Path to Godhood

The Ice Dragon King shook her head. "No, you still can't sacrifice yourself. To gather the Power of Faith, you need a God Statue. If no one guards it and it is damaged, all previous efforts will be wasted."

"You will remain here and watch over Da Gu's God Statue. When he breaks through to Limit Douluo, I'll bring him to find you."

"Then you will combine with my origin power and become Da Gu's tenth soul ring."

Gu Yuan had listened from the side the entire time, and he could not help sighing at the painstaking care of his little mother.

For the sake of helping him become a god, she had considered every aspect.

She had even specially prepared a High Priest for him.

And it was Snow Empress, who had condensed a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core.

That gave him another option.

A moment later, the Ice Dragon King finished arranging the details for gathering Power of Faith for Gu Yuan in advance.

Under Gu Yuan's gaze, Snow Empress drifted out of the great hall.

Stepping through the void, her graceful body danced through the air.

Her aura slowly spread...

Gu Yuan was astonished to discover that everything around them had darkened, as though the entire world had dimmed. The original endless snow had vanished from the world.

All the ice and snow had turned blue.

Only Snow Empress, dancing in the sky, remained pure white.

Her long sleeves swayed, strips of white silk fluttering around her as they danced. Snowflakes unfurled and surged around her.

Snow Empress had always been extraordinarily beautiful. At this moment, she was like an elf of the snow, and her graceful dance seemed to make her the very heart of the Far North.

The fierce winds in the sky softened beneath her dance. As Snow Empress twirled, even the temperature seemed less bitterly cold.

There was no warmth, nor was there coldness—only a pure, refreshing chill.

"So beautiful."

Gu Yuan was entranced and murmured unconsciously.

The Ice Dragon King gave him a teasing smile. "Beautiful? Then how about Mother gives her to you as your wife someday?"

Gu Yuan paused, then nodded heavily. "Okay."

He was a normal man, with normal physical needs.

With such a beautiful snow elf as Snow Empress for a wife, surely no one present could refuse.

As Snow Empress continued her breathtaking dance, the blue spread farther and farther away.

As far as the eye could see, the entire space had turned blue.

Gu Yuan gradually lost himself in the solo dance,

until vast quantities of powerful ice-element energy appeared in the distance, jolting him awake.

He hurriedly used Element Control to investigate the surrounding situation.

The snowy world that had previously stretched endlessly, with no trace of life in sight, now had at least thousands upon thousands of soul beasts gathering in this direction.

There was the Titan Snow Ape King, leading over a hundred Titan Snow Apes.

There was the Ice Bear King, whose strength was no weaker than the Titan Snow Ape King.

He likewise led a group of Ice Bears, though their numbers were much smaller than those of the Titan Snow Ape clan.

Besides them, there were many other ice-element soul beasts that Gu Yuan had never heard of or seen before, soul beasts that had not even been mentioned in the original work.

Of course, what caught his attention most was the Ice Jade Scorpion clan.

An emerald-green scorpion with the aura of an emperor and an extraordinarily beautiful appearance tore through the air. Her aura was not as powerful as Snow Empress's.

Yet it was even more domineering.

Before her true body had even arrived, the Titan Snow Ape clan, the Ice Bear clan, and all the other soul beasts

all consciously made way for her.

"Snow... Snow Empress, you succeeded."

Before all the soul beasts of the Far North, Ice Empress ultimately did not call Snow Empress Xue'er. It was a way of preserving Snow Empress's dignity.

Yet the delight on her face could not be concealed.

She was even happier than if she herself had condensed a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core.

"Yes, Bing'er, I succeeded. And it is all thanks to Lord Ice God."

Snow Empress smiled faintly and looked in Gu Yuan's direction.

Lord Ice God?

Including Ice Empress, every soul beast present showed a puzzled expression.

Although the legend of the Ice God had existed in the Far North for a long time, not a single soul beast had ever seen him.

Not even Ice Empress and the Titan Snow Ape King, two of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, had.

Snow Empress said nothing and turned to drift toward Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan's gaze went slightly blank. The Ice Dragon King beside him immediately turned into a streak of blue light and returned to his Spirit Sea, reminding him,

"Foolish boy, snap out of it. Hurry and give her your hand."

Gu Yuan uttered an "Oh" and extended his right hand. The moment he did, Snow Empress grabbed it and, before everyone's eyes, flew out of the Ice Snow Palace.

Snow Empress's hand was cool, as though it did not possess the slightest warmth, yet it felt incredibly comfortable and made one unconsciously sink into it.

At the same time, the soul beasts outside erupted into an uproar.

The other soul beasts were relatively restrained. Intimidated by Snow Empress's authority, none dared say anything.

But Ice Empress was not one to yield. Seeing Snow Empress holding a human's hand—and that human was even male—

Ice Empress's jealousy immediately exploded. "Snow Empress, have you lost your mind? How is he Lord Ice God? He's clearly just a human! Snow Empress, he has deceived you."

Snow Empress frowned.

"Leave everything to me from here on."

Ice crystal wings with blade-sharp edges unfolded behind Gu Yuan. He slowly released Snow Empress's hand, and Snow Empress looked at him in surprise.

After Gu Yuan smiled and met her gaze, he flapped his wings and flew to a position ten feet in front of Snow Empress.

"You innately evil human, you dare bewitch Snow Empress? I'll get rid of you right now."

Ice Empress swung her scorpion claw, and a vast wave of frigid energy enveloped Gu Yuan.

Yet before it could come within three meters of him, it melted away like snow beneath the spring sun.

"Human, you're courting death." Ice Empress assumed Snow Empress was secretly helping him, and she was anxious, furious, and jealous.

As she spoke, she transformed into a streak of emerald light and charged at Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan neither dodged nor evaded. A faint icy-blue radiance surged from his body, and a blue-gold soul ring rose beneath his feet, blooming with dazzling light.

Descent of the Ice God!

Gu Yuan shouted, and the blue-gold soul ring abruptly expanded, turning into an enormous dragon-shaped magic formation that rose above his head.

Roar— An ancient, resounding dragon cry rang out.

The next second, a phantom of a frost dragon a thousand meters long appeared, radiating a divine aura.

Ice Empress's charge came to an abrupt halt.

She felt a vast pressure far beyond Snow Empress sweep over her entire body.

Unable to endure it, she let out a shrill cry and fell to the ground.

Her body lay prostrate in the snow, unable to move in the slightest.

"It really is Lord Ice God!"

No matter where one was, the strong had always been revered. They watched Gu Yuan suppress Ice Empress with a mere gesture.

He had also displayed an aura far stronger than Snow Empress's.

A bloodline even nobler than Snow Empress's.

It made every soul beast feel an unprecedented suppression from their bloodlines.

Including the Titan Snow Ape King and Ice Bear King, all the soul beasts prostrated themselves.

"How is this possible?" Ice Empress struggled to raise her head and stared at the enormous frost phantom in the sky, her eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

Snow Empress also wanted to kneel, but Gu Yuan held her up by the hand.

The two of them were supported in the palm of the frost dragon phantom.

In a voice only he and Snow Empress could hear, Gu Yuan murmured softly, "Little Mother, I'll leave everything to you from here on."