Elder Supreme Shows His Might

The thunderclouds in the image gathered once more, bolts of lightning striking Snow Empress one after another, as if they would never end.

Even Snow Empress herself probably had not expected that simply undergoing a lightning tribulation would draw half the God Realm to watch. The spectacle was grander than a God King's coronation.

Snow Empress had already endured the eighth heavenly tribulation. Though the lightning had left her in a sorry state, her entire body charred black and her hair blown into a bird's nest, she calmly took out another Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and absorbed it.

She did it as naturally as if she were pulling out candy from her pocket.

The God of Destruction's mouth twitched, his voice carrying a touch of speechlessness.

"Where did this girl find so many Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrows?"

Although this stuff was nothing particularly valuable to the God Realm, it was absolutely a divine treasure that appeared only once in ten thousand years in the lower realms.

A trace of admiration flashed through Lie Yan's eyes. Looking at that resilient, unyielding figure in the light screen, her tone softened slightly.

"No matter what, her heavenly tribulation is over."

Her true form was an Earth-Core Red Lotus, likewise a creature born of heaven and earth.

Thus, she naturally felt a sense of closeness and fondness toward creatures like Snow Empress, who had been born from the essence of heaven and earth.

Tang San's expression instantly darkened yet again. Clutching his crotch, he gritted his teeth, his voice carrying a hint of hysteria. "God King of Kindness! Do you intend to stand with the soul beasts?"

Ever since learning of the God Realm's history, he had been plotting for the soul beasts' fortune. It was a plan he had laid out over thousands of years, and there could be no mistakes.

Snow Empress bore ninety percent of the Far North's fortune. If she successfully crossed the tribulation, his plan would be severely affected.

"Hmph!"

Lie Yan snorted coldly, her blade-sharp gaze stabbing toward Tang San, anger chilling her voice.

"Sea God, have you forgotten? My true form is an Earth-Core Red Lotus."

"Though you are my senior, do not mistake me for a soft persimmon you can squeeze whenever you please."

Ji Dong silently stepped to his wife's side as well, folding his arms as he calmly looked at Tang San. The message was obvious—say one more word, and he would turn hostile immediately.

Seeing Ji Dong's stance, Tang San's mouth twitched. In the end, he shut up.

The God of Destruction alone was already enough of a headache. Adding Lie Yan and Ji Dong to the mix was more than he could handle.

In the span of only a few sentences, Snow Empress had completed her heavenly tribulation and become the only seven-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast on the Far North Ice Plains.

And she had not merely just entered the seven-hundred-thousand-year level.

The immense energy of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrows had directly pushed her to seven hundred and ninety thousand years, only one step away from eight hundred thousand.

In other words, she could choose to continue crossing tribulations and challenge the eight-hundred-thousand-year threshold.

Snow Empress floated in midair, sensing her condition and feeling the surging power within her. She pondered for a moment.

She did not choose to continue crossing the tribulation.

She planned to condense her second soul core first and stabilize her foundation before considering the matter of another tribulation.

She understood that biting off more than she could chew would only lead to trouble.

Rumble!

The thunderclouds that had just dispersed gathered once again. Their roars were even louder than before, shaking the entire ice plain.

This time, Ice Empress was the one who had triggered the heavenly tribulation.

What left everyone dumbfounded was that fifteen Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrows likewise hovered around her. They slowly revolved, radiating rich ice-blue light that illuminated her like a goddess of ice and snow.

Ice Empress pointed toward the Shrek group and said coldly, "Di Tian, help deal with them."

Di Tian had just turned around and had not yet had the chance to speak.

Screech!

Shadow Twin Scythes released a blade of light that carved a deep ravine across the ice plain, separating the two sides.

Its orders were to extort them. As long as it could avoid killing, it would.

Especially Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe.

One was the Holy Spirit Cult's Elder Supreme, while the other was its first-in-line successor. Keeping them alive would let Shrek cut flesh from its own body.

Killing them would only benefit them instead.

Buzz!—money to buy your lives.

The meaning was clear: you people had not paid yet.

Xuan Zi's expression changed, and he immediately turned to roar at Yan Shaozhe, "Why haven't you taken out the money yet?!"

Yan Shaozhe and the eight Titled Douluo behind him nearly ground their back teeth to dust.

Yet they still obediently pulled out all sorts of treasures from their storage soul tools and piled them on the ground one by one.

Every time they took out an item, their hearts bled.

Those were the savings they had accumulated over most of their lives!

Just as they turned to leave.

Buzz!

Another blade of light flashed past, swift as lightning. It directly chopped five people into blood mist. Before they could even scream, they turned into a rain of blood that scattered across the ice plain.

Di Tian pointed at Xuan Zi, his voice carrying a hint of amusement. "Senior, it means you have not paid yet."

Yan Shaozhe stiffly turned his head toward Xuan Zi, his eyes filled with disbelief and fury. "Elder Xuan!"

Xuan Zi's expression looked as awful as if he had eaten shit. His little scheme had still been seen through.

Shrek had never been a united whole. He had only intended to make them pay while he muddled through the chaos and slipped away unnoticed.

He had not expected this black shadow to be so shrewd that it saw through even this small scheme of his.

Aside from cooking utensils and food, his storage ring truly did contain something valuable—a right-arm soul bone from an eighty-thousand-year soul beast. It was entirely fiery red, covered in fine patterns, and emitted a faint crimson glow.

It had been presented to him by someone else when he had led a group to hunt his eighth soul ring. It was his private property, and he had always been reluctant to use it.

What a joke. They had already given you the soul ring, and now you wanted the soul bone too?

But now, he either paid or died.

Xuan Zi looked at the pitch-black figure, then at the five pools of blood on the ground. His throat bobbed.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and took the eighty-thousand-year right-arm soul bone from his storage ring.

His heart ached so badly that he trembled, but he still respectfully placed the soul bone on the ground and stepped back three paces.

The circular blades of Shadow Twin Scythes stopped spinning, seemingly satisfied with his compliance.

Then it turned away and ignored them.

Only then did Xuan Zi let out a sigh of relief, feeling as if his heart were bleeding.

An eighty-thousand-year soul bone!

That had been his money for buying wine!

And just like that, it was gone!

He hated this!

But no matter how much he hated it, he did not dare show it. He could only bottle it up until his face turned green.

Seeing Xuan Zi's shit-eating expression, Yan Shaozhe inexplicably felt a surge of satisfaction.

Served you right for putting on airs and trying to be clever. Now you had lost both the lady and the army.

But he did not dare laugh. Xuan Zi was an important aid in his struggle against the Soul Guidance Department, and he could not afford to offend him here.

The Shrek group left the Far North in disgrace. They had arrived full of spirit, yet departed battered and dirty, nearly losing even their underwear in compensation.

Meanwhile, Ice Empress's heavenly tribulation had officially begun. The first bolt of heavenly lightning crashed down onto her petite body.

Ice Empress gave a muffled grunt, but there was not the slightest fear in her eyes. She took a deep breath, then actively charged toward the second bolt of heavenly lightning.