Chapter Summaries

Xu Jiujiu began absorbing a rare Sacred Spirit Horse’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring while Shu Yan worried over her safety. Luo Qinghan and the others arrived at the Princess Mansion, where Tian Ling explained that she had come to Star Luo City to manage the alliance’s trade.

• Nebula Douluo brought Xu Jiujiu a ten-thousand-year Sacred Spirit Horse whose Starlight Unicorn bloodline made it a suitable fourth Soul Ring.
• Xu Jiujiu killed the Sacred Spirit Horse and began absorbing its Soul Ring as Shu Yan and Snow Empress watched.
• Snow Empress reassured Shu Yan that she had placed her aura in Xu Jiujiu’s Sea of Consciousness to protect her from spiritual shock.
• A maid delivered a visiting card from Luo Qinghan and the others, and Shu Yan went to receive them while Snow Empress left the courtyard.
• Shu Yan welcomed Chen Ming, Tian Ling, Luo Qinghan, Hu Yanhao, Meng Ning, Wang Lin, and Qian Gu Yueyin into the reception hall.
• Tian Ling said she managed the alliance’s trade in Star Luo City because its growing expenses made its yearly royal support insufficient.

Shu Yan learned that Luo Qinghan’s legs had been left paralyzed by damage to her meridians, but told her the Sun Moon Empire might have a way to treat them. He arranged a residence and cultivation support for his companions in Star Luo City, then planned a journey to help Luo Qinghan obtain her fifth soul ring.

• Tian Ling complained that the alliance had little money, and Luo Qinghan revealed that she had recently reached Rank Fifty at age seventeen.
• Luo Qinghan explained that her Spiritual Power went berserk when she awakened her martial soul and absorbed her first soul ring, leaving her leg meridians severely damaged and difficult to heal.
• Shu Yan reasoned that advanced Soul Tool technology in the Sun Moon Empire might provide a solution, though Luo Qinghan said she no longer cared about walking.
• Chen Ming, Wang Lin, Hu Yanhao, Meng Ning, and Qian Gu Yueyin said they would remain in Star Luo City, while Tian Ling had to manage the chamber of commerce.
• Shu Yan offered the group a residence and cultivation resources, and said he expected them and their families to support the empire in future conflicts.
• Shu Yan planned to leave Star Luo City with Luo Qinghan to obtain her fifth soul ring, then have her escorted back.

After absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Xu Jiujiu reached level forty-five and left Star Luo City with Shu Yan and their companions to seek opportunities. On the road, she described the empire’s inability to address commoners’ lack of access to Martial Soul awakenings, while Shu Yan offered no answer to her hope that he could change things.

• Xu Jiujiu completed her Soul Ring absorption, gained a major increase in Soul Power, and improved her ability to cultivate using Starry Sky Power.
• Shu Yan reassured Xu Jiawei that he would keep Xu Jiujiu safe, then received an ancient map from Qian Gu Chaoshēng before leaving Star Luo City with the group.
• Shu Yan’s party met Luo Qinghan and Tian Ling near the city gates, and Luo Qinghan joined them in the carriage.
• As they traveled north, Shu Yan studied the ancient map and noted how the continent and its cities had changed over ten thousand years.
• Xu Jiujiu saw how few people in nearby villages possessed Soul Power and explained that noble opposition, military costs, and corruption had prevented the empire from expanding Martial Soul awakenings.
• Xu Jiujiu told Shu Yan she believed he could change the empire’s predicament, and Shu Yan smiled helplessly.

Shu Yan explained Electrolux’s powers and the Undead Demiplane to Xu Jiujiu, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress, then brought them into the hidden world. After encountering its undead inhabitants, the group found powerful Dark Gold Skeletons, and Snow Empress asked Shu Yan to try controlling them.

• Xu Jiujiu worried about the Sun Moon Empire’s strength and the corruption within the Star Luo Empire, while Shu Yan said he would deal with the corrupt nobles after gaining his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Shu Yan told Xu Jiujiu, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress about Electrolux, Undead Magic, and his authority over the Undead Demiplane, and they agreed to explore it that night.
• At their hotel in Xuan Yu City, Shu Yan opened a portal to the Undead Demiplane and led the three women through it.
• The group surveyed the dark, desolate plane, where Shu Yan explained that he could command its undead inhabitants and showed how he controlled a group of Bone Skeletons.
• Snow Empress spotted Dark Gold Skeletons capable of rivaling Titled Douluos and asked Shu Yan to try controlling them.

Shu Yan used Electrolux’s power to command three Dark Gold Skeletons in the Undead World, then returned to the hotel with Xu Jiujiu, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress. Snow Empress reflected on her growing attachment to Shu Yan before quietly leaving the hotel in the middle of the night, while Shu Yan noticed but chose not to follow.

• Shu Yan summoned a black six-pointed star totem, and three Dark Gold Skeletons knelt to him as Electrolux explained that he could command powerful Undead Creatures.
• Shu Yan returned to the hotel with the three women, then embraced Xu Jiujiu and reassured her that her perceived shortcomings would never make him dislike her.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress discussed whether Snow Empress had begun favoring Shu Yan, and Snow Empress said life outside the Extreme North Land had brought her unexpected warmth and joy.
• Snow Empress stayed awake after Ice Empress fell asleep, then left the hotel without telling anyone.
• Shu Yan sensed Snow Empress’s departure but decided not to interfere and went back to sleep beside Xu Jiujiu.

Shu Yan and the others secured a Ten Thousand Year Soul Devouring Dragon for Luo Qinghan to absorb as her soul ring. After she began absorbing it, Shu Yan said her legs might still be healed and arranged for her to learn about Soul Tools if she wished, then the group continued toward their destination.

• Xu Jiujiu called on imperial soul-hunting teams near the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a ten-thousand-year Spirit Attribute soul beast for Luo Qinghan.
• Shu Yan identified a Ten Thousand Year Soul Devouring Dragon, and Luo Qinghan agreed to accept it as her soul beast.
• Three soul-hunting teams captured the Soul Devouring Dragon and brought it out of the forest before dawn.
• Luo Qinghan began absorbing the Soul Devouring Dragon's soul ring while Xu Jiujiu and Shu Yan watched over her.
• Shu Yan told Xu Jiujiu that Luo Qinghan's legs might be healed and suggested offering her a chance to study Soul Tools.
• Shu Yan ordered hidden escorts to take Luo Qinghan safely back to Star Luo City after she awoke, then left with Xu Jiujiu.

Shu Yan and his companions reached the Jialing Pass ruins and discovered a hidden hall where they encountered the surviving consciousness of the Rakshasa God. She recognized a familiar aura on Shu Yan and asked whether he was the Coiled Dragon Staff soul master's descendant or disciple.

• Shu Yan chose to visit the Jialing Pass ruins before continuing toward Dragon City.
• Shu Yan, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xu Jiujiu evaded border reconnaissance and explored the abandoned battlefield and its graves.
• The group found four patterned stone pillars around a central grave, and touching one transported them into a sinister hall where their Soul Power was sealed.
• A beautiful woman appeared in the hall, and Shu Yan asked how he should address her.
• The woman said she had sensed the aura of the Coiled Dragon Staff soul master on Shu Yan and asked whether he was his descendant or disciple.

Shu Yan explained his ties to Qian Gu Chaoshēng and asked Bibi Dong about her past, learning that she had survived as divine consciousness while Xue'er had died but might awaken again. He then offered to help Bibi Dong leave Jialing Pass, introducing Electrolux, whose arrival made her suspect Shu Yan came from another plane.

• Shu Yan told Bibi Dong that Qian Gu Chaoshēng had guided him to the Jialing Pass ruins and that Xu Jiujiu was both his childhood companion and the Star Luo Princess.
• Bibi Dong recounted sacrificing herself to save Xue'er, surviving through the Rakshasa Divine Seat, and sensing a trace of Xue'er's divine consciousness in her armor and sword.
• Bibi Dong questioned Shu Yan about Snow Empress and Ice Empress, and Shu Yan explained that they sought to become gods and that the Sea God threatened their chances.
• Bibi Dong explained that she could not leave Jialing Pass because her Divine Sense was bound to the Rakshasa Divine Seat and her revived followers could not travel beyond fifty li.
• Shu Yan claimed he could help Bibi Dong leave and summoned Electrolux, whose presence shocked her and led her to ask whether Shu Yan came from another plane.

Electrolux offered to move Bibi Dong and her Rakshasa Divine Seat into the Undead World, where she could recover and escape the ruins of Jialing Pass. Their attempt ended with Bibi Dong and Electrolux controlling Shu Yan disappearing into the Undead World, leaving Snow Empress and the others outside.

• Electrolux explained that he had created the Undead World and that it could bear Bibi Dong's Rakshasa Divine Seat.
• Bibi Dong agreed to try the transfer and warned that she would not be responsible if anything went wrong.
• Electrolux opened a gateway to the Undead World and offered Bibi Dong some authority to move freely within it.
• Bibi Dong and Electrolux joined their powers to merge the space into the Undead World, sending Snow Empress and the other two outside.
• The gateway vanished with Bibi Dong and Electrolux, and Xu Jiujiu asked Snow Empress whether A Yan and the others would be alright.

Shu Yan and Bibi Dong arrived in the Undead Demiplane after the Rakshasa Divine Seat merged with it, and Bibi Dong explained why Shu Yan was unfit to inherit it. She revealed that the plane was being eroded and chose to bet on Shu Yan as a way to break the Rakshasa inheritance’s cycle.

• Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xu Jiujiu waited near the small space, expecting Shu Yan and the others to return from the Undead World.
• The Rakshasa Divine Seat’s small space merged into the Undead Demiplane, stirring the world and its Undead Creatures as Shu Yan and Bibi Dong arrived.
• Shu Yan recovered rapidly from his injuries through the Life Energy from Living Gold, and Bibi Dong thanked Electrolux for granting her authority over the demiplane.
• Bibi Dong warned Shu Yan that the Rakshasa Divine Seat was drawing toward the plane’s origin and would weaken her if she left before the merger was complete.
• Bibi Dong explained that Shu Yan lacked the evil martial souls and extreme negative emotions required to inherit the Rakshasa Divine Seat, whose trials and power corrupted its bearers.
• Bibi Dong revealed that the plane was being eroded and said she would bet on Shu Yan to destroy the Rakshasa inheritance’s cycle by letting it endure in another form.

Bibi Dong explained the Rakshasa Divine Seat’s fusion with the Undead Plane’s origin and offered Shu Yan help while the process weakened her. She also revealed that Tang Hao and Ah Yin were secretly eroding the Douluo Plane, leaving the Plane Consciousness with one chance to resist: “Twin Destinies, Struggle of Fates.”

• Bibi Dong warned Shu Yan that the fusion would weaken her and alter the Undead World, while she prioritized empowering its strongest Undead Creatures.
• Shu Yan shared information about the continent, and Bibi Dong learned that Spirit Hall’s other dead leaders could not be revived, though Ju and Gui remained possible exceptions.
• Bibi Dong asked Shu Yan to bring Xue'er's coffin into the Undead World and leave her Angel God Armor and Angel Holy Sword there.
• Bibi Dong told Shu Yan that Tang Hao and Ah Yin had secretly been eroding the Douluo Plane’s consciousness with Tang San’s help.
• Bibi Dong revealed the Plane Consciousness’s prediction that the coming Golden Age offered one chance to resist, summed up as “Twin Destinies, Struggle of Fates.”

Shu Yan recovered from the strain of Elder Yi’s power, then retrieved Qian Renxue’s coffin and sent it into the Undead World. Outside Jialing Pass, Ning Tian’s group arrived, and Elder Wu sensed a familiar, threatening presence as Ning Tian continued discussing her duties to the sect with her mother.

• Snow Empress examined Shu Yan and warned him to be more careful, while Ice Empress and Xu Jiujiu expressed their concern.
• Shu Yan and the others opened Qian Renxue’s grave and found her crystal coffin, which Snow Empress moved through Shu Yan’s spatial gateway.
• Bibi Dong told Shu Yan that others had arrived outside Jialing Pass, and Shu Yan restored the grave without finding the Angel God Armor or Angel Holy Sword.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress recognized the approaching group as people from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, including two Titled Douluo.
• Elder Wu sensed a chilling presence, and Ning Tian ordered the group to stay alert and prepare to summon reinforcements.
• Ning Tian’s mother urged her not to shoulder the sect’s responsibilities too young, but Ning Tian said she accepted her role in the sect’s future.

Shu Yan and his companions met the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s party at the ancient battlefield where Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo had fallen. The two groups exchanged courteous greetings, and Shu Yan praised young sect master Ning Tian.

• Snow Empress offered to take Shu Yan away, but he chose to meet the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s party, while Ice Empress mocked his talk of fate.
• Ning Xiangxue reflected on the worsening sands, the sect’s uncertain future, and its tradition of paying respects to Ning Rongrong’s fallen guardians at Jialing Pass.
• Elder Wu sensed the same powerful aura he had encountered before, and Ning Xiangxue told the sect’s experts not to provoke Shu Yan’s group unless necessary.
• Shu Yan, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xu Jiujiu emerged from the sandstorm, and Shu Yan greeted Ning Xiangxue’s party.
• Ning Xiangxue introduced herself and her elders, apologized for the previous encounter, and invited Shu Yan’s group to visit the sect.
• Shu Yan asked about Ning Tian, then praised her composure and cultivation talent, making her blush.

After Shu Yan and his companions left, Elder Zhao concluded that the siblings possessed exceptionally powerful ice-attribute martial souls, possibly with ultimate-level ice. The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was left shaken by the visitors’ strength, while Wu Feng fell asleep after being suppressed by the Ice Empress’s aura.

• Shu Yan led his companions past Ning Xiangxue’s group after exchanging polite farewells, and the Ice Empress gave Elder Wu a final unsettling look.
• Ning Xiangxue admitted she had been intimidated by the visitors, and Elder Zhao said the white-haired woman seemed even more formidable than Shrek Academy’s Taotie Douluo.
• Wu Feng revealed that the Ice Empress’s glance had suppressed her martial soul and made her feel as if her blood had frozen.
• Elder Zhao used Soul Power to calm Wu Feng and concluded that the siblings’ martial souls had extraordinarily high ice attributes, perhaps reaching the legendary ultimate level.

Shu Yan revealed that he knew the location of a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, thrilling Ice Empress and Snow Empress with the promise of a treasure that could transform their strength. As Snow Empress and Ice Empress went ahead, Xu Jiujiu caught Shu Yan sneaking glances at their feet and began punishing him.

• While the group traveled near Jialing Pass, Ice Empress demanded the surprise Shu Yan had promised her.
• Shu Yan accidentally revealed that he knew the location of a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave containing Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Ice Marrow.
• Ice Empress excitedly made Shu Yan swear he was telling the truth, and Snow Empress thanked him for the valuable discovery.
• Ice Empress teased Shu Yan about becoming her servant, while Snow Empress revealed that she had noticed him glancing at her feet and joked about punishing him.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress walked ahead, leaving Xu Jiujiu to grab Shu Yan by the ear and threaten to punish him for staring at their feet.

Shu Yan and the others headed for Dragon City to find the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, while Ice Empress captured a Flame Lion King along the way. The group traveled under the stars as Xu Jiujiu explained how her Star Box stored Starry Sky Power.

• Shu Yan identified Dragon City as their destination and explained that the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave lay within the Earth Dragon Gate’s sect.
• Ice Empress eagerly urged the group to take the cave, and Shu Yan agreed to pursue it without sharing it with outsiders.
• After leaving Jialing Pass, Ice Empress subdued a Flame Lion King and stored it in a Soul Tool that could hold living creatures.
• Xu Jiujiu activated her Level Seven Soul Tool, the Star Box, and explained that its Star Attracting Stone absorbed Starry Sky Power at night.

Shu Yan, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xu Jiujiu arrived in Dragon City and went to Earth Dragon Gate to seek an audience with its sect master. After Ice Empress revealed her Titled Douluo-level power, Earth Dragon Gate’s guards eagerly welcomed them inside and hurried to notify the sect master.

• The four traveled north to Dragon City, where Snow Empress sensed a Rank 93 Titled Douluo near the city.
• Shu Yan led the group through Dragon City toward Earth Dragon Gate’s residence in the north.
• Shu Yan reminded Ice Empress not to provoke the sect, and she reluctantly agreed to behave.
• A guard hesitated to admit the group because the sect master had ordered that outside guests not be received.
• Ice Empress displayed her nine soul rings while Snow Empress concealed the disturbance, frightening the guards into welcoming the group and summoning the sect master.

Shu Yan and the Snow Empress confronted Earth Dragon Gate master Nan Shui Shui about the sect’s hidden site beneath a cold pool. Nan Shui Shui agreed to take them there, warning that even a Titled Douluo could not stay long in the Cave Mansion.

• The Ice Empress withdrew her Spiritual Power illusion and followed Shu Yan’s group into the Earth Dragon Gate residence.
• Nan Shui Shui welcomed the visitors and led them to a reception hall to discuss their business privately.
• Shu Yan demanded access to the hidden site beneath the cold spring, naming its Cave Mansion, extreme cold, and rare Ice Attribute metals.
• Shu Yan warned Nan Shui Shui that the group could seize the site by force, while the Ice Empress privately wondered if Shu Yan sounded like a bandit chief.
• Nan Shui Shui said the Cave Mansion was dangerous even for a Titled Douluo, then offered to take the visitors there to investigate.

Shu Yan and his companions entered Earth Dragon Gate’s sealed cold spring cave after Nan Shui Shui reluctantly granted them access. Nan Shui Shui weighed the danger of opposing them against the possible benefits of their friendship, while Nan Qiu Qiu questioned her decision.

• Nan Shui Shui led Shu Yan, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xu Jiujiu to the cold spring and warned them about the lethal cold inside its sealed cave.
• Snow Empress confirmed the cave was the place they sought, and Ice Empress eagerly agreed to descend with Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu.
• Shu Yan offered Earth Dragon Gate compensation and warned Nan Shui Shui to consider Dragon City’s strategic position before he and the others entered the well.
• Nan Qiu Qiu emerged from hiding and asked Nan Shui Shui why she had surrendered Earth Dragon Gate’s thousand-year secret land without a fight.
• Nan Shui Shui explained that the visitors’ power was beyond hers and considered whether their friendship could protect the Heaven Dou Empire from a future Sun Moon Empire attack.
• Nan Shui Shui scolded Nan Qiu Qiu for her questions, and their voices echoed through the courtyard.

Shu Yan, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress discovered a cave filled with Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and harvested nearly all of them. Shu Yan hoped to use the crystals to forge a Divine Artifact, and the three prepared to venture deeper in search of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave.

• Shu Yan sent Xu Jiujiu into the Undead Demiplane and asked Bibi Dong to protect her before continuing down the icy spring with Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Snow Empress found a hidden mechanism that opened a small door into a cave beyond the spring.
• Ice Empress recognized the cave’s walls as Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, and Shu Yan concluded that a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave lay nearby.
• Shu Yan said he hoped to forge a Divine Artifact from the crystals, while Snow Empress explained the rare Ice Spirits within them.
• Shu Yan, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress gathered nearly all the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals in the cave.
• Snow Empress proposed that they continue deeper toward the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave and offered to protect Shu Yan from its extreme cold.