Titan Snow Demon King!

We continued north, deeper into the dangerous zone of the Extreme North.

As far as the eye could see, heaven and earth were one endless white. Almost no other colors existed.

Ten thousand miles of ice lay frozen, and snow drifted for a thousand miles. The snowflakes hung suspended in midair, never touching the ground, whipped into a vast blizzard by the gale and veiling the light of the sun and moon.

The ground was covered in thick ice that had remained frozen for millions of years. Cracks spiderwebbed across it, while bottomless ice chasms crisscrossed the land.

Now and then, the frigid winds of the Extreme North swept through the fissures, sending out ghostly howls that chilled the blood.

There was no clamor of living creatures here, no signs of life in plants and trees. It was a silent, desolate, freezing natural death trap.

Compared to the Star Dou Forest—with its towering ancient trees, abundant spiritual energy, and lively bustle of Ferocious Beasts vying for dominance—the Extreme North was a true prison of utter desolation.

But for that very reason, every creature that could survive in the Extreme North was a top-tier monster, one in ten thousand.

Any Soul Beast that could settle here was at least a thousand years old; ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts were everywhere. The density of powerful beasts and their individual strength far surpassed those of the same rank in Star Dou.

In fact, according to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, there were even more Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts here than in Star Dou Forest.

After another day or two of arduous travel, just as Qin Yun ventured deep into the heart of the Extreme North, the ice beneath him suddenly trembled violently!

Rumble—

The thick ice exploded, sending snow and mist surging into the sky. A terrifying beastly might, wild and domineering, ancient and immense, suddenly pressed down on the surrounding lands!

"Big Brother, get down! Hide, quickly!"

Without questioning him, Qin Yun hit the snow the instant Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spoke. He even scooped some nearby snow over himself.

Then Sky Dream Ice Silkworm wrapped him in its spiritual power as well.

With the double concealment of the Sky Dream Molt and spiritual power, Qin Yun was practically indistinguishable from the surrounding snow and ice to any outside observer.

Qin Yun sensed that the newcomer was enormous, and its aura was terrifying beyond measure.

It wasn't merely a hundred-thousand-year beast. It was far more powerful than that!

Unless he used Bodhisattva's Tear, with his current cultivation, his opponent could kill him with a single breath.

The instant he hid, Qin Yun felt a heavy force press down on his back, stamping him hard into the ground.

Fortunately, his physical constitution was good enough to withstand that much force.

At last, more than ten seconds later, the terrifying aura vanished completely. Only then did Sky Dream Ice Silkworm signal that he could get up.

As he stood and looked at the tracks the beast had left behind, Qin Yun couldn't help feeling shocked.

They were a series of footprints, each more than five meters long and two meters wide—almost the size of a car.

It was hard to imagine how enormous a creature had to be to leave tracks like those.

In the Extreme North, with a body that huge...

After a moment's thought, a name came to Qin Yun's mind.

One of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North: Titan Snow Demon King!

"That was close. I almost bit the dust!

"That fellow has a Mental Attribute, too. It actually blocked my detection.

"Luckily, my spiritual power is far stronger than his. I still sensed him when he got close enough.

"But you're really lucky, Big Brother. You ran into Titan Snow Demon King, one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North.

"Good thing I managed to fool him.

"Otherwise, forget you—even at my full strength, I'd have been dead the moment I met him..."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was about to brag some more, but then remembered how Qin Yun had killed Tang Hao and quickly changed his mind.

If its opportunities weren't limited, then in a real fight, it was hard to say who would win!

After confirming the beast's identity with Tian Meng, Qin Yun wrote down the name of the Soul Beast that had stepped on him in his notebook.

He could forget about giving it a reason to die. If he ever got the chance, he'd turn it straight into his Soul Ring!

The Extreme North was terribly boring, so Qin Yun didn't mind chatting with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as they traveled.

"...Big Brother, you have no idea how miserable my life has been all these years!

"Our Ice Silkworm Clan is at the bottom of the food chain in the Extreme North. Most of the time, we're just food for other beasts.

"And all three of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North come from noble lineages. The blood of the Ice God flows through their veins.

"Their respective clans are among the most powerful in this frigid land. They're certainly no slouches when it comes to gathering rare treasures, and with their own deep foundations on top of that, their cultivation speed is unbelievably fast."

"Still, breaking through to a hundred thousand years through cultivation alone is incredibly difficult.

"In my million-year life, I've only met a dozen or so. And only a few of them are still alive in the Extreme North.

"The rest died while trying to reach a higher level. Passing a tribulation every hundred thousand years is no easy feat."

"That big fellow who just passed by is said to be the descendant left behind after the ancient Ice God mated with a Titan Giant.

"His clan is called the Titan Snow Demons. In terms of bloodline alone, they're undoubtedly the most powerful clan in this frigid land.

"They've still got a few hundred members.

"As long as they gather together, they're invincible in this frigid land.

"Titan Snow Demons are over ten meters tall at birth. An adult can grow to over fifty meters.

"And that Titan Snow Demon King who just passed by is over a hundred meters tall. It's no exaggeration to call him the largest living creature on the Douluo Continent—and there's no second place.

"Even in the ocean, creatures that can match his size are few and far between!"

With a million years of cultivation behind him, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm certainly knew a thing or two. What he said was basically accurate.

The Titan Snow Demon King who had just passed by had already cultivated for more than two hundred thousand years. He was only one step away from becoming a Ferocious Beast.

However, if Qin Yun remembered correctly, he hadn't survived his third tribulation.

He still fell far short of the Ferocious Beasts in Star Dou Forest.

Still, the two of them hadn't come here for the Titan Snow Demon King. Their target was the even more powerful Ice Jade Empress Scorpion!

"She's still nowhere to be seen. Big Brother, we can only keep heading north.

"That fellow lives only in the core region of the Extreme North.

"From here on, you need to slow down. You're just about entering the edge of the core region. It's bitterly cold here, but this is home to the most powerful Soul Beasts in the Extreme North.

"Some, like that fellow from before, can even evade my Spirit Detection. Others are incredibly fast. We have to be careful.

"Otherwise, running into even one of them would be a huge problem."

Qin Yun nodded, then lowered his aura and continued forward.

The bigger the waves, the bigger the fish. For an extraordinary Soul Ring and Soul Bone, paying a price was worth it.

As he continued north, the extreme cold made the light on the horizon look slightly distorted at times.

Yet this place also had dazzling, multicolored halos that couldn't be seen anywhere else. They were probably the aurora.

After another two days of walking, the feeling of exhaustion became more pronounced.

It wasn't that Qin Yun lacked stamina. The main problem was food and water.