Absorbing a Five-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring

With one sword strike, he instantly killed a five-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon!

"Phew..."

Xue Bingchen turned around, looked at the massive creature crashing to the ground, and slowly exhaled a plume of white breath. A satisfied smile curled across his lips.

"Buzz—"

As the Ice Flood Dragon's life force completely faded, countless icy-blue motes of light surged wildly from its corpse. They ultimately gathered in midair, forming a Spirit Ring so deeply purple it was nearly black, with a faint black gleam hidden within!

His second Spirit Ring—a five-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon!

It was his!

Looking at the Spirit Ring floating quietly before him, purple-black in color and faintly emanating a heavy energy that made his heart tremble, Xue Bingchen licked his lips in satisfaction.

He was simply satisfied beyond measure with this prey he had personally hunted!

First, as an ice-type Soul Beast with a thin trace of dragon bloodline, the Ice Flood Dragon possessed incomparably tyrannical and pure ice power. Using it as the second Spirit Ring for his Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul was a perfect match, without a single flaw!

Second, its immense five-thousand-year energy and draconic vitality were simply the ultimate tonic for his mysterious second martial soul—the "body"!

"Five thousand years should be the absolute limit this body of mine can endure right now. Any higher, and there's a risk of my body exploding; any lower, and it would be a waste of the absurd talent of my Twin Martial Souls!"

Xue Bingchen calculated silently.

Having made up his mind, he did not immediately begin absorbing it. Instead, a thought crossed his mind.

"Buzz—"

The first Spirit Ring beneath his feet, representing the fourteen-hundred-year Polar Ice Spirit, instantly lit up with dazzling purple light.

"First soul skill, Dance of Snow!"

Even in this uninhabited outer region of the Far North, even without any audience, Xue Bingchen did not hesitate to use this soul skill that he found somewhat "embarrassing."

He quickly performed several strange, brief beats amid the wind and snow. Though his movements were no longer as stiff as they had been at the start, they still carried some of a boy's stubbornness.

The dance ended!

"Whoosh!"

A strange icy-blue halo instantly descended from the sky, enveloping his entire body.

Amazing!

Xue Bingchen could not help clenching his fists as he felt power erupting and surging wildly through his body like a volcano.

A fifty-percent boost to all his attributes instantly reached its peak!

His vitality, the toughness of his meridians, Mental Power, Soul Power... even his control over ice and snow all reached unprecedented heights at this moment!

With this enhancement as a foundation, his confidence in absorbing a five-thousand-year Spirit Ring soared directly to one hundred percent!

Just as Xue Bingchen sat cross-legged and prepared to draw the Spirit Ring into his body—

"Whoosh—"

The raging winds around him suddenly became gentle, while the blizzard filling the sky seemed to encounter some terrifying existence and scattered to either side.

Then, two breathtakingly beautiful figures appeared silently before Xue Bingchen, like fairies walking upon the snow.

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

Seeing the two elders arrive, Xue Bingchen immediately sprang to his feet. Like a child eager to claim credit before his parents, he excitedly pointed at the Ice Flood Dragon's corpse and loudly announced the good news:

"Mom! Auntie Ice Empress! Look! I just invoked a trace of the divine might of the Emperor Sword that Mom taught me. With only one strike, I successfully hunted a five-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon!"

Xue Bingchen's little face was full of pride, and his alternating golden-red eyes sparkled brightly.

Looking at this lively little fellow before her, his face full of anticipation for praise, Snow Empress's originally cool and noble, peerlessly beautiful face instantly bloomed with a gentle smile capable of toppling kingdoms.

She reached out her slender jade hand and affectionately ruffled Xue Bingchen's soft white hair, nodding in satisfaction.

"Mm, Mom saw it. Chen'er did exceptionally well."

In truth, from high in the sky, every movement Xue Bingchen had made earlier had been clearly witnessed by both of them.

Those smooth, flowing evasions, that precise grasp of battlefield timing, and that final flash of Ice Extreme Peerless that stunned even the wind and snow...

All of it was breathtaking!

Snow Empress looked at Xue Bingchen, and a trace of realization could not help arising in her heart.

If she, Snow Empress, was the Heavenly Snow Woman born from heaven and earth in this Far North—

Then the Xue Bingchen before her was practically the favored child of destiny most beloved by this northern land!

"This little fellow's second martial soul is the 'body'... Presumably, the reason he can completely ignore the freezing winds and snow of the Far North, cold enough to shatter steel, and even thrive here like a fish in water, is not merely because of the Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul. The more important reason should lie in his special physique."

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

Ice Empress, meanwhile, stepped forward and circled the purple Spirit Ring twice. Complex emotions flickered in her large emerald-green eyes.

She turned to Xue Bingchen, her tone carrying a hint of probing. "Little Chen, are you... really planning to absorb this five-thousand-year Spirit Ring? This is five thousand years!"

Xue Bingchen nodded without the slightest hesitation, clenched his tiny fist, and said:

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

Hearing this, Ice Empress could not help pursing her lips and instinctively glanced at Snow Empress beside her.

In truth, she had ten thousand complaints she wanted to voice right then.

Brat, for your second Spirit Ring, your mother painstakingly searched for one and even captured a forty-five-hundred-year Snow Sprite alive for you in advance!

Although the Snow Sprite's cultivation was not as high as this Ice Flood Dragon's, it was a pure ice elemental life-form. The effects of absorbing it might not be much weaker than absorbing this Ice Flood Dragon.

However, Ice Empress ultimately swallowed those words.

Because Little Bingchen's performance today had clearly far exceeded both her and Snow Empress's expectations!

Snow Empress had originally estimated that Xue Bingchen's limit of endurance should be around forty-five hundred years.

But who could have expected this boy to run out for training and immediately raise Snow Empress's estimated limit for him by a full five hundred years!

A five-thousand-year Spirit Ring!

Damn it, that practically counted as half a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring!

Looking across the entire human Soul Master world of Douluo Continent, what nineteenth-level Soul Grandmaster would dare touch a five-thousand-year Soul Beast for their second Spirit Ring?

Forget absorbing it—even if a five-thousand-year Soul Beast merely stood before them, its pressure alone would frighten those so-called geniuses into wetting themselves!

If word of this got out, it would definitely make countless jaws drop and leave innumerable self-proclaimed genius Soul Masters so ashamed they would smash their heads into a block of tofu!

"Only a freak like Little Bingchen, with his special physique, who had eaten Millennium Snow Lotus and thousand-year Ice Marrow like candy since childhood and possessed two top-tier martial souls, would dare entertain such a crazy idea!" Ice Empress clicked her tongue silently.