You Really Are the Snow Empress!

The month-end assessment arrived soon enough.

Considering the destructive power of Soul Tools, Sun Moon Academy prohibited students from fighting privately, so assessments were held at the end of every month.

Xu Tinglan had not planned to use his Soul Tool Armor. Against ordinary opponents, the blade in his hand was enough.

"Assessment match, Xu Tinglan versus Xuedi!"

Hearing that name, he froze instinctively.

How could someone have a name like that?

Xu Tinglan looked up. On the other side of the Competition Platform, a girl in a snowy white dress slowly stepped onto the stage.

She was clearly the girl he had encountered in the cafeteria some time ago.

The suspected descendant of his godfather.

But why was her name so strange?

Xu Tinglan raised his voice and asked curiously.

"Are you a fourth-year student? I thought you were a new student?"

There were several times more people in the spectator stands than usual.

Xu Tinglan was not narcissistic enough to think this was because of his own charm. Clearly, these boys had all come following the girl.

The girl looked slightly younger than him, but her temperament made it easy to overlook her immature, youthful face.

The girl in white gave him a cold glance and said nothing.

The students below the stage whispered among themselves.

"This girl is like Fairy Sister. She just doesn't feel like an ordinary person."

"Her name is actually Xuedi. Damn, it's cute yet carries this domineering air. I wonder who gave her that name."

"Have you heard?"

"Yesterday, the Southern King's Heir spoke rudely and got nailed to death on the spot by a Frost Sword."

"I thought that girl definitely wouldn't survive after facing the enraged Southern King, but nothing happened afterward."

Xu Tinglan happened to hear that last sentence clearly.

He felt a surge of emotion.

Holy shit.

Killing a royal heir in the street... all he could say was, as expected of someone connected to his godfather. She acted with utter recklessness.

No matter what the students on and off the stage thought, the referee announced the start of the match.

"Both sides, prepare!"

Xu Tinglan immediately activated Martial Soul Possession.

Ink-wash Soul Power poured from his body and rapidly spread outward. Wherever it passed, even the light dimmed.

A shield emerged at his side.

Its presence was as heavy as a mountain and as steady as a towering peak.

Four Soul Rings slowly rose.

Two yellow, one purple, and one black.

The students were very familiar with Xu Tinglan.

Sun Moon Academy's two absolute stars were Xu Tinglan and Xiao Hongchen, and both stood head and shoulders above everyone else in the academy.

Especially with his fourth Soul Ring being a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, his defensive ability had driven countless students to despair.

Like the Wailing Wall.

Xu Tinglan looked at his opponent.

There was barely any change in Xuedi. Her silver hair danced through the air, and her white dress fluttered, yet it always remained close around her body.

Her pale, creamy calves could vaguely be seen.

The four Soul Rings around her drew the gazes of countless students.

One yellow, two purple, and one black!

Xu Tinglan's brows rose slightly.

He knew how difficult it was for a second Soul Ring to reach the purple level.

Taking medicine at too young an age could easily overdo things and damage the body.

Xu Tinglan held the Mysterious Turtle Shield in his left hand and the Tide Trace Sword in his right.

Then he charged at his opponent.

The Tide Trace Sword was a Spirit Bone Soul Tool. It amplified Soul Power and was stronger overall than an ordinary Thousand Forging weapon, so he had not switched it out.

Xuedi lightly tapped the ground with her right foot.

She seemed to move slowly, yet in the blink of an eye, she had arrived before the boy.

Her First Soul Ring lit up.

Downy ice and snow drifted down, and dozens of snowflakes formed almost instantly as they descended from above.

The chill was piercing.

Xu Tinglan shuddered instinctively and immediately retreated.

"Wait a second!"

"Let me put on some clothes first."

He reached the edge of the Competition Platform and immediately took his Soul Tool Armor out of his Storage Ring.

On the stage.

Xuedi actually stopped, watching with interest as the boy equipped his Soul Tool.

Six-pointed snowflakes stood frozen in midair.

Xu Tinglan put on the Soul Tool Armor, Mountain and Sea Heaven-Bearing.

If the girl had not stopped attacking, he would have jumped straight off the Competition Platform without hesitation.

The intensity of that cold invasion was unbearable.

The moment the goose-feather snowflakes fell.

The chill penetrated deep into his bones.

It seeped in through every opening!

Xu Tinglan laughed helplessly.

Damn it, how could this possibly be an ordinary elemental martial soul? This was absolutely Ultimate Ice and Snow!

How was this person Xuedi?

He rubbed his face and skin. The frost-red color of his skin was gradually turning bluish purple.

"You really are the Snow Empress!"

He understood everything.

What the hell was his godfather doing?

The Lord of the Far North, ranked third among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts and nearly seven hundred thousand years old—why had he let this thing out?!

And she was going to fight him? This was killing him!

Though he had indeed had a dream before.

In that dream, Xu Tinglan rode the Black Dragon Di Tian on an inspection tour across the land, held the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow in his arms, and kept the Auspicious Beast on his bed as a concubine.

But that had only been a dream.

Facing her for real, it would have been impossible not to panic.

Xu Tinglan guessed that the Snow Empress had rebuilt herself as a human.

But Ultimate Ice and Snow was even more powerful in battle than the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion martial soul! Especially the Three Ultimates of the Snow Emperor!

In the spectator stands,

A young man smiled and shook his head.

"Why didn't he put it on from the start? His opponent even stopped to give him time to prepare."

"Still, Xu Tinglan really is afraid of death."

"Is there any need to be so nervous when facing a girl?"

He unconsciously raised his voice, intending to attract the attention of girls his age—preferably the one on the Competition Platform.

Xu Tinglan laughed when he heard that.

Was he treating the Snow Empress like a Snow Shadow Doll?

"Come on, then. If you can do it, you go up."

"I'll watch you fight from below."

The referee said nothing.

He merely moved silently farther away from Xuedi, nearly reaching the edge of the Competition Platform. His body trembled faintly without him noticing.

Even as a Soul Saint, he felt that ice and snow piercing into his bones.

Zi Mu's expression froze.

He complained inwardly. Why was Xu Tinglan, one of the Sun Moon Twin Stars, lowering himself to argue with him? He had only casually made a few comments.

Now, he could neither advance nor retreat.

After scratching his ears and cheeks, he suddenly came up with a good idea.

Zi Mu spoke loudly.

"A match isn't a game."

"If the referee agrees, I'll go up. But let me make this clear first: I'm not a coward."

Those words made Xu Tinglan deeply uncomfortable.

It made him sound like he was cowardly. This was clearly the sensible choice of someone who valued his life.

If you knew she was the Lord of the Far North, you would probably have fainted from fright already.

Everyone turned their eyes toward the referee.

The middle-aged man nodded.

"Fine. You go."

Zi Mu's eyes widened.

He had not expected that, in the blink of an eye, he would actually have to enter the match.

That girl had killed a royal heir and suffered no consequences at all.

That was what youthful arrogance was like: speaking before thinking.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, he could only take a deep breath, equip his Soul Tool, and walk onto the Competition Platform with a resolute expression.

Xu Tinglan drifted lightly off the stage.

His voice rang beside Zi Mu's ear.

"The wind whistles, the Yi River runs cold."

"A brave man departs, never to return..."

Fine.

If you were not afraid of death, then go ahead.

Xu Tinglan still remembered that after the Auspicious Beast transformed into human form, both Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire had vanished.

All that remained was an outrageously absurd physical body, strength, and power.

But the Snow Empress before him had clearly retained the nature of her original source power.

Her combat strength was even more terrifying than that of an ordinary Soul Emperor.