Ice Empress, You Don't Want Anything to Happen to Snow Empress, Do You?

As Xiao Qiang spoke, he took out a bottle containing pills.

"What is this?" Ice Empress raised a brow slightly.

"A pill developed by the Sun Moon Empire called the Spirit Skill Pill. According to the Sun Moon Empire's description, if a soul beast consumes it and is killed within a short period of time, there is a high chance of obtaining the soul beast's strongest innate soul skill."

"Damn human!"

"Bing Bing, calm down! We're both going to become Xiao Qiang's soul rings anyway, so don't worry about that."

Ice Empress snorted coldly, then flicked Brother Sky Dream away with her tail. After using him as a punching bag, she gradually calmed down. "You even knew that I don't possess our clan's strongest innate soul skill, the Ice Burst Technique. It seems you really weren't lying to me."

"Hand it over. If it can awaken the Ice Burst Technique for me, then this is the best possible outcome for us."

Xiao Qiang handed the pill to Ice Empress. Without hesitation, she put it directly into her mouth. The medicinal effect was quickly triggered, and Ice Empress frowned slightly. Clearly, this pill, which treated soul beasts as disposable consumables, caused considerable harm to their bodies.

"No, I can feel the effects of the medicine, but the grade of this pill is too low. One alone simply can't..."

Before Ice Empress could finish, Xiao Qiang took out several more porcelain bottles. Without exception, every one of them contained Spirit Skill Pills.

Ice Empress: "..."

"With this amount, I should be able to awaken the Ice Burst Technique. As for the other soul skills, I originally wanted to give you four directly, but since you already have plans for many things, I'd like to hear your opinion."

After a brief silence, Ice Empress began discussing the matter with Xiao Qiang. Unlike Huo Yuhao, who had no opinions of his own whatsoever, after witnessing Xiao Qiang's abilities, Ice Empress felt it would be best to discuss the soul skills with him.

In the end, at Xiao Qiang's request, one human and one soul beast settled on a total of ten skills between the soul ring and soul bone.

Brother Sky Dream was responsible for keeping watch over the surroundings while Ice Empress and Xiao Qiang began their fusion. Thanks to physical qualities far superior to Huo Yuhao's, Xiao Qiang only needed two and a half hours to fuse the soul ring and soul bone.

After fusing the soul ring and soul bone, Xiao Qiang's clothes had been completely shredded, leaving only the two Soul Tools around his wrists.

Even so, Xiao Qiang did not feel the slightest bit cold. As the chilly wind of the Extreme North swept past him, he even found it somewhat warm.

"So this is an ice-type soul master's daily life? Even in a place of extreme cold, the word 'cold' simply doesn't exist. This feels pretty good."

He took out a fresh set of clothes from his Soul Tool and put them on. With a raised hand, a longsword condensed from ice appeared in Xiao Qiang's grasp.

After casually swinging it a few times, Xiao Qiang planted it in the snow. Then he created a second sword, a third sword, until he had made twenty-one swords in total. Only then did Xiao Qiang run fifty meters away from them.

Next, Xiao Qiang took out the sinew of the Thousand-Year Greenwood Ox from his Soul Tool. He stretched the sinew taut, using it as the bowstring and Extreme Ice as the body of the bow. A bow appeared in Xiao Qiang's hand.

Xiao Qiang raised his hand again, and an arrow formed entirely from ice appeared in his grasp. Drawing the bow and nocking the arrow, he shot through each of the ice swords he had created earlier.

Something that had been impossible no matter what in his previous life had become effortless after he became an ice-type soul master.

"What are you doing?" Brother Sky Dream's voice sounded in his sea of consciousness after Xiao Qiang had shot all the longswords in the snow apart.

"Nothing. I'm just testing how to use ice."

"Oh." Brother Sky Dream nodded and did not ask further. "By the way, do you have any ideas about your fourth soul ring?"

"As for ideas..." Xiao Qiang turned to Ice Empress. "Ice Empress, are there Mirror Beasts in the Extreme North?"

"Mirror Beasts?" Ice Empress thought for a moment, then nodded. "Yes. I know a place with a Mirror Beast around twenty thousand years old. You can handle it just fine now, and with the boost my soul bone gives you, absorbing it won't be much trouble either."

"Twenty thousand years is a bit low, but with Brother Sky Dream here, there's nothing to worry about. Let's go."

Under Ice Empress's guidance, Xiao Qiang quickly arrived at the Mirror Beast's lair. With Brother Sky Dream's Mental Probe, finding the Mirror Beast was no difficult task.

The moment Xiao Qiang encountered the Mirror Beast, his Three-Tomoe Sharingan activated and directly pulled it into an illusionary space.

Xiao Qiang had not been proficient in Illusion Techniques before because he only possessed the One-Tomoe Sharingan. The moment his Sharingan reached three tomoe, he automatically gained a certain understanding of Illusion Techniques. Over the past few months, his own Illusion Techniques combined with the Mental Interference Brother Sky Dream provided had elevated Xiao Qiang to a considerable level in this field. Pulling a mere twenty-thousand-year soul beast into an illusionary space took no effort at all.

Within the illusionary space, the Mirror Beast was tied to a cross. Beneath a blood-red moon, Xiao Qiang appeared before it.

"Sorry, but for the next twenty-four hours, you'll be tortured in this space."

The Mirror Beast did not yet understand what he meant when Xiao Qiang's blade stabbed into its body. The agonizing pain made it faint, but when it woke, it saw Xiao Qiang holding the blade once more. Then that terrifying blade plunged into its body again.

This repeated over and over. After an unknown amount of time, the Mirror Beast had no idea how many times it had been stabbed before it saw what seemed to be a clock in the sky tick once.

"There are still twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes, and fifty-nine seconds until the twenty-four hours are over."

The Mirror Beast's consciousness gradually neared collapse from Xiao Qiang's repeated stabbings. At the very moment it reached its limit, Xiao Qiang shot an arrow through its heart.

Xiao Qiang quickly fused the soul ring, then dissected the Mirror Beast's corpse. Sure enough, he found a Head Spirit Bone within its body.

"So a Sharingan enhanced by Mental Interference really can do it. Though this move is kind of unethical."

Xiao Qiang took out a crystal used to test Soul Power, then poured his Soul Power into it.

"Level forty-eight. Xiao Hongchen only reached level forty-nine two days ago. Better not tell Xiao Hongchen about this, or he might get so angry that something goes wrong."

"Hmph, do you even know what level my soul ring is? If your body's upper limit weren't holding you back, how could I have only increased your Soul Power by seven levels?"

"Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll rest first. I'm tired after being busy for so long."

"Wait, Ice Empress. It's not time to rest yet."

"What else is there?" Ice Empress said sleepily. Clearly, she was exhausted as well.

"Ice Empress, you don't want anything to happen to Snow Empress, do you?"