First Martial Soul Possession

At that moment, Snow Empress drifted forward and placed a slender hand on Ye Feng's shoulder. After sensing him for a moment, her willow-like brows furrowed slightly.

"The flames within your body... have grown stronger again."

Snow Empress's voice was cold, carrying a trace of gravity. "That rampage just now was no accident. Karma Fire will grow stronger along with your strength, and there will still be a risk of backlash in the future."

"Legend says the Phoenix Nine-Turn Nirvana can ascend to godhood. Given your situation, similar incidents will happen many more times, until you completely gain control of this power."

Ye Feng checked the condition within his body, his face full of bitterness. "I knew it. The faster I improved, the more uneasy I felt..."

So Karma Fire had been playing dumb all this time, only to stab him in the back when the moment came.

"Sister Snow Empress, is there any way to solve this?"

"Yes."

Snow Empress narrowed her icy eyes. "You need to find someone with an Ultimate Ice attribute and use their origin chill to help you balance and suppress it. Otherwise, when the backlash comes again, it may be difficult to control."

"Ultimate Ice?"

Ye Feng scratched his head. "Where am I supposed to find that... Wait!"

His eyes suddenly lit up as he looked at Snow Empress. "Sister Snow Empress, aren't you one?"

As a spirit born of heaven and earth, Snow Empress possessed ultimate ice and snow. Its intensity even surpassed Ultimate Ice, faintly reaching the legendary godly level.

Snow Empress fell silent for a moment, then swept her icy gaze over him. "I am indeed Ultimate Ice, but the gap between our strengths is too great. If I intervene to suppress it, not only will it fail to solve the problem, it may instead make things worse."

Ye Feng pondered for a moment before speaking in a deep voice. "You mean that if you suppress it, it might temporarily solve the problem, but it would only treat the symptoms, not the root cause."

"Karma Fire would be suppressed this time, then return next time in an even more powerful form, right?"

Snow Empress nodded slightly. "Flames have always been unyielding. If you want to resolve this completely, you must control them."

"I understand."

Ye Feng nodded, a trace of solemnity flashing across his young face.

In that case, he would have to be more careful with his future cultivation.

But...

Ye Feng suddenly thought of the [Twin Awakening] trait.

Since he needed Ultimate Ice to deal with the Karma Fire in his body, why not just copy an Ultimate Ice second Martial Soul?

Maybe he could even create an ice-and-fire fusion technique!

Ye Feng told Snow Empress about his guess, only to receive a look as though she were staring at an idiot.

"Although your wildly imaginative idea is not bad, your humans' Twin Martial Souls seem unable to be cultivated at the same time."

"Moreover, if you cannot control Ultimate Fire, cultivating Ultimate Ice will only lead to death."

After hearing Snow Empress's analysis, Ye Feng slapped his forehead.

Had Karma Fire burned his brain out? He had even forgotten that Twin Martial Souls could not be cultivated simultaneously.

Ye Feng scratched that tuft of fiery red hair.

"So that means I first need to find a soul master or soul beast about as strong as me, who also possesses Ultimate Ice?"

"That's as difficult as finding a fire-breathing penguin in the Far North."

Snow Empress's icy eyes shifted slightly, as though she were considering what a "penguin" was. Then she said blandly, "You may understand it that way."

"Then are there any soul beasts in the Far North as strong as me that possess Ultimate Ice?" Ye Feng asked expectantly.

Snow Empress considered it for a moment, then shook her head. "In the entire Far North, only Bing'er and I possess Ultimate Ice."

"Ah, it seems the blessing of Phoenix Nirvana isn't something everyone can endure."

Ye Feng sighed and rose to stretch his limbs.

Feeling the solid Soul Power within his body and the surging sense of strength, his gloom faded somewhat.

Although Evil Fire Backlash had become Karma Fire Nirvana, the increase in strength was real.

Karma Fire Nirvana not only tempered the body, removed impurities, and improved one's talent, but also beautified the complexion and strengthened the bones and muscles.

Its drawback was that it hurt like hell and could kill you.

"Forget it. When the cart reaches the mountain, there'll be a road; when the boat reaches the bridge, it'll straighten itself out..."

Ye Feng had accepted it. "At worst, the next time Karma Fire backlashes, I'll jump straight into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well."

Dugu Bo listened from the side, thoroughly confused.

Ultimate Ice, Phoenix Nirvana—he had only heard such terms in legends.

He gave a dry cough and interjected, "Young Master, this old man may not understand these ultimate attributes, but if you need to find an ice-attribute soul master or soul beast, I have some connections in the soul master world. Perhaps I can keep an eye out for you."

Upon hearing Dugu Bo's words, a name suddenly surfaced in Ye Feng's mind.

Shui Bing'er!

Her Martial Soul was the Ice Phoenix, possessing an attribute infinitely close to Ultimate Ice.

At this point in time, Shui Bing'er should be a few years older than Ye Feng, and their Soul Power should not differ much...

The more Ye Feng thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

At that moment, Snow Empress suddenly added, "Once you break through to Soul Sage, perhaps you can accept my suppression."

Ye Feng counted on his fingers.

Soul Sage... How many years would that take?

With Karma Fire's current intensity, if there were no external suppression, he might be dead before reaching Soul Emperor.

Forget it. He would let nature take its course.

With a thought, Ye Feng tried to summon his Martial Soul.

"Nether Karma Fire Phoenix!"

Crimson-gold flames erupted from around his body with a boom.

They were far more blazing and substantial than before.

The flames were no longer merely crimson-gold. Deep within their cores flowed a strand of dark-gold radiance so dense it seemed almost tangible.

The temperature was so high that even the surrounding air rippled and warped like water.

Immediately afterward, an even more divine and imposing phantom of a Crimson Gold Fire Phoenix spread its wings behind him. The streaming flames trailing from its tail feathers carried a strange radiance woven from dark purple and crimson gold.

The fire phoenix made Ye Feng look like a god!

"This..."

Dugu Bo instinctively looked at the crimson-gold fire phoenix behind Ye Feng, his heart shaken.

The Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor within his body actually felt a trace of reverence the instant that phoenix appeared.

That reverence had nothing to do with strength. It came entirely from suppression at the bloodline level.

It was hard to imagine just what level Ye Feng's Martial Soul quality had reached.

Ye Feng looked at the crimson-gold flames rising around him and the increasingly divine fire phoenix phantom behind him. A thought suddenly surfaced in his mind.

He had a beast Martial Soul. Could he try Martial Soul Possession?

Thinking of this, Ye Feng focused his mind and attempted to guide the Nether Karma Fire Phoenix into merging with him.

The next moment, the crimson-gold flames swept around him with a whoosh, truly coiling around him like living creatures and wrapping his entire body within them!

The flames did not burn his clothes. Instead, they seemed to melt into his skin.

Ye Feng felt his body grow light, followed by a series of fine crackling sounds from his bones.

His originally somewhat slender frame visibly shot up, his shoulders broadening and his legs lengthening, his lines becoming sharp and clean.

His hair also grew longer, spilling down his back. Crimson-gold flames flowed quietly around his body, as though he were draped in a layer of flowing crimson-gold gauze.

It was as though he had suddenly grown several years older.

"So this is what Martial Soul Possession feels like!"

Ye Feng's eyes lit up as he felt power filling every part of his body.

Strength, speed, spiritual power... nearly every attribute had surged by almost double.

"Young Master, this..." Dugu Bo's eyelids twitched wildly.

How did this look like a soul master who had just broken through?

He would believe it even if someone said a Soul Elder had arrived!

Ye Feng ignored him and focused his attention on his back.

Since he was a phoenix, flight should be a basic ability.

The next moment, a pair of Phoenix Wings formed entirely from crimson-gold flames unfolded behind him.

Their wingspan was nearly three meters, with dark-gold light flowing along their edges.

With a gentle flap, scorching air currents swept outward in every direction.