Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Shi Clan, Shi Shaoqiu blamed Yu Peirong for Little One’s suffering, while Wang Lin and Chen Zhixing welcomed the child into their family and began his training. Chen Zhixing took Little One north toward the Shi Clan’s ancestral land, where tavern patrons praised Shi Li’s talents and compared him favorably to Chen Zhixing.

• Shi Shaoqiu left Ziwei Mountain, furious at Yu Peirong and worried that she would bring more trouble to the Shi Clan.
• Wang Lin comforted Little One and promised to protect him, and Chen Zhixing told the child to work hard to reclaim what Shi Li had taken.
• Chen Zhixing carried Little One toward the Northern Land and revealed that he had reached the Nirvana Sixth Level after absorbing the Karma Great Dao Seed.
• Chen Zhixing and Little One traveled through the Northern Land, whose harsh, sparsely populated regions bordered the Northern Wilderness.
• In a Northern Land tavern, patrons celebrated Shi Li’s Ancient Markings Saint Eyes and Longevity Immortal Bone and predicted that he might surpass Chen Zhixing.

Chen Zhixing and Little One entered the Northern Wilderness in search of the Shi Clan’s ancestral land and learned that Shi Village lay deep within the region. After Chen Zhixing destroyed a tribe’s Guardian Deity, his sword light slaughtered the nearby demons and beasts, leaving the tribe chief grateful for their protection.

• Chen Zhixing entered the Northern Wilderness with Little One, intending to find a cultivation technique at the Shi Clan’s ancestral land.
• Chen Zhixing crushed the skull of a tribe’s Guardian Deity after learning that the tribe offered it food and human sacrifices.
• Chen Zhixing asked the village chief about the Shi Clan and learned that Shi Village was several hundred li farther into the Northern Wilderness.
• The village chief worried that the tribe had lost its protection after Chen Zhixing destroyed the Guardian Deity.
• Chen Zhixing’s sword light slaughtered demons and fierce beasts across a hundred-li area, including a Winged Serpent, and the village chief knelt in thanks.

Chen Zhixing and Little One entered the Northern Wilderness and reached Shi Village after the Willow God drove off the Great Azure Bird. Chen Zhixing introduced Little One to the clan leader, Shi Feifeng, and asked whether he knew about the Longevity Bone.

• A Great Azure Bird chased a group of Shi Village boys after they entered its territory, claiming they had stolen its egg.
• The Willow God stopped the bird from attacking the boys and told it that the real egg thief had fled east.
• Little One called the Willow God an evil god, but Chen Zhixing corrected him and asked the villagers whether the place was the Shi Clan Ancestral Land.
• Shi Feifeng welcomed Chen Zhixing and Little One, recognized Little One as Shi Shaoling's child, and recalled once fighting alongside his father.
• Shi Feifeng recognized Chen Zhixing as the Ziwei Master, and Chen Zhixing explained that he had come because Little One had a destined connection to the Shi Clan.
• Chen Zhixing asked Shi Feifeng whether he had heard of the Longevity Bone.

Chen Zhixing sought the Primal True Understanding from Shi Village’s Guardian Deity for Little One Shi Huang. After revealing his knowledge of the ancient Willow Tree, Chen threatened to slaughter the village and take the text by force, enraging the Guardian Deity.

• Chen Zhixing told Shi Feifeng how Little One Shi Huang’s Longevity Bone had been cut out by his own clan, and Shi Village’s people rallied around the child.
• Chen Zhixing asked Shi Feifeng for the Primal True Understanding, but Shi Feifeng said the Guardian Deity had bestowed it and held the decision.
• The Guardian Deity confronted Chen Zhixing with a vision of its former power, then returned him to Shi Village when it realized it could not kill him.
• Chen Zhixing explained that Azure Pheasant had told him the Willow Tree’s ancient history and its connection to the Primal True Understanding.
• Chen Zhixing threatened to slaughter everyone in Shi Village and search for the text if the Willow Tree refused to give it to him, prompting the Guardian Deity to call him a Shameless Maniac.

Chen Zhixing gave Little One the Primal True Understanding and persuaded the Willow Tree to teach him how to cultivate it. After gathering the rare ingredients for the Willow Tree’s elixir formula, Chen Zhixing prepared to begin Little One’s transformation.

• Shi Feifeng brought out the Primal True Understanding, and Chen Zhixing gave the Bone Book to Little One, who could not read its script.
• Chen Zhixing persuaded the Willow Tree to teach Little One the cultivation method, despite its warning that success was exceptionally difficult.
• The Willow Tree explained that Little One needed to build an immense foundation, including lifting one hundred thousand jin in the Treasure Body Realm.
• Chen Zhixing promised to supply the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures required by the Willow Tree’s elixir formula.
• Over half a month, Chen Zhixing ordered the clan to send the ingredients and hunted Great Demons in the Northern Wilderness for their essence blood, beginning Little One’s transformation.

Chen Zhixing watched Little One begin bathing in the precious medicinal liquid, then questioned the Willow Tree about its origins and the path to the Absolute Peak Realm. A Shadow Division member reported news of Chen Zhixing’s parents, and Chen Zhixing hurried to Ziwei Mountain to meet the informant.

• Shi Feifeng finished preparing the Golden Medicine Liquid, and Chen Zhixing invited Little One to enter the cauldron before sharing the remaining medicine with the village children.
• Little One entered the cauldron and absorbed the boiling Golden Medicine Liquid as Chen Zhixing sat beside the Willow Tree.
• Chen Zhixing asked the Willow Tree about its origins, and it warned him that it came from another world and explained that the Absolute Peak Realm involved mastering the Power of Time.
• A Shadow Division member told Chen Zhixing that someone at Ziwei Mountain had news of the Third Peak Lord and Madam.
• Chen Zhixing immediately left Shi Village for Ziwei Mountain.

Chen Zhixing learned that his parents had fled to the Frozen Soil Plateau after encountering danger, and he prepared to pursue them. The chapter left him convinced that his mother’s Snow Demon heritage had drawn her back to the plateau.

• Chen Zhixing left Little One in Shi Feifeng’s care and rushed back to Ziwei Mountain after hearing that someone knew news of his parents.
• Chen Zhixing questioned Lu Ge'er, who explained that he had met an injured young couple at the foot of the Frozen Soil Plateau a year earlier.
• The couple claimed to be Chen Zhixing’s father and mother, gave Lu Ge'er a Third Peak Lord Token, and sent him to seek help from the Chen Clan before a snowstorm swallowed them.
• The Chen Clan members blamed Lu Ge'er for waiting a year to bring them the news, while Chen Zhixing listened and considered his account.
• Chen Zhixing realized that his mother’s Snow Demon Bloodline likely drew his parents to the Frozen Soil Plateau.

Chen Zhixing planned a Northern Expedition to the Frozen Soil Plateau to rescue his parents, while learning that the land’s lack of spiritual energy and the Snow Demons’ ability to revive made conquest difficult. He ordered an elite force to march in ten days and entered seclusion to strengthen himself before the expedition.

• Chen Zhixing rewarded Lu Ge'er with Spirit Stones and elixirs, then asked the Nether Duo how to prepare for an expedition to the Frozen Soil Plateau.
• Ming Lao explained that the plateau had no spiritual energy and that Snow Demons could revive there after being killed, making a full campaign difficult.
• Chen Zhixing clarified that the goal was to rescue his parents, not exterminate the Snow Demons, and ordered fifty elite True Self experts to accompany him.
• Chen Zhixing assigned Dugu Ni and the Nether Duo to the expedition and charged Chen Daoshan with guarding the clan.
• Chen Zhixing ordered the clan to prepare pills, equipment, and Sealing Formations, then asked Chen Tianyuan to protect the clan.
• Chen Zhixing returned to his secret chamber and began seclusion to raise his strength before the march in ten days.

Chen Zhixing used the Mysterious Stone Pearl and a store of treasures to break through to Nirvana Seventh Level, then led the Chen Clan’s forces toward the Frozen Soil Plateau. There, Chen Tianliang and Ying Shuangshuang remained imprisoned in an ice cellar, with Chen Tianliang gravely ill and unaware of the approaching army.

• Chen Zhixing entered the Mysterious Stone Pearl’s time-accelerated space and consumed his Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to cultivate.
• After ten days outside and three months inside the pearl, Chen Zhixing broke through to Nirvana Seventh Level.
• Chen Zhixing assembled the Chen Clan’s Nirvana and True Self experts in the main hall and ordered them to set out for war at the Frozen Soil Plateau.
• Evil Sky Piercer urged the Four Great Evils to earn merit in the Chen Clan’s first battle, while Thousand Bat Old Man and the others prepared to prove themselves.
• In an ice cellar on the Frozen Soil Plateau, Chen Tianliang told Ying Shuangshuang that his Reverse Malady might kill him within half a year and wondered about their son Zhi'er before falling asleep in her arms.

Chen Zhixing led Ziwei's Chen Clan to the Frozen Soil Plateau to retrieve his imprisoned parents, where the Snow Demon Clan denied holding them. Chen Zhixing drew his sword and threatened to fight his way to the summit if the Snow Demons refused to hand them over.

• Ying Shuangshuang sensed more than fifty True Self Ninth Level experts and at least four Nirvana Realm auras approaching the ice prison, and Chen Tianliang feared they were an enemy force.
• Chen Zhixing arrived at the Frozen Soil Plateau with the clan's experts and called for the inhabitants to welcome him, startling Ying Shuangshuang and Chen Tianliang, who recognized his voice.
• The Snow Demon King agreed to send warriors down after the Snow Demons in the Stone Palace condemned Chen Zhixing's arrival.
• Xue Yin met Chen Zhixing at the foot of the plateau and denied that Chen Zhixing's parents were there.
• Chen Zhixing drew his divine sword and demanded his parents, threatening to fight his way to the summit and slaughter the Snow Demon Clan if they refused.

Chen Zhixing fought Xue Yin on the Frozen Soil Plateau and defeated the Snow Demon Clan’s Number One Under the King with overwhelming force. He then led Ziwei’s Chen Clan in a charge toward the plateau’s summit to rescue his parents.

• Xue Yin defended the Snow Demon Clan’s imprisonment of Chen Zhixing’s mother, and Chen Zhixing chose to settle their disagreement through strength.
• Xue Yin reached the Nirvana Ninth Level and attacked Chen Zhixing with the Twin Flood Dragon Scissors, but Chen Zhixing shattered them and punched a hole through Xue Yin’s chest.
• Chen Zhixing struck again with a powerful, fate-locking punch that crushed Xue Yin into wind and snow.
• Chen Zhixing vowed to protect his parents and stepped toward the highest peak of the Frozen Soil Plateau.
• The Nether Duo and other True Self Peak experts of Ziwei’s Chen Clan charged after Chen Zhixing, overwhelming the Snow Demons in their path.

Chen Zhixing and the Ziwei Chen Clan fought their way across the Frozen Soil Plateau, where the snow demons repeatedly revived. After Ouyang Ye’s formation immobilized the demons, Chen Zhixing rushed to an ancient Stone Palace, calling for his missing parents as he climbed.

• The Nether Duo, Dugu Ni, the Thousand Bat Old Man, and the Four Great Evils unleashed their powers against the snow demons as the Ziwei Chen Clan advanced.
• Xue Yin warned Chen Zhixing that the plateau’s snow demons could not be defeated, while the Chen Clan fought on and replenished its strength with elixirs.
• Chen Zhixing struck down Xue Yin again, and Ouyang Ye activated a formation that froze more than a hundred snow demons in place.
• Chen Zhixing charged toward the mountaintop, recalling that his parents had left when he was seven and that he had long searched for them.
• Chen Zhixing called for his parents as he broke through the plateau’s ancient formations, then reached an ancient Stone Palace and pushed open its doors.

Chen Zhixing confronted the Snow Demon King over his imprisoned parents and attacked after she defended the clan’s punishment of his mother. The Snow Demon King stopped his sword with the Power of Time, but Chen Zhixing summoned two Clan-Protecting Longevity Weapons, startling her.

• Chen Zhixing entered the Stone Palace and found the Snow Demon King, who said he resembled Shuang'er and refused to release his parents.
• The Snow Demon King explained that Chen Zhixing’s mother had broken clan rules by leaving the Frozen Soil Plateau, joining someone of another race, and bearing a child.
• Chen Zhixing drew his Ancient Sword and attacked the Snow Demon King, declaring that he saw his mother only as his mother.
• The Snow Demon King froze Chen Zhixing’s sword with the Power of Time and dissolved it into Light Rain.
• Chen Zhixing formed seals and summoned the Bronze Ancient Mirror and Ziwei Lotus Lantern, causing the Snow Demon King’s expression to change.

Chen Zhixing threatened to destroy the Frozen Soil Plateau with the Ziwei Emperor Lamp and Profound Heaven Immortal Mirror unless the Snow Demon King revealed his parents. His mother called out to him before the weapons could detonate, and Ying Shuangshuang and Chen Tianliang emerged from behind the screen to reunite with him.

• Chen Zhixing invoked the Ziwei Emperor Lamp and Profound Heaven Immortal Mirror, unleashing overwhelming pressure across the Frozen Soil Plateau.
• He threatened the Snow Demon King with the weapons’ destruction unless she brought his parents out, while Xue Yin, Chen Tianchen, and the others urged them to stop.
• Chen Zhixing and the Snow Demon King dared each other to detonate the weapons as the gathered snow demons and cultivators feared they would all die.
• Ying Shuangshuang called out to Chen Zhixing, and his fury faded as the weapons’ power began to subside.
• Ying Shuangshuang and Chen Tianliang emerged from behind the screen, recognized their grown son, and Ying Shuangshuang rushed toward him in tears.

Chen Zhixing reunited with his parents and refused to leave the Frozen Soil Plateau without both of them. When the Snow Demon King offered him a chance to free Ying Shuangshuang through the Ancestral Land Trial, he accepted despite his mother's fears.

• Ying Shuangshuang and Chen Tianliang reunited with Chen Zhixing, and Ying Shuangshuang pleaded with him not to act recklessly.
• Chen Zhixing confronted the Snow Demon King over her imprisonment of Ying Shuangshuang, while Ying Shuangshuang asked her mother to release Chen Tianliang so he could obtain medicine for his Reverse Malady.
• The Snow Demon King agreed to let Chen Tianliang return, but Chen Tianliang and Chen Zhixing both refused to leave without Ying Shuangshuang, reigniting the threat of the Longevity Weapons.
• Evil Sky Piercer prompted Xue Yin to suggest that Chen Zhixing use the Ancestral Land Trial to earn the right to take Ying Shuangshuang away.
• The Snow Demon King challenged Chen Zhixing to brave the trial, and he accepted despite Ying Shuangshuang's warning that it was perilous.

Chen Zhixing reunited with his parents on the Frozen Soil Plateau and recounted his rise to power, leaving him asleep in Ying Shuangshuang’s arms as Chen Tianliang began telling a childhood story that made him tremble. The Snow Demon King had given Chen Zhixing three days to decide whether to undergo the Ancestral Land Trial.

• Chen Zhixing accepted the Snow Demon King’s invitation to consider the Ancestral Land Trial, while keeping his Longevity Weapons above the Stone Palace.
• Xue Yin led Chen Zhixing and Ziwei’s Chen Clan to their lodgings on the Frozen Soil Plateau.
• Chen Zhixing reunited with Ying Shuangshuang and Chen Tianliang, then described his major battles, achievements, and rise as the Ziwei Patriarch.
• Chen Zhixing fell asleep in Ying Shuangshuang’s lap, and his parents reflected on how much he had endured.
• Chen Tianliang began telling Chen Zhixing the story of Golden Axe Silver Axe Iron Axe, and Chen Zhixing trembled as if caught in a nightmare.

Chen Zhixing spent three happy days with his parents on the Frozen Soil Plateau before deciding to attempt the Snow Demon Clan’s Ancestral Land Trial. He entered the first of five ancient halls, where the trial began.

• Chen Zhixing enjoyed building snowmen and playing in the snow with his parents, while Elder You encouraged Ming Lao to loosen up and play too.
• Chen Zhixing told the Snow Demon King he would return to the outside world rather than remain on the Frozen Soil Plateau to preserve his happiness.
• The Snow Demon King led Chen Zhixing and the others to the five ancestral halls and explained that he had to pass three trials.
• Chen Tianchen reassured Ying Shuangshuang about Chen Zhixing, while Chen Tianliang teased him for praising their son.
• Chen Zhixing crossed the snowy field, examined the bones outside the first hall, and pushed open its doors to enter.

Chen Zhixing entered the Snow Demon Clan’s first ancestral hall and mistook its Sincere Heart trial for a challenge he could overcome by destroying the First Ancestor’s statue. Outside, the Snow Demon King revealed that the trial required sincere worship, then heard the hall erupt as Chen Zhixing attacked the statue.

• Chen Zhixing appeared before a statue of the Snow Demon Clan’s First Ancestor, and Qingzhi explained the Snow Demons’ origins and suggested the trial was hidden in the statue.
• Chen Zhixing decided to smash the statue and began attacking it with powerful techniques.
• While waiting outside, Chen Clan cultivators chatted with the Snow Demons about the outside world, prompting the Snow Demon King to scold them.
• The Snow Demon King told Chen Tianchen that the trial required three kneelings and nine kowtows with sincere intent and a righteous heart, but admitted she had withheld the method from Chen Zhixing.
• Explosions shook the ancestral hall as Chen Zhixing struck the statue with divine powers and his sword, cracking it before drawing back his fist for another blow.

Chen Zhixing passed the first ancestral trial by destroying the Snow Demon First Ancestor's statue and the Ancestral Hall, then claimed a powerful divine crystal. He entered the Second Ancestral Hall to face a trial of state of mind.

• Chen Zhixing shattered the First Ancestor's statue, causing the Ancestral Hall to collapse.
• A crimson radiance rose from the ruins, confirming Chen Zhixing had passed the first trial and delighting the Chen Family while shocking the snow demons.
• The Snow Demon King recognized Chen Zhixing's strength and audacity, while Elder You teased her about his unconventional success.
• Chen Zhixing found and took an Azure Snow Divine Crystal, which he believed could help him reach the Nirvana Realm Eighth Level.
• The Snow Demon King revealed that the second trial tested state of mind, and Chen Zhixing stepped into the Second Ancestral Hall.

Chen Zhixing passed the second trial by uncovering that Snow Demons were part of the Frozen Soil Plateau and that leaving it threatened their lives and their clan. He received the Second Generation Snow Demon King's blessing and an Ice Crystal Treasure Tree Sprout, then entered the Third Hall as the Snow Demon Clan wondered whether he might become its next king.

• Chen Zhixing resisted the First Snow Demon Woman's bewitching power, struck her down, and followed a mysterious old man into the Frozen Soil Plateau's secret realm.
• Chen Zhixing witnessed the lives of Snow Demons who longed to leave and learned that they melted or died outside because they were bound to the plateau, whose snow shared their flesh and blood.
• The Second Generation Snow Demon King confirmed Chen Zhixing's discovery, gave him an Ice Crystal Treasure Tree Sprout, and promised him refuge if he ever needed it.
• Chen Zhixing declared that he would leave the plateau and take Ying Shuangshuang with him, then exited the Second Hall and headed for the Third Hall.
• The Snow Demon Clan speculated that passing the third trial could make Chen Zhixing the next Snow Demon King, while Li Shuang considered that outcome potentially good for the clan.