Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian took control of Ice River Valley for the Heavenly Poison Sect after forcing its remaining disciples to leave, then led her people through the palace to gather its treasures. They discovered a sealed chamber called the Ice River Tomb, which might contain the remains of an ancient Dou Saint.

• Xiao Yi Xian declared Ice River Valley part of the Heavenly Poison Sect and gave its remaining disciples an hour to leave.
• The last Dou Zong elder led the Ice River Valley disciples out, leaving the valley empty.
• Xiao Yi Xian and her group explored the palace, broke seals, and collected pills, techniques, and other treasures.
• Little Silver spotted a strange sealed chamber labeled Ice River Tomb, and Xiao Yi Xian suspected its cave led into the ice river below.
• An elder said ancient records mentioned an Ice River Valley Dou Saint, raising the possibility that the tomb held the Saint's remains.

Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver discovered an immensely powerful spatial seal inside Ice River Valley’s Ice River Tomb and summoned Gu He to investigate. Gu He arrived by projection and began assessing the sealed chamber.

• Xiao Yi Xian considered whether the Ice River Tomb might contain a surviving Dou Saint soul like the one in the Poison Sage Ruins, while Little Silver reasoned that was unlikely.
• Little Silver touched the spatial seal and was forced back by its power, then estimated that only a Saint could open it or that she would need to reach at least Four-star or Five-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian sent the Heavenly Poison Sect elders out of the main hall and crushed a Void Jade Talisman to summon Gu He.
• Gu He arrived by projection, and Xiao Yi Xian explained Ice Venerable’s ambush, his attempt to seize her Calamity Poison Body, and the sealed Ice River Tomb.
• Gu He judged that anyone below the Half-Saint level could not enter the seal without a special hand seal.

Gu He opened the Ice River Tomb’s spatial seal and led Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver into its frigid depths. Little Silver turned back when the cold grew too strong, while Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian reached a vast underground lake of black water.

• Gu He created a Void Gate for his true body, then opened the Ice River Tomb’s seal and entered with Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver.
• Gu He warned Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver that the cold would intensify as they descended into the dark cave.
• As the black cold air became dangerous, Gu He ordered Little Silver to return to the surface, and she obeyed.
• Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian continued downward and discovered a vast lake of black water beneath Ice River Valley.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized the Ice River outside was a tributary of the hidden lake, and Gu He noted that its deadly cold had kept the place undiscovered.

Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian explored the Black Water Cold Lake beneath Ice River Valley and discovered that it concealed a burial ground. They found several perfectly preserved, soulless corpses belonging to powerful experts, including a Half-Saint, and continued searching the lake’s depths.

• Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian found that the vast Black Water Cold Lake was too cold to explore without protection.
• Gu He shielded Xiao Yi Xian with the Destiny Divine Flame, and she summoned the Netherworld Poison Fire as they descended into the lake.
• Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian discovered a white-haired corpse whose body and Dou Qi remained intact despite having no soul.
• Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian found three more similarly preserved corpses, including one who had been a Half-Saint and two who had been peak Dou Zuns.
• Xiao Yi Xian reflected on Ice River Valley’s former strength and compared the Central Plains’ famed experts with a strange man they had encountered before.

Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian explored deeper into Black Water Cold Lake, discovering increasingly powerful Ice River Valley corpses. When Gu He touched the remains of a Battle Saint, a living soul within an ice cocoon awakened and possessed the corpse.

• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Ice River Valley's decline and learned from Gu He that Blazing Flame Valley still concealed a Battle Saint ancestor.
• Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian continued descending into the lake as its icy force grew stronger and the darkness deepened.
• Gu He used a dark purple flame to reveal the corpse of a middle-aged man whose aura suggested he had been a Battle Saint.
• Gu He grabbed the corpse's wrist, awakening a soul from an ice cocoon at the lake's bottom.
• The soul shrieked at Gu He for touching its body, then entered the corpse and restored its life aura.

Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian encountered Bing Kuang, the revived seventh Valley Master of Ice River Valley, in the Black Water Cold Lake. After Gu He tried to leave, Bing Kuang attacked him, and the chapter ended with Bing Kuang boasting that the lake gave him virtually inexhaustible energy.

• Bing Kuang's soul entered the white-robed old man's body, reviving him, and he introduced himself as Ice River Valley's seventh Valley Master.
• Bing Kuang absorbed frigid energy until his combat strength reached the peak of Two-star Battle Saint while Gu He watched.
• Gu He said he would leave with Xiao Yi Xian, but Bing Kuang refused to let them go and fired a purple-black ice arrow at them.
• Gu He blocked the arrow with a purple flame barrier, melting its tip and startling Bing Kuang, who recognized the flames as a Heavenly Flame.
• Gu He warned Bing Kuang that his attack had angered him, while Bing Kuang claimed the Black Water Cold Lake gave him virtually inexhaustible energy.

Gu He overwhelmed Bing Kuang with his Destiny Divine Flame in Black Water Cold Lake, forcing Bing Kuang to summon a powerful elder from an ice cocoon. The late Four-star Battle Saint, whom Bing Kuang called Martial Ancestor, joined the fight and attacked Gu He.

• Bing Kuang shot a black ice arrow at Gu He, who destroyed it with a Purple Flame arrow and sent the flame after him.
• Bing Kuang drew on the lake water to form a thick shield, but Gu He's Purple Flame arrow melted through it as Bing Kuang retreated and grew exhausted.
• Bing Kuang sent a strange ripple into an ice cocoon, releasing a powerful aura from the depths of Black Water Cold Lake.
• A white-robed late Four-star Battle Saint emerged and helped Bing Kuang slow the Purple Flame arrow.
• Bing Kuang asked the Martial Ancestor to capture Gu He and Xiao Yi Xian, and the old man attacked Gu He with a massive palm strike.

Gu He sent Xiao Yi Xian out of Ice River Valley, then stayed behind to hold off Bing Kuang and the white-robed Martial Ancestor. He self-destructed his projection, devastating the valley, and the survivors realized that the younger disciples in the forbidden ground had likely already died.

• Gu He used Within Reach, Yet Worlds Apart to take Xiao Yi Xian to the surface of Black Water Cold Lake and sent her toward the cave entrance.
• Bing Kuang and the white-robed Martial Ancestor pursued Gu He, and Bing Kuang tried to bypass him to chase Xiao Yi Xian.
• The white-robed Martial Ancestor summoned a huge black water dragon to attack Gu He.
• Gu He chose not to defend himself and self-destructed his projection, collapsing the white palace and burying much of Ice River Valley.
• Bing Kuang survived but was badly weakened, while the white-robed Martial Ancestor concluded that the valley's juniors had likely already perished.

Gu He rescued Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver from the destruction of Ice River Valley, while its surviving elders searched the frozen ruins. He brought them to the Nine-Colored Realm, where Xiao Yi Xian agreed to stay away from the Heavenly Poison Sect until the danger passed.

• Bing Kuang warned the white-robed elder that few of Ice River Valley's younger generation had survived, and the elder told him to tend to his injuries before heading out to search for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Gu He had already used a Void Gate to rescue Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver, and he brought them to safety hundreds of miles away.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Little Silver about the Black Water Cold Lake and the Battle Saint bodies, while Gu He warned that Ice River Valley might conceal a powerful force.
• Gu He advised Xiao Yi Xian not to return to the Heavenly Poison Sect, and she agreed to stay away for now.
• Gu He took Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver to the Nine-Colored Realm and offered it as their new cultivation ground.
• Little Silver ran off to carve out a cave dwelling, and Gu He told Xiao Yi Xian that she could count her trial as completed early.

Gu He rewarded Xiao Yi Xian for her accomplishments by transferring cultivation to her, raising her to the early stage of Seven-star Dou Zun. After warning her to stay hidden from the Ice River Valley’s mysterious experts, he left her to remain in the Nine-Colored Realm or the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Little Silver excitedly went to carve out a cave dwelling, and Gu He told Xiao Yi Xian that her mission was effectively complete.
• Gu He sealed off the surrounding natural energy and transferred cultivation to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian advanced from Four-star Dou Zun to the early stage of Seven-star Dou Zun.
• Gu He received a system reward of forty-nine years of cultivation, corresponding to the peak of Two-star Battle Saint.
• Gu He warned Xiao Yi Xian to stay in the Nine-Colored Realm or the Misty Cloud Sect and avoid exposing herself to the Ice River Valley’s experts.

Xiao Yi Xian left the Heavenly Poison Sect after Gu He warned that Ice River Valley might retaliate against her, then returned with Little Silver to the Misty Cloud Sect. There, she reunited with Yun Yun and met Little Yu Chen again.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed with Gu He that she should leave the Heavenly Poison Sect to avoid possible retaliation from Ice River Valley.
• Gu He gave Xiao Yi Xian a collection of pills, including four Eighth-Grade Pills, and taught her the hand seals needed to leave the Nine-Colored Realm.
• Gu He rewarded Little Silver, and Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver opened the seal and returned to the Misty Cloud Sect's back mountain.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver greeted Yun Yun in the main hall, and Yun Yun welcomed them back.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized the little girl in red as Little Yu Chen and remarked on how much she had grown.

Xiao Yi Xian and Little Silver reunited with Yun Yun’s daughter, Little Yu Chen, while Gu He reassured Yun Yun that Nalan Yanran, Han Yue, and the others would return within a year. The chapter then showed Nalan Yanran and Han Yue training in the Central Plains, where both had advanced to the Dou Zong realm.

• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Little Yu Chen by the bracelet she had made and reminded her of their connection, prompting Little Yu Chen to remember her.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Little Yu Chen keepsakes, and she, Little Silver, and the child played together as Yun Yun watched.
• Gu He sensed the locations of six Void Jade Talismans in the northwest of the Central Plains and told Yun Yun that Nalan Yanran, Han Yue, and the others would return in less than a year.
• Han Yue completed a breakthrough in a remote mountain valley, raising her cultivation to Four-star Dou Zong.
• Nalan Yanran congratulated Han Yue and revealed that she had advanced from the peak of Dou Emperor to One-star Dou Zong.

After Han Yue reached Four-star Dou Zong, she and Nalan Yanran decided to leave the mountain range and begin trying to establish a faction. They reunited with Han Xue after she defeated three Green Wind Leopards, and Han Yue told her about her breakthrough.

• Han Yue lamented that she had made no progress toward forming a faction, and Nalan Yanran encouraged her to keep trying.
• Han Yue and Nalan Yanran agreed to leave the mountain range and went to find Han Xue.
• Han Xue fought and killed three Green Wind Leopards while Nalan Yanran and Han Yue watched from above.
• Han Yue and Nalan Yanran descended to congratulate Han Xue, and Han Yue revealed that she had reached Four-star Dou Zong.

Nalan Yanran, Han Yue, Han Xue, and the Purple Demon Vulture left their mountain training grounds for Star Glass City to rest and gather information. There, Nalan Yanran revealed that Liu Ling, their eldest senior brother, had founded the powerful Mercenary Guild.

• Nalan Yanran and Han Yue decided to leave the nameless mountain range with Han Xue and the Purple Demon Vulture, and they traveled to Star Glass City.
• The group concealed their auras, bathed at an inn, and explored the city; Han Yue’s killing intent drove away men leering at them.
• Nalan Yanran suggested they search quiet alleys for information, and the four split into two groups before meeting again at the inn that night.
• Nalan Yanran told Han Yue, Han Xue, and the Purple Demon Vulture that Liu Ling, their eldest senior brother, was the Mercenary Guild’s president and founder.
• Han Yue praised Liu Ling after hearing that the Mercenary Guild had grown powerful enough to destroy the Wind Thunder Pavilion.

Han Yue, Nalan Yanran, and Han Xue discussed Liu Ling and Xiao Yi Xian’s achievements and decided to build accomplishments of their own before joining them. Gu He traveled to the Central Plains to investigate Ice River Valley’s hidden experts, but learned that Xiao Yi Xian had destroyed and buried the valley without any sign that they had emerged.

• Nalan Yanran confirmed that Liu Ling had founded the Mercenary Guild, and she and Han Yue praised his achievements and Xiao Yi Xian’s growing reputation.
• Han Xue suggested joining Xiao Yi Xian, but Han Yue and Nalan Yanran agreed to accomplish something themselves before meeting their senior sister.
• Gu He returned to the Central Plains to investigate Ice River Valley and find a place to absorb the cultivation returned to him after transmitting power to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Gu He asked a local family head about Ice River Valley and learned that Xiao Yi Xian had looted its treasure vault and buried the valley beneath collapsed ice mountains.
• Gu He wondered whether Ice River Valley’s hidden experts had remained underground and left without pressing the family head further.

Gu He investigated Ice River Valley’s destruction and ordered Gu You to send Soul Hall forces to probe the ruins, hoping to expose the hidden danger to the Soul Hall. While Gu He refined forty-nine years of cultivation in seclusion, Qiu Di and Mo Yu arrived at the ice mound covering Ice River Valley.

• Gu He learned that Ice River Valley had been buried beneath ice mounds and concluded that its powerful elders had not emerged.
• Gu He instructed Gu You to arrange an investigation beneath the ice mounds and coordinated with Xue He, Qiu Di, and Mo Yu.
• Gu You sent Qiu Di and Mo Yu with a group of Soul Hall members toward the Cold Fall Mountain Range.
• Gu He traveled to a remote mountain range, established a cave residence, and began refining forty-nine years of cultivation.
• Qiu Di and Mo Yu reached the ice mound and judged that whoever created it was stronger than either of them.

Mo Yu and Qiu Di led Soul Hall experts to investigate the ice mound in the Cold Fall Mountain Range, where they uncovered Bing Kuang and his Martial Ancestor beneath it. To keep the Soul Hall from discovering their hiding place, the two elders killed the entire group, leaving the Soul Hall without its Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates.

• Mo Yu and Qiu Di ordered the Soul Hall experts to bore through the ice mound and investigate below it.
• Bing Kuang and his Martial Ancestor sensed the excavation and emerged from a fissure in the ice.
• Mo Yu recognized the two hidden experts and contacted Gu He, but received no response.
• Bing Kuang and the white-robed Martial Ancestor decided to kill the Soul Hall group to keep their location secret.
• Bing Kuang froze and shattered the accompanying Dou Zun experts, then killed Mo Yu and Qiu Di and destroyed their souls.
• The Martial Ancestor ordered Bing Kuang to remove all traces of the battle before vanishing.

After Bing Kuang killed Soul Hall’s Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates, Gu You summoned the Great Heavenly Venerate to investigate their deaths. The two Soul Hall leaders reached the Cold Fall Mountain Range, found no traces at the ice hill, and Gu You suspected something was hidden beneath the ice.

• Bing Kuang killed the Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates, and the white-robed elder ordered the scene cleaned up.
• Gu You summoned the Great Heavenly Venerate and told him that Mo Yu, Qiu Di, and more than a dozen others had died at once.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate suspected a Dou Saint had killed them and ordered Gu You to investigate their deaths and Mo Yu’s mission to seize the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade.
• Gu You learned that the Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates had last gone to Ice River Valley, where the Heavenly Poison Girl had disappeared after the surrounding ice mountains were destroyed.
• Gu You and the Great Heavenly Venerate traveled to the Cold Fall Mountain Range and found the ice hill smooth and free of traces.
• Gu You reported to Gu He and then told the Great Heavenly Venerate that he sensed something strange beneath the ice.

Gu You shattered the ice beneath the former Ice River Valley grounds, forcing Bing Kuang and his Martial Ancestor to emerge and confront the Soul Hall pair. As Bing Kuang and the elder attacked, the Great Heavenly Venerate summoned backup, and a black-mist figure emerged from a spatial rift.

• Gu You summoned the Black Skeleton King and smashed open the ice, exposing a deep fissure beneath it.
• Bing Kuang emerged from the fissure, and a second, more powerful presence rose from below.
• Bing Kuang's Martial Ancestor ordered an attack on Gu You and the Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Bing Kuang sent a black ice dragon against Gu You's Black Skeleton King while his Martial Ancestor prepared a powerful technique.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate crushed a Spatial Jade Slip to summon help, and a figure shrouded in black mist appeared from a spatial rift.

Bing Kuang’s Martial Ancestor sealed the area in an ice-pillar prison as the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master joined Great Heavenly Venerate and Gu You. The battle began with the Four-star Battle Saint overwhelming his opponents, and Great Heavenly Venerate launched a bone attack as the chapter ended.

• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master emerged from a spatial rift after Great Heavenly Venerate summoned him and recognized Bing Kuang’s Martial Ancestor as a Four-star Battle Saint.
• Bing Kuang’s Martial Ancestor completed his hand seals, trapping the five fighters inside an ice-pillar prison that sealed space and absorbed more cold energy.
• Gu You told Gu He about the sealed space through the Puppet Seed, and Gu He advised him to wait while the two Ice River Valley fighters dealt with their opponents.
• Bing Kuang’s Martial Ancestor attacked the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master and Great Heavenly Venerate, while Bing Kuang and Gu You fought separately.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master blocked the Martial Ancestor’s ice spikes with black qi and chains, then urged Great Heavenly Venerate to use his trump card.
• Great Heavenly Venerate formed a hand seal and sent countless sharp white bones toward Bing Kuang’s Martial Ancestor.