"Snow Empress, I'm heading to the Douluo Empire next, so sorry for the trouble, but I'll be relying on you for my safety. Of course, you won't generally need to act. My clan's elders and the others will resolve most problems. You only need to step in if we really encounter something they can't handle."
Su Yun sought out the Snow Empress and told her this. As long as Jing Hongchen went along, ninety-nine percent of the problems could be resolved, but there was still that one percent represented by Mu En.
Thinking of how readily Mu En acted in the original story, Su Yun felt that bringing the Snow Empress along would be safer.
Even a starved camel was bigger than a horse. If Mu En really made a move, Jing Hongchen's strength would ultimately fall a little short. With the Snow Empress there, however, that would no longer be a problem.
The current Snow Empress was far stronger than she had been even at her previous peak.
"All right. When necessary, I will act."
At those words, Su Yun's heart lurched. You can't just go around saying "I will act"!
Thinking of a certain unlucky fellow from his previous life who had suffered a humiliating defeat after saying those words, Su Yun tentatively asked about the Snow Empress's strength.
"Speaking of which, Snow Empress, exactly what realm are you equivalent to now?"
"Quasi-God," the Snow Empress answered directly.
After spending two years with the Su Clan, seeing the Hundred Thousand Year Eighth Soul Ring of Su Yun's father, Su Lie, and then recalling the grand elder's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, she had also come to understand what the grand elder's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring was about.
Especially after learning more about the Su Clan and discovering that even their seventh and eighth Soul Rings had not come from hunting Soul Beasts, the guilt of having misunderstood them had made the Snow Empress much more accommodating.
Thus, when she saw Su Yun look somewhat surprised, the Snow Empress assumed he did not know what realm Quasi-God was and even began explaining it to him.
"When Soul Beasts reach five hundred thousand years of cultivation, they're equivalent to human Limit Douluos. If we really wanted to draw precise distinctions between realms, that should count as Quasi-Demigod. Six hundred thousand years of cultivation is equivalent to Demigod. I'm at seven hundred thousand years now, so in terms of cultivation, I can be considered a Quasi-God."
"Your cultivation can count as Limit Douluo even without Dual Soul Cores?" Su Yun asked in surprise.
In the original story, the Sea Princess had indeed said that Soul Beasts became equivalent to human Limit Douluos upon reaching five hundred thousand years. It was truly hard to say what was going on with Tang Jia San Shao's setting.
"Yes. Five hundred thousand years of accumulation is already sufficient. Besides, compared with humans, Soul Beasts spend longer comprehending each realm. Barring special circumstances, five hundred thousand years is enough to be equivalent to an ordinary Limit Douluo's cultivation."
"However, cultivation is cultivation. Strength still depends on what kind of Soul Beast you are. Di Tian, the Evil Emperor, and I all have sufficiently powerful means of attack. For a plant-type Soul Beast like the Myriad Demon King, even if his cultivation reached Limit Douluo, his strength would still be weaker than a normal Limit Douluo's."
Su Yun nodded. He understood that point quite well. After all, Xiong Jun had always been the one who refused to submit to Di Tian. If the Myriad Demon King truly had sufficient means of attack, he would have been the one refusing to submit to Di Tian.
"Speaking of which, how do you know about Dual Soul Cores? There doesn't seem to be anyone in the Sun Moon Empire who can touch upon the realm of Dual Soul Cores. And Quasi-Gods and Demigods-you seem to know something about them."
Su Yun shook his head, not intending to say much on the subject. "I just happened to learn about them."
Hearing that, the Snow Empress did not ask any further about why Su Yun knew certain things concerning Limit Douluos. She silently rose, preparing to leave with him.
Because no one had ever imagined that a being on the Snow Empress's level would appear in the Sun Moon Empire's imperial capital, there were no Soul Beast detectors in the city.
Without such detectors, given the Snow Empress's cultivation, even if she stood before Kong Deming, he would not be able to discern her true nature.
After all, the Snow Empress's cultivation had already reached Quasi-God, while Kong Deming's cultivation was merely Level 94.
Only if the Snow Empress attacked with her full strength, completely releasing the extremely distinctive presence of the Heavenly Snow Woman, could anyone detect any clues.
At other times, as long as the Snow Empress restrained herself slightly and did not display her Ultimate Snow presence or her Quasi-God cultivation, others would have no way of telling.
Seeing that the Snow Empress was about to leave with him, Su Yun suddenly thought of a problem.
"Snow Empress, it doesn't matter within the Su Clan, but I can't call you Snow Empress outside. That would cause too much trouble. Something might even go wrong."
"All right. What do you intend to call me, then?"
"Would Su Hanxue work? We can tell outsiders you're my older female cousin from the clan."
"Di Xue."
Su Yun: "..."
Would simply reversing her name like that really not make anyone suspicious?
Su Yun's brows furrowed tightly, and he ultimately chose a compromise.
"All right, then. Sorry for the trouble, Miss Di Xue, but please enter this."
Su Yun held out a Storage Soul Tool capable of holding living things.
Such items had been rare in Douluo I, and they were still rare in Douluo II.
But as the young master of a Titled Douluo clan, Su Yun even had a high-quality one, fully equipped inside so that people could rest comfortably.
The name Di Xue, combined with snow-type abilities and the Snow Empress's appearance, made the association far too easy.
Ordinary people would not make that connection, but what if someone did?
To be safe, it was better to put the Snow Empress inside first and have her appear as little as possible.
When Su Yun took out the Storage Soul Tool to put her inside, the Snow Empress cooperated without any sense of dissatisfaction.
As the Heavenly Snow Woman of the Far North, she was already accustomed to solitude.
Besides, the things inside that Soul Tool were far more interesting than the Far North.
After putting the Snow Empress into the Soul Tool, Su Yun headed for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy without bringing a single guard.
Before he had gone far, Su Yun frowned and silently turned toward a secluded alley.
The alley was secluded, but this was the imperial capital, after all. Normally, it should not have been completely deserted, yet at this very moment, there was not a single person there.
Seeing Su Yun enter an extremely secluded alley, the eyes of the Level 78 Soul Saint sent by Xu Tianran lit up.
He had been worrying over how to deal with Su Yun without beating the grass and startling the snake. Who would have thought Su Yun would head somewhere secluded on his own?
As Su Yun went deeper and deeper into seclusion, the Soul Saint began gathering his strength, preparing to kill him with a single strike, then swiftly change clothes and flee.
But before he could act, a Soul Douluo exuding a sinister presence, whose Soul Power was no lower than Rank 80, suddenly appeared. Without saying a word, he charged straight at Su Yun.
The crown prince was not the only one who wanted Su Yun dead. The Holy Spirit Cult had lost two Soul Douluos, yet because of the Su Clan's circumstances, the Holy Spirit Cult had been forced to swallow that grievance. They could not wipe out the Su Clan, and at the time, they had not even dared to teach the Su Clan a lesson.
But two years had passed since that incident, and in everyone's eyes, that page had long since been turned.
Thus, if a core member of the Su Clan died now, the blame could not be laid at the Holy Spirit Cult's door.
It had been two years. Could the Su Clan claim they had offended no one? Besides, what rank was Su Yun, anyway? Someone accidentally killing him could hardly be more normal.
Under these circumstances, the Holy Spirit Cult's Soul Douluo made his move-not to eliminate any of the Su Clan's fighting strength, but simply to disgust the Su Clan and count it as revenge for their previous grudge.
An Eight-Ring Soul Douluo dealing with a mere Su Yun and the Five-Ring Soul King following him should, in theory, have been child's play.
There was no need to reveal what his Martial Soul was. With Soul Power alone, one slap would be enough to kill both of them.
Yet in the very next second, just as the Soul Douluo was about to succeed, a jade-like hand suddenly emerged from thin air. With just one finger, it froze the Soul Douluo into an ice sculpture on the spot. Clearly, he would not survive.
The Soul Saint who had silently followed behind: "..."