Chapter Summaries

Snow Empress agreed to consider sacrificing herself to give Qian Renxue a powerful soul ring, explaining that she was unlikely to survive her next tribulation. Dugu Lin proposed that Ice Empress sacrifice herself to his second martial soul as well, but the chapter ended with Snow Empress examining his extraordinary soul bones.

• Snow Empress led the group to her residence and asked Qian Renxue about her ability to absorb a soul ring beyond six hundred thousand years.
• Snow Empress explained that she lacked confidence in surviving her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation and chose to gamble on helping Qian Renxue become a god.
• Dugu Lin proposed swearing oaths and asked Ice Empress to become his fourth soul ring, promising she could live on and eventually escape the threat of tribulations.
• Ice Empress suggested sacrificing herself to Qian Renxue alongside Snow Empress, while Ah Yin and Dugu Lin warned that Tang San was Shura God's chosen inheritor.
• Snow Empress noticed Dugu Lin's soul bones, and he revealed his Ice-Fire Wings as god-level soul bones; Snow Empress probed their power and recognized their extraordinary nature.

Snow Empress agreed to sacrifice herself to Qian Renxue after everyone swore oaths, while Ice Empress prepared to sacrifice herself to Dugu Lin. As Ice Empress's sacrifice began, Dugu Lin swallowed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core and tried to help his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul condense a Soul Core.

• Snow Empress judged Dugu Lin's talent and chances of becoming a god exceptional, and agreed with Ice Empress to proceed after everyone swore oaths protecting their interests.
• Three days later, Snow Empress entrusted the Far North to Ah Tai and sacrificed herself to Qian Renxue in exchange for a torso soul bone.
• Qian Renxue gained a six-hundred-thousand-year soul ring, reached Soul Power Level eighty-eight, and learned that Snow Empress remained with her as a soul.
• Ice Empress began her sacrifice to Dugu Lin, who swallowed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core and focused on helping his Jade Phosphorous Serpent condense a Soul Core.
• Dugu Lin asked Ice Empress for her right leg bone and said he would remove his other three soul bones when he had the chance.

Dugu Lin condensed a Soul Core for Little Lin using the Ice Empress’s sacrifice, while Dugu Bo revealed his own method for condensing one and planned to use it to reach Rank 98. Little Lin completed the absorption of his fourth Soul Ring and right leg bone, but his transformation triggered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast lightning tribulation.

• Dugu Bo asked Snow Empress about a nearby Hundred-Thousand-Year Frost Dragon, and Snow Empress agreed that Dugu Lin could hunt it because it preyed on other Soul Beasts.
• Dugu Lin struggled to compress Little Lin’s Soul Power as Qian Daoliu used his Six-Winged Angel’s holy light to ease Little Lin’s pain.
• Dugu Bo showed Qian Daoliu and the others the inner core he had condensed and said he was seventy percent confident he could use it to form a Soul Core and break through to Rank 98.
• Qian Daoliu offered to guard Dugu Bo during the process, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and the worship elders grew hopeful about advancing through Soul Core cultivation.
• Thunderclouds gathered over the Far North, and Snow Empress realized Little Lin’s Martial Soul had triggered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast lightning tribulation.
• Dugu Lin sensed the tribulation and told Ice Empress that Little Lin had successfully condensed his Soul Core and absorbed the Album Martial Soul’s fourth Soul Ring and right leg bone.

After Ice Empress returned in a physical body, Little Lin completed his hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation by enduring the strikes and using them to temper himself. Dugu Lin then learned of a Frost Dragon that could become his eighth soul ring and got Snow Empress’s permission to hunt it.

• Dugu Lin told Dugu Bo that Little Lin had to face the lightning tribulation himself, while Ah Yin healed him and gave him life force.
• Little Lin revealed that he could speak and disliked his name, while Ice Empress emerged from Dugu Lin’s Martial Soul in a physical body.
• Little Lin flew into the lightning tribulation, endured its strikes, and used the lightning to temper his body before Ah Yin healed him.
• Dugu Bo told Dugu Lin about a hundred-thousand-year Frost Dragon nearby that could be his eighth soul ring.
• Snow Empress warned that the Frost Dragon could hide in ice crystals but permitted Dugu Lin to hunt it, and Dugu Lin said poison Soul Masters could stop it escaping.

Dugu Lin lured the cautious Frost Dragon into an ambush and attacked it with Little Lin, Ah Yin, and the Titan Giant Ape. As the Frost Dragon’s poison took hold and the Ice Empress appeared, Dugu Bo and the others arrived to ensure it could not escape.

• Dugu Lin disguised himself as an eighty-level Soul Master and wandered the Frost Dragon’s territory for three days until it came out to attack him.
• Dugu Lin let the Frost Dragon freeze him, then Little Lin ambushed it with poison amplified by Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss.
• Ah Yin trapped the Frost Dragon and Little Lin in a Blue Silver Emperor cage while Dugu Lin attacked with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Little Lin used its sixth soul skills, and the Frost Dragon discovered that the poison had penetrated its organs.
• Dugu Lin revealed the Ice Empress and summoned the Titan Giant Ape, which caught the Clear Sky Hammer and struck at the Frost Dragon.
• Dugu Bo and the others arrived to prevent the Frost Dragon from escaping, while Qian Renxue eagerly prepared to join the fight.

Dugu Lin and his allies defeated the Frost Dragon, and Qian Renxue found that it had dropped a 100,000-year trunk soul bone. Dugu Lin began absorbing its soul ring while the others marveled at the rare soul bones his family had collected.

• Qian Renxue, Ah Yin, Dugu Lin, and Little Lin overwhelmed the Frost Dragon, while Ice Empress explained why she had joined the humans.
• Little Lin killed the Frost Dragon, and Qian Renxue searched its remains and discovered a 100,000-year trunk soul bone.
• Dugu Lin explained that guaranteed soul-bone drops went to body parts the recipient did not already possess, prompting Qian Daoliu and the elders to discuss the family's collection.
• Dugu Lin listed the rare soul bones held by Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and Feng Xiaotian, making the Spirit Hall elders envious.
• Dugu Lin began absorbing the Frost Dragon's soul ring with Little Lin as Qian Renxue's admiration for him deepened.

After returning from the Far North, Dugu Lin experimented with a copy of Ice Empress’s body to see whether he could fuse ultimate fire into her Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor form. The experiment ended with Ice Empress furious at him for undressing her double, while the group prepared to seize control of Heaven Dou.

• Dugu Lin told Qian Renxue that his Soul Power had reached rank eighty-five after absorbing the Frost Dragon’s soul ring and soul bone and Ice Empress’s sacrifice.
• Qian Renxue, Dugu Lin, and their companions headed back, and Qian Renxue said they would soon seize Heaven Dou’s government and hold her wedding to Dugu Yan.
• At Dugu Manor, Dugu Lin entered seclusion and explained that he wanted to fuse ultimate fire into Ice Empress’s Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor form.
• Dugu Lin used Ice Empress’s preserved blood and his third soul skill to create a mindless copy of her, but Ice Empress could not transfer her soul into it.
• Ice Empress kicked Dugu Lin through a wall after finding him removing the copy’s clothes, and he insisted that he had only been studying Soul Power attributes.
• Dugu Yan warned Feng Xiaotian that she would poison him if he ever betrayed her, and he promised that he would not.

Dugu Bo killed Xue Beng, and the prince’s death pushed the ailing Xue Ye closer to death while leaving him suspicious of Xue Qinghe. Spirit Hall postponed its Soul Hunting Plan until after Xue Qinghe took the throne, but the wedding ended with Dugu Yan discovering Dugu Lin in Qian Renxue’s bed.

• Dugu Bo killed Xue Beng, and Prince Xue Xing concealed the news from Xue Ye until a palace attendant revealed it, worsening the emperor’s condition.
• Xue Ye questioned whether Xue Qinghe had ordered Xue Beng’s death but could not reconcile the killing with Qinghe’s secure claim to the throne.
• Bibi Dong urged the Worship Hall to begin the Soul Hunting Plan, but Qian Daoliu insisted they wait until after Xue Qinghe inherited the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Daoliu asked Bibi Dong’s opinion about bringing a talented young man together with Qian Renxue, while Bibi Dong remained focused on the plan.
• After Dugu Yan and Qian Renxue’s wedding, Feng Xiaotian’s Second Granduncle saw Dugu Yan leaving Feng Xiaotian’s room and misread the scene.
• Dugu Yan returned to the Crown Prince’s Residence and found Dugu Lin in bed with Qian Renxue, who had drunkenly pulled him into bed after removing her disguise.

After spending the night with Qian Renxue, Dugu Lin took the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the Heaven Dou treasury and planned a journey to Sea God Island. Meanwhile, Ma Hongjun’s boastful challenge in Heaven Dou City ended with Flender pulling him away, leaving Qin Ming to wonder if leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy had been a mistake.

• Dugu Yan teased Qian Renxue about her marriage to Dugu Lin and asked whether the others had sensed what happened between them.
• Dugu Lin took the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from the treasury and told Qian Renxue he planned to bring the others to Sea God Island for the Sea God’s trials.
• Qian Renxue and Dugu Yan planned to pay their respects to Xue Ye while Qian Renxue arranged personnel for her takeover.
• Dugu Lin saw Ma Hongjun thrown out of a brothel but ignored him, recalling the Shrek Academy group’s downfall after Tang San was exposed as an evil soul master.
• Ma Hongjun challenged a man who insulted him, but fell silent when the man revealed five soul rings, and Flender pulled him away.
• Ma Hongjun asked Flender why he had not helped him, while Qin Ming wondered whether leaving Heaven Dou Royal Academy had been a mistake.

As Qian Renxue prepared to secure the throne and Spirit Hall planned to attack the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Dugu Bo warned Golden Crocodile Douluo about the sect’s weapons and Sword Douluo. Xue Ye’s death then forced Dugu Bo to hurry to the palace to help Qian Renxue stabilize the situation.

• Qian Renxue assigned Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters to maintain order in Heaven Dou City and planned to use their forces against the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo, Yue Guan, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan visited Dugu Bo, who warned them about the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and Sword Douluo’s potential breakthrough.
• Dugu Lin offered to join the attack on the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and invited Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan to Sea God Island for trials.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed to let the Golden Generation accompany Dugu Lin to Sea God Island, provided they concealed their Spirit Hall identities.
• Porcupinefish Douluo reported that Xue Ye had died after confronting Qian Renxue, who admitted to killing the three princes.
• Dugu Bo left for the palace to help Qian Renxue stabilize Heaven Dou City.

After Qian Renxue ascended the throne, she planned to bring the Heaven Dou Empire’s kingdoms and duchies under direct imperial rule and arranged to eliminate Prince Xue Xing. Dugu Lin and Hu Liena killed Xue Xing, then saw the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect burning as the Spirit Hunt Operation began.

• Qian Renxue ascended the throne, and Dugu Yan became Empress.
• Qian Renxue ordered Marshal Ge Long to unify the empire by absorbing or defeating its kingdoms and duchies, with help from three great clans and Ye Renxin.
• After learning Prince Xue Xing had contacted the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Qian Renxue arranged to lure him there and deal with him during the Spirit Hunt Operation.
• Half a month later, Dugu Lin and Hu Liena entered Xue Xing’s room and Dugu Lin killed him before Hu Liena could question him further.
• Dugu Lin and Hu Liena fled toward the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where flames were already rising as guards discovered Xue Xing’s body.

Spirit Hall’s assault devastated the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo fought overwhelming odds. After Sword Douluo lost his right arm and broke through to Rank 97, Dugu Lin sent Ice Empress and Ah Yin into battle while keeping himself hidden.

• Xie Yue and Yan led Spirit Hall’s forces through the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after the Godly Zhuge Crossbow bolts ran out, while Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo fought the enemy’s Titled Douluos.
• Yan pursued Oscar and the young disciples, and Ghost Douluo attacked Ning Fengzhi before two Soul Douluos intervened.
• Sword Douluo condensed his swordsmanship into a powerful attack against Golden Crocodile Douluo, but Golden Crocodile Douluo overwhelmed him and severed his right arm.
• Sword Douluo broke through to Rank 97 under the pressure of the fight, surprising Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Dugu Lin summoned Ice Empress and Ah Yin, then left them to join the battle while he remained concealed.

Ah Yin and the Ice Empress joined Dugu Lin’s side, devastating the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo fought desperately. Sword Douluo died in a self-destruction that failed to kill the Ice Empress, while Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong remained missing after the battle exposed an escape tunnel.

• Ah Yin unleashed Tree World Descent, spreading Blue Silver Emperor vines across the plaza and slaughtering Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples.
• The Ice Empress joined Golden Crocodile Douluo and Demon Bear Douluo in surrounding Sword Douluo, who was gravely wounded and pierced through the chest.
• Sword Douluo self-destructed, but the Ice Empress disappeared from the blast and reappeared beside Dugu Lin.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others broke Bone Douluo’s defenses and overwhelmed him.
• A blast exposed an underground passage, and Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo to clear it after Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong could not be found.

After the sects were destroyed, Ning Fengzhi and several hundred survivors fled to the Star Luo Empire while Dugu Lin’s group traveled toward Sea God Island. The group exposed their pirate captain Haider’s intentions and forced him to continue guiding them.

• News spread that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been wiped out and the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had suffered heavy losses, while Ning Fengzhi appeared in the Star Luo Empire with several hundred survivors.
• Dugu Lin traveled toward Sea God Island with his companions and Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, then introduced his summoned martial souls and soul beasts to the group.
• After three days, Dugu Lin’s group reached Vast Sea City and boarded the pirate ship Sea Demon, whose captain Haider volunteered to guide them.
• During the voyage, Dugu Lin sensed Haider’s murderous intent and warned him to take the group safely to Sea God Island or die at sea.
• Yan punched Haider, and Dugu Lin ordered him to sail properly and continue guiding them.

The Shrek group fled Heaven Dou City, mourned the Blue Lightning Clan, and headed for the Star Luo Empire to seek Dai Mubai’s help against Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Dugu Lin’s group reached Purple Pearl Island and tried to persuade Zi Zhenzhu to guide them to Sea God Island, leaving her sizing up Dugu Lin after Yan revealed his strength.

• Flender led Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, Qin Ming, Ma Hongjun, and the others away from Heaven Dou City after Spirit Hall stopped watching them.
• Yu Xiaogang and his companions found the Blue Lightning Clan’s dead, spent three days collecting the bodies, and swore to oppose Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang chose to take the group to the Star Luo Empire, where Dai Mubai was crown prince, and Flender reported that the empire had driven Spirit Hall’s branch hall out of Star Luo City.
• Dugu Lin’s group landed on Purple Pearl Island, where Zi Zhenzhu confronted Haider and warned that mainland soul masters who went to Sea God Island never returned.
• Dugu Lin asked Zi Zhenzhu to guide them to Sea God Island, and Yan revealed his level-sixty-one strength before Zi Zhenzhu showed her level-sixty-four Soul Emperor power and turned her attention to Dugu Lin.

Dugu Lin gave four Immortal Creation Pills to Xie Yue, Yan, Huo Wushuang, and Zhu Zhuqing to improve their chances of surviving Sea God Island, and Zi Zhenzhu agreed to guide the group there after two days of preparation. As they prepared to depart, Xie Yue and Yan killed Haider and the sailors, while Huo Wu resolved to devote herself to cultivation and accept her arranged marriage without expecting romance.

• Dugu Lin gave Immortal Creation Pills to Xie Yue, Yan, Huo Wushuang, and Zhu Zhuqing, and the group discussed the dangers of Sea God Island.
• After Yan fought Zi Zhenzhu, Hu Liena revealed her rank 69 strength, and Zi Zhenzhu agreed to lead the group to Sea God Island after two days of preparation.
• Dugu Lin signaled Feng Xiaotian about Haider, and Xie Yue and Yan stayed behind to kill Haider and the sailors and throw their bodies into the sea.
• Xie Yue gave Yan his Immortal Creation Pill, but Yan remained resentful of Dugu Lin because Hu Liena spent nights in Dugu Lin's room.
• Huo Wushuang swallowed his pill and began refining it while Huo Wu decided to focus on cultivation and accept her marriage to Dugu Lin without expecting romance.

After refining the Immortal Creation Pill, Zhu Zhuqing reached a Soul Power bottleneck and received an 8,700-year Sea Monkey from Feng Xiaotian to obtain her next soul ring. Dugu Lin’s group reached Sea God Island, crossed the Sea Within the Sea, and began receiving trials, with Huo Wushuang receiving a Black Four Trials.

• Zhu Zhuqing refined the Immortal Creation Pill, reached the level 40 bottleneck, and accepted an 8,700-year Sea Monkey from Feng Xiaotian for her soul ring.
• Several days later, Dugu Lin’s group sailed to Sea God Island, where Zi Zhenzhu left them a small boat before they used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to evade the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
• Dugu Yan flew across the Sea Within the Sea with her 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and Little Lin carried the rest of the group across.
• Seahorse Douluo agreed to open the Sea God’s trial after Dugu Lin asked him to assess the group.
• Huo Wushuang stepped forward first, and the Seahorse Sacred Pillar granted him a Black Four Trials.

Dugu Lin and his companions received their Sea God trials, with Ye Lingling and Dugu Lin both earning Top-level Seven Trials. At the foot of Sea God Mountain, Bo Saixi gave level-seventy Dugu Yan a God-given Spirit Ring, and Dugu Yan began absorbing it while the others went to cultivate.

• Seahorse Douluo assigned Black-level trials to the group, including Six Trials for several Soul Masters and Top-level Seven Trials for Ye Lingling.
• Dugu Lin also received Top-level Seven Trials, while Bo Saixi watched from the temple and was relieved that he had not received the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Dugu Lin asked whether Black-level trial participants received God-given Spirit Rings at their first bottleneck, prompting Bo Saixi to appear before the group.
• Bo Saixi learned that Dugu Yan had reached level seventy without hunting for a ring, then gave her a God-given Spirit Ring and explained how it worked.
• Dugu Yan began absorbing the ring as the others climbed into the Sea God's Light to cultivate, while Dugu Lin and Feng Xiaotian stayed behind.

Dugu Yan and Hu Liena each endured a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and gained a Hundred Thousand Year seventh ring, while Dugu Lin advanced to level 91. After learning the Sea God's First Trial rewards, he traded away future benefits and used information about Tang Chen to persuade Bo Saixi to focus the rewards on his fifth soul ring, which increased to 56,500 years.

• Dugu Yan endured half a day of pain and raised her seventh soul ring to one hundred thousand years.
• Seven days later, Hu Liena reached level 70 and absorbed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, evolving her External Soul Bone into a Hundred Thousand Year fox tail before passing out as her seventh ring turned red.
• A year later, Dugu Lin reached level 91, and the Sea God's First Trial ended with everyone receiving rewards, including Ye Lingling's soul rings each gaining five hundred years.
• Dugu Lin offered Bo Saixi information about Tang Chen in exchange for redirecting the trial rewards to his fifth soul ring and giving up his Soul Power increase and future God-Bestowed Soul Rings.
• Bo Saixi accepted the deal after Dugu Lin revealed that Tang Chen was trapped with chaotic consciousness, and Dugu Lin's fifth soul ring increased from 50,000 to 56,500 years.

After the group completed the first four Sea God trials, Feng Xiaotian killed the wounded Evil Orca King and gained its hundred-thousand-year soul ring and trunk bone. Dugu Lin then faced a fifth trial requiring him to withstand seven Sacred Pillar Title Douluo, while his companions prepared to take on individual pillars first.

• Dugu Lin and the others passed the ringed blockade, and Feng Xiaotian broke through to Rank 80 but postponed absorbing his god-given soul ring.
• The group completed tidal body tempering over the next year, and Dugu Lin’s fifth soul ring approached seventy thousand years in age.
• Dugu Lin poisoned the Evil Spirit Orcas, allowing Feng Xiaotian to kill the wounded Evil Orca King and gain its hundred-thousand-year soul ring and trunk bone, raising him to Rank 85.
• Two years later, Zhu Zhuqing, Huo Wushuang, Xie Yue, and Yan completed their four black-level trials, and Hu Liena asked Xie Yue and Yan to stay and continue cultivating.
• Dugu Lin received a fifth trial to defeat the combined siege of seven Sacred Pillar Title Douluo within two hours, and decided to use only Titan Giant Ape: Six-Armed Vajra.
• Feng Xiaotian, Dugu Yan, and Hu Liena volunteered to challenge Sea Spear Douluo, Sea Illusion Douluo, and Seahorse Douluo before Dugu Lin faced the seven together.