"It's fine. Hardly any trouble!"
"It's just a shame that old man got away!"
Seeing the flushed beauty before him,
even Luo Feng felt a little embarrassed.
Compared with the adorable Wang Dong and the fiery Ma Xiaotao,
the Snow Empress before him truly qualified as an ice beauty. That face, that figure-absolutely exquisite!
And her mature, commanding air made it impossible not to steal a few more looks!
Besides, Soul Beasts differed from humans.
Once a female Soul Beast chose someone, she would generally follow them through life and death, regardless of the danger.
Ah Yin and Xiao Wu back then were proof enough!
Earlier, beneath the heavenly tribulation, Luo Feng had forcefully overturned the Snow Empress's destined demise.
Then, during the Sun Moon Empire's Level 9 Soul Engineer's sneak attack, he had once again played the hero rescuing the beauty.
Now, apart from actually calling him her husband,
the Snow Empress had been utterly conquered by this man!
"Darling!"
"Are you all right?"
Soon, Ma Xiaotao and Wang Dong rushed over too.
Seeing the awkward state of a certain someone and the Snow Empress,
Ma Xiaotao laughed.
"Our husband's getting better and better at picking up girls. He never misses!"
Wang Dong, meanwhile, was a little jealous and pinched a certain someone's slender waist from behind.
Unfortunately, the Mountain Dragon King had thick skin and tough flesh. It didn't hurt at all!
"Uh, Xiaotao, what are you talking about?"
"I just saw injustice on the road and drew my blade to help!"
He would have been better off not offering that explanation.
How could these two girls present not understand Luo Feng?
"Xiaotao, Dong'er, I..."
How embarrassing it was to be exposed on the spot by his young girlfriend!
Watching the three flirting and teasing, the corners of the Snow Empress's lips lifted slightly.
That faint smile was pure and otherworldly, like the first snow lotus to bloom in ten thousand years in the Far North.
She knew better than anyone.
Had Luo Feng not met the divine lightning head-on with overwhelming force and protected her heart meridians with his Dragon Emperor origin, her soul would long since have scattered.
She might even have become a pitiful embryo with her divine consciousness sealed away, at anyone's mercy to capture!
This man had forcibly torn her certain doom to shreds in the most domineering way!
"Please don't blame him, little sisters."
The Snow Empress gently parted her crimson lips, her voice chiming like an icy spring.
With light, graceful steps, she walked openly up to Luo Feng.
The coldness and distance of the seven-hundred-thousand-year Lord of the Far North vanished completely at that moment.
"Had my lord not risked his life to save me, Snow Girl would no longer exist beneath heaven."
"We creatures of the Far North have always followed our hearts. Once we choose someone, it is for a lifetime."
"If my lord will have me, Snow Girl is willing to shed her title of empress and become a wisp of ice and snow at your side, always accompanying you."
That frank, moving confession left Wang Dong and Ma Xiaotao frozen in place.
Wang Dong blinked her large pinkish-blue eyes, all the sour remarks she had prepared catching in her throat.
Ma Xiaotao helplessly held her forehead and shot Luo Feng a look, unsure whether to laugh or cry.
"Well, now we have another kingdom-toppling beauty, Sister Snow. A certain someone's harem really can't hold any more."
Luo Feng laughed heartily and slipped an arm around the Snow Empress's slender, crystalline waist, soft as though it had no bones.
"Hahaha! With a beauty like the Snow Empress beside me, what sacred mountain summit beneath heaven could I, Luo Feng, not reach?"
The moment he finished speaking, the entire towering ice peak seemed to resonate, suddenly bursting with dark-golden divine radiance that filled the sky!
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully reaching the Far North's highest summit-the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Ice Mountain!] [Defied heaven and changed fate! Successfully reversed the destined demise of the Supreme Ruler of the Far North, the 'Snow Empress,' earning a supreme god-tier achievement!] [Calculating the system's generous rewards...] [Congratulations to the host: Mountain Dragon King bloodline purity has surpassed 90%!] [You have successfully condensed the Mountain Dragon King's second soul core. Your soul power level has reached Level 91.] [The system will match you with the two most suitable soul rings and their corresponding soul skills. Please wait patiently...]
Level 91?
Titled Douluo!
He hadn't expected to get there so quickly.
Still, compared with his earlier leaps and bounds,
his leveling speed seemed to have slowed.
But it was still pretty good.
A Mountain Dragon King at the Titled Douluo level was truly in its peak form.
As the system's voice rang out,
endless light radiated from Luo Feng's entire body.
Even his martial soul seemed to expand without limit within that light.
It even adapted to the surroundings, forming the phantom of an enormous ice mountain.
It enveloped almost half the ice field!
Yet during this transformation,
something unexpected happened.
Rumble!
It seemed to be the combined sound of a great number of flying soul tools.
At their nine o'clock, what looked like a dense line of black dots rapidly approached!
"What's that?"
"It's the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineer Legion!"
Ma Xiaotao was the first to react.
After all, compared with Luo Feng and Wang Dong,
this leading senior sister of Shrek Academy's inner court was certainly well-informed and experienced.
"Hahaha!"
"You're still here, just as I thought!"
"Good thing I prepared in advance and brought the Evil Eye Soul Engineer Legion along!"
"Today, whether it's that Soul Beast or the lives of you little brats, I'll take them all!"
The speaker was naturally Jing Hongchen, who had returned after leaving.
He had indeed come prepared.
Not only had he brought the incredibly powerful soul tool, the God Sealing Altar, but he had also brought an entire Soul Engineer Legion!
After suffering such a crushing loss at Luo Feng's hands,
how could Jing Hongchen possibly swallow that insult?
"You despicable old villain!"
"Husband, let's fight them to the death!"
Seeing the menacing Sun Moon army before them,
Wang Dong raised her Clear Sky Hammer, ready to stake her life in battle.
Ma Xiaotao and the Snow Empress, who had only just met, also stood shoulder to shoulder.
They took stances ready to fight until the fish died and the net broke.
Only Luo Feng wore a smile.
Because his eighth and ninth soul skills had arrived!
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully obtaining two 199,000-year Dragon King soul rings.] [Each soul ring will be bound to two exclusive soul skills.] Eighth ring, first soul skill: [Ten Thousand Mountains Fall from Heaven] Can draw upon the geomagnetism and ultimate gravitational pull of the entire continent's core. Forcibly deploys the [Ten-Thousandfold Supergravity Absolute Domain] across a radius of dozens of li. Eighth ring, second soul skill: [Mountain Dragon Emperor's Defense] Summons the ancient Mountain Dragon King's ultimate protective golden body that bore the continent. Covers the body's surface in a layer of dark-golden dragon scales flowing with the divine radiance of the earth veins. Ninth ring, first soul skill: [Dragon Emperor's Realm-Shattering Break] Highly compresses the body's ninefold divine might of mountains and rivers and the Dragon King's pure yang blood and Qi into a single punch. Space collapses the instant the attack is unleashed, forming a black-and-gold spiral of annihilating divine light that pierces heaven and earth. Ninth ring, second soul skill: [Dragons Hold Up the Heavens] Commands the earth veins for ten thousand li in the name of the lord of the earth, mountains, and rivers. The solid ice and frozen soil beneath the user's feet instantly erupt with a thunderous roar. Within a hundred-li radius, countless enormous dragons ten thousand zhang long, formed from freezing profound ice and primordial rocky mountains, rise from the ground and roar into the sky!
"Not bad, not bad!"
"These four soul skills came just in time!"
"And there are punching bags here to spar with. Wonderful!"
Hearing that series of electronic voices in his mind,
Luo Feng's lips curved into a knowing smile.
"Dong'er, Xiaotao, and Snow Empress, sorry for the trouble, but please step aside!"
"Leave this Sun Moon Empire army to me!"
As he spoke, Luo Feng stepped forward.
The nine soul rings beneath his feet lit up in succession.
The last two in particular were so red they had already turned purple.
The Snow Empress was new here and might not know Luo Feng's background.
But the two girls who had come with him knew this man's strength very well!
"Husband, you've leveled up again?"
"You've become a Titled Douluo this quickly?"
Seeing the utterly different presence of the man beside her, Ma Xiaotao's mouth fell wide open.
Did such a heaven-defying cultivation method exist on the Douluo Continent?
Every time he climbed a mountain, his strength shot straight up?
Most terrifying of all, he even had God-Given Soul Rings!
Was this the grandeur of the legendary Nine Great Dragon Kings?
Meanwhile, on the other side,
Jing Hongchen seemed to have spotted Luo Feng walking out to the very front too.
"What?"
"Didn't this brat only have seven soul rings just now? How does he have nine now?"
"I understand now! No wonder he could beat me so effortlessly earlier. He was a Titled Douluo all along!"
"You little brat, playing the pig to eat the tiger with me, are you?"
"Everyone in the Soul Engineer Legion, listen up! Prioritize killing that nine-ring Titled Douluo!"
"Focus your fire! Wipe him out!"