Chapter Summaries

Leng Yaozhu returned to the hotel and shielded its occupants from a massive explosion before rescuing Lu Jun and crushing the attackers. Afterward, Lu Jun recognized the enemies as members of the Green Skull Organization and learned that their mysterious Goddess of Beauty might be Tang Wutong.

• Leng Yaozhu used her Sky Phoenix True Body and Four-Word Dou Armor to contain the cannon-shell blast and protect the hotel occupants.
• Leng Yaozhu located Lu Jun and appeared beside him, shielding him from the three remaining attackers.
• Leng Yaozhu killed the injured Soul Douluo and captured the two Titled Douluos alive for interrogation.
• Leng Yaozhu checked Lu Jun for injuries, and he reassured her that he was unharmed.
• Lu Jun reflected that the attackers belonged to the Green Skull Organization and that their Goddess of Beauty seemed to be Tang Wutong.

After Leng Yaozhu rescued Lu Jun and defeated the attackers, Lu Jun warned her against letting status make her careless, and she accepted the lesson. Dong Zian’s investigation uncovered a Green Skull Organization invasion plot, while the chapter ended with Leng Yaozhu explaining why the Extreme North was so inhospitable.

• Dong Zian and A Tai arrived, took the surviving attackers into custody, and began securing the scene.
• Lu Jun cautioned Leng Yaozhu to remain vigilant, and she apologized for her arrogance and admitted she had nearly caused a catastrophe.
• Dong Zian led a citywide search, uncovered the Green Skull Organization’s plan to use the City of the Extreme North as a springboard to invade Douluo Continent, and reported it to the Federation Council.
• The search found that most of the organization’s hideouts had already been abandoned, while the source of the Grade Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shell remained unknown.
• Lu Jun asked why the Green Skull Organization chose the City of the Extreme North, and Leng Yaozhu explained that a Divine Artifact had struck the region ten thousand years earlier and made its climate even harsher.

Leng Yaozhu explained the sparse human presence in the Extreme North and the uncertain fate of the Snow Empress and Ice Empress. She and Lu Jun then left the City of the Extreme North for its frozen depths, where Lu Jun protected her from the cold with a coat of Ultimate Ice.

• Leng Yaozhu told Lu Jun that the Federation had built only one small outpost in the Extreme North, and that the Ice Jade Scorpions remained hostile to humans.
• Leng Yaozhu said the Titan Snow Demon King had confirmed that the Snow Empress and Ice Empress once ruled the region but vanished during the era of their Heavenly Tribulations.
• The Snow Empress mourned Xiao Bai in Lu Jun's Sea of Consciousness, while the Ice Empress wondered whether Lu Jun could change his fate.
• Leng Yaozhu led Lu Jun out of the City of the Extreme North and farther into the blizzards, where the cold suppressed her Sky Phoenix True Fire and weakened her.
• Lu Jun gathered Ice Element into a protective coat for Leng Yaozhu and offered to continue alone, but she insisted on staying by his side.
• Lu Jun agreed to keep Leng Yaozhu close as they continued toward the Extreme North's inner forbidden region.

Lu Jun and Leng Yaozhu traveled deeper into the Extreme North as Lu Jun’s Ice Abyss Sword guided him toward the Absolute Forbidden Zone. Though Leng Yaozhu feared the deadly region, she ultimately trusted Lu Jun and agreed to continue.

• Lu Jun explained that the Extreme North empowered his abilities and made him feel at home, while Leng Yaozhu admired his control over the ice.
• Lu Jun revealed that his Ice Abyss Sword was guiding him toward the Absolute Forbidden Zone, where he believed the sword had once fallen to the Douluo Continent.
• Leng Yaozhu warned Lu Jun that the forbidden zone was deadly and even Huo Yuhao had not dared to enter it, and she urged him to turn back.
• Lu Jun asked whether Leng Yaozhu believed in him and argued that the cold had never harmed him and that something important awaited him in the forbidden zone.
• Leng Yaozhu overcame her fear and agreed to follow Lu Jun farther into the Extreme North.

Lu Jun led Leng Yaozhu through the Extreme North, relying on his Ultimate Ice senses to guide them toward the forbidden zone. After seven days and seven nights, he found a cave where they could rest, clean and protect it with his Ice Abyss Sword, while Leng Yaozhu added warmth and light with her Sky Phoenix True Fire.

• Leng Yaozhu agreed to continue only at the slowest pace and promised to use her Four-Word Dou Armor to take Lu Jun away if danger became too great.
• Lu Jun pinched Leng Yaozhu's cheek, then took her hand and led her deeper into the Extreme North; she scolded him but allowed him to guide her.
• Lu Jun sensed that they had traveled for seven days and seven nights and were near the forbidden zone, explaining that the ice and snow let him perceive their surroundings.
• Lu Jun found an abandoned ice cave, confirmed it was empty, and used the Ice Abyss Sword to clean it.
• Lu Jun deployed the Ice Abyss Domain to shield the cave from the blizzard and extreme cold, and Leng Yaozhu lit it with her Sky Phoenix True Fire.

Lu Jun and Leng Yaozhu rested in a cave and realized it likely belonged to the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan, whose homeland lay in the Extreme North’s forbidden zone. Ice Empress sensed that the clan’s lingering aura had been tainted by an evil energy, leaving Lu Jun to prepare to investigate after they rested.

• Lu Jun told Leng Yaozhu that the cave bore traces of the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan, and she marveled that the clan could live in the Extreme North’s forbidden zone.
• Ice Empress explained that her clan had guarded Snow Empress and the Ice Abyss Sword there for ten thousand years, protected by the Divine Artifact and the forbidden zone’s extreme cold.
• Snow Empress agreed that the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan and the harsh environment had kept the Ice Abyss Sword safe from outsiders.
• Ice Empress sensed an evil, dark energy mixed into the clan’s lingering aura and feared that something terrible had happened to her clansmen.
• Lu Jun urged Ice Empress to wait until they had rested before entering the forbidden zone to investigate, and she reluctantly agreed.

Lu Jun warned Leng Yaozhu that the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan might have been corrupted by an evil force, while Ice Empress worried about her clansmen. In the City of the Extreme North, Xu Tiandi ordered an evacuation and prepared to lead reinforcements there as the threat from the Green Skull Organization escalated.

• Ice Empress grieved over the possible disaster facing her clan, and Snow Empress urged her and Lu Jun to recover before entering the forbidden zone.
• Lu Jun told Leng Yaozhu that the Ice Jade Scorpion auras carried traces of dark energy, and Leng Yaozhu agreed that the situation was grave.
• Dong Zian reported that the Green Skull Organization's forces had vanished after their attack on Lu Jun, despite a seven-day search of the City of the Extreme North.
• Xu Tiandi concluded that the Green Skull Organization had infiltrated the city's defenses and could overpower its defenders.
• Xu Tiandi ordered Dong Zian and A Tai to evacuate non-combat personnel and hold the city, while he set out with his Imperial Guard to reinforce them.

Green Skull attacked the City of the Extreme North to stop its evacuation, while Lu Jun and Leng Yaozhu entered the Extreme North’s Absolute Forbidden Zone. There, Leng Yaozhu’s flames froze instantly, but Lu Jun remained unharmed and grew stronger from the cold.

• Green Skull members spotted Dong Zian and A Tai organizing an evacuation, then received orders to seize the city and hold its people hostage.
• Green Skull launched an assault with Black-grade Mechas and powerful Soul Masters as Dong Zian, A Tai, the garrison, and the Titan Snow Demon Tribe fought back and protected the civilians.
• After recovering, Lu Jun and Leng Yaozhu left their cave and traveled toward the deepest region of the Extreme North.
• Lu Jun and Leng Yaozhu crossed into the Absolute Forbidden Zone, where an extreme Ice Crystal storm and cold filled the silent white landscape.
• Leng Yaozhu’s Sky Phoenix True Fire froze into a crystal, while Lu Jun felt the cold as a mild breeze and drew power from the Ice Abyss Sword.

Lu Jun revealed that he and the Ice Abyss Sword were the same otherworldly Divine Artifact feared by the Federation and Spirit Pagoda, then used its power to cleanse the Ice Jade Scorpions of Darkness Energy. Leng Yaozhu confronted him about hiding the truth but set aside her feelings to let him handle the urgent crisis.

• Lu Jun manifested the Ice Abyss Sword, and its power overwhelmed the frozen domain as his aura rose beyond Leng Yaozhu’s.
• Leng Yaozhu realized Lu Jun was the Divine Artifact behind the changes in the Extreme North and the object of the Tang Sect’s pursuit.
• Lu Jun purified the corrupted Ice Jade Scorpions, and the Ice Empress thanked him as her clansmen recovered.
• Leng Yaozhu inferred that Lu Jun had also been the mysterious person who saved Yulai outside Mingdu, and Lu Jun confirmed it.
• Leng Yaozhu admitted she felt deceived but told Lu Jun to focus on the Ice Jade Scorpions and the remaining Darkness Energy while she adjusted to the truth.

Lu Jun and Leng Yaozhu encountered Ice Jade Scorpions suffering from Darkness Erosion, and Ice Empress revealed herself to ask Lu Jun for help. After Lu Jun purified one of the Scorpions, he told Leng Yaozhu that he was the master of the Ice Abyss Sword.

• Lu Jun and Leng Yaozhu encountered a swarm of Ice Jade Scorpions corrupted by Darkness Aura in the forbidden zone.
• Ice Empress appeared, mourned her suffering people, and asked Lu Jun to save them.
• Lu Jun purified the most severely afflicted Ice Jade Scorpion by drawing the Darkness Energy out of its body.
• Leng Yaozhu realized Ice Empress trusted Lu Jun and watched him heal the Scorpion.
• Lu Jun apologized to Leng Yaozhu for concealing that he was the master of the Ice Abyss Sword.

Lu Jun refused to leave Leng Yaozhu alone after she learned a painful truth, and brought her to hear what the Ice Empress had discovered about the attacks on her clansmen. Leng Yaozhu identified the Holy Spirit Cult's Demon Empress as the likely enemy, leaving Lu Jun to confront the revelation that the cult still operated and its leader might be near godhood.

• Lu Jun held Leng Yaozhu's hand and insisted he would protect her rather than abandon her to deal with the Ice Jade Scorpion matter alone.
• Lu Jun led Leng Yaozhu to the Ice Empress, who said outsiders had been trying to enter the restricted zone for about a hundred years and had used Darkness Erosion to weaken her clansmen.
• Lu Jun and the Ice Empress concluded that the attackers were likely a long-lived Spirit Beast force rather than humans, and the Ice Empress wondered if they were sea beasts.
• Leng Yaozhu named the Demon Empress, Cult Master of the Holy Spirit Cult, as the likely culprit, startling the Ice Empress and Lu Jun.
• Leng Yaozhu said the Demon Empress was an unfathomably powerful woman who might have reached Level 99 Quasi-God or come close to Level Hundred True God.

Lu Jun revealed Demon Empress’s history and led the others to the source of the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan’s pollution. At the rift he recognized the scar left by his arrival ten thousand years earlier, then charged toward the darkness spilling from it.

• Lu Jun explained that Demon Empress was the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King’s widow and had spent ten thousand years plotting against humanity after Tang San killed her husband.
• Snow Empress relayed that the pollution tormenting the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan came from the center of the restricted zone, so Lu Jun led Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Leng Yaozhu there.
• The group found a vast spatial rift above an enormous ice crater, where ink-black Darkness Energy seeped from the rift into the abyss.
• Lu Jun recognized the rift as a trace of his own arrival in this world and identified the sword-shaped mark at the crater’s center.
• Lu Jun ordered the others to wait and launched himself toward the rift with the Ice Abyss Sword.

Lu Jun purged the Abyssal contamination from the ancient spatial rift and realized the Holy Spirit Cult had likely allied with the Abyss Plane to invade Douluo Star. After Leng Yaozhu explained the Abyss threat and the continent’s power structure, Lu Jun considered his potential allies and feared they would turn against him if his identity were revealed.

• Lu Jun used the Ice Abyss Sword to cleanse the spatial rift, then sensed that the Abyss Plane’s aura had seeped through it for centuries.
• Lu Jun suspected the Holy Spirit Cult had joined forces with the Abyss Plane, and Leng Yaozhu explained that the Extreme North’s deadly cold had destroyed most creatures entering through the passage.
• Leng Yaozhu described the Abyss Plane’s invasion and recounted how Huo Yuhao’s defeat in the Divine Artifact struggle led his descendants and the Body Sect to settle on the West Continent.
• Leng Yaozhu told Lu Jun that the current Body Sect Master was Huo Yuhao’s descendant and a Level 99 quasi-god Limit Douluo.
• Lu Jun assessed Douluo Star’s major powers and identified the Abyss Plane, ruled by the Abyssal Sage King, as its greatest external threat.
• Lu Jun worried that his powerful potential allies would become enemies if they learned his true identity and sought the Ice Abyss Sword.

Lu Jun asked Leng Yaozhu to preside over his highest-level Soul Spirit Symbiotic Contract with the Ice Empress, while the battle for the City of the Extreme North turned against the Green Skull Organization. The contract ceremony began as a terrifying presence emerged from the icy sea.

• Lu Jun asked Leng Yaozhu to guide the Soul Spirit Symbiotic Contract ceremony because he could not manage its complex runes and incantation himself.
• The Snow Empress confirmed that she and the Ice Empress had chosen to become Lu Jun's Spirit Souls, then hinted that Leng Yaozhu might also want to follow him.
• Leng Yaozhu agreed to preside over the ceremony and formed a vast contract magic formation across the Ice Plain.
• In the City of the Extreme North, Dong Zian and A Tai fought back the Green Skull Organization's forces and learned they could not contact Sky Phoenix in the forbidden zone.
• As the Green Skull leader called for the Holy Spirit Cult, a soul-shaking malice spread from the icy sea and a voice declared that the humans would die.

Dong Zian and A Tai faced a massive assault on the City of the Extreme North harbor by Sea Soul Beasts and Green Skull fighters, who revealed their allegiance to the Holy Spirit Cult. As Dong Zian was nearly overwhelmed, a powerful phoenix’s Golden-Red Flame swept across the battlefield and began burning the attackers.

• Demon Soul Great White Sharks and armored Sea Soul Beasts emerged from the harbor under the command of a powerful Demon Spirit Great White Shark King.
• A five-hundred-thousand-year Octopus Ferocious Beast revealed that the attackers belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult and joined the assault on Dong Zian.
• Dong Zian charged the Octopus Ferocious Beast, but it and six other powerful enemies surrounded and badly pressured him.
• Green Skull fighters held A Tai back with numbers and powerful Soul Tools while Dong Zian’s Fierce Wolf Mecha neared defeat.
• A phoenix’s cry rang over the harbor, and its Golden-Red Flame swept across the battlefield, igniting Sea Soul Beasts and Green Skull fighters and purifying the octopus beasts’ corrosive energy.

Leng Yaozhu returned to the battlefield after breaking through to Level 99 and advancing her Sky Phoenix True Fire to Ultimate Fire, turning the tide against the Holy Spirit Cult and Green Skull Organization. Lu Jun revealed he had reached Level 57 and challenged a hundred thousand year Demon Soul Great White Shark, leaving Dong Zian worried as the Beast attacked him.

• Leng Yaozhu arrived in a blaze of Ultimate Fire, revealed her Level 99 breakthrough, and forced the enemies surrounding Dong Zian back.
• Leng Yaozhu joined Dong Zian and explained that her breakthrough had followed a change in her relationship with Lu Jun in the restricted zone.
• Lu Jun arrived at Level 57, surprising Dong Zian, and credited his gains to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and a powerful Spirit Soul.
• Lu Jun refused to retreat and chose to hold off a hundred thousand year Demon Soul Great White Shark in Three-Word Dou Armor.
• The Demon Soul Great White Shark attacked Lu Jun with a powerful punch while Dong Zian prepared to intervene.

Lu Jun used the Extreme North's cold and the Ice Empress's Absolute Zero to kill one of three attacking Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Soul Great White Sharks, but the technique nearly exhausted his Soul Power. The other sharks realized he was weakened and prepared to capture him.

• Lu Jun severed the arm of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Soul Great White Shark with the Ice Abyss Sword, shocking Dong Zian.
• The wounded shark ordered its two companions to attack Lu Jun together while the Demon Spirit Great White Shark King and two Two Hundred Thousand Year Octopus Ferocious Beasts kept Dong Zian occupied.
• Lu Jun revealed his five Soul Rings and had the Ice Empress freeze the three sharks with Absolute Zero.
• Lu Jun transformed the Ice Abyss Sword into its Divine Artifact form and beheaded one frozen shark before the half-second freeze ended.
• The two surviving sharks noticed Lu Jun's nearly depleted Soul Power, and the one-armed shark urged them to capture him.

With his Soul Power exhausted, Lu Jun used Sword Intent and Spiritual Power to fight two Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Soul Great White Sharks and repeatedly turn their attacks against them. As the battle continued over the harbor, he pressed forward despite their roars and bombardments.

• The two Demon Soul Great White Sharks attacked Lu Jun together, but he unleashed the Ice Abyss Nine Forms and forced them back with his swordsmanship.
• The sharks roared and raised a hundred-meter wave, which Lu Jun split apart and redirected onto them with a sweeping sword strike.
• One shark lunged with its phantom jaws, but Lu Jun struck its weak points and halted its attack while inflicting more wounds.
• The one-armed shark launched a barrage of water-element attacks, and Lu Jun deflected every one before it could come within three feet of him.

Lu Jun replenished his strength and used his Ice Abyss Domain and soul skills to badly injure the two Hundred Thousand Year Demon Soul Great White Sharks. As the sharks burned their Life Origins and Soul Cores to attack him, Lu Jun shifted to defense and moved to confront one of them directly.

• Lu Jun swallowed a Pill that restored his depleted meridians and Soul Core, then unleashed his Ice Abyss Domain.
• Lu Jun used Ice Flower and Ice Abyss Slash with Ice Burst Technique to detonate the energy absorbed from the sharks and devastate their Three-Word Dou Armor and bodies.
• The wounded Demon Soul Great White Sharks burned their Life Origins and Soul Cores, transformed into their true forms, and launched a desperate combined attack on Lu Jun.
• Lu Jun used his sword force to break through their assault and freeze one charging shark on the ground.
• Lu Jun moved to meet the other shark as it broke through his sword light and attacked.

Lu Jun killed three armored Demon Soul Great White Sharks and taunted the hidden Demon Empress while Leng Yaozhu and Dong Zian fought the other Sea Soul Beasts. When a Green Skull Organization member attacked Dong Zian with Guanyin's Tears, Xu Tiandi arrived and saved him, leaving Dong Zian shocked and grateful.

• Lu Jun killed all three three-hundred-thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Sharks and dedicated one corpse to the Demon Empress.
• Lu Jun sensed Dong Zian was in danger but stayed back after detecting that Federation reinforcements had arrived.
• Leng Yaozhu burned the five-hundred-thousand-year octopus ferocious beast to ash while Dong Zian kept three armored opponents at bay.
• A Green Skull Organization member fired Guanyin's Tears at Dong Zian from behind.
• Xu Tiandi blocked Guanyin's Tears with his cane and destroyed the attacker with his Purple Blaze Annihilation Dragon Spirit.
• Dong Zian thanked Xu Tiandi, overwhelmed by relief and gratitude after surviving the near-fatal attack.