Chapter Summaries

Flender ended his decades-long friendship with Yu Xiaogang after learning that Yu valued his ambitions above Flender and Liu Erlong. Liu Erlong realized Yu had never put her first, and Lin Qing helped her face that truth before she left to sleep in the next room.

• Yu Xiaogang turned away rather than deny that Flender and Liu Erlong did not matter to him, and Flender severed their ties and left.
• Liu Erlong overheard the confrontation, recognized that Yu had placed his pride and ambitions above her, and silently left the corridor.
• Liu Erlong returned to Lin Qing's hotel room late at night and told him what Yu had said.
• Lin Qing told Liu Erlong that Yu had not changed; she had finally seen him clearly, and she accepted his comfort.
• Liu Erlong left for the room next door and put her silver bracelet back on, though it no longer felt as cold.

At breakfast, Ning Rongrong teased Xiao Wu, Er Ni, and Dugu Yan about leaving Lin Qing’s room together. Outside the hotel, Prince Xue Beng harassed Lin Qing’s companions, but Princess Xue Ke arrived and apologized, leaving Lin Qing intrigued by her authority over her brother.

• Ning Rongrong questioned Xiao Wu, Er Ni, and Dugu Yan about coming out of Lin Qing’s room, embarrassing them while Lin Qing stayed quiet.
• Xue Beng rode through the street carelessly, letting his guards scatter vendors and crush an old woman’s egg.
• Xue Beng stopped outside the hotel and demanded that Xiao Wu and the others become his women.
• Lin Qing warned Xue Beng about pointing at people, while his guards gathered behind the prince and revealed their Soul Rings.
• Xue Ke rushed over, apologized to Lin Qing’s group for Xue Beng’s behavior, and silenced her brother with a stern look.

Xue Ke warned Xue Beng that he had nearly caused a disaster by harassing Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan, then reported the incident to Xue Qinghe. Xue Qinghe decided to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and handle the matter, while Xue Beng was told to confess to Emperor Xue Ye.

• Xue Ke apologized to Lin Qing and his companions for Xue Beng’s behavior, and Lin Qing warned Xue Beng to behave before leaving with the group.
• Xue Ke told Xue Beng that Ning Rongrong was the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s princess and Dugu Yan was Dugu Bo’s granddaughter, then ordered him to confess everything to Emperor Xue Ye.
• Xue Ke went to the crown prince’s residence and told Xue Qinghe that Xue Beng had harassed Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan.
• Xue Qinghe listened to Xue Ke’s account, wondered who had been leading the two women, and said he would explain the incident to Ning Fengzhi himself.
• Xue Qinghe instructed Xue Ke to have Xue Beng return to the palace and confess to Emperor Xue Ye, and she left relieved.

Xue Qinghe secretly ordered an investigation into Lin Qing, whom he viewed as a threat to Spirit Hall’s plans, while Lin Qing took Liu Erlong to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. Later, Xue Qinghe visited Ning Fengzhi to apologize for Xue Beng’s behavior toward Ning Rongrong and secured his forgiveness.

• After Xue Ke left, Xue Qinghe ordered his agents to investigate Lin Qing’s identity, abilities, connections, and relationship with Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan.
• Lin Qing sent his companions back to Azure Throne Academy with Dugu Bo and took Liu Erlong with him to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Xue Qinghe visited Ning Fengzhi at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and recounted how Xue Beng had offended Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted Xue Qinghe’s apology and agreed to let the matter end.

Xue Qinghe questioned Ning Fengzhi about Ning Rongrong’s academy and learned that she attended Green Throne, while Ning Fengzhi suspected the questions were part of a careful probe. In Sunset Forest, Lin Qing led Liu Erlong through poisonous miasma to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, then dived in to search for the Water Dragon King’s remains.

• Xue Qinghe asked Ning Fengzhi where Ning Rongrong studied and whether she had joined a Battle Team for the upcoming tournament.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Qinghe that Ning Rongrong attended Green Throne and noticed that his student was probing for information.
• Lin Qing led Liu Erlong through the poisonous miasma in Sunset Forest to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Lin Qing warned Liu Erlong not to touch the rare plants, then dived into the well.
• Lin Qing searched beneath the well for the Water Dragon King’s remains, hoping to confirm they existed.

Lin Qing descended beneath the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and found the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's remains in an underwater cavern. Their remnant souls awakened, and Lin Qing revealed the Water Dragon King's Seal and explained why he had come.

• Lin Qing followed the Water Dragon King's glowing seal through the pool and discovered a vast cavern containing the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's skeletons.
• The seal pulsed urgently as Lin Qing recognized that the remains were what he needed to fulfill the Water Dragon King's dying wish.
• Ice-blue and crimson light rose from the skeletons, forming the awakened remnant souls of the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
• The Water Dragon King asked why Lin Qing carried her aura, and the Fire Dragon King also questioned the seal.
• Lin Qing revealed the Seal of the Water Dragon King and told the Dragon Kings that a friend had received it and sent him to find their remains.

Lin Qing insisted that he had come to revive the Water Dragon King, but she said her soul had nearly dispersed and resurrection was impossible. When she sensed her soul power in him, Lin Qing revealed the Seal of the Water Dragon King; she had no memory of giving it to him, and froze after touching it.

• Lin Qing told the Water Dragon King he had come to revive her, while the Fire Dragon King accused him of coveting their remains.
• The Water Dragon King explained that she was only a wisp of remnant soul and believed resurrection was impossible.
• The Water Dragon King sensed her soul power in Lin Qing and said it seemed to come from another time and a different choice.
• Lin Qing revealed the Seal of the Water Dragon King, astonishing the Fire Dragon King, who wondered why she had never mentioned a backup plan.
• The Water Dragon King denied remembering that she had given Lin Qing the seal, then touched it and froze as its light surged through her.

The Water Dragon King discovered that Lin Qing’s Seal of the Water Dragon King held her complete soul energy from the moment she fell, preserved across time by an unknown existence. She entered the seal to merge with the energy and restore her soul, leaving Lin Qing with a faint sense of her presence within him.

• The Water Dragon King sensed that the seal held her complete soul energy, extracted at the moment she fell and sent across time.
• The Water Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King considered whether the Time Dragon King had used the laws of time to preserve the energy for Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing said the seal came from a friend's relic and that he had come to fulfill the friend's last wish to revive the Water Dragon King.
• The Water Dragon King explained that she could restore her soul by merging the stored energy with her remnant soul over several months or years.
• The Water Dragon King entered Lin Qing's seal, and Lin Qing sensed her faint presence within him.
• The Fire Dragon King looked down at Lin Qing with envy and loneliness.

The Fire Dragon King gave Lin Qing a Dragon Pearl made from his and the Water Dragon King's remains, making it the key to the Dragon Tomb before his remnant soul vanished. Lin Qing then asked the Water Dragon King about fusing two identical Soul Bones, and she agreed to help after recovering for one to three months.

• The Fire Dragon King confirmed that Lin Qing's resolve to revive the Water Dragon King was genuine and revealed that the Dragon Tomb could help, but required a key.
• The Fire Dragon King burned and fused his and the Water Dragon King's remains into a Dragon Pearl, then gave it to Lin Qing as the key to the Dragon Tomb.
• The Fire Dragon King's remnant soul faded away, and the Water Dragon King emerged, mourned him, and said they could leave.
• Lin Qing asked whether the Water Dragon King could fuse his two identical 400,000-Year Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Torso Bones.
• The Water Dragon King explained that she could infuse the ice-origin energy from one Soul Bone into the one Lin Qing had already fused with, increasing its age and skill power.
• The Water Dragon King said she needed one to three months to recover, then returned to the Seal of the Water Dragon King to sleep.

Lin Qing rescued Liu Erlong after she was poisoned by a herb at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After waking, Liu Erlong admitted she had finally let go of Yu Xiaogang, then told Lin Qing she would obey even if he ordered her to kill him.

• Lin Qing found Liu Erlong unconscious with poison spreading toward her heart and used Ultimate Ice to extract the toxin, then warmed her meridians until she regained consciousness.
• Liu Erlong recalled that she had been distracted thinking about Yu Xiaogang when she touched a poisonous herb.
• Liu Erlong told Lin Qing she had become completely disappointed in Yu Xiaogang and had finally let go of him.
• Lin Qing asked what she would do if he ordered her to kill Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong calmly said she would obey.
• After noticing her torn clothes had left her naked, Liu Erlong blushed and told Lin Qing she would not refuse if it was his order.

Lin Qing and Liu Erlong spent the night together, leaving the Water Dragon King shocked by their lack of ceremony. The next morning, Lin Qing claimed Liu Erlong as his, and their awkward reunion ended with him declaring her his breakfast.

• Liu Erlong challenged Lin Qing to do what he wanted, and he ordered her not to resist before pulling her down onto the grass.
• The Water Dragon King glimpsed the pair, recoiled in shock, and sealed off her divine sense for the night.
• Liu Erlong woke in Lin Qing's arms and was embarrassed when he teased her about being a virgin and never having kissed Yu Xiaogang.
• Liu Erlong tried to dismiss the night as an accident, but Lin Qing pulled her back and declared that she belonged to him.
• Liu Erlong's aching legs gave way as she tried to stand, and she fell back against Lin Qing, who called her his breakfast.

Lin Qing took Liu Erlong to the Far North Ice Plains to obtain the Soul Rings he was missing. After they reached the icefields, they encountered a Titan Snow Demon and then the over-two-hundred-thousand-year-old Titan Snow Demon King, one of the Far North’s Three Heavenly Kings.

• Lin Qing and Liu Erlong flew north on the Frost Bone Dragon, and Lin Qing told her he intended to replace his missing Soul Rings in the Far North.
• Two days later, the Frost Bone Dragon reached the outskirts of the Far North Ice Plains, where a ten-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon charged toward them.
• The Frost Bone Dragon roared, overpowering the Titan Snow Demon and making it tremble in fear.
• A much larger creature arrived, prompting the Frost Bone Dragon to whine and Lin Qing to recognize the newcomer as the Titan Snow Demon King, a ferocious beast of over two hundred thousand years.

Lin Qing and his Frost Bone Dragon defeated the Titan Snow Demon King, and Lin Qing asked it to become his fifth Soul Ring. Before he could force the wounded beast to submit, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress descended and ordered him to stop.

• The Titan Snow Demon King demanded that Lin Qing and the Frost Bone Dragon leave the Far North, but Lin Qing sent Frost to fight it.
• Frost overcame the Titan Snow Demon King's ice attacks and battered it into submission while Lin Qing held Liu Erlong nearby.
• Lin Qing asked the wounded Titan Snow Demon King to sacrifice itself as his fifth Soul Ring, but it refused and vowed never to become his slave.
• The blizzard stopped as the Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived, and the Frost Bone Dragon prepared for their attack.

Lin Qing faced the Snow Empress and Ice Empress after defeating the Titan Snow Demon King, revealing that he wanted a hundred-thousand-year ice-attribute Soul Ring. He offered his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul and four hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings as bargaining chips, leaving the Ice Empress stunned by his royal bloodline and power.

• The Ice Empress attacked the Frost Bone Dragon and threatened Lin Qing and Liu Erlong, while the Snow Empress calmed her and demanded to know why Lin Qing had slaughtered Far North creatures.
• Lin Qing held Liu Erlong close and said he had come to obtain a hundred-thousand-year ice-attribute Soul Ring, naming the Titan Snow Demon King as only a backup plan.
• Lin Qing proposed a deal with the Ice and Snow Empresses and revealed his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul and four hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings.
• The Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Titan Snow Demon King reacted with shock to Lin Qing’s four red rings and his Martial Soul’s royal bloodline.
• The Ice Empress noticed gold patterns on Lin Qing’s third and fourth rings and realized they were two four-hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Soul Rings, which she believed impossible.

Lin Qing explained to the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and Torso Bone came from another version of the Ice Empress in a parallel world. The Snow Empress recognized the Torso Bone’s matching origin, but the Ice Empress remained doubtful as Lin Qing claimed the gifts had reached him through a dreamlike encounter with another timeline.

• The Snow Empress questioned Lin Qing about his Martial Soul and two 400,000-year Soul Rings, while the Ice Empress threatened him if he had killed one of her clan.
• Lin Qing told the Ice Empress that his Martial Soul and Soul Rings came from her, then revealed a 400,000-year Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Torso Bone.
• The Snow Empress sensed the Ice Empress’s aura in the Torso Bone, and the Ice Empress confirmed its Origin of Life matched her own.
• Lin Qing described parallel worlds as branching timelines where identical versions of people existed, and said another Ice Empress had given him his powers and bone.
• The Ice Empress asked whether Lin Qing had killed her counterpart, but Lin Qing denied it and described his experience as an accidental, dreamlike contact with a parallel timeline.
• Liu Erlong silently doubted Lin Qing’s account but chose not to interfere with his explanation.

Lin Qingmo tried to persuade the Ice Empress and Snow Empress to sacrifice themselves and become his Soul Rings by revealing that soul beasts could not become gods and promising a path to divine bodies. The Snow Empress asked him to explain that path, and Lin Qingmo offered to prove that their complete souls would survive inside his Spiritual Sea.

• Lin Qingmo asked the Ice Empress and Snow Empress to sacrifice themselves and become his Soul Rings, provoking the Ice Empress's fury.
• Lin Qingmo warned them that their future Heavenly Tribulations would be fatal, unsettling both Empresses.
• Lin Qingmo explained that soul beasts could not become gods and claimed he could revive them with divine bodies after he became a god.
• The Ice Empress doubted his promise, while the Snow Empress asked him to explain his path to a God Position.
• Lin Qingmo claimed their complete souls would survive the sacrifice and reside intact within his Spiritual Sea.

Lin Qingmo demonstrated his necromantic power and convinced the Ice Empress that he could preserve her soul after her sacrifice. She chose to sacrifice herself for a torso soul bone, leaving the Snow Empress to watch as the Ice Empress’s life became a jade aurora and Lin Qingmo prepared to receive her soul.

• Lin Qingmo opened a rift to the Undead Semi-Plane and showed the Ice Empress and Snow Empress that he could control and preserve souls.
• The Ice Empress agreed to sacrifice herself after sensing that Lin Qingmo’s power came from the same source as her own and acknowledging that both rulers feared losing each other.
• Lin Qingmo requested that the Ice Empress’s sacrifice form a torso bone, and she agreed despite already having given him a torso bone before.
• The Ice Empress said goodbye to the Snow Empress, closed her eyes, and began her sacrifice.
• The Ice Empress’s body became a jade aurora that spread across the Far North, while Lin Qingmo opened his Spiritual Sea to receive her soul.

Lin Qing absorbed the Ice Empress’s 400,000-year Soul Ring and torso bone, then gained the Snow Empress’s 700,000-year Soul Ring and right arm bone. Both soul beasts survived as spirits in his Spiritual Sea, where the Ice Empress discovered that Lin Qing could hear everything said inside it.

• The Ice Empress sacrificed herself, giving Lin Qing her 400,000-year fifth Soul Ring and torso bone before manifesting as a spirit in his Spiritual Sea.
• The Ice Empress reunited with the Snow Empress and confirmed that Lin Qing had preserved her spirit and soul.
• The Snow Empress agreed to become Lin Qing’s sixth Soul Ring and let him take her right arm bone.
• Lin Qing absorbed the Snow Empress’s 700,000-year Soul Ring and right arm bone, while the Snow Empress’s spirit joined the Ice Empress in his Spiritual Sea.
• Lin Qing appeared in his Spiritual Sea and teased the Ice Empress after revealing that he could hear her criticize him.

Ice Empress and Snow Empress bestowed powerful Soul Rings and a soul bone upon Lin Qing, who promised to help them revive. As Lin Qing prepared to leave the Ice Palace with Liu Erlong, the two Empresses emerged and said they had to arrange for a new ruler of the Far North.

• Ice Empress gave Lin Qing a passive effect that doubled all his soul skill effects and increased the power of his ice-element attacks by one hundred percent.
• Snow Empress granted Lin Qing two active soul skills and a domain skill, along with a soul bone skill that increased the power of ice-attribute attacks by another two hundred percent.
• Lin Qing bowed to Ice Empress and Snow Empress and promised they would not regret entrusting their lives to him.
• Lin Qing awoke in the Ice Palace, where Liu Erlong watched him with complicated feelings, and told her it was time to leave.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress appeared beside Lin Qing and said they needed to arrange for a new ruler of the Far North.

Lin Qing and Liu Erlong left the Far North after the Ice Empress and Snow Empress arranged for the Ice Bear King and Titan Snow Demon King to guard it. On their journey, Lin Qing rescued two girls from a pack of snow wolves, and the girls knelt to thank him.

• The Ice Bear King and Titan Snow Demon King accepted the Ice Empress and Snow Empress’s decision to leave the Far North and agreed to guard the territory.
• Lin Qing and Liu Erlong rode the Frost Bone Dragon away from the Far North, while the Ice Empress and Snow Empress teased Lin Qing from his Spiritual Sea.
• Lin Qing held Liu Erlong against the cold as they flew, and she complained when his hands wandered.
• Liu Erlong spotted two girls fleeing a pack of snow wolves and asked Lin Qing to save them.
• Lin Qing froze the pursuing wolves with the Extreme Ice Cold Current, and the two girls knelt to thank him.