Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tianyang dealt with news of Tang San’s arrival while planning to have Qian Renxue leave seclusion and keep Bibi Dong occupied. A sudden crisis in the Extreme North drew his attention, and Xiao Longyu admitted that the local Soul Beasts were being driven into violent rampages.

• Xiao Tianyang told Saber to stall Tang San and asked Madam Mingzhu to notify Xiao Xue to leave seclusion.
• Fighting erupted outside, and Xiao Longyu explained that local Soul Beasts—not Xiao Tianyang’s followers—were clashing nearby.
• Xiao Longyu revealed that an unknown force was making most Soul Beasts in the Extreme North attack living creatures, causing their numbers to plummet.
• Xiao Longyu admitted that the rulers had invited it to investigate after it praised Xiao Tianyang’s ability to solve the crisis.
• Xiao Longyu knelt and apologized to Xiao Tianyang for failing to meet his expectations.

Xiao Tianyang decided to let the approaching visitors enter while ordering Big White to remain in the cave until its viciousness had faded. Outside, loyal Sea Soul Beasts fought off intruders as a young woman and a Jade Scorpion pressed on, determined to meet him.

• Xiao Longyu asked how to handle the visitors, and Xiao Tianyang chose to let them come in despite the dangers outside.
• Xiao Tianyang confined Big White to the cave until it had worn away its viciousness, and Big White sulked over the restriction.
• Xiao Longyu's order to protect Xiao Tianyang led the loyal Sea Soul Beasts to join the battle outside, where ice attacks froze two enemies.
• A Jade Scorpion warned the young woman it called Big Sister that the enemy forces were greater than expected.
• The young woman insisted she had to meet Xiao Tianyang, and the surrounding water rapidly grew colder.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress were summoned to meet the master after entering a powerful Sea Soul Beast fortress and realizing how outmatched they were. They followed Xiao Longyu into the cave, where he warned them not to offend the beast guarding the master.

• Xiao Longyu stopped the Sea Soul Beasts from attacking Snow Empress and Ice Empress and invited them to speak with the master.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress sensed the fortress's many powerful Soul Beasts and reconsidered their plan to use force.
• Snow Empress apologized to Xiao Longyu, who led the two Empresses toward the cave.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress discovered the cave's unusual comfort and valuable treasures as they followed Xiao Longyu.
• Xiao Longyu warned Ice Empress to speak carefully around the beast guarding the master, but Ice Empress muttered dismissively.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress met Xiao Tianyang and asked him to help the Extreme North survive a recent calamity. Xiao Tianyang agreed to act and said the solution was to find and destroy the source of the trouble.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress were surprised to discover that the fortress's powerful master, Xiao Tianyang, was human.
• Xiao Tianyang asked the sisters why they had come, and Snow Empress recounted the recent incidents in the Extreme North.
• Xiao Tianyang decided to help, partly because he suspected the trouble was connected to him and because he was attracted to Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress formally asked Xiao Tianyang to save the Extreme North, while Ice Empress questioned whether they could even find the source.
• Xiao Tianyang said they needed to trace the trouble to its source and destroy it, and Snow Empress apologized for Ice Empress's impatience.

Xiao Tianyang explained that Evil Soul Masters were behind the unrest in the Extreme North and agreed to help Snow Empress and Ice Empress. He demonstrated his Mental Power and gave them Heavenly Heart Jade Lotus Root, then shaped the remaining pieces in midair.

• Snow Empress asked whether Evil Soul Masters had caused the large-scale unrest, and Xiao Tianyang said he would help them confront the Human Soul Masters targeting them.
• Ice Empress blamed Human Soul Masters, but Xiao Tianyang reminded her that humans, like Soul Beasts, could be good or bad.
• Xiao Tianyang directed Xiao Longyu to retrieve four boxes and used Mental Power to make them float.
• Xiao Tianyang revealed the fragrant Heavenly Heart Jade Lotus Root, warned Snow Empress and Ice Empress not to eat it, and gave each of them a box.
• Xiao Tianyang split the remaining lotus-root pieces into four sections shaped like the character "big."

Xiao Tianyang created a body from the Heavenly Heart Jade Lotus Root and prepared to leave the cave despite Xiao Longyu’s concerns. As Snow-Ice Two Emperors followed, they reflected on their trust in him and wondered why he was heading toward the danger despite being unable to fight.

• Xiao Tianyang used Mental Power to shape the Heavenly Heart Jade Lotus Root into a body identical to himself and explained that it held only his consciousness and a wisp of his Mental Power.
• Xiao Longyu urged Xiao Tianyang not to go, but Xiao Tianyang reassured it and left with Big White, who carried three wooden boxes.
• Xiao Longyu and Snow-Ice Two Emperors followed them out of the cave.
• Ice Empress asked Snow Empress what she thought of Xiao Tianyang, and Snow Empress said he seemed pure and well-disposed toward them.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress considered how Xiao Tianyang’s aura and protective manner had made them trust him, then wondered why he was going to the scene despite being unable to fight.
• Snow Empress suggested Xiao Tianyang might be anticipating trouble or trying to draw out a larger threat, and warned that Big White could become uncontrollable when its Killing Intent rose.

Xiao Tianyang organized a small team to find and destroy the Poison Source behind the disaster affecting the Soul Beasts. He split Snow Empress and Ice Empress off to gather unaffected beasts and contain the afflicted, then set out with his companions to search for the source.

• Snow Empress estimated that she could match Big White at a distance but would lose if it closed in, and Ice Empress was surprised by its strength.
• Xiao Tianyang chose Big White, Xiao Long'e, Lobster, and Dragon Ghost to accompany him on the mission.
• After learning that a poisonous substance had triggered the disaster, Xiao Tianyang assigned Snow Empress and Ice Empress to rally unaffected Soul Beasts and limit casualties among the afflicted.
• Xiao Tianyang gave Snow Empress a jade whistle for contacting him and promised to eliminate the Poison Source within three days if all went well, or five at most.
• After Snow Empress left, Xiao Tianyang took out the [Treasure Seeking Compass] to search for the Poison Source.

Xiao Tianyang and his group tracked the Treasure Seeking Compass into the Extreme North, where a hidden enemy was driving powerful Soul Beasts farther north and causing weaker ones to fight each other. After Dragon Ghost discovered the enemy’s core and began battling one of its fighters, Xiao Tianyang hurried forward before reinforcements could arrive.

• Xiao Tianyang followed the compass northeast toward the Sea Soul Beasts’ habitat, where Dragon Ghost noticed the region had become unusually desolate.
• Xiao Tianyang surveyed the area and concluded that powerful Soul Beasts were avoiding danger while weaker ones suffered, then sent Dragon Ghost to scout ahead.
• Dragon Ghost reported that strong Soul Beasts had been driven farther north and that hundreds of weaker ones were fighting to the death.
• Xiao Tianyang explained to Big White that the enemy was likely building strength by causing large-scale Soul Beast deaths, and that it might eventually take over the Extreme North.
• As the group neared the compass’s destination, Xiao Tianyang sensed Dragon Ghost fighting an opponent near a shattered glacier and ordered everyone to hurry before enemy reinforcements arrived.

Xiao Tianyang’s group reached the Poison Source’s entrance in the Extreme North, where Dragon Ghost fought an Evil Soul Master guarding the way. After Dragon Ghost reported the entrance’s location, Xiao Tianyang assigned the others to hold off incoming reinforcements while he remained nearby.

• Dragon Ghost attacked a level ninety-six Evil Soul Master, shattered his Martial Soul Avatar, and wounded him despite the enemy’s sound-based attacks.
• The Evil Soul Master sacrificed his nine soul rings to prepare a deadly attack, but Xiao Long'e killed him with a thrown Wolf Fang Club and used Mental Power to disperse the resulting Death Qi.
• Dragon Ghost told Xiao Tianyang that the entrance lay beneath an iceberg three hundred meters ahead, then returned to its Soul Beast form and dove into the sea to carry out Xiao Tianyang’s instructions.
• Xiao Tianyang warned Big White that four to six Evil Soul Masters, possibly including a level ninety-eight opponent, would soon arrive and ordered it and Xiao Long'e to hold them off.
• Big White chose to stay by Xiao Tianyang’s side, then went with Xiao Long'e after Xiao Tianyang stressed that failure would reflect on his teaching.

Xiao Tianyang’s group confronted five powerful Evil Soul Masters, and Big White and Xiao Long'e attacked without warning. Big White’s crushing slash killed one of them instantly, while the remaining enemies prepared to fight; the clash was still underway.

• Five Evil Soul Masters emerged from the water, including a level ninety-eight leader whom Xiao Tianyang had never seen before.
• Big White and Xiao Long'e attacked immediately, following Xiao Tianyang’s instructions.
• The level ninety-eight leader ordered the group to scatter and escaped into the air, but Big White’s slash crushed the slowest level ninety-five Evil Soul Master into powder.
• Big White told Xiao Long'e to handle the remaining enemies while it pursued the two strongest Evil Soul Masters.
• The two strongest Evil Soul Masters activated their Martial Soul Avatars and braced themselves against Big White’s attack.

Big White fought the Evil Soul Masters Ghost and Ghost Bone, landing a baffling attack that injured them both. Ghost Bone moved to engage Big White while Ghost and Ghost Bone remained wary of Xiao Tianyang, whose mental strength could kill them in one strike.

• Big White advanced on Ghost and Ghost Bone and struck them with an invisible attack that sent them flying and left them badly injured.
• Ghost asked what had hit them, and Ghost Bone guessed it was an air-wall-like attack before proposing that they work together.
• Ghost Bone charged Big White with his spine Martial Soul, planning to keep it occupied while Ghost watched for an opening.
• Ghost and Ghost Bone feared confronting Xiao Tianyang, who watched the battle from a distance, and knew their premonition about his ability to kill them in one strike was correct.

After three hours of fighting, Xiao Tianyang’s side began suppressing the Evil Soul Masters, but a disturbance in the sea revealed that Dragon Ghost had run into trouble. Ice Empress arrived with news of the Extreme North’s preparations, and Xiao Tianyang pointed out that the sisters had overlooked the disappearance of the Sea Soul Beasts.

• Xiao Tianyang assessed the battle and decided that they could probably capture three of the four Evil Soul Masters.
• A poisonous black water pillar erupted, and Xiao Tianyang sent Lobster to help Dragon Ghost despite Lobster’s objections.
• Ice Empress told Xiao Tianyang that she and Snow Empress had already been controlling berserk Soul Beasts and that Snow Empress had sent her to check on him.
• Xiao Tianyang explained that Snow Empress was repairing the damage after failing to notice the Sea Soul Beasts had disappeared from the North Sea.
• Ice Empress recognized the mistake, and Xiao Tianyang teased her about having no image to protect.

Xiao Tianyang’s forces wiped out the Evil Soul Masters gathered in the Extreme North, while Ice Empress watched him manipulate the battle. Afterward, Xiao Tianyang reflected that he would stop trying to change history and turn his attention to the barbarians.

• Big White killed Ghost Bone, and Ghost fled before Dragon Ghost ambushed him and tore him apart with a water drill.
• Xiao Tianyang explained to Ice Empress that he had arranged the battle so freed-up allies could support the remaining fighters.
• Xiao Long'e and Dragon Ghost defeated their opponents, and Big White and Lobster returned with dozens of Evil Soul Masters they had killed beneath the sea.
• Xiao Tianyang assessed the Demonic Cult’s losses and decided that he could now focus on the barbarians rather than trying to correct the conflict between Tang San and Spirit Hall.

Xiao Tianyang learned that a hidden force had united the uncontrolled Soul Beasts in the Extreme North, making Snow Empress and Ice Empress hesitate to confront them. He set out with Ice Empress to find Snow Empress, promising to treat the captured Soul Beasts and help identify the mastermind.

• Lobster presented Xiao Tianyang with Soul Bones collected from the defeated Evil Soul Masters, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Xiao Tianyang told it to store them.
• Ice Empress reported that they had captured about one-third of the uncontrolled Soul Beasts, while many powerful lords refused to believe the danger and an unseen plotter had united them.
• Xiao Tianyang reasoned that an influential Soul Beast had likely accepted strength or status from the Evil Soul Masters and helped them rally the other lords.
• Xiao Tianyang suggested that he and Ice Empress find Snow Empress, where they could investigate together, and he offered to treat the captured Soul Beasts.
• Ice Empress asked where Xiao Tianyang was from, and he answered that he was a man of the Jianghu, prompting her to ask what the Jianghu was.

Xiao Tianyang returned to Snow Empress and Ice Empress’s territory, where they discussed the rampaging Soul Beasts and the threat behind the recent events. He began treating the frozen beasts, leaving the first one just released and ready to be restrained.

• Xiao Tianyang arrived at the sisters’ territory and saw many powerful Soul Beasts frozen in ice.
• Ice Empress recounted the battle against the Evil Soul Masters while subtly warning Snow Empress about Xiao Tianyang’s group.
• Snow Empress asked Xiao Tianyang about the Kunlun Unicorn Flood Dragon, and he explained its immense strength and likely cultivation.
• Xiao Tianyang offered to handle the remaining Evil Soul Masters while leaving the Soul Beasts’ troubles to Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered Big White to break the ice around a beast and Dragon Evil and Lobster to restrain it; Big White shattered the ice with one punch.

Xiao Tianyang used a Jade Ruyi to calm an eighty-thousand-year Soul Beast poisoned by a neurotoxin, then left Snow Empress to continue treating the others while he went to deal with the Evil Soul Masters. Before leaving, he tricked Ice Empress into losing a riddle wager, and she eventually figured out the answer.

• Xiao Tianyang had Lobster and Dragon Evil restrain the frenzied Soul Beast, then used a Jade Ruyi to calm it and explained that cutting off the neurotoxin’s source would allow it to recover.
• Xiao Tianyang gave Snow Empress the Jade Ruyi and asked her to continue treating the Soul Beasts while he went to handle the Evil Soul Masters.
• Xiao Tianyang wagered with Ice Empress that she would have to call him big brother if she failed to answer what cloth and paper feared, and she conceded after failing to solve it.
• Xiao Tianyang sent Ice Empress the cryptic answer, “Better fear the unlikely than fear ten thousand,” then bid Snow Empress farewell.
• Snow Empress began treating the Soul Beasts, while Ice Empress realized the riddle’s answer was that paper feared ten thousand and cloth feared the unlikely.

Xiao Tianyang suspected the Demonic Cult had used the recent battles as bait for a larger scheme and ordered his allies to investigate. He headed back to the North Sea to examine a possible flaw in their earlier operation.

• Xiao Tianyang received the [Wolfish Ambition] mission, which required him to command from a distance, eliminate all invading enemies, and keep the location's secrets hidden.
• Xiao Tianyang told Big White, Xiao Long'e, Dragon Ghost, and Lobster that their unusually easy victories suggested the Demonic Cult might be behind a wider trap.
• Xiao Tianyang sent Dragon Ghost to inform Long Yu and assigned Lobster to investigate three suspicious places in the Extreme North.
• Xiao Tianyang decided to return to the North Sea and review their earlier operation for clues they might have missed.

Xiao Tianyang examined the strange purpose of the Extreme North formation and entered its valley with Big White and Xiao Long'e. After Big White uncovered a group of hidden Evil Soul Masters beneath the ice, Xiao Long'e attacked to subdue them and leave them available for questioning.

• Xiao Tianyang reasoned that the activity in the Extreme North seemed suspicious despite the region offering little obvious benefit to Evil Soul Masters.
• Big White marked the route for Dragon Ghost and the others, then led Xiao Tianyang and Xiao Long'e into the Eight Dragon Lock Heaven Formation’s valley.
• Xiao Tianyang reached the central platform and sensed the abundant Soul Power while eight cloud dragons formed overhead.
• Xiao Tianyang pointed out that enemies could be hiding beneath the ice, and Big White smashed the ice to reveal dozens of figures.
• Big White launched the hidden Evil Soul Masters into the air without killing them, and Xiao Long'e followed up with a sweeping attack to subdue them.

Xiao Tianyang interrogated the Evil Soul Masters in the Eight Dragon Lock Heaven Formation and learned their expedition had been ordered by someone above Shangguan Qing. He suspected the mysterious figure was Ghost Demon but could not understand why Ghost Demon had come to the valley.

• Xiao Tianyang identified the strongest Evil Soul Master and began questioning him, but Big White killed him after he refused to answer.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered Big White and Xiao Long'e to identify the person in charge and leave no survivors, then explored the Eight Dragon Lock Heaven Formation.
• Xiao Tianyang reasoned that the valley's unusually powerful cultivation environment could overwhelm the bodies of those who trained there.
• Big White reported that the Evil Soul Masters had followed Shangguan Qing's orders, though they believed someone with even higher status had issued them.
• Xiao Tianyang concluded that Ghost Demon was likely behind the order but wondered why he had come to the valley instead of recovering at the Demonic Cult's headquarters.

Xiao Tianyang investigated a suspicious site in the Extreme North and learned that Demonic Cult members were moving south while Evil Soul Masters attacked Spirit Hall. Suspecting the movements were connected to activity near Sea God Island, he ordered an urgent investigation into the cult’s mobilization and ships departing southern ports.

• Xiao Tianyang ordered Dragon Ghost to send Divine Might a message requesting a report on the Demonic Cult’s recent movements, with Mingzhu handling the matter.
• Lobster reported that the third location on the map had a strong scent of blood and wandering spirits, so Xiao Tianyang sent Lobster, Dragon Blade, and Dragon Armor to scout it.
• Dragon Ghost relayed that Demonic Cult members were moving south and Evil Soul Masters were attacking Spirit Hall Soul Masters in the east.
• Xiao Tianyang asked Big White when it had fought near Sea God Island and learned that it had been half a month earlier.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered an investigation into when the southward mobilization began and whether southern ports had increased or unusual ship departures, including ships that never returned.