Recaps

Jiang Zhen took Ah Yin to the Vast Sea Grand Spirit Duel Arena to gain combat experience, disguising his Martial Soul as the Sea Woman and registering as Focalors. After winning an individual duel with water control, he and Ah Yin won their team match as the Seaweed Combination, and Ah Yin gained confidence in her support role.

• Jiang Zhen registered as Focalors and registered Ah Yin as Daughter of Blue Silver in the Seaweed Combination.
• Jiang Zhen defeated a level thirty-five Serrated Blade Spirit Master in a water-pool duel by controlling the currents and striking him with a water hammer.
• Jiang Zhen and Ah Yin faced the Ape Leopard Combination, whose members charged at Ah Yin along the pool's narrow platform.
• Ah Yin used Blue Silver Symbiosis to supply Jiang Zhen with energy as he formed water dragons and bound the two brothers with Water Tentacles.
• Jiang Zhen flung both opponents into the pool, and the referee declared the Seaweed Combination the winner; he praised Ah Yin for her timely support.

Jiang Zhen and Ah Yin continued their training and competed in another Spirit Duel in Vast Sea City. After the Seaweed Combination defeated a Stone Armor Bear and Gale Bird pair, they left to visit the market before going home.

• Ah Yin demonstrated that she could maintain her 'Endless Life' skill longer, and Jiang Zhen advised her to focus its healing energy around nearby teammates.
• Jiang Zhen registered the Seaweed Combination for a Spirit Duel against a level-thirty-five Stone Armor Bear and Gale Bird pair.
• During the match, Jiang Zhen blocked the Gale Bird's wind blades and restrained the Stone Armor Bear with Water Tentacles.
• Ah Yin warned Jiang Zhen about the Gale Bird's attack, and he knocked the opponent toward the edge of the arena.
• The Stone Armor Bear surrendered, and the Seaweed Combination won; Ah Yin healed a red mark on Jiang Zhen's arm.
• Jiang Zhen and Ah Yin decided to stroll through the market before heading home.

Jiang Zhen discovered that his Ultimate Water could transform into Ultimate Ice, revealing a new direction for his cultivation at the Extreme North Land. He set aside his excitement to praise Ah Yin’s progress in controlling her life-attributed Soul Power.

• Jiang Zhen shaped water from the pool into a flawless lotus but felt it lacked a deeper core.
• A dormant trace of energy awakened and turned one lotus petal into ice, prompting Jiang Zhen to realize that water’s solid form could complete his Ultimate Water.
• Jiang Zhen resolved to seek the Extreme North Land, then questioned whether he was being guided there and whether he could find ice-attributed Spirit Beasts elsewhere.
• Ah Yin showed Jiang Zhen a stable sphere of condensed life-attributed Soul Power, and he praised her control and explained how it could support healing.

Jiang Zhen returned to Xi Nan Village with Ah Yin, helped Zhao Hu break through to Level Ten, and accompanied him to obtain his first Spirit Ring. After arranging support for the village, Jiang Zhen left with Ah Yin to continue his journey.

• Jiang Zhen returned to Xi Nan Village with Ah Yin, where Grandpa Liu and the villagers were astonished by how much he had changed.
• Jiang Zhen gave Zhao Hu Thousand-Year Whale Jelly, guided its energy through his body, and helped him break through to Level Ten.
• Jiang Zhen led Zhao Hu and Ah Yin to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Zhao Hu killed a Diamond Wolf and absorbed its Spirit Ring, gaining the Diamond Stab Spirit Skill.
• Jiang Zhen told Grandpa Liu and the village elders to seek help from the Clear Spring Chamber of Commerce if the village faced difficulties.
• Jiang Zhen said farewell to the villagers and departed with Ah Yin as Zhao Hu vowed to watch over the village and repay him.

Jiang Zhen and Ah Yin reached Dragon City, where he prepared for the cold and cultivated in a rented stone house. Jiang Zhen broke through to Level Forty as the call from the Far North grew stronger.

• Jiang Zhen and Ah Yin arrived in Dragon City, the northernmost large city of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Jiang Zhen bought Ah Yin warm clothes, then rented a stone house where they could stay privately.
• Jiang Zhen spent several days meditating as the Far North's call resonated more strongly with his Soul Power.
• Jiang Zhen absorbed surrounding Ice Elemental Energy and broke through from Level Thirty-Nine to Level Forty.

After breaking through, Jiang Zhen followed his Martial Soul’s call into the Extreme North in search of a Spirit Ring and entered the Core Circle despite its dangers. There, Ice Empress learned that a human had been spotted near her territory and went to investigate.

• Jiang Zhen broke through and sensed that his Ultimate Water Martial Soul had grown more closely connected to the Extreme North.
• Jiang Zhen spent two days with Ah Yin, taught her how to handle danger, and left her in Dragon City while he went to search for a Spirit Ring.
• Jiang Zhen crossed the snowfields, killed a pack of Snow Wolves, and avoided a Frost Giant Dragon in an Ice Rift Valley.
• Jiang Zhen reached the boundary of the Extreme North Core Circle and followed the call inside despite the danger.
• An Ice Jade Scorpion reported a human near the Core Circle, and Ice Empress decided to investigate.

Jiang Zhen followed a mysterious summons into the Extreme North Core Circle and descended into an immense ice fissure, finding a vast vein of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. The summons drew him past the vein toward an even purer radiance at the cavern’s deepest point.

• Jiang Zhen reached the ice fissure he had seen in his dreams and heard the voice calling him to enter.
• Jiang Zhen used his Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone Soul Bone Skill, Flight, to descend into the fissure while it silently sealed shut above him.
• Jiang Zhen emerged into an underground cavern filled with Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and absorbed some of its energy through his Ultimate Water Martial Spirit.
• Jiang Zhen followed the increasingly urgent summons deeper into the cavern instead of absorbing the Ice Marrow.
• Jiang Zhen reached the cavern’s deepest wall, where an indescribably radiant mass appeared before him.

Jiang Zhen absorbed the primordial Ice Law and, with guidance from the Plane Consciousness, comprehended water in all its forms. He gained a fifty-thousand-year growth-type Origin Spirit Ring and its Eternal Frost Forbidden Domain skill, then demonstrated effortless control over water and ice.

• The ice-blue sphere engulfed Jiang Zhen in primordial Ice Law energy, while Deep Sea's Eye helped it merge safely with him.
• Jiang Zhen comprehended ice as a law and recognized it as water's stillness and solidity, deepening his understanding of Ultimate Water.
• The Plane Consciousness shared the memories of water across the world and guided Jiang Zhen to comprehend water's complete form.
• Jiang Zhen emerged with a fifty-thousand-year growth-type Origin Spirit Ring and the Fourth Spirit Skill, Eternal Frost Forbidden Domain.
• Jiang Zhen formed water and solid ice in his palm and transformed them freely at will.

Jiang Zhen emerged from the Extreme North’s subterranean ice marrow vein with his cultivation foundation reshaped, Rank 41 soul power, and hundreds of pieces of ten-thousand-year ice marrow. After the planar consciousness teleported him to the surface, the Ice Empress confronted him and demanded to know why he had trespassed in her territory.

• Jiang Zhen discovered that the energy he absorbed had removed the cultivation suppression affecting his progress from Rank 30 to Rank 70.
• Jiang Zhen collected several hundred pieces of exceptional-quality ten-thousand-year ice marrow and bowed to the ice-blue orb before leaving the vein.
• A mysterious icy palm pushed Jiang Zhen through space and teleported him from deep underground to the surface of the Extreme North.
• Jiang Zhen recognized the teleportation as the planar consciousness’s playful farewell and prepared to leave.
• The Ice Empress descended before Jiang Zhen, scrutinized his strange icy aura, and asked why he had trespassed in her territory.

Jiang Zhen defended himself against the Ice Empress's attacks in the Northern Extreme Core and revealed his ability to fuse Ultimate Water and Ultimate Ice. Shocked by his strength, the Ice Empress stopped attacking and demanded to know where he came from and why he had entered the forbidden zone.

• The Ice Empress questioned Jiang Zhen's presence in the Northern Extreme Core and attacked him with ice spikes.
• Jiang Zhen used his spirit skills and Water Condensation Shield to withstand the ice spikes, surprising the Ice Empress.
• Jiang Zhen used Deep Sea's Eye to find a weak point in the Ice Empress's scorpion-tail attack and shattered it with Profound Water Dragon Soar.
• The Ice Empress appeared behind Jiang Zhen and struck at him, but he countered with intertwined dragons of Ultimate Water and Ultimate Ice.
• The Ice Empress was shocked by Jiang Zhen's power, let her killing intent recede, and asked where he came from and why he had trespassed.

Jiang Zhen explained why he had entered the Northern Extreme Core and offered Ice Empress a share of the treasures at the Ice Fire Twin Springs in exchange for her help. Ice Empress was tempted by the promise of Immortal Herbs that could help her resist the Heavenly Tribulation, but had not yet agreed to his proposal.

• Jiang Zhen told Ice Empress that his water Martial Soul had evolved after absorbing Extreme Coldness in the Northern Extreme Core.
• Ice Empress ordered Jiang Zhen to leave now that his breakthrough was complete, but he stayed and offered to repay her with knowledge of a wondrous treasure land.
• Jiang Zhen described the Ice Fire Twin Springs and the Immortal Herbs said to grow around them, including herbs that could help resist the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Zhen revealed that Poison Douluo guarded the springs and proposed that he and Ice Empress work together to defeat him.
• Jiang Zhen promised Ice Empress first choice of the treasures while asking to take a few suitable Immortal Herbs, and Ice Empress silently considered his offer.

Ice Empress agreed to accompany Jiang Zhen south in search of the Ultimate Ice Spring and an Immortal Herb that could help her survive her Heavenly Tribulation, while he hoped to repair his Martial Soul. As they traveled toward Dragon City, her curiosity about human life grew and their wary relationship began to soften.

• Ice Empress accepted Jiang Zhen’s proposal but warned him not to deceive her, and Jiang Zhen asked her to accompany him to Dragon City first.
• Ice Empress agreed to visit the city and followed Jiang Zhen out of the Extreme North Core Circle.
• Ice Empress asked Jiang Zhen about human cities, and he described their markets, food, and performances, especially Candied Hawthorn.
• Ice Empress froze the turbulent air above a vast crevasse to create a safe bridge for them to cross.
• Jiang Zhen and Ice Empress continued south together, sharing the journey as Ice Empress’s suspicion of the Human World gradually eased.

Jiang Zhen returned to Dragon City with the Ice Empress and reunited with Ah Yin, whose transformed Soul Beast nature surprised the Ice Empress. He took them to the night market, where the Ice Empress discovered she enjoyed human food, before they returned to the courtyard for the night.

• Jiang Zhen brought the Ice Empress through Dragon City's gates and reunited with Ah Yin at his courtyard.
• The Ice Empress recognized Ah Yin as a plant-type Soul Beast and questioned how she had transformed so perfectly despite her low cultivation.
• The Ice Empress explained that most Titled Douluo below level 95 would likely fail to identify Ah Yin unless they examined her closely.
• Jiang Zhen took Ah Yin and the Ice Empress to Warm Stove Market, where they ate braised snow mutton, wheat cakes, and candied hawthorn.
• Jiang Zhen returned to the courtyard with Ah Yin and the Ice Empress, who privately admitted that the human world did not seem entirely boring.

Jiang Zhen gave Ice Empress the Ice Marrow Jade Hairpin, then traveled south with her and Ah Yin to Heaven Dou City. After they settled into an inn, Jiang Zhen said they would pursue their real business the next day: visiting the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye.

• Jiang Zhen gave Ice Empress the hairpin, and she accepted it and awkwardly pinned it into her hair.
• Jiang Zhen, Ah Yin, and Ice Empress left Dragon City and traveled south at a leisurely pace, with Ice Empress gradually relaxing as she explored the Human World.
• After two and a half months, Jiang Zhen, Ah Yin, and Ice Empress arrived at Heaven Dou City and explored its bustling streets.
• Jiang Zhen took Ah Yin and Ice Empress to a restaurant, then rented two superior rooms at a quiet inn.
• Jiang Zhen told Ice Empress and Ah Yin they would set out the next day to handle their real business, and Ice Empress anticipated their visit to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye.

Jiang Zhen and Ice Empress searched Sunset Forest for a hidden treasure ground and found the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye. With Dugu Bo absent, they stood before the twin springs and the rare herbs surrounding them.

• Jiang Zhen left Ah Yin at the inn and traveled with Ice Empress toward Sunset Forest.
• After searching deep in the forest, Ice Empress sensed a faint pull from the southeast and detected a poisonous aura.
• Jiang Zhen and Ice Empress followed the poisonous mist and found a barrier of Jade Scale Seven Absolute Flowers.
• Ice Empress froze the poisonous flower sea with her domain, allowing them to enter a hidden valley.
• They discovered the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye and its surrounding Immortal Herbs, while Jiang Zhen saw no sign of Dugu Bo.
• Ice Empress approached the Ultimate Ice Spring, recognizing its power as purer than the ice energy of the Extreme North Core Circle.

Jiang Zhen identified the immortal herbs in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, gave Ice Empress two herbs suited to her, and began absorbing the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in the ice spring. The Water Dragon King's ancient soul imprint awakened and drew him into a boundless azure space, where she questioned the strange aura he carried.

• Jiang Zhen named and explained the immortal herbs, including the Cold Marrow Ganoderma and Ice Vortex Profound Soul Fruit.
• Jiang Zhen gave the two ice-element herbs to Ice Empress, who accepted them and agreed to guard him.
• Jiang Zhen consumed supplementary spiritual herbs and swallowed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass before plunging into the Ultimate Ice Spring.
• Jiang Zhen endured the herb's cold poison as his Water Law and primordial water essence awakened an ancient azure radiance beneath the spring.
• The Water Dragon King's soul imprint enveloped Jiang Zhen and confronted him in an azure space, asking why his aura felt familiar and strange.

Jiang Zhen faced the Water Dragon King's trials and proved his understanding of water by calming a raging sea and reviving a dry riverbed. The Water Dragon King accepted him and bestowed its Origin Dragon Core and Million-Year Head Soul Bone before its remnant soul faded.

• The Water Dragon King questioned Jiang Zhen, then set him a trial to test his understanding and use of water's Origin.
• Jiang Zhen harmonized with the raging waves in the Wrathful Sea Illusion until the sea became calm.
• Jiang Zhen sensed a dying underground current and awakened it, restoring the dry riverbed into a flowing river.
• The Water Dragon King acknowledged Jiang Zhen's capacity and comprehension and entrusted him with its remaining essence.
• The Origin Dragon Core entered Jiang Zhen's Qi Sea, and the Water Dragon King's Million-Year Head Soul Bone landed in his hand.
• The Water Dragon King's phantom dispersed into blue motes of light.

Jiang Zhen returned from the icy spring with the Water Dragon King's inheritance, including a Dragon Core and a head Spirit Bone, and told Ice Empress what had happened. As he began gathering herbs for her, an angry voice suddenly roared from the valley entrance.

• Jiang Zhen emerged from the spring, changed his ruined clothes, and revealed that his Soul Power Level had risen to 48.
• Jiang Zhen told Ice Empress that a Water Dragon King had tested him and bestowed a Dragon Core and a Spirit Bone.
• Jiang Zhen showed Ice Empress the azure dragon-head Spirit Bone and explained the Dragon King's request to care for Dragon descendants.
• Ice Empress asked Jiang Zhen to find herbs that could aid Xue'er's ice-element cultivation.
• Jiang Zhen moved to pluck an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid when an aged voice roared from the valley entrance.

Dugu Bo confronted Jiang Zhen and the Ice Empress in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, but the Ice Empress effortlessly froze his attack and trapped him in an Ice Coffin. At Jiang Zhen’s request, she spared Dugu Bo, leaving him captive for a possible conversation about what happened there.

• Dugu Bo arrived at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye and accused Jiang Zhen and the Ice Empress of trespassing and stealing herbs.
• Dugu Bo used his Eighth Soul Skill, Time Freeze, against them, but the Ice Empress froze the toxic attack with a casual gesture.
• The Ice Empress overwhelmed Dugu Bo with her extreme cold and sealed him and his Martial Soul Avatar inside a massive Ice Coffin.
• Jiang Zhen asked the Ice Empress to spare Dugu Bo because he might be useful and could explain what happened at the valley.
• The Ice Empress relented and left Dugu Bo alive in the Ice Coffin.

Jiang Zhen trapped Dugu Bo and exposed the deadly poison afflicting his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor lineage, including his granddaughter Yan Yan. Dugu Bo agreed to serve Jiang Zhen in exchange for a cure, and Jiang Zhen began outlining two treatment options before revealing the second.

• Jiang Zhen told the imprisoned Dugu Bo that the poison from his Martial Soul had spread through his body and likely caused the deaths of his son and daughter-in-law.
• Jiang Zhen warned that Dugu Bo's granddaughter Yan Yan had inherited the poison and could suffer the same fate as her parents.
• Jiang Zhen offered to help if Dugu Bo submitted to him and continued guarding the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, and Dugu Bo swore to serve him if he saved Yan Yan.
• The Ice Empress freed Dugu Bo from the Ice Coffin, and Jiang Zhen gave him herbs that eased his symptoms.
• Jiang Zhen described a temporary treatment that would transfer Dugu Bo's toxins into his Ten Thousand Year Medusa Skull, warning that the Spirit Bone could eventually overflow or harm him.
• Dugu Bo asked Jiang Zhen to explain the second treatment option.

Jiang Zhen offered Dugu Bo a risky way to cure his poison backlash by evolving his Martial Soul, and Dugu Bo accepted. After consuming the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, Dugu Bo transformed his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor into a Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon, recovered, and hurried to Heaven Dou City to help his granddaughter.

• Jiang Zhen explained that the Earth Dragon Golden Melon could evolve Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul and cure his poison backlash, but warned that the process was dangerous.
• Dugu Bo chose the risky cure for the sake of Yan Yan and the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Clan, and Jiang Zhen gave him three fruits, including one for his granddaughter.
• Jiang Zhen had Dugu Bo take the Crimson Blood Ganoderma and Dew Condensing Blue Heart Grass before swallowing an Earth Dragon Golden Melon.
• After two and a half hours, Dugu Bo emerged from the cocoon with an evolved Jade Phosphor Poison Dragon Martial Soul and his chronic poison ailment cured.
• Dugu Bo pledged himself to Jiang Zhen, thanked the Ice Empress, and flew to Heaven Dou City to give Yan Yan a fruit.
• The Ice Empress asked Jiang Zhen what use he had for recruiting Dugu Bo.

Jiang Zhen settled matters at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, gave Ice Empress Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows before she returned to the Extreme North, and brought an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to Heaven Dou City. At Dugu Bo’s residence, he prepared a safe place for Ah Yin to absorb the herb.

• Jiang Zhen explained to Ice Empress why he had recruited Dugu Bo to guard the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye and help them in the Human World.
• Ice Empress collected cold-attribute spiritual herbs, then told Jiang Zhen she had to return to the Extreme North to aid Snow Empress and prepare for her four-hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Jiang Zhen gave Ice Empress ten Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows, and she departed for the Extreme North after warning him to stay safe.
• Jiang Zhen picked an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid for Ah Yin, flew back to Heaven Dou City, and reunited with her at the inn.
• Jiang Zhen took Ah Yin to Dugu Bo’s residence and arranged for her to absorb the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid in a secluded cultivation chamber.

Ah Yin absorbed the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, reached Level 33, and gained her Third Spirit Ring while Jiang Zhen absorbed the Water Dragon King's head Spirit Bone and reached Level 50. The two left the secret chamber the next morning and found Dugu Bo waiting in the courtyard with a girl.

• Ah Yin finished absorbing the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, reached Level 30, and began condensing her Third Spirit Ring while Jiang Zhen absorbed the Water Dragon King's head Spirit Bone.
• Ah Yin formed a six-thousand-year Third Spirit Ring, reached Level 33, and gained the Blue Silver Light skill.
• Jiang Zhen finished absorbing the Spirit Bone, reached Level 50, and gained three Soul Bone Skills: Abyssal Soul Devouring Whisper, Myriad Dragon Ice Prison, and Dragon King's Aegis.
• Jiang Zhen awoke, praised Ah Yin, and learned that she had reached Level 33 and gained Blue Silver Light.
• Jiang Zhen took Ah Yin outside, where Dugu Bo and a girl were waiting in the courtyard.

Jiang Zhen met Dugu Yan after Dugu Bo’s granddaughter’s Martial Soul evolved into a Jade Scale Poison Dragon and her Soul Power rose to rank thirty-seven. Jiang Zhen advised her to pursue the Assault System, while Dugu Yan’s question about her grandfather’s deference to him remained unanswered.

• Dugu Bo introduced Dugu Yan to Jiang Zhen and praised him for resolving the clan’s Martial Soul problem.
• Dugu Yan thanked Jiang Zhen and revealed that her Soul Power had risen from rank thirty-two to rank thirty-seven after consuming the Earth Dragon Golden Melon.
• Dugu Yan used Martial Soul possession to show Jiang Zhen her evolved Jade Scale Poison Dragon.
• Jiang Zhen advised Dugu Yan to favor poisonous dragon-type Soul Beasts and develop as an Assault System Battle Soul Master.
• Dugu Yan thanked Jiang Zhen more sincerely, and Dugu Bo led the group to breakfast.

Jiang Zhen used his improved Spiritual Power to strengthen the Pure Water Phantom Spirit and successfully create Primordial Heavy Water. He ended his secluded cultivation exhausted, having reached the limit of what he could sustain.

• Jiang Zhen refined a Water Pattern Leopard phantom spirit whose attack rivaled a Soul Elder’s full-strength strike.
• Jiang Zhen used Dual-Mind Control to create and direct an Armored Bearman and a Shadow Water Viper at the same time.
• Jiang Zhen realized that his phantom spirits had no souls and considered placing a sacrificed Soul Beast’s soul inside one.
• Jiang Zhen failed twice to refine water into Primordial Heavy Water before adjusting his Soul Power to resonate with the water’s essence.
• Jiang Zhen created a dragon-eye-sized droplet of nearly black Heavy Water, then dispersed it after its immense upkeep drained his Soul Power and Spiritual Power.