Chapter Summaries

Snow Empress learned that Xu Lanqing was gravely injured after fighting a remnant of the Angel God's shattered divine position. The woman on the Frozen Throne then offered Snow Empress a chance to become a god, but warned that the price was everything.

• Snow Empress confronted the woman seated on the Frozen Throne and demanded to know where Xu Lanqing was.
• The woman assured Snow Empress that Xu Lanqing's injuries were severe but would not kill him.
• The woman explained that a fragment of the Angel God's shattered divine position had fought Xu Lanqing after sensing his angelic aura.
• The woman told Snow Empress that the Angel God's fragments might allow its broken inheritance to be resurrected if gathered.
• The woman asked whether Snow Empress wanted to become a god and warned that she would have to give up everything.

Snow Empress challenged the Ice God’s demand that she abandon her emotions to inherit the Godhood, arguing that gods stole the planet’s power and ruled over others. The Ice God explained the history behind the ban on Soul Beasts becoming gods and described a path of godhood that meant becoming a law governing the universe, leaving Snow Empress to weigh what such a transformation required.

• Snow Empress questioned whether she had to give up her joys and sorrows to become the Ice God, and contrasted the woman’s coldness with Tang San’s emotions.
• Snow Empress condemned gods as parasites that stole Douluo Planet’s power, and accused the Divine Realm of excluding Soul Beasts from godhood.
• The Ice God recounted the Dragon God’s rise, the Dragon God War, and the purge of divine beasts that led to the ban on Soul Beasts cultivating into gods.
• The Ice God explained that godhood could mean either wielding the world’s power or becoming a force that governed the universe’s laws.
• The Ice God said the latter path required abandoning everything but basic self-awareness in order to become and control the laws of Heaven.

Snow Empress resisted a god’s overwhelming pressure and explained how her long life and study of humans had shaped her convictions. She accused the god of being unable to let go of certain feelings, and the god rejected her choice as divine power began to collapse toward her.

• The god unleashed a display of immense ice-element power, and Snow Empress endured the pressure without bowing.
• Snow Empress described the Snow Maidens’ inheritance, her seven hundred thousand years of life, and the burdens that came with their strengths.
• Snow Empress said humans’ limited lifespans drove them to remarkable achievements and that she had learned from their cultivation and civilization.
• Snow Empress recalled going into human society with him and concluded that desire and feelings people could not abandon made humans powerful.
• The god said Snow Empress had a better choice and that she disagreed with her decision, then unleashed a destructive collapse of divine power.

The Ice and Snow Goddess confronted the Snow Empress, whose body was breaking under the goddess’s power, and tried to persuade her to inherit the goddesshood. Remembering her ancient war, her wish to be reborn, and the person she hoped to see again, the goddess hesitated before touching the Snow Empress’s cheek.

• The Ice and Snow Goddess approached the Snow Empress and praised her while urging her to pursue something beyond desire.
• The Snow Empress resisted the goddess’s overwhelming power as the ice Soul Power in her Soul Core ravaged her body.
• The goddess recalled the ancient war and reflected on her hidden emotions, her desire for rebirth, and her wish to return to the Divine Realm.
• The goddess considered making the Snow Empress her inheritor and vessel, but hesitated over passing on her legacy.
• The goddess stroked the Snow Empress’s cheek, and the ice and snow fell silent while their oppressive force intensified.

Xu Lanqing survived the Angel Statue’s attack with Electrolux’s help, but was left badly injured and learned to rely less on borrowed power. Electrolux recovered the Angel Child Sword and revealed that the owner of the space intended to possess Snow Empress, though he promised to protect her.

• Electrolux protected Xu Lanqing from the explosion, and Xu Lanqing acknowledged that the Angel Statue had nearly killed him.
• Electrolux warned Xu Lanqing against relying too much on external power, and Xu Lanqing accepted the criticism.
• Electrolux retrieved and gave Xu Lanqing the Angel Child Sword, which Xu Lanqing recognized as the child half of the Angel Holy Sword.
• Electrolux told Xu Lanqing that the powerful owner of the space had appeared and planned to possess Snow Empress’s body.
• Electrolux reassured Xu Lanqing that Snow Empress was safe for now and vowed to protect her.

Snow Empress fought a god on the altar, enduring a meteor shower and two devastating blows while searching for a chance to survive. The god realized Snow Empress’s unusual vitality had disrupted her plan to consume her Soul Power and take over her body, and resolved to act immediately.

• The god struck Snow Empress with a rain of meteors, and Snow Empress countered with Emperor's Palm: Great Cold Without Snow, briefly making the god’s aura waver before being hurled away with a disabled arm.
• Snow Empress used Snow Dance Shining Sun to shield herself from the icy rain, but the spreading crystals continued to threaten her body.
• The god vanished and attacked through a tear in Snow Empress’s domain, then identified her danger-sensing ability as a gift of her Head Soul Bone.
• Snow Empress gave up her sword and attacked at close range to buy time, but the god shattered her domain and blasted her across the altar.
• The god noticed Snow Empress had stood up again despite her injuries and realized that her exceptional vitality and Soul Power had disrupted the plan to take her body.

Snow Empress fought to resist a god’s attempt to seize her body, using hidden divine power to wound her opponent before being trapped in a dream. As the god prepared to overwrite Snow Empress’s mind, a golden figure broke into the dream space and interrupted her.

• Snow Empress endured the god’s attacks and argued that emotion could make both humans and Soul Beasts strong.
• The god summoned a Flower Sprite whose divine skill weakened Snow Empress and stirred her desires.
• Snow Empress awakened herself with a drop of blood essence, unleashed her hidden divine power, and struck the god with the Emperor Sword.
• The sword wounded the god, but the god vanished with the Flower Sprite and trapped Snow Empress in a dream using Prosperity Like a Dream.
• As the god prepared to overwrite Snow Empress’s mind, a golden figure tore through the dreamlike sky and appeared before her.

The God Realm Committee debated the Dragon God’s preparations to evolve his realm and decided to send a delegation to the dragons’ sacrificial ceremony. At the Ice God Palace, Mu Ci told Yue Ze he would attend too, and his gift of food stirred an unfamiliar emotion in her.

• Asura told the Eighteen Main Gods that the Dragon God Realm’s planned evolution threatened the Douluo God Realm’s future.
• Rong Nianbing proposed attending the dragons’ sacrificial ceremony, and Asura ordered the Sea God to send an introduction before the committee set out.
• Mu Ci visited Yue Ze and told her he planned to attend the ceremony, claiming he might be able to help the dragons and the God Realm.
• Yue Ze questioned Mu Ci about his plans, then accepted the food box he left behind and felt a flicker of emotion as its aroma reached her.

Snow Empress told Ice Empress that her heavenly tribulation was approaching and revealed a risky plan to cultivate anew as a human. After Ice Empress agreed to guard the Far North, Snow Empress sensed that she had forgotten something important, while a shadowy passage flickered behind her.

• Snow Empress woke from a dream she could not remember and wondered why her familiar home felt strange.
• Ice Empress visited Snow Empress, who told her that her seventy-thousand-year tribulation would arrive within two years.
• Snow Empress explained that a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus and an ancient secret art gave her a ten-percent chance of cultivating anew as a human starting at Titled Douluo level.
• Ice Empress urged Snow Empress to search elsewhere for a safer solution, but Snow Empress said she would not retreat and asked Ice Empress to take charge of the Far North during her rebirth.
• After Ice Empress left, Snow Empress felt she had forgotten something important, and a dark phantom appeared behind her.