Douluo Continent

Douluo Continent, the Far North. This place is located at the northernmost point of Douluo Continent, and all that can be seen is a vast expanse of white.

The temperature here is extremely low, making it impossible for ordinary creatures, or even Soul Beast, to survive.

Only cold-resistant Soul Beast adapted to this climate can survive here.

This is a forbidden zone for humans; even ordinary Soul Master cannot survive here, let alone ordinary humans.

The Snow Empress's residence was located in the heart of the Far North.

The temperature here is close to what is known as the world's Ultimate Ice.

Even Soul Beast resistant to low temperatures cannot survive here, so only the Snow Empress exists in this vast region.

Only occasionally would another Fierce Beast Ice Empress, come to visit.

Today, a guest has arrived here after a long absence.

Richard just happened to appear here.

The first thing I did upon arriving, as usual, was to assess the impact of the increased strength.

The laws governing this world are quite similar to those of the Coiling Dragon World, second only to Xia Mi's world.

Moreover, Richard has traveled through so many worlds that he knows far more than just the laws of the Coiling Dragon World.

This allows him to unleash most of his power in this world.

This strength should be enough, right?

After all, this is a fantasy sewer world, so the combat power level in this world doesn't seem to be very high?

The surrounding environment was too cold, and Richard was a little unaccustomed to it. It wasn't that he couldn't stand the cold, but he hadn't expected it to be this cold before coming, so he was just a little uncomfortable for a while. He'd be fine in a bit.

From a distance, Snow Empress gazed at him curiously with her sky-blue eyes.

Richard was also observing this new member who had only recently joined the group.

With snow-white hair, snow-white skin, and even her dress, adorned only with pale blue ice crystals, she seemed to blend seamlessly into the world around her.

Although Snow Empress is Soul Beast, she is a snow spirit born of heaven and earth, naturally nurtured by nature.

She was originally humanoid; this is her original appearance, not her transformed form.

"Hello, Snow Empress. I'm Richard."

Snow Empress nodded to Richard.

"Hello, I am Snow Maiden."

Richard was also quite curious about this naturally gifted group member.

Curious about her gestation process, I wondered if my own Small World could also give birth to such naturally born creatures?

However, this is a private matter and it's not appropriate to ask directly. The main issue is that even Snow Empress herself might not know how she was conceived.

He can just observe it secretly.

Perhaps due to years of solitude, Snow Empress is very aloof and appears quite cold.

Richard presented Snow Empress with a bracelet he had made himself, which had a storage function, as a gift.

He had given storage equipment to most of the previous group members.

These new group members, however, haven't gotten to know each other well yet. They can be given out as a greeting gift later.

Snow Empress curiously took the bracelet and, following Richard's instructions, used her Divine Power to check the storage space inside. It was about several dozen cubic meters in size, enough for daily use.

She wore it on her wrist, which was her way of accepting Richard's gift.

Although storage soul tools exist in the Douluo World, Snow Empress has lived in the Far North for many years and has never been to the human world. Therefore, she doesn't actually have such storage equipment.

Having this thing definitely makes daily life much more convenient.

Subsequently, the Snow Empress also gave Richard a piece of her Soul Bone as a return gift.

This thing is practically a specialty of the Douluo World. In this world, monsters really do drop equipment, although the drop rate for low-level Soul Beast is rather low. But Soul Beast over 100,000 years old will always drop Soul Bone upon death.

Just like now, if he were to kill the Snow Empress in front of him, he could also obtain a piece of Soul Bone.

Richard mentally complained about the bizarre Rules of this world.

If the Snow Empress on the other side knew what he was thinking, she would probably slap him.

This person is no good. What kind of good person would kill their groupmates and loot their equipment upon meeting them?

As for this Soul Bone, it's a 100,000-year-old Soul Bone.

Long ago, a Soul Beast from the Far North, who had reached the age of 100,000, foolishly came to provoke her and was killed by her with a single slap.

Despite the fact that they were both 100,000-year-old Soul Beast, and cultivation was difficult, and that there were very few of their kind over 100,000 years old in the Far North, she spared that guy's life.

But that guy didn't appreciate it and came to ambush her again while she was going through the ordeal of the Beast Tribulation.

This was truly something that could not be tolerated by an uncle or aunt. The second time, she didn't hold back and slapped the guy to death.

Richard examined the Soul Bone with curiosity, though he certainly wouldn't absorb it. This thing wouldn't enhance him in any way, and might even affect the purity of his body.

However, he was curious about the Soul Skill within Soul Bone and Soul Ring, and also about how becoming a god in this world allowed one to forge Soul Bone into Divine Gear.

In short, although the power ceiling in this world may seem low, there's still a lot worth studying.

The existence of Martial Soul is quite peculiar.

This world has a semi-gamified feel; the Rules of the entire world are somewhat like the Rules a game.

At this moment, Richard disregarded the Snow Empress was still standing beside him and directly used his Divine Power to probe the Soul Bone.

Under the influence of his powerful Divine Power, he finally saw the secret at the very core of the Soul Bone.

That was a combination of fragments of the Soul Beast's soul and tiny fragments of laws, cleverly packaged into an integrated package.

Once Soul Master merges with this Soul Bone, they can use the Soul Bone's Soul Skill simply by activating this object.

This Soul Bone contains two Soul Skill. Taiqing what they were, but he could sense that one was related to ice and the other to power.

I imagine that Soul Ring operate on the same principle.

From Richard's perspective, those golden fragments of law should be the source of these Soul Beast ' Soul Skill.

To verify this, Richard had the puppet capture a Soul Beast from a distance.

It was a thousand-year-old Ice Silkworm. Due to being captured, it had a stress reaction and used its Soul Skill to simulate the aura of a ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion in an attempt to scare Richard away.

Richard chuckled and used his Divine Power to probe directly, and sure enough, he found tiny fragments of laws within the Ice Silkworm's body.

So that's how these Soul Beast acquired their Soul Skill?

Are fragments of the laws passed down through bloodlines?

Where did those initial fragments of the law come from?

We can discuss this another time; Richard put aside his doubts for now.

He continued to study the Ice Silkworm in his hands.

After obtaining the Snow Empress's consent, he killed the Ice Silkworm.

Then observe the formation process of the Soul Ring.

As expected, a fragment of the Ice Silkworm's soul combined with some fragments of laws within its body to form a purple Soul Ring.

The remaining fragments of the law, lacking a soul to bind with, dispersed and disappeared directly within its body.

Why would Soul Beast's soul fuse with the fragments of Rules within its body?

Ah, the Rules of this world are truly strange.

Richard sighed again.

He was becoming increasingly curious about why the world had such peculiar Rules.

Snow Empress watched him study quietly without interrupting.

After he looked up, she asked, "So, from the perspective of a god from another world, how do you see the differences between my world and yours?"

She had never thought that the Rules of her world were anything special.

Perhaps it's because she's lived in this world since she was a child that she's developed a cognitive bias that she herself isn't even aware of.

Now that Richard, this god from another world, has come, we can let him compare the differences between the two worlds.

"It's very strange. I've never seen a world with such peculiar Rules."

The laws governing your world are very similar to those governing my world and Xia Mi's world.

However, regarding the underlying Rules, it's somewhat strange that Soul Beast drop Soul Ring and Soul Bone after they die.

It seems like the underlying Rules of your world are somewhat gamified.

Richard spoke the truth.

But Snow Empress didn't understand.

Is it strange that Soul Ring and Soul Bone drop?

But isn't this normal? Soul Beast have always produced Soul Ring when they die.

"Of course it's strange, it's like getting equipment after defeating a monster."

When you have time, ask Feng Baobao, Ye Zhen, and Xia Mi for some single-player games. After playing them, you'll understand what I mean by the strange thing.

The biggest question is, if Soul Beast can Soul Ring, why don't Soul Master?

If Soul Beast and Soul Master both develop Soul Ring upon death, then I would simply conclude that your world has special Rules.

But now only Soul Beast are dropping them, which feels off. This definitely didn't happen naturally.

Furthermore, Soul Master must hunt Soul Beast to obtain Soul Ring in order to advance in their cultivation. I've never seen such a bizarre advancement requirement.

Richard explained.

"You mean, someone's manipulating these Rules? Who? The gods of the God Realm?"

Although she didn't fully understand, Snow Empress understood what Richard meant by it not being formed naturally.

She had already suspected that the Beast Tribulation was the work of the gods in the God Realm, and now it was just that the appearance of the Soul Ring and Soul Bone was also problematic.

Having too many lice doesn't make you itch, and having too many debts doesn't make you worry; it's just another mental inscription on the God Realm.

"Heh, the gods of the God Realm? I doubt the gods of your world have that kind of power."

I don't believe your world's God King could possess the ability to alter the fundamental Rules of an entire realm.

Richard certainly knew the plot of the Douluo Continent novel, but now that the world in the novel had become a real place, everything that seemed illogical in the original work should have a reasonable explanation.

Now he's trying to analyze how the underlying Rules of Douluo Continent, a game-like phenomenon, came about.

Either this world wasn't formed naturally, but rather by a Creator God who established these game-like Rules during creation.

Or perhaps this world once had a powerful individual who broke through to a level comparable to Creator God, and that person rewrote the underlying Rules of this world.

Whether Creator God god exists is hard to say.

If the second hypothesis is true, then the former Dragon God is a suspect.

The Dragon God was incredibly powerful; that much is undeniable.

I reckon they'll eventually surpass the realm of God King.

I just don't know if something went wrong during the breakthrough, which led to the series of consequences that followed.

However, it still cannot be explained why it imposes such restrictions on Soul Beast.

The current Rules are extremely unfavorable to Soul Beast. If things continue like this Soul Beast will be driven to extinction by Soul Master within tens of thousands of years.

Snow Empress was speechless. She hadn't expected Richard to cause such a huge commotion so soon after his arrival. It had made her a little paranoid.