Recaps

Sikong Lai agreed to reunite the Soul Prison Clan’s branches, and Elder Hao proposed that Li Yan become the clan’s Supreme Grand Elder and final decision-maker. Li Yan accepted the role, and the Great Ancestor’s branch greeted him as its new Patriarch.

• Worried that the Soul Prison Clan would decline further, Sikong Lai decided to acknowledge the Third Ancestor’s branch and accepted Li Yan’s involvement.
• Elder Hao proposed that Li Yan lead the reunited clan, while preserving each branch’s independent inheritance; Sikong Lai agreed.
• Li Yan accepted the position after weighing its importance to the clan and his relationship with Elder Hao and the others.
• Sikong Lai announced to the Great Ancestor’s branch that Li Yan would oversee its affairs as Patriarch.
• Dai Yun and the other Golden Core Realm cultivators led nearly four hundred clansmen in greeting Li Yan as Patriarch.

Li Yan took control of the Great Ancestor's branch by binding and confining those who questioned his claim, then appointed Dai Yun, Mu Qiu, and Su Ling to oversee it. He later concluded arrangements with Sikong Lai for the Soul Prison Clan's three branches to unite on the Northern Ice Continent, and departed after fulfilling his promise to Elder Hao and the others.

• Liu Xuan demanded further proof of Li Yan's claim, and Li Yan bound more than two hundred doubting clansmen and sealed their cultivation.
• Li Yan stripped Liu Xuan and Qin Ji of their elder positions, appointed Dai Yun to oversee the branch with Mu Qiu and Su Ling, and ordered the dissenters confined.
• Dai Yun and the others accepted Li Yan's orders, and Li Yan instructed them to prepare an array-sealed area for the confined clansmen.
• Elder Hao, Master Lan, and Sikong Lai discussed the Soul Prison Clan's future, and Sikong Lai agreed to relocate the clansmen to the Northern Ice Continent and unite the branches.
• Li Yan learned that Sikong Lai's branch had been hidden in a remote region of the Desolate Moon Continent and had avoided the continent's cultivation forces and the Devil Race.

Li Yan established the Soul Prison Clan’s future plans, preserving the Soul-Suppressing Palace name in the lower realm while preparing the clan’s migration. As he investigated the Great Ancestor’s branch, he discovered that one of its hidden exits led to Fallen Immortal Slope, a place he had visited before.

• Li Yan ordered Elder Hao and the others to retain the Soul-Suppressing Palace name in the Northern Ice Continent, while restricting the upper-realm branch to calling itself the Third Ancestor’s branch.
• Sikong Lai learned that Li Yan and the others came from the Immortal-Spirit Realm and rejoiced that he had gained their protection and a chance to advance beyond the late Nascent Soul stage.
• The clan settled plans for migration, including reassuring its members, burying the ancient clan remains, restoring the Second Ancestor’s statue, and investigating another Sun-Obscuring Clan settlement.
• Li Yan met Dai Yun and the other two women, explained the migration, and gave them spirit stones, pills, and cultivation materials to support their cultivation.
• While investigating the Great Ancestor’s branch and its exits, Li Yan found that one spatial passage connected to Fallen Immortal Slope, a dangerous mountain region he recognized from an earlier visit.

Li Yan inspected the hidden teleportation exit at Fallen Immortal Slope, obtained the Soul Prison Clan’s Sacred Soul Transformation method, and arranged to rejoin the clan after handling unresolved matters. He returned to the Phantom Sect and met Gu Jiuqi, who sensed his arrival.

• Li Yan traveled through the hidden passage to Fallen Immortal Slope, where the familiar landscape revived memories linked to the Northern Abyss Demon-Suppressing Tower.
• Li Yan returned to the Soul Prison Clan, acquired the Sacred Soul Transformation method through the Void Refinement Realm, and memorized three high-grade soul techniques.
• Li Yan told Elder Hao and Master Lan that he would visit his former sect before going to the North Ice Continent, and promised to join them after their migration.
• Li Yan returned to the Phantom Sect without alerting anyone and sought out Gu Jiuqi, who sensed his aura and came to meet him in the sky.

Li Yan returned to the Mortal Realm, reassured Feng Hongyue that he would help him reach Spirit Transformation, and reunited with his fellow disciples on Small Bamboo Peak. He learned Miao Wangqing had formed a Nascent Soul and had forced Li Wuyi and Li Changting to join an upcoming group ascension, while she planned to ascend later on her own.

• Li Yan met Gu Jiuqi, learned that Gu Jiuqi's avatar would soon leave the Mortal Realm, and then visited Feng Hongyue.
• Li Yan revealed that he had reached Spirit Transformation, gave Feng Hongyue cultivation Pills, and told him to seek him at the upper-realm Phantom Sect after several hundred years.
• Li Yan met Wei Chi Tuo and Miao Wangqing on Small Bamboo Peak and learned that Miao Wangqing had cultivated desperately until she formed a Nascent Soul.
• Li Yan learned that Li Wuyi and Li Changting were absent because Miao Wangqing had insisted they ascend with Li Yuyin, Yan Longzi, Baili Yuan, and the others.
• Miao Wangqing threatened to swear heart demon oaths if Li Wuyi and Li Changting refused to ascend with the group, while planning to ascend more than two hundred years later.

Li Yan learned that several old companions had chosen to remain in the lower realm, and that Sun Guoshu had died failing to form a Nascent Soul. After reading Sun Guoshu’s farewell jade slip, Li Yan left Small Bamboo Peak, promising to return and take Miao Wangqing and Wei Chi Tuo to the upper realm if he could.

• Miao Wangqing chose to remain in the lower realm, so Li Wuyi and Li Changting ascended with Yan Longzi, Li Yuyin, and Baili Yuan while Wei Chi Tuo stayed to support her.
• Wang Tian stayed in the Phantom Sect to spend Zuo Shengyan’s remaining days with her and their family, while Li Yan learned that Sun Guoshu had died beneath the Heavenly Tribulation after failing to form a Nascent Soul.
• Li Yan received and read Sun Guoshu’s jade slip, in which Sun Guoshu expressed gratitude, said farewell, and hoped to find Mulian in a future life.
• Li Yan spent the night speaking with Wei Chi Tuo and Miao Wangqing, telling them about their master and others and reassuring them that Li Wuyi’s group would reach the upper realm safely.
• Before dawn, Li Yan left Small Bamboo Peak after promising to seek an exception to the sect’s guard-duty rules so he could bring Wei Chi Tuo and Miao Wangqing to the upper realm later.

Li Yan reached the gorge leading into the Northern Ice Continent’s deadly ice plain to search for the Polar Ice Heart, and used his knowledge of Dong Fuyi’s experience to assess its dangers. After refining the scarlet arcs that entered his consciousness, he considered how to travel in and return without losing his way, but had not yet chosen a safe method.

• Li Yan arrived at the gorge and studied the terrain and the Blood-Eyed Toad’s jade slip map, which pointed him toward the Polar Ice Heart’s general location.
• Li Yan recalled Dong Fuyi’s warnings that scarlet arcs could disrupt Divine Sense, while extreme cold and unpredictable ice spirits made travel perilous.
• Li Yan meditated outside the gorge and refined the scarlet arcs that had entered his sea of consciousness, a process that took more than two hours.
• Li Yan realized that his Divine Sense could no longer see through the snow only a dozen or so li away and calculated that he would have little time to travel inside each day.
• Li Yan weighed leaving markers to retrace his route but feared they could disappear, and he questioned whether an avatar would attract the scarlet arcs.

Li Yan tested Snow Mosquitoes in the gorge, discovered they could withstand its extreme cold and guide him without Divine Sense, and used them with the Prison Breaker technique to begin advancing through the blizzard. The chapter then shifted to the Immortal-Spirit Realm, where Mu Guyue narrowly evaded a crimson pillar of light.

• Li Yan refined a Snow Mosquito and sent it into the gorge, where it survived the cold but was killed by an attack after flying more than one hundred seventy li.
• Li Yan planned to leave concealed Snow Mosquitoes along his route as markers and entered the gorge using the Prison Breaker technique.
• Li Yan found that Prison Breaker destroyed the snowflakes and crimson lightning arcs before they could reach him, and he left Snow Mosquitoes protected by a restriction beneath a stone.
• In the Immortal-Spirit Realm, Mu Guyue dodged a crimson pillar of light that blasted into the mountainside.

Mu Guyue fought the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beasts as their army broke through her defenses and their commander challenged her to surrender. She discovered that the enemy had received reinforcements, leaving her outnumbered in both troops and Spirit Transformation-level experts.

• Mu Guyue faced the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast commander, who praised her defense and demanded that she surrender and accept a slave mark.
• Mu Guyue's army had spent a month defending the border against repeated attacks, while the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beasts used their Blood-Eyed Vein Incineration ability to strengthen their assaults.
• Mu Guyue had transferred Mu Sha into her command so he would serve under her rather than be used as a pawn by another commander.
• The Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beasts launched a fierce dusk assault after a quiet day, and Mu Guyue realized they had received reinforcements the previous night.
• Mu Guyue found that the enemy now outnumbered her troops and had six Spirit Transformation-level experts, while she had only four Devil Marshals.

With the grand formation’s outer perimeter breached, Mu Guyue led a counterattack to delay the Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beasts while the remaining defenders repaired the weak points. She fought the enemy’s strongest Spirit Transformation cultivator, and the chapter ended as he prepared to unleash a powerful technique.

• Mu Guyue divided her forces, leaving one devil commander to control the formation while she and two others led troops outside to attack the enemy and buy time for repairs.
• The Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beasts sent three Spirit Transformation cultivators to intercept Mu Guyue’s group while three others continued assaulting the formation.
• Mu Guyue clashed with the burly enemy commander, using her crescent bracer blades and agile movements to evade his Crimson Blood Coiling Dragon Spear.
• The commander’s great strength blasted Mu Guyue backward, and he decided to prioritize the battle over capturing her.
• Mu Guyue retreated and silently faced the commander as he announced that she would experience his next move.

Mu Guyue killed Kuidou after Mu Sha’s force breached the enemy’s hidden supply camp, turning the battle against the Red-Eyed Flame-Horned Beast clan. The chapter ended with Mu Sha’s scouting group preparing to exploit what they had learned about the enemy’s camp.

• Mu Guyue detected the attack on the enemy supply camp, and Kuidou ordered his army to retreat while his main camp also came under assault.
• Mu Guyue used soul arts to disrupt Kuidou, then killed him with her crescent-blade gauntlets and a powerful kick.
• Mu Guyue announced Kuidou’s death and ordered all forces to attack.
• Mu Sha led his group into the breached supply camp, where the fighting descended into chaos.
• The chapter revealed that Mu Sha had located the hidden supply camp after half a month of scouting and had secretly taken a wounded enemy cultivator from a returning group.

Mu Sha led the Devil Blade Camp in a surprise assault on the Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan’s supply camp after infiltrating it and discovering its layout. He destroyed one teleportation formation, but a powerful enemy appeared and knocked him away as the battle around the remaining formation continued.

• Mu Sha infiltrated the enemy camp by controlling a concealed spirit beast, found the supply camp, and returned with its location and defenses.
• Mu Guyue arranged for Mu Sha and the Devil Blade Camp to attack the supply camp while another army struck the enemy’s main camp, timing the assault to draw away most enemy forces.
• Mu Sha led sixty-odd formation masters and a Devil Marshal to break the camp’s restrictions without alerting the defenders, then the forces charged inside.
• Mu Sha and three Devil Race Nascent Soul cultivators rushed toward the teleportation formations, and Mu Sha destroyed one while killing its Golden Core guards.
• The defenders fought back as the remaining Golden Core cultivators tried to reach the other formation, but Mu Sha killed them before a peak late-Nascent Soul enemy struck him and sent him flying.
• Mu Sha urged the two Devil Generals fighting nearby to kill their opponent and destroy the remaining formation, then retreated toward it himself.

Mu Sha fought Kui Ming to keep him from protecting the final teleportation array, but Kui Ming nearly killed him with a golden hammer. Kui Ming’s power suddenly failed, allowing Mu Sha to dodge as the battle elsewhere remained poised to turn.

• Kui Ming rushed to intercept Mu Sha and struck him with a golden hammer, but Mu Sha blocked it with his whip shield and counterattacked.
• Kui Ming read Mu Sha’s intent to destroy the final teleportation array and traded rapid close-range blows with him.
• Kui Ming unleashed a secret technique that bound Mu Sha in golden light and brought the hammer close to his head.
• A Devil General tried to break away to help Mu Sha, but a Red-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast Clan cultivator attacked him with a transformed horn blade.
• Kui Ming’s elbow suddenly went numb and his magic power rapidly vanished, weakening the golden binding and letting Mu Sha dodge the hammer.
• Kui Ming looked at his arm in alarm as the hammer struck the ground beside Mu Sha.

Mu Sha used deadly poison to kill Kui Ming and destroy the last teleportation array. Meanwhile, Li Yan continued searching a frozen ravine for the Polar Ice Heart, guided by information from the Blood-Eyed Toad.

• Mu Sha poisoned Kui Ming, whose body rapidly turned gray and lost sensation.
• Mu Sha struck Kui Ming with his green whip and killed him beneath a surge of demonic qi.
• Mu Sha destroyed the final teleportation array as the two remaining enemies watched in horror.
• Li Yan explored a deep glacier after traveling more than two thousand four hundred li in search of the Polar Ice Heart.
• Li Yan recalled the Blood-Eyed Toad's account of the Polar Ice Heart's growth, abilities, and likely location.
• Li Yan suspected the Blood-Eyed Toad had obtained its information through a Soul Search after another cultivator died.

Li Yan descended beneath the glacier to search for the Polar Ice Heart and discovered how to survive the extreme cold by combining Prison Breaker with pure water spiritual energy. He concluded that his Gui Water True Scripture let him harmonize with the icefield’s laws, though he remained wary of its dangers and of what enabled others to endure there.

• Li Yan descended into the glacier’s depths, where red lightning faded but the cold became deadly even to powerful cultivators.
• Li Yan used Prison Breaker and fire spiritual energy to withstand the restrictions, then found that switching to water spiritual energy greatly eased the pressure and reduced his power consumption.
• Li Yan tested water-attribute treasures and materials, discovering that purer water laws flowed more easily in the frozen world.
• Li Yan realized his Gui Water True Scripture produced exceptionally pure water spiritual energy, explaining why Dong Fuyi could survive in the icefield for so long.
• Li Yan concluded that ordinary water cultivators would still suffer from impure spiritual energy and lose their bearings, while the naturally ice-attribute Snow Mosquito race possessed a distinct advantage.

Li Yan descended through the icefield, fending off strange spirits while searching for the Polar Ice Heart. After seven months without finding it, he continued through another glacier, wary of powerful creatures he could not defeat.

• Li Yan cautiously descended among the reflective ice pillars, releasing concealed Snow Mosquitoes and destroying a hidden creature that attacked him.
• Small white snakes swarmed Li Yan, but his protective force shattered them into ice crystals.
• Li Yan pierced a seductive ice spirit with the Guiyi Water-Parting Spike, and its body cracked apart and fell into fragments.
• Li Yan fought a late fifth-tier ice-armored rhinoceros, but its body repeatedly regenerated and resisted his poisons, spells, and soul attacks.
• Li Yan escaped the rhinoceros after finding an opportunity, and it raged through the glacier after losing track of him.
• Seven months later, Li Yan was still searching for the Polar Ice Heart as he descended into another glacier.

Li Yan sensed a hidden presence in the glacier and discovered a grayish-white object inside an ice pillar that resembled the Polar Ice Heart. When he struck the pillar, the object escaped into the depths, and Li Yan pursued it.

• Li Yan grew wary when attacks dwindled as he descended deeper into the glacier and suspected a powerful sprite was nearby.
• Li Yan sensed something watching him and flew toward a small ice pillar containing a grayish-white oval object that resembled the Polar Ice Heart.
• Li Yan shattered the pillar and tried to seize the object, but it broke through his spiritual power restraint and fled downward.
• Li Yan pursued the object as it made rapid turns to evade him.

Li Yan pursued the grayish-white oval object, trapped it in a formation, and tried to capture it with the Demon-Sealing Needles. The object transformed into a silver flying shuttle, broke free of the needles, and plunged toward the abyss as Li Yan moved to intercept it.

• Li Yan used his Cloud-Piercing Blade to knock the grayish-white oval object off course, then trapped it inside a formation and tracked its movements.
• Li Yan confronted the object and used the Demon-Sealing Needles to bind it, intending to capture it alive.
• The object transformed into a silver flying shuttle and unleashed intense cold, freezing parts of the golden bindings.
• The silver shuttle smashed through the Demon-Sealing Needles and sped toward the dark abyss, while Li Yan vanished to pursue it.

Li Yan tested the silver flying shuttle’s strength, then caught it with a modified hanging ghost noose and learned it was an intelligent Polar Ice Heart. When it offered bargains and claimed it could lead him to an older, four-inch Polar Ice Heart, Li Yan refused and struck its shell with a crimson flame after it revealed its true body was still being nurtured inside.

• Li Yan struck the silver flying shuttle, learned it could deflect force, and refrained from pursuing it while considering how to capture it alive.
• Li Yan caught the flying shuttle in a modified hanging ghost noose, and a man’s face appeared on its surface to plead and negotiate.
• The man offered to guide Li Yan to ice-element materials or help him leave the ice field, but Li Yan said he had come for the Polar Ice Heart.
• The man offered to lead Li Yan to an older, four-inch Polar Ice Heart, but Li Yan accused it of hiding inside its shell and refused the bargain.
• Li Yan produced a crimson flame, and the man explained that its true body could not yet break free because it was still being nurtured inside the shell.
• Li Yan flicked the crimson flame into the silver flying shuttle.

Li Yan forced the Polar Ice Heart spirit Han Jiang out of its shell and heard about a stronger Polar Ice Heart nearby. When Han Jiang tried to secure his release, Li Yan recognized him as Xiao Yunzong and subdued him, leaving him unconscious and bound.

• Li Yan used the heartfire of the Undying Nether Phoenix to melt the ice around the silver flying shuttle and forced Han Jiang to emerge.
• Han Jiang claimed he knew where a four-inch Polar Ice Heart nested and offered to help Li Yan capture it in exchange for a promise of release.
• Li Yan questioned Han Jiang about the Polar Ice Heart’s location and learned that it had injured Han Jiang after they fought over its essence.
• Li Yan called Han Jiang Xiao Yunzong, startling him and prompting him to attack.
• Li Yan’s spell made Xiao Yunzong collapse, and black qi ropes bound him before Li Yan drew his unconscious body toward his palm.

Li Yan captured Xiao Yunzong and searched his soul, confirming that the expert was gravely injured and learning part of the reason for his arrival. To prevent Xiao Yunzong from recovering or escaping, Li Yan destroyed his cultivation and confined him in a sealed cave guarded by venomous insects.

• Li Yan revealed that he had kept Xiao Yunzong talking while poison weakened him, then used Tuban to secure the unconscious man.
• Li Yan gave Xiao Yunzong an antidote and conducted a Soul Search, but seals in Xiao Yunzong’s sea of consciousness blocked access to the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect’s inherited secrets.
• After gathering the information he could, Li Yan woke Xiao Yunzong with a series of blows and examined him to ensure he remained alive.
• Li Yan destroyed Xiao Yunzong’s Nascent Soul and dantian sea and severed his eight extraordinary meridians to prevent his recovery.
• Li Yan sealed Xiao Yunzong inside a cave, ordered venomous insects to feed him fasting pills, and left him trapped without spiritual energy.

Li Yan recognized Xiaoyun Sect and recalled the chain of traps Dong Fuyi and True Lord Qianzhong had prepared for the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect. Xiaoyun Sect had been caught in their linked magical-treasure traps near the red lightning-arc ice plains, where the final mechanisms were about to activate.

• Li Yan recognized Xiaoyun Sect and kept the Ghost Trace formation in place after withdrawing his incarnation.
• Li Yan recalled how Dong Fuyi had briefed him on Xiaoyun Sect and the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect’s plans, and how Dong Fuyi and True Lord Qianzhong had laid clues to lure pursuers toward the red lightning-arc ice plains.
• After Xiaoyun Sect recovered, the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect rebuked him and ordered him to investigate Yu Zishu’s death, while sending another powerful cultivator to investigate with him.
• Xiaoyun Sect separated from the other cultivator and followed the clues he had retained until he reached the outskirts of the red lightning-arc ice plains.
• Xiaoyun Sect hesitated over the suspicious clues, but a magical treasure set by True Lord Qianzhong trapped him and transported him to the plains’ entrance.
• Dong Fuyi and True Lord Qianzhong’s linked formations began teleporting Xiaoyun Sect and several magical treasures while triggering their self-destruction mechanisms.

Xiao Yunzong survived the Five Immortals Sect’s trap assassination but was left gravely injured and stranded on the red lightning-arc ice plain. After more than a century of searching for an exit and struggling to recover, he spotted a cultivator whose healthy appearance and behavior suggested they had come looking for something.

• Xiao Yunzong was swept by the earth-element magic treasure into a random teleportation array, which sent him deep into the red lightning-arc ice plain.
• As three Integration Realm magic treasures self-detonated, Xiao Yunzong’s defenses failed and he lost half his body, but he survived by fleeing beneath a glacier.
• Xiao Yunzong spent more than a hundred years recovering, while his soul, sea of consciousness, and Nascent Soul remained badly damaged.
• Unable to find an exit, Xiao Yunzong endured attacks from red lightning, spirits, and demon beasts as he searched and tried to conserve his pills and spirit stones.
• Xiao Yunzong hid inside his ice-transformed silver-shuttle puppet to recover, then awoke when he sensed a healthy-looking cultivator searching nearby.

Xiao Yun Sect mistook Li Yan for a chance to escape the icefield and tried to lure him into helping, but Li Yan recognized him as a Yin-Yang Chaos Sect cultivator. The chapter leaves Xiao Yun Sect’s identity exposed as Li Yan connects him to the trap set by his master and martial uncle.

• Xiao Yun Sect concealed himself in a silver shuttle puppet and mistook Li Yan’s arrival for an opportunity to escape by capturing him.
• Xiao Yun Sect tried to draw Li Yan into a chase, but Li Yan trapped him with an unusual array and a yellow-light prison.
• Xiao Yun Sect used the puppet to break through the yellow light, then was caught by the noose of Shi Ligui’s modified “Ghost Trail” array.
• Xiao Yun Sect planned to exploit Li Yan’s interest in the “Polar Ice Heart” and secretly evade any restriction by transferring it to the shuttle.
• Li Yan recognized Xiao Yun Sect despite his altered appearance and recalled Dong Fuyi’s account of the trap set for Yin-Yang Chaos Sect cultivators.

Li Yan exposed the Xiao Yun Sect’s true identity, poisoned and captured him, then used a Soul Search to learn about the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect’s remaining strongholds on the North Ice Continent. He planned to destroy them after leaving the icefield, while keeping in mind the danger posed by another Body Integration Realm expert investigating the Desolate Moon Continent.

• Li Yan confirmed that the apparent Polar Ice Heart was actually the wounded Xiao Yun Sect, trapped inside his Ghost Trace formation.
• Li Yan secretly poisoned the Xiao Yun Sect while pretending to converse with him, then captured him with the hanged ghost’s noose and performed a Soul Search.
• Li Yan learned that the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect had six remaining strongholds on the North Ice Continent, guarded mostly by Nascent Soul Cultivators and one Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Li Yan recalled that Dong Fuyi, Pei Buchong, and True Lord Qianzhong had previously destroyed most of the sect’s forces and strongholds.
• Li Yan resolved to sweep through the remaining strongholds, while considering the risk that the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect’s other Body Integration Realm expert might trace the investigation back to him.