Deep Backlash, Senior Sister Goes Berserk

For hundreds of thousands of years, every great tribulation in the Far North had hung over these beast souls like an executioner's blade.

Snow Empress knew perfectly well that with her current condition, there was a 99 percent chance she would be reduced to ashes when her next, seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation arrived. That was why she had even considered going to the human world to seek an opportunity to take human form. No matter how great the risk, it was still better than waiting helplessly for death.

But now, an entirely new path had been laid out before her without the slightest pretense.

This human youth possessed a dragon bloodline that transcended even the God Realm. His left hand wielded the Holy Yang Thunder that could annihilate all things, while his right grasped the Abyssal Yin Thunder that devoured everything. Following someone like him, she might truly be able to break free from the prison of this world's laws.

"Hey, green scorpion, weren't you acting pretty high and mighty just now? Why are you mute now?" Wang Dong'er called out with a grin.

Ice Empress buried her head in the snow, her two pincers flailing furiously in rage, yet she could not force out a single retort. Tian Meng's appearance had shattered more than half of the pride buried deep in her heart.

Snow Empress stood amid the freezing wind, her snow-white dress snapping loudly in the gale.

She looked at Yu Chen, and her gaze changed. The hostility was gone, replaced by a scorching madness. "Break free from this world's cage... Good! But I have one condition!"

The smile vanished completely from Yu Chen's face the instant he heard the word "condition."

The wind and snow around them seemed to have been silenced completely at that very moment.

"A condition?" Yu Chen looked Snow Empress up and down, his eyes cold without a trace of warmth. "Do you have some misunderstanding about our current situation?"

Snow Empress's heart skipped a beat under that gaze, but the dignity she had maintained for seven hundred thousand years still made her force herself to speak. "Bing'er and I can abandon our physical bodies and become your soul spirits, helping you reach the pinnacle. But you must promise me that after becoming a god, you will protect the Far North and ensure its prosperity for ten thousand years, and..."

"And what?" Yu Chen cut her off directly, his tone filled with undisguised mockery. "And I'm supposed to treat you as an equal ally, discussing everything with you?"

Ma Xiaotao sneered from behind them. "A mere seven-hundred-thousand-year beast soul dares negotiate terms with my lord? Do you really think you're the ruler of this world?"

Wang Dong'er curled her lips as well. "You were fighting like your lives depended on it a moment ago. Now that you've lost, you still want to make demands? You've got some nerve."

Snow Empress's face turned slightly pale, and her hands unconsciously clenched the hem of her dress.

Yu Chen took a step forward and lightly raised his right hand.

The Blue-Eyes White Dragon circling overhead suddenly opened its enormous azure eyes. Its massive body stretched out through the void, and pure white holy radiance instantly tore a gigantic rift across the sky above the Far North ice plains.

A destructive ball of lightning rapidly gathered within the dragon's mouth. The instant the lightning condensed, vast stretches of space around it collapsed, exposing deep, pitch-black spatial rifts.

Snow Empress's breathing stopped, and her body instinctively tensed as she tried to summon the Extreme Cold Origin for defense.

But beneath the crushing holy dragon might, the ice-and-snow Soul Power in her body was like frozen water, utterly incapable of circulating.

Yu Chen casually pointed with his right hand.

The Blue-Eyes White Dragon opened its mouth, and a blinding beam of destructive white light roared past Snow Empress's right shoulder.

There was no explosion, not even the slightest gust of wind.

Where the white light passed, an entire towering glacier several thousand meters behind Snow Empress, along with the ice sheet spanning dozens of miles around it, was directly erased into a cloud of empty white mist the instant it touched the light.

The glacier that had once towered into the clouds vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye. All that remained was a massive, bottomless black hole with edges smooth as a mirror. Even the Far North's eternal freezing winds could not fill that abyss.

Ice Empress let out a terrified scream. Her entire body flattened against the snow, trembling like a sieve.

This was no longer destruction on the level of power. This was complete erasure on a conceptual level!

Yu Chen lowered his right hand and looked down at Snow Empress from above. His white robes did not carry even a speck of snow.

"What I told you just now wasn't a negotiation, and it certainly wasn't a job offer. It was a unilateral notice."

Yu Chen's tone was calm to the extreme, yet it carried a tyrannical dominance that could crush everything.

"Either obediently disperse your physical body, become a soul spirit, and get into my sea of consciousness to serve me like beasts of burden—or I'll have the Blue-Eyes White Dragon erase this entire Far North from the map right now, along with the two of you, and turn you into history forever."

"Do you think you're qualified to negotiate with me?"

The instant those words fell, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon let out another earth-shaking dragon roar.

The laws of heaven and earth across the Far North ice plains shattered completely. The dragon might crushed the wind and snow against the ground so firmly that not even half a snowflake could drift through the air.

Before absolute power, all words and negotiations were a joke.

Snow Empress looked at the bottomless pit behind her, then turned back to look at Ice Empress, who was sprawled on the ground trembling, her origin power nearly exhausted.

Hundreds of thousands of years of pride were blasted to pieces by that beam of white light.

She finally understood. The man before her did not care whether they were the overlords of the Far North. He did not even care about their seven hundred thousand years of cultivation. In his eyes, the Far North ice plains were no different from weeds by the roadside.

Resistance meant certain death—and a death in which even their divine souls would be completely erased.

Snow Empress closed her eyes. Two ice-blue tears slid from the corners of her eyes, turning into tiny crystals of ice before they could hit the ground.

All hesitation, struggle, and unwillingness ultimately vanished like smoke before this absolute power.

After a long while, Snow Empress slowly opened her eyes, and all the extreme cold aura around her receded.

Under the gazes of Wang Dong'er and Ma Xiaotao, the supreme ruler who had governed the Far North for seven hundred thousand years slowly bent her knee.

Her snow-white dress spread across the cold snow. Snow Empress knelt on one knee upon the ice and lowered her proud head. "The Snow Maiden of the Far North is willing to serve Your Excellency..."

"Hey! Big-chested girl, what the hell are you doing?!"

Wang Dong'er was startled out of her wits. She kicked off the snow, and a pair of dazzling Light Goddess Butterfly wings snapped open behind her.

She immediately retreated backward with the aid of her Soul Power.

Ma Xiaotao did not answer at all. Her robes had been burned into tatters by blazing black-red flames, exposing large swaths of snow-white skin, but she seemed utterly unaware. Only beastlike, ragged breathing came from her throat.

Two dark-red fire lines shot up from beneath her feet. Giving off a pungent burnt smell, she charged straight ahead!

"Crazy bitch!"

Wang Dong'er crossed her arms before her chest. Her first soul ring lit up, and her wing blades swept sideways in a flash of golden light.

Bang!

The two forces collided. Wang Dong'er felt both arms go numb as she was sent flying more than ten meters, her back slamming heavily into the hard ice wall behind her.

A sweet taste rose in her throat, and she coughed a mouthful of blood onto the snow.

"Damn it, are you really trying to kill me?!" Wang Dong'er wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and gritted her teeth as she stood. "Sister Xiaotao, wake up! I'm Wang Dong'er!"

There was no focus in Ma Xiaotao's crimson eyes.

Her neatly groomed red hair had completely come loose. The flames around her grew more and more violent, scorching the ancient ice beneath her feet with sizzling sounds and melting several charred black pits into it.

She ignored Wang Dong'er entirely. Turning around, she fixed her gaze on the white thunderlight barrier at the entrance to Ice Valley.

Yu Chen was in there, in seclusion.

Pure white Yang Thunder flowed across the barrier. With every flash of lightning, the black-red evil fire around Ma Xiaotao surged another two feet higher, as though something were irresistibly drawing her in—or provoking the urge for destruction buried in her bones.

"Roar!"

Ma Xiaotao let out an incoherent howl. She stomped down violently, transforming into a pillar of fire as she slammed into the thunder barrier!

Boom!

The dull impact echoed through Ice Valley.

Great ripples spread across the white barrier. Lightning surged back along the pillar of fire, blasting Ma Xiaotao five or six steps backward and leaving even a scorched mark on her shoulder.

Yet instead of retreating, the bloodthirsty gleam in her eyes grew even stronger.

"First Soul Skill, Phoenix Fire Line!"

Dark-red flames surged from her mouth and blasted straight into the same point on the barrier.

Sizzle—

The freezing ice aura and the sinister flames clashed madly, and thick white mist rose around the outer edge of Ice Valley.

"Stop! Yu Chen is breaking through in there! What if he goes into qi deviation when you break the barrier?!" Wang Dong'er stomped anxiously. No longer caring whether she could defeat Ma Xiaotao, she beat her butterfly wings and shot forward in a streak of golden light. "Second Soul Skill, Butterfly God's Light!"

Countless golden spheres of light rained down toward Ma Xiaotao's back.

Ma Xiaotao did not even turn her head. A pair of wings burning with black flames suddenly spread from her back, and with a sweep of those fiery wings, she blasted all the spheres apart in midair!

The intense shockwave flung Wang Dong'er to the ground, rolling her several times and covering her black cloak in shards of ice.

"Cough, cough... What did this woman take? Why is she so much stronger than before?" Wang Dong'er pushed herself up from the ground, her arms aching so badly that she could barely lift them.

The evil fire within Ma Xiaotao had completely gone out of control. Dark-red patterns had even emerged across her skin, while her formerly fair flesh had become terrifyingly hot.

She raised both hands high. Above her head, the phantom of the Evil Fire Phoenix let out a shrill cry, its entire body beginning to compress violently as all the dark-red flames gathered in her palms to form a blazing spear of light.

That was her strongest single-target killing move—Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike!

If that attack struck the thunder barrier, even if it could not break through, Yu Chen inside would still suffer internal injuries from the shock.

"It's over, it's over! Something really bad is about to happen!" Wang Dong'er bit her lip and wanted to rush forward to block it, but her legs had gone weak, and she could not make it in time.

Ma Xiaotao raised her head and opened her mouth. The violent energy had gathered to its limit, and she was about to hurl it savagely at the defenses at the valley entrance!

At that critical instant.

From the deepest part of Ice Valley, an exalted dragon roar suddenly rang out!

Roar—!

The sound pierced the thick ice layers and the raging blizzard, exploding directly in every corner of this world.

The ancient black ice beneath their feet split open with bottomless chasms. The flying snow froze in unison for an instant before the soundwave, then shattered into powder!

Rumble!

The thunderlight barrier inside Ice Valley shattered into pieces beneath that dragon roar.

The violent shockwave directly scattered the Phoenix Piercing Cloud Strike in Ma Xiaotao's hands into a sky full of sparks.

Wang Dong'er was pushed back repeatedly by the blast. Shielding her eyes with one arm, she desperately peered inside through the gaps between her fingers.

The valley floor, once covered in ice and snow, had completely collapsed. Yu Chen floated in midair, dressed in white robes as pure as snow, without even a corner of them blackened by smoke.

The sleeve on his left arm had already shattered. His entire arm was covered in a dragon-scale armor that looked as if it had been carved from white jade, with patterns of ice-blue and pure gold flowing through the gaps. Even his fingers had transformed into sharp dragon claws.

Above his head circled the phantom of an enormous snow-white dragon, so massive it blotted out the sky.

The dragon possessed broad wings on its back, and every scale resembled the purest ice crystal. Its azure eyes held not the slightest impurity, only endless holiness and destruction.

Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon!

The pressure emanating from that phantom alone made all the wind and snow in the Far North flow backward.

"So damn noisy."

Yu Chen slowly opened his eyes. His pupils had turned vertical, and his ice-blue gaze fell upon Ma Xiaotao below.

Crushed head-on by dragon might that transcended this plane, Ma Xiaotao's evil fire suddenly froze. She seemed pinned to the snow, unable to move, though unwilling growls still emerged from her throat.

Yu Chen stood in the air and casually waved his hand.

The Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon above him did not even need to gather power. It merely opened its massive mouth slightly.

Buzz!

A pure white beam of destruction erupted forth!

The beam was thick enough to require several people linking arms around it. As it cut across the sky, not even the sound of the air being torn could be heard. Every sound in the surroundings vanished.

The white light grazed past Ma Xiaotao's shoulder and shot toward an ancient glacier stretching ten miles deep in the Far North.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor were there fragments of rock flying everywhere.

The instant that destructive white light touched the glacier, the entire towering mountain vanished as if wiped away by a brush. From peak to base, ten whole miles of solid ice and stone turned into wisps of green smoke beneath the white light, without even a drop of melted snowwater flowing down.

All that remained was a mirror-smooth, bottomless vacuum valley. Vast spiderweb-like black cracks had even been torn through the surrounding space, unable to heal for a long time.

This terrifying fluctuation, which surpassed the Douluo plane itself, traveled through the earth veins of the Far North, silently spreading south across the continent.

Wang Dong'er collapsed onto the ice and snow, staring blankly at the enormous void pit in the distance, her mind completely empty.

That had been an ancient black ice glacier!

And just like that... it was gone?

The evil fire within Ma Xiaotao's body seemed to have been frightened by the power of that attack as well, retreating deep into her meridians. The dark-red radiance around her shook violently, some of the blood-red color fading from her eyes as her whole body swayed weakly.

The next instant, Yu Chen appeared before her.

His white robes drifted down as he looked coldly at the disheveled Ma Xiaotao, whose body was more than half exposed.

"You need a lesson, huh?"