Chapter Summaries

After the banquet, Vina discussed the Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce’s prospects in Heaven Dou City with Zhang Lexuan, while Long Aotian asked whether Jiang Ming had come. Meanwhile, Jiang Ming and Ma Xiaotao emerged after breaking their bed, and Ma Lingyun gave Ma Xiaotao a wooden box left by her mother.

• The Heaven Dou Emperor regretted the Crown Prince’s plan to obstruct the Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce and worried about the empire’s future under his rule.
• Zhang Lexuan, Vina, and Long Aotian discussed the Crown Prince and Vina’s position, then turned to the chamber’s development in Heaven Dou City.
• Long Aotian asked whether Jiang Ming had come, and Zhang Lexuan began to answer before stopping herself after hearing that Du Busi had gone into seclusion.
• Ling Luochen sent a letter to her family’s sect in Xuanbing City to make sure her relatives would be there when the group arrived.
• Jiang Ming and Ma Xiaotao got up after breaking the bed, dismantled it, and stored the pieces away.
• Ma Lingyun saw Jiang Ming and Ma Xiaotao holding hands and gave Ma Xiaotao a wooden box left by her mother.

Jiang Ming and Ma Xiaotao left Heaven Dou City after her father approved their relationship, and Jiang Ming gave him powerful Soul Tool Battle Armor. The group set out for Xuanbing City, where Ling Luochen’s family lived, as they continued their planned journey toward secluded cultivation.

• Ma Xiaotao told Jiang Ming she wanted to leave Heaven Dou City soon after receiving her father’s approval and the Phoenix Hairpin her mother had left behind.
• Jiang Ming made Ma Lingyun a dark crimson set of Soul Tool Battle Armor that could defend against attacks from anyone below the Titled Douluo level.
• Jiang Ming and Ma Xiaotao spent another night at the Ma Family residence before meeting Zhang Lexuan and the others at the Ming Yue Chamber of Commerce.
• Zhang Lexuan arranged for the Chamber of Commerce to watch over the Ma Family, and the group departed Heaven Dou City the next morning.
• Zhang Lexuan identified Xuanbing City as their next destination and explained that it lay near the Far North and close to Ling Luochen’s family.

Jiang Ming arrived near Xuanbing City with Ling Luochen and met her younger brother, Ling Xiao, who resented Jiang Ming’s closeness with his sister and his other companions. Ling Luochen forced Ling Xiao to accept Jiang Ming as his brother-in-law before she and Jiang Ming headed toward the sect.

• Ling Luochen warned Jiang Ming that her devoted younger brother might treat him poorly.
• As the group traveled north, snow fell and they reached Xuanbing City, where Ling Xiao waited outside the southern gate.
• Ling Xiao was startled when Jiang Ming’s coachman clone disappeared, then delighted to see Ling Luochen until Jiang Ming carried her from the carriage.
• Ling Xiao grew hostile after Jiang Ming carried four more girls out, but Ling Luochen scolded him and used her power to make him submit.
• Zhang Lexuan led the girls into Xuanbing City while Ling Luochen brought Ling Xiao to meet Jiang Ming.
• Ling Xiao reluctantly called Jiang Ming “Brother! In-law!”

Jiang Ming gave Ling Xiao a custom Rank 7 ice sword-type Flying Soul Tool, despite Ling Xiao insisting that he did not want it. Ling Xiao eagerly accepted it “for now” and prepared to fly Ling Luochen and Jiang Ming back to the sect.

• Jiang Ming offered Ling Xiao a Rank 7 ice sword-type Flying Soul Tool as a first-meeting gift.
• Ling Xiao recognized the sword’s value and struggled to hide how much he wanted it.
• Jiang Ming tossed the sword to Ling Xiao and explained that it was made with ten-thousand-year Mystic Ice.
• Ling Xiao tried to refuse the gift, but Ling Luochen told him to accept what his brother-in-law had given him.
• Ling Xiao agreed to use the sword to take them back to the sect, then activated it and sped off.

Jiang Ming flew with Ling Xiao toward the Xuanbing Sect and learned about the backlash afflicting Ling Xiao’s Ice Knight Martial Soul. He promised to help Ling Luochen resolve it and invited Ling Xiao to visit Shrek Academy, then began teaching him a move in the snowstorm.

• Jiang Ming and Ling Luochen followed Ling Xiao as he flew on a Rank 7 Flying Soul Tool, and Jiang Ming chatted with him through Spiritual Power.
• Jiang Ming learned that Ling Xiao’s Ice Knight Martial Soul caused dangerous backlash that kept him within the Xuanbing Sect’s territory.
• Ling Luochen said she had suppressed Ling Xiao’s backlash before, and Jiang Ming agreed to help eliminate it permanently.
• Jiang Ming invited Ling Xiao to visit Shrek Academy after his backlash was resolved, and Ling Xiao eagerly accepted.
• As the snowstorm intensified, Jiang Ming lifted Ling Xiao from the Ice Sword and shouted, “Void-Breaking Ice Slash!”

Jiang Ming demonstrated his power by cutting through the blizzard, then encouraged Ling Xiao and helped him make a dramatic entrance at the Xuanbing Sect. Ling Xiao basked in the sect members’ astonishment, though he wondered why he had begun thinking of Jiang Ming as his brother-in-law.

• Jiang Ming used Void-Breaking Ice Slash to split the blizzard, leaving Ling Xiao awestruck.
• Ling Luochen warned Ling Xiao that his Soul Emperor cultivation could not reproduce Jiang Ming’s feat, but Jiang Ming encouraged him by quoting Battle Qi Continent.
• Jiang Ming and Ling Luochen accompanied Ling Xiao to the Xuanbing Sect, where Ling Luochen descended gracefully into the martial arena.
• Jiang Ming used Spiritual Power to help Ling Xiao ride the Ice Sword in a frost tornado, and Ling Xiao imitated Jiang Ming’s line before making a spectacular entrance.
• The sect members crowded around Ling Xiao and marveled at his Ice Sword, mistaking it for a high-rank Flying Soul Tool.

Jiang Ming visited the Xuanbing Sect with Ling Luochen, where he met her father, Ling Tianfeng, and faced the Su Family’s Young Master, who resented him as a rival. Ling Tianfeng asked how Jiang Ming planned to marry his daughter, and the chapter ended with Su Bing challenging him to show sincerity.

• Jiang Ming gave Ling Xiao the Ice Sword and encouraged him to master the moves with his own strength.
• Ling Luochen brought Jiang Ming to meet her father, Ling Tianfeng, at the Xuanbing Sect’s main hall.
• Ling Luochen told Jiang Ming that Su Bing, the Su Family’s Young Master, had once pursued her and that their families had discussed a possible marriage.
• Ling Tianfeng asked Jiang Ming whether he and Ling Luochen had confirmed their relationship and when he planned to hold their wedding.
• Su Bing questioned whether Jiang Ming would show sincerity before marrying the daughter of the Xuanbing Sect’s sect master.

Jiang Ming visited the Xuanbing Sect with Ling Luochen, where Ling Tianfeng backed their marriage and warned the Su Family not to interfere. While touring the sect, Jiang Ming discovered its Ice Marrow and treated Ling Xiao to precious Spring of Life Wine, leaving Ling Xiao amazed by its effects and price.

• Jiang Ming silenced the Su Family Young Master, and Ling Tianfeng sent Ling Xiao to show Jiang Ming around the sect.
• After Jiang Ming left, Ling Tianfeng declared that Ling Luochen would decide her own marriage and warned Su Bing and his father against harming Ling Xiao or interfering with Jiang Ming.
• Su Bing and his father discussed how Ling Luochen's marriage to Jiang Ming might remove her from the sect, while still considering Ling Xiao's death an opportunity for their plans.
• Ling Xiao showed Jiang Ming Mystic Ice Peak, where Jiang Ming spotted Ice Marrow being used to aid the disciples' cultivation.
• Jiang Ming told Ling Xiao that Ling Luochen would explain their future departure herself, then assured him that his Martial Soul could not backlash while Jiang Ming was present.
• Ling Xiao drank a bottle of Jiang Ming's Spring of Life Wine, felt its powerful life energy, and balked when Jiang Ming said it could be worth a few million Gold Soul Coins.

Jiang Ming treated Ling Xiao to valuable wine that triggered Ling Xiao’s breakthrough to Soul Emperor, but the breakthrough brought on a dangerous Martial Soul backlash. Jiang Ming helped Ling Xiao endure it, removed the corrupting substance behind the backlash, and strengthened Ling Xiao’s Ice Knight Martial Soul.

• Ling Xiao panicked over the wine’s value until Jiang Ming explained that it was a betrothal gift and the bottle had pushed him to the brink of a breakthrough.
• Ling Xiao began breaking through to Soul Emperor, but his Ice Knight Martial Soul suffered a severe backlash, so he chose to endure it to temper his Spiritual Power.
• When Ling Xiao’s pain overwhelmed him, Jiang Ming put him to sleep and suppressed the rampaging Ice Knight after the breakthrough intensified the backlash.
• Jiang Ming pulled a bloody substance linked to an Evil Soul Master from the Ice Knight and suspected the Su Family was involved.
• Jiang Ming strengthened the Ice Knight Martial Soul with frigid energy, improving its power and Ling Xiao’s cultivation prospects.

Jiang Ming resolved Ling Xiao’s Martial Soul backlash and found an evil substance inside him, confirming Ling Tianfeng’s suspicions about a plot within the Xuanbing Sect. While Jiang Ming and Ling Luochen toured Xuanbing City and made ice sculptures, Ling Tianfeng confronted Su Bing and his father.

• Jiang Ming brought the sleeping Ling Xiao to Ling Luochen and Ling Tianfeng, explained that he had resolved the Martial Soul backlash, and showed them the evil substance he had removed.
• Ling Tianfeng suspected that someone close to Ling Xiao had planted the substance and left to deal with those plotting against him.
• Ling Luochen told Jiang Ming that her father wanted them away from the confrontation, so they carried Ling Xiao to Xuanbing City.
• Jiang Ming and Ling Luochen bought blocks of ice and carved sculptures of themselves, Zhang Lexuan, and the other girls.
• Ling Tianfeng surrounded Su Bing and his father inside the Xuanbing Sect and accused them of associating with Evil Soul Masters and endangering Ling Xiao.

Jiang Ming helped Ling Tianfeng recover from Evil Soul Master poison after the Ling Family defeated the Su Family, then spent time with Ling Luochen and her family before leaving Xuanbing City with her. He returned to Clear Water City and considered gifts for his other companions as he prepared to visit them.

• Jiang Ming used Extreme Ice and life-attribute power to heal Ling Tianfeng's arm after Ling Luochen struggled to remove the Evil Soul Master poison.
• Ling Tianfeng gave Ling Luochen her late mother's ice-and-snow Phoenix Hairpin and accepted her decision to meet Jiang Ming's family the next day.
• Ling Xiao gradually warmed to Jiang Ming after receiving gifts and help, then sincerely called him brother-in-law as Jiang Ming and Ling Luochen departed.
• Jiang Ming considered what gifts to prepare for Snow Empress, Liya, and Wang Qiuer before reaching Clear Water City with Ling Luochen.
• Jiang Ming drove into Clear Water City and reflected on returning from his journey with a group of lovely women around him.

Jiang Ming returned to Clear Water City with his partners and reunited with Old Nie and Aunt Lan after nearly twenty years away. He introduced his partners to them and summoned Snow Empress, whose appearance stunned the old couple.

• Jiang Ming entered Clear Water City after a guard inspected his carriage and the captain recognized him as the Young City Lord.
• Jiang Ming and the women admired the city's growth as the carriage traveled to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Jiang Ming embraced Old Nie and Aunt Lan and told them he had returned.
• Jiang Ming introduced Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, Liya, and Wang Qiuer to Aunt Lan.
• Jiang Ming summoned Snow Empress to meet Old Nie and Aunt Lan, and they recognized her with astonishment.

Jiang Ming introduced the Snow Empress as his wife to Nie Heng and Jiang Lan, who struggled to accept that the ruler of the Far North was part of his family. After joining the others at the City Lord's Mansion, Jiang Ming began planning a large-scale defensive soul tool array for Clear Water City.

• Nie Heng and Jiang Lan recognized the Snow Empress as the Ice Sky Snow Emperor, one of the Far North's Three Heavenly Kings.
• Jiang Ming told Nie Heng and Jiang Lan that the Snow Empress and the five other women were all his wives.
• The Snow Empress greeted Nie Heng and Jiang Lan, and Jiang Ming soothed their tension until they could address her as Xue'er.
• Nie Heng left to arrange for the City Lord's Mansion to be expanded, while Jiang Lan joined the women and Jiang Ming left the hall.
• Jiang Ming flew above Clear Water City and used his Fiery Golden Eyes to study its layout for a defensive soul tool array.

Jiang Ming returned to Clear Water City, where the garrison recognized him and learned that he had become a Titled Douluo with the self-chosen title Invincible. He resumed patrolling the city and found Old Nie preparing to expand the City Lord's Mansion because Jiang Ming had brought back so many girls.

• Clear Water City's air-defense squad surrounded Jiang Ming in the sky before Uncle Hu recognized him and called off the squad.
• Jiang Ming told Uncle Hu that he was a Titled Douluo and revealed that his title was Invincible.
• Uncle Hu warned Jiang Ming that choosing such an arrogant title could get him beaten up, and Jiang Ming recalled past battles and planned revenge against the Sun Moon Empire and Di Tian.
• Jiang Ming continued his patrol while Uncle Hu returned to his duties as garrison commander.
• Old Nie arrived at the City Lord's Mansion with a large group, explaining that he planned to add rooms because Jiang Ming had brought back so many girls.

Jiang Ming built four rooms at the City Lord's Mansion and then visited Clear Water City's Advanced Soul Master Academy with Aunt Lan, Zhang Lexuan, and the others. After Wang Qiuer questioned the students' prospects, Aunt Lan asked Jiang Ming to guide them, and he agreed.

• Jiang Ming used his earth and wood abilities to build four rooms at the City Lord's Mansion without releasing his Martial Soul.
• Jiang Ming ran into Aunt Lan, Zhang Lexuan, and the other girls as they headed to Clear Water City's Advanced Soul Master Academy, and he joined them.
• Aunt Lan taught a group of students while Jiang Ming and the others watched; Wang Qiuer questioned whether the students' cultivation levels made them good prospects.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that the students were talented by ordinary standards, and Jiang Ming reflected that Wang Qiuer had little experience with common Soul Masters.
• Aunt Lan invited Jiang Ming to give the students some guidance, and he agreed after they enthusiastically welcomed him.

Jiang Ming began teaching the thirty-seven students by suspending them a hundred meters in the air and forcing them to confront their fear. He then put them through a cultivation challenge under intense pressure and enhanced Heaven and Earth Yuan Power, leaving them to try to gain a level before class ended.

• Jiang Ming sent the thirty-seven students soaring into the air, while Zhang Lexuan reassured Aunt Lan that he knew his limits.
• Jiang Ming ordered the students to stand within a minute and dropped the eleven who failed, secretly catching them fifty meters above the ground.
• Jiang Ming made the eleven students face their fear and stand, then brought them back to join the others.
• Jiang Ming told all thirty-seven students to cultivate and gain a level before class ended, warning that those who failed would face another trip to higher skies.
• Jiang Ming increased the pressure and raised the concentration of Heaven and Earth Yuan Power tenfold, accelerating the students' cultivation.

Jiang Ming put Clear Water City’s students through a high-pressure cultivation lesson, using fear and dense Heaven and Earth Yuan Power to push them toward breakthroughs. After the class ended, he subjected the five students who had not broken through to a terrifying fall from one thousand meters, and he and Snow Empress sensed something in the distant Far North.

• Jiang Ming explained to Snow Empress that his lesson could stimulate the students’ existing potential but would not greatly change their limits.
• As students broke through, Jiang Ming let them choose whether to return to the ground or continue cultivating; ten chose to leave, then regretted missing the opportunity after learning he had graduated from Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming increased the pressure and Heaven and Earth Yuan Power around the remaining students, helping them continue cultivating until class ended.
• Jiang Ming took the five Soul Elders who had not broken through to one thousand meters and sent them plummeting; three broke through during the fall and landed safely, while the other two resumed meditation under his ten-minute ultimatum.
• Jiang Ming and Snow Empress turned their attention toward the distant Far North.

Jiang Ming and Snow Empress stopped a Beast Tide approaching Clear Water City and learned that its leader, a Snowy Wind Ape, claimed humans bearing Clear Water City's garrison insignia had captured Soul Beast young. Nie Heng denied sending the Defense Force into the Far North, leaving the cause of the attack unresolved.

• Jiang Ming sensed an unusual disturbance in the Far North, took Zhang Lexuan and the others to Clear Water City's north gate, and warned Nie Heng that more than a thousand Soul Beasts were approaching.
• Jiang Ming went to the front of the Beast Tide, and Snow Empress revealed her true form and halted the Soul Beasts with her aura.
• Snow Empress summoned the Beast Tide's commander, and the Snowy Wind Ape said it had attacked because humans wearing Clear Water City's garrison insignia had captured its clansmen and other Soul Beast young.
• Jiang Ming returned to the wall to question Nie Heng, who denied that Clear Water City had sent its Defense Force into the Far North or captured any Soul Beast young.

Jiang Ming discovered that Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers had impersonated Clear Water City's garrison to slaughter Soul Beasts and provoke a conflict. After rescuing captive Soul Beast cubs in Ice Snow City, he headed back into the Far North as the perpetrators targeted the Ice Bear Clan.

• Jiang Ming examined the Snowy Wind Ape's memories with the Snow Empress and recognized the attackers' Soul Tool techniques as those of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Ming warned Nie Heng that the slaughter was likely part of a plot to inflame the Soul Beasts against Clear Water City, then promised to deal with it himself.
• After a week in Clear Water City, Jiang Ming, Zhang Lexuan, and the women set out for the Sun Moon Empire.
• In Ice Snow City, Jiang Ming used Spiritual Power to find and control several Soul Engineers, learning the locations of their accomplices and the captured Soul Beast cubs.
• Jiang Ming rescued the injured cubs from an underground prison and stored them in the Small World.
• The Soul Engineers in the Far North turned their attention to the Ice Bear Clan.

Jiang Ming stopped a Sun Moon Empire team impersonating Clear Water City’s defense force from killing Ice Bears and learned that Xu Tianran had ordered the operation. He sent the controlled Soul Masters back to Radiant City with a Class 8 Incendiary Fixed Soul Cannonball, which exploded in the imperial palace as Xu Tianran awaited their report.

• A group of Soul Masters in Clear Water City Defense Force uniforms attacked an Ice Bear family to provoke the Far North’s Soul Beasts and capture the cubs.
• Jiang Ming appeared in time to shield the female Ice Bear, subdued the attackers, and used Mind Control to learn that Xu Tianran’s side had ordered the operation.
• Jiang Ming sent the controlled Soul Masters back to Radiant City with a concealed Class 8 Incendiary Fixed Soul Cannonball and asked A Tai to help guard the Far North.
• After crossing the Far North with the Snow Empress and the others, Jiang Ming’s controlled Soul Sage entered Xu Tianran’s palace claiming to have intelligence about Jiang Ming.
• The Soul Sage triggered Self-Destruction and detonated the cannonball, engulfing the imperial palace hall in an explosion and flames.