Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan and Cai Bo planned to lure the Star Banner’s forces into the Hidden Dragon Formation, while Ge Long was ordered to lead the bait force. At the battlefield, Mu Rong met a young woman named Aji and recognized her as the legendary ten-thousand-year-old Soul Fragment.

• Ge Long reported that the enemy’s heavy-armored soldiers, Soul Sect support, and a formidable swordsman made a direct assault dangerous.
• Cai Bo proposed withdrawing Ge Long and drawing the enemy into a ravine, where the Hidden Dragon Formation could trap them.
• Yuan Yan approved the plan, ordering Ge Long to lure the enemy with thirty thousand soldiers while Mu Rong’s Blazing Gate Formation blocked their retreat.
• Mu Rong noticed a young woman tending the wounded and watched her approach with a bucket of water and herbs.
• The woman introduced herself as Aji, and Mu Rong recognized her as the legendary Soul Fragment Tang San had mentioned.

Mu Rong warned Ah Yin that humans could see through her disguise and drove her to flee, then returned to cultivating. Three days later, Ge Long announced an attack on the Star Luo Empire, and Mu Rong recognized the campaign as a planned act of discipline.

• Mu Rong decided not to kill Ah Yin for her soul bone and warned her to return to her world.
• Ah Yin insisted on staying to help Mu Rong, but fled in terror after he revealed that humans could identify her as a Soul Beast.
• Mu Rong returned to his tent, told a soldier to recover from a lingering injury, and began cultivating.
• Three days later, Ge Long rallied the camp and announced an attack on the Star Luo Empire to avenge fallen soldiers.
• Mu Rong observed that the coming campaign was really about discipline, and his squad with Forest and Su Qian was placed at the front.

Mu Rong and the Celestial Empire armies lured Xing Luo’s pursuing forces into the Valley of the Coiled Dragon, where a trap sealed both ends and turned the battle against the Starflame Army. Mu Rong unleashed his soul skills to freeze and weaken the trapped soldiers as the slaughter continued.

• Mu Rong told Suo Ling and the others to follow Demon Blade and prioritize staying alive as the Celestial Empire armies met Xing Luo’s forces in battle.
• Ge Long led the charge, but Xing Luo’s heavy armored soldiers broke the Celestial Empire’s formations and drove the survivors into a panicked retreat.
• Cardinal urged the survivors into the Valley of the Coiled Dragon, where rocks and logs sealed the entrance and hidden Celestial Empire archers ambushed the pursuing Starflame Army.
• Ge Long and the regrouped Celestial Empire soldiers attacked the trapped Xing Luo troops from behind while soldiers on the cliffs rained down boulders and burning oil.
• Mu Rong used Ice Crystal Wave to freeze the Starflame soldiers at the front, then spread Frost Poison Domain through the valley and attacked the weakened enemy.

After Mu Rong’s poisonous mist helped Ge Long’s army seize a pass, the general offered him a place as his personal guard. Mu Rong refused, choosing to earn merit and grow stronger on the battlefield, and Ge Long responded with admiration and excitement.

• Mu Rong’s poisonous mist helped his army defeat the enemy and take the pass, leaving him close to level twenty-three.
• A soldier summoned Mu Rong to General Ge Long’s headquarters, where the general praised his contribution to the victory.
• Ge Long offered Mu Rong the position of personal guard, citing the battlefield value of his control-type abilities.
• Mu Rong refused the offer and said he wanted to earn his own achievements by fighting on the battlefield.
• Ge Long watched Mu Rong with admiration and excitement after hearing his reasons.

Ge Long promoted Mu Rong to battlefield commander and promised to raise his soul power if he survived the war, while commanders prepared for a prolonged conflict with the Star Luo Empire. Years later, Mu Rong fought on the ramparts with Lin and Suo Ling as the battle continued.

• Ge Long canceled Mu Rong’s execution and promoted him to battlefield commander, promising to make him a Soul Saint if he survived the war.
• Mu Rong told Kaka, Lin, and Suo Ling about his promotion and recognized that Ge Long was betting on his survival.
• Ge Long briefed Yuan En Chengjun, Yan Ling Tian, and Lei Ling Tian on the border battle and ordered the troops to strengthen the fortress and prepare for the Star Luo Empire’s main force.
• Mu Rong concluded that the conflict would become a long war of attrition and set five years as his deadline to grow strong enough to survive.
• Mu Rong fought Star Luo Empire Soul Masters on the ramparts while Lin and Suo Ling helped defend him.

After Mu Rong broke through to thirty soul patterns and became a Soul Venerable, he sought permission to travel to the Icebound Forest for his third Soul Fragment. Ge Long approved the journey and assigned Jia Ka and his best soldiers to escort him.

• Mu Rong broke through to thirty soul patterns during battle, becoming a Soul Venerable of Seventeen Steps.
• Mo Lin and Suo Ling congratulated Mu Rong, and Ka Qi was shocked by his breakthrough and warned him about the Icebound Forest.
• Mu Rong told Suo Ling she could hunt for her second Soul Fragment in the Icebound Forest, then went to ask Ge Long for permission to travel there.
• Ge Long tested Mu Rong's soul power, confirmed his breakthrough, and agreed to the journey after hearing why Mu Rong needed a specific Soul Fragment.
• Ge Long ordered his deputy Jia Ka, a forty-nine-soul-pattern Soul Sect, to escort Mu Rong and his best men to the Icebound Forest.

Mu Rong explained that his naturally born Wolf King's Martial Soul could evolve by refining Soul Fragments with the same rare bloodline, and he led Jiu Ka into the Ice-Sealed Forest to find them. At the Ice Crystal Lake fusion zone, a pack of Icefield Wolves ambushed them, and Jiu Ka was badly pressured by their thousand-year Wolf King.

• Mu Rong told Jiu Ka that his Ice-Sealed Snow Wolf Martial Soul was born with a rare Wolf King bloodline and could evolve through repeated refinement with matching Soul Fragments.
• Mu Rong and Jiu Ka traveled north for half a month and entered the Ice-Sealed Forest, heading toward the Ice Crystal Lake fusion zone.
• Jiu Ka sensed a field of corpses and detected at least thirty Icefield Wolves with a powerful leader nearby.
• Jiu Ka told Mu Rong to retreat, then charged the pack as its thousand-year Wolf King led the attack.
• The wolves surrounded Jiu Ka and battered him with claws, fangs, and ice spikes until one spike tore open his left arm.
• Jiu Ka activated his fourth Soul Skill, Golden Armor Bull, Heavy Impact.

Mu Rong and Jade Little Blade killed the wolf king and continued north in search of the Ice-Horned Python. At Frozen Lake, the 3,500-year-old python attacked them, and Mu Rong spotted a weakness beneath its neck as they prepared to fight back.

• Mu Rong froze the wolf king with Ice Crystal Wave, giving Jade Little Blade the opening to kill it with Armor-Breaking Horn.
• Mu Rong told Jade Little Blade he was seeking an Ice-Horned Python Soul Fragment, and the two headed north.
• After seven days, Mu Rong and Jade Little Blade reached Frozen Lake and waited three days for the Ice-Horned Python to emerge.
• The 3,500-year-old Ice-Horned Python attacked, forcing Mu Rong and Jade Little Blade to flee across the ice.
• Mu Rong noticed the python's scales beneath its neck cracked whenever it spat out a cold current, and Jade Little Blade turned to face it with his fourth soul ring activated.

Mu Rong and Zhu Ka defeated the wounded Giant Python, and Mu Rong chose to absorb its three-thousand-year soul ring despite the danger. He survived the breakthrough, reached level thirty-two, and gained the third soul skill Ice Phoenix Fragment.

• Zhu Ka and Mu Rong attacked the Giant Python together, weakening it until it was covered in wounds.
• Mu Rong decided to absorb the Giant Python's three-thousand-year soul ring, and Zhu Ka reluctantly agreed to protect him.
• Mu Rong killed the Giant Python and began absorbing its soul ring, enduring hours of painful frost and surging energy.
• The ice around Mu Rong shattered, and he emerged unharmed at level thirty-two.
• Mu Rong gained the third soul skill Ice Phoenix Fragment, which enhanced his attributes and let him summon fragments to trap and attack enemies.

Mu Rong was promoted to commander and moved into his own tent, but a Star Luo assault soon gave him a chance to flee the battlefield with trusted comrades. As they tried to escape, the Ying Ying squad surrounded them.

• Mu Rong announced his promotion to commander, and his squad celebrated while Feika reported their expedition to General Ge Long.
• Mu Rong took command of the left flank and moved into a private tent after five years in the communal barracks.
• A sudden Star Luo attack threw the camp into chaos, and Mu Rong decided to use the breach to escape the army.
• Mu Rong ordered Kaqi'er, Ye Lin, and Suo Ling to follow him, and they fought their way toward a weak point in the defenses.
• A Star Luo elite squad led by a four-ring Soul Ancestor appeared and surrounded Mu Rong and his companions.

Mu Rong and his companions escaped the Star Luo Demon Blades after he killed three attackers with his ice skills, then set out for Sunset Forest. At dawn, Dai Mubai confronted the devastation at the Heaven Dou Empire’s Left Vanguard Camp and demanded to know how Star Luo’s ice blast had breached its defenses.

• Mu Rong ordered Kaqi, Lei Lin, and Suo Ling into battle against the seven Star Luo Demon Blades while his Cold Poison Mist slowed them.
• When three enemies attacked him, Mu Rong froze them with Ice Crystal Wave and crushed them with Ice Phoenix Possession, killing all three.
• Mu Rong led his wounded companions out of the encirclement and into a hidden mountain hollow, where Kachino pledged his life to him.
• Mu Rong announced that they would head to Sunset Forest to take back what was theirs, and ordered them to leave the battlefield before dawn.
• At the ruined Left Vanguard Camp, Dai Mubai demanded an explanation for how Star Luo’s ice blast had broken through the defenses and reached the main camp.

Ge Pei ordered the battered Heavenly Ghost army to retreat to Heaven's Pass and request aid after the Star Radiance Empire destroyed most of its elite forces. Meanwhile, Dai Tianfeng celebrated the victory and ordered a two-pronged assault on the Heavenly Ghost positions in three days.

• Ge Long reported that the Phantoms had ambushed the Demon Blade Corps, leaving fewer than thirty of its sixteen hundred soldiers alive.
• Bai Zhantian told Ge Pei that the Right Vanguard had also suffered heavy losses while trying to reinforce Ge Long.
• Ge Pei ordered the Heavenly Ghost forces to abandon outlying strongholds, retreat to Heaven's Pass, request aid from the imperial capital, and keep news of the defeat secret.
• Dai Tianfeng's generals revealed that a spy had delivered Heavenly Ghost's battle plan, allowing the Star Luo Empire to prepare the ambush at Dragon's Roar Valley.
• Dai Tianfeng ordered Dai Yu and Zhu Ziqing to lead large forces in simultaneous attacks from Black Tiger Slope and Fallen Phoenix Ravine in three days.

Dai Tianfeng launched a full-scale invasion of the Heaven Dou Empire, while Qian Xunji decided Spirit Hall would keep both empires fighting rather than let either win. He ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and an elite squad to infiltrate Star Luo City and force Dai Tianfeng to withdraw within three days.

• Dai Tianfeng rallied his forces and ordered a three-route assault intended to defeat the Heaven Dou Empire and unify the continent.
• A minister reported the invasion to Qian Xunji, who dismissed the idea that Dai Tianfeng’s campaign would succeed without Spirit Hall’s interference.
• Qian Xunji declared that Spirit Hall benefited from a prolonged war between the two empires and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to infiltrate Star Luo City.
• Qian Xunji commanded the two elders to force Star Luo to withdraw within three days, threatening to kill a hundred people as a warning.
• Qian Xunji ordered an elite squad from the Azure Dragon Legion and Soul Beast Legion to sow chaos in Star Luo City by burning granaries, disrupting supplies, and damaging Dai Tianfeng’s reputation.

After settling in Sunset Town, Mu Rong sent Qian Xunji to reunite with his family and planned to explore the Ice-and-Fire Two-Pole Eyes despite the danger. He left the others behind as his base and set out alone, equipped with materials to conceal his presence from soul beasts.

• Mu Rong and his companions reached Sunset Town and hid in a secluded courtyard while they observed the locals.
• Mu Rong told Suo Ling and the others that they would use Sunset as a base and investigate the Sunset Forest, then ordered Qian Xunji to bring his wife and children there.
• Mu Rong gave Qian Xunji a thousand gold soul coins and warned him to protect his cover as a dead man.
• Mu Rong resolved to seek the Ice-and-Fire Two-Pole Eyes, despite his limited soul power and the powerful beasts guarding it.
• Qian Xunji departed to fetch his family, and Mu Rong bought concealment powder and other supplies before setting out.

Ka Qi returned home after years away and discovered his wife with another man, who claimed their child would awaken his Wood Demon Martial Soul. Enraged by their betrayal, Ka Qi burst into the bedroom and attacked the man.

• Ka Qi traveled alone toward Sunset Forest after leaving the Soul Orb behind.
• Dai Tianfeng invaded the Starfall Empire, but the Martial Soul Hall’s Soul Kings forced him to retreat after setting the capital ablaze.
• Ka Qi returned to his hometown and heard his wife and another man together behind his courtyard door.
• Ka Qi learned that his wife had betrayed him and that she and her lover expected their child to awaken the man’s Wood Demon Martial Soul.
• Ka Qi blasted open the door, confronted the pair, and swung his great-blade martial soul at the kneeling man.

Ka Ka killed his wife and young son after learning they had deceived him, then collapsed in grief. In the Sunset Forest, Mu Rong endured three months of searching before an Earth-Cave Demon Spider discovered and chased him.

• Ka Ka killed the woman who had manipulated him and then killed the frightened boy who called him Daddy.
• Ka Ka realized his family was dead by his own hand and collapsed in despair.
• After three months of searching the Sunset Forest, Mu Rong recommitted himself to enduring the danger for revenge and strength.
• Mu Rong sensed a giant soul beast watching him and dodged a drop of corrosive poison.
• An Earth-Cave Demon Spider burst from the rock and pursued Mu Rong.

Mu Rong escaped the underground demon spider and Du Mosa by fleeing through a poisonous valley, where he discovered a strange spring divided between fire and ice. He left the chase behind but was suffering from severe poisoning as he reached the spring.

• Mu Rong froze the pursuing underground demon spider with his Ice Crystal Wave soul skill, then fled as it broke free and resumed the chase.
• Mu Rong found Du Mosa blocking the clearing, while the underground demon spider retreated from her and trapped him between the two creatures.
• Du Mosa attacked the underground demon spider, and Mu Rong slipped between them into the poisonous valley.
• Mu Rong swallowed his antidotes and forced himself through the toxic miasma despite worsening numbness and pain.
• Mu Rong emerged into a clearing and found a spring split between a fiery red half and an icy blue half, surrounded by rare plants.

Mu Rong found the Icefire Nine-Leaf Orchid in a valley of immortal herbs and realized a powerful serpent demon could return at any moment. He took the Nether Fragrant Bodhi to shield himself from poison and carried the orchid into the densest miasma, where the poisonous fog surged toward it.

• Mu Rong discovered the Icefire Nine-Leaf Orchid and surveyed the valley’s many immortal herbs.
• Mu Rong sensed danger and realized a fifth-tier Soul Fragment serpent woman might return to the valley.
• Mu Rong decided to use the Icefire Nine-Leaf Orchid’s ability to amplify toxins to kill the serpent demon.
• Mu Rong plucked the orchid and the Nether Fragrant Bodhi, which protected him from poison.
• Mu Rong ran through the poisonous forest and entered the thickest miasma with the orchid, drawing the fog toward it.

Mu Rong escaped the spreading poison, gathered the immortal herbs, and refined three of them into a golden pill intended to evolve his martial soul toward a true dragon. The pill was complete, but he had not yet used it.

• Mu Rong watched the Ice Grass turn the passage into a deadly poison zone, then returned to the valley after the toad retreated.
• Mu Rong collected the immortal herbs and chose the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, Sky-Connecting Chrysanthemum, and Golden-Scented Dragon-Whisker Grass for his plan to surpass the Earth Dragon bloodline.
• Mu Rong began refining the three herbs in an ancient bronze cauldron while the Azure-Eyed Earth Serpent King returned and roared outside the valley.
• Mu Rong spent three days and three nights refining the herbs, then opened the cauldron to reveal a golden, dragon-patterned pill surrounded by a faint dragon shadow.

Mu Rong used a powerful pill to evolve his Ice Phoenix martial soul into the Ice-Bound Earth Dragon and advance to Soul Sect rank. He then swallowed the Eight-Angle Mysterious Ice Grass and plunged into the fiery spring while clutching the Golden Velvet Earth Dragon Ginseng, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Mu Rong swallowed a pill refined from three-thousand-year-old herbs and endured its fierce medicinal power as he tempered his body and martial soul.
• The Ice Phoenix transformed into a colossal, four-clawed Ice-Bound Earth Dragon, and Mu Rong's soul power rose from rank thirty-three to rank forty.
• Mu Rong noticed the Eight-Angle Mysterious Ice Grass and decided to risk consuming it, relying on the Immortal Grade Chrysanthemum and Golden Velvet Earth Dragon Ginseng to counter its cold poison.
• Mu Rong swallowed the Eight-Angle Mysterious Ice Grass, and its freezing energy rapidly overwhelmed his body.
• Just before losing consciousness, Mu Rong plunged into the spring infused with the Fire-Loving Delicate Apricot's power while gripping the Golden Velvet Earth Dragon Ginseng.