Chapter Summaries

Ling Jing recognized Xiao Wu when she arrived in Spirit City and learned that she had gained a human appearance by eating Illusion Grass, not through Transformation Re-cultivation. He considered how to tell Qian Xunji about her and thought about the Soul Beasts gathered around him.

• Ling Jing suspected Qian Xunji had received five top-tier Angel God trials and considered Qian Renxue’s future trials and the Angel God’s possible fate.
• Xiao Wu recognized Ling Jing across the street and hurried over to greet him.
• Ling Jing questioned whether Xiao Wu had begun Transformation Re-cultivation, and she explained that Da Ming had found Illusion Grass for her beside the Lake of Life.
• Xiao Wu showed Ling Jing her new appearance and offered him a bite of her carrot, which he declined.
• Ling Jing realized he would need to tell Qian Xunji about Xiao Wu and reflected on the Soul Beasts among his companions.

Ling Jing introduced Xiao Wu to Bibi Dong, then spent the next few years training alongside four Soul Beast “monsters.” The story shifted to six-year-old Tang San, who struggled to care for his gravely ill mother and young sister while living with his drunken father, just before his Martial Soul Awakening.

• Bibi Dong asked Ling Jing about Xiao Wu, and Ling Jing explained that she was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and his third copied Martial Soul.
• Bibi Dong accepted Xiao Wu and suggested they leave, confident the Ice Empress could keep her in line.
• Over the next few years, Ling Jing trained and faced all four “monsters” together, while the Clear Sky Sect remained sealed off.
• Tang San practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill but could not advance past its first level, and he reflected on his family's hardships.
• Tang San returned home, comforted his little sister, and agreed to fetch wine for Tang Hao after the Martial Soul Awakening ceremony.

Tang San awakened a mutated hammer martial soul and innate full soul power, while Tang Wu revealed twin martial souls and the same rare talent. Tang Zhen resolved to go home with them and confront Tang Hao about his drinking.

• Tang San awakened the Heavenly Jun Hammer, a beneficially mutated martial soul, and tested as having innate full soul power.
• Tang Wu awakened both a little black hammer and the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor martial soul, revealing twin martial souls and innate full soul power.
• Tang Zhen celebrated the twins' exceptional talents as a sign of hope for the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San told Tang Zhen that Tang Hao had sent him down the mountain to buy wine, and Tang Zhen decided to confront Tang Hao about his drinking.

After reaching rank seventy and condensing his spiritual soul core, Ling Jing traveled to the Far North to seek a seventh soul ring from a dying 190,000-year-old Heavenly Ice Snow Fox. The Snow Empress appeared and confronted the Ice Empress, demanding to know where she had been.

• Over six years, Ling Jing grew strong enough to face Bibi Dong and three great soul beasts, reached rank seventy, and condensed his spiritual soul core.
• The Ice Empress brought Ling Jing to the Far North, hoping to persuade the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox to sacrifice herself for his soul ring.
• The Ice Empress explained that the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox had no hope of reaching 200,000 years after Ah Tai damaged her foundation.
• The Snow Empress appeared in a sudden snowfall and recognized Ling Jing as the human who had defeated her years earlier.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice Empress she had searched for her for years and asked where she had been.

The Ice Empress revealed that she wanted to attain godhood alongside Ling Jing and told the Snow Empress why she had fallen for him. The group followed the Snow Empress into the Far North to find the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox, while Ling Jing considered his future soul-beast contracts.

• The Ice Empress decided she wanted to ascend to the Divine Realm with Ling Jing and hoped the Snow Empress might join them.
• The Ice Empress admitted to the Snow Empress that she had come to persuade the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox to sacrifice herself to Ling Jing, then privately explained her feelings for him.
• Bibi Dong suggested that Ling Jing choose the Snow Empress as his seventh martial soul, while Ling Jing thought about his plans to contract with the Snow Empress, Bo Saixi, and the Silver Dragon King.
• The Snow Empress led Ling Jing's group into the Far North to find the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox.
• Ling Jing learned that the Far North held at least ten other hundred-thousand-year soul beasts and that the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox possessed a particularly pure Ice God bloodline.

Ling Jing, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress met the hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year-old Heavenly Ice Snow Fox in the Far North. The fox revealed that her old injuries left her no hope of surviving the two-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, and she expected to die within a few years.

• The Snow Empress brought Ling Jing and the Ice Empress to the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox's territory and refused to help persuade the fox to sacrifice herself.
• The Ice Empress released her aura to summon the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox, who appeared in a swirl of icy wind and greeted the two Empresses warmly.
• The Heavenly Ice Snow Fox affectionately welcomed the Ice Empress, who had once saved her from the Titan Snow Demon King.
• The Ice Empress asked whether the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox could break through two hundred thousand years and become a Ferocious Beast.
• The Heavenly Ice Snow Fox said her old injuries made surviving the Heavenly Tribulation impossible and asked the Empresses to care for her tribe after she died.

The Heavenly Ice Snow Fox sacrificed herself to Ling Jing, giving him his seventh soul ring and raising his soul power to level seventy-nine. Ling Jing then used his seventh contract opportunity on the Snow Empress, evolving his martial soul to possess ultimate ice as the group prepared for his future trip to Sea God Island.

• The Ice Empress promised to protect the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox Tribe, then asked the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox to sacrifice herself to Ling Jing.
• The Heavenly Ice Snow Fox examined Ling Jing's spiritual power, agreed to the sacrifice, and asked the Ice Empress and Snow Empress to safeguard her tribe until another hundred-thousand-year soul beast appeared.
• The Heavenly Ice Snow Fox sacrificed herself, and Ling Jing absorbed her soul ring, revealing his seven-ring configuration and reaching soul power level seventy-nine.
• Ling Jing used his seventh contract opportunity on the Snow Empress, and his Mirror Beast Emperor Martial Soul evolved to possess ultimate ice.
• Ling Jing sensed that the Snow Empress's contract had also given his martial soul an unfamiliar characteristic resembling ice but subtly different.

Ling Jing absorbed the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox's Soul Bone while the Snow Empress sensed an unexplained connection to him and began to yearn for life beyond the Far North. The Ice Empress left her to ponder her feelings, and Bibi Dong asked whether the Ice God existed so Ling Jing could pursue its inheritance.

• The Ice Empress gave Ling Jing the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox's mental-type Skull and urged him to absorb it for a chance to gain the tribe's Innate Soul Skill.
• As Ling Jing absorbed the Skull, the Snow Empress asked the Ice Empress why she felt an invisible connection to him, but the Ice Empress pretended not to know.
• The Snow Empress admitted she had no plans beyond staying in the Far North, though hearing about human society stirred a new longing in her.
• The Ice Empress told Bibi Dong there was no rush to persuade the Snow Empress to leave, saying they should let the bullets fly a little longer.
• Bibi Dong asked whether the Ice God truly existed, and the Ice Empress realized she was asking about Ling Jing receiving the Ice God's Inheritance.

Bibi Dong and the Ice Empress discussed the missing Ice God inheritance, and the Ice Empress began to suspect it might lie in the Ice Sea. Ling Jing completed his Heavenly Ice Snow Fox skull fusion, gaining enormous spiritual power and two formidable Soul Bone Skills.

• Bibi Dong considered finding a godhood inheritance for Ling Jing before she ascended to the Divine Realm.
• The Ice Empress told Bibi Dong that she and Xue'er had searched the Far North without finding any Ice God ruins.
• Bibi Dong suggested the ruins might be elsewhere, leading the Ice Empress to consider the Ice Sea.
• Ling Jing awakened after fusing with the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox's skull, and his spiritual power increased substantially.
• Ling Jing explained that Mirror Flowers, Water Moon could trap weaker opponents in an illusion, while Spirit Detonation boosted his power at the cost of injuring him.
• Bibi Dong concluded that the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox Tribe likely possessed the Ice God Bloodline.

The Ice Empress persuaded the Snow Empress to accompany Ling Jing and the others to the Ice Sea in search of the Ice God's ruins. There, the Snow Empress summoned the Mermaid Clan, and the chapter ended as the Sea Princess scrutinized the group before answering her question.

• Ling Jing suggested visiting the Ice Sea to look for the Ice God's ruins, and the Ice Empress asked the Snow Empress to accompany them.
• The Snow Empress agreed to go with the group after learning they were searching for the Ice God's ruins.
• The group traveled through the Heavenly Ice Snow Foxes' territory and reached the Ice Sea.
• The Snow Empress sent a signal into the sea, summoning the Sea Princess and more than a dozen mermaids.
• The Snow Empress asked the Sea Princess whether legends spoke of the Ice God's ruins beneath the Ice Sea, and the Sea Princess studied Ling Jing and the others before replying.

The Sea Princess led the Snow Empress, Ling Jing, and their companions to the waters above the Ice God's ruins in the Ice Sea. Ling Jing found an invisible barrier blocking his spiritual probe, and the group prepared to dive and investigate.

• The Sea Princess revealed that the Ice God's ruins lay nearly a thousand meters below the Ice Sea and agreed to guide the Snow Empress there.
• The Sea Princess led Ling Jing and his companions to the open sea, then withdrew with her clanspeople after warning them she would not be responsible for dangers below.
• Ling Jing probed the water with his spiritual power, but an invisible barrier at five hundred meters prevented him from sensing the deeper waters.
• The Ice Empress arranged for herself and Bibi Dong to protect Ling Jing during the dive, while Xiao Wu looked after Ah Yin.
• The Ice Empress urged the group to dive and discover what the Ice God's ruins contained.

Ling Jing and the others reached the ruins of the Ice God beneath the sea and discovered that the deity worshipped in the Far North was an Ice Phoenix. The statue suddenly began the Ice God Trial through Ling Jing, who had never agreed to take it.

• Ice Empress, Bibi Dong, Ling Jing, Xiao Wu, Ah Yin, and Snow Empress descended through increasingly cold, spiritually oppressive seawater.
• Snow Empress led the group to a vast, ruined ice palace more than a thousand meters beneath the sea, where an invisible force kept the water out.
• Ling Jing and the others entered the palace and found a towering statue of an Ice Phoenix at the center of its empty hall.
• Snow Empress recognized the statue as the Ice God worshipped by the Soul Beasts of the Far North, while the group wondered how a Soul Beast could have become a god.
• The Ice Phoenix statue shone sky-blue light into Ling Jing and announced that his Ice God Trial was commencing, leaving him bewildered that he had never agreed to take it.

Ling Jing learned that the Ice Phoenix had chosen him to inherit the Ice God's Godhood because he could coexist peacefully with Soul Beasts. The Ice Phoenix vanished after explaining that Ling Jing would need to complete the God Trial and comprehend the ice law, leaving the trial requirements and a divine seed to appear when he awoke.

• Ling Jing told Bibi Dong and the others that a voice had announced the Ice God's God Trial, but nothing had happened afterward.
• The Ice Phoenix statue released a vast pressure and pulled Ling Jing's consciousness into an icy void.
• The Ice Phoenix explained that it had served the Dragon God, survived a Divine Realm upheaval, and created the Ice God Ruins to find a successor.
• The Ice Phoenix chose Ling Jing because he lived peacefully with Soul Beasts, and said its Godhood would make him a First-Level God unless he mastered a second law.
• The Ice Phoenix said later trials would reveal whether Ling Jing would receive a divine artifact and promised a divine seed with a new ability, then vanished.

Ling Jing awakened after accepting the Ice God's inheritance and told Bibi Dong that his trial consisted of a single challenge. The Snow Empress, persuaded by the Ice Empress, began resolving to leave the Far North and help him, while the chapter ended before Ling Jing revealed what his trial required.

• Bibi Dong and the others watched over Ling Jing as he received the Ice God's inheritance, while Xiao Wu worried about leaving her mother and Da Ming and Er Ming behind.
• The Ice Empress teased the Snow Empress and urged her to leave the Far North with Ling Jing to help him complete his God Trial.
• The Snow Empress considered entrusting the Far North to Ah Tai and gradually resolved to follow Ling Jing so she and the Ice Empress could ascend together.
• Ling Jing awakened and told Bibi Dong that the Ice God's inheritance required him to complete one God Trial to comprehend the ice law and attain godhood.
• Bibi Dong and the Ice Empress asked Ling Jing what his trial involved, and he had yet to answer.

Ling Jing learned that his Ice God Trial required him to gain the faith of more than eighty percent of all soul beasts, including those across the land and sea. The Snow Empress and Ice Empress considered how to help him, while Ling Jing received the divine skill Nirvana Rebirth.

• Ling Jing told Bibi Dong, the Snow Empress, and the Ice Empress that his God Trial required the faith of more than eighty percent of all soul beasts, and that his progress was only zero point nine percent.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress said she could secure the Far North's faith, but gaining the trust of soul beasts elsewhere would be the real challenge.
• Ling Jing considered using Gu Yuena to win over the soul beasts of Star Dou Great Forest and worried that sea soul beasts already followed the Sea God.
• Bibi Dong asked whether the Ice God's God Trial granted rewards, and Ling Jing sensed that the Ice God had given him Nirvana Rebirth.
• Ling Jing explained that Nirvana Rebirth would temporarily double his strength when his life was in danger, with a cooldown of half a year, and Bibi Dong praised the skill.

After the Ice God’s divine grace stirred the Far North, the Snow Empress announced that Ling Jing had been chosen to inherit the Ice God’s godhood. As faith from the region’s Soul Beasts strengthened Ling Jing’s divine seed, he considered seeking the Sea Soul Beasts’ faith and planned to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud before visiting Sea God Island.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress decided to return to the Far North, while the Sea Princess wondered whether to befriend the human chosen by the Ice God.
• Ah Tai and Xiaobai sensed the Ice God’s aura and knelt in reverence, as intelligent Soul Beasts across the Far North felt his descent.
• The Snow Empress announced throughout the Far North that Ling Jing had been chosen to inherit the Ice God’s godhood, and powerful Soul Beast clans accepted her news.
• The Far North’s Soul Beasts began placing their faith in Ling Jing, raising his Soul Beast faith from 0.9 percent to 10 percent.
• Ling Jing judged that the Far North could provide less than 15 percent of Soul Beast faith and decided to seek the Sea Soul Beasts’ faith by visiting Sea God Island after obtaining the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Ling Jing entered the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace with Bibi Dong, Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Ah Yin, and Xiao Wu to borrow the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. He confronted Emperor Xue Ye in the Imperial Study, where Xue Ye recognized him as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and asked what he wanted.

• Ling Jing and his companions approached the palace, and Ling Jing knocked the imperial guards unconscious with Soul Shock.
• Xue Ye worried over Spirit Hall’s growing influence and the Heaven Dou Empire’s weakening allies as he reviewed memorials.
• Ling Jing appeared in Xue Ye’s Imperial Study without setting off the palace guards, alarming the emperor.
• Xue Ye recognized Ling Jing and called for guards, but Ling Jing said no one was coming and entered the study.
• Bibi Dong, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress joined Ling Jing, and Xue Ye asked him to state his business.

Ling Jing forced Emperor Xue Ye to hand over the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, claiming he would return it after using it. Ling Jing left the Heaven Dou Palace with the treasure, while Xue Ye was left humiliated and fearful of Spirit Hall’s power.

• Ling Jing told Xue Ye he had come to borrow the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• When Xue Ye refused, the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Bibi Dong intimidated him with their power and murderous aura.
• Xue Ye opened a hidden compartment and reluctantly gave Ling Jing the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Ling Jing took the treasure and left the palace with the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Bibi Dong.
• After they departed, Xue Ye collapsed and resented Spirit Hall, but recognized that the Heaven Dou Empire could not oppose it.