The Dragon God's Terrifying Power Crushes All!

"Hmm?"

Long Yao turned his head.

The Snow Empress raised her beautiful eyes to meet his gaze.

"I've nearly finished mastering the Soul Skills you gave me."

Long Yao looked at her.

"That quickly?"

The Snow Empress nodded gently.

"Those Soul Skills suit me well."

"I've practiced them for a long time. I can already bring out their full power."

Interest flickered in Long Yao's eyes.

He had created the Soul Skills he gave the Snow Empress from her innate power.

They worked in harmony with her ultimate ice, enough to raise her strength considerably.

Long Yao had only wanted her to have the power to protect herself.

He had not expected her to master them so quickly.

"Show me."

The Snow Empress did not answer at once.

She glanced at Long Yao and slowly lowered her hands to her sides.

"Would you spar with me?"

Long Yao looked at her.

"Spar?"

"Yes."

The Snow Empress nodded.

"I want you to see how far I've come."

Her voice was calm, but her gaze was far more intent than usual.

Her white dress stirred in the cold wind.

The Snow Empress stood before the ice platform, white hair brushing her shoulders and framing her exquisite face.

She was ready.

Long Yao set down the guqin and rose from the edge of the ice platform.

"All right."

The Snow Empress raised a hand.

Snow and ice gathered behind her. Bitter cold spread outward, and a white glow swept across the entire icefield.

Long Yao watched her, anticipation rising in his golden eyes.

"Show me how much you've improved."

Long Yao looked at the Snow Empress before him.

Her hair was white as snow. The cold wind spread her long locks behind her, a few strands sweeping over her shoulders and making her beautiful face seem all the more ethereal.

Her white dress fell to her feet, tiny ice crystals clinging to its hem.

She stood barefoot on the ice, her skin luminous and white, without a speck of dust on her.

Her pale blue eyes were clear and bright.

At that moment, the Snow Empress seemed too beautiful to belong to the mortal world.

Long Yao nodded lightly.

"All right."

With his permission, the Snow Empress could no longer hide the joy in her eyes.

She took a step forward.

Boom!

The wind and snow above the Far North suddenly intensified.

A boundless curtain of snow descended from the sky and swept across the icefield.

Snowflakes danced in the wind, filling their vision and hiding the distant glaciers.

The Snow Empress raised her slender hand.

Ultimate cold spread from her body.

The temperature around them kept falling.

Ice raced across the ground, and the ancient glaciers trembled faintly.

In that instant, everything between heaven and earth stopped.

The wind hung motionless in the air.

Snowflakes froze in place.

A Soul Beast flying in the distance remained poised with its wings spread. Even the Soul Power coursing through its body came to a halt.

It was as though the entire Far North had been paused.

The Snow Empress stood amid miles of frost.

Her white hair moved without wind, and ice lotuses bloomed along the hem of her dress.

A vast ice-blue halo appeared behind her.

The halo turned slowly.

Countless arcane patterns intertwined within it, radiating power that could freeze heaven and earth.

"Absolute Zero."

The Snow Empress spoke softly.

It was a god-tier Soul Skill Long Yao had bestowed upon her.

Once unleashed, it could freeze space and seal time.

Almost no one below the gods could break free.

The Snow Empress looked down at her palm.

She had brought everything around her to a standstill.

She could clearly feel her Soul Power merging with the laws of heaven and earth.

This power surpassed every Soul Skill she had wielded before.

She raised her eyes to Long Yao.

The joy in them was plain to see.

"My lord, I did it."

Long Yao surveyed the frozen world, satisfaction appearing in his eyes.

"You've grasped it well."

By bringing Absolute Zero to this level, the Snow Empress had truly mastered the god-tier Soul Skill.

With this move, she had virtually no equal below the gods.

Long Yao was about to speak.

He stepped forward.

Crack!

A fissure opened in the frozen space.

Then countless cracks spread from beneath his foot in every direction.

The sky split.

The earth began to shake.

Icebergs rocked violently, and thick sheets of ice shattered.

The wind and snow that had stood still were blasted apart by the force.

The entire Far North trembled.

The joy in the Snow Empress's eyes froze.

Long Yao had shattered her Absolute Zero with a single step.

His expression remained calm.

He took another step forward.

Boom!

Terrifying pressure descended upon the Far North.

Countless Soul Beasts woke with a start.

Deep in the icefield, great stretches of ice collapsed.

Snow tumbled from the mountain peaks.

In the distance, Soul Beasts raised their heads, their bodies pressed to the ground and their eyes filled with fear.

"What's happening?"

"Is the Far North about to explode?"

"Get out of here!"

Powerful Soul Beasts fled in every direction.

But the next moment, Long Yao raised a finger.

A thread of golden light shone at its tip.

"Be still."

With that single command, golden light gathered suddenly in the sky.

An immense golden hand that blotted out the sky reached down from deep within the clouds.

It covered the entire Far North.

Its five fingers descended slowly.

There was no earth-shaking collision.

The trembling ground fell still at once.

The cracks in the ice stopped spreading.

The snow tumbling down the mountains came to rest.

The fleeing Soul Beasts stopped where they were and looked up at the sky.

The golden hand lingered only a moment.

Then it dissolved into golden light that scattered through the wind and snow.

Quiet returned to the Far North.

The Soul Beasts remained crouched on the ground.

They stared at the icefield, now restored to how it had been, their eyes full of shock.

What had just happened?

Space had frozen.

The earth had begun to split.

Then, with one finger, Long Yao had subdued it all.

It was beyond anything they could understand.

Deep in the Far North.

Inside an ice cavern.

The Ice Empress slept.

The instant that terrifying pressure descended, her eyes snapped open.

A flash of jade-green light crossed the cavern.

The Ice Empress burst out of the ice and looked up at the world outside.

She saw the golden radiance fading and felt the pressure lingering in the air. For a long time, her expression did not change.

"I don't know whether to envy my lord or the Snow Empress."

The Ice Empress looked toward the ice platform.

There, the Snow Empress stood before Long Yao.

The Snow Empress slowly drew back her Soul Power.

The frozen snow began to fall again, and the cold wind resumed its passage across the icefield.

She stared at Long Yao, her eyes full of shock.

From his first move to his subjugation of the Far North, Long Yao had needed only an instant.

The frozen domain she had formed with Absolute Zero had offered no resistance against him.

What realm had my lord's strength reached?

The Snow Empress's eyes gradually brightened.

"As expected of my lord."

She looked at Long Yao with undisguised admiration.

Long Yao raised a hand and rested it gently on her hair.

"You've mastered the basics of Absolute Zero."

"Keep training, and you'll be able to draw out even greater power."

The Snow Empress nodded obediently.

"I'll work hard."