Chapter Summaries

On his eighteenth birthday in Dragon City, Yu Tianqing learned that Shrek Academy had invited him to study in its inner court, where he could meet his mother’s former teacher and other elders. He agreed to go, while Ling Luochеn had come to ask Nan Shuishui for help hunting a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Yu Tianqing emerged from an ancient well after cultivating in the snow, and Nan Shuishui gave him a warm robe and reflected on his parents’ disappearance in the Far North.
• Yu Tianqing recalled that his awakened Martial Soul had mutated into Twin Martial Souls of the Yin Yang Thunder Dragon, whose opposing attributes had to remain balanced.
• Yu Tianqing joined Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu for his birthday dinner at the Earth Dragon Sect.
• An Earth Dragon Sect disciple announced that Ling Luochеn, a Shrek Academy inner court disciple, had arrived to request Nan Shuishui’s help finding a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for her fifth Soul Ring.
• Ling Luochеn relayed Cai Mei’er’s invitation for Yu Tianqing to study in Shrek’s inner court, and Nan Shuishui explained his mother’s ties to the academy.
• Yu Tianqing agreed to visit Shrek Academy and meet the elders in his mother’s lineage.

On his eighteenth birthday, Yu Tianqing reflected on his past life, his place in the world of Peerless Tang Sect, and his plan to strengthen his influence at Shrek Academy. After he fell asleep, the vertical eye on his pendant opened with a faint golden glow.

• Yu Tianqing prayed to the Thunder Ancestor for help, but nothing happened, and he dismissed his hope of receiving a cheat.
• Yu Tianqing recalled how a lightning-struck wooden pendant had killed him in his previous life and brought him to Dragon City in Peerless Tang Sect.
• Yu Tianqing considered the coming war, the Earth Dragon Sect’s vulnerability, and the advantages of his foreknowledge and Soul Power cultivation.
• Yu Tianqing resolved to seize influence at Shrek Academy rather than rely on a god, then went to bed before helping Ling Luochеn with Soul Hunting the next day.
• As Yu Tianqing slept, the vertical eye on his pendant glimmered gold and slowly opened.

Yu Tianqing, Nan Shuishui, and Ling Luochеn traveled by sled into the Far North so Ling Luochеn could find a suitable Ten-Thousand-Year ice Soul Beast. Nan Shuishui tried to bring the two young people closer, and as they approached a mountain range near the core region, she urged Yu Tianqing to show his abilities during the hunt.

• Yu Tianqing assembled a sled and harnessed his three Ice Plains Wolves to pull it across the Far North.
• Nan Shuishui warmly questioned Ling Luochеn about her age and family, then asked her to look after Yu Tianqing when he entered Shrek Academy.
• Ling Luochеn told Nan Shuishui she felt lonely amid the Far North’s unchanging landscape, and Nan Shuishui explained that she wanted Yu Tianqing to see more of the continent.
• Yu Tianqing spotted a mountain range near the core region where Ling Luochеn might find a suitable Soul Beast.
• Nan Shuishui privately urged Yu Tianqing to take the initiative with Ling Luochеn, use her ice Martial Soul to suppress his Yang Lightning, and prove himself during the hunt; Yu Tianqing agreed.

The Snow Empress prepared to risk taking human form to escape her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, while the Ice Empress desperately tried to find another way to save her. Elsewhere, Yu Tianqing defeated an Ice Spirit and prepared to help Ling Luochеn obtain its Soul Ring.

• The Snow Empress told the Ice Empress she planned to seal her origin with a nearly mature Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus and take human form.
• The Ice Empress begged the Snow Empress not to leave, and the Snow Empress asked her to rule the Far North and promised they could reunite if she failed.
• The Ice Empress detected the scent of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, rushed off to follow it, and declared that the Snow Empress no longer had to face the tribulation alone.
• Yu Tianqing used his Yang Thunder Dragon Martial Soul and Thunder Sword to immobilize a ten-thousand-year Ice Spirit.
• Nan Shuishui explained that Yu Tianqing had Twin Martial Souls, and Ling Luochеn wondered how she could defeat the Ice Spirit with her ice-based Soul Skills.
• Yu Tianqing told Ling Luochеn to step back and offered to help her obtain the Ice Spirit's Soul Ring.

Yu Tianqing’s attempt to make the Ice Spirit’s Soul Ring available accidentally brought the Ice Empress upon him, Ling Luochеn, and Nan Shuishui. As the Ice Empress blocked their escape, Nan Shuishui prepared to hold her off so Yu Tianqing could get Ling Luochеn away.

• Yu Tianqing hurled the Ice Spirit into the air, hoping its death would leave its Soul Ring available for Ling Luochеn to absorb.
• Nan Shuishui grabbed Yu Tianqing and Ling Luochеn and fled when the Ice Empress appeared, but the falling Ice Spirit struck and killed one of the Ice Empress’s subjects.
• The enraged Ice Empress unleashed a blizzard and pursued the group, while Yu Tianqing warmed Ling Luochеn and helped her resist her ice Martial Soul’s reaction to the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress took scorpion form and blocked their way, and Nan Shuishui told Yu Tianqing to take Ling Luochеn away while she held the Ice Empress off.

Yu Tianqing drew the Ice Empress away from Nan Shuishui and Ling Luochen, then tried to survive her pursuit by offering information about the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. As the Ice Empress attacked him, a golden light from his chest intervened with a commanding voice.

• Yu Tianqing confessed his love to Nan Shuishui, kissed her, and sent her away with the unconscious Ling Luochen before fleeing in his Dragon Transformation form.
• Yu Tianqing challenged the Ice Empress to pursue him by claiming he could help the Snow Empress survive her heavenly tribulation, and the Ice Empress chased him instead of Nan Shuishui and Ling Luochen.
• Yu Tianqing split into three streaks of lightning to evade the Ice Empress, but she destroyed two and continued after the remaining streak.
• After an icicle stopped him and left him without Soul Power, Yu Tianqing was captured by the Ice Empress, who demanded to know where he had found the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• The Ice Empress struck Yu Tianqing after he said he knew where the marrow was but carried none, and a golden light from his chest blocked her attack as a voice ordered her to stop harming him.

Yu Tianqing summoned the Thunder Ancestor, who stopped the Ice Empress from attacking him and heard her grievances about humans, the Far North, and the approaching tribulations. After the Snow Empress calmed her, the Thunder Ancestor protected Yu Tianqing and recognized that this world's incomplete Heavenly Dao forced cultivators to absorb Soul Beast Soul Rings.

• Yu Tianqing's Thunder Ancestor Token summoned the Thunder Ancestor, who appeared on a black qilin and promised to redress injustice on his behalf.
• The Thunder Ancestor pointed at the Ice Empress, and she challenged his authority while explaining why she had demanded the ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Marrow and feared for the Far North.
• The Ice Empress began drawing down her 400,000-year heavenly tribulation, but the Snow Empress arrived and calmed her.
• The Snow Empress apologized for the Ice Empress and explained that they feared the Far North would be left undefended if they died.
• The Thunder Ancestor dismissed the gathering tribulation and told Yu Tianqing he would keep him safe as a disciple of Divine Firmament.
• Yu Tianqing explained that his friend needed to hunt a Soul Beast to advance, and the Thunder Ancestor concluded that this realm's incomplete Heavenly Dao required cultivators to absorb demonic beasts' laws.

The Thunder Ancestor taught Yu Tianqing two cultivation methods and offered to cripple Tang San so Yu could pursue his ambitions without interference. Yu made a bargain with the Snow Empress for future help, while the Thunder Ancestor’s attack blinded Tang San in the Divine Realm.

• The Thunder Ancestor learned that Yu Tianqing had not cultivated Divine Firmament methods and taught him the Jade Pivot Precious Scripture and Supreme Divine Firmament Jade Pivot Five Thunder Judgment Art.
• After Yu Tianqing warned him about Tang San, the Thunder Ancestor offered either to send an army in about ten months or to badly injure the evil god; Yu asked him to act.
• Yu Tianqing offered the Snow Empress ten thousand year profound ice marrow in exchange for her or the Ice Empress helping him once, and she accepted and gave him the Snow Empress Token.
• The Thunder Ancestor sent the two scriptures into Yu Tianqing’s mind, warned him about a backlash, and departed as a bolt of lightning.
• At the Sea God Hall, Tang San watched a ten-year-old boy being bullied until a lightning bolt struck and blinded him; he blamed Destruction for a sneak attack.

Yu Tianqing awakened and discovered that his Yin Yang Thunder Dragon Martial Soul was dangerously out of balance. He told Nan Shuishui that intimacy with her was the way to help him cultivate, and she realized he had tricked her into the cave.

• Nan Shuishui found Yu Tianqing awake and explained that she had sent Ling Luochen away with Da Bai and Er Ka while Xiao San tracked him down.
• Yu Tianqing suffered intense pain as his Yang Thunder Dragon Martial Soul erupted and his Yin Thunder Dragon Martial Soul reacted to the imbalance.
• Yu Tianqing confessed his feelings to Nan Shuishui and persuaded her to let him pursue her.
• Yu Tianqing opened a hole in the snow, pulled Nan Shuishui inside, and explained that his Martial Soul was out of balance.
• Nan Shuishui tried to take Yu Tianqing to seek help, but he said she could help him cultivate and began undoing her qipao.

Yu Tianqing restored the balance of his Yin and Yang Thunder Dragon Martial Soul with Nan Shuishui’s help, and their cultivation session became intimate. The next morning, Nan Shuishui scolded him for taking advantage of her, while Yu Tianqing tried to persuade her to continue consolidating his cultivation.

• Nan Shuishui used her Rouge Dragon’s annihilation origin to revive Yu Tianqing’s Yin Thunder Dragon Martial Soul and help rebalance his yin and yang origins.
• Yu Tianqing’s Soul Power recovered, rising from level sixty-six to level sixty-eight, and he and Nan Shuishui became intimate.
• Yu Tianqing noticed Nan Shuishui growing weary, covered them both with a quilt, and fell asleep holding her.
• Nan Shuishui woke up sore and embarrassed, then glared at Yu Tianqing when he woke and embraced her.
• Yu Tianqing asked Nan Shuishui to continue consolidating his cultivation, but she accused him of being rotten and threatened to cut him off.
• Yu Tianqing insisted he only wanted Nan Shuishui, while she forbade him from calling her either Shuishui or Aunt Nan.

Yu Tianqing and Nan Shuishui reconciled after his dangerous actions and discovered that their dual cultivation had increased both their Soul Power. As they left the Far North with an injured Ice Jade Scorpion for Luochen, the Snow Empress ordered the region sealed and decided to transform and cultivate anew, believing Yu Tianqing offered a path to godhood.

• Nan Shuishui forgave Yu Tianqing after he promised not to take such risks again, and he explained that their dual cultivation could speed up their cultivation.
• Nan Shuishui told Yu Tianqing to keep their relationship secret from Nan Qiuqiu until she was older, and he promised to marry her once he became the world's strongest.
• Yu Tianqing found Xiao San shivering outside the cave and discovered a badly injured ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion in the snow.
• Yu Tianqing and Nan Shuishui left the Far North riding the Ice Jade Scorpion, which Yu Tianqing said would become Luochen's fifth Soul Ring.
• The Ice Empress complained that Yu Tianqing had gotten off easily, while the Snow Empress ordered the Far North sealed against humans and announced she would transform and cultivate anew.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice Empress that she had seen the first light of godhood in Yu Tianqing and vowed to restore the Far North's former glory.

Ling Luochen woke in the Earth Dragon Sect and learned that Nan Shuishui had gone back to the Far North to find Yu Tianqing, so she took Nan Qiuqiu outside the city to wait for them. On the journey home, Nan Shuishui urged Yu Tianqing to win Ling Luochen over, using the sect’s Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow as a betrothal gift, and threatened to keep him out of her bed if he failed.

• Ling Luochen woke and learned from Nan Qiuqiu that Nan Shuishui had returned to the Far North to find Yu Tianqing.
• Ling Luochen took Nan Qiuqiu outside the city to wait for Nan Shuishui and Yu Tianqing.
• Nan Shuishui asked Yu Tianqing what had happened after he lured the Ice Empress away, and he claimed he had bargained with her using Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Nan Shuishui told Yu Tianqing to win Ling Luochen over and offered the sect’s Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow as a betrothal gift.
• Nan Shuishui threatened to keep Yu Tianqing out of her bed if he made no progress with Ling Luochen after they returned.

Ling Luochеn and Nan Qiuqiu waited outside Dragon City for Yu Tianqing and Nan Shuishui to return, and the reunion left Ling Luochеn embracing Yu Tianqing. He then brought her to receive an Ice Jade Scorpion’s sacrifice as her fifth Soul Ring, and she appeared delighted when it was complete.

• Ling Luochеn urged the exhausted Nan Qiuqiu to go back to the sect, but Nan Qiuqiu insisted on waiting for her mother and Yu Tianqing until dark.
• Nan Qiuqiu spotted Nan Shuishui and Yu Tianqing approaching and ran to greet them, while Ling Luochеn followed and embraced Yu Tianqing.
• Nan Shuishui took Nan Qiuqiu home and told Yu Tianqing to take Ling Luochеn to absorb her Soul Ring.
• Yu Tianqing brought Ling Luochеn to an Ice Jade Scorpion, which sacrificed itself to become her fifth Soul Ring.
• After the sacrifice, Ling Luochеn knocked Yu Tianqing to the ground, kissed his cheek, and thanked him.

Yu Tianqing and Ling Luochen celebrated her new Ultimate Ice abilities and powerful fifth Soul Skill, the Ice Explosion Technique. They returned to Dragon City, while another Ice Jade Scorpion carried away the sacrificed scorpion's corpse into the Far North.

• Yu Tianqing kissed Ling Luochen after she absorbed her Soul Ring, and they cuddled together in the snow.
• Ling Luochen told Yu Tianqing that her ice element had reached Ultimate Ice and that her Soul Power had reached rank fifty-three, though she needed time to consolidate her cultivation.
• Yu Tianqing welcomed Ling Luochen to stay at the Earth Dragon Sect, and she agreed to remain there with him.
• Ling Luochen revealed that her fifth Soul Skill was the Ice Explosion Technique, and Yu Tianqing celebrated her achievement.
• Yu Tianqing and Ling Luochen returned to Dragon City, while a five-meter Ice Jade Scorpion dragged the sacrificed scorpion's corpse into the Far North Ice Plains.

Yu Tianqing and Nan Shuishui grew closer while caring for Nan Qiuqiu, but Nan Shuishui pulled away because she feared becoming a burden and urged him to have a life of his own. The next morning, Nan Shuishui offered Ling Luochen access to the Earth Dragon Sect's secret realm to stabilize her Ultimate Ice Martial Soul and retrieve its treasures.

• Ling Luochen kissed Yu Tianqing good night and returned to her room at the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Yu Tianqing visited Nan Shuishui while she watched over the sleeping Nan Qiuqiu, and the two shared an intimate moment before Nan Shuishui ushered him out.
• Nan Shuishui decided to delay their relationship because she had the Earth Dragon Sect to lead and did not want to burden Yu Tianqing.
• The next morning, Nan Shuishui told Ling Luochen that the Earth Dragon Sect's secret realm could help her stabilize her Ultimate Ice Martial Soul.
• Ling Luochen offered to retrieve the secret realm's treasures for free, but Nan Shuishui said she and Yu Tianqing would become one family, and Ling Luochen accepted.

Yu Tianqing brought Ling Luochеn to the Earth Dragon Sect’s secret realm, where Nan Shuishui showed her how to open the underwater entrance. After an intimate moment in the cave, Ling Luochеn began cultivating in the realm, which suited her ice-element Martial Soul.

• Nan Shuishui led Ling Luochеn into the cold spring and demonstrated the mechanism that opened the secret realm.
• Nan Shuishui left Yu Tianqing and Ling Luochеn alone, handing him the luminous pearl before swimming back to the garden.
• Yu Tianqing entered the cave and dried himself with his Yang Lightning Dragon origin.
• Ling Luochеn asked Yu Tianqing to dry her, and the two embraced until she felt his arousal and jumped away.
• Yu Tianqing explained that the deeper cave held a mineral vein only a Soul Master with Ultimate Ice could extract, while Ling Luochеn chose to cultivate.
• Ling Luochеn sensed that the secret realm suited her ice-element Martial Soul and privately declared Yu Tianqing was fated for her.

After three months together in the Earth Dragon Sect's secret realm, Ling Luochеn prepared to return to Shrek Academy while she and Yu Tianqing agreed to wait before taking the final step in their relationship. After seeing her off, Yu Tianqing put on a desolate act when Nan Shuishui questioned him, leaving her worried about what was troubling him.

• Ling Luochеn told Yu Tianqing she had reached level fifty-four and that the academy wanted her to return, and he urged her to ask Aunt Nan for more Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow when she needed it.
• Ling Luochеn offered to give herself to Yu Tianqing, but he asked her to wait until he entered Shrek Academy, and she agreed to await him there.
• Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu saw Ling Luochеn off, and Yu Tianqing promised to find her at Shrek Academy when the new term began.
• After returning to the Earth Dragon Sect, Yu Tianqing avoided Nan Shuishui and went to cultivate before she later summoned him to the study.
• Yu Tianqing claimed he had failed to complete Nan Shuishui's task and acted weary and heartbroken, leaving Nan Shuishui alarmed; he told her he was fine and only tired.

Yu Tianqing revealed his loneliness and confessed to Nan Shuishui that he loved her and wanted a future with her, while refusing to give up Ling Luochеn. Nan Shuishui accepted his feelings, and the two embraced and became intimate.

• Yu Tianqing let his loneliness show to Nan Shuishui and told her he no longer wanted to work hard.
• Nan Shuishui comforted Yu Tianqing and said he could choose whether to attend Shrek Academy or pursue Ling Luochеn.
• Yu Tianqing admitted he had partly been acting and explained that he wanted an honest conversation with Nan Shuishui as her equal.
• Yu Tianqing confessed that he wanted both Nan Shuishui and Ling Luochеn, and that he wanted to be a man Nan Shuishui could rely on.
• Nan Shuishui accepted Yu Tianqing's feelings, embraced him, and kissed him.

Yu Tianqing spent his last morning with Nan Shuishui before leaving on a journey, while Nan Shuishui concealed the marks he left on her neck from Nan Qiuqiu. After seeing him off, Nan Shuishui found an amnesiac girl named Xue'er outside the Earth Dragon Sect and offered her shelter.

• Nan Shuishui reminded Yu Tianqing that he was leaving and arranged for him to travel by carriage to Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Tianqing persuaded Nan Shuishui to spend more time cultivating with him, leaving red marks on her neck.
• Nan Shuishui told Nan Qiuqiu that a mosquito had bitten her, and Nan Qiuqiu asked Yu Tianqing to bring her a mosquito specimen from his travels.
• Yu Tianqing said goodbye to Nan Shuishui and Nan Qiuqiu, then departed by carriage.
• Nan Shuishui found an injured, amnesiac white-haired girl outside the Earth Dragon Sect; the girl remembered only the name Xue'er and accepted Nan Shuishui's offer of shelter.
• A green figure watched Nan Shuishui lead Xue'er into the Earth Dragon Sect before disappearing.

Yu Tianqing bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife at the Starlight Auction House and returned to his room at the Star Emperor Hotel, where auctioneer Jiu'er visited him. Recognizing her as Xu Jiujiu, he stayed wary as she offered him lodging and a tour of Star Luo City in exchange for Soul Tool lessons.

• Yu Tianqing bid 150,000 Gold Soul Coins for the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife, using most of his private funds.
• Yu Tianqing returned to his inexpensive Star Emperor Hotel room and waited for the auction item to be delivered.
• Jiu'er brought the carving knife to Yu Tianqing and warned him about its curse; he recognized her as Xu Jiujiu.
• Xu Jiujiu learned that Yu Tianqing was a Level 5 Soul Engineer and asked him to teach her about Soul Tools.
• Xu Jiujiu offered Yu Tianqing a free room upgrade, unlimited lodging, and a tour of Star Luo City in return for lessons.