Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy

Could he truly condense a Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul? Li Qingming had some doubts.

But the Ice Empress did not care about such things.

The Ice Empress had clearly made plans long ago. Once she confirmed that Li Qingming truly wanted this Heavenly Snow Woman clone, she led him without pausing straight into the deeper reaches of the Extreme Northern Snowfield.

There were some ice and snow spirits there.

These ice and snow spirits were not of the Snow Empress's kind. They could barely be considered inferior beings—indeed, they could not truly even be called that.

At this moment, wrapped in the Ice Empress's ultimate ice power, these ice and snow spirits died in large numbers.

The Ice Empress then gathered them and condensed them into complete crystalline power.

Li Qingming did not disturb the Ice Empress as she worked.

He never interfered in matters he did not understand.

Since the Ice Empress was confident, he chose to trust her.

After all, even if this Ice-Snow Clone failed to form, it would not affect Li Qingming in any way.

At worst, he could redistribute the condensed spiritual power and fuse it back into himself.

There would be no loss.

But for the Ice Empress, it would be tantamount to death.

Thus, the Ice Empress could never possibly harm him.

Li Qingming understood that clearly.

The Ice Empress's gathering process lasted nearly two days.

Once she was certain she had gathered enough, she brought Li Qingming to a relatively secluded place in the Far North.

She did not return to her own dwelling. Instead, she passed the position of clan leader to another 100,000-year Ice Jade Scorpion.

Then, she left that place with Li Qingming.

As the Ice Empress's spiritual power manifested, Li Qingming saw the beautiful young girl dressed in green casual clothes and could not help blinking.

Seeing the curious look Li Qingming gave her, the Ice Empress snorted coldly.

"My spiritual form is naturally humanoid. Stop looking at me and hurry up. This fusion will take at least about a month."

As she spoke, the Ice Empress raised a hand and fixed her gaze on Li Qingming.

Li Qingming stood quietly where he was.

He drew a deep breath.

Six pairs of wings emerged behind him, and the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul appeared alongside them.

Holy power vast beyond measure spread outward in every direction.

The Ice Empress's gaze sharpened.

A terrifying power suddenly surged from within her body.

As Li Qingming's power began to split, he also controlled his holy power to make slight alterations to the Ice Empress's body.

Of course, the primary alterations were still being made by the Ice Empress herself.

As the Ice Empress's spiritual power—or rather, her soul body—completely flew out and entered Li Qingming's sea of consciousness—

She stood silently within that vast, tranquil sea of consciousness, her eyes filled with astonishment.

"What terrifying spiritual power. The strength of your sea of consciousness should already surpass that of the vast majority of Soul Kings, and even Soul Emperors. After this split, your spiritual strength will still exceed that of most five-ring Soul Masters."

The Ice Empress's tone was full of shock as she said this.

Although this so-called Three-Soul Clone Method came from the terrifying inheritance of an evil god, what it split was actually an entire sea of consciousness.

Every clone was a complete existence.

Though they could merge and separate at any time, once they fully separated, with the clone remaining behind, the spiritual power of Li Qingming's main body would likewise weaken drastically.

The Ice Empress had originally been somewhat worried about this.

But now that she saw Li Qingming's sea of consciousness, even after he completely split off this second Ice-Snow Clone, his sea of consciousness remained boundless, stretching beyond sight.

As Li Qingming's power surged forth, ultimate ice appeared in the left side of his sea of consciousness.

His originally mirror-clear sea of consciousness was once again tinged with a layer of icy blue.

The power gradually began to split, while Li Qingming remained seated cross-legged in silence.

This was an exceedingly slow process.

First, the Ice Empress needed to continuously alter his body.

Within this already dead shell, she had to extract the soul bones, then use that Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow to shape a complete body.

This part mainly depended on the Ice Empress.

Just as the evil clone needed to rely on the physical origin of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger itself, the core of this power still had to rely on these two powerful soul beasts.

Otherwise, Li Qingming could not accomplish it through his own strength alone.

And this was itself an extremely slow process.

In particular, the Ice Empress's physical body was intact. Transforming that body into a form suitable for a human naturally required a great deal of time.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Li Qingming slowly opened his eyes.

Or rather, that was already another clone, where his primary consciousness had projected itself.

At this moment, outside Mingdu of the Sun Moon Empire—

Li Qingming stood quietly, looking at the enormous and magnificent city before him.

He slowly walked inside.

Of the current four great empires, the Sun Moon Empire was the strongest.

The reason the Sun Moon Empire had not swallowed the other three great empires in a short time was not only because it was accumulating strength; Shrek Academy was also part of the reason.

Yet even with Shrek Academy's full support, the Sun Moon Federation still utterly crushed the three great empires as it developed further.

If not for Tang San's coercion, the Sun Moon Empire might have long since annexed the other three great empires and become the strongest empire to rule the entire continent.

Even so, after the God Realm completely vanished, the Sun Moon Empire rose again and established the later Sun Moon Federation, forcing the two great empires to flee the main continent.

As Li Qingming entered Mingdu, the capital of the Sun Moon Empire, a scene of wealth and prosperity unfolded before him.

However, Li Qingming paid it little mind. His purpose in coming was simple: to join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

This was currently the strongest academy in the Sun Moon Empire, as well as the pinnacle of Soul Engineer technology.

Although the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy still lagged behind Shrek Academy, it nevertheless performed exceptionally in several later national Soul Engineer tournaments, even dazzlingly so.

Furthermore, it had covert ties with the Holy Spirit Cult, making the situation exceedingly chaotic.

But precisely because of that, it was also more tolerant of evil Soul Masters.

After carefully asking around, Li Qingming did not linger and headed straight for the admissions office of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Under normal circumstances, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy only admitted students during a fixed period each year.

At this stage—or rather, in the latter half of the year—they were not accepting new students.

But when Li Qingming arrived and displayed his three-ring cultivation, along with the Six-Winged Fallen Angel Martial Soul he possessed, the admissions teacher still went to seek out the academy's higher-ups.

Li Qingming waited for more than twenty minutes before the teacher from earlier came jogging back.

The teacher gave Li Qingming a complicated look before saying to him,

"Come with me. Our Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy does not have any special admissions slots at this time, but if you can catch that person's eye, you may still be allowed to join."

As the teacher spoke, a trace of envy appeared in his eyes. Before Li Qingming could respond, however, he turned and left.

Li Qingming frowned slightly. He did not understand what the teacher meant.

But after thinking it over, he still followed behind him and left with him.