Chapter Summaries

Qian Chaoguang and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lured the Ice Empress into a trap and captured her, then fled the Far North’s core region. They stopped on the outskirts so Qian Chaoguang could rest and prepare for the long fusion process ahead.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm summoned the Ice Empress and boldly confessed his love while secretly setting a trap.
• Electrolux told Qian Chaoguang to call him Old Yi and gave him a signal to use if he needed help.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm trapped the Ice Empress in a Mental Cage and transported her away.
• Qian Chaoguang escaped the core region of the Far North with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Sloughed Skin covering him.
• Qian Chaoguang built a temporary ice shelter, made beef noodles, and rested before the upcoming fusion.

Qian Chaoguang and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began convincing the Ice Empress to fuse with Qian Chaoguang by arguing that Soul Beasts could not become gods. The chapter ended with Qian Chaoguang revealing an aura that made Ice Empress tremble.

• Qian Chaoguang rested and prepared for the painful fusion with Ice Empress, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned him about the danger of absorbing her immense origin.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released Ice Empress from the Mental Cage but kept her trapped inside his Sloughed Skin, then tried to persuade her to join his God Creation Plan.
• Qian Chaoguang argued that Soul Beasts could not become gods and cited Tang San, the Soft Bone Rabbit, and the powerful beast kings as evidence.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm confirmed that Di Tian had once been gravely injured in a battle with the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord.
• Ice Empress questioned how Qian Chaoguang knew such secrets, and he used Divine Sense to project Electrolux's aura, making her tremble with agitation.

Qian Chaoguang and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded the Ice Empress to fuse with Qian Chaoguang by convincing her of his extraordinary potential and her chance at eternal life. After the Ice Empress released her Spiritual Origin, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm brought it into Qian Chaoguang’s Sea of Consciousness, where she was stunned by its strength.

• Qian Chaoguang used Divine Sense, Soul Power, and Bloodline Power to impress the Ice Empress while implying that becoming a god would be easy for him.
• Qian Chaoguang privately resolved that the Ice Empress would have to assist him wholeheartedly if they fused, rather than control him as the Soul Beasts had controlled Huo Gua.
• The Ice Empress agreed to fuse with Qian Chaoguang, then demanded that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stop flattering and teasing her.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm swore an oath to reassure the Ice Empress, and she released the emerald Spiritual Origin of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm protected the Ice Empress’s Spiritual Origin and carried it into Qian Chaoguang’s Sea of Consciousness, where she marveled at his body and the strength of his Sea of Spirit.

Qian Chaoguang and Ice Emperor agreed on the details of her fusion with him, beginning with her soul bone and then her Soul Ring. The fusion began as Ice Emperor discovered the strength of his body and his will to endure pain.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm introduced Qian Chaoguang and Ice Emperor and explained that Ice Emperor would become his First Soul Ring and his Second Martial Soul.
• Qian Chaoguang, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Ice Emperor agreed to fuse Ice Emperor's soul bone before her Soul Ring.
• Ice Emperor warned Qian Chaoguang that her power would rebuild his spine, ribs, and sternum through prolonged, intense pain.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed that he had already endured the explosion of his Spiritual Origin and the destruction and reconstruction of his meridians.
• Ice Emperor's tail hook pierced Qian Chaoguang's tailbone, starting the fusion, and he endured the pain without crying out.
• As the fusion began, Ice Emperor sensed Qian Chaoguang's exceptionally strong body and life force and felt reassured about their prospects of becoming gods.

Qian Chaoguang endured two days and two nights of agony as he devoured the Ice Emperor's Torso Bone and used its energy to transform his body. The process neared completion, with much of the bone's power sealed for his future cultivation.

• The Ice Emperor transferred the power of her true body into Qian Chaoguang, turning his torso bones emerald-green and causing intense pain.
• Qian Chaoguang circulated the Golden Body Art and used his Bloodline Power to devour the Ice Emperor's soul-bone energy.
• His Bloodline Power transformed his flesh and organs while his body expelled old tissue, and his Mental Power slowly increased under the strain.
• The Ice Emperor and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sealed much of the soul-bone energy for Qian Chaoguang to absorb gradually in the future.
• After two days and two nights, the devouring and transformation began to subside, though Qian Chaoguang worried about enduring similar pain during later breakthroughs.

Qian Chaoguang completed the painful absorption of the Ice Emperor’s torso bone, then fused with her Martial Soul and soul ring while he slept. After awakening with a 400,000-year soul ring and two new skills, he told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm he wanted to test a theory before seeking his second soul ring.

• Qian Chaoguang finished absorbing the Ice Emperor’s soul bone and saw his body strengthened by the energy.
• Qian Chaoguang rested and fell asleep, while the Ice Emperor and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm prepared to fuse her Martial Soul and soul ring with him.
• The Ice Emperor sacrificed her body and Beast Core, sending her power into Qian Chaoguang as a golden halo guided the fusion.
• Qian Chaoguang emerged from the snow with a blood-red, 400,000-year soul ring and felt two skills awaken in his mind.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered to help Qian Chaoguang obtain his second soul ring, but Qian Chaoguang spread his Divine Sense to test a theory first.

After fusing with the Ice Emperor, Qian Chaoguang tested whether the Extreme Ice Light would accept soul rings, wary that fusion might alter his personality. Its rejection of a hundred-year Soul Ring led him to hunt a thousand-year Soul Beast, whose purple ring he examined at the chapter’s end.

• Qian Chaoguang considered cultivating the Extreme Ice Light first and suspected it might reflect his mind, but feared soul-ring fusion would add more Soul Beast traits to his personality.
• He used Divine Sense to find a lone hundred-year Soul Beast, killed it from an underground ambush, and tried drawing its Soul Ring toward the Extreme Ice Light.
• The Extreme Ice Light resisted the hundred-year Soul Ring, leaving Qian Chaoguang unsure whether it rejected the ring’s low quality or could not accept it.
• Qian Chaoguang traveled west and ambushed a lone thousand-year Soul Beast, but needed several minutes to defeat it.
• He watched the thousand-year Soul Beast’s purple Soul Ring rise and lamented how weak he still was.

Qian Chaoguang discovered that his First Martial Soul, the Extreme Ice Light, rejected a Soul Beast’s soul ring so violently that absorbing it would likely kill him. Unable to find another way to obtain soul rings, he summoned Electrolux for advice.

• Qian Chaoguang tested drawing the Thousand Year Soul Ring toward the Extreme Ice Light, but his Spirit Sense warned him that he would die if it touched.
• Qian Chaoguang told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that his First Martial Soul could no longer absorb soul rings from Soul Beasts, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was shocked.
• Qian Chaoguang considered God-given Soul Rings and forming a soul ring himself, but neither he nor Sky Dream Ice Silkworm knew how to proceed.
• Qian Chaoguang sheltered in an Ice House and summoned Electrolux, who answered his call.

Qian Chaoguang asked Electrolux to solve the problem of his First Martial Soul refusing Soul Beast Spirit Rings. After studying Qian Chaoguang’s Martial Souls, Spirit Rings, and skill-imprinting methods, Electrolux said he had more or less understood a way forward.

• Qian Chaoguang explained the Spirit Master system and his cultivation problem to Electrolux.
• Electrolux examined Qian Chaoguang’s Martial Souls and Spirit Rings, and Qian Chaoguang discovered that he could use two Martial Souls at once.
• Electrolux concluded that Spirit Rings were aggregates of energy and Mental Power whose skills resonated with Laws, but said he needed time to study their construction.
• Qian Chaoguang shared the skill-release and imprinting methods for Blade Light, Eternal Frozen Domain, and Ice Emperor's Wrath with Electrolux.
• Qian Chaoguang cultivated while Electrolux studied, and Electrolux eventually announced that he had more or less understood the method, owing to Qian Chaoguang’s unusual cultivation and accumulated strength.

Qian Chaoguang learned from Electrolux how Spell Models could be converted into Spirit Ring skills, then used Light Mimicry to create and test a spinning light-wheel weapon. Electrolux praised the idea but pointed out that Qian Chaoguang’s use of Mental Power and Soul Power needed optimization.

• Electrolux explained that condensing a Spirit Ring required either powerful Mental Power or a soul origin, and said he had found a way to convert Spell Models into Spirit Ring skills.
• Electrolux described Spell Models and transmitted their structure directly into Qian Chaoguang’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Qian Chaoguang demonstrated Light Mimicry, and Electrolux recognized that it let him examine the skill’s Spell Model.
• Qian Chaoguang shaped the light into a spinning, ice-blue Eight-Point Light Wheel and used it to cut through ice and grind away a Blade Light.
• Electrolux praised the technique but noted that Qian Chaoguang wasted too much Mental Power and Soul Power when using it.

Qian Chaoguang accepted Electrolux’s offer to refine the Eight-Point Light Wheel into a soul skill and moved closer to becoming his disciple. Electrolux then taught him a preliminary Soul Ring Condensation Method and explained his theory of how Spirit Rings, soul skills, and soul bones worked, leaving him suspecting that Deities had altered the world’s cultivation laws.

• Qian Chaoguang eagerly agreed to let Electrolux improve the Eight-Point Light Wheel for his Second Soul Ring and offered to become his disciple.
• Electrolux warned Qian Chaoguang that inheriting his mantle could make the world reject him and those he loved, but left open the possibility of taking him as a disciple after restoring his memories.
• Electrolux completed the Soul Ring Condensation Method and transmitted it, along with engraving instructions and Spell Model transformation formulas, to Qian Chaoguang.
• Qian Chaoguang spent an hour studying the method and learned that condensing a ring required substantial Mental Power, control, and energy.
• Electrolux theorized that Spirit Rings mainly served as valves linking a Martial Soul to Law, while a Soul Beast’s Spiritual Origin and soul supplied the ring’s skill imprint.
• Electrolux suspected that Deities had interfered with the planet’s laws, forcing humans and Soul Beasts into the current Spirit Ring system.

Electrolux used the Light Element pearl in Qian Chaoguang’s Sea of Consciousness to create a ten-thousand-year soul ring, demonstrating the process so Qian Chaoguang could learn it. The ring was complete and would gradually unlock its excess energy as Qian Chaoguang grew.

• Qian Chaoguang asked Electrolux whether he should begin condensing a soul ring, and Electrolux proposed using the Light Element pearl as its carrier.
• Electrolux guided Qian Chaoguang as he drew out the pearl and shaped it into a golden halo with six runes.
• Electrolux demonstrated how to construct a Spell Model, convert it into runes, and fuse the runic band with the halo.
• The halo changed from gold through several colors to black, forming a thick ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring with a faint golden rim.
• Electrolux explained that the ring’s surplus energy would gradually unseal as Qian Chaoguang grew, eventually allowing him to add another soul skill.

Qian Chaoguang completed his breakthrough with the Artificial Soul Ring Electrolux created, reaching rank twenty-seven and discovering that the ring could be strengthened and its soul skill replaced. He ran south through the Far North to vent his lingering negativity as Shrek Academy prepared for its new school year.

• Electrolux withdrew to repair his Divine Sense, leaving Qian Chaoguang to use the newly created Artificial Soul Ring.
• Qian Chaoguang merged the ring with Extreme Ice Light and broke through to a little past the halfway point of rank twenty-seven, gaining two pitch-black soul rings.
• Qian Chaoguang tested his Eight-Point Light Wheels and realized the Artificial Soul Ring could be aged with Heaven and Earth Origin Power and its soul skill could later be replaced.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm congratulated Qian Chaoguang before going back to sleep, and Qian Chaoguang burst through the ice and ran south across the plain.
• Shrek Academy opened its gates for the new student entrance assessments as returning students prepared for their Upgrade Assessments.

Huo Yutong returned to Shrek Academy as a Level 36 Soul Elder with a ten-thousand-year Third Soul Ring and met Dai Loli, who had come alone to take the entrance exam. They discussed his progress and his troubled life in the White Tiger Duke’s household as they prepared for his attempt to enter the academy.

• Huo Yutong waited at Shrek Academy’s entrance after returning from hunting a soul ring, having reached Level 36 and obtained a ten-thousand-year Third Soul Ring.
• Dai Loli arrived alone, and Huo Yutong greeted him with the nickname he had long disliked.
• Dai Loli said his mother had not come and showed his resentment toward the Duchess, who had often oppressed them.
• Dai Loli told Huo Yutong that Qian Chaoguang had helped awaken his Martial Soul and that he had reached Level 21 after obtaining his Second Soul Ring.
• Huo Yutong encouraged Dai Loli to rely on his abilities to pass Shrek Academy’s entrance exam.

Dai Loli arrived at Shrek Academy to enroll and learned that Qian Chaoguang was already famous among the students for defeating powerful opponents. After passing the entrance test, Dai Loli began his new life at the academy.

• Huo Yutong told Dai Loli to conceal his real connection to her and Qian Chaoguang, and he agreed to call her Yutong Jie.
• Dai Loli overheard Zhang Bowen exaggerating Qian Chaoguang's past victories and eagerly joined him to hear more stories.
• Dai Loli told Zhang Bowen that he had met Qian Chaoguang years earlier and admired him, so Zhang Bowen offered to escort him to the testing ground.
• Zhang Bowen failed to get Dai Loli to cut the line and was dragged away by his class advisor, while Dai Loli passed the entrance test with excellent results.
• Dai Loli's combat ability reflected the harsh training Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong had put him through to awaken his Blood Tiger Martial Soul.

As Shrek Academy’s new school year began, Huo Yutong waited at the gates for Qian Chaoguang, while Wang Dong hoped to challenge him after reaching Soul Elder. Qian Chaoguang returned from the Far North, reunited with Huo Yutong in public, and agreed to spar with Dai Loli before heading to register.

• Huo Yutong waited at the academy gates with Wang Dong and Dai Loli while Wang Dong complained that Qian Chaoguang was late.
• Huo Yutong spotted Qian Chaoguang arriving and rushed into his arms, and he carried her through the market in full view of the academy crowd.
• Wang Dong argued with Qian Chaoguang about his public display of affection, and he teased her by repeatedly calling her a single dog.
• Qian Chaoguang learned that Dai Loli had reached Soul Grandmaster and agreed to spar with him and resume their morning training.
• Huo Yutong told Qian Chaoguang to complete registration and visit their teacher, while he complained that he was hungry and reflected on choosing to seek the light.

Qian Chaoguang returned from the Far North and reunited with Huo Yutong, then reported to Qian Duoduo and revealed that his Second Martial Soul was the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. He left Qian Duoduo stunned by displaying its genuine Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.

• Huo Yutong invited Qian Chaoguang, Wang Dong, and Dai Loli to eat grilled fish after he returned.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong completed his registration and went to report to Qian Duoduo.
• Qian Chaoguang told Qian Duoduo that his trip to the Far North had been successful and asked him to seal the office with a Soul Power barrier.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul and its blood-red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, shocking Huo Yutong and Qian Duoduo.
• Qian Chaoguang demonstrated the Ice Emperor's Torso Bone and confirmed that he had gained a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and four soul skills.

Qian Chaoguang told Qian Duoduo how he had obtained an Ultimate Ice Second Martial Soul, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone in the Far North. Qian Duoduo warned him to hide the Soul Bone and keep the secret from everyone outside their small circle.

• Qian Chaoguang showed Qian Duoduo and Huo Yutong his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, astonishing them.
• Qian Chaoguang claimed that guidance had led him into the Far North, where he encountered a dying Ice Jade Scorpion and awakened his Second Martial Soul after passing out.
• Qian Duoduo suspected the Ice Jade Scorpion had sacrificed itself to Qian Chaoguang and reassured him that the sacrifice left no hidden danger.
• Qian Duoduo told Qian Chaoguang to conceal his Soul Bone, limit how he used its abilities, and keep the matter secret even from Wang Yan.

Qian Duoduo promised Qian Chaoguang the Sea God Pavilion’s backing, and Qian Chaoguang revealed his second ten-thousand-year soul ring and its versatile Eight-Point Light Wheel skill. The pair returned to the dormitory with Huo Yutong after Qian Duoduo exempted them from the Soul Tool Department’s Upgrade Assessment, while Shrek kept their rapid Soul Tool Master progress secret to avoid alarming the continent.

• Qian Duoduo swore that the Sea God Pavilion Members would support Qian Chaoguang as long as he did not betray the Academy, and Qian Chaoguang reaffirmed that Qian Duoduo would always be his teacher.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed two ten-thousand-year soul rings and explained that his Soul Power had reached rank twenty-seven after gaining seven ranks from his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Qian Chaoguang demonstrated that his second Soul Skill, Eight-Point Light Wheel, could create multiple spinning light wheels at once and control them around Qian Duoduo.
• Qian Duoduo praised Qian Chaoguang’s skill, teased him and Huo Yutong, and escorted them to the dormitory while urging them to show their abilities in the Upgrade Assessment.
• Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er exempted Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong from the Soul Tool Department’s Upgrade Assessment with Mu En’s permission, while Shrek concealed that they had become Third Level Soul Tool Masters in eight months.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Qian Chaoguang rested before resuming his routine and considering how to use his Ice Emperor skills without revealing their source. On the way to class, he and his friends ran into Dai Huabin, whose frustration at their progress gave Qian Chaoguang the chance to tease him.

• Qian Chaoguang returned to the dorm, rested, and teased the sleeping Wang Dong before going to bed early.
• Qian Chaoguang woke early, got Wang Dong up to cultivate the Purple Demon Eye, and thought about concealing the Ice Emperor Martial Soul skills.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong moved to the Yellow Teaching Building for their second year.
• Qian Chaoguang saw that Dai Huabin had reached Level 36 and noticed Dai Huabin's distress at Huo Yutong and Wang Dong's progress.
• Qian Chaoguang teased Dai Huabin about his poor complexion and implied that he had overindulged, prompting Dai Huabin to insist his roommate's snoring had kept him awake.