Arrangements for Shui Bing'er

As soon as he finished speaking, a scorpion that seemed to be woven from jade-green and icy hues, as though carved from crystal, slowly crawled out from the depths of the cave.

Looking at the crystal scorpion that had crawled before her, Shui Bing'er could not help but think, What a beautiful scorpion...

It was not particularly large, only a little over three meters long. Its entire body was translucent, with emerald-green and ice-blue patterns intertwined across it. Yet its tail accounted for more than half its length. Of its original seven tail segments, half of the segment bearing the tail hook had fused into the preceding one.

Yet this beautiful, crystal-like scorpion made her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul feel an instinctive fear.

And an... intense sense of elemental suppression.

"This is an Ice Jade Scorpion," Luo Can's introduction came at just the right moment. "It is also a fierce beast over a hundred thousand years old. And its attribute is Ultimate Ice."

"Ultimate Ice?"

Shui Bing'er looked puzzled. "What is that?"

In this era, the concept of "ultimate attributes" did not yet exist. After all, it was a theory that had only gradually been discovered and perfected over the ten thousand years following Tang San's ascension to godhood.

"Simply put, an ultimate attribute means that a single element has reached the threshold of the world's origin—the pinnacle of that element's form." Luo Can patiently explained,

"For example, Ultimate Ice is the ceiling of the ice attribute. It can even—freeze souls, and even freeze space."

Shui Bing'er's eyes immediately lit up. "That sounds amazing! Master, has my Ice Phoenix Martial Soul reached Ultimate Ice?"

Luo Can shook his head. "Not yet. Haven't you noticed that even though the Ice Jade Scorpion hasn't released any Soul Power, you still feel your