Chapter Summaries

Leng Xiyue signed a Soul Contract with Tian Meng and received his Million-Year Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone. The system used the Soul Bone to build a Spirit Network framework in her mind, and she woke with a clearer mind as Xiao Bai explained its purpose.

• Leng Xiyue signed Tian Meng's Soul Contract, binding their souls to its terms.
• Xiao Bai welcomed Tian Meng into their family and guided him as he sacrificed his Soul Ring and Head Soul Bone to Leng Xiyue.
• Tian Meng's Soul Ring entered Leng Xiyue's soul space safely, but the system used his Head Soul Bone to expand her mind and construct a Spirit Network framework, causing her immense pain.
• Leng Xiyue passed out, and the system announced a new mission to raise her Psionic Energy level to thirty, with a Shield Generator as the reward.
• Leng Xiyue woke with a clearer mind, and Xiao Bai explained that the Spirit Network could connect people and let commanders control Protoss units.

Leng Xiyue chose the Purifier Squad from three Protoss legion options and summoned its members. The chapter ended with Kaldalis and the Legionnaires kneeling to report to her as High Bishop.

• Leng Xiyue examined the three legion options: the elite Purifier Squad, the larger Dragoon Legion, and the cloaked Shadow Guard.
• Leng Xiyue weighed the legions’ combat strength, revival capabilities, and specialties, then chose the Purifier Squad for its level-ninety-five hero, Kaldalis.
• The system added the Purifier Squad to Leng Xiyue’s storage and explained how its units could be revived, connected to her Spirit Network, and given orders.
• Leng Xiyue summoned Kaldalis, ten Legionnaires, and two Conservators.
• Kaldalis and the ten Legionnaires knelt before Leng Xiyue and reported for duty as the Purifier Squad.

Leng Xiyue familiarized herself with the protoss warriors she had summoned and examined the three modes of her Second Soul Skill. After learning that the ten-thousand-year cold marrow might have formed above a leyline, she asked whether they could find it.

• Leng Xiyue used the Spirit Network to inspect and control her protoss units, then stored them away to avoid attracting attention in Suotuo City.
• Leng Xiyue examined her Second Soul Skill and learned its three modes: slowed perception, enhanced movement, and a brief but costly time stop.
• Leng Xiyue collected more than two hundred pieces of ten-thousand-year cold marrow while Tian Meng remained unconscious.
• Xiao Bai explained that a leyline beneath the cave might have produced the cold marrow and described how leylines generated resources.
• Leng Xiyue eagerly asked whether they could search for the leyline.

Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai traced the remnants of a vanished leyline through a cave beneath the Far North and discovered a sealed stone door with eight empty slots and a central key imprint. Tian Meng suggested the seal had been left by an ancient god-level powerhouse and might conceal either a monster or a great treasure.

• Xiao Bai explained how leylines formed treasure grounds and guessed that a vanished leyline had created the cave’s cold marrow.
• Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai explored deeper, found a warm underground river, and noticed that its channel and the path beside it had been deliberately constructed.
• Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai discovered an ornate stone door with eight empty slots and a central key imprint, but neither they nor Kaldalis could open it.
• Leng Xiyue photographed the slots with an image-recording Soul Tool, hoping to identify the required objects later.
• Tian Meng awoke and said the door blocked his spiritual power, suggesting it was an ancient seal that might hold a monster or an extraordinary treasure.

Leng Xiyue learned how the Northern Province operated as a lawless haven for tyrants and slave traders, then killed the men who had abducted women from the Heaven Dou Empire. She and Tian Meng were left to decide what to do with the twenty-odd women they had rescued.

• Leng Xiyue prepared to leave the Far North and return to Heaven Dou, reflecting on the Northern Province's corrupt rule and the slave trade it protected.
• Leng Xiyue questioned a bald bandit after killing his Soul Elder and Soul Ancestor companions.
• Leng Xiyue executed the bandit, rejecting his plea for mercy because of the people he had harmed.
• Xiao Bai praised Leng Xiyue for acting decisively, and Leng Xiyue said she felt no guilt about killing tyrants.
• Tian Meng comforted the twenty-odd women Leng Xiyue had rescued, while Leng Xiyue struggled to decide what to do with them.

Leng Xiyue rescued a group of abducted women and decided to take them back rather than leave them to die. She then ambushed slave-trading caravans along the road, gaining resources and survivors before heading home, unaware that others were watching her depart.

• Leng Xiyue learned the rescued women did not want to return to Heaven Dou or continue living, but she offered them work and a new home.
• Xiao Bai suggested robbing more caravans, and Leng Xiyue sent Tian Meng to settle the women while she waited on the road.
• Leng Xiyue and her Legionnaires killed the people from twenty-three caravans, including slave traders and grain merchants, and rescued more than eighty women.
• Leng Xiyue gained one hundred and eighty thousand psionic energy experience and nearly five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, then left the battlefield with the women.
• Hidden observers emerged from the snow and watched Leng Xiyue leave.

After a massacre in the Northern Province, Governor Luo Yuanji punished the local families and discussed the attackers’ weapons with the Eternal Night Council’s Dark Night Douluo. Meanwhile, Leng Xiyue’s group passed a frontier checkpoint under Tian Meng’s lead, though the Eternal Night Council had already marked her as a target.

• Luo Yuanji killed a man who challenged his account of the massacre, then ordered local families to pay compensation and higher trade taxes.
• Luo Yuanji and Dark Night Douluo identified Spirit Hall as the source of the bullets that had killed a Soul King, and the council member revealed its plan to recruit Leng Xiyue.
• Luo Yuanji warned Dark Night Douluo against provoking Spirit Hall, then privately vowed revenge against the Eternal Night Council.
• Leng Xiyue disguised herself and had Tian Meng lead her group toward the checkpoint, unaware that the Eternal Night Council had set its sights on her.
• Tian Meng presented Leng Xiyue’s high-ranking Spirit Hall token, and the frontier officer opened the gate and let the group travel south.

Leng Xiyue brought the survivors to Heaven Dou City, organized a new trade guild, and bought minerals for her plans to develop firearms and cannons. After giving the young women time to rest, she went shopping with Tian Meng, whose enthusiasm faded when a restaurant owner offered him silkworm pupae and fried scorpion.

• As the group traveled south, many people slipped away, and Leng Xiyue continued to Heaven Dou City with just over sixty followers.
• Leng Xiyue arranged new clothes and uniforms for the young women, then had Tian Meng register the Star Dream trade guild and buy minerals and low-grade metals.
• Leng Xiyue explained that she planned to use the materials for research and eventually develop cannons, which could support a new army for Qian Renxue's political plan.
• Leng Xiyue gave the young women ten Gold Soul Coins each and set aside three days for them to rest before traveling onward to Suotuo City.
• Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng explored Heaven Dou City's commercial district, where she bought trinkets until Tian Meng was burdened with the purchases.
• At a restaurant, Tian Meng recoiled from the owner's offers of Snowfield Ice Silkworm Pupae and Fried Scorpion, then left Leng Xiyue to eat alone.

After Tian Meng accidentally broke a crystal doll, its young owner demanded that he kneel, but Leng Xiyue stepped in and escalated the confrontation. Leng Xiyue shot the girl's six attendants and warned them not to risk their lives for her.

• Tian Meng accidentally broke the girl's crystal doll and offered to pay for it, but she demanded that he kneel and kowtow.
• Tian Meng prepared to resist, then agreed to kneel until Leng Xiyue arrived and stood between him and the girl.
• The girl ordered a Soul King attendant to kneel, then commanded her attendants to seize Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng.
• Leng Xiyue drew her Revolver and shot all six approaching attendants in the face.
• Leng Xiyue reloaded and warned the wounded attendants that she could have killed them, urging them not to die for the girl.

Leng Xiyue punished Ning Rongrong for insulting her brother, then faced Bone Douluo Gu Rong when he came to rescue the girl. Kaldalis drove Gu Rong and Ning Rongrong through a spatial passage, leaving Leng Xiyue to realize she had angered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Leng Xiyue shot a Soul King who spoke up for Ning Rongrong, and the other retainers fled.
• Leng Xiyue offered Ning Rongrong cold-pool spirit liquid as compensation for her brother bumping into her, then slapped Ning Rongrong for ordering an attack.
• Gu Rong appeared and tried to seize Leng Xiyue, but Kaldalis blocked his bone chain and attacked him.
• Kaldalis wounded Gu Rong, forcing Gu Rong to escape with Ning Rongrong through a spatial passage.
• Leng Xiyue recognized Gu Rong and realized the girl she had beaten was Ning Rongrong of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Miho Nishizumi visited the Adventurers' Association to post a million-gold-soul-coin bounty for a capable naval commander, and guild master Xue Ming suggested the pirate Zi Zhenzhu as a candidate. After Miho asked about the unknown waters west of Sea God Island, Xue Ming identified them as the Sea of Death, a forbidden region from which no one returned.

• Miho Nishizumi offered a million gold soul coins for a difficult task, prompting the receptionist to bring her and Qin Menglan to guild master Xue Ming.
• Xue Ming introduced his family’s Heaven Dou ancestry and expressed his willingness to help Miho and the empire.
• Miho explained that she wanted to find a young, capable commander to lead the empire’s fleet, and Xue Ming discussed the limitations of traditional commanders and pirates.
• Xue Ming named Zi Zhenzhu, a Soul Saint in her thirties who led one of the most powerful pirate factions, as a possible commander.
• Miho asked about the black region west of Sea God Island, and Xue Ming warned that it was the Sea of Death, where no one survived entering.