Descent of the Ice God

A streak of icy-blue light silently drifted from Gu Yuan's brow and entered the enormous phantom of the Ice Dragon King summoned by Descent of the Ice God.

The Ice Dragon King's phantom instantly solidified.

Accompanied by an incomparably terrifying pressure.

An icy-blue halo suddenly spread outward.

This was the Ice Dragon Domain.

Moreover, it was an Ice Dragon Domain released by the Ice Dragon King's true body in conjunction with her remnant soul.

It was countless times more powerful than Gu Yuan's Ice Dragon Domain in its basic stage.

The next second, an astonishing scene unfolded.

Within the pressure of the Ice Dragon Domain.

Although the soul beasts who had come here felt the dragon might of ice, which rendered them utterly unable to move.

At the same time, vast ice-elemental energy from heaven and earth flowed into their bodies in the gentlest possible manner.

For a moment, the soul beasts' cultivation underwent earth-shaking changes.

Ten-year soul beasts became hundred-year ones, hundred-year ones became thousand-year ones, thousand-year ones became ten-thousand-year ones, and even the ten-thousand-year soul beasts gained at least twenty to thirty thousand years of cultivation.

Several soul beasts nearing one hundred thousand years even directly broke through to one hundred thousand years.

"Long live the Ice God! Long live the Ice God! Long live the Ice God!"

At this moment, all the soul beasts of the Far North erupted in fervor.

If the many soul beasts had prostrated themselves earlier because they had yielded to the god-level pressure displayed by the Ice Dragon's descent, as well as the bloodline suppression that far surpassed the Snow Empress's.

Then now, they submitted from the bottom of their hearts.

After all, even the Emperor Auspicious Beast, which could double the growth rate of soul beasts, could make countless soul beasts and even ferocious beasts submit.

There was even less need to mention this Ice Dragon Domain, which genuinely spared soul beasts decades, centuries, millennia, or even tens of thousands of years of arduous cultivation.

It went without saying.

Even the Ice Empress lowered her proud head. "It really is the Ice God."

Her cultivation had also increased.

If the other party had not deliberately restrained it, she would likely have already broken through four hundred thousand years and attracted a heavenly tribulation.

But she could suppress it for at most another year.

This left the Ice Empress both delighted and troubled.

She was delighted to receive the Ice God's protection, which would greatly increase her cultivation speed in the future.

She was troubled because she had no confidence in surviving the four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.

The Ice Bear King was the same.

However, as it was nearing its three-hundred-thousand-year great tribulation, it did not think as much. It merely looked respectfully at the Snow Empress and Gu Yuan, who stood in the Ice Dragon King's palm.

Just then, an unexpected change occurred.

Dark clouds suddenly gathered in the sky, while lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.

The Snow Empress had just broken through seven hundred thousand years.

Yet the Snow Empress showed no fear whatsoever.

She had already condensed the Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core. Though there was still some danger.

She was highly confident that she could overcome this heavenly tribulation.

"Brother, I must undergo my tribulation. Please stand aside for now."

The Snow Empress looked solemnly at the blue-clad youth beside her.

Gu Yuan raised his head toward the terrifying lightning tribulation carrying the majestic might of heaven and muttered, "Little Mother, since you've already revealed your true body, give Xue'er a hand while you're at it."

The Ice Dragon King, whose phantom had fused and solidified, glanced at Gu Yuan in surprise, then teased them in their minds with a half-smile.

"So soon, my precious son already knows how to dote on his wife?"

Gu Yuan immediately felt guilty.

After a brief moment of astonishment, the Snow Empress's pretty face flushed faintly. Mother just said that Brother was doting on his wife. Could that wife be me?

The Ice Dragon King's enormous head tilted slightly forward before suddenly rising.

She opened her mouth and unleashed a freezing beam dozens of meters thick.

Carrying the terrifying chill of Absolute Zero.

With the heavenly tribulation at its center, the sky within a thousand li was frozen, shrouding the heavens and covering the sun.

Although the lightning tribulation still existed, more than half of its power had been weakened.

Not to mention the Snow Empress, who had already condensed the Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core.

Even the Ice Empress could have easily survived it.

It was roughly equivalent to the lowest-level, two-hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation.

The Snow Empress stepped forward. Without even using the Three Ultimates of the Snow Empress, she endured the lightning tribulation while protecting all the soul beasts below.

At this time, the duration of Descent of the Ice God had ended.

She carried Gu Yuan as she slowly descended above the Ice Snow Palace.

Roar!

After releasing another resounding dragon roar.

She transformed into a lifelike thousand-meter ice sculpture filled with sacred majesty, standing above the Ice Snow Palace and merging with it.

At the same time, the Ice Dragon King's voice rang out in Gu Yuan's mind. "I have fused one of the spiritual origins sealed within the Spirit Sea into the ice sculpture."

"From now on, this ice sculpture will be your God Statue."

"When you break through level ninety-nine in the future, have your little wife sacrifice herself to you."

"The seal within the God Statue will automatically be released, and the spiritual origin and power of faith will nourish you in return."

"However, I suggest that you come to the Far North once every year."

"Use Descent of the Ice God to display a miracle."

"Otherwise, relying on your wife alone, it will be difficult for her to gather enough power of faith for you without several hundred years."

The moment the Ice Dragon King finished speaking, Gu Yuan felt a wave of weakness suddenly wash over him.

This was not weakness in terms of Soul Power.

It was weakness of both body and spirit.

And this weakness would persist for an entire month afterward.

However, in order to maintain his own majesty before the soul beasts.

Gu Yuan still forced himself not to show it.

The Snow Empress seemed to have noticed this as well.

After finishing the lightning tribulation, she said to the soul beasts.

"You have all met the Ice God. Now, in my capacity as the High Priestess of the Ice God, I will establish a rule: all soul beasts of the Far North must come here once every year to devoutly worship the Ice God's God Statue."

"Alright. Bing'er and Xiao Bai, stay. Everyone else, disperse."

The soul beasts gradually dispersed, but some of them, including the Titan Snow Ape King, still chose to remain.

It was not that they did not respect the Snow Empress, the ruler of the Far North.

It was that they respected Lord Gu Yuan, the 'Ice God,' even more.

The Titan Snow Ape clan especially had always regarded themselves as descendants of the Ice God.

Now that they had seen their 'Father God,' they naturally revered him even more.

Without receiving Gu Yuan's command, they would not leave.

"The leader of the Titan Snow Ape clan may stay. Everyone else, withdraw."

Only after the Ice Dragon King spoke in Gu Yuan's voice did they finally leave.

With the Snow Empress supporting him, Gu Yuan floated before the Ice Empress, the Titan Snow Ape King, and the Ice Bear King.

"Greetings, Lord Ice God."

They saluted Gu Yuan in unison.

"Alright, there is no need for such formality."

Under the astonished gazes of the three great ferocious beasts, icy-blue light flashed around Gu Yuan's body, and a miniature ice dragon floated out of him before landing in front of the beasts.

"Uh..." The Ice Empress was dumbfounded. So the human before them was not the true Ice God after all.

And besides, why had the Ice God become so tiny?

"Bing'er, do not be disrespectful," the Snow Empress rebuked.

"Yes." Before the Ice Dragon King, the Ice Empress did not throw any sort of tantrum.

The Ice Dragon King looked at the Titan Snow Ape King and said, "I never expected that saving a Titan Giant by chance back then would create such a powerful soul beast race. When Da Gu mentioned you before, I was truly quite surprised. You should be Mount Tai's descendant, shouldn't you?"