Kong Deming and Xu Tianyao had appeared silently behind the two men some time ago.
The Silver Moon Martial Soul was the king among space-type Martial Souls.
In an open region like the Far North, once Kong Deming had locked onto someone's presence, escaping his pursuit was almost impossible unless one had reached the Limit Douluo level.
Thus, from the moment the two Evil Soul Masters had taken the Snow Empress Embryo, every move they made had been observed by Kong Deming and Xu Tianyao.
Xu Tianyao's gaze fell on the God Sealing Platform.
Inside the God Sealing Platform, a mass of icy-blue light hovered quietly.
Even through layer upon layer of seals, an essence of ice so pure it was nearly without equal continued to seep out.
Kong Deming was watching that glow as well.
With his experience, he could naturally tell that this was no essence an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could possess.
"At least a Ferocious Beast..."
A peculiar glint flashed through Kong Deming's eyes. For an existence of this level to give up hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation and choose to transform and cultivate anew, it had clearly reached the end of its strength.
But Snow Empress mattered less to him than something else.
That was the God Sealing Platform.
The construction of that Level-Nine Soul Tool was extraordinarily ingenious.
With his discerning eye, Kong Deming had needed only a glance to determine it.
This item had definitely not come from Mingde Hall.
There were no records of it even in the official archives of the Sun Moon Empire.
What did that mean?
It meant that the Holy Spirit Cult also possessed Soul Tool Technology of an extremely high level.
Perhaps... they had already infiltrated the Empire, stealing a great deal of its technology.
At the thought, Kong Deming's gaze gradually turned cold.
The Holy Spirit Cult seemed to have been getting bolder and bolder in recent years.
Just then, the two Evil Soul Masters ahead were still searching for treasures amid the ruined ice palace.
They had no idea that danger and death had already crept silently upon them.
Kong Deming took a slow step forward, releasing his aura without a sound.
Deep within the dim ice palace, a bright silver moon slowly rose.
Soft moonlight spilled down, illuminating the darkened ice palace.
The two Evil Soul Masters looting for treasures naturally sensed something was wrong. Their bodies stiffened abruptly.
A bone-chilling sense of danger suddenly surged through their minds.
"Something's wrong!"
"Someone's here!"
They shouted almost simultaneously. Their instincts, honed in battle as Titled Douluo, let them sense the danger at once.
The brown-haired man reacted even faster. Almost as soon as he turned around, he stowed the God Sealing Platform inside his Storage Soul Tool.
But he was still a step too late.
Kong Deming's aged voice drifted over.
"Only just noticed?"
"Too late."
As his words fell, silver moonlight enveloped the entire ice palace.
Space seemed to have been locked in place.
The Evil Soul Masters' expressions changed sharply as they realized, to their horror, that they had lost control of their bodies.
It wasn't just their bodies. Even the flow of their Soul Power had become sluggish.
It was as if the space around them had turned into an invisible cage, trapping them firmly in place.
Space Lockdown!
One of Kong Deming's signature techniques.
Against spatial power of this caliber, even a Titled Douluo couldn't break free.
"Break!"
The brown-haired man roared in fury, his terrifying Soul Power surging wildly within him.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black—nine Soul Rings rose one after another.
The other man also desperately urged his Soul Power onward, and terrifying waves of force swept through the surroundings.
The ice palace trembled incessantly.
The spatial cage even wavered faintly.
At that moment, the silver moon in the sky had fully taken shape.
It wasn't some illusory vision, but an enormous silver moon dozens of meters across.
Vast moonlight poured down like a river of stars, and an oppressive force descended in an instant.
The Evil Soul Masters' pupils constricted. They could sense death in that silver moon.
"Invincible Barrier!"
Without the slightest hesitation, both men activated the life-saving Soul Tools they carried.
A golden barrier sprang into being.
The next instant, the silver moon came crashing down.
BOOM!
A deafening roar resounded throughout the Underground Ice Palace.
The ground split apart, the ice walls collapsed, and countless pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice burst skyward in a storm of fragments.
A savage shock wave swept in all directions. The entire ice palace seemed to have suffered a devastating calamity.
Xu Tianyao could even feel the ground beneath his feet shaking violently.
When the ice dust cleared, the once magnificent palace had been reduced to ruins.
Two battered figures lay buried among the rubble.
They were covered in blood, most of their limbs broken, their auras utterly feeble.
Had the Invincible Barrier not blocked the deadliest part of the blow,
that silver moon would have crushed them on the spot.
Yet before the two could even catch their breath, Kong Deming had already raised his right hand again, unleashing another attack.
Space fissures suddenly split open in front of them, one after another.
Within those cracks, it was as though countless invisible blades were slicing through the void.
Kong Deming's command and use of space were truly unmatched on the continent.
But these two Evil Soul Masters were no ordinary opponents, and they certainly weren't going to sit back and await their deaths.
Facing the silver moonlight sweeping down on them from all directions, both men flashed with a ruthless glint.
In that brief instant, they had completed their Martial Soul Possession.
A phantom of a giant bear wreathed in blood-red baleful energy appeared behind one of them. Its scarlet eyes brimmed with savagery and madness.
Behind the other rose a towering skeleton made from countless pale bones, its cold, baleful aura surging into the sky.
Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black!
Nine Soul Rings rose into the air at once.
Two auras on the level of Titled Douluo erupted without restraint.
At the same time, they activated every Level-Nine Soul Tool they carried.
Shoulder cannons, Soul Guidance Rays, fixed soul-guided missiles, energy-gathering Soul Cannons...
Dozens of gun barrels swung into position at once.
In an instant, countless Soul Guidance beams wove together into a vast net of fire and swept toward Kong Deming.
Deafening explosions rang out one after another.
The ice field within several thousand meters was blasted to pieces, and snow and ice soared into the sky.
Yet when the flames finally began to fade,
Kong Deming stood quietly in place, his silver robes fluttering. He had barely even moved. This was the exquisite use of spatial power.
"Child's play."
Kong Deming spoke with faint disinterest. He had already tested the two men's strength.
His gaze had therefore lost all interest in further testing them.
This was, after all, the Far North.
The longer the battle dragged on, the more likely it was to rouse the terrifying Soul Beasts sleeping deep beneath the ice fields.
It was best to finish this quickly.
With that in mind, Kong Deming drew upon his power once more, going straight for a decisive move.
His ninth Soul Ring suddenly lit up.
The moment that vivid scarlet Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring appeared, the entire world seemed to dim.
Xu Tianyao could even clearly feel it.
The surrounding space was groaning under the strain.
"Ninth Soul Skill—Silver Moon Devouring Heaven!"
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