Snow Jade Ice Toad Liu Yueming's Soul Skill

Upon hearing this, Yi Hongchen saw that Liu Yueming wanted to take the field, so he led Xiao Hongchen to the side with Yan Hongchen and watched together.

Meng Hongchen looked at Liu Yueming across from her without the slightest fear in her eyes. Compared to Yi Hongchen, Liu Yueming's guidance was indeed more suitable for her. Mother and daughter shared similarities in their martial souls.

Liu Yueming summoned her martial soul. Behind her, the phantom of an ice toad, seemingly sculpted from ice and snow from head to toe, with eyes like pure snow jade, condensed into form. A cold, biting aura of ice and snow instantly swept outward.

At the same time, she underwent striking changes. Her pupils became intricate, constantly spinning snowflake patterns; her skin took on the texture of icy flesh and jade-like bones, wreathed in chill. Two yellow, two purple, and two black soul rings appeared around her—six in total.

This was Liu Yueming's mutated martial soul—the Snow Jade Ice Toad!

"Meng'er, as agreed, you can't use your soul-tool longsword. Compared with your brother, this match is more about your control over your soul skills, rather than the attack power of coating your longsword in deadly poison."

Meng Hongchen's long hair turned entirely white, while her eyes instantly became blood-red—the kind of red that seemed ready to drip blood. At that moment, her exposed skin likewise became white as jade, crystalline and translucent.

Yan Hongchen watched quietly from the side. He had learned that Meng Hongchen's Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad martial soul had inherited more of Liu Yueming's family bloodline, while Liu Yueming herself had embarked upon an entirely different path of mutation.

The Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad was renowned for the bizarre cold poison born from the clash of ice and fire. It was hailed as the ruler of the gaps within the far north. Wherever it passed, deadly poison remained, lingering for ages without fading. Even soul beasts stronger than it found it difficult to harm it.

The Snow Jade Ice Toad, however, was different. Its originally fire-aspected eyes had mutated into a purer snow attribute that shared the same origin as ice. The two layered together; although it lost the insidious unpredictability of poison, it gained incomparable control over ice and snow, along with even stronger freezing power.

Meng Hongchen naturally heard her, so she did not take out her soul-tool longsword. Two yellow soul rings rose from beneath her feet, and her second soul ring lit up. A ring of icy-blue light abruptly spread from beneath her feet, covering the area where the two stood in the blink of an eye.

This soul skill was inherently poisonous, but more importantly, beneath the shroud of the Ice Poison Ring, the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad's deadly poison would be doubled in power!

"Mom, be careful! This is my second soul skill, Ice Poison Ring!" Meng Hongchen called out in warning. "Next is my first soul skill, Ice Toad Poison."

She pushed both palms forward, and a stream of white airflow over a foot in diameter shot toward Liu Yueming. It was not particularly fast, faintly tinged with blue amid the white, hazy as mist.

Judging from the current situation, Yan Hongchen felt that his family's soul ring abilities might not appear powerful, but they were exceptionally practical. Even if they became Titled Douluo in the future, such abilities would not become outdated. This was the same path he had envisioned.

Liu Yueming's second soul ring flashed. Soul power surged around her, and a force of pure ice and snow erupted forth. It was as though she had donned a crystalline outer garment; her strength and defense increased markedly, and her affinity with ice and snow greatly improved as well.

"This is my second soul skill, Ice Dance Rainbow Garment. Let me first see whether your second soul skill can channel poison through ice."

Liu Yueming did not pause. Her fourth soul ring immediately blazed with light, and her snowflake-patterned eyes suddenly shone. Boundless snowy mist surged outward from her as its center, swiftly spreading to blanket an area dozens of meters around them.

"Fourth soul skill, Blizzard Lost Trail!"

The snowy mist was extraordinarily dense. Liu Yueming could manipulate the power of wind and snow to obstruct vision, making it difficult to distinguish anything. Yet within the mist, her own perception remained incomparably clear.

Combined with her third soul skill, Ice Refraction, she could lightly tap the icy ground with her feet and move without a sound, as though she had merged into the ice and snow.

At that moment, Liu Yueming did not confront Meng Hongchen head-on. Instead, she mainly used the power of wind and snow to affect that stream of air. She understood the characteristics of the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad better than Meng Hongchen did.

"Meng'er, your Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad's poison is indeed quite good." Liu Yueming's voice came from the snowy mist. "Your second soul skill truly can cover an area and channel poison through ice, achieving the intended effect."

"But unfortunately," she shifted her tone, "your mother's Snow Jade Ice Toad isn't afraid of this kind of poison. After all, my martial soul itself evolved from the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad."

"And the fact that you can control Ice Toad Poison to this extent and release it like this makes Mother very pleased. Your control is up to standard. But for now, there's no need to directly draw the poison back into your body."

As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Yueming covered the stream of air with wind and snow, then froze it. Empowered by the Ice Poison Ring, the poison seeped into the layer of ice. She then tossed it somewhere suitable, as long as it did not harm anyone else.

"Now, let me show you my third soul skill." Liu Yueming dismissed her second and fourth soul skills, and her third soul ring lit up. "You can consider obtaining this soul skill once you become a Soul Elder. It will help with your plans for close combat."

Both were control-type soul masters, and what mattered more was control rather than sheer attack power. Still, Liu Yueming took Meng Hongchen's choice of a soul-tool path into consideration. Her direction in soul tools differed from Xiao Hongchen's; she preferred using a longsword, a trait inherited from Yi Hongchen.

Liu Yueming knew this as well, so she felt that Meng Hongchen needed some soul skills for close combat that would let her attack when advancing and defend when retreating. That was why she planned for Meng Hongchen to obtain this third soul ring.

"Third soul skill, Ice Refraction!"

A sheet of solid ice roughly ten meters in diameter suddenly spread beneath Liu Yueming's feet, smooth as a mirror. The ice reflected her image, creating an exceptionally strange sight.

Meng Hongchen suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet become slippery. When she looked up, Liu Yueming's figure had split into two. Her mother, who had been directly in front of her moments ago, was now behind her, steadily supporting her.

"Meng'er, be careful. Don't fall."

After being supported and regaining her balance, Meng Hongchen's eyes brightened slightly. "Mom, the displacement effect of this soul skill feels really useful!"

Liu Yueming merely smiled without confirming or denying it. The ice surface created beneath one's feet by this soul skill was not like teleportation, but at first it could affect both friend and foe, while afterward it allowed free movement. Its effect was quite good.

At that moment, Yi Hongchen approached with Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen. Wherever the three stepped, the ice beneath their feet instantly melted away.

Liu Yueming still pointed out several key matters. "Meng'er, don't rely too heavily on poison control. Poison can harm others, but it can also harm yourself. Your poison control is already sufficient; next, you can consider ice control."

"The ice attribute of the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad martial soul is not weak. Ice Refraction is meant to give you the ability to move freely when paired with close-combat soul tools, but you need to remember to maintain the ice beneath your feet at all times when using it. Otherwise, once the ice disappears, this soul skill can no longer be used, and you will need to rely on soul tools for defense."

After finishing her guidance, Yi Hongchen stood beside Liu Yueming and watched as Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen came over to stand beside Meng Hongchen.