Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress found the wounded Nine-Segment Fish Dragon surrounded by a herd of sea dinosaurs. After Ice Empress had frozen a flock of flying dragons, Ye Qing collected five ten-thousand-year soul bones, and the chapter ended with the Nine-Segment Fish Dragon defeating the herd but collapsing from exhaustion.

• Ice Empress froze more than twenty flying dragons, leaving their black ten-thousand-year soul rings floating above the sea.
• Ye Qing harvested five ten-thousand-year soul bones from the flying dragon corpses while Snow Empress and Ice Empress watched.
• Ice Empress detected her lingering ice breath on the Nine-Segment Fish Dragon and led Ye Qing and Snow Empress toward it.
• Ye Qing saw more than a hundred sea dinosaurs attacking the wounded Nine-Segment Fish Dragon's injured tail and belly.
• The Nine-Segment Fish Dragon unleashed its water and fire powers, slaughtered the sea dinosaurs, and then floated in the bloody water nearly spent.

The Ice Empress trapped and nearly killed the Nine-Jointed Fish Dragon, but the Snow Empress stopped her so Ye Qing could claim its hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring. Ye Qing killed the wounded beast and began absorbing the ring while the two Empresses guarded him.

• The Ice Empress froze the sea around the fleeing Nine-Jointed Fish Dragon and left it badly wounded with a lethal strike.
• The Snow Empress caught the Ice Empress's attack, and Ye Qing explained that he needed to kill the beast himself to obtain its Spirit Ring.
• Ye Qing killed the Nine-Jointed Fish Dragon with his Green Lotus Sword Intent, and a scarlet hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring appeared.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to guard Ye Qing as he began absorbing the ring.
• The Nine-Jointed Fish Dragon's violent water-and-fire Soul Power and resentment rampaged through Ye Qing's meridians as he tried to suppress them.

As Ye Qing absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Nine-Jointed Fish Dragon Soul Ring, a hidden sea monster attacked, but Snow Empress and Ice Empress found and froze it. Ye Qing completed his tenth ring, gained two Soul Skills, and unexpectedly absorbed the Nine-Section Scales External Soul Bone.

• A gigantic concealed monster attacked Ye Qing during his Soul Ring absorption, and Snow Empress deflected its strike.
• Ice Empress froze the sea to expose the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Snow Empress stopped her from killing it until Ye Qing finished absorbing the ring.
• Ye Qing refined the Soul Ring and gained Twin-Pole Lotus Realm Suppression and Dragon Lotus Twin-Pole Bodyguard.
• The Nine-Jointed Fish Dragon's Nine-Section Scales appeared as an External Soul Bone and merged with Ye Qing.

After absorbing the Nine-Section Scales External Soul Bone and discovering it could store nine times his Soul Power while doubling his ice- and fire-element attacks, Ye Qing learned that a strange giant fish had tried to ambush him. The fish threatened them in the name of its master, so Ye Qing ordered Snow Empress to kill it.

• Ye Qing discovered that the Nine-Section Scales could store nine times his Soul Power and double his ice- and fire-element attacks.
• Snow Empress told Ye Qing that a hidden creature had attempted to sneak-attack them, and Ice Empress ripped a hundred-meter slab of ice from the sea to expose it.
• Ye Qing and the two Empresses found a bizarre giant fish that neither Snow Empress nor Ice Empress recognized.
• Ye Qing had Ice Empress thaw the creature's head so they could question it, but the fish threatened them and boasted of its master.
• Ye Qing stopped Ice Empress from striking and ordered Snow Empress to kill the giant fish, which she pierced through the skull with an ice sword.

Ye Qing explained that the Boneless Demon Fish served Woe, the ten-million-year ruler of the Sea of Buried Corpses, and reassured Ice Empress and Snow Empress that they could escape if necessary. The three pressed deeper into the island, where Ice Empress drove off a pack of Ghost Tigers with her aura.

• After the Boneless Demon Fish died without leaving a Soul Ring or Soul Bone, Ye Qing identified it as a scout and claw serving Woe, the ruler of the Sea of Buried Corpses.
• Ye Qing revealed that Woe had accumulated ten million years of cultivation by devouring Soul Beasts, shocking Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
• When Snow Empress questioned how Ye Qing knew the secrets, he gave a vague answer, then explained that Woe's power was limited by the world's rules and that they could escape through a spatial passage.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress agreed to continue deeper into the Sea of Buried Corpses with Ye Qing.
• A pack of Soul Beasts ambushed the group, but Ice Empress's bloodline pressure sent a Ten-Thousand-Year Ghost Tiger and the others fleeing.

Woe summoned Nine Nether Evil to capture the intruders who killed his Boneless Demon Fish. On the island, Ye Qing, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress faced a disciplined beast formation before its enormous ape leader confronted them.

• Woe examined the Boneless Demon Fish's final soul imprint and created Nine Nether Evil, ordering it to bring the intruders back alive.
• Nine Nether Evil charged toward the island as Ye Qing and the two Far North emperors advanced through the forest.
• Snow Empress recognized that the surrounding venomous pythons and Iron-Armed Macaques were following a deliberate formation under someone's command.
• Ice Empress threatened to freeze the closing beasts, but the pythons parted to let a dark-red blaze approach.
• A gigantic black ape crashed into the clearing, identified the three as trespassers, and threatened them.

Ye Qing and the two Empresses confronted the Heavenly Black Monkey, one of the Seven Overlords of the Sea of Buried Corpses, and forced it to submit. The monkey led them to its hidden lair behind a waterfall.

• Ye Qing identified the Heavenly Black Monkey and revealed that he knew about the Seven Overlords, while Ice Empress warned the beast not to challenge them.
• Ice Empress unleashed her overwhelming cold aura, and Ye Qing told the monkey to cooperate or die.
• The Heavenly Black Monkey quickly knelt, begged for its life, and offered to serve Ye Qing and the Empresses.
• The monkey led the three through the Poison Miasma Forest to its cave behind a waterfall.

Ye Qing, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress entered the Heavenly Black Monkey’s cave and discovered its enormous hoard. They drank its eight-thousand-year Monkey Wine, and Ice Empress forced the monkey to bring out the jars it tried to hide.

• The Heavenly Black Monkey welcomed the three into its cave and showed them the vast collection of treasures it had amassed in the Sea of Buried Corpses.
• Ice Empress demanded food and drink, so the monkey brought out six jars of eight-thousand-year Monkey Wine.
• Ye Qing drank the wine and discovered that it strengthened the body, widened meridians, and purified spiritual power.
• Snow Empress approved of the wine, and Ice Empress drank a bowl and immediately refilled it.
• The Heavenly Black Monkey tried to hide the remaining jars, but Ice Empress froze it with her pressure and made it set them out.

Ye Qing forced the Heavenly Black Monkey to lead him and the Snow and Ice Empresses to the Flowing Flame Red Dragon’s territory, intending to take the dragon as his Soul Ring. They reached its volcanic island, where the Red Dragon emerged and demanded to know why the monkey had entered its territory.

• Ye Qing asked the Heavenly Black Monkey where the Flowing Flame Red Dragon lived and said he planned to take it as his Soul Ring.
• The Ice Empress threatened the Heavenly Black Monkey, which agreed to guide Ye Qing and the two Empresses to the dragon.
• Nine Nether Evil secretly followed the group through the clouds and continued observing them.
• The Heavenly Black Monkey explained that the Red Dragon lived by undersea volcanoes in the North Sea, where its strength was greatly increased.
• The group reached the Red Dragon’s volcanic island, where the Ice Empress froze the golden magma as it erupted.
• The Flowing Flame Red Dragon burst from the crater and asked the Heavenly Black Monkey why it had entered its territory.

Ye Qing and Snow Empress defeated the Flowing Flame Red Dragon, and Ye Qing absorbed its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, advancing to just below level seventy. He gained two soul skills and a crimson dragon orb with powerful abilities, while the heavenly black monkey praised him.

• Snow Empress froze the volcanic island and sealed the Flowing Flame Red Dragon in ice.
• Ye Qing destroyed the frozen dragon with a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus and obtained its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Ye Qing absorbed the Soul Ring and rose to just below the level-seventy threshold.
• Ye Qing discovered that the Soul Ring gave him Azure Flame Dragon Scale Armor and Chaos Dragon Flame Cannon.
• Ye Qing found a crimson dragon orb fused in his dantian that boosted fire attacks and could protect allies or summon the dragon's soul.
• The heavenly black monkey congratulated Ye Qing and praised his divine might.

After defeating the Flowing Flame Red Dragon, Ye Qing and the two emperors of the Far North explored its volcanic lair and found an Infernal Delicate Apricot. Realizing that immortal herbs might grow throughout the Sea of Buried Corpses, Ye Qing ordered the Heavenly Black Monkey to organize a search.

• Ye Qing decided to explore deeper into the Sea of Buried Corpses, and Ice Empress and Snow Empress agreed to join him.
• Ye Qing led Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and the Heavenly Black Monkey into the Flowing Flame Red Dragon's volcanic lair.
• Ye Qing protected the overheating Heavenly Black Monkey with a shield of Chaos Green Flame as they descended through the magma.
• Ye Qing collected a pile of high-quality fire-element ores, then discovered an Infernal Delicate Apricot hidden in a crack.
• Ye Qing ordered the Heavenly Black Monkey to send its monkeys and other beasts across the Sea of Buried Corpses to search for more spirit herbs of the same quality.

Woe watched Ye Qing and his allies kill the Flowing Flame Red Dragon and ordered Nine Nether Evil to keep monitoring them, intending to let them grow confident before attacking. In the Heavenly Realm, Dugu Yan told Ye Qing she had reached level sixty, and he brought her to the Sea of Buried Corpses to find her sixth Soul Ring, where Ice Empress mistook her for a beast in heat.

• Woe learned through Nine Nether Evil that Ye Qing's group had slain the Flowing Flame Red Dragon and recruited the Heavenly Black Monkey, then ordered continued surveillance.
• The Heavenly God Pearl alerted Ye Qing that Dugu Yan was calling for him, so he left Water Curtain Cave and appeared in the Heavenly Realm.
• Dugu Yan greeted Ye Qing passionately and announced that she had reached level sixty.
• Ye Qing said Dugu Yan deserved an exceptional sixth Soul Ring and explained the Sea of Buried Corpses before taking her there.
• Ice Empress saw Ye Qing arrive holding Dugu Yan's hand and blurted out that he had turned into a female human to mate, embarrassing Dugu Yan.
• Ye Qing introduced Dugu Yan as his other half and explained that she and his friends had been cultivating in the Heavenly Realm.

Ye Qing arranged for the Heavenly Black Monkey to find Dugu Yan a powerful poisonous soul beast for her sixth Soul Ring and gave her Monkey Wine to strengthen her body and spiritual power. The wine quickly intoxicated Dugu Yan, who collapsed into Ye Qing’s embrace and began teasing him.

• Dugu Yan studied the Ice Empress and Snow Empress and was astonished that the latter was a super soul beast.
• The Heavenly Black Monkey volunteered to search the Sea of Buried Corpses for a suitable soul beast for Dugu Yan.
• Ye Qing instructed the Heavenly Black Monkey to prioritize highly venomous snakes with True Dragon bloodlines and seventy to eighty thousand years of cultivation.
• Dugu Yan worried that she could not withstand a Soul Ring of that age, but Ye Qing promised to protect her and offered her Monkey Wine.
• Dugu Yan drank the wine, became rapidly intoxicated, and fell against Ye Qing, her flirtatious movements stirring his desire.

Ye Qing took Dugu Yan into his Chaos World, where they spent the day together after she drank the Far North's Monkey Wine. When they returned to the Water Curtain Cave, Ice Empress teased them, leaving Dugu Yan mortified as she prepared to claim her sixth Soul Ring.

• Ice Empress mocked Ye Qing and Dugu Yan for their behavior and warned them not to be intimate in the Far North overlords' territory.
• Ye Qing brought Dugu Yan into his Chaos World, where she woke a day later sore and embarrassed by what she had done while drunk.
• Dugu Yan discovered that the Monkey Wine had greatly strengthened and widened her meridians and improved her spiritual power.
• Ye Qing told Dugu Yan to get dressed because her custom-made sixth Soul Ring was waiting for her.
• Ye Qing and Dugu Yan returned to the Water Curtain Cave, where Ice Empress teased them about their intimacy and Dugu Yan hid behind Ye Qing in embarrassment.

Ye Qing examined the eighty-thousand-year Green Flood Dragon the Heavenly Black Monkey had captured for Dugu Yan’s sixth Soul Ring and discovered it could communicate through spiritual power. After silently contacting the dragon, Ye Qing summoned his Chaos Green Lotus and revealed his eleven Soul Rings, leaving Dugu Yan and Ice Empress confused as Snow Empress urged them to watch.

• The Heavenly Black Monkey presented Ye Qing with an eighty-thousand-year Green Flood Dragon that it had captured after a three-day hunt.
• Ye Qing recognized that the dragon’s age exceeded Dugu Yan’s conventional absorption limit and considered a safer method of fusion.
• The Heavenly Black Monkey explained that the highly intelligent Green Flood Dragon could communicate telepathically and had been cursing it.
• Ye Qing entered the dragon’s Sea of Consciousness and silently communicated with it.
• Ye Qing summoned his Chaos Green Lotus and revealed his eleven Soul Rings, while Snow Empress stopped Ice Empress from interrupting him.

Ye Qing persuaded the Green Flood Dragon to accept a chance at evolution instead of being killed for its Soul Ring and Soul Bone. The dragon agreed and began the soul beast race’s supreme pact, Sacrificial Light, with its power gathering toward Dugu Yan.

• Ye Qing revealed his Martial Soul and final Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, frightening the Green Flood Dragon into submission.
• Ye Qing offered the Green Flood Dragon a path to evolution, and it nodded in acceptance.
• Ye Qing ordered the Heavenly Black Monkey to release the dragon, which remained calm and obedient beside him.
• Dugu Yan asked Ye Qing what he had told the dragon, and he explained that he had offered it a path to heaven.
• The Green Flood Dragon roared, burned into emerald light, and sent its power toward Dugu Yan as Ice Empress and Snow Empress recognized Sacrificial Light.

Ye Qing tried to preserve the Green Flood Dragon’s soul during its sacrifice to Dugu Yan, but his spiritual strength began to fail. The Heavenly God Pearl awakened and summoned a Nine-Colored Divine Deer, whose light stabilized the struggling soul.

• The Green Flood Dragon sacrificed itself to Dugu Yan, and Ye Qing guided her to accept its power.
• Ye Qing used the Chaos Green Lotus’s Azure Flame to try to preserve the Green Flood Dragon’s soul as a spirit soul.
• Ye Qing’s spiritual strength dwindled, and the protective veil began to collapse, so he prepared to stop his attempt.
• The Heavenly God Pearl awakened inside Ye Qing and shone with brilliant seven-colored light.
• A phantom Nine-Colored Divine Deer appeared and covered the sacrificial pillar with light, stabilizing the Green Flood Dragon’s soul.

Dugu Yan gained a sixth Soul Ring and rose to level sixty-six after the Nine-Colored Divine Deer’s light flowed into her. The Green Flood Dragon appeared alive in a new symbiotic form, leaving the soul beasts astonished and Snow Empress asking Ye Qing how he had made it possible.

• The Nine-Colored Divine Deer’s phantom vanished, and its divine light entered Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan formed a sixth Soul Ring with a faint red edge and advanced to level sixty-six.
• The Green Flood Dragon emerged from Dugu Yan’s Soul Ring as a living, miniature creature and nuzzled her wrist.
• The Heavenly Black Monkey protested that a soul beast sacrifice should have killed the Green Flood Dragon.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress recognized that the Green Flood Dragon had become a symbiotic being linked to Dugu Yan’s Soul Ring.
• Snow Empress asked Ye Qing how he had persuaded the Green Flood Dragon to sacrifice itself and survive.

Ye Qing revealed that the Green Flood Dragon had become a Soul Spirit Prototype, preserving its consciousness after sacrificing itself to Dugu Yan. Dugu Yan showed off her powerful new abilities, while the Snow Empress and Ice Empress recognized that Ye Qing had opened a possible path to survival for soul beasts.

• Ye Qing explained that he had persuaded the Green Flood Dragon to gamble on him helping it rebuild its body and ascend, and named its preserved state a Soul Spirit Prototype.
• The Heavenly Black Monkey asked Ye Qing for the same chance someday, and Ye Qing told it to brew more Monkey Wine first.
• Dugu Yan revealed that her new Sixth Soul Skill was Myriad Poison Flood Dragon Prison Burial and that she had gained an eighty-thousand-year right arm Soul Bone with the Poison Cocoon Nirvana skill.
• Dugu Yan demonstrated that the Green Flood Dragon Soul Spirit could fight independently by dissolving a large bluestone boulder with its poisonous mist.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress realized that the Soul Spirit Prototype could preserve soul beasts' souls and spirits, offering their race a new path.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress learned that Ye Qing could not reliably reproduce the Soul Spirit miracle, though Snow Empress resolved to pursue its possibility through him. Meanwhile, Tang Hao and Tang San headed into the Star Dou Great Forest to find Xiao Wu after learning that Spirit Hall had sent powerful soul masters to capture her.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress urgently asked Ye Qing whether Soul Spirits could be replicated, and he explained that the transformation depended on an unpredictable Heavenly God Pearl phenomenon and luck.
• Snow Empress hid her disappointment and decided to stake the Far North’s future on Ye Qing and the possibility of eventually mastering Soul Spirits.
• After searching Spirit Hall branch halls for news of Ah Yin, Tang Hao learned that Spirit Hall had sent Titled Douluo elders and other soul masters to capture Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao changed course and took Tang San toward the Star Dou Great Forest, where they hoped Xiao Wu had returned for shelter.
• Tang San worried aloud about Xiao Wu’s safety, and Tang Hao reassured him while hastening toward the forest’s core.