Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress entered the Ice God's Divine Temple, where the Ice God's Remnant Soul explained the Divine Seat's trials and the restrictions imposed on Soul Beasts. The Ice God chose to give Huo Yuhao her power to help him protect the world, while the Snow Empress was sent to take the trials.

• The God of Evil, the God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, the Goddess of Kindness, and Tang San watched Huo Yuhao enter the passage, while Tang San resolved to discard his pawn and kill the others.
• Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress met the Ice God's Remnant Soul inside the Divine Temple, and she explained that candidates could earn her legacy through trials or by reaching rank ninety-nine.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice God that the Dragon God's rules barred Soul Beasts from godhood, and the Ice God angrily learned that the Divine Realm had also altered their Heavenly Tribulations.
• Huo Yuhao told the Ice God he wanted her power to become a God King and protect his mother, and she agreed on the condition that he used it only to protect the world.
• The Ice God began transferring her power into Huo Yuhao, freezing him inside an iceberg as his ice Martial Soul absorbed it.
• The Ice God apologized to the Snow Empress for not choosing her, then urged her to take the trials and noted that Huo Yuhao might have other powers to pursue.

Huo Yuhao completed his absorption of the Ice God's power and emerged with a god-level soul ring just as Tang San, controlling Bing'er's body, attacked the Snow Empress. Huo Yuhao confronted Tang San over his schemes, then charged him as Tang San suddenly lost control of his soul power.

• Bing'er attacked Huo Yuhao's ice prison, but the Snow Empress intervened and recognized Tang San's signature techniques.
• The Snow Empress fought Tang San, but he deflected her Emperor Palm and nearly struck her with an ice sword.
• Huo Yuhao broke free from the ice with the Ice God's martial soul and a crystalline ice-blue and gold soul ring.
• Huo Yuhao and the Ice God accused Tang San of trying to control the world, while Tang San defended his plan and claimed he had intended to help Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao charged at Tang San, whose legs weakened as his soul power began flowing uncontrollably toward Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao used his ice-control Soul Skill to kill Tang San, then let the Ice God take over his body and leave the Divine Temple carrying Bing’er’s remains. As the Ice God emerged from the newly revealed castle in a female form, Huo Yun recognized her longing for the world that had nurtured her, and the Ice God said goodbye.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed Tang San’s ice-element Soul Power and killed him with a single punch, explaining that he wanted to free the innocent person whose body Tang San had taken.
• Huo Yuhao let the Ice God take control; she changed into a blue-and-white outfit, took up the Ice Frost Sword, and told the Snow Empress to care for the Far North.
• The Ice God carried Bing’er’s remains out of the Divine Temple as the enormous Ice God castle appeared above the basin and its doors opened.
• Huo Yun and the others saw that Huo Yuhao had become a beautiful woman, while the Snow Empress emerged behind her.
• The Ice God sensed the world that had raised her, and Huo Yun recognized her from memories of the former Douluo Consciousness before the Ice God said goodbye.

The Ice God brought Huo Yuhao to the Divine Realm, confronted its rulers over the restrictions imposed on Soul Beasts, and withdrew her Divine Seat from the realm. She secured compensation for Huo Yuhao before preparing to leave, while Tang San tried to involve himself in the payment.

• The Ice God used her Divine Seat to amplify Huo Yuhao and brought him into the Divine Realm, where they met the God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life, Tang San, and two other God Kings.
• The Ice God demanded an explanation for Bing'er and learned that the Divine Realm had barred Soul Beasts from becoming gods and imposed Heavenly Tribulations on them.
• The Ice God declared that she was withdrawing from the Divine Realm and that her Divine Seat would belong to Douluo, causing the realm's ice element to decline.
• The God of Destruction offered one percent of the Divine Realm's Immortal Spirit Qi, and the Goddess of Life gave the Ice God a shoot from the Life Tree as compensation.
• Tang San offered to pay the compensation himself, but the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life argued that the Divine Realm should bear responsibility; Tang San then proposed offering his Ice and Fire wine.

The Ice God tested the Divine Realm’s God Kings, secured compensation for Huo Yuhao, and returned to the Douluo Plane to make a final attempt to break the rules imprisoning its consciousness. Her remnant soul vanished without freeing Huo Yun, leaving Huo Yuhao with her last wish and a grieving world.

• The Ice God accepted gifts from the God of Evil, the Goddess of Kindness, and Tang San, then explained that she had tested the God Kings’ attitudes and warned Huo Yuhao not to become their lackey.
• The Ice God sent Huo Yuhao back to her Divine Temple and told him to care for Mother before using her remaining strength to attack the rules binding the Douluo Consciousness.
• Huo Yun cried out as the Ice God’s remnant soul faded, and she explained to Huo Yuhao that the Ice God had chosen to die after making her final attempt to free her homeland.
• The Ice God’s last mote of light entered the Douluo Core, while rain fell across the Douluo Plane and snow covered the Far North.

The Ice God’s final message entrusted her temple, inheritance, and remaining resources to Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress before her remnant soul vanished. Meanwhile, the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life suspected Tang San was plotting against Douluo, while Tang San planned to eliminate the plane’s threat; Huo Yuhao then prepared to leave the Far North with the Ice God’s Divine Seat secured.

• The Goddess of Life restored Bing’er, and the God of Destruction and Goddess of Life left the God Realm Committee after the Ice God’s remnant soul disappeared.
• Tang San reflected on his failed plan to make Bing’er an ally and resolved to secretly remove the Douluo Consciousness and its Child of Destiny.
• The God of Destruction told the Goddess of Life that only a Plane Consciousness could have concealed the Ice God’s heir, and they suspected Tang San was targeting Douluo Star but agreed to seek evidence first.
• The Ice God’s final message told Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress how to use her temple, inheritance, divine artifact, and remaining gifts, and she asked them to protect her home and family.
• After three days of rain, Huo Yun decided they should continue forward and took Huo Yuhao and the others to leave the Far North; Di Tian escorted Huo Yuhao from the Ice God’s temple.

Huo Yuhao left the Far North and reunited with the Shrek Academy group, claiming his second Martial Soul was Ultimate Ice and that he had obtained a Soul Ring. As the group headed for Shrek City, news of Huo Yuhao’s female form and the Divine Seat spread across the continent, prompting Xi Shui and another figure to send people to the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Di Tian left Huo Yuhao at the edge of the Far North, and Huo Yuhao changed his clothes to look bedraggled before walking onward.
• Yan Shaozhe found Huo Yuhao and brought him to Zhang Lexuan, Strawberry, Xian Lin'er, Ling Luochen, and the others, who welcomed him back.
• Huo Yuhao displayed his Frost Martial Soul, and Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, and Ling Luochen recognized its power as Ultimate Ice.
• Huo Yuhao told the group that a blizzard had left him buried in snow, where his second Martial Soul awakened, and claimed an Ice Silkworm had given him the Spiritual Simulation Soul Skill.
• The Shrek group flew toward Shrek City, while the blizzard in the Far North and the rain across the continent stopped and reports of the Divine Seat spread.
• Xi Shui ordered people to search the Star Dou Great Forest for Huo Yuhao's female form, and an evil presence in the Evil Demon Forest announced it would return there.

Major powers discussed how to find and win over Huo Yuhao after he received recognition from a Divine Seat, while Huo Yuhao demonstrated his Spiritual Simulation and declared he wanted to study Soul Tools at Shrek Academy. The chapter ended with him rejecting Yan Shaozhe’s argument that Soul Tools would waste his talent and insisting that cultivation and Soul Tools could strengthen each other.

• A man in the Sun Moon Empire ordered a cautious approach to the woman in Huo Yuhao’s portrait, while Xu Jiawei and Xu Jiujiu discussed inviting Beast God Di Tian to make contact with Huo Yuhao.
• Xu Jiujiu persuaded Xu Jiawei to send an invitation in the Xu family’s name, and other major powers pursued their own plans to find Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Simulation to create Strawberry’s Restorative Blue Strawberry, and Strawberry confirmed that it restored Soul Power.
• Yan Shaozhe offered to take Huo Yuhao into Shrek Academy’s Inner Court as his disciple, but Xian Lin'er objected because they had agreed to compete fairly for him.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to study Soul Tools, surprising Yan Shaozhe and delighting Xian Lin'er.
• Huo Yuhao argued that Soul Tools complemented cultivation, and that cultivating both internal strength and external tools was the right approach.

After Shrek’s leaders agreed to let Huo Yuhao explore Soul Tools without forcing him to choose a department, he returned to Shrek City and absorbed the Life Tree’s budding branch. As the branch took root inside him, Huo Yun concealed its effects and rejected an aged voice’s attempt to claim its life force.

• Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er reported that Huo Yuhao wanted to pursue both Soul Master and Soul Engineer paths, and the old man in the lounge chair ordered the academy to let him try and open the Soul Tool Department’s facilities to him.
• The old man in the lounge chair proposed ending competition over core disciples and having the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments select them jointly.
• Huo Yuhao and Strawberry returned to Cao's Rice Bowl, where they told Uncle Cao and Aunt Lan about their Far North trip and joined a welcome-home meal.
• Strawberry described her admiration for the Ice God's successor, while Aunt Lan urged her to find a boyfriend and attend Sea God's Fate.
• Huo Yuhao pressed the Life Tree’s budding branch to his chest as Huo Yun and Electrolux instructed him, and its life force cleansed and strengthened his body before he fell asleep.
• The branch took root inside Huo Yuhao as Huo Yun concealed its aura, then rejected an aged voice that wanted its life force and criticized its owner for refusing to struggle against Tang San.