Snow Empress's body surged with icy-blue Soul Power. She clenched her jade hand, and an Emperor Sword, smooth as white ice jade and covered in icy patterns, appeared in her grasp. A bone-chilling cold swept through the air.
"Xue'er! Stop! Ah Chen didn't do it on purpose." Ice Empress stepped forward and shielded Xiao Jinchen, explaining.
At her words, a flush of embarrassment and indignation crossed Snow Empress's icy-blue eyes, and a lovely blush spread across her cheeks.
"Bing'er, move aside and let me teach him a proper lesson!" Snow Empress glared at Xiao Jinchen from behind Ice Empress and said.
"Xue'er, Ah Chen didn't do it on purpose." Ice Empress turned to look at Xiao Jinchen behind her. "Ah Chen, hurry up and explain!"
"Uh..." Xiao Jinchen stepped out from behind Ice Empress and helplessly raised his hands. "Snow Empress, you really can't blame me for this!"
"And you're still making excuses at a time like this!"
Snow Empress raised her hand, ready to swing her sword.
"Wait! Snow Empress, hear me out while I make an excuse! I mean, explain!" Xiao Jinchen hurriedly interrupted her.
Xiao Jinchen now understood what had happened. When Snow Empress was captured and brought into the God Sealing Platform, only her core essence remained; she didn't even have a body. So when the Humanoid Transformation Pill had just reconstructed her body, it naturally hadn't recreated her clothes. That was why Ice Empress had clothes when she took the pill, while Snow Empress didn't.
"Snow Empress, when you were captured and brought into the God Sealing Platform, only your core essence remained. You had no body, so when the Humanoid Transformation Pill reconstructed your body just now, it naturally didn't recreate your clothes." Xiao Jinchen explained slowly, "But Bing'er didn't have that problem when she took the pill, because she had her own body at the time."
After hearing Xiao Jinchen's explanation, some of the indignation in Snow Empress's heart subsided.
"No way!" Snow Empress suddenly lifted her head and cried, "You saw everything. You think I'll just let it go?"
"Uh..." Xiao Jinchen scratched his head. "Then what do you want?"
"Hmph!" Snow Empress snorted irritably. "Fight me."
Snow Empress had already made up her mind. This human was Bing'er's lover, so killing him was out of the question. But no matter what, she had to teach him a proper lesson and make him suffer a little!
"Xue'er, listen to me, Ah Chen..." Ice Empress hurriedly reached out to tug at Snow Empress's sleeve.
"That's enough." Snow Empress didn't give Ice Empress a chance to speak, cutting her off outright.
"Bing'er, don't plead for him! If I don't show him what I'm capable of today, how am I supposed to swallow this anger? He saw me completely naked for nothing. You think I can just let it go? Won't he end up pinning me beneath him from now on?" Snow Empress said, fuming.
Seeing Snow Empress looking as if she could devour someone, Ice Empress could only shut her mouth helplessly and think, Sigh, I hope Xue'er goes easy on him.
Ice Empress knew Xiao Jinchen had a secret technique that could raise his strength three times, with the third transformation even reaching the Limit Douluo level. But she still thought Xiao Jinchen probably couldn't beat Snow Empress.
"Uh... Is this really necessary?" Xiao Jinchen spread his hands helplessly. "Didn't I already explain? It wasn't my fault."
"Hmph! I don't care!"
"Whoosh!"
Snow Empress snorted, put away her Emperor Sword, and darted forward with a sharp rush of wind. She moved so fast that she left afterimages; in the blink of an eye, she appeared before Xiao Jinchen like a ghostly shadow. Her jade hand shot straight toward his handsome face.
"Holy crap! You're really hitting me?!" Xiao Jinchen cried in alarm as seven-colored Soul Power surged down his arm. "Eight Extremities Collapse! Eight layers of hidden force! Explode!"
In an instant, Xiao Jinchen's fist slammed into the force of Snow Empress's punch.
"Boom!"
Visible waves of Soul Power swept out in a mighty surge as the seven-colored and icy-blue forces intertwined and clashed.
Snow Empress's pretty face changed abruptly. The scene she'd expected—Xiao Jinchen being sent flying—never came. Instead, a hidden force had already burrowed into her arm from the point of impact, rampaging through it and directly scattering the Soul Power there.
At the same time, a tremendous counterforce struck. Xiao Jinchen's arm went numb, and he flew backward as if he'd been hit by a freight train. He staggered back dozens of steps before the domineering impact finally weakened enough for him to stop.
Snow Empress, by contrast, didn't pursue him. She stood quietly in place, the indignation in her eyes replaced by astonishment as she stared at Xiao Jinchen, who had barely managed to steady himself.
She hadn't used her full strength in that punch, but it still shouldn't have been something an eighty-level Soul Douluo like Xiao Jinchen could withstand. And then there was that hidden force that had burrowed into her arm.
Taking advantage of Snow Empress's momentary distraction, Xiao Jinchen swiftly formed hand seals.
"Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations! First transformation! Green Lotus Transformation!"
"Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations! Second transformation! Glazed Transformation!"
"Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations! Third transformation! Emperor Flame Transformation!"
In an instant, Xiao Jinchen's hair turned white, and his aura soared to the Limit Douluo level.
"Phew."
Xiao Jinchen took a deep breath and lightly tapped his Storage Ring with a finger. The Heavy Profound Ruler appeared in his hand.
Snow Empress's mood, which had just settled, was once again swept up in a storm.
Snow Empress's beautiful eyes widened, her red lips parted, and she asked in disbelief, "This... How can you suddenly raise your strength to the Limit Douluo level?"
Snow Empress instinctively glanced at Ice Empress, who was watching from the side. "Bing'er, did you know he could do this all along?"
"Mm-hmm." Ice Empress nodded. "Ah Chen really does have a secret technique that can increase his strength."
"Hmph!" Snow Empress gave a soft snort and clenched her jade hand. The Emperor Sword appeared in her grasp once again.
"One sword cleaves the sky, a thousand snows gleam cold!"
Snow Empress cried out. An icy-blue sword beam burst from the Emperor Sword in her hand, sweeping toward Xiao Jinchen with a bone-chilling cold.
"Flame Split—Devouring Waves Ruler!"
Xiao Jinchen shouted. Red light blazed from the Heavy Profound Ruler in his hand as Emperor Flame instantly flooded its length. He didn't retreat in the slightest, bringing it down in a furious strike against the oncoming sword beam. A blazing, seven-colored ruler beam, several yards long, shot from its tip.
"Boom!"
The deafening blast swept through almost the entire Exotic Flame Space. Where the seven-colored ruler beam met the icy-blue sword beam, terrifying Soul Power surged outward, and the violent shock waves stung Xiao Jinchen's cheeks.
Xuan Zi, in a corner of the Exotic Flame Space, was directly swept off his feet by the terrifying waves of Soul Power. He rolled dozens of times before finally stopping.
"Mm... mm..." Xuan Zi wanted to speak, to roar, to demand an explanation, but he couldn't make a sound. All he could manage were a few muffled whimpers.
"Again!"
Snow Empress flashed to the spot in front of Xiao Jinchen, her Emperor Sword wrapped in bone-chilling cold as she brought it down on him.
"You want to fight? Then let's fight!"
Xiao Jinchen stamped his foot hard against the ground and shot into the air. Seven-colored Soul Power surged out like a tide as he charged forward without retreating, Heavy Profound Ruler in hand.
Inside the Exotic Flame Space, one seven-colored blur and one icy-blue blur streaked back and forth, crashing into each other again and again and sending waves of Soul Power surging through the air.