Ice Empress Breaks Through to Four Hundred Thousand Years

Inside the Ice Palace, Snow Empress looked at Chu Yuan in shock.

Just moments ago, Di Tian had explained Chu Yuan's identity to Snow Empress in full—from Chu Yuan's birth, to how he had come to the Douluo Continent, and the purpose behind their repeated visits.

"Dragon God, God Realm... So this is why we Soul Beasts must undergo a Heavenly Tribulation every hundred thousand years."

Snow Empress felt as though she had only now truly seen what the world was really like.

For the first time, she understood just how vast this world was, and how countless experts stronger than her existed.

"Well, Snow Empress? Do you plan to perish beneath the seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, or will you follow my command? I can guarantee that you will survive every Heavenly Tribulation to come. Ascending to the God Realm may not be impossible either."

Ascending to the God Realm meant possessing immense power while also gaining an almost endless lifespan. Resisting the Heavenly Tribulation head-on meant death and the extinction of one's soul.

Between these two choices, there was practically only one answer.

Anyone would choose the first.

Snow Empress looked at Chu Yuan. If not for what Di Tian had just told her,

she would never have known that Chu Yuan, whose cultivation appeared to be only a hundred thousand years, was actually a Divine Beast.

And not an ordinary Divine Beast at that, but one of the two split halves of the Dragon God—the strongest deity and the being with the noblest bloodline among the Dragon Clan.

"According to what you said, won't the enemies we must ultimately face be all the deities of the God Realm?"

Chu Yuan nodded, making no attempt to conceal the truth.

Once his strength recovered and he devoured the Silver Dragon King's bloodline to become the new Dragon God, he could not simply ignore the God Realm.

And even if he ignored the God Realm, they would not ignore him.

Therefore, a great battle between the two sides was inevitable—a battle to the death.

"But the God Realm has developed for who knows how many years. Even if we can evade every Heavenly Tribulation and ascend to godhood, can we truly stand against those deities?"

Snow Empress's words were not unreasonable. In her eyes,

what they intended to do in the future was like a Soul Beast that had just broken through to a hundred thousand years challenging a faction that had developed for countless years and possessed an unknown number of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

There was simply no chance of victory.

"Because the Dragon God was the strongest deity. He was so powerful that no one could kill him, and his death came only because he killed himself."

At the mention of the Dragon God, Chu Yuan could not help thinking of the future Lan Xuanyu.

Calling him overpowered did not even begin to describe it, because he himself was the cheat.

Tang San, with his dual-god body, was strong enough, yet even he could not defeat Lan Xuanyu after Lan Xuanyu became the Dragon God.

That also showed just how powerful the Dragon God was.

"Snow Empress, if we do not resist, death is our only outcome."

"Your cultivation of more than six hundred thousand years is indeed powerful, but in the eyes of the God Realm, you are nothing more than an insect that does not even qualify as an ant."

After saying that, Chu Yuan leaned back against the ice chair behind him.

He had said everything that needed to be said and paved the path for Snow Empress. Whether she chose to walk it was up to her.

"Do you really have a way to help us survive the Heavenly Tribulations?"

Snow Empress looked at Chu Yuan with solemn eyes.

Based on what he had just said, the Heavenly Tribulations had been set by the God Realm.

Only by evading the Heavenly Tribulations imposed by the God Realm could he prove that what Chu Yuan had said was not empty boasting.

It would prove that he truly had a way to defeat the God Realm without question.

Hearing this, Chu Yuan turned his gaze toward the petite Ice Empress beside them.

"Your cultivation is at three hundred and ninety thousand years, right? If you were absolutely certain you could survive the four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, you would not have kept suppressing your cultivation here."

Snow Empress looked toward Ice Empress, her gaze filled with conflicted emotions.

She had already guessed what Chu Yuan intended to do next.

But using her best companion as a test subject...

"Xue'er, I am willing to try."

Ice Empress took Snow Empress's hands and spoke with utmost seriousness.

After hearing every word exchanged between Snow Empress and Chu Yuan, she felt deeply unwilling to accept the fate that had been decided for them.

Why should Soul Beasts only be able to perish beneath Heavenly Tribulations, while humans could ascend and become gods?

"Bing'er..." Snow Empress abruptly raised her head.

Her azure eyes were filled with disbelief.

She had never expected Ice Empress to voluntarily offer to try.

Ice Empress patted Snow Empress's hands, then turned her gaze to Chu Yuan.

"Senior, I am willing to try your method for evading the Heavenly Tribulation."

Chu Yuan nodded, then took out a lightning-avoidance talisman from his system storage.

"Your courage is the greatest I have seen among Soul Beasts so far."

As he spoke, Chu Yuan handed the lightning-avoidance talisman to Ice Empress.

"Tear this talisman apart, and the Heavenly Tribulation will lose its target and disperse."

Ice Empress accepted the talisman from Chu Yuan. Looking at the tiny slip of paper in her hand, a trace of worry filled her heart.

Could such a small thing really allow her to safely break through to four hundred thousand years?

But even though doubt had arisen in her heart, there was no room for regret now.

Since she had said she would try, fleeing at the last moment would mean she was no longer Ice Empress.

Ice Empress tightly gripped the talisman in her hand. After taking a deep breath of icy air, she directly tore it apart.

At the same time, her aura rapidly rose to a terrifying level.

Ice Empress had already been just one step away from four hundred thousand years. Previously, she had merely been suppressing her cultivation while deliberately slowing her training.

But now, she completely let go and greedily absorbed the Soul Power in the air like a bottomless abyss.

A full ten minutes later, Ice Empress's aura suddenly surged. Her previous aura of three hundred and ninety thousand years instantly reached four hundred thousand years.

Rumble!

At the exact moment Ice Empress broke through to four hundred thousand years, thunder suddenly boomed through the previously clear sky.

This thunder was far louder than the thunder that had sounded yesterday when the seven Soul Beasts became Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Thunderclouds rapidly formed, and a bolt of purple-gold lightning slowly gathered at their center.

When Snow Empress saw that purple-gold lightning, her hands could not help clenching as nervousness rose in her heart.

Ice Empress stared at the thundercloud above her head, horror filling her heart.

During her previous Heavenly Tribulations, she had always felt as though some immense terror had locked onto her.

But this time, that feeling did not appear!

After a long while, the thundercloud in the sky slowly dispersed and finally vanished. Ice Empress's cultivation also stabilized firmly at four hundred thousand years.

"It worked! It really worked! I really avoided the Heavenly Tribulation!"

Feeling the explosive growth of power within her body, Ice Empress was overjoyed.

She turned toward Snow Empress behind her with a delighted expression, and Snow Empress wore the same look of joy.

"Xue'er, it worked! What he said was true! He really has a way to help us evade Heavenly Tribulations! Xue'er, there is a way for you to survive your seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation!"

Ice Empress shouted excitedly. As Snow Empress's closest companion, she could not possibly accept Snow Empress dying beneath the seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.

Hearing Ice Empress's words, Snow Empress remembered Chu Yuan, the one who had changed their destined fate.

But when she looked toward where Chu Yuan had been standing moments earlier, it was already completely empty. Only a talisman lay on the ground.

She walked over and bent down to pick up the talisman. At the same time, Chu Yuan's voice rang out.

"After you break through to seven hundred thousand years, come find me in the Star Dou Forest."

Ice Empress also came over at that moment.

"Xue'er, perhaps everything that senior said was true. He really can help us become Divine Beasts, overthrow the God Realm, and completely change the fate of our Soul Beast race!"

Hearing this, Snow Empress looked toward the distant Star Dou Forest.

"Yes. How laughable that I actually doubted that senior before." A hint of guilt appeared on Snow Empress's face.

If it had been another senior, they likely would have turned hostile upon hearing her doubts.

"Hehe, then why don't you marry that senior and ask for his forgiveness? Look, that senior is powerful and holds an extraordinary position. If you marry him, perhaps you can become a Beast Empress!"

"And as the best sister of the Beast Empress, I can benefit from it too, right?!"

Ice Empress's face was full of mischief.

"You little girl, what are you even thinking about? Go stabilize your cultivation already!"

Snow Empress's face flushed as she raised a hand and pretended she was about to hit her, startling Ice Empress into instantly darting away.