Ice Empress Pincer! Twelve Years Old!

"Let's go, Aunt Ice Empress, let's head back. I feel like my soul power is becoming difficult to suppress again; I must return quickly to continue tempering my physical body."

Xue Bingchen stretched, his bones popping with a series of sharp cracks.

"You little freak, are you even going to let other soul masters live..."

Accompanied by the Ice Empress's laughing scolding, two figures—one large and one small—transformed into wind and snow, vanishing instantly from the mountain peak. They left behind the Martial Soul Hall soul masters still struggling in the blizzard below, completely unaware that they had just walked through the gates of hell.

Time passed like a fleeting horse, years flowing like a shuttle.

The winds and snow of the Far North continued to howl as they had for millions of years, but for the overlords living here, time was nothing more than a snap of the fingers.

In the blink of an eye, nearly six years had passed since the day Xue Bingchen awakened his martial soul.

On this day, at the summit of the snow-capped mountain in the core region of the Far North, a peak that seemed to pierce the very firmament.

Amidst the swirling snow, a tall, straight figure stood against the wind.

He was a young man of extreme handsomeness.

Although he was only about twelve years old, soul masters on the Douluo Continent matured early, and combined with the nourishment of countless heavenly treasures in the Far North, Xue Bingchen already stood a full one point nine meters tall!

He was bare-chested, revealing well-defined muscles that were full of explosive power without appearing bulky.

His skin possessed a sickly yet mesmerizing pallor, like the finest mutton-fat jade—ice-skinned and jade-boned. Paired with a face of peerless beauty that seemed untainted by the mortal world, he looked exactly like an immortal who had descended from the nine heavens.

"Hoo—"

Xue Bingchen exhaled a puff of white cold air, his eyes turning incomparably sharp in an instant.

He gripped the air with his right hand, and the surrounding wind and snow seemed to respond to an absolute summons, converging crazily toward his palm.

In the blink of an eye, a crystal-clear frost spear radiating extreme cold condensed into shape!

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Xue Bingchen moved.

He brandished the ice spear, practicing atop the snow-capped peak.

Every move he made was wide and open, yet carried an indescribable rhythm.

The spear struck like a dragon; with every thrust and every sweep, the surrounding snow resonated intensely, as if he were the sole monarch of this frozen world!

"Change!"

Suddenly, Xue Bingchen gave a low shout, and his movements shifted violently.

The long ice spear instantly disintegrated, turning into countless ice-blue motes of light.

Following that, these motes attached themselves to Xue Bingchen's arms with incredible speed!

The next moment, a shocking scene unfolded!

Xue Bingchen's originally slender arms transformed, amidst a biting cold light, into two enormous, terrifying, ice-blue scorpion pincers!

At this moment, his arms became as hard as ten-thousand-year black ice, radiating a terrifying pressure capable of freezing the soul!

"Ice Empress Pincer!"

Xue Bingchen let out a low roar toward the sky, swinging his arms forward violently. The two massive ice-blue pincers struck the enormous snow-covered rock that had stood for countless years with the force of a landslide!

"Boom—!!!"

A thunderous sound, as if the earth were shattering, exploded at the peak of the mountain!

The terrifying, extreme destructive power pulverized the iron-hard rock and the thick snow within a radius of dozens of meters into flying dust the moment they made contact!

Not only that, the ice crystals attached to the giant pincers refracted brilliant yet lethal ice-blue halos under the sunlight, slicing the surrounding space into fragments!

One must know that as one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's most powerful weapons, aside from her tail that could pierce anything, were this pair of indestructible front pincers!

And now, this terrifying killing move, exclusive to a four-hundred-thousand-year-old fierce beast, had been replicated almost perfectly by a twelve-year-old human boy!

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Just then, a crisp sound of applause rang out in the wind and snow.

Accompanied by the dancing ice crystals, a petite, exquisite figure in a jade-green dress appeared silently behind Xue Bingchen.

It was none other than the second-ranked of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North—the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, the Ice Empress!

The Ice Empress looked at the flattened rock ahead, her jade-green eyes flashing with undisguised joy and admiration.

She nodded in satisfaction, a proud curve forming on her lips.

"Not bad, very not bad!"

The Ice Empress did not hold back her praise, saying in a delicate voice:

"Although you, little Chen, did not awaken the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion as your martial soul, your ultimate control over ice elements has reached an unfathomable level!"

"To think you could rely on your understanding of Ultimate Ice to forcibly manifest my strongest weapon using ice elements! With this, plus the day-in, day-out personal guidance and sparring I've given you over these years, you've actually managed to execute one of my most powerful innate skills—the Ice Empress Pincer!"

Speaking to this point, the Ice Empress tilted her head, as if recalling something, and asked with some curiosity:

"Right, Xiao Chen, in the words of you human soul masters, what do you call those moves you create yourself without relying on soul rings?"

Hearing the Ice Empress's question, Xue Bingchen paused his movements.

The massive scorpion pincers on his arms instantly dissolved into ice and snow, revealing his slender, powerful arms once more.

The next moment, Xue Bingchen's figure suddenly blurred in place.

"Swish!"

Not far in front of the Ice Empress, an ordinary snowflake that had been drifting in the wind suddenly erupted with a brilliant ice-blue light.

Immediately after, Xue Bingchen's tall and handsome figure stepped directly out of that snowflake, as if he had been hidden within it all along!

Such a god-like teleportation was simply impossible to guard against!

Xue Bingchen looked at the dainty and lovely Ice Empress before him, a gentle smile tugging at the corners of his mouth as he softly replied:

"Aunt Ice Empress, in the parlance of the human soul master world, skills that do not rely on soul ring bestowal and are created entirely through one's own understanding of their martial soul and elements are collectively known as—Self-Created Soul Skills!"

"Self-Created Soul Skills?"

Upon hearing this, the Ice Empress nodded thoughtfully:

"Yes, that's the term! So it's called a Self-Created Soul Skill! Hmph, as expected of the little monster I watched grow up; with this talent, surely no one in the human soul master world can compare!"

After praising Xue Bingchen, the Ice Empress's tone suddenly shifted. Her emerald-green eyes locked onto Xue Bingchen's chest, her voice laced with a clear sense of dissatisfaction and resentment.

"Xue'er! You've been inside Xiao Chen's body for three whole days! Do you not intend to come out yet?!"