Chapter Summaries

Qin Tian awakened the Frostflower Boundary Tablet and reached the Ice God Vault, but opening it stirred a horde of monsters, so he sought help from Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng. He arrived just in time to block Asaqi Luo Hou’s attack, leaving Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng stunned by his strength.

• Qin Tian awakened the Frostflower Boundary Tablet, discovered its suppressive power and its role as one of the keys to the Ice God vaults, then followed its guidance to the Ice God Vault.
• Qin Tian tried to open the vault, but more than a thousand monsters awakened and forced him to retreat before the verification process was complete.
• Qin Tian sensed Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng’s locations and opened a Space Gate to reach them as Asaqi Luo Hou pursued them through the blizzard.
• Zhuge Yu used the Marquis Wu Eight Trigrams Array: Maze to hide himself and Taishi Feng, but Asaqi tracked them with the Blood Hidden Jade and broke through the array.
• Asaqi unleashed a Crimson Giant Blade at Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng, but Qin Tian stepped through a Space Gate and stopped it with his Thunder Blade—Slash.

Qin Tian outsmarted Asaqi Luo Hou, escaping his attack and revealing that an Ice Tablet could open one of the Ancient Ice God Clan’s seven treasure vaults. After gathering Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng to help secure it, Qin Tian left Asaqi unable to track them, and Asaqi found a mocking doodle where their trail ended.

• Asaqi charged Qin Tian with a powerful saber strike, but Qin Tian pretended to be knocked away and escaped with Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng through a Space Gate.
• Qin Tian told Zhuge Yu and Taishi Feng that the Ice Tablet was a key to one of seven treasure vaults and asked them to guard him while he opened it.
• Qin Tian, Zhuge Yu, and Taishi Feng agreed to find Yuan Sheng, while Qin Tian said he could no longer sense Lan.
• Zhuge Yu used his Bronze Array Disk to activate the Heavenly Mystery Shielding Technique and block the tracking mark on him.
• Asaqi followed Zhuge Yu’s Blood Hidden Jade marker, but the marker went dark after Zhuge Yu shielded himself.
• Asaqi reached the ice cliffs and found Qin Tian’s mocking clown drawing, then vowed to kill Qin Tian and Zhuge Yu.

Qin Tian and his companions opened the Ice God Vault and overcame its guardians, with Qin Tian using his Divine Weapon Emperor talent to seize all one hundred Sixth Order Puppets. They stood before the vault’s inner door, ready to discover what lay beyond it.

• Qin Tian used the Ice Tablet to open the vault entrance while Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng defended him from thousands of Demon Beasts.
• Qin Tian brought the group through the Spatial Vortex and severed its connection, trapping the Demon Beasts outside the vault.
• Zhuge Yu gave the others Source Recovery Pills, and Taishi Feng triggered the hundred Sixth Order Puppets by stepping over the white line.
• Qin Tian’s companions fought the Puppets, but the constructs repaired their injuries until Zhuge Yu identified the Blue Crystals as their cores.
• Qin Tian used his Divine Weapon Emperor talent to disable the Puppets and stored all one hundred in Yin Space.
• Qin Tian and the others turned toward the closed inner door and prepared to continue.

Qin Tian and his companions faced a corrupted Ice Qilin in the frozen trial, and Qin Tian used Burn Heaven Purgatory to destroy it with a single devastating shot. The group survived, Qin Tian gained Evolution Points, and Burn Heaven Purgatory emerged as his strongest weapon.

• Taishi Feng suggested they rush for the next level, but the iceberg shattered and revealed a peak Seventh-Order Ice Qilin corrupted by Dark Energy.
• Qin Tian, Taishi Feng, Huo Yuansheng, and Zhuge Yu fought the Qilin together, but its powerful attacks and rapid healing overwhelmed them.
• Qin Tian called on Blaze and Burn Heaven Purgatory, while the others held the Qilin back long enough for him to prepare a shot.
• Qin Tian used Void Seal to halt the Qilin briefly, then fired Skyburn: Realm Breaker with a fourfold critical strike.
• Qin Tian's flames overwhelmed the Qilin's icy breath and destroyed it, earning him Evolution Points as his companions marveled at Burn Heaven Purgatory's power.

After Qin Tian and his companions defeated the Ice Qilin, they reached the Ice God Vault but could not open its sealed gate by force or with Zhuge Yu’s array. Qin Tian used the Ice Ball to activate the gate, and the four entered the vault.

• Qin Tian thanked Blaze for helping kill the Ice Qilin, while Blaze reflected that Qin Tian’s power had strengthened Burn Heaven Purgatory and brought him closer to freedom.
• Qin Tian confirmed to Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng that he wielded Burn Heaven Purgatory, then led them toward the final entrance.
• Taishi Feng and the others failed to push open the sealed gate, and Zhuge Yu’s Spirit Gathering Array only made it crack briefly by supplying Power of Cold.
• Qin Tian retrieved the Ice Ball he had found in the Never-Frozen Cold Lake and pressed it against the gate’s warding runes.
• The Ice Ball activated the runes and opened the gate, and Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, Huo Yuansheng, and Qin Tian entered the Ice God Vault.

Qin Tian and his companions explored the Ice God Vault, discovering valuable ores, weapons, rare plants, books, and energy crystals before entering a psionic pool that accelerated their cultivation. As they trained beneath the statue’s divine light, chaos spread across the frozen ruin as other talents fought demon beasts and one another for the Ice Origin and the vault.

• Qin Tian led Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng through the vault’s rooms, where they found rare ores, weapons and armor, preserved plants, unreadable books, and energy crystals.
• Qin Tian entered the psionic pool, and the ice statue’s light enhanced his absorption and began loosening his cultivation bottleneck.
• Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng joined Qin Tian in the pool, and the statue’s light helped all four rapidly improve their cultivation.
• Across the ruin, awakened demon beasts and five hundred imperial talents clashed over the Ice Origin, while rival groups formed fragile alliances to reach the Ice God Vault.

Qin Tian and his companions finished cultivating in the Ice God Vault, divided its treasures, and emerged to fight through the demon-beast army. As they battled outside, a Black Robe man and his group watched from hiding, intent on seizing the vault’s spoils.

• After ten days in the psionic pool, Qin Tian reached sixth-order nine-star, while Zhuge Yu reached sixth-order six-star and Taishi Feng and Huo Yuansheng reached sixth-order nine-star.
• Qin Tian declined to attempt the Three Tribulations of Man and Heaven, marked the hall with a Space Mark, and agreed to take seventy percent of the vault’s treasures while the others took ten percent each.
• The four finished distributing the vault’s treasures and left through the Mystic Ice Gate, finding themselves above a vast demon-beast army.
• Taishi Feng, Huo Yuansheng, Zhuge Yu, and Qin Tian attacked the demon beasts and slaughtered them while testing their strengthened abilities.
• A Black Robe man and his companions watched from behind ice rocks, recognized the Zhuge Family’s Eight Trigrams Array, and planned to take the vault’s treasures from the four.

Qin Tian and his companions fought Jinguji Koji’s followers after refusing to surrender the treasures from the Ice God Vault. As the battle continued, Jinguji Koji recognized Qin Tian as the team’s true core, and Qin Tian revealed he was an imperial major general.

• Qin Tian sensed unfamiliar figures approaching while he and Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng finished slaughtering demon beasts on the Ice Plain.
• Jinguji Koji arrived with five followers and demanded that Zhuge Yu hand over the Ice God Vault’s treasures, but Zhuge Yu denied knowing about the vault.
• Jinguji Koji ordered his followers to attack, and Taishi Feng, Huo Yuansheng, and Zhuge Yu fought the five attackers using their strength and coordinated tactics.
• Qin Tian and Jinguji Koji watched the battle from the air as Jinguji Koji grew wary of Qin Tian’s hidden pressure.
• Jinguji Koji asked Qin Tian who he was, and Qin Tian identified himself as Imperial major general Qin Tian.

Qin Tian fought Jinguji Koji, a seventh-order holy blood bearer, while Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng battled Koji’s followers below. Koji escaped with his followers under cover of Calamity Qi, but Qin Tian remained confident they would not get away.

• Jinguji Koji attacked Qin Tian with his great serpent bloodline, but Qin Tian blocked his strike and recovered from Koji’s corrosive blow.
• Jinguji Koji donned the Great Serpent Scale Gauntlets and awakened his Yamata no Orochi form, injuring Qin Tian with his multiple attacks.
• Qin Tian activated Overlord Body · Emperor and severed one of Koji’s snake heads, then continued to overpower him.
• Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng used the Marquis Wu Eight Trigrams Array to defeat Koji’s shikigami and pressure his followers.
• Jinguji Koji released Calamity Qi and used the spreading mist to flee with his five followers, while Qin Tian protected his companions with a golden barrier.
• Huo Yuansheng regretted that the enemy escaped, but Qin Tian said they would not get away.

Qin Tian and his allies trapped Jinguji Koji and his companions in Zhuge Yu’s Eight Trigrams Array, where Qin Tian killed Koji by identifying and destroying Yamata no Orochi’s central head. Qin Tian claimed Koji’s Great Serpent Bloodline Talent Orb, but a red system notification appeared just as he prepared to store it.

• Zhuge Yu raised an Eight Trigrams Array to trap Jinguji Koji and his five companions, and Qin Tian’s allies resumed their fight against them.
• Qin Tian wounded Koji and forced him to reveal Yamata no Orochi’s final form, then used Demon Might to locate the serpent’s central head.
• Qin Tian activated Flame Lord State and struck the central head with Lightning Tribulation Samsara Blade, killing Koji and disabling Yamata no Orochi.
• Qin Tian’s allies seized the opening to injure Koji’s remaining fighters while Qin Tian collected the Great Serpent Bloodline Talent Orb.
• A red system notification appeared before Qin Tian as he prepared to place the Talent Orb in the Recycle Bin, and his expression changed sharply.

Qin Tian discovered that the system could not fuse Nine Great Sacred Bloodlines, then killed Jinguji Koji’s five attendants and learned that Jinguji Yuzuo’s group was tracking him. As Jinguji Yuzuo began hunting him across the ice plain, Qin Tian and Zhuge Yu shared a knowing smile over Hojo Kazushi’s Mirror Nation talent.

• Qin Tian received a system warning that fusing holy blood talent would fatally conflict with his existing talents, and he set aside his questions about the Nine Great Sacred Bloodlines.
• Qin Tian joined the Eight Trigrams Array and killed Jinguji Koji’s five attendants, impressing Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng with his overwhelming strength.
• Jinguji Yuzuo sensed Jinguji Koji’s death through the Blood Kin Jade and used Hojo Kazushi’s Mirror Monster to find the black-clad killer, but Qin Tian detected the spying and disrupted the mirror image.
• Jinguji Yuzuo ordered his group to pursue the killer, while Zhuge Yu identified Hojo Kazushi as the likely spy and explained his Mirror Nation bloodline.
• Qin Tian expressed interest in Hojo Kazushi’s talent, and he and Zhuge Yu exchanged knowing smiles.

Qin Tian and his allies ambushed Jinguji Yuzuo’s group with the Marquis Wu Eight Trigrams Array, then fought them across the Ice Plain. After Qin Tian killed Hojo Kazushi and Zhuge Yu recovered the Frostflower Boundary Tablet, the four escaped by teleportation, leaving Jinguji Yuzuo furious.

• Jinguji Yuzuo and his companions examined the corpses of Yamata no Orochi and the five attendants, then used the Bronze Ancient Mirror to track the Black-Clad Man.
• Qin Tian, Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng triggered the Marquis Wu Eight Trigrams Array and trapped Jinguji Yuzuo’s group in a maze of ice walls and lightning.
• Jinguji Yuzuo used his serpent power to destroy the array’s patterns, then charged Qin Tian while Taishi Feng, Huo Yuansheng, and Zhuge Yu engaged the other three opponents.
• Qin Tian used a Demon King Clone to distract Jinguji Yuzuo, teleported behind Hojo Kazushi, and killed him with the Thunder Blade.
• Zhuge Yu freed the Frostflower Boundary Tablet, and Qin Tian, Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, and Huo Yuansheng escaped using a Spatial Coordinate as Jinguji Yuzuo lunged at them.

Qin Tian’s group escaped Jinguji Yuzuo after killing Hojo Kazushi and took his Mirror Nation talent. A vast ice mountain range then rose around a familiar Ice Abyss, drawing the other challengers into a confrontation that ended with Dongfang Qi and Leng Qingqiu intervening.

• Qin Tian’s group escaped through a Space Gate with Hojo Kazushi’s corpse, and Qin Tian claimed the Mirror Nation talent and bonded mirror.
• Qin Tian decided the group would collect ice origin and seek another Ice God Vault, but a tremor shook the Ice Plain and raised a huge range of ice mountains.
• Qin Tian recognized the Ice Abyss at the range’s center and suspected it might be a central Ice God Vault as other young talents gathered around it.
• Asaqi and Jinguji Yuzuo joined forces and attacked Qin Tian’s group, with both targeting Qin Tian.
• An ice wall blocked the attacks, and Dongfang Qi and Leng Qingqiu arrived, offering to fight Asaqi and Jinguji Yuzuo.

Jinguji Yuzuo accused Qin Tian of killing Hojo Kazushi and Jinguji Koji, prompting Dongfang Qi and Leng Qingqiu to protect him. As reinforcements from the Dongfang and Leng Families arrived, the rival Holy Blood Families faced off, and a major battle threatened to erupt.

• Dongfang Qi and Leng Qingqiu arrived and joined Zhuge Yu, Taishi Feng, Huo Yuansheng, and Qin Tian against Asaqi and Jinguji Yuzuo.
• Jinguji Yuzuo demanded that Dongfang Qi hand over Qin Tian for killing Hojo Kazushi, but Dongfang Qi refused and declared Qin Tian a friend of the Dongfang Family.
• Jinguji Yuzuo revealed that Qin Tian had also killed Jinguji Koji, and Jinguji Yuichi, Jinguji Chiyo, and Jinguji Nobuo confirmed Koji's death through the Blood Kin Jade.
• Jinguji Yuichi demanded Qin Tian's surrender, but Dongfang Qi and Leng Qingqiu shielded Qin Tian and his companions as the Jinguji Family and Asaqi prepared to fight.
• Young experts from the Dongfang and Leng Families arrived, followed by the Luo Hou Family's remaining Asura and Rakshasa, and the four factions assembled in opposing camps.
• Jinguji Yuichi chose to attack Qin Tian, the Luo Hou Family joined the confrontation, and the gathered auras signaled that battle was about to begin.

The Fifth Prince Ji Taiyan stopped a clash between the Jinguji, Dongfang, Leng, and Luo Hou Families and had Leng Qingqiu use the Heart-Questioning Technique to confirm that Jinguji Koji had attacked Qin Tian’s group first. As the gathered factions prepared to enter the largest Ice God Vault, all Nine Great Sacred Blood Families assembled and an army of demon beasts approached.

• Jinguji Yuzuo threatened Dongfang Qi, and the four families prepared to fight until Ji Taiyan appeared and ordered them to stop.
• Jinguji Yuzuo accused Qin Tian of killing Jinguji Koji, and Qin Tian admitted it while Zhuge Yu explained that Koji had ambushed their group for their treasures.
• Dongfang Qi asked Leng Qingqiu to question Zhuge Yu, whose answers confirmed that Koji had attacked first and that Qin Tian’s group had fought back in self-defense.
• Ji Taiyan ended the dispute and urged the families to set aside their grudges so they could enter the largest Ice God Vault, warning that demon beasts were approaching.
• Ji Taiyan called the remaining factions forward, and Qin Tian saw all Nine Great Sacred Blood Families gather.

The Nine Great Sacred Blood Families united to defend the azure iceberg from a vast demon beast army, while Qin Tian used the battle to gather evolution points. Within the iceberg, hidden voices decided to keep its entrance sealed until the young lord finished taking control of the divine artifacts, leaving the Frozen Throne as the remaining problem.

• Ji Taiyan assigned the Nine Great Sacred Blood Families defensive sectors, and Qin Tian joined Zhuge Yu at the Dongfang Family's eastern position.
• The Odinson, Xiao, and Chen Families unleashed powerful attacks that devastated the demon beast army and killed a seventh-order leader.
• Dongfang Qi raised a Spirit Wood Statue and summoned Treants, archers, and man-eating flowers to strengthen the eastern defense.
• Qin Tian struck dense groups of demon beasts with Heavenly Thunderfall, gaining evolution points as the battle continued.
• Voices inside the iceberg chose to delay opening it until the young lord finished taking control of the divine artifacts, noting that only the Frozen Throne remained.

Qin Tian killed four Peak Sixth Order Demon Beasts that wielded Ice God Clan power, while Ji Taiyan defeated an Eighth Order Demon General with the Sacred Dragon Spear Technique. The Demon General regenerated by devouring other Demon Beasts, leaving the battlefield facing an even greater threat.

• Qin Tian summoned Spirit Plants and Heavenly Thunder to slaughter the Demon Beasts, then instantly killed four Peak Sixth Order Black Wings Demon Beasts with Thunder Slash.
• Zhuge Yu declined Dongfang Qi's order to help Qin Tian, saying the attackers posed no threat to him.
• Qin Tian recognized the four Demon Beasts' icy patterns as power related to the Ice God Clan and wondered whether the Demon Beasts could absorb that power to evolve.
• An Eighth Order Twin-Horned Demon General appeared, and Ji Taiyan charged in to fight it.
• Ji Taiyan pierced the Demon General's eye and then destroyed its head with the Sacred Dragon Spear Technique.
• The Demon General revived by pulling nearby Demon Beasts into a vortex in its chest and devouring them to regenerate its head.

Ji Taiyan and Qin Tian worked together to banish the regenerating Eighth-Order Demon General into the Void, turning the battle against the Demon Beasts. When the treasury’s Space Gate opened, Ji Taiyan ordered the allied forces inside and stayed behind with Qin Tian to keep the Demon Beasts from following.

• Ji Taiyan’s Golden Dragon Flame burned the Demon General, but it absorbed the flame and evolved, growing stronger.
• Qin Tian told Ji Taiyan he could banish the Demon General into Void turbulence, and Ji Taiyan agreed to create an opening.
• Ji Taiyan launched the Demon General into Qin Tian’s Spatial Vortex, which swallowed it and closed.
• With the Demon General gone, the Human Allied Forces rallied and gradually gained the advantage against the Demon Beasts.
• A Space Gate to the treasury opened in the Ice Abyss, and Ji Taiyan ordered everyone to enter while the Holy Blood members covered their retreat.
• After the others entered, Ji Taiyan and Qin Tian remained outside the gate to hold back the Demon Beast tide and find a way to close it.

Qin Tian unleashed the Burn Heaven Purgatory Cannon against the Demon Beast army, surpassed one hundred million Evolution Points, and entered the Treasury. Inside, he discovered that the entrants had been separated and considered using his new Mirror Nation Talent.

• Ji Taiyan entered the Space Gate while Qin Tian stayed behind to face the Demon Beast tide.
• Qin Tian and Blaze fired the Burn Heaven Purgatory Cannon, killing countless Demon Beasts and pushing Qin Tian's Evolution Points above one hundred million.
• Qin Tian entered the Space Gate, which then vanished, and Lan froze and shattered the surviving million-strong Demon army.
• Lan told an unseen speaker that the human geniuses could help bring the Ice God Clan back to life.
• Qin Tian arrived alone in an ice cavern, sensed the separated human life forces and Zhuge Yu's group's Space Marks, and examined his Mirror Nation Talent.

Qin Tian fused with the Mirror Nation talent, bonded with Little Monster, and used Divine Weapon Emperor to strengthen the Bronze Ancient Mirror. Little Monster discovered a sealed black finger in the ice cave, and as Qin Tian approached it, a hazy figure emerged from its demonic energy.

• Qin Tian fused with the Bronze Ancient Mirror, took control of the Mirror World, and found Hojo Kazushi's supplies and more than a hundred sleeping women inside.
• A life-bound Mirror Monster was born, and Qin Tian named it Little Monster.
• Qin Tian used Divine Weapon Emperor to strengthen the mirror and Little Monster, then sent the Mirror Monster to scout the ice cave.
• Little Monster found a black finger joint sealed on an ice platform, and Qin Tian sensed its mental attack and heard an ancient voice order him to destroy it.
• Qin Tian approached the finger with Black Frost Longblade, but the finger released demonic energy and a hazy figure emerged.