Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, Titan Snow Demon King!

Lin Qing wanted to know how White Tiger Lin Qing planned to make contact with the Ice Empress and accept her sacrifice right under Jing Hongchen's nose.

This was far more difficult than Huo Yuhao going to the Far North alone in the original story.

Yet what happened next left the real Lin Qing somewhat speechless.

He could not help marveling at how utterly unreasonable dumb luck could be sometimes.

The image on the final-message screen shifted.

It arrived in the Far North, a land of ice and snow where freezing winds howled.

Everything in sight was a blinding white.

The sky was lead-gray.

Goose-feather snow seemed to fall without end.

Gales swept up the snow on the ground, forming moving white curtains, and visibility was terrifyingly low.

The cold was even more terrifying.

Every breath exhaled instantly froze into tiny ice crystals.

A team of around ten people was advancing through this exceptionally harsh environment.

Everyone wore thick, specialized cold-weather clothing equipped with Soul Tool heating devices, but their movements were still visibly sluggish.

Jing Hongchen led the group.

He continuously released his Spiritual Power to sense the surroundings, remaining alert for possible dangers.

Behind him were nine carefully selected guards, all Soul Emperors or above. They were experienced and worked together seamlessly.

White Tiger Lin Qing was the one being protected in the center of the group.

His face was somewhat pale.

Clearly, the frigid temperature placed considerable pressure on him as a Soul Elder who had only just reached Rank 30.

But with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm secretly forming a protective layer with Spiritual Power, he was still able to endure.

"How much farther is it? Which direction is it pointing?"

Jing Hongchen's voice carried through the howling wind and snow, with a trace of barely concealed urgency.

They had already ventured deep into the Far North for several days.

Aside from the harsh environment and a few low-level ice-type soul beasts, they had found no unusual signs.

White Tiger Lin Qing pretended to close his eyes and carefully sense the area.

Then he pointed toward an even taller, more menacing stretch of glaciers ahead.

"It should be... behind those glaciers. The sensation is getting stronger."

In truth, he had not sensed anything at all.

He was relying entirely on the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's real-time navigation in his mind to guide the way.

Jing Hongchen glanced at the enormous glaciers that seemed to connect heaven and earth, and his expression grew graver.

Places like that were often the preferred nesting grounds of powerful soul beasts.

But he did not hesitate and simply waved his hand.

"Keep moving. Stay alert!"

The team set off once more, drawing closer to the glacier region.

The group had just stepped into the edge of the glacier region.

Before they could carefully observe their surroundings.

A sudden change erupted!

"Roar!!!"

A terrifying roar capable of shattering souls and shaking the earth exploded from the depths of the glaciers without warning!

The horrifying pressure of an apex predator descended!

"Boom! Boom, boom, boom!"

Along with the roar, the entire glacier region began to shake violently!

The ice cracked.

Enormous icicles fell from above, smashing into the ground with muffled crashes.

A colossal white figure beyond imagination rose from the shadows of the glaciers amid the tremors.

It stood over a hundred meters tall, like a moving snow-covered mountain!

Its entire body was covered in thick, snow-white fur, and its muscular limbs bulged with explosive power.

Every step it took made the icy plain tremble, leaving behind deep footprints.

Its enormous crimson eyes were like two blood moons. They now burned with raging fury as they locked onto the tiny human team below.

The Titan Snow Demon King!

One of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, a super soul beast at the two-hundred-thousand-year level!

[Unfortunately, but in a certain sense fortunately as well, we encountered the Titan Snow Demon King, the third-ranked beast among the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North.]

The narrator's voice carried a hint of absurdity and relief.

[The Titan Snow Demon King seemed to harbor deep-rooted hatred and hostility toward humans. Upon discovering us, uninvited intruders in its territory, it flew into an instant rage and attacked without hesitation.]

"Humans—!!!"

The Titan Snow Demon King's voice rumbled across the icy plain like rolling thunder.

"You dare set foot in the Far North? You all deserve to die!"

Its mountain-sized fist, carrying cold capable of freezing everything and incomparable strength, smashed viciously toward Jing Hongchen's group.

Before the fist even arrived, the horrifying force of its swing had already swept up all the snow on the ground, forming a snow wave dozens of meters high!

"Scatter! Move, now!!!"

Jing Hongchen's expression changed drastically as he practically screamed the command.

At the same time.

Nine Soul Rings rose beneath his feet in an instant.

Two yellow, two purple, and five black—the standard configuration of a Title Douluo!

Surging Soul Power erupted from his body like a volcano, forming a solid protective barrier around him.

With a flick of his right hand, a strange red Soul Tool appeared in his palm and fired an incomparably scorching beam of energy at the descending giant fist!

"Boom—!!!"

A deafening explosion echoed across the icy plain!

Red and white energy collided violently, and the resulting shockwave spread outward like a tsunami, gouging deep trenches across the nearby ice!

The snow waves soared into the sky.

Ice fragments flew everywhere.

The view became utter chaos.

[While Jing Hongchen was doing everything he could to fight the Titan Snow Demon King, and the entire team had fallen into extreme chaos and danger... I quietly retreated to the edge of the battlefield amid the confusion.]

In the image.

White Tiger Lin Qing's figure was inconspicuous amid the whirling snow, ice, and chaotic currents of energy.

He carefully avoided the flying chunks of ice and residual energy waves.

A faint, nearly invisible white glow quietly appeared around his body.

That was the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Power.

It concealed his aura, hid his figure, and even distorted the surrounding light to a certain extent.

[Under the cover of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's power, I turned without hesitation and raced deeper into the Far North, in the direction opposite the battlefield.]

His figure swiftly merged into the endless blizzard and vanished.

On the chaotic battlefield,

The Titan Snow Demon King's savage attacks came one after another, leaving Jing Hongchen with no time to spare for anything else. He could only devote all his attention to the battle before him.

Lin Qing's expression became extremely vivid when he saw this.

First came astonishment, then helpless amusement, and finally a sigh.

"This works too?!"

"One of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, a two-hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King, just happened to appear at the perfect time? And it just happened to hold Jing Hongchen back?"

"This luck... is simply heaven-defying!"

He did not even know whether White Tiger Lin Qing was unlucky or fortunate.

Calling him unlucky made sense.

He had run into one of the most terrifying existences in the Far North the moment he arrived.

But calling him lucky also made sense.

The timing and effect of this "encounter" were so perfect that it seemed scripted, creating the ideal opportunity for White Tiger Lin Qing to escape.

"Still, this should make things easier to explain to Jing Hongchen."

This was undoubtedly the best excuse—and the one requiring the least explanation.

Lin Qing could already imagine how Jing Hongchen would feel when he finally escaped the Titan Snow Demon King, only to turn back and discover that Lin Qing had "disappeared."

He would probably want to kill the Titan Snow Demon King.