Chapter Summaries

Su Shi'er used the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire and his True Yuan to rescue Jiang Feiyun and Qi Ziran from the ice. After Jiang Feixue explained what had happened in the secret realm, both men learned that Su Shi'er had killed Zhong Wu and Jiang Feiyun thanked him for saving them and his sister.

• Jiang Feixue revealed that she had given her Cloud Yang Spirit Fire to Jiang Feiyun, so Su Shi'er used the Yuanyang Ruler to melt the ice around him and Qi Ziran.
• Su Shi'er restored the two men with his True Yuan, and Jiang Feiyun and Qi Ziran awoke to find Jiang Feixue beside them.
• Jiang Feixue explained that she had asked Brother Zhu to rescue them, and Jiang Feiyun recognized Su Shi'er with surprise and suspicion.
• Qi Ziran recognized Su Shi'er, thanked him for saving his life, and promised to repay the debt.
• Jiang Feixue recounted her recent experiences, and Jiang Feiyun and Qi Ziran became furious about the Xuan Yin Sect's actions.
• Jiang Feixue revealed that Su Shi'er had already slain Zhong Wu, shocking both men; Jiang Feiyun then bowed and thanked Su Shi'er for saving him and Jiang Feixue.

Su Shi'er learned that Northern Nether Profound Ice could be found at Extreme Ice Peak, a dangerous site shrouded in powerful cold qi. Qi Ziran revealed that reaching the peak required a Teleportation Array and that the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Formation made the journey perilous even for Golden Core Experts.

• Su Shi'er asked Qi Ziran how he and the others had been frozen, and Qi Ziran explained that cold qi fissures had left cold poison in their bodies.
• After Su Shi'er prepared to continue north, Qi Ziran and Jiang Feixue offered to help him find what he was seeking.
• Su Shi'er told them he was searching for Northern Nether Profound Ice, and Qi Ziran identified Extreme Ice Peak as its source.
• Qi Ziran explained that Northern Nether Profound Ice formed in an ice cavern beneath Extreme Ice Peak’s summit, where Myriad Year Profound Ice Cold Qi gathered.
• Qi Ziran warned Su Shi'er that the area was already within the northern region, but Extreme Ice Peak could only be reached through a Teleportation Array in the central hall.
• Qi Ziran revealed that the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Formation surrounded Extreme Ice Peak with deadly cold qi that even Golden Core Experts might not overcome.

Su Shi'er left Jiang Feixue and the others rather than risk the central hall, then reached Extreme Ice Peak and judged it too dangerous to enter. He abandoned his search for Northern Nether Profound Ice and set off to find a place to cultivate and study the White Jade Buddha Beads.

• Su Shi'er thanked Qi Ziran, told Jiang Feixue he expected they would meet again, and departed alone for the central region.
• Jiang Feixue denied having romantic feelings for Su Shi'er but resolved to improve her cultivation so she could help him someday.
• Jiang Feixue, Jiang Feiyun, and Qi Ziran mourned their ten fallen companions, and Qi Ziran urged Jiang Feiyun to recover before the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Formation changed.
• Su Shi'er traveled through the snow and reached the towering, floating Extreme Ice Peak, where the bone-piercing cold made its dangers clear.
• Su Shi'er decided he could not safely climb Extreme Ice Peak, gave up seeking Northern Nether Profound Ice, and left to find a place for secluded cultivation and study the White Jade Buddha Beads.

Su Shi'er was ambushed in the Eastern Region forest by Zhong Wu’s remnant soul and the powerful Xuan Yin Sect cultivator Jifeng. He fled under relentless pursuit, and the chapter left Jifeng surprised that Su Shi'er still had strength to continue.

• The Spirit Devouring Rat sensed danger, and Su Shi'er dodged a black-light attack before meeting a goat-bearded Xuan Yin Sect cultivator holding Zhong Wu’s remnant soul in a straw doll.
• Zhong Wu vowed revenge, while Su Shi'er realized he was only a fragment of a remnant soul and chose to flee from Jifeng rather than fight.
• Jifeng attacked Su Shi'er with three steel pellets, blasting away his Rock Shield and injuring his back.
• Su Shi'er used treasures, spells, and talismans to evade Jifeng’s attacks and repeatedly pull ahead as they raced through the Heavenly Absolute Secret Realm.
• After pursuing Su Shi'er across nearly half the realm, Jifeng grew solemn and wondered how the mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator had not run out of True Yuan.

Elder Demon Jifeng learned that Su Shi'er possessed Spirit Stones and suspected he was a key figure in the Yun Ge Sect's plan, while Zhong Wu's secret ambitions led to his death. Su Shi'er remained under pursuit and used his precious Wind Escape Talisman to flee as Jifeng unleashed a powerful secret art.

• Zhong Wu told Elder Demon Jifeng that Su Shi'er had used Spirit Stones to restore his True Yuan, while secretly planning to possess Su Shi'er's body if Jifeng killed him.
• Elder Demon Jifeng revealed that tens of thousands of Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Stones had vanished from Li Fire Peak and suspected Su Shi'er was involved in the Yun Ge Sect's plan.
• Elder Demon Jifeng questioned Zhong Wu's ignorance of the matter, then crushed the straw puppet and scattered Zhong Wu's remnant soul to eliminate an uncertain factor.
• Elder Demon Jifeng accelerated his pursuit of Su Shi'er with a secret art, while Su Shi'er realized their mistaken suspicions had accidentally reached the right conclusion.
• Su Shi'er threw out dozens of Defense Talismans and activated the Wind Escape Talisman he had found in Zhong Wu's Storage Pouch.

Su Shi'er fled Elder Demon Jifeng to the Central Hall, where the Mist Concealment Sect and White Flame Sect were studying its formation. After Jifeng caught up and badly injured him, Su Shi'er rushed toward the formation as his only chance to survive and turned to the Mist Concealment Sect for help.

• Su Shi'er used a Wind Escape Talisman to flee Elder Demon Jifeng and arrived near the Central Hall, where he spotted Yun Wuxia, the Mist Concealment Sect, and the White Flame Sect examining its formation.
• Su Shi'er tried to slip away without revealing himself, but Elder Demon Jifeng pursued him with another Wind Escape Talisman and attacked.
• Su Shi'er’s defensive treasures and talismans failed to stop Jifeng’s palm strike, which worsened his existing injuries.
• Seeing the Central Hall formation as his only hope, Su Shi'er rushed toward it while Jifeng launched another attack.
• Su Shi'er activated his remaining defenses and turned toward the Mist Concealment Sect members as Jifeng’s attack closed in.

Su Shi'er tried to draw the Mist Concealment Sect into the conflict between the Xuan Yin Sect and White Flame Sect, but Zuo Jun and Elder Demon Jifeng attacked him together. Yun Wuxia blocked their strikes and then struck Su Shi'er herself, leaving her intentions unclear.

• Su Shi'er shouted to Yun Wuxia that the Xuan Yin Sect and White Flame Sect had ambushed the Mist Concealment Sect and asked her to intervene.
• Zuo Jun denied Su Shi'er's accusation, while Elder Demon Jifeng pretended to confirm it and announced that they would attack the Mist Concealment Sect.
• Zuo Jun and Elder Demon Jifeng launched attacks at Su Shi'er, forcing him to consider fleeing through the central hall's formation.
• Yun Wuxia appeared before Su Shi'er and used the Tai Ruo Sword to easily block both attacks.
• Zuo Jun urged Yun Wuxia not to be deceived by the Xuan Yin Sect, but she remained silent and struck Su Shi'er with her palm.

Yun Wuxia and Zuo Jun turned on Elder Demon Jifeng after Su Shi'er vanished into the formation, and Zuo Jun's sword killed him. Yun Wuxia destroyed most of Jifeng's escaping soul but let its final remnant flee underground.

• Yun Wuxia struck Su Shi'er into the central formation, where he vanished in a flash of cyan light.
• Yun Wuxia declared the Xuan Yin Sect their enemy, and Zuo Jun joined her in attacking Elder Demon Jifeng.
• Elder Demon Jifeng pretended to be wounded and tried to flee, but Zuo Jun's sword pierced and killed him.
• Jifeng's soul escaped his body, and Yun Wuxia's Tai Ruo Sword destroyed most of it.
• Jifeng's final remnant soul fled underground to warn his Martial Brother, while Yun Wuxia recalled her sword without pursuing it.

After Zuo Jun killed Elder Demon Jifeng, Yun Wuxia turned the group’s attention to the changing formation and secretly contacted Su Shi'er through the Yuanyang Ruler. She recruited him to retrieve the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll, and he agreed in exchange for two conditions, beginning with permission to copy the scroll.

• Yun Wuxia praised Zuo Jun for killing Elder Demon Jifeng and promised the Mist Concealment Sect would support him if the Xuan Yin Sect sought revenge.
• Yun Wuxia noticed the formation had changed from the route map, and she and Zuo Jun returned to studying it.
• Su Shi'er realized Yun Wuxia’s palm strike had healed rather than harmed him and suspected she had another purpose.
• Yun Wuxia revealed she had lodged a wisp of divided soul in Su Shi'er's Yuanyang Ruler and ordered him to find what she sought.
• Su Shi'er asked to copy the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll, and Yun Wuxia agreed, then asked for his second condition.

Su Shi'er agreed to accompany Yun Wuxia to Extreme Ice Peak in exchange for her help, then followed her route through the formation into the Heavenly Absolute Sect’s central complex. As he headed for the Scripture Pavilion to find the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll, Yun Wuxia and Zuo Jun decided to enter the formation themselves.

• Su Shi'er accepted Yun Wuxia’s second condition and asked for a share of the Northern Nether Profound Ice, agreeing that they would each be responsible for their own lives in danger.
• Yun Wuxia guided Su Shi'er through the formation, where he spotted powerful, motionless figures that he suspected were puppets.
• Su Shi'er reached the Heavenly Absolute Sect’s central complex and learned from Yun Wuxia that he had only the time it took to drink a cup of tea to reach the Scripture Pavilion and retrieve the secret scroll.
• Su Shi'er concealed himself with invisibility talismans and hurried toward the Scripture Pavilion.
• Outside the formation, Yun Wuxia proposed forcing their way inside, and Zuo Jun agreed to enter with her.

Su Shi'er entered the Heavenly Absolute Sect's Scripture Pavilion during a clash between the Yuanyang Ruler and the pavilion's defenses, searching for the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll. On the seventh floor, he found six offering tables of classified treasures and narrowed his search to the tables for techniques or methods.

• Zuo Jun led Yun Wuxia and the other cultivators into the formation, while Su Shi'er reached the Scripture Pavilion unseen.
• Yun Wuxia's soul fragment used the Yuanyang Ruler to strike the pavilion's defenses, and Su Shi'er realized how much power the artifact held.
• Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia opened a gap in the defenses, allowing Su Shi'er to rush onto the pavilion's seventh floor before it closed.
• Su Shi'er found six offering tables labeled for talismans, pills, artifacts, formations, techniques, and methods, with many of their items already missing.
• Su Shi'er guessed that the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll was likely on the techniques or methods table and turned his attention to the latter.

Su Shi'er found a Jade Eye Tube hidden above the offering tables and believed it was the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll. When he tried to take more treasures, the Scripture Pavilion began collapsing, and he escaped through a breach in its barrier with help from the Yuanyang Ruler.

• Su Shi'er suspected the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll was hidden in the starry ceiling and shattered the illusion to reveal a Jade Eye Tube.
• Su Shi'er took the Jade Eye Tube, and the White Jade Buddha Beads resisted the force trying to expel him from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Su Shi'er broke the barrier around the Dharma table and used the Tai'a Seven Star Sword to draw out another scroll.
• The Scripture Pavilion's force turned destructive, destroying the offering tables and threatening Su Shi'er as the building collapsed.
• Su Shi'er broke through the ceiling but found the outer barrier still blocking him, until the Yuanyang Ruler smashed a hole in it.
• Su Shi'er gathered his remaining True Yuan and escaped through the breach.

Su Shi'er escaped the collapsing tower with the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll, but the Yuanyang Ruler was destroyed and Yun Wuxia’s soul fragment fled. He headed to the teleportation platform after Yun Wuxia told him to go to Extreme Ice Peak, where she promised to meet him within seven days.

• The seven-story tower collapsed after Su Shi'er escaped, and he reflected on how close he had come to dying while taking an extra treasure.
• Su Shi'er told Yun Wuxia that he had obtained the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll but claimed he had taken no other treasures.
• The Yuanyang Ruler shattered, leaving behind the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire and Yun Wuxia’s fading soul fragment.
• Yun Wuxia told Su Shi'er to use the teleportation platform to reach Extreme Ice Peak and said she would find him within seven days.
• Su Shi'er collected the remaining Cloud Yang Spirit Fire, inspected the teleportation platform, and activated it with True Yuan.

Su Shi'er teleported toward Extreme Ice Peak as Yun Wuxia, Zuo Jun, and the other cultivators emerged from a deadly formation to find the Scripture Pavilion destroyed. Yun Wuxia led the Mist Concealment Sect away, while Zuo Jun remained suspicious and ordered his people to watch the area and investigate what had happened.

• Su Shi'er locked onto Extreme Ice Peak's marker and teleported away.
• Yun Wuxia and Zuo Jun emerged from the changed formation with their followers, many wounded and several dead.
• Yun Wuxia and Zuo Jun discovered that the Scripture Pavilion had collapsed and argued over whether someone had caused its destruction.
• Yun Wuxia denied Zuo Jun's suspicions, then led the Mist Concealment Sect away to seek other opportunities.
• Zuo Jun told a junior brother to keep watch and said he suspected the Mist Concealment Sect had made secret preparations.

Su Shi'er reached Extreme Ice Peak and examined the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll while waiting for Yun Wuxia. He learned that it contained the powerful One Person, Three Transformations technique, though its cultivation required great time and resources.

• Su Shi'er arrived on Extreme Ice Peak and saw that the Ten Thousand Year Cold Air came from an underground ice cavern.
• Su Shi'er made an ice hut and used the Jade Eye Tube to examine the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll.
• Su Shi'er received the scroll's information and discovered that it taught the One Person, Three Transformations technique.
• Su Shi'er learned that the technique greatly strengthened its practitioner and created two powerful clones, but was slow and costly to cultivate.

Su Shi'er weighed whether to cultivate One Person, Three Transformations before Yun Wuxia arrived and revealed that a month had passed while he studied it. Yun Wuxia took the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll to examine it, leaving Su Shi'er to guard her and postpone opening the final scroll.

• Su Shi'er copied One Person, Three Transformations and considered how its demands might further slow his cultivation.
• Yun Wuxia arrived at Extreme Ice Peak and told Su Shi'er that a month had passed since he entered.
• Su Shi'er learned Yun Wuxia had spent a hundred years preparing to obtain the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll and handed it to her.
• Yun Wuxia studied the Jade Eye Tube, and Su Shi'er sat nearby to guard her.
• Ten days passed while Su Shi'er waited and kept the scroll in his Storage Pouch.

After Yun Wuxia spent ten days comprehending the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll, she and Su Shi'er prepared to enter the underground ice cave in search of Northern Nether Profound Ice. Yun Wuxia used her Ice Shield to break through the cave’s icy current, opening a path inside.

• Yun Wuxia finished studying the Heavenly Absolute Secret Scroll and learned the One Person, Three Transformations technique.
• Su Shi'er reminded Yun Wuxia of their agreement, and she confirmed that the Northern Nether Profound Ice lay within the underground ice cave.
• Yun Wuxia revealed her Mid-grade Spirit Artifact, the Ice Shield, and warned Su Shi'er that it could block the icy current but not the cold air.
• Yun Wuxia led Su Shi'er toward the ice cave and struck the Ice Shield into the current, tearing open a gap.
• Yun Wuxia maneuvered the Ice Shield into the icy current, where frost quickly covered its underside.

Su Shi'er survived the Ten Thousand Year Cold Air by swallowing the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire and refining it into his body, greatly strengthening his True Yuan. Yun Wuxia hinted that this successful refinement might carry a problem, leaving Su Shi'er anxious as he checked himself.

• Yun Wuxia and Su Shi'er crossed the cold current and landed on the Ice Shield, where the cold air began invading Su Shi'er's body.
• Yun Wuxia watched without helping as Su Shi'er struggled against the cold air and feared it would kill him.
• Su Shi'er swallowed the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire and used its heat to dispel the cold air throughout his body.
• Su Shi'er found that the spirit fire had settled in his dantian, strengthened his True Yuan, and become easy for him to control.
• Yun Wuxia praised Su Shi'er's desperate method, then gave him a sympathetic look that made him wonder whether refining the spirit fire had caused a problem.

Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia descended through the freezing current toward the bottom of Extreme Ice Peak’s ice cave, where Yun Wuxia withheld her suspicions about the danger of his spirit fire. They passed through a freezing mist ball and arrived in a beautiful ice-and-jade cavern, with its dangers still unknown.

• Yun Wuxia concealed her concern that the Cloud Yang Spirit Fire could become dangerous once it was no longer suppressed by the cold, while Su Shi'er sensed she was hiding something important.
• Yun Wuxia drove the Ice Shield deeper into the freezing current, struggling against the growing pressure as Su Shi'er endured the cold with the spirit fire’s heat.
• Yun Wuxia unleashed the Tai Ruo Sword to speed their descent toward a radiant ball of freezing mist.
• Yun Wuxia declared they should continue despite the unknown risks and drove the Ice Shield into the mist ball, while Su Shi'er activated his Rock Shield and Edict Token for protection.
• Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia emerged into an ice-and-jade cavern and looked around for danger.

Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia discovered three pieces of Northern Nether Profound Ice in the cave pool and competed to claim them. Yun Wuxia kept two pieces and tested the last with her Tai Ruo Sword, which could not damage it, while Su Shi'er concealed his regret at getting only one.

• Su Shi'er and Yun Wuxia found three pieces of Northern Nether Profound Ice at the bottom of a bubbling pool.
• They each used True Yuan to draw up a piece and stored it away, then both reached for the final piece.
• Su Shi'er protested when Yun Wuxia tried to take the last piece, but withdrew his power rather than challenge her.
• Yun Wuxia offered to split the final piece, then struck it with her Tai Ruo Sword to test its strength.
• The Northern Nether Profound Ice remained unharmed, and Su Shi'er wondered what power it might have after refinement.