The Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King was, after all, a ten-thousand-year soul beast nearing fifty thousand years of age. Jiang Hai's punch had torn open its old wounds, but its physique was far too powerful, and it still held the vital essence of countless Extreme Ice Miasma Bugs within its body. It recovered almost instantly and shrieked as it charged at Jiang Hai, its claw-blades razor-sharp and its mouthparts needlelike, still carrying the faint fragrance of the Polar Ice Orchid.
The intelligence of a ten-thousand-year soul beast was already on par with a human's. The Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King intended to suck dry this human who had offended it, and it would not spare the other one, either. It instinctively sensed that if it could devour Xue Linglong's origin essence, it would surely become a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. If it then consumed the Polar Ice Orchid, becoming the Far North's fourth Heavenly King-or even its first-would not be impossible. This was its great opportunity. The Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King grew somewhat excited, but it had overlooked Xue Linglong.
Xue Linglong had already circled around from behind the Bronze Coffin, moving just as swiftly. Wind and snow gathered abruptly, dispersing the cold miasma. Her ultimate ice attribute carried boundless, bone-chilling cold, making every snowflake surrounding her bloom with the utmost chill. Like little spirits of ice and snow, they obeyed her commands and strengthened her power. This was Xue Linglong's second soul skill, Command of the Ice and Snow Lord, which could grant sentience to ice and snow elements, drawing those elements from the world around her to comprehensively enhance all her ice-attribute abilities.
After her reincarnation, every soul skill Xue Linglong had chosen to condense could be called a divine skill. After all, they had once been hundred-thousand-year