Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo planned to leave Heaven Dou City for training in the Northern Territory while preparing to seek valuable resources and keep his future choices open. Meanwhile, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan decided to assassinate him once he left Plant Academy.

• Lin Mo told Shen Lin he planned to train in the Northern Territory and asked him to gather confidential information about its cities, factions, Spirit Beast Dense Areas, and dangerous regions.
• Lin Mo secluded himself to cultivate, strengthen his control of the Thunder Hell Vine, and consolidate his Soul Power.
• Yu Kun reported to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan that Lin Mo had rejected its recruitment and might be aligned with Spirit Hall.
• Yu Luomian and the clan elders agreed that Lin Mo should be killed, but ordered the Shadow Division death warriors to wait until he left Plant Academy and could be attacked alone.
• Yu Luomian assigned Yu Kun to oversee the assassination preparations, and Yu Kun accepted the task.

Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan assassins entered Plant Academy to kill Lin Mo, while Salas's covert guards watched over his safety. Lin Mo's storm cultivation took him to Back Mountain and away from the attack, where the assassins began searching for him as academy guards closed in.

• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan sent five deadmen to wait outside Plant Academy, while Salas dispatched covert Spirit Hall guards to protect Lin Mo.
• Shen Lin researched the Northern Territory for Lin Mo, and Lin Mo stayed in Secluded Villa studying the Thunder Hell Vine.
• After Lin Mo remained inside the academy for six days, Yu Kun ordered the deadmen to enter and assassinate him that night.
• Lin Mo left a Thunder Hell Vine in his room and went to Back Mountain to cultivate amid a storm.
• The deadmen broke into Lin Mo's empty villa, then fled toward the forest and alerted the academy guards.
• Lin Mo opened his eyes deep in the forest as the deadmen halted nearby.

Lin Mo hid in the Back Mountain forest as five assassins fled into it, then sprang his Thunder Domain after their Spider Martial Soul user detected him. The assassins recognized Lin Mo and were delighted to have found their target, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Five assassins found Lin Mo's residence empty and fled toward the Back Mountain as Plant Academy guards raised the alarm.
• Lin Mo sensed the five intruders in the storm and concealed himself while spreading his Thunder Hell Vine roots through the forest.
• Shen Lin found Lin Mo missing, and Spirit Hall Shadow Guards joined the academy's search for the intruders.
• A Poison Spider Soul Ancestor detected Lin Mo, and the Five-Ring Soul King captain attacked as Lin Mo dodged with his wings.
• The assassins encircled Lin Mo, so he unleashed his Thunder Domain and stunned them with lightning across the forest floor.

Lin Mo used his skills and the forest to ambush the five death warriors sent to assassinate him. After the Martial Soul Hall Shadow Guards and Plant Academy’s Soul Masters arrived, all five assassins were killed, and Lin Mo quietly rejoined the group.

• The five death warriors attacked Lin Mo’s apparent position, but he used [Flash] to evade them and trapped them with Thunder Hell Vines.
• Lin Mo appeared behind the gaunt man with the Spider Martial Soul and killed him with a Golden Thunder Javelin.
• The surviving four death warriors lost their ability to locate Lin Mo and tried to retreat, but Thunder Hell Vines hindered them.
• Martial Soul Hall Shadow Guards and Plant Academy’s Soul Masters surrounded the four fleeing assassins and killed them.
• Lin Mo quietly appeared behind the others as rain washed through the Back Mountain forest.

After surviving an assassination attempt, Lin Mo gave Shen Lin a plausible account that concealed his cooperation with Spirit Hall. Shen Lin admitted Plant Academy could not keep him safe and promised to hurry the Northern Territory map so Lin Mo could leave.

• Shen Lin questioned Lin Mo about being in the forest, killing a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, and Spirit Hall’s rapid arrival; Lin Mo claimed he had been cultivating in the storm and struck the assassin by surprise.
• Shen Lin said the investigation had not identified the assassins’ faction, while Lin Mo suspected the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and considered Spirit Hall and Ning Fengzhi as alternatives.
• Shen Lin offered Lin Mo a guest room, then promised to gather the Northern Territory map quickly so he could leave Plant Academy.
• Lin Mo thanked Shen Lin and departed, while Shen Lin regretted that the academy could not protect him.

After the failed assassination, Lin Mo left Plant Academy and traveled toward Heaven Dou City, while Shen Lin received his farewell letter and a gift to support his cultivation. In Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe learned of Lin Mo’s unusual strength and chose to wait for him to appear again.

• Yu Kun learned that the assassination had failed and set aside further action to avoid exposing his family.
• Shen Lin briefed Lin Mo on the Northern Territory, Skywater Academy, and the dangers of Icebound Forest and the Land of Extreme Cold.
• Lin Mo requested a long leave, disguised himself with Simulation, and quietly left Plant Academy.
• Shen Lin found Lin Mo’s letter and a card containing one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and resolved to grow stronger.
• Lin Mo traveled by carriage toward Heaven Dou City.
• Salas reported Lin Mo’s talents and feats to Xue Qinghe, who decided not to issue a search order and expected Lin Mo to appear again.

Lin Mo settled into Skywater City under the identity Lin Han, gathered intelligence, and received a system mission to survive in Icebound Forest for a month. He began planning how to complete it safely so he could earn protection from extreme cold.

• Lin Mo arrived in Skywater City, bought a luxurious residence, and adopted the identity Lin Han.
• Lin Mo cultivated and paid for reports about Skywater City, learning about the Tianshui Clan, Skywater Academy, and Soul Beasts in Icebound Forest.
• Lin Mo found the intelligence too scattered to reveal the location of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and decided to cultivate while waiting for better leads.
• The system assigned Lin Mo a mission to survive continuously in Icebound Forest for one month, rewarding him with Frost Guardian.
• Lin Mo considered hiring Soul Masters to accompany him and planned to claim he was searching for rare medicinal herbs.

Lin Mo hired a dependable Soul Master team and prepared to search the Icebound Forest for Snow Lingzhi and Snow Ginseng. After reaching the forest, he triggered a system mission requiring him to survive there for thirty days.

• Lin Mo moved to a courtyard outside Skywater City to conceal the unusual weather caused by his cultivation, and he learned that his Wind-Thunder Wings Soul Bone granted flight and the Wind-Thunder Slash skill.
• Lin Mo selected Gu Dalong's experienced exploration team, agreed to cover their expenses, and signed a contract for the expedition.
• Lin Mo stocked supplies for a long stay and traveled with the team toward the Icebound Forest on rented wolfhound sleds.
• Lin Mo and the team reached the snowbound forest, where the system began a thirty-day survival mission.

Gu Dalong guided Lin Mo through the Icebound Forest and warned him about its dangers, then shared legends of the Extreme North and Dragon Spine Snow Mountain. Lin Mo became intrigued by the possibility that a Frost Dragon’s remains might be hidden on the mountain, while Gu Dalong feared his patron would pursue the rumor.

• Gu Dalong explained that the group would stay in the Icebound Forest’s outer regions, avoid Soul Beasts and other adventuring parties, and conserve their strength while gathering herbs.
• Gu Dalong described Dragon Spine Snow Mountain, the dangers of the Extreme North, and a Title Douluo’s escape from the enormous Snow Demon King.
• Lin Mo recalled the Titan Snow Demon King and reasoned that the Title Douluo must have escaped through exceptional skill.
• Gu Dalong said an ancient legend claimed a Frost Dragon once ruled Dragon Spine Snow Mountain before a hero slew it, though both later vanished.
• Lin Mo considered whether the Frost Dragon might have been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and imagined finding its remains and Soul Bone.
• Gu Dalong saw Lin Mo’s interest grow and warned him that the Frost Dragon tale was only a legend, while Lin Mo smiled and listened.

Lin Mo and Gu Dalong’s team discovered and harvested a suspiciously orderly herb garden in the Icebound Forest, despite Lin Mo’s warnings. The garden’s owner, a ten-thousand-year Nine-Rank Ginseng King in human form, awakened a Frost Dragon corpse to pursue the thieves.

• Lin Mo spent more than two weeks traveling safely with Gu Dalong’s team while waiting for his survival reward and cultivating his Soul Power.
• Gu Dalong led the group to a hidden cliff where they found abundant Snow Ginseng, Snow Lingzhi, and other spiritual herbs.
• Lin Mo noticed the herbs were arranged like a cultivated garden and urged Gu Dalong’s team to leave quickly.
• The Nine-Rank Ginseng King discovered that the group had stolen her herbs and vowed to retaliate.
• The Ginseng King released purple spiritual light, causing the Frost Dragon corpse in her cave to glow with scarlet, icy light.

A purple-clad girl awakened the Hundred-Thousand-Year Frost Bone Dragon and sent it to attack Lin Mo’s expedition, triggering a massive beast tide. Lin Mo used the system’s emergency power to defeat the dragon, traced the crisis to the transformed Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Rank Ginseng King, and reached the cave, where he forced a contract on the girl before collapsing.

• The purple-clad girl used her blood and spiritual power to awaken the Frost Dragon Remains and sent it from its cave.
• Lin Mo warned Gu Dalong’s team to withdraw, but a violent beast tide trapped them as the Hundred-Thousand-Year Frost Bone Dragon arrived.
• Lin Mo activated the system’s self-preservation mechanism, gained overwhelming temporary power, and fought the dragon while opening an escape route for the expedition.
• The system traced the disturbance to the transformed Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Rank Ginseng King in a hidden cave on Dragon Spine Snow Mountain.
• Lin Mo subdued the Frost Bone Dragon, carried it to the cave, and smashed its remains before confronting the purple-clad girl.
• Lin Mo seized the girl and began a Forced Contract, but the effort exhausted him and left him unconscious.

Zi Ling awoke in the ice cave after Lin Mo defeated the Frost Bone Dragon, but the Master-Servant Contract stopped her from escaping Dragon Spine Snow Mountain. She returned to Lin Mo and negotiated over the contract and the Frost Dragon’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone while he struggled to recover.

• Zi Ling considered attacking the unconscious Lin Mo, then fled the cave and tried to leave Dragon Spine Snow Mountain.
• The contract’s golden rune immobilized Zi Ling at the mountain’s boundary, forcing her to return to the cave.
• Lin Mo awoke, and Zi Ling knelt before him before demanding that he remove the contract.
• Zi Ling offered to restore Lin Mo’s vital energy and blood and to give him the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone in exchange for release from the contract.
• Lin Mo accepted a drop of Zi Ling’s purple-gold blood and began refining it to recover.

After recovering from his battle with the Frost Bone Dragon, Lin Mo pressured Zi Ling into helping him and accepted her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone. They then investigated the dragon’s former lair, where Lin Mo found a token and map that might connect the dead human to the Tianshui Clan.

• Lin Mo recovered enough to learn his Soul Power had fallen to level fourteen, then demanded that Zi Ling work for him before he would lift her contract.
• Lin Mo used his Thunder Hell Vine Martial Soul and claims about his damaged foundation to convince Zi Ling that she owed him compensation, offering knowledge of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow as bait.
• Lin Mo promised to lift Zi Ling’s contract within ten years without restricting her freedom, and Zi Ling agreed to cooperate and gave him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Lin Mo asked Zi Ling about the human who had died alongside the Frost Dragon, and she led him to the corpse in the cave.
• Lin Mo found a token marked with the character “Water,” bearing a phoenix relief, and an old map that suggested the dead woman might have come from Frost City and been an ancestor of the Tianshui Clan.

Lin Mo identified the remains in the cave as likely belonging to the Frost Phoenix Douluo and found a map pointing to Frost City, then buried her and rested with Zi Ling. He absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, returned to level twenty, and gained two powerful ice skills.

• Lin Mo compared the token and map with local history, concluding that the remains likely belonged to the Frost Phoenix Douluo and that the map pointed to Frost City.
• Lin Mo had Zi Ling melt the ice so he could bury the skeleton, then built a tomb to shelter it from the cold.
• Lin Mo prepared food and learned that Zi Ling had once seen a nearly ten-thousand-year-old Thunder Hell Vine, though she said it had probably died centuries ago.
• Lin Mo began absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and its power healed his damaged meridians and raised his Soul Power to level twenty.
• Lin Mo gained the Soul Bone skills Frost Domain and Ice Pillar, then opened his eyes after the fusion was complete.

Lin Mo tested the Frost Domain and Ice Pillar Soul Skills from his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then cultivated with the Weather Skill while Zi Ling watched. Afterward, Zi Ling began helping him explore the Icebound Forest.

• Lin Mo used Frost Domain to freeze Zi Ling and spread sharp frost spikes across a five-hundred-meter area, then canceled the skill after seeing its effects and Soul Power cost.
• Lin Mo summoned Ice Pillar, unleashing a destructive storm of ice and snow, while he flew clear and Zi Ling escaped underground.
• Lin Mo taught Zi Ling to use her enlarged Ginseng Leaves as wings, and she learned to fly.
• Lin Mo used the Weather Skill to summon a thunderstorm and cultivate with lightning, while Zi Ling wondered about the power he retained after rebuilding his cultivation.
• Lin Mo found he was still far from rank twenty-one, and over the following days he had Zi Ling guide him around the Icebound Forest to gather resources.

Lin Mo completed his month in the Icebound Forest and gained the Frost Guardian shield, then asked Zi Ling to reassemble the Frost Bone Dragon. After she finished, he stored the giant skeleton in his System Space, and the two prepared to leave the Northern Territory.

• Lin Mo received the Frost Guardian reward and tested its shield by having the Thunder Hell Vine attack him.
• Lin Mo asked Zi Ling how she had controlled the Frost Bone Dragon, and she explained that it required a painful blood sacrifice to awaken its combat instincts.
• Lin Mo persuaded Zi Ling to reassemble the scattered dragon bones, assuring her that he could store the huge skeleton.
• Zi Ling spent several days rebuilding the Frost Dragon Bone while Lin Mo reflected on his system and its limited guidance.
• Lin Mo stored the reassembled Frost Dragon Bone in his System Space, astonishing Zi Ling, and asked whether she was ready to set off.

Lin Mo and Zi Ling traveled to Frost City and found the Tianshui Clan’s abandoned ancestral residence, where Shui Qingyue brought young Shui Bing’er to cultivate beside a mysterious, freezing well. The chapter left Shui Bing’er preparing to cultivate near the well while Lin Mo and Zi Ling disappeared into the city.

• Lin Mo changed his appearance with Simulation, and Zi Ling explained that she was skilled at hiding her aura.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling entered Frost City and followed a parchment map to the Tianshui Clan’s ancestral residence.
• Shui Qingyue and young Shui Bing’er approached the residence, but Lin Mo led Zi Ling away without explaining why they had been there.
• Shui Qingyue took Shui Bing’er through the deserted courtyards to an ancient well that radiated intense cold.
• Shui Qingyue warned Shui Bing’er to stop cultivating if the well’s extreme cold became too difficult to endure.

Lin Mo and Zi Ling infiltrated the Tianshui Ancestral Residence to investigate the source of its strange cold, using Zi Ling’s sleeping pollen to incapacitate the residents. They descended through the ancient well into a vast natural ice cave, where Zi Ling recognized the glowing crystals as they explored.

• Lin Mo and Zi Ling entered the Tianshui Ancestral Residence at night, and Zi Ling released sleeping pollen throughout it.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling found Shui Qingyue asleep, then discovered Shui Bing'er unconscious beside the freezing ancient well.
• Lin Mo carried Shui Bing'er away from the cold and decided to investigate the well with Zi Ling.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling dived into the well and descended through its icy shaft and underwater passage.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling reached a huge natural ice cave filled with glowing blue crystal clusters, and Zi Ling began to identify them.

Lin Mo and Zi Ling harvested Ice Extreme Divine Crystals and Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow from the Skywater Family’s ancient well. Before leaving, Lin Mo and Zi Ling each placed some marrow in sleeping Shui Bing’er’s arms to repay the Skywater Ancestor’s blessing.

• Zi Ling could not remove the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, but Lin Mo used his system to collect them all.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling followed the cold current deeper into the cavern and found a large deposit of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Lin Mo used his system to gather most of the marrow, while Zi Ling collected a smaller share for herself.
• Lin Mo told Zi Ling to keep what she had collected, and the two returned to the estate’s rear courtyard.
• Lin Mo placed a piece of marrow in sleeping Shui Bing’er’s arms, explaining that he wanted to repay the Skywater Ancestor’s blessing.
• Zi Ling followed Lin Mo’s example and added a small piece of marrow to Shui Bing’er’s arms.

Shui Bing'er and Shui Qingyue discovered that someone had left two pieces of Profound Ice Marrow for Shui Bing'er after secretly protecting her at the ancient well. They believed a Skywater Family ancestor had bestowed the fortune, while Lin Mo quietly finished settling his karmic repayment and prepared to leave with Zi Ling.

• Shui Bing'er woke beside the courtyard threshold with no memory of the night and found two pieces of milky-white ice marrow in her clothes.
• Shui Bing'er touched the larger crystal and felt its pure Ice Origin Power soothe her Soul Power and clear her mind.
• Shui Bing'er showed the crystals to Shui Qingyue, who recognized them as the rare Profound Ice Marrow described in the family records.
• Shui Bing'er explained what had happened, and Shui Qingyue concluded that someone had protected her and left the treasure, possibly a Skywater Family ancestor.
• Shui Qingyue urged Shui Bing'er to cultivate diligently, and both women believed an ancestor had granted her the fortune.
• Lin Mo listened beyond the courtyard wall, noted that his karmic repayment was settled, and told Zi Ling it was time to leave, though he did not know where they would go.