This Soul Skill Was Heaven-Defying

Tian Meng was dead.

Under the scorching Undying Flame, Tian Meng's body transformed into a mass of pure white energy that flowed into Zhao Ming's Spiritual Sea.

However, this pure white ice-element energy did not merge into the Spiritual Sea. Instead, it condensed into a single mass. Although Tian Meng's ice-element energy was not Ultimate Ice, he was a Million-Year Soul Beast.

If the quality was lacking, quantity would make up for it.

A quantitative change would lead to a qualitative change.

The Undying Flame continued to scorch the ice-element energy. But Zhao Ming soon discovered in horror that although the amount of white ice-element energy was decreasing under the flames, it seemed to be growing purer. Its temperature, in particular, was gradually dropping.

Holy crap. There wouldn't be some kind of problem, would there?

Zhao Ming's expression changed. If this ice-element energy evolved into Ultimate Ice, then combined with the Undying Flame, wouldn't that turn everything upside down?

"System, nothing's going to go wrong, right? Are you screwing me over?" Zhao Ming frowned as he looked at the mass of white energy that was gradually growing colder.

"Uh... I didn't expect this thing to be capable of evolution either. As expected of a Million-Year Soul Beast. Impressive."

"Stop marveling over there. Give me an idea already." Zhao Ming's brows furrowed tightly. His body now faintly felt as though it were caught between ice and fire.

"Well, just let nature take its course. Besides, as the ancients said, everyone must die. Some deaths are weightier than Taishan, while others are lighter than a feather..."

"Holy crap." Zhao Ming's eyes widened in speechless disbelief.

"Ahem, just kidding. Don't panic, Host. Your System bro has your back. If it really comes down to it, I can give you some hacks." The System coughed twice.

Zhao Ming said nothing more, because he was already unable to speak.

At that moment, his body was experiencing alternating waves of extreme cold and extreme heat. Ice and fire energy appeared within him in turns.

It truly was ice and fire dual heavens!

One moment, the cold made him shudder; the next, scorching heat evaporated every bead of frost on his body. The blood and qi within him also began to surge like tides. When the cold reached its peak, his entire body seemed frozen solid. Yet in the next instant, when the heat peaked, his blood boiled, and fine droplets of blood seeped out across his skin.

From extreme cold to extreme heat, then from extreme heat back to extreme cold—the violent fluctuations in body temperature caused Zhao Ming unbearable agony. If it were merely cold, Zhao Ming could barely endure it, but there was also the intensely fiery energy of the Undying Flame. The pain it brought him was far more than a simple one plus one equals two. It was like warming your hands by a fire immediately after playing in the snow; your fingers would ache to the bone.

An ordinary person would likely have fainted from such pain. But after undergoing a round of Spiritual Power cleansing, Zhao Ming's tolerance for pain had improved considerably. The keen perception granted by his Spiritual Power also allowed him to carefully observe the changes in his body.

The ice and fire energy alternated within him, yet they did not seem to clash as he had imagined. Not only did the two energies cause no harm to his body, but under this tempering of ice and fire, his physical constitution seemed to be gradually growing stronger.

Zhao Ming's muscles, bones, and internal organs all underwent tremendous changes under the tempering of ice and fire.

Gradually, the pain of alternating ice and fire in Zhao Ming's body began to fade. They seemed to have reached some sort of balance, though Zhao Ming could still sense their existence.

Is it over? Zhao Ming murmured.

As he carefully observed the changes in his body, he was soon astonished.

Wasn't this the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? Though it looked somewhat like the taiji symbol from Earth!

Within his Spiritual Sea, black and white had actually formed a pattern resembling taiji. Earth's taiji emphasized the mutual generation of yin and yang: yin gave rise to yang, and yang gave rise to yin. Perhaps that was precisely what allowed the ice and fire energy to achieve such a delicate balance.

For now, however, the pattern was still dominated by black. After all, this was still the home ground of the Ancient Immortal Bird!

"Host, congratulations. I never expected you to possess such fortune!" the System's admiring voice rang out.

"Fortune?" Zhao Ming was stunned.

"Yin and yang generate each other. A delicate balance of ice and fire has now formed within your body. Under the pressure of the Undying Flame, the ice-element energy will continue evolving. Perhaps in the future, it will form ice no weaker than the Undying Flame," the System explained.

"You're saying it will keep evolving?" Zhao Ming asked with delight.

"Of course, as long as this balance is maintained. The Undying Flame will pressure it into evolving."

"Whew, as expected of a Million-Year Fierce Beast."

"Besides that, Tian Meng has also brought you two powerful soul skills. Feel them out for yourself."

As soon as the System's voice fell, waves of profound information flooded into Zhao Ming's mind.

First soul skill, Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

The left eye was flame, undying and indestructible. The right eye was ice, incomparably frigid. The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could unleash powerful ice and fire energy, causing any enemy struck by it to experience the sensation of ice and fire dual heavens.

Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? Zhao Ming was overjoyed.

He had just experienced the terror of that alternating ice and fire. Thinking about using such a soul skill on someone else was simply exhilarating.

From extreme heat to extreme cold. It was like suddenly falling from the highest point—the sensation was not something ordinary people could endure. After absorbing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Soul Ring, his Soul Power had reached level twenty-one, rising by a full six levels. With his current level twenty-one Soul Power, using this soul skill would have an enormous impact on anyone below Soul Ancestor.

Second soul skill, Ice and Fire Bipolar Domain!

When Zhao Ming saw the introduction to the second soul skill, he was shocked!

Because it was actually a domain-type soul skill!

A domain-type soul skill, as its name implied, created a domain! Within that domain, you were the ruler, and your strength would be greatly enhanced. Meanwhile, anyone else who entered the domain would be suppressed by it and unable to display their full strength.

The Snow Empress's Emperor's Extreme Cold, Huo Gua's Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain, Tang San's Blue Silver Domain and Divine Slaughter's Domain from the original work, and so on, were all their ultimate moves!

Yet Zhao Ming had obtained such a heaven-defying soul skill from his very first Soul Ring! And it was an ice-and-fire domain!

This domain was definitely stronger than the Snow Empress's Emperor's Extreme Cold and Tang San's Blue Silver Domain. Probably only Huo Gua's Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain could compare with it. After all, that domain had been created by the fusion skill of the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress.

But as Zhao Ming's ice-element energy slowly evolved, this domain would definitely surpass Huo Gua's in the future. After all, Huo Gua's Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain consisted of two types of Ultimate Ice. His consisted of Ultimate Ice and the Undying Flame!