God-tier Void Mysterious Ice? Unimaginable Ice! Willing to Lay Down Their Lives for the Young Lord

Deep within the ice plains, tribulation clouds gathered.

Black-gold lightning churned and tore through the clouds, its pressure crushing the entire ice plain until it cracked and rumbled.

A snow-white figure a hundred meters tall raced across the ice.

It was one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North.

Titan Snow Demon King Atai.

He had just emerged from seclusion and was about to breed with his clan when this pressure, powerful enough to crush souls, startled him awake.

From afar, he saw the tall, graceful figure at the center of the ice plain, then looked at the surging tribulation clouds overhead. Atai's pupils shrank sharply.

Lord Snow Empress... was undergoing the Seventy-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation?!

Hadn't she always lacked confidence?

"Hey, big oaf."

Ice Empress's voice came from nearby.

Atai whipped his head around and saw three figures standing atop an ice rock at the edge of the plain:

Ice Empress, Ice Bear King Xiaobai in a human-sized form, and a blond boy of six or seven.

Atai hurriedly shrank down, likewise taking on human size before striding over in a few steps.

"Ice Empress, why is Lord Snow Empress suddenly undergoing the Seventy-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation?"

"Just watch." Ice Empress rolled her eyes. "If Xue'er dared to summon the tribulation, she naturally has confidence."

Atai's gaze fell upon the little boy.

Golden hair, crimson eyes. Standing amidst the ice and snow, he showed no sign of feeling cold, and a faint warmth circulated around him.

"...Is this the human cub Lord Snow Empress adopted?"

"Yes." Ice Empress turned her head. "Xiaoyang, this is Titan Snow Demon King Atai. Just call him Uncle Atai."

Beiming Lieyang nodded politely. "Uncle Atai."

Atai opened his mouth, but before he could respond, the tribulation clouds overhead suddenly surged.

Rumble!

The heavens darkened as black-gold lightning tore and devoured itself within the clouds. Every collision erupted with a muffled boom that shook the entire ice plain.

Everyone present watched tensely.

Lightning Tribulations beyond five hundred thousand years were already taboo. A Seventy-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation was even more an existence intolerable to heaven and earth.

Pressure descended from the sky, heavily bearing down upon the bones of every living being.

"Xue'er..." Ice Empress's tone was grave.

Beiming Lieyang looked up at the tribulation clouds.

He knew that a Soul Beast's Heavenly Tribulation rose by one level every hundred thousand years. The Seventy-Thousand-Year Lightning Tribulation

was already a heavenly chasm established by the laws of heaven and earth to completely sever Soul Beasts' path to godhood.

Soul Beasts could not become gods.

The root of this lay with the Dragon God, yet the mistakes the Dragon God had made back then had to be endured by all Soul Beasts for generations.

Snow Empress stood at the center of the ice plain, her long hair flying as her blue eyes reflected the black-gold tribulation clouds.

She raised her hand, and several fist-sized pieces of Void Mysterious Ice merged into her body.

Boom!

Her aura surged threefold!

Within several thousand meters around her, snow flew backward as white ripples spread in all directions.

"What?!" Atai blurted out. "Lord Snow Empress's aura... how did it surge so much?!"

"Void Mysterious Ice." Ice Empress stared ahead. "Xiaoyang's Martial Soul. A threefold increase to all attributes."

Atai abruptly turned toward the six- or seven-year-old human boy, his eyes filled with shock.

"Threefold?! All attributes tripled?!"

What kind of monster had Lord Snow Empress picked up?

He wanted to ask more, but the tribulation clouds overhead had already split open.

The first black-gold Lightning Tribulation descended!

Lightning wrapped in destructive intent pierced down from above.

All of Atai's questions were choked back in his throat, and his scalp went numb.

Yet in the next instant, his pupils constricted. Snow Empress did not dodge; she raised her head and took it head-on with her body!

"Lord Snow Empress?!" Atai cried out. "The Heavenly Snow Woman's body isn't her strength. Why would she..."

The lightning exploded with a roar, scattering ice shards and electric sparks everywhere.

Snow Empress's body paused slightly before straightening again. The shattered ice crystals reformed, and her cold aura became even sharper.

She had withstood it.

Ice Empress stared fixedly at that figure. "Xue'er is using the first few Lightning Tribulations to temper her body. The threefold boost from Void Mysterious Ice is her foundation, and the Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow has already strengthened her origin. This is the perfect opportunity."

Atai stood with his mouth open, unable to utter a single word.

What Soul Beast had ever crossed a tribulation without trembling in fear? Yet Snow Empress was facing it with such ease.

And the source of all this confidence was actually the Martial Soul of that child beside them.

The second, the third, the fourth...

Black-gold lightning struck one bolt after another. Snow Empress's figure was swallowed again and again, only to emerge each time.

She allowed the tribulation lightning to scour her meridians and bones, awakening the Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow and comprehending the laws of ice.

After every strike, her aura grew more solid, her comprehension of the laws of ice deepened, and the temperature of her Ultimate Ice steadily approached absolute zero.

The entire ice plain was left with nothing but thunder and wind.

Six hours later, the tribulation clouds dispersed.

Sunlight poured through the torn clouds.

Snow Empress's cultivation rose from seven hundred thousand years to seven hundred and fifty thousand years.

Ice Empress let out a long breath, her tense shoulders relaxing.

Atai's throat was dry, and he could not say a word.

Snow Empress turned into a stream of light and landed before them. Ice Empress immediately threw her arms around her. "Xue'er!"

Snow Empress patted her back, then looked at Beiming Lieyang and placed a hand atop his head. "Xiaoyang, your Mysterious Ice is very good."

Beiming Lieyang looked up and smiled. "Snow Mom, your successful tribulation has greatly increased the Far North's strength."

Atai looked at the gentle smile on Snow Empress's face, one he had never seen before, and an indescribable shock surged through his heart.

This child's value outweighed all the treasures in the entire Far North combined.

At that moment.

A Storage Soul Tool was tossed toward him.

Atai caught it instinctively.

Snow Empress nodded slightly, signaling for him to open it.

When his Soul Power entered it, Atai's entire body shook violently.

Inside lay two Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrows side by side. Beside them were several ice-blue crystals that made his bloodline stir faintly.

"Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow?! Two pieces?!" Atai looked up, his pupils filled with disbelief.

"They're for you." Snow Empress's tone was calm. "Go back and absorb them properly."

Atai was flattered beyond measure. "Lord Snow Empress... I have rendered no service. I cannot accept such a reward without merit..."

"Who said you have no merit?" Snow Empress glanced at him indifferently. "From now on, Xiaoyang is the young lord of the Far North. You and Xiaobai will be his right- and left-hand men. The Far North is going to nurture a god. The road ahead is difficult, so both you and I must become stronger first."

"Nurture a god?!"

Atai's breathing grew heavy, unable to believe it.

Xiaobai could not hide his shock either.

"Xiaoyang's Martial Soul is Void Mysterious Ice. As his strength grows, it will be equivalent to us possessing an endless supply of top-tier resources." Ice Empress interjected. "The kind that boosts all attributes threefold, too."

Atai's gaze upon Beiming Lieyang instantly turned fervent.

Crack.

Xiaobai took out a piece of Void Mysterious Ice from his own Soul Tool and split it in half.

He shoved one half to Atai and took a bite from the other himself, then froze.

He stared at the Void Mysterious Ice in disbelief before swallowing the entire piece in huge gulps.

His aura surged wildly.

Atai stared blankly at Xiaobai, then lowered his head and took a bite as well.

Coldness exploded across his tongue and poured down his throat into every limb and bone.

Atai shuddered all over, his eyes instantly turning red. He took a second bite, then a third without pause, like a wild beast starved for hundreds of thousands of years.

Why?! Why was it so delicious?!

He had never eaten ice this delicious before!

The sensation of all his attributes tripling swept through his body.

So powerful!

"How is it?" Ice Empress picked up a piece of Mysterious Ice and tossed it into her mouth, chewing contentedly. "Chew, chew... Void Mysterious Ice tastes far better than Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow. Chew, chew... Xiaoyang only has two Spirit Rings right now, and it already has five times the purity... chew, chew... once he reaches godhood, you can't even imagine that taste."

"God-tier... Void Mysterious Ice?"

Atai trembled from head to toe. Just imagining it made his soul quake.

"I am willing to lay down my life for the young lord!"

"I am willing to lay down my life for my little brother!"

Atai and Xiaobai bowed simultaneously, their roars shaking the snow until it trembled and fell.

Ice Empress and Snow Empress exchanged a glance.

Why did this feel strange somehow?

"Young Lord, you still lack a third Spirit Ring. I wonder if you would be interested in my Titan Snow Demon Clan?" Atai raised his head, his gaze burning.

Ice Empress: "???"

Well, well, Atai. Since when had this brawny simpleton become so clever?

"You're even willing to offer up your clansmen?" Ice Empress's expression was strange.

"To dedicate ourselves to the young lord, to dedicate ourselves to the future god, is an honor."

Ice Empress folded her arms and glanced at Atai.

Something was off. Had eating a piece of ice made him smarter?

Then why hadn't she become smarter?

She hurriedly shook her head.

She, the Ice Empress, was the one with world-shaking wisdom. She had been the one to come up with the God-Creation Project.

"Xiaoyang, your first two Spirit Rings were both ten-thousand-year ones. If you want to find another, it can only be a ten-thousand-year one."

"???" Atai froze.

Wasn't the usual Spirit Ring configuration for human Soul Masters yellow, yellow, purple, purple?

The second Spirit Ring was already ten thousand years?

Could his body withstand it? What about the resentment of the Soul Beast?

As if sensing his thoughts, two black Spirit Rings emerged around Beiming Lieyang, slowly circling his body.

"!!" Atai's pupils contracted sharply.

They really were two ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings.

"Although both Spirit Rings came from members of Bing'er's clan whose origins were damaged and whose lifespans were nearly exhausted, Xiaoyang's body and spiritual power have indeed reached the level needed to absorb ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings."

Snow Empress glanced at him and spoke calmly.

If not for that sun in Xiaoyang's dream saying that raising one's spiritual power and body could increase the Spirit Ring absorption limit,

she would probably have been astonished as well.

Atai regained some composure upon hearing the word "sacrifice," but he was stunned again upon hearing the final sentence.

This was simply too terrifying.

"Young Lord!" Atai came to his senses. "There is a clansman in my tribe whose origin is likewise damaged and whose lifespan is nearly exhausted.

He has over fifty thousand years of cultivation. He was injured years ago while pursuing an Ice Nightmare Crystal Tapir. If he sacrifices himself to the young lord, he will definitely grant an excellent Spirit Ability."

Ice Nightmare Crystal Tapirs.

They were spiritual-type Soul Beasts of the Far North. Because of their cruel hunting methods, they had been attacked by the masses.

Years ago, there had been a small group: two at sixty thousand years and three at forty thousand years. Atai's clansman had been injured during the pursuit.

As for an "excellent Spirit Ability"...

The Titan Snow Demon Clan possessed a trace of the ancient Ice God's and Titan's bloodlines. The Spirit Rings they produced could bring even greater growth to the young lord.

Atai's eyes burned with fervent light as he awaited Beiming Lieyang's answer.