Snow Empress Re-cultivates

After a brief hesitation, Yi Yi changed direction and ran toward where Jing Chen had pointed.

Seeing Black Tiger, who had been chasing it, run in another direction, the Snow Domain Ice Ape began to slow down before finally stopping.

Watching Yi Yi's retreating figure, the Snow Domain Ice Ape howled furiously and even scooped up snow to throw in that direction.

After grumbling and cursing for a while, it spotted the lightning above the distant mountain peak, and its body could not help but tremble.

Deep apprehension showed in its eyes. It was an instinctive fear of the Lightning Tribulation.

It did not linger there either. Dropping to all fours, it bounded away.

The peak of the snow mountain Jing Chen was heading toward was uneven, with many rocks covered in snow.

At the center of the summit sat a woman in white, cross-legged. She was exceedingly beautiful, with exquisite features and skin fairer than snow, worthy of being called breathtakingly gorgeous.

Though seated cross-legged, her slender figure and perfect proportions were still apparent. Her long, snow-white hair made her seem like an elf amid the snow.

Compared to the woman's outstanding appearance, her name was even more remarkable—one that carried immense intimidation.

Snow Empress. That was her name. The word "Empress" alone revealed her identity, status, and formidable strength.

She was the ruler of the Far North, an existence akin to a female emperor. Her cultivation could be considered among the very best in the world.

Within this icy, snowy environment, she was nearly invincible. Even Di Tian, known as the continent's strongest, would be unable to do anything to her here.

At this moment, Snow Empress was attempting something that could alter her fate: Reforming and Re-cultivating.

With her terrifying cultivation approaching seven hundred thousand years, it had originally been extremely difficult for her to take human form and follow the path of Soul Master cultivation.

However, by a stroke of fortune, she had obtained a Hundred-Thousand-Year snow lotus, which gave her hope.

After studying it, she devised a method: using the snow lotus as a guide to seal her own origin, then reform and re-cultivate.

She was now following the method she had devised, using the snow lotus's energy to seal her origin.

This was an act that defied the heavens, which was why the Lightning Tribulation had appeared in the sky—to stop her from Reforming and Re-cultivating.

Snow Empress was not confident she could withstand her seventh Heavenly Tribulation, but this Lightning Tribulation was still easy enough for her to resist.

The Lightning Tribulation was about to fade, and her seal was nearing completion. Her cultivation was already plummeting rapidly.

Four hundred thousand years, three hundred thousand years, two hundred thousand years... Before long, she fell below the hundred-thousand-year threshold.

She had now become a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, with less than a tenth of her peak combat power remaining.

As her cultivation fell, her body also began to change, growing younger and younger.

Her original body had resembled that of a twenty-year-old woman—no longer immature, yet not showing any signs of age. It was a woman's most beautiful stage of life.

By the time her cultivation had fallen to ten thousand years, her body had regressed from twenty to eleven or twelve, gaining a touch of childishness.

Her body was still changing. At this point, she looked no different from a little girl only a few years old.

She had carefully chosen this place. It was relatively remote, and Soul Beasts were rarely found here.

As for humans, there were even fewer. This was the core region of the Far North; humans did not have the courage to come here.

With neither Soul Beasts nor humans around, she had devoted herself fully to re-cultivation and paid little attention to her surroundings.

As the supreme ruler of the Far North, every Soul Beast throughout the Far North had to obey her commands.

If she wished, she could have gathered many powerful Soul Beasts around her for protection.

But she had not done so, for a simple reason: she could not trust them. It was true that she was the queen of the Far North.

But she could not guarantee that every Soul Beast was loyal to her. Who knew whether some Soul Beast might attack when she was at her weakest?

Better safe than sorry. If she were attacked in her weakest state, even the aftershock could prove fatal.

She was unwilling to take that risk, which was why she had told no one and found a place alone to Reform and Re-cultivate.

Snow Empress had been very confident in the place she had carefully selected, but nothing was absolute.

She never would have imagined that humans—the people she believed least likely to come—would enter the core region of the Far North.

And by sheer coincidence, one had stumbled upon her as she was Reforming and Re-cultivating. Even more coincidentally, this human had a means of subduing her.

There was some truth to the saying that coincidences make a story.

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Reforming and Re-cultivating... I've truly struck it rich this time. An elderly man in white robes was already overjoyed.

He was currently hiding behind a rock, cautiously peering out at the little girl whose body was mostly concealed by the rocks.

He stood behind and to Snow Empress's right. He could see Snow Empress, but Snow Empress could not see him.

In fact, even if he were standing directly in front of Snow Empress, she might not have been able to see him.

Snow Empress had her eyes tightly shut. With nothing hidden from view, how could she see anything?

Her senses had also become incredibly dull from her complete focus on re-cultivation, to the point that they could be ignored.

The old man had been here for more than ten minutes, yet Snow Empress had still not noticed him.

Had this been before her re-cultivation, the old man would already have been a corpse. How could he possibly still be standing here, inwardly thrilled?

The old man was no ordinary person. That much was clear from the fact that he dared enter the core region of the Far North.

He was a Title Douluo and also a Rank 9 Soul Engineer. His formidable strength gave him the courage to enter the core region.

There had originally been no Rank 9 Soul Engineers on the Douluo Continent. This old man was a Soul Engineer from the Sun Moon Empire.

His name was Long Tu. He was the head of a Soul Tool family within the Sun Moon Empire, and his martial soul was the Ice Flood Dragon.

He had traveled thousands of miles to the Far North of the Douluo Continent mainly to test the Soul Tool he had newly developed: the God Sealing Platform.

This Soul Tool could be considered his crowning masterpiece, a functional Rank 9 Soul Tool.

Its purpose was to seal Soul Beasts. Even powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts could be sealed by this God Sealing Platform.

His original intention in developing this Soul Tool was to make it easier for the children of his family to come to the Far North and obtain soul rings.

His family's martial soul was the Ice Flood Dragon, requiring Ice Attribute soul rings, so they could only come to the dangerous Far North.

How to obtain soul rings more safely was something he, as the family head, had to consider. Thus, he developed this Soul Tool.

Long Tu cautiously took out his prized creation, the God Sealing Platform, and began activating it.

The God Sealing Platform looked rather simple. It was a round platform with more than a hundred multicolored gemstones embedded around its edge.

"Hmm?" The energy fluctuations released upon the God Sealing Platform's activation were at the Title Douluo level. Such powerful energy also alerted Snow Empress.

Not good. Snow Empress realized that danger had arrived, but she had no way to respond.

Her re-cultivation was at a critical juncture, and she could not afford to divide her attention. Besides, even if she could, it would be useless.

Because she no longer possessed her former terrifying cultivation and was weak to the extreme.

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