The Far North.
"Phew, it's time to get the Soul Rings I've had my eye on." Huo Yuhao looked toward the nearby gathering place for Soul Beasts.
He was already level forty, yet he only had two Soul Rings!
So it was time for him to get more!
With the Soul Ring Slot included, he could obtain as many as three Soul Rings!
Of course, there was no rush to fill the Soul Ring Slot. He could wait until Huo Yuhao's limit for how much Soul Power he could withstand increased before obtaining that one.
So this time, he planned to obtain two Soul Rings.
He had already chosen the Soul Beasts.
And they were none other than—
the Mirror Beasts of the Far North!
The Soul Skills they yielded were far stronger than anything like Group Weakening, Mental Confusion, or Spirit Replication!
Although Spirit Replication was similar to the skill they yielded, it came with far too many restrictions!
He could only copy one!
And he could only use it a few times a day!
It was ridiculously weak!
It couldn't hold a candle to a Mirror Beast!
With his powerful Ice God power, Huo Yuhao quickly killed two Mirror Beasts!
Why two?
Because he planned to focus both Soul Skills on copying!
After all, Huo Yuhao already had more than enough skills.
He might as well get two Soul Skills that let him copy other people's skills whenever he wanted!
Huo Yuhao absorbed one with each hand!
Because Mirror Beasts were so rare, both Soul Beasts were only ten thousand years old.
They hadn't reached Huo Yuhao's limit of thirty thousand years.
So absorbing two Soul Rings at once put almost no pressure on Huo Yuhao.
Breakthrough!!!
Level forty-one!!!
The two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings only raised Huo Yuhao to level forty-one.
He still needed a full two-thirds of his Soul Power to reach level forty-two.
He could only say it was better than nothing.
Fortunately, the skills were insanely powerful!
They were:
Copy!!!
Paste!!!
Copy, as the name suggested, let him copy the other person's Soul Skill.
Paste, as the name suggested, let him use the Soul Skill he had copied.
The restrictions on Copy were much looser, too.
He only had to record the skill with his eyes.
Of course, he had to record it in full.
But once he'd copied it, there were no more restrictions.
It wasn't the sort of skill that could only be used once after being copied.
He could use it again and again.
As long as Huo Yuhao's mental strength could remember them, in theory, he could copy an infinite number of skills!
Paste was even simpler, though it consumed a bit more Soul Power.
But it had one great advantage.
Its power depended on how much Soul Power he used.
There was no limit.
The more Soul Power he consumed, the more powerful it became!!!
It was practically a divine skill!
Just as Huo Yuhao was about to test it, the Divine Blessing effect ran out.
"..." Huo Yuhao froze for a moment.
"Forget it. I'll have to find somewhere safe to test it."
He was still in the core region of the Far North.
There were Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts here!
If they didn't recognize Ice Empress and Snow Empress, he'd have no choice but to use the Ice and Snow Blessing Domain.
And all he'd get from killing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would be a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
If he really used it, wouldn't that be a huge loss?
This was the Snow Core!
Huo Yuhao's Second Soul Core!
Although it could recover, doing so would consume the Soul Power Huo Yuhao could absorb!
That part couldn't be recovered!
It was like trading a hundred Gold Soul Coins for twenty.
A terrible loss!
Besides, a great battle would inevitably draw other Soul Beasts!
Although the Soul Beasts of the Far North stuck together, Snow Empress had lost her body, and Ice Empress had lost hers, too!
There was no telling whether some other Soul Beast might have ulterior motives!
That would put him in danger!
After all, as long as they killed Huo Yuhao, they could get two whole Soul Bones!
A four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone!
A seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone!
Soul Beasts couldn't absorb Soul Bones, but they could absorb the Soul Power inside them!
Even though the Soul Power inside the two Soul Bones had already been transferred by Huo Yuhao into the Holy Dragon Soul Ring and the Snow Core,
the Soul Bones themselves could still be devoured by Soul Beasts!
They could still give them a considerable boost!
"Looks like you can't use your Ice God power for now." A girl a little shorter than Huo Yuhao appeared beside him.
Her eyes were bright yellow, and her long hair was a vivid shade of green.
Her hair was tied into two ponytails, held in place by a huge crab-claw hair clip.
A pure-gold crown sat on her head, gleaming brightly.
Her sleeveless dress was mainly white, with green accents.
The dress itself was pure white, and its ties were green.
A green-and-white shawl hung from either side of the dress.
She wore a white sleeve on her left arm, with a white flower knot tied around her elbow.
A silver bracer encircled her left wrist.
Her right arm was dressed like her left, in a white sleeve, but unlike the left, the end of the right sleeve had a green frill.
Below that was a skirt with three layers of ruffles, reaching down to her knees.
Like the dress, it was mainly white, with green accents.
The innermost petticoat of the three-layered skirt was green, the next layer was pure white, and the outermost layer was a deeper, more ornate decorative layer.
She wore a pair of pure-white over-the-knee socks.
On her feet were low-heeled ankle boots, also white and green.
A green gemstone decorated each boot.
Then another girl appeared, seemingly eighteen or nineteen years old.
She was about as tall as Huo Yuhao.
Her eyes were sky blue, and she had long, snow-white hair.
Unlike the girl who had appeared before her, she wore no ornaments on her head.
A pair of ice-blue earrings hung from her ears.
She wore a blue-and-white dress.
Compared with the first girl, her outfit was much simpler.
Even so, she was every bit as striking as the girl beside her!
That was right: they were Ice Empress and Snow Empress, from Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness!
The reason they could appear was simple.
Huo Yuhao wasn't the only one who could use the Ice and Snow Blessing Domain.
Ice Empress and Snow Empress could use it, too.
They just couldn't wield more of their power without Huo Yuhao's permission.
After a brief moment of surprise, Huo Yuhao nodded. "That's right. Otherwise, I wouldn't be thinking of leaving the Far North."
"But it's not a big problem. Even without the Ice God's power, I should be safe enough in the Far North."
Hearing Huo Yuhao's words, Ice Empress said, "I've been meaning to ask."
"Where did this Domain skill of yours come from?"
"And why did the four Soul Skills I gave you change?"
"I remember clearly: the four Soul Skills I gave you were Ice Empress's Pincer, Ice Emperor's Bodyguard, Eternal Frozen Domain, and Ice Emperor Wrath."
"So where did Ice Seal Ten Thousand Miles and Ice Empress Descends come from?"
"I can't even use Ice Explosion Technique myself, yet after you used Ice Empress Descends, you could use Ice Explosion Technique. How does that make any sense?"
"I'm Ice Empress herself!"
Hearing Ice Empress, Snow Empress added, "The Soul Skills I gave you changed, too."
"Two of the Snow Empress Three Ultimates are gone."
"Emperor Palm: Great Cold No Snow became Great Snow Chill-less Palm, and Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless became Void-Piercing Ice Slash."
"Even the combination skill Ice Empress and I used together became Snow Filling Sky Flower Dance, a skill I can use on my own."
Huo Yuhao raised his head, looking inscrutable, and was about to say something.
Just then, countless snowflakes and hailstones surged toward them from every direction!
The Far North!!!
It had acknowledged its master!!!
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