Sitting in the Frost Sky! Ice Ring!

"Ch-charge... right here?" Su Yuntao was greatly alarmed, the hand inside his long sleeve slowly clenching into a fist.

Bule pointed at the thatched hut beside them with a lecherous chuckle: "Right here, I'll just do it once."

Su Yuntao's brow furrowed slightly as he turned his head to look at Su Yan, his small eyes darting frantically with signals.

Su Yan understood, silently raising his hand and extending the last three fingers. OK.

Unfortunately, Su Yuntao couldn't read it, desperately trying to signal back, but was already half-dragged by Bule into the thatched hut.

Outside the thatched hut, Xiao Chenyu waved his small hand, and a group of people surged forward to surround Su Yan and the other child.

"I came to buy a Strength Pill." Su Yan's gaze swept across the surroundings—about a dozen people—but he couldn't judge their cultivation levels.

"Since you're here to buy a Strength Pill, we won't make things hard for you." Xiao Chenyu stood with legs apart, pointing at his crotch. "Crawl through here, and I'll sell it to you."

A chill crept into Su Yan's eyes, and the child beside him angrily blurted out: "Don't go too far!"

"Don't crawl, don't sell..."

"Chenyu, shut up." Lord Mo returned, sizing up the two children. "These two are good material for soul refinement. Lock them in the back and let Bule deal with that woman."

"Lucky for you." Xiao Chenyu signaled with his eyes, and a group of people swarmed in to hustle the two children toward the backyard.

On the way.

"I really want to interview you—what's your name?" Su Yan looked at the child beside him with a curious expression, his eyes carrying three parts confusion, three parts disdain, and four parts righteous indignation.

"My name is Yin Fang." The child said sullenly.

"May I ask, little friend Yin Fang, how did you manage to use Ice Ring so terribly?" Su Yan formed a fist with his right hand, pressing the tiger's mouth gap against Yin Fang's mouth.

"I..." Yin Fang was momentarily speechless. "I dunno."

Then, he suddenly caught on: "How do you know this is Ice Ring?"

Su Yan pointed at the sky and said in a deep voice: "Heaven's secrets cannot be revealed."

Yin Fang's eyes lit up, and he unconsciously moved a step closer to Su Yan.

Soon, the two were taken to a woodshed in the backyard.

Another woodshed.

This situation felt familiar to Su Yan.

The annual woodshed ceremony.

It had been over a year since that incident. He wondered how those kids were doing.

Suddenly, he missed Yu Tianxin and Meng Yiran a little, wondering how those two were getting on.

The woodshed door was kicked open, Xiao Chenyu tossed them both inside, and then swaggered off.

Only the two of them remained in the woodshed. Yin Fang mysteriously pressed close to Su Yan: "Hero, may I ask your name?"

"Surname Su, given name Yan. Just call me Su Yan."

"Lord Yan, please enlighten me." Yin Fang clasped his hands in salute.

Su Yan returned the salute with cupped fists: "How many martial souls do you have?"

Yin Fang tilted his head: "Just one, of course. Twin Martial Souls aren't that easy to come by."

"If you won't say..." Su Yan pretended to stand up and leave.

Yin Fang panicked.

He quickly added: "Two!"

"Not honest." Su Yan again feigned rising to leave.

"Really just two, that's all!" Yin Fang said urgently. "One was innate, the other suddenly appeared."

At this, Su Yan finally settled back down: "The day it suddenly appeared, do you remember what you were doing?"

"I remember, I remember. It's been about two or three years since I got Ice Ring." Yin Fang thought for a moment, pulling out a dusty memory. "Just a few months ago, the first time I poured soul power into it, the cold energy directly froze me unconscious. When I woke up, it had become my martial soul."

"That's all?"

"Yeah, that's it."

Su Yan took a deep breath and gestured for Yin Fang to lean in: "When a fight breaks out later, just say this... I guarantee it'll work!"

Yin Fang's eyes lit up: "Understood!"

"Little lady, I can see you're a sensible one. Are you taking it off yourself, or should I help you?" Bule leered as he closed in.

Su Yuntao's fists clenched tightly beneath his sleeves, a flash of anger in his eyes.

"Little lady, don't be scared. I'm very gentle." Bule advanced on his own.

Su Yuntao suddenly threw both fists, slamming them into Bule's chest.

Bule stumbled back several steps before steadying himself: "You're no ordinary person!"

"Lone Wolf, manifest!" Su Yuntao called out softly, his massive frame bursting the women's clothes into shreds. One white, one yellow, and one purple soul ring floated around his waist.

"It wasn't easy catching you." Su Yuntao stepped forward, his wolf claws reaching straight for Bule.

"You—you're not a little lady!" Bule shouted, then instead of anger, he laughed. "A man? I like that even more!"

With that, his hands turned ethereal as he charged forward without dodging.

Su Yuntao's purple soul ring lit up: "Ghost Wolf Gale Change!"

His already massive frame swelled even larger.

Bule's attacks landed on him like mere tickles.

Su Yuntao grabbed Bule's body, smashed him straight through the thatched hut, threw him to the ground, leaped high, and crashed down with the weight of Mount Tai.

A deep crater was left in the earth, dust billowing into the air.

At the critical moment, Bule rolled to the side, still shaken: "Whew, didn't expect you'd want to ride me yourself."

Su Yuntao ignored him, pulled a signal flare from his chest, and tossed it into the sky.

Bam!

The firework exploded, startling everyone in the house as they all rushed out.

Leading them was Lord Mo, who was terrified—last year's events were still fresh in his mind.

He jumped onto the roof and bellowed, "Who goes there!"

"Martial Soul Hall executor, Su Yuntao!"

"Martial Soul Hall!" Lord Mo turned his head to glare at Bule, furious. "You brat—you led Martial Soul Hall here?"

Bule frantically shook his head: "No, no, Lord Mo, I had no idea either!"

"I'll deal with you later. Giant Lizard, possess! Fourth soul skill, Giant Lizard Fall!" Lord Mo's anger unabated, he stomped through the roof, his lizard tail gleaming as it slammed down toward Su Yuntao.

The two immediately tangled in combat.

But Su Yuntao had only just advanced to three-ring Soul Elder, and facing Lord Mo, a four-ring Soul Ancestor, he was already on the losing side after ten exchanges.

He could only defend passively, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Su Yan heard the signal flare outside, flames blazing across his body: "Fire Wolf, possess!"

His frame swelled violently, and with one charge, he smashed the woodshed door to splinters.

"You have Twin Martial Souls too?" Yin Fang exclaimed in awe, Ice Ring already in hand.

"Same situation as you!"

Not far away, the Xiao siblings arrived with a crowd.

Xiao Chenyu's pupils contracted, humiliation flooding back: "You! It's you! You're the one who made me lose face! Wolf, possess!"

He roared as he lunged at Su Yan.

Su Yan covered his nose with one hand, extended the other, and caught Xiao Chenyu's charge with a single palm. Then he turned his palm into a claw, just like before, and slammed Xiao Chenyu straight into the ground.

The earth cratered on impact, and Xiao Chenyu naturally passed out again.

"Brother!" Xiao Rumei roared, her body also swelling. "Wolf, possess!"

A single yellow soul ring slowly rose.

She had actually become a one-ring Soul Scholar, extending both claws straight at Su Yan.

Yin Fang, standing nearby, was a bit nervous. He took a deep breath—only for a strange stench to hit his sinuses, nearly knocking him out.

Thankfully, the air was open enough. Yin Fang finally gripped his sword with both hands and whispered, "Enthroned in the frosty sky! Ice Ring!"

In an instant, the blade radiated a frigid white light. Ice flowers crystallized along the edge, and his originally white soul ring turned ice-blue.

Yin Fang stared in shock, feeling the immense soul power surging from Ice Ring.

Was this the true power of Ice Ring?

Yin Fang exhaled a breath of cold air, his eyes icy as he leveled his blade. His frosty lips parted: "First soul skill, Ice Dragon Tail Spin!"

The temperature around them plummeted. From the tip of the blade, an ice dragon materialized and flew out, charging in all directions. Wherever the ice dragon passed, ice flowers followed.

The crowd that had surged forward was frozen into ice statues in the blink of an eye.

Su Yan knocked Xiao Rumei unconscious with a single punch, only to feel a sudden chill behind him. He turned to look—everything was covered in ice flowers.

"Yan God, Ice Ring is too strong!" Yin Fang was awed by the overwhelming power.

The title "Yan God" was absolutely deserved!

Su Yan never dreamed this encounter would be so easy.

Were the people around him too weak?

No—many of them were even two-ring Soul Grand Masters.

It was because Ice Ring's rule-based freezing ability was too powerful!

The battle here was over, but the fight at the front of the courtyard was still ongoing. The two of them hurried outside.