Transmigrating to Douluo: My Bones Were Smashed, Reassembled, and Replaced. It Hurts So Much!

Su Hui's consciousness returned from his Sea of Consciousness to reality, his heart pounding against his chest like a war drum.

It worked!

Ice Empress had really agreed!

The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion who reigned supreme in the Far North, a peerless Ferocious Beast even Titled Douluo went out of their way to avoid, was now willing to join his God-Making Project and sacrifice herself to him!

That meant he had taken another big step toward his goal—to ascend to godhood and live forever.

"Hey, stop spacing out. You can let go of me now."

The cool female voice in his mind dragged Su Hui back from his elation.

He took a deep breath, forcing down the surging emotions.

His consciousness returned to his body.

He immediately released the mass of Silkworm Slough wrapped around Ice Empress.

The Silkworm Slough turned into a gentle white light and settled back into his palm.

The moment her restraints were lifted, a biting chill rushed toward him.

"Finally, I'm free!"

Su Hui could finally get a full look at Ice Empress's true form.

She was an Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, with a slender build and a majestic bearing.

Her entire body was a blend of clear ice blue and deep emerald green, as if she had been carved from a single piece of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice.

Her body was covered in neatly arranged, hexagonal diamond-like crystal armor. Its sharp edges and cold, hard texture reflected a chill light in layer upon layer.

Piercingly cold mist seeped from the gaps between each plate, shrouding her in a hazy veil of ice.

Her scorpion head had sharp, elegant contours, and her pair of hexagonal, crystal-yellow eyes gleamed like precious yellow diamonds. Even a cold glance from her radiated an intimidating majesty.

Her mouthparts were bright silver, and every subtle movement brought a razor-sharp glint of cold light.

The enormous pair of thick, elongated pincers before her were covered in intricate ice-crystal patterns, their tips gleaming with menace, as if they could crush everything in the world.

Six slender yet sturdy legs supported her body. Their lines were smooth and sleek, and they too were covered in raised crystal armor.

Her Scorpion Tail was especially distinctive, with only five segments. It tapered from its thick base, its entire length a translucent jade green.

The hooked tip was razor-sharp, like a blade forged from ice.

This was the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion—the true ruler of the Frozen Tundra of the Far North, her presence cold and aloof, her immense pressure towering like a mountain!

"Had enough?"

A hint of coldness laced Ice Empress's voice.

"Once you're ready, accept my sacrifice."

"Your body can't withstand all of my power, so I'll seal away most of my origin."

She paused, and her tone took on a touch more seriousness. "But before that, fuse with my torso bone. It'll raise your physical abilities to the level needed to bear my Soul Ring."

"The process will be excruciating. You won't make it through without extraordinary endurance."

"Kid, you can still back out."

Ice Empress offered the warning in good faith.

Su Hui grinned and raised both arms.

"Bring it on."

Seeing this, Ice Empress regarded Su Hui with a little more admiration.

She nodded her scorpion head, then suddenly asked, "After I sacrifice myself, will I become your third Soul Ring?"

"My second Soul Ring," Su Hui corrected, shaking his head.

"Hm?"

Ice Empress's body stiffened slightly.

She remembered Su Hui's Soul Ring Configuration clearly: his First Soul Ring was purple, and his Second Soul Ring was purple.

He already had a Second Soul Ring. How could there be an empty slot?

"You already have a Second Soul Ring," she said, puzzled.

"I'll take care of that."

After saying this, Su Hui did something that baffled Ice Empress even more.

The Silver Dragon King Martial Soul appeared behind him, with two purple Soul Rings circling it.

At the same time, the Silver Dragon Spear appeared in his hand.

Its shaft was long and keen, and the Water Element gemstone set in it shimmered with a deep blue light.

He gripped the shaft with one hand, turned the spearhead around, and without the slightest hesitation plunged it toward his Second Soul Ring.

The blue light in the Water Element gemstone suddenly flared.

"Crack!"

The Second Soul Ring shattered on impact, scattering into countless purple specks that vanished completely into the air.

Ice Empress's crystal-yellow eyes narrowed sharply.

Destroying his own Soul Ring?

In all her hundreds of thousands of years, she had never heard of such a thing.

Once absorbed, a Soul Ring became bound to the Martial Soul Origin. Forcibly removing one would either cause grave injury or shatter the Martial Soul.

Yet after Su Hui's strike, his Second Soul Ring broke apart and disappeared. He didn't even furrow his brow, as if he'd merely plucked off a superfluous fingernail.

"This Silver Dragon Spear can cleanse a Soul Ring," Su Hui explained, noticing Ice Empress's shock as he hefted the weapon.

"It gives me one chance to remove an already absorbed Soul Ring with a specific attribute and free up its slot for a new one."

He put away the Silver Dragon Spear and looked at Ice Empress, barely containing his excitement and confidence.

"Now we're all set."

"Come on, Ice Empress. I'm ready!"

"You really are a freak."

Ice Empress's words had barely left her mouth when a surge of extreme cold power poured into Su Hui's body, without even giving him a chance to reply.

"Ugh!!!"

Su Hui's eyes flew wide, veins bulging from their corners!

The torrent of power far exceeded what he could endure, as if the ancient glaciers of the entire Far North Ice Plains had exploded inside him.

His body swelled, ready to burst.

His internal organs were crushed and ground to pulp.

The blood vessels beneath his skin burst one after another, and blood poured from every part of his body.

"Crack, crack, crack!!!"

A string of sharp, brittle pops rang out as the bones along Su Hui's spine shifted out of place.

It hurt!

It fucking hurt!

Ice Empress's torso bone was embedding itself along his spine, inch by inch.

It felt like having an entire chain of ice driven into his marrow, then hammered into place, link by link.

Before the blood could seep out, it froze into dark-red crystals of ice.

Spiderweb cracks spread across his skin, each fissure glowing with an icy blue light.

"Don't pass out."

Ice Empress's voice boomed in his mind.

"If you lose consciousness, all your effort will be wasted. My origin will turn on you, freezing you into an ice statue even a Titled Douluo couldn't smash."

"Who... who said I was going to pass out..."

Su Hui gritted his teeth and forced the words out.

He could feel his organs spasming, his heart and lungs as if someone had grabbed them and given them a hard twist.

The torso-bone fusion had reached his thoracic vertebrae.

Every half inch it advanced, his body temperature dropped another notch.

He forced himself to think of something else.

Like conquering the continent in the future! Conquering the Divine Realm!

Or maybe imagining himself surrounded by beautiful women!

Think about... all right, there was no distracting himself from this pain!

"Boom—"

The torso bone advanced to the middle of his thoracic vertebrae.

A stream of extreme cold origin spread outward along his ribs, freezing all the meridians in his body into a fragile web of ice.

A thin layer of frost now covered Su Hui's body.

His eyelashes and eyebrows had turned white.

Even his breath crystallized into tiny beads of ice at his lips.

Ice Empress fell silent for a moment.

Choosing Su Hui had been a gamble.

She was betting that the "God-Making Project" he kept talking about wasn't empty talk, and that he really could make it through this trial.

Now it seemed that at least the kid had some backbone.

"Third thoracic vertebra in place."

Ice Empress's voice remained cool, though there was a trace of warmth in it, so faint it was almost impossible to detect.

"Next is the spinal bone. This part hurts the most."

"Do it."

Su Hui's answer was just one word.

When his spinal bones shattered, he finally couldn't hold back a muffled groan.

It felt as though an ice pick had pierced his spine from within, forcibly draining out his marrow and replacing it with Extreme Cold Crystal Marrow condensed from Ice Empress's origin.

This substance was purer than Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice. Even a speck as small as a pinhead could freeze an entire lake solid.

And now, this crystal marrow was seeping through his spinal bones and into the rest of his body.

Through his fading consciousness, he heard Ice Empress's final words.

"Kid, it's going to hurt. Don't die."