Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy

Whether he could truly condense the Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul, Li Qingming was somewhat uncertain about.

But Ice Empress did not care about that.

Ice Empress had clearly planned this long ago. After confirming that Li Qingming truly wanted this Heavenly Snow Woman clone, she led him onward without any delay, 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 Snow Empress's kind. They could barely be considered inferior beings, or perhaps not even truly qualified as such.

At that moment, enveloped by Ice Empress's Ultimate Ice power, these ice and snow spirits died in great numbers.

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

As Ice Empress worked away, Li Qingming did not disturb her.

When it came to things he did not understand, he never interfered or questioned them.

Since Ice Empress was confident she could do it, he chose to trust her.

After all, even if this Ice-Snow Clone failed to condense, 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 at all.

But for Ice Empress, it would be equivalent to immediate death.

Therefore, Ice Empress would never harm him.

Li Qingming understood that very clearly.

Ice Empress's gathering process lasted roughly two days.

Only after confirming that she had gathered enough did she bring Li Qingming to a relatively secluded place in the Far North.

She did not return to her cave abode. Instead, she passed the position of clan leader to another hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion.

Then she left that place together with Li Qingming.

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

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

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

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

Li Qingming stood quietly in place.

He took a deep breath.

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

An incomparably immense Divine Power spread outward in all directions.

Ice Empress's eyes narrowed.

A terrifying power suddenly surged from within her body.

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

Of course, Ice Empress herself was still mainly responsible for altering her own body.

As Ice Empress's spiritual power—or rather, her soul body—completely left her body and poured into Li Qingming's Spirit Sea.

She stood silently within that vast, tranquil Spirit Sea, her eyes filled with astonishment.

"What terrifying spiritual power. The strength of your Spirit Sea is probably greater than that of most Soul Kings, perhaps even Soul Emperors. And after this split, your spiritual strength will still surpass that of most five-ringed Soul Masters."

Ice Empress's tone was filled with shock as she said this.

This so-called Three-Soul Clone Method originated from the terrifying inheritance of an evil god, but the division involved was actually the splitting of an entire Spirit Sea.

Every clone was a complete existence.

Although they could fuse and separate at any time, once they were fully separated and the clone remained behind, the spiritual power of Li Qingming's main body would likewise weaken drastically.

Ice Empress had originally been somewhat worried about this.

But now that she saw Li Qingming's Spirit Sea, even after he completely split off this second Ice-Snow Clone, his Spirit Sea would remain boundless, stretching beyond sight.

As Li Qingming's power surged forth, Ultimate Ice appeared within the left side of his Spirit Sea.

The Spirit Sea, originally clear as a mirror, was once again tinged with a layer of icy blue.

His power gradually began to divide, yet Li Qingming remained seated cross-legged in silence.

This was an exceedingly slow process.

First, Ice Empress needed to continuously alter his body.

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

This part mainly depended on 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 needed these two powerful soul beasts.

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

And this was inherently an extremely slow process.

Ice Empress's physical body was especially complete. Transforming it into a form suitable for a human required a great deal of time in itself.

Meanwhile, Li Qingming slowly opened his eyes.

Or rather, that was already another clone, an incarnation of his primary consciousness.

At that moment, outside Mingdu, capital of the Sun Moon Empire.

Li Qingming stood quietly there, gazing at the enormous and magnificent city.

He slowly walked inside.

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

The reason the Sun Moon Empire had not swallowed the other Three Great Empires in a short period of time was not only because it was accumulating strength; Shrek Academy was also part of the reason.

But even with Shrek Academy's full support, as things developed further, the Sun Moon Federation still completely crushed the Three Great Empires.

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 ruling the entire continent.

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

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

Li Qingming, however, did not pay much attention to it. His purpose in coming here 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 was still inferior to Shrek Academy, its performance in several later national Soul Engineer tournaments remained exceptionally outstanding, even dazzling.

Furthermore, it had secret connections 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 making careful inquiries, Li Qingming did not linger and headed directly toward the admissions office of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

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

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

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

Li Qingming waited for a little over twenty minutes before the teacher from earlier came running 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 during this period, but if that person takes a liking to you, you may still be able to join."

As the teacher spoke, there was a trace of envy in his eyes. Before Li Qingming could respond, 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 together.