Chapter Summaries

Jing Hongchen arranged to meet Xu Qing and revealed that Xiao Meng wanted him to join the new academy in Sun Moon. Meanwhile, Xu Qing tried to persuade the furious Ice Empress to cooperate by asking whether she wanted to know where Snow Empress was, but she accused him of lying and ran out of Soul Power before finishing her threat.

• Xiao Meng secretly urged Jing Hongchen to tell Xu Qing that she needed him, hoping to recruit him for the academy.
• Jing Hongchen arranged to pick Xu Qing up after work and admitted to himself that he had leaked the academy plan to help Xiao Meng secure Xu Qing.
• Xu Qing ended the call at the Red Rose Hotel, then freed Ice Empress from Self and proposed that they speak honestly.
• Xu Qing asked Ice Empress whether she wanted to know where Snow Empress was, hoping to persuade her to offer herself as a sacrifice.
• Ice Empress accused Xu Qing of deceiving her and blamed humans for Snow Empress's disappearance, but her stored Soul Power ran out before she could finish her threat.

Xu Qing subdued Ice Empress and revealed that Snow Empress had survived her failed tribulation but was sealed by human Soul Masters. He offered to save Snow Empress and help Ice Empress reach a million years of cultivation and godhood, leaving Ice Empress seemingly receptive but insisting she had not truly agreed.

• Xu Qing restrained Ice Empress, sealed her physical strength, and quieted her with Mystic Ice Marrow.
• Xu Qing told Ice Empress that Snow Empress had failed her Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation and was sealed by human Soul Masters while trying to transform into human form.
• Ice Empress struggled to accept Xu Qing's account and grieved over Snow Empress's fate.
• Xu Qing offered Ice Empress unlimited Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow, a path to a million years of cultivation, and the chance to become his Soul Ring so they could rescue Snow Empress and pursue godhood.
• Ice Empress took Xu Qing's hand, then pulled away and said she had not agreed to his proposal.

Xu Qing reassured Ice Empress that he could help her break through her seal while he continued developing Mystic Ice Marrow. Meng Hongchen arrived unexpectedly, and Xu Qing gave her his newest Ice Marrow to test its effects on her Martial Soul.

• Ice Empress questioned Xu Qing about his Mystic Ice Marrow, and he promised to help her gather energy and break through the four-hundred-thousand-year mark.
• Meng Hongchen entered Xu Qing's room and mistook Ice Empress for someone who had snuck up on him.
• Xu Qing led Meng Hongchen into the corridor and gave her a crystal of his newly condensed Mystic Ice Marrow.
• Meng Hongchen swallowed the crystal, and Xu Qing recorded how her Soul Power briefly rose from level forty-six to level forty-nine before settling.
• Meng Hongchen became limp in Xu Qing's arms, then recovered and began commenting on his Ice Marrow.

Xu Qing moved into a villa in Ming Capital with Xiao Meng’s support and went to enroll at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. After the academy waived his entrance exam, Lin Jiayi took him and Xiao Meng to the underground experimental area and noted Xu Qing’s extraordinary physical strength.

• Xu Qing greeted Xiao Meng and Xiao Bing at his new villa, then left Xiao Bing behind to begin literacy lessons while he went with Xiao Meng to the academy.
• Xiao Meng described the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s facilities and strict entrance requirements as she guided Xu Qing to his physical exam.
• Xu Qing noticed the strong scent of Nine Dragons Potion in the classroom and met Dean of Students Lin Jiayi, who told him the dean had arranged for him to skip the test.
• After the other new students completed their exams, Lin Jiayi led Xu Qing and Xiao Meng to the underground experimental area.
• Lin Jiayi remarked that Xu Qing had level-forty-four Soul Power but physical strength equivalent to level seventy-eight.

Xu Qing faced Ji Juechen in a grade-skipping test at Mingde Hall after learning that the academy expected him to help win the Continental Soul Master Tournament. He consumed his ultra-pure Mystic Ice Marrow, surged in power, and began battling Ji Juechen with a Golden Dragon phantom as his attack continued.

• Lin Jiayi explained that Jing Hongchen had traded with the Body Sect for resources and brought Xu Qing in to help Mingde Hall win the Continental Soul Master Tournament.
• Xiao Meng described the grade-skipping examination, and Lin Jiayi named Ji Juechen as Xu Qing's opponent, requiring him to last one incense stick.
• Jing Hongchen appeared at the grounds and questioned Xiao Meng about where she had gone the previous night.
• Xu Qing condensed Mystic Ice Marrow to 99.99% purity, swallowed it, and raised his Soul Power from Level 45 to Level 48.
• Ji Juechen noticed Xu Qing's immense power, but Xu Qing summoned a Golden Dragon phantom that pinned him down as the fight began.

Xu Qing overwhelmed Ji Juechen in their duel, then faced him as he boosted his Soul Power to Level 70 with six shots of Nine Dragons Potion. Ji Juechen prepared to fight on, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Xu Qing praised Ji Juechen for allowing his buildup, then offered to sell him Body Potion at cost if he won.
• Hall Master Jing promised Ji Juechen thirty shots of Nine Dragons if he defeated Xu Qing, and Ji Juechen unleashed all six Soul Rings in a sword strike.
• Xu Qing dodged Ji Juechen's Sword Technique—Silence and broke his Level Five Defensive Soul Tool with a punch, then restored his Soul Power by swallowing a blue crystal.
• Xu Qing summoned a Deep Sea Demon Whale phantom, which Ji Juechen barely deflected before it cratered the arena beyond him.
• Ji Juechen injected himself with six shots of Nine Dragons Potion, temporarily raising his Soul Power to Level 70.

Ji Juechen unleashed his newly comprehended sword technique, Obsession, against Xu Qing, who pushed himself into a second Blood Burst to defeat him. Ji Juechen survived with help from Xu Qing’s experimental Adrenaline and Hall Master Jing’s healing pill, while Xu Qing turned to Hall Master Jing and asked why he was still calling him Hall Master.

• Ji Juechen revealed his determination and named the sword technique he had just comprehended Obsession.
• Xu Qing activated his second Blood Burst and traded powerful blows with Ji Juechen, whose sword held out until Xu Qing finally stopped him.
• Ji Juechen collapsed gravely wounded and apologized for failing to let Xu Qing enjoy the fight.
• Xu Qing injected Ji Juechen with Adrenaline, while Hall Master Jing gave him a healing pill and Lin Jiayi took him to the infirmary.
• Xiao Meng applied ointment to Xu Qing, who covered himself and asked Hall Master Jing why he was still calling him Hall Master.

Xu Qing asked the Ice Empress about Soul Cores and demonstrated that he could solidify and attribute his Soul Power ahead of schedule by making Mystic Ice Marrow. The Ice Empress tasted it and said a month or two of daily servings could give her an eighty percent chance of surviving her Heavenly Tribulation, leaving Xu Qing eager to improve the treat.

• Xu Qing returned to the villa and found the Ice Empress had quickly learned human writing, then rewarded her with Mystic Ice Marrow that she initially refused.
• Xu Qing asked the Ice Empress how she formed her Soul Core, and she explained that the process required a body, spiritual power, and Soul Power as strong as a Titled Douluo's.
• Xu Qing used his Mystic Ice Marrow Martial Soul to solidify and attribute his Soul Power, demonstrating that he had crossed the first threshold for forming a Soul Core.
• The Ice Empress tasted the Mystic Ice Marrow and said regular servings could give her an eighty percent chance of surviving her Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xu Qing, still holding most of his Soul Power, proposed spending the afternoon discussing how to make Mystic Ice Marrow taste better.

Huo Yuhao suffered a sudden attack at the Body Sect gym, then recovered after Ano injected him with several potions, awakening a changed fortune and improved senses. In the Divine Realm, Tang San tried to observe Douluo Planet but was stopped by the God of Destruction.

• Huo Yuhao worried that his head looked pointy and doubted his physical talent while talking with Ano at the gym.
• Huo Yuhao felt sudden, severe heart pain, and Ano mistook his symptoms for an overdose and injected him with three potions.
• Huo Yuhao recovered, and his fortune surged in a chaotic mix of colors as his cultivation speed, sight, and hearing improved.
• Tang San noticed Huo Yuhao's luck had risen again and prepared to inspect Douluo Planet through the God Realm Hub.
• The God of Destruction confronted Tang San for trying to interfere with the lower realm, and Tang San claimed he only wanted to check on Xiao Qi.

Xu Qing began attending Class One, Year Five at Royal Soul Master Academy, where he struggled to follow a lesson on Soul Tools. The academy announced a selection exam in two and a half months to choose its Continental Soul Master Tournament team, giving Xu Qing a new deadline to prepare for.

• Xu Qing left Ice Empress after refusing to make her Mystic Ice Marrow for a week, and she locked the door and struggled to recover from eating it.
• Xu Qing went to school the next morning, where Meng Hongchen greeted him and Xiao Hongchen dramatically welcomed him to class.
• Xu Qing sat beside Meng Hongchen instead of Xiao Hongchen, then listened as Lin Jiayi taught a lesson on Soul Tools that he could barely understand.
• Lin Jiayi announced that Year Five and Year Six students would take a selection exam in two and a half months to choose seven official and seven reserve tournament team members.

Xiao Hongchen anticipated his future match against Xu Qing while Xu Qing visited the library and had Elder Yi copy its Soul Tool books. After Ju Zi’s tangerine attack became juice in Xu Qing’s hands, he left and asked Elder Yi how far away he could sense a divine presence.

• Xiao Hongchen resolved to defeat Xu Qing in their match two and a half months later, while Xiao Meng teased Xu Qing about keeping her fight with Lao Ji from her brother.
• Xu Qing asked Elder Yi to study the library’s Soul Tool books, and Elder Yi secretly copied them all with his divine sense.
• Ju Zi threw a tangerine at Xu Qing, who caught it, squeezed it into juice, and ate the ice cup before leaving without paying her.
• Ju Zi identified Xu Qing’s Martial Soul as ice and saw that his Soul Power level was forty-five.
• Xu Qing recalled seeing an angel while repeatedly exhausting his Soul Power and asked Elder Yi how far away he could sense a divine presence.

Xu Qing watched Ye Guyi mistake Nana for an Evil Soul Master and secretly stopped Nana from killing her, allowing Nana to escape. He then confronted Ye Guyi and accused her of being an Evil Soul Master in disguise.

• Elder Yi detected a sacred aura three kilometers ahead, and Xu Qing followed it to a Holy Spirit Cult branch in Ming Capital.
• Xu Qing watched as Ye Guyi cornered Nana in an alley and accused her of being an Evil Soul Master.
• Nana tried to defend herself, then attacked Ye Guyi with a Level 6 Blink Sword when Ye Guyi launched her Holy Spirit Slash.
• Xu Qing summoned an Ice Jade Scorpion phantom to knock the Blink Sword aside, giving Nana time to retrieve it and escape.
• Ye Guyi accused the unseen rescuer of being a villain, and Xu Qing jumped down and challenged her to prove she was not an Evil Soul Master in disguise.

Xu Qing met Ye Guyi, a Holy Angel Martial Soul user who had been investigating the Holy Spirit Cult, and tried to hide his own identity while earning her trust. Their conversation ended when the Great Holy Spirit and another enemy trapped them in the alley.

• Xu Qing convinced Ye Guyi that he fought Evil Soul Masters, then learned she had a Holy Angel Martial Soul despite her claim to possess a Bright Swan.
• Xu Qing gave Ye Guyi an ice marrow drink and introduced himself as Xu Qing, claiming his Martial Soul was ice cubes.
• The Great Holy Spirit appeared with black mist, trapping Xu Qing and Ye Guyi in the alley.
• The Great Holy Spirit revealed his seventy-eighth-level Evil Soul Saint strength and celebrated finding both Ye Guyi and a light-attribute Soul Master.
• Another hostile voice joined the Great Holy Spirit as Xu Qing warned Ye Guyi that they were in trouble.

Ye Guyi fought the Holy Spirit Cult’s Evil Soul Masters in their underground hall, but the Great Holy Spirit overwhelmed her. Xu Qing stepped in, raised his strength to Soul King, and revealed a holy aura purer than Ye Guyi’s.

• Ye Guyi used her Holy Angel powers to shield the others and attack the Second Holy Spirit as the cult trapped them in its underground lair.
• The Second Holy Spirit burned his Soul Rings and transformed into a giant skeleton, while the Great Holy Spirit taunted the group.
• Ye Guyi unleashed her Holy Light Spirit Array and Holy Hymn, then charged the Great Holy Spirit and was struck into a pillar.
• Xu Qing advised Ye Guyi to defeat the weaker Evil Soul Masters first, then took the front line himself.
• Xu Qing fused his Soul Rings to create Ice Marrow, swallowed it, and surged to level fifty as his left eye began to shine with an exceptionally pure holy aura.

Xu Qing unleashed his Golden Crocodile King phantom and holy power against the Evil Soul Masters in the underground hall. He broke the Great Holy Spirit’s Holy Spirit Flag and left the fallen Evil Soul Saint for Ye Guyi to finish off.

• Xu Qing summoned the Golden Crocodile King, froze the Evil Soul Masters with holy light, and killed the Second Holy Spirit with a punch and a bite.
• The Great Holy Spirit broke free, reached Soul Douluo strength, and used the Holy Spirit Flag to release swarms of vengeful spirits.
• Xu Qing and Ye Guyi resisted the spirits’ attacks, while Xu Qing appeared behind the Great Holy Spirit and struck at the flag.
• The Great Holy Spirit deflected Xu Qing’s punch with the flag, then tried to direct the vengeful spirits at Ye Guyi.
• The Holy Spirit Flag snapped, its backlash left the Great Holy Spirit incapacitated, and Xu Qing offered Ye Guyi the chance to finish him off.

Xu Qing and Ye Guyi defeated the Great Holy Spirit, destroyed the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, and purified the resentful spirits in the hall. As they left Ming Capital’s ruined stronghold, Ye Guyi offered to become Xu Qing’s ace fighter and began to tell him a secret.

• Xu Qing helped Ye Guyi use Holy Spirit Slash to destroy the Great Holy Spirit, and she absorbed its energy to rise from level forty-six to level fifty.
• Elder Yi destroyed the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and purified the resentful spirits throughout the hall.
• Xu Qing told Ye Guyi that it was time to part ways, but she followed him and offered to come whenever he needed her.
• Ye Guyi tried to buy Xu Qing herbal tea, admitted she was broke, and explained that she had pursued the Evil Soul Master for his bounty.
• Ye Guyi pulled Xu Qing aside and began whispering that she wanted to tell him a secret.

Ye Guyi revealed how she entered the Sun Moon Empire and moved into the villa next door to Xu Qing, while Ice Empress teased him at home. Two months later, Xu Qing had advanced four levels and discussed his exhausted soul-sacrifice source with Ice Empress, who asked whether he would still hunt A-Tai’s kin for his fifth ring.

• Ye Guyi told Xu Qing she had smuggled herself into the Sun Moon Empire, pawned her Level 3 Soul Tool, and joined the Ordinary Alliance with Shangguan Ying’er’s help.
• Ye Guyi showed Xu Qing the villa she had bought, and Xu Qing revealed that his own house was next door.
• Ice Empress refused to let Xu Qing inside until he aired out Ye Guyi’s scent, then mocked him after he entered and ignored his messages.
• Over the next two months, Xu Qing and his companions experienced several awkward encounters, while the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult drew no reaction.
• Xu Qing said he had advanced four levels with help from the bug’s life energy, which was now exhausted, and described how the bug had made a pure soul sacrifice after eating Mystic Ice Marrow.
• Ice Empress asked Xu Qing whether he still planned to hunt A-Tai’s kin for his fifth ring.

Xu Qing traveled to the Far North with Du Busi to hunt Titan Snow Demons, hoping their Ice God bloodline would help him discover whether the Ice God Inheritance existed. After Du Busi knocked out A-Tai, Xu Qing asked for a technique to control Ice Empress’s Soul Core seal, but his master refused.

• Ice Empress questioned Xu Qing’s plan to use Titan Snow Demon Soul Rings to seek the Ice God Inheritance and admitted she had never found evidence that an inheritance existed.
• Xu Qing revealed that Titan Snow Demon Soul Rings would also nourish his body and strengthen his Self Martial Soul, and resolved to investigate the inheritance himself.
• Du Busi arrived and took Xu Qing to the Far North after Xu Qing promised to make Ice Empress another popsicle when he returned from breaking through to five rings.
• A-Tai angrily accused the humans of tormenting Ice Empress and killing his people, then burned his life force to attack them.
• Du Busi punched A-Tai unconscious, and Xu Qing asked his master for the secret technique to control Ice Empress’s Soul Core seal.
• Du Busi refused to teach Xu Qing the technique, warning that Xu Qing was too young to resist temptation and that a failed seal could cause serious trouble.

Xu Qing lured an eighty-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon out with enhanced Mystic Ice Marrow, intending to drive it to a hundred thousand years and make it sacrifice itself to him. He revealed his aura to provoke the beast and began fighting it, confident that his strength would prevail.

• Xu Qing asked Du Busi for partial control over the sealed scorpion, and Du Busi gave him thirty percent control.
• Xu Qing used Ring Fusion to make Mystic Ice Marrow and placed it outside the Titan Snow Demon's cave.
• The Titan Snow Demon ate the Mystic Ice Marrow, whose energy sent it into a frenzy.
• Xu Qing told Du Busi he planned to push the beast to a hundred thousand years and obtain its sacrifice, then stepped out of the protective barrier to provoke it.
• The Titan Snow Demon attacked Xu Qing with a storm of ice spikes, and Xu Qing shattered them with his fists.

Xu Qing defeated the rampaging Titan Snow Demon with a phantom of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, then fed it Mystic Ice Marrow to raise its power. As the beast’s aura continued climbing, Du Busi guarded the area and let Xu Qing act as he pleased.

• The Titan Snow Demon trapped Xu Qing with ice spikes and charged, but Xu Qing dodged its attacks while preparing his counter.
• Xu Qing summoned the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion phantom, whose giant pincer crushed the Titan Snow Demon’s internal organs and left it unable to move.
• Du Busi praised Xu Qing’s strength, dispelled the barrier, and searched the area with his Spiritual Power while promising not to interfere.
• Xu Qing poured his stored Mystic Ice Marrow into the Titan Snow Demon’s mouth, clearing its consciousness briefly before its aura began rising again.