The Eighteen Seals Within His Body? Xue Chen Was Dumbfounded! (Please encourage me, thank you)

Just as the second thunder dragon let out a roar that shook the heavens, carrying the weight of ten thousand tons and preparing to dive, Snow Emperor moved.

Her slender, jade-like hand rose with deceptive slowness, palm facing forward, and an indescribable, ultimate chill radiated outward from her as the center.

It was not a howling gale or a blizzard, but a state of absolute stillness and cessation!

In the void behind her, a massive, intricate azure magic circle composed of countless ice crystal runes manifested in an instant, rotating slowly and emitting a majestic will that could freeze souls and extinguish all things!

This was one of the three supreme techniques of Snow Emperor—Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow!

There were no flashy lights, no deafening sounds, only the absolute zero that seemed capable of freezing time and solidifying the laws of reality!

Snow Emperor pressed her palm gently forward.

The massive ice crystal circle behind her flared with intense light, and an extremely translucent, ice-blue palm print surged forward, silently meeting the ferocious, diving thunder dragon!

"Hum—!"

The earth-shattering explosion expected did not occur immediately.

The moment the palm print, containing the annihilation essence of Great Cold Without Snow, made contact with the violent thunder dragon, time seemed to freeze for an instant.

Immediately following, the two diametrically opposed, peak-level forces of extreme cold and extreme violence began the most dangerous and direct annihilation-based confrontation!

The purple-gold lightning dancing around the thunder dragon dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if frozen by invisible frost; while wherever the ice-blue palm print passed, even the energy contained within the thunder itself seemed to be forcibly terminated!

"Crack... BOOM!!!"

After a brief stalemate, a more violent eruption of energy followed!

A terrifying shockwave mixed with ice shards and electric sparks expanded in a ring, tearing a massive hole through the dark clouds in the sky!

Under the Emperor Palm, which contained the intent of absolute annihilation, the second thunder dragon failed to break through. Its massive body began to crack and disintegrate from the head down, eventually shattering completely!

However, just as it had been when Snow Emperor shattered the first thunder dragon, an even more astonishing scene unfolded!

The energy of the second thunderbolt, forcibly broken by Snow Emperor and transformed into a sky full of fine, fragmented lightning rain, did not dissipate into the world.

Instead, as if responding to an irresistible summons, it paused in the air for a moment before transforming into countless slender, agile threads of blue and purple-gold lightning.

Ignoring Snow Emperor, they surged with pinpoint accuracy toward the hole in the Ice Crystal Palace below—aiming directly at Xue Chen, who was still absorbing the power of the first thunderbolt inside!

Snow Emperor hovered in mid-air, letting the cold wind whip through her long hair.

She looked down through the hole in the palace roof, watching as the sky full of lightning rain, as if possessing a life of its own, docilely merged into the increasingly dense cocoon of lightning surrounding Xue Chen.

The last trace of doubt on her beautiful face was wiped away, replaced by a profound gravity that seemed to touch upon some secret of heaven and earth.

The Emperor Palm could shatter the form of the thunder punishment, but it could not sever the connection between that energy and Chen'er.

This lightning tribulation was meant for him from the start! It was not a punishment, but... a baptism and a gift!

Inside the palace, Ice Emperor and Xiao Bai looked up at the second wave of lightning energy pouring in like falling starlight, their minds numbed by shock.

Xiao Bai's massive bear mouth hung open, eventually emitting only meaningless grunts.

Ice Emperor took a deep breath of the frigid air and muttered to herself:

"This kid... what kind of monster has he been reincarnated as?"

Xue Chen greedily absorbed this seemingly inexhaustible power of thunder.

As this pure and majestic force continuously surged and permeated his body, a strange sensation that had previously been only a vague intuition became incredibly clear.

The fog obscuring his vision was dispelled, and something deeply hidden within his body finally revealed the tip of the iceberg under the influence of the lightning.

Xue Chen's heart stirred as he attempted to gather his spiritual power, which had naturally grown stronger alongside his vitality, and cautiously probed the source of that anomaly.

What he saw truly shocked him to the core!

In his spiritual perception, it was a chaotic region located deep within his dantian, or perhaps closer to the core of his life essence.

Normally, this should have been the source of his soul power and the foundation of his vitality, entirely unremarkable.

But at this moment, aided by the scouring of the lightning and the focus of his own spiritual power, he discovered with horror that this area was shrouded and locked by layers of incredibly complex, strange runes flickering with a dim, ghostly light!

The seal formed by these runes was not a single layer, but ring upon ring, stacked layer upon layer, like a precise and cruel cage, deeply branded onto his life essence!

One, two, three... Xue Chen's spiritual power counted them carefully, and the deeper he went, the more his heart sank.

...Nine... Eighteen! A full eighteen seals!

Each seal radiated an ancient, powerful aura that made his very soul tremble!

They were tightly connected, forming an incredibly sturdy and complex system of containment, firmly imprisoning something deep within his body—or rather... some kind of potential!

"What... what is this?!"

Xue Chen's mind was instantly overwhelmed by massive confusion and shock, and even his speed of absorbing the lightning faltered.

"Why are there eighteen seals in my body?!

Who did this? Who planted these things inside me?!"

An instinctive thought instantly flashed into his mind—Mother, Snow Emperor!

In his limited understanding, only someone as powerful as Snow Emperor could possess such heaven-defying means to place seals within him that even he had only vaguely sensed until this very day.

Was it this mother who had adopted him, hiding things from him, or even... harboring ulterior motives?

But the moment this thought surfaced, Xue Chen forcibly erased it.

"That shouldn't be..."

He immediately dismissed the speculation.

The care Snow Emperor showed him, that tenderness and protection originating from the depths of her soul, could not possibly be fake.

Moreover, Snow Emperor had explicitly stated that she had found him after he fell from the sky onto the Far North Ice Plains; even she did not know his specific origins.

How could someone who didn't even know his background have pre-set such a complex and powerful seal?

"Could it be... those who abandoned me?

My... biological parents? Or some other existence?"

A new, more chilling conjecture rose in his mind.

Yes, that was the only thing that made sense.

These eighteen seals had likely been planted when he was an infant, or perhaps even earlier!

Was his abandonment in the Far North related to these seals? What were they trying to hide? And what were they trying to seal away?

His mindset as a transmigrator allowed him to think more deeply than an ordinary child, and it also filled him with a sense of dread.

He had originally thought he was just a lucky transmigrator, adopted by Snow Emperor and gifted with a powerful martial soul.

But now, the eighteen mysterious seals within his body and his unfamiliar martial soul seemed to be silently telling him that his very existence might be a massive enigma!