Chapter Summaries

Bing Yu fought Qing Hao, Li Xuanyi, and Xue Qinghuang after they joined forces against him. He struck Xue Qinghuang down despite her powerful meteor attack, leaving the battle with him standing over her.

• Bing Yu confronted the allied Qing Hao, Li Xuanyi, and Xue Qinghuang after they attacked him together.
• Bing Yu used his Ice Shadow Phantom Body to evade their attacks and struck Xue Qinghuang in the abdomen, sending her flying.
• Xue Qinghuang unleashed Phoenix Flame Descent and hurled flaming meteors at Bing Yu while Qing Hao and Li Xuanyi retreated to watch.
• Bing Yu used Spear Lock, Mountainless to stop and shatter a meteor, then struck Xue Qinghuang in the chest and sent her crashing to the ground.

Bing Yu defeated Li Xuanyi after Qing Hao and Li Xuanyi joined forces, then revealed that the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy had lured the enemy into a trap. The chapter ended as five enormous dragons sealed off the battlefield, trapping the allied teams.

• Qing Hao and Li Xuanyi confronted Bing Yu, admitting they did not intend to fight her fairly.
• Qing Hao attacked with his Sword Drawing Technique while Li Xuanyi vanished and ambushed Bing Yu from behind.
• Bing Yu used a disc to unleash an ice dragon that struck Li Xuanyi and sent him crashing beside Xue Qinghuang.
• Qing Hao accused Bing Yu of using a Divine Artifact, but she dismissed him and revealed she had planned to eliminate the Martial Spiritual Academy's first team.
• Bing Yu ordered her teammates to activate their Array Discs, and five enormous dragons sealed off the battlefield.

Bing Yu’s team used a vast collection of Spirit Arrays to defeat the opposing teams in the Ruins and claim half the resources. The Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s tournament finals then began, but the eight qualifying spots provoked an uproar among several deans.

• Bing Yu’s Northern Azure Spiritual Academy team defeated the enemy team with more than fifty Spirit Arrays and secured half the Ruins’ resources from their allies.
• The Northern Azure Spiritual Academy’s bell announced the start of the Spiritual Academy Tournament finals, and Dean Tai Cang opened the Battle Realm.
• Bei Ming Long Kun and Bing Yi joined the students in the stands while Tai Cang went to the dean’s section.
• Dean Tian Sheng and Tai Cang exchanged a strained greeting because the Saint Spiritual Academy sought to remove the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy from the Five Great Academies.
• The eight qualifying spots appeared, shocking the venue and leaving the deans of three academies visibly furious.

The Northern Azure Spiritual Academy won first place in the Spiritual Academy Tournament, and the finals began. Xiao Han returned to the academy, learned that an elder from Bing Yu’s family was at the finals, and prepared to go there himself.

• Bei Ming Long Kun encouraged a student to lead cheers for the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy after it took first place.
• Tian Sheng announced the start of the Spiritual Academy Tournament finals.
• Xiao Han entered the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, and Zhu Tian stopped preparing to attack when he recognized him.
• Zhu Tian told Xiao Han that an elder from Bing Yu’s family was at the finals.
• Xiao Han gave Zhu Tian a Supreme Heaven Pill and said that Dean Tai Cang and the others would receive one too.
• Xiao Han set off to watch the finals while Zhu Tian agreed to guard the students.

After the Spiritual Academy Tournament, Xiao Han agreed to accompany Bing Yi to the Ice God Ceremony and arranged to open a recruitment office at Northern Azure Spiritual Academy. The academy’s leaders approved the plan with safeguards, and the office began campus recruitment a year later.

• Bing Yi urgently invited Xiao Han to the Ice God Ceremony, and Xiao Han agreed to leave the next day after informing Northern Azure Spiritual Academy.
• Xiao Han gave Bei Ming Long Kun pills for Dean Tai Cang and the others, along with a Dragon Blood Pill for Bei Ming Long Kun.
• Xiao Han asked Bei Ming Long Kun to let him establish a recruitment office at Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, and Bei Ming Long Kun referred the decision to Tai Cang and the other leaders.
• Tai Cang and the other leaders approved the office, requiring it to preserve academy order, avoid coercion, and conduct large-scale recruitment in the presence of an instructor and elder.
• A year later, an unfamiliar plaque appeared in a quiet corner of Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, marking the start of campus recruitment.

On the way to the Ice Spirit Race, Xiao Han learned that the Ice God Ceremony offered outsiders a chance to enter the Heavenly Frost Ice Spring and determined the status of the race’s branch lineages. Elder Bing Yi asked him to help save his declining lineage, and Xiao Han agreed to let him dream of a victory that could come true.

• Xiao Han asked Elder Bing Yi about the Ice God Ceremony, and Bing Yi explained that it was a contest held every hundred years for access to the Heavenly Frost Ice Spring.
• Elder Bing Yi said the contest had no more than two hundred participants, all at least Earthly Supremes under five hundred years old, and that the top twenty earned entry to the spring.
• Elder Bing Yi revealed that his lineage had been reduced from eight recommendation slots to three, and that the contest results shaped each branch’s status and resource allocation.
• Elder Bing Yi knelt before Xiao Han and asked him to secure a place in the contest to preserve their lineage.
• Xiao Han helped Bing Yi to his feet and asked what ranking he wanted, promising that he could dream of a victory that would come true.

Xiao Han arrived on the Ice Spirit Continent as Elder Bing Yi’s invited guest, only to face open hostility from the Ice Spirit Race’s Ling Branch. After Bing Lingkun challenged him, Xiao Han stopped his sudden attack and destroyed his spear, leaving their rivalry poised to continue at the Ice God Ceremony.

• Elder Bing Yi welcomed Xiao Han and escorted him toward the clan chief and Grand Supreme.
• An arrow struck the snow in front of Xiao Han, and he realized the Ice Spirit Race’s factions had cut off Elder Bing Yi’s access to outside reinforcements.
• Bing Lingkun arrived and declared that he wanted to see the guest invited by the Lin Branch; Elder Bing Yi identified him as a powerful body-refining genius from the Ling Branch.
• Bing Lingkun praised Xiao Han and said he hoped to fight him during the Ice God Ceremony.
• Bing Lingkun attacked Elder Bing Yi with a spear, but Xiao Han blocked the strike and crushed the spear into ice crystals.

Xiao Han learned that the Lin Branch was being ostracized because of an old scandal involving Saint Lin Ye, whose rebellion had left the branch blamed by both him and the Ice Spirit Race. After initially seeming reluctant to help, Xiao Han agreed to stay on—but only for extra payment.

• Xiao Han judged Bing Lingkun to be a Great Perfection Earthly Supreme and asked Elder Bing Yi for information about the Ice Spirit Race’s geniuses.
• Bing Lingye assessed Xiao Han as an Upper Earthly Supreme whose combat power could briefly reach Great Perfection, and advised Bing Lingkun to drag out a fight.
• Xiao Han angrily demanded that Bing Linyan explain why the Lin Branch was being ostracized by the Ice Spirit Race.
• Bing Linyan explained that three hundred years earlier Saint Lin Ye had defied an arranged marriage, escaped the clan, and left the Lin Branch blamed by both sides.
• Xiao Han initially said the matter was difficult, leading Bing Linyan to think he would refuse to help.
• Xiao Han told Bing Linyan he would stay, but that it would cost extra.

While Xiao Han stayed quietly in the Lin Branch grounds, Ice Spirit Race geniuses plotted against him and the Lin Branch. After learning that Xiao Han could briefly reach Great Perfection Earthly Supreme strength, they resolved to take him seriously as a threat.

• Xiao Han spent several uneventful days cultivating in the Lin Branch clan grounds while a conspiracy against him and the Lin Branch developed elsewhere.
• Bing Huiyan and Bing Jingyu gathered Ice Spirit Race geniuses, including Bing Lingkun and Bing Lingye, to discuss Xiao Han and the Lin Branch.
• Bing Jingyu presented the little information he had gathered about Xiao Han, including his origins and his connection to the Dragon Demon Palace's destruction.
• Bing Huiyan prompted Bing Lingkun to share what he had learned from fighting Xiao Han.
• Bing Lingkun revealed that Xiao Han was likely an Upper Earthly Supreme who could briefly unleash Great Perfection Earthly Supreme power and was skilled with a spear.
• Bing Huiyan and the others decided to give Xiao Han their full attention despite believing they could defeat him.

As the Ice God Ceremony’s rules changed to a free-for-all against the Lin Branch, Bing Linyan urged Xiao Han to withdraw and spare his life. Xiao Han instead promised to leave fewer than fifty of his 173 opponents standing, then headed for the arena.

• The presiding elder announced that the ceremony’s arena would be a free-for-all, enraging Bing Linyan and the Lin Branch clansmen.
• Bing Linyan apologized to Xiao Han and urged him to withdraw, fearing the Lin Branch’s enemies would use the battle to destroy them.
• Xiao Han asked whether Bing Linyan was ready to let the Lin Branch’s fate stand and pointed out the suffering its clansmen would face if the branch were disbanded.
• Bing Linyan resolved that the Lin Branch would resist, but Xiao Han reassured him and promised to leave fewer than fifty of the 173 opponents standing.
• Xiao Han walked toward the arena, and Bing Linyan ordered that he be honored as the Lin Branch’s most honored guest regardless of the outcome.
• Bing Lingkun learned that Xiao Han would compete, while Bing Lingye warned him not to act personally against anyone beyond his two opponents.

Xiao Han entered the battle against Bing Jingyu and more than a hundred Ice Spirit Race experts, using his Frost Mirror Image and spear techniques to overwhelm the attackers. After Bing Lingkun urged the crowd to unleash their divine abilities, Xiao Han emerged from the barrage unharmed and declared that the round had begun.

• Xiao Han refused Bing Jingyu's offer to leave the battle and faced the siege as it began.
• Xiao Han vanished from the arrows and knocked four Lower Earthly Supremes out of combat with coordinated attacks from himself and his Frost Mirror Image.
• Xiao Han fought through the crowd with his spear, leaving numerous attackers defeated as Bing Jingyu and the others watched his abilities with interest.
• Bing Lingkun ordered the attackers to summon their Supreme Dharma Bodies and bombard Xiao Han with divine abilities.
• Xiao Han survived the barrage untouched, standing within a golden glow at the center of a vast black hole, and announced that the round had begun.

Xiao Han revealed dozens of powerful Spirit Arrays and used them to devastate the Ice Spirit Race fighters on the Battle Stage. As the arrays threatened to erupt, Bing Lingkun entered a bloodlust state and attacked Xiao Han, who prepared to respond despite saying it was not the time for a duel.

• Xiao Han revealed dozens of high-level grandmaster Spirit Arrays, forcing Bing Jingyu and the others to attack him with everything they had.
• Xiao Han used the Heavenly Sea Flame Array to send many fighters off the Battle Stage and trapped the five leaders' Supreme Dharma Bodies with golden palms.
• Bing Jingyu ordered the remaining fighters to work in groups of five to block the Spirit Arrays while the leaders focused on Xiao Han.
• A fighter recklessly struck an activating Spirit Array, causing it to flare up and prompting Bing Jingyu to order an all-out attack.
• Bing Lingkun's Spiritual Power turned red as he entered a bloodlust state, and Xiao Han invoked Heavenly Lock Imprisons Dragon.

Xiao Han used the Grand Array to withstand the siege of nearly two hundred Earthly Supreme experts, stunning the spectators and drawing the interest of Spirit Array Masters. He sealed Bing Lingkun and defeated Bing Jingyu, leaving the battle’s outcome in his hands.

• Xiao Han activated the Grand Array, sending giant dragons to attack the Earthly Supreme experts while he calmly watched from the central pillar.
• Bing Linyan and Bing Yi marveled at Xiao Han’s Spirit Array Cultivation, while other Spirit Array Masters considered ways to approach him and learn from his methods.
• Xiao Han used Icy Seal to restrain Bing Lingkun and restore his awareness.
• Xiao Han attacked Bing Jingyu with Lance Lock, Destruction, but Bing Jingyu escaped the collapsing space with Ice Shadow Thousandfold Steps.
• Xiao Han’s spear pierced Bing Jingyu’s shoulder and sent him crashing onto the Battle Stage.

Xiao Han won the Ice God Ceremony’s remaining qualification spots, then left the Ice Spirit Race before its powerful clan leader could confront him. The clan leader punished the elder who changed the rules and temporarily spared the Lin Branch, while Ice Spirit Race experts began searching across the Great Thousand World.

• Xiao Han admitted defeat once nineteen other contestants remained, securing the twenty spots for the Heavenly Frost Ice Spring and making the Ice Spirit Race’s geniuses his foil.
• Xiao Han told Bing Linyan he had fulfilled their agreement and needed to leave, then accepted the Lin Branch’s Storage Bracelet and vanished into the void.
• Ten days later, the Ice Spirit Clan Leader summoned the branches, punished the elder who changed the Ice God Ceremony’s rules, and told Bing Linyan he had not known about the scheme.
• Bing Linyan said Xiao Han had already left, and the Ice Spirit Clan Leader lamented that he could not meet such an outstanding expert.
• The Lin Branch was temporarily spared disbandment, and Ice Spirit Race experts began ranging across the Great Thousand World.

Five years after the Ice God Ceremony, Xiao Han emerged from secluded cultivation ready to leave for the Extraterritorial Battlefield. He offered to help the Ice Emperor obtain a body and break through to Heavenly Supreme, leaving them to prepare Battle Venerable Mingyu’s inheritance method.

• At Northern Azure Spiritual Academy, Bing Yu told Bei Ming Long Kun that the Lin Branch’s rivals were stirring again, and Bei Ming reminded him to visit the Han Yi Merchant Guild after reaching Tier 4 Supreme.
• In the Black Abyss, Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor fought to a standstill, and the Ice Emperor observed how much Xiao Han had improved.
• Xiao Han revealed that he had reached Great Perfection Earthly Supreme and become a Great Spirit Array Master during five years of secluded cultivation.
• Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor agreed that they would head to the Extraterritorial Battlefield, though the Ice Emperor still lacked a body and had not reached Heavenly Supreme.
• Xiao Han proposed using a spirit array from Battle Venerable Mingyu’s inheritance to merge the Ice Emperor’s soul with a compatible vessel, and the Ice Emperor told him to arrange it.

Xiao Han tasked Jin Wu Xie with gathering rare medicinal materials and then returned to the Northern Continent to learn that a mysterious force was challenging the Han Yi Merchant Guild and the Fox Fairy Sect. He suspected the force was testing the guild and appeared to recognize who was behind it.

• Xiao Han gave Jin Wu Xie a list of rare materials and two hundred million Supreme Spirit Liquid, asking him to gather what he could and watch for the Demon Bone Flower, Essence of Life, and Eternally Frozen Thousand Cold Branch.
• Xiao Han traveled to the Northern Continent and found Yang Qianshan preparing to monitor the Fox Fairy Sect with the Cold Night Battle Puppet.
• Xiao Han asked Yang Qianshan why he planned to deploy the puppet, and Yang Qianshan clarified that the Fox Fairy Sect had caused no trouble.
• Yang Qianshan explained that a powerful mysterious force on the Commerce Continent had united local sects against the Han Yi Merchant Guild and Fox Fairy Sect.
• Xiao Han concluded that the mysterious force was testing the Han Yi Merchant Guild and seemed to recognize who was behind it.

Xiao Han asked Bei Ming Long Kun to gather rare materials and gifted him spirit-array insights for the Northern Azure Spiritual Academy. Meanwhile, Xiao Wu and Yi Huang tended the infant Xiao Mu, whose dangerous ice Dou Qi kept her sealed in an Ice Coffin, and they hoped a higher plane might hold a way to save her.

• Xiao Han asked Bei Ming Long Kun to contact old friends and gather the materials listed in a Scroll, and Bei Ming Long Kun agreed to seek news within one or two months.
• Xiao Han gave Bei Ming Long Kun his insights into low-level Spirit Array Master and Spirit Array Grandmaster realms, and Bei Ming Long Kun reluctantly accepted them for the academy.
• Xiao Wu reinforced the Mysterious Ice around Xiao Mu's Ice Coffin and reassured Yi Huang that the infant's condition remained stable.
• Xiao Wu reflected that Xiao Mu's immense talent and Dou Di Bloodline had left her newborn body unable to withstand her own ice Dou Qi, forcing Xiao Wu to keep her sealed in an unwaking state.
• Xiao Wu told Yi Huang that Xiao Yan had sensed a passage to a higher-level plane and suggested it might contain a cure or lead to Xiao Han, giving Yi Huang a glimmer of hope.

Xiao Han told the Ice Emperor about the Extraterritorial Battlefield and tempted him with a plan to reclaim Lin Yuan City from the Blade Demon Race. The Ice Emperor questioned whether they could take the city and withstand retaliation, and Xiao Han reassured him that he was not seeking death.

• The Ice Emperor finished reforging his body, regained his former cultivation, and said he was ready to head to the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
• Xiao Han gave the Ice Emperor a sealed Scroll containing information about the battlefield and the Thirty-Two Great Races.
• The Ice Emperor learned that the Blood Demon Tribe had been the chief threat in the past war and reacted with shock and sorrow over the cost of victory.
• Xiao Han pointed out that Lin Yuan City had been occupied by the Blade Demon Race and asked whether the Ice Emperor wanted to recover the lost territory.
• The Ice Emperor asked about the Blade Demon Race's strength and the danger of retaliation, while Xiao Han assured him he had no intention of seeking his own death.

Xiao Han explained that the Great Thousand Palace’s guest officials could not summon its experts, but argued that Blade Demon City was weak enough for him and the Ice Emperor to seize. He promised to turn the city’s lesser Evil race forces into an advantage and suggested an impending great war would keep the Blade Demon Race from retaliating.

• Xiao Han told the Ice Emperor that guest officials could not mobilize the Great Thousand Palace’s experts.
• Xiao Han said Blade Demon City had only a Nether Demon Emperor and a Profound Demon Emperor left, and the Ice Emperor agreed they were manageable opponents.
• Xiao Han offered to handle the other Evil race experts in Blade Demon City and promised they would become an aid rather than an obstacle.
• The Ice Emperor asked how they would deal with the Blade Demon Race’s retaliation, and Xiao Han said a great war would leave it too busy to respond.
• The Ice Emperor recognized Xiao Han’s implication of an approaching war and grew fervent at the prospect.

Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor arrived at Saint Abyss City and visited the Great Thousand Pavilion, where they met Old Lan. After recognizing the Ice Emperor as a Heavenly Supreme, Old Lan invited them upstairs to discuss joining forces against the Extraterrestrial Evil race.

• Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor reached Saint Abyss City and marveled at its powerful defenses and abundance of Earthly Supremes.
• Xiao Han explained the Great Thousand Pavilion’s role in monitoring the Extraterrestrial Evil race and registering Demon Subjugators as the Ice Emperor hurried him inside.
• Xiao Han woke Old Lan at the counter, and Old Lan greeted him warmly after recognizing him.
• Old Lan noticed the Ice Emperor’s Heavenly Supreme strength and wondered whether the two had come to fleece the Great Thousand Palace.
• Old Lan agreed that the Great Thousand Palace needed more allies and led Xiao Han and the Ice Emperor upstairs.