Chapter Summaries

After Emperor Xue Ye died, Xue Qinghe took the throne with Ye Xi’s support and ordered the Heaven Dou Empire’s vassal states to submit or face conquest. Qian Renxue then left the palace with Ye Xi to return to Frost Snow Pavilion, where the Evil Eye Holy King sensed Gu Yuena nearby.

• After Emperor Xue Ye’s death was announced, Xue Qinghe claimed an Imperial Edict named him as successor, and Ye Xi’s sword and the Imperial Guards silenced objections to an immediate coronation.
• Half an hour later, Xue Qinghe became emperor and issued an Imperial Edict demanding that the Heaven Dou Empire’s vassal states submit or face the imperial army.
• Xue Qinghe declined to take Gold Soul Coins from the Imperial Treasury and told her double to temporarily rule as Xue Qinghe until the vassal-state issue was resolved.
• Qian Renxue and Ye Xi left the palace for Frost Snow Pavilion, where Qian Renxue planned a celebration and went to write a letter to Papal Hall.
• At Lake Heart Pavilion, the Evil Eye Holy King sensed someone, while Gu Yuena stopped on a busy street and exchanged a distant gaze with him before continuing with Wang Qiu'er and Xiao Wu.

Ye Xi and Qian Renxue held a banquet for Frost Snow Pavilion’s senior members, while the Evil Eye Holy King left the celebration to meet Gu Yuena. He denied betraying the soul beast race and said he had never had a choice.

• Gu Yuena sensed several divine inheritors nearby, and the Evil Eye Holy King recognized her and decided not to alert the Enforcer.
• Ye Xi instructed Tian Yao and Dugu Yan to prepare a lavish banquet for Frost Snow Pavilion’s senior members.
• Qian Renxue and Ye Xi hosted the banquet, where Ye Qingxue reflected on joining Frost Snow Pavilion and Huo Wushuang annoyed Huo Wu by saying he had never thought she was pretty.
• The Evil Eye Holy King slipped away from the banquet and met Gu Yuena in a forest outside Heaven Dou City.
• Gu Yuena questioned whether his Shura God aura meant he had betrayed the soul beast race, and the Evil Eye Holy King said he had never wronged them and had never had a choice.

After Xue Qinghe ceded the Heaven Dou Empire to Bibi Dong, turning it into the Spirit Hall Empire, the Star Luo Empire and Frost Snow Pavilion prepared for the consequences. Ye Xi gathered Frost Snow Pavilion’s leaders and asked them what they thought of Spirit Hall, leaving their response unresolved.

• Gu Yuena left after warning the Evil Eye Holy King to take care of himself, and he returned to Frost Snow Pavilion after the banquet ended.
• The vassal states submitted to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family or were subdued, restoring peace until Bibi Dong arrived in Heaven Dou City and Xue Qinghe announced his abdication to her.
• The Star Luo Great Emperor raged over Xue Qinghe’s decision, ordered troops to the border, and warned that Frost Snow Pavilion might also submit to Spirit Hall.
• Zhu Zhuqing told the Frost Snow Pavilion Branch Hall in Star Luo City to withdraw quietly and remain hidden within the Star Luo Empire.
• Ye Qingxue raised Frost Snow Pavilion’s stance toward Spirit Hall, and Ye Xi asked the gathered leaders for their thoughts.

Ye Xi secured the higher-ups’ agreement to merge Frost Snow Pavilion into Spirit Hall, then learned that the Heaven Dou Empire would soon become the Spirit Hall Empire. Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong assigned Ye Xi responsibility for Spirit Hall’s government affairs, leaving her unable to escape the work she had hoped to avoid.

• Ye Xi revealed that she came from Spirit Hall’s Qian Family and announced that Frost Snow Pavilion would merge into Spirit Hall.
• Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and the other higher-ups agreed to follow Ye Xi, finalizing the merger without anyone choosing to leave.
• Ye Xi and Ling Yuan visited Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City and confirmed that Frost Snow Pavilion’s merger had gone smoothly.
• Bibi Dong explained that Xue Qinghe would abdicate in three days, beginning the establishment of the Spirit Hall Empire, and said Qian Renxue would become Pontiff.
• Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong listed the people managing Frost Snow Pavilion’s territories and branches, then told Ye Xi that Spirit Hall’s government affairs would be her responsibility.

Bibi Dong renamed the Heaven Dou Empire as the Spirit Hall Empire and granted Ye Xi the Far North Land as her fief. Meanwhile, Black Feather learned that the Holy Cult’s leader had arrived and warned Shui Bing'er and Azure Luan.

• Ye Xi considered assigning Spirit Hall’s government affairs to Qian Daoliu so she and Qian Renxue could focus on their divine examinations.
• A Black Robed Figure invited Black Feather to join the Holy Cult, but she refused and learned that its leader had arrived and that the cult could contend with Spirit Hall.
• Black Feather reported the warning to Shui Bing'er and Azure Luan, who considered increasing the Worship Hall’s presence.
• Xue Qinghe yielded the throne to Bibi Dong, who declared the Spirit Hall Empire’s new name, capital, and administrative orders.
• Bibi Dong granted Ye Xi the title of princess and the Far North Land as her fief, while Ye Xi began thinking of ways to develop it using other people’s money.

Ye Xi proposed sending former nobles to develop the Far North, then returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue. After Qian Renxue became Pope and entered the Angel Secret Realm with Ye Xi, the Shura God warned Ye Xi that the seal holding the Golden Dragon King was failing; a month later, a letter from Snow Territory City brought Ye Xi out of the realm with a troubled expression.

• Ye Xi asked Bibi Dong about punishing the former Heaven Dou Empire's nobles and suggested sending them to develop the Far North.
• Ye Xi left Ling Yuan at Frost Snow Pavilion and traveled back to Spirit City with Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue.
• The Shura God told Ye Xi that the seal in the Forbidden God Land was failing and urged her to reach Soul Douluo so she could absorb the soul bones he had given her.
• Qian Renxue became Pope of Spirit Hall, then entered the Angel Secret Realm with Ye Xi while Qian Daoliu managed Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong and the Star Luo Empire moved their armies to the border, creating a tense standoff that lasted through a month of relative peace.
• A letter from Snow Territory City drew Ye Xi out of the Angel Secret Realm, and she read it with a furrowed brow.

Ye Xi strengthened her ties with the Far North Land and watched the Spirit Hall Empire and Star Luo Empire move toward war. As both empires prepared their forces, she chose to defend Jialing Pass and hinted that Frost Snow Pavilion’s people were still inside the Star Luo Empire.

• Ye Xi sent She Long to deliver Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to the Snow Empress and reassure her that the Ice Empress was safe.
• Over the next three years, Bibi Dong established the Spirit Hall Empire, Ye Xi reached Soul Douluo rank and learned to make level-seven Soul Tools, and tensions with the Star Luo Empire grew.
• At Jialing Pass, Ye Xi told Hu Liena to strengthen patrols and defend the city rather than attack, hinting that Frost Snow Pavilion’s Branch Hall remained inside the Star Luo Empire.
• Ye Xi arranged chess pieces at her temporary residence and waited to see who would lose patience first.
• At the Star Luo border, the Star Luo Great Emperor approved the Great General’s plan and warned that they had to succeed.

The Star Luo Empire launched a surprise attack on Jialing Pass, but Spirit Hall’s defenders repelled them with Soul Tool Cannons and powerful soul masters. Ye Xi directed the defense and left the Star Luo Great Emperor fallen among his troops as Guimei and Ci Xue pursued him.

• The Star Luo Great Emperor led his army toward Jialing Pass under cover of heavy rain, intending to catch its defenders off guard.
• A Temple Knight spotted the approaching army and ordered the city’s defenses to prepare, including bringing Soul Tool Cannons to the walls.
• The Temple Knight Order fired the Soul Tool Cannons as the Star Luo army entered range, then rained arrows on the attackers below the walls.
• The Star Luo Great Emperor charged toward the wall, where Ye Xi and Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo and worshippers confronted him.
• Ye Xi declined Hu Liena’s offer to lead a counterattack outside the city, then used her Martial Soul Avatar and Ice Sword Judgment against the Star Luo army.
• The Star Luo Great Emperor fell into the bloody battlefield, and Guimei and Ci Xue charged after him.

Ye Xi’s weather-manipulating soul skill helped Jialing Pass repel the Star Luo Empire’s first assault, prompting its emperor to consider cutting the defenders’ supply route. Meanwhile, four sects planned to strike Star Luo City and debated whether Zhu Zhuqing should join them.

• Ye Xi froze Jialing Pass and turned the rain into hail, helping the defenders drive back the Star Luo army after it suffered heavy losses.
• The Star Luo Great Emperor ordered the army to withdraw, then learned its provisions would last about half a month as the Great General suggested cutting off Jialing Pass’s supply route.
• The Black Tiger Sect Master met with Zhu Zhuqing, Fire Flame Leopard, Feng Bailong, and the Sparrow Bee Sect Master to plan an attack on Star Luo City after intercepting a supply shipment.
• The Black Tiger Sect Master and Sparrow Bee Sect Master dismissed Zhu Zhuqing’s offer to help, but Feng Bailong argued that her ties to the Zhu Clan might prove useful.

Ye Xi planned to trap the Star Luo Empire army at the border by capturing Star Luo City and cutting off its supplies, while her allies prepared an ambush on a supply convoy. The chapter ended as the convoy entered their forest encirclement.

• Feng Bailong sent Ye Xi a letter reporting the plan to seize supplies and capture Star Luo City.
• After reading the letter, Ye Xi gathered her senior officials and discussed leaving three hundred thousand soldiers to defend Jialing Pass while sending the rest behind enemy lines if Star Luo City fell.
• The Temple Knight said the plan was feasible if Star Luo City was captured and the supply lines were cut, but warned that a failed attempt could leave their own army trapped.
• Ye Xi returned to her residence and spoke with Hu Liena about resolving the Star Luo Empire conflict, while waiting for news of Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong's trials.
• Fire Flame Leopard, Feng Bailong, and the Black Tiger Sect and Sparrow Bee Sect leaders hid their forces in a forest to ambush the supply convoy.
• At night, an armored troop escorting supplies entered the forest, and the ambushers prepared to strike.

Feng Bailong’s forces ambushed a supply convoy and then entered Star Luo City with the Nether Duke’s cooperation. They took control of the imperial palace and attacked the Star Luo Empress, who was left injured and asked them to wait.

• Feng Bailong and his soul masters ambushed the supply escort, defeated it, and sent the supplies back to the Black Tiger Sect.
• The Star Luo Empress considered the Star Luo Empire’s likely defeat and whether the Nether Duke’s Mansion could surrender through Zhu Zhuqing’s ties to Frost Snow Pavilion.
• An imperial guard reported that the Wind Sword Sect, Fire Leopard Sect, Black Tiger Sect, and Sparrow Bee Sect had entered the palace after the Nether Duke opened the city gates.
• Feng Bailong urged the Star Luo Empress to surrender, while the Black Tiger Sect’s Sect Master attacked her and the other sect leaders joined the fight.
• The four Soul Douluo overwhelmed the Star Luo Empress, and after she was struck into a palace wall, she asked them to wait.

After Star Luo City changed hands, Ye Xi received the news at Jialing Pass and sent most of its forces through Space Rifts toward the Star Luo Empire. She and Ling Yuan launched a night raid on a border city, setting fires and burning the army’s provisions before the guards spotted someone appearing in midair.

• The Star Luo Empress agreed to Feng Bailong’s proposal, and Star Luo City changed hands; Feng Bailong and Fire Flame Leopard then led their sects toward the border.
• Ling Yuan delivered a message from Star Luo City to Ye Xi, who ordered the forces at Jialing Pass to prepare for action.
• Ye Xi opened two Space Rifts and sent four hundred thousand troops and nearly one hundred thousand soul masters toward the Star Luo Empire, while three hundred thousand stayed to defend Jialing Pass.
• Ye Xi and Ling Yuan entered a border city at night, where Ling Yuan set buildings ablaze and Ye Xi found and soaked the army’s provisions in fire oil.
• Ye Xi ignited the provisions and escaped through a Space Rift, but the guards noticed the fire and saw a figure appear in midair.

Ye Xi and Ling Yuan raided the Star Luo Empire’s border camp, burning its provisions, while Qian Renxue visited Jialing Pass after completing her eighth Angel Trial. With the Star Luo army’s retreat route blocked and supplies nearly gone, the Star Luo Great Emperor ordered an all-out assault on Jialing Pass.

• Ye Xi attacked the Star Luo army with Ice Sword Judgment, set its provisions ablaze, and escaped through a Space Rift as the troops counterattacked.
• The Star Luo Great Emperor ordered his forces to extinguish the fire and tally their losses; the Great General reported that their provisions would last only about seven days.
• At Jialing Pass, Qian Renxue told Ye Xi she had completed the eighth Angel Trial, and Ye Xi described the raid while privately dwelling on her desire to push her Big Sister down.
• Qian Chen wondered whether Qian Renxue was bullying Ye Xi, but Ling Yuan picked him up and took him away before he could listen further.
• Three days later, the Star Luo Great Emperor learned that Star Luo City’s retreat route was blocked and ordered his troops to eat their fill and attack Jialing Pass at all costs.

Qian Renxue and Ye Xi broke the Star Luo Empire’s siege of Jialing Pass by holding out until its army ran out of food, and Ling Yuan and Guangling killed the Star Luo Great Emperor. As Ye Xi arranged the surrender and aftermath, Qian Renxue redirected the task to Shui Wuchang because Ye Qingxue was overwhelmed with government affairs in Spirit City.

• Qian Renxue and Ye Xi watched the starving Star Luo Empire launch a costly assault on Jialing Pass, while the defenders repelled attacks day and night.
• By the third day, the Star Luo army’s morale had collapsed, and its attacks weakened as supplies ran out.
• By the tenth day, Ye Xi offered food to soldiers who surrendered, and the Star Luo troops laid down their weapons one after another.
• The Star Luo Great Emperor charged at Ye Xi, but Ling Yuan and Guangling fought him in midair and killed him, ending the Star Luo Empire’s resistance.
• Ye Xi ordered the surrendering soldiers accepted, the holdouts buried, and compensation sent to fallen soldiers’ families; Qian Renxue suggested Shui Wuchang handle the aftermath instead of Ye Qingxue.
• In Spirit City, Ye Qingxue struggled to manage the government affairs of the Spirit Hall Empire, Spirit Hall, and Frost Snow Pavilion, and wished Ye Xi would return.

Ye Qingxue struggled with the empire’s growing workload until Ye Xi and Qian Renxue assigned others to help. Months later, Ye Xi received requests for support from Tian Yao and Ye Lingling, and decided to help Ye Lingling first before gathering reinforcements to face the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

• Ye Qingxue asked Qian Renxue and Ye Xi to find people to share the government work, so Hu Liena, Niu Gao, Yang Wushuang, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian joined her.
• The Spirit Hall Empire’s army took over the Star Luo Empire’s territory while Ye Xi cultivated until her Soul Power reached level eighty-eight.
• Ling Yuan delivered letters from Tian Yao and Ye Lingling, both requesting support against soul beasts.
• Ye Xi decided to help Ye Lingling first, then gather allies, including the Snow Empress, to confront the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• On Sea God Island, Tian Yao told Xiao Bai she had asked Ye Xi for reinforcements to help with her trial against the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.

Ye Xi joined Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan in the Healing Forest to help complete Ye Lingling’s trial for the Cloud Dream Glazed Grass. She used her Spatial Ability to take the grass past the Thousand-Legged Demon Dragon, earning trial rewards before the three left the valley.

• Ye Xi reached the Healing Forest and met Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan, who explained that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast guarded the Cloud Dream Glazed Grass required for Ye Lingling’s trial.
• Ye Xi activated the trial’s companion slot at an emerald-green stone pillar, then followed Ye Lingling to the valley where the Thousand-Legged Demon Dragon guarded the grass.
• Ye Xi and the others provoked the Thousand-Legged Demon Dragon into charging the barrier, then Ye Xi used Space Rifts to take the Cloud Dream Glazed Grass.
• Ye Lingling completed the trial, and she, Dugu Yan, and Ye Xi received rewards that increased their Soul Rings and Soul Power.
• Ye Xi, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan left the valley, while the enraged Thousand-Legged Demon Dragon remained trapped behind the light curtain.

Ye Xi set out for the sea with the Evil Eye Holy King to seek help for her test, while the God Realm’s seal on the Forbidden God Land neared collapse. The Rakshasa God considered easing her inheritor’s final test so she could retire before the seal broke.

• Ye Xi declined Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan’s offer to accompany her, and Dugu Yan joked that she would rely on her friends for support.
• The Evil Eye Holy King told Ye Xi that he had orders to accompany her to the sea, then carried her onward as her mount.
• Ye Xi asked the Evil Eye Holy King about his strength, and he claimed he could defeat eight Deep Sea Demonic Whale Kings with one claw.
• The Ice God reported that the seal of the Forbidden God Land would not hold much longer, and the God Kings and main gods gathered before it.
• The Rakshasa God considered lowering the difficulty of her inheritor’s test so she could retire before the seal broke, and the Angel God suspected she was planning to escape.

Ye Xi returned to Sea God Island and helped Tian Yao obtain the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s Soul Ring, raising her own Soul Power to level ninety. The Shura God ordered the Evil Eye Holy King to sacrifice himself to Ye Xi, and she began absorbing his ancient, powerful Soul Ring.

• Ye Xi arrived on Sea God Island with the Evil Eye Holy King, met Bo Saixi, and found Tian Yao at the Ring-Shaped Sea.
• Ye Xi sent the Evil Eye Holy King to capture the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and he brought the badly injured whale back to the island.
• Xiao Bai punched the injured Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Tian Yao delivered the final blow before absorbing his Soul Ring.
• The Sea God rewarded Ye Xi for helping Tian Yao complete her trial, raising her Soul Power to the level-ninety bottleneck.
• The Shura God ordered the Evil Eye Holy King to sacrifice himself, and Ye Xi reluctantly began absorbing his Soul Ring despite struggling against its unfamiliar energy.

After absorbing the Evil Eye Holy King's soul ring, Ye Xi underwent her martial soul's final transformation and awakened memories of her origin in the God Realm's war against the Dragon God. She completed the Shura Fourth Trial, received a new trial in Slaughter City, and left thinking she might be strong enough to reverse her sister's actions.

• Demon Empress mourned the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, vowed revenge on Sea God Island, and took Lan Fuzi toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tian Yao gained four levels from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's soul ring and found a Torso Bone and Whale Pearl in his corpse.
• Ye Xi finished absorbing the Evil Eye Holy King's soul ring, gained seven levels and four soul skills, then fell asleep as her martial soul began its final transformation.
• Ye Xi awakened with the Twelve-Winged Slaughtering Angel and recalled that she had struck the Dragon God during the God Realm's war before the Angel God sent her to the mortal world.
• The Shura God declared Ye Xi's Fourth Trial complete, raised her Soul Power and soul rings, and assigned her the Fifth Trial in Slaughter City.
• Ye Xi reached level ninety-eight, considered trying to reverse her sister's actions, and went with Tian Yao to catch fish; in the Angel Secret Realm, Qian Renxue sneezed and wondered if Xi Er was thinking of her.

After the Far North fell, Ye Qingxue alerted Spirit Hall, and Qian Daoliu dispatched reinforcements while going to assess the situation himself. Ye Xi left Sea God Island for Slaughter City, where she ordered her hall restored before beginning her Shura God trial.

• Ye Qingxue learned that the Far North had fallen and reported the situation to Golden Crocodile and the Offerings and Elders.
• After returning to Worship Hall, Qian Daoliu ordered Guangling, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo to lead fifty thousand soul masters north as reinforcements, then headed to the Far North himself.
• Ye Xi asked Tian Yao to protect Xiao Bai from the Deep Sea Demonic Whales before leaving Sea God Island through a Space Rift.
• Ye Xi returned to Slaughter City and reprimanded the guest official who had remodeled the Slaughter King's hall in pink, ordering him to change it back.
• Ye Xi entered the blood-red barrier before the Shura God statue and began her trial, causing her killing intent to surge.