Chapter Summaries

At the Shui Family’s annual awakening ceremony, Bing Yekong revealed a powerful ice sword martial soul and Innate Full Soul Power. He secretly kept his second martial soul hidden as the families celebrated his talent.

• Bing Yekong reassured Shui Yue'er before his awakening while Huo Wu cheered him on and Feng Xiaotian watched jealously.
• During the ceremony, Bing Yekong sensed two forces in his dantian and realized he possessed Twin Martial Souls, but chose to reveal only one.
• Bing Yekong awakened the Heavenly Frost Sword, an ice-type martial soul that impressed the gathered families.
• Bing Yekong tested his Soul Power, and the crystal ball filled completely with light, confirming his Innate Full Soul Power.

Bing Yekong awakened with Innate Full Soul Power and discovered that both his Tianshuang Sword and Ice Dragon King Martial Souls possessed Ultimate Ice. The next morning, Shui Qingrou gave him a Storage Soul Guidance Device and took him to the Great Star Dou Forest to obtain his first Soul Ring.

• Shui Qingrou celebrated Bing Yekong's Innate Full Soul Power, while Feng Tianlin congratulated her and the younger generation gathered around him.
• Huo Wu hugged Bing Yekong, making Feng Xiaotian jealous, and Shui Bing'er blushed after exchanging a look with him.
• Bing Yekong examined his Martial Souls and realized that both the Tianshuang Sword and Ice Dragon King possessed the Ultimate Ice attribute.
• Shui Qingrou gave Bing Yekong a Storage Soul Guidance Device stocked with supplies and Gold Soul Coins.
• Shui Qingrou released her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and flew with Bing Yekong toward the Great Star Dou Forest to find his first Soul Ring.

Bing Yekong and Shui Qingrou searched the Great Star Dou Forest for an ice-attributed soul beast, and Bing Yekong insisted on choosing an eight-hundred-year Ice Soul Flood Dragon for his first Soul Ring. After killing it, he began absorbing its Soul Ring without apparent difficulty, while Shui Qingrou watched with growing confidence.

• Shui Qingrou and Bing Yekong searched the Great Star Dou Forest for a suitable ice-attributed soul beast, and Bing Yekong said he could absorb a Soul Ring of six hundred to eight hundred years.
• Shui Qingrou found an Ice Soul Flood Dragon near a lake and discovered it had close to eight hundred years of cultivation.
• Bing Yekong persuaded Shui Qingrou to let him take the Ice Soul Flood Dragon as his first Soul Ring, and she confirmed his physique was strong enough to try.
• Shui Qingrou suppressed the Ice Soul Flood Dragon, and Bing Yekong killed it with his Heavenly Frost Sword.
• Bing Yekong began absorbing the eight-hundred-year Soul Ring, enduring its surging soul power without apparent harm as Shui Qingrou watched.

After absorbing his first Soul Ring, Bing Yekong reached level fourteen and gained a powerful attribute-boosting skill. Shui Qingrou moved him into Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er's residence, and he considered how to learn swordsmanship.

• Bing Yekong absorbed a Soul Ring beyond his limit, rose to level fourteen, and gained the Tianshuang Battle Body skill, which boosted his attributes and attack power.
• Shui Qingrou brought Bing Yekong back to the Shui Family, where Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er were shocked by his rapid progress.
• Bing Yekong found his residence empty, and Shui Qingrou explained that she had moved his belongings to a room in Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er's home.
• Shui Qingrou told Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er that Bing Yekong would live with them, and Shui Yue'er welcomed him while Shui Bing'er blushed.
• As he cultivated that night, Bing Yekong considered where to learn swordsmanship but decided he did not want to become bound to a sect or seek out Qian Daoliu.

Bing Yekong obtained a swordsmanship manual from Feng Tianlin and quickly mastered its techniques, showing signs of developing sword qi. After a full day of practice, he returned to find Shui Yue'er bringing him food, and she was captivated by his appearance.

• Bing Yekong asked Shui Qingrou for a swordsmanship manual, and she took him to the Feng Family.
• Feng Tianlin found a booklet of improved basic sword techniques that Feng Bailong had given him and passed it to Bing Yekong.
• Bing Yekong read the booklet, practiced with the Tianshuang Sword, and quickly mastered the techniques while gaining new insights.
• After practicing all day, Bing Yekong sensed that sword qi was beginning to form and went to bathe before dinner.
• Shui Yue'er entered Bing Yekong's room with food, became flustered by his appearance, and quietly sat beside him as he ate.

Bing Yekong joined Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er to meet Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian after gaining his first Soul Ring and reaching level fourteen. At dinner, Huo Wu fed Bing Yekong grilled fish, leaving the jealous Feng Xiaotian to hide his anger.

• Shui Yue'er reminded Bing Yekong about their outing with Huo Wu and the others, and he went with her to fetch Shui Bing'er.
• The Shui siblings met Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian, and Shui Yue'er announced that Bing Yekong had reached level fourteen.
• Huo Wushuang led the group to a restaurant, where Huo Wu sat beside Bing Yekong and made Feng Xiaotian pay for the meal.
• Huo Wu fed Bing Yekong grilled fish, and Feng Xiaotian snapped his chopsticks before pretending it was an accident.
• Bing Yekong deliberately enjoyed Huo Wu's attention, and she welcomed his closeness.

Bing Yekong spent a meal and an outing being doted on by Shui Yue'er, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu while Feng Xiaotian grew increasingly jealous. Feng Xiaotian challenged Bing Yekong to a spar, and they entered a training hall to test Bing Yekong's progress.

• Feng Xiaotian repeatedly snapped and bent chopsticks as he watched the girls feed Bing Yekong, then endured Huo Wu taking bites from Bing Yekong's candied hawthorn skewer.
• Shui Yue'er and Huo Wu each took one of Bing Yekong's hands, while Feng Xiaotian blamed him for Huo Wu's affection and suppressed his urge to attack.
• Feng Xiaotian challenged Bing Yekong to a spar, offering not to use his third soul skill, and Huo Wu objected to him fighting someone at a lower cultivation level.
• Bing Yekong accepted the challenge as a chance to test his cultivation, and Feng Xiaotian rented a training venue.
• Bing Yekong stepped into the venue and beckoned Feng Xiaotian to join him.

Bing Yekong battled Feng Xiaotian and used his newly learned swordsmanship to hold the stronger Soul Elder at bay. During the fight, Bing Yekong comprehended sword energy, and Feng Xiaotian flew toward him with his third Soul Skill as the battle continued.

• Feng Xiaotian entered the training ground and promised Huo Wu he would go easy on Bing Yekong and avoid using his third Soul Skill.
• Bing Yekong summoned the Tianshuang Sword and fought Feng Xiaotian, using basic sword techniques to gain the upper hand.
• Feng Xiaotian activated his second Soul Skill, and Bing Yekong responded with Tianshuang Battle Body to keep control of the fight.
• Bing Yekong comprehended sword energy and used it with Ultimate Ice Soul Power to block Feng Xiaotian's Wind Blade Formation and subsequent attacks.
• Feng Xiaotian used his third Soul Skill, Gale Twin Wings, to escape Bing Yekong's sword energy, then dove toward him with a fierce gale.

Bing Yekong defeated Feng Xiaotian with a powerful ice dragon technique, and both gained new insights from their duel. After returning to the Shui Family, Bing Yekong found Shui Bing'er struggling to control her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and released the Ice Dragon King to help her.

• Bing Yekong used the Ice Dragon King's pressure and a self-created ice dragon attack against Feng Xiaotian, who countered with an unfinished version of Gale Demon Wolf's Thirty-Six Slashes.
• The ice dragon dispersed Feng Xiaotian's attack and sent him crashing into the training grounds, where Huo Wushuang helped him up.
• Feng Xiaotian accepted defeat, admired Bing Yekong, and said the battle had helped him understand his own Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Bing Yekong returned to his room and named his fusion of sword energy, Ultimate Ice, and Dragon King pressure Profound Ice Dragon Soar.
• Shui Yue'er rushed to fetch their mother because Shui Bing'er's Martial Soul was acting up, but Bing Yekong entered Shui Bing'er's room and released his Ice Dragon King Martial Soul to help her.

Bing Yekong used his Ice Dragon King and Tianshuang Sword Martial Souls to stabilize Shui Bing'er’s rampaging Ice Phoenix power. After Shui Qingrou asked him to watch over Shui Bing'er during nightly cultivation, he agreed, then privately examined the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul’s power.

• Bing Yekong suppressed Shui Bing'er’s rampaging Soul Power with Ultimate Ice and carefully regulated it until her aura steadied.
• Shui Qingrou entered, saw that Shui Bing'er was safe, and realized Bing Yekong had subdued the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
• Shui Bing'er woke and thanked Bing Yekong, and Shui Qingrou asked him to cultivate with Shui Bing'er every night in case her Soul Power went berserk again.
• Bing Yekong agreed, and Shui Yue'er teased Shui Bing'er about her flushed face before leaving them alone.
• Bing Yekong promised to protect Shui Bing'er, then returned to his room and released the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul to study its power.

After six years of cultivation, Bing Yekong enrolled at Tianshui Academy as its only male student. He joined Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er in the third year and settled into a specially arranged single dormitory.

• Bing Yekong reached Soul Exalt level thirty-eight and developed his own sword techniques and sword intent over six years of practice.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er took Bing Yekong to Tianshui Academy, where Shui Bing'er presented Shui Qingrou's token to get him inside.
• Shui Qingrou welcomed Bing Yekong, gave him a tailored uniform, and decided to place him in the third year because of his cultivation level.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er escorted Bing Yekong to his single dormitory, where he thanked Shui Qingrou for the arrangement.

Bing Yekong toured Tianshui Academy with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er, attracting attention as the academy’s only male student. After he thoughtfully bought Shui Bing'er cake, he cultivated beside her that night, strengthening her sense of safety and dependence on him.

• Shui Yue'er told Bing Yekong that she and Shui Bing'er lived next door to his dorm, and the sisters showed him around Tianshui Academy.
• Students across campus noticed Bing Yekong, and Shui Yue'er and Shui Bing'er each held one of his hands as they walked to the cafeteria.
• Bing Yekong noticed Shui Bing'er looking at the cakes and bought three flavors, letting her choose her favorite blueberry cake.
• Shui Yue'er took the strawberry cake while Shui Bing'er shyly exchanged glances with Bing Yekong, leaving Shui Yue'er feeling left out.
• That night, Bing Yekong cultivated beside Shui Bing'er, whose soul power settled under his influence and who felt increasingly safe and dependent on him.

Bing Yekong and Shui Yue'er joined Shui Bing'er's third-year class at Tianshui Academy, where Bing Yekong's age, strength, and thousand-year second Soul Ring stunned the students. The teacher proposed making him deputy class monitor, but Shui Bing'er offered to give him her class monitor position instead, leaving the teacher to insist that he first earn the class's approval.

• Shui Bing'er took the seat beside Bing Yekong and made Shui Yue'er sit in her place.
• Shui Yue'er introduced herself as a Level 31 agility-type battle Soul Exalt with the Jade Dolphin martial soul.
• Bing Yekong introduced himself as a Level 38 assault-type battle Soul Exalt, two years younger than his classmates, and displayed his Heavenly Frost Sword with yellow, purple, and purple Soul Rings.
• The homeroom teacher learned that Shui Bing'er was also Level 38 and proposed appointing Bing Yekong deputy class monitor.
• Shui Bing'er offered to become deputy class monitor and give Bing Yekong her class monitor position, but the teacher said he had to win the students' approval first.

Bing Yekong defeated Shui Bing'er in a spar without using a Soul Skill and became class monitor, with Shui Bing'er as his deputy. That night, he prepared to pursue the Icefire Yin-Yang Well and decided he needed to find Yang Wudi, who could identify immortal herbs.

• Teacher Yun arranged a spar between Bing Yekong and Shui Bing'er to decide who would become class monitor.
• Bing Yekong shattered Shui Bing'er's Ice Seal, overcame her attacks, and defeated her without activating a Soul Ring.
• Teacher Yun named Bing Yekong class monitor and Shui Bing'er deputy class monitor.
• After class, girls gathered around Bing Yekong, while Shui Bing'er watched him from beside him.
• Bing Yekong reviewed his six years of pharmacology notes and planned to reach the Icefire Yin-Yang Well before Tang San.
• Bing Yekong decided to seek out Yang Wudi, who could recognize immortal herbs.

Bing Yekong left Skywater Academy for Heaven Dou City, hoping to find Aromatic Silk Beauty at the Icefire Yin-Yang Well before Dugu Bo returned. Near the well in Sunset Forest, he was discovered by a powerful Earth Cavern Demon Spider.

• Bing Yekong persuaded Shui Qingrou to grant him a month of leave, and she gave him a Gold Soul Card before he departed.
• In Heaven Dou City, Bing Yekong learned from Xue Ye's birthday notice and local gossip that Dugu Bo was in the city with Xue Beng.
• Bing Yekong hurried to Sunset Forest, concealed his aura with the Tianshuang Sword and Ultimate Ice Soul Power, and reached the area near the Icefire Yin-Yang Well.
• An Earth Cavern Demon Spider ambushed Bing Yekong from underground; he recognized it as a nearly forty-thousand-year-old beast and prepared to respond as it watched him.

Bing Yekong fought off a forty-thousand-year Earth Cavern Demon Spider and crossed the poisonous miasma to reach the Icefire Yin-Yang Well. He found the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb but did not take any herbs he could not identify.

• Bing Yekong used his first two Soul Skills to strengthen himself and wounded the Earth Cavern Demon Spider with Ultimate Ice sword attacks.
• Bing Yekong unleashed his third Soul Skill, Heavenly Frost Slash, and severed two of the spider’s front legs before retreating from its frenzied attacks.
• The Earth Cavern Demon Spider fled when poisonous miasma spread through the area, and Bing Yekong forced the poison out of his body with Ultimate Ice.
• Bing Yekong crossed the poisonous miasma and a mountain, then reached the Icefire Yin-Yang Well.
• Bing Yekong searched the well for the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb and identified a large pale-pink flower as his target.

Bing Yekong took the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb from the Icefire Yin-Yang Well and traveled to the Star Luo Empire to recruit Yang Wudi and the Po Clan. After revealing his real purpose, he promised Yang Wudi that joining his faction would bring the clan benefits and revival, provoking a crushing surge of pressure.

• Bing Yekong tested the flower with poison, identified it as the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb, and stored it away.
• Bing Yekong traveled through the Star Luo Empire and traced the Po Clan to the Yang Family in a city known for medicine refining.
• Bing Yekong offered the Yang Family gatekeepers a deposit of one hundred thousand gold soul coins to secure a meeting with Yang Wudi.
• Yang Wudi brought Bing Yekong to his refining chamber and grew angry when Bing Yekong said he had not come to discuss medicinal business.
• Bing Yekong invited Yang Wudi and the Po Clan to join his faction and promised their revival, causing Yang Wudi's pressure to nearly crush him.

Bing Yekong used the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb to persuade Yang Wudi to share the Po Clan’s medicinal records and consider joining the Shui Family’s force. Yang Wudi was moved by Bing Yekong’s offer of equal status and was left assessing the young man’s authority and extraordinary talent.

• Yang Wudi confronted Bing Yekong about knowing the Po Clan, and Bing Yekong proved he was connected to the Shui Family with Shui Qingrou’s token.
• Bing Yekong revealed the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb, stunning Yang Wudi and prompting him to agree to discuss Bing Yekong’s terms.
• Bing Yekong asked to examine the Po Clan’s records on immortal herbs and high-grade medicinal herbs, and Yang Wudi lent him the booklet in exchange for a promise of secrecy.
• Bing Yekong memorized the booklet, returned it, and offered the Po Clan equal standing if it joined his force rather than subordinate status like it had under the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yang Wudi questioned whether Bing Yekong could represent the force, and Bing Yekong showed his Heavenly Frost Sword, Soul Rings, and thirty-eighth-rank soul power.

Bing Yekong recruited Yang Wudi into his force and brought him to the Icefire Yin-Yang Well to confront Dugu Bo. Yang Wudi proved immune to Dugu Bo’s poison and pierced through the Poison Douluo’s soul-power shield, leaving their fight underway.

• Yang Wudi agreed to join Bing Yekong’s force and left the Po Clan’s affairs in the elders’ hands.
• Bing Yekong persuaded Yang Wudi to accompany him to Sunset Forest, warning him they might have to fight a Titled Douluo.
• Yang Wudi wore the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Herb as they entered Dugu Bo’s poisonous territory.
• Dugu Bo confronted Bing Yekong and Yang Wudi, revealed his Jade-Scaled Serpent Emperor martial soul, and attacked Yang Wudi.
• Yang Wudi blocked Dugu Bo’s strike, charged through his toxic mist unharmed, and pierced the shield Dugu Bo raised.

Yang Wudi and Bing Yekong defeated Dugu Bo’s attacks and revealed that poison had seeped into his blood. Bing Yekong offered to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan in exchange for Dugu Bo becoming an idle guest elder, then asked to see the depths of the poisonous mist.

• Dugu Bo’s poison failed against Yang Wudi, who wounded him and drove him back with his Soul-Breaking Spear.
• Bing Yekong used Profound Ice Dragon Soar to suppress Dugu Bo’s Jade-Scaled Serpent Emperor and interrupt his eighth Soul Skill, allowing Yang Wudi to strike him again.
• Bing Yekong and Yang Wudi noticed that Dugu Bo’s blood was poisoned, and Bing Yekong offered to cure both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo asked what Bing Yekong wanted, and Bing Yekong requested that he join his faction as a guest elder without losing his freedom.
• Dugu Bo accepted the offer and led Bing Yekong toward the depths of the poisonous mist.