Chapter Summaries

Snow Empress followed the Green Lotus Jade Pendant’s guidance to a hidden refuge, where His Majesty remotely aided her and prepared another safeguard against the Underworld. After recovering, she attacked an Underworld tracking post to disrupt its Ghost Net.

• Snow Empress reached Hidden Mist Peak, hid in a cave, and began healing her injuries.
• His Majesty saw that the Underworld was pursuing Snow Empress and sent her a green lotus seed containing Sword Qi as protection.
• The pendant showed Snow Empress a route to the Ziwei Sect ruins and marked dangers, while His Majesty left a warning about a nearby Underworld sentry post.
• Snow Empress reached the sentry post and silently killed the guard on watch.
• Snow Empress entered a hut and killed the two cultivators inside before they could alert others.

Snow Empress escaped the Underworld’s pursuit and crossed the Blood Sand Desert with the Green Lotus Jade Pendant’s protection. She reached Forget Sorrow Valley on the way to the Ziwei Sect ruins and discovered two groups fighting there.

• Snow Empress found a jade slip mapping Underworld outposts, disrupted a Specter Talisman to hinder their tracking, and fled northwest.
• Earth Venerable identified her likely destination as the Ziwei Sect ruins and ordered his forces to gather there.
• Snow Empress crossed the Blood Sand Desert and fought off a divine abomination’s lingering will, then the pendant’s green lotus drove away three more.
• The Green Lotus carried Snow Empress safely across the desert and set her down at Forget Sorrow Valley.
• Snow Empress entered the valley, heard fighting, and found two groups battling in a clearing.

The Snow Empress rescued Luo Qingyin from Underworld cultivators who were hunting special physiques, then learned that a Half-Step Almighty called Earth Venerable was leading a force to surround her. Luo Qingyin joined her journey to the Ziwei Sect ruins and revealed a hidden teleportation route.

• The Snow Empress intervened as Yin Jiu and two Underworld cultivators attacked Luo Qingyin, and the pair fought back together.
• The Snow Empress killed Yin Jiu and the fleeing Dao Palace cultivator, then searched the last cultivator's soul before he died.
• The Snow Empress learned that Earth Venerable was leading the Underworld force and would arrive by the next day to capture her and other special physiques.
• Luo Qingyin refused to leave alone and told the Snow Empress she was seeking a fragment of the Ziwei Emperor Bell for Heavenly Melody Valley.
• Luo Qingyin showed the Snow Empress a map marking a hidden ancient teleportation formation that could carry them to Fallen Star Lake, and the Snow Empress agreed to follow her.

Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin fought their way past the Underworld’s sentries and activated an ancient teleportation array to escape pursuit. They arrived at Fallen Star Lake injured, where Snow Empress urged them to recover briefly and move on.

• Earth Venerable ordered his forces to seal off the area around Fallen Star Lake and pursue the two women.
• Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin discovered Underworld sentries in a forest and killed all five before they could raise the alarm.
• The women evaded more sentry posts and uncovered an ancient teleportation array buried beneath rocks in a secluded valley.
• Luo Qingyin guided Snow Empress in activating the array with five high-grade spirit stones as a Dragon Transformation expert approached.
• The two women teleported to Fallen Star Lake, where Luo Qingyin emerged injured and Snow Empress gave her a healing pill.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin crossed Fallen Star Lake, then chose a route through White Bone Shoal to reach the Ziwei Sect ruins while avoiding the Underworld. Earth Venerable tracked them and sent his forces to surround them, and the two were overwhelmed by Yin spirits as they crossed the battlefield.

• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin fought off Mo Yuan Demonic Octopuses and reached a protected island in the center of Fallen Star Lake.
• After Luo Qingyin recovered, she and the Snow Empress chose the longer route through White Bone Shoal instead of Wind Burial Valley and Ghost-Weeping Forest.
• Earth Venerable arrived at the island, learned the pair had gone east, and split his followers into three groups to encircle them.
• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin entered White Bone Shoal, where Luo Qingyin's Demon-Cleansing Melody and the Snow Empress's Lunar Power held back waves of Yin spirits.
• As the Yin spirits surrounded them, the Snow Empress took out her one-use Profound Ice Talisman.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin encountered the Underworld in White Bone Shoal as the Snow Empress’s connection to the Ziwei Sect awakened. After learning the Ziwei Emperor Bell lay in the Bottomless Abyss, they jumped from the cliff to escape Gui Sha and pursue it.

• The Snow Empress used Lunar Power to make a White Bone Battle General recognize her as a Ziwei Sect successor, and it left her a Northern Subjugation token.
• Gui Sha and two Dragon Transformation cultivators caught up with the Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin, and the Snow Empress fought them while urging Luo Qingyin to escape.
• A broken sword fragment sent Ziwei Sect inherited memories into the Snow Empress, and the Ziwei Emperor Bell tolled, disrupting Gui Sha’s attack.
• The Snow Empress learned the Emperor Bell was in the Bottomless Abyss, and she and Luo Qingyin leaped from the cliff together as Gui Sha pursued them.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin discovered the Ziwei Sect’s inheritance in the Bottomless Abyss, learned the Underworld’s role in its destruction, and awakened the Emperor Bell. After gaining power from the inheritance, they fought their way out and faced Earth Venerable’s army as the Snow Empress unleashed the bell.

• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin descended into the Bottomless Abyss and were drawn into a ruined palace by the Ziwei Emperor Bell.
• The Snow Empress received Ziwei’s Last Instructions and learned that the Underworld helped destroy the Ziwei Sect and hunted special physiques to hide its conspiracy.
• The Snow Empress began accepting the inheritance, and Luo Qingyin joined the Emperor Bell fragment to its main body, awakening the bell and alerting Earth Venerable.
• The inheritance raised the Snow Empress to the First Transformation of Dragon Transformation and advanced Luo Qingyin to Dao Palace Great Perfection, while restoring thirty percent of the Emperor Bell’s might.
• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin emerged from the abyss to confront Earth Venerable and his army.
• The Snow Empress rang the Emperor Bell, scattering death Qi and destroying Underworld disciples, while Earth Venerable ordered his forces to attack and seize it.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin fought Earth Venerable’s Yin Sha Guards and destroyed half of them, while the Emperor Bell and Luo Qingyin’s Pure Spirit Physique countered their death Qi. Earth Venerable sent thirty Dao Palace deacons into the Myriad Yin Formation, and the Snow Empress poured her power into the Emperor Bell to strike the formation’s torrent of death Qi.

• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin split the Yin Sha Guards between them and used the Emperor Bell and Autumn Water Sword to counter their attacks.
• Luo Qingyin trapped four Yin Sha Guards in a fierce fight, purifying their death Qi and weakening them with her sword strikes.
• The Snow Empress smashed one Yin Sha Guard with the Emperor Bell and destroyed another with Lunar Power.
• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin killed five Yin Sha Guards, leaving the other five gravely wounded.
• Earth Venerable ordered thirty Dao Palace deacons to form the Myriad Yin Formation and unleash a torrent of death Qi.
• The Snow Empress called Luo Qingyin close, empowered the Emperor Bell with Lunar Power and Ziwei Power, and swung it at the torrent.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin destroyed the Myriad Yin Formation and fought the Earth Venerable, whose black bell attacked their souls. The Earth Venerable summoned his Life-Bound Ghost Avatar, escalating the battle as the Snow Empress faced his overwhelming power.

• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin combined the Emperor Bell and Pure Spirit Physique to suppress the Myriad Yin Formation, and the Snow Empress killed all thirty Dao Palace deacons.
• Luo Qingyin chased down and killed the fleeing Underworld disciples while the Snow Empress confronted the Earth Venerable.
• The Earth Venerable attacked the Snow Empress with his black bell's soul attack, and she warned Luo Qingyin to protect her sea of consciousness.
• The Earth Venerable tried to seize the Emperor Bell, but the Snow Empress struck his hand and purified part of his Death Qi.
• The Earth Venerable summoned his Life-Bound Ghost Avatar, alarming Luo Qingyin.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin fought the Earth Venerable’s Life-Bound Ghost Avatar with the Emperor Bell, Autumn Water Sword, and Ziwei power. After the Earth Venerable empowered the avatar with blood essence, the two prepared a final combined strike.

• The Snow Empress poured her power and blood essence into the Emperor Bell and struck the Life-Bound Ghost Avatar, injuring its claw but suffering severe exhaustion.
• The Earth Venerable offered to spare the Snow Empress if she surrendered the Emperor Bell and Ziwei legacy, but she refused.
• Luo Qingyin joined the fight, using her Pure Spirit Physique and Ziwei power to suppress the avatar’s death Qi while the Snow Empress shielded her and struck its head with the bell.
• The Earth Venerable suffered a grievous injury through his link to the damaged avatar, then fed it blood essence and enlarged it to fifteen zhang.
• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin resolved to fight together as the Earth Venerable’s strengthened avatar gathered Yin power, and the Snow Empress began a full-power Emperor Bell strike.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin defeated and killed the Earth Venerable, then spared the surviving Underworld disciples after they swore to leave the Ziwei Sect's former grounds and stop harming living beings. As Luo Qingyin returned to warn Heavenly Melody Valley, the Snow Empress uncovered a hidden plot to awaken an ancient evil god and began preparing to stop it.

• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin destroyed the life-bound ghost effigy and struck down the Earth Venerable with the Emperor Bell.
• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin made the surviving Underworld disciples swear to stay away from the Ziwei Sect's former grounds and never harm living beings, then let them flee.
• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin agreed that Luo Qingyin would warn Heavenly Melody Valley while the Snow Empress stayed to organize the Ziwei legacy and search for Emperor Bell fragments.
• The Snow Empress purified and kept the Earth Venerable's black handbell, then returned to the Ziwei Sect's ruins as Luo Qingyin departed.
• The Snow Empress discovered in the Ziwei legacy that a hidden force intended to use the Ten Thousand Yin Banner to awaken an ancient evil god and destroy heaven and earth.

After recovering to the Second Transformation of Dragon Transformation, the Snow Empress used the Emperor Bell’s lights to seek its other fragments while the Underworld began hunting her and Luo Qingyin. The trail led her to a Ziwei Sect secret realm, where she entered an ancient passage and found murals depicting the sect’s past.

• The Snow Empress restored her cultivation and wounds, reached the Second Transformation of Dragon Transformation, and learned the Emperor Bell could guide her to its other fragments.
• The Emperor Bell revealed several points of light, and the Snow Empress left the Bottomless Abyss to follow them.
• A powerful man in the Underworld ordered his officers to hunt the Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin, seize the Emperor Bell and their physiques, and finish refining the Ten Thousand Yin Banner within three months.
• The Snow Empress followed the lights east to ancient mountains and used Ziwei Power to open a passage through a restriction guarded by two stone steles.
• The Snow Empress entered the passage and saw murals showing the Ziwei Sect’s former glory, renewing her vow to revive the sect and finish its predecessors’ work.

The Snow Empress found the Emperor Bell fragment in a hidden valley, but an Underworld cultivator attacked her and tried to seize the bell. Surrounded by ghostly souls and running low on strength, she unleashed the Ziwei Heaven-Burning Art and sent the flaming Emperor Bell toward her enemy.

• The Snow Empress reached the valley and encountered a black-robed Underworld man who demanded the Emperor Bell and its fragment.
• The black-robed man attacked with a death Qi whip, but the Snow Empress used the Ziwei Emperor Bell to block him and burn away the whip’s sinister Qi.
• The Snow Empress trapped the whip with the bell and struck the black-robed man, wounding his shoulder and weakening him.
• The black-robed man summoned ghostly souls with the Yin Sha Token, gradually overwhelming the Snow Empress as her strength faded.
• The Snow Empress activated the Ziwei Heaven-Burning Art, transformed the Emperor Bell’s radiance into flames, and sent it at the black-robed man while engulfing the ghostly souls.

The Snow Empress defeated the black-robed man, absorbed an Emperor Bell fragment, and broke through to the Third Transformation of Dragon Transformation. She reached Heavenly Melody Valley and reunited with Luo Qingyin as they prepared to search for another fragment amid the Underworld’s growing threat.

• The Snow Empress burned the black-robed man to nothing, then fused the recovered Emperor Bell fragment into her dantian and restored her strength.
• The Snow Empress cultivated in the valley, broke through to the Third Transformation of Dragon Transformation, and sensed an Emperor Bell fragment near Heavenly Melody Valley.
• Luo Qingyin warned Heavenly Melody Elder about the Underworld’s plans, and he ordered Heavenly Melody Valley to strengthen its defenses rather than send people out.
• Luo Qingyin sensed the Snow Empress at Heavenly Melody Valley’s rear mountain and reunited with her in an ancient pavilion.
• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin discussed the fragment and Underworld emissaries nearby, then Heavenly Melody Elder arrived and praised the Snow Empress.

Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin entered the Qingyin Secret Realm to find an Emperor Bell fragment and encountered the Black Water Beast guarding it. After they explained the Underworld’s plan and showed it the Ziwei Emperor Bell, the beast recognized the bell’s sacred power but had not yet agreed to give up the fragment.

• Heavenly Melody Elder gave Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin a token and two protective artifacts to enter the Qingyin Secret Realm, offering to come to their aid if they were in danger.
• Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin used the token to open the secret realm and followed the Emperor Bell fragment’s presence through its valley.
• They found a purple Emperor Bell fragment above a stele in the pool, but the Black Water Beast emerged and blocked their way.
• Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin explained the Underworld’s plan to awaken the ancient evil god, but the Black Water Beast doubted their story and refused to surrender its treasure.
• Snow Empress showed the Black Water Beast the Ziwei Emperor Bell, and it sensed the bell’s sacred power and its resonance with the fragment.

The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin passed the Black Water Beast’s test and claimed the Emperor Bell fragment, restoring the bell to seventy percent of its might. Back at Heavenly Melody Valley, they learned that more fragments lay with the Kunlun Sect and Wudang Sect, and the Snow Empress prepared to seek them while Luo Qingyin stayed behind to defend the valley.

• The Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin fought the Black Water Beast, and it stopped the test after recognizing their strength and resolve.
• The Snow Empress took the fragment from the island and merged it with the Emperor Bell, healing Luo Qingyin and improving both women’s cultivation.
• The Black Water Beast promised to aid them if they called for help, and the Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin left the Qingyin Secret Realm for Heavenly Melody Valley.
• The Heavenly Melody Elder told them that Emperor Bell fragments were located in the territories of the Kunlun Sect and Wudang Sect, where the Underworld might also seek them.
• The Heavenly Melody Elder assigned the Snow Empress to visit both sects and told Luo Qingyin to remain in Heavenly Melody Valley to guard it.

The Snow Empress left Heavenly Melody Valley for the Kunlun Sect to seek another Emperor Bell fragment while the Black-Robed Venerable Lord ordered his forces to pursue her and race for the remaining fragments. Daoist Kunlun agreed to help her enter the dangerous Kunlun Secret Realm and assigned Qingyunzi to guide her.

• The Snow Empress accepted the Heavenly Melody Elder’s letter and flew toward the Kunlun Sect to find an Emperor Bell fragment.
• The Black-Robed Venerable Lord learned that the Snow Empress and Luo Qingyin had obtained a fragment, ordered more Underworld officers to the Kunlun Sect and Wudang Sect, and demanded that the Ten Thousand Yin Banner be completed within two months.
• The Snow Empress reached the Kunlun Sect and presented the Heavenly Melody Elder’s letter to its gate disciples, who brought her to Daoist Kunlun.
• The Snow Empress asked Daoist Kunlun for help finding the fragment in the Kunlun Secret Realm, and he agreed to support her and the righteous forces against the Underworld.
• Daoist Kunlun introduced Qingyunzi, who promised to guide the Snow Empress safely into the Kunlun Secret Realm.

The Snow Empress and Qingyunzi entered the Kunlun Secret Realm to retrieve a Ziwei Emperor Bell fragment and encountered its guardian, the Ice Flame Beast. After agreeing to prove their intentions in a fight, they began battling the beast, and the confrontation continued.

• The Snow Empress and Qingyunzi entered the Kunlun Secret Realm after Daoist Kunlun warned them to use the messaging jade talisman if they faced danger.
• Qingyunzi told the Snow Empress that an Ice Flame Beast guarding the fragment had reached the Dragon Transformation Fourth Transformation.
• The Ice Flame Beast blocked their way and refused to surrender the fragment until Qingyunzi explained the Underworld's plan and the Snow Empress showed it the Ziwei Emperor Bell.
• The Ice Flame Beast agreed to trust them if they defeated it, then attacked with ice blades and flames.
• The Snow Empress deflected the beast's attack with the Emperor Bell while Qingyunzi struck at its abdomen, and the Snow Empress blocked its tail with the bell.

The Snow Empress and Qingyunzi defeated the Ice Flame Beast’s test and obtained another Emperor Bell fragment, restoring the bell to ninety percent of its power. After gaining new strength and the beast’s promise of aid, they left the ice mountain and found a cave to rest and search for other fragments.

• The Ice Flame Beast tested Snow Empress and Qingyunzi in battle, then recognized their resolve and led them to the Emperor Bell fragment.
• The Snow Empress merged the fragment with the Emperor Bell, healing Qingyunzi and raising the bell’s power to ninety percent; her cultivation advanced to Dragon Transformation Fourth Transformation, while Qingyunzi reached the Third Transformation.
• The Ice Flame Beast entrusted the fragment to them and promised to come to their aid if they called for it.
• The Snow Empress and Qingyunzi left the ice mountain and searched for a safe place to rest while planning to use the Tracking Jade Slip to locate other fragments.
• The Snow Empress broke open a concealed ice cave, and the pair entered it and sealed the entrance with a simple restriction.

The Snow Empress and Qingyunzi followed the tracking jade slip to the Kunlun Ruins, where they sensed Underworld experts and found slain Kunlun Sect disciples. They entered the city cautiously to search for the Emperor Bell’s final fragment, but faced ancient restrictions along the ice road.

• Qingyunzi reported that the tracking jade slip pointed northwest toward the ancient ruins, and the Snow Empress decided they would set out after he recovered.
• After two hours of rest, the Snow Empress and Qingyunzi traveled across the ice plain and overcame hidden ice traps, ice silkworms, and illusion-inducing mist.
• The Snow Empress and Qingyunzi reached the Kunlun Ruins and sensed ancient restrictions and the Underworld’s sinister Qi within the city.
• The pair found recently slain Kunlun Sect disciples outside the ruins, and the Snow Empress insisted they prioritize finding the final fragment.
• The Snow Empress and Qingyunzi entered the city, where Qingyunzi warned that they had to follow the runes on the ice road to avoid triggering its restrictions.