Chapter Summaries

After Cao De’s music and reassurance left Tang Yuehua reflecting on her feelings, she chose to be with him despite her brother’s conflict with Spirit Hall. The next morning, Cao De prepared to return to Heaven Dou City with Qian Renxue and learned that Ah Yin had taken human form.

• Cao De played “Windy Hill” for Tang Yuehua and urged her not to let her brother’s conflict with Spirit Hall dictate her own life.
• Tang Yuehua grew distressed when Qian Renxue said she and Cao De would soon leave, then went to Cao De’s room and confessed that she wanted him to take responsibility for her.
• Cao De and Tang Yuehua spent the night together, while Qian Renxue overheard them and reacted with shock and irritation.
• The next morning, Cao De told Tang Yuehua she could accompany him to Heaven Dou City, but she declined and asked him not to call her “teacher.”
• Shadow reported that Ah Yin had taken human form, and Ah Yin appeared at the top of the stairs holding a flowerpot as Cao De and Qian Renxue arrived.

Cao De reunited with Ah Yin, introduced her to Qian Renxue and Shui Bing'er, and gave Shui Bing'er Yellow Springs Dew. After Qian Renxue sent him away for the night, Liu Erlong confronted Cao De, explained her family history, returned the Token, and tended to his injured hands.

• Ah Yin found Cao De and told him about her search, and he comforted her before taking her upstairs.
• Cao De gave Shui Bing'er Yellow Springs Dew and watched Ah Yin and Qian Renxue grow close.
• Qian Renxue sent Cao De out so she could sleep beside Ah Yin, and he headed toward the Moonlight Pavilion.
• Liu Erlong attacked Cao De with her Martial Soul Avatar, and the two exchanged punches until they left the watching crowd.
• Liu Erlong returned the Token and told Cao De that she was Yu Luomian's illegitimate daughter, then treated his injured hands.

Cao De’s companions learned about his excessive kidney yang energy, while Huo Wu teased Liu Erlong into reading an erotic illustrated book. After spending the night with Tang Yuehua, Cao De prepared to travel to the glacier in the Far North.

• Liu Erlong agreed to become Huo Wu’s mistress, and Huo Wu gave her an illustrated book that she later read in secret.
• Shui Bing’er told Qian Renxue that Cao De needed to release excess kidney yang energy and gave her a book called “Jade Turn 2.”
• A small Blue Silver Emperor watched Qian Renxue with apparent intelligence as she held the book.
• Shui Bing’er explained Cao De’s condition to Ah Yin, who listened attentively despite already understanding.
• Cao De left Tang Yuehua after their night together and planned to tell Shui Bing’er and the others before setting out for the glacier in the Far North.

Cao De left his companions and traveled to the Far North to search for the Blood Pearl. After tricking his system into giving him a soul-beast control card, he rode the newly controlled Tai Tan Blood Demon King to a cave in the region’s most dangerous depths.

• Cao De reassured Huo Wu, Ah Yin, Qian Renxue, and Shui Bing'er that he would return from the Far North and then set out alone.
• Cao De used his emotion points to buy a snowmobile and drove north, searching for the Blood Pearl he had failed to find in Slaughter City.
• Cao De deliberately provoked the system while confronting the Tai Tan Blood Demon King, causing it to give him a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Control Card.
• Cao De used the card to control the Tai Tan Blood Demon King and rode him deeper into the Far North, where the beast sensed the Snow Empress nearby.
• Cao De urged the increasingly dim-witted Tai Tan Blood Demon King toward the danger and entered a snowy mountain cave with the Thousand-Blade Demon Sword.

Cao De entered the Ice Palace and became caught between the Blood Pearl’s power and the Ice God’s inheritance, which both poured energy into him and his sword. As the Ice God prepared to kill him, the white-robed man and his allies revealed a formation powerful enough to threaten a god.

• The white-robed man ordered Against the Shadow, Ling Yun, and Red Face to use their combined fusion skill and transported them into the Ice Palace.
• Cao De found the Blood Pearl and ice staff inside the palace, but fled when blood-red energy flooded the chamber and then dragged him back unconscious.
• The ice sculpture crumbled as the Blood Pearl and ice staff released opposing energies, and the Ice God appeared and threatened to kill Cao De.
• Trapped in his spiritual sea, Cao De endured repeated collisions of red and blue energy and used them to repair the damage.
• The white-robed man ordered his group to slay a god, and their formation’s Soul Rings turned blood-red as the Ice God reacted with shock.

The white-robed man and his companions defeated the Ice God’s phantom by shattering the Ice Staff, destroying his inheritance vessel. After the Blood Pearl entered Cao De, the white-robed man ordered a formation around him and the unconscious successor to keep them contained for study.

• The Ice God froze Against the Shadow, Ling Yun, Red Face, and the white-robed man, but the white-robed man activated their combined attack and broke free.
• The white-robed man used a sudden spatial movement to reach the Ice God and shattered the Ice Staff with his fist, causing the phantom to fade.
• The Ice God vowed to remember the mortal, then appeared in the Divine Realm and angrily set off through the sky.
• Red Face asked what to do with the white-haired woman, and the white-robed man ordered that she be watched while he examined Cao De and the Blood Pearl.
• The Blood Pearl entered Cao De, and the white-robed man had Against the Shadow, Red Face, and Ling Yun form a triangular Soul Ring enclosure around him and the woman.

Cao De confronted the Nuomi Church Master, a powerful Titled Douluo who restrained him with blood threads and tried to inject him with purple liquid. Cao De escaped by teleporting to the Tai Tan Blood Demon King, then examined how the Blood Pearl had raised his soul power to level seventy and transformed his spiritual sea.

• The Nuomi Church Master attacked Cao De and revealed that he knew Cao De had killed Jade Face in Longxing City.
• The Nuomi Church Master trapped Cao De with red threads, while Cao De discovered their energy was bound by an unknown substance and could not be absorbed.
• Cao De tried to order the system to place a tracking mark on the Nuomi Church Master, but the system refused because Cao De owed Emotion Points.
• Cao De teleported away using the mark linked to the Tai Tan Blood Demon King, and the Nuomi Church Master tracked him with a Soul Tool before moving his group out of the Mountain Cave.
• Cao De examined the Blood Pearl's effects and found that his soul power had reached level seventy and his spiritual sea had expanded into distinct red and blue energies arranged like a Taiji Bagua diagram.

Cao De discovered that his spiritual power had grown immensely, but the Nuomi Church Master caught him and restrained him while he tried to protect the Titan Blood Demon King. The woman from the Ice Palace broke free, and the Church Master turned his attention to dissecting her.

• Cao De found that his Spiritual Sea had expanded his spiritual power enough to see across dozens of miles and perceive snowflakes in precise detail.
• Cao De sensed danger and ordered the Titan Blood Demon King to flee, but the Nuomi Church Master caught up and forced Cao De out of his spatial escape.
• The Nuomi Church Master bound Cao De with blood-red chains and prepared to imprison him in a God-Trapping Lock.
• The woman in Red Face's grasp stirred, and frost destroyed the chains sent to restrain her; Cao De tried to use the distraction to activate his Soul Rings, but the formation suppressed his Soul Power.
• The Nuomi Church Master ordered Red Face to release the woman, whose frost shattered her restraints and injured Red Face.
• The woman stood in the air, revealing eerie red pupils, as the Nuomi Church Master considered dissecting her.

Snow Woman attacked the Nuomi Church Master's formation, then disappeared when he used a white box to counter her Blood Qi. Cao De prepared to escape, but Snow Woman emerged through a tear in space in front of him.

• Snow Woman spread her ice and snow across the battlefield, but the Nuomi Church Master suppressed her attacks with his formation.
• The Nuomi Church Master ordered Against the Shadow, Red Face, and Ling Yun to surround Snow Woman with blood-red mirror panes.
• An aqua-blue mark appeared on Snow Woman's forehead and released Blood Qi matching the Soul Ring fusion technique.
• The Nuomi Church Master sent a white box into the formation, and Snow Woman vanished as its focal point fluctuated.
• Cao De decided to abandon his plan to claim the Titan Blood Demon Ape's Soul Ring and prepared to leave.
• Snow Woman emerged through a tear in space in front of Cao De.

Snow Woman rescued Cao De from the Nuomi Church Master's formation and drank his blood, while the Nuomi Church Master ordered a search of the Far North. Cao De later escaped with Snow Woman, but System Loli blocked his teleportation and seized control of his item permissions.

• Snow Woman appeared beside Cao De, drank his blood, and ignored his attempts to warn her as the Nuomi Church Master's formation descended.
• Snow Woman wrapped herself and Cao De in blood qi and transported them away; the Nuomi Church Master ordered Red Face, Against the Shadow, and Ling Yun to seal off the Far North.
• The Nuomi Church Master struck the Tai Tan Blood Demon King with the formation while the beast wondered who he was.
• Ten thousand miles away, Cao De threw Snow Woman into a snow pit and suspected she was connected to the Nuomi Church.
• An emerald scorpion attacked Cao De, but his Teleportation Mark failed to activate; System Loli had locked his item permissions and taken the emotion points for herself.

Snow Woman recalled finding the Ice God's inheritance and woke beside Cao De, while the Ice Empress tried to kill him. After Cao De escaped his spiritual barrier and confronted Snow Woman about drinking his blood, she froze him and went to investigate her strange cravings and missing memories.

• Snow Woman told the Ice Empress that she had followed a red bead to the Ice God's inheritance and lost consciousness before waking beside her.
• The Ice Empress raised her tail to kill Cao De, but Snow Woman stopped her because she felt he would be useful.
• Cao De escaped the emerald barrier in his Spiritual Sea as Snow Woman drank from his neck, then awoke and slapped her to make her stop.
• Snow Woman retreated and questioned Cao De, who pointed out the blood on her lips and the bite marks on his neck.
• Snow Woman froze Cao De and went outside, realizing that her sudden strength, blood craving, and missing memories might be connected to him.

Xiao Lingmeng dismissed concerns about missing soul masters while Bibi Dong investigated their unexplained disappearances across Spirit Hall. In the Far North, Nuomi Church Master gathered his followers and ordered some to draw attention while the rest escaped, even if the decoys had to sacrifice themselves.

• Xiao Leng warned Xiao Lingmeng that Soul Ancestors and Soul Kings had vanished from the Star Luo Imperial Palace, but Xiao Lingmeng told her to leave it alone.
• Bibi Dong questioned Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo about Soul Emperors who had disappeared despite being watched, then ordered them to continue investigating.
• Nuomi Church Master reflected on his forty-fifth birthday and reaffirmed his resolve to pursue a world where soul masters no longer ruled over others.
• Against the Shadow reported that followers from the Heaven Dou Empire had reached the Far North and that followers from the Star Luo Empire were on their way.
• Nuomi Church Master ordered followers below Soul Ancestor rank to draw attention so the stronger followers could escape, and said the decoys should detonate themselves if captured.

The Snow Woman interrogated Cao De about the blood qi in his body, but his blood intensified her craving and left her seeking a way to control it. When she sensed more than a thousand Nuomi Church members approaching the Far North, she decided to meet them and look for a solution.

• The Snow Woman suppressed her growing craving for Cao De's blood and went to question him in the Ice Palace.
• Cao De explained that Blood Pearls contained blood qi, that the Nuomi Church searched for them, and that he could fuse with them.
• Cao De deliberately let blood flow from his neck, provoking the Snow Woman, who healed him, froze him again, and left the Ice Palace.
• The Snow Woman decided not to kill Cao De because he might know how to fix her condition, then used snowflakes to torment his feet.
• The Snow Woman learned that the Ice Empress had never heard of the Nuomi Church and sensed more than a thousand people approaching with familiar blood qi.
• The Snow Woman decided to investigate the approaching Nuomi Church members and seek a solution from them.

Snow Woman infiltrated the Nuomi Church camp but was caught by the Nuomi Church Master, who overwhelmed her with a massive formation and knocked her unconscious. Ling Yun was left to guard her while the Church Master departed.

• The Nuomi Church Master ordered Red Face, Against the Shadow, and the other followers to assemble a formation to ambush the approaching God Inheritor.
• Snow Woman reached the camp and began sneaking toward a tent, but the Nuomi Church Master ordered the followers to surround her with a blood-red formation.
• The formation forced Snow Woman to reveal herself, and the Nuomi Church Master shattered her forming domain and captured her with an invisible force.
• The Nuomi Church Master struck Snow Woman unconscious, scattered the Soul Power in her body, and told Ling Yun to watch her and kill her if anything unusual happened.
• After the formation vanished, Red Face, Ling Yun, and Against the Shadow collapsed from its strain, then Ling Yun bound the unconscious Snow Woman with restraint-type Soul Tools.

The Ice Empress questioned Cao De about the missing Snow Woman and believed his explanation that the Nuomi Church might be involved. Cao De escaped the Ice Palace and headed deeper into the Far North, while thousands of humans entered the Ice Empress’s territory.

• The Ice Empress searched for the missing Snow Woman, then confronted Cao De and demanded to know where her sister was.
• Cao De recounted his conversation with the Snow Woman and persuaded the Ice Empress that she might have gone looking for the Nuomi Church.
• After the Ice Empress sealed him in ice and left, Cao De melted free and fled deeper into the Far North.
• Cao De used his Sixth Soul Skill to travel a long distance, then stopped to restore his mental power.
• Thousands of human presences entered the Ice Empress’s territory, and she suspected they belonged to the Nuomi Church.

The Ice Empress discovered that Cao De had escaped and hurried toward the Nuomi Church Members, while Cao De found and killed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to obtain its Soul Ring. As he began absorbing it, the silkworm’s consciousness froze Cao De’s spiritual sea and tormented him.

• The Ice Empress found the ice surrounding Cao De melted, failed to locate him, and set off to confront the Nuomi Church Members and rescue her sister.
• The Nuomi Church Master ordered Against the Shadow to surround and kill the approaching Ice Empress for a suitable Eighth Soul Ring.
• The Snow Woman awoke in a cage beneath a blood-red Soul Ring formation, while Ling Yun read nearby and she feared she had no escape.
• Cao De found the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in a fissure, broke through the ten-thousand-year ice marrow’s protection, and killed it with his Demon Blade Shards.
• Cao De began absorbing the silkworm’s Soul Ring, but the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s consciousness froze his spiritual sea and began torturing him.

Cao De endured the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's assault while secretly refining its water-blue mental power, but the silkworm discovered the trick and captured him. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm proposed that they each refine half of the other's mental power, and Cao De began the exchange while concealing his intentions.

• Cao De taunted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and endured repeated attacks on his Spiritual Sea without losing consciousness.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm discovered that Cao De had refined some of its mental power and blasted him away from the Spiritual Sea.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm imprisoned Cao De, then considered refining Cao De's mental power to take over his body.
• Cao De pretended to resist before agreeing to refine the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's mental power first.
• Cao De began refining a small portion of the water-blue mental power, which merged into his crimson mental power and reappeared in a changed form.

Cao De tricked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm into expanding his Spiritual Sea before taking control of its mental power and killing it. After reaching rank seventy-three and testing his greatly enhanced abilities, Cao De discovered the Nuomi Church Master’s tracking mark still clung to him, though he could suppress its glow by wrapping himself in mental power.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm copied Cao De’s refining method, expanded the Spiritual Sea, and tried to swallow Cao De’s mental power all at once.
• Cao De revealed that the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could not control the mental power it had absorbed, then engulfed and killed it.
• Cao De restored his Spiritual Sea to a red-and-blue yin-yang shape and emerged from the ice with his seven Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Cao De found that his Soul Power had reached rank seventy-three and tested his vast mental power, which let him perceive everything within a hundred li.
• Cao De discovered the Nuomi Church Master’s white tracking mark on his body and found that enclosing himself in mental power stopped it from flickering.

Cao De gathered the ice marrow and Frost Snow Crystal Flower, then crushed Bibi Dong's Pope Token to summon help against the Nuomi Church. Bibi Dong sensed his danger and followed the token's signal north.

• Cao De used his mental power to remove the ten-thousand-year ice marrow and Frost Snow Crystal Flower from the fissure and store them in the system space.
• Snow Woman gave Ling Yun her blood while the injured Ice Empress remained imprisoned in the Ice Palace, and Ling Yun refused to provide medicine for her wounds.
• The Nuomi Church Master discovered that the tracking compass had stopped working and ordered Soul Masters to advance north in a long line with their compasses.
• Cao De observed the Nuomi Church forces from afar, realized his mental power could block their tracking signal, and crushed Bibi Dong's Pope Token to call for help.
• Bibi Dong saw her token crack and emit a north-pointing light, realized Cao De was in danger, and took the token in hand.

Bibi Dong led six Titled Douluo into the Far North to find Cao De, where they encountered the Nuomi Church Master and his followers. After secretly using a backup locator to discover Cao De’s position, the Nuomi Church Master pursued him just as Cao De tried to escape.

• Bibi Dong showed Qian Daoliu the cracked Pope Token, and he sent Azure Luan, Lion, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo with her to rescue Cao De.
• Cao De kept his distance from the Nuomi Church Members while waiting for Bibi Dong to arrive.
• Bibi Dong and her six Titled Douluo confronted the Nuomi Church Master, while Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized him as the powerful Nuomi who had once defeated him.
• The Nuomi Church Master used a backup token to locate Cao De and ordered his followers to prepare the Soul Ring Fusion Array.
• Cao De sensed the Nuomi Church Master approaching, formed wings from the Thousand-Blade Demon Sword, and activated his Fifth Soul Skill as the Nuomi Church Master shouted, "Open!"