On What Grounds? Because He Had More Fur?

The Ice Mound collapsed, and the Ice Attribute power hidden within erupted.

This Ice Attribute power was incomparably pure, and also immensely vast, as if it had been deliberately hidden inside the Ice Mound.

Now, because that special Crystal had been touched, it burst forth.

The erupting Ice Attribute power directly whipped up an enormous blizzard in the Far North Core Region.

The visibility that had originally allowed them to gaze into the distance instantly shrank to a range of only one meter around them.

Most terrifying of all, after the blizzard descended, countless Soul Beast roars could faintly be heard.

Those roars were filled with greed and brutality; clearly, they had all been drawn over by the erupting Ice Attribute power.

Soul Beasts that sensed the erupting Ice Attribute power were like sharks that had caught the scent of blood, instinctively giving rise to desire. Some Soul Beasts stuck at the limit of their age hoped to obtain this Ice Attribute power to help them break through their restrictions.

Among them, there were even Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had to undergo tribulation, and not every Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was confident in surviving a Heavenly Tribulation. If they could obtain a portion of pure and powerful Ice Attribute power now, it would also give them more confidence when facing their tribulation.

To these Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, this erupting Ice Attribute power was a life-saving straw!

Even the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North were alarmed.

Because the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress were not confident in surviving their next Heavenly Tribulation either!

Xuan Zi grabbed Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei and charged out of the collapsed Ice Mound. With his abundant soul power, he formed a Soul Power Shield and hovered in midair, keeping the blizzard outside the Soul Power Shield. His sharp gaze swept around him, his expression cold.

"The erupting Ice Attribute power caused these beasts to riot? Looks like we'll have to leave the core region first this time."

A Soul Beast riot, combined with the harsh weather.

Even a Super Douluo had no way to simply flatten his way through.

They could only avoid the edge for now.

Xuan Zi judged the situation at that moment and realized they should leave.

"If I'd known, I would have sensed the situation inside the Ice Mound first." Xuan Zi could not help sighing.

If he had been prepared, this would not have happened. Perhaps that Ice Attribute power before it erupted might even have helped Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao blinked. An accident caused by carelessness... for something like that to happen to Xuan Zi, it actually felt quite reasonable.

This sudden change was indeed very unexpected.

Who could have imagined that such a low Ice Mound still concealed such a pure and vast Ice Attribute power inside?

Just as Xuan Zi was about to take Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei away, he still made Huo Yuhao a promise. "Xiao Huo, the situation this time is unusual. After some time passes, this old man will bring you to this core region again to search for treasures!"

"Mm-hmm, I'll follow all Elder Xuan's arrangements."

What could Huo Yuhao do? Right now, the one thing he highlighted was being obedient and sensible.

Sure enough, Xuan Zi nodded in satisfaction, feeling that Huo Yuhao should already be under his control.

Then Xuan Zi used soul power to blast open the blizzard blocking the way, bringing Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei as they withdrew at Extreme Speed toward the outskirts of the Far North Core Region.

Inside the Soul Power Shield, Bei Bei's expression was tense. The wind and snow shrouding their surroundings made it impossible to see what was happening in the distance, yet he could hear the low growls of Soul Beasts coming from every direction. This made Bei Bei feel the threat of death.

At the same time, Bei Bei also felt a surge of guilt toward Huo Yuhao.

They had entered the core region for Huo Yuhao to fully awaken his martial soul, but because of his own opportunity, they had triggered a riot and now had no choice but to withdraw in a hurry. Who knew when they would be able to return to the Far North Core Region next time?

Every day delayed in coming to the Far North Core Region would delay Huo Yuhao's full martial soul awakening by another day, and would further delay Huo Yuhao's cultivation.

Bei Bei could not even imagine what he could use to repay Huo Yuhao if Huo Yuhao could not come to the core region again.

However, what Bei Bei could not have imagined even more was that, contrary to his situation, Huo Yuhao was not nervous at all at this moment. Instead, his eyes were darting about as he observed their surroundings.

Forget a mere blizzard and Soul Beast riot—even if the Far North collapsed and the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North came in person, Huo Yuhao would not be afraid!

With Tian Meng's Molted Skin wrapped around him, he could lie in the snow, and even if the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North stepped on Huo Yuhao and danced, they would not discover him, let alone harm him.

In the original work, Huo Yuhao had done exactly that. The Titan Snow Demon King had stepped over Huo Yuhao and had not discovered him, much less harmed Huo Yuhao in the slightest.

"I keep feeling that rather than calling this an opportunity, it's more like a trap." Huo Yuhao communicated with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in his Spiritual Sea.

"Brother Hao, you don't even need to feel that. This is a fallback left behind by that Soul Beast that died here. Any Soul Beast that's died before knows this—what Soul Beast stays this restless after death? When a proper Soul Beast dies, how could it possibly hide its power inside its body, and even leave behind a Crystal sealing its soul origin and spiritual consciousness?"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm expressed that he was not familiar with dead dragon-type Soul Beasts, but he was very familiar with the matter of death.

Moreover, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had done something similar himself.

Right now, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual origin and soul were both sealed inside Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea.

"But earlier, I only saw Fortune gathering and didn't see any baleful aura. That proves the Ice Mound may not originally have been a trap deliberately left behind. We only accidentally damaged that Soul Beast's arrangement, and that caused this crisis." After Huo Yuhao figured it out, he could not help shaking his head.

What a pity about that Ice Attribute power.

But right now, Huo Yuhao's Ultimate Ice martial soul had not fully awakened yet, so he could not use that Ice Attribute power anyway.

He stopped thinking about it.

Huo Yuhao began continuing to observe their surroundings.

Although the blizzard obscured his vision, Huo Yuhao could still use the Qi Observation Technique to see the flow of Fortune nearby.

"That saying really fits: the bigger the waves, the pricier the fish. In this blizzard, the flow of Fortune is also very intense. Maybe some opportunity or chance will appear within it," Huo Yuhao sighed inwardly.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly spoke. "Brother Hao, sorry to interrupt. Are we really going to follow Xuan Zi and leave the Far North now?"

"Leave the Far North? It'd be good enough if we can leave safely. Brother Sky Dream, be ready to use your Molted Skin to protect me at any time!" Huo Yuhao smiled, already prepared.

The death tribulation shown by the blackening of Bei Bei's glabella still had not appeared.

Huo Yuhao did not have to wait long. Just as they were about to leave the core region's range, a massive ice-blue dragon claw about two meters wide tore through the blizzard and grabbed toward Xuan Zi and the others.

Xuan Zi's eyes flew wide open, and he roared, "Beast, you're courting death!"

Nine soul rings rose one after another around Xuan Zi, fully revealing the aura of a Super Douluo.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red!

The nine soul rings first appeared, circling Xuan Zi's body. Then the Godly Taotie Bull martial soul emerged behind Xuan Zi. In an instant, Martial Soul Possession was complete, and Xuan Zi's body swelled.

A dense yellow light burst out around Xuan Zi.

Xuan Zi was holding Huo Yuhao and Bei Bei with each hand, so he directly lifted his foot and kicked upward toward the huge dragon claw.

Bang!

A muffled sound rang out.

The one sent flying backward was actually that huge dragon claw!

Without using any soul skills, relying only on the physical strength of Martial Soul Possession, Xuan Zi crushed the attacking Soul Beast.

The wind and snow nearby were also torn apart by the force of this collision, revealing the appearance of the Soul Beast hidden in the snowstorm.

It was an ice-blue dragon-type Soul Beast with two wings. Its body was slender, about fifteen or sixteen meters long, and it had four claws. However, at this moment, one of its front claws had already been shattered, and ice-blue blood was flowing from it. It looked incomparably miserable.

The dragon-type Soul Beast was also sent flying backward by the collision just now, and was desperately flapping its wings, trying to steady its body.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized this Soul Beast.

"It's an Arctic Ice Claw Dragon, a kind of sub-dragon Soul Beast. Its strongest parts are its four ice claws. They can split mountains and crack stone, and are incomparably sharp. Judging by its size, this one should have around sixty thousand years of cultivation."

"The first to attack is an Ice Attribute dragon-type Soul Beast?" Huo Yuhao's gaze shifted slightly.

Was it a coincidence, or...

Just as Xuan Zi was about to kill the Arctic Ice Claw Dragon, another sudden change occurred.

A huge hand covered in white fur actually reached out from the wind and snow ahead and grabbed the Arctic Ice Claw Dragon, which had just steadied its body.

The fifteen- or sixteen-meter-long Arctic Ice Claw Dragon was like a toy beneath that huge hand. The Arctic Ice Claw Dragon could only struggle weakly in its grasp, roaring, but its sharp ice claws could not harm that great hand in the slightest.

Elder Xuan and Bei Bei's expressions changed dramatically.

It was the shock of seeing something enormous!

Huo Yuhao was the same.

A deep, muffled voice came from within the blizzard. "A Titled Douluo actually dares to delve deep into my Far North? Human, hand over the treasure that attracted this little dragon, or your end will be the same as this little dragon's!"

The huge hand exerted force.

Like crushing a mosquito, the Arctic Ice Claw Dragon was directly crushed apart, and ice-blue blood sprayed from the gaps between the great hand's fingers. The Arctic Ice Claw Dragon's cry stopped abruptly.

The huge hand withdrew into the wind and snow with the Arctic Ice Claw Dragon's corpse.

The surrounding blizzard gradually began to calm, revealing the enormous figure, a hundred meters tall, behind it.

It was a figure like a titan giant, standing amid the blizzard, its eyes emitting a cold, fierce light that pierced through the wind and snow.

Only when the wind and snow calmed further could the three of them see the figure's appearance clearly.

This terrifying enormous figure was actually extremely similar to a human in form. Its arms were long and slender, and its whole body was covered in long snow-white fur. Even its face greatly resembled a human's, except there were many wrinkles on its forehead. Its skin was bluish-gray, and it also had two massive fangs.

Not only was it over a hundred meters tall, it reached a full hundred and twenty meters!

The corpse of the Arctic Ice Claw Dragon was thrown into the figure's mouth and chewed.

After seeing this giant figure clearly, Huo Yuhao's eyes narrowed slightly, and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cried out in alarm, "Titan Snow Demon King?!"

The newcomer was precisely the third of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North—the Titan Snow Demon King!

"It's over, it's over! The Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North have come!!!" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm panicked.

"Then here's the question. The Titan Snow Demon King, who barely passed the two-hundred-thousand-year threshold, on what grounds does he dare block the path of rank ninety-eight Xuan Zi, and even shamelessly demand Xuan Zi hand over the item?" Huo Yuhao asked.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stopped panicking and instead fell into thought.

That was right. On what grounds?

Because he had more fur?