The Far North was blanketed in ice and snow year-round. It was a paradise for ice-and-snow Spirit Beasts and a forbidden land for humans.
At that moment, across the endless frozen plains, the wounded Ice Plain Wolf Emperor took the lead in fleeing. Its paws stamped tracks into the snow, and its people followed closely behind.
The Ice Plain Wolf Emperor was utterly bewildered. Less than a year had passed.
That Titled Douluo candidate whom it had once hunted through the Far North had actually returned after rising to power, now possessing the cultivation of a level 99 Limit Douluo and hunting it down instead.
If time could turn back, it would never have merely indulged its appetite with Soft Bone Rabbit meat.
It would have pursued this human Spirit Master relentlessly and killed him, eliminating any future threat.
Then it would not have found itself in this situation today.
Qian Xunji flew through the air, controlling golden shortswords as he pursued the Ice Plain Wolf Emperor.
He was doing this for no reason other than revenge.
When he had first entered the Far North in search of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the Ice Plain Wolf Emperor had led its subordinates in hunting him down twice.
Back then, he had merely been a minor Titled Douluo candidate. He had not even mastered flight and could only flee desperately across the snow.
In this world where the strong devoured the weak, being bullied while weak was one thing.
But now, he was a level 99 Limit Douluo. He had mastered flight and could skillfully use all kinds of combat skills.
Having returned to the Far North and run into the Ice Plain Wolf Emperor again, how could he not get his revenge?
Wasn't fairness simply treating others the way they treated you?
However, after chasing the Ice Plain Wolf Emperor for ten minutes, Qian Xunji grew bored.
He immediately used his eighth soul skill, Angel Roar, an area-of-effect attack.
After one roar, the wolves collapsed onto the snow.
Qian Xunji controlled the golden shortswords with his spiritual power to finish off the Ice Plain Wolves. Then he stepped forward and collected their bodies, Spirit Rings, and Spirit Bones one by one, storing them in the System Space.
Killed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Ice Plain Wolf Emperor. Asura God Trial, second trial: kill nine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts within one month. Six completed.
Three targets remained.
The Far North had the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, along with an Ice Bear King. All were Ferocious Beasts over a hundred thousand years old.
Killing any three of them would clear the second Asura trial.
But fighting Snow Empress in the Far North...
How was that any different from fighting Bo Saixi on Sea God Island?
Snow Empress was not some frail mage like Bo Saixi who could only sit in a wheelchair and play artillery, unable to fight at close range.
Although Qian Xunji had no reason to fear a long-range bombardment battle with his Convergence Cannon skill. Whoever was afraid could lose; they would see whose range was longer and whose power was greater.
But if fighting Snow Empress brought Ice Empress over, that mature beauty and little girl could combine and use a fusion skill.
"There's a risk of being frozen." Qian Xunji shook his head.
If he fought Ice Empress, Snow Empress would definitely arrive immediately as well.
As for relying on a sneak attack to one-shot Ice Empress, a Ferocious Beast more than three hundred thousand years old whose entire body was covered in diamond armor and whose defense was absurdly high, that was nearly impossible.
Unless he used the Convergence Cannon and gave her a blast.
But using the Convergence Cannon for a sneak attack?
What was he thinking? Such a massive magic array, along with the disturbance from compressing Soul Power—if she could not sense the danger, that would be strange.
Anyone incapable of sensing danger could probably sit at the children's table with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who only knew how to eat, sleep, then eat again.
"I remember that when the original Douluo novel described the Titan Snow Demon clan, it mentioned that their clan had more than just the Titan Snow Demon King as a Spirit Beast over a hundred thousand years old," Qian Xunji murmured softly.
As soon as he finished speaking, he sprang into action. His flying altitude continued to rise as he headed toward the Titan Snow Demons' gathering place indicated by the System Map.
The Titan Snow Demons' gathering place was located within the Ice God Mountain Range.
Since they called themselves descendants of the Ice God, they naturally lived in a place named after the Ice God.
Titan Snow Demons were the tallest humanoid creatures on land. Their newborn cubs already stood ten meters tall, and once they reached adulthood, they exceeded fifty meters in height.
Many Ultramen were not even fifty meters tall.
As the king of the clan, Titan Snow Demon King A-Tai was over a hundred meters tall.
Any Titan Snow Demon that reached eighty meters in height had cultivated for over a hundred thousand years.
At that moment, there was one such individual over eighty meters tall in the Titan Snow Demons' gathering place.
System Appraisal identified it as merely a nameless Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Snow Demon, not Titan Snow Demon King A-Tai, one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North.
Qian Xunji's eyes lit up at the sight.
It was not the Titan Snow Demon King, but an extra Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. That was a good thing.
While it was eating a Mammoth Giant Elephant raw, he unleashed a move that descended from the heavens.
Qian Xunji's entire body was wrapped in golden light and radiated scorching heat. Like a meteor falling from the sky, he slammed into the ground at extreme speed.
The Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Snow Demon, which had been eating with its head lowered, suddenly sensed danger. It had just stopped eating when the back of its head suffered a heavy blow.
With a crunch, its skull shattered.
Once its brain was pulverized, the Titan Snow Demon died.
Before its body could even fall and before its crimson Spirit Ring had fully risen, Qian Xunji collected it together with its Spirit Bone and stored them in the System Space.
When the Titan Snow Demons in the gathering place saw one of their kind hunted by a human, they roared furiously.
For a moment, roars rose and fell without end.
But after killing his target in a single blow and collecting it, Qian Xunji quickly slipped away.
He had no intention of staying behind and wasting time with the remaining Titan Snow Demons.
It was not that he could not defeat them. There was simply no need to waste time.
Everything came second to completing the Asura God Trial.
Ice Bears were Spirit Beasts modeled after polar bears.
They mainly lived on sea ice near the coast of the Far North.
The thick sea ice was not only their platform for walking, but also their hunting ground.
At that moment, two gigantic beasts were clashing atop the ice near the sea.
[Name: Titan Snow Demon King A-Tai] [Name: Ice Bear King Xiao Bai]
The automatically displayed System Appraisal let Qian Xunji learn the origins of the two giant beasts before him.
One was Titan Snow Demon King A-Tai, who had fallen from being Snow Empress's suitor to being her simp.
The other was Ice Bear King Xiao Bai, Snow Empress's adopted son.
Qian Xunji concealed his aura and hid among the clouds.
He planned to reap the benefits of their conflict.
Once the two giant beasts had both been severely injured, he would make his move and hunt them both, completing the second Asura God Trial.
While watching the battle and resting, he took out a hot meat sandwich and began eating.
Paired with a bowl of clear Northwestern mutton soup, it was pure bliss.
After the two beasts had battled for three hundred rounds, their bodies covered in wounds and their Soul Power nearly exhausted, they reached the point where they stopped fighting to trade threats.
Qian Xunji made his move. It was the same familiar high-speed sneak attack, impossible for humans or Spirit Beasts to guard against.
Titan Snow Demon King A-Tai looked down at Xiao Bai and revealed the smug smile of a victor. "Since you are the adopted son of my beloved Snow Empress, I'll spare your life today."
"Bullshi—" Before Ice Bear King Xiao Bai could finish refuting him, he felt dizzy, as though his head were about to explode.
Before losing consciousness and dying, he saw A-Tai's head severed by a streak of golden light.
And he, too, became a bear that could not make heads or tails of things.
"Who killed my adopted son?!" A cold, furious roar rang out from the deepest reaches of the Far North.
Qian Xunji knew who the owner of that voice was. After collecting the bodies, Spirit Rings, and Spirit Bones of the two beasts, he decisively flew south.
At present, he had no desire to face the enraged Snow Empress and fight her in the Far North.
He had already completed the second Asura God Trial—the objective of hunting nine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts within one month.
There was no need to stir up further trouble and create extra overtime for himself for no reason.
Besides, the Far North was freezing. He did not want to remain there for even one more second.
Wouldn't it be more comfortable to return to the warm lands of humanity sooner?
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