Chapter Summaries

Ming Jiang recovered from his injuries while keeping Snow Empress confined in his Small World, as Bright Virtue Hall struggled with the aftermath of the Body Sect’s attack and the disappearance of Experimental Subject One. After Ming Jiang woke, he was questioned about the raid, and Old Xu discovered that his Storage Soul Tool held far more than weapons and Soul Tool equipment.

• Ming Jiang warned Snow Empress not to self-destruct and stayed in his Small World to watch her while he recovered.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Experimental Subject One had disappeared, ordered a cover-up and a hunt for the Body Sect, and arranged repairs to Bright Virtue Hall.
• News of the attack spread across the continent, Jing Hongchen was stripped of his ducal title and punished, and the danger of the missing Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs drew imperial attention.
• After spending a week recovering in the Small World, Ming Jiang woke in the infirmary and learned that Bright Virtue Hall was questioning everyone connected to the attack.
• Ming Jiang recounted the raid to Old Xu, who searched his Storage Soul Tool and found it packed with supplies, furniture, rare ingredients, and milk tea.

Ming Jiang concealed the presence of Zhang Lexuan’s clothes in his Storage Soul Tool by pretending they revealed a private fetish, and Old Xu accepted his explanation. A week later, Ming Jiang spoke with Snow Empress in his Small World, and their conversation turned hostile when she learned he knew she had been sealed by the Platform of Deification.

• Ming Jiang explained the contents of his Storage Soul Tool to Old Xu, then begged him to keep Zhang Lexuan’s clothes a secret after Old Xu mistook them for evidence of a fetish.
• Old Xu advised Ming Jiang to find a girlfriend and left, and Xuan Ziwen later wondered what Old Xu had done to him.
• During the following week, Ming Jiang monitored Snow Empress and studied the Great Metal Man while recovering in the Infirmary.
• Snow Empress spoke to Ming Jiang in the Small World and asked what kind of place it was, and he described it as a world independent from Douluo Continent.
• Ming Jiang mentioned that Snow Empress had been sealed by the Platform of Deification, enraging her and prompting him to summon his Spirits in case she attacked.

Ming Jiang calmed Snow Empress and learned that she had used a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus to begin cultivating anew as a human. After studying the Great Metal Man, he was visited by Huo Yuhao and Ice Empress, and prepared to take Huo Yuhao somewhere.

• Ming Jiang persuaded Snow Empress to lower her guard and asked why she had not transformed into a human at the Hundred-Thousand-Year mark.
• Snow Empress explained that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus helped her seal her origin and start cultivating anew as a human, before a human trapped her in the Platform of Deification.
• Ming Jiang told Snow Empress to stay with him and warned her not to threaten Self-Destruction again.
• Ming Jiang spent less than a month studying the Great Metal Man and concluded that its Soul Tool technology was too advanced for his current Rank 8 ability to understand.
• Huo Yuhao used the Simulate Soul Skill to visit Ming Jiang because Ice Empress worried about Snow Empress and feared she might clash with him.
• Ice Empress urgently asked where Snow Empress was, and Ming Jiang placed a hand on Huo Yuhao's shoulder and told him not to resist as he prepared to take him somewhere.

Ming Jiang brought Huo Yuhao and Ice Empress into his enormous other-dimensional space, where Ice Empress reunited with Snow Empress and explained how she had become connected to Huo Yuhao. The meeting ended with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealing himself, leaving Ming Jiang stunned that Huo Yuhao also had a Million-Year Soul Beast in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Ice Empress realized Ming Jiang’s other-dimensional space could keep Snow Empress safe from Bright Virtue Hall’s searches.
• Ice Empress found Snow Empress on the glacier, and Snow Empress crossed space to meet her.
• Ming Jiang and Huo Yuhao speculated about Ice Empress and Snow Empress’s unusually close relationship.
• Ice Empress told Snow Empress about her recent experiences and her decision to help Huo Yuhao reach godhood.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm appeared, introduced himself to Ming Jiang, and revealed his Million-Year Cultivation.
• Meng Bing rejected Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s offer to call him big brother, while Ming Jiang was shocked that Huo Yuhao had another powerful Soul Beast.

Ming Jiang reunited Snow Empress with the Ice Empress, then jokingly presented them with a bill for rescuing and sheltering Snow Empress. After the argument over the debt, he asked Snow Empress what she planned to do next, and she considered her future.

• Ming Jiang questioned Tian Meng's combat ability, and Tian Meng admitted he could not demonstrate his Million-Year power without endangering Huo Yuhao.
• Ming Jiang teased Tian Meng about his Spirit Bone, while Huo Yuhao defended him and said he trusted his senior brother.
• Ming Jiang summoned the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, then demanded 160 million Gold Soul Coins for the rescue, his services, and Snow Empress's stay.
• The Ice Empress and Tian Meng could not pay, and the Ice Empress angrily accused Ming Jiang of targeting her over their old fight.
• Ming Jiang stopped the quarrel and asked Snow Empress whether she would return to the Far North or rebuild herself as a human; Snow Empress pondered her next step.

Snow Empress chose to become Ming Jiang’s Wisdom Soul Ring, despite Ice Empress’s objections. Ming Jiang revealed a powerful Soul Ring configuration to reassure her, while his unexpected recognition of Electrolux remained unexplained.

• Snow Empress rejected rebuilding herself into a human and decided to follow Ice Empress and Tian Meng’s path.
• Ming Jiang argued with Ice Empress over the cost of Snow Empress’s recovery, while Electrolux emerged from Huo Yuhao and Ming Jiang recognized him by a famous saying.
• Snow Empress declared that she wanted to become Ming Jiang’s Wisdom Soul Ring, prompting Ice Empress and Ming Jiang to nearly fight over the choice.
• Ming Jiang agreed to accept Snow Empress and asked Tian Meng to explain his Wisdom Soul Ring method, while Snow Empress questioned whether his Soul Douluo body could bear her power.
• Ming Jiang summoned Meng Bing to take his place, then revealed his true body and activated Golden Heart, displaying seven Soul Rings, including three red ones.

Ming Jiang prepared to absorb Snow Empress’s immense Origin Power and make her the eighth Soul Ring of his Golden Heart Martial Soul. With Electrolux guiding the process, their bodies drew together as Snow Empress’s reconstructed infant form became a sphere of pure Origin Power.

• Snow Empress warned Ming Jiang that even his Super Douluo-level strength could not withstand all of her Origin Power, and Electrolux agreed that his previous Wisdom Soul Ring methods were unsuitable for her.
• Electrolux proposed a safer path for Snow Empress and began drawing on Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power to form a golden staff.
• Ming Jiang activated his Soul Skills and Soul Bone Skills to amplify his body and mental strength while Electrolux inscribed runes on him and Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress’s infant body vanished and transformed into a sphere containing her pure Origin Power.
• Electrolux told Ming Jiang to draw in the sphere and make Snow Empress the eighth Soul Ring of his Golden Heart Martial Soul.

Snow Empress became Ming Jiang’s Wisdom Soul Ring as Electrolux guided him through absorbing her immense power, while Meng Bing impersonated him in the infirmary and learned that Jing Hongchen wanted to meet him. Ming Jiang survived the fusion with help from his Spirits and emerged ready to reveal his new Eighth Soul Skill.

• Ice Empress explained that she supported Snow Empress choosing Ming Jiang because he had obtained a Deity Inheritance, while Tian Meng went to nourish Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Meng Bing disguised herself as Ming Jiang in the infirmary, hypnotized a doctor during an examination, and learned that Jing Hongchen wanted to see Ming Jiang after his discharge.
• Ming Jiang endured Snow Empress’s powerful Origin Power with Electrolux’s guidance and fused with Little Spirit, Little Yellow, Little Ice, and Little Lotus to withstand it.
• After Snow Empress’s power was absorbed and Electrolux vanished, Ming Jiang stood up, declared the process successful, and released his Martial Soul with his Eighth Soul Skill: Ice Sky Snow Emperor Descends!

Ming Jiang summoned Snow Empress at her full strength as his Eighth Soul Ring, then warned her not to damage his unstable Small World. He and Huo Yuhao exchanged news about Bright Virtue Hall over a meal until Snow Empress asked whether something was wrong with Ming Jiang's other Martial Soul.

• Ming Jiang summoned Snow Empress, whose full power astonished Ice Empress, and stopped her from testing her strength in the unstable Small World.
• Snow Empress demanded that Ming Jiang activate his Martial Soul, but he refused, so she withdrew into the glacier with Ice Empress.
• Ming Jiang asked Huo Yuhao about Bright Virtue Hall, and Huo Yuhao described its Soul Tool lead and praised the blueprints Ming Jiang had sent to Shrek Academy.
• Ming Jiang and Huo Yuhao cooked a meal for their companions and discussed whether Ming Jiang had made the Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs; Ming Jiang said he had only assisted with their production.
• Snow Empress asked Ming Jiang whether there was something wrong with his other Martial Soul, making everyone at the table turn toward him.

Ming Jiang explained to Snow Empress how his Book of Spirits Martial Soul generated its own Soul Rings and created a world, which had slowed his cultivation and made his bottlenecks harder to overcome. Snow Empress then asked about the Four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring on his first Martial Soul, and Ice Empress revealed that it was God-Bestowed.

• Snow Empress questioned why absorbing her Origin Power had barely raised Ming Jiang’s cultivation and failed to break his Level Ninety bottleneck.
• Ming Jiang showed Snow Empress his Book of Spirits Martial Soul and its seven red Soul Rings, shocking her with their power.
• Ming Jiang explained that his Book of Spirits automatically generated Soul Rings as he grew stronger and that the Spirits had once accelerated his cultivation.
• Ming Jiang said his Spirits had to reach Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation before he could advance past Level Sixty-Nine, after which they created the Small World and his cultivation slowed.
• Ming Jiang described how his later bottlenecks had grown more difficult, and Snow Empress asked which beast he had killed for his first Martial Soul’s Seventh Soul Ring.
• Ice Empress told Snow Empress that Ming Jiang’s Seventh Soul Ring was God-Bestowed, leaving Snow Empress stunned.

Ming Jiang revealed his God-Bestowed Soul Ring and Deity Inheritance, leaving Snow Empress and the others stunned, then focused on finding a way to become a Rank 9 Soul Master. After his discharge, Jing Hongchen took him to meet the Imperial Hall of Worship’s master, a Soul Engineer close to Rank 10.

• Ming Jiang told Snow Empress, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Ice Empress that his God-Bestowed Soul Ring was nothing unusual and disclosed that he had a Deity Inheritance.
• Snow Empress wrestled with the realization that becoming Ming Jiang’s Wisdom Soul Ring had brought her close to godhood with little effort, while Ming Jiang wondered what lay beyond the Book of Spirits’ remaining pages.
• Ming Jiang warned Huo Yuhao to be careful with He Caitou and Teacher Fan Yu, then decided to seek out Evil Soul Masters because he was stuck at Rank Eight Soul Engineer.
• Ming Jiang was discharged from the Infirmary and learned that Jing Hongchen had lost his position as Bright Virtue Hall’s master and his duke title.
• Jing Hongchen took Ming Jiang toward a meeting with the master of the Imperial Hall of Worship, whom he described as the Sun Moon Empire’s Rank 9 Soul Master closest to Rank 10.

Jing Hongchen brought Ming Jiang to meet Kong Deming, the Sun Moon Empire’s foremost Soul Engineer, hoping Kong would guide him. After testing Ming Jiang’s skill, Kong offered to teach him and promised to take him as a disciple once he reached Level Eighty.

• Jing Hongchen introduced Ming Jiang to Kong Deming, who examined Ming Jiang’s age and cultivation level.
• Kong Deming led them into his private laboratory and asked Ming Jiang to engrave a Rank 8 Soul Tool Core.
• Ming Jiang selected a Rank 8 metal and swiftly completed the Core Magic Array.
• Kong Deming inspected the Soul Tool Core, pointed out flaws, and invited Ming Jiang to study under him until he reached Level Eighty.

Ming Jiang entered the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry to pursue the War God Inheritance Trial and other goals, while Jing Hongchen arranged his access to West Mountain. The chapter ended with the War God asking whether Ming Jiang was ready to begin the trial.

• Kong Deming offered to help Ming Jiang become a Rank 9 Soul Master before the next tournament if he reached Level Eighty and obtained his Eighth Soul Ring within three months.
• Ming Jiang asked Jing Hongchen to take him to West Mountain so he could seek an exceptionally powerful Eighth Soul Ring and enter the Valley of Qiankun's Love Inquiry again.
• Jing Hongchen arranged access to West Mountain through a secretive contact, then Ming Jiang used his War God Inheritance Mark to enter the valley.
• Dai Mubai noticed Ming Jiang had entered using the inheritance mark and showed the trial to Yue Shen and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ming Jiang prepared to help Little Void evolve, attempt the Deity Inheritance Trial, and ask about Zhang Lexuan's inheritance arrangements.
• The War God asked Ming Jiang whether he was ready to undergo the War God Inheritance Trial.

Ming Jiang began the War God's Nine Trials after asking for nine trials or more, and the first trial sent him to fight ten opponents of his cultivation level. He broke through their opening attacks and controls, leaving the fight underway as he prepared to counter their ice-based assault.

• Dai Mubai started Ming Jiang's War God trial after Yue Shen expressed interest in judging his abilities and possibly granting him an inheritance.
• Ming Jiang requested nine trials or more, so Dai Mubai set the first of the War God's Nine Trials: defeat ten opponents of the same cultivation level on the first floor of the God of War Tower.
• Ten eight-ring opponents appeared, including Soul Engineers, Control System Soul Masters, and assault and agility fighters, and they attacked Ming Jiang together.
• Ming Jiang struck the first charging opponent and evaded the Soul Engineers' fire, while his Bloodline Power shattered the vines and the melody failed to affect him.
• The opponents covered Ming Jiang's location in ice, but he had three Extreme Ice abilities and remained ready to answer their attack.

Ming Jiang easily passed the War God's first trial, prompting Dai Mubai to raise the difficulty and set ten Titled Douluo as his next opponents. When Ming Jiang revealed an extraordinary orange-gold Soul Ring, Yue Shen suspected another god had intervened, and Dai Mubai realized someone might be trying to take his successor.

• Ming Jiang defeated the ten Rank Eight opponents on the first floor and earned five percent God of War Affinity.
• Ming Jiang asked for harder trials, so Dai Mubai set the second trial: defeat ten Titled Douluo on the tower's second floor.
• Ming Jiang recognized Gong Changlong and Shi Xing among the opponents and learned from Dai Mubai that defeated fighters would return with their memories erased.
• Ming Jiang summoned his Martial Soul and revealed eight Soul Rings, including an orange-gold ring with an aura of roughly Seven Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Yue Shen suspected another god had influenced Ming Jiang's Soul Ring, and Dai Mubai declared that someone was trying to steal his successor.

Ming Jiang defeated ten Titled Douluo in the God of War Tower and earned a reward that raised all his Soul Ring ages by ten thousand years, transforming his lower rings and improving several skills. As he tested his stronger abilities, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yue Shen discussed how to design the next trials, and the War God's third trial began.

• Ming Jiang used Golden Pull and close-range martial arts to defeat the ten Titled Douluo, while divine power erased their memories of the fight.
• Dai Mubai inspected Ming Jiang's Eighth Soul Ring, found an unfamiliar divine aura on it, and confirmed that no other deity's mark was inside Ming Jiang.
• Ming Jiang asked for his reward to increase his Soul Ring ages, and Dai Mubai raised them all by ten thousand years, turning his yellow and purple rings black.
• Ming Jiang tested his transformed Soul Rings and discovered that his first skill had become Golden Resonance, while Golden Guard and Golden Blood had grown stronger.
• Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Yue Shen discussed possible future trials, and the War God's third trial began.

Ming Jiang faced the third War God assessment, where five Super Douluos fought him for the promised Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone. He summoned the Snow Empress to defeat them, but the God of War Tower immediately announced that his next trial would seal his Martial Soul.

• Ming Jiang entered the third floor of the God of War Tower and found Yan Shaozhe, Golden Body Douluo, and three other Super Douluos waiting for him.
• Yan Shaozhe and the other Super Douluos attacked Ming Jiang together after learning they would receive a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone if they won.
• Ming Jiang used his eighth soul skill to summon the Snow Empress, who unleashed her Extreme Ice power and cut down all five Super Douluos with a single sword strike.
• The Snow Empress drained most of Ming Jiang's Soul Power, then criticized him for being too weak.
• Dai Mubai decided the assessment could not continue normally, and the tower announced that the fourth trial would seal Ming Jiang's Martial Soul.

Ming Jiang began the War God's Fourth Trial with his Martial Soul and Soul Power sealed, forcing him to survive a battlefield as an ordinary soldier. After a brutal night of fighting, he survived atop a mound of corpses, and the Sun God arrived in the God Realm as Dai Mubai prepared to reward him.

• Dai Mubai sealed Ming Jiang's Martial Soul and Soul Power, then raised his Head Soul Bone to Hundred-Thousand-Year as the reward for the third trial.
• Ming Jiang entered the fourth floor and learned he had to survive a war between the Sun Moon Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ming Jiang dodged a Soul Cannonball, assessed the battlefield, and killed Sun Moon Empire soldiers before hiding among the corpses.
• Yue Shen redirected a Soul Cannonball toward Ming Jiang, forcing him back into battle after his hiding place was exposed.
• Ming Jiang survived until dawn after fighting through the night and killing a Three-Ring Soul Elder, but his Left Arm Bone was torn off.
• Dai Mubai prepared to grant Ming Jiang a Left Arm Bone reward as the Sun God arrived and greeted him.

The Sun God persuaded Dai Mubai to let him arrange Ming Jiang’s fifth War God trial, while Dai Mubai awarded Ming Jiang a Hundred Thousand Year Left Arm Spirit Bone for passing the fourth. Ming Jiang absorbed the bone, gained two Soul Skills, and entered the fifth floor as the new trial began.

• The Sun God arrived after Yue Shen summoned him and asked Dai Mubai to let him arrange Ming Jiang’s fifth trial; Dai Mubai agreed after the Sun God promised a reward.
• The Sun God transformed the fifth floor of the God of War Tower into a scorching, magma-like world while Ming Jiang rested on the fourth floor.
• Dai Mubai chose a Hundred Thousand Year Left Arm Spirit Bone as Ming Jiang’s reward for passing the fourth trial.
• Ming Jiang suppressed the Spirit Bone’s power with his Soul Power and Bloodline Power, then absorbed it and gained Tiger Shadow Clone and King's Domain.
• The God of War Tower announced the fifth trial, and Ming Jiang entered the fifth floor.

Ming Jiang was dragged into the sun at the center of the God of War Tower and struggled to survive as its heat overwhelmed his many powers. After nearly a month, he understood the hint to embrace the sun and stopped resisting, preparing to use his body as a vessel.

• Ming Jiang entered the fifth floor, found himself trapped with a sun, and was pulled into its core after learning he had to survive there for a year.
• Snow Empress shielded Ming Jiang from the sun’s heat, but warned that she could protect him for only a few days.
• As the temperature rose, Ming Jiang relied in turn on his Extreme Ice and Extreme Fire, his other Spirits, and the Ice Dragon’s power to endure.
• After nearly a month, Ming Jiang realized what the hint “Embrace the sun” meant and let the heat envelop him, declaring, “Use the body as a vessel, heaven and earth as a furnace!”