Chapter Summaries

Kong Ming'an reunited with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, bringing treats for the Ice Empress and preparing to help the Snow Empress with her Soul Rings. The Snow Empress embraced him while the Ice Empress watched awkwardly from the sidelines.

• The Ice Empress greeted Kong Ming'an, then grew upset when he immediately asked where the Snow Empress was.
• Kong Ming'an gave the Ice Empress a storage ring filled with her favorite snacks, and she forgave him before leading him to the Snow Empress.
• Kong Ming'an found the Snow Empress in an ice cave, where she reported that she had stabilized her Soul Rings without attempting to condense her sixth Soul Core.
• The Snow Empress embraced Kong Ming'an and told him to handle the remaining work, while the Ice Empress stood by feeling like a Soul Guide lamp.

Kong Ming'an and Snow Empress used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill as he helped her advance by creating a sixth Star Ring and beginning a resonance process fueled by thousands of Standard Soul Cores. Ice Empress watched uneasily as the next stage of their advancement began.

• Ice Empress agreed to stand guard, and Kong Ming'an told her to stay close and observe Snow Empress's advancement.
• Kong Ming'an and Snow Empress fused into a white-haired, blue-eyed youth, leaving Ice Empress unsettled by the fusion's allure.
• Kong Ming'an summoned thousands of Standard Soul Cores and used his five Star Rings to create an ice-blue Soul Core for Snow Empress.
• The Soul Core joined a prepared Star Ring, completing Snow Empress's sixth Star Ring and releasing a powerful pressure across the Extreme North Core Region.
• Kong Ming'an arranged the six Star Rings into a hexagon and began the Star Ring Resonance Method, using the Soul Cores as fuel to intensify the process.

Kong Ming'an used the resonance of Snow Empress’s six Star Rings to forge her original Soul Core into a Godhead, establishing the second cornerstone of his God-Ascension Stairway. The First Generation Asura God and God of Destruction assessed Kong Ming'an’s strength and speculated that his method could let him grow stronger while his life level remained that of a Limit Douluo.

• Kong Ming'an captured the first wisp of Divine Soul Power produced by the six Star Rings and infused it into Snow Empress’s original Soul Core.
• Kong Ming'an directed the continuing flow of Divine Soul Power into the Soul Core, transforming it into a Godhead.
• Kong Ming'an returned the Godhead to Snow Empress, linking her six Star Rings through it and creating a higher-level energy circulation.
• The First Generation Asura God and God of Destruction watched Kong Ming'an and judged his strength to be around that of a Level Three God despite his Limit Douluo life level.
• The First Generation Asura God predicted that more Star Rings and further transformations could raise Kong Ming'an’s strength to that of a Level One God without changing his life level.

The Asura God explained to the God of Destruction how Kong Ming'an could wield Deity-level power while still mortal. After Snow Empress completed her transformation into a Deity, she kissed Kong Ming'an and hinted that he could test her new strength later, while Ice Empress remained unaware of what had happened.

• The Asura God described the four stages of the hierarchy of life and explained that Kong Ming'an had gained a slight grasp of Deity-level power as a mortal.
• Kong Ming'an and Snow Empress ended their fusion, and Snow Empress sensed that her Godhead and Star Ring were continuing to transform her toward a Limit.
• Snow Empress kissed Kong Ming'an, then returned to her calm demeanor when Ice Empress arrived and asked whether anything had gone wrong.
• Ice Empress confirmed that both of them were unharmed and resolved to keep pursuing her own chance to condense a Godhead.
• Snow Empress covered Kong Ming'an's hand and told him to take his time testing her later, leaving Ice Empress wondering whether something had happened between them.

After Snow Empress’s breakthrough, Kong Ming’an confirmed she was stable but explained that ordinary energy could no longer meaningfully improve her God-level strength. He considered seeking powerful energy beyond the Douluo Plane, while Snow Empress drew very close to him.

• Ice Empress left the Ice Cave to reassure the Core Zone Soul Beasts and escape feeling like an unnecessary extra.
• Kong Ming’an examined Snow Empress and found no hidden dangers in her condition.
• Kong Ming’an used a Standard Soul Core to show Snow Empress that the Star Rings absorbed ordinary energy but yielded almost no improvement.
• Kong Ming’an explained that Snow Empress’s strength was comparable to a newly ascended Level Three God and warned her not to cultivate by drawing heavily on the Douluo Plane’s energy.
• Kong Ming’an considered pursuing energy from other planes or directly from the universe beyond them.
• Snow Empress moved close enough to interrupt Kong Ming’an’s thoughts as he looked at her.

The Snow Empress kissed Kong Ming'an and revealed that her mark could protect him and record the auras of those he met. Outside the sealed Ice Cave, the Ice Empress sensed what was happening inside and, overwhelmed by curiosity and conflicting feelings, drew closer to the wall.

• The Snow Empress told Kong Ming'an to continue their kiss, and he held her as they kissed for a long time.
• The Snow Empress explained that her mark on Kong Ming'an could protect him and record the auras of those he encountered.
• The Snow Empress said everything she had already belonged to Kong Ming'an, then raised an Ice Wall to seal the cave entrance.
• The Ice Empress returned to the Ice Cave and sensed the scene inside through the wall, then pulled away in shock and blushed.
• The Ice Empress pressed her hand to the wall again and, while listening, reached tremblingly toward the hem of her dress.

Kong Ming'an recovered with the Snow Empress in the ice cave and asked how they would handle the Ice Empress after she listened outside the Ice Wall. The Snow Empress proposed giving Bing'er time to process things, while suggesting they might draw her in by repeating their intimacy; Kong Ming'an resolved to strengthen his Body Cultivator.

• Kong Ming'an reflected that the Snow Empress had worn him out and decided to develop the Body Cultivator's Blood Essence Furnace.
• The Snow Empress nestled against Kong Ming'an, and he asked whether she had calmed down; she denied being angry and bit his shoulder.
• Kong Ming'an asked what they should do about the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress explained that Bing'er had chosen not to enter the ice cave.
• The Snow Empress suggested that they pretend not to know Bing'er had listened outside the Ice Wall so she could process the situation without fleeing or trying to silence Kong Ming'an.
• The Snow Empress suggested they could repeat their intimacy to make Bing'er unable to resist coming in, and Kong Ming'an again resolved to strengthen the Body Cultivator.

Snow Empress revealed her breakthrough and her bond with Kong Ming'an to the Extreme North’s Soul Beasts, then they reviewed plans to help Soul Beasts awaken their intelligence and adopt new cultivation systems. The chapter ended with Kong Ming'an and the Ice Butterfly handling the region’s affairs while Snow Empress and Ice Empress watched.

• Snow Empress emerged from the Ice Cave holding Kong Ming'an’s hand and summoned the Extreme North’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Snow Empress announced her successful breakthrough and introduced Kong Ming'an through their joined hands, prompting the Soul Beasts to recognize him as the Extreme North’s Empress’s partner.
• Ice Empress arrived, exchanged awkward glances with Kong Ming'an, and remained after the other Soul Beasts departed.
• The Ice Butterfly delivered documents to Kong Ming'an through Ling Shu, including reports on the Wisdom Opening project and Soul Beast cultivation systems.
• Kong Ming'an and the Ice Butterfly discussed the documents and handled affairs as Snow Empress and Ice Empress watched from an ice rock.

After leaving the Extreme North, Kong Ming'an returned to his laboratory in Mingdu and resumed his research, where he sensed an unexpectedly quick response from Plane Will. Meanwhile, an unidentified figure secretly entered the Kong Family Chamber of Commerce’s underground facility.

• Snow Empress questioned whether Ice Empress truly wanted to stay behind, and Ice Empress repeatedly denied regretting her choice while secretly glancing at Kong Ming'an.
• Kong Ming'an bid farewell to Snow Empress and Ice Empress, then used a Spatial Ripple to return to his laboratory in Mingdu.
• Kong Ming'an found Wang Dong'er cultivating in his laboratory and reviewed plans for advancing the Body Cultivator system, noting that he lacked suitable high-level research samples.
• Kong Ming'an turned to other research projects and processed Xiao Hongchen's forging samples until he sensed that Plane Will had acted unusually quickly.
• A tall, unidentified figure slipped into the Kong Family Chamber of Commerce's underground facility behind a female staff member as the Soul Elevator doors opened.

Qiu'er infiltrated the Kong Family Chamber of Commerce to search for a Child of Fortune, but after days of finding nothing, she followed a researcher to the Negative 124th Floor. There, the researcher vanished through a spatial ripple, and a terrifying killing intent engulfed Qiu'er.

• Qiu'er used a Silver Dragon Scale to conceal herself as she searched the Chamber of Commerce's underground floors for the Child of Fortune.
• After investigating nearly twenty floors without success, Qiu'er overheard researchers mention the Special Material Warehouse on the Negative 124th Floor.
• Qiu'er followed a researcher in the Soul Elevator down to the Negative 124th Floor.
• The researcher disappeared through a spatial ripple, leaving Qiu'er alone in the corridor.
• A terrifying killing intent tore through space and engulfed Qiu'er.

A powerful youth trapped Qiu'er in an absolute domain, disarmed her, and took her Golden Dragon Spear. He then removed the Silver Dragon Scale pendant she wore for protection and concealment, revealing that it—not Qiu'er herself—had been his target.

• Qiu'er's Golden Dragon Martial Soul and Golden Dragon Spear emerged as she resisted the youth's overwhelming killing intent, but his power immobilized her.
• Qiu'er recognized the youth as the fortune-bearing target she had been searching for and saw his five Soul Rings, including a dark red ring with gilded patterns.
• The youth seized the Golden Dragon Spear, severed its connection to Qiu'er with power from his Soul Ring, and sent it away through space.
• The youth examined Qiu'er and unbuttoned her collar, then drew the Silver Dragon Scale pendant from inside it.
• Qiu'er realized the youth had been after Mistress Sister's Dragon Scale.

Kong Ming'an captured Qiu'er, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and took her Golden Dragon Spear and Silver Dragon Scale after overcoming her concealment. He returned to the Laboratory with Qiu'er bound in a chain, where Wang Dong'er had just finished cultivating.

• Qiu'er resolved not to reveal anything about Mistress Sister after Kong Ming'an took her Silver Dragon Scale.
• Kong Ming'an explained how he detected Qiu'er and listed the value of capturing her, taking the Golden Dragon Spear, and obtaining the Silver Dragon Scale.
• Kong Ming'an thanked the immobilized Qiu'er, who glared at him and thought he had been provoking her all along.
• Wang Dong'er finished cultivating and discovered that her level had risen by a rank.
• Kong Ming'an arrived at the Laboratory and dragged the bound, disheveled Qiu'er through a Spatial Ripple in front of Wang Dong'er.

Wang Dong'er learned that Qiu'er was a disguised Soul Beast who had infiltrated the Merchant Guild, and Kong Ming'an used a Common Sense Contract to make her reveal the Silver Dragon King's plans. After discovering the Silver Dragon King would return within a month of the Academy reopening, Kong Ming'an decided there was time to prepare for her arrival.

• Wang Dong'er recognized the bound Qiu'er, and Kong Ming'an explained that she was a Soul Beast spy who had entered the Merchant Guild's Core Zone.
• Kong Ming'an forced Qiu'er to sign a Common Sense Contract that made her instinctively speak the truth when he questioned her.
• Qiu'er accidentally revealed that the Silver Dragon King had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and would come back within a month after the Academy reopened.
• Kong Ming'an reviewed information about Qiu'er and the Dragon King Miss, then calculated that nearly two months remained before her return.

Kong Ming'an used Qiu'er’s repeated transformations to refine his Human Transformation Method and gathered information for his plans to welcome the Dragon King Miss. He left Wang Dong'er in charge of keeping Qiu'er confined, and Qiu'er realized escape would be dangerous while Wang Dong'er refused to help.

• Kong Ming'an made Qiu'er repeatedly switch between beast and human forms, collecting data that could lower the transformation method’s cultivation threshold.
• Kong Ming'an studied Qiu'er’s Golden Dragon Martial Soul and prepared to begin arrangements for the Dragon King Miss.
• Kong Ming'an ordered Wang Dong'er to watch Qiu'er in the laboratory and offered her ten thousand contribution points per month.
• After Kong Ming'an left, Qiu'er tested the laboratory door and withdrew when a dark red sword phantom threatened to pierce her.
• Qiu'er asked Wang Dong'er to help her escape, but Wang Dong'er refused and reassured her that Kong Ming'an was still sort of human.

After returning to the academy, Gu Yue discovered that Qiu'er’s life aura had nearly faded and teleported to the Northern Sun Moon Empire. There she was struck by a God-level attack and confronted a youth bearing the Divine Examination of Destruction.

• Gu Yue returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy after gathering Spirit Bones and rare ores to trade through the Merchant Guild for Contribution Points and knowledge.
• Gu Yue sensed that Qiu'er had been absent from their dormitory for a long time and detected that her life aura was dangerously weak through the Dragon Scale.
• Gu Yue teleported to the sea in the Northern Sun Moon Empire, where an icy attack engulfed her.
• Gu Yue survived the strike and recognized that its power came from a God-level existence, though she could not risk fighting openly while her old wounds remained unhealed.
• A white-haired youth and the Snow Empress appeared, and Gu Yue identified the youth as the dominant partner in their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The youth revealed the Divine Examination of Destruction and addressed Gu Yue as the Silver Dragon King.

Kong Ming'an pressured Gu Yue into signing a contract by threatening to expose her to the God Realm, then revealed that the negotiator had been an Avatar while his real body hid with Snow Empress. In the Kong Family Chamber of Commerce's underground Laboratory, Qiu'er continued to endure daily tests after her Soul Rings were changed into ten-thousand-year Blood Essence Soul Rings.

• Kong Ming'an used the Divine Examination of Destruction and a countdown to force Gu Yue to consider signing a contract.
• Gu Yue signed the contract, which bound her and Kong Ming'an not to attack each other or their forces without permission.
• The contract's second stream of light entered Snow Empress, revealing that the Kong Ming'an before Gu Yue had been an Avatar and the real Kong Ming'an had hidden with Snow Empress.
• Kong Ming'an introduced himself to Gu Yue as her future partner, while Gu Yue angrily concluded that humans were rotten.
• Qiu'er recalled how Kong Ming'an had tested her daily during the second month in the Laboratory and modified her six Soul Rings into ten-thousand-year Blood Essence Soul Rings.
• Qiu'er resented Kong Ming'an for exhausting her during the tests and leaving her confined in the Laboratory, but admitted she could not defeat him.

Kong Ming'an proposed a cooperation agreement between the Merchant Guild and Gu Yue, the Silver Dragon King, and the Star Dou Great Forest. Gu Yue cautiously read his draft, which targeted the forest’s core members for research partnerships, while the two sides had yet to agree to its terms.

• Gu Yue arrived at the Laboratory with Wang Dong'er and found Qiu'er safe with Kong Ming'an, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress.
• Gu Yue recognized Ice Empress and questioned how Kong Ming'an had gained the support of powerful Soul Beasts from the Extreme North.
• Kong Ming'an asked Gu Yue to cooperate with the Star Dou Great Forest, and the Asura God Ring triggered her fear of the Asura God as he transformed it into the Asura Divine Sword.
• Kong Ming'an explained that he had not reported Gu Yue to the God Realm or used his Divine Seat to worsen her injuries, then argued for humans and Soul Beasts to coexist.
• Kong Ming'an gave Gu Yue a Cooperation Draft proposing strategic cooperation between the Merchant Guild and the Star Dou Great Forest, including research access to its high-level Soul Beasts.

Gu Yue weighed Kong Ming'an’s cooperation proposal, then returned to the Star Dou Great Forest after the Snow Empress and Ice Empress challenged her claim to the Soul Beasts’ loyalty. She left Qiu'er behind to watch Kong Ming'an, leaving Qiu'er alarmed and alone.

• Kong Ming'an explained that the God of Destruction had authorized him to handle Gu Yue as he saw fit, then gave her until the next semester to decide whether to cooperate.
• Gu Yue asked why the Snow Empress trusted Kong Ming'an, and the Ice Empress accused Gu Yue of abandoning the Extreme North when its rulers needed help.
• The Snow Empress told Gu Yue that everything she had already belonged to Kong Ming'an, then left with him and the Ice Empress.
• After the others departed, Gu Yue told Qiu'er to stay and keep an eye on Kong Ming'an while she returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Yue vanished using Silver Light, leaving Qiu'er behind as a worried hostage.

Kong Ming'an outlined his plans for the Soul Beast factions and the Sun Moon Empire, then discussed Ice Empress's progress toward a Godhead. Snow Empress asked him to examine her condition, leaving Ice Empress unsettled by their closeness.

• Kong Ming'an thanked Ice Empress for defending him, and she insisted she had only stated the facts.
• Kong Ming'an explained that the Extreme North was already allied with him, the Star Dou Great Forest might join, and he planned to target the Demonic Forest before turning to the sea.
• Kong Ming'an said the Sun Moon Empire would purge Evil Soul Masters before pursuing unification, as its technological advances strengthened its military.
• Ice Empress reported that she was preparing to condense her third Star Ring, and Kong Ming'an said he would soon help accelerate her Godhead's formation.
• Snow Empress said her Divine Soul Power transformation had stabilized and asked Kong Ming'an to examine her; he pressed his forehead to hers while Ice Empress repeatedly looked away and back.

The Ice Empress returned to find Snow Empress and Kong Ming'an behind an Extreme Ice barrier, secretly sensed what was happening inside, and fled in confusion. Several days later, Kong Ming'an reflected on how his new ability to interfere with others' energy had led to Snow Empress repeatedly losing consciousness.

• The Ice Empress left the room, and Snow Empress told Kong Ming'an that Bing'er would eventually lose patience and that he should bully her a little.
• Snow Empress sealed the room with Extreme Ice and continued their act with Kong Ming'an.
• The Ice Empress returned, sensed the barrier, and secretly extended her perception inside before fleeing to an empty room in a fluster.
• The Ice Empress hid under a blanket as the images and sounds she had sensed replayed in her mind.
• Several days later, Snow Empress described repeatedly losing consciousness while leaning against Kong Ming'an.
• Kong Ming'an explained that he had sealed the God-level Power in Snow Empress's body and wondered whether his ideas for developing abilities were flawed.