Chapter Summaries

After destroying the Zhou Clan and rescuing the surviving Soul Masters, Hui Ye learned that Electrolux could help him awaken a Second Martial Soul and set out for the Far North to find Soul Beasts. Ten days later, Electrolux began the ritual by demanding all four of Hui Ye's Soul Bones as offerings.

• Hui Ye gave the twelve surviving Soul Masters 1.2 million Gold Soul Coins and left them to choose their own futures.
• Electrolux offered to help Hui Ye awaken a Second Martial Soul, and Hui Ye eagerly accepted him as his teacher.
• Electrolux told Hui Ye to find high-age Soul Beasts and said he could force some to sacrifice themselves; Hui Ye chose the Far North over the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ten days later, Hui Ye met Electrolux in a cave near the Far North's ice fields, where Electrolux demanded all four of his Soul Bones for the awakening ritual.
• Hui Ye asked to keep his Black Flame Fire Crow Head Soul Bone, but Electrolux insisted that he needed it for the offerings.

Hui Ye and Electrolux created a golden-black flame Second Martial Soul from four Soul Bones, then traveled deeper into the Far North. Hui Ye forced an Ice Jade Scorpion to carry him toward the Ice Empress’s palace.

• Electrolux used Hui Ye’s four Soul Bones and a trace of his divine power to create a golden-black flame for Hui Ye’s Second Martial Soul.
• Hui Ye questioned Electrolux’s use of divine power, then set off for the depths of the Far North as Electrolux began recovering.
• Hui Ye encountered Ice Jade Scorpions and repeatedly revived to cling to one until it collapsed from exhaustion.
• Hui Ye confronted a ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion and pressured it into carrying him to the ice and snow palace.

Hui Ye confronted the Ice Empress, revealed that he could help her survive her next heavenly tribulation, and introduced Electrolux as his divine teacher. After she refused to sacrifice herself, Hui Ye told her that Tian Meng had sacrificed himself to Huo Yuhao because he could not become a god.

• The Ice Empress trapped Hui Ye and dismissed his offer to discuss gods, but he freed himself with golden light and revealed that he knew she might not survive her next heavenly tribulation.
• Hui Ye entered the ice and snow palace with the Ice Empress, who transformed into a human girl and demanded to know why he had come.
• Electrolux emerged from Hui Ye's soul, and the Ice Empress recognized the divine presence and respectfully greeted him as the Holy Necromancer.
• Hui Ye asked the Ice Empress to sacrifice herself so he could help her attain godhood, but she refused and accused him of coveting her Soul Ring.
• Hui Ye told the Ice Empress that Tian Meng had sacrificed himself to Huo Yuhao because he discovered he could not become a god and had no Godhood Inheritance.

The Ice Empress agreed to sacrifice herself to Hui Ye after learning that Soul Beasts were barred from godhood, but first arranged for the Far North to be governed during her absence. Three days later, she and Electrolux began preparing the sacrifice, with the Ice Empress planning to form several Soul Bones for Hui Ye.

• Hui Ye told the Ice Empress that sacrifice was her only route into the Divine Realm, and she agreed on the conditions that she retain her consciousness and that he help find the Snow Empress.
• Hui Ye explained that the Snow Empress was likely captured while transforming into a human and said Soul Beasts could not become gods; the Ice Empress asked for three days to settle affairs in the Far North.
• The Ice Empress handed authority over the Far North to the Titan Snow Demon King, with Ice Bear King Xiaobai as his deputy.
• At the palace of ice and snow, Electrolux raised a magic array to conceal the sacrifice, and the Ice Empress joked about wanting Tian Meng beaten afterward.
• The Ice Empress proposed making her tail an External Soul Bone and turning her ice pincers into Hui Ye's fingernails, and Hui Ye agreed to begin the sacrifice.

After the Ice Empress sacrificed herself, Hui Ye gained powerful Soul Skills and two upgraded External Soul Bones, though one left him with an embarrassing ice-blue manicure. Electrolux explained Hui Ye’s Holy Necromancer Martial Soul and advised him to prepare for more Soul Rings, while the Ice Empress urged him to target powerful Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• After Hui Ye’s level rose to thirty, the Ice Empress added Soul Skills to his Second Martial Soul and upgraded the External Soul Bones in his tail and fingernails.
• Hui Ye admired his new tail but complained that the fingernail Soul Bone looked like an ice-blue manicure, and the Ice Empress admitted it could not be changed.
• Hui Ye covered his manicured nails with black-and-gold flames, then asked Electrolux about his Second Martial Soul.
• Electrolux explained that Hui Ye’s Second Martial Soul was the Holy Necromancer and sent him basic Necromantic Magic knowledge and techniques.
• Electrolux advised Hui Ye to seek a third Soul Ring for his Wolffy Martial Soul and plan powerful Soul Rings for his Second Martial Soul.
• The Ice Empress urged Hui Ye to kill Di Tian and other Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Hui Ye questioned whether she expected him to do that.

Hui Ye revealed to the Ice Empress and Electrolux that he came from another world, and Electrolux shared that he was also an outsider. After discovering his third Soul Skill needed a fifty-thousand-year spatial Soul Ring, Hui Ye learned the Ice Empress had once encountered a seventy-thousand-year Void Beast in the Sunset Forest.

• Hui Ye told the Ice Empress that the Silver Dragon King was hidden beneath the Lake of Life and explained that he came from another world.
• Electrolux revealed that he, too, came from another world, while the Ice Empress felt left out and retreated to the ice house after Hui Ye teased her about liking the Snow Empress.
• Hui Ye sensed that his third Soul Skill, Wonderful Transition, required a fifty-thousand-year spatial Soul Ring and asked the Ice Empress about spatial Soul Beasts in the Far North.
• The Ice Empress recalled that she and the Snow Empress had encountered a seventy-thousand-year Void Beast in the Sunset Forest, but a mysterious power concealed its presence and it escaped into the void.
• Hui Ye reacted in surprise that the Void Beast had managed to flee from the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress.

Hui Ye and the Ice Empress prepared to leave the Far North to search for the Void Beast near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, while Hui Ye's letters set off reactions at Shrek Academy. Their journey began with a mishap when the Ice Empress froze the Flying Soul Tool, and Hui Ye demanded that she pay for it.

• The Ice Empress agreed with Hui Ye that the Void Beast might have escaped near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and they decided to search for it.
• Wang Yan and Huo Yuhao read Hui Ye's letters, and Huo Yuhao passed his message to Tang Ya about her being safe from further harassment.
• Tang Ya wondered how Hui Ye had dealt with the people threatening her, while Da Ming and Er Ming went to Shrek City and waited for Hui Ye to return.
• The Ice Empress warned the Far North's Soul Beasts to hide from Tian Meng's plan, and Xiao Bai reluctantly stayed behind to help protect the region.
• Hui Ye bought a Flying Soul Tool for their trip, but the Ice Empress froze it while trying to fly, so Hui Ye demanded that she pay for the damage.

After the Ice Empress broke Hui Ye’s Flying Soul Tool, he imprisoned her and learned to fly using Electrolux’s Wings of Shadow spell and his black-gold flames. On the way to the Sunset Forest, he goaded the Ice Empress into giving in by threatening to tell Snow Maiden how she had behaved.

• Hui Ye demanded compensation for the broken Flying Soul Tool, then imprisoned the Ice Empress when she refused to pay.
• Electrolux declined to provide a bone dragon and taught Hui Ye the Wings of Shadow spell instead.
• Hui Ye formed wings with Soul Power and used black-gold flames as thrusters to fly toward the Sunset Forest.
• Hui Ye spent a week sightseeing on the way and landed on the outskirts of the Sunset Forest.
• The Ice Empress refused to help Hui Ye find the Void Beast until he threatened to tell Snow Maiden everything, and she begged him not to.