Snow Empress?

Faced with an eight-ring Evil Soul Master, even an injured Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had just undergone its tribulation could use the Far North Land's geographical advantage to suppress him.

Unfortunately, that advantage abruptly reversed the moment the Evil Soul Master summoned his Three-Word Battle Armor.

The Evil Soul Master, now able to unleash the combat strength of a Super Douluo, instantly turned the tables.

"Hehehe~"

"Become my Ninth Soul Ring!"

A ghastly white skeletal claw reached for the Soul Beast's vital spot.

At that critical instant, the ghastly white skeletal claw suddenly froze in midair.

Endless terror spread through the Skeleton Evil Soul Master's pair of dark green pupils.

An invisible pressure of Soul Power descended upon him, leaving him utterly unable to move.

It had to be known that although he only had eight rings, his Soul Power cultivation had already reached Rank 90, making him a Quasi-Titled Douluo.

With his Three-Word Battle Armor equipped, he could unleash the strength of a Super Douluo. There was only one possibility for someone to immobilize him completely with Soul Power pressure.

"Limit Douluo!"

The next second, his view was blocked by a broad back.

Di Tian did not immediately face the Evil Soul Master. Instead, he looked at the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast that had just successfully passed its tribulation.

He was so stunned that he blurted out, "Snow Empress?!"

The Soul Beast before him was a Heavenly Snow Woman with a cultivation of one hundred thousand years.

She had the appearance of a human. Her long, snow-white hair cascaded down her back all the way to her feet, while her sky-blue eyes were ethereal and crystal clear. Her slender, delicate body was flawless, and she wore a long white dress. Like a winter plum standing proudly amid frost and snow, she was exceptional and unyielding.

She looked exactly like Snow Empress, as though they had been carved from the same mold.

"What?"

"Why are both of you calling me Snow Empress?"

"My name is Xue Ling, an Ice and Snow Elf born of the Far North Land!"

"I'm not this so-called Snow Empress you keep talking about!"

Xue Ling had originally wanted to rise and thank the person who had saved her life, filled with gratitude. But upon hearing him call her Snow Empress as well, an inexplicable anger immediately rose within her.

She was Xue Ling. She was not Snow Empress, much less some substitute for another Soul Beast!

Watching her puff up angrily, Di Tian shook his head, confirming that she was not Snow Empress.

Snow Empress possessed a chilly aloofness that kept everyone at arm's length, while this Xue... Xue Ling had the pure temperament of a child.

With that thought, Di Tian roughly understood Xue Ling's origins.

Ten thousand years ago, Snow Empress had become Huo Yuhao's soul spirit and ascended to the Divine Realm with him. With no place for the Power of Heaven and Earth in the Far North to gather, it accumulated to a certain extent before condensing into a new individual.

Just like the reason Snow Empress had once been born, she was an Ice and Snow Elf naturally nurtured by the Far North Land.

Only such a special existence, beloved by Heaven and Earth, could reach a cultivation of one hundred thousand years in just ten thousand years.

Snow Empress had ruled the Far North Land for countless ages, practically serving as its deity. Thus, it was understandable that some Soul Beasts, leftover brainless fanatics from her reign, fervently called Xue Ling Snow Empress.

Seeing that Xue Ling was still sulking like a child, turning her head away and ignoring him, Di Tian could not help but smile helplessly. There was no point getting angry with a child.

He turned to the Skeleton Evil Soul Master, who was already trapped like a turtle in a jar.

He asked directly, "Where is the Demon Empress?"

"Tell me, and I'll spare your life."

At the same time, he lifted part of the suppression on him, allowing him to speak normally.

Faced with the threat of death, the Evil Soul Master, an extreme egoist by nature, sold out his organization without the slightest hesitation.

"I don't know where the Demon Empress is. Within the sect, only true Titled Douluo are qualified to seek an audience with Her Majesty the Demon Empress."

Feeling a freezing gaze upon him, he hurriedly pointed at Xue Ling and said in panic, "She knows! Their Soul Beast leader knows! The current ruler of the Soul Beasts in the Far North Land, the Titan Snow Demon King—he definitely knows the Demon Empress's exact location!"

With Di Tian's eyesight and perception, he naturally knew that the Skeleton Evil Soul Master was not lying.

His expression indifferent, he extended a finger toward the Skeleton Evil Soul Master.

"Senior! You said—you said you wouldn't kill me!" the Evil Soul Master cried out tremblingly.

Yet that finger, seemingly capable of imprisoning Heaven and Earth, still pressed down without hesitation.

It crushed him into the snow and frozen earth, leaving him completely unconscious.

But Di Tian had indeed kept his promise. He had not killed him.

The enemy of one's enemy was a friend.

Strictly speaking, these Evil Soul Masters could not even be considered human. They were merely puppets driven by slaughter and death.

In Di Tian's current eyes, anything that could weaken humanity's strength and give humanity more enemies had value in existing.

"Xue Ling."

Di Tian's soft call made Xue Ling's eyes light up, her sky-blue pupils shimmering with a lively glow.

This was the first soul beast to respect her wishes so much, rather than treating her as a replacement for the Snow Empress.

"Mm-hmm~"

Childish at heart, her temper came quickly and went just as quickly.

Standing on tiptoe, her two pale little hands clasped behind her waist, she circled Di Tian and sized him up.

Di Tian had not deliberately concealed his identity. As a fellow soul beast, Xue Ling naturally knew that the valiant man before her was a soul beast in his true form.

"Heehee~"

"Thank you for saving me just now~"

"Oh, right, what's your name? Where are you from?"

"What kind of soul beast are you originally? A true dragon? You smell just like a true dragon bone I once sniffed. I already told you where I came from, so you're not allowed to keep secrets either."

"I heard you talking to that bad human just now. You want to find Titan, the Titan Snow Demon King, right? I know where he is. I'll take you there."

"..."

Once Xue Ling started talking, she could not stop, like a storybook reader that ran forever on a full charge.

"Alright!"

"We'll look for the Titan Snow Demon King and chat as we go."

With Di Tian's agreement, Xue Ling's delighted smile bloomed as beautifully as a flower opening beneath the warm winter sun.

She directly took Di Tian's hand and pulled him toward the core region of the Far North Land.

Like a child who had finally found someone she could play with, she eagerly dragged him home as a guest.

Xue Ling raced along the snow line, dancing through the air, Treading on Snow Without a Trace.

She turned back with a bright smile and asked:

"Hey!"

"What's your name? I can't keep calling you 'hey,' can I?"

"Di Tian, from the Star Dou Great Forest beyond the Far North Land."

"As for my true form, I am indeed of the true dragon clan—the Golden Eyed Black Dragon King."

"..."

Di Tian answered each of Xue Ling's questions, then took the opportunity to voice his own doubt.

"Did the soul beasts of the Far North Land reach some sort of agreement with the Demon Empress of the Holy Spirit Cult, allowing them to continue living in the Far North Land?"

The northern soul beasts had not been slaughtered to extinction by those murderous Evil Soul Masters; this was surely closely related to the Demon Empress, who herself came from soul beasts.

As a single mother for twenty thousand years, the Demon Empress had not raised her child, Lan Fozi, into a homicidal maniac. Presumably, she did not have a habit of slaughtering soul beasts and still retained some goodwill toward them.