Fusion with the Ice Empress

The Ice Empress looked at Chen Feng with a touch of pride. "I hope you can truly become a god."

"You won't regret the choice you made today." Chen Feng smiled confidently.

The Ice Empress nodded at that, then said to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, "Tian Meng, you useless trash, hurry up and let me out."

"Fine, fine, I agree. Release your Spiritual Origin. You weren't expecting me to just let you out like this, were you? For Chen Feng's safety, I won't take even the slightest risk."

A trace of hesitation appeared in the Ice Empress's eyes. Once she released her Spiritual Origin, given the gap in Spiritual Power between her and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, there would be no possibility of backing out. If Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had deceived her, she would have no chance of turning things around.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm naturally saw her hesitation and said solemnly, "Ice God above, I, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, swear in the name of ice: if I deceive the Ice Empress, if after she releases her Spiritual Origin I do not help her become a Wisdom Soul Ring, may you strip me of everything that belongs to ice."

"Fine." The Ice Empress made her decision at once.

The Ice Empress's crystalline yellow eyes gradually turned jade green, and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's long jade-green tail rose again. This was only possible after Sky Dream Ice Silkworm loosened his restraints.

A gentle jade-green halo began rippling from the base of her tail, eventually gathering at the tip of her tail hook. With a flash of jade light, a tiny jade-green orb separated from it and slowly floated upward. At the same time, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's eyes instantly lost their luster and dimmed.

That was right—this was her Spiritual Origin.

Though the process of releasing one's Spiritual Origin appeared simple, it was not something ordinary Soul Beasts could accomplish. Only Soul Beasts that had passed one great limit and cultivated for over a hundred thousand years could perform it. Naturally, this posed no problem for Peerless Experts like Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.

The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's body, now devoid of its Spiritual Origin, collapsed limply onto the ground. Without the control of her Spiritual Origin, a terrifyingly ferocious aura erupted from that body. A layer of jade-green radiance suddenly appeared in the sky, showing just how horrifying the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's strength was.

Then, the two clusters of Spiritual Origin belonging to the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered Chen Feng's Sea of Spirit.

Within the Sea of Spirit, the Ice Empress said seriously, "Chen Feng, next I will grant you a second Martial Soul and provide you with a Soul Bone and a Spirit Ring."

"I can decide the form of the Soul Bone. You will likely never encounter another being like me who can provide you with a Soul Bone, so I will give you the most important Torso Bone—your Vertebral Bone, sternum, and Ribs. It will be equivalent to gaining two additional External Soul Bones."

"Although your body is far stronger than that of Soul Masters at the same level, my Spirit Ring is still too powerful. Therefore, I suggest you fuse the bone before the ring to maximize the benefits. But this process will be extremely painful. You absolutely must not lose consciousness midway through it, or you, Tian Meng, and I will all die here!"

Chen Feng chuckled. "Don't worry, Ice Empress. I've long since prepared myself mentally."

Chen Feng was still confident in his tolerance for pain. After years of training and wandering alone, injuries had become an everyday occurrence.

Moreover, Chen Feng's physique was far stronger than Huo Yuhao's, so the pain would naturally be reduced.

Then the fusion began. Two beams of jade light shot out like lightning and landed precisely on the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's body. Her body, over one and a half meters long, immediately began trembling violently.

Her long tail in particular rippled intensely with jade-green light. Every diamond-like hexagonal protrusion on her body shone with dazzling brilliance.

Chen Feng sat cross-legged on the ground with his eyes tightly closed. Jade-green light lifted him from the ground, while the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's body swiftly moved beneath him.

Intense jade-green light pulsed wildly toward the tail hook. When the jade green turned into a deep green so vivid it seemed ready to drip, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's tail hook suddenly lashed upward and viciously stabbed into Chen Feng's tailbone.

Chen Feng's expression did not change. He treated it as nothing more than a mosquito bite, circulating the Yin-Yang Art and using the Cultivation Technique to suppress every abnormal sensation within his body.

"I never expected Chen Feng's mind to be so powerful as well. This is the pain of having one's bones replaced, yet his expression hasn't changed at all. It's as though he can't feel any pain. Terrifying." The Ice Empress was greatly shaken as she watched Chen Feng sit cross-legged in such calm composure.

Then she sighed. "I'm willing to stake everything on someone like him. Perhaps Becoming a God is not impossible."

Within the Sea of Spirit, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said fawningly, "Bing Bing, your decision is incredibly wise..."

"Get lost! Don't come near me!"

The Ice Empress looked at Chen Feng, who was fusing with the Soul Bone, with a few traces of admiration in her eyes.

Talent, brilliance, temperament, perseverance... He had no weaknesses at all. The Ice Empress was full of praise for Chen Feng.

Time passed second by second. Chen Feng's fusion with the Soul Bone went exceptionally smoothly, and he soon began absorbing the Spirit Ring.

A dense white halo began blooming beneath Chen Feng, sweeping upward and wrapping around his body. The crystal-like particles on the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's body quietly melted, transforming into threads of icy mist that flowed into Chen Feng through his skin.

Amid the spreading ice mist, the Ice Empress beneath Chen Feng silently disappeared.

If a human saw this scene, they would surely think the Ice Empress's body was melting. But to the Ice Empress herself, this was not melting—it was burning. Only by burning the origin of her own body could she produce this effect. Otherwise, given the toughness of her body, even the strongest weapon in the world could not easily harm her.

A golden halo quietly emerged, guiding the white radiance as it slowly flowed into Chen Feng's body.

The frigid wind still howled, while vast swathes of snow covered the endless ice plains.

Suddenly, streams of Blade Qi surged forth, instantly clearing away the accumulated snow around him and exposing a completely naked body.

The lines of his body were flawless, smooth rather than bulky or unsightly, yet beneath those supple muscles lay explosive power that could be clearly felt.

His jade-white skin gave off a captivating luster against the surrounding snow.

Chen Feng stood tall in this snow-covered world, radiating a noble aura, like the sovereign of this world of ice and snow.

Chen Feng slowly opened his eyes. Two colors of light flashed through his black pupils in an instant—first gold, then jade green—before both were swallowed by darkness.

A strange sight appeared. Any snowflakes drifting within three feet of his body would automatically veer away. Centered on him, a pure vacuum had appeared amid this frozen world.

Chen Feng clenched his hand and threw a punch. The tremendous force caused the air to explode with a sharp boom.