Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming strengthened his body and first Soul Ring with Whale Rubber, the Yang Spring, and the Crimson Phoenix Nirvana Golden Lotus seeds, reaching level seventeen and gaining an injury-healing effect. Chen Dong acquired a powerful soul bone skill, and Chen Ming ended by considering how events elsewhere were unfolding and thinking of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux.

• Du Busi gave Chen Ming, Chen Dong, and Long Aotian Whale Rubber and instructed them to absorb it in the Yang Spring.
• Chen Ming endured the Yang Spring and Whale Rubber’s power, raising his Soul Ring endurance by more than twelve hundred years.
• Chen Ming refined a lotus seed and reached level sixteen as the seed’s energy strengthened his supplementary Soul Ring.
• Chen Dong fused with the Secret Method Devouring Soul Bone, reached level twenty-two, and gained the Soul Bane skill; Chen Ming warned him to keep it secret.
• Chen Ming refined the remaining lotus seeds and merged the Yang Spring’s supplementary Soul Ring, reaching level seventeen and adding injury healing to Fire Lotus Overlord Body.
• Chen Ming reflected on Long Aotian, Vina, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya, then wondered about Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux.

Chen Ming’s cultivation in the Yang Spring raised his first soul ring to nearly six thousand years, and he prepared to challenge a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for his second. As he began condensing another replenishment ring, Du Busi arranged a soul-hunting trip to Sunset Forest for Chen Ming and Vina.

• Chen Ming reviewed opportunities such as Tian Meng and Electrolux, then used the Yang Spring and lotus seeds to raise his first soul ring to nearly six thousand years.
• Over the following months, Chen Ming advanced to Rank 20 and endured the Yang Spring’s eighty-three-meter zone, convincing Du Busi that he could pursue a Ten-Thousand-Year second soul ring.
• Du Busi worried that Chen Ming’s rapid growth could lead to a Second Awakening before his fifth ring and require many powerful soul beasts for his future rings.
• Vina learned that Chen Ming was preparing for his second soul ring, while Du Busi confirmed that she would not attempt a thousand-year ring for her own second soul ring.
• Chen Ming sat in the Yang Spring and began condensing his second replenishment soul ring as Du Busi announced that their Soul Hunting Operation would take place in Sunset Forest.

Du Busi and Chen Ming searched the Sunset Forest for a rare Life-attribute soul beast suitable for Chen Ming’s second soul ring after the other juniors found their rings and left. They ended by recognizing that the forest’s poisonous miasma seemed deliberately arranged, though Du Busi doubted anyone could have created it.

• Du Busi led the group into the Sunset Forest’s eastern area, where Vina and the other four juniors found the soul rings they needed.
• Mo Feiyun took the four juniors back while Du Busi, Chen Ming, and Vina continued the search, then left with Vina after two months of dangerous encounters.
• Chen Ming explained that he wanted a Life-attribute second ring compatible with ice and fire, and Du Busi hoped to find a Star Spirit Deer.
• Chen Ming told Du Busi that the poisonous miasma seemed man-made, and Du Busi admitted it did but questioned who could have arranged it.

Du Busi and Chen Ming investigated the Sunset Forest miasma and deduced that a Life-attributed treasure sustained the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers. Du Busi then decided to seek Extreme Ice to counter the poison, but they found an eighteen-thousand-year Star Spirit Deer and its five powerful companions, whom he prepared to suppress.

• Chen Ming asked whether Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers were easy to cultivate, prompting Du Busi to realize that a Life-attributed treasure must sustain them in the lifeless miasma.
• Du Busi recalled that Extreme Ice weakened his Poison Cultivation and decided to seek an Extreme Ice soul beast in the Extreme North, considering an Ice Jade Scorpion as a fallback.
• Du Busi and Chen Ming sensed a Star Spirit Deer with Life and star attributes alongside five other powerful soul beasts.
• Du Busi identified the Star Spirit Deer as eighteen thousand years old and a strong match for Chen Ming's Body Martial Soul.
• Du Busi surged with Soul Power and declared that he could easily suppress all six ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

Du Busi subdued the Star Spirit Deer and its guards so Chen Ming could obtain the deer's Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. As Chen Ming absorbed it, he used the ring to draw out the Life Gold within himself, but the added power pushed his body to the brink of exploding.

• Du Busi transformed and overwhelmed the Star Spirit Deer and its five guards, driving the guards away and pinning the deer down.
• Du Busi called Chen Ming forward, and Chen Ming used a fifth-level soul tool dagger to kill the Star Spirit Deer.
• Chen Ming began absorbing the deer's black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring while Du Busi kept other Soul Beasts at bay.
• Chen Ming endured severe physical and spiritual pain as he used the ring to draw out the Life Gold within his body.
• The Life Gold strengthened the soul ring by three thousand years, bringing Chen Ming close to exploding, so he activated Soul Martial Soul Possession and merged it into his Body Martial Soul.

Chen Ming nearly exploded while absorbing the Star Spirit Deer’s Soul Ring, but he fused his Soul Martial Soul and Body Martial Soul to expel the excess energy and complete a breakthrough. Du Busi believed Chen Ming had awakened his complete Martial Soul and asked whether it had undergone its Second Awakening.

• The Life Gold raised the Star Spirit Deer’s Soul Ring to twenty-one thousand years, leaving Chen Ming swollen with more energy than his body could withstand.
• Du Busi searched the Star Spirit Deer’s corpse for a soul bone that might save Chen Ming, but found none and urged him to abandon the Soul Ring if necessary.
• Chen Ming used his Spiritual Sense and Reincarnation Disk to harmonize life and death, fuse his Soul Martial Soul with his Body Martial Soul, and expel the excess Soul Ring energy.
• Chen Ming’s fused Martial Soul took tangible form, his aura stabilized, and he successfully absorbed the Soul Ring as his Soul Power broke through.
• Du Busi examined Chen Ming’s changes and asked whether his Martial Soul had undergone its Second Awakening.

Chen Ming explained that his Martial Souls had fused into a complete form called Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and he examined the new abilities and Soul Power gained from his second Soul Ring. After testing how the Reincarnation Disk could accelerate his absorption of Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, he returned to the Body Sect, where Chen Dong asked about his Soul Ring and Soul Power.

• Chen Ming told Du Busi that his Martial Soul had gained a complete form called Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and that his Soul Power had risen to level twenty-five.
• Chen Ming described his second Soul Skill, Power of Life, and considered combining it with his first Soul Skill to sustain his Soul Power by converting energy into life force and back.
• Chen Ming used the Reincarnation Disk to create an ice-and-fire vortex that accelerated his absorption of Heaven and Earth Vital Energy.
• Chen Ming concluded that a third Soul Ring for his Body Martial Soul would let him control ice and use ice and fire to evolve Yin and Yang rotation.
• Chen Ming returned to the Body Sect and told Chen Dong about the soul hunt, prompting Chen Dong to ask how old the second Soul Ring was and how many Soul Power levels it had added.

Chen Ming revealed that his second soul ring had eighteen thousand years of cultivation, then learned Chen Dong was leaving the Body Sect for the Mad Saber Sect. After accepting Yuan Liu’s sparring challenge, Chen Ming watched Yuan Liu’s martial soul transform his iron saber as the fight was about to begin.

• Chen Ming told Chen Dong that his second soul ring had eighteen thousand years of cultivation, stunning him and prompting him to train at Yang Spring.
• Chen Ming reflected on catching up to Long Aotian and used the Life Gold’s energy to accelerate his Soul Power growth at Yang Spring.
• Chen Dong told Chen Ming he was returning to the Mad Saber Sect with Lei Zhen, while Yuan Liu stayed to cultivate at the Body Sect.
• Yuan Liu challenged Chen Ming to a sparring match, and Chen Ming accepted.
• At the training grounds, Chen Ming released his purple and black soul rings while Yuan Liu’s four rings merged into the iron saber in his hand.

Yuan Liu’s Flow let him transform his sword and chain his soul skills into powerful attacks, while Chen Ming’s Red Lotus Protection and healing let him withstand the assault. Yuan Liu broke through Chen Ming’s defenses and pulled him in for a finishing strike, but Chen Ming countered with a pillar of fire, forcing Yuan Liu to repel him and leaving their fight unresolved.

• Yuan Liu transformed his longsword with Flow and struck Chen Ming with six blade auras, which Chen Ming’s Fire Lotus Overlord Body melted.
• Yuan Liu combined soul skills to create a ten-meter energy blade and a repeated strike that broke Chen Ming’s Red Lotus Protection and wounded his shoulder.
• Chen Ming healed with Power of Life and retaliated with flaming punches, while Yuan Liu used Flow to soothe his burns and recover.
• After five rounds of exchanges, Yuan Liu used his fourth soul skill to repel Chen Ming, then chained his second and third skills to break the protection and pull Chen Ming into a sword strike.
• Chen Ming gathered fire into a pillar and blasted it toward Yuan Liu, who used his fourth soul skill to push Chen Ming away and make the attack miss.

Chen Ming defeated Yuan Liu in a spar and learned the strengths and limits of Yuan Liu’s mark-based Second Soul Skill. After half a year of daily battles and cultivation, Chen Ming reached level twenty-eight while watching for his Senior Disciple Brother to break through level twenty-nine.

• Chen Ming inferred that Yuan Liu’s Second Soul Skill had restrictions, and Yuan Liu conceded defeat after exhausting its marks.
• Yuan Liu explained that his Second Soul Skill grew with his Soul Rings and could use Heaven and Earth Vital Energy to reduce the Soul Power cost of activating marks.
• Chen Ming advised Yuan Liu to seek a future Soul Skill that rapidly absorbed Heaven and Earth Vital Energy.
• Chen Ming and Yuan Liu began sparring daily, and Chen Ming’s cultivation progressed smoothly over the next half year.
• Chen Ming broke through to level twenty-eight at the bottom of Yang Spring and resumed cultivating because his Senior Disciple Brother was nearing level thirty.

After Chen Ming used a Soul Ascension Pill and Life Force to break through to level thirty, Du Busi took him and Long Aotian to the Extreme North to seek soul rings. They arrived in the freezing wilderness, where Du Busi removed their warming Soul Tools so they could temper their bodies with the icy aura.

• Chen Ming combined a Soul Ascension Pill with Life Force from Life Gold to strengthen his second soul ring and break through to level thirty.
• Du Busi learned of Chen Ming's breakthrough and said he would take Chen Ming and Long Aotian on a soul-ring hunt the next day.
• Du Busi changed Long Aotian's plan from hunting a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear to seeking a Titan Snow Demon or Ice Bear in the Extreme North.
• Chen Ming said he could withstand an appropriately aged soul ring with the Extreme Ice attribute, and Du Busi trusted his confidence.
• Du Busi led the two disciples into the Extreme North and explained how its icy aura could temper their bodies.
• Du Busi pulled open their coats and took away their warming Soul Tools so they could experience the body-tempering effects of the cold.

Chen Ming used the Extreme North’s icy chill to temper his body and entered a furnace-like state that reminded Du Busi of the Body Sect founder’s Heaven and Earth Furnace. A month later, the group reached the Extreme North’s inner region, where Du Busi found an ice bear for Long Aotian.

• Du Busi taught Chen Ming and Long Aotian to use the icy chill to stimulate their bodies’ energy mechanisms instead of resisting it with Soul Power.
• Chen Ming absorbed the icy chill and tempered his body, entering a blazing state that Du Busi compared to Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Du Busi recounted how the Body Sect founder had entered Heaven and Earth Furnace and discovered Body Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Chen Ming described his experience, and Du Busi considered whether mastering the body’s energy circulation could help him reach that state.
• Over the next month, Chen Ming and Long Aotian tempered their bodies daily as Du Busi gradually refined his control of his own energy circulation.
• Du Busi spotted an ice bear in the Extreme North’s inner region and stomped it into the ground, identifying it as Long Aotian’s target.

Du Busi helped Long Aotian obtain an Ice Bear soul ring in the Extreme North, where the new Ice Bear bloodline resonated with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear bloodline in his second ring. Long Aotian finished absorbing the ring, and dark-gold traits began to emerge beneath his jade-colored skin.

• Du Busi pinned an ice bear and let Long Aotian kill it after three ten-thousand-year ice bears rushed over.
• Du Busi wounded one of the approaching ice bears and frightened the others into retreating with their companion.
• Long Aotian began absorbing the ice bear's soul ring, but his sudden pain alarmed Du Busi.
• Chen Ming explained that the Ice Bear bloodline was overtaking and fusing with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear bloodline in Long Aotian's second soul ring.
• Long Aotian's expression relaxed as dark gold appeared beneath his jade-like skin, especially on his hands.

Long Aotian discovered that his third soul skill fused with his second to grant jade-like defenses and a threefold attribute boost. After three months searching the Extreme North, Chen Ming found an Ice Phoenix suitable for his soul ring, and Du Busi attacked it at sea.

• Long Aotian activated his second and third soul skills together, gaining jade-like, icy metallic skin and a threefold increase to all attributes.
• Du Busi led Chen Ming and Long Aotian through the Extreme North for three months in search of a suitable soul ring for Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming spotted an Ice Phoenix at sea and sensed that fate had connected him to the entire world.
• Du Busi transformed, used his soul skills, and attacked the Ice Phoenix after it unleashed a freezing blizzard that wounded Long Aotian and challenged Chen Ming.
• Du Busi struck the Ice Phoenix into the sea, where the battle continued beneath the surface.

After absorbing the Ice Phoenix’s soul ring, Chen Ming linked his three soul rings and transferred their ages, explaining the transformation to Du Busi. He revealed that his new third soul skill could amplify his Soul Power and might eventually combine with his first soul skill for a threefold boost.

• Chen Ming revived Long Aotian with Life Force, while Du Busi returned with the subdued Ice Phoenix and handed it over to Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming killed the Ice Phoenix with his Soul Tool Dagger and absorbed its soul ring, reaching level thirty-five as his three soul rings began to fuse and separate.
• Chen Ming used the Meditation Space to link his three soul rings and transfer their ages, turning his first soul ring black.
• Chen Ming explained to Du Busi that the Life attribute enabled his ice-and-fire soul ring transformation, then collected the Ice Phoenix’s remains with him.
• Chen Ming told Du Busi that his third soul skill, Ice Soul Transformation, boosted his Soul Power by five levels and could eventually combine with his first soul skill into Ice Fire Three Profound Transformations.

Chen Ming explained the potential of his soul skills and refined how he understood his fused ice-and-fire abilities. A month later, he and Du Busi and Long Aotian entered Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma, where they found a mountain covered in Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers and began pushing toward the valley they guarded.

• Du Busi realized Chen Ming’s temporary soul-power rank increase could help soul masters understand cultivation bottlenecks, while Chen Ming explained that his first and third soul skills had fused into Golden Lotus Hegemony Body and Ice Fire Three Profound Transformations.
• Chen Ming asked Du Busi whether they would still capture an Extreme Ice soul beast, and Du Busi instead proposed exploring the treasures in Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma.
• A month later, Chen Ming used an Extreme Ice Lotus Phantom to protect the three of them as they entered the miasma, and Du Busi discovered that frost dispersed the Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower’s poison.
• The three reached a mountain covered in Azure Phosphor Seven Absolute Flowers, many of which had evolved into Azure Scale Nine Absolute Flowers capable of releasing deadly poison clouds.
• Du Busi spotted a hollow valley inside the mountain and led the group toward it as Chen Ming’s Extreme Ice drove the flowers back.

Chen Ming, Du Busi, and Long Aotian entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, where they discovered a valley of immortal herbs and encountered the transformed soul beast Youyou. After reading Tang San’s book about the herbs, Du Busi and Chen Ming began assessing what the plants could offer them.

• Du Busi led Chen Ming and Long Aotian through the poisonous clouds and down into the valley, where Chen Ming’s Ice Soul Transformation revealed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• The three explored the life-filled valley, and Chen Ming confirmed that time had been disrupted and Tang San’s contingencies were operating without his guidance.
• Du Busi’s display of Soul Power prompted Youyou, an Aromatic Silk Beauty, to reveal herself and explain that the immortal herbs had become true soul beasts.
• Youyou gave Du Busi and Chen Ming a book describing the immortal herbs, and they read its records and checked them against their knowledge.
• Youyou timidly asked them to return the book, explaining that the person who left it had told her not to give it to anyone else.

Du Busi and Chen Ming plundered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, taking medicinal herbs and planning which immortal herbs Chen Ming and Long Aotian would use. In the God Realm, Tang San learned of the raid too late to intervene and turned to manipulating Huo Yuhao's fate.

• Du Busi ignored Youyou's protests, battered the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and forced the immortal herbs to surrender their essence while he gathered medicinal herbs.
• Chen Ming collected immortal herb essences and chose five herbs for himself, while Du Busi agreed to take the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum for his own cultivation.
• Chen Ming recommended the Narcissus Jade Bone Marrow for Long Aotian to use before his fifth soul ring, possibly alongside a Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Tang San learned through the God Realm Central Hub that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes had been plundered, but the time delay prevented him from acting in time.
• Tang San discovered Huo Yuhao was far behind the point in his plans and decided to guide him toward despair sooner.

Chen Ming encountered Bei Bei and Tang Ya on their way to the Star Dou Great Forest, then tracked the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. The chapter ended with Chen Ming forcing Tian Meng out of the ground and confronting him.

• Chen Ming recognized Bei Bei and Tang Ya, but ignored Bei Bei's challenge and continued toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei met Huo Yuhao by the river and ate his grilled fish, while Chen Ming declined his offer and searched for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Chen Ming sensed a powerful mental fluctuation as Huo Yuhao killed a Wind Baboon, and Tian Meng's attack knocked Huo Yuhao unconscious.
• Tian Meng tried to retreat underground, but Chen Ming teleported over and struck the ground with Ice Fire Power, revealing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's true form.

Chen Ming confronted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as Electrolux arrived and recognized Huo Yuhao as someone tied to his fate. Chen Ming revealed the power hidden in his Soul Martial Soul, stirring Electrolux’s desire to become a god, while Electrolux left Huo Yuhao protection before turning back to Chen Ming.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released a tangible dragon-and-tiger display of Spiritual Power, but a rift opened and Electrolux descended between him and Huo Yuhao.
• Electrolux sensed an attraction to Chen Ming but felt Huo Yuhao was destined to meet him, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shielded Huo Yuhao.
• Chen Ming showed Electrolux his Soul Martial Soul and asked him to isolate Huo Yuhao from the others.
• Chen Ming let a trace of the treasure within his Soul Martial Soul emerge, and Electrolux realized it carried pure death authority that could let him become a god.
• Electrolux recognized that Huo Yuhao’s pull on him had been manipulated, merged a wisp of gray airflow into Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness as protection, and turned back to Chen Ming.