After the first exchange of soul power...
The gap between the Snow Empress and Yao Lao immediately became apparent.
A 700,000-year soul beast ultimately couldn't challenge Yao Lao at the Demigod level.
Even so...
The Snow Empress still didn't give up resisting.
Ice-white light continuously flickered across the Snow Empress's body, her white dress swaying continuously in the cold wind.
In an instant...
The Snow Empress, who had been hundreds of meters away, was already before Yao Lao.
This speed!
Yang Fan even felt his own thoughts were half a beat slower than the Snow Empress's speed.
And at this moment, the Snow Empress's ice-white jade hand struck down toward Yao Lao at lightning speed.
This was precisely the Snow Empress's second ultimate technique.
Empress' Palm · Snowless Glacier!
The Snow Empress's Empress' Palm was legendary—it was said no creature could be immune to the attack of this palm.
Of course!
While the Empress' Palm itself possessed tremendous power, this skill also had very obvious limitations.
That is, it required the Snow Empress's main body to strike the opponent to unleash the power of this palm. This was why the Snow Empress chose close combat after being suppressed by Yao Lao.
"She's got some moves..."
Yao Lao similarly saw the power of the Snow Empress's palm.
Without hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation, one truly couldn't execute this palm.
Yao Lao took a retreating step, putting hundreds of meters between himself and the Snow Empress, then quickly dodged sideways to avoid the residual waves of the Empress' Palm.
"Go!"
Rising bone-white flames formed a fireball under Yao Lao's soul power control and shot directly toward the Snow Empress.
The Snow Empress's expression suddenly changed!
Having lived in the Extreme North for 700,000 years, she had never seen such an overwhelmingly dominant extreme cold fire.
At this moment...
A gravity that shouldn't belong to the King of the Extreme North appeared on her face.
The Snow Empress's arms slightly bent, her forearms completely perpendicular to her body. Between her palms appeared a soccer-ball-sized blazing white ice sphere.
Then at a visible speed, it transformed into an ice sword!
The ice sword shot out like lightning!
Colliding with the Bone Chilling Flame with the force of thunder.
In an instant...
The skies above the entire Extreme North were already surging with wind and clouds, while the entire snowy mountain they were on was splitting apart and collapsing.
Fortunately, this was the Extreme North!
If this had been Tian Dou City, Star Luo City, Spirit Hall City...
Even Titled Douluos would probably have less than a thirty percent chance of survival, let alone ordinary soul masters and native Douluo residents.
Once strength reached Yao Lao's level, it was no longer the kind of low-level combat where I grab your hair and you bite my ear.
What they competed with was pure hard power!
Especially in situations where both sides had this kind of energy collision, there was no combat technique to speak of.
In the blink of an eye...
The explosive power of the Bone Chilling Flame completely suppressed the Snow Empress. The energy storm swept through, forcing the Snow Empress to retreat thousands of meters.
"Snow Empress!"
"Even you..."
The Ice Empress had originally believed there was no soul master in this world capable of defeating them, had always believed humans were vile and insignificant.
Until this day...
She finally realized her shallowness, realized what it meant for there to be people beyond people, heavens beyond heavens.
Her defeat was one thing!
She never expected that even the Snow Empress with 700,000 years of cultivation would still be no match before a human soul master.
"Less nonsense!"
"Let's attack together."
Whether it was the virtue of martial might or not wasn't so important anymore.
The only solution…Was for the two of them to join forces and take down these two soul masters who had trespassed into the Extreme North on the spot.
"Alright!"
"We'll use that move!"
The Ice Empress and Snow Empress looked at each other. The tacit understanding cultivated over tens of thousands of years already let them read each other's thoughts.
The Pride of the Ice and Snow Empresses!
This was a fusion skill between the Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
Truthfully speaking, this was quite a bizarre phenomenon!
Logically speaking...
Soul beasts and soul masters had essential differences.
Especially soul beasts of different qualities were as incompatible as fire and water, let alone being able to live together harmoniously.
But...
The Snow Empress and Ice Empress had accomplished it!
Not only that...
The two sisters had even created a fusion skill belonging to soul beasts in this harmonious life together.
This degree of absurdity was no less than cross-species hybridization actually producing offspring.
At this moment...
The Ice Empress and Snow Empress concentrated all their strength into one palm, forming a massive storm whirlwind of pure white and jade green intermingling.
Under the rendering of the violent storm, the sky of the Extreme North began to drift with snowflakes like sharp blades, while the smooth ice surface formed a thick layer of ice flowers.
"Retreat!"
Facing the fusion skill of the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, Yao Lao this time didn't choose to confront it head-on.
"Master."
"Even you aren't a match?"
Yang Fan, who now possessed rich combat experience, was no longer the child he was before.
He could see that the fusion skill of the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow was extremely powerful, but it shouldn't make a Demigod-level Yao Lao avoid its sharp edge, right?
"It's not that I can't, it's that you can't."
With his strength, dealing with the ice storm whirlwind created by two super ferocious beasts was completely not a problem.
But Yang Fan's small frame probably wouldn't be able to withstand it in the terrifying storm.
He might even be torn to shreds!
As they spoke...
Master and disciple had already retreated tens of thousands of meters away. Watching the gradually weakening ice storm whirlwind, the two simultaneously let out maniacal laughter.
Charge back!
Since they had the strength, there was no way they'd let the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow spend this beautiful day so comfortably.
Causing trouble... they were serious about it!
"You wait here. Master will go capture these two spirits."
As soon as the words fell...
Yao Lao had already charged into the ice and snow storm like wind and lightning.
Flashing thunder and lightning!
Yang Fan only saw continuous rumbling from within the ice and snow storm, followed by Yao Lao single-handedly defeating the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow on the spot.
"Master, amazing!"
Yang Fan gave Yao Lao a thumbs up.
It was a pity that the one capturing the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow wasn't him—he didn't have that heart-stopping sense of participation.
Otherwise it would have been even more awesome!
At this moment...
Yang Fan's gaze was entirely fixed on the Snow Empress.
Peerless beauty, graceful figure!
The spring night is short and the sun rises high, from then on the king doesn't attend morning court.
Devastating beauty probably referred to such magnificent looks, right.
Possessing spiritual intelligence!
It was truly hard to imagine what the Snow Empress's composition was like, why nature could produce such spiritually intelligent beings.
If it weren't for his limited strength, he would definitely take this woman back to study her properly.
"Don't kill her!"
"I know where that ice fruit you've been looking for is."
The Ice Empress thought he and Yao Lao were going to slaughter the Snow Empress on the spot, but in fact, he and Yao Lao hadn't yet developed killing intent toward the Snow Empress.
At least not at that moment!
However, the final result was an unexpected pleasant surprise for master and disciple.
"Speak!"
"Where is it?"
Eight months after entering the Extreme North, they had finally made breakthrough progress from a soul beast.
Yang Fan believed he had displayed enough calmness, but his fluctuating emotions were still detected by the Two Emperors of Ice and Snow.
It didn't matter...
He was the one occupying the dominant position now, not worried about the Ice Empress playing tricks on him.
"You think I'm stupid?"
"If you want to get the ice fruit, release the Snow Empress first. Otherwise, you'll never get it in this lifetime."
300,000 years had already let the Ice Empress completely recognize the dirty faces of human soul masters.
Not worth trusting!
If she revealed the location of the ice fruit now, then the next second, her and the Snow Empress's lives would also be ended.
"Cut the crap!"
"There's no room for bargaining here."
The victor is king!
Could he, Yang Fan, actually be manipulated by two female captives?
"Then kill me!"
"If you don't release the Ice Empress first, I absolutely won't reveal the location of that ice fruit."
A female spirit who had lived hundreds of thousands of years seemed to understand psychological warfare between humans very well.
Born from death!
What Yang Fan saw in her eyes was steel-like resolve.
"Fine then!"
"If after I release her, you don't fulfil your promise, don't blame yourself for a bitter fate."
Snow Maiden in exchange for one Bone Spirit Fruit!
The value between these two was completely unequal.
But for Yang Fan, the value of the Bone Spirit Fruit wasn't something the 700,000-year Snow Empress could replace.
"I'm not leaving!"
"We'd rather die than bow our heads to human soul masters."
Once soul beasts reached ten thousand years, they already had their own pride, let alone a super ferocious beast that had survived 700,000 years?
"Snow Empress!
"Listen to me..."
"I won't leave!"
"The two of us can't both die here today. The Extreme North still needs us to protect it..."
Yao Lao suddenly slapped his forehead, his soul state receiving an unprecedented impact.
"Huh?"
"What a pity!"
"There seems to be something between these two beautiful women?"
While sighing, Yao Lao also seemed to understand why this was.
There were no excellent male soul beasts in the Extreme North!
This led to two excellent women banding together for warmth.
Yang Fan didn't know what the Ice Empress and Snow Empress whispered to each other afterward.
In the end...
The Snow Empress still chose to leave!
A 700,000-year soul beast escaping was merely a matter of blinking.
But with the previous lesson learned, it was no longer possible for the Ice Empress to replicate her glorious moment from half a year ago.
"Alright!"
"Now you can take us to find the Bone Spirit Fruit."
Yang Fan's thinking was very clear!
If the Ice Empress dared to play tricks on him, then he would stab this woman to death with one spear.
Obtaining a 300,000-year soul bone wasn't too bad a loss for him either!
"We soul beasts are not like you soul masters!"
"I, Ice Empress, keep my word!"
"I will definitely take you to find that lousy soul fruit."
Yang Fan could see that there was no flavor of lying in the Ice Empress's expression.
Indeed!
Soul beasts who had lived hundreds of thousands of years were often this proud.
Along the way...
Human, soul, soul beast... these three different biological entities in the world remained silent.
The long journey appeared exceptionally tedious!
In the end, Yang Fan was the first to speak, breaking this calm.
"Where exactly are you taking us!"
The Ice Empress glanced sideways, then said: "Just follow me."
"Don't worry!"
"I won't lead you down a dead end."
Yang Fan smiled faintly.
This really wasn't what he was worried about.
With Yao Lao's powerful soul strength now, he really wasn't worried about encountering any ambushes.
"You usually eat raw meat, right."
"What about the Snow Empress?"
Yang Fan was quite curious whether the naturally born Snow Maiden needed to eat at all.
"You think I'll fall for that?"
"I die when I die, but don't think you'll get anything about the Snow Empress from me."
He could see now—the Snow Maiden was the Ice Empress's reverse scale.
"You don't have to keep talking about dying."
"As long as you can help me find the Bone Spirit Fruit, with your strength, living another ten thousand years won't be a problem."
The Ice Empress smiled coldly!
"You think I'll believe your words?"
"As soon as I take you to the Bone Spirit Fruit, you'll choose to kill me."
From the moment she made her decision, the Ice Empress believed she was already dead.
The decision she made was to exchange her own life for the Snow Empress's life!
"Alright!"
"You're pretty good at playing this provocation game."
Though he wasn't a good person.
If the Ice Empress could truly take him to the Bone Spirit Fruit, he would still choose to be grateful.
The Ice Empress smiled coldly again: "Would you give up a 300,000-year soul bone?"
Even without her reminder, Yang Fan absolutely couldn't forget.
That was a 300,000-year soul bone!
There probably weren't more than ten in the entire Douluo Continent, and in the soul master world, it was unique.
"Truly humiliating!"
The moment the Ice Empress thought of being the first ferocious beast to have her soul bone taken, she instantly felt she had no face to face the deceased elders and folks of the Extreme North.
She'd probably be laughed at by other soul beasts for tens of thousands of years after she died!
"You... what's going on here?"
The Ice Empress ultimately still couldn't hold back.
In her 300,000 years of life, this was the first time she had seen someone continue to exist in a soul state after death.
"You've already seen it."
"Half-dead and half-alive!"
Yao Lao spread his hands, mocking himself, then helplessly shook his head.
"How wonderful!"
"How wonderful?"
"Isn't it? This way you can exist permanently in a soul state."
The Ice Empress spoke extremely seriously, without any trace of joking.
Not like them soul beasts!
They had to undergo tribulation once every 100,000 years.
In another 10,000 years, she would need to face her 300,000-year tribulation. With her strength, it would be very difficult to break through again.
"If only one could truly live forever in a soul state."
The soul was like a candle—there would always be a day when the oil ran out and the lamp dried up.
Yao Lao estimated...
His soul state could survive at most another hundred years in this condition.
Of course!
This was on the condition that Yang Fan lived.
If Yang Fan...
He didn't even know where this wisp of his soul on the Douluo Continent would drift.
"So you think that fruit can be effective?"
She had seen the Bone Spirit Fruit that Yang Fan spoke of.
Nothing special!
She didn't believe it could have any effect on a living being in a soul state.
"Just give it a try!"
"What if it succeeds."
"If you have any good methods for repairing souls, you can tell us too. I can exchange precious pills with you."
Yang Fan was sincere!
Though the Ice Empress had never seen an old man like Yao Lao who existed in soul form in this world, it didn't mean these soul beasts had no methods for repairing souls.
Who knew, Yao Lao might break through to Dou Zong at some point.
"Even if there were, I wouldn't tell you!"
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