Chapter Summaries

Liu Feng returned to Green Wood Town, reunited with Liu Qing and pregnant Aunt Liu, and gave her a Soul Bone for her unborn child. After spending a warm evening with his family, he planned to visit his grandfather’s grave and help Li Zhishu set up Herb Networking.

• Liu Feng rode back to Green Wood Town with Liu Qing and Li Zhishu, agreeing to help Li Zhishu establish Herb Networking in a new Herb Field.
• Liu Qing showed Liu Feng around their territory and told him to visit his grandfather’s grave in Liu Family Village.
• Aunt Liu welcomed Liu Feng home, and he gave her a five-thousand-year-old Gale Demon Wolf left leg bone for her unborn child.
• Liu Feng shared dinner with Liu Qing and Aunt Liu, then walked in the manor’s garden while practicing the Primordial Chaos Art.
• The next morning, Liu Feng told Liu Qing he would visit his grandfather’s grave and help Li Zhishu with Herb Networking, and Liu Qing assigned Liu San to guide him around the territory.

Liu Feng paid respects at his grandfather Liu Bai’s grave in New Liu Family Village, reflecting on mortality and resolving to make his mark on the world. He then traveled with Liu San and Liu Fei to Li Family Town, where Li Zhishu’s butler took them to meet him in the fields outside town.

• Liu San guided Liu Feng to Liu Bai’s tomb, where Liu Feng offered incense, wine, and paper money before vowing to ascend to the peak and be remembered.
• Liu Feng agreed to visit Li Zhishu to help him with Herb Networking, and Liu San brought along his daughter Liu Fei.
• On the way to Li Family Town, Liu San told Liu Feng how Li Zhishu had prevented a food riot by revealing four Soul Rings and providing buns to the crowd.
• Liu Feng, Liu San, and Liu Fei viewed the town’s monument to Li Zhishu and his falling buns before heading to Li Mansion.
• Butler Li Si recognized Liu Feng as Liu Qing’s son and led him, Liu San, and Liu Fei toward the fields where Li Zhishu was waiting.

Liu Feng completed Herb Networking across the fields around Li Family Town and Green Wood Town, using his Soul Skills to connect and strengthen the herbs’ root systems. After finishing Green Wood Town’s final field at dusk, he and Liu San returned to town exhausted.

• Liu Feng and Liu San met Li Zhishu at Li Family Town’s fields, where Liu Feng began networking the herb fields while Liu San cared for Liu Fei.
• Liu Feng used the Heart of Banyan Wood to reduce the Soul Power consumed by his skills and completed the Herb Networking around Li Family Town in one day.
• Li Zhishu served Liu Feng and Liu San a nourishing hot pot, and Liu Feng noticed that his physique had improved after the meal.
• Liu Feng returned to the Baron Manor, met the maid Liu Yi, and went to sleep before resuming his training the next morning.
• Liu San guided Liu Feng through Green Wood Town’s herb fields, where Liu Feng spent the day networking each field despite difficult terrain and growing fatigue.
• Liu Feng completed the final Herb Field at sunset and returned to Green Wood Town with Liu San.

Liu Feng and Li Zhishu set out to explore the Magma Cave near the Ice God Mountain Range, but went to the Soul Hunting Guild in Snow Forest City to hire a squad after Zhang Feng failed to arrive. They learned the guild's members were away for City Lord Zhao Wuwei's three-day guard selection, leaving them to return without help.

• After inspecting the herbs around Green Wood Town and Li Family Town for five days without finding any harm, Liu Feng invited Li Zhishu and Zhang Feng to explore the Magma Cave near the Ice God Mountain Range.
• Liu Feng and Li Zhishu waited for Zhang Feng at Green Wood Town, then decided to seek a Soul Master Squad when he did not arrive.
• Liu Feng and Li Zhishu rode to Snow Forest City and found the Soul Hunting Guild empty except for clerk Xiao Hong.
• Xiao Hong told Liu Feng and Li Zhishu that City Lord Zhao Wuwei was selecting guards for three days and the guild's capable members were away.
• Liu Feng and Li Zhishu left the guild, resigned to returning in three days and grumbling about Zhang Feng.

Zhang Feng reunited with Liu Feng and Li Zhishu, explained that a Ten-Thousand-Year Titan Snow Demon had escaped the Far North, and joined them on their expedition with Zhao Wuwei and Xu Wei. As the group rode toward the Magma Cave, Snow Forest City continued recruiting guards while Zhao Fang fended off an envoy seeking Zhao Wuwei.

• Zhang Feng apologized for missing the departure and told Liu Feng and Li Zhishu that Captain Zhao had summoned him after news arrived of a Ten-Thousand-Year Titan Snow Demon escaping the Far North.
• Zhao Wuwei met the group outside Snow Forest City, explained that he had slipped away to avoid Xue Bai's invitation to hunt the Soul Beast, and joined their expedition.
• Zhao Wuwei introduced Xu Wei, a Level 52 defense-system Soul King from the Mysterious Nether Sect, and Zhang Feng estimated that the group would need about five days to reach their destination.
• Zhao Wuwei, Xu Wei, Liu Feng, Zhang Feng, and Li Zhishu rode toward the outer mountain range of the Ice God Mountain Range to search for the Magma Cave.
• In Snow Forest City, Zhao Fang continued recruiting guards and assured Xuexing City's envoy that Zhao Wuwei was absent, while the envoy left to report to Xue Bai.

Liu Feng and his companions reached Zhang Niu’s former rescue camp in the Ice God Mountain Range, where they shared a meal and learned about Xu Wei’s Mysterious Water Tea. After a ten-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon descended the western mountain while fighting a group of Soul Masters, the group hid their camp and watched as a winged Soul Master appeared overhead.

• Zhang Feng and Zhao Wuwei confirmed the group had reached the camp marked on Zhang Niu’s map, while Liu Feng, Xu Wei, and Li Zhishu prepared the camp and dinner.
• Zhao Wuwei used his Blazing Strike to light damp firewood, and Li Zhishu served the group mutton and baguettes.
• Xu Wei brewed Mysterious Water Tea, explaining that it could cleanse Soul Power but was difficult to cultivate and had limited effects.
• A deafening roar woke Liu Feng and the others, who extinguished their campfire and hid their supplies as a ten-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon approached with a group of Soul Masters pursuing it.
• Liu Feng and his companions decided not to interfere in the fight, then spotted a black-robed Soul Master with snow eagle wings circling above the battle.

Liu Feng and his companions watched from hiding as Wei Long’s team fought the Titan Snow Demon, which feigned defeat and trapped Ye Qingcang in ice. The Demon broke free and unleashed a blizzard against Xiao Yan’s attack, leaving the battlefield shrouded in fog as the hidden group debated the fight and the watching Soul Master overhead.

• Zhao Wuwei camouflaged Liu Feng and the others beneath a white tent cloth as a Soul Master flew overhead.
• Ye Qingcang buried the Titan Snow Demon in a snow slide, and Wei Long froze it with his Ice Frost Palm, but the spreading ice also trapped Ye Qingcang.
• Xiao Yan used his light and fire Soul Skills to try to free Ye Qingcang, then noticed she was signaling urgently and that his flames were melting the ice unusually slowly.
• Xiao Yan halted his attack and prepared his Fourth Soul Skill, but the Titan Snow Demon shattered its ice shell and revealed that it had feigned being subdued.
• The Titan Snow Demon used Ice Sealing Ten Thousand Miles and then Storm Tornado Kill against Xiao Yan’s flaming attack, filling the battlefield with a huge cloud of fog.
• Liu Feng, Zhang Feng, Zhao Wuwei, and Xu Wei discussed the Demon’s cunning and the flying Soul Master while remaining hidden.

Xiao Yan, Wei Long, and Ye Qingcang fought the Titan Snow Demon amid the battlefield fog, freeing Ye Qingcang and coordinating attacks that brought the beast down. Wei Long resumed pounding its injured knee as Xiao Yan urged him to keep attacking.

• Zhao Wuwei identified the fighters below as City Lord Xue Bai’s Soul Hunting Squad and said the circling Soul Master was likely Xue Bai, while Liu Feng and the others watched from cover.
• Xiao Yan melted the ice trapping Ye Qingcang, and Wei Long gave her his robe as the Titan Snow Demon charged toward them.
• Wei Long activated his Soul Skills and struck the Titan Snow Demon’s knee, but the beast’s counterattack sent him flying beyond the fog.
• Xiao Yan’s Repelling Fire Ring drove the Titan Snow Demon backward, and Ye Qingcang destabilized it with Earth and Mountains Tremble before piercing its foot with Ice Fang Pierce.
• Wei Long returned to the fight and froze the Titan Snow Demon’s head with Ice Frost Palm, knocking it down.
• At Xiao Yan’s urging, Wei Long repeatedly struck the fallen Titan Snow Demon’s already injured knee.

Xue Bai joined Xiao Yan and Wei Long’s fight against the Titan Snow Demon, but the wounded beast killed Wei Long and then escaped during a blizzard. Xue Bai pursued it alone, while Ye Qingcang held Xiao Yan back by clinging to him in the snow.

• Wei Long and Xiao Yan attacked the fallen Titan Snow Demon, but it broke free, killed Wei Long with a shard of ice, and blinded itself against Xiao Yan’s Sun Ball.
• Xue Bai struck the Titan Snow Demon across the face, then asked Xiao Yan and Ye Qingcang to help finish it off and promised rewards and support for Wei Long’s family.
• The wounded Titan Snow Demon rose, unleashed a blizzard, and fled; Xue Bai raced after it alone to claim its Fifth Soul Ring.
• Ye Qingcang fell from her injuries and clung to Xiao Yan, persuading him to stay with her instead of joining the chase.
• Xue Bai saw Xiao Yan and Ye Qingcang embracing but continued pursuing the Titan Snow Demon.

Xue Bai joined Zhao Wuwei and his companions in fighting the wounded Titan Snow Demon, offering food aid in exchange for their help. Their combined attacks overwhelmed the beast, and Xue Bai beheaded it, leaving the group poised to claim its Soul Ring.

• The Titan Snow Demon approached Zhao Wuwei's camp, and Xu Wei struck it with his Mysterious Nether Flying Shield, stopping its charge and worsening its wounds.
• Zhao Wuwei and his companions prepared to fight as Li Zhishu supplied them with strengthening and restorative bread; Xue Bai arrived and promised to help secure food for their cities if they aided him.
• Xue Bai blinded the Titan Snow Demon with a blizzard, while Xu Wei froze its legs and Zhao Wuwei and Zhang Feng attacked its chest and injured knee.
• Xue Bai dove in with his blade as Zhao Wuwei drove his spear into the beast's right chest, and the Titan Snow Demon fell with fatal wounds.
• Xue Bai clung to the Titan Snow Demon's shoulder and severed its head.

After Xue Bai and Zhao Wuwei defeated the Titan Snow Demon, it vanished and revealed a wounded, mutated Mirror Shadow Beast. Liu Feng tricked Xue Bai into abandoning the pursuit, hoping to preserve the chance of obtaining its Soul Bone someday, while the fleeing beast turned back to attack Xiao Yan and Ye Qingcang.

• Xue Bai's flying strike severed the Titan Snow Demon's head, but its body dissolved into white mist after it fell.
• Zhao Wuwei pulled Xue Bai out of the way as a wounded, wolf-shaped Mirror Shadow Beast raced past, and Liu Feng identified it as a mutated Soul Beast.
• Xue Bai asked Zhao Wuwei to help capture the Mirror Shadow Beast for his Fifth Soul Ring, but Liu Feng claimed it was twenty thousand years old and unsuitable.
• Liu Feng privately admitted that he had invented the Mirror Shadow Beast's age to stop Xue Bai, hoping he could find it again and obtain its valuable Head Soul Bone.
• The Mirror Shadow Beast escaped the Soul Masters, but, still injured and furious, turned back to attack Xiao Yan and Ye Qingcang.

Xiao Yan fought the Mirror Shadow Beast to protect Ye Qingcang and destroyed it with his Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus, though the collision left him badly injured. When Ye Qingcang found a glittering Head Soul Bone among the remains, she used her Soul Skill to escape underground with it, leaving the others to realize she had taken the treasure.

• The injured Mirror Shadow Beast charged toward Xiao Yan and Ye Qingcang, while Xue Bai initially watched without helping.
• Ye Qingcang urged Xiao Yan to leave her behind, but Xiao Yan charged at the beast to protect her and honor Wei Long; Zhao Wuwei, Liu Feng, and the others rushed to support him.
• Xue Bai spread his wings and flew toward the battlefield as Xiao Yan used Ring Fusion to form his Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus against the Mirror Shadow Beast's Cold Shadow Annihilation Kill.
• The attacks collided in a massive explosion that killed the Mirror Shadow Beast and left Xiao Yan severely wounded.
• Ye Qingcang spotted a Head Soul Bone among the remains, used Earth-Shaking to open a passage, and escaped underground with it.

Xue Bai failed to catch Ye Qingcang after she took the Mirror Shadow Beast Soul Bone, then tried to kill the unconscious Xiao Yan before Zhao Wuwei stopped him. Zhao Wuwei’s group escaped into the Far North, rescued Xiao Yan, and continued their journey together, while Liu Feng suspected Ye Qingcang had taken a Head Soul Bone and hoped to meet her again.

• Ye Qingcang escaped underground with the Soul Bone, and Xue Bai exhausted himself trying to pursue her before turning his anger on Xiao Yan.
• Zhao Wuwei blocked Xue Bai’s attack on Xiao Yan, and Liu Feng used Endless Life to heal him; Xue Bai summoned his subordinates and declared that the Soul Bone would be his.
• Zhao Wuwei carried Xiao Yan away with Liu Feng and the others, while Xue Bai voided their food agreement and stayed behind to seek the Soul Bone.
• The group traveled northeast, stopped at a stone wall, and rested in an ice house created by Xu Wei; Xiao Yan woke and agreed to travel with them.
• Xiao Yan explained that his final technique was Ring Fusion and learned that Ye Qingcang had escaped with the Soul Bone; Liu Feng later suspected it was a Head Soul Bone and hoped to meet her again.

Liu Feng treated Xiao Yan, broke through to level 39, and led the group onward across the Snow Mountain. Meanwhile, Ye Qingcang fled underground with the Head Soul Bone and emerged exhausted in a springlike, mist-shrouded place.

• Liu Feng sparred with Zhao Wuwei, treated Xiao Yan, and reached level 39 during meditation.
• Xiao Yan walked out of the ice house, and the group ate lunch together before planning their next route.
• Liu Feng used "Deep Roots" to make a vine bed for Xiao Yan, and the group continued across the Snow Mountain.
• Ye Qingcang escaped underground with the Head Soul Bone, rationing food and snow water while blaming Wei Long and Xiao Yan.
• Ye Qingcang encountered intense heat underground, struggled to use her Soul Skill, and eventually broke through the ground at a lush, mist-covered summit.
• Clutching the Head Soul Bone, Ye Qingcang staggered into the forest.

Xue Bai launched a search for Ye Qingcang and the stolen Soul Bone while Liu Feng’s exploration party crossed the Great Snow Mountain Range. The party reached the lava cave they had been seeking and planned to climb the mountain the next day.

• Xue Bai ordered his subordinates to search for Ye Qingcang in groups of three, offering rewards and warning them that Duke Xue Song would punish anyone who concealed the Soul Bone.
• Xue Bai searched for three days without finding Ye Qingcang, grew furious with his subordinates, and Niu Dao worried that their growing resentment would undermine the search.
• Liu Feng checked on Xiao Yan as the exploration party struggled through the Great Snow Mountain Range, and Zhang Feng used his map to guide them toward their destination.
• The party reached a strange, steep mountain with a dark cave entrance, and Liu Feng suggested that underground magma caused the clouds around its summit.
• Zhao Wuwei agreed that the party would explore the cave that day and climb toward the summit the next day, then the group led their horses inside.

Liu Feng and his companions entered a mountain cave whose passage grew hot before opening into a vast cavern of magma, a waterfall, and unusual plants. After the group began preparing a meal and scouting, Liu Feng approached the lava lake and saw a black rock repeatedly submerged by the collision of water and magma.

• Li Zhishu lit torches as the group entered the dark passage, and the companions continued onward through its damp, then increasingly hot tunnels.
• Liu Feng and the others left their overheated horses with food and water and carried their supplies deeper into the cave on foot.
• The group emerged into a vast cavern containing a lava lake, a waterfall, and thriving plants, then put on masks against the sulfurous air.
• Liu Feng proposed eating before scouting; Li Zhishu began cooking while Liu Feng, Zhao Wuwei, and Zhang Feng split up to inspect the cave.
• Liu Feng collected colorful mushrooms and spotted unusual Blue Silver Grass, then headed toward the lava lake after finding no nearby threats.
• Liu Feng reached the lake and watched a black rock at its center repeatedly surface and vanish beneath the falling waterfall and surging magma.

Liu Feng, Li Zhishu, Xiao Yan, Zhao Wuwei, Xu Wei, and Zhang Feng climbed to a strange, springlike summit and found a hot spring. The others entered the pool while Liu Feng fell behind in thick fog and became separated, leaving Zhang Feng to signal for him with his Soul Power.

• Liu Feng nearly slipped while running up the cliff, recovered his balance, and reached the summit with Li Zhishu and Xiao Yan; Zhao Wuwei, Xu Wei, and Zhang Feng soon joined them.
• The six admired the lush, misty summit and followed the sound of water into the forest, where Liu Feng found a crack in the ground and Zhao Wuwei speculated that snowmelt flowed through it.
• As the fog thickened along the winding path, Liu Feng lagged behind while Zhao Wuwei and the others continued ahead and discovered unusual bamboo and a steaming hot spring.
• Li Zhishu tested the spring water, and the group undressed and entered the pool to rest.
• Zhao Wuwei noticed Liu Feng was missing, and Zhang Feng released his Martial Soul and Soul Power to guide him toward the hot spring.

Liu Feng and his companions spent the night resting in a cavern, then left to climb the strange mountain in search of a hot spring. After finding no easier route up its sheer walls, they began the ascent with Liu Feng, Li Zhishu, and the injured Xiao Yan leading.

• Liu Feng found no treasure or unusual danger near the Lava Lake, then returned to camp with mushrooms that Li Zhishu used to make soup alongside roasted meat.
• The group ate dinner, discussed Ye Qingcang and the next day's exploration, and rested peacefully through the night.
• In the morning, Li Zhishu, Xiao Yan, and Xu Wei searched the cavern while Liu Feng and the others packed camp; Liu Feng used Endless Life to heal Xiao Yan's injuries further.
• The group gave their thirsty horses water, left the cavern, and agreed to climb the mountain in search of the hot spring.
• Zhao Wuwei punched holes into the mountain wall to secure the horses, and the group began climbing after finding no easy route up the steep slopes.

Liu Feng found Ye Qingcang at a hidden hot spring and recovered the Mirror Shadow Beast Soul Bone she had stolen, but its pink light trapped them in an intoxicating illusion. The Heart of Banyan Wood violently replenished Liu Feng’s depleted Soul Power and jolted him awake beside the pool, while Ye Qingcang had disappeared.

• Liu Feng discovered Ye Qingcang bathing in a Peach Blossom Forest hot spring and fought her as he searched for the stolen Soul Bone.
• Liu Feng found the Soul Bone hidden in an earring among Ye Qingcang’s clothes and put it away while she attacked him.
• The Soul Bone released pink light that drew Liu Feng into an illusion of Ah Yin and left Zhao Wuwei and the others drowsy at their own hot spring.
• After Liu Feng’s Soul Power was exhausted, the Heart of Banyan Wood released violent energy that disrupted his Bloodline Power and consciousness.
• Liu Feng woke beside the pool, disheveled and confused, with both Ah Yin and Ye Qingcang gone.

Liu Feng escaped the hot spring in a severely weakened state, then called Zhao Wuwei and the others out of the fog and collapsed after they reached him. The group fled down the mountain with Liu Feng, but after they stopped to rest, the mountain peak where the hot spring lay began to collapse.

• Liu Feng recovered enough strength to leave the hot spring, reached the cliff, and decided to wait for Zhao Wuwei, Li Zhishu, and Zhang Feng rather than flee alone.
• Liu Feng used his voice to summon the others, and Zhao Wuwei woke everyone in the hot spring and led them out of the fog.
• Liu Feng collapsed after the group reached him, so Zhao Wuwei carried him down the mountain while Li Zhishu and Xiao Yan fed him bread and water.
• Zhao Wuwei and the others reached their horses and rode away, then stopped to rest when the horses tired and Liu Feng needed care.
• A deafening boom shook the mountain, and a section of the peak collapsed in a cloud of smoke and falling rocks.