The Ice Dragon King!

"Xue'er!"

Ice Empress arrived at Snow Emperor's dwelling just as she usually did.

She happened to run into Snow Emperor, who was returning with Yu Shuangbai in tow.

Her emerald-green eyes immediately locked onto the small figure held in Snow Emperor's arms.

A hint of confusion and curiosity surfaced in her eyes:

"Xue'er, why did you bring back a human child?"

"I found him on the ice plains."

Snow Emperor briefly recounted the strange phenomenon from earlier, how she had followed the source of the anomaly, and how she had encountered the unconscious Yu Shuangbai lying upon the ice.

Upon hearing this, Ice Empress parted her red lips slightly:

"How interesting."

For something to make an existence of Snow Emperor's caliber feel her power flowing more smoothly and provide such benefits, even ordinary spiritual herbs would be incapable of such a feat.

Ice Empress leaned in closer.

She scrutinized Yu Shuangbai in Snow Emperor's arms like a curious child.

It seemed she wanted to see exactly what made him so different.

"Stop messing around."

Snow Emperor gently pushed the encroaching Ice Empress away, then placed Yu Shuangbai onto the ice bed.

She had initially worried that the bed made of ice might be too cold for a human child.

But recalling the aura of extreme ice radiating from Yu Shuangbai—which had shocked even her—Snow Emperor dismissed the concern.

"Xue'er, this little guy really does seem interesting."

Ice Empress sat beside the ice bed and poked Yu Shuangbai's unconscious cheek with a pale finger.

The chill emanating from Yu Shuangbai was something the queen of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan found quite enjoyable.

Through this physical contact, she also sensed the very changes Snow Emperor had described.

She finally understood why Snow Emperor had brought him back.

This was no ordinary human child.

This was clearly a walking paradise of energy!

Perhaps it was because of Ice Empress's actions that the unconscious Yu Shuangbai was disturbed.

His brows furrowed slightly, his eyelashes trembled, and a soft groan escaped his lips.

Then, under the gaze of the two, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Where..."

"Is this?"

Yu Shuangbai clutched his forehead.

His vision gradually shifted from blurry to clear.

Two beautiful figures came into view.

For a moment, Yu Shuangbai, whose consciousness had not yet fully returned, felt dazed.

What was going on?

Shouldn't he be on the Far North Ice Plains right now?

And who were these two women?

Question after question surfaced in Yu Shuangbai's mind.

He instinctively reached out to his side, wanting to grasp that small sword, but his hand met only empty air.

The small sword had been left behind on the ice plains when Snow Emperor brought him back.

"Little one, you're awake?"

An ethereal voice rang in his ears.

Snow Emperor parted her red lips slightly.

Yu Shuangbai braced his aching body and managed to sit up:

"May I ask who you are, Senior?"

"Snow Emperor."

Snow Emperor?!

The short, two-word name struck Yu Shuangbai's heart like a thousand-pound hammer.

This name might be unfamiliar to other soul masters of this era.

But to Yu Shuangbai, a transmigrator, the name was like a thunderclap to the ears.

Heavenly Snow Woman, the strongest being in the Far North Ice Plains, a top-tier fierce beast!

Then that other one must be the Ice Empress...

Yu Shuangbai glanced at the emerald-haired woman beside her, roughly guessing her identity.

Having fainted on the Far North Ice Plains due to exhaustion, the first things to greet his eyes upon waking were the two sovereigns of the Far North.

This abrupt turn of events left Yu Shuangbai feeling momentarily bewildered and lost.

Yu Shuangbai's dazed expression was taken in entirely by Snow Emperor.

She did not find it strange.

Nor did she believe a mere human child could possibly know her identity.

She simply assumed he was overwhelmed by his current predicament.

Suppressing the various emotions in his heart.

Yu Shuangbai did not feel much fear.

Firstly, because he had already walked the edge of the line between life and death once before.

He no longer held the same terror of death as he once did.

Secondly, because Yu Shuangbai knew clearly that if Snow Emperor and her companion truly intended to harm him, they could have acted long ago; why wait for him to wake up?

Thinking along these lines.

Even when facing the two sovereigns of the Far North, Yu Shuangbai did not feel much dread.

"Senior, may I ask what happened, and why am I here?"

Perhaps due to the aura radiating from Yu Shuangbai that made her feel refreshed and at ease, Snow Emperor was quite patient.

She explained the sequence of events in an ethereal voice:

"This Seat sensed something on the ice plains..."

"..."

"And so, I brought you back."

After listening to Snow Emperor's account, Yu Shuangbai digested the information in his mind.

So, these things happened after he fell unconscious?

An anomaly that attracted the attention of Snow Emperor, a sovereign of the Far North.

At this moment, Yu Shuangbai finally sensed the changes in his own body.

He focused his thoughts.

Despite never having absorbed a spirit ring, an ice-blue spirit ring emerged from his body.

The bottleneck of his spirit power had also vanished.

He had unexpectedly reached level eleven.

This...

Yu Shuangbai stared at the ice-blue spirit ring on his body, feeling somewhat dazed.

It wasn't that he didn't know spirit rings could have special colors.

In the second installment of the series, Huo Yuhao possessed an orange spirit ring.

But the problem was, he hadn't even hunted a spirit beast, so where did this spirit ring come from?

Moreover, that was not all.

Yu Shuangbai activated his martial soul.

What appeared was not the ice-type giant lizard he remembered.

Two ice-blue dragon horns, like works of art, sprouted from his forehead.

His right arm was covered in crystal-like dragon scales.

He looked completely different from before.

He could no longer feel his former frailty, sensing only his blood surging and power brimming within him.

"As expected."

Snow Emperor watched the martial soul appearing on Yu Shuangbai and whispered softly.

"Xue'er, what kind of martial soul is this? It actually makes even this Empress feel a trace of pressure."

Ice Empress's expression turned grave as she asked in a low voice.

She was the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, after all!

Looking across the entire Far North, she belonged to the most elite of races.

Yet, she felt a hint of pressure from the martial soul of Yu Shuangbai, a weak spirit master with only one ring.

Although it was but a mere wisp, no thicker than a thread, it stirred up a tempest in the heart of this sovereign of ice and snow.

"Ice Dragon King."

Snow Emperor parted her red lips, slowly exhaling the three words.

"Though I know not why that legendary existence would manifest as a martial soul within a human."

"Yet, this intent of extreme cold and the dragon might both prove that this martial soul is indeed the legendary Ice Dragon King."

"Ice Dragon King?!" Ice Empress exclaimed in astonishment.

Having lived as a soul beast sovereign for hundreds of thousands of years, she was well-versed in the history of soul beasts and understood exactly what kind of existence the Ice Dragon King mentioned by Snow Emperor truly was.

When she turned her gaze back to Yu Shuangbai, her eyes had completely changed.

It was as if she were looking at a miracle.

For the Ice Dragon King, who should have fallen during that God Realm War, to become the martial soul of a human—how could this be anything but a miracle?

Ice Dragon King...

Yu Shuangbai, of course, also knew of this Dragon King.

He stared at his right hand, now covered in dragon scales.

So...

His martial soul was not that low-quality Ice Lizard, but the Ice Dragon King, the pinnacle of all beasts?!