The Sea God Family's Assault on the Far North

In the Far North, biting winds swept up white snow and scattered it across the vast land, white as far as the eye could see!

A group of men and women in strange clothing unlike that worn on the Douluo Continent, with white cloaks draped over them, stepped into the wind and snow.

With every step, their feet sank deep into the snow, which nearly reached their knees.

"Why is this damned place so hard to walk through, and so cold? We've been walking forever. Are we still not there?" The group had been trudging through the blizzard for an unknown length of time, prompting someone in the middle to complain. From the voice, it was clearly a girl.

"Enough, Mingqi. Stop complaining and concentrate on walking. Another ten kilometers and we'll reach the designated location." The person at the front spoke steadily, holding a Compass, clearly the leader of the entire group.

"What? Another ten kilometers? If I'd known, I wouldn't have taken this mission." The girl continued complaining, but having already come this far, she had no choice but to follow the group.

The farther they went, the more fiercely the blizzard raged, showing no signs of easing.

Every one of them was a Soul Master, yet eventually, they could see only five meters ahead.

The tracks they had left behind were gradually buried by the wind and snow.

Roughly three thousand meters above their heads, three figures stood in the air. From a distance, one was white, one green, and one black!

Up close, they were two women and one man.

In the middle stood a breathtakingly beautiful woman in a white dress. Her long, pure-white hair fell behind her all the way to her feet, and her sky-blue eyes were ethereal and clear. Despite being surrounded by snow, she wore very little. Standing amid the wind and snow, she looked so pure and noble, like a winter plum blossoming in the bitter snow, standing apart from all others, defying snow and frost.

She seemed the absolute ruler of this world, with all things in existence serving at that moment only to set off her beauty.

To her left stood a woman a good deal shorter than her, with delicate features. Compared with the proud bearing of the woman in white beside her, hers was an even colder beauty. Her jade-green dress matched her long, dark-green hair, and her skin was as fair as snow, with a remarkably translucent quality.

To the right stood a handsome, resolute-looking man about two meters tall, with broad shoulders and a black robe patterned in gold. As he stood there, the surrounding dark-element energy became unusually active, as though it would swallow the entire world.

He was none other than the ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest, the strongest being currently on the Douluo Continent, Beast God Di Tian!

Yet even he could only stand on the right here, which spoke volumes about the identities of the two beside him.

They were the two great rulers of the Far North: the Snow Empress, a supreme being ranked third among the Ferocious Beasts, and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, the Ice Empress, ranked seventh.

"Those are the ones, right?!" The Snow Empress looked down at the white expanse below. Though a blizzard raged all around, she was the darling of this frozen world, a natural-born snow maiden. The blizzard was her eyes.

She had brought down this blizzard herself to monitor the surroundings for a thousand li. It let her see almost everything along the borders of the Far North, including those who had intruded into this world.

"They reek of the sea. It's them, all right." Di Tian nodded slightly. Their clothing was clearly rather unlike anything worn on the continent.

"There are twelve groups of intruders at present. Their auras aren't particularly strong. The strongest are only at the level of human Soul Saints. This doesn't look like an all-out assault. They're probably setting things up, or they're an advance force. I suggest we cut off this hand they've reached into our territory first," the Ice Empress said quietly, as though discussing something utterly trivial.

"Let Xiao Bai and the others handle them. We'll first see whether the humans have anything else planned." As she spoke, the Snow Empress looked beyond the blizzard.

At the boundary between the white expanse and the brown earth worn by ice and snow, three more figures stood, gazing into the distance at the blizzard stretching a thousand li, like divine punishment.

The Snow Empress's group consisted of two women and one man, while these three were two men and one woman.

"Big Brother, something's wrong with that blizzard. Only that Lord of the Far North could unleash wind and snow this powerful." The sole woman looked at the blizzard as she spoke to the middle-aged man standing in the center.

"What madness has gotten into those beasts in the Far North? It looks like the disciples who went in have little hope of surviving. A pity that we couldn't complete the first step." The middle-aged man merely watched the blizzard. The regret in his voice was not for those trapped within it, but for the plan.

"What do we do next, Patriarch?" To the middle-aged man's left stood a decrepit man in his nineties, leaning on a cane. His body shivered as though from the wind and snow, and he looked as if a single gust might knock him over. He asked the question coldly.

"If we can't set up the formation in secret, we'll attack head-on and seize territory to set it up. I don't know what madness has gotten into the Lord of the Far North today, but presumably she's just in a bad mood. She certainly won't be able to gather large numbers of Soul Beasts in such a short time. We'll use our numbers to seize territory," the middle-aged man said.

"Then I'll notify the clan's experts now," the woman on his right said.

"Mm." The middle-aged man nodded slightly.

The woman beside him vanished in an instant, leaving only the middle-aged man and the ninety-year-old elder. The middle-aged man extended his hand slightly and looked toward the wind and snow. In the depths of his azure eyes, which seemed to hold an abyss beneath the sea, burned flames called ambition. He slowly clenched his hand.

"A Divine Seat. Even if there's only the slightest chance, I won't let it slip away. Even if I have to make rivers of blood flow through the entire Far North."

Shrek City, Xinghe Manufacturing!

"Sorry, Boss Zhao. Something came up at home earlier, so I couldn't come. May I ask whether the Soul Tool I ordered is ready?" Huo Yuhao said apologetically to Zhao Xinghe.

"I understand. I finished making the Soul Tool you wanted last night. Take a look." Zhao Xinghe waved casually and took out the completed watch-shaped Soul Tool.

The entire Soul Tool was about the size of a palm and brownish-gray all over. Like an ordinary watch, it had numbers engraved on it, from one to ten, though there were no eleven or twelve, and it had only one hand.

"Thank you very much. I trust your skills, Boss Zhao." Huo Yuhao put the Soul Tool away without testing it, then turned to leave.

"Young Brother Yun, leaving already?" Seeing how decisively Huo Yuhao was leaving, Zhao Xinghe hurriedly called out to stop him.

"Yes. Sorry, Boss Zhao, but that apprenticeship you mentioned earlier probably won't work out. My family has decided to move to the Dou Ling Empire. I'm really sorry," Huo Yuhao said.

After what had happened last time, Huo Yuhao had decided that once he received the Soul Tool, he could stop using his current identity as Yun Tian. Conveniently, he had been using a false identity from the start.

Even today, Huo Yun had timed his visit for when the other party had finished making the Soul Tool before Huo Yuhao came over. Previously, when they knew it was unfinished, he had come purely to borrow the workshop again, since Huo Yuhao wanted more practice making Soul Tools.

But there was no need now. The man had already caused him such a problem. Borrowing it again would only invite trouble.

"Huh?" Zhao Xinghe was instantly dumbfounded. There were actually families in Shrek City who didn't yearn for Shrek?

Thinking the boy didn't believe his teacher was a vice dean of Shrek Academy, he immediately said, "Won't you really reconsider? I truly wasn't lying. My teacher really is the vice dean of Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department. His name is Qian Duoduo. Since you live in Shrek City, your family can surely look him up. Or I can take you to see him right now. You can meet him. As long as you meet him, or I go with you to meet your family, I guarantee they'll believe me. I'm absolutely not a swindler."

"I believe you, Boss Zhao, but my family actually decided to move a long time ago. Sorry." With that, Huo Yuhao hesitated no longer and strode out of Xinghe Manufacturing. Zhao Xinghe was just about to follow when a strange wind suddenly swept through the room. Despite his Soul Saint cultivation, it blew so fiercely that he could not open his eyes. When his vision returned, Huo Yuhao was nowhere to be seen.

"What's going on?" Zhao Xinghe was utterly baffled. He pushed his perception to its limit but still could not find any trace of Huo Yuhao. It felt as though the boy wasn't someone from this world and had evaporated into thin air.

Had he seen a ghost?

In reality, after running out of Xinghe Manufacturing, Huo Yuhao had canceled Simulation right at the entrance. Even his aura had been simulated, so no matter how hard the man searched, he could not sense Huo Yuhao's aura. The gust just now had also been stirred up by Huo Yun to obstruct the vision of those inside the room.

Of course, whatever the man thought, Huo Yuhao had already hurried away and returned to Cao's Rice Bowl.

Once he was back in his room, Huo Yuhao put the watch on his wrist.

This Level 7 Soul Tool could also be called a Gravity Soul Tool. By injecting Soul Power into it, the wearer could adjust the gravity around them. It also had a built-in ability to scan the wearer's physique, which meant the gravity it generated would affect only the wearer.

As for why he wanted this effect, the reason was simple. Wearing it normally would subject Huo Yuhao to twice or even three times normal gravity, with a maximum of around ten times.

By wearing it regularly, Huo Yuhao would be adapting to gravity several times greater than what ordinary people experienced, much like someone carrying weights. Its effect on physical training would also be twice the usual, and once he deactivated it at a critical moment, the weight would vanish instantly, making him as light and swift as a swallow.

Moreover, this gravity could also be applied to Soul Power. In Huo Yun's original plan, there had been no provision for Huo Yuhao to obtain the Eye of Destiny to weaken and compress his Soul Power into a Soul Power Vortex. This Soul Tool had been the cultivation plan Huo Yun originally arranged for him.

When Huo Yuhao exhausted his Soul Power and no longer had enough to keep the Soul Tool running, the gravity would lift. Sitting cross-legged to recover, he would not only replenish his Soul Power faster, but also more thoroughly absorb the energy of the Heavenly Treasures he had drunk, improving his cultivation.

Of the three Soul Tools, the simplest problem was actually making the formula for the Heavenly Treasures. Another let Huo Yuhao practice controlling mental techniques and improve the quality of his Spiritual Power. The last increased the strain on his body while in use, allowing him to train his physique at every moment, while rapidly absorbing the energy of Heavenly Treasures to increase his cultivation speed and help him condense a Soul Power Vortex sooner.

All of this served to build a better foundation for Huo Yuhao and further strengthen his Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and physique.

At the outskirts of the Far North, the day after Huo Yuhao received his Soul Tool.

More than a thousand figures stood there in a dense mass, looking immensely imposing.

With so many powerful figures gathered here, they could not avoid attracting Huo Yun's attention even if they wanted to. Things with Huo Yuhao were on track, and he would not need her attention for a while; he only needed to follow the arrangements. Thus, she turned her gaze to the Far North, where war was about to break out.

"Tang San's running dogs, these fellows from the Sea God Family, look like they're planning a frontal assault." Upon noticing them, Huo Yun immediately sent Di Tian a message.

Upon receiving it, Di Tian immediately relayed the message to the Snow Empress beside him.

"I understand. Thank you for the information. But it's our Far North they intend to slaughter. If they want to massacre my subjects, that makes it our affair. We haven't reached the point of needing outside help yet." The Snow Empress thanked Di Tian, and her meaning was clear. The Sea God Family's targets were the Soul Beasts of their Far North, so this was an internal matter for the Far North, and Di Tian should not interfere.

This was her pride as the Lord of the Far North. Here, she was confident that no one could defeat her. Even Di Tian might not be her match. Whether the enemy was some Sea God Family or the Sea God backing them, she had no fear.

"Mm. I'm merely passing along the World Consciousness's message." Di Tian nodded. If the Star Dou Great Forest faced something like this, he would not let the Snow Empress intervene either.

After all, the Snow Empress had previously only deferred to him out of respect and could be considered his subordinate, but her true home was the Far North. She simply had never intended to contest his position as leader of the Soul Beast Realm.

Fundamentally, however, unless the fighting had truly reached the final point where they could do nothing themselves, their pride would not allow outsiders to intervene.

The so-called Sea God Family was, in fact, the family that had once worshipped Poseidon, the First Generation Sea God. After Tang San became the Sea God, this family, which had originally guarded the legacy Poseidon left behind, had lost its purpose. But Tang San had kept the family and continually supported and nurtured it in secret, allowing it to endure for ten thousand years. Moreover, it had hardly ever been active on the continent and remained little known, one of the extremely powerful hidden forces.

Of the thousand people they had gathered in the Far North now, every one had at least Soul Saint cultivation, while the eighteen strongest figures leading them were all nine-ring Titled Douluos. The strongest among them was a level 99 Limit Douluo, someone who had reached the greatest strength below the divine level.

He was also the current patriarch of the Sea God Family, Sea God Douluo, Bo Yunjie!

"Let's go!" At Bo Yunjie's command, the thousand members of the Sea God Family gathered around him instantly transformed into a thousand streaks of light and charged into the raging blizzard.

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