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The next moment, the entire world changed. There was no longer any wind, snow, light, or sound. Centered on the Snow Empress, a deathly silent domain appeared. It felt like an Ice Age was returning to the very beginning of the world's birth, silently covering everything for miles around.
This was no ordinary domain. This was the Snow Empress's innate domain, the Emperor Cold Heaven. It was the physical form of her power as the core of the Extreme North Land and an ice and snow spirit.
Within this space, time and space seemed to freeze and turn solid. All energy and movement became very slow, eventually stopping completely. Even the destructive golden light burning on the golden giant grew dim. It slowed down so much that it looked like it had been trapped in invisible, cold amber.
Inside the golden giant, Tang Chen felt his thoughts and spirit power slowing down. Even his Spirit Fusion with Xiao Ruier was under a terrifying pressure. Moving his body became very difficult, like he was trying to swim at the bottom of a frozen sea ten thousand meters deep. The Snow Empress's attacks were perfect. Her palm had great power, her sword was sharp, and her domain could seal any spirit.
She showed everyone the true art of ice and absolute strength. Under the rules of the Emperor Cold Heaven, the golden giant was in a desperate situation. It had already used the power of its last three hundred thousand year spirit rings and had almost no strength left.
Facing a domain that could freeze time and seal the laws of the world, Tang Chen felt his mind becoming dull. His spirit power was turning to ice, and the Spirit Fusion was starting to break apart. The strength of the Snow Empress was much higher than he had expected.
However, in a desperate situation, a person must risk everything to survive. A roar came from the deepest part of Tang Chen's soul. At this moment, his eyes showed a crazy determination. If exploding six hundred thousand year spirit rings was not enough, he would bet everything on one last move.
He decided to explode his million year spirit ring. A strange sound filled the air. This time, the Spirit Ring Explosion did not make a dull thud. Instead, it sounded like a giant bell ringing from ancient times, traveling through a million years to reach them.
When the sound rang out, even the silence of the Snow Empress's domain shook for a moment. On the surface of the golden giant, the most special spirit ring began to glow. It gave off a soft, white-gold light. This was the spirit ring of the million year spirit beast, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. It exploded with a massive boom.
An unimaginable power was released instantly. It was like a sleeping star had been set off. This power was so pure that it was more than just spirit power. It carried the weight of a million years of mental force and a hint of divine power. The dim body of the golden giant suddenly erupted with a light ten thousand times brighter than the sun. It looked like a platinum war god from an old myth.
The Emperor Cold Heaven domain was forced back by this terrifying energy. Frozen time and space began to move again, and the solid laws of the area started to tremble. Right after that, the golden dragon spear in his hand began to shake with excitement. White-gold and crimson-gold light moved across the spear as if it were alive.
Tang Chen looked at the sky and gripped the spear with both hands. He yelled for everything to break. He poured all the destructive energy from the million year spirit ring explosion into one strike. This was so much energy that it almost destroyed his own body. He thrust the spear upward toward the Snow Empress.
This strike did not feel like the power of a human; it felt like the power of a god. The Snow Empress looked down with her ice-blue eyes. She had always been calm, but now she looked surprised.
She felt a real threat to her life. She stopped trying to suppress the area and instead gathered all her power in front of her. She created an ice shield made from the essence of eternal ice. She also pointed her finger, sending out a beam of light from her Emperor Sword to try and stop him.
The white-gold dragon spear finally hit the Emperor Sword and the ice shield. The sound disappeared and the light twisted as space itself shattered. A massive orb of energy appeared, mixing white-gold, ice-blue, and black colors. It grew larger and larger, swallowing everything nearby, including the mountains and the snow.
Finally, the orb shrank and exploded with a loud boom. A shockwave moved out faster than anyone could see. It turned old glaciers into powder and dug deep holes into the ground. The shape of the North was changed forever by this one hit. The struggle lasted only a second. The white-gold light crushed the Emperor Sword and slammed into the ice shield.
Cracks began to appear on the shield in front of the Snow Empress. Her perfect form moved back a little bit for the first time. Her aura was no longer steady. Tang Chen's gamble had actually worked. By exploding the million year spirit ring, he had pushed the Snow Empress into a bad position.
But just as his strength was fading and before he could recover, something else happened. A sharp voice filled with anger called out the Snow Empress's name. A green light shot up from the broken ice.
It was the Ice Empress. She was hurt, but her eyes were still full of fight. She stood next to the Snow Empress and they looked at each other. They had lived together for hundreds of thousands of years and did not need words to talk. They grabbed each other's hands tightly.
They spoke together, and their voices echoed through the sky. They called out the name of their move: The Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors. In an instant, the white snow power from the Snow Empress and the green ice power from the Ice Empress joined together. These two powers did not fight. Instead, they mixed perfectly like water and milk. A power much stronger than either of them alone exploded outward.
A giant storm of ice and snow, colored white and jade-green, formed in front of them. Inside the storm, the snowflakes were as sharp as knives. The cold air was strong enough to freeze a soul. The storm carried the anger of the two rulers and swept toward the golden giant.
This attack fused their very lives together. It was much stronger than just two people fighting. The storm hit the golden giant hard. The white-gold light that had been fighting the Snow Empress began to fade away.
The giant's body shook and it had to step back. The golden light disappeared, and you could see Tang Chen and Xiao Ruier inside. Tang Chen felt a lot of pain.
He realized he had not mastered the million year spirit ring yet. Even when he exploded it, he couldn't use all its power. He was surprised by how strong the fusion skill of the two empresses was. As the storm pushed closer, Tang Chen used his last bit of mental force to speak to them.
He told them he had no bad intentions and was not there to hunt spirit beasts. He said he just wanted to talk. He claimed he had a way to help them break their limits and live forever. But the Ice Empress only shouted back at him. She called him a liar. She told him that having a beast like Xiao Ruier with him would not save him.
The Snow Empress added that humans had been hunting her people for a long time to take their spirit rings and spirit bones. She was very angry. She said he had come to their home and hurt them, so he must die.
The storm grew even stronger as they tried to destroy the human. At that moment, Tang Chen's body changed. He turned into a mass of black energy. His hair grew long and dark, his skin turned very pale, and his eyes turned completely golden.