Soul Shock

(A bonus picture of the Ice Empress)

"Ice Heaven Snow Spirit?"

"Heavenly Snow Woman!"

What did those two have to do with each other?

In his memories, Snow Empress was the foremost of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North. Her true form was an Elemental Spirit nurtured by heaven and earth. He had never heard that she had any kin.

One thing was certain: there was only one Heavenly Snow Woman on this continent, and there could only ever be one.

Could it be a Soul Beast he didn't know about?

Douluo Continent had countless types of Soul Beasts. After all, Chen Xing only knew a small portion of them.

With lingering doubts, he continued reading.

[Skill obtainable upon absorption—Snow Dance Shining Sun]

[Activate the skill to condense ice elements and summon a large area of ice and snow, slowing the enemy's movements while inflicting a freezing effect]

Just as expected!

This was the Soul Ring of the Heavenly Snow Woman!

In an instant, excitement appeared on Chen Xing's childish face.

That was Snow Empress!

She was someone who could face the Beast God Di Tian head-on. At the same cultivation level, Snow Empress in the Far North could even utterly defeat Di Tian.

"Ice Heaven Snow Spirit!"

"What an Ice Heaven Snow Spirit!"

He had originally been worrying over the problem of absorbing the Fire Dragon Soul Ring, but he had never expected that, in a single day, he would be able to organize two top-tier Martial Souls anew.

No! The quality of the Ice Heaven Snow Spirit Martial Soul was definitely far more than merely top-tier...

In his extreme excitement, Chen Xing completely forgot the pain in his body. His eyes were filled only with urgency to absorb the Soul Ring.

"It's you!"

"My Second Martial Soul."

Bibi Dong still didn't know that he had awakened. Three days was more than enough for him to absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

With that thought, Chen Xing no longer wanted to waste even a second.

He directly retrieved the black Soul Ring from the System Space.

With a movement of his finger, the Soul Ring appeared.

The room was instantly shrouded in a frigid chill, and a thick layer of frost directly formed over the glass window.

"Truly extraordinary."

It was Chen Xing's first time seeing the energy of a Soul Ring affect the surrounding environment.

He immediately drew the curtains and sealed the doors and windows of the entire room, preventing anyone from discovering this place while he absorbed the Soul Ring.

After making all the necessary preparations, he returned to the bedroom.

He adjusted his posture and activated the Meditation Method. The Soul Ring gradually began to be drawn above his head.

In an instant, the ultimate ice attribute transformed into strands of Soul Power and entered his meridians at a steady pace.

At the same time, in the Far North.

A stunningly beautiful woman stood atop a snow mountain, surveying the territory below.

Endless wind and snow raged like fine needles through this snow-white world.

Yet around the woman alone, the storm had no effect whatsoever. Even her hair merely hung naturally.

"Bing'er, tell me, what do you think the human world is like?"

As she spoke, her beautiful azure eyes seemed somewhat vacant.

Clearly, as a spirit of heaven and earth, she had been granted more emotions.

Over endless years, the woman had endured far too much loneliness.

The one called Bing'er was a scorpion entirely emerald-green and interspersed with ice crystals, like a meticulously carved work of art.

Its pair of pincers and scorpion tail in particular possessed an exquisite beauty.

It stood behind the woman. Upon hearing her question, it remained silent.

Seeing that she did not react, Snow Empress sighed to herself and said,

"If I ever get the chance, I'd like to visit the human world."

"Hmm?"

"What's going on?"

The pupils of the woman's otherwise emotionless eyes suddenly contracted.

"This is..."

"The birth of another Elemental Spirit!"

"And it is also an Ice and Snow Spirit."

As soon as those words were spoken, even Ice Empress behind her was shaken.

"What?"

"Snow Empress, could you have sensed it wrong?"

"There's no way I could be wrong."

"But why can't I sense its life aura?"

The next second, Snow Empress's heart sank.

The joy she had felt upon sensing one of her kind instantly vanished, replaced by extreme fury.

"Damn it..."

"Damn humans!"

"You actually dared to hunt an Elemental Spirit and turn it into a Soul Ring!"

"What audacity!"

Affected by Snow Empress's emotions, all the surrounding wind and snow instantly became incomparably violent.

The entire mountaintop turned into a sea of white.

No one knew how long passed. When the wind and snow finally dispersed, the woman had long since vanished from the spot.

Elsewhere.

Chen Xing, who had just entered the Soul Ring absorption state, suddenly fell into a dark space. Then, wind and snow began appearing around him for no reason.

"This is bad!"

"This isn't Soul Shock, is it?!"

He had actually forgotten about this.

The reason Tang San had been able to absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring at four rings was largely because he had relied on the Purple Demon Eye and the powerful spiritual power provided by Wangchuan Autumn Water Dew.

Otherwise, no matter how strong his body was, he would never have passed the trial of Soul Shock.

But what qualifications did Chen Xing have? The boosts from Whale Rubber and the Purple Imperial Bamboo bloodline had all strengthened his physical body. As for spiritual power, he had not touched that area at all.

While he was thinking, a woman's figure had already appeared within the space.

"Human!"

"You have quite the nerve, hunting an Elemental Spirit born between heaven and earth!"

The moment the woman appeared, she carried overwhelming fury with her. The wind and snow around her seemed to have locked onto a target as they all surged toward Chen Xing.

"No..."

"The Soul Shock from a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring brought Snow Empress here?!"

At this moment, even if Chen Xing had been stupid, he could see it.

The person before him was no Ten-Thousand-Year Ice and Snow Spirit. She was undoubtedly that Snow Empress of the Far North.

His Adam's apple bobbed as he unconsciously swallowed.

The next second, endless ice crystals and snowflakes wrapped around his entire body like a meat grinder.

Pain as though he were being sliced apart by sharp blades struck him, and Chen Xing in the outside world immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Wait!"

"There's a misunderstanding here!"

"I didn't kill any so-called Elemental Spirit."

"You still dare to argue!"

"The fact that I can appear in this space is the best proof."

Chen Xing wanted to explain, but Snow Empress refused to listen at all.

Just as she said, since they were both Ice Heaven Snow Spirits, the fact that she could appear in Chen Xing's Sea of Consciousness proved that the Soul Ring he was currently absorbing belonged to one of her own kind.

"Human!"

"Today, I will make you understand the price of greed."

"After you die, all the Soul Beasts of my Far North will mobilize to avenge my fallen kin!"

After hearing that, Chen Xing also understood the situation.

The Soul Ring he was currently absorbing had come from a pure Elemental Spirit, one that shared the same origin as Snow Empress.

And because the Soul Ring randomly generated by the system did not contain a complete Soul Beast soul, she had followed the so-called Soul Shock to find him.

Having identified the problem, he immediately shouted through the ice and snow.

"Snow Empress!"

"Believe me!"

"I'm a Soul Beast in human form too. Take a good look!"