A conversation in the hall

After Chen Xin left.

Chen Feng looked at the person on the Throne, carefully considered his words, and then said:

"I know about Sacrifice because it has happened in the human world before."

"Oh? There was Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that Sacrifice in the human world?" Snow Empress asked, somewhat surprised.

"Yes, and it was Sacrifice after transforming into a human," Chen Feng said.

"Is that so?" A hint of emotion flashed in Snow Empress's eyes.

She didn't continue the topic, but instead asked:

"Based on what you just said, you developed the Ring Expansion Method yourself?"

My companions also offered me some help.

"But the main thinking and research process was done by yourself."

"That's true."

The Snow Empress rested her arm on the armrest of the Throne, propped her chin on her hand, and said:

"Your physical age is very young, yet you have achieved so much. You are an extremely talented person; there must be very few people like you among humanity."

"It's not a small amount."

"Oh?"

"It is absolutely unique."

Snow Empress smiled, "I thought you would be more modest."

"Meaningless humility is hypocrisy. From an academic research perspective alone, there is indeed no one in the Douluo Continent of this era who can compare to me," Chen Feng said calmly.

He was stating the facts, and at the same time demonstrating his own value.

Ten thousand years later, the Snow Empress failed to break through to the 700,000-year mark and had no choice but to forcibly transform into a human using Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus. Unfortunately, she encountered a human who had ventured deep into the Core Circle of the Extreme North and was then sealed in the Sealing God Platform.

So, 10,000 years ago at this time, was the Snow Empress already facing a predicament?

For such a long-lived species, ten thousand years is really not a long time. Perhaps the Snow Empress is already in trouble.

Therefore, the talent that Chen Feng has demonstrated will be able to secure more for him.

His Fourth Soul Ring requires the Soul Ring of the Snow Woman, and the Heavenly Snow Woman is also Snow Woman.

Is there even a sliver of a chance he could take a gamble?

"What initially motivated you to study the Ring Expansion Method?" Snow Empress suddenly asked.

"When I first hunted Soul Beast to obtain Soul Ring, I felt something was very wrong." Chen Feng summoned his Martial Soul and pointed to his first Soul Ring.

What's wrong?

"Nothing's right," Chen Feng said calmly. "The growth rates of humans and Soul Beast are extremely unbalanced, yet human Soul Master need the lifeblood of Soul Beast to advance. A ten -Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast needs at least several thousand years to grow to its full potential, but it can be killed by humans and turned into Soul Ring in the blink of an eye. Is that right?"

Snow Empress remained silent and did not speak.

"Even setting aside morality, humanity, and balance, from the perspective of efficiency alone, this is wrong," Chen Feng continued.

"Utilization efficiency?"

Chen Feng nodded. "Yes, there is no energy that can be created out of thin air. The life of Soul Beast is extremely long. They absorb a great deal of energy, and part of this energy comes from the sun and the moon, while a large part comes from our planet."

"When a Soul Beast is killed by humans and transformed into Soul Ring, how much of this energy is actually utilized? And how much is directly wasted? Isn't this kind of loss a continuous drain on our planet?"

Snow Empress slowly lowered her hand from her chin and sat up straight. "You said before that your abilities were unparalleled in this world, and now I'm starting to believe it."

"Thank you for your recognition, Snow Empress." Chen Feng smiled slightly, then became serious and said:

"Getting back to the main point, such continuous blood loss is naturally nothing to worry about for short-lived species. Most people think, 'After I die, who cares what happens next?' A human's lifespan is at most a few hundred years. By the time such blood loss has adverse effects, it's uncertain whether humanity will even exist after hundreds or thousands of generations. But for a long-lived species like you, Snow Empress, it's a different story."

In many science fiction novels and even in reality, the overdevelopment and abuse of resources by humankind leads to the destruction of the ecological environment, and this destruction will eventually become a boomerang, hitting humanity itself on the head.

The Douluo World was no exception; its subsequent developments foreshadowed this Bu Le future.

The weakening of Plane leads to a decline in the world's energy level. In the end, God King Tang was driven to desperation and thought of pulling a Plane from the outside to be swallowed by the Douluo Plane. This became the so-called grand plan of Ten-Thousand-Year.

The Snow Empress rose from her Throne, descended the steps, and stood before Chen Feng, no longer as aloof as before.

"But you are a human being, you have no reason to worry about this."

Chen Feng smiled and nodded. "Indeed, that's a long way off, but since I can see that future, it wouldn't be right for me not to do something about it."

Cultivation is all about realizing that your fate is in your own hands, not in the hands of heaven. If you can't achieve anything significant, why bother with cultivation?

"So, that's why you started your research on the Ring Expansion Method?" Snow Empress asked.

"That's one reason."

"What about the other reasons?"

"For my friend."

What kind of friends?

"Soul Beast Transformation into Human."

Did she tell you her identity on her own initiative?

"I figured it out myself. The flaw wasn't obvious, but it couldn't fool me."

The hall was quiet for a while. Snow Empress looked at Chen Feng with a scrutinizing gaze, and Chen Feng met her gaze calmly.

After a few seconds, Snow Empress said softly:

"You previously mentioned that to understand the effects of the Ring Expansion Method on Soul Beast, you need Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as experimental subjects, and I'm also very curious about this issue."

What do you mean?

"Since you need the Snow Woman's Soul Ring, then I'll do it for you."

Chen Feng took a deep breath, calming his pounding heart.

"It's my honor," he said in a slightly hoarse voice.

At that moment, Chen Feng explained the process of the Ring Expansion Method to Snow Empress in detail.

Then the two sat down cross-legged, palms facing each other, and Chen Feng transferred his Soul Power out.

The moment he came into contact with the Snow Empress's Soul Power, he felt an extreme coldness and a terrifying sense of heaviness.

It's like a Great Wall of ice and snow, as solid as a rock and insurmountable.

This is even with the Snow Empress controlling her power.

It can only be said that she truly deserves to be called a top-tier Soul Beast overlord with 700,000 years of history. If Snow Empress hadn't been kind to Chen Feng Chen Feng, he probably would have been frozen to death the Shunatsu their Soul Power made contact.

Chen Feng naturally lacked the ability to actively merge with Snow Empress's Soul Power; Snow Empress had to actively Frequency Reduction of her Soul Power, which was a novel experience for her.

Although Sacrifice is an ability possessed by Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, most Soul Beast are probably not familiar with it, because it is a skill that can only be used once in a lifetime.

The kind that will kill you after you use it.

Therefore, this was the first time Snow Empress had tried to weaken her Soul Power to match Chen Feng's Soul Power strength.

However, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is still Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. It has extremely strong control over Soul Power, and this is especially true for a top overlord like the Snow Empress.

After a few attempts, she easily separated a tiny wisp of her own Soul Power and Frequency Reduction, bringing it to a level slightly stronger than Chen Feng's Soul Power.

Thus, the Soul Power of the two sides finally merged.

However, a problem arose when proceeding to the next step. When Chen Feng's Soul Power was inputted into Snow Empress's body, it vanished without a trace, just like a drop of water entering the ocean.

This is because the difference in strength between Chen Feng and Snow Empress is too great; he simply cannot complete the normal process of circulating Soul Power within the target Soul Beast's body.

But this wasn't a problem for Chen Feng, because in the beginning, the Ring Expansion Method was meant to allow the Soul Beast's Soul Power to enter the Soul Master's body in order to increase the Soul Master's Soul Power Frequency.

It was only during the first Ring Expansion Ritual that, because the Flying Lightning Rat couldn't understand Chen Feng's meaning, Chen Feng performed the opposite operation, inputting Soul Power into the Flying Lightning Rat's body to complete the Soul Power frequency increase.

When others tried the Ring Expansion Method later, they directly adopted Chen Feng's operational experience, and thus the process of the Ring Expansion Method was fixed.

Now that the classic version we've been using isn't working, we need to switch back to the original concept version.

So Chen Feng explained the situation to Snow Empress, but Snow Empress didn't seem to care.

She had several reasons for offering to help Chen Feng this time.

The first thing to do is to experience the Ring Expansion Method firsthand and see what it's all about.

The second reason is to help this human go further, because the emergence of the Ring Expansion Method is beneficial to the Soul Beast group, a principle that even Titan Snow Demon King understands.

As for the third objective, Snow Empress wanted to find a way out of her predicament.

Chen Feng guessed correctly. Although Snow Empress has not yet reached a dead end, it has already encountered some initial difficulties.

That is, how to get through the next 700,000 years.

After Soul Beast abandons the idea of transforming into a human to break through 100,000 years of cultivation, every 100,000-year mark can be considered a life-or-death struggle, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as a near-death experience.

In many cases, it's a one-way street to certain death.

There are quite a few Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Extreme North, but to this day, only the Three Great Heavenly Kings have a Soul Beast of over 100,000 years, and the dangers they face are unimaginable.

Snow Empress was indeed confident in breaking through the barrier, but confidence alone cannot put food on the table, so she naturally wanted to see if there were any other paths she could take.

If Chen Feng were just an ordinary human Soul Master, or some kind of cultivation genius, Snow Empress wouldn't be too interested in him.

However, he happens to be an academic genius, which gives Snow Empress some hope, because such people are good at using their brains.

Perhaps, even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance, Chen Feng might be able to help her come up with a solution, even if it's just some useful advice.

After Chen Feng adjusted the process, the concept version of the Ring Expansion Ritual started again, and this time the process went very smoothly.

Snow Empress extracted an extremely weak wisp of her Soul Power, weakened it to a level slightly stronger than Chen Feng's Soul Power, and then transferred it into Chen Feng's body.

Chen Feng then incorporated this Soul Power into his own Soul Power circulation path, integrating it into himself through repeated circulation. Each integration would increase the strength of his Soul Power, at which point Snow Empress would send him the next wisp of Soul Power.

The Soul Power that Snow Empress transferred was extremely weak for her, but it was enormous for Chen Feng, almost causing him to suffer from indigestion.

Fortunately, Snow Empress's control over Soul Power was strong enough that Chen Feng was eventually able to gradually absorb it.

As Chen Feng's own Soul Power increased, his body gradually experienced swelling, pain, and tearing sensations, which was a sign that the strength of the Soul Ring was gradually exceeding his body's tolerance.

Faced with this situation, Chen Feng had only one option: to resist.

Grit your teeth and endure it until you can't take it anymore.

Obtaining Soul Ring from Snow Empress is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and this Soul Ring is also related to whether Chen Feng can properly use the Yin Sword. He must do his best to get the best result.

As time passed, Chen Feng felt increasingly intense pain; blood oozed from his mouth and nose, and a layer of white frost appeared on his body.

It is well known that cold can intensify pain because it increases nerve sensitivity.

At this moment, Chen Feng was suffering greatly, his whole body was cold and in pain, and the pain was doubled by the cold, as if he were being tortured.

Under such intense pain, Chen Feng's consciousness soon became somewhat blurred, and blood also overflowed from his eyes and ears, making him truly bleeding from all seven orifices.

It's just missing the word "death".

"Enough." Snow Empress looked at the pitiful boy in front of her and suddenly spoke.

This sound seemed to penetrate straight to the soul, jolting Chen Feng, who was already in a daze, back to his senses.

He had lost the ability to think at this point and could only act according to the sudden appearance of the female voice, beginning to finish his Ring Expansion Ritual.

Chen Feng was extremely familiar with the process of the Ring Expansion Ritual. Even when his mind was not clear, he still completed the last part of the process by instinct.

As four Soul Ring— two yellow, one purple, and one black—appeared on Chen Feng's body, his vision went black and he collapsed to the ground. The four Soul Ring that had just appeared also disappeared.

Snow Empress withdrew her hands and stood up. She looked at the boy on the ground and whispered:

"Is this the Ring Expansion Method? You've given me some pleasant surprises."

After saying this, she summoned a Snow Woman who escorted Chen Feng to a side hall to rest, and informed Chen Xin outside about the situation there.

Chen Xin was naturally anxious upon learning that Chen Feng was injured, and immediately ran to the side hall to check on Chen Feng's condition.

"Phew, thank goodness, it didn't affect his foundation." Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief as he wiped the blood off his disciple's face.

As long as his foundation isn't affected, it's not a big problem. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has enough resources to heal Chen Feng's injuries.

Compared to that, this experience was quite magical. Not only did he meet the Snow Empress, the leader of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, but the Snow Empress also allowed Chen Feng to obtain the Snow Woman's Soul Ring.

Yes, that's what Chen Xin knew. He never imagined that his disciple had obtained the Snow Empress's Soul Ring.