Far North Changes Hands, Ten Thousand Beasts Bow in Worship

She raised her head and looked at the young man before her, dressed in white and pure as snow. Her eyes were red-rimmed, and tears pattered down her cheeks onto the ice. "Back at Shrek, Elder Xuan always told me that Evil Fire came with my martial soul. It could only be suppressed, only balanced out by soul masters with extremely cold attributes. They said this was my fate and told me to accept it."

At this, Ma Xiaotao let out a bitter laugh, her eyes filled with mockery for the past. "To hell with accepting my fate! They simply couldn't cure me. All they knew was how to lock me up like some monster that could explode at any moment! Sea God's Pavilion, the continent's number-one academy—what a load of useless trash!"

Yu Chen looked down at her without the slightest ripple in his gaze. "If Mu En and Xuan Zi could have cured you, they wouldn't have left you as a hidden danger until now."

"Exactly! They were just incompetent!"

Ma Xiaotao hurried half a step forward and wrapped her arms around Yu Chen's leg. She lifted her stunning face, her gaze blazing hot enough to burn. "From today onward, there will no longer be a Ma Xiaotao, the big sister of Shrek's inner courtyard! My life was given to me by my lord, my martial soul was remade by my lord, and my entire body belongs to my lord!"

"Oh? Shrek raised you for so many years, and you're throwing it all away just like that?" Yu Chen lowered his eyes at her.

"Raised me? They only wanted me to serve Shrek and win the championship in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament!"

Ma Xiaotao refuted him without hesitation, her breathing rapid. "Everything they gave me was pain and shackles! What my lord gave me is a real path to survival and invincible power! If my lord gives the word, even if you tell me to return to Shrek right now, rip every hair from that old drunkard Elder Xuan's beard, and tear down Sea God's Pavilion, I won't even blink!"

She pressed a hand against her chest, where the Ultimate Fire Phoenix mark radiated a pure golden-red glow. "From now on, Ma Xiaotao is merely a blade in your hand! Wherever you point, I will cut. If gods stand in the way, I will kill gods; if Buddhas stand in the way, I will kill Buddhas!"

Seeing Ma Xiaotao's fanatical expression, as though she wanted to dig out her heart and offer it to him, Yu Chen casually flung a loose black robe from his storage ring and dropped it directly over her head.

"Put some clothes on first."

Yu Chen turned around, clasping his hands behind his back. His tone carried an unquestionable dominance. "If you want to be a blade, then you need to be the sharpest blade. If you rust, or freeze yourself so badly that you can no longer swing, then I have no use for you."

With the black robe over her head, Ma Xiaotao was not displeased in the slightest upon hearing that. Instead, her face shone with excitement.

She hurriedly pulled the black robe on. Though it was loose, it could not hide her voluptuous, slender figure.

After tying the belt, she obediently stepped back to half a step behind Yu Chen. With her eyes lowered and her manner submissive, she looked every bit like a devoted attendant.

Several yards away, Wang Dong'er held Yu Chen's old cloak in her arms. Her lips were pouted high as her large eyes swept over Ma Xiaotao again and again.

"Hmph. Just a moment ago, you looked like some vicious beast ready to eat people. Now you're pretending to be a meek little kitten."

Wang Dong'er walked over sourly, deliberately squeezing in on Yu Chen's other side. She muttered under her breath, "Vixen... stripping naked for people to see. Shameless."

Hearing this, Ma Xiaotao shot Wang Dong'er a sidelong glance, a provocative smile on her lips. "What does a little girl like you know? Being able to devote everything to my lord is my honor. Some people have neither a figure nor a good temper. My lord probably only keeps you around to serve tea and pour water like some little maid."

"Who are you calling a little girl?!"

Wang Dong'er was so furious that her pinkish-blue short hair nearly stood on end. With her hands on her hips, she glared at Ma Xiaotao. "When Yu Chen and I first met, you were still who knows where having your fits! If Yu Chen hadn't saved you, you'd have been burned into a pile of charcoal by your own Evil Fire long ago. What are you acting so smug for?"

"Enough. Both of you, shut up." Yu Chen turned his head and coldly swept his gaze over them.

Wang Dong'er immediately shrank her neck, stuck out her tongue, and did not dare make another sound.

Ma Xiaotao also hurriedly lowered her head to admit her mistake. "This subordinate spoke out of turn. Please punish me, my lord."

Yu Chen paid no further attention to the open and covert sparring between the two women.

He sank his consciousness into the depths of his sea of consciousness.

There, the massive Transdimensional Twin Dragons fusion panel floated silently.

Within the area on the left that represented ultimate light and destruction, the first card, engraved with a pure white giant dragon, radiated a dazzling golden-white glow.

[Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon] form has been completely activated and stabilized!

The destructive white light that had grazed the glacier earlier was merely thirty percent of the Lesser White Dragon form's power, yet it had completely vaporized ten miles of Profound Ice Glacier into nothingness.

If he unleashed it at full power, ordinary Titled Douluo of the Douluo Continent would not last even a second.

Yu Chen's gaze moved downward along the panel.

Beneath the Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon card, a brand-new dark gold card outline had appeared.

On its surface, the vague silhouettes of two incomparably majestic white dragons intertwined and coiled around each other, radiating even more violent and terrifying fluctuations of law.

[Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon]!

Seeing the name of that card, Yu Chen raised a brow.

It was an upper-tier Dragon Clan form with dual destructive strikes and absolute immunity to battle destruction under the rules!

He looked at the unlock conditions:

[Unlock Requirement One: Completely refine the Origin of Ultimate Ice (Completed)]

[Unlock Requirement Two: Devour a core fortune node of the Douluo Plane and shatter an initial God Realm divine-sense imprint (Progress: 1/2)]

[Unlock Requirement Three: Host's Soul Power Level reaches level sixty, Soul Emperor, and completes one Dragon Soul Self-Extremity Resonance]

"An initial God Realm divine-sense imprint?"

Yu Chen opened his eyes, and his gaze casually swept over Wang Dong'er beside him.

Wang Dong'er felt a little unnerved beneath his stare. She touched her cheek. "Yu Chen, why are you looking at me like that? Did some snow get stuck on my face?"

"Nothing."

Yu Chen withdrew his gaze and sneered inwardly.

The Sea God divine-sense seal Tang San had left in the depths of Wang Dong'er's soul seemed like it would soon come in handy.

Using Tang San as nourishment to unlock a new form while pulling Wang Dong'er completely free from the God Realm's control—no matter how he calculated it, this was a profitable deal.

"Let's go. We caused quite a commotion here."

Yu Chen stepped forward and headed out of Ice Valley. "First, we'll completely settle this place in the Far North. Then it'll be time to return to the continent and see what those clowns have been up to."

Ma Xiaotao and Wang Dong'er quickly followed, one to either side.

The core region of the Far North never saw daylight year-round. It had only endless blizzards and bone-chilling icy winds.

Yet at this moment, this perilous forbidden zone of life was strangely quiet.

The raging snowstorm had long since been utterly torn apart by Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon's destructive beam. The sky rarely revealed a deep azure backdrop, and sunlight fell upon the eternal snowfields, reflecting a blinding white radiance.

Upon a towering snow peak before what had once been Ice Valley, Yu Chen stood with his hands behind his back.

His white robes fluttered faintly in the wind. No Soul Power fluctuations leaked from his body, yet he possessed an air that seemed to make all things submit.

Ma Xiaotao stood behind him in a black robe, her eyes vigilantly examining the surroundings. Her entire body was taut like a fully drawn bow.

Wang Dong'er also looked around curiously and asked in a quiet voice, "Yu Chen, why are we standing here in the cold wind? Didn't you say we were heading back?"

Yu Chen did not answer. He simply raised his right hand and lightly snapped his fingers.

Buzz!

An incomparably pure icy-blue light lit up from his left chest, then transformed into snowflakes that scattered through the air.

The snowflakes whirled together, and a slender, graceful figure slowly appeared at Yu Chen's side.

She was a woman dressed in a dark blue, form-fitting cheongsam. Her three thousand strands of white hair cascaded behind her like a waterfall, while her crystalline eyes resembled the most perfect ice crystals in the world.

Her figure was tall and full, and a stretch of snow-white, straight leg was revealed through the slit in her cheongsam. Her entire body radiated an innate nobility and extreme cold.

She was none other than Snow Empress, first among the Far North's Three Heavenly Kings and a seven-hundred-thousand-year beast, now in spirit form!

"Greetings, my lord."

Snow Empress bowed slightly to Yu Chen, a trace of reverence in her clear voice.

From the moment Yu Chen had merged her into his body, she had fully understood the terror of the human youth before her.

He was not an existence that could arise from the Douluo Continent. He was a sovereign who stood above the laws of the entire plane.

"Call them all out," Yu Chen casually ordered.

"Yes."

Snow Empress straightened and took half a step forward.

Her icy-blue eyes swept across the vast Far North snowfields below, and the aura of extreme cold around her erupted with a thunderous burst!

"All beings of the Far North, heed this Empress's decree and come pay homage at once!"

Snow Empress's voice was not sharp, yet it was like an invisible ripple that instantly pierced through layers of ice and snow, traveling along the frozen earth for ten thousand years and spreading to every corner of the Far North's core region!

Rumble!

The ice fields began to shake violently.

Distant snow mountains collapsed, and rolling masses of snow poured downward.

Immediately afterward, enormous soul beasts crawled out from underground, icy cracks, and snow caves, racing madly toward the snow peak.

Leading the charge was a colossal creature over a hundred meters tall.

It was a giant ape covered in white fur. Every step it took made the ground shudder violently. It was the third-ranked of the Far North's Three Heavenly Kings—the Titan Snow Demon King!

Behind the Titan Snow Demon King came hundreds and thousands of ten-thousand-year Icefield Giant Bears, snow wolves, and countless soul beasts unique to the Far North.

They had been terrified out of their wits by the horrifying white light that had vaporized an ancient glacier. Now that they heard Snow Empress's summons, how could they dare delay in the slightest?

Within a short while, a vast army of soul beasts had gathered beneath the snow peak.

The normally fierce and savage ten-thousand-year and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were all squeezed together trembling, not even daring to breathe loudly.

The Titan Snow Demon King's massive body crashed to its knees. Its thick arms braced hard against the ground as it spoke in human speech, its voice filled with boundless terror.

"Lady Snow Empress! That destructive white light earlier... what exactly was it? Where is Lady Ice Empress? Why can this subordinate no longer sense Lady Ice Empress's aura?"

Snow Empress looked down at the giant beast from above, her gaze frosty and aloof. "Ice Empress has become a spirit alongside me and now follows at my lord's side."

"What?!"

The Titan Snow Demon King's enormous eyes widened abruptly as it stared at Yu Chen beside Snow Empress in disbelief.

A human youth?

Snow Empress, ruler of the Far North, and Ice Empress had both actually acknowledged a human as their master?!

The countless soul beasts below grew restless as well, waves of low growls echoing through the herd.

"Impudence!"

Snow Empress's willow brows rose as she shouted coldly, "All beings of the Far North, heed my command! From this day onward, the Far North shall officially join Heavenly Dragon Gate and acknowledge Yu Chen as its master!"

"All Profound Ice Marrow, natural treasures, territories, and mineral veins in the Far North shall belong to Heavenly Dragon Gate!"

"Those with cultivation above ten thousand years must obey my lord's orders. Any who defy them will face this Empress personally—Icebound Asura awaits!"

As soon as those words were spoken, the entire snowfield fell deathly silent.

The Titan Snow Demon King's huge head buzzed. It looked at Snow Empress high above, then at Yu Chen standing before her with an indifferent expression.

That human youth merely gave it a faint glance.

That one glance alone made the Titan Snow Demon King feel an incomparably terrifying pressure descend from the depths of its bloodline!

It was not a difference in Soul Power Level. It was the innate trembling of a lower life-form facing its creator!

The Titan Snow Demon King's white fur instantly stood on end. How could it retain even the slightest desire to resist?

"The Titan Snow Demon clan obeys Snow Empress's decree! Greetings, my lord!"

Boom!

The Titan Snow Demon King slammed its massive head heavily onto the solid ice, sending ice shards flying everywhere.

Seeing even the hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King bowing its head, how could the thousand powerful ten-thousand-year soul beasts behind it dare act up?

"Greetings, my lord!"

"Roar—!"

All the beasts knelt upon the ground in unison, bowing and kowtowing toward Yu Chen atop the snow peak.

Their roars and cries of submission merged together, shaking apart the clouds overhead.

Watching this, Ma Xiaotao, who stood behind Yu Chen, felt her blood boil.

This was her lord!

Without a single soldier, relying solely on his own pressure and methods, he had turned the Far North—this forbidden zone of life that even Titled Douluo dared not enter lightly—into his personal backyard!

Wang Dong'er was dumbfounded as well. Her small mouth hung open as she tugged at Yu Chen's sleeve. "Yu Chen... does this mean our Heavenly Dragon Gate has swallowed the entire Far North?"

"This is only the beginning."

Yu Chen's expression remained calm as he casually waved his hand.

From within the herd below, a massive scorpion five meters long and jade-green all over quickly crawled forward.

It was a fifty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion. Though not as pure-blooded as Ice Empress, it was still extremely powerful.

The Ice Jade Scorpion crawled beneath the snow peak and respectfully lowered itself, offering its broad, flat shell as a step.

"Let's go. We've been out long enough."

Yu Chen's figure flashed, and he landed steadily atop the Ice Jade Scorpion's back.

Ma Xiaotao followed closely behind, standing half a step behind Yu Chen's side as she vigilantly scanned the surroundings.

Snow Empress transformed into a stream of light and reentered Yu Chen's body, while Wang Dong'er clumsily climbed onto the scorpion's back and sat on Yu Chen's other side.

Yu Chen patted the Ice Jade Scorpion's shell and looked toward the distant southern continent, a cold curve appearing on his lips.

"I wonder whether those self-righteous righteous sects have come up with anything new for me during this time."

The Ice Jade Scorpion let out a cheerful hiss. Its eight long legs moved rapidly, carrying the three of them as it became a streak of green lightning and sped mightily toward the southern continent.