At twelve years old, he was already plotting how to torment a Title Douluo!
If word of this got out, people would definitely think he was insane.
But Xue Bingchen found it perfectly natural.
Because his confidence came not only from his terrifying Soul Power Level, but also from his overwhelmingly powerful, heaven-defying soul skills!
Take the fourth, fifth, and sixth Spirit Rings he obtained when he broke through level forty, fifty, and sixty, respectively.
The soul skills bestowed by these three Spirit Rings were none other than the signature techniques his stunningly beautiful mother—the Lord of the Far North, the Snow Empress—used to stand above all of Douluo Continent!
The world-shaking—Three Ultimates of the Snow Empress!
Back when Xue Bingchen was still a Soul Grandmaster at over level twenty, he had relied on his extraordinary affinity for ice and snow to barely invoke a sliver of the power of "Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless," killing a five-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon with a single slash.
As his Soul Power continued to rise and his control over Ultimate Ice became ever more exceptional, his understanding of the Three Ultimates of the Snow Empress also sank deeper into his bones.
When he broke through level forty and absorbed that ten-thousand-year fourth Spirit Ring, he finally completely unlocked this soul skill—[Emperor Sword, Ice Extreme Peerless]!
If the Emperor Sword he used at level twenty had merely been a child's clumsy imitation of a peerless swordsman wielding a wooden sword, capable of displaying only the barest resemblance—
Then now, when he formally unleashed this fourth soul skill with the cultivation of a Soul Emperor, his Emperor Sword truly possessed a fraction of the Snow Empress's own supreme essence!
"Clang—!"
With only a thought from Xue Bingchen, the towering Heavenly Snow Woman martial soul phantom behind him, dozens of zhang high, abruptly opened her eyes.
The phantom's crystalline jade hand gently closed around empty air, and a peerless Emperor Sword formed entirely from Ultimate Ice appeared in her grasp, radiating a profound chill that seemed capable of freezing the soul itself.
As Xue Bingchen raised two fingers like a sword and lightly swept them forward—
The lovely figure of the Heavenly Snow Woman behind him swung her sword as well!
In an instant, an ice-blue sword radiance of ultimate brilliance burst forth, as though it could cleave the entire world in two, carrying unmatched majesty as it crashed forward!
The bearing of that sword was peerless and solitary, lofty and proud!
The sheer grandeur and invincible charm it revealed in that instant made it seem as if the Snow Empress herself had crossed space to strike, leaving people unable to resist the urge to kneel in worship!
Naturally, when Xue Bingchen broke through level fifty and level sixty, his fifth and sixth Spirit Rings also allowed him to comprehend the remaining two great techniques of the Three Ultimates of the Snow Empress!
Fifth soul skill: [Emperor Palm, Great Cold Without Snow]!
Sixth soul skill: [Emperor Cold Heaven, Snow Dance Shining Sun]!
"Whew..."
Xue Bingchen slowly withdrew the edge of his Emperor Sword and raised his right hand, looking at the nearly imperceptible, strange ice-snow patterns on his palm.
The power of the Emperor Palm was exceedingly domineering!
It was a terrifying palm technique that compressed and contained extreme cold to the absolute limit.
On the surface, it appeared light and effortless, without the slightest hint of violence. It would not even disturb a single snowflake, hence its name, Great Cold Without Snow.
But once someone was struck by that palm...
Even a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast with thick hide and astonishing defenses would have its meridians, bones, and soul instantly frozen by the Ultimate Ice invading its body. Then, with a bang, it would be completely reduced to powdery ice and snow that filled the sky, without leaving behind even a drop of blood!
That was the terrifying killing power of the Emperor Palm! An absolute one-hit-kill divine skill!
However, while the Emperor Palm's power was unparalleled, it had an extremely fatal limitation—it had to strike the opponent's body solidly with the actual palm in order to unleash its devastating might.
In other words, it was a purely close-range, single-target skill.
If the opponent was extremely fast or possessed some kind of evasion skill, then once they dodged and avoided being struck by the palm, the Emperor Palm would lose all its threat.
For many Soul Masters, this was a difficult weakness to overcome.
After all, no matter how high your attack power was, it was useless if you could not hit anyone.
But!
For Xue Bingchen, this limitation was practically nonexistent!
He could ignore it completely!
Why?
Because he possessed that utterly outrageous second soul skill—[Glazed Ice-Snow Heart]!
The effect of this soul skill was that Xue Bingchen could instantly break apart his body and transform into snow filling the sky, then instantly reconstruct himself anywhere snowflakes were falling.
That meant that as long as there was snow, he could teleport endlessly, with no windup and no trace to follow!
Just imagine it.
In the midst of a fierce battle, Xue Bingchen's figure moved like a ghost. One second, he was still a hundred meters away; the next, accompanied by a drifting snowflake, he had teleported behind you without warning!
Then, the Emperor Palm containing the terrifying might of "Great Cold Without Snow" was already pressed soundlessly against the center of your back!
Teleportation plus absolute instant kill!
This utterly unreasonable assassin-style fighting method, combined with his ghostlike movement technique, was enough to claim the pinnacle of the age!
Forget Soul Emperors of the same level or Soul Saints a few levels higher—even Spirit Douluo with powerful Mental Power would break out in a cold sweat when faced with such an impossible-to-guard-against assassination combo. One moment of carelessness would mean death and annihilation!
"However, the teleportation of Glazed Ice-Snow Heart also has one prerequisite: there must be snow."
Xue Bingchen rubbed his chin.
In the Far North, that was naturally not a problem.
But if he went to the human continent in the future, to environments without ice or snow, was he supposed to foolishly consume a great deal of Soul Power to make snow himself before teleporting?
In the rapidly changing tides of battle, it would be far too late by then!
Yet Xue Bingchen's dazzling hundred-thousand-year red sixth Spirit Ring perfectly solved this final weakness!
Moreover, it allowed him to exploit a heaven-defying "system bug"!
"Buzz—!"
The hundred-thousand-year red Spirit Ring beneath Xue Bingchen's feet suddenly lit up, releasing a hum that shook the soul!
Sixth soul skill, [Emperor Cold Heaven, Snow Dance Shining Sun]!
This was an exceptionally rare and exceptionally powerful hundred-thousand-year domain-type soul skill!
"Expand!"
With Xue Bingchen's low shout—
In an instant, an incomparably terrifying storm of extreme cold swept wildly outward in every direction from him as its center!
In no more than a single breath, an enormous area thousands of meters in diameter, centered on Xue Bingchen himself, was instantly enveloped by a strange ice-blue barrier!
Within this domain spanning thousands of meters, Xue Bingchen was an absolute god!
Once the domain was unleashed, it could not only terrifyingly amplify the power of all his soul skills and his absolute control over ice and snow elements.
More importantly...
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