Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao examined Mother Jiang and confirmed that her illness had been cured, while Jiang Nannan awkwardly concealed Tang Ya’s embarrassing dreams about him. Mother Jiang invited Huo Yuhao to dinner to thank him as she prepared to leave the Medical Hall.

• Jiang Nannan urged Mother Jiang to rest until Huo Yuhao could examine her.
• Huo Yuhao examined Mother Jiang and confirmed that she had recovered, advising her to recuperate at home and avoid strenuous exercise for two months.
• Jiang Nannan revealed that she and Tang Ya were roommates, then nervously told Huo Yuhao that Tang Ya praised his abilities.
• Mother Jiang invited Huo Yuhao to dinner to celebrate her discharge and thank him, and he accepted.

Huo Yuhao visited Jiang Nannan and her mother after Mother Jiang left the hospital, cooked dinner, and heard about a strange aftereffect of her heart treatment. The evening ended with Mother Jiang passing out after trying alcohol for the first time.

• Huo Yuhao insisted on helping at the Jiang home and took over cooking while Jiang Nannan cleaned.
• Mother Jiang privately told Huo Yuhao that her skin had become unusually thick after her heart was cured, and he suggested moderate drinking to help her adjust.
• Jiang Nannan went to buy wine for her mother, and Mother Jiang invited Huo Yuhao to visit them again.
• Huo Yuhao served dinner, and Jiang Nannan praised his cooking after tasting it.
• Mother Jiang drank a small glass of wine and soon collapsed onto the table, leaving Huo Yuhao and Jiang Nannan exchanging a stunned glance.

Huo Yuhao carried the drunken Mother Jiang to her bedroom, where her intoxicated behavior left him bewildered and uncomfortable. Jiang Nannan walked in on them in an intimate-looking position and demanded to know what they were doing.

• Huo Yuhao confirmed that Mother Jiang was drunk, and Jiang Nannan asked him to carry her to bed.
• As Huo Yuhao carried Mother Jiang, she grew warm and loosened her clothing while he struggled to keep his composure.
• Huo Yuhao laid Mother Jiang on the bed, but she held him close and invited him to stay, claiming it might help her recover.
• Jiang Nannan entered, saw her mother embracing Huo Yuhao, and asked in shock what they were doing.

Huo Yuhao stayed overnight with Jiang Nannan and her mother while treating Mother Jiang’s aftereffects, and Jiang Nannan asked him to visit often. He returned home exhausted, where Gu Yue Na suspected he had treated the illness while embracing the patient.

• Jiang Nannan thanked Huo Yuhao for helping her mother and asked him to come to their home often.
• While Huo Yuhao bathed, Jiang Nannan told him that a Secluded Sect had offered to save her mother in exchange for Jiang Nannan herself.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to visit without payment, then shared a bed with Mother Jiang as she clung to him and asked if he wanted to treat her as before.
• Huo Yuhao returned home the next morning and told Huo Yun'er he had stayed late at the Medical Hall treating a patient.
• Tang Ya grew flustered when Gu Yue Na glanced at her, and Gu Yue Na sniffed Huo Yuhao before asking whether he had treated the patient while hugging her.

Huo Yuhao taught Tang Ya to circulate life force through damaged plants, and she created a life-infused Blue Silver Grass gift for him. Gu Yue Na sensed the Dragon King Remains beneath the Icefire Yin Yang Well and explained that the spring had formed from their leaking power.

• Huo Yuhao guided Tang Ya and Gu Yue Na through the forest to a clearing damaged by a battle between Soul Beasts.
• Huo Yuhao taught Tang Ya to draw life force from healthy plants and use it to revive damaged ones, while keeping some as payment.
• Tang Ya restored the forest and gave Huo Yuhao a life-infused Blue Silver Grass, kissing his cheek before continuing her work.
• Gu Yue Na sensed something deep in the forest, and Huo Yuhao identified the location as the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Yue Na revealed that the site held Dragon King Remains and said the spring had formed from power leaking from them.

Gu Yue Na took Huo Yuhao to the Icefire Yin Yang Well so he could absorb some of the Ice Dragon King's remains and evolve his Ice Attribute Martial Soul. After arriving, she confronted the plant Soul Beasts and forced the pink flower to beg for mercy.

• Gu Yue Na told Huo Yuhao that the Ice Dragon King's remains could help evolve his Ice Attribute Martial Soul, and Huo Yuhao thanked her.
• Gu Yue Na said Huo Yuhao could absorb enough of the Ice Dragon King's energy for one Martial Soul evolution and took his hand to open a Space Rift.
• Gu Yue Na and Huo Yuhao appeared beside the Icefire Yin Yang Well, where the pink flower demanded to know who they were and how they had entered.
• Gu Yue Na accused the plants of being livestock and parasites, then unleashed pressure that made them tremble.
• The pink flower begged Gu Yue Na to stop and admitted it was wrong.

Gu Yue Na and Huo Yuhao confronted the plant Soul Beasts at the Icefire Yin Yang Well, and Huo Yuhao challenged You You’s belief that the Poison Barrier protected them. Gu Yue Na drew out the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remaining power, then began Huo Yuhao’s simultaneous absorption of their energies.

• Gu Yue Na forced the plant Soul Beasts to kneel, while Huo Yuhao spoke with You You and questioned whether the plants were truly free to leave.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yue Na approached the Cold Spring, where Gu Yue Na prepared him to absorb its power.
• Gu Yue Na awakened the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ energy beneath the springs, causing the valley to shake and the water to surge.
• Gu Yue Na condensed the Dragon Kings’ power into two Dragon Pills and absorbed their Divine Souls to restore her strength.
• Gu Yue Na sent balanced wisps of energy from both Dragon Pills into Huo Yuhao, and he was overwhelmed by excruciating pain.

Huo Yuhao endured the Dragon Kings’ energy and evolved his Ice Element Martial Soul into a powerful ice Dragon Martial Soul, with Gu Yue Na protecting him. Afterward, he offered the plant Soul Beasts a chance to leave the Icefire Yin Yang Well by becoming human Soul Spirits, then prepared to depart with Gu Yue Na.

• Gu Yue Na assured the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass that Huo Yuhao would survive absorbing the Dragon Kings’ energy, while explaining she was betting on a future she had seen in him.
• As Huo Yuhao neared his limit, golden light appeared and Skydream Iceworm shared the burden of the energy inside his Spiritual Space.
• Huo Yuhao’s Ice Element Martial Soul evolved, covering his forearms in crystal-like Dragon Scales and giving him silver-white eyes with vertical pupils.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Gu Yue Na and recognized the strength of his evolved Martial Soul, then she put away the two Dragon Pills and took his hand.
• Huo Yuhao offered the plant Soul Beasts help becoming Soul Spirits and finding suitable hosts, then left with Gu Yue Na.

Huo Yuhao received his second soul ring from Skydream Iceworm and reached level twenty, then planned a trip to the Far North Land to visit friends and seek out the Snow Empress. Gu Yue Na stayed behind as Skydream urged Huo Yuhao to teach him how to get closer to her.

• Skydream Iceworm gave Huo Yuhao a second soul ring and explained that it granted Simulation and another unknown Soul Skill.
• Skydream insulted the Ferocious Beasts until Huo Yuhao noticed Gu Yue Na listening at the workshop door, prompting Skydream to flee into Huo Yuhao's chest.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on his life over the past two years, including Jiang Wan Jun's recovery, and said he had reached level twenty and planned to travel to the Far North Land.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yue Na he wanted to visit friends and meet the Snow Empress alone, and Gu Yue Na asked him to come back early.
• Skydream asked Huo Yuhao to teach him how to win Gu Yue Na over, then warned that the people around Huo Yuhao might devour him whole.

An Lengye and her grandfather fled the Far North Land after witnessing Huo Yuhao and Skydream confront the Ice Empress. In the Core Region, Ice Empress agreed to become Huo Yuhao’s soul spirit, and he asked her to contact Snow Empress before the events that once led to her capture could happen.

• An Lengye spotted a young man in the blizzard, then her grandfather sensed danger and carried her away as a golden pillar and emerald clouds erupted across the snowfield.
• An Lengye’s grandfather explained that the terrifying presences belonged to hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, and they returned to the edge of the Far North Land without securing her Soul Ring.
• In a cave, Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao what to do after accepting the Soul Spirit Contract, while Skydream Iceworm urged him to begin.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ice Empress to contact Snow Empress, hoping to prevent the events that had led to her capture in his previous life.
• Ice Empress warned Huo Yuhao that Snow Empress would be extremely difficult to persuade and might endanger his life.

Huo Yuhao asked Snow Empress to become his Soul Spirit and proved his connection to her by performing her Emperor Sword technique. Snow Empress questioned how he knew the move, and Huo Yuhao began to demonstrate another technique.

• Ice Empress contacted Snow Empress and asked her to come to the Far North Land.
• Snow Empress arrived, heard that Ice Empress had chosen to become Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit, and refused Huo Yuhao's request for herself.
• Huo Yuhao activated his Second Martial Soul and formed an Ice Sword, making Snow Empress recognize the weapon.
• Huo Yuhao used Emperor Sword to carve a trench through the snow, shocking Ice Empress and prompting Snow Empress to ask how he learned it.
• Huo Yuhao told Snow Empress that she had taught him the technique, and she asked whether he knew her other move.
• Huo Yuhao gathered the surrounding chill into his left hand to demonstrate the other move.

Huo Yuhao persuaded Snow Empress to consider becoming his soul spirit, then began the process of transferring Ice Empress's Soul Bone. Snow Empress learned that Huo Yuhao had refused the Star Dou Great Forest Soul Beast Matriarch's offer to accompany him because he had come to the Far North to make friends.

• Huo Yuhao demonstrated Emperor Cold Sky and told Snow Empress he would return for her answer after she handled matters in the Far North Land.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection Sharing to warn Snow Empress that humans might capture her if she transformed into human form, and she thanked him for the warning.
• Snow Empress agreed to stand guard while Ice Empress began transferring her Soul Bone into Huo Yuhao.
• Snow Empress asked Skydream Iceworm how he had met Huo Yuhao, and Skydream explained that Huo Yuhao had entered the Mixed Region of the Star Dou Great Forest without a Soul Ring.
• Skydream told Snow Empress that Huo Yuhao knew the Soul Beast Matriarch and had refused her offer to come with him because he had come to the Far North to make friends.
• Snow Empress stared at Huo Yuhao and called him an idiot.

Huo Yuhao discovered that the Greed Origin had altered Ice Empress's torso bone, allowing it to evolve by absorbing higher-quality matching soul bones or energy. At Shrek Academy, Zhang Lexuan claimed a mission to investigate disappearances in Auspicious Snow City.

• The Greed Origin fused with Ice Empress's torso bone and changed it into a deep green-gold soul bone that could evolve.
• Huo Yuhao explained that the soul bone could absorb only matching soul bones of higher quality, while stronger energy might also raise its age.
• Huo Yuhao considered using the Greed Origin to strengthen the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone and its Ice Burst Technique.
• Two Inner Courtyard Disciples read a mission about suspected Evil Soul Masters behind disappearances in Auspicious Snow City and discussed taking it.
• Zhang Lexuan approached the disciples and asked them to give her the Auspicious Snow City mission.

After Huo Yuhao woke from a ten-day collapse, Snow Empress gave him the Hundred Thousand Year Snow Lotus meant for her transformation and watched him absorb it. The lotus became his third soul ring for the Ice Emperor Martial Soul, and he was left stunned by how much his appearance had changed.

• Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao he had slept for ten days and handed him the Hundred Thousand Year Snow Lotus she had found.
• Huo Yuhao accepted the lotus and released his Ice Emperor Martial Soul, whose scales changed after absorbing Ice Empress.
• Huo Yuhao named the martial soul the Ice Emperor and warned that the Snow Lotus might not be strong enough to trigger another qualitative transformation.
• Huo Yuhao smoothly absorbed the Snow Lotus as a blood-colored soul ring, gaining faint lotus-petal patterns on his scales but no Soul Bone.
• Snow Empress showed Huo Yuhao his reflection in an ice mirror, and he stared in disbelief at his changed face.

After absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Snow Lotus, Huo Yuhao found that his appearance and Ice Element perception had improved, then parted from Snow Empress with a promise to return and tell her stories. In Auspicious Snow City, he spotted a suspicious Evil Soul Master following him and lured him into an ambush, ending with Huo Yuhao confronting him.

• Huo Yuhao saw that the Snow Lotus had transformed his appearance and strengthened his perception of the Ice Element.
• Snow Empress embraced Huo Yuhao and asked him to tell her stories of the past next time he visited.
• In Auspicious Snow City, Huo Yuhao noticed a gloomy man following him and suspected the man was an Evil Soul Master.
• Huo Yuhao entered a barbecue restaurant and ate a huge meal while the man waited across the street.
• The man tried to grab Huo Yuhao outside, but his hand passed through an illusion, and Huo Yuhao appeared behind him with golden-lit eyes and two deep purple Soul Rings.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated a hideout of Evil Soul Masters who planned to abuse and kill him, while a young recruit objected to their cruelty. After Jiang Shu ordered the recruit to kill Huo Yuhao or die, Huo Yuhao revealed himself and killed the burly man, then told the young man he had done nothing wrong.

• A gloomy man carried the seemingly unconscious Huo Yuhao into a hideout occupied by Jiang Shu and seven other Soul Masters.
• Jiang Shu and the others admired Huo Yuhao's appearance and planned to take him to a room, while one young man urged them to release him.
• Jiang Shu defended the group's revenge and ordered the young man to kill Huo Yuhao as a test of loyalty.
• The young man broke down, asking why he had to hurt others just to survive.
• Huo Yuhao sprang into action and slit the burly man's throat with a dagger.
• Huo Yuhao faced the stunned group and told the young man that he had done nothing wrong.

Huo Yuhao exposed Jiang Shu’s attempted betrayal and fought off his men with powerful soul skills. The chapter ended as Jiang Shu struck at him and discovered that Huo Yuhao’s Soul Rings had changed.

• Jiang Shu pretended to make peace with Huo Yuhao, then attacked him when he turned away.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Interference, Soul Impact, and Arrogance Original Sin to halt Jiang Shu and leave the gang’s Great Soul Masters too frightened to intervene.
• Huo Yuhao used Life Thread Silk to pull Jiang Shu toward him and fling the young man who had spoken for him into a room with five civilians.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed Eternal Frozen Domain, freezing the Great Soul Masters while Jiang Shu and the Soul Ancestor continued fighting.
• Jiang Shu charged Huo Yuhao with a blood-colored sphere, then saw Huo Yuhao’s Soul Rings change.

Huo Yuhao defeated Jiang Shu and the other captors, freed the prisoners, and encouraged the young man not to abandon his beliefs despite the cruelty of the world. After leaving the room, he addressed someone following him as Lexuan-jie.

• Huo Yuhao broke Jiang Shu’s wrist, struck him, and demonstrated the Snow Lotus’s abilities before condemning him for his crimes.
• Huo Yuhao used the Snow Lotus to kill Jiang Shu and everyone else in the room except himself.
• Huo Yuhao freed five civilians and the young man, who recoiled at the bloody scene.
• Huo Yuhao told the young man that the world was not beautiful but praised him for holding to his beliefs.
• After leaving, Huo Yuhao stopped and asked Lexuan-jie why she was following him in the middle of the night.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Zhang Lexuan after defeating a group of Evil Soul Masters, and she worried over his recklessness while giving him valuable pills. She invited him to join her for a late-night meal.

• Zhang Lexuan recognized Huo Yuhao and expressed surprise at how much he had changed since they last met.
• Zhang Lexuan scolded Huo Yuhao for fighting the Evil Soul Masters alone, and he explained that he had been passing through the city on his way back from the Far North Land.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Huo Yuhao a bottle of foundation-consolidating pills as thanks for saving her life.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Huo Yuhao to accompany her for a late-night meal.

Huo Yuhao shared a meal by the lake with Zhang Lexuan, who offered to help him act against the Evil Soul Masters. Afterward, his changed appearance surprised Tang Ya, who insisted on examining him overnight, leaving him wedged between her and Gu Yue Na.

• Zhang Lexuan remembered Huo Yuhao's grilled meat wraps and enjoyed the roe deer he prepared by the lake.
• Zhang Lexuan asked whether Huo Yuhao planned to act against the Evil Soul Masters, and he admitted he wanted to help even if the matter did not concern him.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Huo Yuhao for helping her clarify her beliefs and offered to assist him when he needed her.
• Huo Yun'er asked why Huo Yuhao looked different, and he explained that his appearance had changed after he obtained his Second Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya returned, recognized Huo Yuhao, and announced that she would sleep beside him to examine him; Gu Yue Na did not stop her.
• That evening, Huo Yuhao lay squeezed between Gu Yue Na and Tang Ya, staring at the ceiling.