Chapter Summaries

Jiang Zhen warned Little Ah Yin to avoid people carrying big black hammers, then took her to buy clothes and steered her away from the crowded Great Soul Arena. At Nuoding Academy, Tang Hao watched Tang San and Xiao Wu spar, unaware that Ah Yin’s grass and the Spirit Bone he had hidden were already gone.

• Jiang Zhen told Little Ah Yin that people with hammers were dangerous, and she promised to stay away from them.
• Jiang Zhen collected Little Ah Yin’s new clothes from Boss Wang and led her past the Great Soul Arena without entering.
• Little Ah Yin asked whether they would return to Vast Sea City, and Jiang Zhen promised to bring her again if she wanted.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Entanglement to stop Xiao Wu during their sparring practice, and she asked him to practice with her more often.
• Tang Hao watched Tang San and Xiao Wu from behind an Old Sophora Tree and resolved to help Tang San grow strong enough to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao remained unaware that Ah Yin’s grass had changed appearance and that someone had taken the Spirit Bone he hid beside it.

Jiang Zhen learned that Ah Yin could form her own Spirit Rings all the way to Titled Douluo and that their power would grow with her Soul Power. He gave her Thousand-Year Whale Jelly to strengthen her body, and its energy awakened more of her ability to communicate with and influence plants.

• Jiang Zhen asked Ah Yin about her Soul Power, and she sensed that she was at Level Ten with room to grow.
• Ah Yin discovered that she could condense her own Spirit Rings up to the Titled Douluo level, with their power increasing as her Soul Power grew.
• Jiang Zhen concluded that Ah Yin had retained a Soul Beast's traits after transforming and gave her Thousand-Year Whale Jelly to strengthen her physique.
• Ah Yin drank the Whale Jelly while sitting in icy water, and Jiang Zhen drank some too, but found that it barely improved his already strong physique.
• Ah Yin felt stronger after the Whale Jelly's energy warmed the water, and she made the Blue Silver Grass respond to her gesture.

Ah Yin condensed her first Spirit Ring, gained a powerful energy-sharing Spirit Skill, and awakened the Blue Silver Domain. After helping her test her new abilities, Jiang Zhen returned to his room to cultivate.

• Jiang Zhen guided Ah Yin as she condensed a deep-yellow Spirit Ring with an age of just over 800 years, raising her to Level 13.
• Ah Yin used her new Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Symbiosis, to absorb energy from a tree and then restore the energy she had taken.
• Ah Yin awakened the Blue Silver Domain, which let her sense the surrounding area through Blue Silver Grass and filled it with Life Aura.
• Jiang Zhen realized Ah Yin needed to learn about the world and planned to buy her books.
• Jiang Zhen returned to his room and cultivated the Profound Water Clear Mind Art.

After reaching Level 30, Jiang Zhen ventured into the deep sea to obtain his Third Spirit Ring and absorbed a twenty-five-thousand-year Thousand Illusions Demonic Octopus ring. He emerged at Level 34 with a new Spirit Skill beginning to manifest, while an ancient consciousness had quietly touched his Soul Power during the absorption.

• Jiang Zhen left Ah Yin at home and traveled alone into the deep sea to search for a suitable Spirit Beast.
• He found a Thousand Illusions Demonic Octopus and resisted its illusions with his Spiritual Power before defeating it with a Water Blade.
• Jiang Zhen began absorbing the octopus’s twenty-five-thousand-year black Spirit Ring and crushed its lingering mental will.
• An ancient, indistinct consciousness sensed Jiang Zhen and the Origin of Water, briefly infused his Soul Power with energy, and then withdrew unnoticed.
• Jiang Zhen completed the absorption, reached Level 34, and felt a chill and swelling pain at his brow as his new Third Spirit Skill began to emerge.

Jiang Zhen tested his new Third Spirit Skill, Deep Sea's Eye, and used it to hunt valuable sea beasts and gather food for Ah Yin. After returning to the surface, he bought sweets in Vast Sea City and hurried home, where he saw that Ah Yin had not cooked.

• Jiang Zhen discovered that Deep Sea's Eye let him perceive water energy and currents, greatly improving his control while reducing the cost of his Water Arrow.
• Jiang Zhen caught Jade Shrimp and hunted a fifteen-to-eighteen-thousand-year Unicorn Demon Whale, killing it and finding excellent Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Jelly.
• Jiang Zhen killed two more whale-type Soul Beasts around twenty thousand years old and collected their meat.
• Jiang Zhen surfaced, processed the shrimp on a small island, and bought pastries and candies in Vast Sea City.
• Jiang Zhen hurried home and saw that Ah Yin had not lit a fire to cook.

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.