Deep in the Far North, icy winds howled and heavy snow fell.
There was no sign of human life here. It was a paradise for ice-and-snow Spirit Beasts.
Qian Xunji, dressed in a white polar expedition cold-weather suit, moved swiftly across the snow without leaving a trace.
A pack of Ice Plain Wolves followed close behind him, more than thirty strong, each with at least ten thousand years of cultivation.
Leading them was the Ice Plain Wolf Emperor, a genuine Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, its enormous body comparable to that of a killer whale.
Qian Xunji did not want to stir up trouble and attract the three great kings of the Far North, forcing him to use his Quasi-God cultivation experience card.
Without the Quasi-God cultivation experience card, successfully absorbing the Spirit Ring dropped by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm would be difficult, difficult, difficult.
No matter how useless that simp Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was, it was still a Ferocious Beast close to a million years old.
The immense energy contained within a Ferocious Beast's Spirit Ring was not something a mere quasi-Titled Douluo like him could endure.
Fortunately, after leaving the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, he had hunted quite a few Spirit Beasts while testing his strength in actual combat in Sunset Forest.
Now, his System Space was piled high with Spirit Beast meat.
In one go, he tossed out the fresh flesh of three hundred hundred-year Soft Bone Rabbits.
The scent of blood successfully drew the Ice Plain Wolves' attention.
Even the Ice Plain Wolf Emperor chose to stop and feast on the Soft Bone Rabbit flesh because Qian Xunji had run so fast.
Having successfully shaken off the Ice Plain Wolf pack, Qian Xunji did not let down his guard. He knew the truly dangerous pack-dwelling Spirit Beasts of the Far North were not Ice Plain Wolves.
Fortunately, it was more a case of speaking of the devil and he appears than thinking of the devil and having him come.
Following the navigation feature on the System Map, Qian Xunji successfully arrived above the ice-layer cave containing the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
Faced with the thick ice layer, he could only use the storage function of the System Space to dig through it.
Three days later.
Qian Xunji successfully dug through the ice layer and reached the cave.
There was no light, no wind, and no water here. There was only ice that had never melted for hundreds of millions of years.
As for the so-called Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, it had long since been devoured clean by the enormous Ice Silkworm sleeping before him. Not even a scrap remained.
What should one do when the target was asleep?
Naturally, seize the opportunity and kill it.
Chivalry? An honorable duel? Those things were meant to fool honest people.
Honest people became holy knights, only to die miserably and have mud slung all over them afterward.
Qian Xunji held the Golden Sword and gathered his strength, raising it high.
With a single mountain-cleaving strike, he severed the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's head from its body.
Feeling the pain, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suddenly opened his eyes, utterly bewildered.
In his final moment, his eyes fixed fiercely on Qian Xunji, the human who had killed him in his sleep without a shred of martial honor.
"Human, tell Bingbing that I love her."
With his last words spoken, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was completely dead.
A Spirit Ring that was nearly golden floated into the air.
As for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's dying words, Qian Xunji only felt that this simp beast was beyond saving.
A simp was a simp. Even in death, he was still a simp.
Falling in love with someone who saw him as food was truly absurd.
He probably had Stockholm syndrome.
Qian Xunji stored Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's corpse, along with the Spirit Ring he had dropped, in the System Space.
He did not intend to absorb Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spirit Ring in the Far North, a place dominated by Spirit Beasts.
If something went wrong while absorbing the Spirit Ring, it would truly be too late for regrets.
The journey out of the Far North went fairly smoothly.
Perhaps because his cultivation had not yet reached Titled Douluo, the three kings of the Far North had considered themselves above attacking him.
The only thing that annoyed Qian Xunji was that Ice Plain Wolves had chased him on the way in, and Ice Plain Wolves were still chasing him on the way back.
What an irritating feeling.
After leaving the Far North and passing through the Ice-Sealed Forest to reach Soul Hunting Town, he looked back north and made up his mind.
"I will definitely return."
The Spirit Masters in Soul Hunting Town merely took it as a joke.
The male Spirit Masters who should have been drinking warm ale continued drinking warm ale.
As for the female Spirit Masters, seeing that the handsome and powerful Qian Xunji had traveled alone through the perilous Ice-Sealed Forest without a single wound on him—
Their thoughts became lively.
"Handsome, are you alone? Interested in having a cup of hot wine?"
What should one do when a middle-aged woman took the initiative to strike up a conversation?
First, suspect that she had ulterior motives and coveted his wealth, perhaps wanting to obtain his Spirit Bones.
Second, suspect that she carried all sorts of pathogens and wanted to make him her fellow patient.
Third, suspect that she had come looking for someone to take over her baggage—child baggage, younger brother baggage, retirement baggage, debt baggage, all sorts of baggage.
In short.
Qian Xunji said nothing. He simply greased his heels and ran.
He fled so quickly that the woman who had approached him was dumbfounded, staring at his retreating back for a long time without recovering her senses.
The middle-aged woman considered herself beautiful, well-dressed, and refined in both speech and manner, all according to noble etiquette.
"What kind of man is that?!" the middle-aged woman snapped furiously after coming back to her senses.
Laughter from the onlookers rang out in the distance.
After all, it was their first time seeing something so funny.
Within the Heaven Dou Empire lay a village abandoned after a Wolf Bandit attack.
Qian Xunji's arrival brought some life to the place.
"This place is good. No one lives nearby, and there are no powerful Spirit Beasts around."
"Digging a cellar to absorb the Spirit Ring dropped by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could not be more suitable."
He did as he said and began digging a cellar.
A deep cellar could conceal the glow of the Spirit Ring.
Inside the cellar dozens of meters underground, Qian Xunji took out the 990,000-year Ferocious Beast Spirit Ring dropped by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
The golden light emitted by the Spirit Ring illuminated the entire cellar.
He took out and used the Quasi-God cultivation experience card, feeling his body fill with power.
After making all the necessary preparations, he began drawing in the Spirit Ring and absorbing and refining it.
Fortunately, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was not a powerhouse like the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. His actual combat strength was not even enough to defeat an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
After using the Quasi-God cultivation experience card to greatly increase his strength, Qian Xunji successfully refined the Spirit Ring dropped by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm within thirty minutes.
His Soul Power Level rose from level 90 to level 95.
His spiritual power increased dramatically, reaching the peak of the Domain Realm.
Without pausing, Qian Xunji took out an unrestricted Spirit Ring age enhancement card.
He increased the age of his ninth Spirit Ring from 990,000 years by another ten thousand years.
When the Spirit Ring's age rose to one million years, his Soul Power Level also broke through from level 95 to level 96.
His spiritual power reached the half-step Divine Origin Realm, just one step away from the Divine Origin Realm.
Qian Xunji took out the head Spirit Bone dropped after killing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
Qian Xunji began absorbing and refining this 990,000-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm head Spirit Bone.
Who knew how much time passed.
After successfully refining Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's head Spirit Bone, the immense energy within raised Qian Xunji's Soul Power from level 96 to level 98.
His spiritual power also successfully crossed that half-step and reached the Divine Origin Realm.
Although his spiritual power had only just reached the Divine Origin Realm and was still unstable, the qualitative leap from spiritual sense to divine sense let Qian Xunji clearly feel just how vast the difference was.
One Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had taken him from a level 90 quasi-Titled Douluo to a level 98 peak Douluo.
It had to be said, although Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was a simp with useless combat power, the energy contained within him was truly abundant and filling.
He walked out of the cellar and returned to the surface.
To thank Brother Sky Dream, Qian Xunji planned to stew silkworm meat today.
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