The Overpowered Skills of the Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring (Bonus Chapter for Scarred Rose)

(PS: Thank you, Scarred Rose, for the 15,000 reading coins.)

Gu Yuan asked, "Little Mother, the soul ring you gave me is great."

"But this blue-gold soul ring is far too conspicuous. It'll be easy for people to notice it."

"Can you help me conceal it?"

The little girl thought for a while, then said,

"One of the skills in my Life Soul Ring is Element Control."

"It can control all ice and water elements, and even draw upon the natural energy of heaven and earth with ice and water attributes."

"Changing the color of an ice-attribute soul ring couldn't be easier."

Gu Yuan immediately felt reassured. "I understand. Thank you, Mother."

The blue light receded, and Gu Yuan's consciousness returned to his body.

He was surprised to discover that an extremely ancient meditation technique had appeared in his mind.

He then sensed the domain bestowed upon him by the Ice Dragon King.

Sure enough, he had gained an innate domain named Ice Dragon.

The Ice Dragon Domain's current basic skill was—Ice Crystal Wings.

Once activated, it could give Gu Yuan a pair of translucent ice crystal wings, granting him the ability to fly and increasing his speed by one hundred percent.

Each evolution of the Ice Dragon Domain would grant an additional one hundred percent increase in speed.

In other words, if the Ice Dragon Domain evolved to its final stage, Gu Yuan would be able to fly at five times his normal speed.

Gu Yuan followed the ancient meditation technique passed down by the Ice Dragon King and circulated the Soul Power within his body.

Ice Dragon Domain basic skill—Ice Crystal Wings, activate!

A pair of layered ice crystal wings, formed from dozens of diamond-shaped ice shards, unfurled behind his back. Their edges were as sharp as blades.

With one flap of his wings, Gu Yuan shot into the air, scattering tiny ice flowers from where he had stood.

However, he clearly could not fully control the ice crystal wings yet.

Only after flying halfway across did he realize that he could not stop.

Just as he was about to crash into a large tree on the opposite bank, icy-blue, flame-like energy rose around him, and the blue-gold soul ring flashed brilliantly into view.

Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring's first skill—Element Control, activate!

The blue-gold soul ring lit up. Gu Yuan waved both hands, and the river water rose on its own, forming a wall of water.

Gu Yuan slammed into the water wall. Although he fell into the river, he was not injured.

The river water seemed like an air cushion. Not only did it soften the impact, it did not even wet his clothes.

"Looks like I'll need to get more familiar with this flying skill in the future."

Gu Yuan let out a long breath.

The blue-gold soul ring continued to shine.

With a thought from Gu Yuan,

the river water beneath him automatically lifted him upright, then slowly carried him to the shore.

After retracting the Ice Crystal Wings, Gu Yuan began trying to change the soul ring's color.

To his delighted surprise, he found Element Control unexpectedly useful.

There was no need for any complicated control. As long as he imagined the color he wanted the soul ring to become when activating the skill, it would change accordingly.

After another flash of light, the blue-gold radiance transformed into yellow.

From its appearance,

it was no different from a yellow hundred-year soul ring.

Its aura was the same as well.

If he wanted it to reveal its original appearance,

then the next time Gu Yuan activated Element Control, he only needed to change it back.

Next, Gu Yuan tested Element Control's other abilities.

He found that the skill could draw upon the natural energy of heaven and earth with ice or water attributes.

It could greatly increase the attack power of skills of those two attributes.

At the same time,

it could replenish his Soul Power anytime and anywhere.

It was practically a perpetual-motion machine.

However, it was limited by his Soul Power Level.

At most, he could only release an amount of Soul Power equal to his current level at once.

Besides that, Element Control had other uses as well.

Gu Yuan would need to explore all of them slowly on his own.

After experiencing the Ice Dragon Domain and Element Control,

Gu Yuan began testing the Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring's other three skills.

"Mysterious Ice Dragon Spear!"

Gu Yuan shouted softly.

The Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring, already disguised as a yellow hundred-year soul ring, lit up.

Flame-like ice-attribute energy rose from Gu Yuan's body, and an ice-blue spear appeared in his hand.

The spear shaft was straight and about ten feet long. Its entire body was a translucent ice-blue.

Its spearhead was shaped like a dragon's head, with the dragon's mouth holding the spear tip and its body coiling around the base of the spearhead. Its wings spread out to either side.

The spear shaft was covered in fine patterns that reflected a dim sheen.

The sharp spear tip was a trihedral pyramid, razor-sharp and emanating an icy chill.

It was remarkably similar to the ice spear condensed from ice-attribute battle qi by the Ice Emperor Hai Bodong in the animated version of Battle Through the Heavens: Song of the Desert.

Gu Yuan gripped the spear with one hand,

locked his spiritual power onto a large tree across the river, and hurled it with all his strength.

Splat!

The towering tree, over ten meters high, instantly turned into an ice sculpture before exploding apart.

An ice crater over ten feet wide appeared where it had stood.

Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring's second skill—Mysterious Ice Dragon Spear!

The Ice Dragon King's strongest single-target skill, a weapon-type and enhancement-type soul skill. It increased all attributes by ten percent, while the Mysterious Ice Dragon Spear ignored ten percent of defense.

Once the soul ring's power was unsealed to the thousand-year level, it would increase all attributes by twenty percent and ignore twenty percent of defense.

At the ten-thousand-year level, it would increase all attributes by thirty percent and ignore thirty percent of defense.

At the hundred-thousand-year level, it would increase all attributes by fifty percent, ignore one hundred percent of physical defense, and ignore fifty percent of Soul Power defense.

At its maximum million-year level, it could increase all attributes by one hundred percent and ignore all defense.

Looking at the terrifying destructive power caused by the Mysterious Ice Dragon Spear, Gu Yuan was immensely satisfied.

The Ice Dragon King... no, Little Mother truly had been a God King-level existence before her death.

The Mysterious Ice Dragon Spear, with power equivalent to only a six-hundred-year soul skill,

already possessed such terrifying might.

It was simply terrifying beyond measure.

After sighing in admiration, Gu Yuan began testing the next soul skill.

"Snow Fills the Universe!"

The Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring lit up once more.

Silently, snow began falling across the surrounding area.

Each snowflake had six points.

Every single flake seemed to have been compressed from an iceberg.

They released incomparably terrifying freezing energy. As it spread, even the air cracked from the cold.

In the end, they slowly gathered together, forming a whirlwind-like current of freezing energy that surged toward the river ahead.

The river instantly stopped flowing.

As far as the eye could see, all the water had vanished. The fish, aquatic plants... remained motionless in the riverbed.

Upon closer inspection,

the river water had all turned into nearly transparent ice.

Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring's third skill—Snow Fills the Universe.

The Ice Dragon King's strongest control skill.

It was also her strongest area-of-effect attack skill.

It could release an enormous current of freezing energy at Absolute Zero to attack enemies across an extremely wide range.

The only flaw was that Gu Yuan's cultivation was still too shallow, and the soul ring could only exert power equivalent to six hundred years.

He could barely release a single current of freezing energy, and its casting speed was very slow.

"Snow Fills the Universe is indeed powerful."

"It just consumes too much Soul Power."

"That single use just now drained all the Soul Power in my body."

"There was no time to recover it at all."

The Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring continued to flicker.

As Gu Yuan drew upon the natural energy of heaven and earth to replenish his own Soul Power,

he silently thought,

It seems that until my cultivation improves, I can't use this move unless it's an emergency. Otherwise, I could easily fall into a brief period of weakness and give my enemies an opening.

A moment later, Gu Yuan's Soul Power had fully recovered.

He began attempting the final soul skill.

This was also Gu Yuan's strongest soul skill.

At least, it would remain so until Gu Yuan surpassed the Ice Dragon King in strength.

Ice Dragon King Life Soul Ring's fourth skill—Descent of the Ice God.