Chapter Summaries

Bing Tianxuan revealed his overwhelming strength after Xu Fengqing attacked Luo Ling, freezing Duoduo and stopping Xu Huang with a single palm. Though the crowd recognized Bing Tianxuan as a new student, Xu Huang gathered his power and vowed to kill him.

• Xu Fengqing transformed into an ice lotus, and the mysterious old man was frozen by Duoduo as the Heavenly Lake filled with deadly cold.
• Bing Tianxuan emerged from the ice coffin, checked that Luo Ling was unharmed, and seized Xu Fengqing by the neck.
• Xu Huang rushed in to save his wife, but Bing Tianxuan struck him back more than thirty meters without moving from his spot.
• The crowd identified Bing Tianxuan as a new student from Frozen Heaven Lake, while Xu Huang demanded that he release Xu Fengqing and swore to kill him.

Bing Tianxuan fought Xu Huang after Xu Huang attacked Xu Fengqing, revealing that he had reached the Heavenly Transformation Realm. He then headed to the Northern Profound Courtyard to face Xu Huang again, drawing a huge crowd eager to witness the clash.

• Bing Tianxuan used Ice Jade's cold energy to injure Xu Huang while protecting Xu Fengqing, and Xu Huang vowed to kill him.
• Xu Huang attacked Bing Tianxuan with the Great Wasteland Palm, but Bing Tianxuan met the strike and forced Xu Huang back, freezing his palm.
• Zhe Li Tong arrived and challenged the Great Wasteland Sect's group, while Xu Huang backed down and warned that the matter was not over.
• Bing Tianxuan reassured Luo Ling, then set off for the Northern Profound Courtyard to confront Xu Huang as students rushed after him.
• News of Bing Tianxuan's challenge spread through the Northern Profound Courtyard, and a crowd gathered for the impending battle.

Bing Tianxuan fought Xu Huang at the Black Nether Tower, revealing the power of his Ice Dragon Art against Xu Huang’s ferocious-wolf transformation. Their clash drew the attention of the Heavenly Ranking experts, and the chapter ended with Bing Tianxuan preparing to press his advantage.

• Bing Tianxuan arrived at the Black Nether Tower and challenged Xu Huang, drawing the attention of the spectators.
• Xu Huang transformed using the ferocious wolf ranked forty-third on the Earth Ranking and attacked Bing Tianxuan with overwhelming physical force.
• Bing Tianxuan summoned an ice dragon with the Ice Dragon Art and met Xu Huang’s attack head-on.
• Luo Ying, ranked fourth on the Heavenly Ranking, appeared, and the spectators realized that nearly all the great Heavenly Ranking figures had gathered.
• Bing Tianxuan and Xu Huang continued their fierce battle as Bing Tianxuan challenged Xu Huang to show his full strength.

Bing Tianxuan defeated Xu Huang and rose to fifth on the Heavenly Ranking, then publicly challenged Mu Xuantong for second place. His declaration stirred the entire Beiming Academy as anticipation grew for their battle a month later.

• Bing Tianxuan used a hidden spear strike to pierce Xu Huang’s defenses and freeze him into an Ice Jade statue.
• The Heavenly Ranking monument named Bing Tianxuan its new fifth-ranked student, while Duoduo’s name entered the top ten.
• Bing Tianxuan accepted congratulations, then sought praise from Luo Ling, who told him his performance was not bad.
• Mu Xuantong warned Bing Tianxuan that he would not go easy on him in a month, and Bing Tianxuan vowed to defeat him and take his second-place position.
• News of Bing Tianxuan’s challenge spread through Beiming Academy, where students and elders debated whether he was overconfident or courageous.

Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling went to Northern Profound Courtyard’s Mission Hall to accept a Heavenly Ranking mission. After browsing the dangerous assignments, Luo Ling pointed out a mission to slay a Giant Quiet Python, which Bing Tianxuan considered a suitable sparring partner.

• Bing Tianxuan invited Luo Ling to leave the freshman quarters and accept a Heavenly Ranking mission, and she agreed.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling arrived at the Mission Hall, where students watched them head for the Heavenly-grade Mission Hall.
• The registration elder warned Bing Tianxuan about the dangers of Heavenly-grade missions and explained their tiers and types.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling examined the mission list and dismissed several options.
• Luo Ling suggested a mission to slay a mid-stage Hua Tianjie Giant Quiet Python, and Bing Tianxuan called it a decent sparring partner.

Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling accepted a Nine Provinces Merchant Guild escort mission and traveled from Northern Profound Courtyard to Lou Nan City, then continued north toward Xuan City. After drawing attention upon entering Xuan City, they encountered people who were not deterred by their dangerous auras.

• Bing Tianxuan chose the merchant guild escort mission to Nine Provinces City, and Luo Ling agreed to join him.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling left Northern Profound Courtyard the next morning and reached Lou Nan City after half a day of travel.
• Bing Tianxuan collected the merchant guild’s storage ring from Manager Wang and learned that other batches of the valuable goods were being sent separately.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling sampled local specialties in Lou Nan City before setting out north toward Xuan City.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling entered Xuan City, where their appearances attracted attention and most onlookers backed away from their dangerous auras.

Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling drew the attention of two hostile groups in Xuan City but spent a day sightseeing before leaving for Nine Provinces City. On the mountain pass called A Thread of Heaven, the groups ambushed them, and Luo Ling began to draw her sword against a late Fusion Heaven Realm elder.

• Bing Tianxuan sensed two groups watching him and Luo Ling at Drunken Moon Pavilion, including Merchant Association lackeys and a sinister black-cloaked student ranked eleventh on the Tongluo Ranking.
• Bing Tianxuan persuaded Luo Ling to ignore the watchers while they explored Xuan City, and the two groups followed them all day.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling left for Nine Provinces City the next day and entered the narrow mountain pass called A Thread of Heaven.
• The scar-faced man and a black-robed elder led more than a dozen gray-clad figures in blocking the path and demanding the item meant for the Nine Provinces Merchant Association.
• Bing Tianxuan tossed the item toward the attackers, and Luo Ling drew the Luo Shen Sword far enough to unleash sword intent that shattered the elder’s pressure.

Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling fought the Heavenly Transformation Realm experts in the valley, overwhelming them with ice and sword techniques. Bing Tianxuan killed the withered man and froze the entire valley, while Luo Ling had already defeated the experts who had surrounded her.

• Bing Tianxuan struck the experts behind him and sent a gray-robed Heavenly Transformation Realm elder crashing into the mountain wall as Luo Ling drew the Luo God Sword.
• Bing Tianxuan trapped the black-robed elder in an icy world and used a palm strike to freeze and shatter him.
• Bing Tianxuan fought the withered man, while Luo Ling killed the ten or so Heavenly Transformation Realm experts who had been besieging her.
• The withered man summoned the Withered Mountain Devil, but Bing Tianxuan unleashed Frozen Ice Palm and destroyed it along with the man.
• Bing Tianxuan's cold spread across the valley and surrounding mountains, turning them into a frozen wasteland.

Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling arrived at Nine Provinces City, where Xiaoxiang welcomed them and invited them to attend the Nine Summer Merchant Alliance auction. After settling into the city, Bing Tianxuan swallowed a Nine Revolutions Soul-Refining Pill and began refining its power to cultivate the Transformation Realm.

• Bing Tianxuan checked the Ice Jade Collection and discovered that Luo Ling ranked eleventh on the Heavenly Ranking, only three hundred points behind the top spot.
• Bing Tianxuan, Luo Ling, and Duoduo entered Nine Provinces City, where Xiaoxiang met them at the gate and revealed that she had seen through Bing Tianxuan’s concealment.
• Xiaoxiang invited Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling to stay and attend the Nine Summer Merchant Alliance auction, and Bing Tianxuan accepted.
• After dinner, Bing Tianxuan returned to his room, activated a barrier, and swallowed the Nine Revolutions Soul-Refining Pill.
• Bing Tianxuan endured the pill’s freezing force and refined it into spiritual energy that merged into his limbs and bones.

Bing Tianxuan attended an auction with Luo Ling, who wanted the Star Soul Divine Ring to unseal part of the Luo Divine Skill. After Bing Tianxuan won it by outbidding Liu Ying, Liu Ying ordered his people to investigate him and prevent him from leaving Nine Nether City.

• Bing Tianxuan met Luo Ling beneath the willow tree, and they went with Xiaoxiang to the auction.
• Xiaoxiang warned Bing Tianxuan that the Black Rock Mountain was waiting to cause trouble for him, and teased Luo Ling about being his girlfriend.
• Luo Ling showed interest in the Star Soul Divine Ring because it could unlock a seal on the Luo Divine Skill, so Bing Tianxuan began bidding for it.
• Liu Ying bid eight thousand Heavenly Ranking and tried to impress Xiaoxiang, but Bing Tianxuan outbid him with one jade.
• Bing Tianxuan gave the Star Soul Divine Ring to Luo Ling, while Liu Ying ordered an investigation and vowed to keep Bing Tianxuan from leaving Nine Nether City.

Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling left Nine Nether City, but Liu Chongying sent the Dark Shadow Guards and Black Shadow Elder to ambush them. In the mountain valley, Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling unleashed their weapons against the attackers, leaving the battle underway.

• Bing Tianxuan reassured Duoduo that he would deal with Liu Chongying, then said he and Luo Ling would return to Northern Profound Courtyard.
• Liu Chongying learned Duoduo had no powerful backing and ordered fifteen mid-stage Heavenly Realm cultivators, five late-stage Heavenly Realm cultivators, and Black Shadow Elder to kill Bing Tianxuan and capture Luo Ling.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling left Nine Nether City the next morning and were ambushed in a mountain valley by the Dark Shadow Guards and Black Shadow Elder.
• Bing Tianxuan used his longbow to freeze and shatter three attackers while Luo Ling unleashed the divine artifact power of the Luo Divine Sword against the others.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling's attacks battered the remaining experts and began destroying the ancient valley.

Bing Tianxuan killed the black-robed elder with his Ultimate Ice Star Shattering Arrow, but the elder’s self-destruction sent him and Luo Ling crashing into a cold pool. There, Bing Tianxuan received an ancient dragon’s offer of the Divine Beast Forging Furnace inheritance and began planning to follow Duoduo’s protagonist group.

• Bing Tianxuan unleashed the Ultimate Ice Star Shattering Arrow, piercing the black-robed elder’s chest and triggering the poison within him.
• The black-robed elder self-destructed, and Bing Tianxuan shielded Luo Ling from the blast before they fell into a cold pool.
• A golden dragon shadow rose from the pool and entered Bing Tianxuan’s heart as Luo Ling watched helplessly.
• Bing Tianxuan met an ancient dragon in a strange spiritual space, where it offered him the Divine Beast Forging Furnace inheritance and warned that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan threatened the Great Thousand World.
• Bing Tianxuan recognized the Extraterritorial Evil Clan from The Great Ruler and decided to follow Duoduo’s protagonist group to gain strength and inheritance.

Bing Tianxuan accepted the Ice Emperor dragon inheritance, transforming his body and divine soul while gaining powerful dragon techniques. After emerging from the cave, he joined Luo Ling in resolving to seek revenge on Liu Ying of the Shadow Merchant Association.

• Bing Tianxuan pledged to stand against the foreign dragon clans, and the dragon phantom bestowed its inheritance on him.
• The inheritance painfully remolded Bing Tianxuan’s body and soul, imprinting three dragon techniques and bloodline abilities within him.
• Luo Ling guarded the cave with Duoduo for seven days as spiritual energy surged into it.
• Bing Tianxuan emerged in the late stage of Hua Tianjie with dragon scales, a strengthened body and divine soul, and power to challenge Heavenly Passage Realm experts.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling identified Liu Ying of the Shadow Merchant Association as their attacker and vowed to settle the score with him.

Mu Chen returned to the Northern Profound Courtyard badly wounded after battling the Demon Child, and Bing Tianxuan gave him medicine to recover. Luo Ling warned Bing Tianxuan about Li Zhe Tong and began to reveal another reason Li Zhe Tong was targeting him.

• Mu Chen arrived at the courtyard injured and explained that the Demon Child had nearly killed him before Shen Sheng intervened.
• Bing Tianxuan gave Mu Chen a bottle of medicinal pills and sent him to recover.
• Bing Tianxuan and Luo Ling returned to their small courtyard, where Luo Ling cautioned him about Li Zhe Tong's strength.
• Luo Ling told Bing Tianxuan that Li Zhe Tong had another reason for targeting him besides her presence, and Bing Tianxuan asked what it was.

Luo Ling revealed that she was the Luo God Clan empress’s daughter and explained Luo Ying’s role as her guardian knight, while Bing Tianxuan vowed that no one would separate them. Ten days later, Bing Tianxuan and Zhe Li Tong faced each other at the Martial Pavilion Competition as the Northern Profound Courtyard watched.

• Luo Ling told Bing Tianxuan and Duoduo that she was the Luo God Clan empress’s daughter and that Luo Ying was her guardian knight.
• Bing Tianxuan reassured Luo Ling that her identity and responsibilities would not make him give her up, then warned that he would challenge Zhe Li Tong.
• After putting the sleeping Luo Ling to bed, Bing Tianxuan privately resolved to confront Zhe Li Tong and prepare to show off his newly gained power.
• Ten days later, a huge crowd gathered at the Northern Profound Courtyard’s Martial Pavilion Competition to watch Zhe Li Tong and Bing Tianxuan face off.
• Zhe Li Tong and Bing Tianxuan entered the arena, while Luo Ying, the demon fox, and Mu Chen watched Bing Tianxuan’s strengthened aura from the stands.

Bing Tianxuan faced Zhe Li Tong on the battle platform, revealing late Heavenly Transformation Stage cultivation, formidable physical strength, and the Heavenly Frost Dragon Soul Sword. After Bing Tianxuan gained the upper hand in their first clash, Zhe Li Tong unleashed the Shattering Heaven Sword Art, and their renewed collision shook the platform and its defenses.

• The White Eyebrow Elder and the fiery-red Heavenly Ranking Elder observed Mu Chen's astonishing cultivation and physical strength as the battle platform appeared.
• Zhe Li Tong challenged Bing Tianxuan and attacked with the Heavenly Profound Sword, but Bing Tianxuan countered with the Heavenly Frost Dragon Soul Slash.
• Bing Tianxuan's clash with Zhe Li Tong forced Zhe Li Tong back dozens of steps, while Bing Tianxuan barely retreated.
• The arena spectators and elders were shocked when Bing Tianxuan's late Heavenly Transformation Stage strength and powerful physical body became clear.
• Zhe Li Tong gathered his sword intent and unleashed the Shattering Heaven Sword Art—The First Dawn, colliding with Bing Tianxuan's frosty dragon attack and shaking the platform's defensive barrier.

Bing Tianxuan overwhelmed Zhe Li Tong with his World-Shattering Halberd Art, forcing the injured profound-level practitioner to reveal the Violent Gate Force. Bing Tianxuan prepared to unleash more of his power as their confrontation continued.

• Bing Tianxuan blocked Zhe Li Tong’s attack and answered the Heavenly Profound Finger with Shaking the Mountains, shattering the divine art.
• Zhe Li Tong countered with Heavenly Profound Slash, but Bing Tianxuan combined two attacks in World Annihilation and sent him flying while severely injuring him.
• Zhe Li Tong declared that he would defeat Bing Tianxuan with his own power and summoned the Violent Gate Force.
• Bing Tianxuan welcomed Zhe Li Tong’s trump card, raised his halberd, and prepared to stop holding back.

Bing Tianxuan defeated Zhe Li Tong with the Divine Ice Silkworm’s dragon might and claimed second place on the Northern Profound Courtyard’s Heavenly Ranking. The chapter ended with Zhe Li Tong admitting defeat and Shi Hao watching with renewed fighting spirit.

• Bing Tianxuan used the Second Scroll of the Shattering Tidal Wave Technique and the Divine Ice Silkworm’s dragon might to shatter Zhe Li Tong’s sword domain.
• Zhe Li Tong was struck by the backlash, fell to the ground, and lost his second-place ranking battle.
• Luo Ying, Mu Yu, Shi Hao, and the other Heavenly Ranking experts reacted with astonishment to Bing Tianxuan’s strength.
• The Burning Heaven Elder declared Bing Tianxuan the winner, and the stone monument raised his name to second place.
• Bing Tianxuan offered Zhe Li Tong a hand, and Zhe Li Tong stood up and admitted defeat.

Elder Burning Heaven announced that the Saint Selection Battle would take place in one month, with the three top generals from the previous Heavenly Ranking serving as its gatekeepers. After giving Luo Ling his remaining Mysterious Ice Spirit-Tempering Pills, Bing Tianxuan decided to train his body with lightning in the Thunder Domain.

• Zhe Li Tong admitted that Bing Tianxuan's insight was better than his, then left the arena after Bing Tianxuan reminded him of his promise.
• Elder Burning Heaven announced the Saint Selection Battle and revealed that Lin Xiao, Zhou Qingshan, and Gu Tianyan would be its three gatekeepers.
• Bing Tianxuan teased Luo Ling about worrying for him, while Shi Hao urged the disciples to return and cultivate for the upcoming battle.
• Bing Tianxuan gave Luo Ling three bottles of Mysterious Ice Spirit-Tempering Pills, and she accepted them after he explained their benefits.
• Bing Tianxuan chose to cultivate the Tyrant Emperor Dragon Art's Thunder Tempering method in the Thunder Domain, where a crowd had gathered to train.

Bing Tianxuan entered the Thunder Domain’s Eighth Layer and tempered his body in a river of black thunder. Shi Hao followed him there, where an old man appeared and remarked on their unusual physiques and hidden secrets.

• Bing Tianxuan entered the Thunder Domain and passed through its first seven layers.
• Bing Tianxuan reached the Eighth Layer and endured black thunder to refine his body.
• The crowd saw Bing Tianxuan’s name rise on the stone monument, making him the third person to reach the Eighth Layer.
• Shi Hao entered the Thunder Domain, broke through the Seventh Layer, and joined Bing Tianxuan in the Eighth.
• An old man appeared between Bing Tianxuan and Shi Hao, subdued the black thunder, and praised Bing Tianxuan’s unusual cultivation path.