Transformation into Human Form

The Snow Empress looked at that strange object, her breath hitching slightly.

To become a human completely? To abandon the ice and snow essence that had nurtured her for seven hundred thousand years?

For any soul beast, this was a difficult choice. But after a brief moment of hesitation, the Snow Empress raised her head and looked deeply at Qian Xunji. Since she had already chosen to trust this man, there was no reason to retreat.

"Fine, I agree." The Snow Empress's voice was crisp and firm.

"Close your eyes, relax your mind, and do not resist."

Qian Xunji smiled slightly and activated the Converter in his hand.

Hum—

A pure, gentle pillar of white light erupted from the instrument, instantly enveloping the Snow Empress's exquisite figure.

Inside the great hall, there was no violent energy rampaging; there was only a law of life, silent as spring rain, quietly reshaping her. Qian Daoliu stood to the side with wide eyes, not even daring to breathe, staring fixedly at this incredible miracle.

A moment later, the white light slowly dissipated.

The Snow Empress still stood in the same spot. Her long, silvery-white hair, her elegant dress, and even her cold, peerless face had not changed in the slightest.

However, the aura that had once belonged to a seven-hundred-thousand-year Far North fierce beast—an aura capable of making any Titled Douluo feel palpitations—had completely vanished without a trace! In its place was a pure, vast, and mellow soul power that belonged entirely to a top-tier human powerhouse!

"Is this... a human body?"

The Snow Empress slowly opened her eyes, looking at her own hands in disbelief.

At the same time, a powerful wave of soul power erupted from within her.

Level 96... Level 97... Level 98!

Her soul power finally stabilized at the mid-stage of Level 98!

The Snow Empress closed her eyes to sense it, her brows arching slightly. Converting from the Ruler of the Far North of seven hundred thousand years into a human meant losing the massive reinforcement of the world's spiritual energy, so her original foundation and absolute strength had indeed decreased.

"This level of loss is completely acceptable," the Snow Empress calculated inwardly.

Just then, accompanied by a crisp sound of cracking ice, nine suffocating soul rings rose slowly from beneath the Snow Empress's feet!

Black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red!

Six ten-thousand-year black rings, and three blinding hundred-thousand-year red soul rings!

"Try it out, see if your abilities have been affected," Qian Xunji asked expectantly.

The Snow Empress focused her mind, closing her eyes to perceive her brand-new human martial soul—the Heavenly Snow Woman.

A moment later, she snapped her eyes open, a flash of intense surprise crossing her ice-blue pupils.

"My original Emperor Sword, Emperor Palm, and Emperor Cold Heaven have all perfectly converted into my soul skills! Not only that..."

The Snow Empress took a deep breath, and the very last, most profound hundred-thousand-year red soul ring beneath her feet suddenly lit up!

"This hundred-thousand-year soul ring has given me two brand-new soul skills."

The Snow Empress's voice trembled slightly with excitement:

"Ninth Soul Skill, First Form: Ice God Descent.

This is an ultimate amplification skill. Once activated, my strength, speed, spirit power, and ice-attribute control will instantly triple! Furthermore, this amplification can stack with my domain!"

Triple all attributes?

Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu looked at each other, both seeing the shock in the other's eyes. This was no longer a simple amplification; it was an unreasonable crushing of attributes!

"And the second soul skill?" Qian Xunji hurriedly asked.

"Ninth Soul Skill, Second Form: Ice Element Explosion."

The Snow Empress raised her fair, jade-like hand, a tiny ice flower instantly condensing at her fingertips before she gently crushed it. "I can detonate any ice or snow element within my line of sight, whether created by me or existing naturally. This is not a physical explosion, but a destruction blast of the ice element's origin."

A god-tier skill!

The Snow Empress's heart was surging with turbulent waves.

She had originally thought that converting into a human would bring a period of weakness, but she had never expected that with the systematic reinforcement of these nine soul rings—especially the monstrous skill of this ninth soul ring...

As she was now, in the state of Ice God Descent, she was even more powerful and terrifying than when she was a soul beast in the Far North!

"A miracle... this is absolutely a great miracle!"

Qian Daoliu, standing to the side, was already incoherent with excitement. He had witnessed with his own eyes a soul beast turn into a Level 98 human Super Douluo, and with such a heaven-defying configuration! If she married Qian Xunji in the future, what kind of monster would their child be?!

"Miss Snow Empress... no, daughter-in-law..."

Qian Daoliu was completely convinced this time. He stepped forward and, without hesitation, pulled a primitive token emitting a brilliant golden light from his robes.

"Just now outside the hall, it was this old man who was reckless and nearly hurt you. Take this Angel God Token!"

Qian Daoliu solemnly handed the token into the Snow Empress's hand, his tone filled with an unrefusable generosity:

"Sealed within this token is a wisp of divine power left behind by the Angel God Ancestor! If you encounter a life-or-death crisis and detonate it, it can unleash a full-force strike equivalent to the level of a God Official! Even a Level 99 Limit Douluo could be severely injured or even killed by it."

"This... is too precious." The Snow Empress was startled by this sudden, grand gift from Qian Daoliu and looked at Qian Xunji with some hesitation.

A strike at the level of a God Official was an absolute trump card for survival on the Douluo Continent!

"What an elder bestows, one should not decline. Since my father is giving it to you, just take it."

Snow Empress looked at the heavy divine decree in her hand, then at the beaming Qian Daoliu and the gentle-eyed Qian Xunji. In this moment, within this hall representing the pinnacle of human power, the once aloof and peerless Empress of the Far North finally felt the genuine, wondrous bond known as "family."

From that day on, Snow Empress took up residence in Pope Hall with full justification, her bedchamber arranged right next to Qian Xunji's.

Having completely shed the burden of the heavenly tribulation that had hung over her head for seven hundred thousand years, and having escaped the dull, monotonous ice and snow of the Far North, this once high-and-mighty Ruler of the Far North, after adapting to her human body, unexpectedly burst forth with a sense of worldly vitality that even Qian Xunji had not anticipated.

She was in no rush to cultivate anymore.

Consequently, a peculiar sight began to appear within Pope Hall.

Every afternoon, Snow Empress would dress in simple, elegant casual attire and lounge lazily on a soft couch in the back garden of Pope Hall. In her left hand, she would hold a plate of osmanthus cakes or candied haws meticulously prepared by the imperial kitchen, while her right hand clutched a piece of melodramatic fiction scavenged from the streets of Martial Soul City—

Titles such as Domineering Sect Master Falls in Love with Me or The Genius Trash's Tale of Broken Engagements. She read them with great relish, occasionally knitting her brows at the heart-wrenching plot twists, releasing a chill that caused the surrounding flowers and plants to frost over.

Qian Xunji observed all of this with satisfaction. A soul beast that understood how to enjoy life and human emotions was a partner with true flesh and blood.

However, this heartwarming daily routine encountered a fatal accident on the third day of Snow Empress's stay.