Chapter Summaries

Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong were taken by Ice Empress to Snow Empress’s palace, where they learned that Snow Empress was preparing for her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation and its Love Tribulation. The chapter ended with Snow Empress noticing Chi Xiu’s darkened face and becoming curious about him.

• Ice Empress demanded young, handsome men from a village, and Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong stood out when her icy wind failed to knock them down.
• Ice Empress took Bibi Dong and Chi Xiu with dozens of men toward Snow Empress’s palace, while Chi Xiu persuaded Bibi Dong not to fight.
• At the palace, Bibi Dong learned that the captured men had stayed willingly as servants, and she met Snow Empress, whose beauty drew Chi Xiu’s attention.
• Ice Empress explained that Snow Empress faced a seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation involving a Love Tribulation and had gathered men to help her survive it.
• Snow Empress said she was not interested in men, then pointed out Chi Xiu and wondered why his face was dark despite his white hands.

Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong tried to leave the Snow Empress's palace, but Ice Empress insisted that Bibi Dong stay because she liked her. After Ice Empress kissed Bibi Dong and Chi Xiu objected, Ice Empress declared that she liked stealing other people's wives.

• Snow Empress explained that Chi Xiu had darkened his face and said the humans were free to leave, so Chi Xiu invited Bibi Dong to go with him.
• Ice Empress refused to let Bibi Dong leave, and Snow Empress sealed the palace gates in a violent snowstorm.
• Ice Empress took Bibi Dong's hand and kissed her cheek, startling Bibi Dong and prompting her to hide behind Chi Xiu.
• Chi Xiu warned Ice Empress to stay away from Bibi Dong and said that Bibi Dong was his wife.
• Ice Empress dismissed their marriage and declared that she liked stealing other people's wives.

Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong remained captives in the Snow Empress’s palace as Ice Empress refused to let them leave, while Snow Empress wondered about a mysterious man in a Golden Mask from her dreams. When Xiao Bai revealed that the Titan Snow Demon King had brought Snow Empress a Golden Mask, Chi Xiu recognized it as his and set out with Bibi Dong to rescue the village chief’s grandson and reclaim it.

• Ice Empress refused Chi Xiu’s pleas to release him and Bibi Dong, while Snow Empress reflected on her approaching Love Tribulation and dreams of a man in a Golden Mask.
• Chi Xiu kissed Bibi Dong to provoke Ice Empress, and Snow Empress asked what else the couple had done before Xiao Bai interrupted them.
• Xiao Bai told Ice Empress that the Titan Snow Demon King had come to see Snow Empress and had taken a human child and a Golden Mask.
• Chi Xiu recognized the mask as his and told Bibi Dong they needed to rescue the village chief’s grandson and retrieve it.
• Snow Empress headed for the palace gates, and Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong followed her outside.

Chi Xiu confronted the Titan Snow Demon King to reclaim his Golden Mask and learned that the beast had eaten the child who wore it. After retrieving the mask and revealing his true face, Chi Xiu was struck into a snowbank, but he emerged with seven-colored scales and charged back with the phantom of a giant dragon behind him.

• Snow Empress let Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong leave, saying she had decided to face both tribulations, while Ice Empress joked about capturing Bibi Dong afterward.
• Chi Xiu left Bibi Dong by the Ice Palace and confronted the Titan Snow Demon King, who stood nearby concealed by his Golden Mask.
• Chi Xiu confirmed the mask was his, learned that the Titan Snow Demon King had eaten the child who wore it, and knocked the mask from the beast's shoulder to reclaim it.
• Chi Xiu froze the Titan Snow Demon King's snow attack, and the mist washed the soot from his face, revealing his true appearance to Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• The Titan Snow Demon King punched Chi Xiu into a snowbank, but Chi Xiu emerged in seven-colored scales and launched a counterattack beneath the apparition of a giant dragon.

Chi Xiu used the Asura Sword and Dragon God's power to battle the Titan Snow Demon King, leaving the beast kneeling in the snow with his right hand shattered. Snow Empress recognized Chi Xiu as the man from her dreams.

• Ice Empress hid behind the Ice Palace entrance, fearing that the powerful senior would punish her for trying to steal her woman.
• Chi Xiu struck the Titan Snow Demon King with a Dragon God-powered punch, knocking him into the snow.
• The Titan Snow Demon King used Titan Tracking Thrust to raise tracking ice spikes around Chi Xiu, who escaped into the air with his Asura Sword.
• Chi Xiu unleashed his eighty-thousand-year Third Soul Skill, Asura Cross Slash, and shattered the Titan Snow Demon King's right hand through his snow shield.
• Chi Xiu hovered over the kneeling Titan Snow Demon King as Snow Empress recognized him as the man from her dreams.

Chi Xiu spared the Titan Snow Demon King, then learned the Snow Empress wanted his help surviving her tribulations. He demanded two soul bones, including a Head Soul Bone, and the Snow Empress had not yet agreed.

• Chi Xiu spared the injured Titan Snow Demon King after making him promise to coexist peacefully with humans.
• The Titan Snow Demon King offered to help the Snow Empress with her Love Tribulation, but she silenced him and threw him away.
• Bibi Dong urged Chi Xiu to leave, but the Snow Empress called them back and asked whether Chi Xiu could control the eight elements.
• Chi Xiu confirmed his martial soul was the source of his noble bloodline aura, and the Snow Empress asked him to help her survive the thunder tribulation in exchange for a Head Soul Bone.
• Chi Xiu demanded two soul bones, including a Head Soul Bone, while the Snow Empress and Ice Empress whispered about the Love Tribulation.

Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong stayed together in the Ice Palace while Snow Empress and Ice Empress secretly watched them to study love. Snow Empress’s curiosity turned into jealousy and confusion as she witnessed their intimacy, and she watched Bibi Dong pin Chi Xiu onto the bed.

• Chi Xiu insisted that he and Bibi Dong share a room, then drove the men from the Ice Palace by threatening one of them and ordering them home.
• Snow Empress sent Xiao Bai to escort the men safely home, while Ice Empress tried to flirt with Bibi Dong and Snow Empress pulled her away.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress watched Chi Xiu and Bibi Dong through the room’s transparent walls, and Snow Empress became troubled when Bibi Dong hugged Chi Xiu.
• Bibi Dong told Chi Xiu about her life, and he listened before they settled awkwardly onto the single bed.
• Snow Empress secretly returned at night and watched as Bibi Dong pinned Chi Xiu onto the bed, then stopped herself from leaving and kept watching.

Snow Empress watched Bibi Dong try to seduce Chi Xiu and copied what she saw, while Chi Xiu resisted because he could not offer Bibi Dong a secure future. When Bibi Dong tied him down and touched him, Chi Xiu used the Asura Sword and silver light to send her away, leaving her alone in the Papal Hall.

• Snow Empress watched Bibi Dong and Chi Xiu embrace, then practiced hugging an imaginary man and observed Bibi Dong lower her face toward Chi Xiu.
• Chi Xiu restrained Bibi Dong and told her they should calm down, explaining that he could not give her a proper status or stay by her side forever.
• Bibi Dong pretended to be hurt, tricked Chi Xiu into releasing her, then bound him to the ice bed with purple spider silk.
• Snow Empress watched Bibi Dong touch Chi Xiu and imitated her gesture, blushing as she learned from the scene.
• Chi Xiu broke free with the Asura Sword and engulfed Bibi Dong in silver light, then rushed out of the ice chamber.
• Bibi Dong appeared alone in the Papal Hall, confused about why 0000 had not returned with her.

Chi Xiu sent Bibi Dong away and stayed at the Ice Palace with Snow Empress, who secretly watched him for half a month. As Chi Xiu practiced controlling the Space Element, he accidentally teleported Snow Empress into his room, leaving them both shocked.

• Chi Xiu rushed outside after teleporting Bibi Dong to the Papal Hall, while Snow Empress followed him and later cooled herself in the snow.
• The next day, Ice Empress searched Chi Xiu’s room for Bibi Dong, and Chi Xiu told her Bibi Dong was in his heart.
• Snow Empress secretly watched Chi Xiu from the room above his, peering through the transparent ice floor throughout the night and continuing her visits afterward.
• After half a month of meditation, Chi Xiu practiced controlling the Space Element and gained a stronger sense of its power.
• Chi Xiu accidentally teleported Snow Empress into his room, where her skirt slipped and he got a nosebleed before they both scrambled away.

Snow Empress faced her Seven-Colored Lightning Tribulation while Chi Xiu intercepted the first six bolts, absorbing their power and strengthening his first soul ring. The black seventh bolt overwhelmed Snow Empress’s defenses and swallowed her in lightning as Chi Xiu rushed to protect her.

• Snow Empress left Chi Xiu’s room after he realized his Space Element had accidentally brought her down from the room above.
• The next day, Chi Xiu joined Snow Empress and Ice Empress outside, where Snow Empress’s lightning tribulation began.
• Chi Xiu redirected and absorbed the first five lightning bolts, raising the age of his first soul ring.
• The golden sixth bolt bypassed Chi Xiu and shattered Snow Empress’s barrier, but Chi Xiu pulled the lightning away and absorbed it.
• The black seventh bolt ignored Chi Xiu, shattered Snow Empress’s barriers, and engulfed her as Chi Xiu rushed toward her.

Chi Xiu saved the Snow Empress from the heavenly lightning by swallowing its black core, but the ordeal transported him to a void where he met the Asura God and the Dragon God. The gods revealed that Chi Xiu had survived only because the Asura God had suppressed the lightning, and the Dragon God ended the chapter by taunting him until the Asura God threatened to split him in half.

• Chi Xiu tried to draw the heavenly lightning off the Snow Empress, but it gathered around her head and threatened to kill her.
• As the Snow Empress said farewell to Bing'er and Xiao Bai, Chi Xiu bit down on the black core in her mouth and swallowed it, dispelling the lightning and turning his first soul ring blood-red.
• The Snow Empress recovered and embraced Chi Xiu, but the surroundings vanished and left him alone in a dark void.
• The Asura God told Chi Xiu that interfering with heavenly lightning broke the rules and that the Snow Empress would still face death, while the Dragon God contradicted him.
• The Dragon God revealed that the Asura God had suppressed the lightning to keep Chi Xiu alive, and explained that both gods were now bound to him.
• The Dragon God laughed at the Asura God, who threatened to split him in half as he had years ago.

Chi Xiu learned that he had to enter the Snow Empress’s Love Tribulation illusion and consummate their union to save her from her heavenly tribulation. He arrived powerless in a human town, where the Snow Empress had become Xue Wuyang, an unfamiliar bride-to-be, and he faced the problem of joining her family’s husband-selection contest.

• The Dragon God explained that Chi Xiu would enter the Snow Empress’s illusion, where a contract would bind them if they became one, while the Asura God reluctantly agreed to intervene against the tribulation.
• The Dragon God sent Chi Xiu into the illusion and warned him that he would lose his abilities until his feelings for the Snow Empress changed.
• Chi Xiu arrived on an unfamiliar street and learned from passersby that the Xue Family was holding a martial contest to find a husband for its eldest young lady.
• The Snow Empress woke from a dream of Chi Xiu in a human form called Xue Wuyang, and her maid Bing'er told her she was expected to marry the strongest man in the world.
• Chi Xiu saw the crowd outside the Xue Family estate and realized that, without his abilities, he did not know how he could enter the contest.

Chi Xiu entered the Snow Empress’s marriage illusion, where she was forced into a contest to choose her husband. As a four-ringed Soul Ancestor approached her, Chi Xiu finally climbed onto the arena, and the Snow Empress recognized him.

• Chi Xiu refused to yield to a burly man, who later arrived at the arena as a challenger.
• The Snow Empress, living as Wu Yang, learned she was expected to marry the winner of a martial contest and was carried onto the stage bound and gagged.
• Several men challenged one another, and the burly man revealed his Great Strength Ape martial soul and Level 43 Soul Ancestor cultivation.
• As the half-stick of incense ran out, the burly man approached the Snow Empress, who insisted she was the Snow Empress and demanded to leave.
• Chi Xiu told the burly man to take his hand away, then climbed the arena stairs; the Snow Empress recognized his golden mask and smiled.

Chi Xiu entered the martial contest for marriage to reach Snow Empress, who was trapped in an illusion as Wu Yang. With his abilities unavailable, he dodged a Soul Ancestor's attacks until Snow Empress managed to summon ice around his fists, leaving him ready to fight back.

• Chi Xiu removed his mask, claimed he and Wu Yang had met in dreams, and declared that she was the love of his life.
• Wu Yang's father began the match, and the burly contestant revealed himself as a four-ring Soul Ancestor.
• Chi Xiu evaded the contestant's punches with his reflexes, drawing jeers from the crowd when the Soul Ancestor failed to hit him.
• The contestant activated his first soul ring and attacked faster, while Snow Empress tried and failed to summon ice to help Chi Xiu.
• Dragon God pressured Asura God to unseal part of Snow Woman's abilities, and Snow Empress finally summoned ice that formed around Chi Xiu's fists.

Chi Xiu used ice blades and the Snow Empress’s support to defeat twenty challengers at the martial matchmaking event, but the grueling matches left him nearly exhausted. As his rest period ended, Yu Hengtian of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan stepped forward to challenge him.

• Chi Xiu wounded the burly Soul Saint with ice blades and forced him to surrender.
• Chi Xiu continued defending the arena, defeating challenger after challenger until he had won twenty matches.
• The Snow Empress asked the middle-aged man to give Chi Xiu water, and he encouraged Chi Xiu to keep fighting.
• As Chi Xiu rested, Yu Hengtian introduced himself as the young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and challenged him.
• Chi Xiu rose to face Yu Hengtian and declared himself the defender.

Chi Xiu endured Yu Hengtian’s assault in the arena while the Snow Empress begged for his life and confessed she would marry Yu Hengtian to save him. Her desperation awakened Chi Xiu’s power, and he defeated Yu Hengtian before declaring himself the arena defender.

• Yu Hengtian, a Soul King with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul, attacked Chi Xiu and crippled both his arms and one foot.
• Chi Xiu struggled back to his feet and struck Yu Hengtian between the legs, but Yu Hengtian caught his follow-up kick and smashed him into the arena.
• The Snow Empress pleaded with her father to save Chi Xiu, then shouted that she would marry Yu Hengtian if he spared him.
• Chi Xiu explained that the arena was part of her Love Tribulation illusion, and his heartbeat surged when he saw her crying for him.
• As Yu Hengtian brought down a fatal punch, Chi Xiu caught it, healed his injuries, shattered Yu Hengtian’s fist, and destroyed the arena with his counterattack.
• Chi Xiu killed Yu Hengtian with a fire dragon and declared himself the arena defender as three black and five red soul rings rose around him.

Chi Xiu revealed his overwhelming strength at the Xue Family Estate and killed Yu Hengtian and Tang Wu after they challenged him. He drove the remaining spectators away, then collapsed in the Snow Empress’s arms after promising to defend the arena for her.

• Chi Xiu killed Yu Hengtian and challenged the crowd, warning that he would no longer hold back.
• Tang Wu identified himself as an elder of the Clear Sky Sect, and Chi Xiu attacked him.
• Tang Wu revealed himself as a Titled Douluo, but Chi Xiu killed him with his dragon claws.
• The other spectators and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s servants fled, leaving Chi Xiu alone in the ruined arena.
• The Snow Empress rushed to Chi Xiu and embraced him, and he promised to defend the arena before collapsing from exhaustion.

Chi Xiu woke from the Love Tribulation illusion beside the Snow Empress, and they passed the trial and formed a contract. The next morning, they tried to leave the Xue Family estate through a mysterious door of light, but someone called out to them.

• Chi Xiu woke in the Snow Empress's room, and she embraced him in relief after he recovered.
• The Xue Family Head and maid Bing'er interrupted them, and the Snow Empress asked how they could leave the illusion.
• Chi Xiu kissed the Snow Empress, and snowflake patterns appeared on both of them as signs of their contract.
• Chi Xiu and the Snow Empress discovered the exit from the illusion and sneaked toward the estate's main gate.
• Someone called out, "Yang'er," as Chi Xiu and the Snow Empress reached the gate.

Snow Empress learned why Father Xue had arranged her martial marriage contest and reconciled with him before returning with Chi Xiu to the Ice Palace. She passed both tribulations, gave Chi Xiu two soul bones, and accepted that she was his second wife; Chi Xiu left after they named their unborn daughter Xue Tianba.

• Father Xue told Snow Empress that he had sought a powerful soul master to protect her because bandits had once preyed on her mother and he had been powerless to stop them.
• Snow Empress ran after Father Xue to call him Father, then returned smiling and went with Chi Xiu back to the real world.
• At the Ice Palace, Snow Empress reunited with Ice Empress and Xiao Bai and confirmed that she had passed both tribulations.
• Ice Empress brought Snow Empress the Head Soul Bone and right Arm Bone, which Snow Empress gave to Chi Xiu; she also told Xiao Bai that she was carrying a little sister.
• Chi Xiu and Snow Empress agreed that they loved each other, and Chi Xiu confessed that Snow Empress was his second wife.
• The next morning, Chi Xiu left the Ice Palace after he and Snow Empress named their unborn daughter Xue Tianba.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Chi Xiu reunited with Ning Rongrong and learned that Da Bao had been badly injured by students from Holy Spirit Academy. He tested his strength against Chen Xin, then began fusing three soul bones at once, but an Element Tide erupted before the fusion’s effects were clear.

• Chi Xiu returned to Gengxin City, had Lou Gao forge a new Black Mask, and then went back to Heaven Dou City.
• Chi Xiu met Ning Rongrong, who told him that Da Bao had been injured by students from Holy Spirit Academy, and went with her to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for a healer.
• Chen Xin challenged Chi Xiu outside the reception hall, and their fight ended with Chen Xin admitting that Chi Xiu had the edge in their contest without soul skills.
• Xue Qinghe explained that most Holy Spirit Academy Soul Masters had only recently registered with Spirit Hall, and he gave Chi Xiu the Torso Bone reward from the kicking tournament.
• Chi Xiu began fusing the Torso Bone, Arm Bone, and Head Soul Bone together while Chen Xin and Gu Rong watched over him.
• After the three bones fused, an Element Tide gathered around Chi Xiu, and a blue wing emerged from his back.