Xue Lingyun extended his right arm and pressed his palm against the energy sphere.
The Ice Empress sensed him with her soul and actively cooperated.
The energy sphere began to contract, like a collapsing planet.
Emerald green streams of light flowed through Xue Lingyun's right arm and into his body. Tempered by the Secret Law Soul Medium, they steadily flowed toward his Second Martial Soul—the Ice Prison Dragon King.
The Ice Prison Dragon King Martial Soul awoke from its slumber.
An Ice Blue Dragon Phantom emerged behind Xue Lingyun, its head raised high and its eyes cold and crystalline.
Emerald green energy poured into the dragon phantom, leaving fine emerald green patterns across its ice-blue dragon scales—like blood vessels, like veins, like undercurrents beneath ice.
The patterns were neither numerous nor dense, merely faintly visible on the surface of the dragon scales.
That was all.
The Ice Empress's energy flowed into the Martial Soul without causing any rejection or disturbance.
The Ice Prison Dragon King was like a bottomless abyss, swallowing the emerald green energy mouthful by mouthful in complete silence, without even a burp.
The Snow Empress stood nearby, and a trace of surprise flashed through her ice-blue eyes as she watched.
The energy accumulated over four hundred thousand years had merged into the Second Martial Soul of a level 40 Soul Master, yet it had not even altered the Martial Soul's form—it had merely added a few patterns.
If it had been any stronger, perhaps even the patterns would not have appeared.
Xue Lingyun focused completely on guiding the energy flow.
He first stripped the Ice Empress's soul origin from the Soul Core.
The Secret Law Soul Medium released the first soul barrier. A silver-white membrane enveloped the Ice Empress's soul, shielding it from the impact of the