Shameless Yu Xiaogang, Martial Soul Hall Arrives

Upon seeing this book, Xue Bingchen was so infuriated he let out a dry, mocking laugh.

"Yu Xiaogang, oh Yu Xiaogang, you truly have reached the pinnacle of shamelessness!"

Xue Bingchen tossed the book into a brazier, watching it turn to ash, his heart filled with nothing but contempt.

The knowledge painstakingly compiled by countless predecessors in the Martial Soul Hall library, stolen by this waste, stitched together, and then brazenly published under his own name to spread everywhere?

What was most infuriating was that his simple and kind-hearted mother, the Snow Empress, despite being peerless in strength and having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, had spent most of her time among the soul beasts of the Far North.

How could she have ever encountered such a shameless, top-tier plagiarist from the human world?

The Snow Empress had actually been deceived by those seemingly profound theories in the book, truly believing that Yu Xiaogang was some remarkable scholar and that he was the original author of these theories!

One must ask, how could a waste who had never even seen what a thousand-year soul ring looked like, and who had been stuck at level twenty-nine his entire life, "research" the limit for a Soul Elder absorbing a thousand-year soul ring?

By dreaming?

Or by relying on that mouth of his that only knew how to swindle women?

However, if Yu Xiaogang were to publish a book titled My Ex-Girlfriend is the Pope, it would likely sell even better than his Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls.

Xue Bingchen shook his head helplessly.

It seemed he would have to take every opportunity to educate Mother Snow Empress and Aunt Ice Empress on the malice of the human world, lest they continue to believe Yu Xiaogang was a true master and end up disgusted by such a sanctimonious hypocrite in the future.

Casting these ridiculous jokes to the back of his mind, Xue Bingchen left the small town, returned once more to the snow-swept Far North, and began to focus intently on his cultivation.

Days turned into weeks.

During this period, the outskirts of the Far North suddenly became lively.

Quite a few soul masters wearing the standard robes of the Martial Soul Hall arrived secretly at the fringes of the Far North.

They trekked arduously through the wind and snow, scouting everywhere, seemingly searching for something.

Xue Bingchen had the Ice Empress eavesdrop on their conversations, and he quickly learned the reason for their arrival.

It turned out that a few months ago, when he awakened his martial soul, it had triggered quite a significant celestial phenomenon.

Coupled with the fact that the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress had consumed a great deal of resources to set up the awakening array for him, the display had been grand indeed.

The commotion was so great that it immediately caught the attention of Bibi Dong, and after dealing with the Clear Sky Sect, the Martial Soul Hall branch stationed at the northern border had been dispatched.

The higher-ups of the Martial Soul Hall suspected that some peerless heavenly treasure had manifested in the Far North, so they immediately sent out a scouting team to investigate.

However, watching these Martial Soul Hall soul masters shivering in the wind and snow, Xue Bingchen, standing atop an icy peak, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"They only sent these people to investigate?"

Xue Bingchen looked down from his vantage point.

Among the soul masters sent by the Martial Soul Hall, the highest cultivation was merely a Soul Emperor, and the rest were only at the Soul King level.

Such cultivation might count as experts in the human world, but in the perilous Far North, they didn't even have the qualifications to enter the core zone!

Never mind the core zone; even at the boundary between the outskirts and the mixed zone, a single ten-thousand-year ice-attribute soul beast could chew them all up as a snack.

"If a true heavenly treasure had manifested, would it be something you Soul Kings and Soul Emperors could lay a finger on? Going there is just throwing your lives away."

As for whether the Martial Soul Hall would suspect that a hegemon of the Far North had broken through again?

They would just have to keep guessing blindly.

As the culprit behind this series of grand disturbances, Xue Bingchen spread his hands, appearing very innocent:

"Did I break through again? I clearly only awakened my martial soul a few months ago! I'm still a child under seven years old!"

"Little Chen, do you want me to take action and leave all those annoying flies below behind?"

Just then, the space rippled slightly, and the Ice Empress, dressed in a long emerald gown, appeared beside Xue Bingchen.

A cold, murderous intent flashed in her beautiful eyes as she looked at the Martial Soul Hall soul masters below, as if she were looking at a group of dead men.

In the Ice Empress's view, the Far North was their territory; for human soul masters to dare to step foot here at will and scurry about was simply courting death.

If she hadn't seen them, it would be one thing, but since she had...

Heh, if Little Chen weren't here, she would have slaughtered them directly.

Now, as long as Xue Bingchen nodded, she could turn all those people below into ice sculptures with a single wave of her hand.

Xue Bingchen rubbed his chin, carefully examining the Martial Soul Hall soul masters below who were struggling to move forward against the blizzard.

A moment later, he shook his head: "Forget it, Aunt Ice Empress, there's no need to act; they will leave soon enough."

"Why?"

The Ice Empress was somewhat puzzled: "There isn't a single good thing among human soul masters; killing them is just killing them."

After saying this, the Ice Empress added:

"Of course, except for you."

Xue Bingchen smiled, not minding: "If the people below were from Shrek Academy or the Clear Sky Sect, then killing them would be fine."

"But these people are slightly better than them."

Xue Bingchen pointed to the Martial Soul Hall insignia on the soul masters below and explained softly:

"I have observed them. Although they have been scouting throughout this journey, they haven't actively hunted any soul beasts of the Far North. They avoid them whenever possible, which suggests they are merely following orders to verify intelligence."

"To put it bluntly, they are just diligent, low-level laborers within the Martial Soul Hall."

Although Ice Empress did not understand what "low-level laborers" meant, she chose to keep listening.

Suddenly, a classic figure from Xue Bingchen's past-life memories surfaced in his mind—the "Blind Douluo," Su Yuntao.

"Aunt Ice Empress, you wouldn't know, but according to what I've gathered these past few days, while the Martial Soul Hall is overbearing in the human world, they are also the only faction willing to awaken martial souls for commoners free of charge."

"These Soul Kings and Soul Emperors down there, back when they were mere level twenty or thirty Soul Grand Masters, might have also traveled through wind and rain to remote villages, patiently helping poor children awaken their martial souls and giving them a chance to change their destinies."

Xue Bingchen turned his head to look at Ice Empress and said earnestly:

"For people who work so diligently and leave a glimmer of hope for the commoners, there is no need for us to kill them all. Let them wander around the periphery, freeze them half to death, and let them go back to report on their own."

After hearing Xue Bingchen's words, Ice Empress was slightly stunned.

Although she did not quite understand the complex twists and turns of the human world, looking into Xue Bingchen's clear and firm eyes, she nodded in compliance.

"Fine, I'll listen to you. As long as they don't step into the core circle, I will spare their lives."

Ice Empress reached out to ruffle Xue Bingchen's hair, a doting smile curling the corners of her lips.

She realized that her little nephew was not only monstrously talented, but his vision and perspective on things were far beyond that of an ordinary human child.