Chapter Summaries

Shui Wuchen discovered a cavern containing forty-six Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrows, enough to support his and Shui Bing'er's cultivation to Titled Douluo. The siblings found that they could not simply take the treasures away because their extreme cold threatened to destroy soul tools.

• Shui Wuchen collected several dark blue crystals that softened when they absorbed his soul power, then searched the cold pool for the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Shui Wuchen sent Articuno into the spring eye to scout its dangerous depths, and later returned safely to the surface with her.
• Shui Wuchen brought Shui Bing'er beneath the spring eye, protected her from the deadly cold, and led her into a hidden cave.
• Shui Wuchen showed Shui Bing'er the forty-six Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrows and explained that they held enough energy to support their cultivation to Titled Douluo.
• Shui Bing'er urged Shui Wuchen to take the treasures, but he explained that their extreme cold nearly broke his soul tool even when he tried to store them in a jade box.

Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er cultivated with the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, while Articuno devoured nearly all of it. Afterward, the siblings continued refining what remained, anticipating that the treasure would accelerate their breakthroughs.

• Shui Wuchen warned Shui Bing'er to absorb the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow carefully, and they each began refining a small amount.
• Articuno ate piece after piece of the marrow while Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er cultivated.
• After two hours, Shui Wuchen awakened at Level 64 and discovered Articuno had eaten more than forty pieces, leaving only a few.
• Shui Bing'er awoke close to Level 56 and learned that Articuno had consumed most of the marrow.
• Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er resumed cultivating with the remaining marrow.

After six months refining the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, Shui Wuchen reached Level 70 and Shui Bing'er reached Level 60 with an evolved martial soul and Ultimate Ice. Shui Wuchen set out with Shui Bing'er and Articuno for the Extreme North Forbidden Zone to find a powerful ice-attribute soul beast, and they encountered its dangerous winds at the outskirts.

• Shui Wuchen, Shui Bing'er, and Articuno emerged from the Cold Pool after refining the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Shui Wuchen reached Level 70, while Shui Bing'er reached Level 60 and developed an evolved martial soul with Ultimate Ice.
• Shui Wuchen told Shui Bing'er he planned to hunt a soul beast in the Extreme North Forbidden Zone, and she insisted on going with him.
• Shui Wuchen returned to Dragon City to gather supplies, then rode Articuno with Shui Bing'er toward the forbidden zone.
• Shui Wuchen, Shui Bing'er, and Articuno reached the outskirts, where a bone-chilling Gale Wind struck Articuno with force nearly equal to a Soul Ancestor's full-powered attack.

Shui Wuchen found a powerful ice-attribute soul beast for his seventh soul ring, but the Ice Empress arrived before he could absorb it. Realizing they could not fight her, Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er fled with Articuno.

• Shui Wuchen had Articuno descend below the fierce Gale Wind so they could search the Extreme North Forbidden Land for a suitable soul beast.
• The Ice Empress awoke after sensing the aura of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and set out to find Tian Meng.
• Shui Wuchen and Articuno defeated a top-tier ice-attribute avian soul beast more than seventy thousand years old, and its black soul ring appeared above its corpse.
• The Ice Empress arrived and mistook the aura from Shui Wuchen, Shui Bing'er, and Articuno for the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow she sought.
• Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er recognized the Ice Empress as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and fled with Articuno before Shui Wuchen could absorb the soul ring.

The Ice Empress caught up with Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er and demanded to know where they had found the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. After Shui Wuchen refused and she attacked, the siblings fused with Articuno to unleash their Super Freezing Bird, whose power surged to Titled Douluo level and beyond.

• The Ice Empress overtook Shui Wuchen, Shui Bing'er, and Articuno as they fled the Extreme North Forbidden Zone.
• The Ice Empress demanded to know where Shui Wuchen had obtained the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, hoping to find the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave.
• Shui Wuchen refused to help the Ice Empress, and she attacked him with her tail hook.
• Shui Wuchen blocked the attack with a pale blue barrier and called to Shui Bing'er.
• Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er merged into Articuno, transforming her into the Super Freezing Bird and causing her power to surge past Titled Douluo level.

Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er used Articuno's Freezing Domain to drive back the Ice Empress, then split up to help Shui Bing'er escape while Shui Wuchen drew the pursuer away. The Ice Empress caught Shui Wuchen, and as his Guardian Soul Skill ran out, he prepared to fight her with his Ice Blue Long Blade.

• Articuno unleashed its Freezing Domain, intensifying its Blizzard and forcing the Ice Empress back while draining Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er's Soul Power.
• Articuno split into phantoms and fled in several directions, but the Ice Empress tracked Shui Wuchen by the aura of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• After Shui Wuchen and Shui Bing'er ended their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Shui Wuchen knocked Shui Bing'er unconscious and sent her away on one Articuno while he fled in the other direction.
• The Ice Empress caught Shui Wuchen, discovered that Shui Bing'er was gone, and attacked him as he remained behind to draw her away from his sister.
• Shui Wuchen's Guardian Soul Skill shield depleted, and he drew his Ice Blue Long Blade to face the Ice Empress.

Shui Wuchen and Articuno escaped the Ice Empress after Articuno unleashed Absolute Zero, but both were left severely weakened. Shui Bing'er awoke outside the Extreme North Forbidden Land and realized Shui Wuchen was still missing.

• Articuno burned the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and unleashed Absolute Zero, freezing the Ice Empress's attack before the power abruptly faded.
• The Ice Empress retreated rather than pursue Shui Wuchen and Articuno, fearing Articuno might use Absolute Zero again while she was badly wounded.
• Articuno collapsed after flying dozens of li, returned to Shui Wuchen's body, and left him to continue alone.
• Shui Wuchen swallowed his blood, used his remaining strength to fly onward, and tried to avoid leaving tracks for pursuing soul beasts.
• Shui Bing'er woke on the Substitute disguised as Articuno, then watched it dissipate and resolved to return only if she could do so without wasting Shui Wuchen's sacrifice.

Shui Wuchen escaped the Ice Empress but became stranded in the Extreme North with Articuno unable to assist him. A mysterious summons led him to a glacier fissure, where an even more terrifying Ice Jade Scorpion emerged and confronted him.

• Shui Wuchen stopped to recover his Soul Power after fleeing the Ice Empress, then discovered that Articuno was exhausted from using Absolute Zero and could not be summoned.
• Shui Wuchen flew through the snow-covered region for a day without finding his way out and sensed a powerful summons that also stirred Articuno.
• Shui Wuchen followed the summons to a bottomless fissure in a glacier, where he sensed an opportunity hidden below.
• A massive Ice Jade Scorpion leaped from the fissure, recognized Shui Wuchen, and released a terrifying roar and pressure.

Shui Wuchen confronted a Soul Beast that disguised itself as a terrifying Ice Jade Scorpion, then exposed its true form as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. Though it claimed to be a 990,000-year Fierce Beast, Shui Wuchen suspected it was bluffing and charged at it.

• Shui Wuchen fought back against the apparent Ice Jade Scorpion with his Ice Blade: Fifteen Consecutive Slashes, but his attack passed through it.
• Shui Wuchen struck again and revealed the Soul Beast's true form as a jade-white Ice Silkworm with nine golden patterns.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm claimed to be a 990,000-year Fierce Beast and said Bingbing was a 380,000-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Shui Wuchen doubted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's claims, decided it was wary of his strength, and charged at it to prevent its escape.

Shui Wuchen killed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm after resisting his crude spiritual attack, then absorbed the Ice Silkworm's extraordinary Head Soul Bone. He awoke with a Sea of Consciousness more than ten times larger and was surprised to find Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Soul Ring still present.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used his immense spiritual power to halt Shui Wuchen, but Shui Wuchen broke free and explained that the attack was too crudely wielded to unleash its full strength.
• Shui Wuchen cut Sky Dream Ice Silkworm into pieces, and a blood-red Soul Ring with platinum veins formed from the corpse.
• Shui Wuchen dug a crown-shaped Head Soul Bone from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's head and concealed himself inside an iceberg to absorb it.
• The Tian Meng Soul Bone expanded Shui Wuchen's Sea of Consciousness to more than ten times its former size and gave it a faint platinum hue.
• After awakening with altered eyes, Shui Wuchen looked at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's corpse and noticed that the Soul Ring was still there.

Shui Wuchen attempted to absorb Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Fierce Beast-level Soul Ring, badly underestimating its age and power. Articuno awakened to save him, while the energy it absorbed formed a mysterious Ice Blue sphere that began reaching for more energy.

• Shui Wuchen decided to absorb Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Soul Ring, believing his strengthened body and spiritual power would let him survive it.
• The Soul Ring’s energy and spiritual shock overwhelmed Shui Wuchen, tearing his meridians and causing his body to split and bleed.
• Shui Wuchen realized Sky Dream Ice Silkworm might truly have been a nine-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year-old Fierce Beast.
• Articuno awakened and absorbed much of the chaotic energy ravaging Shui Wuchen, easing the pressure and allowing him to continue refining the Soul Ring.
• The absorbed energy combined with the remaining Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow inside Articuno and formed an Ice Blue little sphere.
• After consuming that energy, the Ice Blue little sphere reached toward the energy still inside Shui Wuchen.

Shui Wuchen finished refining Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Soul Ring, reached Level 76, and discovered that the mysterious sphere inside him was an Energy Crystal that Articuno called an Inner Core. Articuno said his Soul Power reserves and recovery had greatly increased, and she suggested that the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion might possess something similar.

• The Ice Blue sphere absorbed energy from Shui Wuchen as he refined Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Soul Ring, while the altered energy repaired and strengthened his battered body.
• Shui Wuchen completed the refinement and broke through to Level 76, then wondered what the sphere inside him was.
• Articuno emerged unharmed, explained that Shui Wuchen's breakthrough had weakened her restrictions, and spoke to him aloud.
• Articuno identified the sphere as an Energy Crystal, or Inner Core, and explained that it greatly increased Shui Wuchen's Soul Power recovery and reserves.
• Articuno said she had not sensed an Inner Core in other Soul Masters, but the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion seemed to possess something similar.

Shui Wuchen considered how energy cores might be formed and concluded that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s immense cultivation came from Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. After collecting the creature’s remains, he and Articuno entered the rift, drawn by something important within it.

• Shui Wuchen reflected that Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent lacked advanced cultivation methods for condensing energy into cores.
• Articuno confirmed that she and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion had energy cores, though theirs manifested differently.
• Shui Wuchen and Articuno attributed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s high cultivation and weak combat ability to the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow in his body.
• Shui Wuchen stored Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s remains in three Storage Soul Tools for their valuable ice energy.
• Shui Wuchen and Articuno sensed something calling to them from the rift and decided their increased strength was enough to investigate.
• Articuno carried Shui Wuchen into the rift.

Shui Wuchen and Articuno discovered an ancient altar containing Law Fragments left by a dead ice-attributed powerhouse. Articuno broke through the altar’s defenses and began absorbing the fragments, growing more sacred as she did.

• Articuno carried Shui Wuchen through a cave to the source of the summons, where they found an ancient altar holding several spheres of light and a huge Ice Blue orb.
• Articuno identified the spheres as Law Fragments that could help Shui Wuchen reconstruct a God Position and become a god.
• Shui Wuchen questioned whether the fragments were safe to absorb, and Articuno explained that their former owner was dead and no longer controlled the Ice Law.
• Articuno unleashed her Freezing Domain, shattered the altar’s Ice Blue barrier, and drew the Law Fragments toward herself.
• Articuno absorbed the Law Fragments, and her aura grew increasingly sacred.

After Articuno absorbed the Law Fragments, Shui Wuchen gained the ability to control ice by thought alone, and Articuno obtained an incomplete God Position. Shui Wuchen accepted the Heart of the Ice God, agreeing to help avenge its former master if the opportunity arose.

• Articuno absorbed the Law Fragments, and Shui Wuchen discovered he could use Spinning Ice Rain without Soul Power by controlling ice through his thoughts.
• Articuno realized she had obtained an incomplete God Position, while Shui Wuchen examined the Ice Blue sphere left at the center of the arena.
• Articuno tried to touch the sphere, but its violent cold repelled her, so she suggested that they leave.
• Shui Wuchen touched the sphere and witnessed an Ice Giant die fighting a dragon-shaped Fierce Beast.
• Shui Wuchen refused to promise he could kill the Fierce Beast but offered to help if he got the chance, and the sphere merged into his body as the Heart of the Ice God.

After escaping the Extreme North Forbidden Land, Shui Wuchen and Articuno emerged at sea and discovered its waters were full of powerful Soul Beasts. They spotted a large ironclad ship, and Shui Wuchen went to investigate while Articuno prepared to support him.

• Shui Wuchen explained that the Heart of the Ice God could temper his Soul Power and spiritual power until he became a god.
• A collapse and powerful suction dragged Shui Wuchen and Articuno through the ice, forcing them to fight their way out of falling rocks and ice.
• Shui Wuchen and Articuno emerged from a cave into the sea and flew off to look for people who could tell them where they were.
• A Gale White Eagle attacked Shui Wuchen, who killed it with nine consecutive Ice Blade slashes.
• Shui Wuchen learned that the sea held many powerful Soul Beasts, including several Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Articuno spotted a large ironclad ship, and Shui Wuchen went ahead to investigate while Articuno stayed ready to help.

Shui Wuchen met Zi Zhenzhu and obtained a sea chart to find his way back to the continent. After reuniting with Articuno, he learned they were far from shore but could reach the continent in about a week.

• Shui Wuchen flew to Zi Zhenzhu's ship and asked the pirates for a map, offering Gold Soul Coins.
• Zi Zhenzhu recognized Shui Wuchen as someone too dangerous to provoke and gave him a sea chart of the nearby waters.
• Shui Wuchen paid Zi Zhenzhu ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and flew away, while she warned her underlings against attacking him.
• Shui Wuchen reunited with Articuno and studied the sea chart, finding that they were far from the continent and faced dangerous waters on the way back.
• Articuno reassured Shui Wuchen that her speed would let them return to the continent within a week.

Dugu Bo joined the Spirit Hall elders as Tang Hao tried to escape, poisoning and trapping him. The elders attacked together, leaving Tang Hao facing the end of his flight while Dugu Bo confronted him over their past grudge.

• Tang Hao withdrew after using Explode Ring, while the injured Spirit Hall elders hesitated to pursue him.
• Dugu Bo froze the area and poisoned Tang Hao with green mist, then confronted him about their old grudge.
• Tang Hao attacked Dugu Bo, who evaded the Clear Sky Hammer and kept his distance.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo rallied the elders and unleashed his ultimate technique against Tang Hao.
• Dugu Bo and the Spirit Hall elders struck Tang Hao with their strongest attacks as he regretted not killing Dugu Bo before.
• Dugu Bo recalled how Tang Hao and Tang San had defeated him at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after he captured Xiao Wu.

Tang Hao unleashed a final attack that killed Ghost Douluo and another Spirit Hall elder, but he survived and Chrysanthemum Douluo planned to take him back to Spirit Hall. Dugu Bo escaped, Tang San felt a sudden pang of worry, and Shui Lingxuan approached the dangerous Demon Whale Sea Region.

• Tang Hao detonated his stored spirit rings, killing Ghost Douluo and another elder and injuring several Spirit Hall Douluos.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo found Tang Hao barely alive and stopped Demon Bear Douluo from killing him, intending to take him to Spirit Hall for interrogation.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo invited Dugu Bo to join Spirit Hall, but Dugu Bo refused and warned that Tang Hao might have fooled them before vanishing.
• Tang San felt his heart suddenly hurt and worried that something had happened to Xiao Wu.
• Shui Lingxuan checked a nautical chart while traveling through the Demon Whale Sea Region and learned they needed to avoid its hundred-thousand-year-old Demon Whale.

Shui Lingxuan and the Swift Frost Bird crossed the Demon Bone Sea, where the Deep Sea Demon King rose from the seabed and revealed itself as a million-year Demon Core. As they tried to escape, it trapped them in its vast domain and fired a blue beam at them.

• Shui Lingxuan directed the Swift Frost Bird to follow the map's route through the southern side of the Demon Bone Sea.
• The Deep Sea Demon King sensed their divine-position aura and surged up from the seabed, disturbing the sea.
• The Swift Frost Bird dodged the Deep Sea Demon King's water pillar, and Shui Lingxuan realized the beast was a million-year Demon Core.
• Shui Lingxuan ordered the Swift Frost Bird to climb above a thousand meters and flee from the Deep Sea Demon King's attacks.
• The Deep Sea Demon King spread its enormous domain through the sky, restraining Shui Lingxuan and the Swift Frost Bird before firing a blue beam at them.