Broken Dragon Ice Abyss! A 65,000-Year Blizzard Light Dragon and an 88,000-Year Abyssal Ice Taotie Python!

Tuoba Tingxue gazed into the whiteout deep within the gorge, her expression turning solemn.

"Beyond this gorge lies the true outskirts of the Far North.

"The blizzards there can cut off an ordinary soul master's sight and senses. Everyone, stay alert."

Yin Yu moved to the front of the group. Black light flickered around him, and an invisible barrier kept the howling snow at bay.

"My father-in-law and I will lead. Old Poison, cover us from the middle. Ting Xue, look after Changqing. Hold formation. Into the mountains!"

"Right!"

The others answered in unison.

Without further hesitation, the five became streaks of shadow and plunged through the howling snow into the Far North, one of the Douluo Continent's three forbidden zones for soul beasts.

The moment they entered the gorge, the world around them changed.

A savage blizzard raged. Everywhere they looked, there was nothing but Profound Ice and deep snow.

To the five of them, though, it was nothing.

Holy light glimmered across Tuoba Xi's white armor. Snowflakes shattered and vanished before they came within three feet of him.

Yin Yu kept his Demon Dragon Domain in check, but it still radiated a savage draconic pressure that kept weaker soul beasts away.

Tuoba Tingxue's Taotie Holy Dragon Martial Soul circulated within her, unconsciously devouring the violent ice-attributed Soul Power in the air to replenish what she expended.

Yin Changqing was more composed still. The supreme powers of ultimate light and darkness counterbalanced each other within him, refining the bitter cold before it could even touch him.

Dugu Bo could not help but marvel.

"Your family's dragon Martial Souls are something else. An ordinary Soul Douluo would need more than half his Soul Power just to withstand the cold here.

"You lot look like you're taking a stroll through your own back garden."

Leading the way, Tuoba Xi laughed.

"Dragons reign supreme over all beasts. Our bodies are naturally formidable.

"But the real trials of the Far North lie farther in. Don't let your guard down, Old Poison."

Yin Changqing walked in the middle of the group. Golden light flickered faintly at his brow as his powerful spiritual sense spread outward like a tide.

Within thirty miles, ice silkworms slept beneath the ice, snow wolves lurked in drifts, and icewind demon eagles nested on the cliffs.

Their every movement registered clearly in Yin Changqing's mind.

"Most soul beasts out here are between ten and a thousand years old. Ten-thousand-year soul beasts rarely venture into the outskirts."

After sensing his surroundings with his eyes closed for a moment, Yin Changqing spoke again.

"Grandfather, Father, there's no need to waste time here. We should cross the outer snowfields and head straight for the Broken Dragon Ice Abyss near the inner region."

Yin Yu's expression tightened.

"The Broken Dragon Ice Abyss?

"Which ancient text did you find that name in?"

Yin Changqing explained.

"A damaged travelogue on the lowest floor of the Holy Dragon Sect's library mentioned it.

"The Broken Dragon Ice Abyss lies near the boundary between the Far North's inner and core regions. Legend says it's a vast rift formed when a dragon fell in ancient times.

"The earth veins there contain faint Earth Dragon energy and the blood of an ice dragon. That makes it a natural gathering place for powerful dragon-blooded soul beasts."

Stroking his beard, Tuoba Xi considered this.

"I vaguely remember it too.

"When Yu and I came to the Far North to hunt the Icebone Demon Dragon, we passed an unfathomably deep glacial rift. The soul beasts there were vicious, and many carried Dragonkind blood."

Tuoba Tingxue's eyes lit up. She made her decision at once.

"Then the Broken Dragon Ice Abyss it is!

"Whether it's my ninth soul ring or Changqing's fifth, that's where we're most likely to find a suitable target!"

"Full speed ahead!"

At Yin Yu's low command, the five accelerated again, heading straight into the depths of the Far North's inner region.

Along the way, a few ten-thousand-year Icefield berserk bears and snow leopards were foolish enough to spring from the snow and try to ambush them.

Before they could get close, two casual blasts of draconic force from Yin Yu and Tuoba Xi hurled them dozens of yards back. They fled in terror.

With the pressure of Titled Douluo to back them, the group crossed the outskirts of the Far North unchallenged.

Four hours later.

At the edge of the snowfields, an immense black fissure stretched from east to west, as though splitting the entire Far North landmass in two!

The abyss was miles wide and too deep to see the bottom.

From its depths came the faint thunder of furious dragon roars, mingled with the shriek of icy winds.

Even from dozens of miles away, its terrifying ancient malevolence washed over them!

They had reached the Broken Dragon Ice Abyss!

The five stopped on a massive outcrop of Profound Ice at the abyss's edge and looked down into its lightless depths, where gales raged.

Tuoba Tingxue felt the fierce longing and resonance of her Taotie Holy Dragon Martial Soul. Excitement flashed in her eyes.

"Such pure earth energy and dragon baleful energy!

"Changqing, you were right. An immensely powerful ruler-class soul beast must be sleeping deep in this abyss!"

Yin Yu stood at the cliff's edge and sent his spiritual sense pouring into the abyss.

Boom!

The instant Yin Yu's spiritual sense reached several thousand meters below—

Deep within a frigid pool at the bottom of the abyss, two blood-red eyes snapped open!

A savage dragon roar exploded upward, shaking the heavens!

"Found them."

A faint smile touched Yin Yu's lips.

"A 65,000-year-old Blizzard Light Dragon.

"And... an 88,000-year-old Abyssal Ice Taotie Python lurking beside it!"

Tuoba Xi and Yin Yu exchanged a glance. Their Soul Power erupted, making the glaciers on both sides shudder!

"Hahahaha!

"Sharp eyes, Changqing!"

Tuoba Xi threw back his head and roared. His Martial Soul Avatar appeared in an instant, the image of a mountain-sized White-Gold Earth Dragon filling the sky.

"Ting Xue, Changqing, get ready!"

"We've found Changqing's fifth soul ring!"

Violent cold swept up through the rift. Far below, the two colossal beasts had been roused.

Tuoba Xi moved, becoming a streak of white-gold light that plunged into the Broken Dragon Ice Abyss.

Nine soul rings rose and spun beneath his feet.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black.

The immense pressure of a Titled Douluo instantly suppressed the blizzard at the bottom of the abyss.

"Down, beast!"

Tuoba Xi bellowed. White-gold light blazed around him as a giant Earth Dragon claw, formed from his vast Soul Power, swept through the air.

It struck the 65,000-year-old Blizzard Light Dragon squarely on the back.

With a deafening crash, the dragon shrieked in agony as its hundred-yard body slammed into a wall of Profound Ice.

Bones cracked audibly. More than half its crystalline scales shattered, and it collapsed, able to do no more than draw faint, ragged breaths.

At almost the same instant, the 88,000-year-old Abyssal Ice Taotie Python opened its cavernous maw, trying to swallow the pressure descending from above.

But Yin Yu had already become a streak of black light. Nine equally dazzling soul rings appeared around him.

Wreathed in black flame fierce enough to end the world, the Demon Dragon Spear in his hand drove down toward the python's head.