The Two Emperors of Ice and Snow, God-Making Plan!

The Extreme North, a forbidden zone for humanity.

The freezing wind howled like blades, whipping up goose-feather-sized snowflakes in a frantic frenzy.

The temperature here had dropped to the point where dripping water instantly turned to ice; if an ordinary soul master dared to set foot in this place, they would likely turn into an ice sculpture within half an hour.

Yet, amidst the sky-filling wind and snow, a streak of silver light was racing low across the ground.

Huo Yuhao stood atop a soul tool longsword, wearing a specially crafted silver tight-fitting inner armor. This was the Level 3 soul tool he had specifically forged for himself before his departure—the "Constant Temperature Barrier."

Although it lacked defensive capabilities, the Blazing Fire Core Array inscribed inside provided a constant stream of heat, keeping him warm despite the extreme cold of nearly a hundred degrees below zero.

"Brother Tianmeng, are we there yet?" Huo Yuhao asked.

"We're here, we're here! This is the place!" Inside the Sea of Consciousness, the voice of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm trembled with a mix of excitement and nervousness. "This is the core circle of the Extreme North, the territory of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion clan!"

Huo Yuhao immediately lowered the sword light, found a wind-sheltered ice cave to crawl into, suppressed his aura, and buried himself beneath the thick snow.

"Yuhao, are you ready? Brother is about to start! If we win this gamble, we'll take off; if we lose... cough cough, we're both done for!"

"Less talk, let's start!" Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and steadied his state.

The next second, a vast, boundless, and purely immense spiritual fluctuation erupted from the center of Huo Yuhao's brow!

This aura did not belong to a human, but to an Ice Silkworm with a million years of cultivation!

Only a moment passed. The originally gray-white sky suddenly turned emerald green.

A terrifying, suffocating pressure descended from the sky, and the surrounding ice and snow instantly solidified, as if even the air had been frozen.

"Tianmeng—! You actually dare to come back—!"

A crisp yet murderous female voice resounded through the heavens and earth.

Immediately following, a scorpion only 1.5 meters long, but entirely emerald green as if carved from jade, appeared out of thin air outside the ice cave.

The second of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, a super fierce beast with 399,900 years of cultivation—the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, the Ice Empress!

"Ice Empress, long time no see!"

With a flash of golden light, the fat, translucent phantom of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged from Huo Yuhao's body, floating in mid-air with a look that begged for a beating.

The Ice Empress's emerald eyes were filled with killing intent, and her tail hook shimmered with a cold glint: "You piece of trash, I let you escape back then, but today is the perfect time to use you as a supplement to help me break through the 400,000-year mark!"

"Stop, stop, stop! Eat me? Look at the state I'm in!"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm pointed at his own semi-transparent body, then pointed down at Huo Yuhao. "Brother has already performed a sacrifice! I am now this human's soul ring! It's useless for you to eat me!"

The Ice Empress was stunned, only then noticing the Huo Yuhao below, a flash of shock crossing her eyes: "You... you actually became a human's soul ring? Have you lost your mind?"

"I haven't lost my mind, I'm doing this for eternal life!" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm instantly switched to his charlatan mode, his tone impassioned. "Ice Empress, your limit is approaching too, right? The 400,000-year heavenly tribulation—what are your odds of passing? One percent? Or half a percent?"

The Ice Empress fell silent, the killing intent in her eyes fading slightly, replaced by deep wariness and helplessness.

"I have a God-Making Plan!" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm struck while the iron was hot, fully opening Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness. "Look at this human! Golden Eyes martial soul, powerful spiritual energy, and a body modified by me—he is a vessel that only appears once in ten thousand years! As long as we join forces to help him become a god, we can gain eternal life along with him!"

The Ice Empress scrutinized Huo Yuhao carefully, growing more startled the longer she looked. The foundation of this human youth was unimaginably solid.

After a long while, the Ice Empress sighed: "Tianmeng, although I despise you, this time... you have indeed moved me. I have no confidence in surviving the 400,000-year tribulation."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao felt a surge of joy—it worked!

However, the Ice Empress changed her tone: "But, Tianmeng, your plan is not perfect. You said you wanted to forge a second martial soul of Ultimate Ice for him. Although I am an Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, when it comes to the control and understanding of ice, I am not the most suitable candidate."

Tianmeng was stunned: "You mean..."

The Ice Empress looked up toward the deepest part of the Extreme North, her eyes filled with a trace of reverence and affection: "The Snow Empress!"

"The Snow Empress?!" Tianmeng exclaimed. "The boss? Isn't she in seclusion?"

"She is preparing to face her 700,000-year tribulation." The Ice Empress said heavily. "But she knows better than anyone that it is a path of certain death. Rather than being reduced to dust, it is better to take a gamble. If this human truly has the potential to become a god, the Snow Empress might need this opportunity even more than I do."

Huo Yuhao's heart hammered against his ribs.

In the original story, the Snow Empress was captured by humans using the God-Sealing Platform while attempting to take human form, and was eventually forced to self-destruct, nearly killing Huo Yuhao.

But now, because he had arrived early, he actually had the chance to intercept the Snow Empress at the peak of her power!

"Let's go! I will take you to see the Snow Empress!"

Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm exchanged a glance, unable to suppress their excitement.

The Peak of the Extreme North. There was no wind here, only deathly silence and a bitter cold capable of freezing time itself.

A cold, aloof woman in a snow-white dress, possessing breathtaking beauty, stood quietly at the summit of the snow mountain.

She was the ruler of the Extreme North, the Snow Empress with 700,000 years of cultivation.

When the Ice Empress brought Huo Yuhao and Tianmeng to explain their intentions, the Snow Empress's eyes, which seemed to have seen through the vicissitudes of the world, fell upon Huo Yuhao.

"God-making..." The Snow Empress's voice was ethereal and cold. "Human, do you know how difficult this path is?"

"I know." Huo Yuhao looked directly into the Snow Empress's eyes, his gaze as firm as iron. "But I also know that if you don't fight, you have no path but death. And I am your only hope."

The Snow Empress was silent for a long time. She looked at the Extreme North where she had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and finally, she nodded gently.

"Very well. I'll take the gamble."

No nonsense, no dragging things out.

An unprecedented sacrifice began here at the Peak of the Extreme North.

"Yuhao, hold on! This is seven hundred thousand years of cultivation!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm roared.

BOOM--!

Snow Empress transformed into a sky full of wind and snow, instantly enveloping Huo Yuhao.

The extreme cold felt as if it were tearing his very soul apart.

Huo Yuhao's face twisted in agony, and he roared in his heart: "System, spare no Rage Points, max out my health bar, I have to endure this."

[Ding! Buffing host's health bar...]

Immediately after, a gentle yet powerful force began to reshape his body.

Huo Yuhao gritted his teeth, not making a sound.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, in the previously empty second martial soul slot, a stunningly beautiful humanoid phantom slowly coalesced—it was the peerlessly elegant Heavenly Snow Woman!

At the same time, a crystalline, ice-blue crown quietly appeared above Huo Yuhao's head before merging into his brow—a seven-hundred-thousand-year external spirit bone, the Ice Snow Crown!

A blood-red spirit ring, marked with seven golden lines, slowly settled onto the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.

Seven hundred thousand years! The first spirit ring!

But it wasn't over yet.

"My turn!" Seeing that Snow Empress had succeeded, Ice Empress did not hesitate, transforming into a beam of emerald light that surged into Huo Yuhao's body.

The excruciating pain struck again; the combined million-year cultivation of two super-beasts, even after being guided by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and compressed frantically by the two of them, was enough to tear Huo Yuhao's body apart hundreds of times over.

However, with the system continuously consuming Rage Points to replenish Huo Yuhao's vitality, he managed to endure it.

Huo Yuhao's spine radiated an emerald glow; the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion torso bone, fusion complete!

Following that, a blood-red spirit ring with four golden edges slowly descended onto Huo Yuhao's Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul.

RUMBLE--!

The energy brought by the sacrifice of the two great beasts was destructive.

Huo Yuhao's Soul Power Level skyrocketed like a rocket!

Level 20... Level 25... Level 30!

He broke through the level 30 bottleneck in an instant.

However, the energy was simply too vast to be compressed further; even level 30 could not contain it.

"Seal it! Seal it quickly!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm directed in a panic.

The excess energy was forcibly compressed.

But during the compression process, because the energy was so dense, Snow Empress was forced to condense a third hundred-thousand-year spirit ring for Huo Yuhao's Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul!