The sky rumbled with dense black lightning and thunder, the world rippling with devastating earthquakes!
The world radiated anxiety and anger, furious by the sheer arrogance and hubris of a child it once loved striking down at its new chosen child! What parent would tolerate such disrespect?!
The world surged with the supreme Planar Laws, all concentrated into the Sunset Forest with extreme killing intent that made the world turned dark.
Fire, earth, wind, water, light, darkness, and lightning all converged in a cataclysmic storm of primal elemental fury as the space behind Tang San fractured!
And from within that spatial rift, an ancient right arm that was about 100 meters long and thick as the balk of an ancient tree, with black hair all over it giving an overwhelming ferocious aura.
It was a gigantic ape arm!
It clenched its massive mountain-like fist and punched towards Tang San!
This punch caused the entire Sunset Forest to completely collapse!
The sheer momentum of the swing generated a pressure wave that flattened what remained of the forest, sending shockwaves that uprooted distant mountains hundreds of kilometers away.
That punch held the power to destroy the entire world!
Er Ming looked up at the rift with disbelief, his Titan Giant Ape body trembling uncontrollably as his bloodline boiled like crazy.
A sense of awe, worship, admiration surged like crazy within his heart.
That arm was unfamiliar to him, yet, within his heart... his soul...!
He knew who that was.
"T-That arm!! I could feel the resonance within my bloodline. I can't be wrong. That... That's the progenitor of almost the entire Ape Soul Beasts!"
"The one who dwells in the world beneath the surface! The one who earned the title as the King of the Primates for leading all the Apes, Monkeys, Gorillas, and others more to rise against the Gods during the Divine War!"
"The one who devoured most of the Behemoth Clan members, known as the Dragon Killers, and earned the admiration and fear of the Dragon God."
"The Apex Primal Monarch, Ancestor Kong!!"
Tang San coldly glanced at the invincible fist coming at him, his unstable body showing deep cuts and holes just from the sheer pressure of the oncoming punch.
He remained indifferent, letting it hit him as he focused on pouring everything that he had into the Tyrant Spear. The blood flowing out of him turned gold, shining brighter with every millisecond that passes. The magnificent nine soul rings erupted, exploding into golden blood lights.
Blood essence sacrifice! Soul rings explosion!
That wasn't all. From the trident mark on his forehead, a power that transcends the mortal dimension poured out.
It was the power to influence the 4th dimension!
Every possibility, every timeline branch, every "what if" within a short radius began to twist and converge under his killing intent.
The air around the Tyrant Spear shimmered with fractured time, creating countless afterimages of the spear thrusting forward— some slower, some faster, some from slightly different angles.
All aiming to pierce Huo Yuhao, leaving no escape!
Compared to killing the Child of Destiny, sacrificing a single clone that could rule the entire mortal world was worth it!
The blue-gold spear descended with extreme speed, causing space and time to warp violently along its trajectory.
The Tyrant Spear formed from Tang San's Blue Silver Emperor vines wasn't so easily blocked or dodged. It wasn't only just a soul skill anymore.
It was a spear infused with God-tier spearmanship, domain attributes, the extreme sacrifices of a peak rank 99 Limit Douluo with a hint of divinity, and the power of a 4th dimensional being!
This was an attack that not even a God Officer could easily block and would even leave them severely injured!
This was Tang San's sheer determination to make sure Huo Yuhao couldn't live today!
"No!!" Snow Empress gritted her teeth, her eyes turning bloodshot as she raised her hand with the last dregs of her origin energy.
The ice and snow around her surged violently, and time seemed to slow to a crawl.
This was no longer a control over ice and snow, the temperature, or even space control. But a conceptual power that transcends the Planar Laws, the conceptual control of "Freeze"!
"Freeze" isn't simply stopping motion or lowering temperature.
It is the absolute cessation of all processes.
The cessation of time, of energy flow, of all living beings itself!
Absolute Zero.
For one fleeting, desperate moment, Snow Empress burned both of her soul cores, pushing her comprehension to a height she had never reached before.
Unfortunately, Snow Empress only had a small understanding and control over such power.
She understood that clearly. So she used that short moment of opportunity to create multiple dense ice crystals before the Tyrant Spear's path, desperately hoping that by stacking multiple ice shields that it would weaken the spear's power that Huo Yuhao would survive it.
Dozens of snow-white ice crystals bloomed beautifully like flowers in front of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
Snow Empress desperately pushed herself to the limit, cracks showed all across her skin.
Not only because of Ice Empress, but also because of Huo Yuhao.
For he, was a beacon of hope.
For her, Ice Empress, Skydream, and the rest of the Extreme North of a better future. Perhaps even the entire Soul Beast race!
She desperately wanted power, not just for herself, but to protect her people. She was someone who truly loved and cared for the soul beasts of the Extreme North; that was why they called her Empress.
But deep down, she had always known she wouldn't be able to accomplish anything different.
The entire Soul Beast race is slowly approaching extinction, all because of some ancient law that the world or the Gods had place upon them.
No soul beast shall ever achieve Godhood.
With such a restriction, and the inevitable technological progress of Humanity, it would only be a matter of time before they were either massacred or enslaved.
Even that so-called leader of the Soul Beasts hibernating in the Great Star Dou Forest couldn't do anything, not with the Gods hovering over them.
Snow Empress was prepared to defy fate or die with a bang, for the fall of Soul Beasts was inevitable.
That was until she encountered a monstrous genius like Huo Yuhao.
Although human, he was someone that would repay someone who was kind to him and get back at those who wronged him. With his relationship with Skydream, Ice Empress, Jianxin, Auspicious Emperor, etc. he would try his best to revive the Soul Beast race.
He was the greatest hope that Snow Empress saw to an eternal life and an everlasting prosperity for the Soul Beast race.
She didn't want to lose him, she didn't want to watch another generation of soul beasts slowly wither away under the cruel law that forbade them from ever reaching Godhood.
So, for the first time in her life, she burned everything.
Her two soul cores ignited like dying stars. Her origin energy surged wildly as she forced her comprehension of the conceptual "Freeze" to its absolute limit to permanently fix the Tyrant Spear in place.
She didn't just want to slow it down anymore. She would make sure that it could never reached its target!
Freeze!
Cracks spiderwebbed across her flawless icy skin, spreading rapidly as her body began to disintegrate from the inside out.
She gritted her teeth and let out a desperate roar, "Stop for this Empress!!"
The conceptual "Freeze" fully manifested.
It was no longer ice.
It was no longer cold.
It was the absolute, merciless cessation of all things.
The Tyrant Spear froze mid-thrust, not slowed, but completely locked in space and time.
For one breath... two... three...
The spear hung motionless, inches away from the water surface of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
"Oh...." Snow Empress let out a soft, almost relieved sigh as her trembling hand finally dropped.
Her bloodshot eyes turned weary, tears of blood trailed down her cheeks and her body began to tremble. "It stopped. Thankfully..."
Tang San coldly stared at her, despite the massive fist destroying his body, with his head remaining floating in the air he muttered a single world that caused Er Ming's expression to change drastically and hurriedly ran away.
"Explode."
The "frozen" Tyrant Spear began to tremble and the accumulated immeasurable energy within it erupted violently.
*BOOOOOOM!*
A cataclysmic explosion tore through the air right above the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. The blast was born from Tang San's final, spiteful sacrifice: blood essence, exploding soul rings, and the last remnants of his 4th-dimensional power all detonating at once.
Even though the conceptual "Freeze" had stopped the spear's movements, unfortunately, it was severely limited by the caster's cultivation.
How could Snow Empress, who wasn't even a million year old soul beast, have the power to stop the flow of 4th dimensional energy?
She and the Immortal Herbs could only watch in horror as the Tyrant Spear detonated into a bright flash of blue.
What no one noticed, was two key characters missing.
Even Tang San hadn't noticed their absence since he was hyper-focused on Huo Yuhao!
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AN: So.... He's dead.... Right....?