The peerless beauty appeared to be only twelve or thirteen years old, yet the soul rings pulsing around her were clearly five in number. And they were five pitch-black ten-thousand-year soul rings.
The girl was none other than the Snow Emperor, who had successfully reformed into human form.
The Snow Emperor was born from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth as the Heavenly Snow Woman, just like the Emperor Auspicious Beast, Three-Eyed Golden Lion; both were extremely special existences.
When the Snow Emperor reformed into human form, she did not need to cultivate step by step, as ordinary soul masters do. She only needed to unseal her original power to recover her peak strength gradually.
Her soul ring years would also naturally rise as the seals on her origin power were released.
Generally, when a hundred-thousand-year soul beast reformed into human form, the first seven soul rings did not need to be obtained by hunting soul beasts. That was because the combined years of the first seven soul rings roughly equaled one hundred thousand years, corresponding to the cultivation level of a hundred-thousand-year soul beast before reformation.
But the Snow Emperor's original cultivation had already approached seven hundred thousand years. Once the seals on her origin power were completely released, the years of her first seven soul rings would naturally rise to the hundred-thousand-year level.
As her first soul ring shone, the countless ice-blue snowflakes released by the Snow Emperor had already transformed into an ice and snow tornado, madly shredding the soul tool protective barrier of the Magic Whale. If one observed, one would notice that the patterns on each snowflake resembled core formations, with complexity no less than the aggregate of several sixth-level core formations.
Ordinary hundred-thousand-year soul beasts reforming into human form needed to sense the aura of humans to cultivate. But as a darling favored by heaven and earth, the Snow Emperor had no such need.
The reason she had gone to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was that she had personally felt the threat brought by the development of human soul tool technology.
Back then, several existences known as ninth-level soul engineers had broken into the core zone of the Extreme North. If not for the Ice Emperor's protection, she might have been taken advantage of by those despicable humans during her transformation.
From that moment onward, the Snow Emperor resolved to enter the human world and understand those so-called soul tools.
However, the filth and dirtiness of the human world ultimately proved unbearable, and she returned to the Extreme North a year ago.
Yet during her contact with soul tools, she had gained profound insights.
Core formations were ultimately derived from the rules of this world. From the moment she gained intelligence until now, the Snow Emperor had lived nearly seven hundred thousand years, and no one in the present age could match her comprehension of the power of ice and snow. The patterns on those ice-blue snowflakes contained her understanding of the laws of ice and snow.
The sixth-level soul tool protective barrier of the Magic Whale was almost instantly shattered under the ravages of the ice and snow tornado, leaving only the faint golden light membrane formed by Skydream Iceworm's shed skin.
With the light-distorting effect of the soul tool's protective barrier gone, Xu Zihuang's and Ning Tian's figures appeared on the Magic Whale.
"Who do you think you are?"
Xu Zihuang let out a cold snort. A terrifying spiritual pressure suddenly spread outward, reducing every single snowflake in the ice and snow tornado to dust.
Countless fragments of ice and snow drifted down, and the surrounding space seemed to freeze solid.
Xu Zihuang had naturally recognized the Snow Emperor's identity. But since the Snow Emperor had taken the initiative to attack them, he would not retreat or show mercy.
She was merely a soul beast with no prior connection, hardly worthy of his swallowing his anger.
The Snow Emperor's icy face remained unchanged from beginning to end, though her gaze slightly condensed. She was not startled because she recognized Xu Zihuang, but rather surprised by the spiritual power realm of the human before her.
Back in her peak period, her own spiritual power had only barely entered the tangible and qualitative stage.
Immediately afterward, her second black soul ring bloomed with profound light.
The already extremely low temperature in the core zone of the Extreme North plummeted once again at an unbelievable speed to negative two hundred degrees Celsius. Even Skydream Iceworm's shed skin could hardly withstand it; the faint golden light on its surface began flickering unstably.
Goose-feather-sized snowflakes danced wildly in the gale, filling a thousand-meter radius with an ice and snow domain that blocked all vision.
This place had become a forbidden zone of the mortal world. The dazzling ice-blue radiance shone so brightly that even the sun's light seemed incomparable.
"Snow Dance of the Brilliant Sun?!" Skydream Iceworm's voice rang out in Xu Zihuang's ear, filled with utter shock.
"Snow Emperor?!"
Although the power of this Snow Dance of the Brilliant Sun was still some distance from what the peak Snow Emperor could unleash, Skydream Iceworm was certain his judgment was correct.
The terrifying chill that even his million-year cultivation shed skin could not endure, only the Snow Emperor and Ice Emperor could achieve such a feat in the present age.
And he had personally experienced the Ice Emperor's domain before; it was clearly different from the domain-type skill before him now.
Combining all this, only one conclusion could be reached: the girl before them was the leader of the Extreme North's Three Heavenly Kings, ranked third among the Ten Great Savage Beasts, the Heavenly Snow Woman Snow Emperor, and she had successfully reformed into human form.
Just as Skydream Iceworm was deeply shocked, the Snow Emperor's signature ability, Snow Dance of the Brilliant Sun, also known as Emperor's Chill of Heaven, had a section of space forcibly torn open.
As if suppressed by an invisible force, the domain returned to its original state. Xu Zihuang's figure crossed the void and appeared directly in front of the Snow Emperor.
The Snow Emperor stared coldly at Xu Zihuang. A deep blue longsword seemingly condensed from ice crystals appeared in her grasp out of thin air, its surface also engraved with gorgeous and intricate patterns.
The moment she gripped this deep blue ice crystal longsword, her entire aura surged dramatically.
The longsword slashed toward Xu Zihuang. Deep blue radiance swept through the air, forming a fan-shaped light shadow, from deep blue to light blue, then pale blue, and finally pure white.
Wherever the sword light passed, cracks appeared in the air like all the atmosphere had been frozen into ice and then cleaved apart.
"Emperor's Sword, Ice Extreme Peerless!" Skydream Iceworm cried out in shock once more.
At the same time, violet-gold lightning crackled on Xu Zihuang's right hand, dazzling and brilliant. The electric arcs condensed into a straight light blade.
Thunder Light Blade! A light blade formed from condensed thunder, containing terrifying piercing and cutting power.
This time, Xu Zihuang did not extend the Thunder Light Blade hundreds of meters outward, but kept it condensed in his palm.
The violet-gold light swept past. In an instant, the sword light of the Snow Emperor's Emperor's Sword Ice Extreme Peerless was shattered. Even the deep blue ice crystal longsword in her hand was cut in half by the Thunder Light Blade.
The environment of the Extreme North was indeed suited to the Snow Emperor, displaying her abilities, but it was far from enough to bridge the enormous cultivation gap between her and Xu Zihuang. Moreover, Xu Zihuang's Ultimate Thunder surpassed Ultimate Ice in raw power.
With Ice Extreme Peerless broken, other emotions finally flickered in the Snow Emperor's pure sky-blue eyes.
Suddenly, all the raging storms and blizzards froze indescribably. In that instant, it seemed as though time and space had both halted.
Every snowflake hung motionless in midair; all the cold winds stilled in a single moment.
Without any sound, every snowflake shattered into ice powder, obscuring the line of sight between Xu Zihuang and the Snow Emperor within this space. The chill within the snowflakes seemed to be drained away, and the air temperature suddenly warmed.
A slender hand, pure white as snow and carved like mutton-fat jade, reached out from the ice powder. All the might of Snow Dance of the Brilliant Sun converged within it.
Emperor's Palm, Great Chill Without Snow!
Facing the Snow Emperor's Emperor's Palm Great Chill Without Snow, Xu Zihuang simply swept forward with a plain and unadorned palm. His hand had completely turned violet-gold. A solid, heavy, domineering violet-gold imbued with an air of supremacy over heaven and earth, looking down upon all beings.
White and violet-gold stood in stark contrast. This was the clash between Ultimate Thunder and Ultimate Ice.
But there was no earth-shaking collision as expected. This exchange presented a strangely bizarre scene.
Xu Zihuang's violet-gold palm casually brushed aside the Snow Emperor's Palm that had fused Snow Dance of the Brilliant Sun within it. From Ning Tian's and Skydream Iceworm's perspective, Xu Zihuang and the Snow Emperor seemed merely to have completed a high-five.
At the same time, Xu Zihuang's other hand shot forward, seizing the Snow Emperor's fair and delicate neck. A trace of impatience appeared in his cold eyes.
"Have you had enough?"
Xu Zihuang's indifferent voice rang in the Snow Emperor's ear. As the ruler of the Extreme North, the Snow Emperor felt humiliation for the first time.
She instinctively tried to resist, but Xu Zihuang roughly pressed her straight down from the air.
"Boom—"
The Snow Emperor's body slammed heavily onto the ground. Her hands clutched Xu Zihuang's wrist that held her neck; her entire body twisted and struggled frantically. Because of extreme humiliation, her eyes had even reddened, filled with shame and fury.
Where was any trace left of the ruler of the Extreme North's dignity? At this moment, she looked more like a female brat being disciplined.
"Human, you... You're courting death?!"
The Snow Emperor's clear voice carried rage and chilling killing intent, but it truly held no deterrence.
Skydream Iceworm felt his entire being go numb. His mouth hung open, unable to recover for a long while.
The ruler of the Extreme North, the Snow Emperor, had been pinned down by a human like this, something he had never even imagined.
But this also reminded him: times had changed. Following a host like Xu Zihuang, whose strength and talent were terrifying beyond measure, the tides had truly turned.
"Hmph! Bingbing, back then you ignored me, but now I'll make you unreachable!"
Skydream Iceworm smugly thought to himself.
"Heh heh. So satisfying! Too satisfying! Never thought this bro would have a day to hold his head high!"
Such was the saying: a dog relying on its master's power.
But right at that moment, a sudden change occurred.
From the distant horizon deep in the core zone of the Extreme North, a layer of emerald-green light instantly spread over. Translucent and alluring emerald green, the captivating hue seemed to turn the sky into a massive emerald gem.
When this emerald green reached Xu Zihuang and Skydream Iceworm, Skydream Iceworm could not help but suck in a cold breath.
"Hiss, it can't be this coincidental, can it?"
What appeared in their vision was a scorpion roughly one and a half meters long. Its six long legs moved rapidly, closing in at high speed. In the dim environment, its entire body shone with incomparably brilliant luster, refracting myriad colors.
The scorpion's two front pincers were over a meter long, covered in strange hexagonal protrusions like diamonds. Most striking were its pair of crystal-yellow eyes, giving off a dazzling, treasure-like gleam. Its emerald-green five-segmented tail was raised high, studded with diamond-like particles, its tip flashing with silver-white mirror-like sheen.
The Ice Emperor, witnessing the scene before her, also suffered a massive shock to her heart. Especially seeing the Snow Emperor now firmly pinned to the ground by Xu Zihuang, that humiliated gaze formed an enormous contrast with the Snow Emperor's usual image.
"Snowy, you...?!"
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