Chapter Summaries

Zhong Kui left the Sun Moon Empire under the pretense of searching for medicinal herbs while preparing to seize an opportunity in the Far North. He told Electrolux that Huo Yuhao was the era’s Child of Destiny and that the original course of events would have led Electrolux to be discarded, then revealed his plan to keep a powerful soul beast from becoming Huo Yuhao’s Soul Ring and martial soul.

• Zhong Kui took leave from the Sun Moon Empire to search for rare medicinal herbs, and Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming did not question him.
• Electrolux inferred that Zhong Kui was traveling to the Far North to seize someone else’s opportunity.
• Zhong Kui explained that Huo Yuhao was the Child of Destiny and described how Tang San’s schemes would have used Huo Yuhao’s fortune and left Electrolux to be eliminated.
• Electrolux accepted Zhong Kui’s plan as a way to break the deadlock and agreed to work with him.
• Zhong Kui revealed that they intended to stop a powerful soul beast from becoming Huo Yuhao’s Soul Ring and martial soul.

Electrolux asked Zhong Kui how he planned to convince the Ice Empress to ally with Huo Yuhao, and Zhong Kui explained her impending tribulation and his alternative offer. After showing Electrolux the Transformation Herb, Zhong Kui hurried to reach the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm did.

• Electrolux questioned why the Ice Empress would trust a weak human and become Huo Yuhao’s martial soul and Soul Ring.
• Zhong Kui explained that the Ice Empress faced a nearly certain four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation and would originally have accepted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s God-Making Plan to survive.
• Electrolux understood that the Ice Empress would agree out of necessity, then asked what Zhong Kui could offer instead.
• Zhong Kui revealed the Transformation Herb, which could let powerful soul beasts assume human form and avoid Lightning Tribulations without losing lifespan.
• Zhong Kui and Electrolux hurried to reach the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Zhong Kui prepared to use the flying Soul Tool.

Tian Meng brought Huo Yuhao to the Far North to seek the Ice Empress’s help in gaining a powerful martial soul and soul ring. He explained the rankings and strengths of the Far North’s great soul beasts, then assured Huo Yuhao that he had a plan to approach the Ice Empress safely.

• Huo Yuhao arrived in the Far North and worried that the soul beasts there would kill them.
• Tian Meng explained the Ten Great Fierce Beasts and described the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Titan Snow Demon King.
• Tian Meng questioned why the Titan Snow Demon King was weaker than the Snow Empress despite his divine ancestry.
• Tian Meng told Huo Yuhao that they were going to seek the Ice Empress, and Huo Yuhao feared she would attack them.
• Tian Meng assured Huo Yuhao that he had prepared for their meeting and would protect him.

Huo Yuhao worried that Tian Meng had no reliable way to protect them while seeking the Ice Empress, but Tian Meng took control and called her out. As they waited, Tian Meng admitted he hoped to recruit her into his God-Making Plan, while the chapter ended with a long digression questioning how a hunter could love its prey.

• Huo Yuhao questioned Tian Meng’s confidence because he feared the Ice Empress might attack them.
• Tian Meng took control of Huo Yuhao’s body and used his soul power to form a human shape resembling Huo Yuhao.
• Tian Meng called out to the Ice Empress, claiming he had returned for revenge.
• Huo Yuhao pressed Tian Meng to reveal his trump card, and Tian Meng said he hoped to persuade the Ice Empress to join their God-Making Plan.
• Tian Meng’s narration contrasted his hunter-and-food relationship with the Ice Empress against Tang San’s love for Xiao Wu, then speculated about rabbits’ reproductive habits.

Tian Meng’s attempt to find the Ice Empress ended with Huo Yuhao captured by her subordinates, after Tian Meng admitted he had tricked Yuhao into helping with his plan to win her affection. They learned the Ice Empress had already obtained a Transformation Herb, and were taken to her as the story briefly shifted back to Zhong Kui and Electrolux arriving in the Far North.

• A-Zuo and A-You led soul beasts to capture Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao, and an ice bird seized Yuhao while Tian Meng controlled his body.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Tian Meng, who confessed that he had brought Yuhao to the Far North to help save the Ice Empress and earn her affection.
• A-You condemned Tian Meng for voluntarily becoming a human’s Soul Ring, while Tian Meng asked where the Ice Empress had gone.
• A-Zuo told Tian Meng that the Ice Empress had already obtained a Transformation Herb from a human to avoid her Heavenly Tribulation.
• A-Zuo ordered the subordinates to bind Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao and take them to the Ice Empress.
• The narration turned back to Zhong Kui and Electrolux, who had arrived in the Far North before Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng.

Zhong Kui and Electrolux searched the extreme north for the Ice Empress, and Electrolux reflected on the innocent people harmed by his past revenge. After the Ice Empress attacked Zhong Kui, he proposed helping her survive her approaching tribulation.

• Zhong Kui asked Electrolux about cold regions in the Shengmo Continent, and Electrolux listed several places with extreme climates.
• Zhong Kui considered Electrolux’s remorse over the innocent people his undead war had killed and the damage it had done to humanity.
• Electrolux warned Zhong Kui that a powerful spirit beast had discovered him, and an ice spike nearly struck Zhong Kui.
• Zhong Kui spotted the Ice Empress, introduced himself, and said he had come to cooperate rather than hunt spirit beasts.
• The Ice Empress threatened Zhong Kui, and he offered to help her survive her approaching 400,000-year tribulation.

Zhong Kui offered the Ice Empress a Transformation Herb and proposed an alliance to keep her from becoming someone else’s martial soul and soul ring. After she absorbed it and escaped her Heavenly Tribulation, she agreed to take him to meet the Snow Empress, provided he had a second herb for her friend.

• Zhong Kui told the Ice Empress about her approaching four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and proposed cooperating with her.
• Zhong Kui presented the Ice Empress with a Transformation Herb, promising it would let her avoid the tribulation and transform without hunting soul rings.
• The Ice Empress agreed to cooperate if Zhong Kui could provide a second Transformation Herb for the Snow Empress, and Zhong Kui said he could.
• The Ice Empress summoned A-Zuo and A-You to guard her while she absorbed the herb.
• The Ice Empress finished absorbing the Transformation Herb, then agreed to take Zhong Kui to the Snow Empress and warned him not to provoke her.

Zhong Kui faced the Ice Empress’s demand for an honest assessment of whether soul beasts could defeat humanity, but first told her that the God Realm was suppressing soul beasts and that Tang San was behind the threat. The Ice Empress began to believe him, though she was stunned by how much he seemed to know.

• The system offered Zhong Kui 100,000 points if he won over the Ice Empress and cut off Dai Yuhao’s other opportunity, but Zhong Kui kept the system secret from her.
• The Ice Empress asked Zhong Kui to swear on his martial soul and tell her whether soul beasts could win against humans without mastering Soul Tools.
• Zhong Kui avoided answering directly and told the Ice Empress that the God Realm barred soul beasts from becoming gods in order to wipe them out.
• The Ice Empress questioned Zhong Kui’s claim and asked how he knew, while he urged her to seek the truth from Di Tian and doubted that the Ice God still cared for the Far North.
• Zhong Kui accused Tang San of leading the God Realm’s persecution of soul beasts and said he intended to stop him, leaving the Ice Empress shocked.

Zhong Kui persuaded Ice Empress that Tang San planned to exploit a Child of Destiny and that the soul beasts should cooperate against him. Ice Empress introduced Zhong Kui to Snow Empress, who absorbed a Transformation Herb but remained uncertain about his claims.

• Zhong Kui argued that Tang San intended to make Douluo Continent his private domain and would scheme against Ice Empress.
• Zhong Kui explained that Tang San planned to bind the Child of Destiny to the Tang Clan and use Ice Empress as his martial soul and soul ring.
• Zhong Kui and Ice Empress traveled to Snow Empress, where Zhong Kui offered her a Transformation Herb as a sign of cooperation.
• Snow Empress absorbed the herb, then questioned Ice Empress about whether Zhong Kui's claims could be trusted.

Zhong Kui explained why he opposed the God Realm’s suppression of Soul Beasts and agreed to meet Beast God Di Tian with the Ice Empress. The Ice Empress remained wary of trusting a human, but agreed to consider cooperation if Di Tian confirmed Zhong Kui’s claims.

• Zhong Kui told the Ice Empress that the God Realm suppressed Soul Beasts because it feared another Dragon God and that Tang San sought to make the God Realm serve the Tang Clan.
• The Ice Empress said she could consider cooperating with Zhong Kui if he accompanied her to meet Di Tian and his claims proved true.
• Zhong Kui agreed to meet Di Tian, believing that beastkind needed a way to change its situation and that Electrolux could help develop a cultivation system for humans and Soul Beasts.
• The Ice Empress questioned whether Zhong Kui could be trusted, pointing to the history of humans exploiting Soul Beasts despite the example of Xiao Wu.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress left the Far North with Zhong Kui to verify his claims with Di Tian, but A-Tai soon reported that Tian Meng had returned with Huo Yuhao. After confirming Zhong Kui had told the truth, the group discussed crippling Huo Yuhao’s future instead of killing him.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress set out for the Star Dou Great Forest with Zhong Kui, leaving a communication Soul Tool with A-Tai.
• A-Tai contacted the group and reported that Tian Meng had returned with Huo Yuhao, intending to make Ice Empress part of a God-Making Plan.
• Ice Empress realized Zhong Kui’s claims about Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao were true and asked whether they should return.
• Zhong Kui argued that they should cripple Huo Yuhao by making his second martial soul a ten-year soul beast rather than kill him.
• The others recognized that the plan would ruin Huo Yuhao’s future, while Electrolux would no longer help him.

The Ice Empress’s subordinates condemned Tian Meng for trying to force her to sacrifice herself and decided to cripple Huo Yuhao with a ten-year plant-type spirit beast. The Ice Empress then approached Zhong Kui to ask how he knew about Tian Meng’s plans.

• A-Tai, A-You, and A-Zuo rejected Tian Meng’s appeals and blamed him for endangering the Ice Empress.
• A-Tai and A-Zuo declared that Huo Yuhao’s future would be ruined, while Huo Yuhao realized Tian Meng’s actions might leave him with a trash martial soul.
• The Ice Empress’s subordinates ordered a ten-year plant-type spirit beast to be brought so it could sacrifice to Huo Yuhao.
• The Ice Empress approached Zhong Kui and asked how he knew about Tian Meng’s affairs and plans.

A-You and the Far North soul beasts forced Huo Yuhao to absorb a ten-year Solitary Bamboo as his second martial soul and soul ring, punishing him for plotting against their big sister. After they left, Huo Yuhao resented Sky Dream Ice Silkworm but remained dependent on it, setting up its eventual departure.

• A-You found a ten-year Solitary Bamboo and told Huo Yuhao to absorb it as punishment for plotting against the Far North’s big sister.
• Huo Yuhao begged the soul beasts to spare him, citing his wish to become powerful and avenge his mother, but the Titan Snow Demon King rejected his plea.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm apologized and promised to help Huo Yuhao recover, while A-You warned them not to return to harm soul beasts.
• Huo Yuhao reluctantly absorbed the Solitary Bamboo as his second martial soul and soul ring, then asked whether the soul beasts would let them go.
• The Far North soul beasts departed, and Huo Yuhao resented Sky Dream Ice Silkworm even though he still depended on it for his progress at Shrek Academy.

Huo Yuhao swallowed his anger after Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s mistake left his second martial soul as a ten-year Solitary Bamboo, though the two had already grown resentful of each other. In the God Realm, the Destruction God King and Goddess of Life agreed to watch over Tang Wutong, while Tang San secretly observed Huo Yuhao and reacted furiously to his second martial soul.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm apologized to Huo Yuhao and promised to help him recover, while privately blaming him for being ungrateful.
• Huo Yuhao stayed silent and began forming his own thoughts as distrust grew between him and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• The Destruction God King and Goddess of Life discussed their worry for Tang Wutong and agreed to secretly keep an eye on her in the lower realm.
• The Destruction God King criticized Shrek Academy for accepting talented students instead of turning weak students into outstanding ones.
• Tang San secretly observed Huo Yuhao and discovered that his second martial soul was a ten-year Solitary Bamboo, then exploded in fury.

Tang San blamed the plane consciousness for Huo Yuhao receiving a ten-year Solitary Bamboo as his second martial soul and decided to investigate a possible new Child of Destiny while avoiding Destruction God King. Meanwhile, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Zhong Kui reached the Star Dou Great Forest to question Di Tian, where they were greeted with surprise.

• Tang San concluded that the plane consciousness might have replaced Huo Yuhao as the Child of Destiny and planned to have Xiao Qi investigate.
• Tang San worried that Destruction God King might strip him of his authority and expose his treatment of his daughter, leaving him without allies in the God Realm.
• Ice Empress questioned whether Di Tian could be trusted, while Snow Empress argued that he would not deceive fellow soul beasts.
• Zhong Kui led the group to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Snow Empress promised to prove that she was not an enemy.
• The group reached the forest's core region, where someone asked Snow Empress why she had come.

Di Tian questioned Zhong Kui’s claims about Tang San’s plans and the God Realm’s suppression of soul beasts. After learning Tang San had targeted the Imperial Auspicious Beast, Di Tian agreed to investigate Zhong Kui’s lead in the Sunset Forest before deciding whether to ally with him.

• Di Tian brought the Ice and Snow Emperors and Zhong Kui to the Lake of Life, where Xiong Jun challenged their decision to bring a human.
• The Snow Empress asked whether the God Realm used heavenly tribulations to prevent soul beasts from becoming gods, and Di Tian confirmed it.
• The Snow Empress explained that Zhong Kui had warned them about Tang San, Huo Yuhao, and the plan to make the Snow Empress a Soul Ring and martial soul.
• Zhong Kui warned the Star Dou Great Forest’s high-ranking soul beasts that Tang San had set his sights on the Imperial Auspicious Beast and the fortune she represented.
• Zhong Kui told Di Tian about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Sunset Forest, and Di Tian agreed to go with him and verify the claim.

Zhong Kui persuaded Beast God Di Tian to investigate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and work with him against Tang San, while the Silver Dragon King offered Di Tian temporary god-level power. The group prepared to travel to the well, with the Snow Empress and Ice Empress joining them.

• Zhong Kui warned Di Tian that Tang San might have left protections at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Xiong Jun urged Di Tian not to risk the soul beasts’ strength recklessly.
• Di Tian said the fallen Dragon Kings might have been his uncle and aunt, and the Silver Dragon King privately told him to investigate and offered to lend him power if needed.
• Di Tian and Zhong Kui agreed to travel together and cooperate against Tang San if the well proved to be where the Dragon Kings fell.
• Ice Empress proposed that she and Snow Empress join the trip to seek treasures for the Far North, and Snow Empress agreed.
• The Auspicious Beast sensed powerful fortune around Zhong Kui, prompting Di Tian to look at him differently before the group set out.

Zhong Kui, Di Tian, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress discovered that Tang San’s poison arrays had killed countless soul beasts and were poisoning Sunset Forest to protect the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. They hurried to find the well and planned to destroy the arrays before Tang San could discover them.

• Di Tian sensed the remains and spirits of soul beasts poisoned in Sunset Forest, and Zhong Kui blamed Tang San’s preparations to hide the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Zhong Kui explained that Tang San had used Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers and Jade Phosphorus Nine-Absolute Flowers to create poison arrays that could spread through the forest.
• Di Tian swore to kill Tang San, but Zhong Kui warned that Di Tian could not defeat him without returning to godhood.
• The Snow Empress urged the group to find and remove the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before Tang San could move it.
• The Ice Empress used Domain of Eternal Freeze to protect Zhong Kui while he prepared to destroy the poison arrays, warning that the damage to the forest was irreversible.

Zhong Kui, Di Tian, and their companions reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to seek the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings and build an alliance against Tang San. Di Tian found his uncle and aunt alive beneath the spring, and they recognized him as a surviving member of the Dragon Clan.

• Zhong Kui condemned Tang San as a hypocrite and explained that he opposed Tang San's rule, while Ice Empress and Di Tian listened.
• The group arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the awakened Immortal Herbs reacted with alarm to Di Tian's aura.
• Zhong Kui told Di Tian that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings might be dead, but that recovering their remains could still help the Soul Beasts.
• Di Tian dove into the spring and sensed the familiar dragon might of his uncle and aunt.
• The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings recognized Di Tian and rejoiced that the Dragon Clan still had survivors.

Di Tian explained the plight of the soul beasts and Dragon Clan to the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, who agreed that Zhong Kui could be an ally while warning him to remain cautious. With the Silver Dragon King's help, Di Tian temporarily reached the god level to move the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Zhong Kui and Xue'er sensed the surge of power above it.

• Di Tian described how the God Realm's restrictions had weakened the soul beasts and Dragon Clan and were likely meant to draw out the Silver Dragon King.
• Di Tian told the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings about Zhong Kui's opposition to Tang San and his aid to the Ice and Snow Emperors, and the Dragon Kings judged him a possible ally.
• The Ice Dragon King proposed moving the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to the Star Dou Great Forest, and the Dragon Kings entered Di Tian's spiritual world to meet the Silver Dragon King.
• Di Tian asked the Silver Dragon King for power to move the well, and she agreed, temporarily raising him to the god level.
• Zhong Kui and Xue'er sensed a powerful force above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and wondered whether it came from the Dragon Kings or Di Tian.