Chapter Summaries

Xue Wu acquired her sixth Soul Ring, a defensive skill called Ice Armor Shield, and Huo Lei's party traveled to the Far North. When they encountered a forty-thousand-year Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad, Huo Lei volunteered to fight it so An Jun would not risk being poisoned.

• Xue Wu chose a defensive Soul Skill for her sixth ring, and Huo Lei's party hunted down a twenty-thousand-year Ice Armor Turtle for her.
• Xue Wu absorbed the Ice Armor Turtle's Soul Ring and gained the skill Ice Armor Shield; Jin Shan later found a left leg bone from a Snow Spirit Monkey King, which Xue Wu absorbed to reach level sixty-two.
• Huo Lei's party traveled north for three days, reaching the snowy edge of the Far North as the Soul Beasts grew more numerous and powerful.
• An Jun warned the group about the poisonous Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toads that inhabited the Far North's outer reaches.
• A forty-thousand-year Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad blocked the party's path, and Huo Lei stepped forward to fight it so An Jun would not risk its cold poison.

Huo Lei instantly killed a forty-thousand-year Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad, and his group continued through the forest. When a Frost Wolf Pack pursued a herd of Ice-Horned Snow Oxen past them, Jin Shan killed the pack’s fifty-thousand-year leader and defeated the remaining wolves.

• Huo Lei killed the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad with his Soul Bone Skill, and an ink-black Soul Ring appeared.
• Yunxiang gave Huo Lei a pink strawberry to restore his Soul Power, and Huo Lei estimated that four or five would replenish him from exhaustion.
• Huo Lei examined and stored the toad’s body, finding nothing, and the group continued onward.
• An hour later, Jin Shan sensed a Frost Wolf Pack chasing several hundred Ice-Horned Snow Oxen and told An Jun to protect the others.
• Jin Shan shielded the group as the oxen charged past, then killed the Frost Wolf leader with Vajra Dream-Shattering Claw.
• Jin Shan used Hundred-Claw Vajra Blade to cut down the remaining Frost Wolves, ending the battle.

Huo Lei’s group continued north through the Far North, discussing An Jun’s next Soul Ring and encountering the region’s dangers. After seeing the aurora called Lucky Light, Huo Lei revealed to Yunxiang that he had an invisible Soul Tool that could shelter the group, leaving her wondering why he had not used it sooner.

• The group found no Soul Bones among thirty-six Frost Wolves and Ice-Horned Snow Oxen, collected the bodies, and continued north.
• Huo Lei urged Jin Shan to hunt a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, and Jin Shan warned that the Far North’s ice-type beasts would make the hunt dangerous for the group.
• Around a campfire, An Jun told the others that his seventieth-thousand-year Frost Giant Ape had given him his Eighth Soul Ring.
• Yunxiang spotted the colorful Lucky Light in the sky, and An Jun explained the local legend that it brought good fortune.
• Huo Lei told Yunxiang he had an invisible Soul Tool that could enclose and protect everyone while they rested, and she asked why he had not used it sooner.

Huo Lei used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to shelter his companions overnight and conceal them as they searched deeper into the Far North. They discovered the Ice Leopard Emperor and the Snow Soul Bear King fighting over a cave, and the group watched from hiding as the battle began.

• Huo Lei enclosed himself and his five companions in the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, giving them a safe night’s rest.
• After breakfast, Huo Lei used the Shroud’s invisibility ability to conceal the group as they continued searching for Soul Beasts.
• An Jun identified two enormous beasts ahead as the Frost Snow Leopard and the Snow Soul Demon Bear, both possibly over a hundred thousand years old.
• The Snow Soul Bear King accused the Ice Leopard Emperor of breaking their agreement to share the cave, and the Ice Leopard Emperor refused to leave.
• The Snow Soul Bear King attacked the Ice Leopard Emperor while Huo Lei and his companions watched from inside the Shroud.

The Ice Leopard Emperor used his speed and concealment to wear down the Snow Soul Bear King, but the Bear King finally caught his tail and prepared a powerful counterattack. Jin Shan’s group waited for the Leopard Emperor to be badly injured so An Jun could claim his Soul Ring.

• The Ice Leopard Emperor taunted the Snow Soul Bear King and vanished with Ice and Snow Concealment, while An Jun explained that spiritual perception could reveal him.
• The Ice Leopard Emperor struck the Bear King’s hind leg, but the Bear King exposed him with Snow Blades in Flight and continued fighting with Frost Armor and Snow Soul Palm.
• The Leopard Emperor repeatedly attacked from concealment until the Bear King was covered in wounds, then battered him with his tail.
• The Bear King seized the Leopard Emperor’s tail and raised his paw for a counterblow, prompting Yunxiang to celebrate and An Jun to ask whether the strike would kill his intended Soul Ring source.
• Jin Shan told An Jun that the Bear King’s strike would likely only severely injure the Leopard Emperor and create an opportunity for them.

Huo Lei and An Jun exploited the Leopard Emperor’s exhausted state to kill it and claim its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. Jin Shan faced the Snow Soul Bear King, which asked him not to attack.

• The Leopard Emperor revealed that its blue-light technique reduced damage by seventy percent but could only be used once a day.
• Jin Shan ordered the group to attack, and Huo Lei withdrew the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and used Thunder Domain to restrain the Leopard Emperor.
• An Jun struck the Leopard Emperor with his eighth Soul Skill, Furious Ice-Shattering Fist, killing it and producing a blood-red Soul Ring.
• An Jun stored the Leopard Emperor’s body and began absorbing its Soul Ring while Huo Lei and the others guarded him.
• Jin Shan confronted the Snow Soul Bear King, which asked the human powerhouse not to attack.

Jin Shan heard the Snow Soul Bear King's offer to cooperate and learned that the Far North was protected by four powerful kings and dozens of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. The group was left to decide whether to cooperate or risk fighting the Bear King.

• Jin Shan told the Snow Soul Bear King that his group would not attack unless it attacked them first.
• The Snow Soul Bear King offered safe passage and the cave's treasure in exchange for cooperation, and warned that it would self-destruct if they tried to kill it.
• Huo Lei asked about the Four Heavenly Kings of the Far North, and the Snow Soul Bear King described their ranks, powers, and the Far North's dangers.
• The group was stunned by the Snow Soul Bear King's account, while Huo Lei realized that dozens of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts lived in the Far North.

Huo Lei negotiated a truce with the Snow Soul Bear King in exchange for access to the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, while Jin Shan stayed to guard the Bear King. An Jun awakened as a Titled Douluo, and Huo Lei warned him that the Far North held powerful Heavenly Kings and many hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.

• Huo Lei agreed to cooperate with the Snow Soul Bear King after deciding not to risk provoking the Far North's powerful soul beasts.
• Huo Lei arranged for the Bear King to remain by the cave entrance with Jin Shan while the group absorbed the treasure, and promised to provide food.
• The Snow Soul Bear King revealed that the cave contained ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow that Shui Bing'er and two others could absorb over time.
• An Jun completed his ninth soul ring, advanced to rank ninety-one Titled Douluo, and chose the title Snow Leopard Douluo.
• Huo Lei told An Jun about the Bear King's account of the Far North's Heavenly Kings and numerous hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, leaving An Jun shocked.

Huo Lei and An Jun entered the cave to investigate the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and discovered that its extreme cold weakened their spiritual power and drained Huo Lei's Soul Power. Huo Lei saw the treasure at the cave's bottom but worried that Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu would be unable to endure the cold.

• Huo Lei and An Jun chose to investigate the cave before Huo Lei fused with the Ice Leopard Emperor's Soul Bone, while Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, Yunxiang, and Jin Shan stayed outside.
• The Snow Soul Bear King warned Huo Lei that he might not withstand the cave's temperature and told him the cave was about three hundred meters deep, with the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow at the end.
• Huo Lei and An Jun found that the powerful ice attribute hindered their spiritual perception, so they advanced through the dark cave using Huo Lei's Flame Martial Soul and Lava Armor for light and protection.
• When Huo Lei could no longer withstand the cold, An Jun transferred Soul Power to him, and Huo Lei used his spiritual power and Fiery Golden Eyes to see the cave's bottom.
• Huo Lei saw thirty-six pure-white ice pillars containing flowing liquid and told An Jun he was concerned that Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu could not approach the treasure safely.

Huo Lei and An Jun failed to break the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, leaving Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unable to absorb it for now. An Jun absorbed the Ice Leopard Emperor's Soul Bone and returned with a surprising Trunk Bone.

• Huo Lei left the cave after reaching only its middle section, then told Shui Bing'er that the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow lay deeper inside and that An Jun was trying to retrieve it.
• Huo Lei asked the Snow Soul Bear King whether a Titled Douluo could break the marrow, and the Bear King said he had failed to break it himself.
• An Jun returned from the cave and reported that he could not break the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Huo Lei suggested that An Jun absorb the Ice Leopard Emperor's Soul Bone, then gave the Snow Soul Bear King six Frost Wolf bodies and went back into the cave with the three women to devise a way to absorb the marrow.
• An Jun emerged an hour later and revealed that the Ice Leopard Emperor had yielded a Trunk Bone, surprising everyone because it was an agility-type Soul Beast.

After absorbing the Ice Leopard Emperor's Trunk Bone, An Jun reached level ninety-three and helped Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu absorb power from the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. The transfer succeeded, and Huo Lei flew back to the cave entrance while An Jun stayed with the two women.

• An Jun explained that he already possessed three Soul Bones and revealed that absorbing the Ice Leopard Emperor's Trunk Bone had raised him to level ninety-three.
• Huo Lei proposed that An Jun absorb the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and transfer its power to Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu.
• Huo Lei, An Jun, Shui Bing'er, and Xue Wu entered the cave, where Xue Wu asked to stop a third of the way in because the cold was too intense.
• An Jun returned from the cave's depths and transferred the ice-attribute power he had stored in his palms to Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu awoke from cultivation and confirmed that the transfer had worked, while Huo Lei flew toward the cave entrance after saying his Soul Power was nearly exhausted.

Huo Lei returned from the cave and proposed that Yunxiang might benefit from the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow by copying an ice-attribute Martial Soul and having someone filter the energy for her. After half a month of cultivation, Shui Bing'er reached Level 70, Xue Wu rose to Level 66, and An Jun reached the peak of Level 93, leaving them ready to pause so Shui Bing'er could obtain her Seventh Soul Ring.

• Huo Lei told Yunxiang that the three cultivators had successfully begun using the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, and he suggested her copied ice-attribute Martial Soul might let her benefit from it too.
• Huo Lei reasoned that An Jun or Shui Bing'er could filter the ice energy before transferring it to Yunxiang, and Yunxiang grew hopeful about the possibility.
• During the next half month, Huo Lei prepared food while Yunxiang made support strawberries, and the Snow Soul Bear King healed and grew closer to the group.
• Shui Bing'er advanced from Level 62 to Level 70, while Xue Wu rose from Level 62 to Level 66 and An Jun reached the peak of Level 93.
• Shui Bing'er, Xue Wu, and An Jun stopped absorbing the marrow for a short rest because Shui Bing'er had reached Level 70 and needed her Seventh Soul Ring.

Huo Lei, Shui Bing'er, and An Jun traveled into the Far North to find Shui Bing'er a Seventh Soul Ring, with Huo Lei explaining why her Ultimate Ice physique could withstand a sixty-thousand-year Soul Ring. They found a swarm of Ice Jade Scorpions and stopped nearby to examine them.

• Yunxiang offered Huo Lei, Shui Bing'er, and An Jun pink strawberries before they set out, and Jin Shan urged them to take the supplies.
• Huo Lei asked An Jun about the ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, learning that they had used six of the thirty remaining pillars.
• Huo Lei concealed the trio with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as they traveled into an area frequented by sixty-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
• Huo Lei told Shui Bing'er that her Ultimate Ice Martial Soul and strengthened physique made a sixty-thousand-year Seventh Soul Ring possible, and An Jun reassured her.
• An Jun spotted an Ice Jade Scorpion swarm, described the clan's traits and its connection to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and Huo Lei brought them close to observe the nine scorpions.
• Shui Bing'er asked An Jun how to distinguish the Ice Jade Scorpions' cultivation ages.

Huo Lei and Shui Bing'er faced a sixty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion leader, whose Ice Explosion nearly caught them off guard. Shui Bing'er killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring while Huo Lei concealed the group and the corpse.

• An Jun estimated the Ice Jade Scorpion leader’s cultivation at around sixty thousand years, and Huo Lei prepared to let Shui Bing'er claim it as her seventh Soul Ring.
• Huo Lei’s lightning killed the eight smaller Ice Jade Scorpions, but the leader retaliated with Ice Explosion, blasting a huge crater into the ground before An Jun carried Huo Lei and Shui Bing'er out of danger.
• Huo Lei suspected the leader was the original owner of a valuable Left Arm Bone and urged Shui Bing'er to attack it from the air.
• Shui Bing'er’s Ice Cone Rain could not penetrate the leader’s defenses, so An Jun told her to target its eyes; she destroyed them and killed it.
• Shui Bing'er began absorbing the leader’s Soul Ring as Huo Lei stored the other scorpions and used the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to conceal the group and the leader’s body.

After Shui Bing'er absorbed the Ice Jade Scorpion’s Soul Ring, An Jun found a rare left arm Soul Bone inside its left pincer and gave it to her to absorb. As Shui Bing'er began, An Jun and Huo Lei praised her prospects and reaffirmed their mutual support.

• Shui Bing'er finished absorbing the sixty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Ring and said her Soul Power had nearly reached rank seventy-two.
• An Jun examined the Ice Jade Scorpion leader and found a jade-green left arm Soul Bone inside its left pincer.
• An Jun gave the Soul Bone to Shui Bing'er, who began absorbing it while Huo Lei stored the Ice Jade Scorpion’s body in his Storage Ring.
• An Jun praised Shui Bing'er’s talent and predicted she could become a powerful Soul Master, and Huo Lei praised An Jun’s strength in return.
• An Jun promised Huo Lei that he would spare no effort to help him in the future.

Shui Bing'er fused with the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone and gained the powerful Ice Explosion skill, which she tested on a herd of Ice-Armored Pigs during the return journey. After the group reached their cave and shared a meal, Huo Lei miscalculated his morning chores and rushed out to heat water.

• Shui Bing'er fused with the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, advanced to rank seventy-three, and learned Ice Explosion.
• Shui Bing'er explained that Ice Explosion required an opponent to touch ice, enough Soul Power, and spiritual power, and that its range could reach about a hundred meters.
• Huo Lei, An Jun, and Shui Bing'er encountered eight Ice-Armored Pigs, and Shui Bing'er killed the herd with one Ice Explosion.
• Huo Lei and his companions returned to the cave before nightfall and enjoyed roasted Ice-Armored Pig meat while recounting their hunt.
• Huo Lei rose early to roast pork, then hurried out to fetch ice and snow for washing water after Yunxiang reminded him he had forgotten it.

After a month of cultivating with ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, An Jun, Shui Bing'er, and Xue Wu all broke through. Huo Lei proposed strengthening Shui Bing'er with more soul bones before she attempted a hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring, and the group set out to hunt soul beasts and search for soul bones.

• After a month of cultivation, An Jun reached the peak of rank ninety-four, Shui Bing'er reached the peak of rank seventy-nine, and Xue Wu reached the peak of rank sixty-nine.
• An Jun, Shui Bing'er, and Xue Wu emerged from the cave and announced that all three had broken through.
• Huo Lei proposed that Shui Bing'er attempt a hundred-thousand-year eighth soul ring, and Jin Shan advised obtaining two more soul bones before deciding.
• Huo Lei led a party of five away from the Snow Soul Bear King's territory to hunt for Huo Wu's seventh soul ring and soul bones for Shui Bing'er.
• Shui Bing'er used Ice Explosion from a hundred meters away to nearly incapacitate an eighty-thousand-year Ice-Cold Snow Lion, astonishing the group.

Shui Bing'er and Huo Lei's group hunted soul beasts in the Far North, finding her an Ice Bear Right Arm Bone while searching for a seventh soul ring for Xue Wu. They spotted a rare Ice Dream Snow Fox chasing a Snow Spirit Rabbit, and the fox's roar suddenly brought its prey down.

• Shui Bing'er killed an eighty-thousand-year Ice-Cold Snow Lion and a seventy-thousand-year Ice Armor Python with Ice Explosion, but neither yielded a soul bone.
• Huo Lei's group killed an Ice Bear that yielded a right arm soul bone, which Shui Bing'er stored before they continued south to find Xue Wu a soul ring.
• Huo Lei's group entered the fifty-thousand-year soul beast region and passed a Snow-Crying Deer herd whose deer king was too young.
• An Jun identified a thirty-thousand-year Snow Spirit Rabbit and a rare Ice Dream Snow Fox nearing fifty thousand years, which could suit Xue Wu's seventh soul ring.
• Huo Lei told the group to watch the chase before intervening, and the Ice Dream Snow Fox used a roar to knock the Snow Spirit Rabbit down and catch it.

Huo Lei and An Jun intervened when a Howling Sky Ultimate Ice Eagle attacked an Ice Dream Snow Fox that Xue Wu needed for her Seventh Soul Ring. Xue Wu absorbed the fox’s Soul Ring, while An Jun determined the eagle had sixty thousand years of cultivation.

• An Jun identified the Ice Dream Snow Fox and the circling Howling Sky Ultimate Ice Eagle, then urged Huo Lei to use the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to protect the fox for Xue Wu.
• Huo Lei concealed the group and moved them beside the Ice Dream Snow Fox as the eagle descended; An Jun recalled that a similar eagle had killed one of his subordinates years earlier.
• When the eagle dived, Huo Lei expanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud around the fox and rabbit’s body, and An Jun restrained the fox with his Super Douluo pressure.
• The Howling Sky Ultimate Ice Eagle crashed into the shroud, and Huo Lei killed it with his Thunder Domain.
• Xue Wu killed the restrained Ice Dream Snow Fox and began absorbing its Seventh Soul Ring.
• An Jun examined the eagle and its Soul Ring, then identified it as a sixty-thousand-year Howling Sky Ultimate Ice Eagle.

Huo Lei’s group secured a sixty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone for Shui Bing’er and helped Xue Wu become a Soul Sage. The next morning, they chose to hunt a nearby Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for Shui Bing’er, with Huo Lei, Shui Bing’er, and Jin Shan setting out while the others stayed behind.

• Huo Lei extracted a Head Soul Bone from the Howling Sky Ultimate Ice Eagle and gave it to Shui Bing’er to absorb.
• Shui Bing’er finished absorbing the Soul Bone, and Xue Wu completed her Soul Ring absorption and became a Soul Sage.
• The group returned to the cave, where Shui Bing’er later absorbed the Ice Bear’s Right Arm Bone.
• The Snow Soul Bear King told Huo Lei about the nearby Ice-Congealing Willow Emperor and Cold Ice Crocodile King and described their strengths.
• Huo Lei and his companions decided that he, Shui Bing’er, and Jin Shan would hunt one of the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts while An Jun, Xue Wu, and Yunxiang remained in the cave.