Chapter 171: Electrolux Acts, Suppressing the Snow Empress
And at this very moment...
A crisp, metallic click echoed through the chamber as the lid of the God Sealing Platform was completely lifted.
In that split second, the absolute zero temperatures that had been ruthlessly compressed within the tiny spatial confines of the Class 9 Soul Tool erupted. It swept across the grand meeting hall like a long-dormant blizzard finally unleashed, tearing through the air with a maddening, violent intensity. Frost crystallized instantly on the stone pillars.
Azure light pulsed violently, casting eerie shadows against the walls. The God Sealing Platform's internal barrier—a matrix specifically forged to imprison Divine Sense—groaned under the overwhelming pressure. Struck by the pure, unyielding force of Liu Yuan's soul power, the barrier fractured. Spiderweb cracks raced across its surface before it detonated with a deafening boom.
From the epicenter of the shattered matrix, a mass of impossibly pure, snow-white energy spiraled upward. It took the form of a perfect, crystalline snowflake, utterly devoid of worldly impurities, drifting with an eerie slowness into the mid-air of the hall.
Deep within the core of that swirling frost, the phantom silhouette of a woman began to unfurl. She appeared as though carefully carved from thousands of years of glacial jade, her ethereal form stretching out with a haunting, fragile grace.
She possessed no physical body, existing only as an aggregate of pure, condensed soul energy. Yet, her long, silver-white hair cascaded and whipped around her as if caught in a phantom gale. When her ice-blue eyes opened, they were completely devoid of human warmth. Within those irises lay only the absolute zero of the tundra—an extreme, extraordinary arrogance and untouchable majesty that had reigned supreme over the Far North for nearly seven hundred thousand years.
This was the absolute sovereign of the frozen wastes. The Snow Empress.
Her sheer presence caused the ambient temperature in the hall to plummet to terrifying depths. Breath turned to solid ice before it could even leave the lungs.
Even with six Titled Douluo standing guard, and Body Sect Master Du Busi personally projecting his Domain to lock down the space, every elder present felt an involuntary shudder violently ripple through the very depths of their souls.
Du Busi's normally rhythmic breathing hitched. His emerald-green eyes widened, reflecting a deep, undisguised shock.
He had calculated that a Soul Beast embryo—one stripped of its physical vessel and nursing a heavily damaged Origin—would possess strict limits, regardless of its former glory. But now, as a suffocating soul pressure threatened to freeze the very fabric of space around them, the Sect Master realized just how severely he had underestimated the Dominator of the Far North.
Is this the true terror of an existence with nearly seven hundred thousand years of cultivation? Du Busi gritted his teeth, forced to drastically ramp up his soul power output. A dark green aura erupted from his massive frame, clashing violently against the encroaching azure frost. The friction between their energies sparked a series of harsh, crackling explosions that echoed like thunder.
The surrounding elders wore expressions of grim solemnity. They could sense it—this level of pressure wasn't merely raw power; it brushed against the very edges of worldly Laws. The Snow Empress was living up to her legend. Even reduced to this desperate, bodiless plight, her sheer aura was enough to look down upon humanity's apex experts with disdain.
However, the Snow Empress clearly harbored zero intention of sitting down to parley.
The instant her ice-blue eyes focused, they locked entirely onto Liu Yuan. He stood closest to her, the one whose hands had just shattered her prison.
To her, all human Soul Masters were nothing more than greedy, despicable scavengers. And the youth standing before her was undoubtedly associated with the scum who had trapped her inside that agonizing, freezing metal box.
"Humans..." Her voice was a chilling whisper that scraped against their eardrums. "...must all die!"
Without a fraction of a second's warning, the Snow Empress thrust her illusory jade-like hand forward.
The ambient moisture in the hall instantly flash-froze, condensing into thousands of razor-sharp ice needles that gleamed with a deadly, chilling light. Each needle was saturated with the terrifying Origin power of Ultimate Ice. They formed an inescapable net, sealing off every possible retreat for Liu Yuan. It was a suicidal, all-or-nothing soul attack aimed directly at his life.
"Not good! She's striking!" Du Busi's expression warped in alarm. Roaring furiously, the towering Sect Master dove downward, his massive frame tearing through the air to intercept the strike.
He had assumed that under the combined suppression of six Titled Douluo, the weakened empress would choose to observe and assess her situation. He hadn't accounted for her absolute, unyielding pride. She fully intended to drag Liu Yuan into the abyss with her the very second she saw the light of day.
Is it truly impossible? Can an existence of this magnitude never be subjugated?! Elder Zhang's mind raced with horror. Soul rings flared around him as he prepared to strike with lethal force. He was ready to obliterate the Snow Empress's consciousness entirely. Even if it meant destroying a priceless, Divine-ranked embryo, they absolutely could not allow their sect's greatest prodigy to perish.
Yet, in that heart-stopping fraction of a second—just as the vanguard of the Ultimate Ice needles threatened to pierce the very tip of his nose—Liu Yuan did not take a single step back. His expression remained as placid as a still, bottomless lake.
Elder Electrolux, do it, Liu Yuan commanded, his mental voice echoing with absolute calm within his Sea of Consciousness.
Without warning, an indescribably holy aura erupted from the center of the youth's forehead.
The grand hall, previously suffocating under the weight of lethal killing intent and glacial frost, was instantaneously bathed in a deep grey light. It was a paradoxical radiance—gentle yet infinitely grand, radiating the ultimate, deathly stillness of the grave alongside a vibrant, thrumming vitality. Within that sweeping grey illumination, an aged, majestic figure materialized like a phantom behind Liu Yuan's back.
The Necromancer God, Electrolux, had made his move.
The ethereal old man merely raised a single hand, extending a finger to point gently at the raging empress suspended in mid-air.
No grand incantations were spoken. Yet, with that simple, understated gesture, the flow of time and space within the hall seemed to be forcibly severed by the invisible hand of a true deity.
The thousands of ice needles, brimming with destructive intent, froze bizarrely in place—hovering less than a centimeter from Liu Yuan's skin. But it wasn't just the physical attack that halted. Under the weight of that single pointed finger, the Snow Empress's wildly surging soul energy was violently compressed, forced back into the core of her ethereal form.
From the depths of the Void, countless soul chains radiating a brilliant grey light manifested out of thin air. They carried zero killing intent, yet they moved with absolute, inescapable precision. The chains pierced effortlessly through the Snow Empress's defensive energy layers, wrapping around her form and completely sealing off every possible movement of the Far North's sovereign.
For the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, genuine, substantial terror and shock fractured the icy composure in the Snow Empress's blue eyes.
She frantically ignited her Origin, desperately trying to shatter the shackles binding her. But the moment her Ultimate Ice energy brushed against the grey light, it dissolved rapidly—like fresh snow cast into a vat of boiling oil.
Her instincts screamed at her. She could feel it in her very core: this suppression was not some mundane Soul Skill born of this world. It was a Law of Divine Sense, an absolute authority that completely eclipsed her Soul Beast Origin in sheer dimensional rank.
The entire hall plunged into a deathly, pin-drop silence.
Du Busi's explosive momentum halted abruptly in mid-air. He hung there, maintaining his forward-lunging posture, his emerald eyes wide with beyond understanding astonishment.
The Sect Master knew Electrolux was powerful. He was fully aware that this ancient entity was Liu Yuan's ultimate trump card. But never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that the mysterious soul residing within his disciple's body possessed power of this terrifying magnitude.
A single thought. One casual finger. And he had effortlessly subjugated the Snow Empress—a being that had just threatened to overwhelm six Titled Douluo combined?
"This... how can he be this strong?" Elder Chen swallowed hard, his voice trembling uncontrollably in the quiet hall.
What Elder Chen and the others failed to realize, however, was that Electrolux's effortless suppression relied on a perfect storm of factors.
Firstly, the Snow Empress was trapped in an unmatched state of weakness following her failed reincarnation and attempt to restart her cultivation. Stripped of her invincible physical body, her Soul Origin had been continuously drained and tortured by the God Sealing Platform. She retained none of her peak strength. Her terrifying display of power just moments ago was merely a facade—fierce on the outside, but hollow within.
Secondly, and most crucially, the Electrolux of this timeline had absorbed two exceptionally rare pieces of Gold of Life since binding himself to Liu Yuan.
The boundless vitality and pure Divine Sense Origin housed within the Gold of Life had nourished the Necromancer God's fractured soul, allowing him to recover to a level far surpassing his previous limits.
, since the Snow Empress was currently reduced to a pure soul state, she fell directly into Electrolux's absolute domain of expertise. As a master of souls, subduing her in this form was as natural as breathing.
"Little girl, in the presence of this old man, you would do well to discard such useless thoughts."
Electrolux's aged, ethereal voice connected through the grand hall. It carried a strange, divine cadence that instantly soothed the racing hearts of the surrounding elders. "If this old man truly wished to end your life, your soul would have already scattered to the winds."
Suspended in mid-air and tightly bound by the grey chains, the Snow Empress was completely immobilized. Yet, her fierce eyes remained locked onto Liu Yuan and the phantom behind him. A low, thoroughly unwilling cry vibrated from her ethereal throat. She continued to struggle against the bindings, her pride refusing to break as she desperately searched for a single flaw to turn the tables.
Unfazed by her hostility, Liu Yuan took a measured step forward. He calmly bypassed Du Busi's protective perimeter and walked directly until he stood face-to-face with the captive empress.
He gazed up at the woman who, despite being utterly suppressed, still held her chin high with regal defiance. A deep purple-gold light swirled within his Double Pupils. When he spoke, his tone carried an unquestionable, heavy calmness.
"Snow Empress, there is no need to be in such a rush to throw your life away. Calm down," Liu Yuan stated flatly. "In your current state, you couldn't even kill your way out of this room, let alone kill me."
He paused, letting the harsh reality of his words sink in. Holding her hostile, icy glare without blinking, he offered a faint, pragmatic smile.
"Now then... let's have a proper chat."
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