Chapter Summaries

Yang Xingchen, whose Martial Soul was a fishing rod, went fishing after Village Chief Jack asked him to give up the village’s work-study quota. He caught a sealed sphere containing the Snow Empress and woke to find her in his Spiritual Sea, where he realized she needed him to survive.

• Su Yuntao judged Tang San’s innate full Soul Power and Blue Silver Grass more promising than Yang Xingchen’s rank-six Soul Power and fishing rod Martial Soul, so Village Chief Jack asked Yang Xingchen to withdraw from the work-study quota competition.
• Yang Xingchen went to the pond to fish, reflecting on his past-life memories and his failed attempt to befriend Tang San.
• Yang Xingchen hooked a dark-gold, rune-covered metal sphere, but a blue-and-white figure burst out of it and knocked him unconscious.
• Yang Xingchen woke in his Spiritual Sea and learned that the white-haired woman before him was the Snow Empress, a seven-hundred-thousand-year ruler of the Far North.
• Yang Xingchen deduced that the Snow Empress needed him to survive and asked how she could exist in his Spiritual Sea despite his rank-six Soul Power.

After the Snow Empress sealed her power and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus’s medicinal power inside Yang Xingchen, he discovered his Soul Power had reached level ten and sought a Soul Ring. She brought him to the Soul Hunting Forest to use his spacetime Martial Soul to fish for a suitable Soul Beast, and prepared to conceal his presence after dark.

• The Snow Empress explained that her power and the snow lotus’s medicinal power were sealed in seven layers, each lasting three years, and warned that Yang Xingchen might not survive the power when it was released.
• Yang Xingchen woke from his mental space with level ten Soul Power and worried that Spirit Hall would notice the difference from the level six he had registered.
• The Snow Empress objected to Yang Xingchen seeking a Soul Ring in a Soul Hunting Forest and suggested fishing for a time- or space-attribute Soul Beast where spacetime fluctuations were frequent.
• The Snow Empress explained that the God Sealing Platform had helped her comprehend time and space, then pelted Yang Xingchen with hail when he teased her about it.
• At the Soul Hunting Forest, the Snow Empress told Yang Xingchen to wait until dark, stay on her ice bridge, and avoid being caught while she concealed his presence and located the Soul Masters.

Yang Xingchen fished at the Soul Hunting Forest lake with the Snow Empress and caught a hundred-year Space-Time Soul Spirit, which he refined. The Snow Empress then released her first seal, sending power into Yang Xingchen while explaining how the Soul Spirit could help absorb the pressure of future seals.

• The Snow Empress brought Yang Xingchen into the Soul Hunting Forest and directed him to fish by a lake.
• Yang Xingchen spent hours hauling up junk before a powerful catch dragged him toward the water, and the Snow Empress froze the slippery ground so he could brace himself.
• Yang Xingchen and the Snow Empress pulled a Space-Time Soul Spirit from the lake, and Yang Xingchen bound and refined it.
• The Snow Empress said the Soul Spirit could share the pressure from her released seals and grow stronger by absorbing their power.
• The Snow Empress released her first seal, sending immense power into Yang Xingchen’s meridians and dantian as she prepared for her future journey to the Far North.

Yang Xingchen encountered Tang San and Yu Xiaogang in the Soul Hunting Forest and used his first Soul Skill against Tang San. After Yang Xingchen challenged Yu Xiaogang’s theories and ability, Tang San began doubting his teacher and the path he had chosen for Blue Silver Grass.

• A Mandala Snake attacked Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, leaving Yu Xiaogang poisoned and unconscious while Tang San fought the beast and obtained a Soul Ring over four hundred years old.
• After absorbing power from Snow Empress’s first seal for three days, Yang Xingchen found Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and Snow Empress urged him to teach Tang San a lesson.
• Tang San attacked Yang Xingchen, who used First Soul Skill, Fishing Line · Thousand Threads Lure, to extract Tang San’s speed and give it to Cangyuan.
• Yang Xingchen cut through Tang San’s Blue Silver Entanglement and criticized Yu Xiaogang’s advice on strengthening Blue Silver Grass.
• Yang Xingchen questioned Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power and his failure to defeat the Mandala Snake, causing Tang San to doubt his teacher and his approach to Blue Silver Grass.

Yang Xingchen beat Tang San, took his Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, and left Tang San questioning Yu Xiaogang’s advice about Blue Silver Grass. Ten months later, Yang Xingchen reached the Far North with the Snow Empress and Cangyuan, then set out to find an Ice Spirit Cold Spring.

• Yang Xingchen bound and beat Tang San, then took the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges as payment for his lesson.
• Tang San freed himself, treated Yu Xiaogang’s poisoning, and later asked whether Blue Silver Grass could follow a vitality-based support path.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that Blue Silver Grass was suited only for control, and Tang San concealed his doubts before returning to school with him.
• Ten months later, Yang Xingchen arrived at the Far North with the Snow Empress and Cangyuan, whose cultivation had risen to three thousand years.
• The Snow Empress told Yang Xingchen about an Ice Spirit Cold Spring nearby, and he immediately set off to find it.

Yang Xingchen and the Snow Empress reached the Ice Spirit Cold Spring, where she sent him ahead to test his abilities. After a creature disguised as Yang Xingchen attacked him, the two prepared to fight.

• Yang Xingchen asked how much farther they had to travel, and the Snow Empress said the Ice Spirit Cold Spring was about half a day away.
• Yang Xingchen and the Snow Empress discussed finding him a mount as they continued across the Far North.
• Yang Xingchen jumped into a deep cavern, then used the Space-Time Fishing Rod to steer himself safely down its icy passage.
• Yang Xingchen explored the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and was grabbed by a hand emerging from the water.
• Yang Xingchen hauled a copy of himself from the spring and attacked it, but the clone blocked his kick and summoned a replica of the Space-Time Fishing Rod.

Yang Xingchen defeated an Ice Grudge Snow Fiend in an icy cavern after discovering that its duplicate was an illusion. Snow Empress revealed that the starving creature had been weakened, and Yang Xingchen found an External Soul Bone for the head inside its corpse.

• Yang Xingchen summoned Cangyuan and used Heavenly Snow Woman to shatter the apparent duplicate, then realized he had been caught in an illusion.
• Yang Xingchen fought the Ice Grudge Snow Fiend, hooked its spiritual power attribute, and killed it with ice spikes after it snapped his fishing line.
• Snow Empress emerged and explained that the Ice Grudge Snow Fiend had been starving and could use only a fraction of its strength.
• A purple Soul Ring appeared above the corpse, and Snow Empress told Yang Xingchen to stab its head with a knife.
• Yang Xingchen uncovered a translucent, visor-shaped External Soul Bone for the head, which Snow Empress said might grant him a control-type Soul Skill.

Yang Xingchen absorbed the Ice Grudge Snow Fiend’s External Soul Bone while the Snow Empress tempered his body, and he broke through to level twenty. After testing the mask’s detection ability, he asked Cangyuan to manifest his second Soul Ring.

• The Snow Empress made Yang Xingchen enter the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and absorb the External Soul Bone while enduring intensified ice body tempering, with Cangyuan sharing some of the burden.
• Tang San rejected Yu Xiaogang’s plan to hunt a Ghost Vine and chose to pursue vitality and defense for his Blue Silver Grass by hunting Black Jade Bamboo.
• After three days, Yang Xingchen finished absorbing the External Soul Bone, named it the Frost Nightmare Ice Mask, and learned its two Soul Skills and passive ability.
• Yang Xingchen tested Satiated Frost Heart Peering, detected Cangyuan’s anger, and found that the Snow Empress could block the detection.
• Yang Xingchen reached level twenty and asked Cangyuan to manifest his second Soul Ring, which Cangyuan condensed at over five thousand six hundred years of cultivation.

Yang Xingchen absorbed his second Soul Ring, caught Mystic Water Pills, and endured their foul side effect before the Snow Empress released her second seal. Meanwhile, Ice Bear King Xiaobai set out to find an opportunity on his own and headed south, toward Yang Xingchen and the Snow Empress.

• Yang Xingchen absorbed his Second Soul Ring, reached level twenty-three, and gained Rewind · Reversal Hook.
• Yang Xingchen fished up Mystic Water Pills, swallowed one, and discovered that its side effect covered him in foul-smelling grime.
• The Snow Empress released her second seal, sending power to strengthen Yang Xingchen and Cangyuan and enabling Yang Xingchen to awaken a domain for his Second Martial Soul.
• The Snow Empress remembered that Xiaobai had once sought an opportunity to survive his two-hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation.
• Xiaobai left the Snow Empress's palace to prove himself and headed south toward the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.

Yang Xingchen and Snow Empress left the depleted Ice Spirit Cold Spring to seek another cultivation treasure land, but encountered Xiao Bai, who demanded proof that Snow Empress was her mother. Snow Empress convinced Xiao Bai to take them to meet her mother, leaving the trio headed north together.

• Yang Xingchen and Snow Empress found the Ice Spirit Cold Spring nearly exhausted and set off toward the Far North.
• Xiao Bai went south to search for an opportunity and sensed Snow Empress nearby, while Yang Xingchen noticed the lack of Soul Beasts in their surroundings.
• Snow Empress warned Yang Xingchen that Xiao Bai was approaching, and Xiao Bai confronted him after sensing her mother's presence on him.
• Snow Empress emerged from Yang Xingchen's Spiritual Sea and claimed she had come from ten thousand years in the future.
• After Snow Empress shared private memories, Xiao Bai accepted her identity and agreed to take her and Yang Xingchen to see her mother.

Yang Xingchen and the Snow Empress met Xiao Bai’s mom, and the Snow Empress revealed her plan to devour her. They agreed to a ten-year pact to decide who would lead the devouring, while Yang Xingchen planned to seek power at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Xiao Bai brought Yang Xingchen and the Snow Empress to her palace and summoned her mom.
• Xiao Bai’s mom arrived and attacked Yang Xingchen, but the Snow Empress protected him and Xiao Bai asked her mom to hear them out.
• The Snow Empress explained how she had come to this timeline and revealed her plan to devour Xiao Bai’s mom, who agreed to a contest in ten years without using the Far North’s Heaven and Earth Yuan Power.
• Yang Xingchen accepted the pact, and the Snow Empress agreed to bring him back in ten years to fight Xiao Bai’s mom.
• On the way back, the Snow Empress warned Yang Xingchen about the risks, and he said the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could provide treasures powerful enough to help them win.

Yang Xingchen and Xiao Bai formed a Treasure Hunting Squad in the Far North, where he gained a new Soul Skill and a Level 4 Soul Tool while Xiao Bai prepared for her two-hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation. After Xiao Bai survived the tribulation, Yang Xingchen left for Sunset Forest to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, hoping it would strengthen his body enough to withstand the Snow Empress’s seals.

• Yang Xingchen teamed up with Xiao Bai to search the Far North for opportunities, passed level thirty, and gained the Heavenly Tendril Wave · Meteor Fishing Soul Skill.
• The Treasure Hunting Squad found a ten-thousand-year Ice Crystal Orchid and three pieces of thousand-year ice marrow; Xiao Bai refined the orchid while Yang Xingchen tempered his body and fished up a Level 4 Soul Tool, Wind and Thunder Cloud Treading.
• Xiao Bai broke through the two-hundred-thousand-year bottleneck and survived her lightning tribulation with the Ice Crystal Orchid and help from the Snow Empress and her mother.
• Xiao Bai escorted Yang Xingchen toward human settlements, then left him behind to avoid drawing human Soul Masters to her.
• Yang Xingchen told the Snow Empress he planned to seek the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and she raised going out to sea as a last resort if it failed.
• Several months later, Yang Xingchen reached Sunset Forest and asked the Snow Empress to locate dense ice-attribute Heaven and Earth Yuan Power.

Yang Xingchen used the Snow Empress’s power to cross the poison formation and enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he fished up a freshly written Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. Dugu Bo arrived after noticing his poison formation had weakened, setting up a meeting with Yang Xingchen.

• The Snow Empress cleaved a temporary path through the poison formation, and Yang Xingchen crossed it with his Wind and Thunder Cloud Treading boots.
• Yang Xingchen and the Snow Empress discussed the many herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and whether his Poison Core Method could help Dugu Bo.
• Yang Xingchen began fishing beside the spring and pulled up a freshly written Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record that had vanished from Tang San’s study in another timeline.
• The Snow Empress sensed a Titled Douluo approaching as Dugu Bo hurried back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he discovered his poison formation had weakened.

Yang Xingchen defeated Dugu Bo with the Snow Empress’s power, but the battle loosened her third seal. He swallowed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot before plunging into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the forces inside him began tempering his body as he sank into slumber.

• Yang Xingchen let the Snow Empress possess him, and she defeated Dugu Bo with her hundred-thousand-year-level power.
• The Snow Empress warned Yang Xingchen that her third seal had loosened and she could hold on for only half an hour.
• Yang Xingchen took the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, then jumped into the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo found Yang Xingchen gone and feared he had died in the spring, worrying that Yang Xingchen’s sect might retaliate.
• The Snow Empress released the third seal, and the spring’s ice-and-fire power, the two herbs, and her cultivation balanced as they destroyed and rebuilt Yang Xingchen’s body.

Yang Xingchen entered a demiplane formed from the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ lingering divine power, where the Dragon Kings confirmed his Martial Soul carried power prepared by the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King. The Fire Dragon King began revealing how that power reached Yang Xingchen, while Cangyuan stood poised to become a true dragon.

• Yang Xingchen approached the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ remains with Cangyuan, who sensed their bloodlines calling to him.
• Yang Xingchen saw ice- and fire-infused droplets flowing from the Dragon Kings’ bones into the pool that fed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King appeared as soul flames, welcomed Yang Xingchen as a Dragon King descendant, and called Cangyuan a fish nearing true-dragon status.
• The Fire Dragon King asked Yang Xingchen to summon his Space-Time Fishing Rod and explained that the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King had sent their origin power into the future as a contingency.
• The Fire Dragon King poured his power into the Space-Time Fishing Rod, making its shaft glow silvery-white.

The Ice Dragon King explained that Yang Xingchen carried the origin powers of the Time and Space Dragon Kings and could master them to increase his innate Soul Power. The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King prepared their origin powers and Soul Bones to transform Yang Xingchen's body, while hoping he would eventually obtain a divine position and help them escape.

• The Ice Dragon King told Yang Xingchen that his Martial Soul had not evolved, but mastering its origin power could raise his innate Soul Power and draw a divine position to him.
• Yang Xingchen learned that the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King had preserved their divine positions, while the Divine Realm had divided the other Dragon Kings' powers among its gods.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King decided to transform Yang Xingchen's body and store their excess origin powers in the Fire Dragon King's Left Arm Soul Bone and the Ice Dragon King's Right Arm Soul Bone.
• The Ice Dragon King sent Yang Xingchen and Cangyuan out of the space with a smaller mass of origin power, telling Yang Xingchen to return in his physical body to absorb the Soul Bones.
• The Fire Dragon King said helping Yang Xingchen could give both Dragon Kings a chance to live on and escape their prison.
• When Yang Xingchen's soul returned to his body, the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' origin powers suppressed the other powers and began strengthening him.

Yang Xingchen entered the space of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings after absorbing their source power and received their Soul Bones. The Ice Dragon King taught the Snow Empress how to recall the Ice God Divine Seat and urged her to become the next Ice God after devouring her other self.

• Yang Xingchen absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' source power, then swam toward the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and passed out under the pressure.
• The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King gave Yang Xingchen two arm Soul Bones and instructed him to activate his ice and fire body.
• Yang Xingchen began absorbing the Ice Dragon King's Right Arm Soul Bone, prompting the Ice Dragon King to call out the Snow Empress.
• The Snow Empress emerged from Yang Xingchen's Spiritual Sea and greeted the two Dragon Kings.
• The Ice Dragon King taught the Snow Empress how to recall the Ice God Divine Seat and suggested she become the next Ice God after devouring her other self.

Yang Xingchen absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ arm Soul Bones and fused their domains into the Ice and Fire Annihilation Domain. When he emerged from the process, a strange red-and-blue fourth Soul Ring had appeared beneath his feet.

• The Ice Dragon King told the Snow Empress she could inherit the Ice God’s divine seat if she or Yang Xingchen eventually gained enough power.
• Yang Xingchen began absorbing the Fire Dragon King’s Left Arm Soul Bone, and its Ultimate Fire clashed with his Ultimate Ice as both Soul Bones’ domains manifested.
• Yang Xingchen attempted to fuse the two domains, and the Fire Dragon King used the Soul Bones’ dormant origin power to help him complete the Ice and Fire Annihilation Domain.
• Dugu Bo noticed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well boiling, then approached after its waters abruptly became calm.
• Yang Xingchen opened his eyes with dragon scales on his hands and announced the Ice and Fire Annihilation Domain, while the Snow Empress noticed an unexplained red-and-blue fourth Soul Ring beneath him.

Cangyuan absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ origin power and transformed into a true dragon with time and space attributes. The Snow Empress began questioning the newly awakened Cangyuan while Yang Xingchen continued absorbing the power.

• The Fire Dragon King explained that he had used his and the Ice Dragon King’s origin power to create a God-Given Soul Ring for Yang Xingchen.
• The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings discovered that a tenth of the origin power in Yang Xingchen’s Soul Bones had vanished, and the Snow Empress suggested Cangyuan had absorbed it.
• Cangyuan emerged from Yang Xingchen and transformed, growing dragon horns and displaying powerful time and space attributes as it broke through the hundred-thousand-year barrier.
• The Fire Dragon King wondered whether Cangyuan could regain a physical body, while Cangyuan circled Yang Xingchen and complained that it was bored.
• The Snow Empress called Cangyuan over to question it, and Cangyuan greeted her as Big Sister Snow Empress.

Cangyuan agreed to gain a physical body someday, while Yang Xingchen emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered Dugu Bo a deal for the treasure land. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo stunned by Yang Xingchen’s four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and willing to hear him out.

• The Snow Empress explained that Cangyuan could gain a physical body only after Yang Xingchen became a god and removed Cangyuan’s Soul Ring, and Cangyuan agreed despite having to wait.
• The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King decided to offer their Dragon Pearls as compensation if Yang Xingchen agreed to free Cangyuan.
• Yang Xingchen surfaced from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo questioned him about surviving in its spring water.
• Yang Xingchen offered to cure the toxins in Dugu Bo’s body in exchange for the treasure land, then promised to strengthen Dugu Bo’s poison arts.
• Dugu Bo challenged Yang Xingchen’s claim, but Yang Xingchen displayed the pressure of four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, prompting Dugu Bo to apologize and listen.