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A few seconds later, a graceful figure appeared before Ling Han.

A long ice-blue dress accentuated her figure perfectly.

Her white hair reached her waist and fluttered in the wind.

There was no unnecessary emotion in her ice-blue eyes, only calmness.

"Bing'er, you wanted to see me..."

Before Snow Empress could finish speaking, she noticed that the person before her was not Ice Empress.

Seeing the jade-green light radiating from Ling Han's left arm and sensing the aura belonging to Ice Empress within it, Snow Empress's expression instantly darkened.

"What did you do to Bing'er?" Snow Empress asked coldly.

The next moment, the pressure of a six-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year-old Ferocious Beast erupted.

Compared to Ice Empress, Snow Empress's pressure was even stronger and more terrifying. This was the true ruler of the Far North!

Yet Ling Han remained completely unaffected by Snow Empress's pressure.

He released his Martial Soul.

Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, red, red!

The final Soul Ring bore three dazzling golden patterns.

"You asked what happened to Ice Empress, didn't you? See my Eighth Soul Ring? This is the answer!"

Snow Empress stared at Ling Han's Eighth Soul Ring, and her entire body froze.

Ice Empress was dead, yet she had not sensed it at all!

Her closest friend of several hundred thousand years had died just like that. Snow Empress no longer knew how to describe her feelings.

No tears flowed down her face. It remained as cold as ever.

"No matter how you did it, go and be buried with Bing'er now!"

Within Ling Han's Sea of Consciousness, Ice Empress watched this scene in utter despair. "No, Xue'er! You can't beat him! No, Xue'er, don't!"

But Snow Empress could never hear her cries.

Snow Empress's figure floated into the air as she looked down at Ling Han from above.

"Emperor Sword, Icebound Peerless!"

The next moment, a gigantic ice sword tore through the sky and descended from above, shooting straight toward Ling Han.

Facing Snow Empress's killing move, Ling Han did not dare underestimate it either.

"Profound Ice Dragon Soar!"

Nine enormous ice dragons shot into the sky.

The Ice Dragon King's dragon soul burrowed into the ice dragon in the center.

The next moment, the nine ice dragons fused into one, transforming into an even larger ice dragon. It opened its maw and charged toward the Emperor Sword.

The two unleashed their killing moves at the same time. The collision between two Limit-level powers caused the entire Core Area of the Far North to tremble violently.

In the end, Ling Han was still slightly superior.

With the support of the Ice Dragon King's dragon soul, Profound Ice Dragon Soar overwhelmed the Emperor Sword and devoured it.

Snow Empress looked at Ling Han in disbelief.

Her Emperor Sword was her ultimate killing move.

Even a human Limit Douluo would find it difficult to withstand, let alone a Soul Douluo?!

Yet Ling Han clearly had only eight Soul Rings beneath his feet.

Taking advantage of Snow Empress's distraction, Ling Han struck again.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Dragon King's Descent!"

When the god-level pressure erupted, Snow Empress was caught off guard and was directly suppressed by Ling Han.

Although Snow Empress had been suppressed, she had not suffered the slightest injury from beginning to end.

This could also be considered part of Ling Han fulfilling his promise to Ice Empress.

"I said Ice Empress wasn't killed by me. Do you believe me?"

Snow Empress glared furiously at Ling Han. "You absorbed Bing'er's Soul Ring and Soul Bone. What are you pretending for?!"

Ling Han smiled and removed the barrier around his Sea of Consciousness.

Earlier, Ice Empress had constantly tried to come out of Ling Han's Sea of Consciousness, but the barrier had always repelled her.

Now that the barrier was gone, Ice Empress rushed out at once.

"Xue'er!"

Ice Empress's soul appeared before Snow Empress, tears glimmering in her eyes.

Snow Empress stared blankly when she saw Ice Empress.

"Bing'er, what happened to you?"

By now, Snow Empress had also calmed down.

If Ice Empress had truly been killed, she should not have been able to leave behind a soul.

Then there was only one possibility: a sacrifice.

A bitter smile appeared on Ice Empress's face. "Xue'er, you should be able to tell. I sacrificed myself to this human."

"Why?!"

Snow Empress could not understand. How could the proud Ice Empress have sacrificed herself to a human? Even if the other party was powerful, she should have been killed or self-detonated instead, right?

Ice Empress desperately wanted to say that it was for her, but ultimately held back.

"Because he has the potential to become a god."

By now, Ice Empress was no longer so opposed to Ling Han seeking out Snow Empress.

Ling Han truly had the potential to become a god. If Snow Empress could sacrifice herself as well, the two of them could become gods together with Ling Han and remain together forever.

Snow Empress fell silent.

She did not doubt Ice Empress's words, because the aura Ling Han had released earlier was indeed god-level.

The closer one came to the god level, the more one could sense that realm. Snow Empress was no exception.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that Ling Han could firmly suppress her with the cultivation of a Soul Douluo was enough to prove his extraordinary nature.

"Come with me. In the future, sacrifice yourself to me and become my Ninth Soul Ring. Then, once I become a god, you can become a god together with your Bing'er, and the two of you can remain together forever."

A trace of wavering arose in Snow Empress's heart.

Ling Han's words were highly tempting.

That was an opportunity to become a god. Who could refuse it?

Snow Empress looked at Ling Han, then at Ice Empress in her soul form.

She saw a trace of longing in Ice Empress's eyes—the look of someone hoping she could stay by her side.

Snow Empress's heart softened. Like Ice Empress, Snow Empress was also her most important weakness.

If Ling Han had come alone today without Ice Empress appearing, then even if Ling Han had truly displayed the potential to become a god, Snow Empress might not have agreed.

But with Ice Empress here, everything was different.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress were the most important existences in each other's lives. Neither could be absent.

Now that Ice Empress had chosen Ling Han, Snow Empress had no reason to refuse him.

"All right. I agree to go with you."

Snow Empress nodded.

Ling Han was delighted when he heard this.

With this, his Ninth Soul Ring was settled.

It was practically certain that Snow Empress's Soul Ring was the most suitable Ninth Soul Ring for Ling Han's Ice Dragon King Martial Soul.

"If you're coming with me, do you need me to prepare something to conceal your aura?" Ling Han asked.

Snow Empress shook her head. "No need. I didn't take human form and begin cultivating anew. With my cultivation, as long as I don't make a move, no one can tell that I'm a Soul Beast."

Ling Han thought for a moment, then took out a sachet he had prepared in advance and handed it to Snow Empress.

"I made this sachet from some herbs that can conceal one's aura. I have no use for it anyway, so take it, just in case."

Snow Empress looked at the exquisite sachet Ling Han handed her and ultimately reached out to accept it.

Afterward, the two of them set out together on the road away from the Far North.

They went straight back to Nouding Academy without visiting anywhere else.

As they walked through Nuoding City, Ling Han and Snow Empress attracted quite a few gazes from passersby.

Snow Empress in particular was breathtakingly beautiful, like a fairy untouched by the mortal world.

Ling Han's handsomeness was no less impressive. Walking together, the two of them were truly a perfect match, a union made in heaven.