Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lexuan led Yin Chen through a panicked Soul Beast horde but hid with him in an ice crevice when she sensed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast approaching. They remained trapped in close quarters as the creature drew near, its identity still unknown.

• Zhang Lexuan chose a sparse route through the rampaging Soul Beasts and protected Yin Chen as they tried to escape the Far North.
• Zhang Lexuan sensed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast approaching from an ice valley and pulled Yin Chen into a narrow crevice.
• Zhang Lexuan sealed the entrance with falling ice and snow, then concealed her aura and signaled Yin Chen to stay silent.
• Yin Chen restrained his aura and breathing while he and Zhang Lexuan waited in the cramped crevice, struggling with the awkward closeness.
• The Soul Beasts outside fell silent in fear as heavy footsteps approached and an enormous, dark-blue armored creature blocked the light.

Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen hid in an ice crevice as a hundred-thousand-year Ice-Armored Giant Crocodile passed nearby, then continued through the cleared area. When Zhang Lexuan asked Yin Chen to remove his shirt, she discovered he had suffered severe frostbite from enduring the icy wall without Soul Power protection.

• The Ice-Armored Giant Crocodile passed the iceberg where Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen were hiding without noticing them.
• After the beast moved away, Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen left the crevice, unsettled by their close contact and the awkward silence between them.
• Zhang Lexuan led Yin Chen to a sheltered spot in an ice wall and told him to turn around and take off his shirt.
• Zhang Lexuan saw the extensive bluish-purple frostbite on Yin Chen's back and realized he had endured the cold without Soul Power protection.
• Yin Chen dismissed the injury as minor and reached for his clothes.

Zhang Lexuan treated Yin Chen’s frostbite and decided they should shelter until the Soul Beast rampage in the Far North subsided. Yin Chen agreed, intending to wait for the right moment to act on events connected to Wangsheng Hall and the Nirvana Corpse.

• Zhang Lexuan stopped Yin Chen from dressing and applied special ointment to his frostbitten back.
• After Yin Chen dressed, Zhang Lexuan assessed the storm and realized they had been driven deeper into the Far North Ice Plains.
• Zhang Lexuan warned that powerful Soul Beasts were waking and gathering toward the core battlefield, making travel too dangerous.
• Zhang Lexuan decided they should find shelter and wait for the rampage to settle before seeking a way out.
• Yin Chen agreed while secretly planning to wait for an opportunity to intervene in events tied to Wangsheng Hall and the Nirvana Corpse.

Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen sheltered in an ice fissure while the battle raged, as the Snow Empress nearly defeated Qian Daoliu. A mysterious attacker then wounded the Snow Empress from behind, leaving her gravely weakened while Qian Daoliu recovered.

• Zhang Lexuan chose a stable iceberg fissure as shelter, and she and Yin Chen settled in to wait and keep watch.
• The Snow Empress prepared to finish Qian Daoliu with her Emperor's Palm.
• A purple spatial rift opened behind the Snow Empress, and a woman wielding the Rakshasa Demon Scythe struck her from behind.
• The Snow Empress was hurled through a glacier, suffered a deep wound, and found the attacker's evil energy preventing her from healing.
• The woman landed beside Qian Daoliu, who said the plan had gone smoothly as Angel's Breath and the Nirvana Corpse's vitality helped him recover.

Bibi Dong revealed that she had been revived and explained how she and Qian Daoliu had ambushed Snow Empress after exhausting her strength. Snow Empress’s injury triggered the fury of the Extreme North’s beasts, and Azure Luan Douluo faced the resulting rampage as a vast beast tide closed in.

• Snow Empress recognized Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa aura, and Bibi Dong confirmed she had returned from death but could not reclaim her godhood without drawing Tang San’s attention.
• Bibi Dong explained that Qian Daoliu had weakened Snow Empress while she waited to strike with the Rakshasa Demon Scythe, leaving Snow Empress badly wounded and cut off from the Extreme North’s will.
• Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai abandoned their fights and charged toward Snow Empress in fury.
• The Extreme North’s Soul Beasts gathered into a massive beast tide and rushed toward the battlefield.
• Azure Luan Douluo watched A-Tai rampage and noted Snow Empress’s immense prestige among the beasts.

Azure Luan Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo unleashed their strongest abilities against the berserk Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King Xiao Bai as the Far North’s beast tide surged toward Wangsheng Hall. Guang Ling Douluo sent thousands of Nirvana Corpses led by Nan Xi into the clash, where the undead and Soul Beasts began tearing into each other.

• Azure Luan Douluo used his Azure Luan Avatar and Azure Cloud Sea Sound Dust Extinction to trap and attack the Titan Snow Demon King.
• Mighty Lion Douluo transformed into a flaming lion and used his strongest soul skill against Xiao Bai, who kept attacking to reach the injured Snow Empress.
• Guang Ling Douluo summoned Wangsheng Hall’s Nirvana Corpses to fight the approaching Far North beast tide.
• Nan Xi rallied the Nirvana Corpses, including Bai Chenxiang, and led thousands of them in a charge against the Soul Beasts.
• The Nirvana Corpses and Soul Beasts collided in a brutal battle of biting, clawing, freezing, and tearing.

Wangsheng Hall’s top fighters joined the battle against the Far North soul beasts as Ice Empress, Xiao Bai, and A-Tai fought through their opponents to reach the badly wounded Snow Empress. The Far North’s defenders regrouped around her, but they faced overwhelming pressure from Bibi Dong and the surrounding enemies.

• Bai Chenxiang recorded the battle with a hidden soul tool and transmitted it to Castorice.
• Guang Ling Douluo led Wangsheng Hall’s core fighters into the beast tide, killing an eighty-thousand-year soul beast and slowing a large part of the enemy force with his soul skills.
• Ice Empress, Xiao Bai, and A-Tai broke through the lines of Azure Luan Douluo, Mighty Lion Douluo, and other fighters to reach Snow Empress.
• Ice Empress and the others found Snow Empress gravely injured and still being corroded by purplish-black evil energy.
• Qian Daoliu accepted that his men had failed to stop the Far North’s counterattack, while Ice Empress and the others faced Bibi Dong’s overwhelming aura.

As defeat loomed, Snow Empress ordered Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai to lead the surviving Soul Beasts into hiding and entrusted them with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus and the future of the Extreme North. She rejected Bibi Dong’s offer to join Wangsheng Hall, vowing that her people would never be enslaved.

• Snow Empress recognized that the Extreme North’s forces were losing and ordered her companions to retreat with the surviving Soul Beasts.
• Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai refused to abandon Snow Empress or flee without her.
• Snow Empress gave Ice Empress the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus and asked A-Tai to protect the Extreme North and help Ice Empress.
• Bibi Dong offered to spare the Soul Beasts if Snow Empress and her companions joined Wangsheng Hall.
• Snow Empress rejected Bibi Dong’s offer, accused Wangsheng Hall of planning to enslave the Soul Beasts, and vowed to resist to the death.

Bibi Dong used Calamity Curse Annihilation to crush the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai, then prepared to kill them. The Snow Empress drew on the power of the Extreme North and charged toward Bibi Dong’s group to self-destruct, leaving Qian Daoliu scrambling to protect the others.

• Bibi Dong unleashed Calamity Curse Annihilation, pinning the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai beneath its overwhelming force.
• Bibi Dong raised the Rakshasa Demon Scythe to finish the four monarchs as the Ice Empress feared they were doomed.
• The Snow Empress declared herself the Lord of the Far North and absorbed energy from across the Extreme North.
• Bibi Dong slashed at the Snow Empress, but the Snow Empress turned into white light and charged toward Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and the others.
• Qian Daoliu shouted a warning and raised Heavenly Kingdom Barrier to shield Golden Crocodile Douluo, Mighty Lion Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, and the others.

The Snow Empress detonated herself and more than half her origin to save the Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai, devastating the battlefield and transforming the Extreme North. Bibi Dong survived the blast and found Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Mighty Lion Douluo gravely damaged.

• The Snow Empress ordered the Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai to flee as she broke the Calamity Curse Annihilation with her self-detonation.
• The Ice Empress, A-Tai, and Xiao Bai escaped into the deepest wasteland of the Extreme North.
• The Snow Empress's explosion erased the battlefield and created an immense abyss, while the surviving Soul Beasts fled and the Nirvana Corpses suffered heavy losses.
• Bibi Dong emerged from a barrier, injured but alive, and sensed that the Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Demon King, and the Ice Bear King had escaped.
• Bibi Dong found Qian Daoliu reduced to a charred remnant, Golden Crocodile Douluo badly wounded, and Mighty Lion Douluo barely alive.

After the Snow Empress sacrificed her body in a devastating explosion, Qian Daoliu realized she might have escaped as a spiritual origin, and Bibi Dong sent pursuers after her. The blast shook the continent, while Yin Chen and Zhang Lexuan decided they could no longer remain in their ice-cave shelter.

• Qian Daoliu told Bibi Dong that the Snow Empress had likely survived by abandoning her body and escaping with her spiritual origin.
• Bibi Dong ordered Guang Ling Douluo, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and the other less-injured Title Douluo to pursue the Snow Empress.
• The explosion's energy reached Dragon City, where Nan Shuishui worried about her mother Nan Xi and Yu Chonglou prepared to protect the city.
• Gu Yuena sensed the catastrophe in the Extreme North and worried that Yin Chen and Zhang Lexuan had been caught in it.
• Zhang Lexuan urged Yin Chen to leave their ice-cave shelter immediately, and Yin Chen opened his eyes.

Yin Chen entered the space of his soul skill Here and Now and enlisted Istaroth to help shape a future that could protect the people caught in the pursuit in the Far North. As they began searching the branches of time, the story returned to the Ice Empress fleeing with the Snow Empress's Snow Core after the Snow Empress sacrificed her body.

• Yin Chen summoned Istaroth and offered her access to some of his memories in exchange for her help.
• Istaroth agreed to assist Yin Chen in searching possible futures within the Tree of Time.
• Yin Chen decided they would have to create a new future branch if none of the existing possibilities fulfilled his intentions.
• Yin Chen began examining the possible futures while time outside his soul space remained frozen.
• The Ice Empress fled through the Far North carrying the Snow Empress's Snow Core, which preserved the Snow Empress's soul origin and offered her a chance to return.

The Ice Empress fled with the Snow Empress’s origin inside the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus while A-Tai and Xiao Bai split off to draw away the pursuers. Guang Ling Douluo divided Wangsheng Hall’s forces and pursued the Ice Empress with Yue Guan and Gui Mei; a pure-white streak suddenly appeared ahead of her.

• A-Tai turned east, unleashing his aura to lure pursuers away from the Ice Empress and promising he would survive.
• Xiao Bai ran northwest to draw away another group, while the Ice Empress continued fleeing with the Snow Empress’s origin.
• Guang Ling Douluo assessed the three escape routes and sent separate Title Douluo teams after A-Tai and Xiao Bai.
• Guang Ling Douluo, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei pursued the Ice Empress, whom Guang Ling Douluo identified as the only one with a chance to protect the Snow Empress.
• As the Ice Empress raced across the icefield, a pure-white streak of light flashed across the distant horizon ahead of her.

The Ice Empress was intercepted by Yue Guan, Ghost, and Guang Ling Douluo while fleeing with the Snow Empress Origin. She turned to fight the two close-range pursuers in the Extreme North, and unleashed Ice Emperor's Wrath as Ghost's attack pressed her from all sides.

• Guang Ling Douluo's arrows slowed the Ice Empress until Yue Guan and Ghost cut off her escape.
• The Ice Empress activated Domain of Eternal Freeze and challenged Yue Guan and Ghost, confident in the Extreme North.
• Yue Guan's golden petals failed to pierce the Ice Empress's armor, while she tore through Ghost's Nether Ghost Domain with a sword aura.
• Yue Guan charged at close range, but the Ice Empress's Ice Empress Pincer knocked him back and left him bleeding.
• Ghost unleashed Night Parade of One Hundred Ghosts, and the Ice Empress answered by releasing Ice Emperor's Wrath.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei trapped the Ice Empress in their Polar Static Domain, allowing Guang Ling Douluo to unleash his Ninth Soul Skill. At Castorice’s subtle intervention, Guang Ling Douluo’s intent shifted from killing the Ice Empress to capturing her alive, and his arrow struck her through the chest instead of the head.

• The Ice Empress nearly killed Gui Mei, but Guang Ling Douluo’s arrow interrupted her strike and let Gui Mei survive.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Polar Static Domain, to immobilize the Ice Empress by halting space and time.
• Guang Ling Douluo prepared his Ninth Soul Skill, Divine Punishment: Annihilation, to kill the Ice Empress and seize the Snow Empress Origin.
• Castorice summoned Ronava’s power and secretly altered Guang Ling Douluo’s intent from killing the Ice Empress to capturing her alive.
• Guang Ling Douluo fired his arrow, which pierced the Ice Empress’s left chest near her heart.

The Ice Empress survived Guang Ling Douluo’s arrow and escaped after unleashing her ultimate ice attack, leaving Yue Guan and Gui Mei near death. Castorice recovered from helping her, while Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen traveled across the Far North and came upon a mysterious figure.

• The Ice Empress transformed into her true form and unleashed Eternal Black Ice Prison, nearly killing Yue Guan and Gui Mei before escaping into the blizzard with the snow lotus.
• Guang Ling Douluo failed to track the Ice Empress and left with the wounded Yue Guan and Gui Mei, believing she would soon die from her injuries.
• Castorice awoke at the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, exhausted after using the True Blood of Myriad Karmas to alter a Super Douluo’s perception, and hoped the next “story” would unfold smoothly.
• Zhang Lexuan led Yin Chen across the Far North, unknowingly drawing closer to the fleeing Ice Empress.
• Zhang Lexuan abruptly sensed a powerful threat and spotted a petite figure with emerald-green twin tails leaning against an ice wall.

The dying Ice Empress attacked Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen, and Zhang Lexuan was gravely wounded while protecting him. The Ice Empress survived Zhang Lexuan’s counterattack and left the two injured humans alive as she focused on obtaining the Snow Empress Origin.

• The Ice Empress saw Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen and unleashed a freezing attack, which Zhang Lexuan blocked with a moonlight shield.
• The Ice Empress pierced Zhang Lexuan’s chest with her scorpion tail after breaking through the shield.
• Zhang Lexuan used her eighth soul skill, Blood Moon Eclipse, and urged Yin Chen to run, but the Ice Empress froze and destroyed the attack.
• The Ice Empress struck Zhang Lexuan and sent her flying, while Yin Chen caught her before they both crashed into an ice wall.
• The Ice Empress recognized that Zhang Lexuan and Yin Chen were living humans, but chose not to pursue them and focused on finding the Snow Empress Origin.

Yin Chen stopped the dying Ice Empress after she injured Zhang Lexuan and used his abilities to defeat her. He returned the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus to her, leaving the Ice Empress awaiting death rather than asking for mercy.

• Yin Chen challenged the Ice Empress as she tried to leave, and she attacked him with an ice spike.
• Yin Chen used The Other Me to make himself and Zhang Lexuan intangible, then moved Zhang Lexuan to safety.
• Yin Chen appeared beside the Ice Empress and used Here and Now to make her block his fist, triggering a scarlet lightning strike that nearly destroyed her.
• Yin Chen picked up the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus after it fell, then returned it to the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress clutched the Snow Lotus and told Yin Chen to kill her rather than spare her.

Yin Chen explained how his fourth soul skill, Here and Now, fixed a future and punished anyone who changed it, allowing him to turn Ice Empress’s defense against her. Ice Empress collapsed near death, but began to wonder whether Yin Chen could be the variable who might break her desperate dead end.

• Zhang Lexuan asked Yin Chen how he had defeated Ice Empress, and Ice Empress listened for an explanation.
• Yin Chen explained that Here and Now anchored a future, and changing it triggered the universe’s Punishment of Causality.
• Yin Chen said Ice Empress’s attempt to block his punch changed a minor future, and he had borrowed the resulting punishment to accelerate her death.
• Ice Empress cursed the unfair ability, then acknowledged that she understood how she had lost.
• Ice Empress quietly wondered whether Yin Chen might be able to change her desperate situation before collapsing onto the snow with the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus in her arms.

The Ice Empress struggled between her hatred of humans and her hope of saving the Snow Empress, then chose to propose a deal to Yin Chen. Yin Chen concealed his relief and challenged her to explain what she could offer, leaving the negotiation about to begin.

• The dying Ice Empress considered giving her life origin to the Snow Core so the Snow Empress could be reborn.
• The Ice Empress weighed her mistrust of humans against Yin Chen's unusual power and her desire to protect the Snow Empress.
• Yin Chen waited, knowing he and Istaroth had guided this encounter toward a possible alliance but could not control every detail.
• The Ice Empress settled her resolve, looked at Yin Chen, and asked whether he wanted to make a deal.
• Yin Chen hid his relief and questioned what the dying Ice Empress could offer, reminding her that she had tried to kill him and Eldest Senior Sister.