Chapter Summaries

Dai Youheng reached level sixty and prepared to hunt for his sixth Soul Ring. He chose the Far North and a hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger as his target, leaving with Ling Ya and Nana while expecting another powerful ally to join them.

• Dai Youheng broke through to level sixty in the Princess's Mansion's Simulated Cultivation Ground.
• Xu Jiujiu congratulated Dai Youheng, and Ling Ya offered to protect him on his Soul Ring hunt.
• Dai Youheng and Ling Ya left Star Luo City the next morning, where Nana joined them.
• Dai Youheng rejected the Star Dou Great Forest and chose the Far North, postponing his plans for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dai Youheng revealed his plan to hunt a hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger, and Ling Ya and Nana pledged their loyalty.

Dai Youheng, Nana, and Ling Ya reached the Far North’s core and waited at the Ice Crystal Castle for the Snow Empress’s reinforcements. After scolding Xiao Bai for neglecting the castle, the Snow Empress summoned A-Tai and revealed that she and the Ice Empress had sacrificed themselves to humans, then asked him to help with her plans.

• Dai Youheng, Nana, and Ling Ya stayed at the Ice Crystal Castle while avoiding a reckless search for the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger.
• The Snow Empress grew furious when Xiao Bai returned after more than half a year away and lectured her for an hour.
• The Snow Empress sent Xiao Bai to fetch A-Tai, who arrived at the castle as the Titan Snow Demon King.
• The Snow Empress told A-Tai that she and the Ice Empress had sacrificed themselves to humans and that she had a plan to return to life.
• A-Tai accepted the Snow Empress’s request for help without hesitation.

The Snow Empress made A-Tai acting King of the Far North and enlisted him and Xiaobai to help Dai Youheng hunt an Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger. During a month of preparation, Dai Youheng created a new saber art, leaving the group ready to face the hidden tiger race.

• The Snow Empress appointed A-Tai acting King of the Far North and asked him and Xiaobai to help hold off the Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers' possible chief while Dai Youheng hunted a hundred-thousand-year tiger.
• A-Tai agreed, and the Snow Empress offered him and Xiaobai pills that temporarily granted Ultimate Ice and doubled their physical attributes before teaching them Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow.
• The Snow Empress theorized that a treasure in the icy abyss concealed the tigers from heavenly tribulations, but that the current chief could not have surpassed five hundred thousand years.
• A-Tai, Xiaobai, and Ling Ya trained in Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow for a month while Dai Youheng studied the Emperor Sword's intent.
• Dai Youheng fused the Emperor Sword's core intent with his saber techniques and created Emperor Saber: Frost Severing the World, which the Snow Empress praised as a formidable art.

Dai Youheng lured the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger to the old glacier battlefield, where it emerged with its far more powerful father, the Second-Generation Ice Prison Tiger King. The Ice Prison Tiger King’s Darkness Zone suppressed the battlefield as Dai Youheng and his allies prepared to fight.

• Dai Youheng led Xiaobai, A-Tai, Ling Ya, and Nana back to the old battlefield and had them conceal themselves while he used the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body to lure the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger.
• The Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger recognized Dai Youheng’s aura and prepared to attack, but its father stopped it and chose to lead the assault himself.
• Dai Youheng sensed the two tigers approaching and warned his allies as the glacier burst apart.
• The Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger emerged with the enormous Second-Generation Ice Prison Tiger King, who unleashed a Darkness Zone that suppressed the surrounding energy and light.
• Dai Youheng gripped the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

The Snow Empress’s allies fought two Ice Prison Tiger Kings, with A-Tai and Xiaobai holding off the stronger Tiger King while Ling Ya and Nana attacked the hundred-thousand-year tiger. Nana’s Netherworld End targeted the cracks in its armor, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Snow Empress assessed the stronger Tiger King and assigned A-Tai and Xiaobai to hold it back while Ling Ya and Nana fought the other tiger and Dai Youheng waited for an opening.
• A-Tai and Xiaobai used their pills to gain ultimate ice and battled the Tiger King, blocking its attacks and preventing it from breaking through their defense.
• Nana used Soul Threads to hinder the hundred-thousand-year tiger while Ling Ya transformed into his Ice Feather Eagle King avatar and attacked it with ice skills.
• Nana’s Ghost Scream dazed the tiger, allowing Ling Ya to trap it in Thousand-Feather Ice Prison and crack its armor with Frost Giant Strength.
• Nana disrupted the tiger with her Illusory Domain and fired Netherworld End at the cracks in its shoulder armor.

Ling Ya, Nana, and Dai Youheng killed the hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger, and Dai Youheng began absorbing its soul ring and right arm bone. As he endured the soul ring’s deadly power, Xiao Bai and A-Tai struggled to hold off the enraged Tiger King.

• Ling Ya wounded the Ice Prison Tiger with Netherworld End, then deepened its injuries with Permafrost Claw and Ice Explosion while Nana disrupted its soul.
• Nana and Ling Ya interrupted the Ice Prison Tiger’s Extreme Abyss Roar, giving Dai Youheng the opening to destroy it with Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and Emperor Saber: Frost Severing the World.
• The Ice Prison Tiger died and left a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right arm bone, while the Tiger King went berserk after sensing its son’s death.
• Dai Youheng began absorbing the soul ring as Ling Ya and Nana guarded him, and the Snow Empress helped him withstand its physical and spiritual assault.
• Xiao Bai and A-Tai fought to keep the wounded Tiger King away from Dai Youheng while he endured the painful absorption.

Dai Youheng completed the absorption of the Ice Prison Tiger King's hundred-thousand-year soul ring and the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger Right Arm Bone, then helped drive the wounded Tiger King into the Glacial Abyss. Back at Snow Empress Castle, he began using the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body method to pursue a second awakening of his evil shadow demon tiger martial soul.

• Ling Ya rejoined the fight while Nana guarded Dai Youheng as he absorbed the soul ring and soul bone.
• Dai Youheng reached rank sixty-four, became a six-ring Battle Soul Emperor, and gained the Abyssal Ice Prison Claw.
• Dai Youheng and Nana joined Xiao Bai, A-Tai, and Ling Ya in attacking the Ice Prison Tiger King, whose defenses Dai Youheng's claw could ignore.
• The Ice Prison Tiger King used Extreme Abyss Roar to force the group back, then escaped into the Glacial Abyss with Abyssal Stealth.
• The exhausted group returned to Snow Empress Castle, where Dai Youheng began circulating the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body method to awaken his martial soul further.

Dai Youheng completed his second awakening, evolving his evil shadow demon tiger into the Abyssal Demon Tiger, a martial soul of ultimate evil. The Snow Empress sensed that it might awaken a third time when he reached the Titled Douluo realm, and Dai Youheng promised they would reach that future together and bring her back to life.

• Dai Youheng used the Snow Empress's guidance to break through his martial soul's limits with the power of the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger.
• Dai Youheng's evil shadow demon tiger evolved into the Abyssal Demon Tiger, and his soul power consumption and physique improved.
• Dai Youheng discovered that his second awakening had strengthened his martial soul's evil attribute but left its soul skills unchanged.
• The Snow Empress sensed that the Abyssal Demon Tiger could undergo a third awakening once Dai Youheng reached level 90 and became a Titled Douluo.
• Dai Youheng promised the Snow Empress that they would climb to the peak together and that he would bring her fully back to life; she agreed to stay by his side.

After Dai Youheng’s Abyssal Demon Tiger gained new soul skills, the Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill awakened its innate Heavenly Demon Domain. A mysterious voice then pulled Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress’s souls into a hellish void and called Dai Youheng forward.

• Dai Youheng sensed the Abyssal Demon Tiger’s two soul ring skills and its right arm bone skill, gaining new control and defense-breaking abilities.
• The Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill awakened the Heavenly Demon Domain, which boosted pill effects for allies and suppressed enemies.
• Dai Youheng wondered whether taking multiple pills of the same type could magnify their effects.
• A mighty voice praised Dai Youheng’s idea and pulled his and the Snow Empress’s souls into a terrifying void.
• Dai Youheng took the Snow Empress’s hand and asked their unseen captor to reveal itself, but a chorus of voices called him forward.

Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress followed a path of visions representing the Seven Original Sins, and Dai Youheng recognized the beings who had summoned them as the seven Sin Gods. The Sin Gods revealed themselves in a magnificent palace, where they sat upon seven thrones with law-filled halos behind them.

• Dai Youheng led the Snow Empress along a path that showed them visions of pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.
• The Snow Empress blushed and recoiled from the vision of lust, while Dai Youheng shielded her with the Abyssal Demon Tiger's aura and hurried them onward.
• Dai Youheng realized the visions represented the Seven Original Sins and respectfully greeted the seven Sin Gods.
• The seven Sin Gods laughed, praised Dai Youheng for identifying them, and promised to reveal themselves.
• The void transformed into a magnificent palace, where Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress saw five men and two women seated on seven thrones, each with seven law-filled halos.

Dai Youheng and Snow Empress learned that the Seven Deadly Sins Gods had awakened through a prophetic dream in which Dai Youheng became the Master of Sin. The gods offered him trials to inherit their laws, but warned that failure could bring torment to both him and Snow Empress; Dai Youheng had yet to answer.

• Snow Empress and Dai Youheng recognized the seven First-Level Gods, and Dai Youheng asked why they had summoned the pair.
• The God of Pride explained that Dai Youheng's Demon Pill and Demon Tiger Martial Souls carried the power of original sin.
• The God of Wrath revealed that a Heavenly Rift had appeared two years earlier and that an unknown force had hypnotized the Divine Realm, leaving the God Kings asleep.
• The God of Desire said a shared prophetic dream showed Dai Youheng fusing all seven Original Sin Laws and becoming the Master of Sin.
• The God of Gluttony offered his law as a way for Dai Youheng to consume and benefit from far more medicinal pills.
• The God of Desire warned that the trials would be perilous and could bring Snow Empress into the punishment, then asked Dai Youheng whether he would accept.

Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress confessed their commitment to face the sin dominion god trial together. The Seven Deadly Sins Gods branded a divine seal onto Dai Youheng, officially beginning his trial.

• Dai Youheng told the Snow Empress that he would refuse the trial if she did not want to risk facing it with him.
• The Snow Empress chose to share his path, saying she would face the trial and its dangers at his side.
• Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress accepted the sin dominion god trial together.
• The Seven Deadly Sins Gods combined their powers to create a dark gold seven-pointed divine seal.
• The divine seal branded itself onto Dai Youheng's forehead and resonated with his Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill Martial Soul, beginning the trial.

Dai Youheng received the God of Sloth’s trials and secured the Seven Deadly Sins Gods’ promise to protect him from divine enemies. After returning to Snow Empress Castle, he teased the Snow Empress about the God of Desire’s suggestive trial, leaving her embarrassed but secretly pleased.

• The God of Sloth assigned Dai Youheng two trials: cultivate past level seventy in a relaxed, dreamlike state over two years, then profit by watching events and acting at the right moment.
• The God of Desire explained the trials, and the God of Wrath and God of Pride promised that all seven Gods of Sin would protect Dai Youheng from anyone who attacked their inheritor.
• The God of Desire hinted that her own trial would involve intense pleasure and warned Dai Youheng to control his aura before the gods vanished.
• Dai Youheng returned to the secret chamber in Snow Empress Castle, where the Snow Empress questioned him jealously about the God of Desire’s trial.
• Dai Youheng suggested the Snow Empress might accompany him through his trials, and she denied wanting to satisfy his desires while secretly appearing pleased.

After completing his seclusion in the Far North, Dai Youheng set out for the human world and planned to deal with the threat of the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger King later. Back in Star Luo City, Xu Jiujiu’s fear for his safety led her to send powerful imperial retainers to search for him.

• Dai Youheng decided that marrying into the Xu Family would not suit his pursuit of pride and worried that the family might try to control him if his strength grew too quickly.
• Dai Youheng emerged from seclusion at rank sixty-four and told Ling Ya and Nana that he was leaving the Far North.
• Dai Youheng asked Xiaobai and A-Tai to guard the Far North and watch the wounded Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger King, which he intended to kill himself in a few years.
• Dai Youheng left with Ling Ya and Nana after more than a hundred days away, anticipating that Xu Jiujiu would be anxious about his absence.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Xu Jiawei to send searchers after Dai Youheng and Ling Ya, and Xu Jiawei agreed to dispatch elite guards and the imperial retainers Manyi and Giant Hammer.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Manyi to search for Dai Youheng and realized that his safety mattered deeply to her.

Dai Youheng sensed Mu En’s death through his power of destiny and learned that Mu En had merged his soul with Shrek Academy’s Golden Tree, while another vision hinted at events involving Long Xiaoyao. After visiting Maple Leaf City, Dai Youheng watched the Shrek and Sun Moon academies’ exchange ceremony begin, with Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen facing off.

• Dai Youheng received visions of Mu En and Long Xiaoyao, then realized that Mu En had died and merged his soul with Shrek’s Golden Tree.
• Ling Ya considered whether Mu En’s soul bones could be recovered, but Dai Youheng rejected acting against Shrek and said the time was not right.
• Dai Youheng decided to visit his mother and Luo Li, return to Star Luo City, and consider how to benefit from events surrounding Long Xiaoyao.
• Three days later, Dai Youheng, Nana, and Ling Ya arrived in Maple Leaf City and saw the Shrek–Sun Moon Academy exchange ceremony from their hotel window.
• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen greeted each other at the ceremony with insincere smiles and pointed remarks.

During the student exchange between Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Academy, Yan Shaozhe sensed hidden observers and later tracked Dai Youheng to a secluded valley, accusing him of carrying a monstrous evil aura. Dai Youheng faced Yan Shaozhe’s hostility while Nana and Ling Ya remained concealed nearby.

• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen traded barbs before the student exchange ceremony, while Huo Yuhao and Xiao Hongchen challenged each other over the next tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe sensed powerful hidden observers at a hotel window, but Dai Youheng and his companions concealed themselves and he left without attacking.
• Dai Youheng set out to visit his mother’s village, then received a warning from the power of destiny that showed him a Phoenix Flame and a fierce battle.
• Dai Youheng ordered Ling Ya and Nana to hide, giving Ling Ya two pills to use if she needed to join a fight.
• Yan Shaozhe intercepted Dai Youheng in a deserted valley and accused him of having the monstrous evil aura he had sensed in Maple Leaf City.

Yan Shaozhe accused Dai Youheng of becoming an Evil Soul Master and tried to take him back to Shrek Academy for examination. Dai Youheng refused, and their fight began before Ling Ya intervened to block Yan Shaozhe’s Phoenix Ray with ultimate ice.

• Yan Shaozhe confronted Dai Youheng over his immense evil aura and accused him of becoming an Evil Soul Master.
• Dai Youheng explained that his martial soul had evolved, but refused Yan Shaozhe’s demand to return to Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe attacked Dai Youheng, who used his Abyssal Demon Tiger martial soul and withstood the Super Douluo’s blow.
• Yan Shaozhe mistook Dai Youheng’s unusual strength and soul rings for signs of an Evil Soul Master’s secret art and fired his Phoenix Ray.
• Ling Ya stepped in and blocked the Phoenix Ray with his ultimate-ice Winter Barrier.

Ice Sky Douluo Ling Ya defended Dai Youheng from Yan Shaozhe’s accusation and challenge, then fought the Bright Phoenix Douluo in the sky. Ling Ya’s armored strike began to shatter Yan Shaozhe’s Phoenix Piercing the Clouds, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Ling Ya rejected Yan Shaozhe’s claim that Dai Youheng was an evil soul master and demanded evidence.
• Ling Ya declared that he was protecting Dai Youheng under Princess Jiujiu’s orders and warned Yan Shaozhe against interfering on behalf of Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe challenged Ling Ya and attacked with his Light Benediction domain, Phoenix Ray, and Phoenix Cry, but Ling Ya evaded and resisted them.
• Yan Shaozhe’s Heaven-Burning Phoenix Wings broke against Ling Ya’s Winter Barrier without injuring him.
• Yan Shaozhe launched Phoenix Piercing the Clouds, but Ling Ya used Frost Eagle’s Eye, Frost Giant Strength, and his armored talon to meet the attack and crack its fiery arrowhead.

Ling Ya and Nana helped Dai Youheng repel Yan Shaozhe, who fled after unleashing his ninth Soul Skill. Dai Youheng predicted Shrek would pressure the Star Luo Empire but believed the imperial family would resist, then continued with plans to visit his mother and Luo Li while preparing to exploit the attack for the God of Sloth’s trial.

• Ling Ya used two Level 7 Soul Tools and his ultimate ice to suppress Yan Shaozhe, while Nana prepared a sneak attack.
• Dai Youheng warned Nana through Secret Voice Transmission not to attack, and Yan Shaozhe unleashed his ninth Soul Skill to force his enemies back.
• Nana fled the Bright Phoenix flames, and Ling Ya countered the fire phoenixes with Thousand-Feather Ice Prison as Yan Shaozhe escaped.
• Nana worried that Shrek would pressure the Star Luo Empire, and Dai Youheng explained why the imperial family would likely resist handing him over.
• Dai Youheng ordered Ling Ya and Nana to continue their route and visit his mother and Luo Li, saying he would use Yan Shaozhe’s attack to help with his God of Sloth’s trial.

Dai Youheng settled in with his family while Shrek Academy accused him of being an Evil Soul Master and demanded that the Star Luo Empire hand him over. Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu suspected Shrek had framed him, but they feared refusing would bring immense public pressure.

• Dai Youheng returned to Bai Wanning’s mountain village, decided to stay and cultivate, and sent Ling Ya to deliver his account of Yan Shaozhe’s interception to Princess Jiujiu.
• Yan Shaozhe issued a formal note demanding that the Star Luo Empire arrest Dai Youheng and surrender him to Shrek Academy.
• Xiao Xiao, Jiang Nannan, and Wang Dong pleaded with Yan Shaozhe to investigate fairly, while Dai Youheng’s friends and the Lan Family sisters rejected the accusation.
• Yan Shaozhe resolved to bring Dai Youheng under Shrek’s control, fearing the Star Luo Empire might gain a Limit Douluo loyal to the empire.
• Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu condemned Shrek’s accusation and suspected it was meant to help Dai Yueheng eliminate a rival, but Xu Jiawei worried that refusing Shrek’s demand would provoke public pressure.