Chapter Summaries

Mu Ci said goodbye to Huo Wu and prepared to take Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to the Far North so Bing'er could hunt a soul ring. After learning Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had begun traveling to compete in spirit battles, he considered reaching Suotuo City ahead of their team.

• Mu Ci reassured the jealous Huo Wu that she and the woman at the Crown Prince Manor were both important to him, then saw her off as she returned home.
• Mu Ci told Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to prepare for a long trip to the Far North, where Bing'er would hunt a soul ring and Yue'er would need to keep training.
• Mu Ci informed Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin that he would be away from the Medicine King Sect, and they teased him about leaving daily affairs in their hands.
• Ye Renxin told Mu Ci that Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had started spirit battle training in Heaven Dou City under Qin Ming and planned to challenge major cities.
• Mu Ci connected their journey to the Great Soul Arena in Suotuo City and considered going there early to wait for the Heaven Dou Team.

Mu Ci traveled north with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er toward the Far North, where Shui Bing'er broke through to Spirit King and prepared to hunt for her Fifth Soul Ring. After hearing of caravans slaughtered near Tianhan City, Mu Ci confirmed Soul Beasts were responsible and continued investigating as the group approached the city.

• Mu Ci decided to observe Tang San and the protagonist group while traveling north, and considered testing whether the Asura God would intervene in a crisis.
• In the cold northern climate, Shui Bing'er cultivated rapidly and broke through to Spirit King while Shui Yue'er promised to improve her cultivation.
• Mu Ci learned from the driver that caravans near Tianhan City had been attacked, with wreckage bearing bite and claw marks.
• Mu Ci detected rotting flesh, shattered bones, and signs of a large Soul Beast pack along the road, possibly led by a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Shui Bing'er asked Mu Ci what was troubling him as he watched the evidence of the attacks outside the carriage.

Mu Ci brought Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to Tianhan City, where he learned that Spirit Beasts had massacred nearby villages and awaited reinforcements. As the group prepared to travel into the Ice Seal Forest, Shui Yue'er slipped into Mu Ci’s bed and tried to persuade him to accept her advances.

• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er questioned why no reinforcements had arrived to investigate the missing caravans, and Mu Ci said they would ask about it in Tianhan City.
• At Tianhan City’s gate, a guard warned Mu Ci’s driver that Spirit Beasts had massacred two nearby villages and that the city lord and bishop were still awaiting help.
• Mu Ci paid the driver several Gold Soul Coins and advised him to remain in the city until the danger passed.
• Mu Ci checked into the city’s best hotel with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, telling them to rest before their journey through the Ice Seal Forest toward the Extreme North Ice Plains.
• Late that night, Shui Yue'er secretly entered Mu Ci’s room and climbed into his bed; when he told her to sleep because they had to travel the next day, she insisted that she was his fiancée and that they could do anything together.

A warning signal brought Mu Ci to Tianhan City's walls, where he discovered that a Soul Beast pack threatened the small city and had likely cut off its communications. After asserting his authority over the city’s leaders, Mu Ci prepared to confront the threat with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, who arrived as the danger loomed.

• Shui Yue'er and Mu Ci were interrupted by an imperial army Signal Arrow, so Mu Ci left to investigate and told her to wake Shui Bing'er.
• Luo Lan and Bishop Sai Dong argued over their lack of troops and their failure to deal with the Soul Beast pack approaching Tianhan City.
• Mu Ci arrived and subdued Luo Lan with Soul Pressure, then showed Sai Dong an Elder Token that established his authority.
• Sai Dong told Mu Ci that they had reported the attacks seven days earlier, leading Mu Ci to suspect the messenger had been killed by an intelligent Soul Beast pack.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er arrived on the city walls with their four Soul Rings released, startling Luo Lan and Sai Dong.

Mu Ci identified the attackers surrounding Luolan City as a large pack of Frost Wind Demon Wolves and Wolf Bandits, then assigned Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to fight the weaker beasts as training. He began the battle by launching golden lightning and spears at the pack, while the defenders watched in fear.

• Shui Yue'er demanded to know which soul beasts had attacked, and Mu Ci said he had found no traces within his detection range.
• Mu Ci recognized the attackers as Frost Wolf Bandits, a rare variant descended from Frost Wind Demon Wolves, and explained their origins and brutality.
• Mu Ci detected 357 enemies around the city, including three powerful Wolf Bandits and several other high-ranked beasts.
• Mu Ci told Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to use the weaker wolves as combat training while he dealt with the strongest; both women agreed and urged him to be careful.
• Mu Ci revealed his golden antlers, illuminated the night with lightning, and attacked the pack with golden spears and bolts that burned more than a dozen powerful wolves to ash.

Mu Ci and the Bingyue Sisters helped Tianhan City defeat the Frost Wind Demon Wolf attack, then Mu Ci tracked the remaining pack to its den to eliminate the threat. He began fighting the wolves and Wolf Bandits guarding the cave.

• Mu Ci killed the ten-thousand-year Wolf Bandits with Evil-Breaking Golden Thunder while Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er attacked the Demon Wolves outside Tianhan City.
• Lord Luo Lan rallied the soldiers and Spirit Masters to defend the walls, and Mu Ci's Abundance Domain healed and strengthened the fighters.
• The Demon Wolf pack broke and fled, but Mu Ci's thunder and the defenders' attacks wiped out the wolves outside the city.
• Mu Ci cleansed Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, confirmed they were coping with the slaughter, and told them he would find and destroy the pack's den.
• Mu Ci followed the wolves' tracks through the forest and reached their cave, where the remaining Demon Wolves and Wolf Bandits charged him.

Mu Ci destroyed the Frost Wind Demon Wolves and Wolf Bandits, then continued north with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er toward the Far North. As they entered the Ice Seal Forest, a mysterious palace awakened beneath the Far North and Snow Empress sensed the Ice God's power.

• Mu Ci annihilated the Wolf Bandits in the cave, found a strange black crystal, and buried the site beneath new growth and rubble.
• Mu Ci told Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er that none of the kidnapped civilians had survived, then declined the Thousand-Year Frost Wolf Left Arm Bone offered by the Lord of Luolan City.
• Mu Ci left Tianhan City with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er two days later and led them through the Ice Seal Forest toward the Far North.
• A buried Ice Blue Palace awakened beneath the Far North, sending a pillar of divine light through the ice and leaving an Ice Abyss behind.
• Snow Empress recognized the pillar's aura as that of the Ice God, and Ice Empress arrived to meet her.

Snow Empress led Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and Xiao Bai to the bottom of the Ice Abyss after sensing the Ice God's power in a pillar of light. They found the Ice God Temple, and Snow Empress opened its doors, leaving them poised to discover what lay inside.

• Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and Xiao Bai gathered with Snow Empress and learned that she had sensed the Ice God's power beneath the Ice Abyss.
• Ice Empress and Xiao Bai challenged the Titan Snow Demon King after suspecting he might seek the Ice God's inheritance for himself, but Snow Empress stopped their quarrel.
• Snow Empress tested the Ice Abyss for lingering divine power and then led the others down when she sensed none.
• The group found an ancient temple radiating the Ice God's will, and Xiao Bai stopped the Titan Snow Demon King from approaching it.
• Snow Empress poured her Soul Power into the shut temple doors until they glowed and slowly opened, while Ice Empress joined her at the entrance.

The Snow Empress and her companions entered the Ice God Temple and reached its central pillar, where the Ice God appeared and summoned the Snow Empress. The Ice God revealed that she had fallen long ago and explained that her scattered divine power created the Ice God Bloodline among Far North soul beasts.

• The Snow Empress led the Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and Xiao Bai through the temple toward its distant God Pillar.
• The Snow Empress stopped at an invisible barrier, while the Titan Snow Demon King and Xiao Bai struck it and were hurled backward.
• The Ice God appeared atop the platform, dismissed the barrier, and summoned the Snow Empress to approach.
• The Ice God told the Titan Snow Demon King that her scattered divine power had created his clan's Ice God Bloodline after she fell.
• The Snow Empress approached the Ice God and paid her respects, but the Ice God stopped her from bowing and said she need not show such reverence.

The Ice God explained to Snow Empress that a God King had changed the world's rules to prevent soul beasts from ascending, leaving inheritance as their only route to escape the Heavenly Tribulation. She ordered Snow Empress to bring the human successor to the temple, and Snow Empress agreed despite Ice Empress's fears about trusting a human with the Far North's future.

• The Ice God told Snow Empress that soul beasts once could become gods, but a God King's changes to the world's rules and the God Realm's approval now blocked their ascension.
• The Ice God explained that Snow Empress could not inherit the Godhood directly, but could become a High Priest and later a God Official if she helped a successor ascend.
• The Ice God revealed that her remaining power was fading and ordered Snow Empress to find the human with an Ice Phoenix aura and Ultimate Ice so she could begin the trials.
• Snow Empress left the temple with Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and Xiao Bai, then said they would search the Far North's outer regions for the successor.
• Ice Empress worried that a human successor might not protect soul beasts, while Snow Empress insisted they had no choice because the inheritance could help them survive their Heavenly Tribulations.

Mu Ci, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er entered the Far North, where the Titan Snow Demon King confronted them and demanded that Shui Bing'er come with him. Mu Ci refused and prepared to fight, revealing two overlapping red Soul Rings.

• Mu Ci protected Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er from the Far North's cold as they traveled toward its Core Area.
• Shui Bing'er suggested finding a suitable Soul Beast on the outskirts, but Mu Ci sensed danger before he could answer.
• The Titan Snow Demon King crashed onto the snowy plains and identified Shui Bing'er as the inheritor of the Ice God.
• The Titan Snow Demon King demanded that Mu Ci hand over Shui Bing'er, and Mu Ci recognized the threat and refused.
• Mu Ci spread his Abundance Domain, secured both women against his back, and summoned his two red Soul Rings to face the Titan Snow Demon King.

Mu Ci fought the Titan Snow Demon King with his strengthened soul skills while protecting Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er. The Snow Empress halted their clash and arrived with the Ice Empress and Xiao Bai, leaving Mu Ci wary as the Far North's rulers confronted A-Tai.

• Mu Ci unleashed his boosted soul skills and joined the Mystic Deer's lightning to battle the Titan Snow Demon King.
• The Titan Snow Demon King ignited his Ice God Bloodline and used his Ultimate Ice abilities to break through Mu Ci's forest domain.
• Mu Ci summoned the Wisdom King and attacked A-Tai with a golden pestle and the Mystic Deer's Spotted Dragon Touch.
• The Snow Empress froze the battlefield with Emperor Cold Heaven, then dismissed everyone's attacks after confirming Shui Bing'er was unharmed.
• The Ice Empress and Xiao Bai arrived, and the Ice Empress questioned A-Tai about attacking Mu Ci and the others.

Snow Empress revealed that the Ice God had chosen Shui Bing'er as her inheritor and brought her, Mu Ci, and Shui Yue'er toward the Ice God Temple. Ice Empress also explained that the Titan Snow Demon King had started the fight by demanding that Mu Ci hand over the women with him, and he realized why Mu Ci had reacted angrily.

• Snow Empress sent Ice Empress and the Titan Snow Demon King ahead, then introduced herself to Mu Ci, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er.
• Mu Ci asked why the Far North's strongest rulers had come for them, and Snow Empress said Shui Bing'er was their target.
• Snow Empress apologized for the Titan Snow Demon King's attack and revealed that the Ice God had chosen Shui Bing'er as her inheritor.
• Shui Yue'er celebrated that Mu Ci's guess about an Ice God in the Far North had been right, and Mu Ci explained it had only been a hypothesis.
• Mu Ci, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er agreed to go with Snow Empress, who carried them toward the core region.
• Ice Empress questioned the Titan Snow Demon King about his fight with Mu Ci, and he realized his demand to take the women had provoked Mu Ci.

Mu Ci explained the Dragon God's history to the Ice God after she recognized Ambrosial Arbor's divine essence. The Ice God learned that the Dragon Race had fallen and ended by turning her attention back to Shui Bing'er and Snow Empress.

• Snow Empress brought Mu Ci, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er to the newly opened Ice God Temple and explained that the Ice God needed an inheritor within a few thousand years.
• The Ice God tested Shui Bing'er, accepted her as a qualified inheritor, and recognized Mu Ci as an inheritor of an otherworldly Deity.
• Mu Ci asked about the Phoenix God, and the Ice God recalled the Dragon-Phoenix War and her own death in the conflict.
• Mu Ci told the Ice God that the Dragon God had destroyed the Dragon Race, split himself into the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings, and barred Soul Beasts from becoming gods.
• Snow Empress asked why the Dragon God's affairs had prevented Soul Beasts from ascending, and Mu Ci explained the rule the Dragon God had imposed.
• The Ice God felt less anger toward the Dragon Race after hearing its fate and turned back to Shui Bing'er and Snow Empress.

The Ice God warned Mu Ci to conceal Jianmu before activating Shui Bing’er’s God Trial, and reassured him that the Sea God’s old divine will had likely detected nothing. Snow Empress received a Red-Level First Trial, while Shui Bing’er began the Ice God Nine Trials and thanked Mu Ci emotionally.

• The Ice God explained that the God Realm might notice Jianmu during the trial and told Mu Ci to conceal its aura.
• The Ice God explained why she and Snow Empress could sense Jianmu, while the Sea God’s old divine will likely could not; Mu Ci then successfully concealed it.
• The Ice God initiated Snow Empress’s assessment, granting her a Red-Level First Trial to assist with all nine god-level trials.
• Shui Bing’er received the Ice God Nine Trials, whose first assessment required her to absorb the Ice God’s source power and purify her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Shui Bing’er received an Ice Phoenix Divine Seal, embraced Mu Ci, and thanked him for helping her reach this opportunity.

Shui Bing'er accepted the Ice God's Divine Power Source and God-Bestowed Soul Ring to begin her First Trial, while Mu Ci learned the God Realm had been notified of recent changes. The Titan Snow Demon King apologized to Mu Ci and Shui Yue'er with three powerful Soul Bones, and the Ice God gave Mu Ci another God-Bestowed Soul Ring for Shui Yue'er.

• Shui Bing'er embraced Mu Ci, then accepted the Ice God's Divine Power Source and God-Bestowed Soul Ring before sitting down to begin her transformation and First Trial.
• The Ice God explained to Mu Ci how the God Realm Hub updated divine trials and confirmed the God Realm had learned of the situation.
• Ice Empress brought the Titan Snow Demon King to Mu Ci, and he apologized for his earlier misunderstanding and offered three Soul Bones.
• Mu Ci accepted the apology and gave Shui Yue'er the Hundred Thousand Year Sea-Ruling Dragon Lizard Right Arm Bone.
• Mu Ci asked the Ice God for a God-Bestowed Soul Ring for Shui Yue'er, and the Ice God granted him one.

Mu Ci and Shui Yue'er received powerful rewards in the Ice God Temple, while the Ice God began her inheritance and helped Mu Ci grow stronger. In the God Realm, the God Kings inspected the inheritance and noticed the exceptional potential of Mu Ci and Shui Yue'er.

• Mu Ci gave Shui Yue'er a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and advised her to absorb her Soul Bone first, then endure the ring's absorption for as long as possible.
• Shui Yue'er teased Mu Ci about having a child, then began absorbing her Soul Bone while Snow Empress agreed to keep watch.
• Mu Ci absorbed the three-hundred-thousand-year Calamity Snow Demon Spirit Skull, and the Ice God added some of her source power to help him grow.
• The God Kings learned that the Ice God's Godhood had been activated and used the Central Hub to inspect the Ice God Temple.
• The Asura God approved the Ice God Trial Participant and dismissed concerns about Snow Empress's status as a Soul Beast.
• The Goddess of Life praised Mu Ci's remarkable aptitude and Shui Yue'er's potential, while the God King of Destruction regretted that no suitable godhood was available for Mu Ci.

Mu Ci reached level sixty-nine after absorbing the Calamity Titan Spirit Skull and the Ice God's origin power, while Shui Bing'er completed her first Ice God trial and received a major boost to her soul rings. The group prepared for Shui Bing'er to absorb the Ice Demon Bird soul bone and a God-Bestowed Soul Ring.

• Mu Ci's Soul Power broke through to level sixty-nine, and his Abundance Power neared the intermediate stage after he absorbed the Calamity Titan Spirit Skull and Ice God's origin power.
• The Ice God told Mu Ci that the God Realm's inspection had ended and discussed the possibility that Mu Ci or Shui Yue'er might inherit a divine position.
• Shui Bing'er completed the first Ice God trial, gaining one Soul Power level, five hundred years of soul-ring age, and five percent Ice God affinity; her fourth soul ring became ten-thousand-year.
• Mu Ci explained that the Titan Snow Demon King had offered three soul bones as an apology, and Shui Bing'er acknowledged the beast's gesture.
• Mu Ci gave Shui Bing'er a 100,000-Year Ice Demon Bird Torso Bone and told her to absorb it before taking her God-Bestowed Soul Ring.

Shui Bing'er completed her first Ice God trial, gained the Ice Explosion Technique, and had two inherited Soul Bones removed so they could be replaced with stronger ones. Mu Ci then asked the Ice God to change the second trial because Bing'er needed to return home, and the Ice God warned that later trials would become more difficult.

• Shui Bing'er absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Torso Bone and God-Bestowed Soul Ring, while Shui Yue'er reported reaching Rank 54 and gaining a Domain-Type Fifth Soul Skill.
• Mu Ci admitted that he had come to capture an Ice Jade King Scorpion for its Ice Explosion Technique, and the Ice Empress explained that only a scorpion that awakened the technique could become a King Scorpion.
• Shui Bing'er finished absorbing her rewards, reached Rank 56, and gained the Ice Explosion Technique as her Fifth Soul Skill.
• Mu Ci removed Shui Bing'er's two Clear Sky Sect inherited Soul Bones without hurting her, lowering her Soul Power from Rank 56 to Rank 54.
• Mu Ci asked the Ice God to change Shui Bing'er's second trial because she needed to return home, and the Ice God agreed but warned that the later trials would become more difficult.

Mu Ci left Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er in the Snow Empress’s care, then detoured to Tang Hao’s cave outside Nuoding City to claim Ah Yin’s 100,000-year Soul Bone. Absorbing it advanced his Abundance Power and raised his Soul Power to rank seventy.

• The Ice God gave Shui Bing'er her Second Trial: reach rank sixty within three years and obtain a Soul Ring at least seventy thousand years old.
• The Snow Empress accompanied Mu Ci, Shui Bing'er, and Shui Yue'er to Skywater City, then agreed to train the Skywater Team while Mu Ci departed for Suotuo City.
• Mu Ci discovered his route passed through Nuoding City and entered Tang Hao’s hidden cave, where he found Ah Yin and learned she still believed Tang Hao was alive.
• Mu Ci found the 100,000-year Blue Silver Empress Left Leg Bone in a hidden compartment and silenced Ah Yin when she protested that it belonged to her.
• Mu Ci absorbed the Soul Bone, causing his Abundance Power to advance, transforming his body, and raising his Soul Power to rank seventy.