Even with the top-tier Ultimate Ice and Snow martial soul, Xue Bingchen's Soul Power still rose at a pace fast enough to leave every genius in despair and green with envy!
There were three main reasons for this.
First was naturally his unprecedented, unmatched monstrous talent, along with the mysterious power of his bloodline.
Second was his heaven-defying third soul skill, Soul of the Snow Woman, as well as Snow Empress's close support as a seven-hundred-thousand-year super cheat, which gave him an endless source of motivation to cultivate.
Third, and most importantly!
As the young master of the Far North and the darling of Snow Empress and Ice Empress, Xue Bingchen had spent the past several years eating top-grade heavenly treasures from the Far North—things the outside world would never even glimpse—as if they were candy!
Millennium Snow Lotus, Ice Marrow... With enough of those things piled on, even a pig could be turned into a divine pig!
Not to mention that every Spirit Ring he absorbed had far exceeded the maximum age human Soul Masters could endure!
Every time he absorbed a Spirit Ring beyond his level, his body and Soul Power underwent a qualitative leap!
All those heaven-defying opportunities stacked together had created the monstrous youth he was today!
Now, at only twelve years old, Xue Bingchen's true Soul Power Level had already reached a terrifying realm that would make teachers from every advanced Soul Master Academy outside ashamed enough to jump off a building!
Level sixty-eight!
That was right, a twelve-year-old level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor!
He was only two levels away from breaking through to level seventy, becoming a Soul Saint, and forming his Martial Soul Avatar!
But if anyone truly regarded him as an ordinary level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor, they would definitely die horribly.
Forget Soul Saints—even if he encountered Spirit Douluo experts above level eighty who had activated their Martial Soul Avatars, if they truly fought to the death, then with Ultimate Ice's elemental suppression and his endless terrifying soul skills, it was hard to say who would emerge victorious!
Why did he possess such terrifying strength to fight above his rank?
One look at his Spirit Ring configuration, brilliant enough to blind everyone, would make everything clear!
"Phew..."
Xue Bingchen took a deep breath, and his gaze instantly turned cold and sharp.
He suddenly stepped forward with his right foot and stomped heavily upon the peak of the snow mountain!
Boom!
An incomparably terrifying Ultimate Ice and Snow storm erupted around him!
The next moment, an exquisite figure several zhang tall slowly emerged behind Xue Bingchen. She was as holy and noble as a goddess, with features seventy percent similar to Snow Empress's!
It was his top-tier martial soul—the Heavenly Snow Woman!
The instant Martial Soul Possession took effect, Xue Bingchen's aura underwent an earth-shaking transformation, making him seem like a young god who ruled over ice and snow.
At the same time, waves of palpitating Soul Power spread outward.
One ring, two rings, three rings...
A full six Spirit Rings radiating terrifying pressure slowly rose from beneath Xue Bingchen's feet, pulsing up and down around his tall, slender body!
Purple, purple, black, black, black, red!
Two purple, three black, one red!
There were no hundred-year yellow rings!
He began directly with thousand-year purple Spirit Rings!
Starting from his third Spirit Ring, every one of them was a ten-thousand-year black Spirit Ring!
As for the sixth Spirit Ring, that largest crimson ring made even the surrounding ice and snow pale in comparison.
Twelve years old, a level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor, and a heaven-defying Spirit Ring configuration of two purple, three black, and one red!
This was the report card handed in by Xue Bingchen, the young master of the Far North!
Purple, purple, black, black, black, red!
The six Spirit Rings pulsed slowly beneath Xue Bingchen's feet like six dazzling yet lethal halos of stars.
Especially the sixth Spirit Ring at the very end, which was entirely an eerie, heart-palpitating crimson!
The terrifying pressure unique to a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring surged like tangible waves, washing over the wind and snow of the Far North again and again.
A purple-purple-black-black-black-red Spirit Ring configuration!
The most eye-catching, most soul-shaking hundred-thousand-year red Spirit Ring!
A Soul Emperor cultivation level as high as sixty-eight!
When all those unbelievable miracles were concentrated upon a youth of merely twelve, the visual impact and spiritual shock they produced were simply beyond words!
If any Soul Master from the outside world were here at this moment, even if Bibi Dong, the Pope of Spirit Hall, personally arrived, she would likely be so stunned by the scene before her that she would begin to doubt her entire life and perhaps even suffer a collapse of her Dao heart!
Twelve years old!
Although Xue Bingchen had developed a tall, slender physique of one meter ninety through years of consuming heavenly treasures and the continual tempering of his Body Martial Soul, with muscles as perfectly defined as a Greek statue—
No matter how mature and handsome he looked, his true bone age was undeniably only twelve!
A twelve-year-old level-sixty-eight Soul Emperor had already shattered every cultivation record in the history of Douluo Continent, leaving second place a hundred and eight thousand miles behind!
Yet after silently calculating his own cultivation, which was enough to shock the world, Xue Bingchen's assessment was:
Satisfied, but not entirely satisfied.
"Alas, the cultivation speed restriction of ultimate martial souls truly lived up to its reputation."
Watching the icy-blue Soul Power flow across his palm, Xue Bingchen could not help sighing softly to himself.
Others only saw the boundless glory of his reaching level sixty-eight at twelve, but they did not know that if not for the Heavenly Snow Woman, an Ultimate Ice martial soul so overbearing that the laws of heaven and earth had forcibly suppressed and greatly slowed his cultivation speed between levels thirty and seventy...
With the heavenly treasures he consumed like daily meals, together with the immense energy feedback gained from absorbing Spirit Rings beyond his limits, his true cultivation might already have reached the peak of level seventy-nine Soul Saint!
Even breaking through level eighty in one stroke and becoming a twelve-year-old Spirit Douluo would not have been some fantasy!
"Still, one cannot be too greedy. Level sixty-eight, combined with my heaven-defying combat strength, is enough for me to swagger across Douluo Continent even if I leave the Far North."
A confident smile curved across Xue Bingchen's lips.
He knew very clearly just how monstrous his current combat strength was.
Though he appeared to be merely a Soul Emperor, his exceptional Spirit Rings, far beyond conventional standards, combined with Ultimate Ice's elemental suppression, granted him a terrifying ability to fight above his rank!
Without exaggeration, as long as he remained in the icy, snowy home ground of the Far North, even an ordinary Spirit Douluo above level eighty would gain no advantage against him. More likely, they would be left forever within the wind and snow, transformed into an ice sculpture!
"But a Soul Emperor is ultimately still a Soul Emperor."
Xue Bingchen looked toward the outskirts of the Far North, where the human continent lay.
"For Soul Masters, level seventy is a massive dividing line. Only after breaking through to Soul Saint and activating the Martial Soul Avatar will a Soul Master's attributes and the power of their soul skills undergo a true qualitative transformation!"
"Once I break through level seventy and unleash the Heavenly Snow Woman's Martial Soul Avatar... then, with all the trump cards I possess, I should barely be able to bully those ordinary Title Douluo of the human world, right?"
At twelve years old, he was already considering how to bully Title Douluo!
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