Absorbing a Five-Thousand-Year Soul Ring

One sword, and a five-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon was slain in an instant!

"Hoo..."

Xue Bingchen turned around, looking at the massive creature that had crashed to the ground, and exhaled a long breath of white mist, a satisfied smile curling the corners of his lips.

"Hum—"

As the Ice Flood Dragon's life force completely flickered out, countless ice-blue light particles surged frantically from its corpse, eventually condensing in mid-air into a purple spirit ring so deep in color it faintly shimmered with a hint of black!

A second spirit ring, a five-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon!

Got it!

Looking at the spirit ring quietly suspended before him—purple to the point of blackness, radiating a heavy energy that made one's heart tremble—Xue Bingchen licked his lips in satisfaction.

He was absolutely thrilled with the spoils of this hunt he had conducted himself!

First, as an ice-attribute spirit beast possessing a thin trace of dragon bloodline, the Ice Flood Dragon's ice-attribute power was incredibly tyrannical and pure; using it as the second spirit ring for his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul was a perfect match, no issues there!

Second, the massive energy and dragon blood essence of this five-thousand-year beast were like a potent tonic for his mysterious second martial soul—"Physical Body"!

Five thousand years, this should be the absolute limit of what this current body of mine can withstand. Any higher, and I risk exploding; any lower, and I'd be wasting the monstrous talent of my Twin Martial Souls!

Xue Bingchen calculated silently in his heart.

Having made up his mind, he didn't immediately begin the absorption, but instead moved his thoughts.

"Hum—"

The first spirit ring beneath his feet, representing his 1,400-year Polar Ice Spirit, instantly lit up with a dazzling purple glow.

"First spirit skill, Dance of Snow!"

Even here in the desolate outer reaches of the Far North, even without an audience, Xue Bingchen did not hesitate to unleash this spirit skill that he found somewhat "embarrassing."

He moved through the wind and snow, performing a few strange, rhythmic steps in a quick and brief dance. Although his movements were no longer as stiff as they had been at the start, they still carried a hint of a boy's stubbornness.

The dance ended!

"Swish!"

A strange ice-blue halo of light descended from the sky, enveloping his entire body.

Refreshing!

Xue Bingchen couldn't help but clench his fists, feeling the power surging wildly within his body like a volcanic eruption.

A fifty-percent, all-around attribute boost was instantly maxed out!

His blood essence, the toughness of his meridians, his mental power, his spirit power... even his control over ice and snow had reached an unprecedented peak at this moment!

With this boost as a foundation, his certainty of absorbing a five-thousand-year spirit ring soared directly to one hundred percent!

Just as Xue Bingchen sat cross-legged, preparing to draw the spirit ring into his body—

"Hoo—"

The surrounding gale suddenly turned gentle, and the blizzard filling the sky seemed to have encountered something terrifying, scattering to both sides.

Immediately following, two stunningly beautiful figures, like fairies stepping through the snow, appeared silently before Xue Bingchen.

They were none other than the two absolute overlords of the Far North—the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress!

Seeing his two elders arrive, Xue Bingchen immediately bounced up from the ground. Like a child eager to show off his achievements to his parents, he pointed excitedly at the Ice Flood Dragon's corpse and loudly announced the good news:

"Mom! Aunt Ice Empress! Look! I just channeled a sliver of the divine might of the 'Emperor Sword' that Mom taught me, and with just one strike, I successfully hunted a five-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon!"

Xue Bingchen's small face was full of pride, his gold-and-red eyes sparkling.

Looking at the lively little fellow before her, his face full of expectation for praise, the Snow Empress's originally cold and noble face instantly bloomed with a gentle, world-toppling smile.

She reached out a slender, jade-like hand and dotingly ruffled Xue Bingchen's soft white hair, nodding with satisfaction:

"Mm, Mom saw it. Chen'er did an excellent job."

In truth, everything Xue Bingchen had done just moments ago had been seen by them from high above in the firmament.

That fluid, cloud-like dodging, the precise control over the timing of the battle, and that final "Ice Extreme Peerless" that had stunned the wind and snow...

It was all truly breathtaking!

The Snow Empress looked at Xue Bingchen, a realization dawning in her heart.

If she, the Snow Empress, was the Heavenly Snow Woman born of the Far North's heaven and earth, then the Xue Bingchen before her was simply the child of destiny most favored by this northern land!

This little one's second martial soul is 'Physical Body'... I suppose the reason he can completely ignore the freezing winds of the Far North that could shatter steel, and even thrive here, is not just because of his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul, but more importantly, because of this special constitution of his.

The Snow Empress pondered silently, feeling increasingly expectant of Xue Bingchen's future.

The Ice Empress, standing to the side, stepped forward and circled the purple spirit ring twice, a complex light flickering in her large, emerald-green eyes.

She turned her head to look at Xue Bingchen, her tone tinged with a hint of probing: "Little Chen, are you... really planning to absorb this five-thousand-year spirit ring? This is five thousand years we're talking about!"

Xue Bingchen nodded without hesitation, clenching his small fist as he said:

"Of course! This Ice Flood Dragon is perfect for me, and I can feel that my body's limit should be right around five thousand years. Absorbing it is just right!"

Hearing this, Ice Empress couldn't help but curl her lip, subconsciously casting her gaze toward Snow Empress beside her.

In truth, there were ten thousand things she wanted to retort with right now:

You brat, your mother went to such painstaking lengths for your second soul ring, even capturing a four-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Snow Sprite alive in advance just for you!

Although the Snow Sprite's age was not as high as this Ice Flood Dragon, it was a pure ice-elemental lifeform, so the absorption effect would not necessarily be any weaker than absorbing this Ice Flood Dragon.

However, Ice Empress ultimately swallowed those words back into her stomach.

Because little Xue Bingchen's performance today had clearly far exceeded the expectations both she and Snow Empress had held!

Snow Empress had originally estimated that Xue Bingchen's endurance limit should be around four thousand five hundred years.

Yet who could have imagined that the moment this brat came out for training, he would raise the limit Snow Empress had assessed for him by a full five hundred years!

A five-thousand-year soul ring!

This, damn it, was practically half of a ten-thousand-year soul ring!

Looking across the entire human soul master world of the Douluo Continent, what level nineteen Soul Grand Master would dare to touch a five-thousand-year soul beast for their second soul ring?

Let alone absorbing one, even if a five-thousand-year soul beast stood before them, the mere pressure alone would be enough to scare those so-called geniuses into wetting their pants!

If this were to spread to the outside world, it would absolutely drop jaws everywhere and make countless soul masters who prided themselves on being geniuses feel so ashamed they would want to find a block of tofu to smash their heads against!

Only a little pervert like little Xue Bingchen—with his special constitution, having eaten Millennium Snow Lotuses and thousand-year Ice Marrow like jellybeans since childhood, and possessing twin top-tier martial souls—would dare to harbor such crazy thoughts! Ice Empress clicked her tongue secretly in her heart.