According to plan, you began digging a tunnel thousands of kilometers from Mingde Hall.
It was a massive undertaking, but before the power of Soul Masters, the earth was as fragile as tofu.
More importantly, you were there.
Your Epitaph was constantly active. Like a full-map vision cheat, it let you precisely evade every detection Soul Tool and defensive array underground.
What should have been a perilous infiltration had become a leisurely stroll through your own backyard.
In just one day, you had reached the heart of Mingde Hall's underground treasury without anyone noticing.
"Move! Take everything you can carry, and smash everything you can't!"
At Du Busi's command, the Body Sect elders charged into the treasury like hungry wolves.
The shrill alarm tore through the air. The war had begun!
Amid the chaos, a Level 8 Soul Engineer guarding the treasury set his sights on you.
This Soul Douluo had reached Level 85 in Soul Power. Seeing the treasury in ruins, he glared at you with bloodshot eyes and roared as he unleashed a barrage of fire from the high-level Soul Tools on his body!
"You little thief! Die!"
Facing the barrage of cannon fire, you remained impassive, not even taking your hands out of your pockets.
The Epitaph had already shown you what would happen over the next few seconds.
Three steps left, turn sideways, duck.
You moved like a phantom dancing through a storm. Soul Guidance Rays powerful enough to shatter mountains always missed you by a hair, never even brushing your clothes.
The Soul Douluo's eyes widened in terror, as if he had seen a ghost.
Just as his strength was spent and he had yet to gather more, you moved.
You took one step, Shrinking Ground to Inches.
King Crimson's hand blade instantly sliced through his protective Soul Tool shield and crushed his throat with pinpoint precision.
Crack!
The Level 8 Soul Engineer was dead!
The elders fighting nearby all drew in sharp breaths at the sight.
He hadn't even released his Martial Soul. He'd killed a Soul Douluo in an instant with nothing but his physical body and foresight?
The young sect master was terrifyingly powerful!
With you joining in, the looting became even more efficient.
The Body Sect elders displayed astonishing professionalism. In their wake, even several floor tiles were pried up and taken away.
In the short span of an incense stick, the rare metals and high-level Soul Tools Mingde Hall had amassed over hundreds of years had almost all been carried off!
When Jing Hongchen, master of Mingde Hall, rushed to the scene in a fury, all he found was a wrecked treasury and the retreating backs of the Body Sect.
"Du Busi!! I'll never forgive you!"
Staring at the empty treasury, Jing Hongchen spat out a mouthful of blood and nearly fainted on the spot.
Three days later, you returned in triumph!
The news that the Body Sect had looted Mingde Hall spread like wildfire, instantly setting the entire Douluo Continent ablaze.
The Douluo Three Kingdoms were shocked, especially the imperial family of the Heaven Dou Empire, who couldn't stop grinning. They felt as if they could finally hold their heads high.
Even more astonishing was that the Body Sect had raided the enemy nation's top research institution deep behind enemy lines—and suffered zero casualties!
Everyone knew that the one behind this miracle was the young sect master with mysterious powers of foresight!
After this battle, your prestige within the Body Sect reached its peak. Elders and disciples alike gazed at you with fervent admiration.
The entire sect was decked out in lights and decorations, and the celebrations began.
Yet you, the star of the moment, quietly slipped away.
You had something more important to do: deal with that troublesome hot potato, the Snow Empress Embryo.
Inside the secret chamber.
You asked Du Busi to protect you.
Looking at the God-Sealing Platform in your hands, Du Busi had no idea what you planned to do, but he still thumped his chest and said boldly, "Don't worry, disciple. Do whatever you need to! If the sky falls, I'll hold it up for you!"
You drew a deep breath and lifted the seal on the God-Sealing Platform.
Crack—!
As the seal shattered, a wave of extreme cold burst out, and the temperature in the entire chamber plummeted to freezing!
A breathtaking figure shot up from the God-Sealing Platform!
It was Snow Empress!
Although she had lost her physical body after her failed transformation and was now only a soul, her strength had also fallen to just thirty percent of its peak.
Even so, the pressure of a seven-hundred-thousand-year Ferocious Beast was terrifying, as if it could freeze the whole world!
Du Busi's expression changed, and he instinctively moved to shield you. "Careful! That beast is still vicious!"
But you raised a hand to stop him, your expression calm. "It's all right, teacher."
Your Epitaph remained active. In the visions of the next few seconds, there was no scene of your death.
That meant the situation was still under control.
You raised your head and studied the ruler of the Extreme North Icefield with a burning gaze.
Beautiful! Breathtakingly beautiful!
She wore a snow-white gown that outlined her flawless, slender figure.
Her long silver hair fell like a waterfall, and an ice-crystal crown adorned her head. Her noble, aloof bearing made her seem like a goddess of ice and snow from the heavens, too sacred to profane.
But now, the goddess was glaring at you with icy blue eyes, her gaze brimming with murderous fury and rage!
She'd just escaped and was already trying to kill someone?
Good. She had plenty of spirit!
When enemies met, their hatred burned all the hotter!
The moment Snow Empress awoke and saw the humans before her, the fury she had bottled up for so long erupted.
"Vile humans! Die!"
Without wasting a word, she waved her hand, and the water molecules in the air instantly condensed.
Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless!
A deep-blue ice-crystal sword formed out of thin air and stabbed straight toward your throat, carrying a chill that could freeze the soul!
Facing a strike that could kill a Titled Douluo outright, you didn't even blink.
King Crimson—Time Erasure!
The world lost its color and sank into a strange, dark red.
During those five erased seconds, everything stood still, and you alone could move.
You sidestepped the killing blow with the ease of someone taking a leisurely stroll. You even had time to smooth Snow Empress's disheveled hair before retreating to a safe distance.
Time began to flow again.
Snow Empress saw a blur before her eyes. Her sword, which should have struck its mark, had stabbed into empty air!
Even stranger, she felt as if there were a "gap" in her memory. One moment she had been charging forward; the next, she was standing still. Her Emperor Sword, having lost its target, shattered inch by inch.
Snow Empress was dumbfounded.
Du Busi, standing nearby, was dumbfounded too.
He had known his disciple's Martial Soul was bizarre, but this was practically rubbing "causality" into the ground!
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