Chapter Summaries

Yan Hongchen agreed to undergo his long-delayed Martial Soul awakening, and his father Yi Hongchen began the ceremony. Yan awakened a mysterious new toad-type Martial Soul, but its nature remained unconfirmed as a sudden mutation began.

• Yan Hongchen woke and joined Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming for breakfast at the Hongchen Duke's Estate.
• Yi Hongchen told Yan Hongchen that Jing Hongchen and Yan's siblings would return soon and insisted that Yan undergo his Martial Soul awakening.
• Yan accepted the awakening, finished breakfast, and followed his parents to the meditation chamber.
• Yi Hongchen activated the awakening formation, and Yan's pale-blue spirit toad Martial Soul appeared.
• Yi Hongchen recognized it as a possibly new toad-type Martial Soul, but a sudden mutation occurred before he could confirm it.

Yan Hongchen awakened twin martial souls and innate full soul power, astonishing his parents. After he named his toad martial soul and described his heart martial soul, Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming warned him to conceal the heart and beware of the Body Sect.

• Yan Hongchen awakened a spirit toad martial soul and a heart body martial soul during his ceremony.
• Yan Hongchen tested at innate full soul power, and Liu Yueming recognized his exceptional talent.
• Yan Hongchen named his toad martial soul the Phantom Water Spirit Toad and described its spiritual and illusion-related qualities.
• Yan Hongchen told Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming that his heart martial soul strengthened his body, though he did not yet know its abilities.
• Liu Yueming and Yi Hongchen warned Yan Hongchen to hide his heart martial soul and avoid drawing the Body Sect's attention.

Yan Hongchen’s parents advised him to conceal his twin martial souls and innate talent, then Liu Yueming gave him a Mystic Water Pill to strengthen his foundation. After absorbing it, Yan Hongchen purged impurities from his body, and Yi Hongchen took him to bathe.

• Liu Yueming told Yan Hongchen to conceal his second martial soul and present his innate soul power as Rank Nine.
• Liu Yueming gave Yan Hongchen a Mystic Water Pill and explained its cleansing and foundation-strengthening effects.
• Yan Hongchen swallowed the pill and guided its medicinal power through his meridians as his Phantom Water Spirit Toad resonated with it.
• Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming watched the pill cleanse Yan Hongchen’s body and discussed the need to keep their strength growing.
• Yan Hongchen discovered his skin was covered in foul-smelling impurities, and Liu Yueming explained that the pill had washed them from his body.
• Yi Hongchen wrapped Yan Hongchen in soul power and hurried with him to the prepared bath.

Yan Hongchen reunited with his returning family after awakening a mysterious martial soul and undergoing a thorough wash. Jing Hongchen sensed Yan Hongchen’s exceptional soul power, and the family gathered at home to celebrate and discuss the news.

• Yi Hongchen helped Yan Hongchen wash away the impurities expelled after he took a Mystic Water Pill, then told him Jing Hongchen and his siblings had returned.
• Liu Yueming welcomed Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen home and arranged a family celebration.
• Yan Hongchen reunited with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, but kept his martial soul and innate soul power a secret until his parents could explain.
• Jing Hongchen sensed Yan Hongchen’s stable soul power at the level-ten bottleneck and inferred that his innate soul power was at least level nine.
• Jing Hongchen warmly embraced Yan Hongchen and promised to personally help him obtain a soul ring as Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming joined them.

After Yan Hongchen’s awakening, the family gathered for dinner before discussing his rare twin martial souls and innate full soul power. They agreed that he would cultivate the Phantom Water Spirit Toad first and rely on Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to protect him.

• Liu Yueming led the family to dinner and urged them to talk about Yan Hongchen’s awakening afterward.
• After the meal, Yi Hongchen told Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen that Yan Hongchen had innate full soul power, the Phantom Water Spirit Toad martial soul, and a heart body martial soul.
• Yan Hongchen manifested both martial souls and explained that the toad suited the auxiliary path while his heart suited strong attack.
• Xiao Hongchen admitted he envied Yan Hongchen’s talent, while Meng Hongchen praised him and welcomed the chance to support him.
• Liu Yueming said Yan Hongchen would cultivate the Phantom Water Spirit Toad first to avoid drawing attention, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen promised to protect him.

Liu Yueming and Yi Hongchen planned to take Yan Hongchen to the Extreme North Icefield to obtain soul rings, and Jing Hongchen agreed to accompany them. While preparations were made, Yi guided Yan in meditation and soul-ring cultivation, and the chapter ended with Xiao Hongchen taking Yan to the training ground.

• Liu Yueming told Jing Hongchen that she, Yi Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen would need soul rings from the Extreme North Icefield, and Jing agreed to accompany them.
• Liu Yueming decided that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen would remain home to stabilize their cultivation while the adults prepared for the journey.
• Jing Hongchen arranged specialized soul tools, medicines, and clothing for the Extreme North expedition.
• Liu Yueming gave Yan century-old whale glue, while Yi Hongchen taught him meditation and explained how to prepare for absorbing a soul ring.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen stabilized their cultivation and reached level twenty, with Meng one rank ahead of Xiao.
• Xiao Hongchen, eager to test his soul skills, took Yan Hongchen to the training ground.

Xiao Hongchen tested his beastified Three-Legged Golden Toad against Yi Hongchen and received advice about its strengths and mobility problems. After Yan Hongchen considered possible support soul skills, Yi Hongchen invited Meng Hongchen to test her new power, and Liu Yueming stepped in to guide her.

• Xiao Hongchen used Metal Control and Golden Shaping to transform metal into cannon barrels and attack Yi Hongchen.
• Yi Hongchen defended with metal shields and used Golden Affinity to redirect some of Xiao Hongchen's shells.
• Yi Hongchen pointed out that Xiao Hongchen's beastified form made him a vulnerable stationary target and advised him to improve his mobility, close-range defense, and soul skill proficiency.
• Yan Hongchen considered an enhancement skill or Mermaid Duet for his first soul skill.
• Yi Hongchen invited Meng Hongchen to test her new power, and Liu Yueming offered to guide her.

Liu Yueming sparred with Meng Hongchen to assess her soul skills and teach her how to balance poison control with ice-based combat. She recommended Ice Refraction as a future soul skill for close combat and warned Meng Hongchen to maintain its ice surface.

• Yi Hongchen led Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen aside as Liu Yueming prepared to spar with Meng Hongchen.
• Liu Yueming summoned her mutated Snow Jade Ice Toad, and Meng Hongchen activated her Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad without using her soul-tool longsword.
• Meng Hongchen used Ice Poison Ring and Ice Toad Poison, while Liu Yueming countered with Ice Dance Rainbow Garment and Blizzard Lost Trail, then froze and safely disposed of the poisoned airflow.
• Liu Yueming demonstrated Ice Refraction, shifting across a mirror-smooth ice surface and supporting Meng Hongchen when she lost her footing.
• Liu Yueming advised Meng Hongchen to focus more on ice control, explained how Ice Refraction could aid close combat, and warned her to keep its ice surface intact.

Yan Hongchen considered what soul skills to seek for his two martial souls while his parents prepared to enter secluded cultivation. After searching through the family’s books with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, he kept their notes and learned that the family would soon set out to hunt soul rings.

• Yan Hongchen told Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming that he wanted functional soul skills and hoped to find a soul beast compatible with both spiritual and water attributes.
• Liu Yueming suggested the Snow Spirit Butterfly, while Yi Hongchen explained that he and Liu Yueming needed to enter seclusion to cultivate and break through.
• Xiao Hongchen promised to look after Yan Hongchen and Meng Hongchen as their parents began closed-door cultivation.
• Yan Hongchen studied soul beast records for several days with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, but they found few reliable accounts of beasts with both desired attributes.
• Meng Hongchen compiled their findings into a booklet for Yan Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen told him they would soon set out to hunt soul rings.

Yan Hongchen dreamed of Snow Empress fighting a lightning tribulation in the Far North and waking to find a map imprinted in his mind. He suspected the map marked the snow lotus’s location and wondered who had placed it there.

• Yan Hongchen struggled to organize his thoughts about martial souls and soul tools before falling asleep.
• In a snow-covered world, Yan Hongchen witnessed a white-haired woman fight a powerful lightning tribulation until her sword broke.
• The woman revealed a snow-white lotus, then vanished into it as the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Yan Hongchen woke from the vivid dream and recognized the woman as Snow Empress, recalling that she had failed her tribulation and fused with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus.
• Yan Hongchen discovered a map imprinted in his mind, marked with a flower, and warily questioned who had tampered with him.

Yan Hongchen told Jing Hongchen about a prophetic dream that left him with a map and drew it for his family to verify. The map matched the Extreme North Icefield, and the marked flower was beside the dangerous Abyssal Ice Rift in an unrecorded ice valley.

• Yan Hongchen decided to use his dream as an excuse to investigate the map in his mind.
• Xiao Hongchen woke Yan Hongchen and told him Jing Hongchen was visiting.
• Yan Hongchen described his dream of a woman enduring lightning before fusing with a snow lotus, and said a map had appeared in his mind.
• Jing Hongchen asked Yan Hongchen to draw the map, and Yan Hongchen reproduced its terrain and marked the flower’s location.
• Jing Hongchen identified the drawing as a map of the Extreme North Icefield and said the flower lay in an unrecorded valley beside the Abyssal Ice Rift.

Yan Hongchen’s map and the snow lotus’s meaning convinced him that the flower might allow him to undergo a second awakening, so he decided to risk seeking it in the Extreme North. Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Liu Yueming took him there, and the group entered the Extreme North Icefield.

• Jing Hongchen decided to investigate the place marked on Yan Hongchen’s map and warned him to keep it secret.
• Meng Hongchen found a medicinal-herb record identifying the snow lotus’s symbolism as “A Sacred Heart of Mercy,” and Yan Hongchen saw it as a possible aid to his second awakening.
• Yan Hongchen sent Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen away so he could think over the map and its risks alone.
• Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Liu Yueming departed with Yan Hongchen before dawn using Jing Hongchen’s flying soul tool.
• The four travelers crossed the Frost Forest and entered the Extreme North Icefield.

Liu Yueming's group encountered a rare Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast that was an ideal match for her Snow Jade Ice Toad, but its speed and ability to self-destruct made capturing it dangerous. Jing Hongchen and Yi Hongchen began suppressing it while Liu Yueming prepared to strike.

• Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, Liu Yueming, and Yan Hongchen continued searching the Extreme North for a suitable soul beast.
• Liu Yueming's Deep Ice Spirit Detector alerted them to an Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast, which she recognized as an ideal match for her Snow Jade Ice Toad.
• Liu Yueming warned the others that the roughly fifty-thousand-year-old beast was fast and might self-destruct if cornered, and she asked to deliver the final strike herself.
• The Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast attacked with a chilling blast that threatened to freeze their thoughts.
• Jing Hongchen used his Metal-Binding Barrier to absorb and disperse the blast while sealing the beast's escape routes.
• Yi Hongchen circled the beast and struck toward its head, but it formed spinning ice wheels beneath its hooves.

Liu Yueming and the others fought the Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast, using a feigned escape to let her ambush it with her sixth soul skill. The beast detonated its ice heart, encasing Liu Yueming in mystic ice as her life aura vanished.

• Jing Hongchen trapped the Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast in a Metal-Binding Barrier, but it concealed itself within a snowy tornado and disabled Liu Yueming's soul tools.
• Yan Hongchen detected the beast's position, allowing Jing Hongchen and Yi Hongchen to strike and injure it.
• Liu Yueming realized the beast might self-destruct, so Jing Hongchen and Yi Hongchen staged an opening and a disorganized assault to make it believe it could escape.
• Liu Yueming used the blizzard and Ice Refraction to get ahead of the escaping beast, then attacked it with her sixth soul skill, Ice Toad Devours Spirit.
• As Liu Yueming's skill devoured and sealed its ice heart, the Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast poured its power into the heart and detonated it, freezing Liu Yueming in blue mystic ice and extinguishing her life aura.

Liu Yueming fought the Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast’s lingering will inside its icy-blue soul battlefield and overcame its attacks by affirming her determination to protect her family. The beast’s obsession accepted her, and its power began merging into her soul.

• Yi Hongchen rushed toward the ice sealing Liu Yueming, but Jing Hongchen stopped him and urged him to trust her sixth soul skill.
• Liu Yueming faced the Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast’s phantom in a frozen world and endured its soul-piercing icicles.
• The beast used distorted memories of Liu Yueming’s struggles and fears to try to break her will.
• Liu Yueming acknowledged her weaknesses and declared that she wanted to stand beside her family and face future hardships with them.
• Liu Yueming reached out to the Ice Soul phantom, which accepted her resolve and dissolved into motes of light that merged with her soul.
• The icy-blue world shattered as the beast’s final voice told Liu Yueming to live in its place in her own way.

Liu Yueming survived the fusion with the Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast’s Extreme Ice Essence and gained a fifty-thousand-year seventh soul ring. She then absorbed the beast’s head soul bone, stopping the destruction of her spiritual power and gaining the Soul Freezing skill.

• Cracks spread across Liu Yueming’s mystic ice, and she emerged after successfully merging with the Extreme Ice Essence.
• Yi Hongchen rushed to embrace Liu Yueming while Jing Hongchen and Yan Hongchen watched her recover.
• Liu Yueming retrieved a head soul bone from the Ice Soul Mystic Hoof Beast’s dissipating corpse.
• Liu Yueming absorbed the soul bone while Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen guarded her.
• Liu Yueming gained the Soul Freezing skill, and the burning of her spiritual power stopped as her sea of consciousness remained sealed.

Liu Yueming and the Hongchen family reached a one-hundred-and-ten-thousand-year snow lotus, but Jing Hongchen was struck by sword qi as he tried to retrieve it. The Snow Empress appeared and overwhelmed the group with her pressure, leaving Yan Hongchen face to face with the powerful being he had expected.

• Liu Yueming described the changes to her soul skills after absorbing the head spirit bone and warned that a strange force was suppressing her abilities.
• The group cautiously entered a crystal basin and found a snow lotus that Liu Yueming estimated was at least one hundred and ten thousand years old.
• Yan Hongchen warned Jing Hongchen to beware of an attack, and Jing Hongchen moved toward the lotus while the others stayed back.
• Two streams of sword qi struck as Jing Hongchen reached for the lotus, but Red Dust Blessing and the Ring of Teleportation helped him escape serious injury.
• The Snow Empress descended from the sky and released a terrifying pressure that left Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Liu Yueming struggling to move.

Yan Hongchen negotiated with the Snow Empress after she captured him, offering the location of a Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave in exchange for his family’s safe passage out of the Extreme North. The Snow Empress showed interest, but had not yet accepted his terms.

• The Snow Empress arrived at the snow lotus pool, froze Jing Hongchen in place, and suppressed Yan Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Liu Yueming with her power.
• The Snow Empress seized Yan Hongchen and revealed that she wanted him because he resonated with the snow lotus.
• Yan Hongchen identified the Snow Empress and told her that she was injured and seeking a way to survive her next tribulation.
• Yan Hongchen offered to reveal the location of a cave containing ice marrow pillars, and the Snow Empress asked what he wanted in return.
• Yan Hongchen asked the Snow Empress to swear by the Ice God that she would help his family leave the Extreme North safely if she obtained the cave’s ice marrow.

Yan Hongchen negotiated with Snow Empress, who swore an Ice God Oath before taking him to investigate a Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave. Ice Empress stayed behind to guard Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Liu Yueming.

• Snow Empress lowered the pressure on Jing Hongchen and the others but kept Yan Hongchen in her grasp while considering his conditions.
• Snow Empress summoned Ice Empress and said she would take Yan Hongchen to a Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave while Ice Empress guarded the others and the snow lotus.
• Ice Empress asked whether they might find Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, and Snow Empress admitted that Yan Hongchen seemed to know something about the cave.
• Yan Hongchen demanded that Snow Empress swear the Ice God Oath before he revealed what he knew, and Snow Empress swore it.
• Snow Empress carried Yan Hongchen away, while Ice Empress enclosed Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Liu Yueming in a crystalline barrier and ordered them to stay put.

Yan Hongchen directed Snow Empress to the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave beneath the Earth Dragon Sect and waited in Dragon City while she investigated. Snow Empress collected the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, discovered a mutated Ice Extremity Divine Crystal, and continued searching the cave for more crystals.

• Yan Hongchen told Snow Empress where to find the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave and explained how to reach it.
• Snow Empress agreed to investigate while Yan Hongchen found a place in Dragon City to wait for her.
• Snow Empress entered the cold spring beneath the Earth Dragon Sect and found forty-five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in a hidden cavern.
• Snow Empress used ice-flower runes to collect the marrow in bracelets around her wrists.
• Snow Empress found a fist-sized mutated Ice Extremity Divine Crystal with a golden gleam and decided to take it along with the other crystals.