Chapter Summaries

After a strange bolt of Heavenly Thunder struck the Extreme North, Snow Empress found a dying infant who was an Innate Thunder Spirit and saved him. Ling Xiao awoke in her arms, called her mother, and Snow Empress adopted him, naming him Ling Xiao.

• A strange bolt of Heavenly Thunder pierced deep into the ice of the Extreme North, leaving behind an aura of annihilation.
• Snow Empress investigated the ice cave and discovered a dying infant whose aura revealed him to be an Innate Thunder Spirit.
• Snow Empress gave the infant Soul Power, restoring his breathing and warming his body.
• Ling Xiao regained consciousness and, seeing Snow Empress for the first time, mistook her for his mother and called her that.
• Snow Empress remembered the child she had previously adopted and accepted Ling Xiao as her own, naming him Ling Xiao.

The Snow Empress brought the newborn Ling Xiao to the Ice Crystal Palace and discovered a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus that could help her face her Heavenly Tribulation. Unsure how to raise a human baby in the Extreme North, she fed Ling Xiao her Soul Power and found that he could absorb an astonishing amount.

• The Snow Empress found a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus while carrying the sleeping Ling Xiao back across the ice plains.
• The Snow Empress sealed the snow lotus in a jade box after returning with Ling Xiao to the Ice Crystal Palace.
• The Snow Empress worried about how to care for Ling Xiao, especially how to feed him in the Extreme North.
• The Snow Empress decided to feed Ling Xiao Soul Power because he was an Innate Elf.
• Ling Xiao absorbed the Snow Empress's Soul Power without showing discomfort, and she stopped only after his complexion returned to normal.

Ling Xiao received the inheritance of an Innate Chaos Thunder Spirit and realized his power might let him break Heavenly Thunder shackles and change the fate of Soul Beasts if he was in the Douluo world. Snow Empress cared for him as he rapidly grew, and the chapter ended with Ling Xiao calling her pretty.

• Snow Empress covered the ice bed with cloth and held Ling Xiao close so he could sleep warmly.
• Ling Xiao received inheritance memories identifying him as an Innate Chaos Thunder Spirit who could command Heavenly Thunder and break its shackles.
• Ling Xiao wondered whether he had transmigrated into Douluo and whether his abilities could help Soul Beasts, then fell asleep as Snow Empress whispered to him.
• Snow Empress fed Ling Xiao Soul Power, and he grew quickly enough to crawl around the ice bed within days.
• Ling Xiao struggled to crawl and stand on the slippery bed, then smiled at Snow Empress and told her she was pretty.

Ling Xiao realized that his mother, Snow Emperor, was facing a dangerous seven-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation and considering transforming into a human. Ice Empress arrived to ask about the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, and Ling Xiao recognized both women as legendary figures from Douluo Continent.

• Ling Xiao noticed Snow Emperor was troubled and asked whether she was unhappy.
• Snow Emperor recalled that her failed attempt to condense a second soul core had damaged her source, leaving her unlikely to survive the coming tribulation without a heavenly treasure.
• Snow Emperor considered using the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus to transform into a human, but worried about what would happen to Ling Xiao.
• Ice Empress burst into the Ice Crystal Palace and was shocked to find Snow Emperor holding a baby.
• Snow Emperor introduced Ling Xiao to Ice Empress as her younger sister and told him to call her Auntie.
• Ling Xiao recognized Snow Emperor and Ice Empress from his previous life and realized he had transmigrated to Douluo Continent.

Ling Xiao adjusted to life in the Ice Crystal Palace as Snow Empress’s son and Ice Empress’s nephew, while learning that Snow Empress was preparing to face a Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation. The chapter ended with Snow Empress admitting she had no confidence of surviving it.

• Ling Xiao came to his senses, called Ice Empress “Little Aunt,” and learned that Snow Empress had named him Ling Xiao after finding him as an Innate Thunder Spirit.
• Snow Empress explained Ling Xiao’s origins, and Ice Empress realized his talent might surpass Snow Empress’s because he could potentially devour Heavenly Thunder.
• Ice Empress scolded Snow Empress for feeding Ling Xiao Soul Power while her own strength was diminished, but Snow Empress reassured Ling Xiao that his needs were not his fault.
• Ling Xiao called Snow Empress “Mom,” and Ice Empress marveled that he could understand their conversation and express his feelings.
• Ice Empress asked whether Snow Empress could survive the Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation, and Snow Empress calmly said she could not.

Snow Emperor told Ice Empress she planned to take human form and cultivate again, while Ling Xiao remembered the dangers awaiting her and swore to protect her and Ice Empress. Snow Emperor promised to wait for him to grow strong, and Ice Empress turned her thoughts to the vanished Sky Dream Iceworm and the stolen Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

• Snow Emperor told Ice Empress she might not survive her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation and planned to take human form to pursue godhood.
• Ling Xiao warned Snow Emperor that taking human form would put her in danger, but Ice Empress teased him and eased the tense mood.
• Ling Xiao recalled Snow Emperor’s future sealing and Ice Empress’s fate as Huo Yuhao’s martial soul, then vowed to prevent both outcomes.
• Ling Xiao told Snow Emperor he would grow strong enough to protect her and Ice Empress, and Snow Emperor said she would wait for him.
• Ice Empress remembered that Sky Dream Iceworm had eaten all the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow and disappeared, leaving her and Snow Emperor without its help against their tribulations.

Ling Xiao told Snow Emperor and Ice Empress that his inherited memories revealed forty-five pieces of Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow beneath Earth Dragon Sect’s cold spring. After they questioned him, he also described the powers of his Innate Chaos Thunder Spirit, leaving both Emperors stunned.

• Ice Empress complained that Sky Dream Iceworm’s disappearance had left them in a passive position.
• Ling Xiao recalled that Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow lay beneath the cold spring of Earth Dragon Sect in Dragon City.
• Ling Xiao told Snow Emperor he would take her to find the marrow, then explained that his mind had revealed its location.
• Ling Xiao told Ice Empress that there were forty-five pieces, prompting both Emperors to consider how they could overcome their tribulations and bottlenecks.
• Snow Emperor asked whether Ling Xiao’s mind had revealed anything else, and he described the Innate Chaos Thunder Spirit’s powers.

Snow Emperor and Ice Empress learned that Ling Xiao’s inherited memories might help break the Soul Beasts’ heavenly tribulation shackles, and he revealed where to find the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow. They decided to wait until he was older to lead them there, while Ice Empress began helping care for him and soon complained that feeding him was exhausting.

• Ice Empress and Snow Emperor believed Ling Xiao’s memories about breaking the heavenly tribulation shackles after comparing them with their inheritance.
• Ling Xiao told Ice Empress that the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow lay beneath a cold spring inside a sect in a human city.
• Snow Emperor persuaded Ice Empress to wait until Ling Xiao grew older so he could lead them to the Marrow.
• Snow Emperor cared for Ling Xiao as he grew, while Ice Empress began visiting frequently to keep an eye on him.
• Ice Empress asked Snow Emperor to teach her to feed Ling Xiao and learned how to transfer soul power carefully.
• After several days of feeding Ling Xiao, Ice Empress grew exhausted and told Snow Emperor that she should feed him instead.

Ling Xiao mastered his growing body and used his inherited memories to practice Communing with Heaven and Earth so he could summon Heavenly Thunder to sustain himself. As the exhausted Snow Empress and Ice Empress rested, he reached the Ninth Heavens and caused thunderclouds to gather over the Far North.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress continued feeding Ling Xiao as he rapidly grew to the size of a one- or two-year-old child.
• Ling Xiao repeatedly trained to control his body, and Snow Empress punished him for jumping from the ice bed until he eventually gained complete control.
• Ling Xiao studied his inherited memories of Communing with Heaven and Earth and began drawing faint arcs of lightning around himself.
• After feeding Ling Xiao left both Empresses exhausted, they rested while he concentrated on sensing Heaven and Earth.
• Ling Xiao's consciousness reached the Ninth Heavens, and his resonance gathered thunderclouds above the Extreme North.

Ling Xiao summoned a Heavenly Thunderbolt that pierced the Ice Crystal Palace’s hundred-meter-thick roof, then absorbed it unharmed. The Snow Empress confronted him for practicing in secret but forgave him after he apologized and promised to tell her beforehand.

• A Heavenly Thunderbolt struck Ling Xiao, who absorbed it and used its power to temper his body.
• The Snow Empress observed that this thunderbolt seemed weaker than the one that appeared when Ling Xiao was born, and she and the Ice Empress speculated his power would grow with him.
• The Snow Empress noticed the thunderbolt had blasted a huge hole through the Ice Crystal Palace’s roof and confronted Ling Xiao.
• Ling Xiao admitted he had practiced summoning thunderbolts in secret, apologized, and promised not to hide his actions again.
• The Snow Empress gently forgave Ling Xiao, while the Ice Empress remarked that she would have spanked him.

Ling Xiao’s cultivation surged to eighty thousand years after he repeatedly devoured Heavenly Thunder, forcing the Snow Empress to repair the Ice Crystal Palace and the rulers to take him outside to cultivate. As the thunderclouds cleared, Ling Xiao ran back toward the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, who had wondered whether he would still call them Mom and Little Aunt as his strength grew.

• The Snow Empress repaired the Ice Crystal Palace’s roof, which Ling Xiao had repeatedly broken by summoning Heavenly Thunder indoors.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress began taking Ling Xiao to remote ice plains to cultivate, where his Heavenly Thunder frightened nearby Soul Beasts.
• The Soul Beasts of the Extreme North learned that the Snow Empress had adopted another child, while the Ice Bear King, Xiaobai, looked toward the Ice Crystal Palace and called her Mom.
• Ling Xiao’s cultivation reached eighty thousand years in only a few days, leaving the Ice Empress worried that he might soon surpass her.
• The Snow Empress said she believed Ling Xiao would keep calling her Mom, and the Ice Empress insisted he would always have to call her Little Aunt.
• After Ling Xiao’s latest thunderstorm subsided, he ran toward the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, looking around four or five years old.

Ling Xiao proposed helping Soul Beasts survive their one-hundred-thousand-year tribulations so he could absorb the Heavenly Thunder, and Ice Empress offered members of her Ice Jade Scorpion Clan for his first attempt. The Ice and Snow Emperors brought him to the clan, where he faced a crowd of scorpions whose language he could not understand.

• Ling Xiao told Snow Empress and Ice Empress that his cultivation had reached eighty thousand years and promised to protect them.
• Ling Xiao explained that the Heavenly Thunder over the Far North was weakening because he had drawn it down too often.
• Ling Xiao proposed helping Soul Beasts pass their heavenly tribulations, allowing him to absorb their stronger Heavenly Thunder while helping them break through.
• Ice Empress revealed that several Ice Jade Scorpion clansmen were preparing to attempt their one-hundred-thousand-year tribulations, and Ling Xiao agreed to help them.
• The Ice and Snow Emperors brought Ling Xiao to the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan, where its jade-green members greeted them in a language Ling Xiao could not understand.

Ice Empress recruited Xiaoqing, Xiaocui, and Xiaolv to attempt the hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation with Ling Xiao’s help. Xiaoqing began the trial, and Ling Xiao’s intervention enraged the tribulation, leaving Ice Empress unable to rush in as the lightning intensified.

• Ice Empress asked her three strongest Ice Jade Scorpions to risk attempting the hundred-thousand-year tribulation with Ling Xiao’s help, and they agreed.
• Ice Empress chose Xiaoqing to go first and led Xiaoqing, Xiaocui, and Xiaolv to a desolate icefield with Snow Emperor and Ling Xiao.
• Xiaoqing raised its cultivation to one hundred thousand years, summoning a heavenly tribulation that began cracking its shell with successive lightning strikes.
• Ling Xiao leapt into a bolt of Heavenly Thunder and absorbed its destructive power, causing his cultivation to surge.
• The tribulation grew more violent and unleashed several bolts at once, while Snow Emperor restrained Ice Empress from rushing in and worsening the danger.

Ling Xiao devoured Heavenly Thunder to help Xiaoqing, Xiaocui, and Xiao Lu survive their hundred-thousand-year tribulations, transforming the Ice Jade Scorpions and strengthening the Far North. The Soul Beasts came to regard Ling Xiao as their young lord and hope for the future, while he ranked fifth in the Far North’s hierarchy.

• Ling Xiao swallowed the Heavenly Thunder striking Xiaoqing’s tribulation, rapidly raising his cultivation as Ice Empress and Snow Empress watched in astonishment.
• Xiaoqing survived her tribulation and reached one hundred thousand years of cultivation, and Ice Empress and Snow Empress praised Ling Xiao for helping her.
• Ling Xiao helped Xiaocui and Xiao Lu pass their hundred-thousand-year tribulations as well, bringing all three Ice Jade Scorpions safely to that rank.
• Soul Beasts across the Extreme North sought Ling Xiao’s help, and he chose to aid only those of upright character who belonged to the region.
• The Ice and Snow Emperors supported Ling Xiao as the Far North grew stronger and more united, and its Soul Beasts recognized him as their young lord and ranked him fifth.

Ling Xiao encountered a masked soul engineer in the Extreme North and suspected he was the Rank 9 soul engineer destined to capture Snow Emperor. After the man attacked him with soul cannon shells, Ling Xiao fought back, and the two remained locked in battle.

• Snow Emperor let Ling Xiao leave the Ice Crystal Palace to train, trusting that he was safe in the Extreme North.
• Ling Xiao sensed a masked human soul master in the ice fields and recognized his aura-concealing equipment as an advanced soul tool.
• Ling Xiao remembered the soul engineer who would seal Snow Emperor in the God-Sealing Platform and became determined to protect his mother.
• The soul engineer detected Ling Xiao's leaked aura, fired a Rank 6 soul cannon shell, and then mistook him for a young hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Ling Xiao dodged the first shell and countered the soul engineer's Rank 7 shell with a lightning spear, but the enemy locked more soul tools onto him.

Ling Xiao trapped a Grade Nine Soul Engineer in his Thunder Domain and broke through the man’s defenses despite a barrage of Soul Guidance Cannonballs. The engineer’s Grade Eight fixed-installation cannonball exploded, leaving the outcome of their confrontation unresolved.

• The Grade Nine Soul Engineer bombarded Ling Xiao with high-grade Soul Guidance Cannonballs, and Ling Xiao dodged while closing in to prevent him from escaping.
• Ling Xiao summoned Heavenly Thunder and formed a Thunder Domain around the Soul Engineer.
• The Soul Engineer secretly charged a Grade Eight fixed-installation Soul Guidance Cannonball and prepared to use a self-destruct weapon against Ling Xiao.
• Ling Xiao’s lightning overwhelmed the Soul Engineer’s shield, and the engineer fired the Grade Eight cannonball at him.
• Ling Xiao concentrated his Heavenly Thunder to pierce and detonate the cannonball, then retreated from the explosion’s blast wave.

Ling Xiao was badly injured when a dying ninth-rank soul engineer detonated a suicide fixed-installation soul cannon shell, but Heavenly Thunder began repairing him as he fought to stay alive. Sensing that Ling Xiao was in danger, Snow Emperor rushed from the Ice Crystal Palace toward him.

• The wounded soul engineer burned his life force, charged Ling Xiao, and attempted to self-destruct.
• Ling Xiao struck the soul engineer with his Thunder Spear, but a suicide fixed-installation soul cannon shell locked onto him and exploded nearby.
• The blast sent Ling Xiao crashing onto the ice with severe injuries, and he struggled to remain conscious.
• Heavenly Thunder gathered over Ling Xiao and gently healed his body as he lay helpless on the ice.
• Snow Emperor sensed Ling Xiao was in danger, unleashed her nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation, and hurried toward him.

Snow Emperor rushed to Ling Xiao after sensing his life fading and found him gravely injured but recovering from the Heavenly Thunder. She held him close as Ice Empress arrived, and the chapter left Ling Xiao unconscious but no longer in mortal danger.

• Snow Emperor set out for Ling Xiao, followed by Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, and Ice Bear King Xiaobai.
• Snow Emperor reached the devastated lightning domain after the Heavenly Thunder had stopped and found Ling Xiao unconscious on the ice.
• Snow Emperor examined Ling Xiao and discovered that the Heavenly Thunder and his self-healing ability were repairing his injuries and stabilizing him.
• Snow Emperor held Ling Xiao and reassured him that she was there.
• Ice Empress arrived and, despite Snow Emperor saying Ling Xiao was not in mortal danger, reacted with alarm at his bloodied, charred condition.

After the explosion left Ling Xiao gravely injured, Snow Emperor brought him back to the Ice Crystal Palace and prepared to use the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus to restore his damaged origin. Ice Empress found a mysterious metal object at the blasted icefield, while the Snow Emperor ordered the Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King to watch for trouble.

• Ice Empress discovered the devastation at the icefield, searched for the culprit, and returned with a mysterious metal object that Snow Emperor identified as human-made.
• The Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King arrived, and Snow Emperor ordered them to monitor the Extreme North and report anything unusual without acting alone.
• Snow Emperor carried the unconscious Ling Xiao to the Ice Crystal Palace while Ice Empress followed, worried about his severe injuries.
• Snow Emperor placed Ling Xiao on an ice bed and sent Ice Empress to fetch the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus so it could help restore his origin.

Snow Emperor cared for the comatose Ling Xiao and used a Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus to help him recover while he remained asleep for days. As events unfolded across Douluo Continent and the God Realm, Ling Xiao was revealed to have awakened in a dark chaos, unable to sense his body but still able to think.

• Snow Emperor cleaned Ling Xiao, tended to him, and used the Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus that Ice Empress retrieved to strengthen his breathing and improve his condition.
• Ice Empress visited Snow Emperor repeatedly as Ling Xiao's complexion improved, but he did not wake, while the Emperors' heavenly tribulations drew closer.
• Huo Yun'er died, and Huo Yuhao buried her before fleeing the White Tiger Duke's Estate for the Great Star Dou Forest, where Sky Dream Iceworm and Electrolux entered his life.
• God King Tang split Tang Wutong's soul, captured Huo Yun'er's departed soul, and manipulated events so Huo Yuhao joined the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy alongside Wang Dong.
• Ling Xiao was revealed to have awakened earlier in a dark chaos, where he could not sense his body or surroundings but could still think.