Chapter Summaries

Su Yu persuaded Jing Hongchen to leave the Sun Moon Empire and proposed killing Xu Tianran’s supporters in Mingde Hall before they departed. Xu Tianran learned that Su Yu had arrived and prepared to surround him, while Jing Hongchen assembled Mingde Hall’s Soul Engineers and announced his plan to rebuild in the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Su Yu urged Jing Hongchen to gather his Soul Engineers and eliminate Xu Tianran’s loyalists, then revealed that Lin Jiayi had slipped away and exposed their location.
• Lin Jiayi informed Xu Tianran that Su Yu was in Mingde Hall, and Xu Tianran promised him the vacant Hall Master position while arranging forces to trap Su Yu.
• Ye Xishui said Xiao Yao would deal with Su Yu and that someone else would handle Hai Bodong, while Xu Tianran ordered the Royal Soul Engineer Corps and Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps to surround Mingdu.
• Jing Hongchen gathered thousands of Soul Engineers, introduced Su Yu, and announced that he would leave the Sun Moon Empire to rebuild Mingde Hall in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Several Soul Engineers denounced Jing Hongchen as a traitor, and Su Yu provoked them by insulting them and Xu Tianran.

Su Yu froze and removed the Soul Engineers and Soul Tools in Mingde Hall before detonating the frozen engineers and destroying the entire base. As Xu Tianran’s forces attacked, Ye Xishui and a Shadow confronted Su Yu, but Hai Bodong and then Sang Muning arrived to defend him, with Sang Muning challenging Ye Xishui.

• Su Yu froze the Soul Engineers in Mingde Hall, sent them into his world, and dismantled and collected many of the base’s Soul Tools.
• Su Yu used the Ice Burst Technique on more than a thousand high-ranking Soul Engineers, destroying Mingde Hall and its surrounding facilities in a massive explosion.
• Xu Tianran ordered his Soul Engineer Corps to fire on Su Yu, but Su Yu used the Golden Dragon Spear to drain the force of the incoming cannonballs.
• Ye Xishui and a Shadow appeared to attack Su Yu, while Hai Bodong intervened and engaged the Shadow with Winter's Sword.
• Ye Xishui attacked Su Yu after learning Mu Wu was absent, but Sang Muning appeared, identified herself as the Third Priest of the Ice God Palace, and challenged Ye Xishui.

Sang Muning held Ye Xishui at bay while Su Yu confronted Long Xiaoyao, who had fallen to the Evil Soul Masters and reached the Quasi-god realm. Su Yu weakened Long Xiaoyao with the Dragon God Domain and unleashed his strongest Ice God sword technique.

• Sang Muning used her control techniques and poisonous Ice Blue Giant Tree Martial Soul to pressure Ye Xishui, while Xu Tianran ordered Level Nine Soul Guidance Cannonballs brought in to kill Su Yu and the others.
• Su Yu revealed that Sang Muning had been summoned as the Ice God Palace's Third Priest, and he called Long Xiaoyao out from the dark clouds.
• Long Xiaoyao appeared as a Quasi-god Dark Holy Dragon and clashed with Su Yu, who blocked his attacks with the Snow Emperor's Three Absolutes and struck with the Ice Chi Divine Sword.
• Long Xiaoyao gained the upper hand in their exchange and said Su Yu's cultivation was too low, but Su Yu activated the Dragon God Domain and weakened Long Xiaoyao's Soul Power.
• Su Yu used the Ice God Secret Skill: Sublimation and unleashed the Ice God Sword Art's Ice God's Pride.

Su Yu gravely wounded Long Xiaoyao, then turned Xu Tianran’s Level Nine Soul Guidance Cannonballs back toward the Sun Moon Imperial Palace before collapsing from the strain. Hai Bodong evacuated Su Yu and his allies, while Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao later encountered the battered Xu Tianran, who had survived the bombardment.

• Su Yu used successive soul-ring detonations to overwhelm Long Xiaoyao, leaving him gravely wounded, while Sang Muning defeated Ye Xishui.
• Xu Tianran launched dozens of Level Nine Soul Guidance Cannonballs at Su Yu, but Su Yu froze them with spatial power and redirected them toward the Sun Moon Imperial Palace.
• The cannonballs devastated the palace, and Su Yu spat blood from the strain of detonating his origin Soul Ring before fainting.
• Hai Bodong took Su Yu, Sang Muning, Jing Hongchen, and the others away as Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao recovered from their defeats.
• An elderly figure appeared carrying the battered Xu Tianran, and Ye Xishui mocked him for surviving the bombardment.

After Su Yu devastated the Sun Moon Imperial Palace and Mingde Hall, Ye Xishui and her allies discussed his strength and shifted their focus toward All-Encompassing. Su Yu woke after three days of recovery, and he tried to persuade Jing Hongchen to join the Holy Slaying Palace as it rebuilt Mingde Hall.

• Kong Deming and Ye Xishui argued over the destruction of the Sun Moon Imperial Palace before Long Xiaoyao stopped them.
• Xu Tianran and Ye Xishui blamed Su Yu for their losses, while Long Xiaoyao explained how Su Yu’s Martial Soul and techniques had overwhelmed him.
• A mysterious shadow urged Ye Xishui to change targets from the battlefield, and she understood that they would focus on All-Encompassing.
• Su Yu woke after three days unconscious, and Wang Dong'er scolded him for using power he could not control before bringing him food.
• Su Yu asked Jing Hongchen about his plans and tried to recruit him to the Holy Slaying Palace by promising support to rebuild Mingde Hall.

Jing Hongchen joined the Holy Slaying Palace as its Deputy Palace Master, and Su Yu absorbed most of Mingde Hall’s Soul Engineers and equipment. Two months later, the Sun Moon Empire invaded the Heaven Dou Empire and threatened the Extreme North, prompting Su Yu to send Ju Zi’s Holy Slaying Army into action and promise aid to Earth Dragon Gate.

• Su Yu persuaded Jing Hongchen to join the Holy Slaying Palace and oversee its daily affairs as Deputy Palace Master.
• After recovering from his battle with Long Xiaoyao, Su Yu brought the captured Mingde Hall Soul Engineers to the Holy Slaying Palace and won most of them over with his strength, news that Mingde Hall was destroyed, and advanced Soul Tool blueprints.
• Jing Hongchen helped persuade the Soul Engineers, while Su Yu also took Mingde Hall’s equipment and recruited two Rank 9 Soul Masters.
• Two months later, Snow Empress reported that the Sun Moon Empire had opened fronts against the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires, routed Heaven Dou, and deployed troops near the Extreme North to mine its resources.
• Su Yu challenged Ju Zi to test the Holy Slaying Army against the Sun Moon Empire and promised her a reward if it won.
• Su Yu told Ju Zi to inform Nan Qiuqiu that Ice God Palace would help Earth Dragon Gate.

Su Yu helped the Holy Slaying Army defeat the Sun Moon Empire’s attack on Dragon City, then agreed to leave Ju Zi and her troops there to defend its people. Ju Zi was given command of the northern campaign and a quota to recruit and train a hundred thousand soldiers before joining Su Yu in Star Luo.

• Ju Zi commanded the Holy Slaying Army as it routed the Sun Moon Empire’s forces attacking Dragon City.
• Su Yu and his companions entered Dragon City, where Nan Shui Shui thanked him for saving the city and worried that enemy legions would return.
• Nan Shui Shui refused to abandon Dragon City because nearly a million residents needed protection, and Su Yu recognized her request for help.
• Su Yu ordered Ju Zi to stay in Dragon City, defeat the Sun Moon Empire’s three northern Soul Engineer Legions, and recruit and train a hundred thousand troops.
• Ju Zi accepted the assignment eagerly, and Nan Shui Shui thanked Su Yu for leaving the Holy Slaying Army to defend Dragon City.

After saving Dragon City, Su Yu accepted Nan Shui Shui’s offer to explore the Earth Dragon Gate’s hidden Cold Spring. He and Snow Empress discovered Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and continued deeper in search of the Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Cave.

• Nan Shui Shui offered Su Yu access to the Earth Dragon Gate’s secret realm in gratitude for saving Dragon City.
• Su Yu and Snow Empress descended into the Cold Spring while the others waited above.
• Su Yu found the hidden entrance and revealed a cave filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.
• Ice Empress recognized the crystals as evidence of a nearby Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Cave.
• Su Yu, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress continued toward the spring source to search for the cave.

Su Yu explored the Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Cave and found a trove of Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrow. He shared it among the Soul Spirits and Snow Empress, who reached Rank 98, then reserved more for her while claiming he had enough for himself.

• Su Yu descended into the freezing cave and discovered dozens of pieces of Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrow, soon joined by Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Ice Bear King Xiao Bai.
• Snow Empress asked how to divide the treasure, and Su Yu gave Ice Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Ice Bear King Xiao Bai two pieces each; Ice Empress tested him, then snapped when he teased her and sent her flying.
• Snow Empress absorbed two pieces and broke through to Rank 98, then fashioned seven more into a bracelet.
• Su Yu turned ten pieces into a necklace for Snow Empress, saying she would need them to achieve yin-yang complementarity, and stored away the remaining twenty for himself.

Su Yu returned from the Extreme North with Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrow and Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, then used his power to annihilate a Sun Moon Empire army threatening the northern border. Back at Ice God Palace, he began preparing to condense his second Soul Core, drawing the attention of the palace’s powerful Soul Beasts.

• Su Yu collected the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and shared Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrow and an Immortal Herb with his companions at Earth Dragon Gate.
• Su Yu and Snow Empress wiped out more than one hundred thousand Sun Moon Empire soldiers in the Extreme North.
• Xu Tianran raged over the defeat, abandoned his northern invasion plans, and concentrated his forces on the Ming Dou Battlefield.
• Su Yu returned to Ice God Palace and began preparing to condense his second Soul Core at Ice God Lake.
• Su Yu summoned Ice Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Ice Bear King, and Electrolux, then brought out Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrow and Dragon Pills as resources for the breakthrough.

Su Yu began condensing a second Soul Core at his shanzhong acupoint, choosing space power rather than the easier Ultimate Ice attribute. When he infused the fledgling core with power from his Space Sacred Dragon Soul Bone, it clashed violently with his Blood Qi Golden Core, leaving his body convulsing and on the verge of collapse.

• Su Yu revealed the Ice God Palace’s hoard of Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrows and pure Dragon Pills, then prepared to condense his second Soul Core.
• Su Yu chose to form a space-attribute qi Soul Core at his shanzhong acupoint while Ice Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Electrolux guarded his Blood Qi Golden Core.
• Su Yu suppressed the Blood Qi Golden Core and compressed soul power at the shanzhong acupoint as the soul spirits struggled to contain its growing fluctuations.
• Su Yu used Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrow to empower Ice Empress and drew on the Supreme God Art to condense a fledgling Soul Core.
• Su Yu released space power from his Space Sacred Dragon Soul Bone and guided it into the fledgling core, causing it to break free of his control.
• The space Soul Core and Blood Qi Golden Core clashed and spun in opposite directions, making Su Yu convulse as blood seeped from his body and space warped around him.

Su Yu endured the conflict between his Blood Qi Golden Core and a forming spatial Soul Core by strengthening his body with Dragon Pills and using the Supreme God Art’s All-Encompassing ability. He successfully condensed a second Soul Core, producing a grand sun-and-moon phenomenon and leaving him with no obstacle to reaching the Titled Douluo realm.

• As the Soul Cores clashed inside Su Yu, Snow Empress, Shui Lingguang, and Mu Wu worried that his physique and Soul Power might not withstand the strain.
• Su Yu used Indestructible Diamond Body and absorbed a Dragon Pill to strengthen his body, while Dragon God Power suppressed the Dragon Pill’s malevolent aura.
• When the Blood Qi Golden Core and forming spatial Soul Core threatened to destabilize each other, Su Yu absorbed two more Dragon Pills and unleashed All-Encompassing to balance their energies.
• Gu Yuena sensed Su Yu’s breakthrough through the Reverse Scale, judged that his strength had neared Di Tian’s, and summoned Di Tian.
• Su Yu completed his second Soul Core, and golden sun and silver moon phantoms appeared behind him; Mu Wu recognized the phenomenon as proof that Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores had succeeded.
• Su Yu inspected his spatial Soul Core and unified Blood Qi Golden Core, then concluded that his breakthrough had cleared the way to the Titled Douluo realm.

After absorbing five Dragon Pills and forming his second Soul Core, Su Yu tested his greatly increased strength in a battle with Mu Wu and fought him to a draw. He then prepared to face the final half of the Ice God's Seventh Trial, which required him to travel east to meet Shui Lingguang.

• Su Yu used his new Dragon Clan traits and enhanced power to challenge Mu Wu to a spar at Ice God Lake.
• Su Yu and Mu Wu clashed with their Ice Emperor and Ice River Baxia powers, then unleashed their Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores; neither gained an advantage, and Mu Wu conceded.
• Su Yu collected the remaining Ten Thousand Year Black Ice Marrow and Dragon Pills and considered his plans to form a third Soul Core and become a god.
• Su Yu lamented the difficulty of the Ice God's Seventh Trial to the Ice God Statue, while Mu Wu teased him about its contents.
• Su Yu set out east to face the trial, and Mu Wu congratulated his younger sister, Shui Lingguang, while privately anticipating the outcome.

Su Yu visited Ice Phoenix Palace and learned that its Innate Divine Bone required assistance to absorb. He accepted the method involving Shui Lingguang, confessed his affection for her, and left their relationship poised to change.

• Su Yu arrived at Ice Phoenix Palace, where Shui Lingguang welcomed him inside.
• Shui Lingguang explained that the palace guarded an Innate Divine Bone discovered by the Ice God, a treasure that could help an Ice Attribute Soul Master become a god.
• Su Yu explained that absorbing the Divine Bone required Ultimate Ice and another person's assistance, and suggested that someone had imposed a particular method.
• Su Yu reassured Shui Lingguang that he accepted the arrangement and acknowledged the Ice Phoenix Clan's generations of sacrifice.
• Su Yu told Shui Lingguang that he had long felt favorably toward her, though he had struggled to adjust to their changing status.

Su Yu admitted he would no longer avoid his feelings for Shui Lingguang, then began fusing the Ice Phoenix lineage’s Divine Bone. Its overwhelming energy caused him agony, and Shui Lingguang embraced him as the fusion became dangerous; elsewhere, Ye Xishui reveled in the blood and slaughter around her.

• Su Yu told Shui Lingguang he would stop running away from his feelings, and she leaned happily against him.
• Su Yu examined the Divine Bone and learned from Shui Lingguang how its fusion worked.
• Su Yu activated three layers of protection and began fusing the Divine Bone, but its energy overwhelmed him and covered his body in frost.
• Shui Lingguang embraced Su Yu as he cried out in pain from the fusion.
• Ye Xishui absorbed the aura of blood and slaughter and declared that she had become terrifyingly strong.

Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao slaughtered Sea Soul Beasts to absorb their life energy and advance toward godhood. A furious blue figure tracked the massacre to Ye Xishui and confronted her, revealing herself as a powerful nonhuman being.

• Ye Xishui gained strength by consuming Sea Soul Beasts' life energy, while the Black-Robed Figure told her that more blood sacrifices were needed to cross the threshold to godhood.
• Ye Xishui summoned Long Xiaoyao, whose aura had grown stronger through massacres, and the two headed deeper into the ocean to continue killing.
• A deep-blue figure arrived at the bloodied waters, saw the Sea Soul Beast corpses—including Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts—and pursued the slaughter's culprit.
• Ye Xishui was absorbing the energy of more Sea Soul Beasts when the blue figure arrived and accused her of causing the ocean's slaughter.
• Ye Xishui sensed that the blue figure was not human, and the two faced each other amid the corpses.

Ye Xishui fought a powerful blue sea beast until Long Xiaoyao appeared to assist her. Meanwhile, Su Yu completed his fusion with the Divine Bone, gained a divine body, and Shui Lingguang asked about the mysterious rune that had made the fusion possible.

• Ye Xishui battled the blue figure, who attacked her after spotting her slaughter of Sea Soul Beasts.
• Ye Xishui called Long Xiaoyao to join the fight, and the blue figure faced the two powerful opponents.
• Su Yu and Shui Lingguang emerged from the ice crystals in Ice Phoenix Palace after the Divine Bone fusion.
• Su Yu told Shui Lingguang that the fusion had succeeded and that he now possessed a divine body.
• Shui Lingguang asked Su Yu about the ice-blue rune that had suppressed the Divine Bone during the fusion.

Su Yu completed the Ice God's Seventh Trial and learned that his Ice God Affinity had risen to 110%, while the Eighth Trial required him to reach Limit Douluo within three years. Shui Lingguang completed the Guardian Eighth Trial and received powerful new permissions and rewards, leaving her poised to accept them before the Ice God Statue.

• Su Yu told Shui Lingguang that the Ice Ancestral Talisman was another of his Martial Souls and said he had four Martial Souls.
• Su Yu and Shui Lingguang became intimate, and the Ice God announced that Su Yu had completed the Seventh Trial with 110% affinity.
• The Ice God assigned Su Yu the Eighth Trial: draw the Ice God's Supreme Divine Artifact, obtain all his Soul Rings, and reach Limit Douluo within three years.
• Shui Lingguang completed the Guardian Eighth Trial and received divine permissions, longer-lived Soul Rings, three God-Bestowed Soul Rings, and a one-level increase.
• Su Yu told Shui Lingguang she deserved her rewards, then urged her to accept them as she walked toward the Ice God Statue.

Shui Lingguang received the Ice God’s power and advanced to Limit Douluo by forming a Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core. The sun and moon appeared together above the Ice Phoenix Palace, drawing the attention of the Ice God Palace’s powerful figures.

• The Ice God’s phantom increased Shui Lingguang’s Soul Ring ages, giving her six red rings and a Fierce Beast Soul Ring.
• Shui Lingguang’s Soul Power rose from the peak of rank ninety-eight to Limit Douluo, and the Ice God’s power guided her through forming a second Soul Core.
• Shui Lingguang completed her Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core as Su Yu watched.
• The sun and moon appeared together above the Ice Phoenix Palace, and Snow Empress recognized Shui Lingguang’s breakthrough and rushed toward the palace.
• Shui Lingguang stabilized her cultivation and released the pressure of a Limit Douluo.

Shui Lingguang reached Limit Douluo with the Ice God's help and received three God-Bestowed Soul Rings, giving two to Su Yu and saving one for her disciple Jiang Nannan. When the others entered the hall, they learned of her breakthrough and realized that she and Su Yu had become lovers.

• Su Yu praised Shui Lingguang's stable Limit Douluo cultivation after the Ice God helped her break through and form a Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core.
• The Ice God created three God-Bestowed Soul Rings, and Shui Lingguang offered them to Su Yu because her own Soul Rings were full.
• Su Yu accepted two rings and reminded Shui Lingguang to keep the third for Jiang Nannan, her disciple.
• Mu Wu and the other Guardians entered the hall after sensing the disturbance, and Shui Lingguang explained the rewards from her Guardian Eight Trials.
• Mu Wu asked Su Yu to treat Shui Lingguang well, prompting Snow Empress and the women to realize that Su Yu and Shui Lingguang had become lovers.