Xu Zihuang crouched down and pinned the Snow Emperor to the ground with one move. The Ice Empress, not far behind them, stared at the scene in dumbfounded shock.
The atmosphere at this moment was exceptionally bizarre.
Skydream Iceworm emerged once again from Xu Zihuang's body. His little golden eyes carried a human-like awkward and embarrassed expression.
"Uh… Snow Empress, Ice Ice, can I just say this is all a misunderstanding?"
"It's you, Skydream?! You're actually still alive?!" The Ice Empress, snapping out of her daze, looked at the Skydream Iceworm appearing on Xu Zihuang's shoulder and fell into astonishment again.
Gazing at the Ice Empress's true form, Skydream Iceworm's voice suddenly turned very gentle, even somewhat mushy.
"Ice Ice, you didn't die, so how could I possibly die? Do you still remember what I said back then? As long as I don't die, one day, I will become your partner."
"Skydream, are you looking to die?!" The Ice Empress's crisp voice was suddenly filled with thick killing intent. The originally jade-green sky instantly turned into an oppressive, deep ink-green. An invisible, terrifying pressure descended in an instant.
This was the spiritual pressure unique to ferocious beast-level soul beasts, blended with the fierce aura of the Ice Empress's true form, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.
Although Xu Zihuang's cultivation lagged behind the Ice Empress by a certain gap, what he feared least was precisely this kind of spiritual pressure. Moreover, he still had energy left to split off a portion of his mind to protect Ning Tian.
Skydream Iceworm suddenly shivered, not daring to keep spouting nonsense. His tone shifted, and he hurriedly spoke seriously.
"Wait, Ice Ice. The reason we came to the Extreme North this time was specifically to find you."
At this point, his tone carried a hint of embarrassment again.
"Running into the Snow Empress here really was just an accident."
But before Skydream Iceworm could continue negotiating with the Ice Empress, he was interrupted by the Snow Emperor's ice-cold, sinister voice.
"Ice'er, kill them!"
Xu Zihuang and Skydream Iceworm both looked grim.
Upon hearing the Snow Emperor's order, the Ice Empress unhesitatingly attacked Xu Zihuang and Skydream Iceworm.
The current Ice Empress was unlike what Xu Zihuang remembered from his previous life; no tangled, unclear relationship existed between her and Skydream Iceworm. In her eyes, Skydream Iceworm was purely food. Moreover, her relationship with the Snow Emperor was intimate and special; Skydream Iceworm's earlier words filled her with extreme disgust.
In the pitch-black environment of the Extreme North's core zone, a jade-green light abruptly shone at the tip of the Ice Empress's scorpion tail. That jade-green radiance connected along the entire tail, forming a straight line.
This emerald-like jade-green lasted only an instant. In the next moment, a burst of blinding jade-green light had already expanded outward.
Cold, extreme cold enveloped a radius of dozens of kilometers. Compared to the Snow Emperor's earlier Imperial Chill Sky Snow Dance Blazing Sun, its might was countless times stronger.
What the Ice Empress unleashed was one of her strongest innate soul skills: Domain of Eternal Freeze.
With her cultivation reaching thirty-nine hundred thousand years, combined with her own ultimate ice attribute and the environmental amplification of the Extreme North, the Domain of Eternal Freeze, when released at full power, was enough to make even Super Douluo-level powerhouses dread it deeply.
The instant the Ice Empress activated the Domain of Eternal Freeze, Xu Zihuang no longer had time to continue attacking the Snow Emperor. A brilliant golden halo distorted the surrounding space, and his figure instantly returned to Ning Tian's side.
If he were alone, he had absolute confidence in making the Ice Empress and Snow Emperor pay a heavy price while escaping unscathed.
But with Ning Tian present now, he had to prioritize her safety above all else.
Xu Zihuang pulled Ning Tian into his embrace and unleashed his ultimate lightning, carving out a patch of pure land where lightning arcs danced wildly within the Ice Empress's Domain of Eternal Freeze.
At the same time, Skydream Iceworm merged back into Xu Zihuang's body. In shock, he mobilized his mental power and shouted:
"Wait, Ice Ice! I know that when you broke through to thirty hundred thousand years of cultivation, you already reached your own limit and damaged your origin. I calculated it, within a hundred years, you will definitely face your fourth heavenly tribulation. The forty-hundred-thousand-year barrier is one you can never pass, no matter what. But if you sign a special contract with a human soul master of astonishing talent like me, not only can you survive in another form, but you will also have a sliver of a chance to pursue eternal life!"
Skydream Iceworm spoke these words with utmost sincerity. The form he had revealed earlier also proved its truth. Moreover, the mention of pursuing eternal life truly struck a chord with the Ice Empress.
However, the Snow Emperor, who had seen all kinds of filth and ugliness in the human world, sneered disdainfully at this.
Pursuing eternal life, meaning becoming a Rank 100 God. How easy was that to achieve? Throughout history, how many peerlessly talented geniuses had been blocked by this heavenly chasm?
"Ice'er, don't believe them. Forget the minuscule chance of becoming a god; even if that so-called contract is signed, it will almost certainly require dependence on those despicable humans."
Freed from Xu Zihuang's suppression, the Snow Emperor had gracefully arrived beside the Ice Empress.
There was no denying that what the Snow Emperor said made a great deal of sense. Moreover, the Ice Empress and Snow Emperor had known each other for hundreds of thousands of years; naturally, she trusted the Snow Emperor more.
"Snow'er, of course, I won't believe them."
The Ice Empress shook her body and transformed into a delicate and charming woman. She wore a jade-green long skirt, lacking the Snow Emperor's haughtiness but possessing an extra layer of cold allure. On both sides of her moving, fair face were four jade-green demonic patterns each, and a head of ink-green long hair cascaded behind her.
Her skin was as pure white as ice and snow, with a translucent texture. Beneath the skin, faint jade light flowed.
The two exchanged a glance and instantly understood each other, joining hands in unison. They looked toward Xu Zihuang and Ning Tian opposite them, their eyes filled with icy coldness.
With the Snow Emperor joining, the jade-green Domain of Eternal Freeze began erupting with overwhelming blizzards. The temperature inside approached absolute zero infinitely.
This was the brand-new domain formed by combining the Ice Empress's Domain of Eternal Freeze and the Snow Emperor's Snow Dance Blazing Sun: Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain!
But just as the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain began displaying its might, a deep purple point of light suddenly appeared within it.
The light point expanded and spread, outlining the complete skeletal structure of a human torso, including spine, ribs, sternum, and all.
In an instant, with Xu Zihuang's body as the center, a radius of more than ten kilometers turned into a deep purple world. In this monotonous, deep purple realm, the Snow Dance Extreme Ice Domain jointly unleashed by the Ice Empress and Snow Empress visibly melted away at a rapid pace.
The aura of ultimate destruction turned this space into a forbidden zone for life. All signs of life vanished, returning to annihilation and nothingness.
This was one of the soul skills Xu Zihuang obtained from the Huanglong King's torso soul bone: Domain of Annihilation. It could be called the most powerful domain-type soul skill in the current era.
In addition to its ultimate destructive power capable of annihilating all life force, it could also counter and suppress all domains.
Standing behind Xu Zihuang, Ning Tian tacitly held the magnificent and dazzling Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, simultaneously bestowing five types of attribute amplification upon him.
The might of the Domain of Annihilation surged dramatically.
Shock flashed through the eyes of both the Snow Emperor and Ice Empress. Then, crossing through space, what they noticed was Xu Zihuang's cold expression and the once-again brilliantly shining deep purple patterns of his torso soul bone.
Mysterious soul power fluctuations rippled outward. Instantly, the sky above the Domain of Annihilation briefly stagnated and collapsed, revealing streaks of deep purple spatial rifts. Massive, ferocious dragon heads emerged from the cracks, clearly resembling the Huanglong King's true dragon heads. They opened their maws and spat out balls of terrifying, deep purple dragon flames.
Each ball of dragon flame had a diameter exceeding a hundred meters, descending like blazing meteors from beyond the heavens. The terrifying momentum was comparable to a world-ending catastrophe.
Huanglong World-Destroying Flame!
The second soul skill is attached to the Huanglong King torso soul bone. Augmented by the Domain of Annihilation and Ning Tian's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial soul, the power of Xu Zihuang's strike could effortlessly erase an entire city.
Some of the more powerful soul beasts possessed an extremely keen perception of danger. The entire core zone of the Extreme North instantly fell into chaos, including the Ice Empress's clan, the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe.
Yet the instigator, Xu Zihuang, remained expressionless. His originally deep purple eyes shifted to brilliant gold, and together with Ning Tian, their figures vanished within the golden pupils' light and shadow.
Also taken away by Xu Zihuang was a two-hundred-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion from the distant Ice Jade Scorpion tribe.
He had only been willing to negotiate with the Ice Empress earlier out of consideration for Skydream Iceworm. Now that the Ice Empress and Snow Emperor intended to kill him, they needed to be prepared to bear his wrath.
As for how many soul beasts of the Extreme North would perish under this Huanglong World-Destroying Flame, Xu Zihuang did not care, nor did he feel any guilt.
In a world of the survival of the fittest, weakness itself was a sin. Moreover, the positions of humans and soul beasts were inherently opposed. If blame must be assigned, it could only fall on the ignorance and incompetence of the Extreme North's rulers, the Snow Emperor and Ice Empress.
The next time he returned to the Extreme North would be the end of the Snow Emperor and Ice Empress.
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