Is Your Ice Colder Than My Fire?!

Lin's words struck the Ice Emperor like a sharp stab.

The Ice Emperor, who had been laughing wildly, suddenly stopped swinging her hammer and glared fiercely at Xiao Xiao.

A terrifying killing intent filled her deep blue eyes.

Lin instinctively took a few steps back. The bone-chilling cold rushed toward him, and clearly, the Ice Emperor was enraged.

"Have the person behind you come out."

"I'd like to see just how you intend to kill me."

The Ice Emperor sneered. In her heart, she had already sentenced Xiao Xiao to death. Since he wanted her soul ring, she wanted to see whether he truly had the ability.

The Ice Emperor firmly believed that someone stood behind Xiao Xiao. Otherwise, how could a mere fifteen-year-old child have the nerve to come alone to the North Pole?

What he wanted was to make her into a soul ring.

Become a god? What a ridiculous thought.

Could a Soul Beast's intelligence really be so low?

Lin chuckled. "Old man, you heard that, right? My strength is too weak, so she doesn't believe me."

In this world, strength was everything. If he possessed the strength of a Titled Douluo, then after claiming that he would become a god, the Ice Emperor might have believed him fifty percent.

With one sentence, she might even have believed him ninety percent.

But with his current strength, the Ice Emperor did not believe him at all.

It was like a beggar telling an emperor, "My lord, I can make you an emperor."

If it were you, would you believe it?

Well, perhaps if that beggar were Zhu Yuanzhang, he would.

But right now, the Ice Emperor simply could not believe Lin.

"Hahaha, there really is someone behind you. Human, you're truly arrogant!"

The Ice Emperor sneered. She wanted to see exactly how many Titled Douluo stood behind this little brat.

Lin ignored the Ice Emperor. A white light floated out from Xiao Xiao's ring, and Lao Yao, whose face was reduced to bare bones, appeared before Lin and the Ice Emperor.

Damn!

So strong.

A surge of retreat rose in the Ice Emperor's heart. Though the person before her was only a soul body, the aura radiating from him alone was enough to prove how terrifying he was.

That did not prove that he was strong.

Yet the soul body that had just been called weak suddenly radiated a terrifyingly cold and powerful pressure. That pressure did not seem like something a Titled Douluo could possess.

Lin looked at the Ice Emperor again. "Now, can we have a proper talk, Ice Emperor?!"

With Lao Yao behind him, Lin's confidence swelled tremendously. The feeling of borrowing someone else's authority was truly not bad.

The Ice Emperor said nothing. She looked at Xiao Xiao, then at Lao Yao. For some reason, she really wanted to know what they intended to do.

Seeing the Ice Emperor's wary expression, Lin slowly said, "The one behind me is my old man. You may regard him as an existence above a Titled Douluo. As for exactly how strong he is, I don't know either."

"With my old man here, becoming a god is a certainty for me."

"That is why I came to find you. I want you to become my soul ring."

Hearing this, the Ice Emperor gave a disdainful sneer. "In the end, you still want me to become a soul ring."

"Humans are indeed despicable. Ridiculous!"

Lin was speechless.

He had not expected the Ice Emperor to be so quick-witted.

"It's a soul ring, but not a soul ring!!!"

Lin explained.

"What does that mean?" The Ice Emperor snorted.

"Once you become a soul ring, you won't die. You will become another kind of soul body. After I become a god, I'll reshape your physical body."

"I'll preserve your Ice Jade Scorpion bloodline."

"Also, you can make a pact with my old man and another companion. It will help your future transformation as well."

"Of course, the most important thing is that Soul Beasts cannot become gods."

"Even the Snow Empress, who is stronger than you, has already suffered a setback because of the Heavenly Tribulation."

Lin listed every benefit, his meaning clear.

The Ice Emperor listened in a daze. "What did you say? That old man behind you has another one?"

"Soul Beasts cannot become gods?"

"Even that monster Snow Empress has suffered a setback?"

The Ice Emperor's mind was somewhat slow to process it. If Lin alone had said those words, she definitely would not have believed him, but the old man with a body of bones behind him did not seem to be lying.

That meant what he said was true.

The Ice Emperor fell silent for a long time before quickly understanding the key point.

Just as he had said, she might not necessarily be able to break through the forty-thousand-year bottleneck. Even if she did, what about fifty thousand years? Sixty thousand years?

Even if she broke through them all, as he had said, Soul Beasts could not become gods.

"What can you offer to make me believe you?!"

The Ice Emperor opened her mouth and exhaled a breath of icy air. The cold air did not touch Lin, instead turning into ice crystals that fell to the ground.

At that moment, a pale white flame appeared in Lao Yao's hand. The flame was incredibly powerful and radiated bone-piercing cold.

It was fire, yet unlike fire.

"Little scorpion, is your ice colder than my fire?!"

Lao Yao raised a hand. A flame drifted toward the Ice Emperor.

The Bone Chilling Cold Fire did not even touch the Ice Emperor, yet her entire body trembled. Even her soul body seemed frightened, as though it greatly feared the flame.

The Ice Emperor cried out, "I believe you! I believe you!!!"

Lao Yao smiled faintly and immediately withdrew the Bone Chilling Cold Fire.

The Ice Emperor had already sensed that this flame was no ordinary thing. Among all the flames on the continent, there was not a single one that could make her feel such fear.

Before that pale white flame, she did not even have the courage to face it.

Her North Pole ice felt inferior even to a single hair of the other party's.

Lin smiled faintly. This fellow really was useful.

Not bad. That was a good thing too.

When the Bone Chilling Cold Fire was withdrawn, the Ice Emperor sat directly on the ground. It had been far too terrifying.

How could such a terrifying flame exist in this world?

"Y-you... y-you..." For a moment, the Ice Emperor did not know what to call Lao Yao.

"Grandfather."

After thinking for a moment, the Ice Emperor finally addressed him as Lin did.

Lin could not help laughing.

The Ice Emperor glanced at Xiao Xiao. Since she had called him Grandfather, surely he would not refuse her now?

"Grandfather, are you truly a god?"

The Ice Emperor already believed that Lao Yao was a god, but she still wanted to hear a definite answer from his own mouth.

Lao Yao stroked his beard and gave an answer that left the Ice Emperor somewhat confused. "I am not a god."

"I also do not know how strong gods are."

The Ice Emperor was stunned. "Huh?"

"Grandfather, are you telling the truth?"

The Ice Emperor was somewhat doubtful. The other party had no reason to deceive her. His strength, his power, his terrifying pressure—

No matter how she looked at it, he seemed to be a god. Though he had no physical body, he was still a god in spirit, wasn't he...?

The Ice Emperor could barely believe it. She had finally accepted it, yet now she was confused again.

"Really, I am not a god."

"But the god who once possessed me was weaker than I am!"

Lao Yao calmly spoke a very pretentious sentence.

Lin was speechless.

Old man, you were competing with Yi Lao now...

The Ice Emperor was speechless.

Were all powerful beings this good at showing off?

"I'm not a god, but the god who possessed me was weaker than I am."

The Ice Emperor stood frozen on the spot. So that was what not being a god meant.