Douluo: The Rebirth of the Supreme King Dong'er

In the original story, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had relied on releasing his own aura to attract the Ice Empress.

Naturally, she did not have Sky Dream Ice Silkworm available now. However, she had other things at hand.

She took a Cold Jade Bed from her Storage Soul Tool. In this Extreme North, the aura of the Ten Thousand Year Cold Ice Jade Marrow instantly spread outward.

Tai Tan scratched his head. "Isn't this the Cold Jade Bed from the Cold Jade Room? This thing..."

"This thing is useful to ice-element soul beasts, and the Ten Thousand Year Cold Ice Jade Marrow contained within is enough to benefit even Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts," Niu Tian added.

"Could the opportunity be a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?" Niu Tian frowned.

Wang Dong'er was only at the three-ring level right now. Even if she wanted a stronger fourth spirit ring, at most she could only use a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring for her fourth ring like Tang San had back then. How could she possibly withstand the energy of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring?

Most importantly, the Light Goddess Butterfly did not have an ice attribute at all.

What exactly was Tang San planning?

"First Uncle, Second Uncle, that voice taught me a method. It said to use the Cold Ice Jade Marrow contained in this Cold Jade Bed to attract a super soul beast with extremely high intelligence and have her sacrifice herself to me."

The Three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, the Ice Empress!

"Huh?" Niu Tian and Tai Tan were both stunned.

If it was a sacrifice, then it could be explained. After all, sacrifices were overwhelmingly powerful.

But... super soul beasts with extremely high intelligence? In the Extreme North, there were only three such soul beasts at most: the Three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, who ranked among the super savage beasts.

They did not love Wang Dong'er enough to offer up their lives for her the way Xiao Wu had loved Tang San. Why would they sacrifice themselves?

Just because of that special method?

But could such a method really make a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast willingly sacrifice itself to a human? Niu Tian could not help frowning.

Then Xiao Wu and Tang San's mother, the Blue Silver Emperor, back then...

Abruptly, Niu Tian shook his head.

Both Xiao Wu and the Blue Silver Emperor were living well now, enjoying themselves in the God Realm. Even he and Tai Tan had risen along with them. How could he think of Tang San as being so wicked?

In truth, there was naturally no method that could make someone willingly offer a sacrifice.

This was merely an information gap Wang Dong'er was exploiting against Niu Tian and Tai Tan.

After all, no one would ever imagine that she possessed a skill like Aether Superflow.

As long as she could lure the Ice Empress over, then while Niu Tian and Tai Tan subdued her, she could use the Aether Superflow space to reach a partnership with the Ice Empress. To the baffled Niu Tian and Tai Tan, it would naturally appear that the "method" had succeeded and that the Ice Empress had voluntarily offered herself as a sacrifice.

And Niu Tian and Tai Tan could only watch with utterly bewildered expressions.

Without a skill like Aether Superflow, Wang Dong'er could only use Tang San's words as an excuse to conceal what she had revealed.

The aura of the Ten Thousand Year Cold Ice Jade Marrow continued spreading outward.

Visible to the naked eye, a crowd of soul beasts had already begun gathering toward Wang Dong'er and the other two.

However, against these soul beasts, all of which were at least ten-thousand-year level, Tai Tan merely snorted out a stream of white vapor. A wave of air sent them all flying far into the distance.

Sensing the threatening aura Tai Tan released, those soul beasts immediately retreated from the area.

"How long will it take to attract those damn Three Heavenly Kings like this?" Tai Tan asked impatiently.

"Tai Tan, I've told you long ago to read more books and cultivate your temperament, but you refused." Niu Tian said, "The Extreme North is so vast. Who knows where those Three Heavenly Kings are hiding?"

"If you're truly bored, why not scout the core region for Dong'er first?"

"I'll go, then!" Tai Tan glared, and wind sprang beneath his feet as he vanished into the distance with a whoosh.

"Tsk." Niu Tian shook his head. "He can never change that impatient temper of his."

"Xiao Qi... Dong'er, put away the Cold Jade Bed first. I'll take you into the core region. There's a better chance of encountering the Three Heavenly Kings there."

However, they had not gone far when a gigantic figure appeared amid the snowfields in the distance, vaguely concealed by the wind and snow.

"Outsiders... leave, or die!"

Just by looking at that enormous figure, it seemed to have become a colossal pillar connecting heaven and earth in the Extreme North, where the boundary between sky and land was blurred. Before it, humans were as tiny as ants.

"The Titan Snow Demon King?" Niu Tian raised a brow.

Standing opposite the Titan Snow Demon King was Tai Tan's comparatively tiny figure.

However, just as the Titan Snow Demon King swung its fist down at Tai Tan, Tai Tan suddenly swayed. His entire body rapidly expanded against the wind, transforming into a giant ape.

"Dong'er, watch closely. This is your Second Uncle's martial soul, the Titan Giant Ape."

Though it was called a martial soul, he was actually simply revealing his true form.

No matter what, the Titan Snow Demon King was only a soul beast of a little over two hundred thousand years. Its true combat strength was far inferior to Tai Tan's.

Now that Tai Tan had assumed his Titan Giant Ape form, he was still much smaller than the Titan Snow Demon King, which stood over a hundred meters tall. Yet when they exchanged a punch, the Titan Snow Demon King was shaken back again and again, involuntarily shaking its hand.

"I heard the Titan Snow Demon Tribe possesses the bloodlines of the ancient Ice God and Titan. It seems that a hybrid is ultimately just a hybrid." Tai Tan sneered.

The Titan Snow Demon King naturally understood Tai Tan's words. It was instantly enraged and charged forward again.

Yet its strength was simply inferior to Tai Tan's. In both exchanges, it was beaten back by Tai Tan, who had no intention of holding back. By the end of the round, the Titan Snow Demon King was covered in wounds.

"Roar!" The Titan Snow Demon King's massive body began trembling. It let out a furious roar at Tai Tan, as though it were about to unleash a powerful move.

However, after roaring, the Titan Snow Demon King turned and fled without the slightest hesitation.

Its enormous footsteps thundered across the snow, and the wind and snow quickly swallowed its tracks.

Though it could not defeat Tai Tan in a fight, the Titan Snow Demon King was first-rate at running away. Even Niu Tian, who had been watching, was left dumbfounded by that escape sequence.

"Go catch it!" Niu Tian hurriedly said.

"No need, First Uncle. It's too weak. It doesn't meet the requirements," Wang Dong'er said.

"True. It is indeed too weak." Niu Tian immediately dropped the matter.

"In that case, what your father intended to guide you toward should be either the Ice Empress or the Snow Empress."

"Looks like I'll have to make a move myself."

Wang Dong'er took out the Cold Jade Bed again. Niu Tian then placed his palm upon it and activated his power with a single strike. The Cold Jade Bed instantly shattered, exposing the Ten Thousand Year Cold Ice Jade Marrow within.

They were now at the edge of the core region of the Extreme North.

Because of its geography, the Extreme North had many soul beasts, though they were relatively scattered. Since human soul masters rarely made it here, quite a few Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had survived.

When the Cold Ice Jade Marrow was completely exposed, quite a few Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts followed its aura here. There were even Ice Scorpions among them.

Because Niu Tian and Tai Tan deliberately concealed their auras, in the eyes of these Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, there was only a piece of Ten Thousand Year Cold Ice Jade Marrow and three ants before them.

Just as these Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts eyed the Cold Ice Jade Marrow greedily, a lush emerald green suddenly spread from afar.

Wherever the emerald green passed, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts scattered in retreat. None dared touch the Cold Ice Jade Marrow, and they withdrew across the snowfield.

"I didn't expect there to be a piece of Ten Thousand Year Cold Ice Jade Marrow here that that dead worm hadn't gotten its claws on."

A crisp female voice suddenly rang out, followed by a soft sound of surprise. "Why are there people here too?"

Emerald light flashed, and an emerald-green scorpion suddenly appeared before Wang Dong'er.

Compared to the Titan Snow Demon King's enormous body, this scorpion was not even as large as one of its feet. It was only around one and a half meters long.

Aside from its emerald green color, the rest of its body was the color of ice. Its two front claws were silver-white, and even the structures along its body were covered in diamond-like protrusions that displayed unique hues beneath the sunlight.

This was one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, the Ice Empress!

Persuading the Ice Empress

Apart from the dazzling splendor of the front half of her body, the Ice Empress's scorpion tail was even more breathtaking.

The tail had only five segments, each rippling with a living emerald green. It narrowed from broad to slender all the way to the tip, where diamond-like particles were scattered. The point of the tail hook was silver-white as well, gleaming with an icy, sinister chill.

The instant she noticed Wang Dong'er and the other two standing beside the Cold Ice Jade Marrow, the Ice Empress knew she had walked into an ambush.

However, she did not recognize Niu Tian and Tai Tan as soul beasts. She only assumed they were two human Titled Douluo.

"Oh? Two Titled Douluo and one weak insect. You think a lineup like this is enough to ambush me?"

At that moment, Niu Tian suddenly attacked. His cultivation as a Limit Douluo was fully revealed, and caught off guard, the Ice Empress was slammed into the snow by a single palm strike.

But what the Ice Empress found most unbelievable was that Niu Tian carried a faint suppressive presence, like the pressure an ordinary Ice Scorpion would feel when encountering her, an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

The Ice Empress could not explain the feeling, but she could sense that Niu Tian was not yet fighting at full strength. There was another power hidden within him, seemingly sealed or restrained in some way.

Even so, the Ice Empress was not one to let others slaughter her at will. Even if a god came to take her life, she would tear off a piece of that god's flesh.

However, just as the Ice Empress prepared to break free from Niu Tian's restraints, an inexplicable force arrived.

For the first time, Wang Dong'er activated the skill of the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's Destiny Skull: Aether Superflow.

If the Ice Empress had not been suppressed by Niu Tian at that moment, Wang Dong'er would not have been able to forcibly establish a connection with her.

Besides the Ice Empress, Electrolux was also linked into the connection.

As a soul beast nearing four hundred thousand years of cultivation, the Ice Empress's Spiritual Power was immensely powerful.

Yet within this inexplicable space, her Spiritual Power had been drawn in, while Electrolux's divine consciousness was beyond anything she could imagine.

And the master of this place was Wang Dong'er, whose Spiritual Power was the weakest among everyone present.

Outside, Niu Tian had already noticed something strange about the Ice Empress.

He could sense that the Ice Empress had originally planned to resist by force, perhaps even preferring self-destruction to falling into their hands.

But now, she showed no intention of resisting at all, like a body that had lost its soul.

Wang Dong'er had also closed her eyes.

Tai Tan looked from left to right, both curious and worried.

Within the Aether Superflow space.

"Who are you? And where is this?" The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's Spiritual Power took the form of her true body.

"Ice Empress." Wang Dong'er spoke, drawing the Ice Empress's attention.

"Your end is approaching soon, isn't it?"

"How do you know that? No, even if you do, what does it have to do with you humans?" The Ice Empress snorted. "Hmph. Even if my end is near, I will never become a human's spirit ring!"

"I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious yet." Wang Dong'er waved her hand. "Not only do I know your end is approaching, I also know the Snow Empress is in the same situation. I even know what your true feelings for the Snow Empress are."

"You little brat!"

Sure enough, once Wang Dong'er exposed her secret, the Ice Empress became agitated.

Knowing that her own end and the Snow Empress's end were approaching was not much to the Ice Empress. But what she could not accept was that even in the Extreme North, few soul beasts knew her true feelings for the Snow Empress. Why did Wang Dong'er speak as though she had her completely figured out?

Could she truly know how she felt about the Snow Empress?

"What exactly do you want?" the Ice Empress asked.

At the same time, she began trying to reconnect with her body.

Wang Dong'er's Spiritual Power was far too weak compared to hers. Keeping her trapped in this mysterious space could not possibly come without conditions—or rather, a price.

"Before we begin, Ice Empress, let me ask you a question. Have you ever desired a longer life?"

The Ice Empress sneered. "Who wouldn't desire such a thing? We soul beasts painstakingly cultivate for tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years to obtain our current formidable strength. Yet the outstanding among you humans need only a few short decades to stand alongside us, even possessing the potential to become gods..."

At that point, the Ice Empress immediately fell silent.

Wang Dong'er knew what she wanted to say and took over. "It seems you remember what happened on the Douluo Continent ten thousand years ago."

"Humans possess the potential to become gods, but soul beasts have no such possibility unless they take human form and cultivate anew."

The Ice Empress fell silent.

With a wave of Wang Dong'er's hand, two images appeared. The Ice Empress looked toward them, only to see that the two figures in the images were Niu Tian and Tai Tan outside.

"The reason you soul beasts with noble bloodlines would rather challenge your limits than take human form and cultivate anew is precisely because the claim that you can become gods through rebuilding your cultivation in human form is far too illusory. But what if I gave you an opportunity to become a god now?"

"Give me an opportunity to become a god?" The Ice Empress was stunned, then burst into laughter. "Who would give it to me? You?"

"Mhm." Wang Dong'er nodded as if it were only natural. "Of course, me."

Without waiting for the Ice Empress to speak, she pointed at the images of Niu Tian and Tai Tan and said, "Ten thousand years ago, there were two Beast Kings in the Star Dou Forest. One was the Sky Azure Bull Python, who possessed a trace of dragon bloodline. The other was the Titan Giant Ape, like the Titan Snow Demon King of your Extreme North, possessing Titan bloodline."

"They died ten thousand years ago to fulfill that human who became a god." The Ice Empress scoffed. "I have heard this story in your human world as well. A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that took human form and cultivated anew fell in love with a human..."