Endless fury erupted like a volcano in Xiao Bai's simple, loyal heart!
She discarded the fish she had caught and unleashed an earth-shaking roar. Her enormous body exploded into terrifying speed utterly at odds with her size. Following that faint yet unmistakable cry for help, she charged madly toward the frozen lake like a white storm of destruction!
When she arrived, she saw two Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers radiating a loathsome aura about to pounce into the shattered lake! And her mother's plea for help was coming from beneath its surface!
Without a moment's hesitation, Xiao Bai, desperate to protect her mother, unleashed her most formidable attack. Her massive bear paw, brimming with supreme frost and strength, sent those two hateful tigers flying with a single slap. At the same time, her other paw reached precisely and gently into the frozen lake, scooping up the thing emanating her mother's aura.
When her enormous palm lifted that figure, Xiao Bai froze.
It was not her mother's noble, breathtakingly beautiful body of ice and snow as she had imagined, but a human boy, soaked through and barely breathing?
What was going on? Why was Mother's aura coming from a human? And why was it so weak? Could Mother have been... by this human...
Just as shock and anger gripped Xiao Bai, suspicion and ferocity began to gleam in her enormous eyes. She was considering whether to crush this suspicious human when a mental message, utterly familiar to her and laden with urgency and authority, rang directly through her mind. "Xiao Bai, don't attack! It's me!"
"Mother?" Xiao Bai's spirits jolted.
"Listen, Xiao Bai. I don't have time to explain everything in detail right now. My physical body vanished long ago. My soul now shares this boy's body-two souls in one body, living and surviving together! If he dies, my soul will have nowhere to exist and will dissipate completely. The weakness and cries for help you sensed came from us! Protect him! Absolutely! You absolutely must not let those two Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers harm him in the slightest! He is me now!"
The Snow Empress spoke extremely quickly, but her meaning was unmistakably clear.
Though Xiao Bai was simple and guileless, her trust in the Snow Empress was absolute, and she would carry out the Snow Empress's commands without the slightest hesitation.
Despite the utterly bizarre scene before her, she instantly grasped the crucial point: this human boy and Mom were one. Hurting him meant hurting Mom, and protecting him meant protecting Mom!
In a single instant, all the suspicion and ferocity in Xiao Bai's eyes transformed into an unshakable resolve to protect! Her enormous blue eyes turned toward the dazed Dai Youheng in her palm, her gaze becoming exceptionally earnest.
"ROAR!"
Xiao Bai raised her head and unleashed a roar of declaration. It no longer held her earlier anger, but a determination to defend him to the very end!
With utmost care, she moved the semiconscious Dai Youheng onto the thick, warm fur on her back. A gentle stream of ultimate ice soul power secured him lightly in place, keeping him from falling while also alleviating his injuries to some extent.
Then she turned around. Her enormous blue eyes instantly became icy and murderous, locking onto the two Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers ahead, which had just clambered out of the heaps of ice and were shaking their heads, growling threateningly.
The enormous Ice Bear King stood firmly before Dai Youheng, guarding him like an impassable mountain of snow.
Perhaps she did not understand the complicated events that had occurred, but she knew that from this moment onward, anyone who dared touch a single hair on the boy behind her was threatening the life of Ice Bear King Xiaobai's mother.
Then there was only one choice: fight to the death!
Xiao Bai's roar declaring her protection rang out like a battle horn, thoroughly enraging the hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger opposite her.
As the overlord beneath this icy abyss, when had it ever suffered the humiliation of being slapped away? Especially by a mere Ice Bear!
The hundred-thousand-year Ice Prison Tiger's four eyes turned blood-red as it unleashed an even more savage roar. The black mist of the Darkness Zone domain surrounding it abruptly thickened, attempting to further suppress Xiao Bai's perception and strength.
Its enormous body suddenly reared upright. Its Scorpion-Tail Poison Hook, glinting with a cold, sinister light, tore through the air like a death-dealing scythe, trailing afterimages as it stabbed viciously toward Xiao Bai's vulnerable eyes.
At the same time, its enormous paw, covered in Dark Ice Scales, smashed toward Xiao Bai's skull with crushing force. It was a lethal, two-pronged attack!
Yet although Xiao Bai was good-natured, her combat instincts had been forged through countless life-and-death battles in the Far North!
She simply ignored the Darkness Zone that could lower its targets' attributes. In terms of racial strength, the Ice Bear Race was indeed inferior to the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger race, but her profound cultivation of over two hundred thousand years and incomparably formidable physique gave her an extremely high resistance to such weakening effects.
Facing the Scorpion-Tail Poison Hook thrusting at her from a treacherous angle, Xiao Bai jerked her enormous head aside. The hook skimmed past the thick fur beside her ear, sending up a trail of icy sparks.
At the same time, her enormous left paw, which had just sent her enemies flying, met the tiger paw crashing down from above without hesitation!
BOOM!
Bear paw and tiger paw collided head-on without any fancy tricks. A terrifying ring of pressure erupted outward, shaving another layer off the surrounding ice in a collision of pure strength.
The hundred-thousand-year Ice Prison Tiger shuddered violently, its enormous paw numbed by the recoil. A flicker of astonishment crossed its eyes. It had never expected this Ice Bear's strength to be so immense, far beyond its estimation.
Xiao Bai pressed her advantage without mercy, her right paw immediately sweeping out with a howl, aimed straight at the Ice Prison Tiger's relatively vulnerable waist and abdomen! The supreme cold contained in that blow seemed capable of freezing even the air.
The Ice Prison Tiger roared in fury. A sinister light flickered over its scales, and a thick layer of dark blue crystalline ice armor instantly covered its body. This was its defensive soul skill, Abyssal Ice Armor.
BANG! Xiao Bai's bear paw slammed viciously into the ice armor, instantly shattering most of it. The tremendous force sent the Ice Prison Tiger staggering backward. Though it was not seriously injured, its blood and vital energy churned.
Just then, the twenty-thousand-year juvenile Ice Prison Tiger tried to seize the chance for a sneak attack. It silently lunged from the side toward the shoulder where Xiao Bai had secured Dai Youheng, its Scorpion-Tail Poison Hook stabbing straight down.
Xiao Bai did not even turn her head. Her other, unoccupied paw casually swept backward as though swatting a fly. An intensely condensed ice storm instantly formed and smashed into the young tiger like a heavy hammer.
"Awooo!" The young tiger let out a piercing scream as the force, which it could not possibly resist, hurled it away. It crashed heavily into a distant ice wall, its scales cracking and blood seeping out. It struggled, unable to get up for the moment.
It could not even damage the slightest bit of Xiao Bai's fur!
A mere twenty-thousand-year soul beast could not intervene in a battle between a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and a ferocious beast. The true battlefield remained between Xiao Bai and the hundred-thousand-year Ice Prison Tiger.
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