Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue pursued proof of Chen Feng’s identity while he assembled a heavily protected team to seek spirit rings in the Extreme North. After reaching Winter City, Chen Feng found no alternative to the dangerous Soul Beast Gu Yue Ling had identified and prepared to prioritize Oscar and Ning Rongrong’s targets.

• Qian Renxue ordered Ci Xie to discreetly investigate Dugu Bo’s travels and post-office records for clues linking him to the scholar.
• Gu Yue Ling returned home during the academy vacation and brought back records identifying suitable Extreme North Soul Beasts for Chen Feng, Oscar, and Ning Rongrong.
• Chen Feng visited Old Jack, then invited Chen Xin and Dugu Bo to join the expedition; Tang San also insisted on bringing Tang Hao along.
• The group traveled north for more than ten days and arrived at Winter City to rest and gather supplies before entering the Extreme North.
• Chen Feng asked Winter City residents about the Soul Beasts but found no alternative with the mind-stabilizing ability he needed, so he planned to seek Oscar and Ning Rongrong’s spirit rings first.

Chen Feng's group traveled into the Extreme North, where Gu Yue Ling helped Ning Rongrong obtain a Soul Ring from a ten-thousand-year Ice Fang Dragon. As the group settled into the dragon's cave for the night, the ground began to tremble, and Chen Feng recognized that an unexpected development had arrived.

• Chen Feng led the group east through the Extreme North before turning north, while illusory eyes in the snow watched them and a white-haired woman in the core region reacted with disbelief.
• The group encountered an Ice Fang Dragon, and Gu Yue Ling used her dragon authority to make it approach them.
• Chen Feng had the Ice Fang Dragon accept Ning Rongrong's Ring Expansion ritual in exchange for canned fish, and Ning Rongrong successfully became a Soul Ancestor.
• The Ice Fang Dragon led the group to its cave, where they began setting up camp for the night.
• The ground started trembling as Chen Feng prepared the camp.

Chen Feng and Chen Xin agreed to follow the Titan Snow Demon King into the Extreme North’s core region to seek a Snow Woman Soul Ring for Chen Feng. The others set out for the Ice Rock Monsters’ habitat, while Chen Feng remained suspicious of the mysterious voice influencing the Titan Snow Demon King.

• The Titan Snow Demon King arrived at the cave, spoke peacefully with Tang Hao, and asked to see the Ice Fang Dragon.
• The Titan Snow Demon King offered to guide the group to Ice Rock Monsters, and Chen Feng also asked for help finding a Snow Woman.
• After a mysterious female voice urged it to agree, the Titan Snow Demon King offered to take Chen Feng to the core region.
• Chen Feng revealed that the Snow Woman’s ability was important to his martial soul, and Chen Xin agreed to accompany him.
• Ning Rongrong, Tang San, Oscar, and Gu Yue Ling objected to splitting up, but the group eventually divided into two parties.
• Chen Feng and Chen Xin left with the Titan Snow Demon King, while Tang Hao led the others toward the Ice Rock Monsters’ habitat.

Tang San grew suspicious that Gu Yue Ling had left the Ice Fang Dragon's nest for reasons she was hiding, while Chen Feng and Chen Xin met the Snow Empress, who wanted to learn about the Ring Expansion Method. Chen Feng began explaining his research, and the Snow Empress's questions turned toward sacrifices as Chen Xin stepped away.

• Tang Hao and the others decided to rest overnight before traveling to the Ice Rock Monsters' habitat, while the Titan Snow Demon King carried Chen Feng and Chen Xin to the Snow Empress's palace.
• Gu Yue Ling left the Ice Fang Dragon's nest during her watch and returned much later, claiming she had gotten lost in the wind and snow.
• Tang San recalled Gu Yue Ling's unusual knowledge and behavior, wondered whether she was a transformed Soul Beast, and chose not to alert the others.
• The Snow Empress admitted she had been watching the group and asked Chen Feng to explain the Ring Expansion Method.
• Chen Feng explained his research and its unanswered questions, and the Snow Empress asked how he had learned about sacrifices; Chen Xin left the hall to give them privacy.

Chen Feng explained the Ring Expansion Method to Snow Empress, who agreed to let him use it to obtain a Snow Woman’s soul ring. The ritual pushed Chen Feng to the brink of death before Snow Empress stopped it, leaving him unconscious but with his foundation intact.

• Chen Feng told Snow Empress that he developed the Ring Expansion Method to address the waste of energy caused by killing Soul Beasts and to help a friend who was a Soul Beast in human form.
• Snow Empress revealed that she was concerned about surviving her next hundred-thousand-year cultivation threshold and offered to become Chen Feng’s test subject.
• Chen Feng and Snow Empress began the ritual, but his Soul Power could not circulate inside her body, so he changed the procedure and had her Soul Power enter him instead.
• Snow Empress gradually sent Soul Power into Chen Feng, whose body became overwhelmed as he endured escalating pain and began bleeding from all seven orifices.
• Snow Empress ordered Chen Feng to stop, and he completed the ritual by instinct before collapsing as his four soul rings appeared and vanished.
• Snow Empress sent Chen Feng to a side hall, where Chen Xin checked him and confirmed that his foundation had not been damaged.

After recovering from his injuries, Chen Feng learned that the Ring Expansion ritual had reduced the Snow Empress’s future breakthrough difficulty, confirming that the method could benefit Soul Beasts as well as humans. He then asked the Snow Empress to guard him as he tried to awaken his Yin Sword, and the chapter ended as his martial soul began turning black.

• Chen Feng woke after three days of recovery, thanked the Snow Empress for the snow lotus, and went to meet her.
• The Snow Empress told Chen Feng that the Ring Expansion ritual had cost her a little cultivation but slightly eased the difficulty of her next hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Chen Feng theorized that the ritual had given the Snow Empress’s Soul Power a trace of human traits, making the Ring Expansion Method beneficial to Soul Beasts as well as Soul Masters.
• Chen Feng asked the Snow Empress to guard him while he awakened his Yin Sword, fearing that his martial soul’s special form could drive him insane.
• Chen Feng poured Xiao Wu’s blood onto his martial soul and began guiding its transformation as black spread from the taiji symbol on the sword guard.

Chen Feng discovered that his Yin Sword let him summon spirits linked to his soul rings and borrow their powers, while a Red Moon seemed tied to the sword’s corrupting influence. After testing the ability and returning to the ice-and-snow palace, he learned that summoning the Snow Empress could badly injure him, though she agreed he could call her in a crisis.

• Chen Feng entered a barren space beneath a Red Moon, used his fourth soul ring to clear his mind, and released the Heavy Mud Horse and Gold Blade Mantis spirits rather than devouring them.
• The Red Moon turned silver-white, and Chen Feng connected with the Zhen Hexagram, allowing the Flying Lightning Rat to possess him and lend him its lightning power.
• Chen Feng and the Flying Lightning Rat established that it would answer his future calls, and he tested how its possession strengthened his skills and control over lightning.
• Chen Feng launched a flying sword, which ended the possession and returned him to the ice-and-snow palace; the Snow Empress confirmed that only a blurry light had remained where he stood.
• Chen Feng told the Snow Empress about his spirit-summoning ability, and she warned that her power could injure him severely but agreed he could summon her if his life were in danger.

Chen Feng advised Snow Empress on gathering human followers and faith to help her overcome her cultivation bottleneck, then tested his Yin Sword’s ability and named its one-on-one mental arena Cycle of Rebirth. After returning to Winter City, he learned that Oscar’s new soul skill could restore mental energy, potentially extending the arena’s duration.

• Chen Feng proposed that Snow Empress attract human visitors through trial grounds, gather followers and faith, and carefully prepare for the possibility of transforming into a human.
• Chen Feng revealed his awakened Yin Sword to Chen Xin, who warned him about the Demonic Sword’s dangers and urged him to guard his state of mind.
• Chen Feng found that the Yin Sword could pull one target into a mental scene where both participants drained mental energy, and he named the scene Cycle of Rebirth.
• Chen Feng and Chen Xin left the Extreme North and reunited with Tang Hao’s group in Winter City, where Ning Rongrong confirmed Chen Feng was unharmed.
• Oscar demonstrated his fourth soul skill, Refreshing Ice Pop, which restored half of a person’s mental energy and thirty percent of their Soul Power, prompting Chen Feng to realize it could extend Cycle of Rebirth.

After returning to the academy, Chen Feng tested his new soul skill and discovered that his Yin Sword could automatically break him free from mental control. He then asked Tang San to test Cycle of Rebirth against a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Chen Feng, Tang San, and the others left Winter City after resting, while Tang Hao and Dugu Bo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and Chen Xin brought the children back to the academy.
• At the academy, Ning Rongrong demonstrated Attack Amplification, and Oscar explained the effects and side effects of his ice pops.
• Chen Feng tested Ice Heart against Gu Yue Ling's Lion's Roar and Meng Yiran's Mass Frenzy, blocking the first skill but falling under the second.
• When Chen Feng lost control, his Yin Sword turned black and made him vanish before he reappeared with his mind restored.
• Chen Feng explained the Yin Sword's abilities and asked Tang San to test Cycle of Rebirth against a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Chen Feng tested the Yin Sword’s ability to interrupt a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then Grandmaster planned the team’s Spirit Master Tournament lineup and strategy. The team agreed to conceal the Yin Sword and their soul bone manufacturing secret while preparing to challenge Spirit Hall.

• Chen Feng used the Yin Sword to pull Tang San into the Cycle of Rebirth as Tang San and Xiao Wu began their Martial Soul Fusion, leaving Xiao Wu with a minor injury and Tang San coughing blood.
• Chen Feng explained that the barren land beyond the Bagua Diagram was inaccessible and that he could no longer use the Yin Sword after activating it twice.
• Grandmaster declared the Yin Sword a secret trump card and warned the team to keep it hidden while remaining cautious about the tournament’s opponents and rules.
• Grandmaster chose Chen Feng, Tang San, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Bai Chenxiang, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing as the main lineup, with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong among the substitutes.
• Grandmaster revealed that Spirit Hall would offer three ten-thousand-year soul bones as prizes, and the team pretended to be excited while agreeing to conceal their soul bone manufacturing technology.

After two months of training, Nine-Headed Serpent Academy entered the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and faced Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s secondary team. The team won swiftly with Tang San’s Flash Seed, while its three Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings drew attention from the tournament’s VIPs and left Spirit Hall’s Salas interested in the academy.

• Chen Feng redesigned Nine-Headed Serpent Academy’s uniforms in blue and gold, but Flender added sponsorship advertisements to the students’ backs.
• Ning Fengzhi greeted Chen Feng at the tournament, and Salas noticed his attention toward Nine-Headed Serpent Academy.
• Salas drew Nine-Headed Serpent Academy against Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s secondary team in the first round.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s students taunted Chen Feng and his teammates before both sides summoned their martial spirits.
• Three members of Nine-Headed Serpent Academy revealed Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings, shocking the spectators and VIPs.
• Tang San used his Flash Seed to blind the opponents, and Nine-Headed Serpent Academy defeated Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s secondary team.

After the team’s victory revealed three Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings, Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire considered the tournament’s political consequences. Chen Feng declined Qian Renxue’s invitation while planning to use himself as bait if Shi Nian acted, then joined Grandmaster’s briefing on dangerous opponents and the missing Shui Bing’er.

• Bibi Dong learned that Chen Feng’s theories likely enabled the three Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings and ordered an attempt to recruit him, while Spirit Hall watched the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi discussed Spirit Hall’s growing influence and Heaven Dou’s reluctance to reform, while Qian Renxue told Ci Xie she wanted to recruit Chen Feng and sent him an invitation.
• Grandmaster delivered Qian Renxue’s invitation to Chen Feng, who declined because he wanted to wait until Shi Nian began acting and hoped to use an encounter to drive a wedge between Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall.
• Grandmaster briefed the team on five dangerous opponents, including the Heaven Dou Royal Academy main team and the Four Element Academy, and agreed that Xiao Wu would fight Tang Ying if they met.
• Chen Feng asked whether Skywater Academy had entered Shui Bing’er, then explained that the Ice Phoenix martial soul belonged to the Shui Family’s hidden genius and that Skywater Academy might be concealing its strength.

Chen Feng and Tang San’s team faced Elephant Armor Academy in the second preliminary round, choosing to exploit their opponents’ lack of aerial combat ability. As the team took to the air, Chen Feng spotted Hu Yanli’s hidden anti-air attack, and Dai Mubai moved to block it with a wind barrier.

• Tang San and Grandmaster agreed to reveal the team’s abilities gradually, while Chen Feng learned that their next opponent was Elephant Armor Academy.
• Chen Feng argued against replacing Bai Chenxiang, and Tang San explained that the team could exploit Elephant Armor Academy’s weakness against aerial attacks.
• At Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena, the two teams introduced their captains and began the match, with Elephant Armor Academy activating its Naked Armor skill and advancing in formation.
• Tang San ordered Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang into the air, then used Blue Silver Grass to let Ma Hongjun carry the rest of the team.
• Chen Feng noticed Hu Yanli’s triumphant expression and warned the team as Hu Yanli launched pieces of his hardened callus at them.
• Dai Mubai shouted that he would handle the attack and formed a barrier from gathering winds.

Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun used their skills to break through Elephant Armor Academy’s defenses, but Hu Yanli combined with three teammates into a giant. The chapter left Chen Feng empowering Bai Chenxiang to strike the giant’s weak points as the team tried to disrupt it.

• Dai Mubai used his Wind Barrier to deflect Hu Yanli’s Mammoth Armor Break, and Tang San spread Blue Silver Grass across the arena.
• Ma Hongjun ignited the grass and marked the Elephant Armor Academy fighters with Living Bomb, causing explosions that knocked three of them unconscious.
• Hu Yanli absorbed three teammates and emerged as a giant, prompting Chen Feng to order his team to land.
• Bai Chenxiang distracted the giant long enough for the others to land, and Tang San formed Blue Silver Grass nodes on its body for them to break.
• Chen Feng sent Bai Chenxiang a soul ring, empowering her feathers to shatter one of Tang San’s nodes.

Chen Feng guided Nine-Headed Serpent Academy to defeat Elephant Armor Academy while Ning Fengzhi misled the VIP spectators about Chen Feng’s abilities. The chapter ended with other academies recognizing that Chen Feng’s team had withheld much of its strength.

• Ning Fengzhi implied that Chen Feng was a support-type disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Salas considered how Spirit Hall might eliminate dangerous contestants.
• Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing struck the fused giant’s acupoints until Hu Yanli lost control and the giant fell.
• Hu Yanli used a head soul bone to unleash Destruction Impact, but Chen Feng protected his teammates with Yang Sword: Dustless Land.
• Chen Feng kept Meng Yiran from using Mass Frenzy and had Tang San mark the giant’s weak points so the team could attack them.
• Zhu Zhuqing struck the giant’s left ankle, breaking its weak point and ending the fusion; Nine-Headed Serpent Academy defeated Elephant Armor Academy.
• Huo Wushuang noted that Chen Feng’s team had not revealed its three Ten Thousand Year Spirit Skills, and Huo Wu proposed asking about one of them.

Chen Feng drew attention to himself to protect his teammates from Shi Nian, while Nine-Headed Serpent Academy prepared to face Blazing Fire Academy after suspecting Spirit Hall had influenced the tournament draw. The chapter ended as their third-round match began, with Ma Hongjun refusing Huo Wu’s offer to bet for information about his spirit ring.

• After Nine-Headed Serpent Academy’s victory over Elephant Armor Academy, Huo Wu offered Ma Hongjun Gold Soul Coins for information about his spirit skill, but he refused to reveal it.
• Chen Feng deliberately wandered near the academy to attract Shi Nian’s attention and keep the assassin from targeting his teammates.
• Grandmaster announced that Nine-Headed Serpent Academy would face Blazing Fire Academy, and Chen Feng reasoned that the draw might have been arranged to counter Tang San and Ma Hongjun.
• Chen Feng told the team to expect opponents with hidden tactics and said they could use his unexposed Dustless Land against Blazing Fire Academy.
• At the start of the match, Huo Wu tried to bet for Ma Hongjun’s information, but he refused, and Tang San urged the teams to begin fighting.

Nine-Headed Serpent Academy faced Blazing Fire Academy as Huo Wu merged her teammates’ Foundation Rings to unleash overwhelming fire attacks. Chen Feng knocked her unconscious before her charged ultimate exploded, securing his team’s victory while leaving Thunder Academy wary of their unused Ten Thousand Year Spirit Skills.

• Both teams released their martial spirits, and Huo Wu began charging her attacks while her support teammates poured Soul Power into her.
• Tang San and the others engaged Blazing Fire Academy’s fighters as Chen Feng supported Bai Chenxiang and watched Huo Wu’s energy build.
• Huo Wu summoned Huo Yun and Huo Yu back and absorbed their Foundation Rings, then combined the added power with her teammates’ Soul Power to strengthen her fire skills.
• Huo Wushuang admitted defeat and left the stage, while Chen Feng ordered Dai Mubai, Meng Yiran, and Zhu Zhuqing to withdraw and charged toward Huo Wu under the others’ cover.
• Chen Feng used Instant to reach Huo Wu and knocked her unconscious with a punch, but her released Huo Wu’s Blazing Sun continued forming.
• Chen Feng ordered his teammates off the stage and escaped the explosion; the referee declared Nine-Headed Serpent Academy the winner, and Thunder Academy’s leaders discussed the team’s still-hidden trump cards.

After defeating Blazing Fire Academy, Chen Feng recovered from the match and discussed how much of the Nine-Headed Serpent Academy team’s strength to reveal. He received a formal invitation from Qian Renxue, but chose to go out first in hopes of drawing Shi Nian into the open.

• Salas blamed Ning Fengzhi’s misdirection and Chen Feng’s disguise for failing to learn Nine-Headed Serpent Academy’s true abilities, then arranged for Canghui Academy to face them next so Shi Nian would be prompted to act.
• Blue Silver Grass supported Chen Feng after he exhausted his Soul Power and mental strength, and Tang San and Dai Mubai helped him off the stage.
• Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian confronted Chen Feng over his punch to Huo Wu’s face, but Chen Feng explained that he had needed to knock her unconscious quickly to stop her Soul Skill from exploding.
• Chen Feng slept through the night and discussed with Tang San which abilities to reveal, agreeing to keep Yang Sword hidden for the grand finals.
• Chen Feng received a formal invitation from Qian Renxue, learned that Xiao Wu had sensed nothing unusual from Yang Sword, and decided to go out to draw Shi Nian into the open.

Chen Feng outmaneuvered Shi Nian’s illusion and killed him with the Snow Empress’s power, but then succumbed to the Yin Sword’s urge to devour Shi Nian’s soul. He awoke in a hospital believing he had fallen off a cliff, leaving the reason for his confusion unresolved.

• Chen Feng bought purple and black bracelets for Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, then noticed Shi Nian’s presence and let him lead him to a deserted place.
• Shi Nian revealed that Salas had arranged for Canghui Academy to face Chen Feng’s team and attempted to kill Chen Feng with his Nightmare illusion.
• Chen Feng transported Shi Nian into the Cycle of Rebirth and requested Snow Empress’s possession, allowing her to shatter the Nightmare and freeze Shi Nian to death.
• Chen Feng was overcome by the Yin Sword’s hunger and devoured Shi Nian’s soul before losing consciousness.
• Chen Feng woke in a hospital believing he had fallen off a cliff, was discharged with a mild concussion, and went home.

Tang San and the others found Chen Feng unconscious in a forest after tracking him from the city, where he had apparently fought an attacker who used an Illusionary Technique. After Dugu Bo and Ning Fengzhi treated Chen Feng, Dugu Bo discovered that his mental state remained abnormal, and Gu Yue Ling offered a way to wake him.

• Tang San suspected the apparent suicides of several tournament contestants were staged and organized a search when Chen Feng failed to return from the city.
• Gu Yue Ling proposed that a mental Illusionary Technique might explain the suicides and Chen Feng’s disappearance, helping Tang San identify a clearer trail at the far end of the shopping street.
• Tang San led the group to a forest, where they found Chen Feng unconscious beside shattered ice and a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone; Dai Mubai found traces suggesting the attacker wore white and had purple hair.
• Dugu Bo brought Chen Feng back to the academy, where Ning Fengzhi treated his injuries, and Grandmaster identified Shi Nian of Blue Sunshine Academy as a possible attacker.
• Dugu Bo discovered that Chen Feng’s mental state was abnormal and warned that he might not wake even after his physical injuries healed.
• After the others left, Gu Yue Ling told Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing that she might be able to wake Chen Feng and asked whether they wanted to try.