Chapter Summaries

Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, gained a growing Life-Bound Soul Ring, and watched Le Bai leave. Le Bai then arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and startled Oscar, drawing the attention of a sect disciple.

• Le Bai explained to Ah Yin that his Soul Rings condensed automatically as a side effect of his innate ability, while Tang San learned he might awaken a Life-Bound Soul Ring.
• Ah Yin wrapped Tang San in her leaves for five days to activate his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline as Le Bai studied the energy.
• Tang San awakened with five Soul Rings, including a black Life-Bound Soul Ring that granted the skill [Vitality].
• Le Bai said goodbye to Tang San and flew away, while Tang San and Tang Hao remarked on how much stronger Le Bai had become.
• Le Bai reached the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, entered Oscar’s courtyard, and startled him awake.
• A Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciple rushed in after hearing Oscar’s cries.

Le Bai reunited with Oscar at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and found that Oscar had made little progress over the past year, so he immediately resumed training him. Le Bai agreed to train one hundred sect members and left Ning Fengzhi with plans for new Pressure Bracers, while asking for a room to stay in.

• Chen Han rushed in and attacked Le Bai with his Cloud Piercing Sword, but Oscar stopped him and explained that Le Bai was his friend.
• Le Bai learned Oscar had only reached level forty-eight after a year and put him through an intense workout with the Pressure Bracer.
• Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and the two Title Douluo arrived, and Le Bai learned Oscar's training duties had taken time away from his cultivation.
• Le Bai agreed to train one hundred people for the sect, provided Ning Fengzhi selected them and prepared classrooms.
• Le Bai gave Ning Fengzhi blueprints for new Pressure Bracers and asked for materials, Soul Tool assistants, and a room to rest in.

Le Bai visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and reunited with Oscar and Ning Rongrong, telling them about his year away and Tang San’s background. He left them discussing the rarity and risks of Soul Beasts transformed into humans.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Ning Rongrong to receive Le Bai, then discussed with Chen Xin and Gu Rong how difficult Le Bai was to read and welcomed his offer to train the sect’s disciples.
• Le Bai told Oscar and Ning Rongrong about serving as an Elder in Spirit Hall, the Pressure Bracers, and an encounter with a Trade Caravan.
• Oscar joked that a woman Le Bai had helped might want to marry him, and Ning Rongrong admitted she might consider Le Bai if he showed more interest in her.
• Le Bai revealed that he had encouraged Ning Rongrong to change her spoiled temper because he knew she and Oscar would eventually end up together.
• Le Bai explained Tang San’s Soul Beast bloodline and second Martial Soul awakening, then said transformed Soul Beasts were unlikely to appear among Soul Masters before reaching level seventy.

Le Bai explained Tang San’s transformation and learned that Oscar and Ning Rongrong had spent the year cultivating in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After discovering that Oscar’s training had harmed the young trainees he was teaching, Le Bai took charge of their recovery and training.

• Le Bai explained that Tang San’s mother had regressed into a Blue Silver Grass seed after her death and showed Oscar and Ning Rongrong Tang San’s transformed appearance.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar described their year of cultivation, including Oscar’s attempt to teach support Soul Masters how to fight.
• Le Bai realized Oscar’s training had left fourteen young trainees in poor physical condition and said he would assess them.
• Le Bai met the trainees, told them to stop physical training, and promised to arrange medicine so they could recover within ten to fifteen days.

Le Bai trained one hundred Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples through intensive lessons and Pressure Bracers, improving their Soul Power control and cultivation. In his third month at the sect, Oscar reached level fifty as Ning Rongrong also broke through, and Ning Fengzhi asked Le Bai why he planned to take Oscar to the Extreme North for a Soul Ring.

• Ning Fengzhi assembled one hundred young sect disciples for Le Bai’s training, and Le Bai established strict rules before beginning Cultural Class.
• Le Bai taught the disciples about Soul Power, while those who left class were barred from returning until Ning Fengzhi brought them back and asked Le Bai to readmit them.
• After half a month, Le Bai shifted the lessons toward Soul Power Control and had sect personnel make one hundred Pressure Bracers for the trainees.
• The disciples used the bracers to practice under intense pressure, gradually improving their control, physical condition, and Soul Power cultivation.
• Oscar reached level fifty and Ning Rongrong broke through, so Ning Fengzhi invited Oscar and Le Bai to discuss their Soul Ring hunt.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Le Bai what Soul Skill he intended Oscar to obtain and why they would travel to the Extreme North.

Le Bai and Oscar prepared to travel to the Extreme North so Oscar could seek a Spiritual Power-related Fifth Soul Ring, while Ning Fengzhi refused to let Ning Rongrong join them. They left without her, and Oscar’s future Soul Skills were set to develop his role as a support fighter.

• Le Bai explained that he wanted Oscar’s Fifth Soul Ring to come from a Soul Beast in the Extreme North whose blood could restore and strengthen Spiritual Power, and Ning Fengzhi approved the plan.
• Ning Rongrong asked to accompany Le Bai and Oscar, but Ning Fengzhi and Le Bai convinced her that the dangers and lack of information made the journey too risky for her.
• Le Bai promised to leave half-year training plans for the hundred people he instructed, then warned them against slacking by recalling the humiliating punishments he had arranged for two of them.
• Le Bai mapped the route and prepared cold-weather gear, provisions, hard currency, and medicine for the journey.
• Le Bai and Oscar set off the next morning as Ning Rongrong watched, and Oscar’s Soul Skill plans were set to support his combat role.

Le Bai explained to Oscar how he had developed an efficient cultivation method and expanded his Soul Power control, then declared that he would raise humanity’s limits. The two continued toward the Extreme North, where Oscar would seek a Soul Beast for his next Soul Ring.

• Oscar lamented leaving Rongrong behind, and Le Bai warned him to conceal his striking face in the lawless Extreme North.
• Le Bai gave Oscar goggles and explained that he could resist extreme temperatures by maintaining Soul Power across a three-kilometer radius.
• Oscar praised the cultivation method Le Bai had given him, and Le Bai revealed he had assembled it from over a thousand methods and years of experience.
• Le Bai explained that his broad Soul Power control trained Spiritual Power but would hinder Oscar because Oscar’s Spiritual Power was too weak.
• Le Bai said he had reached level fifty-one and expected to reach level fifty-two the following month because he had no cultivation bottlenecks.
• Le Bai declared that he would raise humanity’s limits, then hurried Oscar along so they could reach the next Small Town before dark.

Le Bai and Oscar traveled north through the Heaven Dou Empire, discussing Soul Masters, money, and Oscar’s ambitions as the cold grew harsher. They reached the last Small Town before the Extreme North, where they planned to rest and gather information before entering the region.

• Le Bai and Oscar reached a prosperous agricultural Small Town and discussed how sects and Soul Masters depended on money and work.
• Le Bai and Oscar stayed at the town’s expensive inn, and Le Bai explained that the other inn’s owner was a level thirty-five Soul Elder with three wives.
• Oscar said he wanted to become an extraordinary Soul Master, while he and Le Bai joked about marriage and having children.
• After seven days of travel, Le Bai told Oscar they were nearing the last Small Town before the Extreme North and advised him to use Soul Power to withstand the cold.
• Oscar augmented himself with Soul Power and continued toward the town, expecting to rest there.

Le Bai and Oscar reached a border town near the Extreme North, where Le Bai questioned locals about settlements and the Blue Ice Crystal Seal. A patron marked six nearby settlements on Le Bai’s map, and Le Bai warned him that false information would cost him his life.

• Le Bai explained the border town’s harsh conditions to Oscar and brought him to its Tavern for food and rest.
• Le Bai bought a meal and drinks, then asked the Tavern’s patrons about the Extreme North and the Blue Ice Crystal Seal.
• The patrons said they did not know the Soul Beast, but one offered to mark settlements on Le Bai’s map in exchange for a reward.
• The patron marked six nearby locations, and Le Bai paid him while warning him not to provide false information.
• Le Bai tried the Tavern’s Meat and Wheat Porridge and was surprised by how good it tasted.

Le Bai and Oscar sampled the polar tavern owner's unusual Soul Beast dishes and Burning Snow Wine, which delighted them and revealed ingredients found only in the region. They left the tavern despite the owner's warning that the town had no inns, while Le Bai reflected on why the powerful owner chose to run a small tavern.

• Le Bai tasted Meat and Wheat Porridge, Snow Beast meat, and two kinds of pickled Hot Juice Fruit, identifying their distinctive flavors and textures.
• Le Bai examined and drank Burning Snow Wine, discovering that its snowflake crystals melted inside him and made him feel as if ice were burning.
• The owner explained that Ice Wheat, Snow Beast, and Hot Juice Fruit were Soul Beasts whose ingredients and dishes could only be preserved in the extreme cold.
• Le Bai and Oscar finished their meal and left after the owner warned them that the town had no inns.
• Oscar questioned why a fire-attribute Soul Emperor ran a small tavern, and Le Bai argued that the owner had earned respect through his character.

Le Bai and Oscar endured the polar cold as they traveled deeper into the snow, building a Snow House to survive a blizzard. Three days later, they reached a vast forest of white pine trees infused with Soul Power, which Le Bai said were plants rather than true Soul Beasts.

• Le Bai told Oscar that nearby settlements lay over a hundred kilometers away and that they would continue traveling before resting.
• Oscar developed snow blindness, and Le Bai explained that reflected ultraviolet light had damaged his eyes before Oscar recovered with Small Hot Dogs.
• Le Bai built a Snow House with a fire pit, and he and Oscar ate and cultivated inside as a blizzard swept through overnight.
• Le Bai and Oscar left the Snow House the next morning and continued traveling for three days.
• Le Bai and Oscar reached a forest of white pine trees, and Le Bai explained that although the trees had Soul Power, they could not grow further or produce Soul Rings.

Le Bai and Oscar reached a hostile settlement in the Extreme North and continued into the Pine Forest to avoid trouble. Two people ambushed them, but Le Bai killed both, and he and Oscar moved on.

• Le Bai explained that the Pine Forest held few but unusually old Soul Beasts, then helped Oscar fasten pine branches to his shoes so they could cross the snow faster.
• Le Bai and Oscar reached a settlement where residents eyed them with hostility, and Le Bai warned Oscar not to reveal his Soul Power among the dangerous outcasts.
• Le Bai led Oscar away from the settlement, saying its residents would know nothing about the seal and that he was struggling to restrain his urge to kill them.
• Le Bai detected two people following them and warned them to leave, but a woman revealed her five Soul Rings and one accomplice launched a sneak attack on Oscar.
• Le Bai stopped both attackers with a surge of Soul Power, killed them, and continued onward with Oscar.

Le Bai and Oscar traveled through the Extreme North, learning about its Soul Beasts and enduring a month-long trek through worsening snow and cold. They finally reached Snow City, where guards admitted them after they paid an entry fee, and Le Bai led Oscar toward a place to eat.

• Le Bai explained to Oscar how Giant-Horned Snow Camels used their ice-storing horns to freeze themselves for protection and survival.
• Le Bai decided to bypass the settlements on the outskirts and travel directly toward the central region of the Extreme North.
• After a month of trudging through harsher snow and cold, Oscar and Le Bai reached Snow City, an ice-built city with a population of 1,941.
• Le Bai introduced them to the guards as Soul Masters from the Heaven Dou Empire and paid two Silver Soul Coins to enter.
• Le Bai and Oscar entered Snow City, where Le Bai found a place for them to get hot food.

Le Bai and Oscar arrived at a tavern in Snow City, where they learned about the dangers of the Extreme North's Hunting Squads and tried the local Beast Meat Wrapped Ice Rice and Snow City Mist wine. Le Bai drank the potent wine and exhaled a thick cloud of mist.

• Le Bai explained sleds to Oscar and warned him to avoid unfamiliar gestures because a Title Douluo-level person was stationed in Snow City.
• Le Bai and Oscar entered the Snow City Mist Tavern, where the proprietress served them the day's food and wine.
• The proprietress advised Le Bai to ask Hunting Squads about Soul Beasts, but warned that their members might attack strangers or even their own teammates for profit.
• The proprietor served Beast Meat Wrapped Ice Rice, and Le Bai and Oscar ate the chewy meat and pale-blue grains with gloves.
• Le Bai drank Snow City Mist and exhaled a thick cloud of mist.

Le Bai and Oscar went to Snow City’s inn for information about the Hunting Squad captain Haote, then hurried after him when Le Bai claimed another squad might be targeting him. They left Haote’s mutilated subordinates worried about their captain’s safety.

• Le Bai and Oscar drank Snow City Mist, and the inn owner mentioned that Haote of the Hunting Squad had some humanity.
• Le Bai decided to find Haote, and he and Oscar discussed the dangers posed by Hunting Squads.
• Le Bai and Oscar reached Haote’s base and found two mutilated squad members who said Haote had gone hunting in the Frozen Forest.
• Le Bai told the men that another Hunting Squad might be planning to attack Haote, then used his sharp senses to identify a location on their map.
• Le Bai and Oscar set out for the location, and Oscar questioned whether Le Bai’s warning had been true.

Le Bai and Oscar traveled through the snow while Oscar practiced controlling his Soul Power, then discovered that two Hunting Squads were closing in on Haote’s group. Le Bai explained why Haote seemed more trustworthy than other hunters, leaving Oscar to weigh the risks of getting involved.

• Oscar practiced using Soul Power to keep his feet from sinking into the snow and learned to circulate it around his body to deflect wind and resist the cold.
• Le Bai and Oscar detected two Hunting Squads tracking Haote’s group, and Le Bai explained that the pursuers planned to ambush them.
• Oscar worried that they could not affect the battle and suggested avoiding the conflict, but Le Bai argued that they needed information from the Hunting Squads and could not keep paying for it.
• Oscar questioned whether Haote could be trusted, and Le Bai cited Haote’s reputation and his support for injured squad members as evidence that he might be decent.
• Le Bai encouraged Oscar to observe and think more, saying he could surpass him if he kept learning.

Le Bai and Oscar followed two Hunting Squads into the Frozen Forest, where they discovered snow pines with unusually strong Soul Power. The squads spotted three ten-thousand-year Jade Pine Worms, and Haote ordered his people to watch for nearby White Ghost Foxes and possible danger.

• Le Bai and Oscar discussed the vast Extreme North and its ice-element energy as they secretly followed the two Hunting Squads.
• Le Bai explained that the northern regions had long periods of daylight and darkness and were especially suited to ice-element Soul Beasts and Soul Masters.
• After resting, the Hunting Squads continued onward and reached a forest of snow pines that were nearing the level of Plant-Type Soul Beasts.
• Le Bai and Oscar followed the squads into the Frozen Forest, where white plants and Soul Beasts blended into the snow.
• A scout named Shui Yuan reported three Jade Pine Worms with roughly ten thousand years of cultivation, and Haote ordered the squad to observe them and remain alert for White Ghost Foxes and other threats.

Haote’s team gathered Jade Pine Worm silk and prepared for an ambush while Le Bai and Oscar followed, waiting for the right moment to intervene. Luo Bing’s group sprang its attack, but traps injured three Soul Ancestors, and the battle began with both sides still fighting for advantage.

• Haote’s team killed three Jade Pine Worms, collected their silk and fluid, and moved to a nearby resting place.
• An unknown person warned Shui Yuan that someone was watching the team, so Haote’s veterans quietly prepared traps and passed the warning among themselves.
• Le Bai told Oscar he could face the enemy Soul Emperors but planned to wait until Haote’s team was in danger to earn a greater favor.
• Luo Bing’s group charged Haote’s camp and blundered into Jade Pine Worm silk traps, seriously injuring three Soul Ancestors before Haote’s team counterattacked.
• Luo Bing ordered his people to fight Haote’s group, while Le Bai and Oscar watched and waited for the hidden Soul Emperor to emerge.

Le Bai and Oscar saved Haote’s hunting squad from Luo Bing’s ambush, then asked them for information about the Blue Ice Crystal Seal. Scout Shui Yuan identified the Soul Beast’s habitat near a salt lake and agreed to lead the squad there, prompting Le Bai to ask whether he knew someone named Shui Bing’er.

• Luo Bing and a hidden Soul Emperor attacked Haote’s squad, forcing Haote to unleash his Demon Bear True Body.
• Le Bai and Oscar intervened, killed the attackers, and Le Bai tracked down and killed the fleeing Luo Bing before taking his Soul Bone.
• Haote thanked Le Bai and Oscar, and Le Bai asked the squad for information about the Blue Ice Crystal Seal.
• Shui Yuan said the Blue Ice Crystal Seal lived near a salt lake and agreed to lead Haote’s squad to his hometown by the lake.
• Le Bai asked Shui Yuan whether he recognized the name Shui Bing’er.

Le Bai and Oscar traveled with Haote’s Hunting Squad through the Far North, where Le Bai explained the world and answered the squad’s cultivation questions. Near their destination, Le Bai learned that Shui Yuan’s hometown traded salt from a nearby Salt Lake, and Shui Yuan explained why he preferred to remain in the Far North.

• Shui Yuan questioned Le Bai about his cousin Shui Bing'er, and Le Bai explained that he knew her as a friend of her lover.
• After resting in Snow City, Haote’s group departed with Le Bai and Oscar for their destination.
• Le Bai used a Soul Tool to explain that the land was a sphere, earning the Hunting Squad’s respect and answering their cultivation questions during the journey.
• As a blizzard forced the group to shelter in Snow Houses, Le Bai asked Shui Yuan about his hometown near the sea and learned that its Salt Lake supplied salt to competing Trade Caravans.
• Shui Yuan told Le Bai that he had left salt trading to live as a Soul Master, but stayed in the Far North because he felt at ease among its ice and snow.