Chapter Summaries

Snow Empress returned Yan Hongchen to the Extreme North after obtaining the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, where he reunited with his family. Snow Empress then stopped them from leaving, offering to choose suitable soul beasts for Yan Hongchen and Yi Hongchen before they departed.

• Snow Empress returned to Yan Hongchen with the genuine gemstone ring and ice-flower bracelets, then carried him back toward the Extreme North.
• Ice Empress received Snow Empress's message about the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, released Jing Hongchen, Liu Yueming, and Yi Hongchen from the ice dome, and told them Yan Hongchen was safe.
• Liu Yueming, Yi Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen waited with Ice Empress until Snow Empress arrived carrying Yan Hongchen, and the family embraced him.
• Snow Empress told Jing Hongchen that she would choose soul beasts for Yan Hongchen and Yi Hongchen before letting them leave the Extreme North.
• Snow Empress used her starlight sapphire ring to produce a palm-sized crystal.

Snow Empress gave Yan Hongchen a hundred-thousand-year Golden-Pattern Ice Silkworm head spirit bone and guided him as he absorbed it. The spirit bone merged with him, and his consciousness entered a boundless void as he opened his sea of spirit.

• Snow Empress explained that the spirit bone came from a hundred-thousand-year Golden-Pattern Ice Silkworm and offered it to Yan Hongchen.
• Yan Hongchen accepted the gift despite the risk of gaining Mimicry and an unknown spirit bone skill.
• Snow Empress isolated the area with her Snow Dance Radiant Sun Domain and ordered Yan Hongchen to absorb the spirit bone.
• Yan Hongchen released the Phantom Water Spirit Toad and used his spiritual power to connect with the spirit bone.
• Snow Empress guided Yan Hongchen in drawing the spirit bone's spiritual energy into his mind and opening his sea of spirit.
• The spirit bone merged into Yan Hongchen, and his consciousness went blank as he seemed to float in a boundless void.

Yan Hongchen opened his Sea of Spirit, where the Phantom Water Spirit Toad absorbed the remaining energy from his soul bone and began communicating with him. The toad revealed inherited memories locked behind a seal, and Yan Hongchen returned to the real world still needing a soul ring to unlock them.

• Yan Hongchen watched the Phantom Water Spirit Toad devour the remaining golden light in his Sea of Spirit, which allowed it to communicate with him directly.
• The Phantom Water Spirit Toad confirmed that it had sent Yan Hongchen dreams and given him the map, then accepted their bond as its master.
• The Phantom Water Spirit Toad showed Yan Hongchen its inherited memories, but explained that a seal requiring special certification prevented him from reading them.
• Yan Hongchen concluded that he might need to obtain a soul ring and become an official soul master to unlock the memories, then withdrew from his Sea of Spirit.
• Yan Hongchen opened his eyes in the Extreme North with his spiritual level elevated, while Snow Empress, Jing Hongchen, and the others waited nearby.

After Yan Hongchen opened his spiritual sea, Snow Empress led him and his family across the ice plains to obtain soul rings through willing sacrifices. Yi Hongchen gained an eighty-five-thousand-year soul ring from a dying ice bear, while Yan Hongchen received a ten-thousand-year soul ring from a Gathering Source Crystal Crab and reached level twenty.

• Snow Empress took Yan Hongchen, Jing Hongchen, and Yi Hongchen to Ice Bear King Xiaobai, who showed them a dying ice bear willing to sacrifice its soul ring.
• Yi Hongchen accepted the ice bear's sacrifice, and its energy formed his eighth, approximately eighty-five-thousand-year soul ring.
• Yan Hongchen chose the Gathering Source Crystal Crab after the Phantom Water Spirit Toad sensed its compatibility and hidden treasures.
• Snow Empress commanded the Gathering Source Crystal Crab to sacrifice itself, and its energy flowed into Yan Hongchen, his martial soul, and his spiritual sea.
• Yan Hongchen gained a ten-thousand-year first soul ring and reached level twenty.

Yan Hongchen revealed that his new soul skill could gather power from heaven and earth and recover half the soul power spent on other abilities. Snow Empress offered to provide his future soul rings in exchange for his help healing Liu Yueming and herself, and the group set off to find a water-attributed healing soul beast.

• Yan Hongchen explained the two effects of his first soul skill, Source Gathering Reflux, to Snow Empress.
• Snow Empress offered Yan Hongchen his future soul rings and revealed that Liu Yueming had burned her spiritual power, leaving her Sea of Spirit self-sealed in ice.
• Liu Yueming said she did not regret her choice, and Snow Empress explained that Yan Hongchen might be able to heal her spirit.
• Snow Empress revealed that she also needed spiritual healing after stabilizing her soul core and promised to support Yan Hongchen if he helped her and Liu Yueming.
• Yan Hongchen agreed to seek a water-attributed healing soul beast for his second soul ring, and Snow Empress led the group toward the Frost Forest.

Snow Empress asked Rain Crane to find a healing Emeraldsong Rain Crane willing to sacrifice itself for a human, while promising to help Rain Crane survive its heavenly tribulation. Yan Hongchen examined Liu Yueming and Snow Empress through Spiritual Sharing, then left Snow Empress considering the future dangers and possibilities he had revealed as a cry sounded from the mist.

• Snow Empress visited Rain Crane, promised to help it survive its heavenly tribulation, and asked it to find a healing Emeraldsong Rain Crane between ten thousand and fifty thousand years old to sacrifice itself for a human.
• Rain Crane agreed to help Snow Empress and flew into the mist to find a suitable soul beast.
• Yan Hongchen examined Liu Yueming's sea of spirit and told Yi Hongchen and Jing Hongchen that her condition was not serious.
• Snow Empress explained the Emeraldsong Rain Crane's abilities and allowed Yan Hongchen to inspect her sea of spirit through Spiritual Sharing.
• Yan Hongchen sent Snow Empress information about future crises and possibilities, then faltered from exhaustion and received help from Phantom Water Spirit Toad.
• Snow Empress began weighing the information Yan Hongchen had given her as a clear cry rang from within the mist.

Yan Hongchen absorbed a twenty-three-thousand-year Emerald Song Rain Crane as his second soul ring, reached level twenty-five, and gained an external soul bone in the form of wings. After Snow Empress sent him and Jing Hongchen’s group away with a token and snow lotus seeds, she ordered Rain Crane to relocate his clan and undergo a ferocious beast tribulation.

• Rain Crane brought a twenty-three-thousand-year Emerald Song Rain Crane, and Yan Hongchen chose it as his second soul ring.
• During the sacrifice, Yan Hongchen gained an external soul bone shaped like azure-blue wings and advanced to level twenty-five.
• Snow Empress gave Yan Hongchen the Snow Empress Token and snow lotus seeds, then ordered him and Jing Hongchen’s group to leave.
• Jing Hongchen flew south with Yan Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and Liu Yueming in his flight-type soul tool.
• Snow Empress ordered Rain Crane to lead his clan to a hundred-thousand-year snow lotus pond and undergo a ferocious beast tribulation.

Yan Hongchen explored the Phantom Water Spirit Toad’s inheritance in the Sea of Spirit, searching for a way to heal spiritual injuries and learning that he needed to reach the Abyssal Sea realm. He was pulled from his study when someone outside called for him to wake up.

• Yan Hongchen entered the Sea of Spirit and saw the surviving soul forms of the Gathering Source Crystal Crab and Emeraldsong Rain Crane.
• Phantom Water Spirit Toad explained that its inheritance, Phantom Water Fleeting Life Record, contained spirit refinement, body tempering, and other techniques.
• Yan Hongchen found records about extracting spiritual memory water and a related mirage technique that could fuse water and spiritual attributes, but neither was a direct healing method.
• Yan Hongchen deduced that the five realms of Phantom Sea Condensing Truth corresponded to later spiritual power realms and resolved to reach Abyssal Sea.
• Yan Hongchen studied the Return-to-Origin Body Forging method and considered its heart- and kidney-based paths, but decided he lacked the resources to begin.
• Phantom Water Spirit Toad warned Yan Hongchen that someone outside was calling for him to wake up, and he withdrew from the inheritance.

Yan Hongchen and his family returned safely to Hongchen Duke's Estate after their journey to the Extreme North and reunited with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen. After sharing a meal at home, they prepared to discuss what had happened.

• Jing Hongchen landed with Liu Yueming, Yi Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen in the rear garden of Hongchen Duke's Estate.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen heard their family arrive and hurried to greet them.
• Meng Hongchen embraced Liu Yueming, while Yi Hongchen pulled Xiao Hongchen into a firm embrace.
• Jing Hongchen led the family to dinner and told them to eat before discussing their concerns.

Yan Hongchen revealed that Liu Yueming had frozen her damaged sea of spirit to survive after burning her spiritual power, leaving her unable to progress. He reassured his family that he could treat her condition, as he had agreed to help the Snow Empress with a similar one.

• Yan Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen that the family had encountered the Snow Empress in the extreme north and made a deal with her.
• Yan Hongchen linked Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen through Spiritual Sharing to show them the icy, fractured state of Liu Yueming's sea of spirit.
• Yan Hongchen explained that Liu Yueming's self-imposed Ice Seal had trapped a faint remnant of her spiritual power beneath the ice.
• Liu Yueming revealed that she had burned her spiritual power in battle, then used the soul bone skill Soul Freezing to freeze her sea of spirit and save her life.
• Yan Hongchen said the Snow Empress had a similar condition and promised Liu Yueming that he would treat her.

Yan Hongchen explained how Liu Yueming’s ice had preserved her burning spiritual power and outlined a treatment plan that avoided breaking it. The family agreed to help Liu Yueming build a second sea of spirit while Yan Hongchen raised his cultivation and researched a cure.

• Yan Hongchen explained that Liu Yueming’s ice suppressed the burning of her spiritual origin and preserved what remained, but breaking the ice could leave her demented.
• Yi Hongchen urged Yan Hongchen to hurry, revealing his fear that Liu Yueming might not survive.
• Yan Hongchen proposed that Liu Yueming gather more spiritual power above the ice as a second sea of spirit so their cultivation levels could draw closer before treatment.
• Liu Yueming accepted the plan and said she would use the soul beast feed Snow Empress gave her to nourish her spiritual power.
• Jing Hongchen promised Yan Hongchen whatever resources he needed, including medicinal herbs to replenish and gather spiritual power, and warned that the future might grow chaotic.

Yan Hongchen urged Jing Hongchen to keep Mingde Hall out of the court's power struggle and proposed that the children prepare for future Soul Fighting Tournaments. The family agreed on plans to strengthen their abilities, pursue the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and suitable soul beasts, and help Yi Hongchen become a Titled Douluo within three years.

• Yan Hongchen warned Jing Hongchen not to take sides between the Sun Moon Emperor and Xu Tianran, and proposed that he, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen join a future Soul Fighting Tournament team.
• Meng Hongchen revealed that she and Xiao Hongchen had developed a martial soul fusion skill, and Jing Hongchen agreed to devote resources to nurturing the three children.
• Yan Hongchen told Yi Hongchen that he had a trump card called Omniscient Vision and suggested that they spar with Yi Hongchen in a few days.
• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to find the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife so he could practice purifying its negative effects and investigate whether it could help Liu Yueming.
• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to gather information on Evil Eye Tyrants with spiritual and water attributes, and urged Yi Hongchen to absorb the Ice Bear right arm bone and reach Rank 89 within three years.
• Yi Hongchen agreed to become a Titled Douluo within three years to protect Liu Yueming and the children, and the family ended the evening and went to rest.

Yan Hongchen rested and told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen about the Extreme North, his new soul skills, and his plans for the family. After sharing his abilities, he proposed that the three siblings develop a new martial soul fusion skill, and they agreed to try.

• Yan Hongchen recuperated while Jing Hongchen sent teams to search for spiritual herbs, the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife, and the Evil Eye Tyrant.
• Yan Hongchen recounted the family's encounters in the Extreme North and explained how Snow Empress had made a deal with him after recognizing his abilities and his concern for Liu Yueming.
• Yan Hongchen revealed his two ten-thousand-year soul rings and described his support and healing skills, then urged Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to pursue their strengths in soul tools and soul mastery.
• Yan Hongchen demonstrated his head soul bone's Simulation and his combined Spiritual Sharing and Spiritual Detection, impressing Xiao Hongchen with the possibilities for soul tool design.
• Xiao Hongchen told Yan Hongchen that he and Meng Hongchen had developed the martial soul fusion skill Mortal Longing, and Yan Hongchen warned that it would not be enough to seriously challenge Jing Hongchen.
• Yan Hongchen proposed that the three siblings develop a new martial soul fusion skill, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen agreed.

Yan Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen went to test a three-person martial soul fusion, with Yue Hongchen guarding them after breaking through to Title Douluo. Yan Hongchen chose to begin by synchronizing soul power with Xiao Hongchen, but their powers kept repelling each other.

• Yan Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen invited Liu Yueming to join them at the training grounds, and she said Yue Hongchen could guard their attempt.
• Liu Yueming explained that Yue Hongchen had successfully condensed a soul core and needed only his ninth soul ring to complete his breakthrough.
• Yan Hongchen asked the Phantom Water Spirit Toad to assess the others and learned that Xiao Hongchen was the better fusion partner for now, while Meng Hongchen still had poison in her body and weakened origin essence.
• Liu Yueming brought Yue Hongchen to meet the three, and he agreed to guard their fusion attempt.
• Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen sat facing each other and tried to synchronize their soul power, but their opposing water and metal energies repeatedly bounced apart.

Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen achieved martial soul fusion, creating a powerful combined form and testing its strength against Yue Hongchen. After the fusion ended and exhausted them, Yan Hongchen named their new skill Phantom Water Golden Body.

• Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen repeatedly synchronized their soul powers until their martial souls resonated and Yan merged into Xiao.
• The fused Xiao Hongchen discovered he could use both brothers’ soul skills and formed a metal cannon barrel from metal and water.
• Xiao Hongchen charged the cannon and struck Yue Hongchen’s Copper Wall, Iron Bastion, denting the shield without breaking through.
• Yan separated from Xiao, and both brothers collapsed from exhaustion as Yue Hongchen and Liu Yueming praised and cared for them.
• Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen discussed names for their fusion skill, and Yan settled on Phantom Water Golden Body.

After Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen demonstrated their martial soul fusion skill, Yi Hongchen emerged from seclusion at Rank 84 and tested his strength against them and Yue Hongchen. The spar ended with the family reunited and their progress on display, while Jing Hongchen returned with matters to discuss.

• Meng Hongchen gave Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen milk bottles to help them recover after their fusion attempt, and Liu Yueming warned them that fusion skills consumed martial soul origin.
• Yi Hongchen emerged from seclusion after reaching Rank 84, reunited with Yue Hongchen, and heard how powerful Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen's fusion skill had been.
• Jing Hongchen returned, and Yi Hongchen sparred with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen as they unleashed Mortal Longing; he stopped their attack with his Ice Bear soul skill.
• Yan Hongchen used his external soul-bone wings to catch Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen after their fusion ended and carry them safely out of the arena.
• Yi Hongchen and Yue Hongchen fought hand to hand until Yue Hongchen called a halt, and Yi Hongchen stopped his punch just short of Yue Hongchen's armor.

Jing Hongchen assigned resources and plans to his family, then took Yan Hongchen to the Hongchen Family’s treasure vault so he could search for special cultivation resources. The chapter ended as Jing Hongchen opened the vault’s hidden entrance.

• Jing Hongchen told Yan Hongchen that the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife had last appeared at the Star Luo Auction House and gave Liu Yueming and the children spiritual cultivation pills and herbs.
• Jing Hongchen reported that an Evil-Eyed Tyrant with forty-five to fifty thousand years of cultivation lived in the Evil Forest, and Yan Hongchen decided to focus on body cultivation before pursuing a soul ring.
• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen for special cultivation resources without explaining their purpose, and Jing Hongchen agreed to take him to the treasure vault without asking questions.
• Jing Hongchen gave Yue Hongchen illustrated options for a ninth soul ring and planned to consult Ye Yulin about the hunt.
• Jing Hongchen arranged for Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen to enter the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy after the next Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Jing Hongchen led Yan Hongchen through a hidden passage and opened an inconspicuous iron door to the treasure vault.

Yan Hongchen searched the Treasure Pavilion for materials to support his cultivation and chose several treasures, including a Yin-Yang Wood Lotus and the Hongchen Family’s Golden Water heirloom. He left with the items and prepared to enter seclusion, while Jing Hongchen agreed to watch for Zhang Lexuan at the Soul Master Tournament.

• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to help him choose materials for the first stage of Return-to-Origin Body Forging.
• Yan Hongchen chose a ten-thousand-year Yin-Yang Wood Lotus to harmonize conflicting forces and asked Jing Hongchen to find more for Meng Hongchen.
• Yan Hongchen took Heartblood Jade to nourish his heart and a portion of gentler, thousand-year whale gelatin to strengthen his body.
• Yan Hongchen discovered the Hongchen Family’s rare Golden Water metal and asked Jing Hongchen to design a sealed spatial bottle for living creatures.
• Yan Hongchen finished choosing materials, said he would enter seclusion, and asked Jing Hongchen to watch for Zhang Lexuan during the Soul Master Tournament.
• Jing Hongchen gave Yan Hongchen the chosen treasures and other personal items, then escorted him to his room.

Yan Hongchen cultivated the Gentle Waves Realm, purifying and deepening his sea of spirit before learning to influence the real world with gentle spiritual waves. He combined the technique with Spiritual Sharing and Spiritual Detection, and after four months of cultivation, he had reached level twenty-seven.

• Yan Hongchen used the Spirit-Gathering Sea-Condensing Pill and gentle waves to purify and expand his sea of spirit.
• Yan Hongchen extended his spiritual power into the real world and moved a sheet of paper across a desk.
• Yan Hongchen combined gentle waves with Spiritual Sharing and established a comfortable connection with the Phantom Water Spirit Toad.
• Yan Hongchen used gentle waves with Spiritual Detection to sense his surroundings without sending out obvious spiritual waves.
• Yan Hongchen spent four months cultivating the Gentle Waves Realm and broke through to level twenty-seven.

Yan Hongchen cultivated the Thousand Illusions Realm, learning to transform spiritual power through imagination and combine it with his head soul bone’s Simulation skill. After six months, his soul power reached level twenty-nine, and he ended his seclusion with a Soul Ascension Pill still available to reach level thirty.

• Yan Hongchen practiced transforming spiritual power within his sea of consciousness, then learned from the Phantom Water Spirit Toad to forget form and let imagined shapes appear instinctively.
• He trained to create precise sensory illusions in the real world within a few meters of himself.
• Yan Hongchen combined Thousand Illusions with his Simulation skill, using spatial distortion as a skeleton and sensory detail as flesh to create convincing incarnations.
• After six months of cultivation, Yan Hongchen advanced his soul power from level twenty-seven to level twenty-nine and realized the Soul Ascension Pill could take him to level thirty.
• Yan Hongchen ended his seclusion because his spiritual and soul power had reached their current limits, while he still lacked the fire-attribute soul master needed to prepare his whale glue.