"Your Highness, someone's here!"
Just as Lin Yun was admiring the imposing Golden Dragon Death Scythe in his hand, the Ice Empress's vigilant voice rang out.
Lin Yun's eyes shifted slightly. The Golden Dragon Death Scythe in his hand instantly transformed into a golden light and returned to his glabella. His previously extremely depleted appearance also recovered significantly under the full operation of the Gold of Life. Now, he merely looked a bit pale and weak.
"Bing'er, who is it?" Lin Yun asked softly.
"A Title Douluo around ninety-first rank. His strength is very weak. I sensed his aura before when Your Highness was in the match," the Ice Empress replied, her tone filled with killing intent.
"Your Highness, he's currently setting up an aura barrier. Should I directly attack and freeze him into an ice sculpture?"
A ninety-first rank Title Douluo?
"No need. Withdraw your soul power barrier and let him in." Lin Yun suddenly smiled.
He had originally thought it was a Title Douluo who had a grudge with Shrek and intended to kill him, or perhaps someone from another power trying to win him over. But as soon as the Ice Empress spoke, he understood who it was.
Among the Title Douluo who appeared at this point in the original story, and who were so weak, who else could it be but that little ant who was thrashed by the Chicken Leg Douluo?
In the original story, he mistook Huo Yuhao for a humanoid soul beast and even wanted to capture him to exchange for a set of soul bones. So now, what did he take himself for?
He was just racking his brain for ways to amuse Xu Jiawei, and this little ant delivered himself right to his doorstep.
Lin Yun sat cross-legged on the bed, feigning meditation with a smile, waiting for Cheng Gang to appear. After being busy for a long time and completely setting up the soul power barrier, the latter boldly appeared before Lin Yun.
"This old man is truly lucky to encounter a humanoid soul beast!" Cheng Gang stared intently at Lin Yun, his old face filled with greed.
"Still staring? If you keep looking at me with that gaze, I'll dig out your eyeballs!" Lin Yun opened his eyes and rubbed his fingers with dissatisfaction.
The old man's gaze was more disgusting than a gay man's, making Lin Yun feel his hairs stand on end.
He had originally planned to reason with him, but the old man's gaze truly disgusted Lin Yun. Now, he just wanted to quickly kill this old fool and then put some pressure on Xu Jiawei.
On the other hand, Cheng Gang, after being provoked by Lin Yun, became furious.
"Good, good, you've been recognized by this old man, and you still dare to be so arrogant." Cheng Gang laughed in his extreme anger, and nine soul rings, two yellow, three purple, and four black, appeared around him. A Title Douluo-level aura permeated the air.
"Although I don't know how you managed to conceal your soul beast aura, you can fool others, but you can't fool this old man! I can tell at a glance that you're not human!"
Cheng Gang was smug, reaching out directly to grab Lin Yun's neck, intending to completely control him.
Facing Cheng Gang's actions, Lin Yun remained motionless, merely looking at him with the gaze one would give a dead person, his face full of disdain.
His fearless attitude indeed made Cheng Gang realize something was wrong, but his greed for a hundred-thousand-year soul beast made him suppress the unease in his heart. All Cheng Gang could do was speed up his movements, resolving Lin Yun as quickly as possible.
Closer... even closer!
Everything around seemed to slow down in Cheng Gang's eyes. He watched his fingers approach Lin Yun's neck inch by inch, listening to his own violent heartbeat.
Immense wealth was within reach!
Cheng Gang's smile gradually widened. In his mind, he was already fantasizing about exchanging Lin Yun, this 'hundred-thousand-year humanoid soul beast,' for a complete set of top-tier soul bones, greatly enhancing his strength.
Just as he was about to touch Lin Yun, a faint green light subtly lit up, and an extreme chill instantly swept through the entire room.
In Cheng Gang's suddenly constricted pupils, the hand he extended towards Lin Yun was instantly frozen by the terrifying low temperature, starting from his fingertips. In the blink of an eye, his entire right hand was frozen into an ice sculpture.
And this chill continued to spread. He didn't even have time to react before half of his body had lost sensation, and he was immobilized in place.
Rustle... rustle...
A faint rustling sound quietly echoed, like the sound of a multi-legged insect crawling on cloth. In the quiet room, this sound was extremely clear, restoring Cheng Gang's consciousness, which had been dazed by the extreme ice.
Then, he saw it.
A brilliant emerald green slowly emerged from Lin Yun's shoulder, then perched on it, its crystalline yellow eyes coldly staring at him.
It was a palm-sized scorpion, appearing to be carved from the most perfect jade, so beautiful it seemed not of this world.
"Ice... Ice Jade Scorpion!" Cheng Gang murmured distractedly, his hoarse voice filled with intense fear.
The terrifying might belonging to the Ice Empress descended upon Cheng Gang without any concealment. The aura of a four-hundred-thousand-year-old Fierce Beast even made him feel a suffocating threat of death.
"Are you... the seventh of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, Ice Empress?"
Cheng Gang himself was foolish, a frog in a well unaware of his limitations, but as a Title Douluo, he still had some knowledge. Although he had never seen an Ice Jade Scorpion with his own eyes, he had seen pictures.
And among the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, there was only one existence as powerful as the one before him.
That was the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, the Ice Empress.
"A little knowledgeable, but it won't save your life," the Ice Empress's cold voice rang out.
The Ice Empress's reply completely extinguished Cheng Gang's hanging heart. Any one of the Ten Great Fierce Beasts possessed strength above that of a Super Douluo. The three-hundred-ninety-thousand-year-old Ice Empress, in particular, possessed terrifying strength approaching that of a ninety-eighth rank Super Douluo.
Cheng Gang didn't know that the Ice Empress had already broken through the four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, but even so, he didn't believe he had the ability to escape from the Ice Empress's grasp.
Moreover, he was already controlled by the Ice Empress at this moment.
The solid ice that spread over half his body, no matter how he urged his soul core or circulated his soul power, he couldn't dispel it in the slightest.
"So you really are a hundred-thousand-year humanoid soul beast, able to have the Ice Empress, a Fierce Beast King, protect you!" Cheng Gang said through gritted teeth.
Lin Yun clicked his tongue, glancing at Cheng Gang's terribly mismatched soul ring configuration, and said with a tone of 'regret,' "With a mere nine soul rings, why seek your own demise?"
"Bing'er, send him on his way. Remember to leave his head; I still have a use for it."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Cheng Gang's eyes widened, having heard the biggest secret right before his death, but the next moment, his consciousness completely sank into darkness, his body entirely covered by solid ice.
The Ice Empress transformed into her human form, sat in Lin Yun's arms, and snapped her fingers gently. The frozen Cheng Gang shattered into countless ice shards with a crack and was waved out the window by her. His unwillingly wide eyes still held intense fear.
(End of Chapter)
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