Chapter Summaries

Xu Xiao shattered the Sea God Palace seal and freed the Deep Sea Demon Whale Clan, earning the Demon Whale King's gratitude before returning with Ya Li. At a Sea God Pavilion council meeting, the empire's leaders discussed Xu Xiao's absence and turned their attention to pursuing hostile Title Douluo.

• Ya Li worried about Xu Xiao outside the Sea God Palace until the Demon Whale King assured her that he would break Poseidon's seal.
• Xu Xiao destroyed the Sea God Palace, returned to Ya Li, and learned that the Deep Sea Demon Whale Clan was free.
• The Demon Whale King thanked Xu Xiao, promised that his clan would serve him, and asked him to give his name.
• Xu Xiao crushed the sealed object, releasing the clan's Power of Destiny, then left with Ya Li through a Space Tunnel.
• At the Sea God Pavilion, Elder Zu, Bai Qi, Xiao He, Rooster Douluo, and Si She Douluo discussed Xu Xiao's six-month absence and the empire's next steps.
• Rooster Douluo warned the council that some escaped hostile Title Douluo were cunning, including one titled Yin-Yang.

Xiao He authorized Rooster to interrogate twenty-six suspected informants after the Empire’s leaders discussed hidden corruption among its officials. Rooster decided to remove the suspects from their posts, and Zou Kehua was among those taken in for questioning.

• Rooster gave Xiao He a list of twenty-six suspected informants, and Xiao He ordered their immediate arrest if they resisted.
• Rooster told Si She that the Empire needed to remove hidden corruption, and he planned to transfer the suspects from their positions.
• Rooster accepted Si She’s joking suggestion to assign the twenty-five non-informants to guard reservoirs.
• Zou Kehua complained about serving civilians and dreamed of gaining power and wealth.
• Three white-robed officials confronted Zou Kehua at work and ordered him to come with them.

Lei Biao and Lei Hu protected civilians in Sun Moon Town and drove off a hostile man who resented the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry. The man plotted to kill them, unaware that Chou Niu Douluo—the expert who had scarred him—was nearby.

• Lei Biao and Lei Hu, now Soul Sages serving with the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, patrolled the crowded town and intervened when a scarred man threatened a civilian.
• Lei Hu defended the civilian and challenged the scarred man's belief that soul masters had privileges, while the man backed down after sensing a Title Douluo watching him.
• The Lei Family Brothers refused the civilian's invitation to eat and continued their patrol as townspeople recognized them as Great Snow Dragon Cavalry soldiers.
• The scarred man watched the brothers leave and vowed to kill them as revenge against the person who had scarred him.
• Chou Niu Douluo, who had left the scar on the man, sensed a familiar Soul Power fluctuation nearby and headed to the night market to buy a cup associated with the Sun Moon Great Emperor.

Chou Niu followed the Lei Family Brothers after learning that the Scar-faced Douluo was nearby and might attack them. Mad Saber Douluo trapped the brothers in his blade domain, but they escaped his assault using their defensive spirit tool and true forms.

• The Lei Family Brothers left the Xuanming Sect, while Chou Niu stayed behind to help Widow Li and keep the Scar-faced Douluo from lowering his guard.
• Chou Niu learned that the scarred man was an old enemy and decided to follow the Lei Family Brothers as bait for him.
• Mad Saber Douluo emerged from the forest and revealed his nine spirit rings, confronting the seven-ring Lei Family Brothers.
• Mad Saber Douluo trapped the brothers in his blade domain and attacked them with his eighth spirit skill, Myriad Blades Slash.
• Lei Biao used the Level 9 Defensive Spirit Tool to withstand the attack, and the brothers escaped the domain while Mad Saber Douluo gloated over an empty battlefield.

Mad Saber fled from Chou Niu, who pursued him with a savage bull and a Level 8 Soul Tool shell. After the blast left Mad Saber severely wounded, he spotted a man and a woman and decided to take them hostage.

• Lei Biao and Lei Hu lured Mad Saber into a valley, where Chou Niu appeared and Mad Saber fled again.
• Chou Niu chased Mad Saber for an hour, then used his Savage Bull Charge soul skill to close the distance.
• Chou Niu fired a Level 8 Soul Tool shell, and Mad Saber dodged it before the shell exploded and shattered his Martial Soul Avatar.
• The blast knocked Mad Saber from the sky, destroyed his right arm, and left him near death.
• Mad Saber saw a man and a woman approaching and decided to use them as hostages.

Xu Xiao killed Mad Saber and learned that Snow Empress had gone to the Far North Land and wanted him to find her. After meeting the Lei Family Brothers, he set off with Ya Li for the Far North, while Rooster and Si She discussed his return and an interrogation.

• Xu Xiao effortlessly killed Mad Saber, and Chou Niu recognized him as his long-absent Lord.
• Chou Niu told Xu Xiao that Snow Empress had gone to the Far North Land and asked him to find her, so Xu Xiao made arrangements to go there with Ya Li.
• Xu Xiao reunited with Lei Biao and Lei Hu, praised their progress, and left them Mad Saber's Storage Soul Tool as a reward.
• Rooster and Si She discussed Chou Niu's message about Xu Xiao and Ya Li, then talked about the interrogation of twenty-five people and a missing informant.

Xu Xiao and Ya Li reached a village in the Far North Land and spent the evening with Yu Gang and his daughter, Xue Yao. As the snow worsened, Xue Yao asked Ya Li to sleep with her and cheekily suggested her father sleep with Xu Xiao.

• Si She told Rooster that the informant had swallowed poison and killed himself, and Rooster said he only cared about finding Yin Yang Douluo.
• Xu Xiao and Ya Li arrived at a snowbound village and chose to seek shelter while posing as ordinary travelers.
• Xu Xiao and Ya Li met Xue Yao and her limping father, Yu Gang, who welcomed them into their warm wooden house.
• Xue Yao befriended Ya Li, introduced herself, and shared dinner with the travelers.
• Xue Yao asked Ya Li to sleep with her, then suggested Yu Gang sleep beside Xu Xiao.

Xu Xiao learned that robbers had terrorized the village and that the corrupt Village Chief planned to take Yu Gang’s daughter, Yao Yao, for himself. Xu Xiao promised to save her, and the Village Chief confronted him in front of the villagers.

• Yu Gang told Xu Xiao that robbers demanded one hundred Gold Soul Coins from every household and had killed the real Village Chief.
• Yu Gang explained that the replacement Village Chief helped the robbers, abused the villagers, and had targeted Yao Yao.
• Xu Xiao promised Yu Gang that he would save Yao Yao and punish the Village Chief.
• The Village Chief announced that he planned to take Yao Yao that night, then asked who Xu Xiao was.

Xu Xiao confronted the Village Chief, exposed his abuse of the village, and promised to protect the villagers as subjects of the Sun Moon Empire. He learned that two Soul Grandmasters would arrive tomorrow to collect tribute and planned to punish the Village Chief before dealing with the bandits.

• Xu Xiao urged the villagers to stop submitting to the Village Chief, but they knelt and silenced a young man who spoke against him.
• Xu Xiao used an invisible force to pin the Village Chief to the ground, then read his memories and learned that two Soul Grandmasters would come tomorrow to collect tribute.
• Xu Xiao told the villagers they no longer had to pay tribute and promised to send soldiers to protect them after he dealt with the bandits.
• Xu Xiao said he would make the Village Chief relive the suffering he had caused in an illusion, then leave his fate to the villagers.
• When Xue Yao asked why the Village Chief was lying in the snow, Xu Xiao and the villagers pretended that the old man had chosen to sleep there, and she returned home.

Xu Xiao used an illusion to make the villagers’ victims torment the Village Chief, then returned with Yu Gang to the wooden house. There, Ya Li began awakening Xue Yao’s martial soul, and the Awakening Stone suddenly blazed with dazzling light.

• Xu Xiao used his illusion to make the Village Chief relive the victims’ punishments, and the villagers later attacked the helpless man.
• Xu Xiao learned that Yu Gang wanted no revenge because he cared more about keeping Xue Yao safe, and he saw that Yu Gang’s martial soul was a blade of grass.
• Xue Yao asked Xu Xiao to awaken her martial soul so she could heal Yu Gang’s injured leg, and Xu Xiao agreed to let Ya Li perform the awakening.
• Ya Li used the Awakening Stone to guide Xue Yao, and the stone erupted with dazzling light.

Xue Yao awakened the top-tier Healing System martial soul, the Seven-Colored Lotus, and became Ya Li’s disciple after healing Yu Gang’s foot. The next day, two abusive soul masters approached the village and confronted Xu Xiao, who was waiting at its entrance.

• Xue Yao awakened the Seven-Colored Lotus with Innate Full Soul Power, and Ya Li accepted her as a disciple.
• Xu Xiao offered to take Yu Gang along with them, and Xue Yao used her martial soul to heal his foot.
• Xu Xiao recognized the Seven-Colored Lotus and recalled its ability to revive many people in his former life’s anime.
• Two soul masters discussed their plans to exploit the villagers, and the burly man revealed his interest in Yao Yao.
• The soul masters found Xu Xiao waiting at the village entrance, and the skinny man demanded that he kneel.

Xu Xiao interrogated two Ice Wolf Bandits, learned their group guarded a sealed village under orders from a leader who claimed divine guidance, and set out to destroy their hideout. While approaching through a frozen river, he overheard bandits discussing clashes with the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry and recognized one of them as familiar.

• Xu Xiao revealed his eight powerful soul rings, burned Skinny to death, and tortured the burly bandit until he disclosed information about the Ice Wolf Bandits.
• Xu Xiao learned the bandits numbered over a thousand, served a Spirit King leader, and had sealed off the village after their leader received guidance from a god.
• Xu Xiao extracted the hideout's route from the burly bandit's memories, burned him to ashes, and messaged Ya Li to stay behind and protect the villagers.
• Ya Li told Xue Yao to call her Teacher and ordered her to finish reading her assigned books while Xu Xiao was away.
• Xu Xiao traveled toward the bandits' hideout through a frozen river, choosing a concealed route so he could investigate the iceberg without exposing himself.
• Xu Xiao overheard two Ice Wolf Bandits complain that the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry had begun hunting them, then wondered why one Soul Elder seemed familiar.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Ice Wolf Bandits after learning their hideout was weakly guarded, while Xu Xiao independently searched for a way into the bandits’ warehouse. Yu Hao killed the warehouse guards and entered, guided by Tian Meng’s claim that the supplies he needed were inside.

• Huo Yuhao disguised himself as a level 39 Soul Elder and followed the Ice Wolf Bandits toward their hideout.
• Tian Meng confirmed he had sensed Huo Yuhao’s teacher beneath a glacier, but avoided explaining what had become of the teacher.
• Xu Xiao crossed an ice fissure into an ancient cave and used a Crimson Gold fire dragon to melt partway toward the warehouse.
• Huo Yuhao killed the two guards outside the warehouse, took a key, and entered the building.
• A wave of killing intent struck Huo Yuhao from behind as he shut the warehouse door.

Xu Xiao reunited with Yu Hao in the Ice Wolf Bandits’ iceberg base and secretly let him lead the attack while watching from the shadows. Yu Hao fought upward through the bandits, while Xu Xiao stayed behind to erase the evidence as a crowd gathered ahead.

• Xu Xiao punched Yu Hao before recognizing him, then warned him and Tian Meng that the Ice Wolf Bandits’ leader could still be dangerous.
• Xu Xiao collected the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and gave it to Yu Hao, then decided to follow secretly while Yu Hao completed the mission alone.
• Yu Hao and Tian Meng fought toward the upper levels, and Yu Hao killed a bandit who challenged him after he dropped his Mimicry Soul Skill.
• Yu Hao used his Fifth Soul Skill, Light of Destruction, to kill three Soul Elders who confronted him.
• Xu Xiao burned the corpses Yu Hao left behind, then heard dozens of people rushing toward Yu Hao after someone shouted for help.

Yu Hao fought his way up the ice mountain and confronted the female leader of the Ice Wolf Bandits at her altar. After she attacked him and saw his extraordinary soul rings, he struck her with Mental Shock, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Yu Hao used Xiao Bai's Extreme Cold Domain to freeze and kill the remaining bandits surrounding him.
• The female leader killed a messenger for interrupting her worship and offered Ice Soul Stones and her blood at the altar.
• Yu Hao blasted his way to the summit and challenged the female leader, who summoned her ice-blue sword and attacked him with Ice Wolf Slash.
• Yu Hao shattered her attack, revealed his powerful soul rings, and urged her to call on her backer.
• Xu Xiao watched from the mist as Yu Hao hit the female leader's undefended mind with Mental Shock.

Xu Xiao and Yu Hao destroyed an altar that let a distant divine being reach toward Douluo, and Xu Xiao taunted the being by claiming to be Tang San. The chapter ended with the awakened entity receiving the memory of Xu Xiao’s name and vowing to find him.

• An ice-blue thread from the altar ambushed Yu Hao, and Xu Xiao warned him to destroy the altar as divine power drained Xu Xiao’s Soul Power.
• Yu Hao attacked the altar while Xu Xiao burned through the threads and shattered a giant palm formed from them.
• The altar’s unseen master threatened Xu Xiao, whose spiritual defense protected himself and Yu Hao but failed to save the nearby Ice Wolf Bandits.
• Xu Xiao taunted the voice, gave the name Tang San, and smashed the altar before burning its divine-power-tainted fragments.
• Xu Xiao searched the dead female leader for her Storage Ring while Yu Hao hurried back to the academy.
• Far away, a colossal sleeping being received the altar’s memory and recognized the name Tang San.

Xu Xiao discovered that the material he looted was a Star Crystal Stone tied to an Unknown Deity whose realm might exceed that of a God King. In the God Realm, Tang San mourned his clone’s death and plotted revenge against Xu Xiao before the Unknown Deity’s ice-blue thread struck him.

• Xu Xiao checked his gains, identified a Star Crystal Stone, and learned that an Unknown Deity had noticed him.
• Xu Xiao asked the system about the deity’s realm, but it warned that identifying it could attract the deity’s attention.
• Tang San sensed his last clone’s death and grew furious at Xu Xiao, while Xiao Wu accidentally hurt him during their intimate encounter.
• Tang San vowed to punish Xu Xiao and the people who had abandoned their faith in him, then turned his attention back to Xiao Wu.
• An ice-blue thread found Tang San and transformed into an arrowhead that stabbed his vulnerable spot while he was distracted.

Tang San suffered an agonizing injury from a higher-dimensional divine seal that the Goddess of Life could only gradually wear away. Meanwhile, Xu Xiao prepared to travel deeper into the Far North with Yu Hao and Ya Li, leaving Xue Yao and Yu Gang in Ice Plain Village.

• Tang San tried to remove the icy-blue lock with his Sea God and Asura God powers, but it resisted and worsened his pain.
• The Goddess of Life treated Tang San and explained that a higher-dimensional force had sealed a fragile area, which would take time to heal.
• The God of Destruction mocked Tang San until the Goddess of Life chased him out, while Xiao Wu accepted that Tang San would need to recover gradually.
• Xu Xiao returned to Ice Plain Village, told Ya Li about the iceberg, and introduced her and Xue Yao to his disciple Yu Hao.
• Xu Xiao decided to take Yu Hao and Ya Li toward the Far North's core, while Xue Yao and Yu Gang stayed behind as trade routes resumed.
• Xue Yao watched Xu Xiao leave and thanked him.

Xu Xiao, Ya Li, Yu Hao, and the Snow Empress reached the Ancient Ice God inheritance site and began its aptitude test. The trial separated them in an ice river where they had to travel one hundred thousand meters without soul skills, and Xu Xiao found Extreme Ice giants blocking his route.

• Xu Xiao introduced Ya Li to the Snow Empress, who welcomed her and revealed the Ancient Ice God inheritance site.
• The Snow Empress explained that the inheritance favored those willing to create their own godhood and could support only four inheritors.
• The group used a teleportation array to reach the floating ice palace and learned they had to pass an aptitude test by crossing one hundred thousand meters of ice river.
• The trial disabled their soul skills, and the Snow Empress, Ya Li, and Xu Xiao set out while Yu Hao struggled to follow.
• Xu Xiao noticed that the ice river had formed hard blocks in Yu Hao’s path and that Extreme Ice giants were blocking his own route.

Xu Xiao fought through the Frost Giants on the Ice River while Huo Yuhao learned to recognize his own growing arrogance. Farther along the trial, Ya Li used the Law of Life to cross the deadly ice, Snow Empress reflected on Xu Xiao’s new companion, and Xu Xiao was suddenly immobilized.

• The Frost Giants attacked Xu Xiao with Extreme Ice snowballs, but he split his Scorching Sun Meteor Strike into tens of thousands of fire fists and broke through their ranks.
• Huo Yuhao’s Extreme Ice martial soul stopped the Frost Giants from attacking him, and Tian Meng warned him against complacency; Yu Hao reflected on his admiration for Xu Xiao and renewed his resolve.
• At the 29,999-meter mark, Ya Li stepped into the bottomless Ice River and used the Law of Life to form a living path through the Extreme Ice.
• At the 50,000-meter mark, Snow Empress sensed Ya Li’s power and privately resented Xu Xiao for bringing home another woman.
• After crossing the twenty-thousand-meter threshold, Xu Xiao found himself unable to move, even when he invoked the Law of Fire, and an unknown voice told him not to struggle.