Chapter Summaries

Lin Ran used a reflected attack to break free from Maggot Douluo's restraint and killed the Titled Douluo with a powerful claw strike. After the Body Sect members, Tang Ya, Vina, and the fleeing residents witnessed his victory, Lin Ran collapsed unconscious.

• Zhong Heng saw the distress signal and led the Body Sect members to rescue Lin Ran while sending two members to seek reinforcements.
• Maggot Douluo restrained Lin Ran and pursued Vina and Tang Ya, threatening to capture them.
• Lin Ran used the Blood Pool to reflect Maggot Douluo's attack back at him, creating an opening to break free and unleash his strongest strike.
• Lin Ran pierced Maggot Douluo's neck with his claw, then used the Blood Pool to reflect the Titled Douluo's desperate counterattack and cut off his head.
• The arriving Body Sect members, Tang Ya, Vina, and the residents of Heaven Dou City witnessed Maggot Douluo's death and Lin Ran's victory.
• After the battle, Lin Ran collapsed from exhaustion and pain and fell unconscious.

Lin Ran killed Maggot Douluo in Heaven Dou City but collapsed from his injuries, while Wang Qiu'er spent her time at the Clear Sky Sect missing Body College and thinking about Lin Ran. She teased Wang Dong'er by claiming Lin Ran was the husband she had chosen for her, leaving Wang Dong'er flustered and uncertain whether to believe her.

• Lin Ran's blood-red power turned Maggot Douluo's attacks against him, and Lin Ran killed him before collapsing unconscious from exhaustion.
• Tang Ya, Vina, the Body Sect members, and the residents of Heaven Dou City witnessed Lin Ran's victory over the Titled Douluo.
• The Life Goddess used divine power inside the Illusory Sea Pearl to nourish Lin Ran's body and soul.
• Wang Qiu'er, homesick after a month at the Clear Sky Sect, thought about Lin Ran and worried that Tang Ya might grow closer to him while she was away.
• Wang Dong'er teased Wang Qiu'er about repeatedly mentioning Lin Ran, and Wang Qiu'er claimed she had chosen him as Wang Dong'er's future husband.
• Wang Dong'er blushed and protested that she would not marry Lin Ran, while Wang Qiu'er insisted she had only been trying to set them up.

Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er learned that Lin Ran had killed a Titled Douluo and hurried toward him, while Niu Tian sent Tai Tan to the Extreme North on Tang San's orders. After Lin Ran recovered, Vina took him to the Heaven Dou Empire's treasury to choose treasures.

• Wang Dong'er heard that Lin Ran had killed a Titled Douluo with one claw strike, and Wang Qiu'er rushed toward Heaven Dou City to return to him.
• Wang Qiu'er allowed Wang Dong'er to follow her to the Body College after Wang Dong'er insisted.
• Niu Tian told Tai Tan to go to the Extreme North and rescue Dai Yuhao from the Body Sect, following Tang San's instructions.
• Vina learned that Lin Ran had recovered from overexertion and asked the Heaven Soul Emperor to let him choose treasures from the imperial treasury.
• Lin Ran woke fully recovered the next morning, and Vina brought him to the treasury, where he was impressed by its collection.

Lin Ran discovered that the broken staff in Heaven Dou’s treasury was a fragment of the Ice God Staff, and the Life Goddess urged him to keep it in hopes of restoring the Ice God’s divine position. He gave Heaven Dou’s inherited Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to Vina, reassuring her that his feelings for her were separate from the empire’s investment in him, and she embraced him.

• At the Life Goddess’s direction, Lin Ran examined a broken ice-blue staff in the treasury and learned it was a fragment of the Ice God Staff, shattered when the Ice God perished in the Dragon Clan Cataclysm.
• The Life Goddess told Lin Ran to keep the fragment and give it to a suitable person who might find the Ice God Pearl and restore the Ice God’s divine position.
• Lin Ran suspected the Snow Empress might be suited to reassemble the Ice God’s divine legacy, then stored the staff fragment in the Illusory Sea Pearl.
• In the third-level treasury, Lin Ran took the Heaven Dou Empire’s inherited Hundred Thousand Year Snow Demon skull Soul Bone and gave it to Vina because it suited her.
• Lin Ran told Vina that the empire’s investment would not affect his feelings for her, and Vina embraced him.

Lin Ran used his Blood Clone and Nirvana soul bone skill to cure Jiang Nannan’s mother, then returned to his dormitory. Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er arrived, and Wang Qiu'er grew jealous as Lin Ran chatted with her sister.

• Lin Ran thanked the Heaven Soul Emperor and left Vina and Tang Ya at the palace while Vina absorbed her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Lin Ran went to Jiang Nannan’s home and decided he could cure Jiang’s Mother using his Blood Clone and third soul skill.
• Lin Ran forced the illness from Jiang’s Mother’s heart and used Nirvana to restore her, curing her illness.
• Jiang Nannan thanked Lin Ran, returned to Body College with him, and invited him to lunch before he went back to his dormitory to cultivate.
• Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er arrived at Lin Ran’s room, where Wang Dong'er asked if he had really killed a Titled Douluo and Wang Qiu'er grew jealous of their conversation.

Lin Ran confirmed Tang San's Divine Sense was gone and watched Wang Dong'er and Wang Qiu'er grow closer to him, while the Life Goddess discovered their souls and life origins were incomplete. Xiao Xiao showed Lin Ran that she had mastered using two cauldrons at once, and he advised her on how to develop her talents further.

• Wang Dong'er challenged Lin Ran to spar another day, then left with Wang Qiu'er as Lin Ran confirmed Tang San's Divine Sense had been withdrawn.
• The Life Goddess inspected Wang Qiu'er and Wang Dong'er and found that their souls and life origins were incomplete even when combined.
• Lin Ran spent several days cultivating and attending classes while Wang Qiu'er stayed close whenever he was with Wang Dong'er.
• Tang Ya returned from obtaining her soul ring and secretly visited Lin Ran that night, while Wang Qiu'er mistakenly believed she had changed her ways.
• Xiao Xiao showed Lin Ran that she could split her Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron and use two soul skills at once.
• Lin Ran praised Xiao Xiao's talent and advised her to continue cultivating, train physically, and study music theory for her Nine Phoenix Arrival Flute.

Lin Ran taught Xiao Xiao how to develop her Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron's sound-based abilities and teased her over dinner. At the cafeteria, Ma Xiaotao told him that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had nearly wiped out a group of Shrek Inner Court Disciples, and admitted that she now believed his criticisms of Shrek Academy.

• Lin Ran explained to Xiao Xiao how sound waves and their vibrations could strengthen her soul skills, and encouraged her to study the cauldron's stunning effects.
• Lin Ran and Xiao Xiao went to the cafeteria, where they joked about what she should call him and teased each other about finding a partner.
• Lin Ran noticed Ma Xiaotao sitting apart from the other students with Su Tong nearby and asked what was wrong.
• Ma Xiaotao told Lin Ran that more than ten Inner Court Disciples had encountered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Zhang Lexuan and only a few others alive.
• Ma Xiaotao said the incident had made her realize Lin Ran had been right about Shrek Academy, while Lin Ran assured her that Xiao Xiao could stay and listen.

Ma Xiaotao told Lin Ran how Shrek Academy blamed its dead students for a massacre caused by Elder Xuan’s negligence, and accepted Lin Ran’s bet about whether Zhang Lexuan had knelt to him. After spending the night with Ma Xiaotao, Lin Ran was asked by Wang Qiu’er to cultivate with her using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Wang Dong’er proposed trying one with Lin Ran too.

• Ma Xiaotao confirmed that Shrek Academy blamed the dead students for their deaths and that Elder Xuan had led the ill-fated team.
• Lin Ran bet Ma Xiaotao that Zhang Lexuan had knelt before Elder Xuan, wagering that Ma Xiaotao would cut her ties with Shrek Academy if he won.
• Lin Ran replenished Ma Xiaotao’s evil energy at her residence, and the two spent the night together.
• Wang Qiu’er asked Lin Ran to cultivate with her using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, surprising Wang Dong’er.
• Wang Dong’er proposed that she and Lin Ran try to create a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, leaving Wang Qiu’er uneasy.

Lin Ran and Wang Dong'er discovered they could fuse martial souls with Wang Qiu'er, and the three began cultivating together. After Tang Ya told Wang Dong'er about Wang Qiu'er's efforts to bring her and Lin Ran together, Lin Ran learned that a powerful stranger had freed Huo Yuhao's guards and decided to travel to the Extreme North.

• Lin Ran and Wang Dong'er tested their martial soul fusion, then found that all three could fuse and greatly accelerate their cultivation.
• The three fused into a form controlled by Lin Ran, who could use all their abilities and reach Soul Saint strength in his normal state.
• Tang Ya told Wang Dong'er that Wang Qiu'er had stayed awake to help bring her and Lin Ran together, prompting Wang Dong'er to question her sister's motives.
• The Fourth Elder told Lin Ran that a powerful expert had driven away the sect members guarding Huo Yuhao, and Lin Ran concluded the rescuer was likely Tai Tan.
• Lin Ran asked the Fourth Elder to inform his teacher that he was heading to the Extreme North.

Lin Ran asked Du Busi to take him and Su Tong to the Extreme North, but first they traveled to the Earth Dragon Gate to obtain the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. The chapter ended with Nan Shui Shui welcoming them at the Earth Dragon Gate in Dragon City.

• Lin Ran told Du Busi that Su Tong had to accompany them because only a soul master with Extreme Ice could harvest the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Du Busi found Su Tong training by climbing a cliff, while Lin Ran reflected on how bloodlines and treasures could cause Martial Souls to awaken a second time.
• Lin Ran gave Su Tong an ice pop, and Du Busi carried her and Lin Ran into the sky toward Dragon City.
• Lin Ran asked Du Busi to visit the Earth Dragon Gate before heading to the Extreme North.
• Nan Shui Shui greeted Du Busi and invited him, Lin Ran, and Su Tong into the Earth Dragon Gate.

Lin Ran negotiated with Nan Shui Shui to exchange two soul bones for Earth Dragon Gate’s Cold Spring, its hidden cave, and a place for Nan Qiu Qiu at Body College. The chapter ended as Nan Qiu Qiu met Lin Ran and playfully argued with her mother.

• Nan Shui Shui revealed that a cave containing a hot mineral vein lay beneath Earth Dragon Gate’s Cold Spring.
• Lin Ran offered two high-quality soul bones for the treasured land, and Nan Shui Shui initially accepted only one.
• Lin Ran offered to enroll Nan Shui Shui’s daughter at Body College and gave the second soul bone as an enrollment gift.
• Nan Shui Shui agreed to send her daughter to study at Body College and summoned Nan Qiu Qiu.
• Nan Qiu Qiu introduced herself to Lin Ran, showed interest in him, and protested when Nan Shui Shui called her disappointing.

Nan Shui Shui introduced Nan Qiu Qiu to Du Busi, Lin Ran, and Su Tong, then learned that Qiu Qiu would eventually study at Body College. Lin Ran and Du Busi explored the cold spring beneath Earth Dragon Gate, where Su Tong discovered a powerful cultivation site and helped gather its treasures.

• Nan Shui Shui introduced Nan Qiu Qiu to Du Busi, Lin Ran, and Su Tong, and Nan Qiu Qiu eagerly asked Lin Ran about killing a Titled Douluo Evil Soul Master.
• Nan Shui Shui told Nan Qiu Qiu she would study at Body College, but Lin Ran said he and Du Busi would be away in the Extreme North for one or two months, leaving Qiu Qiu to plead with her mother.
• Nan Shui Shui led Du Busi, Lin Ran, and Su Tong to the cold spring, where Du Busi investigated an underwater cave and found a treasure ground suited to Soul Masters with Extreme Ice.
• Lin Ran showed Du Busi the Ice God remnant artifact and offered to lend it to Su Tong, who agreed to use it to search for signs of the Ice God's Pearl in the Extreme North.
• The group entered the underwater cave, where Su Tong harvested Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and Lin Ran gave her some for cultivation.
• Du Busi led them to the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave, where Su Tong found that cultivating there removed her martial soul's negative effects and greatly increased her cultivation speed.

Su Tong received a portion of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, while Lin Ran and Du Busi prepared to take Nan Qiu Qiu to the Extreme North. There, Tai Tan rescued Huo Yuhao, who tried to join the Clear Sky Sect by revealing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as a Soul Spirit.

• Lin Ran gave Su Tong one portion of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and told her it could support her cultivation until she became a Soul Douluo.
• Lin Ran arranged to take Nan Qiu Qiu to the academy after a trip to the Extreme North, and Du Busi led them there the next day.
• After waiting six or seven days in the snowy wilderness, Tai Tan saw Huo Yuhao emerge from the door to the Undead Demi-plane and offered him no more than a debt for saving his life.
• Huo Yuhao asked to join the Clear Sky Sect, but Tai Tan said the sect did not accept cripples.
• Huo Yuhao revealed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and explained the Soul Spirit technique, prompting Tai Tan to recognize the creature’s extraordinary Spiritual Origin.
• Tai Tan asked whether Huo Yuhao was using the Soul Spirit technique to gain entry into the Clear Sky Sect.

Huo Yuhao brought Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to meet the Ice Empress and showed her memories of their future, persuading her to join his plan despite her anger over the Snow Empress’s fate. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress searching the Snow Woman Clan’s territory and consulting Xiaobai, but finding no trace of the Snow Empress.

• Tai Tan accepted Huo Yuhao as an outer disciple of the Clear Sky Sect and carried him to the Ice Scorpion Clan’s territory.
• Huo Yuhao revealed Tian Meng to the Ice Empress and explained the God-Making Plan, presenting himself as a reincarnated Goddess’s executor.
• Huo Yuhao shared his memories with the Ice Empress, who discovered that he had concealed the Snow Empress’s peril and demanded an explanation.
• The Ice Empress agreed to cooperate but insisted they find the Snow Empress first, while warning that changing the future could put her at risk.
• Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress searched the Snow Woman Clan’s territory and asked Ice Bear King Xiaobai for help, but they found no trace of the Snow Empress.

Lin Ran, Du Busi, and Su Tong found the Snow Empress and offered to cooperate in searching for the Ice God Divine Artifact. The Snow Empress agreed to discuss a deal, but asked whether Lin Ran trusted her to return the artifact after studying it.

• Lin Ran led the group deeper into the Extreme North, where they followed a strong strand of fortune toward the Snow Empress.
• The Snow Empress appeared at a cold pool and unleashed her aura, but Lin Ran used the Life Sharing Domain to help Su Tong withstand it.
• Du Busi told the Snow Empress they had come to make a deal, and Lin Ran showed her half of the Ice God Staff and revealed the other half was somewhere in the Extreme North.
• Lin Ran introduced Su Tong and confirmed she carried Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, which the injured Snow Empress wanted.
• Lin Ran offered the Snow Empress a chance to study the Ice God Divine Artifact in exchange for letting him retain ownership, and she asked whether he feared she would keep it.

Lin Ran persuaded Snow Empress to take human form and pursue the Ice God's position, while Huo Yuhao arrived with Ice Empress and Tai Tan. After reviewing Ice Empress's memories, Snow Empress rejected Huo Yuhao's offer and suspected he had concealed important events from them.

• Lin Ran revealed that Snow Empress could pursue the Ice God's position only by taking human form, and she agreed to travel with him while placing a self-destruct restriction in her origin.
• Snow Empress exchanged soul bones for twenty vials of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, which Lin Ran gave her immediately.
• Ice Empress, Huo Yuhao, and Tai Tan arrived, and Snow Empress learned from Ice Empress's memories about Huo Yuhao's past and future.
• Snow Empress declined Ice Empress's invitation to become Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit, explaining that she had a better chance to pursue godhood with Lin Ran.
• Snow Empress noticed discrepancies in Huo Yuhao's memories and inferred that he had hidden important events and opportunities from them.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress rejected becoming Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirits, choosing instead to pursue the Ice God’s inheritance or face the heavenly tribulation on their own. Snow Empress confronted Huo Yuhao over his past choices and left with Ice Empress, while Huo Yuhao departed with Tian Meng, still defending his actions.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed that Ice Empress would stay with Snow Empress and might later sacrifice herself to her if Snow Empress inherited the Ice God’s position.
• Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao that she and Ice Empress could not become his Soul Spirits, and Tian Meng tried to persuade them otherwise.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the Body Sect was manipulating Snow Empress for her soul ring and soul bone, while Snow Empress challenged his motives and his hidden memories.
• Snow Empress condemned Huo Yuhao for neglecting the Extreme North, Elder Yi, and Three-Eyed Golden Lion after becoming a god, and Huo Yuhao defended his choices.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress left after Snow Empress vowed to rely on herself, and Huo Yuhao told Tian Meng they should go.

Lin Ran and the Ice Empresses found the Heart of the Ice God and temporarily restored the Ice God Divine Artifact. After the Snow Empress gave Lin Ran seven Soul Bones and prepared to take human form, the Ice Empress began her heavenly tribulation, while Wu Feng approached hoping to claim her Soul Ring or Soul Bone.

• Huo Yuhao told Tian Meng he would condense a second martial soul himself and left with Tai Tan, accepting that the future had changed.
• Lin Ran followed the Life Goddess's guidance to find the Heart of the Ice God, which she joined with the broken Ice God Staff to form a temporarily restored Divine Artifact.
• Lin Ran entrusted the Ice God Staff to Su Tong to study and told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress they could study it afterward.
• The Snow Empress gave Lin Ran seven Soul Bones, then helped the Ice Empress trigger her heavenly tribulation with the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Wu Feng approached the tribulation zone, intending to seize the Ice Empress's Soul Ring or Soul Bone after the tribulation.

Ice Empress survived her four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, but Wu Feng arrived at the mountaintop and was captured by Lin Ran, Du Busi, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress. After they found the Platform of Gods among his Soul Tools, Wu Feng revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had sent him to seek a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, leading Lin Ran to suspect a deeper connection between the cult and Tang San.

• With Snow Empress's help and the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, Ice Empress survived her tribulation and celebrated her breakthrough.
• Wu Feng flew to the mountaintop, where Ice Empress attacked him and Du Busi captured him as he tried to escape.
• Lin Ran told Ice Empress that the Body Sect had tracked Wu Feng, and Du Busi's group searched him and took his Soul Tools.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress recognized the Platform of Gods among Wu Feng's possessions and stopped Ice Empress from killing him before questioning him.
• Wu Feng admitted that the Holy Spirit Cult's Great Elder had sent him to the Extreme North to find a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast nearing its tribulation.
• Lin Ran connected the Holy Spirit Cult's actions to Tang San and recalled that the cult and Shrek Academy had shared influence and members.

Lin Ran and the Empresses captured Wu Feng and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had sent him to the Extreme North to hunt a tribulation-bound hundred-thousand-year soul beast. After reading Wu Feng’s memories and handing him over to Snow Empress and Ice Empress, Lin Ran prepared to observe Snow Empress’s transformation into human form.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress recognized Wu Feng’s Platform of Gods, but Snow Empress stopped Ice Empress from killing him before they learned his background.
• Lin Ran questioned Wu Feng, who revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult’s Great Elder had sent him to capture a hundred-thousand-year soul beast nearing its tribulation.
• Lin Ran connected the Holy Spirit Cult’s actions and prophecies to Tang San, while Snow Empress wondered whether she could escape the future she had seen in Huo Yuhao’s memories.
• Wu Feng answered Lin Ran’s questions about the Holy Spirit Cult and Soul Tools, and Lin Ran used the Illusory Sea Pearl to read his memories before Snow Empress and Ice Empress killed him.
• With Life Goddess encouraging him to observe the transformation, Lin Ran followed Snow Empress to the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus; Snow Empress sent Ice Empress away and warned Lin Ran to protect himself with the Ice God’s Divine Artifact.