Twin-Tailed Little Loli

The second time had failed too, so there would be a third! A fourth! A tenth! A twentieth! A fiftieth!

Death came again and again. Each time, he had only been one move away. Di Lintian seemed to have gone mad.

Even worse, he discovered that he could not get out.

Unless he destroyed this Inner Demon, he would never be able to leave this illusion.

This time, he did not enter combat directly. He walked up to the Inner Demon once more and sat down cross-legged before him.

"You have not been this calm in a long time." The Inner Demon raised his eyes toward Di Lintian. "Before, you felt more like an Inner Demon than I did."

"No one could stay calm after being killed by himself dozens of times," Di Lintian said softly.

"Then why are you calm this time?" the Inner Demon asked with interest.

"You are getting stronger," Di Lintian said evenly. "After crossing swords with you so many times, my swordsmanship has improved greatly. Your sword is no longer a match for mine."

"However, your Soul Power is growing stronger, and your soul skills are stronger than mine."

After saying that, Di Lintian quietly watched the Inner Demon, waiting for an answer.

Whenever he asked a question about the Inner Demon, the man played dumb.

Di Lintian was already used to it. He continued, "It does not matter if you do not answer, because I already know. What strengthens you are the negative emotions in my heart."

"In these last few battles, I have left your swordsmanship far behind. In swordsmanship alone, you are no longer my opponent."

"Or rather, the me from the past can no longer defeat the me of today."

For once, the Inner Demon nodded. "You are right."

"What should I do now?"

"Control the emotions in my heart, then kill you?"

"No. I admit that I fear death, and I also admit that I resent the loneliness of my past life. I am not perfect." Di Lintian stretched out his hand. "From now on, you are no longer my Inner Demon. You are my power, a part of me."

"HAHAHAHA!"

"What a fine 'you are my power'!"

"Ahahaha!"

Amid his wild laughter, the Inner Demon turned into a streak of light and entered Di Lintian's brow.

The instant the Inner Demon merged into Di Lintian's brow, the Ice God's voice exploded across the sky.

[Second-Class Five Trials, First Trial: Complete!]

[Reward: Soul Ring age increased by five thousand years.]

Two purple and three black Soul Rings pulsed down from above Di Lintian's head.

After fully descending to his feet, their radiance surged. A trace of black patterning appeared even upon the purple Soul Rings.

In the end, his Soul Rings became one purple and four black.

As the Ice God's voice faded, the illusion he had created receded like the tide.

Di Lintian returned to the Ice God Pillar once more.

Wait, where did my Heart of the Ice God go?

And what about the contents of my second trial?

"The Heart of the Ice God is an additional reward I granted you." The Ice God flew out from the Ice God Pillar, guiding a crystalline snowflake toward Di Lintian.

"Thank you, Senior Ice God."

After thanking him, Di Lintian accepted the Heart of the Ice God.

"The Heart of the Ice God is only lent to you temporarily. Xue'er will need it for her later divine trials." The Ice God's phantom grew dim. "As for your second trial, you will learn of it once you leave Ice God Mountain."

Xue'er?

Di Lintian's gaze turned toward the woman frozen beside the Ice God Pillar. The Snow Empress had yet to awaken, and he had no idea how much time had passed.

"I will definitely return it after using it."

Di Lintian made the promise solemnly, then stored the Heart of the Ice God in his storage Soul Tool.

The Heart of the Ice God was not the Ice God's actual heart, but a treasure similar to the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Di Lintian needed it to collect the faith of the Soul Beasts of the Extreme North.

It was not exactly collection. It was more like replacement.

All the Soul Beasts of the Extreme North worshiped the Ice God. Di Lintian could use the divine power of the Ice God emitted by the Heart of the Ice God to disguise himself as the Ice God.

He could make those low-level Soul Beasts that had yet to gain intelligence regard him as the Ice God, and their power of faith would naturally flow to him.

In Di Lintian's past life, there had been folk tales of animals wishing to become spirits and stealing incense offerings.

What Di Lintian was doing was not much different from those animals, except he had been authorized.

As for whether the Ice God's God Position would become unstable and cause him to fall to the strength of a second-class god because the faith of the Extreme North had been stolen—

That was impossible. At most, he would only be weakened for a few days.

The moment one created a God Position and became a god, that God Position became fixed. It could not be improved through cultivation, so naturally it could not fall either.

After seeing the Ice God's divine sense dissipate and merge back into the Ice God Pillar, Ice Ember God Wings grew from Di Lintian's back, and he flew straight toward the sky above.

This was the method the Ice God had told him to use to leave Ice God Mountain.

Before long, Di Lintian sensed a change in his surroundings.

No longer was it an endless ice field stretching beyond sight, but the Core Area of the Extreme North, where snow fell year-round.

[Second-Class Five Trials, Second Trial: Embryonic God Position.]

[Trial content: Gather the faith of the Soul Beasts of the Extreme North and take the first step toward a God Position.]

[Trial time limit: One year.]

[Trial reward: Soul Ring age increased by five thousand years.]

[Reminder: After completing the second trial, do not forget to return the Heart of the Ice God.]

"This Ice God is actually pretty nice."

Di Lintian flew toward Snow Empress Castle. "But what kind of reminder is that? Do I, Di Lintian, look like someone that scatterbrained?"

Ice and Snow Castle.

"Where did Xue'er run off to?" A little girl with emerald-green hair kicked the Ice and Snow Throne in displeasure. "She disappeared for seven days without saying a word!"

"Hm?" The little girl looked toward the door.

The doors of Ice and Snow Castle were shoved open forcefully, and a slender young man walked inside.

"How could there be a human?" The little girl narrowed her eyes.

The young man who entered was naturally Di Lintian, who had just returned from Ice God Mountain.

"No, you are a Soul Beast?" Sensing Di Lintian's aura, the little girl shook her head.

"That is right. This is the Core Area of the Extreme North. How could a human appear here?" Di Lintian almost laughed.

The moment he saw this adorable little girl, Di Lintian instantly guessed her identity.

Who else could be in Snow Empress Castle with those emerald-green twin tails? Of course, it was the second-ranked of the Three Great Kings of the Extreme North, the Snow Empress's dear "bestie," the Ice Jade Scorpion clan leader, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion—the Ice Empress!

But why did this Ice Empress seem a little dim-witted? Di Lintian quickly shook his head. He could not rely on stereotypes.

"That is still not right. You are not a Soul Beast from our Extreme North." The Ice Empress shook her head again, her two emerald-green twin tails swaying with the motion.

"I came from the Star Dou Forest. This is Di Tian's Reverse Scale." Di Lintian simply took out Di Tian's Reverse Scale, unwilling to waste words with the Ice Empress.

"Mm, now that is right." The Ice Empress nodded in satisfaction.

"Why are you here? Xue'er—" The Ice Empress quickly covered her mouth. "The Snow Empress, where did the Snow Empress go?"

All right, this Ice Empress seemed rather different from the one Di Lintian had seen in the animation. Not only did she look different, her personality and intelligence were different too. She was a little silly. It was not just his stereotype.

"The Snow Empress is receiving the Ice God's inheritance and cannot return for now, but you can go find her." Di Lintian put away the Reverse Scale and took out the Heart of the Ice God.

"The Ice God!" The Ice Empress covered her little mouth again in surprise. "It really is the Ice God's aura."

Di Lintian also told her the location of Ice God Mountain.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Ice Empress wanted to head to Ice God Mountain, but Di Lintian stopped her.

"You cannot leave yet. Later, follow me around the Extreme North once. We must make sure every Soul Beast sees my heroic bearing."

Di Lintian grabbed the Ice Empress, who was already about to run out the door, only to grab one of her twin tails. He could not help it; she had run too fast. By the time Di Lintian reacted, she was already about to leave.

"Do you know how big the Extreme North is? You want to run around it once?" The Ice Empress tugged at her twin tails. "If you want to run, go run yourself. I am going to see the Snow... Empress."

In the end, under the overwhelming pressure of the Heart of the Ice God, the Ice Empress had no choice but to agree.