundred Claws after they approached the unconscious Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Qian Lingye unlocked the Faith System and used his advanced draw to summon a Kyrieloid prophet and priestess.
• Qian Lingye ordered the Kyrieloids to spread a prophecy and establish the Great Old One Cult, then noticed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing beginning to stir.

Qian Lingye rescued Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing from bandits and agreed to take them toward Spirit City after telling Ning Rongrong that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was probably gone. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong ordered an investigation into the Dark Sovereign, then brightened when she learned Qian Lingye had returned to the city.

• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing woke on a barren mountain, and Qian Lingye explained that he had saved them from bandits.
• Qian Lingye told Ning Rongrong that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was probably gone, leaving her distraught as Zhu Zhuqing comforted her.
• Qian Lingye said they were about ten thousand li from the sect and agreed to take the injured girls toward Spirit City by carriage.
• Bibi Dong matched the events at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to the star chart and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to tell Qian Daoliu to divine clues about the Dark Sovereign.
• A guard reported that Qian Lingye had returned to the city, and Bibi Dong's worry gave way to a warm smile.

Qian Lingye revealed to Bibi Dong that he had reached level twenty and gained a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring with three Soul Skills, prompting her to make him keep the change secret. As turmoil spread across Douluo, Flender resolved to establish Shrek in Heaven Dou City, while Di Tian’s report led the Silver Dragon King to prepare to emerge from seclusion.

• Qian Lingye returned to Bibi Dong and showed her his level-twenty cultivation, black Soul Ring, and three Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong examined Qian Lingye, found no danger in his transformation, and warned him to hide it from everyone else.
• Tang San and the Shrek group worried over the upheaval across Douluo, and Flender decided they would settle in Heaven Dou City and pursue the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Di Tian reported the Dark Sovereign, the apocalyptic vision, and the alignment of the nine stars to the Silver Dragon King.
• The Silver Dragon King announced that she would emerge from seclusion, and spiritual Qi surged through the Star Dou Great Forest.

Qian Lingye set out for the Far North to seek the Tears of the Sky, while his Kyrieloid hosts spread the evil god’s influence across the continent. After a black talisman eased Zhu Zhuqing’s injury, she and Ning Rongrong left for Heaven Dou City, and Qian Lingye arrived at Hanwu City.

• Qian Lingye decided to travel to the Far North for the Tears of the Sky and planned to seek a special power for his Second Soul Ring.
• Qian Lingye’s Kyrieloid hosts preached about the evil god and healed commoners, spreading rumors and gaining followers across the continent.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing heard the rumors in a Spirit City clinic, and Zhu Zhuqing tried a black talisman given to the clinic owner.
• The talisman eased Zhu Zhuqing’s leg pain enough for her to walk, so she and Ning Rongrong set off for Heaven Dou Imperial City to reunite with Ning Fengzhi and the others.
• Qian Lingye reached Hanwu City, the last city at the northern edge of human territory.

Qian Lingye reflected on Spirit Hall and the apocalyptic vision of his future as he traveled away from Spirit City. At an open-air auction, he discovered that a mysterious girl was the source of the special soul energy his system had detected and bid fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins for her.

• Qian Lingye traveled alone beyond Spirit City and considered how Spirit Hall gave ordinary people a chance to change their lives.
• Qian Lingye questioned whether the prophecy showing his future self destroying the world would come true and what might cause it.
• Qian Lingye followed a system alert to a crowded outdoor auction, where the lots initially showed no strong soul-energy resonance.
• Two men brought a mysterious girl in an iron cage onto the platform, and the system confirmed her as a source of special soul energy with extremely high compatibility for Soul Ring fusion.
• The auctioneer offered the girl for one thousand Gold Soul Coins, and the crowd's bids climbed to eight thousand.
• Qian Lingye bid fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins for the girl.

Qian Lingye bought the mysterious girl at auction, formed a Dark Master-Servant Contract with her, and fused with her ice-and-snow origin. He discovered that she was the Snow Empress and gained ten powerful Soul Skills, but the chapter ended as armed pursuers found his room.

• Qian Lingye bid fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins for the girl, then subdued her when she attacked him with an ice dagger.
• He took the unconscious girl to an inn, formed a Dark Master-Servant Contract with her, and began condensing his Second Soul Ring.
• Qian Lingye endured the girl’s overwhelming soul-chill until the system announced that he had inherited her origin abilities and unlocked ten Soul Skills.
• He recognized the girl as the seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Snow Empress and learned that his tenth skill, Evil God Authority, could double a skill’s power while removing its backlash and costs.
• Qian Lingye’s Soul Power surged to Level 22 Soul Grandmaster as pursuers arrived outside his room and prepared to attack.

Qian Lingye foiled an ambush by freezing and killing the burly auctioneer and his men, then recovered his money and their valuables. As he prepared to leave the iced-over courtyard, he spotted Xiao Xue'er trying to sneak away.

• The burly man and more than a dozen armed Soul Masters broke into Qian Lingye's room to rob him and take Snow Empress.
• Qian Lingye used Snow Dance Rainbow Dress to immobilize the attackers and freeze their Martial Souls and Soul Power.
• Qian Lingye activated Authority of Wrath and Evil God Authority, then killed the group with Ice Empress' Lament.
• Qian Lingye took back his fifty-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin note and collected another five thousand Gold Soul Coins from the attackers.
• Qian Lingye noticed Xiao Xue'er sneaking away and called out to her.

Qian Lingye negotiated with the awakened Snow Empress for the location of the Tears of the Sky in exchange for taking her back to the Far North. In the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Xue Qinghe learned a prophecy linking the Church of the Old Ones to the Evil God’s awakening.

• The Snow Empress awakened, questioned Qian Lingye about using her Soul Skills, and resisted his teasing threats to sell her.
• Qian Lingye offered to take the Snow Empress back to the Far North if she told him where the Tears of the Sky was, and she accepted the deal.
• Xue Qinghe convened a meeting where Yu Yuanzhen revealed the Myriad Thunder Evil-Slaying Battle Formation and Ning Fengzhi proposed the Heavenly Evolution Spirit-Locking Grand Formation to counter the mysterious Soul Beasts and their hidden controller.
• Xue Qinghe told the gathering that the Church of the Old Ones was spreading across the continent, and Yu Yuanzhen offered to have it wiped out.
• Ning Fengzhi privately showed Xue Qinghe a divination tortoise shell bearing the prophecy: “When the Evil God awakens, the Old Ones return to the world.”

After learning that the Church of the Old Ones might bring about the continent’s destruction, Qian Renxue ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo to investigate while avoiding public panic. In the Far North, Qian Lingye escorted the weakened Snow Empress toward the Ice and Snow Divine Temple and revealed his overwhelming power by killing two Titan Snow Demons.

• Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi concluded that the Church of the Old Ones was likely tied to the prophecy and agreed not to act rashly.
• Qian Renxue revealed her identity to Golden Crocodile Douluo and ordered him to tell her grandfather and take the sect leader’s head within three days.
• Qian Lingye learned that the Snow Empress had sealed her seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation to transform and needed the Ice and Snow Divine Temple to recover.
• The Snow Empress warned Qian Lingye that he could view the Tears of the Sky but could not take the sacred relic from the temple.
• Two five-thousand-year-old Titan Snow Demons ambushed Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress, and Qian Lingye’s first attack barely wounded one.
• Qian Lingye activated the Evil God Authority and killed both Titan Snow Demons with his sixth soul skill, Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless, leaving the Snow Empress stunned.

Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress faced a powerful Titan Snow Demon that threatened to kill him and seize her origin. Rather than let the Snow Empress sacrifice herself, Qian Lingye stood by his promise to take her home, and she joined with him, raising his Soul Power to level 28.

• Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress fought off a Titan Snow Demon's ambush, but Qian Lingye was injured and could not reuse Evil God Authority.
• The Titan Snow Demon recognized the Snow Empress and revealed it wanted to absorb her origin.
• The Snow Empress offered to go with the Titan Snow Demon if it spared Qian Lingye, intending to destroy her origin afterward.
• Qian Lingye refused to leave and reminded the Snow Empress that he had promised to take her home.
• The Snow Empress agreed to help Qian Lingye and transformed into deep blue light that entered his body.
• Qian Lingye absorbed the Snow Empress's power, and his Soul Power rose from level 23 to level 28.

Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress joined forces to kill the Titan Snow Demon, but the battle left them badly injured and unable to continue toward the Ice and Snow Divine Temple. As they faced a new threat from the Titan Snow Demon King, Qian Lingye sensed the marks on his arm and prepared to meet it.

• Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress used their synchronized Emperor Sword attacks to cut the Titan Snow Demon into three pieces and kill it.
• Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress collapsed from severe injuries and backlash, realizing they could not continue their journey for now.
• Qian Lingye teased the Snow Empress by calling her an old woman, angering her before they sensed another approaching danger.
• The Titan Snow Demon King arrived, mocked the weakened Snow Empress, and revealed it had sought her for ten thousand years.
• Qian Lingye felt the lava mark and earth mark on his arm and said the Titan Snow Demon King had arrived at just the right time.

Qian Lingye faced the Titan Snow Demon King with the Snow Empress beside him, then had Golza and Gagi overpower and capture the Far North beast. The Snow Empress watched the defeat and wondered how many secrets Qian Lingye still kept from her.

• The Titan Snow Demon King threatened Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress, but Qian Lingye mocked him and remained immune to his pressure.
• The Titan Snow Demon King attacked Qian Lingye, and Golza and Gagi appeared to intercept him and block his escape.
• The Titan Snow Demon King struck Golza but failed to harm him, and Golza retaliated by breaking his chest and knocking him into the ice.
• Gagi restrained the Titan Snow Demon King with earth-vein tentacles and a barrier while Golza pinned him to the ice.
• The Snow Empress watched the Titan Snow Demon King’s defeat and wondered how many secrets Qian Lingye still hid.

Qian Lingye spared the Titan Snow Demon King and made him guide the group to the Ice and Snow Divine Temple, where the Ice Empress challenged Qian Lingye over his agreement with the Snow Empress. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong learned that Qian Lingye had secretly left Spirit Hall and continued managing the alliance and tournament preparations.

• Qian Lingye spared the Titan Snow Demon King on the condition that he serve as their guide to the Ice and Snow Divine Temple.
• The Titan Snow Demon King led Qian Lingye and the Snow Empress through the Far North until they reached the temple, where the Ice Empress confronted them.
• The Snow Empress reunited with the Ice Empress and explained that Qian Lingye had protected her, but the Ice Empress refused to trust him.
• Qian Lingye reminded the Snow Empress of her promise to take him to the Tears of the Sky, and she stopped the Ice Empress from attacking him and led him onward.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bibi Dong that Qian Lingye had left Spirit Hall seven days earlier, while she assigned alliance duties to the great elder and tournament preparations to Ghost Douluo.

Bibi Dong learned that the Church of the Old Ones had gravely wounded Golden Crocodile Douluo and might worship a god linked to the prophesied end of the world, so she summoned Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo. At the Tears of the Sky, Qian Lingye touched the forbidden pool and began absorbing its extreme-cold essence, leaving the Snow Empress and Ice Empress stunned.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo told Bibi Dong that two Church of the Old Ones missionaries had defeated and gravely wounded Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo reported that the Church worshipped an evil god connected to Ning Xuanyuan’s prophecy of the world’s destruction.
• Bibi Dong ordered all Titled Douluo to return to Spirit Hall for an immediate meeting.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress warned Qian Lingye that touching the Tears of the Sky would freeze his soul, but his token awakened as he approached it.
• Qian Lingye touched the pool and was encased in ice, then absorbed its cold and origin into his body, astonishing both Empresses.

Qian Lingye absorbed the Tears of the Sky as the Ice and Snow Goddess appeared, called him the Heavenly Mandate Saint, and entrusted him with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and her legacy. The Goddess ordered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to follow and protect him, leaving behind a cryptic warning about a disaster star, a saint, and an awakening dragon.

• Qian Lingye absorbed the Tears of the Sky, prompting the Ice and Snow Goddess to appear and declare that she had waited seven million years for him.
• The Ice and Snow Goddess told Qian Lingye that he was the Heavenly Mandate Saint destined to save all living beings, though he questioned how this fit with the prophecy that he would destroy the world.
• The Ice and Snow Goddess gave Qian Lingye the divine source of ice and snow and entrusted him with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as his third Soul Ring.
• Qian Lingye fused with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and reached the great completion of level 30.
• The Ice and Snow Goddess ordered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to follow and protect Qian Lingye, and they obeyed.
• The Ice and Snow Goddess faded away after warning that a disaster star and a saint had appeared and that a long-sleeping dragon should awaken.

Qian Lingye broke through to level thirty-five and gained the powers of his million-year Soul Ring, an absolute-defense Soul Skill, and the Evil God Mask. As his strength grew, a silver-haired maiden pursued the Primordial Ancient Crystal, while a meteor drew attention outside Spirit City.

• A silver-haired maiden emerged above the Star Dou Great Forest, sensed the Primordial Ancient Crystal, and flew toward the horizon.
• A blazing meteor crashed outside Spirit City as Soul Masters gathered for the approaching Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.
• After seven days, Qian Lingye emerged above the Ice and Snow Divine Temple with three black Soul Rings and stabilized at level thirty-five.
• Qian Lingye gained four spiritual Soul Skills from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Eternal Night's Sigh, which could block any single attack once per day.
• Qian Lingye received the Evil God's Mask, which concealed him even from gods and caused his active offensive Soul Skills to trigger twice.

After completing his inheritance in the Far North, Qian Lingye learned the Snow Empress and Ice Empress would follow him as the new master of the region. He returned to Spirit City with them and faced his mother’s cold summons at Spirit Hall.

• Qian Lingye learned that the Tears of the Sky was still being absorbed, delaying the activation of his Envy Authority.
• The Snow Empress declared Qian Lingye the Ice and Snow Divine Envoy and new master of the Far North, and she and the Ice Empress swore to follow him.
• The Snow Empress left the Titan Snow Demon King in charge of the Far North, and Qian Lingye set off for Spirit City with the two women.
• In Spirit City, the Ice Empress grumbled about human life, while the Snow Empress reminded her of their bond and said Qian Lingye’s divine power was helping restore her cultivation.
• Qian Lingye met Chrysanthemum Douluo, who warned him not to return, then entered Spirit Hall after his mother summoned him.