Chapter Summaries

Qi Dao proposed that the Snow Empress sacrifice herself to become his Seventh Soul Ring, promising to resurrect her and take her to the Divine Realm after he became a god. She accepted the risky deal and began her sacrifice, transferring her spiritual origin into Qi Dao as the Extreme North was swept by her power.

• Qi Dao told the Snow Empress that he wanted her to become his Seventh Soul Ring in exchange for a chance to become a god and be resurrected afterward.
• The Snow Empress questioned whether Qi Dao would keep his promise, but decided the gamble was better than facing her coming heavenly tribulation with few other options.
• The Snow Empress accepted the deal, and Qi Dao suggested she might retain her consciousness and spiritual origin after sacrificing herself.
• The Snow Empress began her sacrifice, sending a snow-white orb into Qi Dao and unleashing a wave of terrifying pressure and freezing weather.
• The Snow Empress told Qi Dao through his Sea of Consciousness that she would transfer her Soul Bone before her Soul Ring, and Qi Dao agreed as cold flooded his body.

Qi Dao fused with the Snow Empress's Left Arm Bone and Soul Ring, reaching Level 79 and causing the Peerless Sword to develop a Sword Spirit resembling the Snow Empress. He left the fusion with a powerful new companion who could fight independently and strengthen his sword techniques.

• The Snow Empress fused her 690,000-year Left Arm Bone with Qi Dao, painfully transforming his body.
• The Snow Empress transferred her Soul Ring to Qi Dao, and the Peerless Sword absorbed it as her body burned away.
• Qi Dao's level rose from 71 to 79, and he discovered that the Peerless Sword had gained a consciousness of its own.
• A young woman resembling the Snow Empress emerged from the Peerless Sword and introduced herself as Peerless, the Sword Master's Sword Spirit.
• Qi Dao learned that Peerless could use his Soul Skills without consuming his Soul Power and could double the power of his sword techniques.
• Qi Dao told Peerless to return to the sword, and she obeyed.

After absorbing the Snow Empress’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, Qi Dao revealed that he had reached level seventy-nine and decided to condense a Soul Core before returning. With the Snow Empress’s guidance, he began planning Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores from Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, though he still needed to obtain Ultimate Fire.

• Qi Dao explained Peerless’s abilities to Qian Daoliu and the Snow Empress, who marveled at his strength and good fortune.
• Qian Daoliu learned that absorbing the Snow Empress’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone had raised Qi Dao to level seventy-nine.
• Qi Dao told Qian Daoliu he intended to condense a Soul Core, and the Snow Empress offered to guide him using her knowledge of Soul Beast cores.
• The Snow Empress advised Qi Dao to solidify a small portion of his Soul Power first, and Qi Dao began the attempt.
• Qi Dao planned to form Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores from Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, then create an Ultimate Metal Soul Core as his third.
• Qi Dao concluded that consuming the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could evolve his fire attribute into Ultimate Fire.

Qi Dao formed an Ultimate Ice Soul Core with the Snow Empress's guidance, merged it into his lower dantian, and broke through to level eighty. Qian Daoliu decided to form a Soul Core after returning to Spirit Hall, where he would teach the others as well.

• Qi Dao compressed and purified his Soul Power under the Snow Empress's guidance until an Ultimate Ice Soul Core took shape, while Qian Daoliu protected himself from its pull.
• Qi Dao merged the Soul Core into his lower dantian, releasing a wave of bitterly cold air.
• While keeping watch, Qian Daoliu considered forming his own Soul Core so he could challenge Bo Saixi again.
• After a week of meditation, Qi Dao awoke and discovered he had reached level eighty, with greatly increased Soul Power capacity and endurance.
• Qi Dao offered to guard Qian Daoliu while he formed a Soul Core, but Qian Daoliu chose to wait until he returned to Spirit Hall and teach his old brothers there.

Qi Dao stayed in Dragon City to search for a hidden realm while Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit Hall to condense his soul core. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue strengthened her rule, and Ning Fengzhi chose to wait for her to reveal her identity rather than oppose her.

• Qi Dao left the Extreme North with Qian Daoliu, then stayed in Dragon City to search for a hidden realm containing ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow and ice extreme divine crystal.
• Qian Daoliu returned to Spirit Hall after Qi Dao explained the principles of single and dual soul cores.
• Qian Renxue reclaimed authority over the Heston Duchy, punished its former Grand Duke, and used the recovered taxes to launch reforms across the empire.
• Ning Fengzhi refused Yu Yuanzhen's proposal to depose Xue Qinghe and install Kundera as king.
• Ning Fengzhi reasoned that Spirit Hall was divided between Bibi Dong's faction and the faction represented by Xue Qinghe, and decided to wait for Xue Qinghe to confess.

Yu Yuanzhen brought Yu Xiaogang back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to help oppose Xue Qinghe, while the clan secretly sought allies among the Four Great Kingdoms. In Dragon City, Qi Dao discovered ice extreme divine crystal and confirmed that the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave was nearby.

• Yu Yuanzhen approached Ning Fengzhi for support against Xue Qinghe, but Ning Fengzhi refused, so Yu Yuanzhen summoned Yu Xiaogang back to the clan.
• Yu Xiaogang returned eagerly, blamed Spirit Hall for Tang Hao and Tang San's disappearance, and urged the clan to contact the Four Great Kingdoms, especially the Balak Kingdom.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan secretly contacted the kingdoms, while Xue Qinghe's informants detected their activity.
• After seven days of searching Dragon City, Qi Dao found a cold spring and dived through a vent into a hidden cavern.
• Qi Dao discovered deep blue ice extreme divine crystal in the cavern, and the Snow Empress realized that the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave must be nearby.

Qi Dao discovered a vast supply of Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and used his Ultimate Ice Soul Power to extract a chunk for the Peerless Sword. Peerless demonstrated that it understood the underlying nature of Soul Skills, leaving Qi Dao eager to learn how to refine his own abilities.

• Qi Dao realized the cave held enough Ice Extreme Divine Crystal to give the Peerless Sword a chance to become a Divine Artifact.
• Qi Dao softened the crystal with his Ultimate Ice Soul Power and pulled a large chunk free.
• Qi Dao released Peerless, who used Gold-Devouring Fang to swallow the crystal in an ethereal form.
• Qi Dao asked Peerless how it had altered the Soul Skill, and Peerless offered to teach him its basic principles.
• Qi Dao considered how understanding Soul Skills could let him improve their effects and help preserve their usefulness after becoming a God.

Qi Dao helped Peerless absorb the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals, then descended to the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave and began absorbing its Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. After taking in fifteen of its forty-five pillars, he offered the remaining marrow to the Snow Empress.

• Peerless said the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals strengthened her spirit body and intellect, and Qi Dao gave her all the crystals left in the first cavern.
• The spring water flooded the emptied cavern, and Qi Dao swam down to the source of the cold spring.
• Qi Dao reached the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave and found forty-five pillars of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• The Snow Empress regretted not finding the marrow before her sacrifice, but Qi Dao said becoming a God with him was a better path.
• Qi Dao absorbed fifteen pillars of marrow before reaching his limit, then offered the Snow Empress some of what remained.

Qi Dao and the Snow Empress recovered Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and she regained some of her fighting strength. They returned to Heaven Dou City, where Qi Dao learned that Qian Renxue's identity as Emperor Qinghe had been exposed.

• The Snow Empress absorbed twenty pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and restored her Spiritual Origin, forming an energy body with some fighting strength.
• Qi Dao planned to enlist the Snow Empress and Qian Daoliu when he sought Xiong Jun as his Eighth Soul Ring target and negotiated with the Ferocious Beasts.
• The Snow Empress sealed the remaining ten pieces of marrow into a ring for Qi Dao to absorb later.
• Qi Dao and the Snow Empress left the emptied Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave and returned to Heaven Dou City, where the Snow Empress chose to remain outside his Sea of Consciousness.
• Qi Dao heard people say Emperor Qinghe was an impostor who had been switched in years earlier, but the common people still supported him for his policies.

Qi Dao reunited with Qian Renxue at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, introduced her to the Snow Empress and Peerless, and asked about the exposure of her identity. Qian Renxue suspected political rivals had exploited palace spies, while Qi Dao remained uneasy about who had revealed her secret; she believed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's leader was waiting to confront her openly.

• Qi Dao introduced the Snow Empress to Qian Renxue and explained how she had become his Seventh Soul Ring.
• Qi Dao summoned Peerless, and Qian Renxue and the Snow Empress noticed the Sword Spirit's resemblance to the Snow Empress.
• Qi Dao asked Qian Renxue how her identity had been exposed, and she said her trusted aides and Spirit Hall elders had no apparent reason to betray her.
• Qi Dao considered whether Bibi Dong was responsible but dismissed the possibility, while Qian Renxue suggested palace spies or rival kingdoms had uncovered and publicized the truth.
• Qian Renxue said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was backing the Balak Kingdom's king, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect remained ambiguous and its leader seemed to be waiting to confront her.

Qian Renxue brought Qi Dao and the Snow Empress to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to meet Ning Fengzhi and secure his support. After Qian Renxue raised the question of the rumors against her, Qi Dao challenged Sword Douluo to a spar, and Sword Douluo accepted.

• Qian Renxue agreed to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Qi Dao the next day, since Qian Daoliu was away.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo welcomed Qian Renxue, Qi Dao, and the Snow Empress at the sect gates, where Sword Douluo sensed that the Snow Empress was stronger than he was.
• Qian Renxue introduced the Snow Empress, then spoke with Ning Fengzhi while Qi Dao discussed swordsmanship with Sword Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Qian Renxue that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Four Great Kingdoms might move against her and asked for a sign of sincerity before committing the sect.
• Qian Renxue revealed that Qi Dao wanted to test his strength after absorbing his Seventh Soul Ring, and Qi Dao challenged Sword Douluo to a spar.
• Sword Douluo drew the Seven Kill Sword and accepted Qi Dao's challenge.

Qi Dao sparred with Sword Douluo at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, revealing strength that could challenge a Titled Douluo. After Qi Dao’s Peerless Sword Domain suppressed Sword Douluo, three strikes forced him to unleash his Seven Kill Avatar.

• Ning Fengzhi suggested Qi Dao and Sword Douluo spar on the mountain behind the sect, and they agreed.
• Qi Dao entered the Heart Sword State and drove Sword Douluo back several steps with his first strike.
• Sword Douluo countered with seventy percent of his strength and knocked Qi Dao backward, but Qi Dao quickly recovered.
• Qi Dao activated the Peerless Sword Domain, weakening Sword Douluo by seventy percent and boosting his own strength.
• Qi Dao’s empowered attack shattered Sword Douluo’s Spirit Sword Guardian and sent him flying hundreds of meters.
• Sword Douluo emerged from the dust and activated his Seven Kill Avatar after only three strikes.

Qi Dao fought Sword Douluo on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s rear mountain, overwhelming him with his domains and powerful sword skills. Their strongest attacks collided, and Qi Dao emerged victorious while Sword Douluo was badly wounded.

• Sword Douluo unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and challenged Qi Dao to give the fight everything he had.
• Qi Dao revealed his Orange-Gold Soul Ring, activated his Peerless Avatar and Emperor's Cold Heaven, and suppressed Sword Douluo with his domains.
• Sword Douluo attacked with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect, but Qi Dao’s Dark Demon Evil God Slash tore through the Sword Qi and nearly shattered Sword Douluo’s avatar.
• Sword Douluo used God-Demon Dual Slash against Qi Dao’s Nine Heavens Thunderfall, and the collision shook the mountain.
• After the shock waves faded, Sword Douluo stood injured and leaning on his sword while Qi Dao remained calm, confirming Qi Dao’s victory.

Qi Dao defeated Sword Douluo and revealed Spirit Hall’s overwhelming strength to Ning Fengzhi, who learned that Qian Renxue was the previous Pope’s daughter. Qian Renxue explained Spirit Hall’s plan to unite the continent under the Heaven Dou Empire and demanded that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect submit.

• Qi Dao apologized to Sword Douluo after defeating him, and Sword Douluo admitted that Qi Dao was a monster.
• Qi Dao told Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo that Spirit Hall had more than twenty Titled Douluo, including several Peak Douluo.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, her two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and that the previous Pope was her father.
• Qian Renxue outlined Spirit Hall’s plan for the Heaven Dou Empire to unite the continent while Spirit Hall stood above it.
• Qian Renxue told Ning Fengzhi that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had to join Spirit Hall or face destruction.

Ning Fengzhi agreed to have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect submit to Spirit Hall after Qian Renxue offered favorable terms and Qi Dao promised to help Ning Rongrong pursue godhood. Before Qi Dao and Qian Renxue left, Ning Fengzhi warned that Bibi Dong might have betrayed Qian Renxue, leaving her shaken.

• Qian Renxue demanded that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect become Spirit Hall's vassal, and Ning Fengzhi eventually accepted after negotiating positions for himself, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo.
• Qi Dao told Ning Fengzhi that Ning Rongrong had the potential to become a god and that Spirit Hall could help her, renewing Ning Fengzhi's excitement about joining.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Ning Rongrong's soul power had passed level forty after she took the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and that she was training in the sect's mimicry cultivation environment.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Qian Renxue to beware of Bibi Dong, reasoning that she might see Qian Renxue's growing influence as a threat and have reason to betray her.
• Qian Renxue rejected the possibility at first, but she returned to the Imperial Palace pale and shaken, while Qi Dao realized Bibi Dong had indeed betrayed her.

Qian Renxue suspected Bibi Dong had betrayed her, then strengthened her hold over the Heaven Dou army by improving its supplies and paying soldiers. Yu Xiaogang advised the Four Great Kingdoms to seize military pay and raise taxes and conscripts, but his plan backfired and left their forces in disarray.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed Qi Dao's claim that Ning Rongrong could become a god, while Qian Renxue asked Qi Dao whether Bibi Dong had betrayed her.
• Qi Dao told Qian Renxue that Bibi Dong was the likeliest culprit, and Qian Renxue resolved to withstand the threat to her throne.
• Qian Renxue improved army supplies, appointed trusted officers, paid soldiers their wages, and established an office to oversee future payments.
• Yu Xiaogang advised the king of Balak to seize Xue Qinghe's soldiers' pay, spread word that he was an impostor, raise taxes, and recruit more troops.
• Qian Renxue's escort protected the soldiers' pay, while the Four Great Kingdoms' excessive taxation and forced conscription stirred resentment and disrupted their own ranks.
• Qian Renxue laughed when she learned that Yu Xiaogang's advice had thrown the Four Great Kingdoms into chaos.

Qian Daoliu condensed his first soul core, promising to teach the other enshrined elders how to do the same. While Qi Dao planned for Dugu Yan to consume the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, unrest between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Four Great Kingdoms escalated into a march on Jialing Pass.

• Qian Daoliu emerged from the Elder Hall after condensing a soul core, causing Spirit City’s residents and many Spirit Hall elders to mistake the phenomenon for a step toward godhood.
• Qian Daoliu told the six enshrined elders that he would teach them to condense soul cores, and he encouraged Golden Crocodile Douluo to pursue a breakthrough to Peerless Douluo.
• Qi Dao spent more time with Dugu Yan and planned to wait until she absorbed her seventh soul ring before giving her the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, which had already recognized her.
• Dugu Bo pursued a breakthrough to level 97 after absorbing Tang Hao’s seventy-thousand-year Torso Soul Bone, while Ye Lingling reached level 50 and Qi Dao’s other friends trained at Heaven Dou Academy.
• The four kings assembled a joint army of 1.2 million, claimed it numbered three million, and marched toward Jialing Pass.

Qian Renxue and her allies planned to defend Jialing Pass and disrupt the Four Kingdoms Alliance’s supply lines. Qi Dao volunteered to target the Balak Kingdom’s route, while the coalition leaders revealed that powerful Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan members were guarding their provisions.

• Ge Long advised Qian Renxue to hold Jialing Pass and wait for unrest to weaken the Four Kingdoms Alliance.
• Qi Dao proposed cutting off the coalition’s food supplies and spreading word of its inevitable defeat to provoke chaos.
• Qian Renxue assigned Qi Dao to the Balak Kingdom’s supply route, Sword Douluo to the Silves route, and reserved the other routes for the Angel Legion.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Xiaogang that Soul Douluos and Soul Saints from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan guarded every supply route.
• Yu Xiaogang felt reassured that the coalition’s provisions were protected by powerful escorts, including Yu Luomian.

Qi Dao ambushed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's grain convoy, killed Yu Luomian, and wiped out the clan elites guarding it. He stored the provisions in a mountain storehouse and returned to Jialing Pass, where news that all four supply routes had been seized reached the allied army and shattered Yu Yuanzhen and the four kings.

• Qi Dao appeared at the convoy and beheaded Yu Luomian with a single sword strike.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's five Soul Saints and other elites attacked Qi Dao, but he killed them all in three sword strokes.
• The surviving soldiers fled, and Qi Dao stored the convoy's provisions in a mountain storehouse instead of destroying them.
• Qi Dao returned to Jialing Pass, and the allied army learned that provisions from all four supply routes had been seized.

After losing most of his clan’s elite fighters, Yu Yuanzhen resolved to avenge his family and kill Qi Dao, absorbing two soul bones to try to grow stronger. He answered Qian Renxue’s challenge at Jialing Pass, where Qi Dao stepped forward to fight him while Sword Douluo watched.

• Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, and Liu Erlong begged Yu Yuanzhen to avenge their dead relatives, and he promised to act in three days.
• Yu Yuanzhen absorbed two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, hoping to break through from level 95 to level 96.
• At Jialing Pass, Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi agreed to lure Yu Yuanzhen into a fight so Qi Dao and Sword Douluo could kill him.
• When Yu Yuanzhen finally challenged Qi Dao and Chen Xin, Qi Dao won rock-paper-scissors with Sword Douluo and accepted the fight.
• Yu Yuanzhen dismissed Qi Dao as a weak opponent and prepared to attack him.