Thousand-Year Spirit Skill, Thousand Mile Ice Seal

Snow Empress saw how confident Lin Yu sounded and asked curiously, "Who is this perfect contract candidate?"

Lin Yu said, "A Level-100 God."

Snow Empress never imagined that the perfect contract candidate Lin Yu was talking about would actually be a Level-100 God.

She was utterly shocked. Lin Yu was actually bold enough to set his sights on a god.

"That's far too crazy. Or rather, you're practically courting death. The power of a god is something even I, at my peak, wouldn't dare oppose."

"But you're only a lowly Soul Master. Where do you get the courage?"

Lin Yu said seriously, "I've thought it through. To permanently solve our lack of life force, the contract target we find this time has to be exceptionally powerful—more than ordinarily powerful."

"And signing a contract with a Level-100 God will immediately solve all our future troubles."

"You don't need to worry, either. This Level-100 God is no longer a god. She once experienced the Battle of the Three Gods, and her Divine Seat was shattered in the end. Her strength can no longer reach Level 100."

Snow Empress was stunned. "A Level-100 God whose Divine Seat has shattered is still no ordinary existence. With me having only just taken human form, and having just gone through a major battle, I have only one or two layers of my former strength left. How could I possibly stand against her?"

Lin Yu said, "We definitely can't beat her head-on, so we must avoid a direct confrontation and take advantage of her weakness."

Snow Empress found it difficult to understand. "Take advantage of what weakness does a Level-100 God have?"

Lin Yu smiled. "This matter will require at least a decade of planning, so it's difficult to explain everything to you. It'll be better to explain as we go. For now, let's set out and begin with the first stop."

He raised the Starry Express martial soul in his hand. It immediately expanded into a massive phantom, enveloping both Snow Empress and Lin Yu.

Lin Yu called upon the Starry Express and had it activate its ability to make a leap.

Lin Yu now possessed Soul Power. After absorbing the Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, his Soul Power had reached Rank 12, and this was enough for him to precisely perform a single leap.

Calibration time: Ten thousand years ago

When Lin Yu channeled Soul Power into the Starry Express, he could naturally calibrate both the time and the location.

The Starry Express began to sound its departure whistle. Its entire body radiated dazzling light, and with a boom, space and time were violently thrown open.

After a flash of light, the Ice Jade Scorpion groups on the Extreme North Plains suddenly realized that their revered ruler, Snow Empress, had vanished without a trace.

The sight immediately caused an uproar, and they all began scurrying about in panic.

A dark, damp dungeon.

Lin Yu, whose hair had turned white overnight, had just activated the Starry Express martial soul. He had initially looked delighted, but when he discovered that the Starry Express could no longer make a precise leap, his expression gradually darkened.

He soon made his decision.

"I have no other choice. Whether I live or die depends on this leap. I'm counting on you."

He then resolutely activated the Starry Express's leaping ability and vanished in an instant.

Almost simultaneously, Lin Yu and Snow Empress arrived from the Extreme North Plains ten thousand years later. They appeared in the dungeon in an instant, perfectly completing the substitution.

The timing was flawless. The scene connected almost seamlessly, and the prisoners and guards trapped in the surrounding dungeon noticed nothing.

The only thing out of place was Snow Empress, who had hidden inside Lin Yu's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness before the leap.

This was an ability Snow Empress had gained after splitting off her power and transforming it into Lin Yu's martial soul.

Just like the Ice Dream Silkworm and Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion residing within Huo Yuhao, Snow Empress could still sense her surroundings from within Lin Yu's Spiritual Sea of Consciousness and communicate with him.

"Where is this? Why do I sense something out of place in time, as though we've crossed into another era?"

With Snow Empress's seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation, she could sense that the Starry Express had crossed an extremely long span of time during its leap.

Lin Yu said, "We did cross into another era. This is ten thousand years ago."

Snow Empress was immediately rendered speechless. "Ten thousand years ago? Your martial soul can actually travel to ten thousand years ago?"

Such a method was simply inconceivable. Even a god couldn't accomplish it.

Yet Lin Yu's Starry Express martial soul had done exactly that.

Lin Yu smiled. "Actually, I'm from this era. I only met you because I traveled to ten thousand years in the future."

Snow Empress was even more astonished. She had never imagined that Lin Yu was from ten thousand years ago. It was an extremely strange feeling, like a modern person meeting someone from ancient times.

She looked around. "But why are you staying in what looks like a dungeon?"

Lin Yu laughed. "Because I was captured and imprisoned here as a prisoner."

Snow Empress: ???

"I was even about to be executed. I only escaped that fate later by awakening the Starry Express martial soul and traveling all the way to ten thousand years in the future. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to see me now."

Snow Empress was shocked. Lin Yu had actually been a prisoner awaiting execution. No wonder he had been dressed in rags when he appeared on the Extreme North Plains, with only Rank 1 Soul Power.

At the time, she hadn't been able to understand how a Rank 1 Soul Master had appeared on the Extreme North Plains.

Now that she knew the truth, it was even more bizarre.

Without experiencing it herself, she would probably have found it impossible to believe.

But she suddenly felt that something was wrong. Lin Yu had leaped back into the dungeon—hadn't he forced himself into a dead end?

According to Lin Yu, the Heaven Dou Empire was full of hidden experts. In particular, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe had two Titled Douluo by his side.

Now that they were in the dungeon, they were probably doomed.

Moreover, Lin Yu had exhausted his Soul Power and could no longer use the Starry Express for a precise leap. He had effectively nailed the final plank onto their coffin.

Snow Empress found it difficult to understand. "By leaping back here, we can hardly escape. Aren't you just seeking death?"

Lin Yu smiled. "That would have been true before. But now that I have you, a dead end has become a path to survival."

He extended his hand and revealed the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.

This was the most supreme Ultimate Ice Martial Soul in the world. The instant it appeared, the surrounding temperature rapidly dropped, and ice began to form.

Its Thousand-Year Spirit Ring also possessed an extremely compatible ice-attribute Spirit Skill.

"First Soul Skill, Thousand Mile Ice Seal."

An icy wave instantly swept through the entire dungeon. White mist billowed, and the ice spread at astonishing speed. All the prisoners and guards began sneezing violently and shivering.

"What's happening? Why is it suddenly freezing?"

"It's so cold, so cold! I'm going to freeze to death!"

"Someone come! Help!"

The entire dungeon descended into chaos, and the commotion soon attracted the person in charge.

His Highness Prince Xue Qinghe entered the dungeon and quickly found Lin Yu, the source of the freezing cold.

He sneered coldly.

"So you were hiding a second martial soul—the Ultimate Ice Martial Soul—and you even possess a Thousand-Year Spirit Skill."

"Very good. Another foreign spy who was about to be executed and finally couldn't resist exposing himself."

"Seize him and take him to the interrogation room. I'll question him personally."