Chapter Summaries

Yu Changkong joined a powerful expedition in the Far North to search for Yu Xiaoheng’s third Spirit Ring, but the team encountered fanatical purple-robed Soul Masters whose strange flames killed one of their companions. The group found Spirit Rings tainted by the same flames and hesitated over whether they were safe to absorb.

• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan mobilized its members to find the best possible third Spirit Ring for Yu Xiaoheng.
• Yu Changkong traveled with Man Shi’s expedition team through the Far North to hunt Spirit Rings.
• Purple-robed Soul Masters attacked the team and self-destructed, killing a Spirit Emperor with their strange purple flames.
• Yu Changkong suspected the attackers were sacrificing powerful people and concealed his concern that they might be targeting him.
• The team found Spirit Rings left by controlled soul beasts, all burning with purple flames, and questioned whether absorbing them was safe.

Ahu absorbed a purple-fire soul ring and demonstrated power far beyond what its two-thousand-year age suggested, prompting Yu Changkong to imagine finding a stronger one for the young master. Unknown to the others, the purple fire had burned away Ahu’s heart and lungs and was steadily consuming his life and sanity, leaving him with growing murderous urges.

• Purple flames streamed away into the Far North after Ahu absorbed the soul ring, and he revealed four soul rings, including the new purple one.
• Ahu used his Purple Fire Demon Claw to melt a steel-hard iceberg, astonishing the gathered young people.
• Yu Changkong speculated that a purple-fire-parasitized Dragon-type Spirit Beast could give the young master an exceptionally powerful third spirit skill, then sent his report to the sect.
• Yu Changkong worried that finding and capturing such a Spirit Beast would be dangerous and difficult, but resolved that the sect had to secure one for the young master.
• Ahu eyed his former friends with murderous intent as the purple fire sustained his burned-away heart and lungs while consuming his vitality and reason.

Yu Xiaoheng discovered that killing enemies gave his Heart-Protecting Dragon Ribs and Golden Holy Dragon Spirit a new way to gain resistance, while his time with Lei Ming's Guard Team strengthened his sense of duty to the Blue Lightning Sect. He learned that the Clear Sky Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had allied with both empires to destroy Blue Lightning's forces outside the clan, leaving him to weigh the threat against his current limitations.

• Yu Xiaoheng discovered that killing enemies let him absorb resistance to their Martial Soul attributes, and he identified physical and light-element resistance as priorities.
• Yu Xiaoheng continued missions with Lei Ming's Guard Team, growing closer to Yu Shan, Yu Hai, Lei Ming, and the others.
• Yu Shan and Yu Hai celebrated the team's rewards and praised Yu Xiaoheng as the Blue Lightning Sect's hope, prompting him to resolve that the sect would flourish as long as it did not harm his interests.
• Lei Ming secretly told two Soul Elders that the Clear Sky Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had allied with Heaven Dou and Star Luo to devastate merchant caravans and Guard Teams outside the clan.
• Yu Xiaoheng restrained his anger and recognized that, despite his strength against ordinary Soul Ancestors, he was not ready to face a Clear Sky Sect Soul Ancestor supported by a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect soul master.

Yu Xiaoheng spotted dozens of Purple Flame Evil Soul Masters in the forest and led Lei Ming's group in a hurried escape. He stopped abruptly on the path ahead, leaving his companions unsure what he had seen.

• Yu Xiaoheng noticed purple flames throughout the forest and recognized them as signs of Evil Soul Masters.
• Yu Xiaoheng considered absorbing the Purple Flame to strengthen his Golden Holy Dragon Spirit, then decided that escaping was safer.
• The Purple Flame Evil Soul Masters sensed Yu Xiaoheng's powerful life force and planned to capture him for their Lord.
• The Evil Soul Masters realized the camp had gone quiet and ordered their group to intercept the fleeing party.
• Yu Xiaoheng led Lei Ming, Yu Shan, Yu Hai, and Lei Xiaoyu through the forest, then suddenly stopped and stared at the path ahead.

Yu Xiaoheng stopped hiding his strength when Evil Soul Masters cornered the Blue Lightning Guard Team, and revealed his Golden Holy Dragon and legendary spirit rings. The Evil Soul Masters recognized him as the unprecedented genius Yu Xiaoheng, leaving both sides stunned.

• The Evil Soul Master leader ordered his fighters to capture Yu Xiaoheng and kill Lei Ming and the others.
• Lei Ming, Yu Shan, Yu Hai, and two other Soul Elders attacked together, but the four Evil Soul Master Soul Ancestors easily crushed their strike.
• Yu Xiaoheng stepped in front of Lei Ming and decided to fight at full strength.
• Yu Xiaoheng summoned his Golden Holy Dragon, and its Dragon's Might froze everyone and made the weaker Evil Soul Masters collapse.
• The Evil Soul Master leader recognized Yu Xiaoheng by his thousand-year first spirit ring and ten-thousand-year second spirit ring.

Yu Xiaoheng used his evolved Lightning Armor to resist the Evil Soul Masters’ Purple Flame and overwhelm their Soul Ancestors. He killed all four attackers, leaving the remaining Evil Soul Masters facing him on the battlefield.

• Four Evil Soul Master Soul Ancestors charged Yu Xiaoheng with Purple Flame while Lei Ming and the others rushed to protect him.
• Yu Xiaoheng summoned black thunder and formed his Lightning Armor, which electrolyzed the Purple Flame before it could reach him.
• Yu Xiaoheng dashed through the battlefield and instantly cut down the two Soul Ancestors at the front.
• Yu Xiaoheng pierced one of the remaining Soul Ancestors through the heart with a lightning hand blade.
• Yu Xiaoheng smashed the final Soul Ancestor’s head with a lightning-wreathed kick.

Yu Xiaoheng slaughtered the Evil Soul Masters and gained a small resistance to their degraded purple fire by using his Golden Holy Dragon's adaptability and the remaining power of two Immortal Herbs. He suppressed the purple aura that tainted his Martial Soul, then stayed alert while Lei Ming and the others searched the battlefield.

• Yu Xiaoheng killed the last Evil Soul Master, while Lei Ming, Yu Shan, and Yu Hai arrived too late to join the fight.
• Yu Xiaoheng sensed the Evil Soul Masters' purple fire had triggered the remaining medicinal power of his two Immortal Herbs, creating a small resistance to the flame.
• Yu Xiaoheng realized his Golden Holy Dragon's instability and adaptability had helped it analyze the degraded purple fire, but the process had consumed much of the herbs' remaining power.
• Yu Xiaoheng used his Soul Power and holy flames to suppress the purple aura entwining his Martial Soul until it returned to pure gold.
• Lei Ming and the others cleared the battlefield as Yu Xiaoheng pretended to meditate and spread his spiritual power across the area to watch for hidden dangers.

Yu Xiaoheng escaped a forced teleportation by breaking through its Purple Flame passage and found himself in the Far North Land, where he decided to head south and leave. At a port on the region’s southern border, Ah Yin was being marched inland as a prisoner.

• Yu Xiaoheng used the Golden Holy Dragon Spirit to smash open the unstable teleportation passage and was thrown into the Far North Land.
• Yu Xiaoheng recognized the region, considered searching for Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi, then chose to return home instead.
• Yu Xiaoheng set off south toward a port, relieved that he had avoided the Evil Soul Masters’ lair.
• At a port on the southern border of the Far North Land, purple-robed captors escorted shackled women inland, including Ah Yin.
• Ah Yin had traveled from the Star Dou Great Forest to look for Xiao Wu and deliver a letter to Rou'er, and she had received a message from Xiao Wu saying she was safe.

Yu Xiaoheng disguised himself as an Evil Soul Master and successfully joined their group in the Far North Land. He spotted Sea Blue among the captives and watched her take a whip strike to protect a little girl.

• Yu Xiaoheng used the strange purple aura from his Golden Holy Dragon Spirit to strengthen his disguise as an Evil Soul Master.
• Yu Xiaoheng wondered whether the Evil Soul Masters might capture Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Emperor, and imagined getting her hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.
• A group of Evil Soul Masters surrounded Yu Xiaoheng, but their Soul Ancestor mistook him for a separated member and ordered him back into formation.
• Yu Xiaoheng blended into the group and saw that the Evil Soul Masters were escorting shackled women, including Sea Blue and a little girl.
• When the little girl stumbled, Sea Blue pulled her behind herself and took a whip strike from a guard.

Yu Xiaoheng followed the Evil Soul Masters through the Far North Land and realized their meeting with an Icefield Tribe was likely planned. The tribe’s Spirit Douluo was ambushed by his own followers using purple-flame spirit rings, leaving Yu Xiaoheng stunned by a power he had never heard of.

• Yu Xiaoheng decided to blend in with the Evil Soul Master group because their route back to the continent had been cut off.
• The group encountered Icefield Tribe warriors led by a Spirit Douluo, and Yu Xiaoheng suspected the meeting was deliberate.
• The tribal Spirit Douluo attacked the Evil Soul Masters after seeing their captive women, while Yu Xiaoheng stepped in front of Sea Blue.
• A trusted Spirit King stabbed the Spirit Douluo through the heart and used purple flames to amplify his spirit ring’s attack.
• Nearly half the tribal warriors turned on the Spirit Douluo, their purple-flame spirit rings powering attacks far beyond their apparent strength.

Yu Xiaoheng endured Purple Flame while being forced to pose as an Evil Soul Master, and briefly considered the power of a Purplefire Spirit Ring before rejecting the risk. As the group traveled deeper into the ice plains, a vast barrier sealed him in, and the Evil Soul Masters announced their master's divine kingdom was about to descend.

• Yu Xiaoheng collected a small cluster of Purple Flame and endured its burning while imitating the other Evil Soul Masters.
• Yu Xiaoheng considered acquiring a powerful Purplefire Spirit Ring, then warned himself against risking his life and dismissed the idea.
• Yu Xiaoheng was swept along as the Evil Soul Master group moved deeper into the ice plains and gathered more members.
• Dozens of Spirit King-level Evil Soul Masters formed a formation and joined their purple fire pillars into a vast barrier.
• Yu Xiaoheng realized the barrier had trapped him, then forced himself to praise the master alongside the other Evil Soul Masters as they proclaimed the divine kingdom was about to descend.

Yu Xiaoheng followed the Evil Soul Masters while planning to strengthen his resistance to the Purple Flame, then realized he needed a more powerful source of it. Meanwhile, Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi hid in an ice cave with almost no food, trapped and pursued by the Evil Soul Masters.

• Yu Xiaoheng watched Sea Blue and the captured women being led away, then followed a Soul Ancestor and several Soul Grand Masters into an ice crevice.
• Yu Xiaoheng planned to consume the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to strengthen his body and endure the Purple Flame longer.
• The Soul Ancestor announced that two people ahead had been found, and the Evil Soul Masters celebrated the prospect of offering them to their lord.
• Yu Xiaoheng realized the weak Purple Flame he carried no longer increased his resistance and decided he needed a stronger flame from a Soul Ancestor or Spirit King.
• Shui Lingxi told Shui Yun'er that their food was nearly gone and asked whether they would die in the ice cave.
• Shui Yun'er held her sister and promised they would survive, though she feared their Martial Soul Fusion Skill could not overcome the Evil Soul Masters' strange flames.

Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi were cornered by Evil Soul Masters in the Far North Land and trapped in a battle designed to drain their Soul Power. Yu Xiaoheng watched from among the attackers, his attention fixed on the intensifying Purple Flames.

• Shui Yun'er admitted her bitterness over the unfairness that had driven her and Shui Lingxi to risk their lives in the Far North Land.
• Evil Soul Masters broke through the ice and surrounded the sisters, led by a Soul Ancestor with a skeletal-claw Martial Soul.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to freeze and destroy several attacking Evil Soul Masters.
• Purple Flame sprang from the fallen enemies and Devoured the sisters' Soul Power, while the remaining Evil Soul Masters sent more attackers to wear them down.
• Yu Xiaoheng watched from within another group of Evil Soul Masters, studying the intensifying Purple Flames on several Soul Ancestor-level members.

Yu Xiaoheng burst into the ice cave and annihilated the Evil Soul Masters with his black Lightning Armor. Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi believed he had come to rescue them, but he had attacked because he wanted the Soul Ancestors’ purple flames.

• Yu Xiaoheng’s lightning shattered the mysterious ice dome and paralyzed the Evil Soul Masters.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi recognized Yu Xiaoheng and realized he had appeared among their enemies.
• The sisters tried to warn Yu Xiaoheng about the Soul Ancestors and the purple flame that devoured Soul Power.
• Yu Xiaoheng tore through the cave at tremendous speed, destroying the Evil Soul Masters and extinguishing their purple flames.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi wondered whether Yu Xiaoheng had come to save them, unaware that he wanted the Soul Ancestors’ flames for his own preparations.

Yu Xiaoheng rescued Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi from the Evil Soul Masters but made clear he had acted for his own reasons. He then absorbed purple fire from a corpse and began refining his Immortal Herb’s power in a hidden mountain hollow, preparing to consume a second batch.

• Yu Xiaoheng approached the stunned Shui sisters after killing the Evil Soul Masters, and Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi wondered whether he had come to save them for their sake.
• Yu Xiaoheng rejected Shui Yun'er’s attempt to embrace him and explained that he had only intervened by chance while pursuing his own goals.
• Yu Xiaoheng absorbed purple fire from a charred Soul Ancestor’s corpse, speeding up the refinement of his Immortal Herb’s medicinal power.
• The exhausted Shui sisters followed Yu Xiaoheng out of the ice cave, and he ignored them as he searched for a place to cultivate.
• Yu Xiaoheng found a secluded mountain hollow and used the purple fire to refine the Immortal Herb’s power, which was nearing a critical point.

Yu Xiaoheng refined the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, strengthening himself and his Golden Holy Dragon. Elsewhere, Yu Changkong endured torture while Ah Yin cared for him.

• Yu Xiaoheng summoned the Golden Holy Dragon and used the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone on it while swallowing the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum himself.
• Yu Xiaoheng’s body and Soul Power transformed, and the Golden Holy Dragon’s scales and meridians grew stronger, though it did not evolve again.
• Yu Xiaoheng secretly erased the Purple Flame Seeds inside the Shui sisters, making their location safe from tracking.
• Yu Changkong told Sea Blue that the Evil Soul Masters were enemies of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and that he had surrendered to try to send word of their growth back to the clan.
• Ah Yin asked Yu Changkong whether his sacrifice was worth it, and he said it was for the young master and the clan.
• An Evil Soul Master whipped Yu Changkong, and Ah Yin wiped the blood from his mouth after the tormentors left.

Yu Changkong followed a Spirit King-level Evil Soul Master into an ice cavern and witnessed Evil Soul Masters use black fragments to absorb Purplefire Spirit Rings. He learned the method could allow a ring to merge with its target, but failure meant death, and he remained hidden as the Evil Soul Masters guarded their fragments.

• Yu Changkong left Ah Yin behind and secretly tracked the Evil Soul Master, hoping to learn how to refine Purplefire Spirit Rings for the Young Master.
• Yu Changkong found more than a dozen Evil Soul Masters gathered around bound Purplefire Soul Beasts, and their leader distributed black iron fragments as protection from the rings' Holy Flame.
• An Evil Soul Master killed a thousand-year Purplefire Soul Beast, and its Spirit Ring lunged into him and began merging with his body.
• The Evil Soul Master scattered powdered fragments, releasing white flames that restrained the purple fire long enough for him to survive the ring's merger.
• A greedy Evil Soul Master tried to absorb a nearly five-thousand-year ring with too little powder and burned to ash as the others watched.
• Yu Changkong observed the survivors tie their remaining black fragments to their arms or waists.

Yu Xiaoheng stopped refining the Immortal Herbs when his Purple Flame ran short and decided to seek stronger sources of flame. He told Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi he could no longer protect them and gave them Purple Flame Core Flames to remove tracking marks.

• Yu Xiaoheng awakened from cultivation after refining the essence of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, and sensed he needed a Soul Ring to advance.
• Yu Xiaoheng concluded that his Purple Flame was too weak and scarce to refine the remaining medicinal power quickly, so he decided to find more fire sources.
• Yu Xiaoheng told Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi that he could not look after them during his next undertaking.
• Yu Xiaoheng gave the sisters two Purple Flame Core Flames to help them and the other trapped Soul Masters erase their tracking marks.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi realized Yu Xiaoheng was sending them away, and their hope that he would keep them with him disappeared.

Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi were cornered by a band of Evil Soul Masters, but Yu Xiaoheng returned and absorbed their Purple Flame attack. The sisters were left wondering why he had come back to save them as he used the flames to absorb the medicinal power clogging his meridians.

• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi encountered more than a dozen Evil Soul Masters, including two four-ring Soul Ancestors, and tried to flee.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi attempted their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but their injuries caused it to fail and left them weakened.
• Yu Xiaoheng appeared between the sisters and the Evil Soul Masters, taking the Purple Flame attack with his body.
• Yu Xiaoheng absorbed the Purple Flame to break down and absorb the medicinal power obstructing his meridians.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi cried out to Yu Xiaoheng and asked if he was okay.

Yu Xiaoheng massacred the Evil Soul Masters threatening Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi, then left while the sisters became determined to survive and see him again. The sisters found Skywater Academy's emergency mark and entered an ice cave, where they reunited with their academy members.

• Yu Xiaoheng killed more than a dozen Evil Soul Masters with his lightning and Purple Flame.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi blushed as they watched Yu Xiaoheng leave, then vowed to survive and avoid becoming a burden to him.
• The Shui sisters continued across the Far North, warmed by their thoughts of Yu Xiaoheng.
• The sisters spotted Skywater Academy's emergency contact mark at an ice cave and went inside.
• A female instructor and the other academy members were delighted to see Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi.