Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingxuan and the Empresses killed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, then he began absorbing its nine-golden-patterned Soul Ring while using Reverse Life to transform toward an Innate Body. As Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's surviving consciousness launched a deadly attack inside Zhang Qingxuan's sea of consciousness, he summoned his powers to fight back.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress helped Zhang Qingxuan trap and kill Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with Nine Profound Divine Thunder and Yin-Yang Creation Fire, annihilating its soul.
• A blood-red Soul Ring with nine golden patterns rose from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's corpse, and Zhang Qingxuan thanked the Empresses for helping him.
• Ice Empress asked Zhang Qingxuan to treat her to food in the human world, and he promised to take her there after he absorbed the Soul Ring and advanced to Title Douluo.
• Zhang Qingxuan activated Reverse Life and began absorbing the Soul Ring, astonishing Snow Empress with his emerging innate aura.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's remaining consciousness attacked Zhang Qingxuan's mind, but he summoned the Green Leaf Sword, Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram, Nine Profound Divine Thunder, and Yin-Yang Creation Fire.

Zhang Qingxuan destroyed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s remnant soul in his Sea of Consciousness and advanced into the Spirit Domain Realm. As the Ice Silkworm’s immense Soul Ring energy threatened to tear his body apart, Inversion True Qi repeatedly repaired and strengthened him, beginning his transformation from a Postnatal Lifeform toward an Innate Lifeform.

• Zhang Qingxuan used four divine artifacts to overwhelm the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s remnant soul, which begged him to spare it and offered to help him absorb its Soul Ring.
• Zhang Qingxuan rejected the offer, annihilated the remnant soul with the Green Leaf Sword, and refined its fragments with Yin-Yang Creation Fire.
• Zhang Qingxuan absorbed the soul power and broke through into the Spirit Domain Realm, while the Ice Empress warned that the enormous Soul Ring energy could burst his body apart.
• The Snow Empress stopped the Ice Empress from adding power to Zhang Qingxuan and trusted that he had prepared for the danger; Victini remained unconcerned.
• Inversion True Qi repaired Zhang Qingxuan’s damaged body and soul as the Soul Ring energy repeatedly strained them, while the Snow Empress sensed his life level moving toward an Innate Lifeform.

While Zhang Qingxuan continued absorbing a Soul Ring in the Far North, Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue worried about his absence and prepared to follow Lu Xueqi to Spirit City for her Five-Year Agreement battle with Bibi Dong. Yun Qingyang looked forward to letting the other young prodigies experience the overwhelming strength that humbled him every day.

• Ice Empress complained that Zhang Qingxuan had spent three months absorbing his Soul Ring, and Snow Empress estimated he needed only a few more days.
• Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue worried that Zhang Qingxuan had not returned to Orange Grove Courtyard after three months.
• Lu Xueqi assured them that Zhang Qingxuan could not be held by anyone and announced she was leaving early for Spirit City ahead of the Five-Year Agreement.
• Yun Lingyue urged Yun Qingyang to go watch Lu Xueqi fight Bibi Dong, and he agreed so other prodigies could experience her strength.

Qian Xunji revealed the wager tied to Bibi Dong and Lu Xueqi’s Five-Year Agreement and urged Bibi Dong to win so Zhang Qingxuan would remain on good terms with Spirit Hall. Far away in the Far North, Zhang Qingxuan’s body reached its breaking point and shattered before Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

• Qian Xunji told Bibi Dong that his wager with Zhang Qingxuan included a custom cultivation technique, a solution to her Twin Martial Souls’ Soul Power conflict, and a promise that Zhang Qingxuan would not oppose Spirit Hall.
• Qian Xunji predicted Zhang Qingxuan would leave Spirit City to form his own faction and revealed that secret reports said he had vanished for three months while pursuing his Ninth Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong was shocked that Zhang Qingxuan remained a Soul Douluo despite wielding power near a Limit Douluo, and Qian Xunji urged her to win the match against Lu Xueqi.
• Qian Xunji complained that Qian Daoliu had not provided a sister to marry Zhang Qingxuan, while Qian Daoliu sneezed in the Worship Hall and wondered who was speaking ill of him.
• In an ice chamber beneath the Far North, Snow Empress and Ice Empress watched Zhang Qingxuan’s body deteriorate as his Inversion True Qi failed to keep pace with its collapse.
• Zhang Qingxuan’s body cracked throughout and shattered completely before Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

Zhang Qingxuan shattered and underwent nirvana in the Far North, transforming into an Innate Lifeform as his Soul Ring fused with him and a continent-wide heavenly phenomenon announced his rebirth. After reaching Super Douluo strength and the peak of late-stage Qi Refining into Spirit, he faced the worship of the Far North’s inhabitants while Ice Empress celebrated the return of her snacks.

• Ice Empress believed Zhang Qingxuan had shattered and lamented the loss of her food, but Snow Empress recognized that he was undergoing nirvana.
• Zhang Qingxuan’s nine-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring fused with his gathering Qi, triggering a pillar of light and spectacular signs across the Far North.
• Qian Daoliu, Tang Chen, and other powerful figures across the continent sensed the phenomenon as Zhang Qingxuan’s voice announced his success to every Soul Master.
• Zhang Qingxuan regenerated as an Innate Lifeform, reached level ninety-six in Soul Power, and advanced to the peak of late-stage Qi Refining into Spirit.
• Snow Empress sensed that Zhang Qingxuan had become difficult to understand, while Ice Empress rejoiced that he could help with her Lightning Tribulation and bring back her favorite snacks.

Zhang Qingxuan teased the Ice Empress by pretending to break their agreement and threaten to kill her for a Soul Ring, then revealed he had only flicked her forehead. In Spirit City, Lu Xueqi and Yun Qingyang sensed his breakthrough, and Yun Qingyang learned Zhang Qingxuan still had not reached Title Douluo.

• The Ice Empress tried to take Zhang Qingxuan to eat, but he claimed he no longer had to honor their agreement because he had become a Super Douluo.
• Zhang Qingxuan pretended he would silence the Ice Empress and offered to kill her with lightning or fire, making her break down in tears.
• Zhang Qingxuan rushed at the Ice Empress and flicked her forehead, while the Snow Empress laughed and revealed he had been teasing her.
• The furious Ice Empress transformed into a streak of light and pounced at Zhang Qingxuan.
• In Spirit City, Yun Qingyang recognized Zhang Qingxuan's voice and celebrated his breakthrough, while Lu Xueqi said he had not even reached Title Douluo.

Yun Qingyang learned that his cultivation could let him challenge opponents above his rank, while Zhang Qingxuan prepared to help Snow Empress survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation. When the tribulation began, Zhang Qingxuan and his two martial souls devoured its origin power, causing the lightning to vanish.

• Lu Xueqi explained that Yun Qingyang could gain the strength to challenge opponents above his rank by cultivating his secret art and using his chosen Soul Rings.
• Zhang Qingxuan sparred with the Ice Empress, and Snow Empress revealed that she had absorbed Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow and discovered a frightening ice cave.
• Zhang Qingxuan agreed to help Snow Empress face her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and promised to investigate the ice cave afterward.
• At the Far North Summit, Snow Empress's Heavenly Tribulation began, and Zhang Qingxuan charged into the thunderclouds.
• Zhang Qingxuan and his Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and Green Leaf Sword devoured the tribulation's origin power, making the Blood-Colored Tribulation Lightning disappear.

After Zhang Qingxuan survived Snow Empress's tribulation and offered to teach her the Power of Heaven and Earth, he led Snow Empress and Ice Empress into an underground ice cave. In Spirit City, Tang Hao challenged Yun Qingyang, while Lu Xueqi's Sword Intent put Tang Xiao under immense pressure.

• Zhang Qingxuan showed Ice Empress his new Soul Rings, promised to help her face her own tribulation, and offered to teach Snow Empress the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Zhang Qingxuan used Spatial Shift to take Snow Empress and Ice Empress into an underground ice chamber and led them deeper into an icy cave.
• Tang Hao confronted Yun Qingyang in Spirit City and attacked him with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yun Qingyang defended himself with the Canglan Spear and fought back as Lu Xueqi stopped Yun Lingyue from intervening, calling Tang Hao a useful opponent for tempering him.
• Lu Xueqi fixed her gaze on Tang Xiao and released Sword Intent that left him shaken and nearly made him spit blood.

Yun Qingyang turned Tang Hao’s attack against him and dominated the fight until Tang Zhen intervened, only for Li Yuntian to overwhelm Tang Zhen’s pressure and confront him. The chapter ended with Tang Zhen enraged by Li Yuntian’s insults and shocked by his rapid growth.

• Tang Hao attacked Yun Qingyang with his first Soul Skill, but Yun Qingyang dodged and rejected his attempt to provoke a direct clash.
• After Tang Hao insulted Yun Qingyang’s master, Yun Qingyang deflected his hammer strike and counterattacked, then repeatedly struck Tang Hao before he could recover.
• Tang Xiao tried to intervene, but Lu Xueqi slapped him into a distant wall.
• Tang Zhen arrived and forced Yun Qingyang to one knee with his pressure, threatening him for injuring a member of the Tang Clan.
• Li Yuntian appeared, canceled Tang Zhen’s pressure, and revealed strength beyond Tang Zhen’s, then mocked him for his slow cultivation progress.

Ning Fengzhi defused the confrontation between Tang Zhen and Li Yuntian, who praised Yun Qingyang and recognized Lu Xueqi’s exceptional talent before her spar with Bibi Dong. Far beneath the Far North, Zhang Qingxuan discovered three supreme ice-based Innate Spiritual Objects and gave one each to Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

• Ning Fengzhi persuaded Tang Zhen to put away his Clear Sky Hammer and prevent a fight in Spirit City.
• Li Yuntian praised Yun Qingyang and assessed Lu Xueqi’s talent, while she said only Young Master mattered to her.
• Zhang Qingxuan led Snow Empress and Ice Empress into an ice cavern filled with rare resources and discovered three crystalline Innate Spiritual Objects.
• Zhang Qingxuan explained that the crystals were the ancestral source of ice-attributed power and gave one to each of the two women.

Zhang Qingxuan shared Innate Spiritual Objects with Snow Empress and Ice Empress, then salvaged the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's remains and the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron. His voice awakened the Silver Dragon King, who ordered Di Tian to investigate him in the Far North.

• Zhang Qingxuan urged Snow Empress and Ice Empress to accept the Innate Spiritual Objects, and they accepted.
• Zhang Qingxuan recognized the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron as divine weapon material and brought back the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's corpse.
• Zhang Qingxuan extracted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's head Soul Bone, silk, hide, and flesh, then began packing up the surrounding treasures.
• In the Lake of Life, Scarlet King, Xiong Jun, Zi Ji, Bi Ji, and Di Tian discussed the strange voice from the Far North and worried about Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• The Silver Dragon King awakened and ordered Di Tian to meet the powerful person behind the voice, warning him to use the Dragon God Claw if necessary.

Lu Xueqi faced Bibi Dong in a public duel and revealed she had reached Soul King strength at eleven. She challenged Bibi Dong to last half an incense stick without Lu Xueqi using her Martial Soul or Soul Skills, then effortlessly cut apart Bibi Dong’s opening attack with Sword Intent.

• Qian Xunji welcomed the crowds gathered to watch Bibi Dong and Lu Xueqi’s duel as Bibi Dong went to the arena.
• Lu Xueqi and Bibi Dong exchanged greetings before the referee began the soul battle.
• Lu Xueqi revealed five Soul Rings, shocking Bibi Dong, Qian Xunji, Chen Xin, and the spectators.
• Lu Xueqi withdrew her Martial Soul and Soul Rings and offered Bibi Dong victory if she endured half an incense stick without Lu Xueqi using either.
• Bibi Dong attacked with Spider Web Restraint, but Lu Xueqi drew her sword slightly and severed the web with Sword Intent.

Lu Xueqi and Bibi Dong traded attacks in the arena, with Bibi Dong's danger sense helping her evade Lu Xueqi's rapid strikes. After Bibi Dong disarmed Lu Xueqi and launched a counterattack, Lu Xueqi called her sword back and blocked the strike, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Lu Xueqi's rapid attack missed as Bibi Dong sensed the danger and used spider silk to pull herself away.
• Qian Xunji realized Bibi Dong's spider-type Soul Rings had granted her an instinctive sense of danger, while Chen Xin also recognized her unusual reactions.
• Lu Xueqi drew her sword and pressed Bibi Dong with a barrage of sword qi, forcing Bibi Dong to conceal herself in poisonous mist.
• Lu Xueqi split the mist, but Bibi Dong used the distraction to disarm her and attack with her Blood-Sucking Spider Thorn Soul Skill.
• Lu Xueqi summoned the Tianya Sword back with her Sword Control Technique, and it knocked aside Bibi Dong's six spider thorns.

Lu Xueqi and Bibi Dong’s battle ended in a draw when the incense burned out just before Bibi Dong hit the ground, and Lu Xueqi healed her afterward. At Qian Xunji’s banquet, Lu Xueqi explained that resolving Bibi Dong’s Twin Martial Souls conflict would require an extraordinary external force, possibly divine power.

• Lu Xueqi declared the match a draw because the incense had burned out before Bibi Dong touched the ground.
• Lu Xueqi gave Bibi Dong a pill that restored her injuries and Soul Power, and called her one of her few friends.
• Qian Xunji invited Lu Xueqi to a banquet and asked her to advise Bibi Dong about her cultivation.
• Lu Xueqi explained that Bibi Dong’s Twin Martial Souls would remain in conflict unless a powerful external force suppressed and fused their Soul Power.
• Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong realized that the required force might be divine power, leaving Bibi Dong solemn and confused.

Lu Xueqi was ambushed in Spirit City by a group of Soul Masters seeking revenge for a failed plan five years earlier. After they wore her down with repeated self-destructions, their Soul Sage leader revealed that Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue were targets too.

• Yun Lingyue admitted she had been too nervous to eat in front of His Holiness the Pope, so Yun Qingyang took her to a snack stall while Lu Xueqi went on ahead.
• Several black-clad figures secretly followed Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue through the crowd.
• A group of attackers ambushed Lu Xueqi, and she recognized them as Fallen Soul Masters who blamed her young master for ruining their plan five years earlier.
• The attackers repeatedly self-destructed to exhaust Lu Xueqi, leaving her seriously injured and unable to escape the Soul Sage leader.
• The leader told Lu Xueqi that Yun Qingyang and Yun Lingyue were also targets, and her eyes turned cold.

Lu Xueqi used the first strike of the Tianya Divine Sword, which she had nurtured in its sheath for five years, to kill a powerful enemy in Spirit City. She then returned to find Xiao Bai had rescued Yun Qingyang, Yun Lingyue, and the Spirit Hall guards from their attackers.

• Lu Xueqi killed the enemy leader with Tianya's stored sword energy and set off to find her junior brothers.
• Yun Qingyang stood wounded beside his unconscious sister, Yun Lingyue, while Spirit Hall guards tried to protect them.
• The remaining attackers sacrificed themselves in an explosion that gravely wounded several guards and left Yun Qingyang struggling to stand.
• Xiao Bai arrived as a Soul Emperor and used her Ice and Snow World to weaken the attackers before freezing and shattering them.
• Lu Xueqi reached the scene and saw that Xiao Bai had saved Yun Qingyang, Yun Lingyue, and the surviving guards.

Zhang Qingxuan forged two icy swords and gave one to Snow Empress, prompting Ice Empress to cry over being left out. He placated her with a dagger and protective armor meant to help her survive her coming four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.

• Three streams of sword qi erupted from the glacial abyss, and Zhang Qingxuan appeared with two newly forged swords.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave the Ice-Snow Sword to Snow Empress, who smiled warmly as Ice Empress watched jealously.
• When Zhang Qingxuan refused to give Ice Empress a sword and teased her, she burst into tears and rolled around in the snow.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave Ice Empress a rare dagger, but she held out for another gift.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave Ice Empress protective ice-silk armor to help her endure her upcoming four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, and she happily claimed it.

Zhang Qingxuan sensed a great calamity at home and rushed back, but Di Tian blocked his path, demanding to know where he had obtained the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s inheritance. Zhang Qingxuan’s urgency turned to killing intent as Di Tian revealed his true form and the two prepared to fight.

• Zhang Qingxuan divined a sign of great calamity, apologized to Snow Empress and Ice Empress, and hurried toward Spirit City.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress followed after a distant explosion shook the mountains.
• Zhang Qingxuan confronted Di Tian, who sensed a Dragon King’s aura and demanded to be taken to the inheritance site.
• Zhang Qingxuan said he had obtained part of the Ice and Fire Dragon King’s inheritance by chance and warned Di Tian to move aside.
• Di Tian transformed into the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King and threatened to capture Zhang Qingxuan.
• Zhang Qingxuan unleashed his lightning and fire, and Snow Empress realized he intended to kill Di Tian.

Zhang Qingxuan defeated Di Tian in the Far North, but a scale from the Silver Dragon King rescued the wounded Beast God. Zhang Qingxuan left for Spirit City while the Snow Empress and Ice Empress prepared to follow, and Di Tian set out to report to his lord.

• The Snow Empress stopped the Ice Empress from joining the battle, warning that interfering against Di Tian would betray the Soul Beast World.
• Zhang Qingxuan restrained Di Tian with the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram and struck him with the Heaven-Severing Three Swords, but a Silver Dragon King scale swallowed the sword attacks and carried Di Tian away.
• Victini restored more than half of Zhang Qingxuan's strength, and he told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that the scale came from a God Rank Soul Beast.
• Zhang Qingxuan gave the Snow Empress and Ice Empress Breath-Concealing Talismans, a map, and his personal token before departing for Spirit City.
• Di Tian arrived at a distant lake badly wounded and decided to seek out his lord, recognizing that Douluo Continent held deeper dangers than he had expected.

Qian Xunji punished the officials responsible after Yun Qingyang was gravely injured in Spirit City. He told Qian Daoliu that Yun Qingyang had survived but his Martial Soul Origin was nearly exhausted, leaving them to fear Zhang Qingxuan’s return.

• Qian Xunji summoned the intelligence chief, blamed him for failing to monitor the remnants who attacked Zhang Qingxuan’s disciples, and ordered the guards to cripple his Soul Power and imprison him.
• Qian Xunji dismissed the patrol corps commander after acknowledging his rescue efforts and ordering rewards for the guards who had helped protect Yun Qingyang.
• Qian Daoliu emerged from the shadows and asked how serious Yun Qingyang’s injuries were.
• Qian Xunji explained that Yun Qingyang had burned his Martial Soul Origin and life force to protect his younger sister, leaving his meridians shattered and his future cultivation ruined.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji feared Zhang Qingxuan would retaliate when he learned that his disciple had been crippled.