Chapter Summaries

Madara attacked the Fire Leopard Sect to find a worthy opponent and test his growing strength, while Xue Qinghe arrived as the sect’s honored guest. The old sect master shielded Xue Qinghe from Madara’s assault, and Huo Lie charged toward Madara to fight.

• Xue Qinghe arrived at the Fire Leopard Sect, where Old Sect Master Huo and Huo Lie welcomed him.
• A battered soul master reported that one intruder had broken through the sect’s interception team.
• Madara announced himself by sending five fire dragons crashing into the sect’s gathering, with one attack aimed at Xue Qinghe.
• Old Sect Master Huo protected Xue Qinghe, who emerged unharmed as Huo Lie rushed toward Madara.
• Madara prepared to fight Huo Lie and taunted him about playing with fire.

Madara fought Huo Lie, the Fire Leopard Sect’s Soul Saint, and overwhelmed him with black flames and a Blazing Tornado. As the fire tornado advanced toward the Fire Leopard Sect, someone angrily challenged Madara for attacking it.

• Huo Lie attacked Madara with his fire skills, but Madara blocked the flames and forced him to dodge a barrage of ninja tools.
• Madara fused his first and fifth spirit rings and unleashed black flames, which Huo Lie escaped using his speed-enhancing third spirit skill.
• Huo Lie rushed Madara in midair, but Madara’s azure giant arm seized him and slammed him into the ground.
• Huo Lie activated his Martial Soul Avatar, but Madara combined a copied Wind Vortex skill with Fire Release to engulf him in a Blazing Tornado.
• Madara watched the tornado advance toward the Fire Leopard Sect as someone shouted, “How dare you bully the Fire Leopard Sect!”

Madara fought the Fire Leopard Sect's old sect master, matching the Soul Douluo with Susanoo, spirit skills, and close combat. As both fighters neared exhaustion, Xue Qinghe ordered his guards to fire crossbow bolts at them.

• The old sect master attacked Madara at great speed, wounding him with his claws.
• Madara used Susanoo to withstand the old sect master's attacks and struck back with his azure giant arm.
• The old sect master activated his Martial Soul Avatar and unleashed his fifth spirit skill, but Madara's Susanoo emerged unharmed.
• Madara and the old sect master clashed their strongest attacks, then dismissed their avatars and continued fighting hand to hand as their power waned.
• Xue Qinghe ordered his guards to fire crossbow bolts at Madara and the old sect master.

Xue Qinghe persuaded Madara and the Fire Leopard Sect’s old sect master to end their fight, then asked Madara to retrieve a snow lotus from the Extreme North before Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation could claim it. Madara accepted in exchange for one promise and learned the route to the City of Slaughter as he left to complete the commission.

• Xue Qinghe stopped Madara and the old sect master’s fight with a volley of crossbow bolts and brought them to the Fire Leopard Sect’s discussion hall.
• Xue Qinghe asked the Fire Leopard Sect to send gifted youths to retrieve a snow lotus, revealing that Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation was pursuing it too.
• Madara insulted the Golden Generation and agreed to undertake the commission in exchange for one promise.
• Madara asked Xue Qinghe about the City of Slaughter, and the old sect master gave him directions north from Thousand Whispers Forest.
• The old sect master reflected that Madara reminded him of his younger self, while Madara left to complete the commission.

Madara headed north toward the Extreme North with Mumu and Kurama, while Huo Li asked to become his disciple and was rejected. A group of assassins ambushed Madara on the road, but he defeated them and was left wondering whether the empire or Spirit Hall had sent them.

• Madara left the Fire Leopard Sect with Mumu and Kurama and said they were bound for the Extreme North.
• Huo Li, the Fire Leopard Sect young sect master, asked Madara to take him as a disciple, but Madara said he was unqualified; Huo Li then declared he would enter the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition.
• Madara followed the map while Mumu practiced tree-running drills and Kurama teased him.
• More than a dozen black-clad assassins surrounded Madara, and their five-ring leader attacked him with Shadow Blade Flash.
• Madara cut down the attackers, gravely wounded their leader, and watched the man kill himself rather than reveal his organization.
• Madara wondered whether the empire or Spirit Hall had sent the assassins.

Madara and Mumu reached the Extreme North, where Madara subdued a Snow Titan and claimed its cave for the night. He ended the chapter warming himself with Amaterasu while Mumu and Kurama begged him to put out the dangerous flames.

• Mumu complained about the cold and the supply convoy mocked Madara for traveling without provisions, so Madara planned to take tents and fuel from them after dark.
• A Snow Titan emerged from a cave and roared at Madara, who ignored its threats and focused on using its cave for shelter.
• Madara beat the Snow Titan into submission and left it outside the cave as he brought Mumu and Kurama in for the night.
• Mumu asked Madara to light a fire, and Madara made a campfire with Amaterasu that frightened Mumu and Kurama into asking him to retract his divine power.

Madara and Mumu reached the last waystation before the depths of the Extreme North, where Madara reunited with Li Jia and confronted a group of thugs. After the men tried to demand a free meal, Madara brutally punished one and challenged the rest.

• Madara rode the Snow Titan with Mumu and Kurama, using the rough journey to push Mumu's training before stopping near signs of human activity.
• Madara entered the waystation and grabbed an attendant who recognized him, then learned the man belonged to the Lone Soul Hunting Group.
• Li Jia emerged from the kitchen, and Madara was relieved to find him alive.
• Several Soul Masters tried to provoke Madara into buying them a meal, so Li Jia led Mumu away while Madara agreed to treat them.
• Madara stuffed a Soul Master with meat, slammed his head onto the table, tore out his teeth, and asked the others, "Who else?"

Madara confronted the Golden Generation of Spirit Hall in a tavern and overwhelmed Yan with his black Amaterasu flames. The trio withdrew to pursue their important mission, while Madara wondered whether they would make worthy opponents.

• Yan, Xie Yue, and the fox Martial Soul user challenged Madara, revealing that all three were Spirit Kings.
• Yan attacked with a fire beast, but Madara matched his attack and then used black flames to consume the beast.
• Madara stopped the Amaterasu flames just before they reached Yan and warned the trio with a display of black fireballs.
• Xie Yue halted the enraged Yan and said the Golden Generation would remember the grudge, but Madara mocked them as they retreated.
• Mumu praised Madara, Kurama teased Mumu, and Madara wondered whether the Golden Generation had been holding back.

Madara left Mumu in Li Jia’s care and traveled into the Extreme North to find a Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus. When fleeing Spirit Beasts led him to a mysterious ice palace, he discovered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress inside and decided to investigate.

• Madara learned from Li Jia that the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus would bloom in five days, then left Mumu with him before setting out with Kurama.
• Madara and Kurama traveled through the Extreme North until fleeing Spirit Beasts alerted them to a terrifying presence.
• Madara used Sage Mode to approach an ice palace and spotted the Snow Empress and Ice Empress outside it.
• The Snow Empress sensed Madara’s presence, but he concealed his aura and avoided detection as she and the Ice Empress entered the palace.
• Madara noticed the palace’s aura resembled the cave where he had encountered the Asura God, then decided to investigate it with Kurama.

Madara and Kurama entered the Ice Palace, where a soul-chilling illusion nearly froze them before Madara escaped it with Amaterasu and his Mangekyo Sharingan. After finding the remains of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and fleeing a collapsing hall, they encountered the two Spirit Beasts waiting for them.

• Madara led Kurama into the Ice Palace and chose a side stairway instead of following the two Spirit Beasts down the central corridor.
• A soul-freezing illusion trapped Madara and Kurama, and Madara broke free by using Amaterasu and activating his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Madara accidentally burned Kurama's tail with Amaterasu, then found remains that Kurama identified as belonging to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The side hall began collapsing, so Madara and Kurama fled before it crashed down behind them.
• The Giant Scorpion confronted them and accused Kurama of disgracing the Spirit Beast race by consorting with humans.

Madara fought the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion in Ice God's Great Hall, countering her Ultimate Ice with Amaterasu's Ultimate Fire until the Divine Envoy stopped them. The Divine Envoy revealed that Madara likely could not inherit Ice God's position because of Ice God's poor relationship with Asura God, and Madara continued exploring.

• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion attacked Madara with icy wind and a torrent of ice spikes, while the Snow Woman tried to stop her.
• Madara activated Sage Mode, opened the Gate of Pain, and summoned Susanoo, but the Scorpion's Ultimate Ice began freezing him and Kurama.
• Madara unleashed Amaterasu, and his Ultimate Fire clashed with the Scorpion's Ultimate Ice until the Divine Envoy erased both attacks.
• The Divine Envoy restored the damaged hall and forbade fighting there, so the Snow Woman led the angry Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion away.
• Madara learned the hall belonged to Ice God's inheritance ground and that Ice God's poor relationship with Asura God likely disqualified him, then left to explore.

Madara challenged the Ice God's Snowy Heavenly Ladder despite the Divine Envoy's warning and climbed against its crushing pressure. After removing his weights and using the Eight Inner Gates and Sage Mode, he overcame the trial and reached the summit.

• Madara led Kurama to the main hall, where the Ice God's Divine Envoy directed him to the rear hall but explained that the Snowy Heavenly Ladder was the first trial.
• Madara ignored the Divine Envoy's advice and stepped onto the ladder, where the pressure grew stronger with every step.
• The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion mocked Madara's struggle and provoked Kurama, while Snow Woman watched him climb.
• Madara removed his weights, opened the Fourth Gate, and activated Sage Mode as he continued to resist the ladder's pressure.
• Snow Woman and the Divine Envoy watched in admiration as Madara reached the summit.

Madara claimed the Ice God's first-trial reward and endured its violent energy, raising his cultivation to level 55. He then chose to enter the second trial, the Ice Soul Arena, despite being warned that it could kill him.

• Madara reached the summit, stepped onto the runic platform, and met the Ice God's phantom, which recognized the Asura God’s power in him.
• The Ice God sent Madara a surge of energy that ravaged his meridians, but Madara used Soul Power, Chakra, and Sage Mode to control and absorb it.
• Madara's Soul Power rose five or six levels, bringing his cultivation to level 55.
• Kurama teased Ice Empress about Madara's gains, and Ice Empress threatened to skin him once they escaped.
• Madara asked to attempt the second trial, and the Ice God's Divine Envoy warned him that the Ice Soul Arena could be fatal.
• Madara accepted the risk, while Snow Empress predicted he could become a Titled Douluo and then led Ice Empress to watch.

Madara entered the Ice Soul Fighting Arena for the second trial and faced its guardian, an Ice Phoenix. After dodging its attacks and weaving through a storm of shattered ice, he appeared beside it and prepared to strike.

• The Ice God's Divine Envoy explained that the arena suppressed entrants to Spirit King level and that Madara had to defeat its guardian.
• Madara entered the arena and saw the Ice Phoenix descend, boast, and challenge him.
• Madara attacked with shuriken, but the Ice Phoenix froze them and sent them back at him.
• The Ice Phoenix cracked the arena floor and launched a torrent of ice at Madara.
• Madara used his Sharingan and reflexes to weave through the ice without being hit, then appeared beside the Ice Phoenix and announced that his turn had come.

Madara used his superior physique and taijutsu to overwhelm the Ice Phoenix in the Ice Soul Arena. The Ice Phoenix ended the chapter bloodied and near death, pinned beneath Madara’s relentless assault.

• Madara shattered the Ice Phoenix’s frost armor with powerful kicks, forcing it to abandon its armor and take to the sky.
• The Ice Phoenix rained feather arrows on Madara, then lunged at him, but Madara countered and stabbed its abdomen with a blood-red Kunai.
• Madara held onto the wounded Ice Phoenix and dragged it back as it tried to flee, and the Ice Phoenix rammed him into the ground.
• Madara endured the Ice Phoenix’s pecks and claw strikes while stabbing its vital areas and disabling its wings.
• Madara slammed the grounded Ice Phoenix into the arena and battered it until it lay near death.

Madara challenged the Ice God's phantom to a wager after the god intervened to save the Ice Phoenix, demanding to know whether a god could be slain. The Ice God agreed to fight Madara at equal cultivation levels after one hour, and Madara asked Kurama to lend him Nine-Tails Chakra.

• Madara impaled the Ice Phoenix with a blood-aura spear, but it escaped his follow-up attack before the Ice God's phantom knocked Madara back and healed it.
• Madara accused the Ice God of violating the trial's rules and proposed wagering the Ice Phoenix's fate on a fight.
• Madara asked whether a god could be slain, and the Ice God agreed to fight him fairly at equal cultivation levels after one hour of recovery.
• Madara told the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion that aspiring gods should not bow before gods, prompting the Snow Empress to realize something about the path to godhood.
• Madara told Kurama he would fight the Ice God and asked to borrow Nine-Tails Chakra.

Madara challenged the Ice God's phantom in the arena, escalating from a close-range assault to his Eight Inner Gates and powerful spirit skills. He set the phantom ablaze and hurled Yasakani no Magatama, but the phantom redirected the attack into the arena wall, which exploded and shook the ground.

• Madara dodged the Ice God's phantom's spears and struck at him, but a sudden ice block stopped his scythe and sent him reeling from the recoil.
• Madara discarded his weights and opened the Eight Inner Gates, then used Dance of the Crescent Moon to attack from three directions.
• The Ice God's phantom impaled the three apparent Madaras with ice swords, but Madara appeared behind him and kicked him away.
• Madara unleashed Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation, then amplified it with Mangekyo Shinra Bansho to ignite the phantom with Amaterasu.
• Madara launched Yasakani no Magatama, but the Ice God's phantom raised five ice walls that diverted it into the arena wall, blasting the wall apart and shaking the ground.

Madara and the Ice God phantom escalated their powers and fought on equal terms until Madara gained the advantage with a combination of illusion and close-range attacks. Their final exchange ended with both striking at each other’s vital points.

• The Ice God phantom armored himself in frost and formed an ice saber, while Madara activated Sage Mode amplified by Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Madara and the Ice God phantom clashed with their scythe and saber, matching each other’s attacks before both unleashed their full strength.
• The Ice God phantom surrounded Madara with a storm of ice blades, but Madara countered it with Blade Storm and emerged from the attack wounded.
• Madara rushed the Ice God phantom, used Binding Illusion to immobilize him, then cracked his mask and pierced his hand with the scythe.
• The Ice God phantom stabbed toward Madara with an ice spike as Madara drove a blood-red Kunai toward his chest and abdomen.

Madara survived the Ice God's avatar's self-destructive final attack, but learned that killing the god had placed a spreading curse on his arm. The Ice God's Divine Envoy said only becoming a god could remove it, and Madara left the palace with Kurama and the captured Ice Phoenix.

• Madara and the Ice God's phantom wounded each other, and the phantom unleashed the Ice Explosion Technique, reducing the Ice Soul Arena to ruins.
• Kurama found Madara alive, and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and Snow Woman approached as the Ice God's Divine Envoy said he would not attack.
• Madara collapsed from pain in his right arm, and the Divine Envoy identified the spreading mark as Godslayer's Curse, which could be removed only by becoming a god.
• The Divine Envoy said fire-attributed Heavenly Treasures could temporarily suppress the curse and warned that it had other uses.
• Madara thanked the Divine Envoy, ordered Kurama to carry the shrunken Ice Phoenix, and left by a staircase of ice and snow.

Madara left Ice God's Great Hall with Ice Phoenix in tow and discovered that Ice God's Curse let him resist cold and control snow. Seeking the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus, he subdued a chameleon Soul Master and reached a camp where several factions were poised for battle.

• Kurama teased Ice Phoenix with threats of roasting him or making shaved ice, while Madara considered sealing Elemental Beings inside people to build a faction.
• Madara left Ice God's Great Hall and found that Ice God's Curse protected him from cold and let him command ice and snow.
• Madara hurried across the northern ice plains with Kurama and Ice Phoenix, determined to reach the Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus before its contest ended.
• A chameleon Soul Master tried to lure Madara into a team and then attacked him, but Madara caught his tongue and put him under a Sharingan illusion.
• Madara ordered the Soul Master to lead him to the snow lotus and arrived at a camp where powerful Soul Masters from rival factions awaited a chance to fight.