Chapter Summaries

Lin You and Huo Yuhao discovered that a Sun Moon Empire advance team had been frozen in the Far North, then faced an attack by powerful Ice Worms. Lin You used White Phosphorus Fire and Liquid Oxygen to burn two of the beasts to death, while the others retreated underground.

• Lin You concluded that the frozen team members had been sent by the Sun Moon Empire and had been sealed in ice by Snow Empress.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected Ice Worms beneath the ice and warned Lin You and Huo Yuhao that the beasts hunted by sensing ground vibrations.
• Lin You activated a Soul Tool shield, but the Ice Worms' corrosive acid melted through it, and Huo Yuhao's flamethrower could not stop the attack.
• Lin You added White Phosphorus Fire and Liquid Oxygen to the flamethrower, greatly intensifying its flames and burning two Ice Worms to death.
• The surviving injured Ice Worms burrowed away, and two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings rose from the corpses.

Lin You and Huo Yuhao drove off an ice worm and recovered a cache of Sun Moon Empire Soul Guidance Devices from the frozen battlefield. They identified five valuable devices, including a Level 8 necklace, and prepared to study their functions despite lacking the soul power to use them.

• Lin You exhausted his soul power while using liquid oxygen and Phosphorus Fire to drive back the ice worm, then complained to Brother Sky Dream for not warning him sooner.
• Brother Sky Dream explained that they had to fight the ice worms to loot the nest, and Lin You and Huo Yuhao began searching the site.
• Lin You and Huo Yuhao gathered a large pile of intact Soul Guidance Devices from the Sun Moon Empire Vanguard's century-old remains.
• Brother Sky Dream helped them identify a Level 6 healing bracelet and a pair of Level 6 detection boots called the Extreme Cold Tracker.
• Lin You and Huo Yuhao learned about two Level 7 devices: a protective belt and the Ice Flame Bombardment Gloves, which combined could produce Level 8-level damage.
• They found a Level 8 Soul Guidance Device, but their soul power was too low to use it, leaving its value in study and dismantling.

Lin You and Huo Yuchan examined a powerful ice necklace, then followed the Ice Sculptures’ footprints to a hundred-year-old Icebreaker Ship frozen in the Endless Ice Sea. They decided to board it and search for salvage, including its propulsion core.

• Lin You and Huo Yuchan found a silver necklace containing twelve Ice Soul Crystals, and Brother Sky Dream advised them to save it for study at Shrek Academy.
• Lin You and Huo Yuchan activated the necklace, which briefly created an Absolute Low Temperature Field before draining their Soul Power.
• Lin You, Huo Yuchan, and Brother Sky Dream followed the Ice Sculptures’ footprints through the Far North and reached the Endless Ice Sea.
• Lin You and Huo Yuchan found a huge Icebreaker Ship frozen into an iceberg, its hull and propulsion core damaged by a century of ice.
• Huo Yuchan wanted to salvage the propulsion core, and Lin You suggested they board the ship and search for valuables.

Lin You and Huo Yuhao explored an abandoned Sun Moon Empire icebreaker in the Far North, salvaging valuable Soul Device technology and Rare Metals. After collecting a Rank Nine propulsion core, they prepared to enter the Far North’s core region.

• Lin You explored the cockpit, dismantled its machinery, and collected advanced Soul Device technology for Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao found Ice Soul Cold Iron and other Rare Metals in the laboratory, then gathered more than ten tons of materials.
• Huo Yuhao explored the ruined living quarters, warehouse, and infirmary, imagining the tragedy of the ship’s final battle before rejoining Lin You.
• Lin You and Huo Yuhao inspected the stern, where Brother Sky Dream identified the ship’s propulsion core as a Rank Nine Soul Device.
• Lin You and Huo Yuhao returned with their Sapphire Rings full, and Brother Sky Dream said they had reached the Far North’s core region and could begin their task.

Tian Meng led Lin You and Huo Yuhao to a safer place in the Far North to prepare to draw out Ice Empress and give Huo Yuhao a second Martial Soul. As Tian Meng returned, Huo Yuhao’s fear turned into fierce determination to succeed.

• Tian Meng warned Lin You and Huo Yuhao that Snow Empress might still be nearby, so they moved away from her territory.
• Lin You lamented that he could not find a suitable Soul Ring, while Tian Meng promised to arrange one and a soul bone for him.
• Tian Meng led them to a safe ice field, dug a cave, and explained that he would lure out Ice Empress and use his remains to negotiate the second Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao admitted she was afraid, and Lin You comforted her as she clung to him.
• When Lin You suggested that he would be alone at the academy if she failed, Huo Yuhao’s fighting spirit surged and she urged Tian Meng to begin.
• Tian Meng returned, saw Huo Yuhao’s transformed determination, and stared in shock.

Tian Meng used his perfected Tianmeng Divine Skill to ambush and capture the Ice Empress, then prepared to flee with Huo Yuhao and Lin You before her clansmen arrived. Lin You brought ice-crystal skis for their escape.

• At Huo Yuhao's urging, Tian Meng released his Spiritual Power and created a radiant golden spectacle that drew the Ice Empress's attention.
• Tian Meng challenged the Ice Empress with a boastful poem and flirtatious declarations while she approached through the emerald sky.
• The Ice Empress appeared in her Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion form and threatened to use Tian Meng to break through her four-hundred-thousand-year limit.
• Tian Meng briefly restrained the Ice Empress with his Spiritual Power, wrapped her in a shed shell, and made her vanish.
• Tian Meng said they needed to escape before the Ice Empress's clansmen arrived, and Lin You produced ice-crystal skis.

Huo Yuhao, Lin You, and Brother Sky Dream reached the outskirts of the Far North, where Brother Sky Dream warned Huo Yuhao about the pain of integrating Ice Empress and asked if she was ready. After Huo Yuhao showed fierce resolve, Brother Sky Dream presented his God-Making Plan to Ice Empress and forced her to choose between risking the plan and facing death within a century.

• Lin You and Huo Yuhao fled the Far North’s core region and rested safely on its outskirts.
• Brother Sky Dream questioned whether Huo Yuhao could endure the pain of Ice Empress’s integration, and Huo Yuhao answered with unwavering resolve.
• Brother Sky Dream released Ice Empress from the golden disc and told her about his God-Making Plan.
• Ice Empress resisted, but Brother Sky Dream argued that becoming a god was her only chance to escape her approaching death.
• Brother Sky Dream demanded that Ice Empress choose between a fifty-percent chance of creating a god and perishing in the coming catastrophe.

The Ice Empress saw Tian Meng’s memories of her previous life and rejected the idea that her feelings and choices were predetermined, though she agreed to become Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit. She chose a different path from the one in those memories, beginning with an Ice Jade Scorpion Tail External Soul Bone and planning to seek the Snow Empress.

• Tian Meng shared his past-life memories with the Ice Empress, showing her a future in which Soul Beasts could not become gods and she fell in love with him.
• The Ice Empress refused to accept a predetermined life or Tian Meng’s claim on her feelings, but agreed to become a Soul Spirit.
• Tian Meng and the Ice Empress released their spiritual origins, and Tian Meng brought her into Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• The Ice Empress approved of Huo Yuhao as her host and urged Tian Meng to begin their plan to seek the Snow Empress.
• The Ice Empress chose to become Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul and have her soul bone take the form of an Ice Jade Scorpion Tail External Soul Bone.

Huo Yuhao endured the painful fusion of Ice Empress’s Ice Jade Scorpion Tail External Soul Bone, drawing strength from her feelings for Lin You. After hours of torment, the fusion was completed and refined.

• Huo Yuhao agreed to accept Ice Empress’s Ice Jade Scorpion Tail External Soul Bone and refused to have the pain numbed by cold.
• Ice Empress pierced Huo Yuhao’s tailbone with her tail spike and began fusing her power into Huo Yuhao’s spine.
• Huo Yuhao endured the agony by thinking of Lin You, and Lin You supported her as the pain intensified.
• Ice Empress warned Huo Yuhao that sealing her power into the bone marrow would bring another two hours of discomfort.
• Huo Yuhao endured the final stage, and the Soul Bone fusion was completed and refined.

Huo Yuhao endured the Ice Empress’s fusion and gained her as a second Martial Soul, along with a powerful External Soul Bone and Soul Ring. After waking and showing Lin You her transformation, she led him deeper into the Far North to help him obtain his second Soul Ring.

• Huo Yuhao survived the Ice Empress’s prolonged torment as her body strengthened and her new External Soul Bone emerged as a five-segment scorpion tail.
• At Huo Yuhao’s request, Ice Empress began the Martial Soul Fusion while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm guarded their spiritual origins and compressed her power.
• Huo Yuhao awoke in the ice house, confirmed she had succeeded, and proudly showed Lin You her scorpion tail.
• Huo Yuhao displayed her blood-red Soul Ring with four golden patterns and the changes to her arms and tail on the Ice Field.
• Huo Yuhao led Lin You farther into the Far North to help him obtain his second Soul Ring.

Huo Yuhao and Lin You traveled deeper into the Far North to find a suitable soul beast, but Huo Yuhao's Ice Empress aura startled the Ice Silkworms. After defeating a five-thousand-year Ice Silkworm King, she drew its soul ring toward herself.

• Huo Yuhao showed Lin You her new Ice Empress-like appearance and said they would search for an attribute-less soul beast and its Ice Silkworm kin before heading to the Snow Empress's territory.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected a thousand-year Ice Silkworm, but advised Huo Yuhao to let it go because it was too weak for her.
• Sky Dream located a five-thousand-year Ice Silkworm King, and Huo Yuhao demonstrated her Eternal Frozen Domain by blasting apart part of its ice mountain.
• Tens of thousands of Ice Silkworms feigned death, while the Ice Silkworm King used Simulation to flee and imitate an Ice Jade Scorpion.
• Huo Yuhao caught and killed the Ice Silkworm King, rousing the furious Ice Empress, then beckoned its deep purple soul ring toward herself.

Huo Yuhao absorbed a five-thousand-year Ice Silkworm soul ring and gained a powerful Simulation soul skill. After hearing about the Floating Ice Jellyfish from Tian Meng, Lin You traveled with Huo Yuhao back to the Far North’s core region to seek his second soul ring.

• Tian Meng told Lin You about the Floating Ice Jellyfish, whose life cycle let it be reborn after failing its Heavenly Tribulation.
• Huo Yuhao awoke after successfully absorbing the Ice Silkworm soul ring and explained how her Simulation skill could change appearances, surroundings, and perceptions.
• Huo Yuhao simulated Ice Empress’s form and aura, startling Lin You before admitting she needed time to practice her new soul skill.
• Lin You set out to obtain his second soul ring, and he and Huo Yuhao traveled for a day to the Far North near the Endless Ice Sea.
• Huo Yuhao, disguised as Ma Xiaotao, enjoyed the freezing air as they arrived in the region.

Lin You and Huo Yuhao encountered a powerful Floating Ice Jellyfish while crossing the Far North's ice sea. After Huo Yuhao and Lin You injured it, the jellyfish tried to suck them into its mouth, and Lin You prepared to use White Phosphorus Fire.

• Huo Yuhao teased Lin You by changing her appearance to Ning Tian and then Wang Dong.
• Lin You spotted a Floating Ice Jellyfish, and he and Huo Yuhao pursued it across the ice sea.
• Huo Yuhao sensed something beneath the ice, and a giant Floating Ice Jellyfish burst out and attacked them.
• Huo Yuhao froze and severed several tentacles, while Lin You burned away the jellyfish's venom with White Phosphorus Fire.
• The Floating Ice Jellyfish sacrificed its burning tentacles and tried to suck Lin You and Huo Yuhao into its mouth, prompting Lin You to conjure more phosphorus fire.

Lin You killed the Floating Ice Jellyfish with his improvised Bone Spirit Cold Fire and began absorbing its three-thousand-year Soul Ring. As the ring’s regenerative power formed a mysterious seed within him, Huo Yuhao and the Soul Beasts watched, and Lin You opened his eyes at twilight.

• Lin You used ice and liquid oxygen to contain White Phosphorus Fire, then sent the resulting Bone Spirit Cold Fire into the Floating Ice Jellyfish and killed it.
• Lin You drew in the jellyfish’s purple Soul Ring and began absorbing its power, enduring a violent surge that expelled the elements from his body.
• Lin You sensed the Soul Ring’s immense vitality forming a seed inside him and suspected it could allow him to revive, though he doubted it would save him from a fatal attack.
• Ice Empress praised Lin You’s strength, and Brother Sky Dream recounted his achievements at Shrek Academy, leaving Ice Empress stunned.
• Ice Empress mocked Tian Meng for lacking Lin You’s ability, and Lin You opened his eyes after the long absorption as twilight settled over the sky.

Lin You tested the Floating Ice Jellyfish’s Soul Skill and discovered that the Soul Ring had formed a Seed of Reincarnation inside him. Ice Empress explained its value to Soul Beasts, while Lin You learned it would not bring him back to life as himself.

• Huo Yuhao watched the dawn aurora as Lin You completed his second three-thousand-year Soul Ring from the Floating Ice Jellyfish.
• Lin You tested Floating Lantern Illusion Sea, which could confuse opponents, disrupt their minds, detonate for physical and spiritual damage, and briefly shield him, but consumed a quarter of his Soul Power in under ten seconds.
• Lin You sensed a Seed of Reincarnation inside his body and learned it would create a new being with nearly the same bloodline, not revive him.
• Ice Empress explained that a Seed of Reincarnation could give a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast another chance to cultivate after failing a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Ice Empress became envious of Lin You’s luck and lamented that she could not obtain a Seed of Reincarnation or taste Ice Marrow.

Lin You and Huo Yu Chan continued deeper into the Far North toward the Snow Empress’s territory, while Kong Deming returned to the abandoned Icebreaker Ship and discovered that someone had stolen his prized necklace. He tracked the Permafrost Core Necklace and set off after the thieves.

• Lin You found that the Calcium Element had almost awakened and estimated that his Soul Power had reached level twenty-two.
• The Ice Empress instructed Huo Yu Chan to release her soul bone’s aura as they traveled toward Snowy Plains Sky to find the Snow Empress.
• A day later, Kong Deming arrived at the abandoned Icebreaker Ship and remembered how the Snow Empress had killed his companions a century earlier.
• Kong Deming discovered that the ship’s Soul Propulsion Core and his Permafrost Core Necklace were missing, and grew furious at the thieves.
• Kong Deming used a tracking device linked to the necklace and sped off to pursue its new owner.

Lin You and Huo Yuhao fled after Brother Sky Dream realized the Permafrost Core Necklace had drawn Kong Deming to them. Kong Deming recovered the necklace but was confronted by Snow Empress in Snowy Plains Sky.

• Ice Empress told Lin You and Huo Yuhao that the frozen shapes across Snowy Plains Sky were Soul Beasts that had trespassed into Snow Empress's territory.
• Brother Sky Dream sensed a powerful pursuer approaching and recognized that the Permafrost Core Necklace had drawn him toward them.
• Lin You threw the necklace into the snow, and he and Huo Yuhao ran away.
• Kong Deming found the necklace and considered pursuing the two thieves, but decided to leave rather than risk becoming trapped in Snow Empress's territory.
• A four-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast's aura rose, Snow Empress answered from the depths, and Kong Deming prepared to face her as she appeared.

Snow Empress defeated Kong Deming in the Far North after he attacked her to avenge his teacher and father, then returned to call for Bing Er. Lin You and Huo Yuhao emerged from hiding, pleased to see her return.

• Kong Deming confronted Snow Empress over the Sun Moon Empire Vanguard, but she did not remember killing his teacher and father a century earlier.
• Kong Deming trapped Snow Empress inside the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, but she froze it with Ice and Snow Cold Sky Dance and split it with Emperor Sword: Ice Pinnacle Peerless.
• Snow Empress attacked Kong Deming with an ice crystal sphere, forcing him to use Light's Protection and flee while she destroyed his soul guidance devices.
• Kong Deming escaped the Far North after losing seven Rank Nine devices and more than thirty Rank Eight defensive devices, and he vowed never to return.
• Snow Empress returned to the Snowy Plains Sky and called for Bing Er, prompting Lin You and Huo Yuhao to emerge from the snow.

Ice Empress reunited with Snow Empress and shared memories of the future, urging her to become a Soul Spirit and survive rather than face her coming tribulation. After Electrolux appeared and confirmed the danger, Snow Empress finally began to accept their invitation.

• Snow Empress prepared to freeze Huo Yuhao and Lin You, but Ice Empress stopped her and embraced her in spectral form.
• Ice Empress introduced Huo Yuhao as her host and shared her future memories with Snow Empress, who learned that Ice Empress had become a Soul Spirit.
• Snow Empress threatened to avenge Ice Empress, but Ice Empress explained that she wanted Snow Empress to live and join her as a Soul Spirit.
• Snow Empress argued that she could survive by using Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow or a 100,000 Year Snow Lotus, but Ice Empress warned that Soul Beasts could not become gods and Snow Empress would not survive the 700,000-year limit.
• Electrolux appeared through Huo Yuhao and invited Snow Empress to choose the path of survival; after considering her coming tribulations, Snow Empress said she understood.

The Snow Empress agreed to leave the Far North with Huo Yuhao and Lin You, while postponing her transformation into a Soul Spirit until Huo Yuhao became stronger. As they headed toward Beijiang City, she began exploring human life and changing her clothes.

• The Snow Empress told Huo Yuhao and Lin You she wanted to change their future and proposed becoming a Soul Spirit later, after Huo Yuhao could absorb her Soul Ring and soul bone.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked the Snow Empress for a soul bone, and she gave Lin You an ice-attribute Torso Bone.
• The Snow Empress asked Huo Yuhao and Lin You to accompany her to the human world, and they agreed to take her to Shrek City.
• The Snow Empress transported the group to the outskirts of the Far North, said goodbye to her homeland, and left with them.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that the Snow Empress wear shoes, and she tried ice-crystal heels before changing into boots like his.
• The Snow Empress experimented with different outfits as they approached Beijiang City and encountered more people on the road.