Chapter Summaries

Liu Yunan opened a tea stall in Xiushui Village after Qin Jianghe suggested it, while Sun Yigao recruited students and opened his private school. The school began with fifteen pupils, and Mo Yuanjiao became their martial instructor.

• Qin Jianghe advised Liu Yunan to set up a tea stall for the scholars visiting Xiushui Village, and Liu Yunan opened one with Yang Jinshu, Liu Shengsheng, and Lin Ying helping.
• Ruffians who tried to cause trouble at the stall were mysteriously immobilized, then spread rumors that Xiushui Village was haunted; the township and village heads warned them to stay away.
• Sun Yigao accepted fifteen students into his private school, including one girl, after announcing that he would teach pupils of either sex.
• Sun Yigao's private school officially opened, and Mo Yuanjiao offered to teach the students martial skills, riding, and archery.

As Xiushui Village prospered from increased visitors, Lin Xiao explored Yuanling City and found Liu Chun badly injured in an alley. He secretly arranged for a physician to treat Liu Chun, suspected the Wu Household was responsible, and told Liao Pantu about the encounter.

• Visitors and new stalls brought Xiushui Village extra income, easing quarrels among the villagers.
• Lin Xiao spent his days exploring Yuanling City and his nights cultivating at the inn.
• Lin Xiao found Liu Chun, injured and barely conscious in an alley, and hired a physician to take him to a clinic.
• After confirming that the physician had taken Liu Chun for treatment, Lin Xiao suspected the Wu Household had caused his injuries and worried about the danger it posed to his sect.
• Lin Xiao returned to the inn and told Liao Pantu about finding and helping Liu Chun.

Lin Xiao checked on Liu Chun, then joined Liao Pantu at the Icefield Mystic Realm as its entrance opened. He planned to find Senior Liao’s soul body and gather resources for the Lingxian Sect.

• Lin Xiao ignored Liao Pantu’s offer to explain what he had overlooked and began his daily cultivation.
• The next morning, Lin Xiao saw Liu Chun awake and recovering at the clinic, then left without drawing attention to himself.
• On the fifth day after entering Yuanling City, Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu went to the Icefield Mystic Realm’s entrance.
• Lin Xiao learned that Heavenly Profound Sect cultivators were managing entry to the realm, which only admitted cultivators of Foundation Establishment Realm or below.
• The mystic realm’s entrance opened, and Heavenly Profound Sect cultivators began directing the waiting crowd inside.

Lin Xiao entered the Icefield Mystic Realm and followed Liao Pantu’s directions toward the location of his separated soul. On the way, Lin Xiao discovered a huge patch of Ice Stone Grass and prepared to harvest it before continuing.

• Lin Xiao entered the mystic realm, found himself in a frozen region, and consulted the map he had bought from Myriad Connections.
• After new cultivators appeared nearby, Lin Xiao left the area, and Liao Pantu sensed his soul and directed him onward.
• Lin Xiao reached a vast patch of Ice Stone Grass that was not shown on his map.
• Liao Pantu told Lin Xiao he could harvest the grass first, and Lin Xiao checked for nearby cultivators before taking out his spirit sickle.

Lin Xiao harvested Ice Stone Grass and traveled deeper into the Icefield Mystic Realm, where he encountered strange watchers in the sky and then a snowstorm near an enormous iceberg. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhiyun found herself alone in an unexplored gray area of the realm.

• Lin Xiao harvested more than five thousand Ice Stone Grass plants and stored them in his private vault.
• Lin Xiao sensed eerie gazes when he flew high above the ground, descended, and continued traveling on foot after Liao Pantu could not explain them.
• Lin Xiao avoided other cultivators and gathered few resources as he traveled through the first day of the mystic realm.
• On the second day, Lin Xiao noticed the ice becoming clearer, reached an enormous iceberg, and began climbing it as heavy snow started to fall.
• Yuan Zhiyun realized she had been separated from her teammates and had landed in a gray area that had gone unexplored for a hundred years.

Myriad Connections surveyors Liao Zhonghuai and Yu Guang entered a hidden gray spot in the Icefield Mystic Realm while Tong Hua stayed outside to guard their formations. Elsewhere, Lin Xiao used Liao Pantu’s Soul-Chasing Magpie to search for the hidden space where Liao Pantu’s soul body was located.

• Liao Zhonghuai, Yu Guang, and Tong Hua found a gray spot near a snow mountain and prepared to investigate it.
• Tong Hua won rock-paper-scissors and stayed behind while Liao Zhonghuai and Yu Guang entered the gray spot and were abruptly pulled inside.
• Lin Xiao struggled to find a way across the mountain as Liao Pantu repeatedly redirected him, then concluded the soul body was in a nearby hidden space.
• Liao Pantu gave Lin Xiao the Soul-Chasing Magpie, explaining that it could follow his soul imprint within the same spatial barrier.
• Lin Xiao agreed to pour spiritual power into the magpie and let it fly.

Lin Xiao followed the Soul-Chasing Magpie into a vast ice cave filled with crystal buildings and learned from Liao Pantu that one house was made of exceptionally valuable Cold-Concentrating Jade. After finding piles of bones nearby, Lin Xiao began digging the house free so he could take it, drawing the attention of people elsewhere in the cave.

• Lin Xiao followed the Soul-Chasing Magpie to a gray-dot entrance, ignored Tong Hua’s warning, and was pulled into the Icefield Mystic Realm’s hidden ice cave.
• Lin Xiao landed safely in the cave and examined a distinctive house made of high-grade Cold-Concentrating Jade.
• Liao Pantu explained that Cold-Concentrating Jade gathered cold Qi and could enhance artifacts, talismans, formations, pills, and Spirit Veins.
• Lin Xiao discovered that many white piles around the cave were bones, then decided to dig the jade house out and carry it away.
• Several people heard Lin Xiao chipping at the ice and cautiously approached.

Lin Xiao, Jiang Cheng, and Hu Guanyu discovered they were trapped in an unmapped part of the Icefield Mystic Realm, where a previous cultivator’s letter described people freezing to death after the realm’s exit failed to release them. Hu Guanyu set out to find a way out, and Lin Xiao asked how he planned to search.

• Lin Xiao met Jiang Cheng, who believed digging could not free them from the ice cave.
• Hu Guanyu of the Heavenly Profound Sect warned that people who entered unmapped areas had never returned with news.
• Hu Guanyu showed Lin Xiao and Jiang Cheng Yuan Zhonghe’s letter, which recounted how the exit failed and a deadly chill killed the trapped cultivators.
• Jiang Cheng panicked at the letter’s warning, while Hu Guanyu refused to give up and returned the letter to Lin Xiao.
• Hu Guanyu said he would look for a way out, and Lin Xiao asked how he planned to search.

Lin Xiao joined Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng in searching for a way out of the ice cave, then secretly stored a house made of high-grade cold-concentrating jade in his private vault. Meanwhile, Yuan Zhiyun searched the cave after learning the truth about its danger and confirming that her missing uncle’s final letter was genuine.

• Hu Guanyu agreed to lead Lin Xiao and Jiang Cheng as their captain, while allowing Lin Xiao to keep digging and giving him a paper crane to find the team later.
• After Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng left, Lin Xiao separated a cold-concentrating jade house from the ice and stored it intact in his private vault.
• Liao Pantu explained that cold-concentrating jade was valuable and little known to cultivators below Golden Core, prompting Lin Xiao to eye the nearby houses.
• Yuan Zhiyun learned from a Qi Refinement cultivator that those trapped in the ice cave might freeze to death if they failed to escape before the mystic realm closed.
• Yuan Zhiyun confirmed that the cultivator possessed her missing uncle’s genuine final letter and urged him to keep her uncle’s remains safe until he could deliver them to her uncle’s son.

Yuan Zhiyun discovered a hidden crypt and tried unsuccessfully to open its ice coffin, then reconsidered her belief that she had to handle everything alone and left to seek help. Inside the coffin, a part of Liao Pantu’s soul revealed that it had been hiding from her and shut itself away again.

• Yuan Zhiyun followed a bird through a concealed hole and found a crypt containing two skeletons and an opaque ice coffin.
• Yuan Zhiyun failed to push open or damage the coffin, despite using her strength, sword, and Law Techniques.
• Yuan Zhiyun remembered her father’s advice about leading a group and decided to find people to help her open the coffin.
• After Yuan Zhiyun left, a part of Liao Pantu’s soul emerged from the coffin and said the Soul-Chasing Magpie had led her there.
• Liao Pantu examined the Soul-Chasing Magpie, then returned inside the ice coffin and closed it.

Lin Xiao hurried to Liao Pantu’s hidden soul body after learning that a cultivator had discovered its ice coffin and might bring others. He helped Liao Pantu merge his souls and used an advanced unsealing talisman to break the seal, leaving Liao Pantu freed from his confinement.

• Liao Pantu urged Lin Xiao to stop excavating and hurry to the place where his sealed soul body was hidden.
• Liao Pantu explained that Yuan Zhiyun had found the ice coffin and gone to seek help, raising the risk that trapped cultivators would target him.
• Lin Xiao reached the cavern and prepared the advanced unsealing talisman he had synthesized with fifty Spirit Stones.
• Liao Pantu merged his soul bodies, and Lin Xiao swiftly placed the talisman between his eyebrows.
• A soul force field erupted, the seal shattered and vanished, and Liao Pantu looked at Lin Xiao with satisfaction.

After leaving the ice cave, Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu discussed the Frigid Ice Coffin and Soul-Nourishing Pendant. Meanwhile, Jiang Cheng set his sights on Lin Xiao’s supposed treasures, Hu Guanyu warned him not to harm a teammate, and Yuan Zhiyun approached two surveyors with a proposal.

• Liao Pantu put away the Frigid Ice Coffin, explained that it nourished the soul, and returned to the Soul-Nourishing Pendant.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu left the cavern, and Liao Pantu refused to give him the Soul-Nourishing Giant Wood bed.
• Hu Guanyu found the buildings in the ice cave gone, while Jiang Cheng guessed Lin Xiao had taken them and might know a way out.
• Jiang Cheng admitted he wanted to steal Lin Xiao’s treasures, but Hu Guanyu warned that harming a teammate would cause conflict within the group.
• Jiang Cheng pretended to apologize and promised not to speak that way again, while Hu Guanyu urged the group to cooperate.
• Yuan Zhiyun approached Liang Zhonghuai and Yu Guang as they surveyed the area and said she had a matter to discuss.

Lin Xiao left the cavern with Liao Pantu and followed Hu Guanyu’s paper crane, while Yuan Zhiyun and two Myriad Connections workers found the ice coffin missing. As Lin Xiao learned more about the Icefield Mystic Realm and its deadly blizzard, Yin Xuanzi suddenly opened his eyes in a distant cave abode.

• Yuan Zhiyun told Liang Zhonghuai and another Myriad Connections worker that the ice coffin might offer a way out, but their Transposition Formation failed to teleport them.
• Yuan Zhiyun led the two workers to the cavern, where they discovered the ice coffin was gone; Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu had already left.
• Lin Xiao followed Hu Guanyu’s paper crane to seek him out, explaining to Liao Pantu that he wanted to make connections and learn more about the Heavenly Profound Sect.
• Lin Xiao learned from the system that the Icefield Mystic Realm had an owner, and Liao Pantu said refining a Heart of the Secret Realm required a unique method even beyond Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Liao Pantu warned Lin Xiao that a swarm of Snow Worms would sweep through as a blizzard on the realm’s twentieth day, stripping flesh from the dead.
• Yin Xuanzi opened his eyes while meditating in a dark cave abode tens of thousands of miles away.

Yin Xuanzi dismissed a fleeting sense that Liao Pantu might have escaped, while Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu searched the ice cave for a way out. After finding no exit, Lin Xiao used the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation to escape and emerged beside the snowy mountain.

• Yin Xuanzi reasoned that Liao Pantu's sealed soul fragments could not have escaped and resumed his secluded cultivation.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu discussed using the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation to break through the ice cave's spatial barrier.
• Lin Xiao rejoined Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng, denied knowing about the vanished houses, and joined them in searching the cave for an exit.
• After ten hours of searching failed, Lin Xiao hypnotized Hu Guanyu and Jiang Cheng, added Spirit Stones to the formation, and activated it.
• Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu teleported out of the ice cave and appeared beside the snowy mountain.

Lin Xiao left the ice cave and searched the Icefield Mystic Realm for a way to rescue the people trapped inside, insisting that he would use the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation if necessary. After two days of searching, he had found no clues, while the realm’s resources were nearly exhausted and its Demon Beasts began to emerge.

• Lin Xiao confirmed he had returned to the area outside the ice cave, then decided to search elsewhere for a way to rescue the trapped people.
• Lin Xiao told Liao Pantu he would bring the prisoners out one by one with the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation if he found no other solution, despite the danger of exposing it.
• Lin Xiao explained that he wanted to save the trapped people because he could, and Liao Pantu agreed to help him plan if his search failed.
• Lin Xiao explored the other two gray areas on the map, found no escape clues, and secretly collected their high-grade Cold-Concentrating Jade.
• With Liao Pantu’s advice, Lin Xiao searched the mystic realm for two days as its resources were plundered and its Demon Beasts began to emerge.

Lin Xiao found cultivators fishing at Ice and Snow Lake, where Silver-Tailed Fish could only be caught with ordinary fishing. After catching his first fish, he unlocked the ability to store lower life-forms in his private storage and continued fishing.

• Lin Xiao came upon a crowd of cultivators fishing beside Ice and Snow Lake and decided to join them for safety and Silver-Tailed Fish.
• A cultivator told Lin Xiao that Law Techniques could not be used in the lake and offered to sell him a fishing rod and wooden stake, but Lin Xiao had brought his own.
• Lin Xiao began fishing and caught his first meter-long Silver-Tailed Fish, placing it in a sack he had prepared.
• After seeing how other cultivators stored or killed their fish, Lin Xiao asked the system whether his private storage could hold living things.
• The system unlocked a storage area for lower life-forms, and Lin Xiao eagerly continued fishing as his sack filled with Silver-Tailed Fish.

Lin Xiao encountered an Icefield Spirit, which Liao Pantu captured before it could attack him, then returned to investigate Ice and Snow Lake. He reached a dangerous white forest marked on his map and saw blood-red gazes turn toward him.

• Lin Xiao found nothing unusual around the nearby area and decided to return to Ice and Snow Lake for another look.
• An Icefield Spirit darted at Lin Xiao, but Liao Pantu caught it and sealed it in a Spirit Rhinoceros Sealing Box.
• Liao Pantu said another of his soul bodies had encountered a problem and fell silent, leaving Lin Xiao to examine the box with his system.
• Lin Xiao circled around the crowded lakeshore under Concealment Technique and climbed toward the snow mountain’s dangerous area, planting a Location Talisman Mother Talisman first.
• Lin Xiao found a dense forest of white trees at the marked location and saw a stream of blood-red gazes turn toward him.

Lin Xiao entered the White Forest, where interference made it difficult to detect the many powerful Demon Beasts, hoping to find the solution he sought. Remembering his family and friends at home, he resolved to finish his urgent tasks and leave the Mystic Realm as soon as it opened, and reached the forest’s deepest part.

• Lin Xiao considered the White Forest’s fearsome Demon Beasts and suspected something valuable or important lay inside, so he slipped into the forest.
• He struggled with the forest’s interference on his Divine Sense, nearly stepping on a hidden Demon Beast, then proceeded carefully past the beasts he encountered.
• Lin Xiao recalled Liao Pantu’s explanation of Demon Beast stages and wondered whether Xiaoluan’s rare bloodline would emerge at the Transformation Stage.
• Lin Xiao thought of his family, friends, and responsibilities in Xiushui Village and decided that going home mattered more than completing the Heart-Questioning Stone and making connections.
• After more than two hours of careful travel, Lin Xiao reached the deepest part of the White Forest.

Lin Xiao discovered that the pool held the unclaimed Key to the Icefield Mystic Realm, but it prevented the use of spiritual power. Senior Liao retrieved the key for him, and Lin Xiao decided he could delay returning to the village to seek more secret realm keys.

• Lin Xiao found a pool where spiritual power could not be used, and the system identified the Key to the Icefield Mystic Realm beneath it.
• The system explained that the realm’s owner had not fully refined its Heart, leaving some areas beyond their control and allowing the Heart to trap cultivators.
• Lin Xiao hesitated to enter the pool, but Senior Liao volunteered and plunged his soul into its depths.
• After waiting, Lin Xiao watched Senior Liao return exhausted, toss him a square ice stone, and retreat into the Soul-Nourishing Pendant to rest for three days.
• The system confirmed Lin Xiao had obtained the key and rewarded him with an Icefield Mystic Realm Entrance Connection Point.
• Lin Xiao realized the key could let his sect enter the realm without a teleportation array and considered collecting more keys before returning to the village.

Lin Xiao used a shop-bought knockout drug to subdue the trapped cultivators so he could open an exit with the Key to the Secret Realm without revealing himself. Most of the crowd fell unconscious, and Lin Xiao knocked out Yuan Zhiyun after her poison-protection artifact kept her awake.

• Lin Xiao returned to the ice cave and decided to knock out the trapped cultivators before opening an exit.
• Lin Xiao bought five handfuls of Foundation Establishment Knockout, prepared a fire, and lured everyone toward it with a shouted claim that he had found something.
• The cultivators gathered around the fire, and Lin Xiao took the antidote before letting the knockout drug burn.
• The drug put most of the crowd to sleep, but Yuan Zhiyun recognized the poison and tried to retreat.
• Lin Xiao struck Yuan Zhiyun on the back of the neck, knocking her unconscious.