Chapter Summaries

After deducing the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art to its Second Revolution, Shen Lin broke free of the ice prison and rescued Ji Zhanxie and the others. He tortured a captive wolf demon for information about the prison, killed him, and absorbed his lifespan.

• Shen Lin reached the Dharma Aspect Realm, discovered his physical strength could break the Lightless Profound Ice, and escaped his cell.
• Shen Lin ignored the imprisoned wolf demon’s pleas, freed Ji Zhanxie and the others, and asked them to keep facing the wall while he investigated.
• Shen Lin transformed into his Heavenly Demon Body, tore open the wolf demon’s prison, and beat him until he agreed to reveal what he knew.
• The wolf demon told Shen Lin everything he knew about the place, and Shen Lin killed him and absorbed his lifespan.

Shen Lin and Ji Zhanxie’s group searched the Wraith Clan’s ice-prison passages for a way out while Shen Lin questioned imprisoned demons for information. They reached a central cavern containing a sphere that produced Lightless Profound Ice Marrow and discovered a Bronze Gate that might be their exit.

• Shen Lin freed Gao Yichen, and Lin Xiaoyu determined that his severe injuries were not fatal but required healing pills and spiritual power to treat.
• Ji Zhanxie led the group through the unguarded passages, while Shen Lin assured them he could protect them if they encountered Wraith Clan members.
• Shen Lin broke open ice prisons and questioned the demons inside, but most knew nothing useful about the prison complex.
• The group crossed more than a dozen ice-prison areas as Gao Yichen’s condition worsened and Shen Lin accumulated Demon Lifespan from the imprisoned demons.
• Yun Li spotted a Bronze Gate in a central cavern, where Shen Lin recognized that a floating sphere was producing Lightless Profound Ice Marrow.

Shen Lin attempted to break the sealed Bronze Gate while the Ice Spider Demon Emperor revealed how the Northern Extreme Demon Kingdom became connected to the Wraith Clan. The Ice Spider Demon Emperor sensed that the Holy Land Seal had been broken.

• Ji Zhanxie failed to push open the Bronze Gate, and Lin Xiaoyu identified its patterns as a sealing formation from the Northern Extreme Demon Kingdom.
• Shen Lin asked Ji Zhanxie and the others to wait in the passage, then transformed into his Heavenly Demon Body and gathered power to attack the gate.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor told the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor that Sha Guowang had discovered a spatial rift to Ghost Soul Heaven, bringing the kingdom into contact with a Wraith Clan lord.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor offered to help the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor return home through the Wraith Clan, and he began to consider accepting.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor abruptly sensed that the Holy Land Seal had been broken.

Shen Lin explored the chamber beyond the Bronze Gate and discovered Sha Guowang’s travelogues, which revealed the Nether Soul Pearl’s origins and Sha Guowang’s history with the Ice Spider Demon Emperor. The records left Shen Lin with questions about Sha Guowang’s breakthrough plans and how the Ice Spider Demon Emperor ultimately defeated him.

• Shen Lin pushed open the Bronze Gate and entered an ornate underground palace filled with jade furnishings and a bathing pool.
• Shen Lin found beast-hide scrolls matching the travelogue he had obtained from Yan Zehong and began reading Sha Guowang’s records.
• Sha Guowang’s early entries identified the Mysterious Ice Pearl as a Nether Soul Pearl and described his search for a treasure beneath the Extreme North Ice Plains.
• Later scrolls revealed that Sha Guowang had conquered the Northern Extreme Demon Kingdom and fought the Ice Spider Demon Emperor repeatedly.
• Sha Guowang recorded that he had been defeated by the Ice Spider Demon Emperor, had slept with her for nearly thirty years, and was seeking to use the Nether Soul Pearl to reach the Spirit Nurturing Realm.

Shen Lin found Sha Guowang’s notes explaining the teleportation formation and a hidden escape route, along with clues that a spatial rift had led to Sha Guowang’s downfall. Before Shen Lin could investigate further, the Ice Spider Demon Emperor confronted him and attacked.

• Shen Lin found Sha Guowang’s formation diagrams and learned how the Wraith Clan entered and left the ice prison.
• Shen Lin read that the Ice Spider Demon Emperor had poisoned and betrayed Sha Guowang, then discovered a faint note warning that a spatial rift had appeared along Sha Guowang’s escape route.
• Shen Lin suspected the secrets lay behind the ice wall beside the jade bed, but a voice outside demanded that everyone come out.
• Shen Lin emerged to find Ji Zhanxie and the others restrained by Wraith Clan members, with the Ice Spider Demon Emperor leading them.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor asked how Shen Lin had escaped, then attacked him with streams of cold air from her eight spider legs.

Shen Lin used a blood-drawn secret technique to redirect the Nether Soul Pearl’s power and survive the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s attack, restoring everyone’s spiritual power. Ji Zhanxie fought the Ice Spider Demon Emperor and the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor, while Shen Lin worried that Ji Zhanxie might kill them before he could claim their Demon Lifespan.

• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s ice-blue strike neared Shen Lin, but he drew a strange character in blood and sealed the attack before it could hit him.
• Ji Zhanxie regained the use of his spiritual power as Shen Lin’s technique redirected the Nether Soul Pearl’s energy and lifted the Nether Cold suppression.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor recognized Shen Lin’s technique as one developed by Sha Guowang and wondered how Shen Lin had learned it.
• Ji Zhanxie attacked the distracted Ice Spider Demon Emperor, but the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor intercepted his sword beam and called for her help.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor and the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor joined forces against Ji Zhanxie, who fought them without giving ground.
• Shen Lin worried that Ji Zhanxie would defeat both Demon Emperors before Shen Lin could collect their Demon Lifespan.

Ji Zhanxie wounded the Ice Spider Demon Emperor and Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor with the Demon Slaying Sword, then used Demon Punishing Nails to distract the Ice Spider Demon Emperor. He broke free of the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor’s illusion and exposed his identity, but Sha Guowang burst into the ice chamber as the battle continued.

• Ji Zhanxie’s Demon Slaying Sword pierced the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s shoulder and slashed the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor’s chest.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor transformed into a Wraith, but Ji Zhanxie distracted her with Demon Punishing Nails and attacked the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor.
• The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor trapped Ji Zhanxie in an illusion of his childhood, where a Tiger Demon killed his father.
• Ji Zhanxie overcame the illusion with a sword strike and identified his opponent as the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor rather than the Mad Shark Demon Emperor.
• Shen Lin decided to stay out of the fight, then Sha Guowang burst through the ice wall into the chamber.

Shen Lin used the Nether Soul Pearl’s power to create an ice wall separating himself from the others and the demons. His sacrifice left Ji Zhanxie, Yun Li, and their companions a path to survive, while Shen Lin remained trapped with Sha Guowang and the demon emperors.

• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor sent Sha Guowang toward Shen Lin while she and the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor kept Ji Zhanxie from reaching him.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor planned to kill Shen Lin, restart the Nether Soul Pearl, and use the captives as sacrifices to earn a chance to leave.
• As Sha Guowang raised his hand to strike, Shen Lin wrote a special character and unleashed icy energy from the Nether Soul Pearl.
• The icy energy deflected Sha Guowang’s attack and formed a powerful ice wall between Shen Lin and the others.
• Ji Zhanxie and Yun Li realized Shen Lin had sealed himself in with the demons to give them a chance to escape.

Shen Lin revealed that he had drawn the Ice Spider Demon Emperor and the others away from his companions so he could kill them himself, then used Sha Guowang’s array to seal Sha Guowang’s Spirit Nurturing Realm cultivation. The Ice Spider Demon Emperor attacked Shen Lin, but he caught her Heaven Grade Mysterious Weapon whip with his transformed, unharmed hand.

• Shen Lin rejected the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s claim that he had sacrificed himself to save his companions and said he intended to kill her and the others.
• Shen Lin taunted the Ice Spider Demon Emperor by calling her a plaything, stirring memories of her time under Sha Guowang’s control.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor ordered Sha Guowang to kill Shen Lin, but Shen Lin inscribed a blue sigil that struck Sha Guowang and sealed his Spirit Nurturing Realm strength down to the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor realized Shen Lin could no longer draw on the array to protect himself and attacked him with her long whip.
• Shen Lin caught the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s whip with his transformed right hand without being hurt.

Shen Lin revealed his second-revolution Heavenly Demon Body, terrifying Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor with a reminder of a similar Heavenly Demon he had once encountered. Shen Lin struck down Sha Guowang and challenged Ice Spider Demon Emperor and Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor to attack him together.

• Shen Lin transformed into his Heavenly Demon Body and mocked Ice Spider Demon Emperor.
• Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor recognized Shen Lin's form and recalled surviving a secret-realm massacre by a second-revolution Heavenly Demon.
• Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor explained the Heavenly Demon Body and the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art to Ice Spider Demon Emperor.
• Shen Lin knocked Sha Guowang away and explained that his Blood Qi Power could injure the Wraith Clan.
• Shen Lin melted the Lightless Profound Ice Marrow beneath his feet and urged Ice Spider Demon Emperor and Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor to attack together.

Shen Lin fought the Ice Spider Demon Emperor, the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor, and Sha Guowang, relying on his Heavenly Demon Body to withstand their attacks. The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor trapped him in an illusion, and the Ice Spider Demon Emperor sent a soul-targeting spike into his body, leaving Shen Lin’s fate uncertain.

• Sha Guowang charged Shen Lin while the Ice Spider Demon Emperor and Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor attacked from behind.
• Shen Lin tore off Sha Guowang’s foreleg and tail despite the demons’ coordinated assault.
• The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor sacrificed half his Spiritual Flame origin to trap Shen Lin in the Void Realm.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor struck Shen Lin’s chest with her Nether Soul Thorn, barely piercing his Heavenly Demon Body.
• The thorn melted into Shen Lin’s body and traveled toward his head, carrying wraith power aimed at his soul.

Shen Lin survived the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s divine-soul attack because the Sea Burning Flame inside his divine soul destroyed it, just as it had broken the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor’s illusion. He transformed into an Ice Crystal White Bird to resist further illusions and attacked the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor, who mistook him for an Ice Crystal Black Bird.

• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor believed her divine-soul attack had killed Shen Lin and turned to the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor, but a burst of heat threw them both back.
• Shen Lin emerged unharmed as the Sea Burning Flame healed his body and burned away the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s divine-soul attack.
• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor ordered the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor to attack again, but he said his previous illusion had consumed nearly half his origin power.
• Shen Lin recognized that the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor had refined himself into a Heaven Grade Spiritual Flame and charged at him.
• Shen Lin used the Heavenly Demon Transformation Divine Ability to become an Ice Crystal White Bird, immune to illusions, and raked at the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor.
• The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor cried out in terror, mistaking Shen Lin for an Ice Crystal Black Bird.

Shen Lin killed the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor and Sha Guowang, but the delay allowed the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s plan to open a dark passage. The chapter left Shen Lin facing a pitch-black vortex at the tunnel’s end.

• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor saved the Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor from Shen Lin’s attack, and they fought Shen Lin together.
• Shen Lin realized Sha Guowang was signaling from behind the ice wall and charged toward the Bronze Gate.
• The Mirage Dragon Demon Emperor sacrificed himself to block Shen Lin, leaving behind only a wisp of spirit light.
• Shen Lin killed Sha Guowang, but the wall opened to reveal a dark tunnel and a chilling black vortex.

Shen Lin discovered that the aura responding through the vortex belonged to the Nether Soul Venerable, while the Venerable was celebrating his granddaughter Ming Youyou’s birthday in Ghost Soul Heaven. Ming Youyou used the Through Nether Mirror to spy on the Ghost Soul Race city and revealed a Nether Soul Pearl that Sister Yueyue had been searching for.

• The Ice Spider Demon Emperor summoned the Nether Soul Venerable through a vortex, and Shen Lin prepared for the threat of a third-step Venerable.
• At the Nether Soul Sacred Land, Nether Soul Venerable celebrated Ming Youyou’s fiftieth-thousand birthday and refused Black Jackal Venerable’s suggestion to pursue the Heaven Burning Venerable’s legacy.
• Ming Youyou took her friends to her residence and showed them the clan’s supreme treasure, the Through Nether Mirror, which she had hidden for tens of thousands of years.
• Ming Youyou used the mirror to view a Ghost Soul Race city and heard the Ice Spider Demon Emperor address Nether Soul Venerable.
• Ming Youyou’s friends spotted a Nether Soul Pearl in the mirror, and she warned them not to tell anyone because Sister Yueyue had been searching for it.

Shen Lin was drawn toward Ming Youyou through the Through Nether Mirror, but his punch shattered her attempt to pull him out and hurt the children on the other side. Ming Yueyue noticed the hidden pearl in the mirror, leaving Ming Youyou to plead for forgiveness.

• Shen Lin prepared to use the Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill if the Nether Soul Venerable threatened him, while the Ice Spider Demon Emperor presented him as a sacrifice.
• Ming Youyou showed her friends the little kingdom and agreed to trade the Ice Spider Demon Emperor to the Immortal Clan girl for an immortal crane.
• Ming Youyou tried to pull Shen Lin through the Through Nether Mirror to feed her Blood Lotus Grass, but Shen Lin's punch scattered the reaching gray-mist arm and left her hand hurting.
• The children tried to pull Shen Lin through the mirror themselves, but the mirror's weakened power caused several of them to suffer red marks on their hands.
• Ming Yueyue arrived, noticed the round pearl in the Through Nether Mirror, and prompted Ming Youyou to cry, “Sis, I was wrong!”

Ming Yueyue retrieved the Nether Soul Pearl and Ice Spider Demon Emperor through the Through Nether Mirror, then targeted Shen Lin after recognizing his unusual cultivation. Shen Lin blocked her first attack, but as she reached for him again, he prepared to use the Strange Technique.

• Ming Yueyue healed Ming Youyou, retrieved the Nether Soul Pearl, and agreed to bring the Ice Spider Demon Emperor to Lingzhi.
• Ming Yueyue noticed Shen Lin and sent a gray-mist hand to seize him, but he blocked it with a punch and was hurled into the ice wall.
• Ji Zhanxie and the others noticed the surrounding cold had weakened as Shen Lin emerged coughing blood and the Ice Spider Demon Emperor was taken through the vortex.
• Ming Yueyue recognized Shen Lin's second revolution of the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art and unusual Dharma Aspect, and decided to capture him for study.
• Ming Yueyue sent a stronger hand toward Shen Lin, who raised his head and murmured about the Severing Heaven Strange Technique.

Shen Lin’s Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill awakened the Sea Burning Flame, which destroyed the giant hand and revealed itself to Ming Yueyue through the Through Nether Mirror. After learning the flame’s likely location from the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s memories, Ming Yueyue set out to seek the Heaven Burning Venerable’s hidden legacy.

• Shen Lin’s Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill condensed his Blood Qi Power into a needle that entered his soul and struck the Sea Burning Flame awake.
• The enraged Sea Burning Flame emerged, burned away the giant hand and its black vortex, then returned to Shen Lin’s soul as Ji Zhanxie and the others arrived.
• A spark from the Sea Burning Flame burned off Ming Yueyue’s arm, but she recognized it and suspected Shen Lin was connected to the Heaven Burning Venerable’s hidden legacy.
• The Through Nether Mirror shattered, and Ming Yueyue borrowed the unconscious Ice Spider Demon Emperor from Ming Youyou while telling the children to keep quiet.
• Ming Yueyue secretly absorbed the Ice Spider Demon Emperor’s memories, learned the flame was in the Six-pointed Star Venerable’s territory, and left to pursue the legacy.

Shen Lin told Ji Zhanxie that a Wraith Clan Venerable might come seeking the Sea Burning Flame, though its arrival could be tomorrow or tens of thousands of years away. As the group escaped the collapsing Ice Abyss, Shen Lin unleashed Heavenly Dao Exorcism on the Wraith Clan city.

• Shen Lin explained that the being who had recognized the Sea Burning Flame was vastly more powerful than the Great Serpent and might return for them.
• Ji Zhanxie decided they needed to report the threat to Prime Minister Zhang, but the collapsing rock ceiling forced the group to flee upward.
• Yun Li admitted he had been wrong to pry into Shen Lin's methods and told the others to keep Shen Lin's secrets.
• Song Zhijun saw Ji Zhanxie and the others emerge from the abyss, unharmed, and wondered what had happened to the Demon Emperor.
• Shen Lin summoned dark clouds and used Heavenly Dao Exorcism to strike the Wraith Clan members across the city with lightning.

Shen Lin continued wiping out the Wraith Clan while the Divine Kingdom Priest seized the chance to escape. After the battle, Ji Zhanxie decided to keep Shen Lin’s secrets from spreading and handle the matter with Prime Minister Zhang.

• The Divine Kingdom Priest realized the soul restriction was weakening, then left the Divine Kingdom with his subordinate while lightning struck the Wraith Clan.
• Shen Lin returned to the fight, killed Song Zhijun, and pursued the fleeing Wraith Clan members with Qian.
• Yun Li reported Shen Lin’s progress to Ji Zhanxie, who agreed that the Wraith Clan should be eliminated.
• Yun Li asked whether to report Shen Lin’s secrets, and Ji Zhanxie said he would speak with Prime Minister Zhang and keep Shen Lin’s peculiarities quiet.

Shen Lin finished killing the Wraith Clan survivors and rescued Ji Zhanxie and the others, learning that Yaqiong’s problem had been resolved. After they returned to the surface, an emergency report from the imperial capital revealed that Yuwen Fengxian and others had emphasized Shen Lin’s importance and asked Ji Zhanxie to help find him.

• Shen Lin killed the fleeing Great Elder of the Howling Moon Sky Wolf Clan after revealing that he had already killed the Great Elder’s grandfather.
• Shen Lin checked his attributes and decided not to cultivate further yet, fearing that his Dharma Aspect breakthrough might attract Candle Dragon.
• Shen Lin returned to Ji Zhanxie and the others, told Gao Yichen that Yaqiong’s problem had been resolved, and led the group back to the surface.
• Shen Lin explained that the Nether Soul Pearl’s removal would gradually warm the Extreme North Ice Plains, and Ji Zhanxie considered how this could benefit Great Wei.
• The Zhao brothers delivered an emergency report from the imperial capital, and Ji Zhanxie learned that Yuwen Fengxian and others had asked him to help search for Shen Lin.