Chapter Summaries

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.

Jiang Zhen prepared a safe place and supplies for Lan Xi before leaving for Vast Sea City to obtain his Fifth Spirit Ring. There, he rescued a blue-haired girl from a fishmonger and learned she could guide him toward the Evil Orcas.

• Jiang Zhen built a wooden home for Lan Xi near the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, left her supplies, and asked Dugu Bo to look after her.
• Jiang Zhen arrived in Vast Sea City and considered hunting an Evil Spirit Orca or a Demon Soul Great White Shark for his Fifth Spirit Ring.
• Jiang Zhen paid an old fishmonger for a tuna after the man scolded a blue-haired girl for touching it.
• Jiang Zhen sensed the girl's unusual ocean-linked aura and asked what she knew about the Evil Orcas.
• The girl condemned the Evil Orcas and offered to guide Jiang Zhen to their waters in exchange for compensation.

Jiang Zhen hired Lan Fozi to guide him to the Evil Orca King’s pod, offering her Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow as payment. After killing two Evil Spirit Orcas underwater, he drew the enraged Evil Orca King’s attention and faced its approach.

• Jiang Zhen showed Lan Fozi the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and offered it as a reward for taking him to the Evil Orca King’s pod.
• Lan Fozi accepted the deal, and the two traveled from Vast Sea City across the sea for two and a half days.
• Lan Fozi led Jiang Zhen to the Evil Spirit Orcas’ lair, collected the ice marrow, and stayed back to watch.
• Jiang Zhen dove into the sea and instantly killed two ten-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orcas with Ultimate Ice.
• The Evil Orca King roared from the depths, locked onto Jiang Zhen, and rose toward him in fury.

Jiang Zhen fought the Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Orca King in a grueling deep-sea battle, using his Spirit Skills and Soul Bone abilities to survive its powerful attacks. As both fighters weakened, the Evil Orca King tried to swallow him whole, leaving Jiang Zhen in immediate danger.

• The Evil Orca King appeared and attacked Jiang Zhen with a mental shockwave and a crushing tail strike, but Jiang Zhen resisted the shock and evaded the blow.
• The Evil Orca King used Evil Orca Demon's Grasp and Evil Orca Shattering Fang Slash, while Jiang Zhen defended himself with Abyssal Soul Devouring Whisper and Myriad Dragon Ice Prison.
• The Evil Orca King fired Evil Orca Demon's Wrath, and Jiang Zhen blocked it with Dragon King's Aegis, which reflected some of the beam and hurt the beast.
• Jiang Zhen and the Evil Orca King fought on as Jiang Zhen harassed it with water creatures, spatial jumps, spiritual interference, and water spears, while both sustained damage and exhaustion.
• The Evil Orca King used Innate Devour to pull Jiang Zhen toward its jaws, and Jiang Zhen became unstable as he was about to be swallowed.

Jiang Zhen killed the Evil Orca King with Lan Fozi’s help and offered her the promised Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows. He then began absorbing the beast’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, fighting its violent energy.

• Jiang Zhen asked Lan Fozi to help him and promised two more pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• The Evil Orca King exposed Lan Fozi’s identity and accused her of helping humans slaughter its kin, prompting her to reveal her Hundred-and-Fifty-Thousand-Year cultivation and imprison it.
• Jiang Zhen combined his Eternal Frost Forbidden Domain with Lan Fozi’s Vast Sea Imprisonment and struck the Evil Orca King’s weak point with Primordial Heavy Water, killing it.
• After recovering, Jiang Zhen gave Lan Fozi the two promised ice marrows, and she accepted them.
• Jiang Zhen began absorbing the Evil Orca King’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and used the Profound Water Clear Mind Art to withstand its savage energy.

Jiang Zhen absorbed the Evil Orca King's Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and left leg bone, reaching Rank 59 and gaining four new abilities. He persuaded Lan Fozi to take him to meet her parents, the Deep Sea Demon Whale King and his mate, to discuss breaking the Soul Beast Clan's shackles.

• Jiang Zhen resisted the Evil Orca King's soul shock, absorbed its Spirit Ring, and advanced to level 57 with the Raging Orca Halberd and Water Evil Mirror abilities.
• Jiang Zhen absorbed the Evil Orca King's left leg bone, gained the Orca Demon Axe and Evil Orca Shattering Fang Slash skills, and reached Rank 59.
• Jiang Zhen told Lan Fozi that hunting the Evil Orca King followed the law of survival, and she admitted she felt like an accomplice.
• Jiang Zhen asked Lan Fozi to introduce him to her parents, claiming he had a major deal that might break the Soul Beast Clan's shackles.
• Lan Fozi agreed to take Jiang Zhen to meet her parents, and the two flew deeper into the Demon Whale Sea Domain.

Jiang Zhen entered the Deep Sea Demon Whale Clan’s royal court and proposed a gamble to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and Demon Empress, claiming he could create godhood and break the Soul Beasts’ restrictions. He asked the King to help him, then revealed that he wanted the King’s Soul Rings.

• Lan Fozi brought Jiang Zhen to the Deep Sea Demon Whale Clan’s royal court, where the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and Demon Empress questioned him.
• Jiang Zhen revealed his Ultimate Water Martial Spirit, five Soul Rings, and that he had killed the Evil Orca King while still at level fifty.
• Jiang Zhen declared that he would create godhood and surpass the Sea God, provoking the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s fury.
• Jiang Zhen reminded the King that the God Realm Rules blocked Soul Beasts from godhood and asked whether he wanted to break those shackles and take revenge.
• Jiang Zhen asked the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to help him with everything he had and stated that he needed the King’s Soul Rings.

Jiang Zhen demanded a Spirit Ring from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and was brutally tested in battle. The Demon Whale King recognized a trace of Law Power in Jiang Zhen’s strongest strike and ended the chapter stunned by his potential.

• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King struck Jiang Zhen through the palace wall after Jiang Zhen demanded a Spirit Ring.
• The Demon Whale King attacked Jiang Zhen with crushing seawater pressure, lightning, and spiritual illusions, but Jiang Zhen countered with his Spirit Skills and Spirit Bone abilities.
• Jiang Zhen combined his strongest attacks to meet the Demon Whale King’s punch, but his Raging Orca Halberd shattered and he was badly injured.
• The Demon Whale King sensed Law Power in Jiang Zhen’s strike and stared at him in shock and longing.

Ice Empress returned to the Ice Palace with rare treasures from Jiang Zhen, and she and Snow Empress began cultivating to prepare for their next Heavenly Tribulation. In the Demon Whale King's Palace, Jiang Zhen swore to honor his deal and offered a way for the Demon Whale King’s family to continue existing after their sacrifice, leaving the King to weigh the enormous gamble.

• Ice Empress showed Snow Empress the treasures Jiang Zhen had given her and recounted her adventures outside the Extreme North Land.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress used the Cold Marrow Ganoderma, Ice Vortex Profound Soul Fruit, and Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to strengthen themselves for their next Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Demon Whale King considered Jiang Zhen’s offer while the Demon Empress supported him and Lan Fozi sensed the tension.
• After recovering from his injuries, Jiang Zhen swore by his soul to keep his promise to the Demon Whale King.
• Jiang Zhen claimed he could let the Demon Whale King’s family continue to sense the world and exist to a certain extent after their sacrifice.

Jiang Zhen offered the Demon Whale King and the Demon Empress Pure Water Phantom Spirits as temporary bodies for their souls, persuading the family to gamble on his plan. After arranging the clan’s affairs, the family left the deep sea with Jiang Zhen and flew toward the Human Continent.

• Jiang Zhen created lifelike Pure Water Phantom Spirits and explained that the Demon Whale King and the Demon Empress could inhabit them after their sacrifice, remain conscious, and travel with him.
• The Demon Whale King agreed to stake his family’s future on Jiang Zhen, and he and the Demon Empress went to arrange the clan’s affairs.
• After several hours, the Demon Whale King, the Demon Empress, Lan Fozi, and Jiang Zhen emerged from the sea and prepared to leave for the continent.
• The Demon Whale King looked back at his territory, then led the group toward the continent as Lan Fozi asked Jiang Zhen about life there.

Jiang Zhen brought the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's family to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye and found the Ice Empress and Snow Empress soaking in its Ice Spring. After the Ice Empress greeted him with an embarrassed embrace, Jiang Zhen introduced the two groups of friends to each other.

• Jiang Zhen toured several cities with the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, Demon Empress, and Lan Fozi before leading them to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye.
• The Demon Whale King, Demon Empress, and Lan Fozi marveled at the valley's powerful energy, Immortal Herbs, and springs.
• Jiang Zhen spotted the Ice Empress and Snow Empress soaking in the Ultimate Ice Spring.
• The Ice Empress rushed out to embrace Jiang Zhen, then blushed and claimed she had only been worried about him.
• Snow Empress questioned Jiang Zhen about his companions, and Jiang Zhen introduced both groups to one another as friends.