Chapter Summaries

The Skywater Academy students hid from pursuing Evil Soul Masters in an ice cave melted by Yu Xiaoheng’s Purple Flame, but exhaustion and resentment grew over the danger his heat brought. Zhou Xiaoxiao demanded that Shui Yun'er abandon him, and another student supported her.

• The Skywater students used Yu Xiaoheng’s heat to melt Mysterious Ice into concealed shelters while fleeing the Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao challenged Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi for risking everyone to protect Yu Xiaoheng.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao blamed Yu Xiaoheng’s heat for attracting the Evil Soul Masters and recalled how the group’s escape had endangered Xiaoya.
• A tall girl told Shui Yun'er to throw Yu Xiaoheng away.

The Skywater Academy students struggled with resentment as Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi used their strength and water to care for the gravely burned Yu Xiaoheng. Their fragile standoff shattered when Xiaoyun returned with news that Lin Qinglan and two others had been captured by Evil Soul Masters.

• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi tended to Yu Xiaoheng, whose body remained dangerously hot from the Purple Flame.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao and other students criticized the sisters for spending scarce water and Soul Power, but Chen Wan stopped Zhou from confronting them.
• Xiaoyun stumbled into the cave injured and reported that Lin Qinglan, Xiaoya, and Zhang Min had been captured while scouting.
• Xiaoyun revealed that a Spirit Saint among the Evil Soul Masters had shattered Lin Qinglan's Martial Soul as Lin covered her escape.

Chen Wan and the wounded Skywater Academy students begged Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi to send the unconscious Yu Xiaoheng away so they could survive. As the Shui sisters struggled to answer, Chen Wan offered to take Yu Xiaoheng to a hidden place and leave him food.

• Zhou Xiaoxiao raised an ice spike, but Chen Wan stepped between her and the Shui sisters.
• Chen Wan knelt and begged Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi to send Yu Xiaoheng away, explaining that Teacher Lin and Xiaoya were gone and the students had done all they could to protect him.
• Xiaoyun and the other Skywater Academy students knelt and pleaded to be spared, and Zhou Xiaoxiao dropped her ice spike and joined them.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi were overcome with grief and could not bring themselves to harm their companions or give up Yu Xiaoheng.
• Chen Wan crawled toward Yu Xiaoheng and offered to take him somewhere hidden and leave him food.

Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi carried the feverish Yu Xiaoheng into a blizzard, while Clear Sky and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect scouts searched for him in vain. At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Yuanzhen ordered a search for his missing son just as Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan arrived together.

• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi left the cave with Yu Xiaoheng, braving the storm as they kept his feet above the snow.
• Tang Kai and a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect spy waited outside the Star Dou Great Forest, but they had not found Yu Xiaoheng after more than a month.
• Yu Yuanzhen rejected the elders' calls to fight the other sects and ordered them to search for Yu Xiaoheng, alive or dead.
• A mountain gate disciple reported that Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan had arrived together at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Yu Xiaogang impersonated Yu Xiaoheng to make Ning Zhenyuan and Tang Wei believe the elder brother was in the clan, driving them away from the Star Dou Great Forest. After the ruse ended, Yu Xiaogang explained to Yu Yuanzhen how Luo Buhui’s corporeal nature enabled its devouring ability.

• Yu Yuanzhen taunted Ning Zhenyuan and Tang Wei after they realized their hunt for Yu Xiaoheng had been a waste of time.
• Yu Xiaogang’s golden disguise faded in the courtyard, and Yu Yuanzhen caught his exhausted son and replenished his Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that he had used medicine to imitate Yu Xiaoheng’s voice and consumed the Jade Marrow Thunder Stone to withstand the strain of the imitation.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Luo Buhui had helped him absorb a First Spirit Ring two hundred years beyond the limit, and Yu Yuanzhen noticed golden patterns on the mutated Dawnlight Scale Colt.
• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Yuanzhen that Luo Buhui’s flesh, blood, and consciousness made its devouring ability more direct than Yu Xiaoheng’s Golden Holy Dragon.

Yu Xiaogang secretly cultivated using Luo Buhui’s Devour trait while helping his father maintain the plan to impersonate Yu Xiaoheng. In the Far North, the injured Shui Yun'er struggled through a blizzard with Shui Lingxi and the unconscious Yu Xiaoheng, finally digging them a small shelter for the night.

• Yu Xiaogang reflected on how he had helped his father’s stand-in plan and pushed aside his guilt to focus on growing stronger.
• Yu Xiaogang reached Soul Power Level 14 by using Luo Buhui’s Devour trait to absorb energy from herbs, ores, and soul beast flesh.
• In the Far North, Shui Yun'er carried the injured Shui Lingxi and dragged the unconscious, feverishly hot Yu Xiaoheng through the snow after three days of fleeing.
• Shui Yun'er reached a sheltered rock formation and dug a small snow pit for the three of them to spend the night.

Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi hid the unconscious Yu Xiaoheng beneath the snow, then went out to lure the Evil Soul Masters away from him. Chen Wan revealed that Zhou Xiaoxiao had been killed and betrayed the others to save herself as the sisters were captured.

• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi covered Yu Xiaoheng with snow and left their shelter to draw the pursuers away.
• The sisters encountered the Evil Soul Masters and Chen Wan, who had led them to the group.
• Chen Wan said Zhou Xiaoxiao had been skinned alive after refusing to help the Evil Soul Masters, and admitted she had betrayed her classmates to survive.
• Shui Yun'er claimed she and Shui Lingxi would go with the Evil Soul Masters and said they had become separated from Yu Xiaoheng.
• The Evil Soul Master Spirit King moved to grab Shui Yun'er as she led him away from Yu Xiaoheng's hiding place.

Yu Xiaoheng awakened in the snow pit with a Heaven's Wrath pattern and new destructive power, then burst out to strike the Spirit King. He activated Dragon God Possession as he faced the Spirit King, with Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi still injured nearby.

• Yu Xiaoheng awoke in the snow pit and saw the Heaven's Wrath pattern emerging on his brow.
• Yu Xiaoheng realized Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi had likely been protecting him while he was unconscious.
• Yu Xiaoheng erupted from beneath the snow and struck the Spirit King, shattering his Soul Power protection and forcing him back.
• Yu Xiaoheng looked at the wounded Shui Lingxi and Shui Yun'er, then faced the Spirit King and activated Dragon God Possession.

Yu Xiaoheng woke and brutally killed the Evil Soul Masters who had attacked Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi. After suppressing his rampaging power, he was embraced by the sisters, who had protected him while he was unconscious.

• Yu Xiaoheng tore apart the Spirit King who had attacked the Shui sisters.
• Yu Xiaoheng used thunder and purple flames to kill the fleeing Evil Soul Masters.
• Chen Wan collapsed in terror as the snowfield fell silent.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi rushed to Yu Xiaoheng when his power faded.
• Yu Xiaoheng remembered that the sisters had protected him while he was unconscious, and they clung to him in relief.

Yu Xiaoheng learned how Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi had saved him and let the sisters decide the fate of the Skywater Academy students who betrayed them. After Shui Yun'er spared them, Yu Xiaoheng discovered that he had gained the ability to plant Purple Flame Seeds in other people.

• Shui Yun'er told Yu Xiaoheng that she and Shui Lingxi had rescued him, leaving out the hardships they endured.
• Yu Xiaoheng thanked the Shui sisters and asked them to decide what to do with Chen Wan and the other Skywater Academy students.
• Shui Yun'er chose to let her former classmates go, and Yu Xiaoheng accepted her decision.
• Yu Xiaoheng circulated his Soul Power and discovered that the Heaven's Wrath Power resistance had awakened his Purple Flame Seed ability, which let him place beacon-like energy inside a target.

Yu Xiaoheng marked the survivors and directed Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi toward a safe exit before leaving alone, leaving them heartbroken and unsure why he had gone. As the group struggled through the blizzard, Chen Wan revealed that Evil Soul Masters had killed some students, scattered others, and captured several to identify Yu Xiaoheng.

• Yu Xiaoheng gave the group Soul Power marks and told them to reach the southeastern barrier in nine days, then departed into the blizzard alone.
• Shui Lingxi called after Yu Xiaoheng, and he told the group to get out alive and said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would remember the Shui family's favor.
• Shui Yun'er led the survivors toward the barrier, holding on to the violet mark as her remaining connection to Yu Xiaoheng.
• Shui Yun'er asked Chen Wan what had happened to the missing students, and Chen Wan said some had been killed while others had fled or been captured.
• Chen Wan revealed that the Evil Soul Masters had kept some captives alive to identify Yu Xiaoheng and likely continued tormenting those who were not used for identification.
• Shui Lingxi grieved for the captives, but Shui Yun'er silently led the battered group onward without attempting a rescue.

Yu Xiaoheng planned to draw the Evil Soul Masters away from the Shui sisters and free the prisoners while escaping with Yu Changkong. He rejected the chance to pursue the Spirit Emperor and his special metal, leaving the Heaven's Wrath Soul Ring on his arm as a dangerous unresolved threat.

• Yu Xiaoheng saw that the Shui sisters and Tianshui Academy students were nearing the southeast edge, while the Evil Soul Master leader searched for him.
• Yu Xiaoheng decided to cause a diversion in the northwest, free any prisoners he could, and escape with Yu Changkong.
• Yu Xiaoheng reasoned that the Spirit Emperor's special metal might let him control or absorb the Heaven's Wrath Soul Ring, but chose not to risk attacking him with only one strike from Yu Yuanzhen's jade token.
• Yu Xiaoheng charged toward a northwest barrier node and traveled far from his starting point.
• Yu Xiaoheng realized that without the metal fragment, his Soul Ring remained a ticking time bomb and finding the Spirit Emperor again would be difficult.

Yu Xiaoheng rescued Yu Changkong, Sea Blue, and other captives from Evil Soul Masters, but his own life force was being consumed by the Heaven's Wrath Soul Ring. He acknowledged the Shui sisters' affection and the debt he owed them, yet refused to risk his life repaying it, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Yu Xiaoheng defeated the guards and rescued Yu Changkong, Sea Blue, and other captives.
• Yu Xiaoheng considered how the Heaven's Wrath Soul Ring was consuming his life force and concluded that he would not risk his life fighting a Spirit Emperor for the Shui sisters.
• Yu Xiaoheng admitted that Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi had saved him and that he would repay the Shui Family if he could, but not by sacrificing himself.
• Yu Xiaoheng recognized the Shui sisters' affection for him and felt secretly pleased that they sincerely liked him.

Yu Xiaoheng led the survivors through the snow while hiding that the Shui sisters had been captured and deciding to abandon them. An Evil Soul Master confronted the group and forced the sisters’ fate into the open, leaving Yu Xiaoheng frozen as the survivors learned of the threat.

• Yu Xiaoheng led the civilians and Soul Masters onward, briefly imagining the Shui sisters suffering at the hands of Evil Soul Masters.
• Yu Xiaoheng helped two young twin girls who had fallen into the snow, then quietly told them to stay safe.
• Yu Xiaoheng concealed the Shui sisters’ capture from Ah Yin, Chen Wan, and the Skywater Academy students as the survivors regained hope of reaching home.
• Yu Xiaoheng sensed Rhine and the other Evil Soul Masters, then stopped when a scout spotted a black-robed figure ahead.
• The Evil Soul Master called out to Yu Xiaoheng, asking whether he intended to abandon the two sisters, and Yu Xiaoheng froze as Chen Wan and the Skywater Academy students turned pale.

Yu Xiaoheng killed an Evil Soul Master but refused to rescue the captured Shui sisters, claiming he had to protect the civilians from a trap. As the group left, Sea Blue saw through his excuse, and Chen Wan confronted him over abandoning the women who had saved his life.

• Yu Xiaoheng instantly killed the Evil Soul Master before he could speak again.
• Yu Xiaoheng refused to rescue Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi, saying he could not risk the civilians’ lives, and led the group away.
• Sea Blue realized Yu Xiaoheng had paused to protect his carefully built image rather than consider rescuing the sisters.
• Chen Wan cursed Yu Xiaoheng and understood that the Shui sisters had cared for him for a month in the blizzard, saving him from freezing to death.

Yu Xiaoheng recalled how the Shui sisters had risked their lives to save him and struggled to understand why they had chosen him over their own survival. Yu Changkong explained that he had once helped the sisters escape with Yu Xiaoheng, leaving Yu Xiaoheng to hear how he had cleared their path.

• Yu Xiaoheng remembered the Shui sisters carrying him through the snow and realized they had truly saved him.
• Yu Xiaoheng reflected that he could have used Yu Yuanzhen's jade token and wondered why the Shui sisters had forced him back into danger.
• Yu Changkong offered to hold Rhine back and use the Sect Master's jade token in Yu Xiaoheng's place.
• Yu Changkong revealed that he had encountered the Shui sisters while they were carrying the unconscious Yu Xiaoheng and that they had not trusted him.
• Yu Changkong said he had lured away patrolling Evil Soul Masters to clear a path for the Shui sisters.

Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi were held captive by Rhine, who waited for Yu Xiaoheng to arrive so he could torture them in front of him. The sisters accepted that Yu Xiaoheng would not come and found comfort in the hope that he had survived, while Rhine sensed that one of his guards had been killed.

• Rhine kept Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi chained in an ice cave, intending to use their suffering to torment Yu Xiaoheng.
• Shui Lingxi asked whether Yu Xiaoheng would come, and Shui Yun'er doubted he would risk entering Rhine's death trap.
• Shui Yun'er laughed at their foolish hope, and she and Shui Lingxi agreed that his staying away meant he could live.
• The sisters calmed themselves by wishing Yu Xiaoheng a safe future, even if he forgot them.
• Rhine grew impatient and sensed that a subordinate guarding the outskirts had been killed without a sound.

Yu Xiaoheng burst into the ice cavern, slaughtered the Evil Soul Masters at the entrance, and rescued Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi before Rhine could react. Rhine unleashed his sixth soul skill, confronting Yu Xiaoheng as the two sisters lay on the furs behind him.

• Rhine taunted Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi as the Evil Soul Masters mocked them and he brought his Soul-Seeking Claw toward Shui Lingxi.
• Yu Xiaoheng stormed through the cave entrance with golden-red flames and golden-blue lightning, killing the Evil Soul Masters there.
• Rhine turned to face Yu Xiaoheng, but the youth vanished from the entrance before Rhine could follow his movement.
• Yu Xiaoheng appeared beside the furs after breaking the sisters’ chains and carrying them to safety.
• Rhine activated his sixth soul ring and formed a dark purple source flame in his palm.

Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi woke to find Yu Xiaoheng had rescued them alone from the Evil Soul Masters’ lair. As Rhine ordered his forces to attack, Yu Xiaoheng activated Dragon God Possession to face them.

• Shui Yun'er woke beside Shui Lingxi and realized Yu Xiaoheng was treating her sister’s injuries in the ice cave.
• Shui Yun'er searched for reinforcements but found only Yu Xiaoheng, a Soul Grandmaster, and the enemy forces.
• Yu Xiaoheng fed Shui Lingxi a Pill and told the sisters to stay quiet and conserve their strength.
• Rhine, enraged that his Origin Purple Flame had failed to harm Yu Xiaoheng, ordered the Evil Soul Masters to attack.
• Yu Xiaoheng pushed Shui Lingxi behind him and activated Dragon God Possession, thickening his golden scales into armor.

Yu Xiaoheng battled Rhine, a level seventy Spirit Emperor, after rescuing Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi from the Evil Soul Masters. Rhine's Purple Flame Shattering Strike hit Yu Xiaoheng squarely, leaving the outcome of his counterstrategy uncertain.

• Yu Xiaoheng killed the Evil Soul Masters and checked whether Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi could stand.
• Rhine acknowledged Yu Xiaoheng's talent and attacked him with his third and fourth Spirit Skills.
• Yu Xiaoheng used his Thunderclap Spirit Skill to form Lightning Armor, but Rhine's attack sent him crashing into an ice wall.
• Rhine used his fifth Spirit Skill, Purple Flame Shattering Strike, while Yu Xiaoheng waited for the brief opening after its activation.
• Yu Xiaoheng braced himself and gathered the Golden Holy Dragon Hatchling's strength, but Rhine's strike hit his chest and sent him flying.