After properly arranging Tang San and Xiao Wu's enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, as well as their subsequent training plans, Xue Bingchen finally had time to deal with his own affairs.
Within a secluded courtyard of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Xue Bingchen stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance toward the Far North of the continent.
That place was a forbidden zone of life, a realm of endless snowstorms, and his true homeland—the Far North.
"Bingchen, it is time for us to return."
A cool, ethereal voice, as pure as Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice, quietly sounded within Xue Bingchen's Spirit Sea.
It was Snow Empress's voice.
Ever since Snow Empress had taken up residence within Xue Bingchen's body, she would occasionally awaken to guide his cultivation.
And recently, as Xue Bingchen's Soul Power had fully stabilized at level seventy, Snow Empress had been mentioning a return to the Far North more and more frequently.
"Yes, it is time to go back." Xue Bingchen replied softly in his heart, a gentle smile curving his lips.
His Soul Power had now reached the level-seventy bottleneck, leaving him only one step away from becoming a Soul Saint.
For any Soul Master, the seventh Spirit Ring was of the utmost importance, because it represented the Martial Soul Avatar, a massive dividing line where a Soul Master's strength underwent a qualitative transformation.
And for Xue Bingchen, who possessed the Ultimate Ice martial soul known as the Heavenly Snow Woman, ordinary Soul Beasts simply could not withstand the domineering attribute of his martial soul, much less serve as the vessel for his Martial Soul Avatar.
Across the entire Douluo Continent, only the ice-covered Far North and the top-tier Hundred-Thousand-Year ice-attribute Soul Beasts born there were worthy of becoming his seventh Spirit Ring!