Nine Trials of the Ice God

"Your Bingbing?"

Huo Yuhao immediately perked up, looking at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm with suspicion, his eyes filled with scrutiny.

"I... yes, I admit it. The reason I brought you to the Extreme North was essentially because I wanted to find Bingbing. But speaking from your personal perspective, the Titan Snow Demon King is actually your best choice."

"Although the Titan Snow Demon King has a lower age, it is a dual-attribute spirit beast of Ice and Spirit, a half-step Ultimate Ice. It can even directly grant you ten levels of Soul Power, allowing you to obtain your third spirit ring, along with a right arm bone that comes with a palm bone and arm bone."

"However, Yuhao, Bingbing is Ultimate Ice. She can make your two Martial Souls distinct and pure, which will make your future path much smoother."

Huo Yuhao had calmed down from his anger by now; he simply said, "Brother Sky Dream, we are the closest of partners. I hope you can be more honest next time."

Following this, Huo Yuhao walked toward the Titan Snow Demon King to the side and extended his hand.

"Hello, let's get to know each other again. My name is Huo Yuhao."

The Titan Snow Demon King glanced at Huo Yuhao, his expression revealing a sense of newfound respect, and then said, "If all humans were like you, there would still be hope. Just call me A-Tai. From now on, we are officially partners. I will also show some sincerity; there is a spirit beast very suitable for your third spirit ring position, and I can take you to find it."

In the center of the Extreme North Snowfield, beside a massive lake of ice.

Snow Empress watched Lin Yun, who had entered the final stage of fusion, and couldn't help but mutter to herself, To think this kid isn't even of the ice attribute, yet he can not only fuse with a spirit bone of Ultimate Ice like Ice Empress's, but also do so this smoothly and calmly.

The quality of his Martial Soul is likely at a true, god-level tier—a Three-Headed Bone Dragon I have never seen before, perhaps.

Snow Empress flipped her wrist, revealing a water-drop-shaped object the size of a dragon's eye, glowing with a cold, ice-blue laser-like light.

It was the legendary Ice God Pearl. Strangely enough, the once-calm Ice God Pearl began to vibrate rapidly the moment Snow Empress brought it out.

Lin Yun had just recovered from the excitement of successfully fusing with Ice Empress's spirit bone using his Skeletal Bone Dragon Martial Soul. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a bead fly directly into his forehead.

Snow Empress watched in astonishment as the Ice God Pearl surged into Lin Yun's mind, followed immediately by a majestic voice echoing in the minds of the three beings present.

"Although this person is not of the ice attribute, he may still inherit My position as the Ice God. The Nine Trials of the Ice God have begun."

Immediately after, a voice rang out in Lin Yun's mind:

"The First Trial of the Nine Trials of the Ice God: Slay a fire-element spirit beast over eighty thousand years old. During this period, it is forbidden to have Ice Empress fight on your behalf."

Great, Lin Yun grumbled inwardly, the plan to skip class I was just thinking about has already gone bankrupt.

At this moment, Ice Empress jumped out, indignantly protesting to Lin Yun, "Tell me, what are we going to do now? My body is already damaged; is it even still usable?"

Lin Yun chuckled and then said, "What, are there no spirit beasts in your group that died of natural causes? Just find a few and I'll patch you up. Is there really a need to jump around like this?"

"Besides, wasn't it you who got carried away and wanted to see if I could fuse with your spirit bone? Does this count as my fault? How could it?"

Snow Empress couldn't help but laugh as well, then said, "Bing'er, this matter really isn't Lin Yun's fault. I didn't expect him to actually be able to absorb an Ultimate Ice spirit bone either. No one expected this. Look at his expression; even he didn't see it coming."

Lin Yun laughed, "Exactly. Snow Empress is the one who understands reason; no wonder you're much prettier than her."

Just then, Snow Empress whipped her head around and waved her hand, shattering a crescent-shaped blade of moonlight.

It turned out that Zhang Lexuan, who had been unconscious, had woken up and tracked them here.

One had to say, Zhang Lexuan was truly reliable. Facing the third strongest spirit beast in the world—an existence that would make a typical Titled Douluo run for their life—Sister Zhang had charged in with her eight spirit rings just for Lin Yun's sake.

Lin Yun quickly stepped in front of Zhang Lexuan. After some thorough explanation, Zhang Lexuan finally relaxed, let out a sigh of relief, and said to Lin Yun, "I'll deal with you when we get back. See if I don't make you run until the playground peels off."

Snow Empress said, "Alright, now that both of your affairs are settled, it is finally my turn."

As she spoke, Snow Empress took out something resembling a lotus flower and said, "A spirit beast cannot undergo normal transformation after exceeding two hundred thousand years, so I need this. It can divide my power; the Soul Power I cast off will turn into my protective shell, leaving only two hundred thousand years of cultivation in my main body to construct a physical form."

After Snow Empress finished speaking, Ice Empress's spirit form touched Snow Empress's abdomen and said, "Xue'er, with this, your physical body will be destroyed even more severely than mine."

Snow Empress looked at Ice Empress and said, "Hesitation leads to disaster. If I cannot bear to part with this skin, I will be even less able to accompany you for the long term."

Lin Yun, while piecing together Ice Empress's remains, said, "Ice Empress, instead of mourning Snow Empress, you might as well come over and see if I'm putting these together correctly or not."

Ice Empress then shuffled over, albeit reluctantly.

Lin Yun grumbled to himself.

"You really have a big heart, aren't you afraid I'll stitch your head and ass on backward?"

Ice Empress was currently in a fit of rage and spoke without thinking.

"If you dare stitch me wrong, I'll chop your ass off and hang it up as a painting."

"You actually stitched it wrong, you bastard, get lost!"

Lin Yun looked at the red-faced Ice Empress and, knowing he was in the wrong, could only offer a sheepish apology. While it wasn't as bad as swapping her head and ass, he had indeed reversed the front and back sections of her torso.

Following the instructions of Ice Empress, Lin Yun reassembled the bones piece by piece; she could arguably be called the most aggrieved Skeletal Bone Dragon in existence.

Ice Empress looked at her new body with satisfaction, while Lin Yun asked skeptically, "Are you really sure you looked like this originally?"

At this moment, the Ice Empress soul bone had a pair of pincers like a hermit crab, one large and one small, and her tail was a good deal longer than before.

Ice Empress said with certainty, "It is exactly like this, there is no mistake."

Lin Yun couldn't help but say, "Fine, very well, then please explain to me what the torso I took has to do with your two pincers, and what it has to do with your tail."

Ice Empress coughed awkwardly and fell silent, beginning to adapt to her new body.

A month and a half had passed since Snow Empress began her re-cultivation. Although Zhang Lexuan was anxious, she did not urge Lin Yun.

After all, breaking a promise would be detrimental to Lin Yun's cultivation, and she could always explain things to the academy herself when the time came.

Then, one day after a month and a half, that legendary existence from the original story who went jungling and stumbled upon the Snow Empress embryo appeared.

This person was a pure Soul Tool master, still carrying injuries on his body. Upon seeing the Snow Empress embryo, he immediately prepared to use a Soul Tool to contain it.

Ice Empress flew out of Lin Yun's body almost instantly...