Chapter Summaries

Xue Lingyun awakened the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remnant souls at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and learned that the springs originated from their fallen essence. After both Dragon Kings acknowledged him, he declared the valley his home and the Immortal Herbs his guests.

• Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass recognized that Xue Lingyun’s ice shared the spring’s origin and allowed him to approach.
• Xue Lingyun touched the Cold Extreme Yin Spring, awakening the Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul, which shared its grief, resolve, bond with the Fire Dragon King, and relief at finding him.
• The Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul rose from the Yang Spring and acknowledged Xue Lingyun, while the Immortal Herbs realized the valley was the Dragon Kings’ burial ground.
• Xue Lingyun told the Immortal Herbs that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was his home and that they were guests, not servants of Tang San.

Xue Lingyun persuaded Youyou and the other Immortal Herbs to consider becoming willing Wisdom Soul Rings, offering them a chance to leave the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and escape its recurring Heavenly Tribulations. Youyou agreed to become his Fourth Soul Ring, and Xue Lingyun began the process while the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot agreed to wait for him to return for them together.

• Xue Lingyun explained that a willing Soul Beast could become a Wisdom Soul Ring and introduced the Ice Empress as proof that her consciousness had survived.
• Xue Lingyun described the Immortal Herbs' danger from future Heavenly Tribulations and argued that Tang San had left them to guard his Herb Garden without offering them protection.
• Xue Lingyun promised the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot he would return when he could take both as adjacent Ice and Fire Soul Rings, and they agreed to wait.
• Youyou asked about Xue Lingyun's goals and guarantees, then agreed to become his Fourth Soul Ring so her poison-neutralizing ability could support his Heart Martial Soul.
• Youyou offered her hundred-thousand-year cultivation as a pinkish-purple orb, and the Snow Empress established an isolation formation as Xue Lingyun prepared to absorb her.

Xue Lingyun guided Youyou’s energy into his body, Heart Martial Soul, and Dark Energy Vortex while preserving her Soul Origin. He anchored Youyou within his Heart Martial Soul, formed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Fourth Soul Ring, and rose to level 44.

• Xue Lingyun explained the energy-transfer process to Youyou, and she agreed to cooperate while Ice Empress monitored the flow.
• Xue Lingyun divided Youyou’s energy among his body, Heart Martial Soul, and Dark Energy Vortex, stopping each stream as it reached its limit.
• Youyou sealed the unused energy within her origin, and Xue Lingyun placed her Soul Origin in his Heart Martial Soul.
• Xue Lingyun compressed the remaining energy into a blood-red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, bringing his Soul Power from level 40 to level 44.
• Youyou awakened in Xue Lingyun’s Sea of Consciousness, confirmed that her soul remained intact, and rested while adapting to her new existence.

Xue Lingyun demonstrated the new abilities granted by Youyou, including a poison-neutralizing domain, temporary Soul Ring energy transfer, and energy restraint, before leaving the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Snow Empress and Xiao Bai. The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot agreed to wait for his return, while Xiao Bai departed with a very full belly after eating many ordinary Immortal Herbs.

• Youyou answered the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass from Xue Lingyun’s Sea of Consciousness, reassuring it that she was still present but tired.
• Xue Lingyun used Purifying Poison Domain to neutralize the poisons of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.
• Xue Lingyun transferred energy from his Second and Third Soul Rings into his First Soul Ring, briefly raising its power to ten thousand years, then restrained his Fourth Soul Ring’s energy to make it appear ten thousand years old.
• The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot agreed to wait for Xue Lingyun, who promised he would return before saying goodbye to the Dragon King Remnant Souls.
• While everyone watched Xue Lingyun, Xiao Bai ate leaves and tender stems from many ordinary Immortal Herbs, leaving their roots and flowers intact.
• Xue Lingyun, Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai left Sunset Forest through the Jade Phosphorus Flower Formation and poisonous miasma, while the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot remained beside the springs.

Xue Lingyun returned to the Ice Palace with Snow Empress and Xiao Bai, where Youyou emerged from his Sea of Consciousness to explore the Cultivation Room. He discovered that his transformed energy core could function as a second heart, but its power exceeded what his Soul Skills required.

• Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass discussed Youyou's departure and Infernal Delicate Apricot admitted that she approved of Xue Lingyun's Soul Skill.
• Snow Empress brought Xue Lingyun and an overfed Xiao Bai north to the Ice Palace, where Xue Lingyun checked on Youyou and found her soul origin recovering.
• Xue Lingyun guided Youyou's spirit body out of his Sea of Consciousness, and she explored the Cultivation Room while Ice Empress warned her not to drift far from him.
• Xue Lingyun found that his dark energy core had become a self-sustaining organ that could store Bloodline Power and operate separately from his Primal Heart.
• Xue Lingyun named the organ the Dark Demon Core and realized that his two hearts produced far more energy than his Soul Skills could use.

Xue Lingyun used the Dark Demon Core’s excess energy and his Spiritual Power to create a tangible energy Clone. After repeated attempts, he stabilized the humanoid body and made its movements increasingly coordinated, leaving him with his first Clone successfully formed.

• Xue Lingyun tried to shape energy from the Dark Demon Core into a Clone, but his first attempt dissipated.
• Xue Lingyun confined the energy with Spiritual Power and repeatedly molded it, learning to form a stable humanoid outline.
• Xue Lingyun divided the energy body into a torso and limbs, then practiced controlling its arms and legs independently.
• Xue Lingyun continued training through day and night as Xiao Bai, Snow Empress, Youyou, and Ice Empress watched or remained nearby.
• Xue Lingyun stabilized the energy body and improved its movements until he had condensed a Clone.

Xue Lingyun built Energy Circuits inside the Clone and trained himself to control its movements alongside his own. After merging their senses to overcome the Clone’s delayed reactions, he found that it matched his strength but its surface cracked under repeated blows.

• Xue Lingyun wove dense Energy Circuits through the Clone, stabilizing its body from torso to limbs and hands.
• Xue Lingyun divided his consciousness and practiced controlling the Clone’s arms, legs, and increasingly complex movements until it could move naturally.
• Xiao Bai and the Snow Empress briefly watched Xue Lingyun train, while Youyou and the Ice Empress remained silent in the Sea of Consciousness.
• Xue Lingyun sparred with the Clone and found its reactions lagged until he treated it as an extension of his own body and merged their senses.
• Xue Lingyun exchanged blows with the Clone and discovered that its strength matched his, but its surface cracked while his body remained unharmed.

Xue Lingyun tested the Dark Demon Core's Clone and found that it could match his strength, fight without tiring, share enhancements, and remain active for about two incense sticks. Ice Empress and Youyou both possessed it, and Youyou managed to walk a few unsteady steps before Xue Lingyun withdrew the Clone and left the Cultivation Room.

• Xue Lingyun tested the Clone's combat ability, endurance, response to his injuries, and shared enhancement, then found that it consumed more than half the Dark Demon Core's energy after one incense stick and dissipated after two.
• Xue Lingyun restored the Dark Demon Core's energy and explained the Clone's strengths and limits to Youyou and Ice Empress.
• Xue Lingyun opened the energy channel and let Ice Empress possess the Clone, where she demonstrated sharper moves and judged its energy body too fragile for its power.
• Xue Lingyun helped Youyou possess the Clone, and she cautiously learned to take a few steps before withdrawing, exhausted but more confident.
• Xue Lingyun withdrew the Clone, reflected on its combat uses and limitations, and left the Cultivation Room.

Xue Lingyun stayed in the Far North and read Tang San’s Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, weighing how to maintain independence from Shrek and other powers. After studying its medicine and poison techniques, he told Youyou he would fight for his own chance at survival.

• Xue Lingyun told Xiao Bai he would remain in the Far North rather than return to Shrek Academy immediately.
• Xue Lingyun explained to Youyou that he planned to accept favors from Shrek, the Sun Moon Empire, and the Ben Ti Sect without committing to any side.
• Xue Lingyun opened Tang San’s book and read its guidance on Immortal Herbs, poisonous plants, poisoning, and detoxification.
• Xue Lingyun decided not to join the Tang Sect but kept the book, reasoning that he had met Tang San’s conditions by keeping it with Youyou.
• Youyou asked where Xue Lingyun’s own chance at survival lay, and he replied that he would fight for it himself.

Huo Yuhao passed his Second-Rank Soul Engineer assessment and concealed his plans for his Second Soul Ring by claiming Xue Lingyun would arrange it. After the school break began, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm directed him to travel north to the Extreme North Land to obtain a Soul Ring and awaken his Second Martial Soul.

• Huo Yuhao completed a Second-Rank Soul Tool core, and he told Fan Yu that Xue Lingyun’s family would help arrange his Second Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao repeated the story to Wang Dong, who returned Xue Lingyun’s dorm key for him to take along during the break.
• Huo Yuhao met Beibei and Tang Ya by the lake and noticed that Tang Ya seemed tired and distant from Beibei.
• Wu Feng trained intensely while Ning Tian teased her about Xue Lingyun, and Xu Sanshi returned from obtaining his Fourth Soul Ring only to learn that Xue Lingyun had also left to hunt for one.
• Wang Yan announced that second-year students would need to reach Level 20 and challenge a Centennial Soul Beast alone to pass the Advancement Assessment.
• Huo Yuhao left Shrek City at the start of the break, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told him to head to the Extreme North Land to awaken his Second Martial Soul.

Xue Lingyun developed and tested a technique that turned restrained emotions and Spiritual Power into a powerful offensive impact. After recovering, he sensed something approaching from the south and returned to the Ice Palace.

• Xue Lingyun meditated on the Ice Cliff and devised a method of restraining, compressing, and releasing his emotions through the Dark Demon Core.
• Xue Lingyun released the accumulated force, blasting snow across the Ice Cliff, then focused later attempts on an ice wall and caused deep craters and spreading cracks.
• Xue Lingyun tested infusing his feelings toward the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and Xiao Bai, finding that combined emotions increased the attack's power but left him more exhausted.
• Xue Lingyun concluded that the technique required careful preparation and recovery, while the Ice Empress and Youyou watched in silence.
• Xue Lingyun sensed something approaching from the south, then rose and walked back to the Ice Palace.

Xue Lingyun examined the God Sealing Platform and learned that Snow Empress had stored enough Extreme Cold Origin inside it to kill a Super Douluo. As Snow Empress continued storing energy at his request, Xue Lingyun recalled how Xiao Bai had killed Huangfu Ming, the Soul Engineer who brought the Level 9 Soul Tool into the Far North, and sensed that something was approaching from the south.

• Snow Empress showed Xue Lingyun the God Sealing Platform and said its stored Extreme Cold Origin could kill a Super Douluo.
• Xue Lingyun asked Snow Empress to keep charging the God Sealing Platform until it could injure a Limit Douluo.
• Xue Lingyun remembered how Huangfu Ming had entered the Ice Palace years earlier, mistaken him for a transformed Soul Beast, and been killed by Xiao Bai.
• Xue Lingyun recalled finding the God Sealing Platform, Soul Tools, materials, and research notes among Huangfu Ming's belongings.
• Xue Lingyun told Snow Empress to keep storing the energy for future use rather than treating the God Sealing Platform as a mere weapon.
• Xue Lingyun sensed through Huangji Jingshi that something was drawing near from the south.

Xue Lingyun discussed Snow Empress’s approaching Heavenly Tribulation and confirmed that he intended to absorb her power with her cooperation. He left the Ice Palace to take care of something in the south, promising to return to Snow Empress and Xiao Bai.

• Xiao Bai repeatedly brought its ice ball to Xue Lingyun until he threw it outside the Ice Palace, sending the bear chasing after it.
• Ice Empress asked Snow Empress about her Heavenly Tribulation, and Snow Empress said it would come in three to five years.
• Xue Lingyun explained that Snow Empress could cooperate and seal most of her power during absorption, and he said he had already decided to proceed.
• Xue Lingyun said Xiao Bai could wait because it had more time and still needed to improve its control.
• Xue Lingyun told Snow Empress he would go south to see someone and asked her to wait for his return; Xiao Bai told him to come back early.

Huo Yuhao traveled north into the Extreme North Land, relying on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to guide him through the deadly cold. After hiding from the Titan Snow Demon King, he learned about the Three Great Heavenly Kings and continued toward the region’s core.

• Huo Yuhao left Shrek City and traveled north for ten days until he reached the unmapped boundary of the Extreme North Land.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm admitted he did not know the route, then unfolded his original shell around Huo Yuhao to protect him from the cold and conceal his aura.
• Huo Yuhao followed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s directions deeper into the snowfields, using makeshift skis and avoiding Soul Beasts.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned Huo Yuhao to bury himself in the snow as the Titan Snow Demon King passed nearby and stepped over him without crushing him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm identified the Three Great Heavenly Kings as the Titan Snow Demon King, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and the Heavenly Snow Woman, then urged Huo Yuhao to continue toward the core region.

Xue Lingyun crossed the Far North and encountered the Titan Snow Demon King before the Ice Empress recognized Tian Meng nearby. After learning Tian Meng was the Wisdom Soul Ring inside someone Xue Lingyun had met at Shrek, Xue Lingyun had Youyou conceal their auras so they could approach him unnoticed.

• Xue Lingyun walked south across the Icy Plains, where familiar Soul Beasts recognized him and kept their distance.
• Xue Lingyun met the Titan Snow Demon King, asked which direction he had come from, and continued on after receiving directions.
• The Ice Empress sensed Tian Meng nearby and told Xue Lingyun and Youyou that the Ice Silkworm had survived for more than nine hundred thousand years.
• Xue Lingyun confirmed Tian Meng was the Wisdom Soul Ring inside the person he had met at Shrek and said Tian Meng's cultivation was mostly empty.
• Xue Lingyun told Youyou to use the Origin Disguise to conceal their auras, and she agreed as they prepared to approach Tian Meng.

Huo Yuhao followed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm deep into the Extreme North Land, where they prepared to lure the Ice Empress. After Sky Dream removed his Remnant Shell and left him hiding in an Ice Cave, the Ice Empress arrived and recognized Sky Dream.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Huo Yuhao their target was the second-ranked of the Three Great Heavenly Kings, and Huo Yuhao reluctantly continued north.
• Huo Yuhao struggled through the core region's deadly cold, wind, and lack of food and water until Sky Dream told him to rest at their destination.
• Sky Dream explained that Huo Yuhao would have to endure the cold without the Remnant Shell while it served as bait, and ordered him to hide in an Ice Cave.
• Huo Yuhao carved out the Ice Cave, while Sky Dream placed the Remnant Shell behind an Ice Rock and then disappeared to release its spiritual power.
• A powerful, slender presence approached and overwhelmed Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Probe; the Ice Empress recognized Sky Dream, who greeted her.

Huo Yuhao learned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had brought him to the Extreme North to find Ice Empress, but a fake Ice Empress exploded before Xue Lingyun revealed that the real Ice Empress had become his Soul Ring. Xue Lingyun offered to help Huo Yuhao awaken his Second Martial Soul and asked whether he had truly chosen that path; Huo Yuhao firmly agreed.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm trapped a figure posing as Ice Empress, but the fake destroyed itself in an explosion.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm admitted to Huo Yuhao that he had come to find Ice Empress, whom he loved and hoped to help overcome her approaching lifespan limit.
• Xue Lingyun arrived and revealed that the exploding figure was a fake he had arranged, then summoned the real Ice Empress's soul from within himself.
• Ice Empress explained that she had willingly become Xue Lingyun's Soul Ring because he offered her hope of overcoming her limit.
• Xue Lingyun brought Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to shelter and offered to help with Huo Yuhao's Second Soul Ring after asking whether he had considered the consequences.
• Huo Yuhao firmly confirmed that he wanted to awaken his Second Martial Soul.

Xue Lingyun revealed his history with Ice Empress to Huo Yuhao and proposed a Soul Spirit contract to awaken Yuhao’s Second Martial Soul without killing a Soul Beast. The group headed for the Ice Prison Demon Bear’s den to attempt the plan.

• Ice Empress mocked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and showed her affection for Xue Lingyun, then Xue Lingyun asked her to spare Huo Yuhao’s dignity.
• Xue Lingyun told Huo Yuhao that Ice Empress had agreed to become his Soul Ring so they could seek a way for her to survive her Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xue Lingyun revealed that he had sensed an unknown presence in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness, and Huo Yuhao confirmed that the gray sphere had never moved or responded.
• Ice Empress identified a badly injured ninety-seven-thousand-year Ice Bear, and Xue Lingyun proposed making it Yuhao’s Soul Spirit with help from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed to lend its origin power, and Xue Lingyun led the group toward the Ice Prison Demon Bear’s den.

Xue Lingyun helped Huo Yuhao secure an Ice Bear Soul Spirit arrangement and a Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm Soul Ring, then sent him back toward Shrek with Soul-Nurturing Wood. After Huo Yuhao left, Xue Lingyun explained to Ice Empress how he intended to use their connection and keep his true strength and Snow Empress concealed.

• Ice Empress persuaded the wounded Ice Bear to bind its origin to Huo Yuhao and accept a future Soul Spirit Contract.
• Xue Lingyun and Huo Yuhao secured a Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm, and Huo Yuhao absorbed its Soul Ring, reaching level 21 and awakening his Second Soul Skill.
• Xue Lingyun gave Huo Yuhao Soul-Nurturing Wood, and Huo Yuhao bowed deeply to thank him before leaving for Shrek.
• Xue Lingyun told Ice Empress he had helped Huo Yuhao to build a future alliance and said Huo Yuhao would keep his secrets because they were both hiding powerful beings.
• Xue Lingyun explained that he planned to conceal Snow Empress as his final hidden card while others mistook Ice Empress for his greatest strength.

After returning to the Ice Palace, Xue Lingyun told Snow Empress about settling Huo Yuhao’s affairs and the Ice Bear’s contract. He then chose to fuse with Snow Empress ahead of schedule through a skull bone, and she agreed to begin.

• Xue Lingyun returned to the Ice Palace and recounted to Snow Empress everything that had happened with Huo Yuhao, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the Ice Bear, and the hidden consciousness.
• Xue Lingyun explained that he had arranged for the Ice Bear to become Huo Yuhao’s Second Martial Soul and had exposed the consciousness in Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Xue Lingyun told Snow Empress that he wanted to fuse with her ahead of time because he did not want to delay strengthening himself.
• Xue Lingyun chose Snow Empress’s skull bone, explaining that its effects on Spiritual Power and protection for his brain would make it more valuable than a limb bone.
• Snow Empress asked whether Xue Lingyun could endure the fusion, then placed her fingertips on his brow and said they would begin.