Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun refined twelve Formation Beasts and established the Twelve Earthly Branches Spirit Gathering Array, restoring the withered underground world. Outside, the Snow Empress sensed the dangerous flame and set out to stop it, while Xiao Yun concealed the array’s effects without knowing she was coming.

• The Sky Dream Ice Butterfly recoiled from the Sky Burning Flame as Xiao Yun raised a barrier to shield the small world.
• The Snow Empress sensed the flame beneath the Extreme North Ice Plains, left her ice coffin, and raced toward it.
• Xiao Yun refined twelve Formation Beasts from Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and arranged them underground in the twelve Earthly Branches’ directions.
• Xiao Yun activated the array, drawing spiritual energy into the withered land and restoring its spiritual herbs and flowers.
• The Sky Dream Ice Butterfly, Human-Faced ghost ice moths, and Tian Meng Ice Butterflies gathered around the array to absorb the denser spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yun concealed the array’s abnormalities as the Tian Meng Ice Butterflies circled overhead.

Xiao Yun activated the Twelve Earthly Branches Spirit Gathering Array to help the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly Leader break through to the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast level. As the leader approached the breakthrough, its clan protected it while the Human-Faced Ghost Ice Moths watched from the darkness.

• Xiao Yun invited the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly Leader into the array, where gathered Spirit Qi and Soul Power began loosening its bottleneck.
• The leader entered meditation and unleashed its accumulated energy, widening the crack in its bottleneck as it neared a breakthrough.
• Four powerful Tian Meng Ice Butterflies guarded the array while the rest of the clan surrounded them and spread Sky Dream Mist.
• Xiao Yun noticed that the Human-Faced Ghost Ice Moths had returned and were watching the leader's rising power.

Xiao Yun forced the Human-Faced Ghost Ice Moth Emperor to retreat while the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly leader continued its breakthrough. He left guards behind and spent the next two hours collecting spiritual herbs from the Underground Small World.

• The Human-Faced Ghost Ice Moth Emperor confronted Xiao Yun about helping the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly clan, but Xiao Yun's killing intent frightened it into withdrawing with its swarm.
• Xiao Yun noticed several Human-Faced Ghost Ice Moths remained behind to watch the breakthrough, then ordered four fifty-thousand-year Tian Meng Ice Butterflies to guard the formation and alert him to trouble.
• Xiao Yun explored the small world's richer spiritual herb fields while the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly leader continued breaking through.
• Xiao Yun harvested Silver Frost Grass and Red Spirit Fruit and planted them near the matching sides of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Pagoda Space.
• Xiao Yun gathered a large patch of Azure Moss and placed it in the Pagoda Space's Ice Space.

Xiao Yun prepared a small realm to raise Tian Meng Ice Silkworms, then witnessed the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly leader complete her hundred-thousand-year breakthrough by transforming into human form. She named herself Sky Dream Butterfly Dance, and Xiao Yun questioned why she had transformed as an adult rather than a child.

• Xiao Yun opened a small secret realm and planted spirit herbs and grasses for future Tian Meng Ice Silkworms.
• Xiao Yun sensed the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly leader's breakthrough and returned to the light array, where the butterflies barred his way.
• The Sky Dream Ice Butterfly leader transformed into a young woman as she broke through to a hundred thousand years.
• The leader's clan knelt to honor her, and she invited Xiao Yun into the light array.
• The transformed leader chose the name Sky Dream Butterfly Dance, and Xiao Yun asked why she had taken human form as an adult.

Sky Dream Butterfly Dance explained why she had taken human form as an adult and revealed her plan to pursue godhood through the soul master path. She asked Xiao Yun to protect or relocate the Tian Meng Ice Butterfly clan, and he told her to consult the clan before confirming.

• Sky Dream Butterfly Dance explained that spirit beasts could choose their human form’s age based on their understanding of human life, but younger forms allowed more time to cultivate and blend in more easily.
• She revealed that the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly clan had never produced a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast because its leaders could not survive the lightning tribulation, so she had chosen the soul master path in pursuit of godhood.
• Sky Dream Butterfly Dance said she trusted Xiao Yun to protect her while she cultivated, and she revealed that her Sky Dream Ice Butterfly martial soul had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xiao Yun asked what would happen to the clan while she cultivated among humans, and Sky Dream Butterfly Dance asked him to protect or relocate the Tian Meng Ice Butterflies.
• Xiao Yun told her to discuss the request with the clan first, and Sky Dream Butterfly Dance flew over to consult them through her Spiritual Power.

Xiao Yun moved the willing members of the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly clan into his Treasure Pagoda, where he showed Sky Dream Butterfly Dance the resources and habitats he had prepared for them. After the last butterflies entered, Butterfly Dance looked back at their restored Underground Small World before leaving it behind.

• Sky Dream Butterfly Dance told Xiao Yun that most of the clan would follow him, while some chose to remain in their ancestral home.
• Xiao Yun opened the Treasure Pagoda and led the clan inside, where Butterfly Dance found spiritual herbs and an Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well suited to the butterflies.
• Xiao Yun showed Butterfly Dance the pagoda’s Ice Space, prepared as a habitat for Tian Meng Ice Silkworms and Ice Attribute herbs.
• Sky Dream Butterfly Dance guided hundreds of Tian Meng Ice Butterflies into the Treasure Pagoda.
• After the last butterfly entered, Butterfly Dance looked back at the restored Underground Small World and left with her clan.

Xiao Yun left the Ice Crevice with Sky Dream Butterfly Dance and encountered the Snow Empress, ruler of the Extreme North Ice Plains. After she let him leave, he probed her condition and revealed that her next heavenly tribulation could be fatal, leaving her wary of his unfamiliar power and insight.

• Xiao Yun emerged from the Ice Crevice and released Sky Dream Butterfly Dance into the blizzard.
• The Snow Empress appeared, and Sky Dream Butterfly Dance recognized her with fear as the Ice Giant Apes knelt before her.
• The Snow Empress questioned Xiao Yun about the strange flame on him and his purpose in the Extreme North Ice Plains.
• Xiao Yun said he had saved someone and was leaving, and the Snow Empress warned him not to return or let the flame erupt in her territory.
• Before departing, Xiao Yun used his Spiritual Sense to examine the Snow Empress and told her she might not survive her next heavenly tribulation without an opportunity.

Xiao Yun explained to the Snow Empress that soul beasts faced an unjust path to power because the God Realm had forbidden them from becoming gods after the Dragon God’s fall. The Snow Empress was left confronting the possibility that her centuries of cultivation could never let her break through.

• The Snow Empress used Spiritual Power to order the hundred-thousand-year Ice Giant Ape and its clansmen to leave, and they fled while Xiao Yun watched her.
• Xiao Yun introduced himself by name and challenged the Snow Empress’s claim that her condition was very good.
• Xiao Yun told the Snow Empress that soul beasts were treated as resources and faced heavenly tribulations, while human soul masters could rise to godhood.
• Xiao Yun recounted the Dragon God’s fall and said the God Realm had restricted soul beasts from becoming gods to prevent the Dragon God and its followers from returning.
• The Snow Empress reacted with shock, despair, anger, and sorrow before her expression returned to calm.

Xiao Yun told the Snow Empress that her power was slipping beyond her control and that her chance to help the Soul Beast race would come in ten thousand years. He left her his token and flew back to Icefield Town, where Shui Bing'er rushed into his arms in tears.

• The Snow Empress asked Xiao Yun if he could help the Soul Beast race, but he said her opportunity would come in ten thousand years.
• Xiao Yun warned the Snow Empress that her Origin of Ice was leaking power and that the ice plain was helping her bear the burden.
• Xiao Yun gave the Snow Empress a token and departed, and she hesitated before keeping it.
• Xiao Yun flew south to Icefield Town and found Shui Bing'er waiting for him in the snow.
• Shui Bing'er ran to Xiao Yun, embraced him, and wept against his chest.

After returning to Icefield Town, Xiao Yun reunited with Shui Bing'er and checked on the injured Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen. He left medicine and instructions for their care, then went to his room to rest.

• Shui Bing'er embraced Xiao Yun and told him that Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen were recovering at the Ice Bear Tavern.
• Xiao Yun and Shui Bing'er went to the inn, where Shui Wuya welcomed Xiao Yun and reported that the headmasters’ lives had been saved.
• Xiao Yun examined Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen, then gave Shui Wuya a pill and instructions for Feng Wuhen’s treatment.
• Shui Bing'er offered to keep watch while Xiao Yun rested, and Xiao Yun returned to his room and lay down.

Xiao Yun rested in the inn after returning from the Extreme North Ice Plains, reviewing his gains and his plans for the Snow Empress. The next morning, he checked on the recovering Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen.

• Xiao Yun reflected on the Sky Dream Ice Butterfly clan’s submission, the Ice Queen’s precarious condition, and the token he had given the Snow Empress.
• Xiao Yun rested while Shui Bing'er quietly checked that he was safe, then connected with his Martial Soul, the Chaos Bead.
• Xiao Yun woke the next morning, ate breakfast, and used his divine sense to check on the inn’s occupants.
• Xiao Yun visited the recovering Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen, who each blamed himself for the other’s injuries.

Xiao Yun agreed to find soul rings for Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen and traveled alone into the Extreme North Ice Plains. He located the Ice Crystal Crane flock, including a male crane with an aura of around sixty thousand years.

• Shui Wuya and Shui Bing'er persuaded Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen to accept Xiao Yun's help because their injuries made another hunt too dangerous.
• Shui Yuntian requested a fifty-thousand-year Ice Crystal Crane, while Feng Wuhen requested a fifty-thousand-year Ice Wind Falcon, and Xiao Yun took their map.
• Xiao Yun left alone on his Flying Sword after telling Shui Bing'er to stay and care for the two deans.
• Xiao Yun reached the Ice Lake in the northeastern Extreme North Ice Plains and found a flock of more than thirty Ice Crystal Cranes.
• Xiao Yun's Spiritual Sense identified the flock's strongest crane as a vigilant male with an aura of around sixty thousand years.

Xiao Yun captured a sixty-thousand-year Ice Crystal Crane and a fifty-five-thousand-year Ice Wind Falcon, then brought both back to Icefield Town for Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen. Shui Yuntian began absorbing the crane’s soul ring, while Feng Wuhen prepared to claim the falcon.

• Xiao Yun wounded and captured the sixty-thousand-year male Ice Crystal Crane, then stored it in the Pagoda Space.
• Xiao Yun struck the Ice Wind Falcons’ Mother Falcon from the air and captured her without provoking the flock into attacking.
• Xiao Yun returned to Icefield Town with both living Soul Beasts, drawing a crowd that marveled at his feat.
• Shui Yuntian killed the Ice Crystal Crane and began absorbing its black soul ring.
• Feng Wuhen approached the Ice Wind Falcon and thanked Xiao Yun.

Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen absorbed their new soul rings and parted from Xiao Yun and Shui Bing'er in Icefield Town. Back at the Earl's Mansion, Xiao Yun took Shui Bing'er toward Dragon Ascending Mountain Range, leaving his reason unexplained.

• Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen completed their breakthroughs to Soul Douluo but found no soul bones, then thanked Xiao Yun for his help.
• Xiao Yun and Shui Bing'er flew south, while Shui Yuntian and Feng Wuhen returned home by carriage with Shui Wuya.
• Xiao Yun and Shui Bing'er arrived at the Earl's Mansion, where he found the household calm and its departments occupied with routine work.
• Xiao Yun took Shui Bing'er out of Dragon Ascending Town and led her along a forest path toward Dragon Ascending Mountain Range.

Xiao Yun searched the Dragon Ascending Mountain Range for a place where earth veins converged, explaining to Shui Bing'er that he wanted to establish a sect for talented disciples to cultivate and find a home. The two continued deeper into the mountains, still needing to find a suitable site.

• Xiao Yun sensed the earth veins as he led Shui Bing'er through the mountain forest.
• Shui Bing'er explained that graduates usually relied on clans, academies, nobles, armies, or Spirit Hall for cultivation resources.
• Xiao Yun told Shui Bing'er that he wanted to establish a sect so talented disciples could keep growing beyond the limits of their academies.
• Xiao Yun promised Shui Bing'er that the sect would be her home, and she asked whether they were fellow disciples from then on.
• Xiao Yun explained why they were searching the remote mountain range for abundant spiritual energy, and Shui Bing'er asked where they should begin.

Shui Bing'er told Xiao Yun a legend about a divine dragon falling in the Dragon Ascending Mountain Range, and he took her to investigate its core region. There, he discovered seven peaks arranged like the Big Dipper above a vast dragon vein and recognized the site as a natural foundation for a powerful sect array.

• Shui Bing'er recounted a legend that a divine dragon fell in the Dragon Ascending Mountain Range and transformed the surrounding hills into mountains.
• Xiao Yun took Shui Bing'er on his Flying Sword toward the range's core region and used the Fire Dragon King's aura to frighten away the powerful Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Yun found seven differently colored peaks arranged like the Big Dipper and used his Spiritual Sense to discover a vast dragon vein beneath them.
• Xiao Yun determined that a Big Dipper Array could unite the starlight and dragon vein energies to create a Spirit Gathering Array and protect a mountain gate.
• Xiao Yun examined the peaks and identified each one's distinct resources and suitability for different disciples' cultivation.

Xiao Yun chose seven peaks in the Dragon Ascending Mountain Range as the future site of his sect and explained to Shui Bing'er the preparations needed to build it. He secluded himself in the Earl's Mansion to design a Grand Formation, settling on seven magical-treasure Flying Swords as its growing array cores.

• Xiao Yun left an imprint of his Spiritual Sense on the main peak, then flew with Shui Bing'er back to Dragon Ascending Town and explained the need for a formation, buildings, transport, and people.
• Shui Bing'er returned to the Earl's Mansion with Xiao Yun and began imagining the future sect.
• Xiao Yun shut himself in a prepared room, while Shui Bing'er brought him meals each day and took away the untouched food.
• Xiao Yun designed the Big Dipper Star Spirit-Gathering Protective Array to span the seven peaks, using the peaks as Array Foundations and the dragon vein and Big Dipper as sources of power and guidance.
• Xiao Yun chose seven magical-treasure Flying Swords as the array cores, intending for them to grow stronger over time and emerge as immense sword-shadows when the formation attacked.

Xiao Yun spent a month designing the sect’s buildings and planning how its facilities would serve disciples of different ranks. He finally emerged from his room, exhausted but bright-eyed, and Shui Bing’er saw him after bringing his breakfast.

• Xiao Yun designed the sect’s mountain gate, living quarters, halls, workshops, and other buildings, assigning each a purpose and appropriate protections.
• Xiao Yun filled booklet after booklet with blueprints and plans, believing the sect would need time to rise in the Dragon Ascending Mountain Range.
• A month passed while Xiao Yun worked alone in his room, and the asparagus fern on the windowsill grew new shoots.
• Xiao Yun opened the inner room’s door and emerged with wrinkled clothes, messy hair, stubble, and sunken eyes.
• Shui Bing’er froze with Xiao Yun’s breakfast tray in her hands and looked at him with reddened eyes.

After emerging from a month of work, Xiao Yun heard Shui Bing'er’s report on Dragon Ascending Town’s progress and ordered a meeting with its leaders and the Four Great Academies. He reviewed his completed sect designs, cleaned up, and went to meet Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, and Sheng Minglan.

• Xiao Yun ate breakfast while Shui Bing'er reported that the expanded Wharf and Coastal Defense Batteries were complete, the academy campus was nearly finished, and Dragon Ascending Town had become safer and livelier.
• Shui Bing'er told Xiao Yun that the Four Great Academies’ principals and remaining teachers and students had arrived, and that all four principals had become Soul Douluo.
• Xiao Yun ordered Shui Bing'er to summon the Four Great Academies’ leaders, Dragon Ascending Town’s officials, Ma Sanbao, Shui Ruolin, and Xue Mingyuan for a meeting the next day.
• Xiao Yun inspected the booklets containing his designs for seven swords, seven mountain peaks, and the sect’s buildings, then stored them away and washed and changed.
• Xiao Yun entered the Earl’s Mansion living room, where Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, and Sheng Minglan were waiting.

After returning to Dragon Ascending Town, Xiao Yun reunited with Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, and Sheng Minglan, then heard reports on the town’s development. The chapter left off as Sheng Minglan began her Finance Department report.

• Shui Ruoyan, Yao Yuerou, and Sheng Minglan welcomed Xiao Yun with embraces and affection.
• Shui Ruoyan reported that the Administration Department had registered 19,247 residents, resolved local disputes, and coordinated labor for major construction projects.
• Yao Yuerou reported that the Maritime Trade Department had organized Wharf berths, increased trade, and formed a small fleet for a route to another seaport in Snow Spirit Province.
• Sheng Minglan opened the Finance Department’s monthly transaction summary and sighed before giving her report.