Ice and Snow Empresses: You Were Just Passing Through, So You Gave Us a Beating?

"Ashen Annihilation Mark. That's Sister Huang's innate ability. Each stack of Ashen Annihilation Mark reduces the opponent's physical defense and all-attribute elemental defense by five percent, while also inflicting a true-attribute burn equal to twelve percent of base attack power."

Lu Rongrong had taken on the role of a battlefield reporter.

"Once the Ashen Annihilation Imprint reaches twelve stacks, it permanently reduces the opponent's all-attribute defense by seventy percent. Every subsequent attack deals fifty percent true damage and also has a fifty percent armor-breaking effect."

Rather than explaining the skill to Wei Lin, Lu Rongrong might as well have been explaining it to the Ice Empress and Snow Empress.

But... even if they knew, what could they do about it? Could they counter it? Could they find a way to dodge it?

Huang Tianyi was a beauty who combined the ultimate with raw numbers. If she had a full set of Soul Rings for her Second Martial Soul, she would show them what it meant to be invincible below god level and trade one for one above it.

One had to understand that all the NPCs in Tianshu City were only green or white quality. The best of the Super Douluo had only just barely entered blue quality.

Huang Tianyi, on the other hand, fell just a little short of gold quality on talent alone.

One could imagine how badass that was.

If Wei Lin pulled her for a certain speed-loving someone, she could hand over a Gnosis on the spot. Would you believe it?

A pair of Vermilion Bird wings spread behind Huang Tianyi. With a sweep of her wings, she dove toward the Ice and Snow Empresses.

"Snowy Dance of the Radiant Sun."

The Snow Empress did not dare meet her opponent head-on.

A snowy domain ten thousand meters across engulfed Huang Tianyi in an instant.

The Snow Empress understood that while her domain might be a powerful killing move against others, it was practically useless against Huang Tianyi.

Her opponent's flames were simply beyond her power to erode, so her goal was simple: reduce her opponent's visibility.

"Emperor Sword."

An ice-blue blade thrust straight at Huang Tianyi.

"Is that all?"

Huang Tianyi's fifth Soul Ring flashed.

Vermilion Bird Eye.

The skill's effect was simple: it locked onto a target, and the next skill was guaranteed to hit.

But... what if the next skill dealt area damage?

That was the principle behind bouncing single-target damage: investment.

"Fourth Soul Skill! Flame Rain Sets the Plains Ablaze!"

Huang Tianyi first cast her Third Soul Skill, Ash Pierces Armor, in an instant, shattering the Emperor Sword. She then drew her bow and shot into the sky.

Bands of ashen fire fell within a range of seventy around her, while the remaining eleven hundred split arrows flew toward the blizzard as if guided by a locator.

At that moment, "ugly" could no longer describe the Snow Empress's expression.

She could clearly sense that the Ashen Annihilation marking her from the arrows she had shattered had become coordinates for the arrows. She could not escape.

"Ice Empress!"

The Ice Empress reached out both hands toward the Snow Empress.

Their figures gradually merged, and a breathtaking figure reached a right hand covered in emerald-green ice armor out of the ice and snow.

Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors.

It was their final trump card.

The eleven hundred split arrows had already arrived.

The arrows were not frightening. What was frightening was the Ashen Annihilation Insignia they carried.

Each arrow carried 0.5 Ashen Annihilation: eleven hundred projectiles' worth of Ashen Annihilation with a lock-on effect.

Never mind the Snow Empress-even if Di Tian came, it would probably cost him half his life.

These arrows could only be blocked, not taken head-on.

"Rumble!"

The arrows whistled through the air and collided with the skill. It was over very quickly.

The Ice Empress and Snow Empress appeared, supporting each other, their breathing somewhat ragged.

Just as the Snow Empress had thought, the arrows themselves were not important. The Ashen Annihilation Imprints on them were the main source of damage.

The Snowy Dance of the Radiant Sun Domain had completely dissipated by then. Huang Tianyi held her bow in her right hand, and a flame arrow containing world-ending power radiated an extreme aura of death.

Her ninth Soul Ring also blazed brightly.

The victor seemed to have been decided.

If that arrow came down...

The Snow Empress and her companion would probably drop Soul Rings.

"We surrender."

The Snow Empress was utterly dejected. She was the foremost of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, a seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Heavenly Snow Woman.

Yet now, a Level 98 human had beaten her until she could not fight back at all.

It was like a joke.

When had Douluo Continent evolved to this point?

And it seemed it had not taken her along for the evolution.

"Sister Huang."

Wei Lin was slung over An Jiao's shoulder.

He was genuinely afraid Huang Tianyi would get carried away and make the Ice and Snow Empresses drop their Soul Rings.

Only when she heard Wei Lin's voice did Huang Tianyi's burning will to fight subside somewhat.

As the leader of the Bird Feather Battalion, her objective was actually very simple: shoot down every invading enemy.

That was why, when the Ice Empress and Snow Empress fell into a weakened state, she had instinctively used her Ninth Soul Skill, intending to make them drop their Soul Rings.

After all, once you used super strength, super intelligence was useless, wasn't it?

Only when she saw the arrow Huang Tianyi had nocked dissipate did the Snow Empress breathe a sigh of relief.

Bing'er had already started giving her last words just now.

Things like asking the Snow Empress to be her darling little wife in their next life, or saying a darling little husband would do too.

Huang Tianyi put away her Martial Soul and landed lightly in front of the Ice and Snow Empresses.

"Can we talk now?"

The Ice Empress and Snow Empress exchanged a glance, bitter expressions appearing on their faces.

There was nothing they could do. The other side held the knife and chopping board, while they were the fish on it.

Sometimes, when the difference in strength was too great, it was truly enough to make one despair.

If they had not been able to sense that their opponents were not particularly interested in their Soul Rings, they would not have compromised so quickly.

Huang Tianyi did not explain why they had come, instead turning her gaze to Wei Lin.

As a subordinate, she had to know her place. This was the perfect time to show off, so of course she had to let the young master do it himself~

Wei Lin cleared his throat and let Qingfeng and Qingyu step forward.

"Ice Empress, Snow Empress, our objective here is simple: to obtain Soul Rings for these two little ones of mine."

Ice and Snow Empresses: "???"

Wait, did hunting Soul Rings really require making such a huge commotion?

Wei Lin understood their confusion. Now it was his turn to show off.

"This younger sister of mine awakened a time-attribute Martial Soul, so..."

The Ice Empress frowned.

"So you want us to help you find a time-attribute Soul Beast? I'm afraid that's a little difficult."

Time-attribute Soul Beasts were rare even on Douluo Continent.

Anything with even a trace of the attribute was rare among rarities, to say nothing of one with only the time attribute. It would be easier to make her drop a Soul Bone than find a time-attribute Soul Beast.

"No, my target is the Eternal Night Time Falcon. As a purely time-attribute Soul Beast, its Soul Ring is very suitable for my sister. So I need to go to the Temporal Ice Crevice, and I wanted to come inform you."

The Ice Empress's head was full of question marks.

The Eternal Night Time Falcon? The Temporal Ice Crevice?

What were those things? How could she, one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, not know about them?

And they had only needed to pass through the core area, so they had come to greet them?

But... if they were going to greet her, they could at least have done it properly!

Just look at what they had beaten A-Tai into. His own mother probably could hardly recognize him.

(A-Tai: In the end, I was the one who bore it all ╥﹏╥.)