Chapter Summaries

Wang Xiaofeng treated the caravan’s injured after a blizzard, then traveled with Victor to Peace Town. After arriving safely, he learned of a possible source of rare medicinal herbs and searched the town for Oscar, but could not sense him.

• Wang Xiaofeng surgically treated the caravan’s seriously injured and helped the others recover from their bruises.
• Victor’s caravan left the mountains, crossed the snowy plain, and reached Peace Town without further trouble.
• The Guard Captain explained Peace Town’s rules and warned Wang Xiaofeng about the Dian Tree, where rulebreakers were hanged.
• Victor gave Wang Xiaofeng directions to Rebirth Pavilion, a coffin shop that held rare medicinal herbs for sale.
• Wang Xiaofeng searched Peace Town for Oscar but failed to detect his aura and worried that Oscar might be in danger.

Wang Xiaofeng visited Rebirth Pavilion, where he met Shui Yue'er and traded an Ice Ling Fruit for Uncle Shui's collection of rare medicinal materials. Uncle Shui hurried to leave town after realizing the fruit's immense value and suspecting Wang Xiaofeng was far more powerful than he appeared.

• Wang Xiaofeng reached Rebirth Pavilion after failing to find Oscar and met Shui Yue'er at the entrance.
• Shui Yue'er welcomed Wang Xiaofeng inside, and they chatted about the Sugar Water Troupe while waiting for her father.
• Uncle Shui showed Wang Xiaofeng his rare medicinal materials, including Green Wood Ginseng King, Bone Cleansing Flower roots, Blood Essence Grass, and Immortality Flower.
• Wang Xiaofeng offered an Ice Ling Fruit in exchange, and Uncle Shui gave him every wooden box in his collection.
• Uncle Shui tossed the black box to Shui Yue'er and prepared to leave town the next morning, while Wang Xiaofeng stored his new medicinal materials and went to find food.

Wang Xiaofeng arrived at White Emperor City after completing his caravan escort and entered the Winter Trade Fair to find a way to sell his goods. He had three jars of medicinal wine accepted for the evening auction and received a second-tier VIP seat token.

• Wang Xiaofeng collected his payment from Victor and parted ways with the caravan in White Emperor City.
• Wang Xiaofeng used his spiritual power to scan the city and deterred several pickpockets who tried to steal from him.
• A female guard told Wang Xiaofeng that his five hundred Gold Coins could rent a small stall or that valuable goods could be submitted for the evening auction.
• Wang Xiaofeng brought a jar of medicinal wine to the Treasure Appraisal Room, where a wine expert identified its ingredients and praised its quality.
• Wang Xiaofeng submitted three jars of medicinal wine for the auction and received token number 109 for a second-tier VIP seat.

Oscar hid from a pursuing Ice Dragon in the Endless Ice Field while trying to keep the badly wounded Hao Te alive. He planned to reach White Emperor City for a Healing Soul Master and ended the night thinking of his old companions.

• An Ice Dragon repeatedly froze the area where Oscar and Hao Te were hiding, but Oscar escaped detection beneath a camouflage sheet.
• Oscar checked Hao Te’s frost-corroded wounds, gave him a sausage to stabilize him, and decided they needed an advanced Healing Soul Master in White Emperor City.
• Oscar dug a snow cave, sheltered Hao Te from the worsening storm, and settled into his sleeping bag.
• Oscar recalled meeting Hao Te, forming a mercenary team, and fleeing Thousand Needle Forest after an Ice Dragon attacked them.
• Oscar remembered sharing hot pot with his old companions and missed them as the wind howled outside.

Wang Xiaofeng entered the White Emperor Winter Trade Fair, where his three jars of Tiger Bone Wine sold for high prices. After returning to his lodging with plans to collect the payment, he prepared to sell other experimental products under a different identity.

• Wang Xiaofeng bypassed a fight in the queue and entered the trade fair, where he received seat 109 and reviewed the auction catalog.
• The host opened the fair, and Wang Xiaofeng watched the Cold Edge sword and other items sell, including a contract for Han Ya’s service.
• Wang Xiaofeng’s three jars of Tiger Bone Wine sold for 143,200, 159,600, and 186,500 Gold Coins.
• Wang Xiaofeng left the fair satisfied and planned to collect his payment after dawn, minus the five percent handling fee.
• Wang Xiaofeng sorted through experimental products, including Ginseng Extract No. 31 and Blue Sky Star Balm No. 72, and planned to sell them under a different identity.

Wang Xiaofeng rented a stall at the Winter Trade Fair and hired Gliev to sell potions while he searched White Emperor City for Oscar. After three days without finding Oscar, Wang Xiaofeng arranged for Gliev to travel to Heaven Dou City and help manage his planned farms.

• Wang Xiaofeng rented stall 188, hired Gliev, and left him to sell overpriced potions while searching for Oscar.
• Wang Xiaofeng searched White Emperor City for three days but found no trace of Oscar, while the potion stall became one of the fair’s popular attractions.
• After the potions sold out, Wang Xiaofeng gave Gliev a bonus and asked whether he would take another job.
• Wang Xiaofeng sent Gliev with money and a Soul Tool ring to find Flander at Shrek Academy and receive work arrangements.
• Wang Xiaofeng watched snow fall outside the fairgrounds and remarked that it was a troublesome autumn.

As a blizzard trapped Wang Xiaofeng in White Emperor City, he struggled to recover after the storm nearly damaged his Sea of Consciousness. In the Far North, a colossal Titan Snow Demon killed his half-brother and set out to challenge the king above the ice; three days later, the slain corpse moved.

• A sudden, severe blizzard darkened White Emperor City, disrupted the auction, and forced Wang Xiaofeng and the inn’s guests to endure the cold indoors.
• Wang Xiaofeng withdrew most of his spiritual power after the storm’s aura nearly wrecked his Sea of Consciousness, then focused on repairing it.
• In the Ice Field Forbidden Zone, a colossal Titan Snow Demon battled his two-headed, one-eyed younger half-brother, who had surpassed the hundred-thousand-year limit.
• The colossal Titan Snow Demon crushed his brother’s smaller head, wounded him repeatedly, then tore out and ate his heart.
• The Titan Snow Demon declared his intention to challenge the king above the ice and departed, while nearby soul beasts died from his pressure.
• Three days later, the dead two-headed, one-eyed giant’s corpse moved.

Wang Xiaofeng visited the Mercenary Guild at Carefree Tavern and found a promising lead about Oscar in Thousand Needle Forest. Before he could act on it, a dragon appeared over White Emperor City and froze the tavern and its surroundings, leaving Wang Xiaofeng and two others facing the creature.

• Wang Xiaofeng exchanged an inferior Jade Pendant for food at Carefree Tavern, and the bartender brought him a note from the guild.
• Wang Xiaofeng found a report that a man resembling Oscar had completed a mercenary task near Thousand Needle Forest, where mysterious soul beast rumors had surfaced.
• A drunken newcomer claimed he had seen a dragon fly over White Emperor City, but the tavern patrons laughed at him.
• Wang Xiaofeng sensed danger, grabbed the bartender and a waitress, and rushed outside as the tavern was destroyed and covered in blue ice crystals.
• Wang Xiaofeng saw a dragon perched on the city wall, and the creature turned its gaze toward him.

Wang Xiaofeng and the soldiers of White Emperor City fought the White Dragon after it attacked the city, but the dragon broke free and unleashed a devastating Frost Dragon Breath. With the city’s forces gathering and her strength depleted, the wounded White Dragon retreated, vowing to remember the humans.

• The White Dragon attacked Wang Xiaofeng, who used the Adamantine Calabash to blunt its blow before being hurled into the ruins.
• Soldiers and ballista crews attacked the White Dragon, but its scales resisted their weapons and its Frost Dragon Breath froze soldiers and destroyed the city’s ballistae.
• An eight-ringed Soul Douluo restricted the White Dragon’s flight, and the army trapped and wounded her with spears and chains.
• The White Dragon broke free after five minutes and prepared to attack the soldiers from above.
• The Soul Douluo transformed into a Frost Ice Bear and raised ice walls, while an unknown enhancement strengthened him, but the White Dragon’s breath breached the defenses and killed soldiers.
• The White Dragon abandoned her attack as the city’s forces gathered, then flew away with little Soul Power remaining.

The White Emperor City Lord struggled to contain the fallout from a Dragon-type Soul Beast attack on White Emperor City while bargaining with Old Yan to conceal the disaster. After unknown intruders dug a huge pit in the Lockdown area without taking anything, he dismissed the incident as the work of foolish thieves.

• Savage brought the White Emperor City Lord Vasily’s bloodied casualty report, revealing hundreds of dead, missing, and injured after the Dragon-type Soul Beast’s attack.
• Old Yan arrived injured and blamed the dragon, then accepted the City Lord’s fine wine and agreed to help Lockdown news of the attack in exchange for reduced trade fair taxes.
• The White Emperor City Lord told Savage to refill the emptied wine jar and considered using the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to hunt the dragon.
• A messenger reported that unknown intruders had knocked out the Lockdown guards and dug a ten-meter-wide pit, while leaving the dragon’s blood and scales untouched.
• The White Emperor City Lord called the intruders foolish thieves and ordered the strange incident ignored.

Victor brought Wang Xiaofeng to examine his gravely injured brother after several physicians failed to treat him. When Wang Xiaofeng heard the patient’s voice, he realized he had finally found Oscar.

• Victor found Wang Xiaofeng at his inn and offered him five hundred Gold Coins to treat an injured brother.
• Wang Xiaofeng packed his medical equipment and went with Victor to his mansion.
• A departing physician said the patient’s organs were entwined with ice energy and doubted even a powerful healer could save him.
• Wang Xiaofeng insisted on seeing the patient before eating and followed Victor to a secluded courtyard.
• Wang Xiaofeng recognized the patient’s voice as Oscar’s and realized he had found him after five years.

Wang Xiaofeng examined Hao Te and found a way to temporarily draw out the corrosive icy energy, then began a treatment plan to strengthen him and gradually make him absorb the remaining cold poison. He left Hao Te stabilized but with only a thirty percent chance of full recovery, and asked Victor to show him to his room.

• Victor introduced Wang Xiaofeng, posing as Physician He, to Oscar and led him to Hao Te.
• Wang Xiaofeng tested the energy freezing Hao Te and recognized it as the same cold force connected to White Dragon entering the city.
• After confirming Hao Te could still be saved, Wang Xiaofeng prescribed medicinal meals to restore his health and stabilize his condition.
• Wang Xiaofeng drew most of the icy energy into his arm, removed the resulting ice, and explained that the remaining energy would require a longer treatment plan.
• Wang Xiaofeng set up a glucose infusion for Hao Te, and Oscar secured the needle while Victor offered to show Wang Xiaofeng his room.

Wang Xiaofeng welcomed Victor and confronted Oscar for secretly venturing into the Far North, then decided to help him hunt a Soul Ring in Thousand Needle Forest. After a week of treatment, Hao Te woke up alive, and Wang Xiaofeng sent the visitors away so he could rest.

• Victor hosted Wang Xiaofeng for a lavish meal, and Wang Xiaofeng knocked the drunken Victor unconscious when he insisted they become sworn brothers.
• Oscar visited Wang Xiaofeng on the vine-covered rooftop, where Wang Xiaofeng scolded and beat him for secretly leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and traveling to the Far North.
• Oscar told Wang Xiaofeng about encountering a Mirror Shadow Beast in Thousand Needle Forest, and Wang Xiaofeng concluded there might be a group there and promised to help Oscar hunt a Soul Ring after Hao Te recovered.
• With Victor's support, Wang Xiaofeng treated Hao Te for a week until he woke up and learned that Oscar, Victor, and Physician He had saved him.
• Wang Xiaofeng sent Oscar and Victor out of Hao Te's room so the patient could rest.

Wang Xiaofeng prepared a potion from dragon blood to help Hao Te recover and break through, while Victor supplied costly medicinal ingredients. Hao Te drank the potion and unleashed a vast surge of ice, leaving his breakthrough to a battle against the energy within him.

• Wang Xiaofeng removed the growing icy energy from Hao Te and said he could begin the next stage of treatment after three more days of recuperation.
• Wang Xiaofeng persuaded Victor to use his century-old medicinal ingredients to help Hao Te regain his strength, explaining that Victor wanted to earn Hao Te's favor.
• Wang Xiaofeng noticed gardener Uncle Fu collecting Wire Grass to bathe his frail child, then learned Victor had let Uncle Fu keep believing it could help.
• Wang Xiaofeng spent several days stabilizing a potion made with violent lizard blood while Victor waited to hear the results.
• Hao Te drank the potion before Wang Xiaofeng finished explaining, and his Soul Power erupted with cold that engulfed the courtyard in ice.
• Wang Xiaofeng said he had prepared the energy Hao Te needed to break through, leaving Hao Te to claim it himself.

Wang Xiaofeng and his companions waited to see whether Hao Te would survive the Dragon Blood Potion, then discovered that it had transformed Hao Te’s Snow Soul Demon Bear martial soul. Hao Te regained his human form, and Wang Xiaofeng suspected the potion had caused a major martial soul mutation.

• Victor lost another Bamboo Tiles game to Wang Xiaofeng and accused him of cheating.
• As the courtyard’s Crystal Pillars collapsed and the temperature plunged, Wang Xiaofeng sent Oscar and Victor away and entered to investigate.
• Wang Xiaofeng found Hao Te unconscious in a transformed bear-like Martial Soul Avatar, with a horn and a short dragon tail.
• Hao Te awoke as a giant bear and accidentally struck the ground with powerful ranged attacks while Wang Xiaofeng explained how to retract his martial soul.
• Hao Te changed back into a naked man, found that he had become shorter, and received clothes from Wang Xiaofeng.

After Hao Te returned at rank 70, Wang Xiaofeng took him and Oscar to a deserted military drill ground to investigate how Hao Te’s changed Martial Soul affected him. The tests showed that Hao Te had become more suited to attacking than tanking, and Wang Xiaofeng named the new Martial Soul Pi Xiu.

• Hao Te returned safely after breaking through to rank 70, and Victor arranged a banquet to celebrate.
• Wang Xiaofeng asked Victor for a spacious place to test Hao Te’s changed Martial Soul, and Victor led everyone to an unused military drill ground.
• Over three days of testing, Oscar confirmed that Hao Te’s Sixth Soul Skill raised his attack power, Soul Power, and defense by fifty percent.
• Wang Xiaofeng found that Hao Te’s base attack power and speed had increased while his defense had decreased, so he urged Hao Te to change his tanking habits through actual combat.
• Wang Xiaofeng named Hao Te’s new Martial Soul Pi Xiu and described the legendary auspicious beast.

Hao Te, Wang Xiaofeng, and Oscar left White Emperor City and traveled to Thousand Needle Village to seek a Soul Ring for Xiao Ao. After entering Thousand Needle Forest, they were caught in a blizzard and took shelter beneath an overhang.

• Hao Te and Wang Xiaofeng convinced Victor that Hao Te had recovered and left White Emperor City with Oscar.
• Victor gave Hao Te his business card and paid Wang Xiaofeng with Gold Coins, medicinal herbs, rare seeds, and ancient prescriptions; Wang Xiaofeng gave Victor a supposed vitality medicine.
• The three reached Thousand Needle Village and spent the night at its inn.
• Hao Te, Oscar, and Wang Xiaofeng entered Thousand Needle Forest before dawn, but a blizzard quickly obscured their path.
• Hao Te led the group to a mountainside overhang where they sheltered from the wind and snow.

Wang Xiaofeng, Oscar, and Hao Te sheltered from a blizzard and later reached the mountain where Oscar had encountered a Mirror Shadow Beast. Oscar decided to remain in the Far North to keep searching, despite the pressure of his ten-year agreement with Ning Rongrong.

• Wang Xiaofeng, Oscar, and Hao Te took shelter from a blizzard alongside a mother Siberian Giant Boar and her six piglets.
• After the storm passed, the three continued through the Siberian Mountain Range for half a month before finding the steep peak Oscar remembered.
• Hao Te assigned camp duties, and the three rested and ate together after setting up camp.
• Oscar told Wang Xiaofeng he wanted to stay in the Far North and would keep searching for a Mirror Shadow Beast if this attempt failed.
• Wang Xiaofeng explained why he had recommended the beast, and Hao Te overheard their conversation before Oscar went to sleep.

Wang Xiaofeng, Hao Te, and Oscar endured a blizzard together before spending half a month searching the Far North for the mountain where Oscar had seen a Mirror Shadow Beast. At their destination, Oscar told Wang Xiaofeng he planned to remain in the Far North and continue searching to fulfill his ten-year agreement with Ning Rongrong.

• Wang Xiaofeng, Hao Te, and Oscar sheltered from a blizzard alongside a sow and her six piglets, then resumed their journey once the snow eased.
• After half a month of searching, the three found the steep mountain where Oscar had encountered a Mirror Shadow Beast and set up camp.
• Oscar told Wang Xiaofeng he wanted to stay in the Far North and keep searching for a Mirror Shadow Beast if he failed to find one this time.
• Wang Xiaofeng explained that Ning Fengzhi's wives were all powerful Battle Soul Masters, and Hao Te overheard their conversation before returning to his tent.

Wang Xiaofeng, Hao Te, and Oscar searched Thousand Needle Forest for a Mirror Shadow Beast and fought a pack of white wolves. After Hao Te killed the Wolf King, a huge white bird of prey snatched Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar from the air.

• Wang Xiaofeng explained how Mirror Shadow Beasts hid among their surroundings, and the group decided to search the mountain systematically.
• Wang Xiaofeng used a soul skill to enhance Hao Te and Oscar's senses as they began circling the mountain.
• The group watched a pack of seven white wolves kill several Snow Rabbits, then the wolves charged at them.
• Hao Te used his Martial Soul Avatar and soul skills to kill the Wolf King and most of its pack, while Wang Xiaofeng's vines tripped the fleeing leader.
• A snow-white bird of prey swooped down and carried Wang Xiaofeng and Oscar away as Hao Te rushed to help.