Xiao Wu tugged angrily at the rabbit ears atop her head, looking utterly aggrieved and indignant.
"I really want to beat him up! But... but he has over twenty levels of Soul Power, while I've only just undergone Transformation. I can't beat him..."
"Besides, his martial soul looks like a pig and even farts! It's just too ugly, too disgusting! I don't want to be his disciple at all!"
Just as Xiao Wu lowered her head and furiously complained about Yu Xiaogang,
suddenly, her vision darkened. A tall, slender figure appeared before her without warning.
"Ah!"
Xiao Wu jumped in fright and abruptly raised her head.
The moment she saw the face of the person before her, she froze.
So handsome!
Such a handsome white-haired big brother!
The man before her had snow-white hair drifting in the wind. His features seemed like Heaven's most perfect creation, his bearing noble and aloof, as though he were an immortal banished from a painting!
Xiao Wu swore that this was absolutely the most handsome and captivating male creature she had ever seen since taking human form—no, in all her hundred thousand years of life!
Compared with Yu Xiaogang, with his unshaven face, lecherous eyes, and pig-like martial soul, this white-haired big brother was simply one in the Ninth Heaven and the other in a stinking ditch!
There was no comparison at all!
Just as Xiao Wu stared at Xue Bingchen's handsome face, unable to stop her cheeks from flushing and her heart from racing, to the point that she had even forgotten her earlier grievance,
suddenly!
Without any warning!
An incomparably majestic, icy female voice, carrying the terrifying pressure of an endless superior being, exploded like thunder directly within the depths of Xiao Wu's mind!
"Little one..."
The voice was ethereal and vast, instantly freezing Xiao Wu's soul.
"Can you tell me why you made such a foolish choice and chose to undergo Transformation and cultivate anew?"
"As a Soft Bone Rabbit that had only recently crossed the threshold of a hundred thousand years, you could clearly have lived peacefully until the arrival of your second heavenly tribulation. Even if you failed to overcome the second tribulation and become a Ferocious Beast, you would still have had a long life ahead of you. Why did you insist on coming to the human world?
"If you encountered a human Title Douluo, you would inevitably become a Spirit Ring prepared for their descendants! Are you seeking death?"
Boom!
Upon hearing that voice, Xiao Wu's little face, which had still carried a faint blush, instantly turned as pale as paper!
Her beautiful eyes filled with unprecedented terror and despair!
"How does she know I'm a... a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast?!"
"How... how can she see through my true form?!"
"Y-you, who exactly are you?"
Xiao Wu stood rigidly where she was, not daring to move even a finger.
She felt like a rabbit that had been skinned alive, completely exposed before an unimaginably terrifying existence!
But...
Xiao Wu's beautiful eyes were filled with unprecedented fear, yet also with deep confusion.
"Why... why is there an icy, majestic female voice echoing in my mind, while the one standing before me is a tall and handsome human big brother?"
Xiao Wu trembled violently, her mind utterly blank.
"Could it be... could this big brother be a Title Douluo?! Otherwise, how could he see through my true form at a glance?!"
The moment the words "Title Douluo" crossed her mind, Xiao Wu felt as though she had fallen into an ice cellar, her blood seeming to freeze solid!
Human Title Douluo were the mortal enemies of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts!
What they loved most was raising and hunting Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts like her, who had only just undergone Transformation and possessed no ability to protect themselves.
Though they already had nine Spirit Rings and could not absorb another, they could keep her until her offspring grew strong, then hunt her to seize her Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone!
"It's over... I've only just undergone Transformation. I haven't even had the chance to take revenge, and now I'm going to die here?"
Xiao Wu closed her eyes in despair, tears welling uncontrollably in her eyes.
Looking at the little rabbit before him, trembling like a quail from fright, Xue Bingchen shook his head helplessly.
"Mom..."
Xue Bingchen gave a bitter smile inwardly and complained helplessly.
"Your entrance was far too domineering. You've obviously terrified this little rabbit.
"She probably thinks I'm some perverted Title Douluo who wants to kill her for her Spirit Ring."
"Hmph, so timid."
Snow Empress's ethereal voice sounded in Xue Bingchen's mind, carrying a trace of haughty disdain.
The next moment!
Before Xiao Wu's horrified gaze, an incomparably pure power of ultimate ice and snow, seemingly capable of freezing souls, suddenly erupted from Xue Bingchen's body!
Immediately afterward, an incomparably beautiful phantom, like an ice-and-snow goddess descending into the world, slowly separated from Xue Bingchen's body. It eventually took the form of a woman with long, snow-white hair and a flawless, perfect face!
It was none other than Snow Empress!
"W-what is this?!"
Xiao Wu was utterly stunned at the sight of this celestial big sister who had suddenly appeared, so shocked that she even forgot to be afraid.
Before she could react, Snow Empress merely cast her a faint glance, then extended one jade-white hand and gently grasped Xiao Wu's shoulder.
Her other hand naturally took hold of Xue Bingchen's hand.
Whoosh—!
Wind and snow flashed!
Xiao Wu only felt the world spin around her as the scenery around her instantly blurred!
In the span of a single breath!
When Xiao Wu opened her eyes again, she discovered in horror that she, the white-haired big brother, and this suddenly appearing, breathtakingly beautiful big sister were no longer on the bustling tree-lined path at Notting Academy!
They were now standing in an extremely secluded, rarely visited grove on the back mountain of Notting Academy!
"Tele... teleportation? So fast!"
Xiao Wu dropped onto the ground in fright, looking at Snow Empress as though she were an incomprehensible monster.
Yet what Xiao Wu found even more unbelievable was...
When she calmed down slightly and carefully sensed the aura of this celestial big sister before her, the keen instincts belonging to her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast suddenly began screaming wildly!
"Such... such a familiar aura!"
Xiao Wu's eyes widened as she stared fixedly at Snow Empress, blurting out,
"You... why do you have the aura of us Soul Beasts on you?! Could it be... you're also a Soul Beast?!"
Facing Xiao Wu's shocked and bewildered gaze, Snow Empress's stunningly beautiful face remained completely calm.
She looked down at Xiao Wu, who was sitting on the ground, and nodded indifferently. Her voice was as cold and majestic as Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice.
"You guessed correctly, little one. I, too, am a Soul Beast."
"I am the Heavenly Snow Woman of the Far North, foremost among the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, ruler of the Far North—Snow Empress!"
Snow Empress paused slightly, her gaze piercing Xiao Wu like lightning.
"Have you... ever heard my name?"
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