Chapter Summaries

Shu Yan, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress descended into the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave and found a trove of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. They agreed to divide the harvest, and Snow Empress prepared to help Shu Yan absorb some to reach rank sixty while preserving the excess energy for his future cultivation.

• Snow Empress led Shu Yan and Ice Empress through the freezing spring toward the cave, while Ice Empress shielded Shu Yan from the extreme cold.
• The three entered the small cave near absolute zero, where Shu Yan found the chill beneficial to his cultivation.
• Ice Empress discovered roughly forty-five pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and excitedly celebrated their find.
• Snow Empress proposed dividing the marrow and told Shu Yan that she and Ice Empress trusted him and valued his help.
• Snow Empress advised Shu Yan to absorb two pieces to reach rank sixty and offered to seal excess energy within his origin for future cultivation.

Shu Yan endured the energy of nearly eight pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow as Snow Empress sealed the remaining power into his body for gradual cultivation. Afterward, Ice Empress asked Snow Empress whether she liked her, and Snow Empress admitted she could not tell whether her feelings were friendship or love.

• Snow Empress helped Shu Yan merge seven pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow into his Soul Power and origin without absorbing all their energy at once.
• Shu Yan endured the energy and gradually refined what he could, while the remaining power settled in his Soul Power and meridians for future cultivation.
• After a day, Shu Yan's Soul Power broke through, and Snow Empress stopped guiding another piece of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow into him.
• Ice Empress praised Shu Yan's constitution, and Snow Empress credited his Life Energy and the Snow Lotus origin for his resilience.
• Ice Empress asked Snow Empress whether she liked her, and Snow Empress said she did but could not distinguish her feelings from their long friendship.

After Shu Yan woke in the emptied Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, the Snow Empress said she and the Ice Empress would return to the Extreme North Land after helping him hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Void Predator. Back at the Earth Dragon Gate, the Snow Empress offered Nan Shui Shui compensation and promised to provide a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

• Shu Yan woke to find the Snow Empress troubled and the Ice Empress sulking, then teased the Ice Empress until the Snow Empress calmed her down.
• The Snow Empress said she and the Ice Empress would absorb the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow in the Extreme North Land and prepare for Heavenly Tribulation after helping Shu Yan hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Void Predator.
• Nan Shui Shui waited a day and night by the well, worried about the outsiders in her sect's secret grounds.
• Shu Yan, the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and Nan Qiu Qiu emerged from the well, and the Snow Empress offered Nan Shui Shui compensation for what they had taken.
• Nan Qiu Qiu asked for a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and the Snow Empress agreed to deliver one so they would be even.

Nan Shui Shui punished Nan Qiu Qiu for letting her pride endanger Earth Dragon Gate, while Shu Yan and his companions traveled toward the Extreme North Land. Shu Yan revealed that he planned to take Xu Jiujiu to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, leaving the group eager to see what treasures awaited them.

• Nan Shui Shui scolded Nan Qiu Qiu for challenging powerful guests and risking the sect, then ordered her to cultivate at Fallen Dragon Cliff for a month.
• Nan Qiu Qiu fainted after hearing that leaving Fallen Dragon Cliff early would increase her punishment.
• Shu Yan told Xu Jiujiu that the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and Snow Empress's help had enabled his breakthrough to Soul Emperor.
• Shu Yan promised to take Xu Jiujiu to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye and described Immortal Herbs that could benefit her Star Crown Martial Soul.
• Xu Jiujiu recognized the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye from ancient records, while Ice Empress dismissed Shu Yan's boast that he was smarter than her.

After returning to the Extreme North Land, the Snow Empress gave Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to its powerful guardians and introduced Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu to Little White. Xu Jiujiu learned why Little White was absent from the humans’ Top Ten Fierce Beasts ranking and was left contemplating the terrifying power hidden behind Di Tian.

• The Snow Empress brought Xu Jiujiu to the Core Circle and gave portions of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to Little White, the Ice Bear King, and the Titan Snow Demon King.
• After the Titan Snow Demon King left, the Snow Empress introduced Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu to Little White and asked him to look after them.
• At Shu Yan’s suggestion, Little White changed into human form, then called the Snow Empress “Mom,” surprising the others.
• Xu Jiujiu asked why Little White was not on the Top Ten Fierce Beasts ranking, and the Ice Empress explained the Snow Empress’s orders, Little White’s reluctance to share her fame, and the ranking’s limits.
• Xu Jiujiu recalled Di Tian’s overwhelming strength and realized that an even more terrifying power lay behind him in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Ice Empress and Snow Empress tracked down the Void Predator, hoping to kill it so it could become Shu Yan’s sixth soul ring. While they pursued it, Xu Jiujiu told Shu Yan the legend of how the Star Crown Martial Soul originated, leaving them to wonder whether her own martial soul might evolve in a similar way.

• The Snow Empress explained that the Void Predator stayed within the Mixed Circle, and the Ice Empress sensed its faint aura to the west.
• The Void Predator fled after the Ice Empress approached, but her lingering Soul Power let her track it as she froze its silver slashes.
• The Snow Empress told Shu Yan to protect Xu Jiujiu while she and the Ice Empress joined forces to cut off the Void Predator’s escape.
• Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu waited on a snowy slope, where Xu Jiujiu described how her sect’s ancestor gained Starlight Power and founded the Star Crown lineage.

Shu Yan learned more about the Star Crown Sect’s origins before absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Razor Mantis’s soul ring as Snow Empress and Ice Empress grilled chicken wings nearby. In his Sea of Consciousness, Electrolux subdued the Razor Mantis’s resentment and made it his pet.

• Xu Jiujiu explained that her ancestor had Devoured most of Star Gathering Valley’s Starlight Power and that the sect believed the starry sky might be the Star Crown Martial Soul’s evolved form.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress returned with an unconscious Razor Mantis and joined Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu at the grill before urging Shu Yan to absorb its soul ring and Soul Bone.
• Shu Yan began absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Razor Mantis’s soul ring, and his body withstood the violent energy without any major changes.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress continued grilling while trusting the presence in Shu Yan’s Sea of Consciousness to handle the Razor Mantis’s soul resentment.
• Electrolux subdued the Razor Mantis’s resentment and persuaded it to become his pet to survive.

After absorbing his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Shu Yan gained a powerful space-warp ability and a silver-white Right Leg Bone, then returned to the Core Circle to prepare for the Soul Bone. As Snow Empress and Ice Empress refined the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, their feared calamity drew near.

• Shu Yan absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, reached Soul Power Level sixty-three, and demonstrated an instant Space Warp that could carry Xu Jiujiu.
• Ice Empress discussed the difficulty of mastering Space Power through a Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core, and Snow Empress gave Shu Yan the silver-white Right Leg Bone.
• Shu Yan returned with the others to the Core Circle and planned to stabilize his Soul Power before absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Space Source Right Leg Bone.
• Shu Yan planned for Xu Jiujiu to receive several Immortal Herbs and decided to wait for Chrysanthemum Douluo's advice about how many she could consume.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress began refining the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, while Little White guarded Snow Empress Palace and Xu Jiujiu's Soul Power rose to level forty-six.
• Subtle changes appeared in Snow Empress and Ice Empress as the great calamity they feared seemed imminent.

Snow Empress survived her Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation with serious injuries, while Ice Empress passed her Four Hundred Thousand Year tribulation. Shu Yan gave both of them Living Gold to aid their recovery, and the chapter ended with Ice Empress demanding that Shu Yan call her sister.

• Snow Empress began her Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation as Shu Yan, Xu Jiujiu, and Little White watched from a nearby mountain.
• Ice Empress underwent her Four Hundred Thousand Year Great Tribulation elsewhere and emerged with only superficial wounds.
• Snow Empress endured the final combined lightning bolts, surviving with internal injuries but without damage to her origin.
• Shu Yan gave Snow Empress a drop of Living Gold and explained how to use it to recover.
• Ice Empress arrived soot-covered, fought with Shu Yan, and accepted a drop of Living Gold from him.
• Ice Empress insisted that Shu Yan call her sister, but he teased her about her height.

Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu spent the night together, and Shu Yan apologized for withholding a portion of the Living Gold until it was stable. Xu Jiujiu reassured him, then warned him about the women he might attract and revealed that she had noticed Snow Empress's special feelings toward him.

• Xu Jiujiu returned from the snow mountains with Little White, and Shu Yan finished absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Space Source Right Leg Bone, reaching Soul Power Level sixty-five.
• Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu became intimate in a side hall while Snow Empress and Ice Empress recovered in the main hall.
• Afterward, Shu Yan explained why he had not shared the Living Gold sooner, and Xu Jiujiu told him she trusted his reasons and would stand behind him.
• Xu Jiujiu described how Shu Yan had changed as he grew up and told him she expected him to attract other women.
• Xu Jiujiu said she had noticed Snow Empress's unusual care for Shu Yan and believed Snow Empress felt more than sisterly affection.

Xu Jiujiu and Shu Yan enjoyed their time together while the Snow Empress and Ice Empress recovered in seclusion, and Xu Jiujiu shared stories about her brother’s romantic past and a rare Star Dragon. The chapter ended with Xu Jiujiu eagerly pulling Shu Yan back to bed and demanding that he satisfy her every day.

• Xu Jiujiu comforted a tired Shu Yan and teased him about failing to moderate himself.
• Xu Jiujiu told Shu Yan that Xu Jiawei had past romantic entanglements, including ties to the powerful Sea Soul Master Huanhai Family.
• Xu Jiujiu recounted how Xu Jiawei’s search for a nearly ninety-thousand-year-old Star Dragon had yielded only a giant scale.
• Shu Yan suggested that he and Xu Jiujiu could visit the Star Dou Great Forest to find rare soul beasts.
• Xu Jiujiu pulled Shu Yan toward the ice bed, admitted she had become addicted to intimacy, and demanded he fulfill his daily quota.

After recovering from their injuries, Snow Empress and Ice Empress celebrated their breakthroughs, and Shu Yan assessed their combat strength. Snow Empress privately teased Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu about what she had seen, leaving Ice Empress confused.

• Ice Empress and Snow Empress rose after recovering, celebrating their breakthroughs to four hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu emerged together, and Ice Empress playfully scolded Shu Yan for sleeping in.
• Shu Yan explained that Snow Empress had reached Quasi-God strength within the Extreme North Land, while Ice Empress could contend with a Quasi-Demigod there.
• Snow Empress reflected on Di Tian's strength and remembered what she had witnessed through her Spiritual Power.
• Snow Empress teased Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu about showing restraint, embarrassing Xu Jiujiu and confusing Ice Empress.

Shu Yan’s group left the Extreme North Land with several Soul Bones, including an External Soul Bone, and returned to Dragon City to give Nan Shui Shui the promised hundred-thousand-year Ice Plains Mammoth Torso Bone. Nan Shui Shui warned Nan Qiu Qiu to keep it secret and, after hearing her daughter’s admiration for Shu Yan, told her she could try to become his concubine if they met again.

• Little White and the Titan Snow Demon King stayed behind to refine the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and prepare for their Heavenly Tribulations.
• Snow Empress took the Ice Plains Mammoth Torso Bone, and Shu Yan gathered additional Soul Bones from the Ice Bear and Ice Scorpion clans.
• Snow Empress returned with an Ice Fox tail External Soul Bone, which pleased Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu for different reasons.
• Shu Yan’s group reached Dragon City and Snow Empress delivered the hundred-thousand-year Ice Plains Mammoth Torso Bone to Nan Shui Shui and Nan Qiu Qiu.
• Nan Shui Shui confirmed the Soul Bone’s value and warned Nan Qiu Qiu to keep its existence secret.
• Nan Qiu Qiu admitted she liked Shu Yan, and Nan Shui Shui told her she could try to become his concubine if they met again.

Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu toured Heaven Dou City, reflecting on the empire’s military vulnerability and its old ties to the Tang Sect. As evening fell, they planned to stay overnight and visit Sunset Forest the next day, while Shu Yan treasured the happiness he shared with Xu Jiujiu, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress.

• Shu Yan considered how Heaven Dou’s open terrain and military weakness left the empire vulnerable to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Shu Yan and his companions landed in Heaven Dou City and strolled through its old-fashioned streets, where Xu Jiujiu recalled the city’s former glory.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that visiting Vina without diplomatic arrangements could be mistaken for a political act and threaten relations between their empires.
• Xu Jiujiu asked about the Tang Sect’s former headquarters in Heaven Dou City, and Shu Yan dismissed the sect for clinging to outdated hidden weapons.
• The Ice Empress demanded dinner at Tianteng Grand Hotel, and Shu Yan agreed before proposing they stay the night and travel to Sunset Forest the next day.
• Shu Yan watched Xu Jiujiu, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress walk ahead together and reflected that protecting his loved ones’ happiness had become central to his goals.

Ice Empress was turned away by Snow Empress and took over Shu Yan and Xu Jiujiu’s bed, while Snow Empress concealed her feelings from Shu Yan the next morning. After breakfast, Shu Yan explained the dangers of their upcoming journey to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, and Snow Empress and Ice Empress prepared to confront the Immortal Herbs.

• Snow Empress sent Ice Empress away from her room, so Ice Empress barged into Shu Yan’s suite and claimed the bed for the night.
• Shu Yan agreed to meditate on the sofa while Ice Empress and Xu Jiujiu slept in the bed together.
• The next morning, Snow Empress denied that anything was wrong, and Shu Yan went to get breakfast for everyone.
• After breakfast, Shu Yan outlined the dangers surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
• Snow Empress vowed to cut down any Immortal Herbs that resisted, while Ice Empress eagerly prepared for a fight and Xu Jiujiu decided to rely on her powerful companions.

Shu Yan, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Xu Jiujiu traveled through Sunset Forest’s poisonous barriers toward a canyon, using Extreme Ice to cross the deadly plants and clouds. They reached the canyon’s depths and discovered a beautiful, life-filled realm hidden beneath the poison.

• Shu Yan explained Sunset Forest’s miasma and identified the canyon as their destination, while Snow Empress and Ice Empress gave Xu Jiujiu Extreme Ice protection.
• Snow Empress opened a path through the poisonous barrier, and the group descended into the forest, where they found increasingly deadly miasma and evidence that it was being artificially controlled.
• Shu Yan warned the group that the Jade Phosphorous Seven Absolute Flowers and Nine Absolute Flowers could coordinate a dangerous poison attack, so Ice Empress used her weakened Eternal Frost Domain to guide them through.
• Snow Empress cut through the poisonous vines as the group descended into the canyon, where the poison vanished and a life-filled realm of dense elemental power appeared.

Shu Yan, Xu Jiujiu, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye and encountered its powerful Immortal Herbs. After Snow Empress and Ice Empress suppressed the plants, Shu Yan prepared to make use of them.

• Shu Yan and the others arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, where they were astonished by its abundant treasures and powerful plant-type soul beasts.
• They met Youyou, the hundred-thousand-year Aromatic Silk Beauty, who introduced the treasured land and offered them benefits.
• Shu Yan threatened the Immortal Herbs, and Snow Empress unleashed her power to terrify and suppress them.
• Ice Empress silenced Youyou and told Shu Yan to handle the remaining Immortal Herbs as he wished.
• Shu Yan said he intended to put the Immortal Herbs to full use, leaving the three women wary of his villainous-sounding laugh.

Shu Yan subdued the Immortal Herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye and obtained a Hundred-Thousand-Year Star Luo Spirit Pearl for Xu Jiujiu. He then forced Aromatic Silk Beauty to agree to sacrifice herself to Xu Jiujiu, who accepted after Shu Yan explained that the sacrifice would prepare her for stronger Soul Rings.

• Snow Empress sealed the Soul Power of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Immortal Herbs, leaving them unable to resist Shu Yan.
• Shu Yan made Aromatic Silk Beauty reveal the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, and she retrieved the herb for him.
• Shu Yan gave the Star Luo Spirit Pearl to Xu Jiujiu and explained its compatibility with her and its potential as a future Soul Core.
• Snow Empress sealed the other conscious Immortal Herbs, while Shu Yan offered Aromatic Silk Beauty a chance to live if she sacrificed herself to Xu Jiujiu.
• Ice Empress threatened Aromatic Silk Beauty until she agreed to the sacrifice.
• Xu Jiujiu worried that she was not ready to absorb a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but Shu Yan reassured her and she agreed to follow his plan.

Xu Jiujiu absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty, broke through Rank 50, and began evolving her Star Crown Martial Soul while Shu Yan and Snow Empress harvested the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye’s treasures. After Shu Yan used the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Snow Empress sensed something strange beneath the Extreme Cold Yin Spring.

• The Aromatic Silk Beauty entered Xu Jiujiu, helping her break through Rank 50 and causing her Star Crown Martial Soul to begin evolving.
• Shu Yan and Snow Empress decided to drain the sentient hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs of their stored essence while leaving them alive, and to collect the non-sentient herbs.
• Ice Empress brought Shu Yan a haul of hundred-thousand-year Immortal Herbs, then searched for the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew at his request.
• Shu Yan and Snow Empress stripped the sentient Immortal Herbs of their reserves and a small amount of origin power, leaving them weakened and barely able to fight.
• Ice Empress returned with the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Shu Yan used its liquid on his eyes before entering meditation.
• Snow Empress went to the Extreme Cold Yin Spring and sensed that something beneath it was wrong.

After improving his Spiritual Power with Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Shu Yan persuaded Snow Empress to explore the Extreme Cold Yin Spring with him. They discovered the Water Dragon King's corpse beneath the spring, and Bibi Dong arrived through a spatial portal as they approached it.

• Shu Yan finished absorbing Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and Snow Empress gave him an Octagonal Black Ice Crystal to raise his Soul Power.
• Shu Yan told Snow Empress that the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King were buried beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, then persuaded her to descend with him.
• Shu Yan and Snow Empress dove through the Extreme Cold Yin Spring, sharing the pressure as Snow Empress took his hand.
• Shu Yan and Snow Empress emerged near the Water Dragon King's enormous corpse and felt its overwhelming pressure and attraction.
• Electrolux opened a spatial portal beside Shu Yan and Snow Empress, and Bibi Dong stepped through and looked at the Dragon Corpse.