Looking at this enormous flying beast, Shen Hanyu's clever little brain quickly turned, and he immediately recognized what kind of soul beast this was.
Calamity Snow Raven, with a body of black and white dual colors. Although it was called "Calamity," it actually didn't possess any attributes related to that name.
The reason it received this name was probably that this soul beast was proficient in stealing, robbing, abducting, and deceiving. What it enjoyed doing most was bullying the weak and ambushing those extremely rare soul beasts with powerful bloodlines to absorb their blood. It had caused quite a lot of trouble in the Far North. Among so many enemies, the Snow Empress chose this unlucky fellow probably because this creature once sucked dry the blood of a Hundred Thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion King, causing the entire Ice Jade Scorpion clan to go berserk and almost triggering a racial war.
Now that it had been caught by the Snow Empress, it could be considered as getting what it deserved.
However, looking at its enormous body size, Shen Hanyu still couldn't help but admire this fellow. To be able to painstakingly cultivate to the Hundred Thousand-year level in an environment surrounded by so many powerful figures, only to have its glorious life ended by the Snow Empress after enjoying it for less than two days.
Shui Ningbing respectfully thanked the Snow Empress. The Snow Empress, considering Shen Hanyu's face, slightly nodded. To be honest, she still felt some resistance toward humans other than Shen Hanyu, at least for now.
Then Shui Ningbing excitedly approached the Calamity Snow Raven. A magnificent feather directly pierced through the opponent's heart, and a red soul ring slowly rose.
Shui Ningbing froze on the spot, unconsciously swallowing hard, her gaze instinctively turning toward Shen Hanyu.
Shen Hanyu said softly:
"Don't worry, Aunt Shui. At the critical moment, I will help you."
Only then did Shui Ningbing feel relieved. She sat cross-legged on the ground and slowly guided the red soul ring toward herself.
The violent and icy energy entered her body. Shui Ningbing couldn't help but let out a muffled groan, but no other abnormal reactions appeared.
Shen Hanyu looked at the Snow Empress and said with some surprise:
"As expected of the Sovereign of the Far North, so generous!"
While speaking, Shen Hanyu even gave the Snow Empress a thumbs-up.
The Snow Empress snorted coldly and said:
"Since it dared to cause trouble in the Far North, it should have been prepared long ago to atone for its life. It struggled so much even to pass the Hundred Thousand-year heavenly tribulation, which shows that it no longer has any reason to exist in the Far North. This is also the perfect opportunity for me to take revenge for those soul beasts that died at its hands."
"Imperial aura!"
"Get lost!..."
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Shui Ningbing's absorption process was not exactly very smooth.
Her previous eight soul rings had all followed normal year limits. Even her highest-ranked eighth soul ring was only barely approaching seventy-thousand-years. This was already the most powerful soul beast that the Heavenly Water Academy could afford. Any higher and the academy couldn't bear the loss.
The best soul ring configuration of this era was supposed to be yellow-yellow-purple-purple-black-black-black-black-red, with the last one being a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
But Shen Hanyu thought this was somewhat ridiculous. Forget about how many people in this era would dare to provoke a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, even if they managed to kill one, very few people could actually absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
Even the Sword Douluo, known as the number one attacker, only had a ninety-thousand-year ninth soul ring. Even then, the Sword Douluo had almost exploded from the pressure, let alone absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, which was practically impossible.
Even Shen Hanyu felt that the three peerless Douluo of the previous era probably didn't obtain hundred-thousand-year soul rings by themselves, but rather slowly raised them afterward through divine examinations.
Of course, these were all speculations. There were no clear records on the continent; many old people from that era were already gone, and that period of history was difficult to verify now.
The Calamity Snow Raven was indeed very difficult to subdue, so Shen Hanyu had no choice but to release the aura of his second martial soul to help Shui Ningbing suppress it, while constantly helping her restrain the violent energy raging inside her body.
Fortunately, Shui Ningbing was lucky. She only suffered some minor internal injuries and a small amount of damage to her soul. With some time afterward to recuperate and adjust, she would recover quickly.
As the ninth red soul ring slowly settled into its proper position, the ice Luan phantom behind Shui Ningbing raised its head and let out a long cry. Many brand-new feathers grew on her body, and her appearance was completely renewed.
As her aura slowly converged, Shui Ningbing finally opened her eyes. Feeling the power in her body that was several times stronger than before, she was so excited for a moment that she couldn't speak.
It was only after a long while that Shui Ningbing's mood calmed down somewhat, but the undisguised excitement and joy could clearly be seen between her brows.
Shen Hanyu watched from the side as the three girls surrounded Shui Ningbing, looking her up and down, and a smile also appeared on the corners of his mouth.
After the excitement passed, Shui Ningbing tremblingly took out a skull from the Calamity Snow Raven's corpse, with black and white dual-colored streams of air flowing within it.
Shui Ningbing's first reaction was to give this soul bone to Shen Hanyu, but the moment Shen Hanyu saw it, he gently shook his head.
Shui Ningbing hesitated for a moment, then directly stuffed the soul bone into Shui Bing'er's arms, secretly observing Shen Hanyu's expression from the corner of her eye. Shen Hanyu had no objections at all. It was just a hundred-thousand-year skull; he really didn't care much for it. Besides, the ownership and distribution rights belonged entirely to Shui Ningbing and had little to do with him.
Shui Bing'er suddenly had a soul bone thrust into her arms. Out of habit, she tossed it to Shen Liu Yu. Shen Liu Yu was also startled and passed it to Shui Yue'er. Shui Yue'er held the soul bone in confusion, looking at everyone helplessly, almost on the verge of tears.
Two black lines suddenly appeared on Shui Ningbing's forehead. A low oppressive aura instantly descended, followed by a gust of cold wind. Shen Hanyu decisively pulled the Snow Empress back into the palace, trying his best not to listen to the pleading and furious voices coming from outside.
What surprised Shen Hanyu was that the Snow Empress actually showed a trace of curiosity about this. If Shen Hanyu hadn't pulled her, he suspected she really would have stood there watching the commotion outside.
As expected, no matter the world, the love of watching drama is an innate nature of both humans and animals…
He just hoped the Snow Empress wouldn't see this sentence…
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Tonight was probably the last night everyone would spend in the Far North. Shen Hanyu returned to his old profession and started barbecuing. The fragrance drifted along with the cold wind. Not long after, the Ice Empress returned.
Shen Hanyu seriously suspected that she had come back because she smelled the food, but he had no evidence.
The Snow Empress appeared exceptionally calm, showing no emotion at all, as if the person who had been pouring out her feelings to the sky last night wasn't her.
There was also some dejection between the Ice Empress's brows, but it was quickly defeated by the delicious barbecue. Tianmeng diligently used his spiritual power to serve as a waiter for the Ice Empress, working extremely diligently, truly a heartbreaking sight for those who saw it and tear-inducing for those who heard about it.
Surprisingly, the person who got along best with the Ice Empress turned out to be Shen Liu Yu. Relying on her exceptional ability to fool people (which was very similar to Shen Hanyu's), she vividly described the delicacies of the human world to the Ice Empress, almost turning ordinary candied hawthorns into something with an earth-shattering origin…
The Ice Empress kept swallowing her saliva, and the distance between her and Shen Liu Yu grew closer and closer, from sitting opposite each other to sitting right next to each other. Shen Liu Yu also opened up completely, momentarily forgetting that the Ice Empress was a ferocious beast…
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