One Strike Kills the Mandala Serpent

"Huo Yuhao!" Ice Empress's furious voice echoed throughout the Far North.

As Ice Empress chased after Huo Yuhao and beat him, she snapped angrily, "Huo Yuhao, what do you mean by that? Stop running and stand still!"

"Sister Ice, it's the truth! Sister Snow, save me!"

"Shut up!"

Seeing this, Snow Empress could not help but laugh. She had long since grown used to Huo Yuhao and Ice Empress's little squabbles.

Snow Empress said, "But, little Yuhao, I must send a soul beast to protect you in secret."

"Then let me protect Huo Yuhao in secret."

Ice Empress volunteered for the task.

"Sister Ice, why do I feel like you're up to no good?" For some reason, Huo Yuhao sensed that something was off about Ice Empress's initiative.

"You..." Snow Empress looked helplessly at Ice Empress as well.

Although Ice Empress claimed that she did not like Huo Yuhao very much, she often talked about him.

Snow Empress asked with a smile, "Then, Yuhao, when will you be leaving for Shrek?"

"Probably in a few days. Sister Ice, what kind of protection did you mean?"

"Of course, close protection, little Yuhao~" When Ice Empress said "close protection," she placed special emphasis on those words.

Huo Yuhao said in surprise, "Does that mean, Sister Ice, that you'll be entering Shrek too?"

"Isn't that obvious? How could it be called close protection if I didn't enter Shrek?" Ice Empress looked at Huo Yuhao with a broad smile.

"That makes sense." Huo Yuhao found nothing wrong with Ice Empress's words.

With the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow and Huo Yuhao, the ice-and-snow auspicious beast, aiding her, Ice Empress had digested all nine roots of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow in just four years, along with Huo Yuhao's auspicious power.

Ice Empress had now raised her cultivation to nearly seven hundred thousand years.

After absorbing nearly half the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow within the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern, Snow Empress's cultivation had also risen to eight hundred thousand years.

Snow Empress had become the second soul beast to reach eight hundred thousand years.

Huo Yuhao asked, "But Sister Ice, your martial soul being the Ice Jade Scorpion isn't much of a problem. What about your soul rings and soul beast aura?"

Ice Empress answered confidently, "What, little Yuhao? Do you think any Ultimate Douluo below rank ninety-nine in the human world could be my match?"

"As long as I conceal my soul beast aura, only a rank ninety-nine Ultimate Douluo could detect it. But with your auspicious power shielding me, I would be no different from an ordinary eleven-year-old girl in everyone's eyes."

"As for soul rings and martial souls, the skill I recently learned can simulate them perfectly, and no human will discover it."

"As for my strength, I only need to suppress it to the level of a Soul Elder."

"Sister Ice..." Watching Ice Empress talk on and on, Huo Yuhao did not know what to say.

Snow Empress said, "All right. Since you insist on personally protecting little Yuhao, Ice, I agree. When do you two plan to go to Shrek?"

Huo Yuhao thought for a moment before answering, "The day after tomorrow."

Huo Yuhao continued, "But Sister Ice, I still think you should choose a name for the human world."

Snow Empress nodded. "That's right, Ice. You can't possibly use such an eye-catching name as Ice Empress in the human world too."

"Then my name in the human world will be Xue Ningbing."

Two days later.

Under Snow Empress's watchful gaze, Ice Empress left the Far North with Huo Yuhao.

The two headed south all the way.

Several days later, in the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Standing atop a tree root, Ice Empress asked Huo Yuhao beside her, "So why did we come to the mixed zone? To watch them hunt soul rings?"

Below Huo Yuhao and Ice Empress, a man and a woman were fighting a thousand-year Mandala Serpent.

They were none other than Tang Ya and Beibei of the Tang Sect.

I never expected the course of history to change so drastically. This time, we actually met while they were hunting a soul ring. Huo Yuhao looked at the suppressed Beibei and Tang Ya, feeling something indescribable.

Huo Yuhao said, "I suspect they came from Shrek. If we help them, perhaps they can take us into Shrek through the proper channels."

"Even if they aren't from Shrek, helping them will still earn us a favor."

Ice Empress found nothing wrong with Huo Yuhao's words.

"Then which of us is going?" Ice Empress looked at Huo Yuhao.

"I'll do it." As soon as Huo Yuhao finished speaking, he jumped straight to the ground.

An Ice Qilin appeared behind Huo Yuhao, and as it emerged, three soul rings surfaced beneath his feet.

The first and second soul rings were purple, while the third was a nearly black purple soul ring.

His second soul ring lit up.

The red gem on the Ice Qilin's forehead shone with a brilliant red radiance. The red light formed a crimson sphere that fell into Huo Yuhao's hand and transformed into an ice-blue bow.

Clear ice-blue patterns were etched onto the bow, resembling Huo Yuhao's Ice Qilin.

This was Huo Yuhao's second soul skill, Ice Transformation. Through the red gem on the Ice Qilin's forehead, it could transform into different cold weapons for Huo Yuhao to use.

Each cold weapon possessed its own soul skill.

Huo Yuhao gripped Ice Profound tightly in his right hand, drew the bowstring with his left, and released an ice-blue beam of energy at the Mandala Serpent.

Sensing the intense chill, Beibei, who was fighting the Mandala Serpent, immediately pulled Tang Ya aside to evade the attack.

But the mindless Mandala Serpent was not so fortunate. It was blasted into a large tree by Huo Yuhao's attack.

The tree was destroyed by the Mandala Serpent as well.

The arrow Huo Yuhao fired wounded the Mandala Serpent, striking its vital point.

The instant the ice arrow hit, the Mandala Serpent's entire body froze into a block of ice.

The energy beam left behind many ice-blue crystals along its path, glimmering with light.

"That solved it?" Tang Ya stared in disbelief at the Mandala Serpent, frozen solid and unable to move.

Both Beibei and Tang Ya wore expressions of utter shock.

Beibei swallowed and said, "So strong..."

When they turned around, they discovered that the one who had unleashed that powerful strike was merely a boy who appeared to be eleven years old.

Moreover, the boy possessed the almost unheard-of configuration of three purple soul rings.

He was simply a monster.

Huo Yuhao said to Tang Ya and Beibei, "You can absorb the soul ring now."

Though hesitant, Tang Ya ultimately decided to kill the Mandala Serpent trapped in the ice and absorb its thousand-year soul ring.

Beibei said gently, "Thank you for saving us, little genius. My name is Beibei, and that girl is Tang Ya. We are from the Tang Sect and currently study at Shrek."

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