Chapter Summaries

After Qian Daoliu severely wounded Ice Empress, Snow Empress arrived and ordered the humans to end their conflict with the Far North. Chen Hong refused to leave without compensation and provoked Ice Empress, leaving negotiations on the verge of turning violent.

• Qian Daoliu's full-power strike severely wounded Ice Empress, and Chen Hong approached with Ning Quan and another person trapped in ice sculptures.
• Snow Empress appeared before Ice Empress and declared the conflict over, ordering Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong to stop disturbing the Far North.
• Chen Hong apologized to Snow Empress but demanded compensation for the humans.
• Ice Empress urged Snow Empress to kill the two humans, and Chen Hong called her a loser.

Chen Hong confronted Snow Empress and Ice Empress, claiming they were the weaker side and warning Snow Empress that Qian Daoliu could destroy them in ten years. Snow Empress sensed a Super Fierce Beast approaching and grew wary, but Chen Hong left his confidence unexplained.

• Ice Empress tried to attack Chen Hong, but Snow Empress stopped her and questioned Chen Hong’s right to negotiate.
• Chen Hong calmly declared that Snow Empress and her companions were the weaker side, while Qian Daoliu recognized that Chen Hong was deliberately acting arrogant.
• Snow Empress sensed the Ocean-Sweeping Orca King approaching from the southeast and asked whether he was Chen Hong’s source of confidence.
• Chen Hong showed the Orca King’s shed tooth and insisted that their confidence came from themselves, making Snow Empress more cautious.
• Chen Hong told Snow Empress she could kill him, but Qian Daoliu would be able to slaughter them all in ten years.

Chen Hong confronted Snow Empress and used the Black Lotus Soul Eye to expose her nature as a half-Spiritual Life Form and her fear of the coming 700,000-year tribulation. He revealed that his Overclock Soul Art could force her sealed cultivation talent to activate and trigger the tribulation early, leaving both of them at risk as the confrontation continued.

• Chen Hong told Qian Daoliu that he could escape and grow stronger by using the experimental technology Chen had left behind, while Qian Daoliu privately welcomed the chance to flee.
• Chen Hong explained that he could hear the thoughts of nearby living beings, then turned his attention to Snow Empress and identified her as a half-Spiritual Life Form approaching a dangerous lightning tribulation.
• Snow Empress intensified the blizzard in anger, but Chen Hong warned that he could use his soul and Mental Power to activate her sealed state and trigger her tribulation even if she killed him.
• Chen Hong revealed that Snow Empress had suppressed her cultivation talent because she feared the 700,000-year tribulation, and that his Second Soul Law, Overclock, could grant her a powerful life-burning boost.

Chen Hong forced Snow Empress to negotiate after his Overclock Divine Mark triggered her 700,000-Year Divine Beast Tribulation. Snow Empress explained that Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er could be thawed, but only at the cost of Ning Quan losing his Soul Power, and Chen Hong welcomed the prospect.

• Snow Empress calmed herself after the blizzard stopped and asked Chen Hong to state his demands.
• Ice Empress protested Snow Empress's decision to compromise, but Snow Empress reminded her that her defeat by the Great Angel Priest had taught them a lesson.
• Chen Hong brought forward the ice statues containing Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er and asked whether they could be saved.
• After Snow Empress said they could not be saved, Chen Hong tossed the statues into an ice crevice, then retrieved them when Qian Daoliu reminded him that Ning Quan was his uncle.
• Snow Empress clarified that she could remove the Ultimate Ice, but Ning Quan's Cold Poison meant he would lose all Soul Power, and she could not restore either captive's vitality.
• Chen Hong reacted enthusiastically to the possibility of removing Ning Quan's Soul Power.

Chen Hong explained that he needed to study why Secondary Soul Cores rejected ordinary people with zero Innate Soul Power, while seeking a way to save Ning Quan and another man from Ultimate Ice and Cold Poison. He introduced his Soul Ring research to the Ice and Snow Empresses, leaving them surprised by his unusual rings and his four categories of Soul Rings.

• Chen Hong considered using people who had cultivated Soul Power after losing their Innate Soul Power as test subjects for his Secondary Soul Core research, then resisted the idea of experimenting on Ning Quan.
• Chen Hong told Snow Empress that the two frozen men could die if their Ultimate Ice thawed too slowly, and Snow Empress offered to honor their request as victors over Ice Empress.
• Chen Hong proposed using an Ultimate Ice Soul Beast's Soul Ring to cure Ning Quan's Cold Poison, making Ice Empress and Snow Empress suspect that he wanted Ice Empress's Soul Ring.
• Chen Hong showed the empresses his four Soul Rings, and Ice Empress and Snow Empress recognized traces of several Soul Beast origins despite finding no sign of a conventional Soul Ring plunder.
• Chen Hong introduced hunting, sacrifice, imprinting, and self-generation as four types of Soul Rings.

Chen Hong explained how Soul Ring and Soul Bone technologies could make Soul Beasts obsolete, alarming Ice Empress and Snow Empress about their species’ future. He then set aside his original plan to use an Ultimate Ice Soul Ring to treat Ning Quan’s Cold Poison and offered to consider Snow Empress’s alternative.

• Chen Hong told Ice Empress and Snow Empress that future Spirit Master technology could let transformed Soul Beasts evolve their own Soul Rings and reduce Soul Beasts’ importance.
• Snow Empress warned that advanced human Spirit Masters could leave Soul Beasts struggling to survive, a danger that might emerge within a thousand years.
• Chen Hong said his original plan was to use an Ultimate Ice Soul Ring and Soul Ring Imprinting to help Ning Quan absorb his Cold Poison and advance toward level 79.
• Chen Hong took metal plates from his Spatial Soul Guidance Device and told Snow Empress he would use her better method to resolve Ning Quan’s Cold Poison.

Chen Hong used a Super Healing Module and his Sage Soul Law to stabilize Xu Ke’er, whose soul was nearly extinguished. With her out of immediate danger, he turned to Snow Empress and asked her to help Ning Quan.

• Snow Empress agreed to Chen Hong’s plan after he said Ice Empress did not need an Ultimate Ice soul ring.
• Snow Empress softened the Ultimate Ice around Xu Ke’er, and Chen Hong attached his self-powered Super Healing Module to her chest.
• Chen Hong drew a Blood Divine Mark on Xu Ke’er’s forehead, explaining that it would keep her soul awake while her body recovered.
• Chen Hong placed the stable but unconscious Xu Ke’er aside and asked Snow Empress to help Ning Quan.

Chen Hong volunteered to handle Ning Quan’s soul-targeting sword strike after Snow Empress and Ice Empress hesitated to face it. He believed his soul had entered the divine dimension, leaving the group to prepare for him to confront the frozen swordsman.

• Snow Empress examined Ning Quan’s ice sculpture and warned that releasing the Ultimate Ice would trigger his locked-on Soul Slash, which could also disrupt her seal.
• Ice Empress stayed behind Snow Empress because she had already experienced the danger of Ning Quan’s soul-level strike.
• Chen Hong volunteered to face Ning Quan’s attack, surprising Ice Empress and prompting Qian Daoliu to question his confidence.
• Chen Hong explained that his soul had entered the divine dimension through his Psychic Power and the Black Lotus Soul Eye, making him suited to counter a soul-level attack.
• Qian Daoliu accepted Chen Hong’s confidence, and Snow Empress asked whether he was ready.

Chen Hong caught Ning Quan’s nearly unconscious Dao Skill strike and treated him and Xu Ke'er, revealing more about his strange mental abilities and his theory that Snow Empress was partly spiritual. He then proposed a deeper cooperation with Snow Empress.

• Snow Empress dispersed the Ultimate Ice sealing Ning Quan, and his body instinctively unleashed a devastating sword strike.
• Chen Hong’s Black Lotus Soul Eye expanded his vision across the world, but he caught Ning Quan’s sword between two fingers before it could harm him.
• Chen Hong called Ning Quan’s near-Dao strike a Dao Skill and treated Ning Quan and Xu Ke'er.
• Ice Empress realized Chen Hong could hear her thoughts, while Snow Empress discussed his passive mental domain and his claim that she was half spiritual.
• Chen Hong explained that Snow Empress was half energy and half spirit, then proposed that they cooperate more deeply.

At the Ice God Ruins, Chen Hong questioned the Ice and Snow Empresses about the world’s past in exchange for sharing what he had learned from the Rune Ice Pillar. The Ice Empress outlined the Dark Era and Soul Master Era, and Chen Hong asked her to describe the Ancient Era.

• Chen Hong offered to tell the Ice and Snow Empresses what he had discovered in the Rune Ice Pillar if they shared their knowledge of human history.
• Qian Daoliu returned to Suotuo City with two injured people, while Ning Quan was also sent back so he could use the experimental equipment there.
• The Ice Empress said she remembered some ancient history but warned that her recollections were vague.
• The Ice Empress described the Ancient, Dark, and Soul Master Eras, estimating that about a hundred thousand years had passed since the Dark Era began.
• The Ice Empress explained that few soul beasts could remember the Ancient Era and praised the Snow Empress for reaching the sixty-nine-hundred-thousand-year realm in roughly a hundred thousand years.
• Chen Hong asked the Ice Empress to tell him about the Ancient Era.

Ice Empress described the ancient Soul Mark Civilization, and Chen Hong used her account to explain his theories about humanity’s origins and the development of the Soul Master System. He argued that he was building a system that could make Soul Masters overwhelmingly superior to soul beasts, while Snow Empress concluded that the Great Angel Priest could reach the mortal peak within ten years.

• Ice Empress told Chen Hong that the ancient Soul Mark Civilization was a human civilization founded a hundred thousand years ago and built the ruins.
• Chen Hong explained that humans from beyond the heavens and transformed soul beasts had jointly created ancient civilization, and that martial souls preserved their bloodlines.
• Chen Hong said the modern Soul Master System arose as human bloodline power declined and humans began absorbing soul rings from soul beasts.
• Chen Hong declared that he was making the Soul Master System independent so Spirit Masters could regain their ancestors’ powers, warning that soul beasts would become an inferior race.
• Ice Empress reacted angrily to Chen Hong’s prediction, and Snow Empress said she now believed the Great Angel Priest could reach the pinnacle of mortals in ten years.

Chen Hong secured Snow Empress’s cooperation and explained that the Rune Ice Pillar held incomplete Ancient Era technology tied to her birth. Touching it, he witnessed the Ice and Snow Tribe’s ancient effort to preserve Snow Empress and pass their technology to future generations.

• Snow Empress agreed to represent the Far North in reasonable cooperation with Chen Hong.
• Chen Hong told Snow Empress and Ice Empress that the Rune Ice Pillar contained incomplete super technology from the Ancient Era.
• Chen Hong traced the pillar and glimpsed the Ice and Snow chief and Qian Xuan engraving its records amid the collapse of the old order.
• The Ice and Snow chief explained that the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Pattern could give Snow Empress one chance to feign death and that their technology would reach future generations.

Chen Hong explained that the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Pattern was an ancient technique left as a gift for the Ice and Snow Emperor, and deduced that the Ice God had been another Heavenly Snow Woman. He reconstructed most of the pattern to help Snow Empress survive her approaching 700,000-year tribulation, but discovered that its missing parts depended on an unknown life-type soul beast.

• Chen Hong recovered from a vision of a black dragon mark and told Snow Empress and Ice Empress about the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Pattern on the Rune Ice Pillar.
• Chen Hong deduced that the Ice God's true body had been another Heavenly Snow Woman, and Ice Empress reacted with shock.
• Snow Empress asked Chen Hong to explain the pattern, and he formed a three-dimensional copy from ice crystals.
• Chen Hong asked Ice Empress to fetch an ice silkworm, and she left him alone with Snow Empress in the ruins.
• Chen Hong restored the pattern to ninety percent and explained how it could help Snow Empress survive her tribulation, though the incomplete technique carried risks.
• Chen Hong identified a life-support node and concluded that the pattern required an unknown life-type soul beast, while Snow Empress silently wondered if it was a Jade Swan.

Chen Hong realized the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Pattern was a biotechnology developed by experimenting on Ice Silkworms, and concluded its complete form had been extracted from a specimen that could evade heavenly tribulations. Snow Empress revealed that the original specimen was still alive.

• Chen Hong recognized the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Pattern as a Super Combination Soul Mark modeled on an Ice Silkworm and phoenix rebirth.
• Ice Empress returned with a captured Ice Silkworm, and Chen Hong examined it before feeding it Ice Marrow and letting Ice Empress release it.
• Chen Hong explained to Snow Empress that the pattern was biotechnology created through repeated live experiments on Ice Silkworms.
• Chen Hong inferred that the complete pattern had been extracted from an Ice Silkworm capable of evading heavenly tribulations.
• Snow Empress told Chen Hong that the original specimen was still alive.

After leaving the Far North, Chen Hong learned from the Ocean-Sweeping Orca King about the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and spreading ocean clans. He suspected he had found the missing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s location and turned his attention toward Star Dou and the Black Dragon Son.

• Chen Hong met the Ocean-Sweeping Orca King in the Ice Sea and asked whether he knew of a powerful ice silkworm that had fallen into the sea.
• The Ocean-Sweeping Orca King told Chen Hong that the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord had crossed from the Sun and Moon Continent and was an Uncrowned Divine Beast.
• The Ocean-Sweeping Orca King described a mind-affecting mystery beneath the Abyssal Trench and said the ocean clans were spreading toward an eventual clash with the Demon Whale King.
• Chen Hong said he expected to encounter the Demon Whale King and believed he had guessed where the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was.
• Chen Hong looked toward central Douluo Continent and recalled the words “Star Dou... Black Dragon Son.”

Chen Hong returned to Suotuo City and told Ye Lingling and Qian Daoliu what he had learned about Douluo Continent’s ancient history. He examined Ning Quan and revealed that he planned to install a level-thirty Secondary Soul Core Engine, then began a project to study Ning Quan’s soul rings.

• Chen Hong considered the remaining Uncrowned Divine Beasts and headed back toward Suotuo City, eventually boarding a merchant ship from Fasinuo City.
• Chen Hong reunited with Qian Daoliu and Ye Lingling at the Suotuo Soul Guidance Research Building, where Ning Quan lay in a nutrient tank.
• Chen Hong told Qian Daoliu and Ye Lingling about the Ice and Snow Empresses’ account of ancient history and explained that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was likely a Dragon King’s remains.
• Chen Hong learned that Xu Ke’er’s injuries had stabilized and she was expected to wake in three days.
• Chen Hong said Ning Quan’s strong Soul Power Adaptability could let him reach Innate Level 30 with a Secondary Soul Core Engine, then ordered a project to record Ning Quan’s data and study soul ring condensation.

Chen Hong and Ye Lingling fused their martial souls into the god-level Power of Creation and used it to implant five elemental Secondary Soul Cores in Ning Quan. Ning Quan remained stable in the Life Support Device as Chen Hong prepared to continue the experiment.

• Xu Ke'er woke up, and Ye Lingling reassured her that Ning Quan was stable before leaving her in Ning Lu's care.
• Chen Hong asked Ning Quan if he wanted to see his family, but Ning Quan declined, so Chen Hong put him into a deep coma for the experiment.
• Chen Hong and Ye Lingling fused their martial souls into the Power of Creation, combining divine soul and life authority.
• Chen Hong began implanting elemental Secondary Soul Cores in Ning Quan, completing the Gold, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth cores over the following month.
• Chen Hong used the Five Elements' mutual generation and restraint to form a Super Soul Power Engine in Ning Quan, and Ning Quan remained stable.

Chen Hong and Ye Lingling completed the installation and stabilization of Ning Quan’s Five Elements Soul Power Engine, then discussed what Soul Power Adaptability levels meant for cultivation and godhood. Ning Quan woke up, and Chen Hong greeted him by claiming the surgery had made him a girl.

• Chen Hong and Ye Lingling finished stabilizing the Five Elements Soul Power Engine in Ning Quan’s body after two months of work.
• Chen Hong explained to Ye Lingling that Soul Power Adaptability determined a Spirit Master’s limits and that the level classifications were not fixed by birth.
• Chen Hong said Level Ten adaptability was the minimum threshold for godhood, while Level Twenty and Level Thirty offered greater potential and power.
• Ning Quan woke up, and Chen Hong told him the surgery had succeeded and he was now a girl.

Chen Hong and Ye Lingling observed Ning Quan’s re-cultivation as his Soul Power rapidly rose and he formed Soul Rings without external help. Chen Hong concluded that Martial Souls were Divine Runes and that humans could Condense Soul Rings by awakening their own marks, but he considered the method useless for someone as powerful as himself.

• Ning Quan woke in his Life Support Pod, checked that his body was intact, and asked Chen Hong what had happened to him.
• Chen Hong used Huang to display Ning Quan’s data as his Soul Power surged from Level 1 to Level 10, then he independently broke through to Level 11 and formed a Purple Soul Ring.
• Ning Quan continued cultivating, gaining another Purple Soul Ring after half an hour and three more rings three hours later.
• Chen Hong and Ye Lingling discussed whether humans could Condense Soul Rings, and Chen Hong explained that Martial Souls were Divine Runes with varying degrees of completeness.
• Chen Hong analyzed Ning Quan’s Mental Fluctuation and identified a new Energy Circuit, the Tian Quan Divine Mark, as the basis for his Self-Evolved Soul Rings.
• Chen Hong judged that Self-Evolved Soul Rings wasted Soul Ring slots because he could fit many soul skills into a single ring.

Chen Hong realized that human Martial Soul Divine Marks might be activated to condense Soul Rings, and excitedly proposed a way to make Spirit Masters' Soul Rings explode. Qian Daoliu objected, but Chen Hong and Ye Lingling reframed the idea as a potential method for Spirit Masters to awaken and pass on their power.

• Ye Lingling asked whether Chen Hong's discoveries meant she could condense Soul Rings herself, and she pointed out that Divine Runes might let him develop new soul skills.
• Chen Hong concluded that soul beasts were still necessary to the Soul Master System, then proposed using external force to activate human Martial Soul Divine Marks and trigger Soul Ring formation.
• Chen Hong excitedly outlined using mental-attack Soul Tools to make a dying Spirit Master condense a Soul Ring, while Ye Lingling listened with admiration.
• Qian Daoliu arrived and accused Chen Hong of trying to create an evil artifact that killed Spirit Masters and made their Soul Rings explode; Ning Quan had been listening nearby.
• Chen Hong told Qian Daoliu the research could let Spirit Masters awaken their Martial Soul Divine Marks and condense Soul Rings themselves.
• Ye Lingling argued that the technology could also let elders pass their power to the next generation as Soul Rings, and Qian Daoliu told Chen Hong to speak properly and stop acting crazy.