Chapter Summaries

Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong reached the Snow Mountain Sect, where Tian Chao and Tian Guocheng welcomed them and arranged for them to meet the sect master. Before that meeting, Tian Guozhen challenged Ning Tianchen to a dangerous spar at a cliffside arena, and the chapter ended as Tian Guozhen revealed his level sixty-four Soul Emperor strength.

• Ning Tianchen recognized Fengmo from Slaughter Town, then killed the bandits threatening him and Ning Rongrong after Fengmo explained that he had mistaken their sect token for a reason to seek him out.
• Fengmo accepted Tian Chao's token and led Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong to the Snow Mountain Sect, where they explored the enormous mountain settlement and were warmly hosted by its disciples.
• The sect master agreed to meet Ning Tianchen the next day, while Tian Chao and Tian Guocheng introduced him to Tian Guozhen, the sect's second-ranked genius, who wanted to spar.
• Tian Guocheng explained the sect's talent-based rankings, and Ning Tianchen asked Tian Chao whether the Snow Mountain Sect planned to cooperate with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Tian Chao said only the sect master could decide.
• At dawn, Tian Guozhen led Ning Tianchen to an arena beside a sheer cliff and summoned his martial soul, revealing six soul rings and level sixty-four Soul Emperor strength.

Ning Tianchen and Tian Guozhen fought to a draw in a cliffside sparring match, which ended when the arena collapsed and Great Elder Tian Chenxing rescued Tian Guozhen. Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong met Sect Master Tian at the Snow Mountain Sect's main hall, where he asked why the sect should end its seclusion and cooperate with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Ning Tianchen and Tian Guozhen exchanged attacks on the snowy cliffside arena, adapting to the terrain and revealing their spirit abilities.
• Ning Tianchen and Tian Guozhen unleashed their sixth spirit abilities, and their attacks collided without either side gaining victory.
• The damaged arena collapsed beneath Tian Guozhen, but Great Elder Tian Chenxing flew in and brought him safely back.
• Tian Guozhen revealed that Tian Chenxing was a Level 95 Great Elder, and Tian Chao led Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong toward the mountaintop.
• Ning Tianchen used the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core to shield Ning Rongrong and the others from the cold.
• Sect Master Tian received Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong in the main hall and asked why the Snow Mountain Sect should cooperate with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Tianchen convinced the Snow Mountain Sect that generations of close-relative marriages were weakening its bloodline and that it needed to end its seclusion. The sect agreed to pursue cooperation with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and invited Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong on an expedition into the Northernmost Icefield.

• Ning Rongrong proposed commercial cooperation, but the Snow Mountain Sect showed little interest and asked Ning Tianchen to speak.
• Ning Tianchen warned that the sect would perish if it remained isolated and explained that close-relative marriages were causing harmful martial soul inheritance and more children with poor abilities.
• Tian Ruyang and the elders considered Ning Tianchen's explanation, agreed that the sect needed to emerge from seclusion, and said an envoy would visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to discuss cooperation.
• The Snow Mountain Sect invited Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong to join an expedition into the Northernmost Icefield, and Ning Tianchen accepted.
• Tian Guozhen and Tian Chao briefed Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong on the cold, packed supplies and warm tiger-skin clothing, and led the group toward Snowfield Town.

Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong learned that the Snow Mountain Sect had brought them to explore the Eighteenth Ancient Ruin, while Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discussed Ning Tianchen’s theory about close-relative marriages weakening Spirit inheritance. The expedition reached the ruin’s cave entrance, where the group prepared to proceed underground.

• Tian Guozhen explained that the Snow Mountain Sect’s real objective was the Eighteenth Ancient Ruin, a sealed dwelling that only people under thirty with soul power above Level 50 could enter.
• Ning Rongrong’s letter reached Ning Fengzhi, and Ke Jie confirmed that Ning Tianchen’s theory about close-relative marriages and malignant Spirit mutations fit the available evidence.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong decided not to share the discovery with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Ning Fengzhi ordered preparations for the Academic Exchange Conference and the Snow Mountain Sect’s arrival.
• After traveling across the Northernmost Icefield, Tian Qihua led the group to the cave containing the Eighteenth Ancient Ruin.
• Ning Tianchen made wooden skis so the group could descend the slope faster, and Tian Guocheng crashed into a rock when his ski broke.
• The group entered the warmer cave, tied themselves together with ropes, and followed Ning Tianchen into its depths toward the ruin.

Ning Tianchen and the Snow Mountain Sect explorers entered the Eighteenth Ancient Ruin, found no treasure, and learned from its murals about a powerful adventurer and a second ruin. After they returned, the group debated whether to follow the map into unexplored territory, leaving the possible divine inheritance undiscovered.

• Ning Tianchen warned the group about the ruin’s dangers, opened the gate safely, and explained why he kept his torch lit in the descending passage.
• Ning Tianchen interpreted the chamber’s murals as the life story of a powerful adventurer and found a map pointing to Ancient Ruin Number 29.
• Tian Guozhen identified the mural’s female figure as the Heavenly Snow Woman, while Ning Tianchen suspected the adventurer had received a divine inheritance.
• Ning Tianchen stopped Tian Chao from breaking open the chamber walls, and the group withdrew from the Eighteenth Ancient Ruin without disturbing it.
• Tian Qihua and the others studied the map and realized the route extended beyond the Snow Mountain Sect’s explored territory; Tian Qihua proposed returning to the sect rather than risking the journey.

Ning Tianchen and the Snow Mountain Sect group discovered and fought an eighty-thousand-year 10,000 Year Grade 9 Ginseng King in the Northernmost Icefield. The ginseng escaped underground, but Ning Tianchen severed one of its legs, leaving the group with a rare treasure.

• Tian Guozhen and Ning Tianchen persuaded Tian Qihua to continue exploring the Northernmost Land despite the danger posed by powerful spirit beasts.
• Oscar and Chen Huayu's team accepted a 5,000 Gold Soul Coin grain-escort mission and traveled through Barack City toward Suotuo City to collect the convoy.
• Ning Tianchen's group found a suspicious plant in the icefield and identified its buried main body as the 10,000 Year Grade 9 Ginseng King.
• Tian Qihua and the others attacked the ginseng, but it broke free and injured Tian Qihua while escaping beneath the snow.
• Tian Guozhen revealed his Hundred Thousand Year Frost Mammoth Torso Spirit Bone skill, Eternal Zero Degree, and froze the ginseng long enough for Ning Tianchen to sever a Ginseng Leg.
• The 10,000 Year Grade 9 Ginseng King escaped through underground ice caverns, while Ning Tianchen's group recovered its severed leg.

Ning Tianchen and the Snow Mountain Sect pushed deeper into the Northernmost Icefield in search of Ancient Ruin Number 29, while Oscar and Chen Huayu uncovered a suspicious grain convoy connected to the Clear Sky Sect. The chapter ended with Ning Tianchen’s group resting at a hot spring lake, several days from the ruin.

• Ning Tianchen and the Snow Mountain Sect agreed to give Tian Guozhen’s group first pick of the treasures at Ancient Ruin Number 29 in exchange for the Ginseng Leg, which Ning Tianchen stored to help heal his friend’s eyes.
• Oscar and Chen Huayu warned Hao Te that the repeated instruction to ask for travel expenses might be a signal to kill the escort squad, so Hao Te refused to ask the final liaison for money.
• Hao Te delivered nearly a thousand grain wagons to a remote mountain, and the liaison confirmed the convoy was trusted after Hao Te denied receiving further instructions.
• Oscar and Chen Huayu spotted Clear Sky Hammer users near the convoy and suspected the grain was bound for the secluded Clear Sky Sect, so the squad hurried away.
• Tian Guozhen convinced the Snow Mountain Sect party to continue beyond its recorded route, and Tian Qihua agreed to scout and map the terrain from the air.
• Ning Tianchen and the others reached a warm lake and rested, expecting to reach Ancient Ruin Number 29 in about five or six days.

Ning Tianchen’s group discovered Ancient Ruin Number 29 beneath the icefield and learned that its temple housed the God of Light’s inheritance trials. The God of Light sought Ning Rongrong as a possible successor while the Asura God kept Ning Tianchen in consideration, and Tian Guocheng began activating the trials.

• Tian Guocheng fell through a collapsing snowfield, exposing a buried golden palace that the group entered.
• Ning Rongrong recognized the male statue as resembling the protagonist from Ancient Ruin Number 18, and Ning Tianchen found parchment images revealing that the man had inherited a God Position.
• The God of Light observed Ning Tianchen’s group and asked the Asura God to give up Ning Tianchen, but the Asura God refused and suggested Ning Rongrong might suit the Light God’s inheritance.
• Ning Tianchen and the others learned that applicants had to place blood on a stone platform to begin the trials.
• Tian Guocheng cut his arm and let his blood drip onto the stone platform to test the inheritance trials.

Ning Rongrong and the Snow Mountain Sect geniuses received divine trials and began training on Light God's staircase, while Ning Tianchen learned his Asura trial required him to climb higher than the others. Nearly a year later, the sects prepared to cooperate as Tang San and Hu Liena approached their hundredth victories in Slaughter City.

• Tian Guocheng, Tian Guozhen, and Tian Chao received Black-level or Red-level Four Trials, while Ning Rongrong received Light God's God-level Nine Trials.
• Tian Qihua left the Northernmost Land with Tian Guozhen's identity token to inform the Snow Mountain Sect that the others were safe.
• Asura God assigned Ning Tianchen a two-year trial to reach the four-hundredth Step, while Ning Rongrong and the Snow Mountain Sect geniuses received lower step targets.
• Ning Tianchen and the others began training under the staircase's pressure, choosing to delay completing their trials so they could keep using it for cultivation.
• Nearly a year later, Ning Fengzhi and Tian Ruyang began negotiations between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Snow Mountain Sect, and Tian Qihua explained that their young geniuses remained in the Northernmost Land.
• Tang San and Hu Liena reached ninety-nine consecutive victories in Slaughter City and agreed to pursue their hundredth matches before challenging the Hell Road together.

Tang San and Hu Liena escaped Slaughter City with Divine Slaughter's Domain, while Tang Hao learned that Tang Yuehua's failed attempt to eliminate a grain escort might have endangered the Clear Sky Sect. In the Northernmost Icefield, Ning Rongrong and Ning Tianchen completed their trials and received rewards, including a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring for Ning Rongrong.

• Tang San and Hu Liena argued over the purpose of Slaughter City before leaving Hell Road, and Hu Liena later told Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo that Tang San was from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao led Tang San away from Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo, then warned him to remove his Killing Intent after they discussed Spirit Hall's Slaughter Gods.
• Tang Hao met Tang Yuehua at Moonlight Pavilion and learned that the Hao Te Squad had left alive with knowledge that could potentially reveal the Clear Sky Sect's location.
• Tian Guozhen and two companions completed their trials and gained Soul Power and increased spirit ring ages, while Ning Rongrong crawled to the two hundredth step and completed her trial.
• Ning Tianchen pushed past his four hundredth-step objective to the four hundred eleventh step, earning ten thousand years of spirit ring ages and ten percent Asura Affinity; his six spirit rings turned black.
• Ning Rongrong received a level of Soul Power, increased spirit ring ages, and a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, which Ning Tianchen encouraged her to absorb in the temple.

After completing their first divine trial, Ning Tianchen and his companions crossed the Northernmost Icefield and encountered a Golden Scale Dragon failing its Thunder Tribulation. Ning Tianchen persuaded the dragon to sacrifice itself in exchange for a chance at resurrection in the God Realm, leaving his companions to witness the sacrifice.

• Tian Guozhen, Tian Chao, Ning Tianchen, and the others finished absorbing their God-Bestowed Spirit Rings and emerged from the temple into the snow-covered icefield.
• Ning Tianchen led the group beneath a mountain where a massive Golden Scale Dragon endured a Thunder Tribulation, and they passed safely as the lightning struck only the beast.
• The Golden Scale Dragon fell after failing its tribulation, and Ning Tianchen approached it despite Ning Rongrong's protests.
• The Golden Scale Dragon revealed its past as a follower of the Light God and agreed to sacrifice itself after Ning Tianchen explained that it could be resurrected as a divine beast in the God Realm.
• A blood-red barrier formed around Ning Tianchen and the Golden Scale Dragon as the dragon began its sacrifice, while Ning Rongrong and the others watched from afar.

Ning Tianchen gained a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and spirit bone before leaving the Northernmost Icefield with Ning Rongrong. In the Frozen Forest, Oscar’s hunt for a sixth spirit ring turned into a deadly fight over a spirit bone, and Clear Sky Sect experts arrived to kill Hao Te Squad.

• Ning Tianchen completed the Golden Scale Dragon’s sacrifice, gained its hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and right leg spirit bone, and received a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring for his eighth ring.
• Hao Te Squad searched the Frozen Forest for a spirit ring for Oscar, while a Clear Sky Sect squad tracked them there to carry out an assassination ordered by Tang Xiao.
• Hao Te Squad found a twenty-one-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast, and Hao Te helped Chen Huayu defeat it so Oscar could absorb its spirit ring.
• After the Mirror Shadow Beast dropped a Head Spirit Bone, a Soul Saint and two Soul Emperors turned against Hao Te and fought to claim it.
• Tang Yue’s five Soul Saints arrived, took the spirit bone, and joined forces with the treacherous squad members against Hao Te; Chen Huayu revealed that he and Oscar belonged to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Tianchen rescued Oscar and Hao Te’s group from Tang Yue and the Clear Sky Sect, defeating the attackers and killing the traitors who had endangered them. After Oscar absorbed his spirit ring, Hao Te gave him a spirit bone, and Ning Tianchen asked Hao Te what he planned to do next.

• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong arrived as Tang Yue was about to kill Oscar, and Ning Tianchen revealed his powerful spirit rings before taking on the five Clear Sky Sect Soul Saints.
• Ning Tianchen used his Seven Kill Domain, Spirit Avatar, and soul bone skills to kill Tang Li and defeat the Clear Sky Sect attackers, while Tang Yue’s squad fled.
• Ning Tianchen killed the fleeing Soul Saints and Tang Yue, then returned to find Hao Te still fighting the traitors and confronted the old guide who had led the Clear Sky Sect to them.
• Ning Tianchen killed the three traitors, and Hao Te killed the old guide after Ning Tianchen left his fate to the group.
• Oscar finished absorbing his spirit ring, and Hao Te gave him the Mirror Shadow Beast Spirit Bone; Ning Tianchen then asked Hao Te about his future plans.

After returning to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Tianchen demonstrated his developing sword technique and discussed the continent’s growing tensions with the sect. He then proposed founding a new sect to avoid conflict over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s succession, and Dugu Bo agreed to support him while remaining retired from its affairs.

• Hao Te left the group after Oscar finished absorbing his spirit ring, while Oscar and Chen Huayu planned to travel and Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong returned to the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi advanced the Academic Exchange Conference and ordered preparations for an Academy Exchange Competition after judging that the Spirit Master Competition might not take place.
• Xue Qinghe visited Moonlight Pavilion and watched Tang San, disguised as Tang Yin, lead the students in ceremonial music.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin told Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong about Sea God Island, then Ning Tianchen demonstrated his Killing Character Sword Secret for Chen Xin, who told him to forge his own sword dao.
• Ning Tianchen visited Dugu Bo and proposed provoking Prince Xue Xing into using his favor; Dugu Bo tacitly agreed not to interfere.
• Ning Tianchen proposed establishing a sect with Dugu Bo, who agreed to help hold it together while refusing any formal position, and Ning Tianchen planned to draft its charter and seek Ning Fengzhi’s support.

Ning Tianchen reunited with the Shadow Guard, rewarded its loyal leaders, and announced plans to make it part of his future sect. He then met Xue Qinghe, revealed Tang Yuehua and Tang San’s ties to the Clear Sky Sect, and sought help with his Weapon Spirit Beast Soul Transformation, leaving with a request to eliminate Xue Xing and his nephew.

• Ning Tianchen found the Shadow Guard thriving under Zhao Wuji and Zhang Erhe, and reviewed its intelligence on the Single Attribute Three Great Families.
• Ning Tianchen used Divine Slaughter's Domain to quiet the Shadow Guard's senior members, then rewarded Zhao Wuji, Zhang Erhe, and other contributors with treasures from the Northernmost Icefield.
• Ning Tianchen won the merchants' support by revealing his role in the Seven Treasures Mall plan and announced that the Shadow Guard would eventually serve his new sect and develop medicinal herb and construction markets.
• Ning Tianchen visited Xue Qinghe and identified Tang Yuehua as Tang Hao's sister and the Clear Sky Sect's intelligence agent, then suggested that Tang Yin was probably Tang San.
• Ning Tianchen asked She Long for guidance on his unstable Beast Soul Avatar, and She Long agreed on the condition that Ning Tianchen eliminate Xue Xing and his nephew before Xue Qinghe took the throne.

Ning Tianchen recruited Chen Lei to help set a trap for Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng, paying her with a booklet of theories about Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. After revealing his own evidence and discussing the dangerous implications of the theories, he planned to lure the princes into confronting Chen Lei at an auction.

• Ning Tianchen gave She Long a manual on Weapon Spirit Beast Soul Transformation, then returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect announced the Academic Exchange Conference, prompting Yu Xiaogang to prepare his theories while Tang San planned to observe him secretly.
• Ning Tianchen asked Ke Jie to help settle Dugu Bo's debt of gratitude, and Ke Jie introduced him to Chen Lei.
• Ning Tianchen offered Chen Lei either one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins or a booklet of unpublished theories, and she chose the booklet in exchange for helping target Prince Xue Xing or Xue Beng.
• Ning Tianchen revealed his Spirit Rings and explained that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Scale Dragon had sacrificed itself to him, lending support to the booklet's theories.
• Ning Tianchen proposed that Chen Lei outbid Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng at the Heaven Dou City Auction House so they would confront her, and Chen Lei asked him to provide the auction funds.

Ning Tianchen and Xue Qinghe used a fake auction treasure to lure Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng into a scheme, while Xue Qinghe also asked Ning Tianchen whether their alliance could survive a future clash with Bibi Dong. After Xue Xing tried to seize the herb by force, Chen Lei revealed herself as a powerful Soul Douluo and killed his guards, leaving Xue Xing and Xue Beng facing disaster.

• Xue Beng told Prince Xue Xing about a rare herb at the Heaven Dou Auction House, and Xue Xing hurried there with him to obtain it.
• Ning Tianchen told Xue Qinghe that the herb was bait and urged him to make the coming incident look accidental; Xue Qinghe asked whether Ning Tianchen would remain an ally if Spirit Hall attacked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• The auctioneer presented the Tianshan Ice Snow Grass, and Chen Lei outbid Xue Xing after the price climbed to four hundred and eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Chen Lei left the auction house with the herb and deliberately walked into the ambush Xue Xing and Xue Beng had arranged.
• Xue Xing ordered his guards to attack Chen Lei, but she killed them and revealed eight soul rings, leaving Xue Xing stunned and Xue Beng collapsed in fear.

Chen Lei staged a confrontation with Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng, prompting Xue Xing to use his favor with Dugu Bo to secure protection and a settlement with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Xue Ye fined and placed Xue Xing and Xue Beng under house arrest, while Ning Tianchen later told Dugu Bo that he had prepared an explanation for his involvement.

• Chen Lei stopped the city guards from taking Xue Xing and Xue Beng away, demanding an explanation for the attack on the scholars.
• Dugu Bo pretended to leave, prompting Xue Xing to spend his favor and ask him to protect them from Chen Lei.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived, and Xue Qinghe brought Xue Xing and Xue Beng to the palace after Chen Lei agreed to let the matter rest.
• Xue Ye ordered Xue Xing and Xue Beng to forfeit five years of salary, pay one million Gold Soul Coins, and remain confined to their residences for two years.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted the imperial family's compensation, gave the Gold Soul Coins to Chen Lei, and later asked Ning Tianchen to question Dugu Bo.
• Ning Tianchen told Dugu Bo that Ning Fengzhi had not detected the scheme and that he had already prepared an explanation for Dugu Bo and Chen Lei.

The Academic Exchange Conference opened at Seven Treasures Academy, where scholars debated whether Blue Silver Grass could be cultivated and examined Tang San’s spirit abilities. Ke Jie presented a theory of spirit inheritance credited to Ning Tianchen, prompting Tang San to clench his fists in the stands.

• Ning Tianchen and Ning Rongrong welcomed Xue Qinghe, Princess Xue Ke, and other guests as the conference attendees arrived.
• Tang San slipped Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong passes to the inner area, then entered the venue and sat among the ordinary spectators.
• Scholars discussed Blue Silver Grass and questioned whether Tang San’s Entangling ability wasted his first spirit ring and depended on his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
• Tang San rejected Chen Lei’s conclusions as an attempt to undermine him, while Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong resolved to wait for the interactive session.
• Ke Jie presented his theory of spirit inheritance and credited Ning Tianchen, causing Tang San to clench his fists.

At the academic conference, Yu Xiaogang confidently presented his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, but scholars exposed most of its contents as plagiarized common knowledge. The chapter ended as they began examining the remaining theories and Yu Xiaogang struggled to defend himself.

• Xue Qinghe praised Ning Tianchen for presenting a theory, while Yu Xiaogang assumed the conference was meant to promote Ning and disparage Tang San.
• Ning Tianchen asked Ning Fengzhi to let Yu Xiaogang take the stage, confident that scholars would recognize his plagiarism.
• Ke Jie introduced Yu Xiaogang as a renowned Master, and Yu Xiaogang went onstage to present his Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• The scholars examined Yu Xiaogang's booklet and questioned whether its theories were truly his; Yu Xiaogang insisted that they were.
• Qin Tian exposed Yu Xiaogang's account of Twin Martial Souls as plagiarized and incomplete, then identified more of his claims as established knowledge.
• Ke Jie and Qin Tian continued challenging the booklet's theories, leaving Yu Xiaogang red-faced and unable to defend most of them.