Extreme North

The Core Zone of the Extreme North.

Huo Yuhao ignored the biting cold around him, moving through it like a fish in water.

"Yuhao... how about... how about we go back?"

The closer they got to their destination, the more hesitant Tian Meng became.

Huo Yuhao already possessed such a powerful Ultimate Ice martial soul. Why did he still have to take such an enormous risk and accompany her on this journey?

Their opponent was the Ice Empress, ranked second among the Three Kings of the Extreme North—a beast with nearly Four-Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation!

"Fortune was found amid danger. Besides, Tian Meng, don't you have a way to save our lives? I believe in you."

Walking through the wind and snow, Huo Yuhao remained calm.

Whether it was for the reference of the Original Work's plot or to complete the Achievement Task, he could not leave now.

The Ice Empress was not an indispensable aid for his path to godhood, but she was one of the assets that would allow him to swiftly get through his early growth stage.

Tian Meng nodded solemnly. "If negotiations fail in the end, I will use my ultimate life-saving method to teleport you several hundred kilometers away."

Huo Yuhao's composure dispelled Tian Meng's indecision. Sure enough, meeting a boy like him was the greatest fortune of her life!

Her gaze hardened. "Yuhao, then I'll begin."

Accompanied by intense Spiritual Power fluctuations, Huo Yuhao's sole Spirit Ring quietly emerged. The pure white ring radiated a lustrous glow as it slowly pulsed around him.

Before coming to the Extreme North, he had already used up the Bronze Relic Gu, raising his Soul Power to Level 20.

Moreover, during the process of using the Wine Gu, Huo Yuhao's Soul Power had continuously become purer and more condensed, solidifying his cultivation in just a few days.

As the pearly white ring slowly began to change color, it gradually shifted from white to pale gold, then to brilliant gold.

Clusters of golden light emerged from Huo Yuhao's body, gathering into the phantom image of a giant golden silkworm.

The moment Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual body took shape, that power, enough to alter the heavens, spread outward as an overwhelming will.

"Ice Empress, I know you can hear me! Do you dare come out and pay your respects to Lord Tian Meng?"

The sky darkened, black clouds pressed down, and even the wind and snow seemed to freeze, turning into magnificent golden-white auroras beneath the gray heavens.

Under the intimidation of that Terrifying Spiritual Power, thousands upon thousands of soul beasts fled in panic.

At this moment, Tian Meng's aura as a Million-Year Soul Beast was truly revealed.

She stood there quietly, allowing the raging wind to buffet her without moving an inch.

Huo Yuhao also calmly hid nearby, witnessing one of Tian Meng's few shining moments.

Persuading the Ice Empress to surrender!

When the Ice Empress had broken through the Three-Hundred-Thousand-Year threshold, she had damaged her origin and already reached her limit. She would never survive the Four-Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation.

That was precisely why Tian Meng had some confidence in persuading her.

Only by combining threats and inducements could she force the proud Ice Empress into compromise.

Perhaps due to the shackles of his bloodline, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who lacked spiritual abilities for protection, might struggle even against a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in direct combat.

However, on the spiritual level alone, not a single soul beast on the entire Douluo Continent could Contend With him.

Until then.

A layer of jade-green light suddenly spread from the distant northern horizon.

It was a translucent and alluring jade green, a captivating shade of breathtaking beauty, as gorgeous as an enormous jade-green gemstone.

The oppressive air vanished completely in that instant, dissipating into nothingness.

"You're here, Ice Empress!"

"Tian Meng, you really are still alive!"

A crisp voice rang out from all directions, carrying terrifying pressure.

The snow on the ground surged like crashing waves, instantly rising several meters high. Only the area within a hundred meters around Tian Meng remained calm beneath the protection of her immense Spiritual Power.

"What? Did you come to the Extreme North to be eaten by me?"

The crisp voice spoke coldly, its tone filled with lofty disdain.

Tian Meng replied with elegant composure, "Ice Empress, do you know why Lord Tian Meng has appeared here? Because you cannot break through your next limit and will be extinguished in this frozen world!"

"Good. Very good!"

The voice instantly became hysterical, and the dark green in the sky abruptly turned a profound black.

"Since you came knocking at death's door, don't blame this old lady!"

A streak of jade-green light cut a line across the sky. With barely a flash, a soul beast appeared before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

A scorpion roughly one and a half meters long descended from the sky, its body covered in countless hexagonal protrusions that glittered with brilliant radiance and emitted incomparable jade-green light.

The one-and-a-half-meter-long Ice Empress had two colors on her body. One was the color of ice, while the other was jade green, dazzling and brilliant like gemstones.

She had six slender yet powerful legs, a pair of enormous one-meter-long pincers at the front, golden eyes, and silver-white mouthparts that gleamed with faint cold light.

And then there was the most eye-catching feature of all: her scorpion tail, the core of all that dazzling splendor.

The Ice Empress's long tail had only five segments in total. Every segment was an alluring jade green, gleaming with vibrant life.

At the tip of the jade-green scorpion tail was a hooked stinger that emitted a chilling light, flashing with the sheen of a silver-white mirror.

This was the Ice Empress's true body—the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion!

Huo Yuhao warned through their spiritual link, "Tian Meng, this isn't the time for reminiscing. Prepare to attack!"

"Then let's freeze her!"

Tian Meng naturally understood the importance of swift action.

As the Ice Empress appeared and stepped into Tian Meng's carefully laid trap, her golden body suddenly became Intangible, then instantly lunged before the Ice Empress.

Everything around the Ice Empress became thick and viscous. Terrifying Spiritual Power was like a vast ocean, trapping her deep within it.

The Ice Empress was shocked. Her gaze instantly sharpened as she forcefully swung her tail hook, and brilliant light erupted from her jade-green tail.

"Tian Meng, wouldn't it be better for you to obediently die? Using Spiritual Power like this, aren't you afraid you won't be able to return to your body?

"Besides, no matter how hard you try, it won't change the fact that you're useless. How long can you trap me? One second or two?"

Tian Meng did not answer. Instead, she controlled her million-year Remnant Shell.

A faint white membrane instantly bound the Ice Empress tightly. Even her desperate struggles were futile.

Her raised pincers were forced down, and her lifted tail hook was pressed tightly against her body, leaving her unable to move...

"No, no, this is impossible. Tian Meng, you coward, what did you do? Could it be that your cultivation has broken through to a million years?"

The golden light receded, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reappeared, speaking smugly.

"That's right. I have waited far too long for this day. Heh heh heh, little Bingbing, do you now understand Lord Tian Meng's power?"

As she spoke, she raised her right hand and pointed at the Ice Empress. Amid flashing golden light, she drew the Ice Empress into the Spiritual Sea.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm looked up at the sky and sighed.

"What a pity. This was Lord Tian Meng's only chance to use her full strength. Ice Empress, Ice Empress, I hope you won't disappoint us."

Then she smugly sought praise from Huo Yuhao, saying proudly,

"Yuhao, I've trapped the Ice Empress. Did you see that? This is Lord Tian Meng's true strength!"

Looking at Tian Meng, who was plainly begging for praise, Huo Yuhao did not stint on his compliments.

"Alright, alright, Lord Tian Meng is the strongest. As expected of the only Million-Year Soul Beast in history..."

Unexpectedly, Brother Sky Dream had become Sister Tian Meng, and much of the "simp" plot from the Original Work had vanished at once.

Without all that melodramatic emotional entanglement, everything suddenly felt much more refreshing.

"Let's leave first. That disturbance was too great. It'll be troublesome if it draws other beings here. We shouldn't stay here long."

"Mhm, mhm. Let's go. Next, we only need to persuade the Ice Empress."

Controlling the surrounding ice and snow to aid him, Huo Yuhao sprinted toward the outskirts of the Extreme North, his gaze more resolute than ever...

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