At this moment, just as the Shi brothers and Ye Lingling were about to hand the enemy over to Captain Xiao Lin—
The proud Donnie naturally refused to be a burden to the team. In the next instant, she stepped out from under the Shi brothers' protective shield on her own.
"Lingling is yours to protect."
Donnie didn't speak much. The moment the words left her mouth, she had already completed her Martial Soul Possession.
Under the golden radiance of her Golden Dragon Martial Soul, the torrential rain pounding her body seemed to have almost no effect at all.
Donnie's true form was that of an auspicious beast, naturally possessing the attributes of Ultimate Strength and Ultimate Fire.
Now that she had taken human form and her Martial Soul had transformed into the Golden Dragon, it didn't mean she had completely lost her Ultimate Fire abilities.
A bit of rain? To her, it was nothing more than a tickle.
The Ultimate Strength granted her an ultimate physique, making her fearless against the cold.
"First Soul Skill: Golden Dragon Body. Second Soul Skill: Dragon's Strength!"
Donnie let out a delicate shout, and in just an instant, an overwhelming aura erupted from within her. The sheer sense of power was visible to the naked eye.
The next second, Donnie directly punched through a portion of the glacier beneath her feet.
Then, she grabbed hold of a chunk of ice the size of a bedroom and hoisted it over her head.
The massive block of ice now stood in front of the Shi brothers, making the originally towering giants look much smaller in comparison.
Fortunately, the Shi brothers understood Donnie's plan—she intended to use the ice block to create a shelter against the rain.
"Second Soul Skill: Turtle Shell Defense!"
Almost simultaneously, the Shi brothers spoke in unison.
Their originally earthy-yellow Xuanwu Shields instantly turned into streams of earthy-yellow light, merging into their bodies and forming a turtle-shell-like shield around them.
This soul skill not only stacked with the defense of their first skill but also granted their bodies extremely high defensive power.
The best defense was also an attack.
The brothers exchanged a glance, and almost at the same time, began pounding their fists into the ice block Donnie held.
After countless "tortoise punches," they quickly shaped the chunk into an ice hut big enough to fit several people.
Donnie instantly set it down. Lifting that ice hut had cost her a great deal of strength.
That bedroom-sized ice mass weighed around 27,600 kilograms (5 × 5 × 2.5 × 920—suddenly, the Sea God's Trident feels kind of lame by comparison).
If not for her Ultimate Strength, she wouldn't even have been able to drag it, let alone lift it.
Once the ice shelter was complete, Donnie didn't even look back before charging out.
She wasn't about to let Xiao Lin face the enemy alone.
With the Shi brothers protecting Ye Lingling, she was more than safe enough.
After all, the fact that the enemy had chosen to ambush meant they weren't particularly strong.
Even if their power surpassed that of a Soul Elder and reached the Soul King level, it was still unlikely they could break through the Shi brothers' top-tier defensive beast Martial Soul.
Elsewhere.
Xiao Lin had dashed over a hundred meters away—but hadn't even caught a glimpse of the enemy.
In this wide-open expanse of the Extreme North, to find no trace of the enemy was… unusual.
His expression darkened. Could the enemy's Martial Soul be one of those with an "A" range rating on the data panel?An elemental Martial Soul? Cloud? Rain? Water?From the attack range and skill power, it didn't seem particularly strong.
It relied more on the unique terrain and extreme cold of the Extreme North.
That gave Xiao Lin a sense of wrongness—there were actually people in the Douluo Continent who would deliberately use harsh environments as part of their attacks?
This wasn't looking good.Especially since he didn't even know how many enemies there were.
Boom!
Suddenly, an explosion came from his flank—like someone had tossed a bomb into deep water.
Xiao Lin's head snapped toward the sound. That direction…
It was where Ye Lingling and the others were!
The enemy's target wasn't him—it was Ye Lingling!There were two enemies?!
A cold sweat broke out on Xiao Lin's back. Without time to think, two purple soul rings flared beneath his feet.
In a flash, blue lightning burst from his body.
With blinding light, his speed soared to the maximum.
A hundred meters vanished in the blink of an eye.
"Ah!"
From inside the ice hut came Ye Lingling's startled cry.
Xiao Lin looked up to see her being guarded tightly by the Shi brothers, though clearly frightened.
The cause of her cry?Someone was swimming inside the ice hut.
The small but muscular enemy had blue fish scales covering his body—and he was swimming through the ice itself.
Because of this ability, he could attack from anywhere in the ice hut—or swim through the glaciers beneath their feet.
He was so fast that the Shi brothers couldn't fully block him, and he had nearly struck Ye Lingling several times.
"Ah, your guy's back? Then I'll take my leave."
The blue-scaled, mustachioed man smirked and dove into the glacier. Blue scales flashed with a strange light—and he vanished.
Ye Lingling and the others froze.
This man was clearly here to wear them down—waiting for the moment their guard dropped before striking like a venomous snake.
And besides him, there was another enemy whose job was to lure Xiao Lin away.
Ye Lingling suddenly felt her life might be in serious danger.
But at that moment—Boom!—an explosion rang out.
The three inside the ice hut stared in shock.
A bright silver Flood Dragon Staff smashed through a twenty-meter-wide section of the glacier, sending chunks of ice flying. Faintly, they could see blood-red among the shards.
"This is…"
"Captain Xiao Lin!"
"Qiankun Throw!"
In the distance, Xiao Lin's eyes were sharp. Seeing the massive blood loss atop the ice, the corner of his mouth lifted slightly.
"One down."
He didn't bother checking if the man was still alive.
With more than 500% attack amplification, over 100% speed amplification, and a massive boost to strength… Xiao Lin didn't even want to imagine what the corpse looked like.
Boom!
Just as he finished off one enemy, another explosion—no weaker than his Qiankun Throw—sounded from afar.
"Go to hell!"
A sharp, feminine voice rang out—it was Donnie.
Without saying a word to Ye Lingling and the others, Xiao Lin sprinted toward the sound.
The next moment, Donnie's violent movements came into view.
She had driven her Golden Dragon Spear straight into the ice, pinning a hook-nosed man beneath.
Water streamed all over his body, yet there wasn't a single wound visible.
"What a pity—you guessed wrong."
The hook-nosed man smirked—and the next moment, his body dissolved entirely into water and disappeared.
"Guess wrong, my ass!"
Donnie sneered coldly, stabbing the spear down even harder.
Blood gushed forth.
"Buga! Impossible!"
With a scream of disbelief, the hook-nosed man died on the spot.
(End of Chapter)