Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi reached Dragon City after learning that Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen would be executed in Mingdu in one month. Ye Xiao decided to enter the Far North alone to seek help from the Ice and Snow Emperors, while Ye Guyi stayed behind and gave him supplies.

• Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi read that Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen were due to be executed in Mingdu, and Ye Xiao resolved to become strong enough to change their fate.
• Ye Xiao reviewed his growing sword abilities and explained that he was developing a Sword Dao Sequence to protect those close to him.
• Ye Guyi paid a gate guard to let them enter Dragon City, then asked Ye Xiao where they would go next.
• Ye Xiao insisted on entering the Far North alone because its cold would endanger Ye Guyi, and she accepted his decision.
• Ye Guyi handed Ye Xiao her soul tool bracelet with food and water before he set out.

At the border of the Far North, Yan Shaozhe and Lin Huiqun confronted Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi while searching for an Evil Soul Master. After Ye Xiao was exposed, a beam of light descended to protect him, and a white-haired woman deep in the Far North noticed it.

• Yan Shaozhe and Lin Huiqun stopped Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi at the Far North border and demanded that they remove their hats.
• Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi disguised themselves as an ordinary father and daughter, but Lin Huiqun grew suspicious and ordered them to go to Shrek Academy.
• Lin Huiqun questioned Ye Guyi about his Martial Soul, and Ye Xiao gave up his disguise and revealed his identity.
• Lin Huiqun reached for Ye Xiao, but a dazzling beam of light descended and protected Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi.
• A white-haired woman meditating deep in the Far North opened her eyes and looked toward the distant light.

Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi were trapped inside a pillar of light at the Far North’s entrance while Lin Huiqun and Yan Shaozhe confronted them on Shrek Academy’s behalf. Wu Qingyao and Ye Yulin intervened to protect the siblings, and Lin Huiqun attacked them as the Snow Empress approached.

• The Snow Empress sensed the beam of light and set out with Bing'er and four hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpions to investigate.
• Lin Huiqun and Yan Shaozhe confronted Ye Xiao, who said he had prepared for their arrival and relied on the Plane Consciousness to protect him.
• Wu Qingyao received a mysterious offer of information about a place where Immortal Herbs grew if she protected Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi, then appeared beside them with Ye Yulin.
• Wu Qingyao declared that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would protect the siblings, while Ye Yulin refused to let Shrek take Ye Xiao away.
• Lin Huiqun threatened Wu Qingyao and Ye Yulin, then struck at them with piercing azure light.

Lin Huiqun attacked Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi, but the Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived and drove off the humans threatening them. The Myriad Demon King then asked to take Ye Xiao to the Star Dou Great Forest, but the Snow Empress refused, leaving Ye Xiao under her protection.

• Lin Huiqun attacked Wu Qingyao and Ye Yulin, gravely injuring Wu Qingyao and overwhelming Ye Yulin.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress arrived, and the Snow Empress froze Wu Qingyao to preserve her fading life force.
• Ye Xiao asked the Snow Empress for protection, and she declared that the humans must leave the Far North.
• The Ice Empress moved the Far North boundary sign so Lin Huiqun, Yan Shaozhe, and Ye Yulin had crossed into the territory, forcing them to flee.
• The Myriad Demon King revealed himself and asked to take Ye Xiao to the Star Dou Great Forest, but the Snow Empress refused, and he left.

Ye Xiao accepted the Blank Godhood and allied with the Snow Empress, asking her to help rescue Ji Hongchen and Jing Ziyan from the Sun Moon Empire. The group prepared to strike quickly, beginning with Ye Yulin, while Ye Xiao stayed in the Far North to avoid Di Tian.

• Ye Xiao accepted the Godhood Inheritance and saw that the Divine Realm had left him to complete his trial on his own.
• The Snow Empress took Ye Xiao, Ye Guyi, and the frozen Wu Qingyao back to the Far North, and agreed to protect Ye Xiao as he cultivated.
• Ye Xiao promised to protect the Far North in the future and asked the Snow Empress to help rescue Ji Hongchen and Jing Ziyan, offering her and the Ice Empress sword techniques in return.
• The Snow Empress warned that Di Tian posed a threat and said she would not become Ye Xiao's Sword Spirit as she had in the future shown on the sky screen.
• Ye Guyi raised concerns about the Sun Moon Empire's powerful Soul Engineers, and Ye Xiao proposed killing Ye Yulin before rushing to Mingdu.

Ye Xiao arranged for the Ice Empress to kill Ye Yulin and rescue Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan while he and the Snow Empress searched the Far North for ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow. At the Snow Empress’s palace, they began treating the injured Wu Qingyao.

• Ye Xiao asked the Ice Empress to rescue Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, promising her a new technique in return.
• Ye Xiao split the group: the Ice Empress headed to kill Ye Yulin and then go to Mingdu, while he and the Snow Empress planned to seek profound ice marrow.
• The Ice Empress left, and the Snow Empress led Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi to her palace with Wu Qingyao in an ice coffin.
• The Snow Empress placed Wu Qingyao on an ice bed and explained that she had to first wear away Wu Qingyao’s fire-attribute Soul Power.
• The Snow Empress gave Wu Qingyao rhodiola and used her Soul Power to treat her without harming her fire-inclined meridians.

Ye Xiao discovered that his Intercepting Sword Technique could sever Soul Power and taught the Snow Empress, while the Ice Empress used his hidden sword Qi to kill Ye Yulin. As the Ice Empress received a map and guard manual from the Plane Consciousness and continued toward Mingdu, the heavenly screen revealed a poisonous swarm multiplying at the Ice and Fire Spring.

• Ye Xiao learned that his Intercepting Sword Technique could disrupt a target's Soul Power and offered to teach the Snow Empress.
• The Ice Empress killed Ye Yulin by triggering the hidden weakness in his Cloud Sword Art, then disposed of his body and collected his belongings.
• The Ice Empress received a map of Mingdu and a guard duty manual from the Plane Consciousness.
• The heavenly screen showed insects drinking from the poisonous Ice and Fire Spring and multiplying into several thousand.

The sky screen showed Gu Yuena and Wang Qiu'er fleeing Star Dou Great Forest after Soul Beasts betrayed them following a reset of Gu Yuena’s level. As they set out to find Ye Xiao, the Divine Realm’s rulers considered how the future could threaten their relationship with him and questioned how Tang San had been able to descend to the lower realm.

• Ye Xiao speculated that he could defeat the Swarm Disaster more easily if it appeared at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and considered helping the Snow Empress seize it early.
• The sky screen showed Di Tian staying behind to defend Star Dou Great Forest while Gu Yuena and Wang Qiu'er left to seek Ye Xiao’s help.
• Gu Yuena explained that she wanted to find a way forward for the Soul Beast Clan, and Wang Qiu'er suggested searching near the Sun Moon Empire for Ye Xiao.
• Gu Yuena changed her appearance and changed Wang Qiu’er’s face before the two set off together.
• Destruction and Ji Dong worried that the Divine Realm’s future relationship with Ye Xiao would be poor, and Ji Dong questioned how Tang San could descend to the lower realm if Destruction was still in power.

Ye Xiao offered to create physical bodies for the Snow Empress and Ice Empress using Sword Qi, while the Heavenly Screen revealed their flirtatious future interactions. The Ice Empress insisted Ye Xiao examine her body to make a perfect fit, leaving him to suspect that she wanted him and the Snow Empress in her harem.

• Tang San changed the subject after suspecting that his future self had played a dirty trick on Destruction.
• The future Ye Xiao explained that his Sword Heart breakthrough had made his presence disappear and offered to reshape the Snow Empress's and Ice Empress's bodies with Sword Qi.
• The Ice Empress choked Ye Xiao in embarrassment over his teasing, while he realized his affection with the Snow Empress had not reached its maximum.
• Ye Guyi apologized to the Snow Empress for Ye Xiao's future flirtation, and the Snow Empress accepted that the Heavenly Screen's revelations would change the future.
• After Ye Xiao successfully made the Snow Empress a physical body, the Ice Empress asked him to examine her so he could make one that fit perfectly.
• Ye Xiao concluded that the Snow Empress and he had become part of the Ice Empress's harem, and the Ice Empress angrily blamed the Heavenly Screen for making her look bad.

Ye Xiao tried to discuss his plans for Mingdu while the Ice Empress and Snow Empress misunderstood his teasing about observing their bodies. In the Divine Realm, Tang San proposed that their lower-realm forces befriend Ye Xiao, while he considered sending Tang Wutong down; Lin Huiqun vowed revenge on the Far North.

• Ye Xiao deferred the Ice Empress and Snow Empress's body adjustments and redirected the conversation to their plans for Mingdu.
• The Snow Empress reflected on her feelings for Ye Xiao, while Ye Guyi teased him for flirting with other women on the sky screen.
• Ji Dong proposed using Ye Xiao's fondness for romance to befriend him, and Ma Hongjun suggested that Ning Rongrong's and Dai Mubai's descendants approach him.
• Tang San decided their lower-realm forces could take the initiative to befriend Ye Xiao and considered sending Tang Wutong down without guiding her.
• Lin Huiqun blamed the Far North for her humiliation and vowed to make it pay.

Ye Xiao planned to establish himself as lord of Sword Cloud City and spread martial cultivation before returning to the Far North with the Snow Empress. After Wu Qingyao woke and proposed cooperation for the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, Ye Xiao postponed the discussion; on the heavenly screen, Jing Hongchen objected to his rule only to urge him to become supreme sovereign.

• Ye Xiao agreed to spend three days promoting martial cultivation across the populace, then accompany the Snow Empress back to the Far North and trust Xiao Bai, Bing'er, and A-Tai to maintain order.
• Wu Qingyao woke in the Far North, revealed that Wu Feng was her daughter, and explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had cut ties with Ning Rongrong and issued a warrant for her arrest.
• Wu Qingyao proposed that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect cooperate with Ye Xiao, but he deferred the discussion and told her to rest.
• On the heavenly screen, Ye Xiao declared himself lord of Sword Cloud City and asked the ministers who supported or opposed him.
• Jing Hongchen objected to Ye Xiao becoming city lord, then urged him to ascend as supreme sovereign and unite the mortal world; Ye Yulin and the other ministers seconded the proposal and knelt in support.

Xu Lin punished Jing Hongchen by assigning him to oversee the execution of two prisoners, while Ye Xiao rejected the throne and delegated plans for governing and training the city. After learning that Ye Xishui had captured Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, Ye Xiao sought a map to her lair, and Ye Xishui prepared to make her own move against him.

• Xu Lin ordered Jing Hongchen to oversee the execution in half a month and warned him not to let the prisoners escape.
• Ye Xiao refused to become emperor, and the Snow Empress and Ice Empress also declined the position.
• Ye Xiao agreed that Xiao Hongchen could be considered for emperor and warned the ministers to remain capable and loyal.
• Ye Xiao ordered the distribution of the Cloud Sword Technique, daily meals with meat for cultivators, talent lists, and stronger Soul Tools for the city guards.
• Ye Xiao asked Jing Hongchen for a map of the Evil Soul Masters' lairs so he could confront Ye Xishui.
• Ye Xishui learned of Ye Xiao's intentions and decided to make a move after capturing Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.

Ye Xishui planned to lure Ye Guyi out by fabricating a lead about her father’s remains, hoping to use her to draw Ye Xiao into her hands. In the Far North, Ye Xiao offered to develop cultivation techniques for Soul Beasts and explained the risks of his sword-based methods; the Snow Empress asked what he could teach, and he began listing three methods.

• Zhongli Wu told Ye Xishui that a dead man named Ye with an Angel Martial Soul might have been Ye Guyi’s father, and she asked whether his remains could be found.
• Ye Xishui decided to fake a lead about Ye Fu’s remains to lure Ye Guyi out, and Zhongli Wu praised her plan.
• After the sky screen showed Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi kissing, the present Ye Guyi became embarrassed while Ye Xiao offered to develop a cultivation technique for Soul Beasts.
• Ye Xiao explained that his cultivation methods were branches of the sword path and that his Sword Qi could disrupt opponents, promising not to use it first against Far North Soul Beasts who meant him no harm.
• The Snow Empress said she preferred Ye Xiao to teach the Soul Beast Clan a cultivation method, then asked what he could teach; Ye Xiao said he had three methods.

Ye Xiao explained his techniques to the Snow Empress and Wu Qingyao, who both sought to learn from him, and agreed to exchange lessons with the Snow Empress. The chapter ended with an embarrassed Ye Guyi grabbing Ye Xiao and jumping into the lake with him.

• Ye Xiao demonstrated Treading on Snow Without a Trace, the Cold Jade Sword Scripture, and the Aura Concealment Technique to the Snow Empress and Wu Qingyao.
• Ye Xiao offered to teach the Snow Empress Sword Heart and the Permanence Sword Body, and she promised to repay his kindness and teach him Emperor Sword in return.
• Wu Qingyao asked Ye Xiao to teach her the techniques, accepted his warning that learning them would give him some influence over her, and insisted on calling him Master Ye.
• Ye Xiao snapped his fingers to bring Ye Guyi out of her daze, and she scooped him up and jumped into the lake with him.

After Ye Guyi kissed Ye Xiao underwater, the heavenly screen showed Ye Xiao planning to reshape the Ice and Snow Empresses’ bodies through a soul merge. Meanwhile, the Myriad Demon King contacted Di Tian with a proposal to avoid confronting Ye Xiao directly and exploit a conflict in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ye Xiao watched a heavenly-screen scene in which he proposed merging souls with the Snow Empress to examine her body, while the Ice Empress accused him of making excuses to be intimate with them.
• Ye Guyi emerged from the water with Ye Xiao after kissing him, and Wu Qingyao warmed them with a small flame.
• Wu Qingyao said the Snow Empress had left to find Soul Beasts suited to learning Ye Xiao’s cultivation technique.
• The Myriad Demon King told Di Tian that the Far North’s Soul Beasts had taken Ye Xiao and suggested considering another approach rather than trying to control him.
• The Myriad Demon King reported that the Ice Empress was heading toward the Sun Moon Empire, where Ji Hongchen and Jing Ziyan were reportedly in danger, and proposed helping them for a share of the spoils.
• Di Tian said he would report the proposal to his lord and ordered the Myriad Demon King to return.

Ye Xiao learned that the Sun Moon Empire planned to execute Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan and dispose of Ye Fu’s remains, forcing him to seek powerful allies. Gu Yuena agreed to help and promised to bring support to the Far North and protect the Ice Empress.

• Wu Qingyao told Ye Xiao that the Sun Moon Empire planned to execute Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan and feed Ye Fu’s remains to dogs.
• Ye Xiao asked the Plane Consciousness for help, and she offered to contact the Demon Empress and warned that Di Tian had vanished from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Demon Empress agreed to help if Ye Xiao would kill Tang San in the future, while the Plane Consciousness said the Divine Realm could not intervene and connected him with Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena asked for Ye Xiao’s affection, and he agreed to her terms so she would help him.
• Ye Xiao asked Gu Yuena to protect Ye Fu’s body and the Ice Empress, and she promised to bring his allies to the Far North and protect the Ice Empress.

Gu Yuena agreed to rescue Ye Xiao’s friends and family from the Sun Moon Empire, and Ye Xiao realized her loss of divine power let her act beyond the sky screen’s restrictions. He prepared to retaliate against the empire, sent Wu Qingyao to find the Snow Empress, and agreed to the Demon Empress’s condition as he moved toward war.

• Gu Yuena declared that Ye Xiao had submitted to her and said she would retrieve his father’s remains and the two other humans from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xiao Bai explained that Gu Yuena ruled the Soul Beasts, and Ye Xiao concluded that her downgraded cultivation allowed her to evade the sky screen’s restrictions on gods.
• Ye Xiao asked Xiao Bai to keep practicing and told Wu Qingyao to take him to the Snow Empress, then resolved to make the Sun Moon Empire pay.
• Ye Xiao reviewed his new sword techniques, including Heaven and Earth One Sword and Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin.
• Ye Xiao told Wu Qingyao to return to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and ask the Demon Empress to come; he agreed to her condition and accepted the coming war.

Ye Xiao and the Snow Empress traveled toward Sun Moon, discussing allies, sword techniques, and ways to grow stronger. Meanwhile, the Ice Empress infiltrated a Sun Moon prison, where a jailer revealed that the advertised remains were a trap.

• Ye Guyi decided to keep practicing Sword Heart so she could close the gap between herself and Ye Xiao.
• The Snow Empress apologized for being unable to protect Ye Xiao from three Limit Douluo, and he assured her that Star Dou had agreed to help without conditions.
• The Snow Empress proposed that Ye Xiao help her and the Ice Empress develop a fusion skill, and Ye Xiao agreed to try once the Ice Empress returned.
• Ye Xiao and the Snow Empress continued toward Sun Moon, while Ye Xiao resolved to prioritize increasing his Soul Power.
• After three days, the Ice Empress slipped into a Sun Moon prison using a map from the plane's consciousness and prepared to free the prisoners.
• Jailer Lin Yi told his companions that Lin Fu's remains were fake and that the announcement was a trap intended for Ye Xiao.

The Ice Empress tried to escape Mingdu Prison with Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen, but she and the Myriad Demon King were overwhelmed by Ye Xishui. Gu Yuena intervened, and the battles stopped when she revealed that the remains used as leverage were fake, leaving Ye Xishui desperate as a sinister presence approached.

• The Ice Empress seized Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen during the chaos, but Jing Ziyan struck her with a powerful blood-red attack before falling asleep.
• Ye Xishui confronted the fleeing Ice Empress, and the Myriad Demon King joined her to fight Ye Xishui, who drove them back.
• Gu Yuena defeated and sealed Long Xiaoyao, then took Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen through a spatial rift.
• Zhongli Wu threatened to crush the remains, halting the battles, while Di Tian struck Kong Deming.
• Gu Yuena appeared and declared that the remains were fake because they lacked the sacred Soul Power of an Angel Martial Soul.
• Ye Xishui panicked at Gu Yuena's arrival, and Gu Yuena turned toward a sinister presence surging nearby.

Ye Xiao’s allies confronted Ye Xishui over Ye Fu’s remains, while the Sun Moon Empire attacked Mingdu and the Demon Empress turned the shells back on the city. Watching the destruction, Ye Xiao slipped into a cold, detached state until the Snow Empress pulled him out of it.

• Ye Xiao and the Snow Empress discovered that Ye Fu’s grave had been dug up, and Ye Xiao suspected the remains in the bone dragon’s hands had been swapped.
• The Demon Empress arrived in Mingdu and demanded that Ye Xishui hand over the remains, while Gu Yuena took them from her to let Ye Xiao determine whether they were real.
• The Sun Moon Empire fired Soul Cannon shells at the gathered Soul Beasts, and Di Tian shielded them as the Demon Empress devoured and returned the shells.
• Ye Xiao watched explosions spread across Mingdu and questioned whether the Heavenly Screen had made the world better.
• Ye Xiao’s thoughts turned cold and detached until the Snow Empress interrupted him with her icy aura.