Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao and Tang San were caught in a beast tide in Sunset Forest, which Lin Mo and Zi Ling had secretly manipulated to target them. Tang Hao fought his way through the Soul Beasts, but a vision of Ah Yin drew him back into the forest as Tang San watched in alarm.

• Tang Hao brought Tang San into Sunset Forest to gather medicinal herbs, help heal his injuries, and train while hiding from Lin Mo.
• A Ten-Thousand-Year Crypt Demon Spider and a growing horde of Soul Beasts forced Tang Hao and Tang San into a beast tide.
• Tang Hao used Divine Slaughter's Domain and his Clear Sky Hammer to break through the Soul Beasts and kill the Crypt Demon Spider.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling watched from concealment as Lin Mo used [Mirror Flower, Water Moon] to manipulate the Soul Beasts and prepare another move.
• Tang Hao saw a vision of Ah Yin in the forest, abandoned his escape, and charged back into the beast tide while Tang San realized something was wrong.

Tang Hao was trapped in an illusion of Ah Yin’s death and unleashed his full power against the beast tide, while Tang San was left critically wounded. Lin Mo spared both of them but planted a curse in Tang Hao and forced two Ten-Year Soul Rings onto Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer before leaving with Zi Ling.

• Tang Hao pursued the illusion of Ah Yin while Tang San was distracted by visions of Xiao Wu and Lin Mo, then was mauled by Soul Beasts.
• Tang Hao relived Ah Yin’s sacrifice and Bibi Dong’s killing of her, then fought the Spirit Hall attackers in the illusion with his ring-detonation technique.
• In the real forest, Tang Hao devastated the beast tide before collapsing, and Lin Mo planted a Life Curse in him after noticing the Asura God’s imprint.
• Lin Mo found Tang San near death and, after refusing Zi Ling’s suggestion to kill him, drew out his Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul.
• Lin Mo made Tang San absorb Ten-Year Soul Rings from a Silver Rat and a Silver Bee, then left the ruined forest with Zi Ling.

Tang Hao rescued the critically wounded Tang San from Sunset Forest, while Lin Mo learned they had survived and concluded that ordinary dangers could not kill Tang San. After Tang San awoke, he discovered that two Ten-Year Soul Rings had been added to his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao collapsed from rage and his injuries.

• Tang Hao drove away the Soul Beasts, found Tang San alive, and carried him out of Sunset Forest.
• Zi Ling told Lin Mo that Tang Hao and Tang San had survived, and Lin Mo suspected Tang San’s fortune protected him from accidental death.
• Tang San awoke beside a campfire and blamed Lin Mo for the beast tide and the strange illusions.
• Tang Hao guessed Lin Mo’s group might have spared them because of Ah Yin, but Tang San could not confirm whether she had truly appeared.
• Tang San summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and discovered it bore two Ten-Year Soul Rings, devastating both him and Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao struck a tree in fury, spat blood, and collapsed as Tang San vowed revenge.

Lin Mo tested his System Space’s ability to hold living things, then traveled with Zi Ling to the Extreme North in search of the Ice and Snow Emperors. The system led them to the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave, where they found the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Lin Mo stored its Ice Marrow bed away.

• Lin Mo stored the Blue Silver Emperor in the System Space, tested whether Zi Ling could enter, then released her after she protested.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling used Flight Thrusters to travel to the Northern Territory and began searching the Extreme North for the Ice and Snow Emperors.
• Zi Ling questioned nearby Soul Beasts for directions as Lin Mo followed the system’s map to a hidden Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave.
• Lin Mo and Zi Ling burrowed through the ice into the cave, where Zi Ling collected scattered Ice Marrow fragments.
• Lin Mo found the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm atop a massive Ice Marrow bed and stored the bed in the System Space.

Lin Mo subdued the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with a contract after Zi Ling beat him into submission, then selected and tested several of his soul skills. The chapter ended with Tian Meng mistaking Lin Mo’s replicated ice silk for an ability of the Ice Silkworm Tribe.

• Lin Mo used Mirror Flower, Water Moon to wake Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Tian Meng boasted about his million-year cultivation.
• Zi Ling attacked Tian Meng, whose spiritual power was restrained, and beat him until he begged for mercy.
• Lin Mo demanded that Tian Meng sign a soul contract and threatened him with death until Tian Meng submitted and the contract was established.
• Lin Mo selected Spiritual Detection, Soul Shock, and Ice Silk Manipulation for replication.
• Lin Mo tested Ice Silk Manipulation by piercing a ten-thousand-year ice wall, and Tian Meng asked if Lin Mo belonged to the Ice Silkworm Tribe.

Lin Mo used Tian Meng to search the Extreme North for the Ice Empress, then found her resting place through the system. He faced the three-hundred-ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast and proposed a deal, leaving the Ice Empress wary but willing to hear him out.

• Lin Mo considered how the system's Contract ability could grant him Soul Beast skills and planned to seek powerful beasts for future contracts.
• Lin Mo ordered Tian Meng to lead them to the Ice Empress, and Zi Ling pressured Tian Meng when he claimed not to know her location.
• After their search failed, Lin Mo used the system's detection to locate Ice Jade Lake and led the group there.
• The Ice Empress emerged from the frozen lake, recognized Tian Meng and Zi Ling, and transformed into a young girl.
• Lin Mo released his Dragon Might Domain and offered the Ice Empress a deal, prompting her to ask why he had come.

Lin Mo offered the Ice Empress and Snow Empress a path to godhood, promising to break the Divine Realm’s restrictions within ten years. After the Snow Empress arrived and challenged his claims, Lin Mo revealed that he had traveled back from ten thousand years in the future.

• Lin Mo told the Ice Empress he could lead her and the Snow Empress to godhood, but she doubted him and asked whether his method involved taking human form.
• Lin Mo proposed that the Ice Empress follow him for ten years in exchange for an eternal divine seat, while Tian Meng worried that she might have to sacrifice herself.
• The Snow Empress arrived at Ice Jade Lake, heard Lin Mo’s offer, and questioned how he could become a god and rewrite the Divine Realm’s rules.
• Lin Mo said he had already succeeded on this path once and that the Ice and Snow Empresses had helped him, leading them to suspect he was a reincarnated figure.
• Lin Mo clarified that he had reversed time and been reborn from ten thousand years in the future, leaving the Snow Empress stunned by his revelation.

Lin Mo claimed to know the Ice and Snow Empresses’ futures and promised to help them become gods without sacrifice. The Ice Empress accepted his trial, but it began with a sudden assault by an enormous black dragon resembling Di Tian.

• Lin Mo told the Ice and Snow Emperors that he came from the future, and Zi Ling recognized how his past knowledge supported the claim.
• Lin Mo described how the Ice Empress would sacrifice herself to help him and how the Snow Empress would later become his Soul Spirit; the Snow Empress found parts of his account plausible.
• Lin Mo promised the Ice and Snow Empress that he would help them become gods, and the Ice Empress challenged him to a trial with the condition that he and the Snow Empress follow her for ten years if she passed.
• The Snow Empress approved the trial, and a spatial rift opened beneath the Ice Empress on Ice Jade Lake.
• A massive black dragon resembling Di Tian burst from the rift, struck the Ice Empress through the ice, and appeared before her in the sky.

Lin Mo defeated the Ice Empress in a trial by trapping her in a realistic illusion based on his own encounter with Di Tian, and she agreed to follow him under the condition that he would not force her to do anything. He offered her an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to help her prepare for her Four Hundred Thousand Year Tribulation.

• Lin Mo explained the limits of Mirror Flower, Water Moon to the Snow Empress while the Ice Empress remained trapped in an illusion of fighting Di Tian.
• The Snow Empress asked Lin Mo to end the illusion, and the Ice Empress emerged exhausted and unsure whether she was truly free.
• The Snow Empress confirmed the illusion had ended, and Lin Mo revealed he had personally taken a swipe from Di Tian's claw.
• The Ice Empress accepted defeat and agreed to follow Lin Mo, provided he did not force her to do anything against her will.
• Lin Mo gave the Ice Empress an Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid to strengthen her foundations and help her overcome her Four Hundred Thousand Year Tribulation.

Lin Mo gave the Ice Empress an immortal herb and profound ice marrow to help her face her four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, then intercepted its final strike with his Thunder Hell Vine and body. The Ice Empress survived and stabilized her transformed origin, while Lin Mo fell gravely injured into the Snow Empress’s arms.

• Lin Mo gave the Ice Empress the eight-petal immortal orchid and the Snow Empress narcissus jade muscle bone, assuring them he would help them without restricting their freedom.
• The Ice Empress swallowed the immortal orchid, broke through to four hundred thousand years of cultivation, and began facing her heavenly tribulation as the Snow Empress and Lin Mo watched.
• As the Ice Empress neared collapse, she absorbed Lin Mo’s ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow to restore her soul power and transformed into her true form.
• Lin Mo restrained the Ice Empress with his Thunder Hell Vine and absorbed most of the tribulation’s final violet-gold lightning strike, but the overloaded vine burst apart and he fell from the sky.
• The Snow Empress caught Lin Mo, and Zi Ling fed him her origin blood while he asked whether the Ice Empress had survived.
• The Snow Empress told Lin Mo that the Ice Empress had safely passed the tribulation and was stabilizing her cultivation, and he smiled in relief.

Lin Mo recovered after shielding the Ice Empress from her heavenly tribulation, while the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress watched over him. The next morning, he told the Snow Empress about their future adventures, and she began to feel that their meeting was a reunion.

• The Snow Empress and Zi Ling used their powers to stabilize Lin Mo after he protected the Ice Empress from the tribulation.
• The Ice Empress came to check on Lin Mo, then sat beside the Snow Empress and kept watch as he slept.
• Lin Mo woke the next morning and learned that the Ice Empress, Zi Ling, and Tian Meng had gone hunting.
• Lin Mo told the Snow Empress that he could endure and absorb thunder, and she warned him not to risk himself again.
• The Snow Empress asked Lin Mo about the future, and he recounted how he had rescued her and faced dangers with her as his soul spirit.

Lin Mo recovered enough to join the Snow Empress and the others for a meal after the Ice Empress returned from a hunt. The Snow Empress told him about the Frost Goddess and offered to take him to her inheritance site once his injuries had healed, and Lin Mo agreed.

• The Ice Empress returned carrying a ten-thousand-year Icefield Giant Elephant, and Zi Ling greeted Lin Mo as he recovered.
• The Ice Empress thanked Lin Mo for helping her breakthrough, then she and Lin Mo prepared the elephant for food.
• Lin Mo used the Life Curse Blade to cut the meat and cooked broth, which he shared with the Snow Empress and the others.
• The Snow Empress explained that the Frost Goddess had ruled the Extreme North, created her own godhood, and ascended to the Divine Realm a thousand years earlier, leaving an inheritance site.
• The Snow Empress offered to show Lin Mo the inheritance site after his injuries healed, and he accepted.

Lin Mo awakened the Frost God’s inheritance at the ancient altar and completed the first divine trial by reaching the Frost Temple and bowing to the goddess’s statue. He received two levels of Soul Power and learned that his second assessment was to cross the Ice Puppet Passage within a year.

• The Snow Empress led Lin Mo and the others to the Frost Lonely City ruins, where Lin Mo activated the divine pillar and became the Frost God’s successor.
• A Crystal Ice Stairway appeared, and Lin Mo, the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and Zi Ling climbed toward the Frost Temple while Tian Meng was trapped by the stairway’s pressure.
• Lin Mo entered the Frost Temple and respectfully bowed before the Frost Goddess’s statue, completing the first examination.
• The trial rewarded Lin Mo with two levels of Soul Power, raising his cultivation to level forty-eight.
• Lin Mo received the Frost Second Assessment: traverse the Ice Puppet Passage within one year.

Lin Mo reached the Ice Puppet Passage and tested how its awakened puppets and barrier worked, using a clone and Mirror Flower, Water Moon to explore safely. As he advanced disguised as an ice sculpture, Zi Ling explained to the Ice Empress that Lin Mo could copy some of her abilities through their contract.

• The Snow Empress led Lin Mo and Zi Ling away from the Frost Temple to a snowy valley filled with dormant ice sculptures.
• Lin Mo sent a clone into the valley, discovering that the puppets awakened inside a barrier but stopped pursuing targets that left it.
• Lin Mo used Mirror Flower, Water Moon to disguise his clone as an ice sculpture and explore deeper into the passage.
• The Snow Empress suggested the puppets mistook Lin Mo for one of their own, while Zi Ling explained that his clone could swap places with his original body.
• Zi Ling quietly told the Ice Empress that Lin Mo had copied some of her abilities through their contract.

Lin Mo entered the Ice Puppet Tunnel in his true body and fought through its ice-sculpted soul beasts, then defeated the hundred-thousand-year Frost Phoenix projection at the end. He cleared the Frost Second Trial, raised his soul power to Level 50, and reached 35% affinity as he sat on the snowy cliff beyond the tunnel.

• Lin Mo sent his clone through the tunnel to scout its length, enemies, and dormant Frost Phoenix, then had his true body enter the trial.
• Lin Mo restrained and destroyed waves of ice-sculpted soul beasts with his Thunder Hell Vines, Thunder Spears, Life Curse Blade, and other abilities.
• The Ice Empress asked Zi Ling whether Lin Mo had signed a contract with Tian Meng, and Zi Ling confirmed that he had.
• Lin Mo fought through the tunnel, using a Milk Bottle to replenish himself before advancing into the Boss Lair.
• The Frost Phoenix projection awakened and attacked Lin Mo, who transformed with his Fourth Soul Ring and destroyed it in a brief clash.
• Lin Mo reached the snowy cliff beyond the tunnel and received the completed trial reward: two soul-power levels, reaching Level 50, and 35% affinity.

The Frost Goddess watched Lin Mo rapidly pass her second god trial and revised the next challenge to slow his progress. As Lin Mo rested beside the Snow Empress, the third trial appeared before him.

• The Frost Goddess discovered that Lin Mo had qualified for her inheritance and watched him climb the trial stairs and reach the summit on his first attempt.
• The Frost Goddess watched Lin Mo use his clone and varied abilities to overcome the Ice Puppet Passage and defeat the Frost Phoenix's lingering consciousness.
• The Frost Goddess awarded Lin Mo two levels of soul power and additional affinity, bringing his cultivation to level fifty.
• The Frost Goddess redesigned the third trial to make it more time-consuming and synchronized the new instructions.
• Lin Mo rested beside the Snow Empress until the third trial appeared on a blue screen before him.

Lin Mo learned that his third Frost God Trial required him to endure the Extreme Cold Canyon for a year, then went there with the Snow Empress to inspect it. As Lin Mo and the Snow Empress entered the canyon, Zi Ling invited the Ice Empress to travel south with them someday, leaving the Ice Empress wondering whether Lin Mo would ask her.

• The Frost Goddess set Lin Mo's third trial: endure the Extreme Cold Canyon for one year within three years.
• Lin Mo learned from the Snow Empress that the canyon connected to the Northern Ice Ocean and was dangerously cold, then decided to inspect it.
• Lin Mo, the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and Zi Ling traveled to the canyon, while Tian Meng followed after realizing the others had left him behind.
• At the canyon, Lin Mo asked the Ice Empress to watch Zi Ling while he and the Snow Empress entered the freezing winds.
• Zi Ling invited the Ice Empress to join them on a journey south to see seas of flowers, and the Ice Empress wondered whether Lin Mo would invite her.

Lin Mo and the Snow Empress explored Extreme Cold Canyon and reached the Northern Ice Sea, where they discussed Tian Meng's future betrayal and Lin Mo's plans. Lin Mo left south with the Ice Empress and Zi Ling, while the Snow Empress stayed behind and forced Tian Meng to survive among the soul beasts for training.

• Lin Mo and the Snow Empress crossed Extreme Cold Canyon, reached the Northern Ice Sea, and Lin Mo used [Weather Manipulation-Clear Skies] to create fair weather around them.
• The Snow Empress asked whether Tian Meng had done something unacceptable in the future, and Lin Mo confirmed it while saying he would not punish Tian Meng for events that had not happened.
• Lin Mo decided to postpone his Divine Trial and return within two years, then reunited with the Ice Empress and Zi Ling and went to find Tian Meng.
• At Ice Jade Lake, Lin Mo told Tian Meng to remain in the Extreme North under the Snow Empress's protection as he prepared to leave south with the Ice Empress and Zi Ling.
• After bidding farewell to the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress dropped Tian Meng into the ice fields and ordered him to survive while the Ice Bear King watched over him.

Lin Mo took the Ice Empress and Zi Ling from Skywater City to Sunset Forest, where he brought the Ice Empress to the Ice and Fire Pool and reunited with Dugu Bo. After learning that Dugu Bo still suffered from serpent venom, Lin Mo suggested the Ice Empress might be able to help him.

• Lin Mo gave the Ice Empress a Storage Ring and took her and Zi Ling to a luxury clothing boutique, where Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu noticed him and a Spirit Hall official addressed him as His Highness.
• Lin Mo led the Ice Empress and Zi Ling to Sunset Forest to search for a suitable Soul Ring and visit the Ice and Fire Pool.
• At the valley, Lin Mo greeted Dugu Bo and asked Zi Ling to show the Ice Empress around while he spoke privately with Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo told Lin Mo that his medicine eased his serpent venom and that Yanyan had recovered, but he rejected the idea of dispersing his cultivation to eliminate the poison.
• Lin Mo said the Ice Empress might be able to help Dugu Bo if she was willing.