Deep within Snow Empress Castle, Dai Youheng sat cross-legged in a secluded chamber built from ten-thousand-year-old ice.
Soul power surged around him like boiling waves of ink. Beneath his skin, dark gold blood seemed to race through his veins, giving off a low howl.
Within his sea of consciousness, his evil shadow demon tiger martial soul was undergoing an earth-shaking transformation.
The phantom of a mighty tiger, once shrouded only in shadows and darkness, was now being devoured and reshaped by an aura from the abyss.
As the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body cultivation technique circulated furiously, and the immense energy of the hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger's soul ring and soul bone battered against it, the shackles at the very origin of his martial soul were breaking, layer by layer.
The Snow Empress's soul form hovered nearby, a rare mixture of solemnity and anticipation on her breathtaking face.
With a light tap of her delicate hand, a strand of pure, ultimate ice energy merged into Dai Youheng's torrent of power. She did not suppress it. Instead, like a master artisan, she used her unparalleled control over energy to guide that violent force into striking the barrier to evolution with greater precision.
"Focus your mind and hold it steady. Guide that Abyss power into your martial soul origin. Don't resist its devouring nature-become one with it!" The Snow Empress's cool voice rang directly in the deepest recesses of Dai Youheng's mind, like a lighthouse showing the way through towering waves.
Dai Youheng guarded his mind and followed her instructions. He could feel his martial soul making a fundamental leap. A power far deeper than shadow and purer than darkness was being born!
"ROAR!!!"
A roar seemingly born in the deepest hell erupted from Dai Youheng's body, making the entire chamber tremble