Chapter Summaries

Tang Chuan and Xiao Rui'er encountered the Ice Empress, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed himself from Tang Chuan's Sea of Consciousness and declared his love for her. After learning he had become Tang Chuan's Soul Ring, the Ice Empress appeared and threatened to devour Tang Chuan along with Sky Dream's Soul Origin.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm excitedly called out to the Ice Empress from Tang Chuan's Sea of Consciousness, and she recognized him as still alive.
• Sky Dream professed his love for the Ice Empress and promised to bring her to godhood, but she mocked him and threatened to devour him.
• Sky Dream teased the Ice Empress about rumors that she had loved the Snow Empress, then revealed he had become someone else's Soul Ring.
• The Ice Empress appeared before Tang Chuan and sneered that becoming a Soul Ring would not protect Sky Dream from her.
• The Ice Empress threatened to devour Tang Chuan along with Sky Dream's Soul Origin.

The Ice Empress attacked Tang Chuan, but the Scarlet King stopped her until she drew the Titan Snow Demon King into the fight and rushed toward Tang Chuan and Xiao Rui'er. In Longxing City, Tai Tan brought Tang Hao and the others to the Defense Clan, where Niu Gao angrily confronted him and prepared to shut the gate on Tang Hao.

• The Scarlet King blocked the Ice Empress’s strike against Tang Chuan and hurled her into a glacier, but she recovered and resumed the attack.
• The Ice Empress persuaded the Titan Snow Demon King to fight the Scarlet King, then bypassed them and appeared before Tang Chuan and Xiao Rui'er.
• Tai Tan led Tang Hao, Tang San, and the others to the Defense Clan’s estate in Longxing City.
• Niu Gao recognized Tang Hao, tried to close the gate, and berated Tai Tan for bringing him to the Defense Clan.

Niu Gao rejected Tang Hao’s appeal to reunite the affiliated clans, recounting the Defense Clan’s losses and demanding that Tang Hao first persuade Yang Wudi and Bai He. After Niu Gao shut the gates, Tang Hao admitted that winning Yang Wudi over might be difficult and said he would move against him if he threatened the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tai Tan defended Tang Hao’s past actions, but Niu Gao angrily described how the Clear Sky Sect abandoned the Defense Clan to the Spirit Hall, costing hundreds of lives and leaving lasting grief.
• Niu Gao told Tang Hao and Tai Tan that he would set aside his grievances if they persuaded Yang Wudi and Bai He to join them, then used his Martial Soul Possession to slam the gates shut.
• Tang Hao comforted Tai Tan and said he had some confidence in persuading his maternal uncle, Bai He.
• Tang Hao said Yang Wudi would be much harder to persuade because of his hatred of the Clear Sky Sect and warned that he would move against him if he refused to return and might join the Spirit Hall.
• Tai Tan fell silent, troubled by the prospect of Tang Hao attacking his old brother Yang Wudi.

Tang Chuan used the Golden Giant and detonated three hundred-thousand-year spirit rings to defeat the Ice Empress. As the wounded Ice Empress lay embedded in a glacier, a powerful woman appeared and prepared to strike Tang Chuan with a palm of Ultimate Ice.

• The Golden Giant appeared and blocked the Ice Empress's attack, then Tang Chuan fought her with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• The Ice Empress ignored Tian Meng's pleas to stop and attacked the Golden Giant more fiercely.
• Tang Chuan detonated three hundred-thousand-year spirit rings, and the Ice Empress unleashed her defenses and Ice Emperor's Wrath.
• The Golden Dragon Spear broke through the Ice Empress's attacks and sent her crashing into a glacier, leaving her badly weakened.
• The Core Area froze as an overwhelming presence appeared, and a woman formed a giant palm of Ultimate Ice above the Golden Giant.

Tang Chuan fought Snow Empress as she tested him with the Emperor's Palm and Emperor's Sword, forcing him to detonate all six of his Spirit Rings to counter her attacks. As their powers clashed, Snow Empress began her Emperor's Cold Heaven.

• Snow Empress appeared and struck Tang Chuan's Golden Giant with Emperor's Palm, Great Cold Without Snow.
• Tang Chuan thrust his Golden Dragon Spear upward and endured the palm's force, though the collision shattered ice across the surrounding land.
• Snow Empress followed with Emperor's Sword, Ice Extreme Unparalleled, while Tang Chuan realized his Ring Detonation energy had run out.
• Tang Chuan detonated his three remaining hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings and charged the Emperor's Sword with the Golden Dragon Spear.
• As Tang Chuan's golden torrent and Snow Empress's Sword Light wore each other down, Snow Empress opened her arms and invoked Emperor's Cold Heaven.

Tang Chuan detonated the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Million-Year Spirit Ring and briefly shook the Snow Empress, but the Snow Empress and Ice Empress joined forces to unleash a powerful fusion attack. As the Golden Giant began to collapse and the empresses rejected his offer to help them gain eternal life, Tang Chuan transformed, his eyes turning completely golden.

• The Snow Empress trapped Tang Chuan and Xiao Rui'er inside Emperor's Cold Heaven, freezing the Golden Giant and suppressing its power.
• Tang Chuan detonated the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Million-Year Spirit Ring and poured its power into a spear strike that cracked the Snow Empress's ice shield and briefly pushed her back.
• The Ice Empress joined the Snow Empress, and the two used Pride of the Ice and Snow Empresses to fuse their powers into a devastating storm.
• Tang Chuan pleaded that he had come to talk and could help the empresses gain eternal life, but the Ice Empress and Snow Empress refused to believe him and intensified their attack.
• As the Ice and Snow Storm battered the Golden Giant, Tang Chuan's appearance changed, his hair turning black and his eyes completely golden.

The Reverse Scale poured Di Tian’s power into Tang Chuan, transforming his Martial Soul Fusion Skill into the Purple Gold Black Dragon Transformation and allowing him to defeat the Ice and Snow Empresses’ storm. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm then revealed that they had come to offer the Empresses a path to godhood as Wisdom Spirit Rings.

• The Reverse Scale released Di Tian’s power into Tang Chuan, covering the Golden Giant in black dragon scales and transforming it into the Purple Gold Black Dragon Transformation.
• Tang Chuan used the transformed giant’s Dragon Claw to dispel the Ice and Snow Empresses’ storm, leaving them weakened.
• The Snow Empress demanded to know why Di Tian had lent his power to a human, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged her and the Ice Empress to listen.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said they had come to bring the Ice and Snow Empresses to godhood by making them Tang Chuan’s Wisdom Spirit Rings.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that Wisdom Spirit Rings preserved a Soul Beast’s consciousness and could share in Tang Chuan’s divine seat if he became a god.

The Snow Empress challenged the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s claims about Wisdom Spirit Rings, godhood, and the loss of her freedom, and he answered that becoming one would be a partnership and a gamble against the Soul Beasts’ fate. In Longxing City, Yang Wudi saw Tang Hao and immediately attacked him with his Soul Breaking Spear.

• The Snow Empress questioned how the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could remain conscious as a spirit ring and doubted Tang Chuan could become a god.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that he had willingly formed an equal soul contract with Tang Chuan and retained his consciousness in Tang Chuan’s Sea of Consciousness.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm argued that joining Tang Chuan offered the Soul Beasts a chance to escape Heavenly Tribulation and share in a broader freedom.
• Niu Gao received Yang Wudi and Bai He at the Defense Clan estate in Longxing City while struggling to explain the situation.
• Tai Tan entered the hall with Tang Hao, and Yang Wudi recognized Tang Hao and attacked him with his Soul Breaking Spear.

Yang Wudi nearly killed Tang Hao, but Tang Hao revealed his Titled Douluo strength and stopped the spear. Yang Wudi rejected Tai Tan’s plea to reunite the Four Clans and declared he would rather seek refuge with Spirit Hall, provoking Tang Hao’s fury.

• Yang Wudi launched a killing strike at Tang Hao, but Tang Hao released his nine spirit rings and blocked the Soul Breaking Spear with his Soul Power.
• Yang Wudi demanded that Niu Gao explain why Tang Hao was present, and Niu Gao blamed Tai Tan for bringing him.
• Yang Wudi accused Tai Tan and Tang Hao of abandoning the Four Clans and recounted the Breaking Clan’s losses after Clear Sky Sect sealed its gates.
• Tai Tan admitted his fault and urged Yang Wudi to unite against Spirit Hall, but Yang Wudi refused unless Tang Hao survived his life-risking strike.
• Yang Wudi said he would rather seek refuge with Spirit Hall than reunite with Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Hao erupted with a furious shout.

Tang Hao threatened the Breaking Clan with destruction unless Yang Wudi returned to Clear Sky Sect. In the Extreme North, the Snow Empress accepted Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s proposal to gamble on becoming a Wisdom Spirit Ring rather than face annihilation.

• Tang Hao rebuked Yang Wudi and used his Soul Power to knock the Soul Breaking Spear from his hand.
• Tang Hao gave Yang Wudi a few days to decide whether to rejoin Clear Sky Sect, threatening to destroy the Breaking Clan if it sided with Spirit Hall.
• Tang Chuan’s dragonized giant pressured the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to submit or be turned into mindless spirit rings.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm swore an oath that he would help the two rulers become Wisdom Spirit Rings after they released their Spiritual Origin.
• The Snow Empress calmed the Ice Empress and agreed to gamble on Tang Chuan’s path to eternal life.

Tang Chuan completed the fusion of Snow Empress's and Ice Empress's origins with Xiao Rui'er's help, gaining a new power of Ultimate Ice. After leaving the Extreme North Land, he chose a route through Longxing City toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress released their Spiritual Origins, and the Golden Giant absorbed them for Tang Chuan's fusion.
• Ice Empress's Torso Bone and Snow Empress's Head Spirit Bone began merging into Tang Chuan, causing him severe agony.
• Xiao Rui'er embraced Tang Chuan and used her Imperial Auspicious Beast origin to stabilize the fusion.
• Over the following hours, the Spirit Bones stabilized, and Snow Empress's origin began forming Tang Chuan's Second Spirit with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm guiding it.
• Three days later, Tang Chuan and Xiao Rui'er left the Extreme North Land on Scarlet King's back.
• Tang Chuan named Longxing City as their next stop and explained that its route would lead them faster to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Tang Hao confronted the four clan patriarchs over whether they would rejoin the Clear Sky Sect, but Yang Wudi refused and attacked him. The chapter ended with Yang Wudi’s life-or-death spear thrusting toward Tang Hao as a crimson streak raced over Longxing City.

• Tang Hao waited outside the Defense Clan residence while Tai Tan urged the patriarchs to reunite with the Clear Sky Sect and Bai He supported returning.
• Niu Gao deferred to Yang Wudi, who denounced the Clear Sky Sect for abandoning the Breaking Clan and declared that his clan would never return.
• Tang Hao entered the Council Hall and invited anyone willing to stand with him against Spirit Hall to join him.
• Yang Wudi erupted in fury, summoned his Soul Breaking Spear, and launched a deadly attack at Tang Hao.
• A crimson streak raced through the sky directly over Longxing City.

Yang Wudi’s desperate attack pushed Tang Hao to fury, and the two nearly fought to the death before their companions intervened. After Yang Wudi cursed the Clear Sky Sect and its ancestors, Tang Hao broke free of Tai Tan and Bai He and prepared to strike with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

• Yang Wudi burned his Soul Power and combined four Soul Skills to force his Soul Breaking Spear through Tang Hao’s defense and toward his chest.
• Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and swung it at Yang Wudi’s arms, but Tai Tan and Bai He restrained him while Niu Gao tried to pull Yang Wudi away.
• Yang Wudi broke free of Niu Gao and furiously cursed the Clear Sky Sect, calling its members cowards and insulting its ancestors.
• Tang Hao’s fury reignited, and he blasted Tai Tan and Bai He aside with his Soul Power.
• Tang Hao raised his Clear Sky Hammer and began using the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

Tang Hao defeated Yang Wudi and Niu Gao in a furious clash and prepared to kill Yang Wudi, but mysterious blue-gold vines caught his hammer just before it struck. Tang Hao recognized the vines as the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Yang Wudi unleashed his life-risking Eighth Spirit Skill against Tang Hao, but Tang Hao overwhelmed him and smashed him into a pillar.
• Niu Gao charged Tang Hao in his Armored Rhinoceros Martial Soul Avatar, but Tang Hao struck him down and grievously injured him.
• Tai Tan and Bai He begged Tang Hao to spare Yang Wudi and Niu Gao, but Tang Hao declared Yang Wudi's insult unforgivable.
• Tang Hao raised his Clear Sky Hammer to kill the helpless Yang Wudi, but blue-gold vines erupted and restrained the hammer.
• Tang Hao recognized the blue-gold vines as the Blue Silver Emperor.

Tang Chuan confronted Tang Hao in the Breaking Clan hall, rejecting his accusations by recounting the neglect he endured as a child. Tang Hao charged at him with a full-power strike from the Clear Sky Hammer, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Tang Chuan struck Tang Hao's Golden Dragon Spear aside as he entered the hall and challenged Tang Hao's authority over the Breaking Clan.
• Tang Hao accused Tang Chuan of colluding with Spirit Hall and stealing the Clear Sky Sect's Ring Detonation technique, then threatened to kill him.
• Tang Chuan listed how Tang Hao had failed to care for him during his childhood and challenged him to justify demanding filial loyalty.
• Tang Hao blamed Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect's decisions for his failures, insisting Tang Chuan had betrayed his family and sect.
• Tang Hao charged at Tang Chuan with the Clear Sky Hammer, gathering power for a devastating blow.

Yang Wudi severed the Breaking Clan’s ties with Tai Tan and Bai He after Tang Hao’s arrival left the old brothers gravely wounded and divided. As Tang Hao charged at Tang Chuan, the Snow Empress appeared and struck with her ice powers while Tang Chuan summoned a deep-blue sword and attacked.

• Yang Wudi rejected Tai Tan and Bai He’s help and declared the Breaking Clan would treat the Strength Clan and Speed Clan as enemies.
• Niu Gao was shaken by Yang Wudi’s decision, while Tai Tan and Bai He stood stunned and heartbroken.
• Tang Hao’s charge toward Tang Chuan faltered as the hall froze and he realized the cold was physically affecting him.
• The Snow Empress appeared behind Tang Chuan and used Emperor’s Palm, Great Cold Without Snow, to send a massive ice palm crashing toward Tang Hao.
• Tang Chuan merged with the Snow Empress, formed an ice-crystal sword, and swung it at Tang Hao with Emperor’s Sword, Ice Extreme Unparalleled.

Tang Hao unleashed his domain and Clear Sky Hammer avatar against Snow Empress, but her follow-up sword badly wounded him as the Defense Clan hall collapsed. Tang Chuan then began demonstrating his Second Spirit’s true power by fusing two orange rings and summoning Ice Empress.

• Tang Hao activated Divine Slaughter's Domain and Clear Sky True Body, then struck Snow Empress’s palm and sword with Clear Sky Hammer, Chaotic Wind.
• The collision destroyed the Defense Clan’s hall, and Tai Tan and Bai He carried Niu Gao and Yang Wudi toward safety while Tang San escaped through the rubble.
• Tang Hao blocked Snow Empress’s Emperor’s Palm but was seriously injured when he met her Emperor’s Sword with his hammer.
• Tang Chuan mocked Tang Hao and announced that the warm-up was over before activating his Second Spirit’s power.
• Tang Chuan fused Snow Empress’s two orange Spirit Rings into one orange-gold ring, and Ice Empress’s phantom appeared behind Snow Empress.

Tang Chuan unleashed the Pride of the Ice and Snow Empresses against Tang Hao, who detonated all nine Soul Rings to counter it. Tang Chuan shattered six hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings to overwhelm Tang Hao, leaving him frozen in ice as Tai Tan, Bai He, and Tang San fled Longxing City.

• Snow Empress and Ice Empress embraced, combining their powers into Tang Chuan’s Pride of the Ice and Snow Empresses.
• Tang Hao detonated all nine Soul Rings and launched the Great Sumeru Hammer, while urging Tai Tan and Bai He to take Tang San and escape.
• Tang Hao’s attack collided with Tang Chuan’s ice storm, unleashing a catastrophic blast that destroyed the surrounding ruins and buildings.
• Tai Tan grabbed Tang San and fled Longxing City with Bai He as Tang Hao realized his power was fading.
• Tang Chuan shattered six hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings, empowering his storm until it broke through Tang Hao’s attack and froze Tang Hao into an ice sculpture.

Tang Chuan crippled Tang Hao by severing his meridians and destroying his Clear Sky Hammer Spirit, then healed Yang Wudi and Niu Gao and invited them to join the Soul Hall. Yang Wudi and Niu Gao agreed to give it a try, while warning that their clans would leave if the Soul Hall betrayed them or acted unjustly.

• Tang Chuan destroyed Tang Hao's Clear Sky Hammer Spirit and crippled him with Ultimate Ice.
• Tang Hao tried and failed to summon his Martial Soul, realizing it was gone for good.
• Tang Chuan used Life Energy and Blue Silver Emperor grass to treat Yang Wudi and Niu Gao's wounds.
• Tang Chuan invited Yang Wudi and Niu Gao to join the Soul Hall as elders, promising equal standing and voluntary membership.
• Yang Wudi and Niu Gao agreed to join the Soul Hall provisionally, warning they would fight or leave if it betrayed them or acted unjustly.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discovered that the Crown Prince’s forces had sealed off Xue Ye’s bedchamber and blocked access to the emperor. Qian Renxue learned that the Clear Sky Sect had entered Heaven Dou City and ordered her forces to keep Xue Ye as bait while preparing to trap the sect.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo were stopped by guards enforcing the Crown Prince’s orders and could not reach Xue Ye.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo to Moonlight Pavilion to warn Tang Xiao and request that the Clear Sky Sect’s elites come to Heaven Dou City.
• Snake Lance Douluo told Qian Renxue that Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and other Clear Sky Sect members were in the city.
• Qian Renxue received orders from the Pope and the Great Enshrined to seize Heaven Dou’s imperial power and destroy the Clear Sky Sect’s core members.
• Qian Renxue ordered her forces to maintain control of the Imperial Palace, prevent Xue Ye from being rescued, and surveil the Clear Sky Sect until the enshrined ones arrived.