Great Cold, No Snow, Snow Dance Shining Sun!

At twelve years old, he was already calculating how to bully a Title Douluo!

If these words were to spread, he would undoubtedly be branded a madman.

But to Xue Bingchen, it felt like a matter of course.

This was because his confidence did not merely stem from his terrifying Soul Power Level, but from soul skills so powerful they could be called heaven-defying!

Take, for instance, the fourth, fifth, and sixth soul rings he obtained upon breaking through to level forty, fifty, and sixty.

The soul skills bestowed upon him by these three rings were none other than the signature techniques used by his stunning mother—the Lord of the Far North, the Snow Empress—to look down upon the entire Douluo Continent!

The world-shaking—Three Ultimates of the Snow Empress!

Back when Xue Bingchen was only a Soul Grand Master in his twenties, he had once relied on his extraordinary comprehension of ice and snow to barely trigger a faint sliver of the power of "Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless," instantly slaying a five-thousand-year-old Ice Flood Dragon with a single strike.

As his soul power continued to rise and his control over Ultimate Ice became increasingly peerless, his grasp of the Three Ultimates of the Snow Empress grew deep into his very marrow.

When he broke through to level forty and absorbed that ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, he finally fully unlocked this soul skill—[Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless]!

If the Emperor Sword he used at level twenty was merely a child's clumsy imitation of a peerless swordsman with a wooden sword, capable of capturing only a hint of its form.

Then now, as he formally unleashed this fourth soul skill with the cultivation of a Soul Emperor, his Emperor Sword truly possessed a fraction of the supreme essence that the Snow Empress herself wielded!

"Clang—!"

With a mere thought from Xue Bingchen, the phantom of the "Heavenly Snow Woman" martial soul, standing dozens of meters tall behind him, suddenly opened its eyes.

The phantom's crystal-clear jade hands gripped the void, and a peerless Emperor Sword, condensed entirely from Ultimate Ice and radiating a cold light so profound it seemed capable of freezing the soul, appeared in her grasp.

As Xue Bingchen pointed his fingers like a blade and swept them forward.

The beautiful silhouette of the Heavenly Snow Woman behind him swung her sword in unison!

In an instant, an ice-blue sword glow, brilliant to the extreme and seemingly capable of cleaving the very heavens and earth in two, surged forth, carrying with it an unparalleled dominance!

The elegance of this strike was peerless, solitary, and proud!

The sheer presence and invincible charm displayed in that moment were as if the Snow Empress herself had crossed space to strike, leaving one unable to do anything but bow in worship!

Naturally, upon breaking through to level fifty and sixty, Xue Bingchen's fifth and sixth soul rings allowed him to master the remaining two techniques of the Three Ultimates of the Snow Empress!

Fifth Soul Skill: [Emperor Palm: Great Cold No Snow]!

Sixth Soul Skill: [Emperor Cold Heaven: Snow Dance Shining Sun]!

"Hoo..."

Xue Bingchen slowly retracted the edge of his Emperor Sword and raised his right hand, observing the nearly imperceptible, strange ice-snow patterns on his palm.

The might of the Emperor Palm was incredibly tyrannical!

It was a terrifying palm technique that compressed ultimate cold energy to its absolute limit.

On the surface, it appeared light and airy, devoid of any worldly aura, not even disturbing a single snowflake—hence the name, Great Cold No Snow.

But once struck by this palm...

Even a ten-thousand-year-level soul beast with thick skin and astonishing defensive capabilities would have its meridians, bones, and soul instantly frozen by the ultimate cold invading its body, before turning into a cloud of ice-snow dust with a "bang," leaving not even a drop of blood behind!

This was the terrifying lethality of the Emperor Palm! An absolute one-hit-kill divine skill!

However, despite its peerless power, the Emperor Palm had one fatal limitation—it required the palm itself to make solid contact with the opponent's body to unleash its destructive force.

In other words, it was a purely close-range, single-target skill.

If an opponent was extremely fast or possessed some form of evasion skill, the threat of the Emperor Palm would vanish entirely the moment they dodged the strike.

For many soul masters, this was a difficult shortcoming to overcome.

After all, no matter how high your attack power, it was useless if you couldn't hit your target.

But!

To Xue Bingchen, this limitation was as good as non-existent!

It could be completely ignored!

Why?

Because he possessed that monstrously overpowered second soul skill—[Glazed Ice-Snow Heart]!

The effect of this skill allowed Xue Bingchen to instantly disintegrate his physical body into a flurry of falling snow, then reform it anywhere that snowflakes were falling.

This meant that as long as there was snow, he could perform infinite teleports with no wind-up and no traceable trajectory!

Just imagine.

In the heat of battle, Xue Bingchen's figure moved like a phantom; one second he was a hundred meters away, and the next, accompanied by a falling snowflake, he would teleport behind you without any warning!

And then, that Emperor Palm, containing the terrifying power of "Great Cold No Snow," would already be silently pressed against your back!

Teleportation + Absolute One-Hit-Kill!

This incredibly unreasonable assassin-style play, combined with his ghostly movement technique, was enough to rank among the best in the world!

Never mind Soul Emperors of the same level or Soul Saints a few levels higher; even a Soul Douluo with powerful spiritual perception would break into a cold sweat when faced with such an impossible-to-guard assassination combo, and a moment of carelessness would result in death!

"However, the teleportation of the Glazed Ice-Snow Heart has one prerequisite: there must be snow."

Xue Bingchen stroked his chin.

In the Far North, this was certainly not a problem.

But if he were to go to the human continent later, in those environments devoid of ice and snow, would he really have to foolishly expend a massive amount of soul power to artificially create snow before he could teleport?

In the ever-changing flux of battle, the opportunity would have long since passed!

However, that blinding hundred-thousand-year red sixth soul ring of Xue Bingchen's perfectly resolved this final shortcoming!

Furthermore, it allowed him to successfully exploit a heaven-defying "system bug"!

"Hum--!"

The hundred-thousand-year red soul ring beneath Xue Bingchen's feet suddenly flared, emitting a hum that shook the soul!

Sixth Soul Skill, [Emperor Cold Heaven, Snow Dance Shining Sun]!

This was an extremely rare and incredibly powerful hundred-thousand-year domain-type soul skill!

"Expand!"

With a low shout from Xue Bingchen.

In an instant, a terrifyingly frigid storm surged outward from him as the center, sweeping madly in all directions!

In just a single breath of time, a massive area with a diameter of several thousand meters, centered on Xue Bingchen himself, was instantly enveloped by a strange ice-blue light barrier!

Within this domain of several thousand meters, Xue Bingchen was the absolute god!

Once the domain was deployed, it not only terrifically enhanced the power of all his own soul skills and his absolute control over ice and snow elements.

More importantly...