Disobey Me and Die

The low temperature of the Extreme North was indeed deadly.

Lin Yu felt his entire body grow cold after only ten-odd minutes.

After an hour, it felt as though he had lived through an entire year.

Even after moving around to build up heat, he still felt colder and colder.

But even as Lin Yu's body stiffened from the cold and he lost all feeling, he continued forcing himself forward.

He knew very well that stopping would likely mean death.

Fortunately, after walking for half a day, he suddenly discovered the shed skin of an Ice Silkworm. Huo Yuhao had once been able to withstand the bitter cold of the Extreme North precisely because of an Ice Silkworm's shed skin.

This gave Lin Yu hope. He immediately picked it up and wrapped it around himself, only to find that it merely reduced the cold somewhat, nowhere near as effectively as Huo Yuhao's shed skin.

Could Ice Silkworms also be divided by age? A million-year Ice Silkworm's shed skin can completely block out the cold, while mine is at most a hundred years old, so its effects have been greatly reduced?

Lin Yu smiled bitterly and continued trudging in one direction, hoping that there was a one-in-ten-thousand chance he could make it out of this frozen wasteland.

Although Lin Yu was terribly unlucky, he was also fortunate.

He had not encountered a single soul beast along the way.

But Lin Yu was highly vigilant. This was not necessarily a good thing.

The Extreme North contained countless soul beasts. After walking for so long without encountering even one, he might have entered the territory of some powerful soul beast.

At that moment, a tremendous explosion rang out, shaking the entire Extreme North Plains.

Wind and snow billowed into the air and transformed into a blizzard. Amid the vast upheaval of heaven and earth, an enraged woman's voice rang out.

"How dare you launch a sneak attack on me?"

Another voice burst into loud laughter. "I just arrived and saw a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had taken human form. If I didn't attack, wouldn't I have missed such a wonderful opportunity?"

The two voices confronted each other. The surrounding wind and snow churned violently, and the sound of sweeping attacks filled the air. Even the shock waves caused the entire Extreme North Plains to tremble without end.

Lin Yu's expression changed. The scene reminded him of something.

"Ten thousand years from now, on the Extreme North Plains, a newly transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast will be ambushed by a human."

"This plot feels strangely familiar. Isn't this Snow Empress and that Rank 9 Soul Engineer who uses the God-Sealing Platform?"

Lin Yu never expected to be so unlucky as to encounter something like this.

Snow Empress and that Rank 9 Soul Engineer were both anything but undeserving of their reputations. The shock waves alone were already earth-shaking.

If he, a Rank 1 Soul Master, were caught up in it, he wouldn't even know how he died.

The violent battle filled the surroundings with rampaging energy, and it was gradually developing into a blizzard.

But the more dangerous the situation became, the more reckless a thought arose in Lin Yu's mind. The more fiercely they attacked, the more likely they were to end up gravely wounded on both sides.

My Starry Express allows companions to board and share their martial souls. Normally, I would never have a chance to lay a hand on such powerful beings, but if they were both forced to the brink of death, wouldn't that give me a perfect opportunity?

The idea was utterly absurd, but Lin Yu had no way out.

Staying on the Extreme North Plains and slowly freezing to death meant dying, while rashly using the Starry Express to teleport away might also mean death.

So why not be a little more daring? He could take advantage of their struggle and profit as the third party.

Neither Snow Empress nor the Rank 9 Soul Engineer imagined that, several miles away, a Rank 1 Soul Master ant had actually set his sights on them.

They fought with heaven and earth turned upside down, battling as if their lives depended on it, without stopping for an entire day and night.

During that time, Lin Yu also struggled bitterly to hold on. Braving the blizzard, he continued forward toward the center of their battlefield.

Although it was extremely dangerous, only greater danger could bring greater opportunity.

At last, the battle began to weaken. Lin Yu finally endured until the blizzard ended, and the Extreme North Plains fell into deathly silence.

At the center of the battlefield, Snow Empress had taken human form and looked incomparably frail, like a snow lotus withering on the ice plain, delicate and tragic.

The Rank 9 Soul Engineer on the other side was in an even worse state, his flesh torn open and blood covering the ground.

But a Seven-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and a peak human Rank 9 Soul Engineer were not so easy to kill.

They clung to their final breaths, staring at each other and waiting to see who would be the first to collapse.

Yet then, someone entirely unexpected suddenly appeared before them.

A Soul Master with only Rank 1 Soul Power had actually appeared on the Extreme North Plains, right in the middle of their fierce battlefield.

However, this person was clearly in terrible condition. His entire body was frozen stiff, his face pale, his fingers trembling as he slowly dragged one foot after another, like a zombie.

It was Lin Yu, who had persevered through the blizzard for an entire day and night. The cold had already invaded his muscle tissue, and there was no longer any way to reverse it.

Even if the Starry Express teleported him away now, he would eventually die from the freezing.

Snow Empress and the Rank 9 Soul Engineer could both see that this man was close to death, but they still froze for a moment.

Because despite being frozen like a zombie, Lin Yu continued walking toward them with unwavering determination, as if they were his target.

"What's going on? Why has a Rank 1 Soul Master suddenly appeared here? What does he want?"

Snow Empress and the Rank 9 Soul Engineer were both utterly bewildered.

Only when Lin Yu reached the space between Snow Empress and the Rank 9 Soul Engineer did he speak. "I can see that you're both at the end of your ropes. You have a choice now."

"Whoever is willing to submit to me will ultimately live. Otherwise, I'll kill both of you."

It was simply inconceivable for such outrageous words to come from a Rank 1 Soul Master.

The Rank 9 Soul Engineer immediately roared, "Brat, what nonsense are you spouting? Do you know what kind of existence stands before you?"

Lin Yu's face had been frozen into complete expressionlessness, but his eyes still shone brightly.

He spoke slowly. "I know. You're a Rank 9 Soul Engineer, whose status is equivalent to that of a Titled Douluo. You also possess many powerful Soul Tools, and on the Sun Moon Continent, you're an existence revered by thousands."

"But as I said, you're already at the end of your rope."

"I observed you for an entire day and night. Your Soul Power has been steadily draining, and later, you even forcibly overdraw it."

"Now you've been lying on the ground without moving for an entire hour. It's obvious that you're exhausted and unable to recover."

"At a time like this, forget a Rank 1 Soul Master like me—even an ordinary person could kill you."

Every word Lin Yu spoke struck home, stabbing the Rank 9 Soul Engineer where it hurt.

This was indeed his current state. At first, he had believed he could easily subdue that newly transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

But he had never expected that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's counterattack would be so fierce.

She had forcibly fought him to a mutual defeat, leaving them both in their current miserable condition.

At this moment, Lin Yu turned to Snow Empress and said, "You aren't much better off. You just took human form, and after this battle, your injuries are even more severe."

"I understand that your condition is worse, because you can't even say a single word anymore."

Snow Empress gave a tragic smile. The weak human before her had actually seen through her condition.

Am I really going to die here today?