Chapter Summaries

Hu Bai guided Shui Bing’er’s group through the Extreme North Land to find a suitable soul beast for her second soul ring. After she absorbed an Ice Crystal Sabertooth Tiger’s ring, she gained the powerful attack skill Ice Soul Frost Slash.

• Hu Bai invited Shui Bing’er and her companions to travel with his group into the Extreme North Land and help her find a suitable soul ring.
• Hu Bai followed the Seven-Colored Mark’s signal toward Ice God Canyon while the group crossed the outer region.
• Hu Bai identified an Ice Crystal Sabertooth Tiger as a suitable target, and Ling Yuan subdued it after injuring it.
• Hu Bai taught Shui Bing’er to reshape her first soul skill into Ice Seal Stab, which she used to kill the tiger.
• Shui Bing’er absorbed the tiger’s soul ring and gained Ice Soul Frost Slash, while Hu Bai asked Ling Yuan to escort her group partway back.

Hu Bai and his companions reached the Ice God Canyon, where Snow Empress appeared and confronted them for entering the Extreme North Land’s core region. Yue Guan and Gui Mei prepared to hold her off so Hu Bai could escape.

• Shui Bing'er learned her new soul skill, then felt disappointed when Hu Bai and his group departed.
• Hu Bai, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei traveled into the Extreme North Land’s core region, where Hu Bai remained unaffected by the cold.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm marveled at Hu Bai’s powerful abilities and discussed the strengths and weaknesses of God-Tier Martial Souls.
• After half a month, the group reached the canyon and encountered a powerful pressure from a Fierce Beast.
• Snow Empress appeared and accused the humans of intending to offend Lord Ice God.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei told Hu Bai they would use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to hold Snow Empress back while he escaped.

Hu Bai told Snow Empress that he had come to Ice God Canyon for the Seven Element Gods’ trial and sought the Ice God’s favor. After Sky Dream Ice Silkworm confirmed his claim, Ice Empress arrived, and the two spirit beasts became interested in the prospect of eternal life through Hu Bai’s inheritance.

• Hu Bai stopped Yue Guan and Gui Mei from rushing into a fight and told Snow Empress that he knew of the Three Great Kings and Ice God Canyon.
• Hu Bai explained that his second trial required him to gain the Ice God’s favor, and he brought out Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to verify his claim.
• Snow Empress recognized Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and questioned how he had reached million-year cultivation; he said he had grown powerful by consuming Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow and had never faced a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ice Empress arrived, recognized Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and moved to attack him before Snow Empress explained Hu Bai’s situation.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suggested that Ice Empress become Hu Bai’s second Martial Soul and ascend with him, drawing both Ice Empress’s and Snow Empress’s attention with the promise of eternal life.

Hu Bai entered Ice God Canyon to seek the Ice God's inheritance, while Snow Empress and Ice Empress accompanied him in hopes of gaining a path to eternal life. As Hu Bai demonstrated his mastery of Ice Element, the Seven Element Gods prepared to help awaken the Ice God's Spiritual Sense, and Hu Bai summoned the divine artifact Azure Wave Breaking Halberd.

• Snow Empress agreed to let Hu Bai enter Ice God Canyon, with her and Ice Empress accompanying him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked Ice Empress to become Hu Bai's second Martial Soul, but Ice Empress said Snow Empress was better suited and offered to become her Soul Ring instead.
• Snow Empress shielded Yue Guan and Gui Mei from the canyon's cold as Hu Bai relied on himself and began the trial.
• Hu Bai gathered the surrounding Ice Element and displayed his powerful control, surprising Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
• The Seven Element Gods decided to secretly help Hu Bai awaken the Ice God's Spiritual Sense.
• Hu Bai's Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox lost a snow-white tail as he summoned the divine artifact Azure Wave Breaking Halberd.

Rong Nianbing returned to the God Realm after sensing Hu Bai’s Spiritual Power and considered passing his god position to him. The Seven Element Gods revealed they planned to combine their god positions into an Elemental God inheritance, and Dark God invited Rong Nianbing to join them; he left the offer under consideration.

• Rong Nianbing returned to the God Realm, explaining that he had sensed a powerful Spiritual Power fluctuation and wanted to find a suitable inheritor for his god position.
• Fire God showed Rong Nianbing an image of Hu Bai receiving an inheritance, and Rong Nianbing recognized him as the person he had sensed.
• Water God explained that Hu Bai could control every element, so the Seven Element Gods planned to merge their god positions into an Elemental God inheritance.
• Dark God said the Seven Element Gods also intended to fuse Ice God's Divine Spark into the inheritance as Hu Bai’s second trial.
• Rong Nianbing warned that the plan might break the God Realm’s rules and upset the God Kings’ balance, while Dark God urged him to join them.
• Rong Nianbing hesitated over Dark God’s offer after learning Hu Bai could already wield divine weapons as a Soul Ancestor.

Hu Bai awakened the Ice God's inheritance and gained his Divine Spark, then accepted Snow Empress as his second Martial Soul with Ice Empress as its second Soul Ring. The chapter ended as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm prepared to guide the dangerous fusion.

• Hu Bai awakened the Ice God, who agreed to pass on his Divine Spark after the Seven Element Gods explained their plan to merge the God Positions.
• The Ice God asked Hu Bai to find future successors for the Elemental God Positions, and Hu Bai agreed.
• The Ice God offered to evolve Snow Empress into Hu Bai's second Martial Soul, and Snow Empress accepted while asking that Ice Empress join her.
• The Ice God strengthened Snow Empress and Ice Empress, then arranged for Snow Empress to grant Hu Bai his First Soul Ring and Ice Empress to become his Second Soul Ring.
• Snow Empress warned Hu Bai about the painful fusion, and Hu Bai agreed to proceed as Yue Guan and Gui Mei stood guard and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm prepared to guide the process.

Snow Empress fused with Hu Bai as his second martial soul, granting him a torso bone, an orange soul ring, new soul skills, and enough power to reach Level 60. Ice Emperor then sacrificed herself to become his second orange soul ring and gave him a right-arm bone, while she and Snow Empress remained with him in his sea of consciousness.

• Snow Empress fused with Hu Bai, becoming his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul and raising her cultivation to seven hundred thousand years.
• Snow Empress explained the abilities granted by her torso bone and soul ring, and Hu Bai broke through from Level 55 to Level 60.
• Ice Emperor sacrificed herself to Hu Bai, giving him an orange soul ring and the Ice Scorpion Emperor Right Arm Bone while joining Snow Empress in his sea of consciousness.
• Ice Emperor described her soul skills, and Hu Bai teased her about lacking the Ice Explosion Technique.
• Snow Empress revealed that Ice Emperor had repeatedly failed to learn the Ice Explosion Technique, embarrassing Ice Emperor and making Hu Bai laugh.

Hu Bai completed the Element God’s second trial and received a third trial requiring him to reach Soul Saint and obtain a seventh Soul Ring from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. As he absorbed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, he considered the tiger’s Evil God Bead as a chance for Xie Yue to become a god and began imagining a way to pass Soul Beast powers to Soul Masters without hunting them.

• Hu Bai declined to obtain more Soul Rings from the Extreme North Land, and the Element God awarded him elemental affinity and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Hu Bai learned that his third trial required him to reach Soul Saint and obtain his seventh Soul Ring from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger within one year.
• Hu Bai recalled the tiger’s power and Evil God Bead, and decided the bead might give Xie Yue a path to godhood.
• Hu Bai asked Ice Empress and Snow Empress to stand guard and rest while he absorbed the God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• While absorbing the ring, Hu Bai rejected trying to invent a Soul Spirit contract and conceived of sealing Soul Beast bloodline power into Jade Slips for Soul Masters to absorb.

Hu Bai returned from the Extreme North Land after reaching Level Sixty-Eight and considered persuading Xiao Wu and Ah Rou to sacrifice themselves rather than be hunted. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang San as a nominal disciple and began explaining how Soul Masters used Soul Rings to advance.

• Hu Bai finished absorbing his Sixth Soul Ring, reached Level Sixty-Eight, and prepared to return to Spirit Hall with Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Ling Yuan.
• Hu Bai considered asking Xiao Wu and Ah Rou to willingly sacrifice themselves when Spirit Hall hunted Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Xiao brought Tang San to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where Yu Xiaogang accepted him as a nominal disciple and promised to teach him.
• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San to study theory and train his physique, then explained that Soul Masters needed Soul Rings from Soul Beasts to cross each ten-level threshold.

Yu Xiaogang explained Soul Ring colors and the newly revealed Million Year Soul Beasts to Tang San, who learned that Spirit Hall's Holy Son Hu Bai possessed a Million Year Soul Ring. In Spirit City, Shui Miaomiao brought Shui Bing'er, who carried Hu Bai's token, to meet Empress Bibi Dong.

• Yu Xiaogang told Tang San that Fierce Beasts exceeded two hundred thousand years and that the strongest Soul Beast he had heard of had cultivated for a million years.
• Tang San asked whether he could absorb a thousand-year or ten-thousand-year First Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang warned him that no one had done so.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Hu Bai had obtained a Million Year Soul Ring because the Soul Beast had sacrificed itself voluntarily.
• A guard told Bibi Dong that Skywater Academy's dean and a girl carrying Hu Bai's token were requesting an audience.
• Shui Miaomiao brought Shui Bing'er before Bibi Dong, who asked the girl about carrying her disciple's token.

Bibi Dong brought Shui Bing'er to Worship Hall, where Azure Luan and Light Feather accepted her as their joint closed-door disciple. Azure Luan then gave her a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, leaving Guang Ling stunned about what gift he could offer.

• Shui Bing'er told Bibi Dong that Hu Bai had sent her to Spirit Hall to meet Azure Luan and Light Feather, then revealed her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong took Shui Bing'er and Shui Miaomiao to Worship Hall and called out Azure Luan and Light Feather.
• Azure Luan and Light Feather assessed Shui Bing'er's talent and agreed to accept her as their joint closed-door disciple.
• Shui Bing'er accepted them as her teachers and completed the disciple ceremony.
• Azure Luan gave Shui Bing'er a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and Guang Ling wondered what he could give instead.

Azure Luan and Guang Ling gave Shui Bing'er several rare treasures to welcome her as their disciple, and she absorbed the pills and Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower under their protection. Her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul evolved toward Ultimate Ice, releasing bloodline and attribute suppression that astonished the worshippers.

• Azure Luan gave Shui Bing'er the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and Guang Ling added a Foundation Building Pill, a Soul Ascension Pill, and Fifty-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.
• Guang Ling explained how the pills and Whale Rubber could improve Shui Bing'er's cultivation and physical constitution, while Azure Luan said the immortal herb would purify her Phoenix Bloodline and resolve her martial soul control problem.
• Bibi Dong took Shui Miaomiao downstairs to discuss incorporating Skywater City and Skywater Academy as Shui Bing'er began absorbing the two pills.
• The Soul Ascension Pill raised Shui Bing'er's cultivation from Level 22 to Level 25, and she then began absorbing the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower.
• An hour later, Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul released ultimate frost that drew the worshippers to the Worship Hall.
• Azure Luan and Guang Ling realized the herb had evolved Shui Bing'er's martial soul toward Ultimate Ice, giving it bloodline and attribute suppression.

Shui Bing'er finished absorbing the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, gained Ultimate Ice, and reached Level 30 while her masters planned to strengthen her before she obtained another Soul Ring. Months later, Hu Bai returned to Spirit City and was greeted by Hu Liena at home.

• Azure Luan explained that the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower adapted to Shui Bing'er's Phoenix Bloodline and had cleansed the impurities from her martial soul.
• Jiang Mo raised concerns about Ultimate Ice slowing Shui Bing'er's cultivation, and Golden Crocodile and Qian Daoliu noted that Hu Bai had likely taught her the Ice Element Breathing Technique.
• Shui Bing'er completed the absorption, greeted the worship elders, and told Azure Luan and Guang Ling that her Soul Power had reached Level 30.
• Azure Luan told Shui Bing'er to spend the next few months training and consuming Whale Rubber before obtaining a Soul Ring.
• Months later, Hu Bai returned to Spirit City; Yue Guan and Gui Mei went to report to the Pope's Palace, while Hu Liena ran to embrace Hu Bai at his residence.

Hu Bai returned home after completing his second trial and showed Hu Liena and Xie Yue his new ice-attribute Martial Soul and its powerful Soul Rings. He introduced the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, who appeared as tiny figures on his shoulders.

• Hu Liena welcomed Hu Bai back and complained that she and Xie Yue had been waiting for him.
• Xie Yue told Hu Bai that their parents were away on a mission recruiting or assessing sect forces for the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Hu Liena asked Hu Bai about his journey to the Extreme North Land, and he revealed the Heavenly Snow Woman as his second Martial Soul.
• Hu Bai explained that the Snow Empress and Ice Empress had become his Martial Soul and Soul Ring, astonishing Hu Liena and Xie Yue.
• Hu Bai invited the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to meet his siblings, and their miniature spiritual forms appeared on his shoulders.

Hu Bai returned to Spirit Hall with Snow Empress and Ice Empress, reuniting with Qian Renxue and revealing that he had reached Level 68 and gained the Ice God's inheritance. He learned that his third trial required him to hunt the formidable Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Qian Daoliu warned that the beast could overpower even a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit.

• Hu Liena and Xie Yue greeted Snow Empress and Ice Empress, and Xie Yue told Hu Bai that Shui Bing'er had become the disciples of Azure Luan and Guang Ling.
• Hu Bai and his companions arrived at Spirit Hall, where Qian Renxue embraced him and announced that she had become a Level 63 Soul Emperor.
• Bibi Dong asked Hu Bai about his journey and second martial soul, and Hu Bai described his Ice God's inheritance and revealed that he was Level 68.
• Hu Bai told Qian Daoliu that his third trial required him to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger for a designated seventh soul ring.
• Qian Daoliu warned Hu Bai that the sixty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was comparable to the Star Dou Great Forest's kings and might defeat a hundred-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit.

Qian Daoliu explained the dangers of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s domain, and Hu Bai reassured the group that their strength and Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s domain could counter it. The group planned to hunt the beast in three days, while Qian Renxue stayed behind to continue her divine trial.

• Qian Daoliu explained that domains reflected a Soul Master’s or Soul Beast’s strength and warned that Spirit Hall did not know the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s domain abilities.
• Hu Bai argued that the group’s six Titled Douluo and Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s Two-Level Stasis Domain could help them defeat the tiger.
• Hu Bai privately considered whether Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s low Martial Soul Fusion Skill compatibility was because they were both men, making them shudder without knowing why.
• Bibi Dong scheduled the expedition to the Star Dou Great Forest for three days later and told Hu Bai to rest after returning from the Extreme North Land.
• Qian Renxue said she could not accompany Hu Bai until she completed the first stage of her divine trial, and asked whether he was all right with that.

After returning from the Extreme North Land, Hu Bai visited Dugu Bo and learned how Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had progressed. Dugu Bo asked Hu Bai to protect civilians and low-level Soul Masters if Spirit Hall went to war, and Hu Bai reassured him that divine trials could make a costly war unnecessary.

• Hu Bai told Qian Renxue that he was about to reach Level Seventy, while Qian Daoliu noted the many Soul Bones behind Hu Bai's rapid cultivation.
• Dugu Bo met Hu Bai outside Spirit Hall and invited him to visit the Medicine Hall, where Hu Bai recounted his experiences in the Extreme North Land.
• Dugu Bo told Hu Bai that Dugu Yan had become a Level Thirty-Three Soul Elder and that her martial soul had evolved toward a Jade Phosphorous Python.
• Dugu Bo said Ye Lingling was a Level Twenty-Eight Soul Grandmaster who practiced healing at her grandfather's clinic to improve her cultivation.
• Dugu Bo asked Hu Bai to keep civilians and low-level Soul Masters from becoming cannon fodder in a war, and Hu Bai said divine trials could let Spirit Hall unify the continent without one.

Hu Bai supported Dugu Bo’s proposal for Spirit Hall to defeat the Two Great Empires’ leaders directly instead of prolonging a costly war. At the Medicine Hall, Yang Wudi showed him two newly developed pills, including one intended to help Soul Masters break through a bottleneck.

• Dugu Bo explained that many Titled Douluo favored gradually taking the Two Great Empires’ territories, while he and others wanted a swift decapitation operation to reduce casualties.
• Hu Bai agreed with Dugu Bo and reasoned that Spirit Hall’s reputation would protect it from public backlash over a direct strike.
• Hu Bai considered the City of Slaughter’s criminals and Tang Chen as possible sources of energy for Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa Ninth Trial.
• Yang Wudi showed Hu Bai the Saint Breaking Pill, which could help a level-sixty-nine Soul Emperor reach level seventy, though limited potential could prevent success.
• Yang Wudi introduced the God Nourishing Pill, a pill the Medicine Hall was developing to raise a Soul Master’s Spiritual Power.

Hu Bai and Yang Wudi discussed the Medicine Hall’s pills and planned new medicines for daily use and battle. In the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ye learned that Skywater City had seceded for the Spirit Hall Empire and collapsed into a coughing fit, while Hu Bai anticipated that other cities might follow.

• Yang Wudi explained that the God Nourishing Pill slowly strengthened Spiritual Power so Soul Masters could better withstand a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring’s resentment.
• Hu Bai proposed developing pills for Soul Power recovery, cold resistance, and greater attack or defense, and Yang Wudi praised the idea.
• Yang Wudi revealed that he had reached Level 83 Soul Douluo and possessed an Eighth Soul Ring of around seventy thousand years.
• Xue Ye heard that Skywater City had publicly left the Heaven Dou Empire to join the Spirit Hall Empire and coughed up blood in rage.
• Hu Bai had anticipated Skywater City’s departure and considered whether Blazing Fire Main City, Divine Wind Main City, and Thunder Main City might follow.

Heaven Dou’s court debated how to respond after Skywater City joined the Spirit Hall Empire, and Xue Ye collapsed as the Prime Minister warned that the empire could not withstand Spirit Hall’s power. The chapter ended with the Star Luo Great Emperor convening his court to discuss Skywater City’s allegiance.

• Xue Ye ordered envoys to demand an explanation from Spirit Hall and sent one hundred thousand troops to defend Skywater City.
• The Prime Minister warned that Spirit Hall’s many powerful Soul Masters made war dangerous, and the Grand General could not answer his challenge to defeat Salas.
• The Prime Minister described the threat posed by Ghost Douluo Gui Mei and Bone Dragon Bone Douluo, and Xue Ye fainted after spitting blood.
• Prince Xue Xing blamed the Prime Minister for upsetting Xue Ye, while Xue Qinghe ordered the court to treat his father before debating further.
• The Prime Minister admitted he would accept ceding territory for peace, but said Spirit Hall’s ambitions and Xue Ye’s pride left that option unavailable.
• The Star Luo Great Emperor asked his officials for their views on Skywater City pledging allegiance to the Spirit Hall Empire.