Chapter Summaries

Snow Empress discovered a human infant in the Far North’s core region and sensed a strange kinship between him and her Ultimate Ice aura. She began to suspect the child’s Martial Soul might explain the connection.

• A brilliant ice-blue pillar of light erupted in the Far North, drawing Snow Empress from the snowstorm.
• Snow Empress found a baby boy in a snow pit, unharmed by the lethal cold and surrounded by a faint blue glow.
• She probed the infant with her origin power and sensed that he instinctively welcomed her Ultimate Ice aura.
• Snow Empress felt an unexpected urge to protect the boy and wondered why he carried an aura like that of her own race.
• She considered whether the infant’s Martial Soul could account for their mysterious connection.

Snow Empress suspected the infant discovered in the Extreme North Core Zone might awaken the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul, and decided to raise him until his martial soul awakened at age six. Ice Empress questioned whether he could be trusted, and Snow Empress began to explain what she would do if he failed to awaken that martial soul.

• Snow Empress found the infant’s ice origin and appearance convinced her he might possess the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul, and she held him tenderly.
• Ice Empress arrived and was shocked to find Snow Empress embracing a human infant who had caused the heavenly disturbance.
• Snow Empress told Ice Empress how she had found the child and explained her theory about his rare physique and possible martial soul.
• Ice Empress examined the infant, confirmed his ultimate ice-attribute fluctuation, and questioned whether he might turn against the Far North.
• Snow Empress declared that she would raise the infant herself and wait six years to see whether he awakened the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.
• Snow Empress said she would devote the Far North’s resources to him if he awakened that martial soul, then began describing what she would do if he did not.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress named the human infant Xue Bingchen and spent three years raising and strengthening him in the Far North. At age three, Xue Bingchen learned that Snow Empress was about to dance for him, though he wondered if it was a reward for finishing his bitter soup.

• Snow Empress named the baby Xue Bingchen, and Ice Empress agreed to help raise him for six years.
• Snow Empress fed Xue Bingchen purified Millennium Ice Marrow Milk, while Ice Empress gathered heavenly treasures for his medicinal baths.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress used Soul Power to guide the treasures’ energy through Xue Bingchen’s body, strengthening his meridians, bones, and physique.
• Three years passed, and Xue Bingchen grew into an intelligent three-year-old with white hair and ice-blue eyes.
• Ice Empress excitedly told Xue Bingchen that Snow Empress would dance for him, and he asked if it was because he had finished his bitter Snow Lotus Soup.

The Ice Empress explained that the Snow Empress let Xue Bingchen watch her dance so he could attune to the laws of ice and snow and improve his chances of awakening a Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul at six. As the Snow Empress arrived to perform, Xue Bingchen sensed that sealed memories from another world might explain his connection to the Far North.

• The Ice Empress told Xue Bingchen that the Snow Empress's dance could help prepare him to awaken a Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul when he turned six.
• Xue Bingchen privately reflected on the familiar names of the Snow Empress and Ice Empress and suspected that memories from another world were sealed in his mind.
• The wind and snow fell quiet as the Snow Empress approached across the air on blooming ice lotuses.
• The Ice Empress and Xue Bingchen applauded and praised the Snow Empress before her dance began.

Snow Empress danced the Dance of the Heavenly Snow Woman, and the sight awakened Xue Bingchen's sealed memories of his previous life and the Douluo Continent. Overwhelmed by the revelation and his memories of treating Snow Empress as his mother and Ice Empress as his aunt, he collapsed as both rulers rushed to help him.

• Snow Empress paused at Xue Bingchen's shout, then danced atop the Far North, drawing the wind and snow into a display of Ultimate Ice.
• As he watched her dance, Xue Bingchen's meridians resonated with its rhythm, and a mental seal broke open to release his memories.
• Xue Bingchen recognized the Far North, the Three Heavenly Kings, and the terms of the Douluo Continent, realizing he had transmigrated into his three-year-old body.
• He recalled calling Snow Empress “Mom” and Ice Empress “Auntie Ice Empress,” and remembered Snow Empress caring for him as a young child.
• The flood of memories exhausted Xue Bingchen, and he fell toward the ice rock as Snow Empress and Ice Empress reacted to his collapse.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress panicked when Xue Bingchen collapsed in pain, but Snow Empress found no physical cause. After Xue Bingchen woke and explained that memories had suddenly appeared in his head, Ice Empress feared he was undergoing a strange growth or mutation.

• Snow Empress caught Xue Bingchen as he collapsed and examined him, finding his body healthy despite his pain.
• Ice Empress blamed the Ten-Thousand-Year Polar Snow Lotus soup and prepared to capture a healing Title Douluo from the human world.
• Xue Bingchen woke and stopped Ice Empress from leaving, assuring her that he was neither sick nor injured.
• Xue Bingchen said that watching Snow Empress dance had caused many things to appear in his head.
• Ice Empress wondered whether Xue Bingchen was experiencing a second growth spurt or a martial soul mutation, despite his martial soul not being awakened.

Snow Empress explained that Xue Bingchen’s collapse came from an early breakthrough after he resonated with the laws of Ultimate Ice, not from an illness. She resolved to raise him beyond mortal limits so he could become a god and escape humanity’s short lifespan.

• Ice Empress panicked over Xue Bingchen’s headache and planned to bring healers to the Far North.
• Snow Empress stopped Ice Empress and explained that Xue Bingchen had been overwhelmed by law-related insight from watching her Dance of the Heavenly Snow Woman.
• Ice Empress celebrated the possibility that Xue Bingchen would awaken the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul at age six.
• Snow Empress regretted that Xue Bingchen was human and feared she would one day watch him grow old and die.
• Snow Empress vowed to use the Far North’s resources to help Xue Bingchen break mortal limits and reach godhood.

Xue Bingchen enjoyed his privileged life in the Far North until Ice Empress warned that he had to awaken the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul at six. Snow Empress vowed to protect him regardless, leaving Ice Empress shocked and silenced by her change of heart.

• Xue Bingchen recalled how Snow Empress and Ice Empress had cared for him since birth and privately delighted in being the Far North's young master.
• Ice Empress teased Xue Bingchen, then threatened to reclaim his treasures and throw him into the Ice Bear King's den if he failed to awaken the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul at six.
• Xue Bingchen shrank into Snow Empress's embrace as Ice Empress's pressure frightened him.
• Snow Empress rebuked Ice Empress and vowed to protect Xue Bingchen for his entire life, even if he could not cultivate.
• Ice Empress remembered Snow Empress had once promised to let Xue Bingchen fend for himself, but swallowed her complaint when Snow Empress gave her a warning look.

Ice Empress declared that Xue Bingchen would have to call her Mom if he awakened her clan’s Martial Soul, while Snow Empress remained confident in their bond. Xue Bingchen embraced both women as his closest family and began to reassure them.

• Ice Empress promised to raise Xue Bingchen even if he failed to awaken a Martial Soul, then demanded he call her Mom if he awakened her Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Snow Empress stayed calm, confident that Xue Bingchen’s growing Ice-Snow Origin and attachment to her gave her a stronger maternal bond with him.
• Xue Bingchen realized that Snow Empress and Ice Empress were the closest and most important people in his new life.
• Xue Bingchen cupped Snow Empress’s cheeks and told her not to worry, then said he had something to tell Aunt Ice Empress as well.

Six-year-old Xue Bingchen renewed his vow to awaken the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul, then learned that the continent was still in the era before Tang San’s story began. Backed by Snow Empress and Ice Empress and strengthened by the Far North’s treasures, he looked forward to competing with Tang San.

• Xue Bingchen vowed to awaken the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul, and Snow Empress encouraged him while Ice Empress secretly hoped he would awaken her martial soul instead.
• Three years later, Xue Bingchen had turned six and spent his days being pampered and nourished by Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• Xue Bingchen persuaded Snow Empress to take him on secret visits to the human world so he could learn about the continent and its timeline.
• Xue Bingchen discovered that Bibi Dong did not yet control Spirit Hall, Shrek Academy had not emerged, and Tang San’s story had not begun.
• Xue Bingchen compared his Far North upbringing and powerful guardians with Tang San’s circumstances and resolved to face him with confidence.

On his sixth birthday, Xue Bingchen underwent an elaborate martial soul awakening ceremony arranged by Snow Empress and Ice Empress. He awakened the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul, and the immense display of power spread across Douluo Continent.

• Snow Empress recalled taking Xue Bingchen to observe a Spirit Hall deacon awaken commoner children's martial souls and praised his exceptional destiny.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress prepared a grand awakening formation on Ten Thousand Year Snow Mountain using Ice Extreme God Crystal and six ten-thousand-year soul beast inner cores.
• Snow Empress activated the formation and urged Xue Bingchen to awaken the power within him.
• Xue Bingchen released an Absolute Zero chill and sent a massive icy-blue pillar of light into the sky.
• Snow Empress recognized Xue Bingchen's awakened martial soul as the Heavenly Snow Woman as its power swept across Douluo Continent.

Six-year-old Xue Bingchen awakened the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul in the Far North, creating a pillar of light that alarmed the continent’s greatest powers. Snow Empress and Ice Empress celebrated his awakening and prepared to test his Innate Soul Power.

• Bibi Dong sensed an extreme ice-element aura from the Far North and ordered an investigation.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong felt the disturbance and began preparing for upheaval.
• Powerful beings across the continent, including the golden-eyed presence beneath the Lake of Life, noticed the pillar of light.
• Xue Bingchen’s martial-soul awakening ended, and he sensed the immense power of his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.
• Ice Empress excitedly praised Xue Bingchen, and Snow Empress embraced him before reminding them to test his Innate Soul Power.
• Ice Empress predicted that Xue Bingchen would have Innate Full Soul Power, citing his physique and years of consuming Far North treasures.

During Xue Bingchen’s martial soul awakening, a golden-red power surged through him and reconstructed his body, revealing a second martial soul he called the Physical Body. Snow Empress and Ice Empress were astonished and disappointed by the unprecedented martial soul, while Xue Bingchen was secretly delighted.

• As Snow Empress and Ice Empress prepared to test Xue Bingchen’s Soul Power, golden-red light erupted from him and repelled Snow Empress’s Ultimate Ice Soul Power.
• Xue Bingchen felt his blood, bones, muscles, and meridians transform, then announced that he had awakened a second martial soul: the Physical Body.
• Ice Empress questioned whether a physical body could be a martial soul, while Snow Empress searched for signs of a Beast Martial Soul transformation and found none.
• Ice Empress lamented that the treasures she had fed Xue Bingchen had produced a lump of flesh instead of an Ice Jade Empress Scorpion or another powerful Beast Martial Soul.
• Snow Empress privately feared that Xue Bingchen’s Physical Body martial soul was weak, while Xue Bingchen secretly rejoiced.

Xue Bingchen realized his second Martial Soul was his own body, a rare Body Martial Soul that could grow stronger through awakenings. He explained that he could cultivate the Heavenly Snow Woman to Title Douluo first, then add exceptionally powerful soul rings to his body, leaving Snow Empress and Ice Empress stunned by the possibility.

• Xue Bingchen recognized his second Martial Soul as a Body Martial Soul and considered its potential for future awakenings.
• Xue Bingchen reasoned that his Twin Martial Souls would let him cultivate the Heavenly Snow Woman first and save soul rings for his body.
• Xue Bingchen told Snow Empress and Ice Empress that his second Martial Soul was powerful, but they doubted it could be useful.
• Xue Bingchen explained that after reaching Title Douluo, his strengthened body could withstand powerful soul rings added to his second Martial Soul.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress realized that Xue Bingchen might eventually place nine hundred-thousand-year soul rings on his body.

After Xue Bingchen awakened his Martial Souls, Ice Empress and Snow Empress realized his second, body-type Martial Soul could help him pursue godhood and celebrated his Innate Full Soul Power. The chapter ended with Ice Empress proposing a thousand-year first soul ring and Snow Empress objecting that human limits made it too dangerous.

• Ice Empress and Snow Empress embraced Xue Bingchen’s plan for using his second Martial Soul to pursue godhood and promised to devote the Far North’s resources to him.
• Ice Empress tested Xue Bingchen’s Soul Power with a crystal ball, which lit up to confirm his Innate Full Soul Power.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress celebrated Xue Bingchen’s talent and embraced him atop the snowy mountain.
• Ice Empress proposed catching a thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion for Xue Bingchen’s first soul ring, but Snow Empress warned that a human could absorb no more than four hundred and twenty-three years.
• Xue Bingchen wondered whether Snow Empress had been misled by Yu Xiaogang’s soul ring theory.

Xue Bingchen persuaded Snow Empress to let him attempt a thousand-year first Spirit Ring, then chose to seek a pure elemental ice beast to complement his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul. Snow Empress identified a suitable place in the Far North and took him and Ice Empress there.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress argued over whether Xue Bingchen should choose a five-hundred- or eight-hundred-year Spirit Ring.
• Xue Bingchen insisted that his strong body could withstand a thousand-year Spirit Ring, and Snow Empress agreed while warning she would stop the absorption if he struggled.
• Snow Empress asked which cultivation path Xue Bingchen wanted, and Ice Empress recommended a thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion for its attacks and physical strength.
• Xue Bingchen decided to prioritize elemental control and seek a purer ice-element spirit beast rather than an Ice Jade Scorpion.
• Snow Empress praised his reasoning, recalled a suitable place in the Far North, and carried Xue Bingchen and Ice Empress toward it.

Xue Bingchen absorbed a fourteen-hundred-year Polar Ice Spirit as his first soul ring, enduring its violent cold with the strength of his Body Martial Soul. He succeeded and discovered that his Soul Power had risen to level fifteen.

• Snow Empress found a fourteen-hundred-year Polar Ice Spirit and warned Xue Bingchen that its pure, violent ice element made it dangerous.
• Ice Empress urged Xue Bingchen to choose a weaker spirit, but he insisted that his body could handle the Polar Ice Spirit.
• Snow Empress froze the Polar Ice Spirit with Absolute Zero, and Xue Bingchen killed it and summoned its purple soul ring.
• Xue Bingchen absorbed the soul ring while his Body Martial Soul helped him withstand the violent cold, and Snow Empress and Ice Empress stood guard.
• Xue Bingchen completed the absorption, manifested his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul with a purple ring, and announced that his Soul Power had reached level fifteen.

Xue Bingchen discovered that his first soul skill, Dance of Snow, granted powerful boosts to himself and nearby allies, though he was embarrassed that it required a graceful dance. Ice Empress and Snow Empress urged him to demonstrate it, and he finally began.

• Snow Empress explained that Xue Bingchen's accumulated treasures and new soul ring had unlocked his cultivation foundation.
• Ice Empress pressed Xue Bingchen to reveal his first soul skill, and he reluctantly named it Dance of Snow.
• Xue Bingchen revealed that the skill increased his attributes by fifty percent and those of allies who watched by thirty percent.
• Snow Empress realized the skill required dancing, while Ice Empress laughed and urged Xue Bingchen to perform it.
• Xue Bingchen steeled himself and called out, "First Soul Skill, Dance of Snow!"

Xue Bingchen used his first soul skill, Dance of Snow, and discovered that it gave him a powerful all-around enhancement. Snow Empress then began training him to perform the dance properly so he could learn the principles behind her Three Ultimates.

• Xue Bingchen awkwardly imitated Snow Empress’s dance while Ice Empress laughed and Snow Empress encouraged him to finish.
• When Xue Bingchen completed Dance of Snow, its icy light enhanced his strength, speed, defense, spiritual power, and soul-power circulation by fifty percent.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress sensed that the skill’s effect on them was negligible for now, but Snow Empress said it could make Xue Bingchen a powerful support as he grew stronger.
• Snow Empress criticized Xue Bingchen’s dancing and said she would personally train him in the Dance of the Heavenly Snow Woman.
• Snow Empress explained that mastering the dance could help Xue Bingchen comprehend her Three Ultimates, and Xue Bingchen eagerly agreed to learn.

After months of strict dance training, Xue Bingchen’s Soul Power reached level nineteen, and Snow Empress and Ice Empress challenged him to hunt his own second Spirit Ring. Snow Empress sent him to the Far North’s outer region, where he prepared to face the local Soul Beasts alone.

• Snow Empress rigorously trained Xue Bingchen in the Dance of the Heavenly Snow Woman, while Ice Empress watched and teased him.
• In less than three months, Xue Bingchen’s cultivation rose from level fifteen to the peak of level nineteen.
• Xue Bingchen told Snow Empress and Ice Empress he was ready to obtain his second Spirit Ring, and Ice Empress challenged him to hunt a Soul Beast himself.
• Xue Bingchen accepted, confident in his Ultimate Ice martial soul, strengthened physique, and early understanding of Snow Empress’s Emperor Sword technique.
• Snow Empress transported Xue Bingchen to the Far North’s outer region and warned him that its Soul Beasts would attack him on sight.