Chapter Summaries

Yan visited the Star Dou Branch Hall to invite the girls, including the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, to travel with him to the Sunset Forest for an experiment he hoped would improve relations between humans and Soul Beasts. Xiao Wu's mother agreed to accompany them after Yan reassured her about Xiao Wu's safety, while Er Ming reluctantly accepted Yan's plan for Qiu'er.

• Yan found the Three-Eyed Golden Lion near the lake and reunited with her and the girls at the Star Dou Branch Hall.
• Yan told the girls he planned to take them to the Sunset Forest, and Qiu'er was surprised and eager to join them.
• Xiao Wu's mother worried that Xiao Wu would be exposed in the human world, so Yan demonstrated his Flying Dragon Mech and reassured her that he could protect her.
• Yan explained the Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant sealed inside his mech, and Er Ming accepted his explanation after learning about the Evil Eye Clan.
• Yan suggested that Xiao Wu's mother accompany them, and she agreed to travel with Xiao Wu.
• Yan told Er Ming that he would take Qiu'er to the Sunset Forest for an experiment that might benefit humans and Soul Beasts, and Er Ming did not object.

Yan brought the group to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, where he explained how the medicinal garden could help them find immortal herbs to improve their cultivation. Three Behemoth Clan apes emerged from the spring, alarming the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who remained concerned about their dangerous bloodline despite Yan's reassurances.

• Yan guided the group through the medicinal formation and showed them the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and its rare plants.
• Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong sensed the garden's effects, and Yan explained that suitable immortal herbs could transform their aptitude and cultivation.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed the Fire Dragon King's descendant beneath the Extreme Heat Yang Spring and detected an unpleasant presence.
• Three golden- and silver-furred apes burst from the spring, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion identified them as outsiders and enemies of the Dragon Clan.
• Yan calmed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and explained that the apes were Behemoths he had adopted, but she warned him that adult Dragon-Eating Beasts were dangerous and had contributed to the True Dragon Clan's extinction.

Yan explained the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well and its treasures to his companions as they explored the medicinal garden. Several women failed to pick Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and the chapter ended with Xiao Wu failing as well.

• Yan persuaded the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to stop pursuing the Behemoth Giant Beast cubs and explained that she could temper her body in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion entered the spring, while Yan comforted Bai Xiuxiu, who could not withstand its power.
• Xiao Wu found Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and Yan explained its effects and the conditions for picking it.
• Zhu Zhuqing tried to pick the flower but failed, and Yan realized she had let go of her feelings for Dai Mubai.
• Hu Liena also failed, and Yan comforted her with Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew; Ning Rongrong chose the Aromatic Silk Beauty instead.
• Xiao Wu tried to pick Lovesick Heartbreak Red but failed, and the other girls sought their own immortal herbs.

Yan sacrificed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Evil Tyrant to awaken the Infernal Delicate Apricot and bind it to himself as a soul spirit. After using whale brain to strengthen his body enough to bear the new power, he broke through level seventy and transformed three of his soul rings into hundred-thousand-year rings.

• Yan accepted that Xiao Wu had failed to claim the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and directed her to choose the Eight-Petal Orchid instead.
• Yan chose the Infernal Delicate Apricot and explained to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion that he planned to use the Fire Evil Tyrant in an artificial soul-spirit experiment.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion used her Eye of Destiny while Yan’s formation drew the Fire Evil Tyrant’s power and essence into the Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Yan suppressed the Fire Evil Tyrant’s resistance, and the sacrifice awakened the Infernal Delicate Apricot, which entered his body and formed a soul ring surpassing the hundred-thousand-year threshold.
• Yan swallowed the Evil Orca King’s hundred-thousand-year whale brain to strengthen his physique, broke through level seventy, and gained a blood-red seventh soul ring.
• Yan’s fifth and sixth soul rings also turned blood-red as his aura continued to change.

After refining his seventh soul ring, Yan’s Soul Power reached level seventy-two, and he began condensing a Soul Core ahead of the usual stage. He endured the dangerous process and formed a Soul Core Black Hole, leaving his experiment successful.

• Yan’s Soul Power surged after he refined his seventh soul ring, and his three black rings transformed into hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
• The Soft Bone Rabbit Empress recognized that Yan was condensing a Soul Core, explaining to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion that his immense reserves allowed him to attempt it at Soul Sage level.
• Yan compressed and accelerated his liquid Soul Power until it formed a solid vortex that absorbed energy from his body and the surrounding environment.
• As the vortex drew in most of Yan’s Soul Power, spatial rifts formed around it, and Yan used his understanding of space to stabilize the emerging Soul Core.
• Yan injected his remaining spiritual power into the vortex, which collapsed into a Black Hole and formed a threadlike connection to him.

Yan fused a Soul Core into the ancestral aperture between his brows, greatly increasing his power despite still being a Soul Sage. He then extracted a Hundred-Thousand-Year External Soul Bone from the Fire Evil Tyrant and discovered that it took the form of an eye.

• Yan rested until his Soul Power and spiritual power recovered, then drew the Black Hole Soul Core into the space between his brows.
• Yan endured the dangerous fusion as golden patterns spread across his body and his Martial Soul absorbed natural essence through a fiery vortex.
• Yan’s aura stabilized, and the Soft Bone Rabbit Empress feared his strength as he realized he could now contend with ordinary Titled Douluo.
• Yan cut open the dead Fire Evil Tyrant and found its crystal core and a Soul Bone shaped like a fiery eyeball.
• Yan identified the eyeball as a Hundred-Thousand-Year External Soul Bone and rejoiced at acquiring a second External Soul Bone.

Yan absorbed the Fire Evil Tyrant’s External Soul Bone, gaining enhanced vision and powerful spiritual Soul Skills despite enduring a dangerous mental struggle. He left the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well for Dragon City, accompanied by Bai Xiuxiu and Xiao Qiu, to investigate a promising place he had found among the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s possessions.

• Yan fused the Fire Evil Tyrant’s eyeball Soul Bone into his right eye and overcame its spiritual resistance and memories.
• Yan discovered that his fifth and sixth Soul Rings had become Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and gained four powerful Soul Skills.
• Yan told Hu Liena he planned to visit Dragon City, then left the valley after teasing and kissing her.
• Bai Xiuxiu and Xiao Qiu followed Yan, with Xiao Qiu saying fate had guided her.
• Yan returned to Heaven Dou City, arranged matters with his people, and set out with Bai Xiuxiu and Xiao Qiu for Dragon City in the northeast.

Yan explored a sealed Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan estate in Dragon City and followed its cold spring to a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave. He identified the cave’s Ice Extremity Divine Crystals and recognized it as a precious cultivation site for ice-aligned Soul Beasts.

• Yan entered Dragon City, investigated a sealed clan estate, and explained that its well concealed a cold spring linked to a hidden treasure beneath the city.
• Yan descended through the freezing spring with Bai Xiuxiu and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then found a vortex and a concealed cave entrance.
• Yan entered the cave and used Golden Dragon Flame to protect himself from the extreme cold while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion shrank into a kitten and clung to him for warmth.
• Bai Xiuxiu enjoyed the icy environment and asked to take crystals back for her mother.
• Yan identified the cave as a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, recognized the Ice Extremity Divine Crystals inside, and described how such a place had once helped a North Pole Ice Silkworm approach a million years of cultivation.

Yan and Bai Xiuxiu harvested Ice Extremity Divine Crystals from the declining Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave before diving toward the cold spring’s true source. Yan entered a dark cavern beneath the spring, where Jiaojiao helped him withstand the deadly cold as he continued exploring.

• Yan examined the Ice Extremity Divine Crystals and gave a spiritually rich piece to Bai Xiuxiu, who sensed that the ice spirits wanted to leave the declining cave.
• Yan and Bai Xiuxiu harvested and stored the crystals, separating those with ice spirits from those without.
• As the crystals were removed, spring water flooded the cavern, and Yan avoided the torrent before swimming toward the spring’s source with Bai Xiuxiu and Xiao Qiu.
• Yan’s movement slowed in the extreme cold, so he summoned Martial Soul Possession and continued diving toward the source.
• Jiaojiao appeared to protect Yan from the source’s intense cold, and he passed into a dark cavern beneath the spring.

Yan discovered a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave and let Bai Xiuxiu and Three-Eyed Golden Lion refine its marrow to strengthen their cultivation. After Bai Xiuxiu absorbed several pieces, she entered a cocoon-like transformation, leaving Yan to watch over her.

• Yan examined the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave and identified its ice pillars as Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Yan fed Bai Xiuxiu a piece of the marrow, and her cultivation rose past seventy thousand years as her ice power reached ultimate ice.
• Yan gave Three-Eyed Golden Lion a smaller piece and used his golden flames to help her endure and refine its incompatible energy.
• Yan declined to cultivate the marrow himself, choosing instead to let Bai Xiuxiu and Three-Eyed Golden Lion grow while he restrained his own cultivation.
• Bai Xiuxiu absorbed several more pieces, became drowsy and swollen, and was eventually enclosed in a pulsing icy-blue energy cocoon.

Bai Xiuxiu absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and transformed into a human child, leaving Yan amazed by her rapid growth and strange new abilities. She continued absorbing the marrow and grew to resemble a two- or three-year-old.

• Qiu'er absorbed some Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, strengthened her aura, and told Yan that Bai Xiuxiu was advancing toward becoming a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
• Yan and Qiu'er waited as Bai Xiuxiu’s cocoon consumed frigid energy and she vanished into starlight before reappearing inside an icy-blue egg.
• Bai Xiuxiu cracked out of the egg, ate its shell, and slowly began recognizing and calling Yan’s name.
• Bai Xiuxiu dodged Yan’s attempt to stop her and grabbed an ice pillar to absorb its Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• After absorbing more than half the marrow, Bai Xiuxiu grew into a two- or three-year-old child as ice elements gathered around her.

Bai Xiuxiu absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow in the cave, rapidly matured, and completed an unusual advancement into a four-ring soul master. Afterward, she became affectionate with Yan and explained that the marrow had brought her ice attribute to the ultimate level.

• Bai Xiuxiu absorbed several Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows, growing from a small child into a powerful girl while drawing in more icy energy through snowflake-like runes.
• Bai Xiuxiu meditated, summoned the Demon Soul Great White Shark phantom, and formed two yellow and two purple soul rings as she completed her breakthrough.
• Bai Xiuxiu asked Yan to help her up, then kissed him and nestled in his arms while the Three-Eyed Golden Lion watched.
• Bai Xiuxiu told Yan that the marrow had raised her ice attribute to the ultimate level and helped her grow stronger in the Profound Ice Cave.
• Bai Xiuxiu and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion traded jealous insults as they competed for Yan's attention.

Yan brought Bai Xiuxiu into contact with the Heart of the Sea God and persuaded the Sea God to consider her as his successor. The Heart chose Bai Xiuxiu, and the Sea God agreed to seek approval from the God Realm Committee and have her undergo trials on Sea God Island.

• Yan teased Bai Xiuxiu in his room, then showed her the Heart of the Sea God and asked her to draw upon its power.
• The Heart of the Sea God struck Bai Xiuxiu's forehead, drawing blood, before the Vast Sea Power emerged and the Sea God's phantom appeared.
• Yan proposed Bai Xiuxiu as the Sea God's successor and argued that her ties to the Demon Soul Great White Shark clan and Sea God Island made her a suitable candidate.
• The Sea God acknowledged Bai Xiuxiu's potential but said he needed the God Realm Committee's approval and instructed Yan to bring her to Sea God Island for trials.
• Bai Xiuxiu absorbed the Vast Sea Power, and the Heart of the Sea God became a pendant around her neck.
• Bai Xiuxiu worried that Yan had given up his own chance at inheritance, and Yan reassured her that he had chosen another path and would help her.

Yan traveled into the Far North with Bai Xiuxiu and Qiu'er to seek an agreement with its powerful spirit beasts and find potential spirit souls for Bai Xiuxiu. The group encountered a Titan Snow Demon, and Yan blasted it into the snow after it attacked him.

• Yan explained that he hoped to negotiate with the Far North's ferocious beasts and recruit two powerful spirit beasts as potential spirit souls for Bai Xiuxiu.
• Yan, Bai Xiuxiu, and Qiu'er traveled deeper into the snowfields, riding a sled pulled by spirit beasts.
• A Titan Snow Demon approached the sled after catching the scent of a human and charged at Yan.
• Qiu'er offered to explain their intentions, but Yan chose to fight the Titan Snow Demon and make it guide them.
• The Titan Snow Demon attacked Yan, and Yan's pillar of fire blasted the giant beast into the snow.

Yan and his companions traveled into the Extreme North Lands to find the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpions, fighting off hostile spirit beasts along the way. After Yan drew the local beasts out with his power and revealed his three hundred-thousand-year soul rings, a jade-green light spread across the sky as a powerful presence awakened.

• Yan defeated a Titan Snow Demon Beast, learned that the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpions lived nearby, and collected samples from the unconscious beast.
• Bai Xiuxiu calmed the Snow Deer, and the group continued deeper into the Extreme North Lands in their cabin as Yan fended off powerful spirit beast attacks and studied their bloodlines.
• When the cabin reached the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpions' territory, Yan released a vast aura to draw the local spirit beasts toward him.
• Yan flew out and displayed his soul rings, provoking the gathered spirit beasts with his three hundred-thousand-year rings.
• A powerful presence awakened in the distance, and jade-green light spread across the sky, erasing the oppressive atmosphere.

Yan confronted the Ice Empress in the Extreme North Lands, where she attacked him for being a human with three Hundred-Thousand-Year soul rings. He defended himself with Golden Dragon Flame and battle armor, and the chapter ended with their fight escalating as he sought to prove his strength before trying to earn her trust.

• The Ice Empress sensed Yan's three Hundred-Thousand-Year soul rings and declared that his presence in the Extreme North Lands earned him a death sentence.
• The Ice Empress appeared before Yan, and he admired her jewel-like scorpion form while making her suspicious with his stare.
• The Ice Empress fired her Scorpion-Sting Ice Ray, but Yan refined it with Golden Dragon Flame.
• The Ice Empress attacked with her tail, ice crystals, and pincers, while Yan dodged and blocked her strikes in battle armor.
• The Ice Empress accused Yan of hunting powerful soul beasts, and he decided to defeat her before attempting to reason with her.

Yan and the Ice Empress escalated their duel, each revealing the power of their domains and trying to exploit the other's weaknesses. Yan tricked the Ice Empress with his clones and seized an opening beside her.

• Yan doubled his strength with two soul skills and struck the Ice Empress, whose Ice Emperor Body Protection blocked the blow before they were both knocked apart.
• Yan and the Ice Empress sized up each other's abilities as their auras rose, and Yan used his right-eye soul bone to analyze her movements.
• The Ice Empress unleashed her Eternal Freeze Domain, but Yan countered with two resonating Ultimate Fire Domains that forced her to attack swiftly.
• The Ice Empress vanished and attacked Yan from behind, but Yan used his third soul ring to create multiple figures and evade her pincers.
• The Ice Empress mistook a clone for Yan's true body and shattered it, allowing Yan to appear beside her and exploit the opening.

Yan exploited Ice Empress’s misstep and overwhelmed her with layered flame domains and soul skills, capturing her after a fierce battle. With Ice Empress suppressed, turmoil was set to erupt across the Extreme North Lands.

• Yan broke Ice Empress’s domain, wounded her pincers with his Dark Gold Terror Claw, and interrupted her attempt to unleash Ice Empress’s Wrath.
• Yan revealed his Martial Soul Avatar and used his layered Flame Domains to suppress Ice Empress.
• Yan’s Spirit Flame Force Field and Flame Gaze struck Ice Empress, leaving her severely weakened.
• Yan caught Ice Empress in his flaming hand and used seven flame energies to bind her completely.
• Ice Empress’s defeat threatened to bring turmoil to the Extreme North Lands.

Yan subdued the Ice Empress and brought her to his cabin, where he explained that her approaching four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation could kill her and suggested he could help. He began revealing a secret about the God Realm and why Soul Beasts could scarcely become gods.

• Yan restrained the Ice Empress with his flames, then demonstrated the Flying Dragon Mech's power by destroying an iceberg.
• Yan carried the Ice Empress into his cabin, where the Three-Eyed Golden Lion assured her that he had not hunted Soul Beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest or the Extreme North Lands.
• Yan told the Ice Empress that her cultivation was nearing four hundred thousand years and that her next heavenly tribulation could be her limit.
• Yan offered to help the Ice Empress escape her fate, drawing her into a discussion about gods and the limits facing Soul Beasts.
• Yan began explaining a secret concerning the God Realm and why Soul Beasts were almost incapable of becoming gods.

Yan explained to Ice Empress that soul beasts could no longer become gods in their own bodies and offered a new path: becoming a soul spirit bound to a god. He presented Bai Xiuxiu as a likely future Sea God, leaving Ice Empress weighing cooperation against a bleak fate as a captive.

• Ice Empress rejected Yan’s claim that the God Realm had made it impossible for soul beasts to become gods, but Three-Eyed Golden Lion confirmed it.
• Yan told Ice Empress he could help her become a soul spirit and showed her Jiaojiao, the conscious soul spirit of Fiery Apricot Jiaoshu.
• Ice Empress questioned whether Yan could become a god and pointed out that her attributes were incompatible with his.
• Yan introduced Bai Xiuxiu as the Sea God Island guardian sacred beast and showed Ice Empress the Heart of the Sea God, explaining that Xiuxiu could inherit the Sea God’s position.
• Ice Empress recognized Xiuxiu’s chance to become a god but hesitated, fearing that refusing would leave her at Yan’s mercy and that cooperation might still end with her death.