Chapter Summaries

Li Zhexian revealed his monstrous fourth Spirit Ring while fighting to protect his companions as Spirit Hall’s forces overwhelmed them. After taking a powerful blow to save Zhu Zhuqing, he summoned his long-hidden Wine Martial Soul and revealed its support ability.

• Li Zhexian’s fourth Spirit Ring appeared, stunning the battlefield and drawing praise from his allies and enemies.
• Bibi Dong’s killing intent toward Li Zhexian intensified, but the Rakshasa power within her stopped her aura from breaking through, and the Title Douluo battle resumed.
• With Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong nearly exhausted, Li Zhexian used his swords to protect his companions as the academy teams advanced toward the mountain pass.
• Li Zhexian pulled Zhu Zhuqing out of a Soul Douluo’s attack and took the blow himself, causing blood to spread across his Spirit Ring and three Azure Lotus Imprints to turn red.
• Li Zhexian summoned the Clear Spring Wine Gourd, drank from it, and revealed his second Martial Soul, the Wine Martial Soul.

Li Zhexian revealed that his wine pot was a second Martial Soul, astonishing the battlefield and prompting Bibi Dong to order Spirit Hall to kill him at any cost. As the seven Title Douluo resumed their battle, three figures atop God Mountain watched, and Guang Ling Douluo considered intervening before Qian Jun and Jiang Mo stopped him.

• Li Zhexian revealed his Twin Martial Souls, sword and wine, leaving Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the other witnesses stunned.
• The seven Title Douluo broke away from their clash and reacted with shock to Li Zhexian's second Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong recognized Li Zhexian as a threat to Spirit Hall and ordered its forces to kill him.
• The seven Title Douluo unleashed their Soul Rings and resumed their fight to the death above God Mountain.
• Qian Jun and Jiang Mo stopped Guang Ling Douluo from firing an ice crossbow at Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Qian Jun noted that Clear Sky had yet to intervene.

Li Zhexian used his Wine Martial Soul to restore his allies and lead them toward the mountain pass, despite the strain on his own Soul Power. After Bai Baoshan and a Skywater Academy Soul Douluo died holding back the Spirit Hall, Li Zhexian killed Yan, and a Heaven Dou City Spirit Master recorded the fallen in blood.

• Li Zhexian shared Jade Nectar with his allies, restoring their strength and helping them advance toward the mountain pass.
• Qian Renxue and Zhu Zhuqing supported Li Zhexian as his Soul Power dwindled, but he continued fighting at their side.
• Bai Baoshan used his Eighth Soul Skill to divert the enemies' attacks and died in an explosion that took five Soul Douluo with him.
• A Skywater Academy Soul Douluo died holding off two opponents, and Dugu Yan and Shui Bing'er led their teams in a grief-stricken charge.
• Li Zhexian broke through Yan's defenses and killed him, then picked up Bai Baoshan's Heavenly Star Furnace fragments and the broken Ice Crystal Spear.
• A Heaven Dou City Spirit Master wrote an account of the fallen, including Bai Baoshan and the Skywater Academy Soul Douluo.

Feng Bailong drew on more than a decade of Wind Sword Intent to wound Bibi Dong, who revealed her second Martial Soul and trapped the four Title Douluo. While Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo froze the battlefield with their fusion skill, Bibi Dong struck Li Zhexian, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Dugu Bo, Yu Yuanzhen, and Chen Xin attacked Bibi Dong and her allies, but Bibi Dong deflected their blows while protecting Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo.
• Feng Bailong drew his sword and unleashed a wind-blade tornado that tore through Bibi Dong's defenses and wounded her severely.
• Bibi Dong revealed her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor Martial Soul and trapped Dugu Bo, Yu Yuanzhen, Chen Xin, and Feng Bailong in poisonous spider silk.
• Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Two Poles Static Domain, to freeze the battlefield as Bibi Dong struggled against the backlash of her Rakshasa God Trial.
• Bibi Dong used her remaining soul power to appear before Li Zhexian and strike his chest, shattering his bones and tearing through his body.

Bibi Dong’s full-force palm strike left Li Zhexian apparently dead, plunging his allies into grief. His Fourth Soul Ring then dissolved into his body and activated the forbidden Life Tribulation Rebirth, raising him within a sinister blood-red light as Bibi Dong faced him again.

• Bibi Dong’s attack sent Li Zhexian crashing into the ground, and his friends and allies rushed toward his motionless, bloodied body.
• Dai Mubai secretly rejoiced at Li Zhexian’s apparent death, while Tang San felt conflicted and four Title Douluo charged toward the fallen youth.
• Li Zhexian’s Fourth Soul Ring turned blood-red and began melting onto his shattered body.
• Qian Renxue recognized the forbidden Spirit Skill Life Tribulation Rebirth and desperately tried to stop Li Zhexian from using it.
• Li Zhexian rose into the air wrapped in blood-red light, leaving his allies alarmed as Bibi Dong faced him with a cold smile.

Li Zhexian used Life Tribulation Rebirth, Three Swords of Splendor, and Wine-Boiling Sword Cry to unleash a final attack on Bibi Dong. His Azure Lotus Sword pierced her heart and nailed her to the God Mountain, while Li Zhexian’s own figure began to fade.

• Li Zhexian activated Life Tribulation Rebirth despite knowing it would make his shattered body’s injuries erupt.
• Li Zhexian combined Life Tribulation Rebirth with Three Swords of Splendor and Wine-Boiling Sword Cry, unleashing a blood-colored sword attack at Bibi Dong.
• A Giant Staff and an icy arrow blasted Ghost Charm and Chrysanthemum Douluo away, leaving the wounded Bibi Dong exposed.
• Bibi Dong summoned the Death Spider Emperor and struck back with a Rakshasa scythe blade, but Li Zhexian’s sword shattered it.
• Li Zhexian’s Azure Lotus Sword pierced Bibi Dong’s heart and pinned her to the mountainside, as his figure began to fade.

Li Zhexian’s body shattered after the battle, and Bibi Dong emerged from her husk, forcing the survivors to flee. As his friends despaired over his fading life, Zhu Zhuqing revealed a Lovesick Heartbreak Red and asked Dugu Bo if it could save him.

• Li Zhexian fell with his body cracked and withered, while Bibi Dong’s ninth Soul Ring erupted and Dugu Bo evacuated the Academy Teams.
• Bibi Dong crawled out of her shattered body, recognized Tang San, and ordered Spirit Hall to search for Li Zhexian alive or dead.
• The survivors gathered in a secluded valley, where Ye Lingling’s healing failed and Dugu Bo declared that he could do nothing to save Li Zhexian.
• Chen Xin found an Angel Auspicious Feather preserving Li Zhexian’s last trace of life, and Dugu Bo searched his Hundred Treasures Pouch for a life-restoring Immortal Flower.
• Zhu Zhuqing offered Dugu Bo a bloodstained Lovesick Heartbreak Red and asked whether it could save Li Zhexian.

Zhu Zhuqing used the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and her heart's blood to revive Li Zhexian, collapsing as her life ran out. Li Zhexian awoke and began searching his Brewing Record for an Immortal Brew that could save her.

• Dugu Bo explained that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red could revive the dead but only its chosen owner could use its power.
• Zhu Zhuqing fed Li Zhexian the flower's petals with her heart's blood, recalling their past as her strength and hair faded.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Li Zhexian the final petal and collapsed; Dugu Bo gave her a pill while Ye Lingling tried to heal her.
• The Lovesick Heartbreak Red revived Li Zhexian, who woke to find Zhu Zhuqing near death and became distraught.
• Li Zhexian entered his consciousness and searched the Brewing Record for an Immortal Brew that could replenish the heart and extend life.

Li Zhexian discovered a way to save Zhu Zhuqing and vowed to find the three rare ingredients needed to make the life-restoring elixir. As their companions departed, he and Qian Renxue shared a quiet, unfinished farewell.

• Li Zhexian found the recipe for Heart's Blood Tears · Life Replenishing Elixir, which required Deity's Heart Blood, Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, and Yellow Springs Dew.
• Li Zhexian promised to find the ingredients, while Xiao Wu offered to guard Zhu Zhuqing at the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Zhexian and the others made a Five Year Agreement to reunite at Shanxiangfang, then the academy teams and their companions parted ways.
• Li Zhexian handed Zhu Zhuqing to Xiao Wu and approached Qian Renxue, who asked him to cure Zhu Zhuqing.

Qian Renxue left Li Zhexian determined to become a god, while he reached the Star Dou Forest and entrusted the weakened Zhu Zhuqing to Xiao Wu after Er Ming refused to let humans approach the Lake of Life. Back in Heaven Dou City, a storyteller received a grim battle report about Lord Sword Wine and took the stage in a faded robe.

• Qian Renxue kissed Li Zhexian, asked him to remember her and meet again in five years, then flew toward Spirit Hall resolved to become a god.
• Li Zhexian and his companions entered the Star Dou Forest, where Er Ming appeared and challenged the humans accompanying Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu explained that Zhu Zhuqing needed the Lake of Life to recover, but Er Ming barred Li Zhexian and the others from approaching it.
• Li Zhexian entrusted Zhu Zhuqing to Xiao Wu, then parted from her and the two Title Douluo to continue his search alone.
• A messenger brought Heaven Dou City a sealed battle report about Lord Sword Wine, and the storyteller read it before appearing in a faded green robe, saying his red robe was too bright.

A Heaven Dou storyteller prepared to travel with a Spirit Master and spread the truth about Lord Sword Wine’s death. One month later, in a snowy tavern in the Northern Territory, a landlady approached an unfamiliar young man.

• The storyteller finished recounting Lord Sword Wine’s victory over the Pope and told his family he would travel through Heaven Dou and Star Luo to preserve the truth.
• A Spirit Master who had witnessed the events outside the Papal Palace offered to protect the storyteller and join his journey.
• The storyteller accepted, and the two set out to tell Lord Sword Wine’s story across the continent.
• One month later, a landlady in a Northern Territory tavern spoke to an unfamiliar young man dressed in a bamboo hat and heavy black fur.

Li Zhexian stopped at a black inn on the Northern Territory’s Black Path, where the landlady and four mercenaries tried to drug and kill him. After cutting them down, he sat to cultivate as his Azure Lotus Sword Mark appeared and his withered sword intent spread.

• Li Zhexian entered a tavern and noticed the landlady and four men discussing the Spirit Hall bounty on him.
• The four men recognized his portrait but failed to identify him, and the landlady warned him to eat quickly and leave.
• The landlady drugged Li Zhexian’s wine, and the four men smashed his table and attacked him with a cleaver.
• Li Zhexian told the five attackers to turn around, then killed them with a sweep of dark sword light.
• Li Zhexian reflected that this was the fourth black inn he had encountered on the Black Path, then sat cross-legged to cultivate as his Azure Lotus Sword Mark appeared.

Li Zhexian comprehended Death Sword Intent and completed the Azure Lotus Sword Song’s fifth form, then traveled to the Northern Territory in search of Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow. After joining the Snow Bear Mercenary Group under the alias Li Ji, he encountered Oscar among a batch of newcomers to Rin Blade Town.

• Li Zhexian comprehended Death Sword Intent and completed the fifth form, Netherworld Shore, erasing the vitality of five corpses in the tavern.
• Li Zhexian traveled to Skywater Academy, paid his respects to the teacher who had died because of him, and left Immortal Brew for Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er.
• Shui Yue'er recognized Li Zhexian’s wine, and Shui Bing'er said they should watch for news of Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow and help him if they heard of it.
• Li Zhexian joined the Snow Bear Mercenary Group, became known as Li Ji, and rose to captain while searching for Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow.
• Li Zhexian went to inspect newcomers being recruited in town and recognized Oscar among them.

Li Zhexian recruited Oscar into the Snow Bear Mercenary Group after the other captains rejected him, warning him to keep up on missions. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue struggled up the Light Stairway toward the Angel Statue, leaving her trial unfinished.

• The mercenary captains chose newcomers for their teams and left Oscar alone because he was a Food-type Spirit Master.
• Li Zhexian called Oscar over and took him into his team, surprising the other captains.
• Oscar followed Li Zhexian to a tavern, thanked him over drinks, and promised not to let him down.
• Li Zhexian warned Oscar not to hinder the team on missions and said someone would protect him while he supported them.
• Qian Renxue climbed the Light Stairway toward the Angel Statue, struggling but continuing upward.

Qian Renxue endured the Angel God Trial while the Great Enshrined explained that he had allowed her to begin early to prepare her for its test of mortal affection. Realizing Li Zhexian may have known Xue Qinghe was her identity all along, she vowed to complete the trial and go to his side; the story then jumped ahead one year and five months.

• Qian Renxue repeatedly climbed the Divine Staircase of Light, collapsing from exhaustion after reaching roughly seven hundred steps.
• The six Elders worried that Qian Renxue had abandoned her infiltration plan to pursue the God Trial because of Li Zhexian.
• The Great Enshrined told the Elders he had allowed Qian Renxue to begin the trial early to lessen the difficulty of its test of mortal affection.
• Qian Renxue looked at the Morning Light Rose and Straw Grasshopper and realized Li Zhexian might have seen them together and known Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue vowed to pass the First Trial of the Angel and go help Li Zhexian, who was in the Northern Territory and the City of Slaughter.

After reaching Soul Power level fifty, Li Zhexian considered entering the Far North’s core region in search of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow. As Snow Bear began telling him about the legend of the Snow Woman, a quake struck Ice Seal Forest, and they saw a massive avalanche in the distance.

• Li Zhexian silently hunted down a four-thousand-year Ice Thorn Bear and returned to the Snow Bear Mercenary Group’s camp.
• He reflected on his fruitless search for the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow and resolved that his level-fifty Soul Power might let him venture into the Far North’s core.
• Oscar shared bear fat with Li Zhexian and expressed his gratitude for being saved by him during their year and a half together.
• Snow Bear told Li Zhexian that his talent was wasted in the mercenary group, then began recalling his own journey into the Far North.
• Li Zhexian asked Snow Bear about the core region, and Snow Bear asked whether he had heard the legend of the Snow Woman.
• A sudden earthquake threw the camp into chaos, and Li Zhexian and Snow Bear climbed a tree to witness a huge avalanche roaring down an iceberg.

After an avalanche devastated the Ice Seal Forest, Li Zhexian learned that the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow had been discovered in the Far North and that mercenary groups were preparing to claim it. Snow Bear then recounted seeing a young girl worshipped by terrifying Spirit Beasts, leaving Li Zhexian convinced that the Snow Woman legend was real.

• Li Zhexian and Snow Bear led the Snow Bear Mercenary Group out of the avalanche, but thirteen men died and other mercenary groups suffered heavy losses.
• Li Zhexian heard that the Ice Edge Mercenary Group had nearly been wiped out while hunting a ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast and that it had discovered a Spiritual Object.
• Li Zhexian learned that the Spiritual Object was the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, while Frost Fang, Eternal Frozen Rose, and other mercenary groups began gathering forces to pursue it.
• Snow Bear told Li Zhexian that, during an expedition into the Far North, he had seen powerful Spirit Beasts worshipping a young girl atop a snow mound.
• Li Zhexian told Snow Bear that he believed his account of the Snow Woman.

Shui Bing'er and six Skywater Academy girls traveled to Rin Blade Town to seek the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow and reunite with Li Zhexian. After meeting him in a crowded tavern, they joined the mercenary expedition setting out for the depths of the Far North.

• Shui Bing'er decided to leave for Rin Blade Town after learning the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow had appeared in the Extreme North Land, and Shui Yue'er and Xue Wu chose to accompany her.
• Li Zhexian entered a packed tavern with Oscar, and the crowd made way for him as Snow Bear's vice captain.
• Li Zhexian chose a table occupied by Shui Bing'er and six other Skywater Academy girls, and Oscar recognized them from the Soul Master Competition.
• Shui Yue'er complained that Li Zhexian had sent wine without showing himself, while Li Zhexian warned Shui Bing'er that the Far North's depths were dangerous.
• At first light, Li Zhexian, Shui Bing'er, and the other mercenary squads set out toward the depths of the Far North.

Li Zhexian and the mercenaries searched Avalanche Mountain for the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, but the treasure proved to be bait for a colossal beast buried beneath the snow. Li Zhexian escaped with Shui Bing'er, the other seven, and Oscar as the beast emerged, while the mercenaries who rushed for the treasure were caught in its attack.

• Li Zhexian suspected the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow’s sudden appearance was a trap, but he continued toward Avalanche Mountain with the mercenaries.
• After reaching the mountain, Snow Bear, Frost Fang, and the captain of Eternal Frozen Rose agreed that whoever found the marrow first could claim it.
• The mercenaries searched through the day, and a blue radiance burst from the Frost Fang Mercenary Group’s position at night.
• Li Zhexian sensed danger and ordered Shui Bing'er, the other seven, Oscar, and his own men to retreat as the mercenaries charged toward the marrow.
• A massive paw erupted from beneath the snow, seized the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, and crushed dozens of mercenaries.
• Li Zhexian used ropes and Oscar’s Extreme Speed Flight Sausage to lift himself and the others above the rising snow, revealing that they had been standing on the colossal beast.

The Titan Snow Demon King attacked Li Zhexian, Oscar, and Shui Bing'er’s group, overwhelming their attempts to escape. As it moved to crush Shui Bing'er, Li Zhexian finally drew the Azure Lotus Sword and rushed to protect her.

• The Titan Snow Demon King revealed itself, and Li Zhexian identified it as one of the Three Kings of the Extreme North with two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• The beast froze Captain Frost Fang and dozens of mercenaries, then forced Li Zhexian and the others out of the sky with its blizzard.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu used their Martial Soul Fusion to summon an Ice Crystal phoenix, but the Snow Demon King shattered it with its breath.
• Li Zhexian ordered the group to jump, and they narrowly escaped the beast’s crushing palm as Shui Bing'er recognized him.
• The Snow Demon King swung at Shui Bing'er, and Li Zhexian summoned the Azure Lotus Sword and charged between her and the attack.