Arc 3The Ice Prison Dragon Emperor

Xu Tianming traveled to the Far North, helped Ling Luochen gain a powerful Soul Ring, and recruited Snow Empress as a Soul Spirit while awakening a mutated second Martial Soul. The arc left him confronting a Mirror Shadow Beast in the Ice-Sealed Forest as Lang Ya and Wei Na faced danger.

  • Jing Hongchen agreed to let Yuanen Yehui join the academy, assigned Xu Tianming to compete in the tournament, and approved Xu’s leave to hunt for a Soul Ring.
  • In the Far North, Xu Tianming helped Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen defeat a Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, and his blood helped Ling Luochen absorb its Soul Ring.
  • Xu Tianming sought Snow Empress at Snow Woman Mountain and persuaded her to become his Soul Ring and Soul Spirit rather than attempt to rebuild herself as a human.
  • Electrolux showed Snow Empress and Ice Empress his Undead Half-Plane, while Tang San sensed an ominous force and ordered Da Ming to guard the Angel Holy Sword and assist Dong’er.
  • At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao’s team won the freshman assessment, but Du Weilun named only Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao core disciples, giving Huo Yuhao provisional status and a Thousand Year Spirit Bone.
  • Snow Empress sacrificed her origin to Xu Tianming, awakening his second Martial Soul and transforming it into the Ice Prison Dragon Emperor as Electrolux became more solid within him.
  • Xu Tianming left the Undead Half-Plane with Mu Ye and chose a Mirror Shadow Beast in the Ice-Sealed Forest as his fourth Soul Ring target.
  • When the Mirror Shadow Beast injured Lang Ya while attacking Wei Na, Xu Tianming shattered its illusion space with Empress Palm: Great Cold Without Snow, revealing the beast.
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Ch. 52Two Requests

Xu Tianming secured Yuanen Yehui’s admission to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, but Jing Hongchen required him to compete in the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament as punishment for his black-market dealings. He also requested forging lessons for Xiao Hongchen and a long leave to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring, which Jing Hongchen considered approving.

  • Jing Hongchen sent Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen out, then learned from Xu Tianming that Yuanen Yehui was one of his people and agreed her talent warranted an exception to join the academy.
  • Jing Hongchen ordered Xu Tianming to compete as a preselected team member in the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament, waiving his punishment if he won and imposing both penalties if he lost to Shrek Academy.
  • Xu Tianming asked for Xiao Hongchen to study forging under Zhang Tiezhu, explaining how his Forging Technique could complement Xiao’s Three-Legged Golden Toad Martial Soul, and Jing Hongchen agreed.
  • Xu Tianming requested a long leave to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring, explaining that his mutated Body Martial Soul needed a rare, suitable Soul Ring and the search could take a long time.
  • Jing Hongchen offered to arrange a Level 9 Soul Master to accompany Xu Tianming, but Xu refused, saying his cultivation mentor would travel with him.

Ch. 53A Chance Encounter in the Far North

Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen searched the Far North for a suitable fifth Soul Ring when they encountered a youth effortlessly defeating a pack of Snowfield Ice Wolves with his bare hands. After the youth noticed them watching, the two women decided to approach him.

  • Ling Luochen thanked Zhang Lexuan for accompanying her to the Far North to find a Soul Beast for her fifth Soul Ring.
  • Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen heard a commotion and followed the sounds of Snowfield Ice Wolves across the snowfield.
  • Zhang Lexuan stopped Ling Luochen from intervening after they saw a lightly dressed youth fighting dozens of Thousand-Year Snowfield Ice Wolves without using his Martial Soul or soul skills.
  • The youth killed or incapacitated the wolves with his fists, and Zhang Lexuan suspected his physical strength came from a sect she knew.
  • The youth noticed Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen watching, so Zhang Lexuan decided they should approach him.

Ch. 54Traveling Together

Xu Tianming met Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen in the Far North after they saw him defeat Snowfield Ice Wolves barehanded. He showed them Mu Ye’s map and pointed out a Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix as a promising Soul Ring target for Ling Luochen.

  • Xu Tianming noticed Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen hiding nearby, and they revealed themselves after investigating the wolves’ howls.
  • Zhang Lexuan introduced herself and Ling Luochen, and Xu Tianming realized they were from Shrek Academy.
  • Zhang Lexuan asked whether Xu Tianming belonged to the Body Sect, but he denied it.
  • Xu Tianming offered to help the women hunt Soul Rings and showed them Mu Ye’s map of Soul Beast territories.
  • Xu Tianming recommended the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, and Ling Luochen chose to pursue it with Zhang Lexuan’s help.

Ch. 55The Origin of the Moon Martial Soul

Xu Tianming, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luochen reached the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix’s location in the Far North and rested in Xu Tianming’s Soul Tool cabin. As they discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s Moon Martial Soul, Xu Tianming explained that its bloodline could be traced to the imperial family, while Zhang Lexuan concealed her strange sense of kinship with him.

  • Xu Tianming suggested they rest before hunting the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, and Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen agreed.
  • Xu Tianming brought out a warm, domed cabin Soul Tool, and Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen left their flimsy tent to join him inside.
  • Ling Luochen told Zhang Lexuan that Xu Tianming’s aura made her feel comfortable, while Zhang Lexuan privately sensed a peculiar connection to him.
  • Xu Tianming described the Sun Moon Empire’s rapid Soul Tool development and named the Sun and Moon Martial Souls as its imperial family’s inherited Martial Souls.
  • Xu Tianming explained that the Sun and Moon Martial Souls could be held outside the empire, but their possessors had to carry the imperial family’s bloodline.

Ch. 56Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix

Xu Tianming questioned the origin of Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Martial Soul, concealed his reasons for raising suspicion, and deduced that she and Ling Luochen were Shrek Academy students. Their conversation was interrupted when a thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix attacked their hut, leaving Ling Luochen unsure whether she could absorb its Soul Ring.

  • Ling Luochen suggested that Martial Souls from the Sun Moon Empire might have spread to the Douluo Continent through centuries of conflict, while Xu Tianming quietly hoped to plant suspicion in Zhang Lexuan’s mind.
  • Zhang Lexuan questioned Xu Tianming’s knowledge, and he claimed he had traveled with his family’s elders; Ling Luochen wondered whether he belonged to a reclusive sect, but Zhang Lexuan doubted he came from the Sun Moon Empire because of his formidable physical strength.
  • Xu Tianming deduced that Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen were Shrek Academy students, and Ling Luochen offered to guide him around the academy someday.
  • A sudden impact shook the domed hut, and Xu Tianming, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luochen went outside to find a Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix circling overhead.
  • Xu Tianming identified the Soul Beast as thirty thousand years old and asked whether Ling Luochen could absorb its Soul Ring; she hesitated because it far exceeded her experience and Shrek Academy’s recommended limit.

Ch. 57Ultimate Fire Martial Soul?

Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen fought a rare thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, while Xu Tianming revealed the power of his Sun Moon Twin Pupils. The phoenix fell wounded, and Ling Luochen still had to claim it before it recovered.

  • Ling Luochen chose to try for the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, and Zhang Lexuan began the fight with her Moon Martial Soul.
  • Zhang Lexuan pierced the phoenix with her sixth soul skill, but it absorbed ice elemental energy and rapidly healed.
  • The phoenix summoned a massive icy tornado, and Xu Tianming used Solar Flame Burning City to engulf it in Yang Flame.
  • Zhang Lexuan struck the burning phoenix with beams of moonlight, blasting its wings and bringing it down.
  • Ling Luochen asked whether Xu Tianming possessed an Ultimate Fire Martial Soul, and Xu Tianming urged her to finish off the fallen phoenix before it recovered.

Ch. 58Exploding a Spirit Bone! And It's an External Soul Bone!

Xu Tianming, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luochen killed the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, which left behind a rare External Soul Bone for Ling Luochen. When Ling Luochen struggled to absorb its Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Xu Tianming offered an unusual way to help her.

  • Xu Tianming explained that his life-force-fueled flames kept burning on the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, then directed Ling Luochen to strike its ice crystal heart.
  • The Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix died and vanished into flying snow, leaving a black Soul Ring and an ice-crystal External Soul Bone.
  • Xu Tianming declined the Spirit Bone because its attributes did not suit him, and Zhang Lexuan gave it to Ling Luochen, who prepared to absorb the Soul Ring.
  • Ling Luochen endured increasingly severe pain as she absorbed the Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while Zhang Lexuan prepared to intervene if necessary.
  • Xu Tianming offered to help Ling Luochen, drew a drop of gold-and-silver blood from his finger, and placed his finger in her mouth.

Ch. 59The Finger Wouldn't Come Out!

Xu Tianming’s blood helped Ling Luochen withstand the strain of absorbing the thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring, but she clamped down on his finger and would not let him pull it out. While they waited for her absorption to continue, Zhang Lexuan questioned the source of his blood and took offense when he asked if her Moon Martial Soul meant she came from the Sun Moon Empire.

  • Xu Tianming put a drop of his gold-and-silver blood into Ling Luochen’s mouth while she struggled to absorb the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring.
  • The blood’s opposing hot and cold energies balanced Ling Luochen’s body, letting her refine the Soul Ring’s energy and gain the upper hand in its spiritual assault.
  • Zhang Lexuan noticed Ling Luochen had stabilized, but Xu Tianming could not withdraw his finger because Ling Luochen was clamping down on it.
  • Xu Tianming vaguely explained that his special physique had made his blood miraculous, and Zhang Lexuan chose not to press him for details.
  • Xu Tianming asked whether Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Martial Soul meant she came from the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family; she said she came from the Heaven Dou Empire, and he apologized.

Ch. 60The Long-Awaited System Notification

Ling Luochen woke after absorbing the thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring with Xu Tianming’s help, and Zhang Lexuan invited him to join Shrek Academy. Xu declined and continued his trial in the Far North, where a God-Level Choice notification offered him three possible second Martial Souls.

  • Ling Luochen woke and learned that Xu Tianming’s blood had helped her absorb the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring.
  • Zhang Lexuan gave Ling Luochen the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Wings External Soul Bone, which Ling planned to absorb back at Shrek Academy.
  • Zhang Lexuan invited Xu Tianming to join Shrek Academy, but he said he needed his sect elders’ permission and declined to travel with them.
  • Xu Tianming said farewell to Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen, then continued alone into the Far North.
  • A God-Level Choice notification offered Xu Tianming the Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, or Ice Bear King as his second Martial Soul.

Ch. 61New Choice

Xu Tianming learned that Snow Empress had damaged her origin after failing to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core, and he decided to seek her out as a potential Soul Spirit. At Snow Woman Mountain, Snow Empress accepted that she had to rebuild herself into a human to have any hope of surviving her coming Heavenly Tribulation.

  • Xu Tianming questioned the system about Snow Empress and received a fourth choice to persuade her to become his Soul Spirit.
  • The system revealed that Snow Empress had failed to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core and was struggling to survive.
  • Xu Tianming asked Mu Ye about Snow Empress's whereabouts, and Mu Ye identified Snow Woman Mountain as her birthplace and likely location.
  • Xu Tianming ordered Mu Ye to take him to Snow Woman Mountain, despite Mu Ye's concerns about confronting a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
  • Snow Empress lamented her weakened origin and concluded that rebuilding herself into a human was her final chance to survive the seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.

Ch. 62Snow Empress!

Snow Empress confronted Xu Tianming and Mu Ye after they called her out on Snow Woman Mountain. Xu Tianming revealed that he knew her attempt to condense Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Cores had failed and warned her that her approaching seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation left her in danger.

  • Snow Empress watched the hundred-thousand-year Snow Lotus and planned to use it to seal her cultivation and rebuild herself as a human.
  • Xu Tianming and Mu Ye arrived at Snow Woman Mountain, and Xu Tianming called for Snow Empress to meet them.
  • Snow Empress appeared and demanded that the humans leave the Far North, rejecting Xu Tianming’s claim that he had come to save her.
  • Xu Tianming told Snow Empress that her failed attempt to condense Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Cores had depleted her origin, shocking her with his knowledge.
  • Xu Tianming reminded Snow Empress that her cultivation was nearing seven hundred thousand years and that her Heavenly Tribulation was drawing closer.

Ch. 63The Ability to Foresee the Future?

Xu Tianming warned Snow Empress that she would be captured while rebuilding herself as a human and used his Moon Domain to help her sense the intruder who would do it. Snow Empress set out to catch the infiltrator herself so she could learn whether Xu Tianming’s claims were true.

  • Snow Empress prepared to attack Xu Tianming, but Mu Ye summoned his Battle Armor and revealed the strength of a Rank 99 Limit Douluo.
  • Xu Tianming described Snow Empress’s plan to seal her cultivation into a Snow Lotus and warned that she would be discovered and captured in human society.
  • Xu Tianming claimed his Martial Soul could foresee the future and said a Level 9 Soul Master would use the Fengshen Platform to seal Snow Empress, sell her at auction, and make her a research specimen.
  • Xu Tianming used his Moon Domain to gather his and Mu Ye’s spiritual power onto Snow Empress, allowing her to sense an unfamiliar presence on Snow Woman Mountain.
  • Snow Empress refused Mu Ye’s help and went to catch the intruder herself, intending to question them about Xu Tianming’s claims.

Ch. 64Ice and Snow Empresses

Xu Tianming waited at the foot of Snow Woman Mountain for Snow Empress, confident she would return after he exposed her plan. Snow Empress arrived with Ice Empress, whose approaching four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation Xu Tianming revealed he understood, and the chapter ended with him questioning whether Snow Empress still doubted his abilities.

  • Xu Tianming told Mu Ye that Snow Empress would have to return to him if she wanted a chance to survive, then waited with him at the foot of Snow Woman Mountain.
  • After nearly half a month, Mu Ye worried that Snow Empress might have died fighting the Level 9 Soul Master, but Xu Tianming refused to go search for her.
  • Xu Tianming and Mu Ye sensed Snow Empress approaching with another powerful presence, and Xu Tianming recognized Ice Empress.
  • Ice Empress attacked Xu Tianming, but Mu Ye blocked her strike and forced her to retreat.
  • Xu Tianming explained that Ice Empress's four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation was approaching and questioned whether she could survive it.
  • Xu Tianming asked Snow Empress whether she had brought Ice Empress to intimidate him or still doubted his abilities.

Ch. 65The Choice Offered: Become My Soul Ring

Xu Tianming urged Snow Empress to become his sentient Soul Ring, arguing that Soul Beasts were barred from godhood and promising she could retain her consciousness and exist as a spirit. Snow Empress allowed him to approach, and he touched her brow as Ice Empress tried to stop him.

  • Xu Tianming explained that Snow Empress could not safely survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation or live long as a human.
  • Xu Tianming proposed that Snow Empress become his Soul Ring, citing Tang San and the Soul Beasts who had ascended with him.
  • Xu Tianming said the God Realm forbade Soul Beasts from becoming gods and offered Snow Empress a way to retain her consciousness and exist as a spirit.
  • Snow Empress questioned whether his method was real, then let Xu Tianming approach while warning Mu Ye not to interfere.
  • Ice Empress attacked Xu Tianming as he reached for Snow Empress, but Snow Empress knocked her tail hook aside, and Xu Tianming touched Snow Empress's brow.

Ch. 66The Final Reason to Convince Snow Empress

Xu Tianming brought Snow Empress and Ice Empress into Electrolux’s Undead Half-Plane to show Snow Empress a reason to trust his potential and become his Soul Spirit. Electrolux revealed the sacred power behind his undead, then drew a reaction from Xu Tianming’s broken sword that alerted Tang San in the God Realm.

  • Snow Empress questioned why she should choose Xu Tianming, and Electrolux told him to bring her and Ice Empress to his Undead Half-Plane.
  • Xu Tianming entered the spatial passage with Mu Ye, while Snow Empress and Ice Empress followed him into the strange gray realm.
  • Snow Empress mistook Electrolux and his undead army for signs of an Evil Spirit Master, but Electrolux revealed their powerful sacred aura.
  • Xu Tianming introduced Electrolux as his teacher, a Holy Necromancer from another plane whose former strength rivaled a god’s.
  • Electrolux drew Xu Tianming’s broken sword to him and infused it with sacred energy, causing an Angel’s form to appear as Tang San opened his eyes in the God Realm.

Ch. 67Clear Sky Sect Ten Thousand Years Later

Tang San investigated the renewed disturbance around the sealed Angel Holy Sword while struggling with worsening divine-power conflicts and an ominous influence he could not trace. He sent the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape to guard the sword and steer Dong'er toward the Child of Destiny, but the Titan Giant Ape rejected Tang San’s treatment of her as a tool.

  • Tang San failed to detect the source of an ominous force affecting him and resolved to secure control of the Child of Destiny on the Douluo Continent.
  • The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape discussed visiting Dong'er before Tang San contacted them through the golden Trident mark.
  • Tang San ordered the Sky Azure Bull Python to guard the sealed half of the Angel Holy Sword in Clear Sky Fortress and help Dong'er meet the Child of Destiny.
  • The Titan Giant Ape condemned Tang San for treating Dong'er as a tool and separating part of her divine consciousness to create Wutong.
  • The Titan Giant Ape insisted that Dong'er was the girl they had raised and that her becoming Wutong would mean Dong'er had died.

Ch. 68Huo Yuhao of Shrek Academy

Da Ming and Er Ming lamented that Wang Dong'er’s fate was beyond their power to change, while Huo Yuhao celebrated winning the freshman assessment with Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao. Shrek Academy named Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao core disciples but excluded Huo Yuhao, leaving him devastated.

  • Da Ming and Er Ming recalled that Tang Wutong had replaced Wang Dong'er and accepted that they could only try to let her be happy for now.
  • Wang Dong'er reassured Huo Yuhao that the winning freshman assessment team would likely receive core disciple status.
  • Wang Yan remembered Xuan Zi dismissing Huo Yuhao as a poor candidate despite his Body Martial Soul and fusion skill with Wang Dong'er.
  • Du Weilun announced that Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Huo Yuhao had won first place, though their team name had been changed from the Huo Yuhao Team to the Wang Dong Team.
  • Du Weilun named Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao as core disciples but omitted Huo Yuhao, who was left pale and shocked.

Ch. 69The First Step Toward Darkness

After Shrek Academy gave Huo Yuhao only provisional core disciple status, his anger and resentment nearly triggered a mutation in his Spirit Eyes. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm promised to take him to the Far North for a powerful second Martial Soul and a four-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone, leaving Huo Yuhao newly motivated.

  • Huo Yuhao's resentment over being denied full core disciple status caused a blood-black light to flash in his Spirit Eyes, but Wang Dong's voice brought him back to himself.
  • Du Weilun announced that Huo Yuhao would receive provisional core disciple treatment until the end of the academic year.
  • Wang Dong defended Huo Yuhao when Du Weilun discussed his individual abilities, but Huo Yuhao asked her to stop and promised to keep working hard.
  • Du Weilun gave Huo Yuhao an exceptional reward, and Wang Dong opened the pouch to reveal a Thousand Year Spirit Bone.
  • Sky Dream Ice Silkworm dismissed the Spirit Bone's quality and promised Huo Yuhao a four-hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone and a powerful second Martial Soul in the Far North.

Ch. 70Snow Empress's Condition

Xu Tianming persuaded Snow Empress to give Ice Empress part of her origin so she could break through the four-hundred-thousand-year bottleneck safely. Snow Empress began preparing to become Xu Tianming’s right-arm Spirit Bone, leaving him to face the dangerous fusion.

  • Xu Tianming claimed the Angel Holy Sword could help him attain godhood and explained that Snow Empress could not become a god by rebuilding herself as a human.
  • Snow Empress agreed to give Ice Empress part of her origin, and Xu Tianming asked Ice Empress to stay in the Undead Half-Plane to absorb it safely.
  • Snow Empress transferred a nearly one-hundred-thousand-year-old Snow Lotus into Ice Empress to strengthen her foundation.
  • Snow Empress decided to become Xu Tianming’s right-arm Spirit Bone and warned that the fusion’s pain could make his mind collapse.
  • Xu Tianming presented a Secret Method Spirit Bone as a guide for the fusion and urged Snow Empress to begin.

Ch. 71Snow Empress's Sacrifice

Xu Tianming underwent Snow Empress's sacrifice, which awakened his second Martial Soul and drove his body into a painful transformation. The chapter left him enduring the infusion of Snow Empress's origin and the Secret Method Spirit Bone into his right arm.

  • Snow Empress infused her origin power into Xu Tianming, encasing him in ice as she began her sacrifice.
  • Xu Tianming claimed the system reward, and his second Martial Soul awakened early, unleashing powerful dragon's might across the Undead Half-Plane.
  • Xu Tianming explained the awakening to Snow Empress and asked her to attach her Soul Rings to his second Martial Soul, and she agreed.
  • Snow Empress's origin power helped Xu Tianming break through the second realm of the Yin Yang Profound Pole Body Refining Art, strengthening his body as she continued the sacrifice.
  • Snow Empress transformed the Secret Method Spirit Bone into white liquid and infused it into Xu Tianming's right arm, causing him intense pain and numbness.

Ch. 72Martial Soul Mutation, Electrolux Became a Soul Ring?

During the fusion of Snow Empress's origin and Spirit Bone, Xu Tianming's second Martial Soul mutated through its fusion with her origin and Electrolux's divine soul. Xu Tianming awakened stronger, while Snow Empress retained her memories as a spirit-like being and Electrolux became his gray Soul Ring.

  • Xu Tianming called on the Spirit Soul Contract, and Snow Empress entered his Sea of Consciousness as her phantom body vanished.
  • Xu Tianming's Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon Martial Soul began mutating as it fused with part of Snow Empress's origin.
  • A force pulled Electrolux into Xu Tianming's brow, and a gray Soul Ring appeared beneath him as the dragon Martial Soul transformed.
  • Xu Tianming emerged from the ice with a mutated Martial Soul, and his roar made every creature in the Undead Half-Plane prostrate itself.
  • Snow Empress and Electrolux appeared in spirit-like forms, and Electrolux said he felt better and might be revived if Xu Tianming became a god.

Ch. 73The Terrifying Second Martial Soul

Xu Tianming examined his mutated second Martial Soul after gaining the Snow Empress and Electrolux as Soul Spirits. He demonstrated its destructive and undead-controlling powers before naming it the Ice Prison Dragon Emperor.

  • Electrolux said becoming Xu Tianming's Soul Spirit had made his existence more solid, and the Snow Empress said she only needed time in Xu Tianming's Sea of Consciousness to recover.
  • Xu Tianming explained that his second Martial Soul had mutated from the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon by absorbing the Snow Empress's Ultimate Ice and the undead and holy attributes in Elder Yi's divine consciousness.
  • Xu Tianming used Nirvana Dragon Breath to destroy undead creatures and extinguish their Soul Fires, while freezing stronger undead.
  • Xu Tianming used Dragon Emperor Soul Decree to reform the destroyed undead from their Soul Fires, and Electrolux identified the magic as high-level Undead Magic.
  • Xu Tianming named his second Martial Soul the Ice Prison Dragon Emperor.

Ch. 74Considering a Soul Ring for My First Martial Soul

After Snow Empress sacrificed herself, Xu Tianming gained her spirit bone skills and reached Soul Power Level fifty-five, while Electrolux and Snow Empress went into slumber. Xu Tianming left the Undead Half-Plane with Mu Ye to choose Soul Rings for his first Martial Soul, then set his sights on a Mirror Shadow Beast as his fourth Soul Ring.

  • Snow Empress entered Xu Tianming's Sea of Consciousness, leaving Ice Empress to refine the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, while Electrolux also went to sleep.
  • Xu Tianming and Mu Ye left the Undead Half-Plane, and Xu Tianming said he would add two Soul Rings to his first Martial Soul.
  • Xu Tianming used spiritual power, strengthened by Electrolux's divine consciousness, to conceal the unusual colors of his second Martial Soul's Soul Rings.
  • Xu Tianming chose a Mirror Shadow Beast in the Ice-Sealed Forest as the target for his fourth Soul Ring.
  • In the Ice-Sealed Forest, a middle-aged man told Wei Na that they had found a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus reaching maturity.

Ch. 75The Eerie Yingxiang

Lang Ya and Wei Na discovered that a Mirror Shadow Beast was guarding the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, and the beast created an Yingxiang that perfectly replicated Lang Ya. Xu Tianming watched the battle and considered taking the beast’s Soul Ring, while Snow Empress explained the cost of accelerating it to one hundred thousand years.

  • Lang Ya used his spiritual power to break through the Yingxiang hiding the Snow Lotus.
  • A Mirror Shadow Beast emerged from the frozen lake and replicated Lang Ya’s appearance, Soul Rings, and abilities.
  • Lang Ya and the Mirror Shadow Beast fought, matching each other’s attacks while Wei Na recognized their power as identical.
  • Xu Tianming and Snow Empress observed from above, and Snow Empress estimated the beast was nearly ninety thousand years old and sought to advance by consuming the Snow Lotus.
  • Snow Empress offered to catalyze the beast into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast at the cost of its origin, then asked Xu Tianming if he still wanted its Soul Ring.

Ch. 76Empress Palm: Great Cold Without Snow!

Xu Tianming explained to Snow Empress that changing the God Realm’s laws and allowing Soul Beasts and humans to coexist would require sacrifices from both sides. He then rescued Lang Ya and Wei Na from a Mirror Shadow Beast’s illusion, leaving Lang Ya to realize that the Yingxiang he had fought was not real.

  • Xu Tianming told Snow Empress that Soul Beasts could not become gods under the God Realm’s laws and that peaceful coexistence would require sacrifices from humans and Soul Beasts alike.
  • Mu Ye warned Xu Tianming that Lang Ya and Wei Na were close to collapsing in the Ice-Sealed Forest, so Xu Tianming went to help them.
  • The Mirror Shadow Beast attacked Wei Na with a spiritual ripple, and Lang Ya blocked it but was badly injured.
  • Xu Tianming descended and used Empress Palm: Great Cold Without Snow to shatter the illusion space and reveal the Mirror Shadow Beast.
  • Lang Ya asked whether the Yingxiang he had fought was an illusion, and Mu Ye confirmed it while criticizing the Body Sect disciples.
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