Chapter Summaries

Li Chang'an realized that weaker soul beasts offered little nourishment and entered the Far North’s Core Area in search of stronger prey. He found a ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion, but it fled when he revealed himself, leaving him in pursuit.

• Li Chang'an swallowed the Icefield Wolves’ Wolf King, judged the energy from low-year soul beasts insufficient, and let the remaining wolves go.
• After half a month exploring the Far North, Li Chang'an entered the Core Area, where powerful soul beast auras and greater danger surrounded him.
• Li Chang'an sensed a rich aura and discovered a ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion basking in the sun.
• Li Chang'an released his aura pressure, but the intelligent Ice Jade Scorpion fled, so he chased after it.

Li Chang'an chased a wounded Ice Jade Scorpion into an underground cavern and discovered a colony led by the Ice Empress. Cornered, he unleashed the aura of the Nine Infants, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt.

• Li Chang'an pursued an Ice Jade Scorpion across the ice, firing volleys of fireballs until one blast knocked off its hind leg.
• The injured scorpion escaped into a narrow ice cave, and Li Chang'an shrank himself to follow it underground.
• Li Chang'an emerged in a cavern with unusual jade-like ice walls and sensed a source of pure energy.
• Li Chang'an found dozens of Ice Jade Scorpions, including a powerful one he suspected was the Ice Empress, while the injured scorpion complained to her.
• The Ice Empress confronted Li Chang'an for injuring her clansman and locked her aura onto him.
• Li Chang'an released the full bloodline aura of the Nine Infants, shaking the Ice Jade Scorpions in the cavern.

Li Chang'an unleashed the bloodline aura of Nine Infants, suppressing most of the Ice Jade Scorpions, but the Ice Empress attacked him to devour his Divine Beast bloodline. Li Chang'an was beheaded after his fire failed to stop her, leaving his revenge threat as his final words.

• Li Chang'an's Nine Infants aura caused the weaker Ice Jade Scorpions to collapse or lose the courage to attack, while the Ice Empress recognized its Divine Beast bloodline.
• The Ice Empress decided that devouring Li Chang'an could help her survive future Heavenly Tribulations and charged at him.
• Li Chang'an unleashed flames containing scattered sparks, but the Ice Empress endured the fire and closed in.
• The Ice Empress severed Li Chang'an's heads one by one as he struggled against her overwhelming strength.
• Li Chang'an vowed to avenge his murder before the Ice Empress cut off his final head.

Li Chang'an revived in a hidden Ice Cave after the Ice Empress killed him, but rebirth cost him one of his nine heads and weakened him. While the Ice Empress feared his future revenge, Li Chang'an began eating powerful prey to restore his missing head.

• After the Ice Empress killed Li Chang'an, he chose a concealed Ice Cave a thousand kilometers away as his revival location, and his corpse vanished.
• Li Chang'an was reborn from an egg with eight heads and realized that losing a life had cost him one-ninth of his strength.
• The Ice Empress feared Li Chang'an would return for revenge and decided to seek advice from the Snow Empress.
• Li Chang'an swallowed a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Bear and calculated that eating eight or nine more could regrow his missing head.

After the Eight-Headed Giant Snake died, Li Chang'an discovered that his human and snake bodies shared their nine lives and losses, so he resolved to act cautiously while growing stronger. He was summoned to meet Crown Prince Xue Qinghe and arrived at a private room with two unfamiliar companions, whose identities he began to suspect.

• The Eight-Headed Giant Snake vowed to settle its score with the Ice Empress after reaching one hundred thousand years of cultivation, then concealed its aura and searched for prey.
• Li Chang'an woke in his dormitory and realized that the snake body's lost life had also cost both bodies one-ninth of their power.
• Li Chang'an absorbed the snake body's shared Soul Power and grew stronger after learning to conceal his Soul Rings.
• The Three Education Commissioners told Li Chang'an that Crown Prince Xue Qinghe wanted to meet him, and Li Chang'an worried that Qian Renxue might discover his true talent.
• Li Chang'an reached a Tea House on Heavenly Emperor Street and entered the Crown Prince's private room, where he found Xue Qinghe with a middle-aged man and an elderly man.

Li Chang'an met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo, while Xue Qinghe sought to recruit the gifted young Soul Master. After Li Chang'an left, Qian Renxue considered his potential and decided he could be won over as long as her identity stayed hidden.

• Xue Qinghe welcomed Li Chang'an and introduced him to Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.
• Li Chang'an exchanged greetings with Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo, then listened as Xue Qinghe presented the meeting as a chance to build connections.
• Li Chang'an expressed gratitude for Xue Qinghe's support and left after the meeting.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Li Chang'an's talent and considered cautiously aligning the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect more closely with the royal family.
• Qian Renxue recalled Li Chang'an's extraordinary cultivation and resolved to recruit him rather than kill him, trusting that he would remain loyal while her identity was concealed.

Princess Xue Ke arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as Li Chang'an’s fiancée, prompting the Education Commissioners to reveal that the Emperor hoped their time together would secure the engagement. When Dugu Yan encountered them, Li Chang'an called her his lover and future wife, while Xue Ke remained confused by the adult meaning of his words.

• Xue Ke arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Meng Shenji asked Li Chang'an to look after his young fiancée.
• The Education Commissioners explained that the Emperor had sent Xue Ke early so she could grow close to Li Chang'an before Dugu Yan claimed his heart.
• Li Chang'an showed Xue Ke around campus and thought about her sheltered childhood and how Dugu Yan might react to her presence.
• Dugu Yan confronted Li Chang'an and asked him to introduce Xue Ke, who nervously hid beside him.
• Li Chang'an called Dugu Yan his lover and future wife, easing her jealousy while Xue Ke listened without understanding what he meant.

Dugu Yan met the six-year-old Xue Ke and stopped seeing her as a romantic rival, but the Heaven Dou royal family arranged for Xue Ke to live with Li Chang’an and care for him. Dugu Yan moved in too, while Li Chang’an realized the princess had been taught household skills as part of the royal family’s plan to win his affection.

• Xue Ke introduced herself to Dugu Yan as Li Chang’an’s fiancée and proudly told her she was six years old with Innate Soul Power at level six.
• Dugu Yan teased Xue Ke, grew fond of her, and soon heard her call her Yan Jiejie.
• The academy arranged for Xue Ke to share a dormitory with Li Chang’an, and he reluctantly agreed after the royal family insisted.
• Dugu Yan decided to move in with Li Chang’an as well so she could keep an eye on him and Xue Ke.
• Xue Ke began cooking breakfast for the three of them, and Li Chang’an learned that palace mammies had taught her household skills to prepare her to care for her fiancé.

Xue Ke prepared breakfast for Li Chang'an and Dugu Yan in their Heaven Dou Academy villa, reflecting on how years of living together had turned her arranged engagement into genuine affection. She accepted her place as Li Chang'an’s younger fiancée beside Dugu Yan, whom she regarded as an older sister.

• Xue Ke woke, got dressed and ready, then went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
• Xue Ke reflected on how she had come to see the villa as home and Li Chang'an and Dugu Yan as her true family.
• Dugu Yan and Li Chang'an joined Xue Ke, and the three ate the lavish breakfast she had prepared.
• Li Chang'an praised Xue Ke’s cooking, making her shy as she cleared the dishes.
• Xue Ke acknowledged her love for Li Chang'an and accepted that she saw Dugu Yan as his senior lover and her own older sister.

Over three years, Li Chang'an secretly reached Soul Emperor while presenting himself as a Soul King, and Dugu Yan also advanced to Soul King under a cover story about their complementary martial souls. Seeing ten-year-old Xue Ke lag behind at level nineteen, Li Chang'an considered asking Dugu Yan to give her an immortal herb.

• Li Chang'an reached level 66 Soul Emperor but concealed his true strength and showed others only level 51.
• Dugu Yan reached Soul King, and Dugu Bo explained her and Li Chang'an's rapid cultivation as the result of their complementary martial souls.
• Ten-year-old Xue Ke reached level 19, far behind Li Chang'an and Dugu Yan.
• Li Chang'an considered asking Dugu Yan privately to give Xue Ke an immortal herb, while deciding to seek another treasure if she refused.

After Dugu Yan agreed to give Xue Ke an Immortal Herb, Li Chang'an reflected on their growing acceptance of a shared future and used her absence to prepare for condensing a Soul Core. He confirmed that the attempt would be safe and resolved to preserve his accumulated Blessing and Calamity Power for a major purpose.

• Dugu Yan agreed to fetch an Immortal Herb for Xue Ke, whom she had come to regard as a younger sister and accept as a future co-wife.
• Dugu Yan left for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to gather the herb, and Li Chang'an began secluded cultivation while she was away.
• Li Chang'an reviewed the requirements for forming a Soul Core and concluded that his spirit, body, and soul power exceeded them.
• Li Chang'an used his Auspicious Ominous Eyes to check the risks and learned that condensing a Soul Core would go smoothly.
• Li Chang'an noted that his daily Blessing and Calamity Power had risen to 2,000 points and chose to keep saving his accumulated power for the future.

Li Chang'an condensed a Soul Core in his Dantian by forming and refining a Soul Power vortex. The completed core spontaneously absorbed Heaven and Earth Energy, leaving him able to cultivate passively while still benefiting from active cultivation.

• Li Chang'an used his spiritual power to turn the liquid Soul Power in his Dantian into a vortex that drew in Heaven and Earth Energy.
• His Soul Power compressed into a solid crystal, and he carefully polished it with his spiritual power.
• The crystal transformed into a black-hole-like vortex surrounding a red-and-blue yin-yang bead, completing Li Chang'an's Soul Core.
• Li Chang'an sensed the Soul Core automatically drawing in external energy and understood that it could replenish his Soul Power and enable idle cultivation.

Li Chang'an experienced the benefits of his newly condensed soul core and decided to teach Dugu Bo how to form one, while rejecting the idea of entering the City of Slaughter without the Sea God's protection. Meanwhile, Dugu Yan arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Li Chang'an realized a poison-attribute soul core could solve the Dugu Family's poisoning problem and decided to teach Dugu Bo the condensation method.
• Li Chang'an considered seeking the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in the City of Slaughter but resolved to wait until he obtained the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and the Sea God's God Exam.
• Li Chang'an reasoned that Divine Slaughter's Domain could let the Asura God influence its owners and that the Sea God could protect him from interference.
• Dugu Yan arrived at the volcano containing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, prepared to pass through Dugu Bo's poison formation.

Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo for two Immortal Herbs, hoping one could help her childhood friend Ye Lingling with the flaw in her Nine Hearted Begonia Martial Soul. After consulting Dugu Bo’s herb booklet, she picked two Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that she wanted two Immortal Herbs, including one for Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Yan his booklet on Immortal Herbs and rare medicinal plants.
• Dugu Yan studied the booklet and chose the two herbs she wanted to pick.
• Dugu Yan carefully placed both Immortal Herbs in Jade Boxes and left for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

Li Chang'an gave Dugu Yan his Soul Core Condensation Method, which she realized could permanently solve the Dugu Family’s poisoning flaw. She hurried to take it to Dugu Bo, leaving Li Chang'an with Immortal Herb information and two herbs for Ke'er and Lingling.

• Li Chang'an presented Dugu Yan with his detailed Soul Core Condensation Method, and she studied it with growing astonishment.
• Dugu Yan praised Li Chang'an as a true master and realized soul cores could solve her family’s poisoning problem more effectively than relying on soul bones.
• Dugu Yan rushed to bring the method to Dugu Bo, first handing Li Chang'an two boxes of Immortal Herbs for Ke'er and Lingling and a book of newly collected herb information.
• Li Chang'an memorized the information in the book and opened the two boxes, recognizing which Immortal Herb was intended for each person.

Li Chang'an confirmed Dugu Yan had chosen two precious Immortal Herbs for Xue Ke, then focused on his Nine Infants body in the Far North, where he had reached the strength of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. He set out to avenge himself on the Ice Empress, who was already being weakened by the Fire Poison he had planted in her.

• Li Chang'an put away one Immortal Herb and waited for Xue Ke to return from Moonlight Pavilion.
• Li Chang'an awoke in the Far North after three years of secretly strengthening his Nine Infants body until it reached the equivalent of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Li Chang'an decided to settle the score with the Ice Empress and sensed that the Fire Poison he had left inside her had grown stronger.
• The Ice Empress suffered as the Fire Poison consumed her soul power and life force, leaving her close to death.
• The Ice Empress decided to seek the Snow Empress's help to suppress or remove the Fire Poison.

The Ice Empress rushed to the Snow Woman Clan to seek the Snow Empress’s help with the Nine Infants’ Fire Poison. She reached the clan weakened by the poison, while the Snow Empress arrived to investigate the commotion.

• The Ice Empress left the underground Ice Jade Scorpion settlement and flew through the blizzard toward the Snow Woman Clan.
• Snow Women attacked the burning Ice Empress, mistaking her for an intruder, but she welcomed their cold currents and lay down to enjoy the relief.
• The Snow Empress emerged from the depths of the cave and questioned the commotion.
• The chapter described the Snow Women as naturally born spirits of ice and snow and established the Snow Empress as their ancient, exceptionally powerful queen.

The Snow Empress reunited with the poisoned Ice Empress and tried to suppress the Fire Poison in her body. Although the Ice Empress appeared to recover, Li Chang'an secretly infected the Snow Empress with poison as well.

• The Snow Empress recognized the Ice Empress and asked what had happened to her.
• The Ice Empress explained that Li Chang'an had poisoned her and asked the Snow Empress to care for the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan if she died.
• The Snow Empress tried to suppress the poison while Li Chang'an sensed her intervention and decided to infect her too.
• Li Chang'an changed a wisp of Fire Poison into Water Poison and secretly spread it through the Snow Empress's body.
• The Ice Empress's fiery patterns vanished, but the Snow Empress was left weak and unaware that she had been poisoned.

The Snow Empress sealed the Fire Poison in the Ice Empress, while Li Chang'an secretly planned to use the poison infecting both Soul Beasts to subdue them. Back at Heaven Dou Academy, he gave Xue Ke and Ye Lingling rare Immortal Herbs.

• The Snow Empress failed to remove the Fire Poison from the Ice Empress but sealed it temporarily, unaware that the poison had already weakened her beyond surviving her next Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Chang'an realized the Water Poison had entered the Snow Empress and planned to let it spread, believing he could control both poisoned Soul Beasts.
• Li Chang'an returned his attention from the snake's body when Xue Ke arrived at the dormitory with Ye Lingling.
• Li Chang'an gave Xue Ke and Ye Lingling Jade Boxes containing Immortal Herbs and explained their rarity and value.

Li Chang'an explained that Immortal Herbs could repair Martial Soul flaws and help Ye Lingling and Xue Ke change their destinies, then guided them as they took their herbs. As both girls cultivated, he used the blessed luck from his jade pendant to aid their Martial Soul evolution and discovered that Ye Lingling required an astonishing amount.

• Li Chang'an told Ye Lingling and Xue Ke that Immortal Herbs had enabled his and Yanzi's strength and might repair their Martial Soul flaws.
• Li Chang'an explained that Xue Ke should absorb the Rainbow Seven-Colored Lotus by smelling it, while Ye Lingling should eat the Five-Colored Celestial Fungus.
• Xue Ke sniffed the lotus seven times until it turned to ash, then began meditating to absorb its medicinal power.
• Ye Lingling removed her veil, ate the Five-Colored Ganoderma, and began cultivating beside Xue Ke.
• Li Chang'an released blessed luck from his red Yin Yang Fish Jade Pendant to aid both girls' Martial Soul evolution, but was shocked by how much Ye Lingling needed.