Di Tian vs. Snow Empress

PS: Yesterday's Tang San was rather wild and got banned for a day. The ban has already been lifted.

Although Bo Saixi was helping Zhu Zhuqing search for a suitable Soul Beast, she returned to Sea God Island every day.

Seeing an area shrouded in Qian Xunji's holy light, Bo Saixi gave a soft huff, raised a hand, and pointed, sending out a streak of sword Qi.

"Hmm? Who's there?!"

Qian Xunji's voice rang out, and then a giant golden hand dragged Bo Saixi straight inside.

"Qian Xunji! You shameless bastard!"

Bo Saixi was embarrassed and angry. That bastard had gone too far.

"That's what you get for interrupting my fun. Since you're already here, let's spar together."

...Original timeline...

On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi watched as her other "self" was dragged into that pixelated area too, and her eyes instantly lit up.

She rather missed her days in Heavenly Screen Spacetime.

Today, however, Bo Saixi did not indulge herself. For some reason, she kept feeling tired.

This put her on her guard. As a mighty Peerless Douluo, how could she possibly feel sleepy and fatigued under normal circumstances?

She immediately examined her own body, only to detect a barely perceptible trace of life quietly growing in her lower abdomen.

"N-no way?"

Bo Saixi's expression changed dramatically as she stared at the heavenly screen in disbelief.

She gently stroked her lower abdomen. Gradually, her shock turned to joy. "Is this... heaven's reward for me?"

She actually had a chance to give birth to a child of her own.

"This is wonderful!"

Bo Saixi stopped paying attention to the heavenly screen and carefully lay down on her bed, drifting into a peaceful sleep.

She needed to rest well and nurture this little life in the best possible condition.

Her child with Qian Xunji would surely become a god in the future.

She just did not know whether her child would inherit the Sea God Martial Soul or the Angel Martial Soul.

If it was the Angel Martial Soul, a divine position might not be so easy to find.

After all, Spirit Hall's Angel Godhood already had an heir.

The Far North Ice Plains.

Snow Empress and Ice Empress had been watching the heavenly screen all along. After seeing Ice Empress sacrifice herself, the two women looked at each other in silence.

"Snow Empress, have you really decided?

"When she comes back, you'll sacrifice yourself for her?"

"This is the best method, and also the best opportunity.

"If the two of us from both spacetimes sacrifice ourselves for her, her chances of becoming a god will be even greater than that Qian Renxue's."

There was a divine inheritance in the Far North. Qian Xunji had already confirmed that.

Thus, they only needed to wait for Shui Bing'er to return, and the Far North's divine inheritance would emerge as well.

At that point, Shui Bing'er's ascension to godhood would be set in stone.

"Those not of our race are bound to have different hearts!

"Snow Empress, you're far too delusional. Once that human becomes a god, even if she revives you, you still won't be able to escape her control."

A deep voice suddenly rang out in the void. A Golden-Eyed Black Dragon tore through space and arrived in the Far North.

"Snow Empress, long time no see!"

Di Tian's true form was enormous, and his strength needed no explanation. The moment he appeared, the oppressive might of the Beast God enveloped the entire core region of the Far North.

But he quickly reined in his presence and assumed human form, refraining from displaying his strength too excessively.

A slight change appeared on Snow Empress's eternally unchanging face, and she frowned. "What are you here for?"

She and Di Tian had merely fought before. Their relationship was not hostile, but it certainly could not be called friendly.

Especially after Qian Xunji exposed the Dragon God's sinister handiwork, Snow Empress had become somewhat hostile toward the dragon race.

"For the revival of the Soul Beast Clan, naturally. Snow Empress, come with me to the Star Dou Great Forest.

"There's an important figure there who wants to see you."

Di Tian decided to trick Snow Empress into going to the Star Dou Great Forest first.

Here in the Far North, he could not subdue her.

Once they reached the Star Dou Great Forest, he would call the shots.

"I won't leave the Far North, nor do I wish to meet this important figure you speak of.

"Go back."

Snow Empress's voice was calm as she firmly rejected Di Tian's invitation.

Di Tian's expression grew slightly tense. "Snow Empress, this concerns whether the Soul Beast race can rise again.

"I hope you'll put the bigger picture first."

"The bigger picture for Soul Beasts, or for your dragon race?"

Snow Empress countered, and Di Tian immediately fell silent.

"Are you truly refusing to come to Star Dou with me?"

Di Tian's expression grew more dangerous. Since Snow Empress could say such things, it meant she had already taken a stand against the dragon race.

Then he no longer needed to persuade her with kind words.

"I'm not going."

Snow Empress answered. Then the void before her suddenly tore open, and a pitch-black dragon claw reached for her.

Snow Empress seemed to have anticipated that Di Tian would attack. She reacted immediately, retreating several hundred meters in an instant while raising her hand and condensing an ice-crystal longsword in her palm.

Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless!

The sword slashed down, drawing forth extreme cold and forcing Di Tian back.

"As expected of the Heavenly Snow Woman."

Di Tian looked at his slashed scales, his expression turning colder. "I can't take you away, but are you going to disregard all the Soul Beasts of the Far North Ice Plains?"

Di Tian locked onto Ice Empress.

Ice Empress had actually been keeping a very low profile, covering herself in ice and snow.

Sensing Di Tian's presence locking onto her, Ice Empress immediately turned into a streak of emerald light and fled.

But how could she escape Di Tian's pursuit?

"You want the fish to die and the net to break?"

Snow Empress did not stop him. She merely spoke calmly, her gaze fixed on Di Tian.

Di Tian halted, his killing intent boiling. "Snow Empress!

"Don't spurn my goodwill!"

"You're welcome to try."

Snow Empress did not yield an inch, confronting Di Tian from a hundred meters away.

After a long while, Di Tian snorted coldly. "You'd best pray that my lord doesn't get angry."

He tore through the void and left.

Snow Empress's attitude was too resolute. He could not go too far.

After all, with Snow Empress's strength, she really could cause him a great deal of trouble.

His lord intended to take the path of assuming human form. He could not make a powerful enemy at a time like this.

The Star Dou Great Forest.

Di Tian returned and knelt before Gu Yuena.

"My lord, that Snow Woman refused to come. I intended to capture the Ice Jade Scorpion and bring her here, but that Snow Woman was prepared to fight Star Dou until the fish died and the net broke.

"Your subordinate is incompetent."

Gu Yuena had neither returned beneath the Lake of Life nor assumed human form.

She was still waiting and watching.

If Snow Empress came, she would assume human form immediately.

But if Snow Empress refused to come and was even hostile toward her, things would be difficult.

"So be it if she won't come. We'll wait for an opportunity."

In the end, she did not act rashly. After all, what she needed to consider was not whether she could become a god, but how to obtain the Golden Dragon King's power after becoming one.

And to obtain the Golden Dragon King's power, she would have to inherit a God King's divine position.

That was almost impossible.

The God Kings would not let her inherit a divine position.

Could it be that I really can only return to the Divine Realm with half of the Dragon God's divine core?

...Heavenly screen timeline...

A month passed in the blink of an eye.

Snow Empress arrived as promised.

The aftershocks of the sacrifice swept across all of Sea God Island. Starting from its coastline, dozens of li of sea were frozen solid.

Had Qian Xunji not intervened, Sea God Island itself would have become an island of ice.

The benefits Shui Bing'er received were naturally enormous.

The Soul Bone Snow Empress provided her was an External Soul Bone: the Ice Feather Illusory Phoenix Wings.

At the same time, Shui Bing'er's Soul Power shot straight up to rank sixty.

Eighty percent of Snow Empress's Soul Power remained sealed by Qian Xunji and would gradually be refined as Shui Bing'er cultivated.

"She's still one Soul Ring short."

Qian Xunji looked toward the Sea God Sacred Pillar. "How about fleecing the Sea God a little?"

After his affinity with the Creation God reached 20%, Qian Xunji felt that he had undergone far, far too much of a transformation.

Fleecing the Sea God a little should not be much of a problem.

But in the end, Qian Xunji did not do so.

Wasn't it just a Soul Beast? He would leave those two in the Far North Ice Plains alone for now, but weren't there Sea Soul Beasts in the waters of the Far North?