Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo defeated Xue Ying and studied the other Core Formation Snow Demons’ fighting methods before facing the famed Xue Wuhen in the second round. Xue Wuhen struck him with Silent Dark, Absolute Light, leaving Lin Mo rigid as the fight began.

• Lin Mo shattered Xue Ying’s ice attack with Sky-Scorching Palm, then seized him by the throat and won the first match.
• Lin Mo watched the next fights and concluded he could use most of his own treasures without revealing his identity.
• Xue Ye announced that Lin Mo would face Xue Wuhen, a renowned Core Formation genius, in the second round.
• Xue Wuhen explained that Silent Dark, Absolute Light had defeated every opponent in one move and claimed he would use only thirty percent of his strength.
• Xue Wuhen’s gray-white light struck Lin Mo between the brows before he could react, leaving him rigid.

Lin Mo defeated Xue Wuhen in the origin core arena by withstanding his Silent Dark, Absolute Light, while the Jianmu sapling phantom absorbed or fused with the attack. As the other contestants turned their attention toward him, Lin Mo realized he might be able to cultivate spells and divine abilities of every attribute without barriers.

• The Jianmu sapling phantom protected Lin Mo from Xue Wuhen's Silent Dark, Absolute Light, and Lin Mo urged Xue Wuhen to fight without holding back.
• Xue Wuhen unleashed the full power of Silent Dark, Absolute Light, but Lin Mo remained unharmed, stunning the Snow Demon Clan spectators.
• Xue Wuhen conceded defeat and nearly suffered a collapse of his Dao heart until Commander Xue Xiu encouraged him.
• The other origin core contestants recognized that divine soul attacks were ineffective against Lin Mo and began considering ways to target his physical body.
• Xue Ye declared Lin Mo the victor, and Lin Mo realized the Jianmu sapling phantom had absorbed or fused with Xue Wuhen's attack.
• Lin Mo recalled his spiritual power's eleven attributes and concluded that he could cultivate spells and divine abilities of every kind without barriers.

As the final sixteen Origin Core Snow Demons assembled, Xue Kuotai secretly gave Xue Man Ice Scar Awls and persuaded him to kill Lin Mo during their match. The Snow Demon Queen arranged for Lin Mo to face Xue Man, leaving Lin Mo worried that damage to his borrowed Snow Demon body could expose him as a human cultivator.

• Xue Kuotai convinced Xue Kuoluo to hand over the Ice Scar Awls, then secretly gave them to Xue Man and urged him to kill Lin Mo.
• Xue Mu and Xue Ye warned the Snow Demon Queen that Xue Kuotai was hostile toward Lin Mo, but she ordered Lin Mo and Xue Man to face each other.
• Xue Ye distributed tokens to the final sixteen and announced that Number One would fight Number Sixteen.
• Lin Mo drew Number One, and Xue Man entered the arena and revealed his immense strength as a body refiner.
• Lin Mo worried that fighting Xue Man could damage his borrowed body and expose his human identity.

Lin Mo faced Xue Man in the arena and used his extraordinary speed to evade the body-refinement expert until the Snow Demon Queen forced him into a direct fight. Lin Mo unleashed Silent Dark, Absolute Light, but the queen intervened to save Xue Man, leaving Lin Mo standing alone as he challenged her decision.

• Lin Mo entered the arena and used time acceleration to dodge Xue Man’s relentless attacks, stunning the watching Snow Demons with his speed.
• Xue Man grew exhausted and demanded that Lin Mo stop running and fight him directly.
• The Snow Demon Queen slowed Lin Mo with her domain, forcing him to face Xue Man’s attack with two Ice Scar Awls.
• Lin Mo unleashed Silent Dark, Absolute Light, revealing that he too had mastered the Snow Demon Tribe’s powerful secret technique.
• The Snow Demon Queen blocked Lin Mo’s attack before it could kill Xue Man, and Lin Mo accused her of allowing Xue Man to try to kill him while denying him the right to retaliate.

Lin Mo challenged the Snow Demon Queen's decision, but she announced that he would become her husband and punished Xue Kuotai, Xue Kuoluo, and Xue Man for conspiring against him. When Snow Demons questioned Lin Mo's qualifications, the queen appointed him a general and ordered him to lead a million troops against the Ice Palace, leaving Lin Mo troubled by the prospect of fighting fellow humans.

• Lin Mo questioned the Snow Demon Queen's decision, and she declared him her future husband and royal consort.
• The Snow Demons celebrated the queen's choice, while Xue Kuotai and Xue Kuoluo resented that Xue Mo might gain control of their lineage.
• The queen sentenced Xue Kuotai and Xue Kuoluo to the battlefield and ordered Xue Man to kill at least ten Ice Palace Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Xue Ke and other Snow Demons argued that Xue Mo had not earned the right to become royal consort.
• The queen appointed Lin Mo Great General Who Pacifies the North and ordered him to command a million troops against the Ice Palace.
• Lin Mo worried that, as a human cultivator, he could not help the Snow Demons slaughter the Ice Palace disciples and resolved to find a way to satisfy both sides.

Lin Mo tried to persuade the Ice Palace to withdraw from the Northern Plains without bloodshed, but Bing Suihan captured him and took him to the palace. There, Lin Mo revealed that he was Chief Elder of the Azure Cloud Sect, not the Snow Demon Queen’s future husband.

• Bing Suihan learned that Xue Mo had become the Snow Demon Tribe’s commander and went to meet him at the Myriad Demon Formation.
• Lin Mo urged the Ice Palace to leave the Northern Plains and offered himself as a hostage to protect its disciples.
• Lin Mo showed the Snow King Token, and Bing Suihan recognized his authority and seized him despite Xue Xiu’s protest.
• Bing Suihan brought Lin Mo to the Ice Palace, where Lin Mo introduced himself as Chief Elder of the Azure Cloud Sect.

Lin Mo revealed his human identity and convinced Bing Suihan that he was working to obtain the Mystic Ice Soul and end the Northern Plains Eternal Night. Bing Suihan evacuated the Ice Palace to the Eastern Isles, leaving Lin Mo with Xue Xiu and the Snow Demon commanders to claim a bloodless victory.

• Lin Mo restored his Spiritual Power, revealed his human body, and explained how he had infiltrated the Snow Demon Tribe using a body made from Heavenheart Sunflower Gall.
• Lin Mo told Bing Suihan that he planned to seize the Mystic Ice Soul on his wedding night and asked the Ice Palace elders for help.
• Bing Suihan agreed to cooperate and ordered the Ice Palace disciples to evacuate to the Eastern Isles in three days.
• The Ice Palace withdrew without fighting, while Xue Xiu and the Snow Demon commanders held back because Bing Suihan kept Lin Mo close.
• Bing Suihan left Lin Mo with the Snow Demons and called the Ice Palace’s retreat a gift of credit to their tribe.
• Lin Mo praised Xue Xiu and the commanders for taking the Northern Frontier without casualties, and they marveled at their unprecedented victory.

After the Ice Palace withdrew from the Northern Frontier, Lin Mo discovered that the Snow Demon Queen’s Mystic Ice Soul could rapidly strengthen him and was entrusted with it while preparations began for their wedding. He left determined to find a chance to seal the Primordial Cold Abyss and end Eternal Night.

• Xue Xiu reported that Bing Suihan had taken Xue Mo and led the Ice Palace disciples out of the Northern Frontier, leaving its territory under the Snow Demon Tribe’s control.
• Lin Mo warned the young Snow Demon Queen that the Ice Palace might return after Eternal Night ended, and she revealed that the Mystic Ice Soul could keep Eternal Night from receding.
• The young Snow Demon Queen let Lin Mo hold the Mystic Ice Soul, and its essence raised his Snow Demon body to the third level of Origin Core while strengthening his Divine Sense.
• Xue Mu and Xue Ye urged the young Snow Demon Queen to arrange her wedding with Lin Mo, and she agreed.
• Lin Mo claimed he needed to improve his strength before the wedding, so the young Snow Demon Queen returned the Mystic Ice Soul and told him to absorb its essence during the preparations.

Lin Mo used Xue Ke’s visit to distract Xue Xiu, then escaped into the Gourd Space with the Mystic Ice Soul. Believing Bing Suihan had abducted Xue Mo, the Snow Demon Queen led her army to the Primordial Cold Abyss to intercept him.

• Lin Mo pretended to cultivate while Xue Xiu guarded him, then sent Xue Xiu out to drive away Xue Ke, Xue Kuotai, and Xue Kuoluo.
• Lin Mo used the Treasure Gourd to enter the Gourd Space with his Snow Demon body, human body, Seven-Colored Conch Shell, and the Mystic Ice Soul.
• Xue Xiu returned to find Lin Mo and the Mystic Ice Soul gone, then alerted the Snow Demon Queen.
• The Snow Demon Queen suspected Bing Suihan had secretly taken Xue Mo and ordered the Snow Demon army to gather at the Cold Abyss Rift.
• The Snow Demon Queen, Xue Mu, Xue Ye, and Xue Xiu departed with the army, leaving the Green-Skinned Little Gourd behind on the rug.

Lin Mo escaped the Snow Demon Tribe with the Mystic Ice Soul and advanced to the fourth layer of the Golden Core realm. With the Snow Demon army guarding the Primordial Cold Abyss and the Southern Frontier crisis keeping Gu Youfang’s allies occupied, he arranged to meet Bing Suihan and another cultivator in Lingbei City before attempting to seal the rift.

• Lin Mo spared a snow demon child, left the Snow Demon Tribe, and knocked aside the clan members who tried to stop him.
• After returning to his original body, Lin Mo’s cultivation rose to the Golden Core fourth layer, and he discovered his flight speed had greatly increased.
• Lin Mo concluded that sealing the Primordial Cold Abyss required at least two Spirit Transformation pinnacle cultivators because the Snow Demon Queen and her army guarded it.
• Gu Youfang told Lin Mo that he and his allies could not leave the Southern Frontier, where the Tai Sui Gate’s High Priest was attacking, but promised to invite another Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Lin Mo headed for Lingbei City and contacted Bing Suihan, who replied that he would meet him there.

Lin Mo met Bing Suihan in Lingbei City and showed him the Mystic Ice Soul before they welcomed the dying Zen master Puyuan. Lin Mo offered Puyuan Special Spirit Liquid to restore his vitality, leaving the monk to decide whether to break his vow and drink it.

• Lin Mo presented the Mystic Ice Soul to Bing Suihan, who examined it and returned it, unimpressed.
• Bing Suihan sensed an old friend approaching and brought Lin Mo into the sky to greet Puyuan, a frail former Zen Chief Seat.
• Puyuan explained that Gu Youfang had invited him to the Northern Plains and promised him an opportunity connected to Lin Mo.
• Lin Mo offered Puyuan Special Spirit Liquid made with his heart's essence blood and explained that it could restore vitality.
• Bing Suihan pressed the bottle into Puyuan's hand and asked Lin Mo whether he had more spirit liquid.

Puyuan drank Lin Mo’s Diluted Spirit Spring Water and recovered his vitality, then rewarded Lin Mo with the Seven-Treasure Prayer Beads and taught him the Heart Sutra. With Puyuan and Bing Suihan joining forces, they set off with Lin Mo to confront the Snow Demon Tribe and seal the Primordial Cold Abyss.

• Puyuan drank the Diluted Spirit Spring Water Lin Mo had given him and regained the vitality of his prime.
• Bing Suihan asked Lin Mo for a bottle of the spirit liquid, and Lin Mo gave it to him without asking for payment.
• Puyuan gave Lin Mo the Seven-Treasure Prayer Beads and transmitted the complete Heart Sutra to him.
• Puyuan told Lin Mo he had an affinity with Buddhism and urged him to keep compassion for all living beings.
• Bing Suihan and Puyuan prepared to cow the Snow Demon Tribe if necessary, then traveled north with Lin Mo toward the Primordial Cold Abyss.

The Snow Demon Queen learned that the apparent Xue Mo had been a human in disguise who spared the Snow Demons in Snow Burial Valley and stole the Mystic Ice Soul. As Bing Suihan and Puyuan approached the Cold Abyss Rift, she confronted Lin Mo and demanded that he seal the rift, even if it meant sealing her away too.

• A young Snow Demon reported that Xue Mo had appeared in Snow Burial Valley, spoken to a child, and then left the clan.
• The Snow Demon Queen deduced from the child's account that a human disguised as Xue Mo had nearly slaughtered the Snow Demons but ultimately spared them.
• The Snow Demon Queen concluded that the disguised human had stolen the Mystic Ice Soul, while Xue Mu questioned whether a human could have possessed the royal sacred physique.
• The Snow Demon Queen sensed Bing Suihan and Puyuan approaching and ordered the eight-million-strong Snow Demon army to raise its formation, summoning the Snow Demon Emperor phantom.
• The Snow Demon Queen recognized Lin Mo as the impostor and accused him of stealing the Mystic Ice Soul to avoid sealing the Primordial Cold Abyss and marrying her.
• The Snow Demon Queen challenged Lin Mo to use the ice soul origin to seal the Cold Abyss Rift and her along with it.

Lin Mo used the Mystic Ice Soul to reseal the Primordial Cold Abyss, ending the Northern Plains’ endless night without fighting the Snow Demon Clan. The Snow Demon Queen, Xue Qingcheng, then announced she would accompany him to human territory and threatened to reopen the abyss if he refused.

• Lin Mo addressed the Snow Demon Clan and began channeling the Mystic Ice Soul’s origin power into the rift.
• The Snow Demon Queen and her guardians let Lin Mo seal the Primordial Cold Abyss, and the polar night began to end.
• Lin Mo returned the Mystic Ice Soul to Xue Qingcheng and promised to prevent conflict between humans and Snow Demons.
• Xue Qingcheng appointed Xue Ye to protect the tribe and declared she would go with Lin Mo to ensure he kept his promise.
• Bing Suihan laughed at Lin Mo for winning the queen’s affection, and Xue Qingcheng threatened to reopen the rift if Lin Mo refused her.

Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng agreed to conditions that let her travel through human territory, then he proposed that they join Bing Suihan and Puyuan to deal with the Drought Demon in the Southern Frontier. After Xue Qingcheng persuaded Lin Mo to accept a secret arrangement, the group set off for the nearest Teleportation Array.

• Lin Mo and Xue Qingcheng exchanged conditions, including her cutting ties with Tai Sui Gate and their marriage agreement remaining in force if she allied with him against the sect.
• Xue Mu and Xue Ye departed with the Snow Demon army as polar day approached, leaving Xue Qingcheng behind.
• Lin Mo transformed into Xue Mo, placed his human body in the Seven-Colored Conch Shell, and asked Xue Qingcheng, Bing Suihan, and Puyuan to go with him to the Southern Frontier.
• Xue Qingcheng objected to Lin Mo disguising himself as a Snow Demon, then whispered a proposal that he reluctantly accepted after making her promise not to ask again.
• Lin Mo and the three spirit transformation cultivators set out toward the nearest Teleportation Array.

Gu Youfang and four other Spirit Transformation cultivators failed to break the White Bone Altar protecting the Drought Demon, which continued draining the Southern Frontier’s spiritual energy. Bing Suihan, Puyuan, and Xue Qingcheng arrived, but their attacks also left the altar intact.

• Gu Youfang, Hai Dafu, Hai Beier, and the Green-Clad Man exhausted themselves attacking the White Bone Altar while the High Priest defended it and taunted them.
• The Green-Clad Man explained that the High Priest could make the altar nearly invincible by controlling it from within, and Gu Youfang said they needed a Primordial Antiquity Relic and a soul attack to defeat her.
• Bing Suihan struck the altar with an Ice-Spike Shuttle, but it only shuddered briefly and the Drought Demon resumed walking.
• Puyuan attacked the altar with a Buddha image, shaking it for three breaths without damaging it.
• Xue Qingcheng arrived riding a Horned Antelope whose aura rivaled a human at the golden core fourth layer.

Xue Qingcheng and four Spirit Transformation masters attacked the Tai Sui Gate High Priest and cracked the White Bone Altar, leaving the High Priest pierced by ancient swords. The High Priest recovered from Xue Qingcheng’s soul attack and warned that the Holy Church would reveal its true power.

• Hai Beier recognized the Horned Antelope and asked whether anything had happened to Lin Mo, while Xue Qingcheng’s companions kept his whereabouts secret.
• Hai Dafu said the White Bone Altar could not be broken by their strength alone, and Xue Qingcheng rejected the High Priest’s accusation that she had betrayed her tribe.
• The Horned Antelope produced four Primordial Antiquity swords, which Bing Suihan, Puyuan, the dark-green man, and Gu Youfang took up to attack the altar.
• Xue Qingcheng used Silent Dark, Absolute Light to strike the High Priest as the four swords cracked the altar and pierced her body.
• The High Priest recovered, acknowledged their attack, and warned that the Holy Church would soon show its true methods.

The Spirit Transformation cultivators drove off the High Priest and suppressed the Drought Demon by repeatedly destroying her bones until the Southern Frontier's earth veins stabilized. Lin Mo was revealed beneath the Horned Antelope disguise, then fled with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier pursuing him, while the High Priest secretly began rebuilding her body.

• The High Priest escaped on the White Bone Altar after her body self-destructed, and Gu Youfang and Bing Suihan warned that the Tai Sui Gate might still have dangerous methods.
• Hai Dafu and seven other Spirit Transformation cultivators repeatedly shattered the Drought Demon's bones for three days until the World Tree Phantom restored the Southern Frontier's earth veins and the Drought Demon crumbled into dust.
• Hai Beier demanded to know where Lin Mo was, and Xue Qingcheng declared that Lin Mo was her future husband and revealed that the Horned Antelope was Lin Mo in disguise.
• Hai Beier learned that Lin Mo had used the Heavenheart Sunflower Gall to become the Horned Antelope, while Xue Qingcheng accused him of deceiving her people and stealing their supreme treasure.
• Lin Mo fled to return to his sect, and Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier chased after him as Hai Dafu watched them go.
• After the others departed, the High Priest's scattered ashes gathered into a new fist-sized body, and she vowed to remember Lin Mo.

Nearly half a year after Lin Mo left the mountain, he returned to the Azure Cloud Sect with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier. Their visit to Spirit Plant Peak brought Lin Mo together with Guo Xiaodong, a boy from his home village, and Guo’s innocent question gave Lin Mo an idea for the third rule he had yet to discuss with Xue Qingcheng.

• Han Kang stabilized his cultivation in seclusion, Bai Qing managed the sect, and Luan Xiuping successfully survived his nascent soul tribulation with the Two-World Bell.
• Guo Xiaodong told Spirit Plant Peak servants that his childhood friendship with Lin Mo had helped him receive special treatment and come up the mountain.
• Lin Mo visited the Spirit Plant Courtyard with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier, stunning Wang Qiuru, Shen Chengqi, and Shen Chunfa with his companions’ cultivation and beauty.
• Guo Xiaodong reunited with Lin Mo and amused Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier by recounting embarrassing stories about Lin Mo’s childhood.
• Xue Qingcheng gave Guo Xiaodong a protective black-and-white pearl, and Hai Beier gave him a Five-Colored Shell Pearl to speed his cultivation.
• Guo Xiaodong asked Lin Mo whether Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier were his wives and whether he was afraid of them, prompting Lin Mo to realize what he could make the third rule.

Lin Mo secured Xue Qingcheng’s promise to respect him publicly, then visited Spirit Plant Peak and gave spirit stones to Wang Qiuru, Shen Chengqi, and Shen Chunfa. As he reached Azure Cloud Sect’s main peak with Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier, the entire sect gathered to welcome them.

• Lin Mo invoked the Three-Part Agreement, and Xue Qingcheng agreed to honor his dignity in front of others and made Hai Beier stand beside her.
• Lin Mo sent Guo Xiaodong away with two precious pearls and warned him not to spread stories about Lin Mo being afraid of his wife.
• Lin Mo gave Wang Qiuru high-grade spirit stones and gave Shen Chengqi and Shen Chunfa mid-grade spirit stones and spirit liquid.
• Wang Qiuru concluded that Xue Qingcheng and Hai Beier had spirit transformation cultivation and said Lin Mo had visited Spirit Plant Peak first to give the sect leaders time to prepare.
• Han Kang, Luan Xiuping, Bai Qing, and the Azure Cloud Sect leadership gathered at Azure Cloud Plaza and welcomed Lin Mo and his two guests.