Chapter Summaries

Luo Zixi said goodbye to Xun'er and returned with Xiao Wu to the Douluo Continent, where he prepared to hunt powerful Soul Beasts for his next Soul Rings. As he set out after an Evil Shadow Flood Dragon, an effeminate middle-aged man watched a trio moving through the forest.

• Xun'er kissed Luo Zixi and fell asleep before he could tell her he was leaving, so he carried her to bed and left a letter in her coat.
• Luo Zixi sent Xiao Wu into the Illusory Spirit Immortal Marsh and used the system to return to the Douluo Continent near Notting City.
• After resting overnight in the Star Dou Great Forest, Luo Zixi asked Xiao Wu to help him find a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• Xiao Wu identified a deep pond southeast of them as the lair of an Evil Shadow Flood Dragon nearing twenty thousand years old, and Luo Zixi set out to kill it.
• In another part of the Star Dou Great Forest, an effeminate middle-aged man watched two men and a woman advance in formation.

Luo Zixi used his strength and Wood Spirit Body to provoke the twenty-thousand-year Evil Shadow Flood Dragon and draw it out of its deep lake. After tricking the dragon into attacking decoys, he appeared on its back and struck its neck with the Illusory Wood Cotton Palm.

• Luo Zixi killed a thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider with one slap, surprising himself with how fragile soul beasts seemed.
• Xiao Wu guided Luo Zixi to the lake where the Evil Shadow Flood Dragon lived and warned him that it might be difficult to lure out.
• Luo Zixi used his Wood Spirit Body to send thick vines into the lake and enrage the dragon in its underwater cave.
• Luo Zixi formed a giant wooden fist and struck the Evil Shadow Flood Dragon as it surfaced, sending it back into the lake.
• The dragon attacked three decoy figures in the forest while Luo Zixi appeared on its back and pressed a palm against its neck.

Luo Zixi used a series of ambushes to kill a twenty-thousand-year Evil Shadow Flood Dragon and dragged its body into its underwater lair to absorb its soul ring. The Spirit Hall Golden Generation and Yue Guan approached, while a dark-purple glow appeared from the dragon’s palm.

• Luo Zixi shattered the Evil Shadow Flood Dragon’s neck bones with Illusory Wood Cotton Palm and followed up with a plant fist and another ambush.
• Luo Zixi pinned the injured dragon down and killed it with wooden spikes coated in his Dou Qi Armor.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan watched Luo Zixi’s fight, and Yue Guan urged them to approach him.
• Luo Zixi dragged the dragon into its underwater cave, where Xiao Wu praised his tactics and he explained that winning mattered more than fighting fairly.
• A dim dark-purple glow flickered from the Evil Shadow Flood Dragon’s palm.

Luo Zixi absorbed the Evil Shadow Flood Dragon’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring while Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation attacked the lake to lure him out. He gained new traits, but the intruders remained outside as he finished absorbing the ring.

• Luo Zixi stored the Evil Shadow Flood Dragon’s External Dragon Claw Bone and began absorbing its Soul Ring while Xiao Wu stood guard.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Yue Guan arrived at the lake, and Yan and Yue Guan decided to target the dragon for its valuable materials and chance of a Soul Bone.
• Yan battered the lakeshore with magma and violent attacks while Luo Zixi remained protected in the underground cave.
• Luo Zixi crushed the dragon’s lingering spiritual shockwaves and completed the Soul Ring absorption, reaching about Soul Power level fifty-two.
• Luo Zixi chose the Famous Saber Life Stealer, Ice Spirit Body, and Super Lucky traits, and the System confirmed their fusion.

Luo Zixi unleashed his self-created Frost Forest martial soul fusion technique against the Spirit Hall group, injuring Xie Yue and Yan as Chrysanthemum Douluo tried to rescue them. With the forest still growing and his energy spent, Luo Zixi considered how to escape and discussed revenge with Xiao Wu.

• Luo Zixi combined his Wood Spirit and Ice Spirit powers underground and began preparing his modified Frost Forest technique.
• Yue Guan sensed danger and called Yan back, but Yan struck the lakeshore with his Fourth Soul Skill, Lava Hell, before the lake abruptly froze.
• Luo Zixi unleashed Frost Forest, causing over a thousand Ultimate Ice trees to erupt around the lake and pierce Xie Yue's foot.
• Yue Guan hurled Xie Yue and Hu Liena into the sky, then used his Sixth Soul Skill to pull Yan out as ice branches wounded him and the Frost Forest kept growing.
• Luo Zixi depleted the life energy around the lake and learned from Xiao Wu that Yue Guan resembled one of the people who hunted her mother.
• Luo Zixi rejected an immediate attempt at revenge and considered taking a valuable hostage if he and Xiao Wu could not otherwise escape.

Luo Zixi ambushed Hu Liena and her companions in the Frost Forest, taking Hu Liena hostage after overpowering Xie Yue and Yan. Chrysanthemum Douluo returned and trapped Luo Zixi with his Aura Barrier, but Luo Zixi used Hu Liena to stop his attack and refused to release her.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo chased a decoy, then realized Luo Zixi had lured him away from Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.
• Luo Zixi struck Xie Yue into a Frost Tree and seized Hu Liena, while Yan attacked him with Lava Hell.
• Luo Zixi used Great Cold Without Snow to knock Yan unconscious and retreated with Hu Liena as Chrysanthemum Douluo returned.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo trapped Luo Zixi with his Aura Barrier, but Luo Zixi used Hu Liena as a shield to force him to withdraw his attack.
• Luo Zixi refused Chrysanthemum Douluo's demand to release Hu Liena, saying he did not trust him.

Luo Zixi used Hu Liena to survive Chrysanthemum Douluo's attack, then kept her alive as leverage while negotiating their escape. The Goddess of Life noticed Luo Zixi and sent divine power to him, pinning Chrysanthemum Douluo to the ground.

• Hu Liena regained consciousness and attacked Luo Zixi, but her spiritual strike was overwhelmed by his power.
• Luo Zixi used Hu Liena to block Chrysanthemum Douluo's fifth soul skill, which pierced her chest and shattered Famous Blade as it reached Luo Zixi.
• Luo Zixi used his life energy to keep Hu Liena alive and threatened Chrysanthemum Douluo with her life.
• The Goddess of Life watched Luo Zixi through a crystal ball, decided to seek him out, and sent a green-gold ray toward the Douluo Continent.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo accepted that Hu Liena would die if Luo Zixi stopped healing her, but the Goddess of Life's divine power descended and pinned him to the ground.

Luo Zixi received the first Life God Trial, while the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction intervened as he prepared to kill the unconscious Hu Liena. The God of Destruction granted Luo Zixi the Slave Mark skill, and Luo Zixi began considering how to use it on Hu Liena.

• The Goddess of Life gave Luo Zixi a trial to obtain his remaining Soul Rings, each at least eighty thousand years old, within one year or face erasure.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo fled with Yan and Xie Yue, while Bibi Dong, Qiandao Liu, and Bo Saixi sensed the divine aura and reacted to it.
• The God of Destruction discovered that Luo Zixi had inherited the Goddess of Life's position and secretly sent him a divine skill.
• Luo Zixi considered killing the unconscious Hu Liena, ignored the Goddess of Life's plea to spare her, and prepared an ice blade.
• The God of Destruction's Slave Mark reached Luo Zixi, and his Heaven-Defying Comprehension raised it to Great Perfection.
• The Goddess of Life urgently offered to make Luo Zixi's later trials easier if he spared Hu Liena, and Luo Zixi formed a bold idea.

Luo Zixi enslaved and healed Hu Liena, making her his attendant, while the Goddess of Life confronted him over his divine trial. He blocked her Divine Decree and refused to undo the block, leaving the Goddess furious and threatening to make his trials harder.

• Luo Zixi planted his perfected Slave Mark on Hu Liena, binding her life to his and claiming her as his attendant.
• Luo Zixi used his Wood Spirit Body to heal Hu Liena, and the mark compelled her to kneel and call him master despite her anger.
• The Goddess of Life saw the Slave Mark and challenged Luo Zixi, who told her to take back the divine position and insulted her.
• The Goddess of Life threatened to increase the difficulty of Luo Zixi's trials, but he blocked her Divine Decree.
• Luo Zixi dismissed the Goddess's message again and told Hu Liena to stand and bow instead of kneeling.

Luo Zixi brought the cold-stricken Hu Liena to Ice and Snow Manor, the last stop before the Far North, so they could rest before hunting powerful Soul Beasts. After entering the inn, Luo Zixi showed unexpected hostility toward the waiter as three burly patrons watched them.

• Luo Zixi led Hu Liena through Spirit Hall inspections and reached a manor about a hundred li from the Far North.
• When Hu Liena said she was freezing, Luo Zixi gave her a warm winter coat that had belonged to Xun'er.
• Luo Zixi and Hu Liena arrived at Ice and Snow Manor and entered an inn as heavy snow fell.
• Luo Zixi paid for a superior room and a meal, while Hu Liena wondered why he seemed hostile toward the waiter.
• The waiter gave Luo Zixi the room key as the three burly men in the hall watched the newcomers with barely concealed viciousness.

Luo Zixi killed the Ice and Snow Manor men who tried to drug and prey on him and Hu Liena. After giving Hu Liena food and telling her she would accompany him into the Inner Far North, he confronted the inn’s gang and turned his attention to the terrified receptionist.

• Luo Zixi inspected their room and killed the lecherous man who delivered their meal with an ice blade when the man arrived with meat dishes.
• Luo Zixi ordered Hu Liena to throw out the man and the meat, then gave her a roasted magical beast skewer and told her she would join him on a hunt for soul rings in the Inner Far North.
• Hu Liena recalled that she and her companions had interrupted Luo Zixi while he absorbed a soul ring and coveted a possible Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and her favorability toward him rose by five percent.
• Luo Zixi entered the inn hall and killed the gang members who had planned to drug, murder, and assault them, including their leader with a Frost Tree.
• Luo Zixi turned toward the terrified receptionist as an icy-blue dagger gleamed in his hand.

Luo Zixi and Hu Liena crossed into the Far North, where a violent battle erupted nearby and a blast nearly exposed them. After it passed, Luo Zixi discovered two Ice Jade Scorpion arm bones with powerful soul skills.

• Luo Zixi woke Hu Liena and led her away from the manor, where she saw the frozen corpses left behind by his actions.
• Luo Zixi and Hu Liena reached Frost Forest, fought through a thousand-year Ice Wolf Pack, and entered the Far North.
• Luo Zixi hid with Hu Liena in an underground tunnel when explosions drew near, then pressed her down as a blast flattened the ice above them.
• Luo Zixi found a 40,000 Year Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone with Ice Burst Technique and an 80,000 Year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone with Extreme Ice Blessing.

Luo Zixi took Hu Liena to shelter in an ice house after collecting two soul bones, then treated her frostbitten feet. Hu Liena accepted her captivity and grew more comfortable with Luo Zixi, but an ice-blue figure entered his Sea of Consciousness at the end.

• The Ice Empress sensed that two members of her clan had been killed and set out to find the culprit.
• Luo Zixi built an ice house and discovered that Hu Liena’s feet were badly frostbitten, then healed them with life energy.
• Luo Zixi gave Hu Liena food and told her to accept that she was his slave; she asked his name, and he introduced himself as Luo Zixi.
• Hu Liena learned more about Luo Zixi, her favorability toward him rose to 30%, and she fell asleep hugging his arm.
• An ice-blue figure entered Luo Zixi’s Sea of Consciousness and asked whether he craved power.

Luo Zixi learned the Ice Burst Technique from a soul bone and drew the wrath of an Ice Jade Scorpion searching for her stolen kin’s remains. As she attacked his hiding place, Snow Empress was ordered to bring him to the Ice God’s inheritance site, and the scorpion found Luo Zixi and Hu Liena.

• Luo Zixi woke from a vision in which the Ice God offered him an inheritance and sent his future guardian to bring him to its site.
• Luo Zixi learned the Ice Burst Technique at perfect level by touching the 40,000 Year Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone, then returned the soul bones to the System Warehouse.
• An enraged Ice Jade Scorpion sensed the stolen soul bones and searched for Luo Zixi, while the Ice God asked Snow Empress to take his inheritor to the inheritance site and hinted she might gain a way to survive her next calamity.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion unleashed her Soul Power against the mountain where Luo Zixi and Hu Liena were hiding.
• Luo Zixi tried to escape with his Ice Spirit Body, but the Ice Jade Scorpion sensed him and declared that she had found them.

Luo Zixi and Hu Liena fought for survival against Ice Empress in the Far North, where his Ice Spirit Body and Frost Forest kept him alive. Snow Empress intervened, and Xiao Wu’s phantom defended Luo Zixi as Ice Empress accused him of killing their kin.

• Ice Empress attacked Luo Zixi and Hu Liena, and Luo Zixi dodged her strike before taking a deep wound from her Ice Emperor’s Claw.
• Luo Zixi healed himself with ice elements and unleashed Ice Burst, but Ice Empress continued her assault as Snow Empress watched from afar.
• Luo Zixi began his Self Martial Soul Fusion Technique, Frost Forest, and Xiao Wu’s phantom appeared to protect him with Invincible Golden Body.
• Luo Zixi’s Frost Giant Trees disrupted Ice Empress, while Snow Empress approached and told her to stop.
• Ice Empress refused to spare Luo Zixi, and Xiao Wu’s phantom confronted her, insisting that she had willingly sacrificed herself to Zixi.

Luo Zixi stayed with the Snow Empress in the Far North before she escorted him and Hu Liena to the Extreme Ice Temple. There, the Ice God’s remnant soul addressed him as its inheritor, but Luo Zixi rejected the claim.

• The Ice Empress questioned Xiao Wu’s sacrifice, while the Snow Empress learned that Luo Zixi had been chosen by another god and agreed to take him to the Extreme Ice Temple.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice Empress about Luo Zixi’s powerful spirit rings and cultivation, then left with her.
• Hu Liena struggled against the Far North’s cold and slept pressed against Luo Zixi to stay warm, raising her favorability.
• Luo Zixi and Hu Liena followed the Snow Empress to the Extreme Ice Temple the next morning.
• The Ice God’s remnant soul called Luo Zixi its inheritor, and Luo Zixi said he had never agreed to accept the inheritance.

Luo Zixi rejected the Ice God's inheritance and summoned the Goddess of Life, who beat the Ice God and strengthened Luo Zixi. As the group prepared to leave, the Ice God offered Luo Zixi a free hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring belonging to his dying great-great-great-great-granddaughter, an Ice Spirit Dragon.

• The Ice God pressured Luo Zixi to accept his first-class godhood, but Luo Zixi called on the Goddess of Life for help.
• The Goddess of Life descended into the Extreme Ice Temple and repeatedly struck the Ice God's remnant soul for his past behavior toward Soul Beasts and divine beasts.
• The Goddess of Life left some of her power with Luo Zixi and teased Hu Liena before merging into Luo Zixi's body.
• The Ice God offered Luo Zixi a free hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Luo Zixi guessed it belonged to the Ice God's dying descendant.
• The Ice God revealed that the Soul Ring's owner was his great-great-great-great-granddaughter, an Ice Spirit Dragon with a pure true dragon bloodline.

Luo Zixi accepted the Ice Spirit Dragon’s sacrifice after the Ice God revealed she was his descendant and the last pure-blooded ice-attribute true dragon. At Spirit Hall, Qiandao Liu decided to send Golden Crocodile and Guang Ling to retrieve the Divine Trial Taker, hoping to make him Qian Renxue’s husband while ordering that he be killed if he refused.

• The Ice God awakened the weakened Ice Spirit Dragon and asked her to sacrifice herself to Luo Zixi, who agreed to preserve her soul.
• The Ice Spirit Dragon consented and began sacrificing herself to Luo Zixi, sending a sacred aura across the continent.
• Bibi Dong confronted Qiandao Liu about the Divine Trial Taker, then used the new sacrifice’s aura to suggest he was the same person who received a sacrifice five years earlier.
• Qiandao Liu suspected the Divine Trial Taker had obtained the Ice God’s inheritance and ordered Golden Crocodile and Guang Ling to bring him back alive if possible.
• Qiandao Liu privately told Golden Crocodile to secure the Divine Trial Taker as a potential husband for Qian Renxue, but to kill him if he refused to cooperate.

After absorbing the Ice Spirit Dragon’s sacrifice, Luo Zixi gained new traits and chose light, invincibility, and resurrection powers. The dragon’s restored soul appeared in the Extreme Ice Temple, while Hu Liena’s favorability toward Luo Zixi rose as she cuddled against him.

• Luo Zixi fused Resurrection Armor, True-Invincible Golden Body, and Light Spirit Body, then reviewed his strengthened status after the sacrifice.
• Illusory Spirit Immortal Marsh repaired the Ice Spirit Dragon’s soul, and the dragon, Xiao Ling, emerged as a blue phantom in the Extreme Ice Temple.
• Snow Empress agreed to help Luo Zixi find another hundred-thousand-year soul beast willing to sacrifice itself.
• Hu Liena’s favorability increased to 75% as she slept against Luo Zixi for warmth and met his gaze.

Luo Zixi learned that his Succubus Physique was drawing nearby women to him, while Hu Liena’s favorability reached 100% and she became increasingly attached to him. After Snow Empress sensed unfamiliar visitors entering the Far North, Bibi Dong and several companions appeared in the region, leaving their destination unclear.

• Xiao Wu took Xiao Ling away from Luo Zixi and Hu Liena, who were alone together in the ice house.
• Luo Zixi learned from the system that his high-level Succubus Physique caused women who stayed close to him to become attracted to him.
• Hu Liena kissed Luo Zixi and clung to him, but he warned her that she was only his slave and could not take what he did not offer.
• The next day, Ice Empress teased Luo Zixi about Hu Liena, and the two playfully scuffled while Snow Empress watched.
• Snow Empress sensed several unfamiliar presences approaching the Far North and sent Ice Empress to summon the Titan Snow Demon.
• Bibi Dong flew into the inner Far North with a golden figure and a black figure beside her, while a blue figure and a dark-golden figure followed on the ground.