Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the Snow Empress entered the ice cave, where Xiao Yan’s [Mystic Yellow · Water Controller] purified the ice-snow wraiths and let the Ice Empress and Xiao Bai gorge themselves on the resulting energy. After Xiao Bai called Xiao Yan “Dad,” the Snow Empress silently watched him with a look he could not understand.

• Xiao Yan and the three Soul Spirits advanced through the freezing cave while his authority neutralized the cold around them.
• Dozens of ice-snow wraiths attacked, but Xiao Yan’s domain purified them into energy spheres.
• The Ice Empress and Xiao Bai devoured the wraiths until both were too full to move and retreated to the Sea of Consciousness to digest.
• Xiao Bai called the Snow Empress “Mom” and Xiao Yan “Dad,” leaving Xiao Yan stunned.
• The Snow Empress remained beside Xiao Yan and looked into his eyes with complex, unreadable emotions.

Xiao Yan recognized Snow Empress’s affection but chose not to reject or pursue it, and the two continued into the depths of the underground rift. They reached a vast hollow where a mysterious, oppressive presence rested atop a platform of transparent ice.

• Xiao Yan noticed Snow Empress’s feelings, called her “Xue'er,” and continued deeper into the passage.
• Snow Empress recalled the events that had drawn her to Xiao Yan and resolved that she had truly fallen for him.
• Xiao Yan and Snow Empress descended into a region where the cold approached absolute zero, slowing light and silencing sound.
• The pair crossed the treacherous transparent ice passage and entered a vast underground hollow.
• Xiao Yan and Snow Empress saw an altar-like platform of solid ice bearing a pressure that made their souls tremble.

Xiao Yan and Snow Empress reached the Ice God Inheritance Ground, where Snow Empress touched the Ice God Pearl after Xiao Yan encouraged her to try the divine trial. A red sword-shaped mark appeared between her brows, signaling that the inheritance had responded to her.

• Xiao Yan summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell to shield himself and Snow Empress from the cavern's extreme cold as they climbed to the platform.
• Snow Empress recognized the carvings on the one hundred and eight Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow pillars as the Ice God's legendary deeds.
• Xiao Yan identified the teardrop-shaped gemstone at the formation's center as the Ice God's Heart, while an unseen voice called it the Ice God Pearl and invited them to begin the divine trial.
• Xiao Yan declined the inheritance and encouraged Snow Empress to try it despite her doubts about being a Soul Spirit without a physical body.
• Snow Empress touched the Ice God Pearl, and a crimson sword-shaped mark appeared between her brows.

Xiao Yan approached the Ice God Pearl, which sensed his superior authority over ice and water and entered his Sea of Consciousness. After the Fuxi Zither subdued it before the Eastern Emperor Bell, the Ice God Pearl gave up its pride and joined the artifacts orbiting the bell.

• Snow Empress received a top-tier red-grade trial mark and urged Xiao Yan to approach the Ice God Pearl.
• The Ice God Pearl flew into Xiao Yan's forehead, entered his Niwan Palace, and rushed into his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice God Pearl tried to displace the Eastern Emperor Bell and Fuxi Zither so it could claim the center of Xiao Yan's Sea of Consciousness.
• The Fuxi Zither used the Taiji Bagua Formation Map to restrain the Ice God Pearl and drag it before the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• The Ice God Pearl submitted to the Eastern Emperor Bell and began orbiting it behind the Fuxi Zither.

Xiao Yan received the Ice God’s inheritance and learned how its Divine Position examination worked, along with the location of the Ice God’s weapon. He claimed the inheritance’s ice-pillar resources, but he and Snow Empress were left wondering how to move them out of the cavern.

• The Ice God Pearl gave Xiao Yan memories explaining the inheritance ground, its energy-supplying pillars, and the Ice-Snow Law requirements for inheriting the Divine Position.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Ice God’s sword, Frost Lament: Divine Judgment, was sealed in a spatial rift deep in the Extreme North and could later be retrieved through the Ice God Pearl.
• After the Ice God Pearl acknowledged Xiao Yan, the one hundred and eight Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow pillars became ownerless resources he could claim.
• Xiao Yan explained the inheritance and its resources to Snow Empress, who embraced him in excitement before stepping back and composing herself.
• Snow Empress pointed out that divine pressure made cultivating in the cavern unsafe, and Xiao Yan realized he lacked a way to store the enormous pillars.

Xiao Yan used the Ice God Pearl’s inheritance space to collect all 108 pillars of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, then returned safely to the surface. He revealed to the waiting Skywater Academy elders and Ning Fengyi that he had also found an Ice God Divine Position inheritance, leaving them stunned.

• The Ice God Pearl opened the inheritance space in Xiao Yan’s forehead and stored all 108 pillars of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow inside it.
• Xiao Yan praised the Ice God Pearl, then prepared to return while the Snow Empress entered his forehead.
• Ning Tian worried that Xiao Yan had died in the abyss and urged Ning Fengyi and the elders to send someone after him.
• Xiao Yan emerged unharmed from the fissure, and Xiao Xiao rushed to greet him.
• Xiao Yan told the waiting leaders that he had collected the 108 pillars of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and found an Ice God Divine Position inheritance.

Xiao Yan demonstrated the Ice God's Divine Position inheritance, convincing Ning Fengyi to ally the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect with him. After Xiao Yan accepted, Ning Fengyi began questioning why his sect had declined despite its ancestor ascending as a god.

• Ning Fengyi asked whether Xiao Yan had received the Ice God's Nine Tests, and Xiao Yan revealed his divine imprint and overwhelming pressure.
• Ning Fengyi offered Xiao Yan an honorary elder title and the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's resources, intelligence network, and combat support in exchange for a high-level alliance.
• Li Cangqiong and Yue Zhenshan showed their willingness to serve Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan accepted Ning Fengyi's proposal.
• Ning Fengyi reflected on the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect's decline and wondered whether Ning Rongrong had left the sect anything beyond her legend.

Ning Fengyi questioned whether Xiao Yan would abandon the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect as its ancestor had, but Xiao Yan promised to make the sect’s name a reality before ascending to the God Realm. At Skywater Academy, the Skywater Team received Ice God trials, and Shui Wan'er relinquished the academy’s claim to the Profound Ice Marrow.

• Ning Fengyi brooded over Ancestor Ning Rongrong’s failure to help the sect and doubted whether he should stake its future on Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan promised Ning Fengyi that he would make the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect’s name an indisputable reality before ascending to the God Realm, renewing Ning Fengyi’s confidence.
• Xiao Yan told Shui Wan'er and the others about the Ice God inheritance, then revealed the Ice God Pearl and explained that it could grant trials to qualified young Soul Masters.
• Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er received red-level trials, while the other five Skywater Team members received black-level trials; Xiao Yan warned that the depleted pearl would grant no Spirit Rings or direct Soul Power rewards.
• Shui Wan'er announced that Skywater Academy relinquished all rights to distribute the one hundred and eight portions of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Xiao Yan promised to train Skywater Academy’s seven Ice God Pearl trial candidates in exchange for its share of the Mystic Ice Marrow, pledging to elevate their ice abilities. As the group left, Ning Tian and Wu Feng struggled with the gulf they felt between themselves and the god-bound Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan offered to train Skywater Academy’s seven candidates in exchange for its thirty percent of the Mystic Ice Marrow, promising Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er Ultimate Ice and the other five pseudo-ultimate attributes.
• Shui Wan'er urged the seven girls to call Xiao Yan their teacher, and they bowed to him in gratitude.
• Xiao Yan planned to have the Ice Empress train the team and told them to gather at the simulated training area at dawn.
• Xiao Xiao peppered Xiao Yan with questions about the God Realm as they left the meeting room.
• Ning Tian felt that Xiao Yan’s divine inheritance had made the gap between them impossible to cross, while Wu Feng could find no words to comfort her.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng stopped on the covered bridge and sighed together as Xiao Yan walked ahead.

Xiao Yan restored Ning Tian and Wu Feng’s confidence by ordering them to undergo more intense training and urging them to pursue the coming era alongside him. Back in the guest room, he began helping Xiao Xiao absorb a complete set of soul bones, then turned his attention to the Time Sundial Needle Eye Bone.

• Xiao Yan told Ning Tian and Wu Feng that they would join the next morning’s training at an even greater intensity than the Skywater Team members.
• Xiao Yan challenged Ning Tian and Wu Feng to stop worshipping the old gods and prepare to lead the new era, renewing their fighting spirit.
• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Xiao to the guest room, where she excitedly praised his speech and expected to sleep beside him.
• Xiao Yan used six refined soul-bone energy clusters from Xuan Zi to make Xiao Xiao absorb a complete set of soul bones, and she began meditating through the pain.
• After confirming Xiao Xiao had entered a steady cultivation state, Xiao Yan examined the Time Sundial Needle Eye Bone from Xuan Zi’s storage ring.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Time Sundial Needle Eye Bone and gained the ability to manipulate the flow of time within his sight. He then assigned Ice Empress to train the Skywater Team, while Snow Empress’s reprimand prompted Ice Empress and Xiao Bai to begin working hard.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Time Sundial Needle Eye Bone without difficulty and tested its power to accelerate and slow the movement of objects.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated his command of spatial severance, confinement, and teleportation, then considered how the origin of time could help him study the Eastern Emperor Bell’s divine inscriptions.
• Xiao Yan told Ice Empress to train the seven students of the Skywater Team the next morning, but she initially refused.
• Snow Empress scolded Ice Empress for neglecting her training, and Ice Empress immediately promised to train the students diligently.
• Xiao Bai woke, feared Snow Empress would dislike her for being lazy, and began doing strenuous push-ups while Xiao Yan entrusted Snow Empress with managing them.

Xiao Yan deciphered the Eastern Emperor Bell’s time divine runes through a night of meditation while Xiao Xiao finished absorbing six supreme soul bones. After breakfast, the siblings arrived at Skywater Academy’s cleared mimic cultivation area, where the Skywater Team, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng were waiting to train.

• Xiao Yan and Electrolux used the Time Sundial Needle’s power to study the Eastern Emperor Bell’s time divine runes through the night.
• Xiao Xiao showed off her strength after absorbing six supreme soul bones, and Xiao Yan teased her about testing it in training.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao ate breakfast at a roadside shop before heading to Skywater Academy.
• Shui Xian'er and Shui Qing'er waited with the Skywater Team at the mimic cultivation area, while Ning Tian and Wu Feng stood ready beside them.

Xiao Yan sent the seven Skywater Team members into the Ice God inheritance space to train under three powerful instructors, while he took Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and his younger sister to train personally. The chapter ended as Ice Empress threatened the seven girls with brutal training.

• Xiao Yan revealed the Ice God Pearl and opened a portal to the Ice God inheritance space, explaining that its environment could transform the girls' Martial Souls.
• Xiao Yan sent the seven Skywater Team members through the portal and took Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and his younger sister to train with him.
• The seven girls landed inside the inheritance space and discovered its 108 pillars of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and immense ice energy.
• Ice Empress, a jade-green-clad girl, and a gigantic white bear confronted the Skywater Team and triggered a powerful bloodline suppression.
• Ice Empress announced that the girls would crawl out after training and threatened to freeze anyone who slacked off.

Xiao Yan used his improved Phantom Dream: Martial Drill Melody to put Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao through brutal personalized training illusions while he practiced comprehending the laws of time and space. The girls endured their trials without giving in as Xiao Yan monitored their limits and continued his cultivation.

• Xiao Yan led Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao to the pavilion on Lake Heart Island and used the Fuxi Zither to pull them into separate illusions.
• Xiao Xiao practiced difficult scores while dodging bamboo-leaf attacks and fought rock puppets using the Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron.
• Ning Tian split her attention among seven moving light spheres, maintaining the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda’s enhancements while evading water-shadow assassins.
• Wu Feng battled fire lizards in a volcano before the illusion shifted to an ice canyon, forcing her Red Dragon bloodline through alternating heat and cold.
• Xiao Yan monitored the girls’ vital signs and adjusted their trials as he studied the laws inscribed on the Eastern Emperor Bell.

Xiao Yan trained Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Xiao Xiao with illusions and a punishing zither melody for two and a half months, while the trio’s cultivation advanced dramatically. The chapter left Ning Tian and Wu Feng with fourth Soul Rings, Xiao Xiao at Rank 48, and Xiao Yan’s true cultivation already at Rank 70 despite lacking his sixth Soul Ring.

• Xiao Yan combined three cultivation melodies into the Celestial Cycle Star-Dipper Essence-Controlling Melody and used it to temper the girls with starlight and five-element energy.
• Ning Fengyi supplied Ning Tian and Wu Feng with premium herbs and pills, while Wu Lie gave Wu Feng a rare fire-attributed spiritual treasure.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng reached the Rank 40 bottleneck, then Li Cangqiong and Wu Lie led them into the Star Dou Forest to obtain fourth Soul Rings just under ten thousand years old.
• Xiao Xiao absorbed the energy of her six Soul Bones, reached the Rank 48 threshold, and strengthened her body and meridians.
• Xiao Yan advanced his mastery of the Eastern Emperor Bell’s time and space inscriptions and determined that his true cultivation had reached Rank 70.

Xiao Yan revealed that the seven Skywater Team members had gained Ultimate Ice or pseudo-Ultimate Ice after their brutal training, and they rejoined their teachers before departing for the tournament. Ning Fengyi put Xiao Yan in command and offered Li Cangqiong as a secret escort, but Xiao Yan insisted he could protect the team alone.

• Xiao Yan entered the Ice God inheritance space and found the seven Skywater Team members frozen in ice sculptures after Ice Empress let them challenge their limits.
• Xiao Yan freed the seven girls and brought them to the plaza, where their martial souls revealed overwhelming ice-and-snow power and confirmed their Ultimate Ice attributes.
• Shui Wan'er and the Skywater Academy elders examined the girls and celebrated their improved attributes, physiques, and meridians.
• Ning Fengyi told Xiao Yan that he would lead the tournament team and that Li Cangqiong would secretly accompany them to Star Luo City.
• Xiao Yan rejected the escort, telling Ning Fengyi that Li Cangqiong should stay to guard Nine Treasures City and declaring that he alone was enough.

Xiao Yan answered doubts about his strength by summoning three powerful Soul Spirits and presenting them as guardians granted by the Ice God. Their overwhelming power convinced the gathered elders and allies, while the Skywater Team confirmed that the spirits had trained them.

• Li Cangqiong and Ning Fengyi questioned Xiao Yan's claim that he could protect the group, and Li's sword intent flared.
• Xiao Yan invoked the Ice God's inheritance and summoned Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Ice Bear King Xiaobai.
• The three Soul Spirits unleashed their peak pressure, forcing Li Cangqiong and Wu Lie to resist with their martial souls as the plaza cracked.
• Xiao Yan said the three were the Ice God's faithful guardians and that they had trained the seven Skywater Academy students.
• The Skywater Team nodded in confirmation, and Li Cangqiong recognized the spirits as a Limit Douluo and two level ninety-eight Super Douluos before withdrawing his sword intent.

Xiao Yan and the Skywater Academy team traveled to Star Luo City for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament. After arriving at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel, Xiao Yan spotted Shrek Academy’s delegation in the lobby.

• Ning Fengyi acknowledged the strength of Xiao Yan’s three Soul Spirits, and Xiao Yan let them return to the inheritance space.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng set out with the Skywater Academy team in Soul Tool carriages bound for Star Luo City.
• During the journey, Xiao Yan meditated on the Eastern Emperor Bell while Xiao Xiao, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng discussed the tournament and their plans.
• The convoy reached crowded Star Luo City and entered its inner city with help from a Nine Treasures Glazed Sect steward.
• Xiao Yan and the Skywater Academy team arrived at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel, where Xiao Yan recognized Shrek Academy’s delegation in the lobby.

Xiao Yan and the Skywater Team registered at the Star Emperor Grand Hotel and went out to relax before the tournament. In the lobby, they encountered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, and Ning Tian identified its captain and the Hongchen siblings as formidable rivals.

• Xiao Yan saw Shrek Academy's full team at the hotel but declined Ning Tian's suggestion to greet them.
• Xiao Yan and the Skywater Team received rooms on the fifth floor and put away their luggage.
• Ning Tian suggested a walk around Star Luo City, and Xiao Yan agreed to join the girls.
• Xiao Yan led the group downstairs, where they encountered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy entering the hotel.
• Ning Tian identified Ma Rulong as the Sun Moon Team's captain and described Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen as the academy's powerful Spirit King siblings.

Meng Hongchen became fascinated with Xiao Yan after meeting him in the Star Emperor Grand Hotel and ordered an investigation into him. Xiao Yan and the Skywater Team enjoyed two days of rest in Star Luo City before the All-Continent Young Soul Master Tournament began.

• Meng Hongchen approached Xiao Yan, but Ning Tian stepped between them and challenged her greeting.
• Xiao Yan's gaze overwhelmed Meng Hongchen until his voice brought her back to her senses, and he left with the Skywater Team.
• Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen she thought she was in love and ordered him to investigate everything about Xiao Yan through Illustrious Virtue Hall's intelligence network.
• Xiao Yan and the girls spent two days exploring Star Luo City, sampling food, shopping, and resting before the tournament.
• The All-Continent Young Soul Master Tournament officially began at Star Luo Square.