Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow Allocation, Tribulation Crossing, and Loyal Xiaobai

Inside the Ice Crystal Palace, cold air swirled.

Fifty-seven Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrows were neatly arranged atop an ice couch.

Ice Empress stared fixedly at them with her golden eyes, her throat bobbing before she turned to Snow Empress in distress. "Xue'er, how should we divide these...?"

She desperately wanted the Mysterious Ice Marrows, but while fighting was no problem for her, delicate work like dividing things gave her a headache.

Snow Empress's ice-blue eyes swept over the crystals before settling on Beiming Lieyang, who was gnawing on Void Mysterious Ice like snacks nearby. "Xiaoyang, you found these. You divide them."

Beiming Lieyang froze, then shook his head. "Mother Xue, you decide. You and Auntie Bing have already given me so much.

External Soul Bones, ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings, heavenly treasures... You pulled me out of that ice pit. I can't be greedy."

Ice Empress nodded repeatedly. "Xue'er, Xiaoyang and I will listen to you."

Snow Empress fell silent for a moment. Then, she fondly rubbed Beiming Lieyang's head and gave a slight nod. "All right."

"Fifty-seven pieces, divided into three portions. I'll take eighteen, Bing'er will take fifteen, and the remaining twenty-four will be yours."

"Mother Xue..." Beiming Lieyang had barely spoken when she raised a hand to stop him.

"Let me finish." Snow Empress's voice was cool. "The abilities of Void Mysterious Ice will be exposed sooner or later. Even if gods cannot descend to the lower realm, the continent still has the temples of the Angel God and Sea God, along with their high priests.

We must nurture a god. In the future, you will inevitably have to fight other inheritors.

Bing'er and I must become stronger in order to protect your rear.

But the rest are resources for your growth. How could we deny you what you found?"

Ice Empress was unusually serious. "That's right. What if a god grants divine power from afar? With only our current strength, we won't be able to protect you."

Beiming Lieyang did not refuse again. "Then give five of the remaining ones to Brother Xiaobai."

The Ice and Snow Emperors were both stunned.

"That stupid bear?" Ice Empress blinked.

"He's treated me very well over the years. He often brought me heavenly treasures and searched for treasures for me. My Storage Soul Tool is still piled with them.

Other than Mother Xue and Auntie Bing, he dotes on me the most. Besides, if his strength rises, it'll benefit the Far North too."

He paused, a faint glimmer passing through his eyes. "Besides... I have other opportunities. I don't really lack these."

There were still plenty of opportunities in Douluo One.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Dragon Valley.

The Silver Dragon King, with wisdom that shocked the world.

Though her wisdom was extraordinary, there was no denying that she definitely possessed some good treasures.

Right, and there was also that Million-Year maggot!

That thing might not be much of a fighter, but it was still a Million-Year Soul Beast.

Besides, it carried a Star of the Galaxy.

It contained the lifetime power of a Creator God, possessing the immense power to destroy and create universes.

He had quite a few cheats.

There was no need to compete with the Ice and Snow Emperors for resources. The stronger they became, the sturdier his backing would be.

Ice Empress suddenly leaned close, suspicion in her golden eyes. "What opportunity?"

"The place where two God King-level powerhouses fell."

"God Kings?!" Ice Empress's voice instantly rose.

Ripples also appeared in Snow Empress's eyes.

They did not understand the ranks of gods, but a God King sounded extremely powerful.

Had two God Kings really fallen?

Void Mysterious Ice floated above Beiming Lieyang's palm, while the phantom of Solar Star God Apollo appeared behind him.

"The place where the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King fell formed a treasured land, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. I have Twin Martial Souls, one ice and one fire. That is the place most suitable for me."

Ice Empress's mouth hung open for a long while before she turned to Snow Empress. "Xue'er... just what exactly did you pick up?"

Snow Empress's expression was complicated. "...Did that sun in your dream tell you?"

Beiming Lieyang nodded.

Ice Empress immediately cried out, "The sun told you about the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave in your dream, and now it told you about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well! Why not just say you made your home on the sun?!"

She glanced at Apollo's phantom and muttered, "Solar Star God... You gain a full increase to all attributes while walking beneath the sun. Could you actually be the Sun God?!"

Beiming Lieyang shrank deeper into Snow Empress's embrace. "Anyway... that's how it is."

Snow Empress reached out and stroked his head, smiling indulgently. "All right. Absorb these first. After the tribulation, I'll accompany you to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well."

Ice Empress rubbed her hands together. "Then it's settled! Fifteen for me, eighteen for Xue'er, a few for Xiaobai. Xiaoyang, don't start regretting it later."

With a flick of his hand, Beiming Lieyang produced another pile of Void Mysterious Ice. "I have an endless supply of this anyway."

After learning that he had accumulated Void Mysterious Ice, Ice Empress and Snow Empress gave him over a dozen more Storage Soul Tools.

He had already stored more than a thousand pieces of Void Mysterious Ice.

If he fought someone,

he would not need to fear running out of Soul Power at all.

Once his Soul Power was depleted,

Heh, I'll take out a piece of Void Mysterious Ice.

Pop it in, and I'm back at full strength.

He could already imagine the stunned expressions on his enemies' faces.

Ice Empress glanced at it, and her nose suddenly stung.

Although the power contained within the Void Mysterious Ice was still too little, its quality was in no way inferior to Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

It was just right for Beiming Lieyang to consume himself.

Thinking about that made Ice Empress feel even more bitter.

Other people could consume heavenly treasures by the handful. What kind of miserable life had she been living before?

But as the proud king of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, she stubbornly said, "Fine, fine, you're amazing!"

As she spoke, she scooped up fifteen Mysterious Ice Marrows, her eyes shining as though she were holding a nest of golden eggs.

Snow Empress took out five pieces for Xiaobai and packed the remaining nineteen before handing them to Beiming Lieyang.

"All right, Bing'er. Go into seclusion."

"Mm-hmm."

Ice Empress and Snow Empress spent several days in seclusion, absorbing Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow to strengthen their foundations and comprehend the laws of ice.

After emerging, the two brought Beiming Lieyang and Ice Bear King Xiaobai to the depths of the Far North's ice plains.

Xiaobai grinned all the way there.

He had already missed Mother Xue, and he had gathered some treasures to bring his little brother. It was the perfect excuse to make a trip.

Who would have thought that the moment he saw Mother Xue, she would directly hand him five Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrows?

Xiaobai froze on the spot.

He had only vaguely learned of this legendary supreme treasure through his bloodline inheritance. This was his first time seeing it in person.

The Far North had existed for so many years, and Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow was already exceedingly rare. Yet there were five whole pieces here.

Only after calming down did he learn that Beiming Lieyang had given these five pieces to him.

Xiaobai's heart burned with warmth, and he secretly swore that he would protect his little brother to the death.

Whether it was the wind and snow of the Far North or threats from outsiders, anyone who wanted to touch his little brother would have to get past him first.

He remembered that some cubs in his clan had mentioned discovering a ruin beyond the core region. He would have to investigate it personally later. If there was anything good inside, it could provide his little brother with another opportunity.

Deep within the Far North's ice plains.

Thunderclouds churned as silver-purple lightning serpents writhed through them, their pressure filling the entire sky and earth.

Snow Empress brought Beiming Lieyang to watch from afar, while Xiaobai huddled nearby with his bear fur standing on end.

He had survived a two-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation and knew exactly how terrifying it was, yet the Forty-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation that Ice Empress had triggered was even more frightening.

"Little brother..." Xiaobai lowered his voice. "Auntie Bing's Lightning Tribulation is way too terrifying."

"Don't worry. Auntie Bing is prepared."

Ice Empress stood in the center of the ice plains, her emerald-green twin ponytails whipping wildly in the gale.

She raised her head to look at the tribulation clouds, and her aura erupted.

With a flip of her palm, several head-sized pieces of Void Mysterious Ice appeared.

They were refined products that Beiming Lieyang had repeatedly tempered at the cost of vast amounts of Soul Power.

Ordinary Mysterious Ice could only maintain a threefold enhancement for half an hour. This specially made kind could sustain someone at her level for four hours.

The Mysterious Ice merged into her body, and Ice Empress's aura surged as all her attributes were enhanced threefold.

She seemed like an ancient glacier awakening, her aura making the air hum under pressure. Even Xiaobai in the distance shrank back a little.

The five-colored lightning tribulation crashed down.

The first bolt, the second bolt, the third bolt...

Ice Empress did not move an inch, allowing lightning to explode around her and icy shards to scatter in every direction.

Her body, tempered by Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow and bolstered by a threefold enhancement to all attributes, forcibly withstood the destructive power of the Forty-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation.

By the fourth bolt, she began taking the initiative to meet the lightning, stretching her body amid the radiance and using the Heavenly Tribulation to temper her meridians, bones, and flesh.

After every strike, her aura became more solid. The temperature of her Ultimate Ice sank lower and lower, surpassing what it had once been.

More than four hours later, the final bolt of lightning descended.

Ice Empress's body sank, half her feet crushing through the ice layer as she raised her head and swallowed the lightning into her body.

The tribulation clouds dispersed, and daylight poured down.

The foundation she had accumulated from refining the Mysterious Ice Marrow fully fed back at this moment, her cultivation leaping from four hundred thousand years to four hundred and fifty thousand years.

Ice Empress suddenly opened her eyes, her golden pupils blazing.

She flashed back to Snow Empress's side, scooped Beiming Lieyang up, and spun him around twice.

"Xiaoyang, your Void Mysterious Ice is incredible! Threefold enhancement to all attributes—the Forty-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation was like a drizzle!"

Xiaobai's huge bear mouth fell open and would not close for a long while.

He turned to Snow Empress. "Mama, Void Mysterious Ice... enhances all attributes threefold?"

Snow Empress smiled as she explained while looking at Xiaobai's little white bear body, now only a little over a meter tall.

"It's in the Storage Soul Tool Xiaoyang gave you. Its quality is equal to Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow. Although it does not currently contain much energy and cannot increase cultivation by much, its enhancement effect is beyond doubt."

Xiaobai lowered his head and opened the Soul Tool. More than a dozen ice-blue crystals were neatly arranged inside.

He blinked hard.

In the Soul Beast world, even a healing type capable of enhancing a group by fifty percent could become the core support of an entire clan.

Not to mention attribute enhancement.

This was a percentage-based enhancement. The stronger one was, the greater the benefit.

With this thing, he could even grab Atai, whose body carried the ancient bloodlines of the Ice God and Tai Tan, and beat him up.

He turned to Beiming Lieyang and stared blankly for a moment. His face shifted from shock to excitement, then to helpless uncertainty.

"Little brother, I... I don't even know how to repay the Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow, and now you've given me this too..."

Beiming Lieyang waved his hand. "Keep it, big brother. I still have plenty."

"Plenty?!" Xiaobai's eyes widened.

Beiming Lieyang raised a hand and condensed another head-sized piece of Mysterious Ice, tossing it over.

"This is what I can condense at my current stage. It lasts for a short time and contains little energy. It can't serve as backup energy for high-level beings, only maintain an enhanced state."

After catching it and comparing it to the pieces inside his Soul Tool, Xiaobai's face filled with disbelief. "You really made this yourself, little brother?"

Ice Empress looked incomparably proud. "Of course! This is Xiaoyang's Martial Soul, and it will grow along with his strength.

It can increase cultivation like Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow, heal injuries, and replenish Soul Power!"

A monstrous wave surged through Xiaobai's heart.

Did that not mean his little brother was a walking Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave?

No, even more terrifying than that!

The Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cave needed countless years of underground nurturing to produce Mysterious Ice Marrow, yet his little brother could produce it anytime and anywhere!

He carefully put the Mysterious Ice back into his Soul Tool as if handling an incomparably rare treasure.

Then he took a deep breath, slapped his bear paw against his chest, and looked solemnly at Beiming Lieyang.

"Little brother, if anyone gives you trouble in the future, I'll be the first to charge forward.

No matter what cultivation they have or where they come from, if I, Xiaobai, so much as furrow my brow, then I'm not your big brother!"

Beiming Lieyang smiled and did not refuse again.

At this point in Douluo One, Soul Masters had yet to possess Soul Cores, and their strength was relatively weak. A seventy-thousand-year Soul Beast was comparable to a newly advanced Title Douluo.

After Brother Xiaobai absorbed the Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow, his strength would soar again. He would be a Super Douluo-level bodyguard.

Just as he was thinking this, Snow Empress transformed into a streak of light and shot into the center of the ice plains. Her aura rose to the heavens as tribulation clouds gathered once more.

The second tribulation crossing had begun.