Crushing the Titan Snow Demon King!

In her panic and helplessness, the Snow Empress had no time to think. She instinctively shifted half a step closer to Qian Lingye, as though only then could she feel safe.

The Titan Snow Demon King caught the movement and burst out laughing, his laughter carrying across the empty snowfield.

"Interesting. The Snow Empress who once ruled the Ice and Snow Divine Temple and could decide the life or death of ten thousand beasts with a word now has to hide behind a human brat to save her life."

He turned his gaze to Qian Lingye, killing intent surging in his eyes.

"Hmph. I sensed the presence of three of my clansmen vanish just now. I followed the trail and learned they died at your hands. I intended to capture you and slowly wear down your Soul Power to avenge them. But since the Snow Empress is here, things are simple. I'll take you down first, then bring the Snow Empress back to my ice cave."

A cold smile curled Qian Lingye's lips. "Ugly gorilla, you talk too much. I don't even need to lift a finger myself to wipe you out."

That short sentence struck the Titan Snow Demon King right on his reverse scale.

He was one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, with nearly three hundred thousand years of cultivation. Few on this ice field could rival him.

For a long time, every Soul Beast that saw him had bowed its head. Even human Titled Douluo were beneath his notice.

But he had one flaw: he was hideously ugly. Even little snow foxes only a few thousand years old wanted nothing to do with him. Some who had eaten their fill and had nothing better to do called him an old simp behind his back, which had once left the Titan Snow Demon King deeply self-conscious.

Now, mocked in public by a level-twenty-something Soul Grandmaster, he felt rage surge into his heart.

"A mere level-twenty-something ant dares insult me!?"

The Titan Snow Demon King let out a low shout, and the Soul Power within him roared into motion.

The mighty pressure of a Three-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast felt almost solid, cracking the ice beneath Qian Lingye's feet.

Never mind a Soul Grandmaster—even an ordinary level-sixty Soul Emperor would be unable to move under that pressure, let alone resist.

That was the crushing supremacy of a higher realm: one force shattered ten thousand techniques, and no means could bridge the gap.

Qian Lingye, however, was an exception.

Facing that pressure, Qian Lingye looked as though he felt nothing at all. He calmly held the Snow Empress by the waist.

His manner was less like someone facing a formidable enemy and more like someone out on an after-dinner date, strolling down the street.

[Ding! Authority of Pride activated. Immune to the Titan Snow Demon King's pressure; immune to frost erosion.]

Qian Lingye smiled faintly. "What are you barking for, big idiot? Didn't get enough dog food?"

The Titan Snow Demon King's eyes turned blood-red, and the veins on his forehead bulged. Qian Lingye was genuinely afraid he would drop dead from high blood pressure the next second.

"Heaven-Dominating Hammer!"

The Titan Snow Demon King gathered immense ice power in his arm and drove a fist straight at Qian Lingye.

There was nothing fancy about the punch. It was a heavy blow of pure physical strength reinforced with ice-attribute Soul Power.

He expected the young man before him to die with his bones shattered the moment the punch landed.

Qian Lingye did not move to meet the attack. He simply stood firm, his arm around the Snow Empress's waist.

The next moment, two muffled tremors shook the ground in succession.

The rock beneath the ground burst apart, sending earth and stone tumbling as a colossal figure stepped out from underground. Lava flowed slowly over its surface, and its rock-hewn body radiated a savage, crushing pressure.

Golza appeared, the pressure of his three-hundred-thousand-year-level strength spreading outward as his vertical pupils locked onto the Titan Snow Demon King.

Almost at the same time, space shimmered faintly in midair, and Gagi appeared out of nowhere. A translucent barrier slowly formed around him.

After absorbing the Earth Vein, Gagi's strength had long since crossed the four-hundred-thousand-year threshold. An invisible force instantly sealed off every escape route across the snowfield.

The two colossal beasts appeared at once.

The Titan Snow Demon King's punch abruptly halted.

He could clearly sense the two forces, both far stronger than he had anticipated.

The strength contained in Golza's body was vast and savage. Gagi's power was strange and restrained, yet it held the surrounding space firmly locked, leaving him no room to maneuver or flee.

He had lived for nearly three hundred thousand years and seen every veteran Ferocious Beast in the Far North. He had also heard of the overlords of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Yet neither the appearance nor the presence of the two colossal beasts before him matched any Soul Beast in the records he knew.

After a brief moment of shock, the Titan Snow Demon King did not immediately retreat.

As an overlord of the Far North, his pride, built up over many years, would not let him lose heart before the fight.

He gritted his teeth, the ice power around his fist swelling further, and changed targets, charging straight at the closer Golza.

"I don't care what you things are. Break!"

His ice fist slammed into Golza's lava shell.

With a thunderous bang, fragments of ice flew everywhere.

But Golza's body only swayed slightly, and not even a deep mark was left on his lava shell.

The force of the recoil traveled back through the Titan Snow Demon King's fist and arm, leaving his arm numb and his blood churning.

Before he could recover his stance, Golza's enormous fist came crashing toward him.

Without holding back in the slightest, that pure, immense force slammed into the Titan Snow Demon King's chest.

Crack.

The clear sound of bones breaking rang out.

The Titan Snow Demon King's massive body flew helplessly backward, tracing an arc through the air before crashing heavily onto the thick ice.

A vast stretch of ice collapsed, and shattered ice buried half his body. He spat out a mouthful of warm blood, vivid against the ice and snow.

Agony spread from his chest throughout his body.

"Impossible!!"

His mind reeled, his eyes full of disbelief. Forcing himself upright through the searing pain, he still wanted to strike back.

Countless thick earth-vein tentacles suddenly burst from underground, two of them winding around his limbs and torso. They constricted tightly around his body, restricting his every movement.

With a thought from Gagi, the barrier contracted inward, trapping the Titan Snow Demon King completely inside an enclosed space.

The Titan Snow Demon King drove all his Soul Power against the barrier around him.

Wave after wave of ice-attribute Soul Power struck it, but the barrier only trembled slightly, showing no sign of breaking.

The harder he strained, the tighter the earth-vein tentacles constricted, sending stabs of pain through his flesh.

Golza strode to the edge of the crater in the ice, raised a massive lava foot, and planted it squarely on the Titan Snow Demon King's back.

The enormous weight bore down, smashing the Titan Snow Demon King's half-raised body back against the ice. He could no longer get up.

At that moment, the pride in the Titan Snow Demon King's heart was crushed by those solid blows.

He tried to summon his Soul Power, only to find it continuously suppressed by the earth-vein power, leaving him utterly unable to circulate it at full strength.

Of the two strange beasts, one had met him head-on and crushed him physically, while the other had sealed the space with its barrier and the earth vein. Their coordination was flawless.

He knew full well that if he kept fighting, death was his only road.

The Snow Empress stood behind them, quietly watching the entire exchange.

With seven hundred thousand years of experience, she could judge the gap between the two sides at a glance.

The Titan Snow Demon King was already among the Far North's strongest fighters, yet before these two strange beasts, he had no means at all to contend with them!

She looked at Qian Lingye's back, shocked once more. Just how many secrets was this young man still hiding from her?