With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress, two great ferocious beasts, inside him, Huo Yuhao's absorption of the ten thousand year soul ring had been frightening but ultimately safe.
The Snow Empress's reincarnation as a human had shaken the Ice Empress far more than anyone had imagined. Though both were ferocious beasts of the Far North, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had never really crossed paths with the Snow Empress. The Ice Empress was different. The Snow Empress was the oldest soul beast in the Far North, and the Ice Empress had grown under her guidance. Their bond ran deep. Even the Snow Empress had chosen to reincarnate as a human in the face of her heavenly tribulation. The foremost two of the Far North's three great sovereigns had both failed. The path of soul beasts defying heaven was far too difficult, far too difficult...
But the past was, after all, behind her. Now, Huo Yuhao was the foundation of her ascension to godhood. The Snow Empress was already a human Five-Ring Soul King, and the strength she had just displayed befitted the leader of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North. Even Huo Yuhao, whom the two great soul beasts had nurtured, fell short of her. The Ice Empress could not allow herself to lag behind, either. Thus, as Huo Yuhao absorbed his fourth soul ring, she cast aside every distracting thought and helped him.
The blazing sun stood at its zenith.
Under the dazzling sunlight, Huo Yuhao opened his eyes. Golden light flashed fiercely within them, and four soul rings rose from beneath his feet.
One white, one purple, and two black. These were the true colors of his soul rings. His last three rings were the same colors as Jiang Hai's. Perhaps