Douluo Jueshi: Who let him join Shrek!

Chapter 688 Changes in the Small World: Snow Empress Wants to Attempt to Become a Level 9 Soul Master!
Zhang Lexuan nodded upon hearing this.

She could already clearly feel the bottleneck at level 95 loosening, and breaking through to Super Douluo would be just around the corner; she wouldn't have to wait too long.

Jiang Ming snapped his fingers, and the soul-guided lamp in the bedroom went out instantly, plunging the entire room into darkness.

The next day, the first rays of sunlight rose above the horizon, passed through mountains and forests, and fell on the azure surface of Poseidon Lake. Then, they gently knocked on the window of the two-story building beside the lake, illuminating the messy room.

Jiang Ming's biological clock is very accurate. Even though he didn't sleep for long last night, he opened his eyes the moment the sunlight shone on him.

Looking at Zhang Lexuan, who was sleeping soundly in his arms, Jiang Ming gently pulled his hand out and pulled the quilt woven from the ten-thousand-year-old ice silkworm silk up a little.

Although it was practically impossible for Zhang Lexuan to catch a cold given her current cultivation level, Jiang Ming still did it anyway.

After getting up and tidying up the slightly messy room, Jiang Ming went out of the bedroom to wash up and cook.

In fact, at his level of cultivation, there's really no need for him to wash up.

The dirt and grime on one's body can be completely removed with a burst of soul power or by steaming it with the power of blood and qi.

However, habits are hard to break in a short period of time, and whether something is necessary or not is not the only criterion for whether or not to do it.

After washing up, Jiang Ming went to the familiar kitchen.

When at home, Jiang Ming prefers to cook for himself. Although Sister Le Xuan's cooking skills have improved over the years, her dishes are still not as delicious as his.

While preparing breakfast and processing the ingredients, Jiang Ming suddenly remembered that when he fought an Evil Eye Tyrant in the Demon Forest, he collected many of its tentacles and the corpses of some ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts that attacked him.

However, because his martial soul was restricted at the time and he couldn't use a small world to store it, he only selected some relatively more precious soul beast corpses, and many were wasted.

Not only these, but he also seems to have collected some of the tentacles of the Evil Eye Tyrant.
He then put all these things into his little world and almost forgot about them.

Thinking of these ingredients, Jiang Ming prepared breakfast while using his mental energy to enter the small world to see which ingredients were suitable for cooking.

As a result, when he used his spiritual power to enter the small world to search for the ingredients, he found that the ingredients had all disappeared.

Something?
Jiang Ming used his mental energy to search the small world, but he couldn't find the ingredients he had brought in.

It wasn't until he used the authority of the small world to check that he discovered that the soul beast corpses he had collected, as well as the Evil Eye Tyrant and the tentacles of the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler, had all been eaten by the soul beasts in the small world!

Yes, I ate it!

In the forest, the 20,000-year-old Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros that Jiang Ming had acquired from the Star Dou Great Forest, and the 10,000-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear were facing off, vying for a tentacle of the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this is just a tentacle; it fell from the body of the Evil Eye Tyrant, who had cultivated for eight hundred thousand years.

The energy contained within is immense! This single tentacle would be a great tonic for both the Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, both of which possess cultivation levels of ten thousand years!

Originally, the Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros's bloodline was inferior to that of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, but it had a higher cultivation level. After staying in the small world for some time, its cultivation level had reached nearly 30,000 years.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, on the other hand, only has 20,000 years of cultivation.

Even though the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear has the sharpest claws, the Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros's thick armor also provides formidable defense.

These two soul beasts are so powerful that neither of them can defeat the other.

In the distance, the two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear cubs that were rescued earlier have now grown into enormous creatures several meters tall.

When he brought these two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear cubs into the small world, he instructed Xiaoling to take care of them.

As a result, under Xiaoling's special care, the two cubs grew very quickly!
Despite being less than a year old, the two Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear cubs have already grown to a cultivation level of a thousand years, which is quite astonishing!

After taking a quick look, Jiang Ming did not stop the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and the Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros from fighting over the tentacle of the Evil Eye Tyrant.

When he was collecting these things, he was actually thinking about whether he could make a teppanyaki out of them.

After all, this thing looks a lot like an octopus's tentacles, so it might taste pretty good if you put it on a teppanyaki grill.

But that tentacle had already been gnawed on several times by the soul beast, so let's just forget about it.

Roar!
The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear made its move after all. The terrifying, dark gold claw phantom tore through space and fell toward the armor on the back of the Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros!

The Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros also used its more than half-meter-long sharp horn to forcefully push against it! With its massive weight impact, the Dark Gold Devilclaw Bear could easily have its belly ripped open by that sharp horn if it wasn't careful!
The battle between the two terrifying soul beasts caused the surrounding soul beasts to scatter in fear, but in Jiang Ming's eyes now, this level of battle was meaningless.

For Jiang Ming, both of these soul beasts were ones he could easily kill with a flick of his wrist.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the small world, in the glacier, the millennia-old Ice Jade Scorpion, which has no natural enemies, has been living a very comfortable life these past few years.

The only beings in the entire glacier that can suppress it are Little Ice, the glacier lord, and Dream Ice, the 100,000-year-old ice dragon.

However, Xiao Bing usually needs to cultivate to replenish the glacier's reserves, while Meng Bing, although she has evolved into an ice dragon, still retains the habits of her original ice silkworm. She spends her days nestled on the ice bed she made, and occasionally goes to the small ice-fire hot springs made by Xiao Ling to soak in the hot springs. She lives a very lazy and comfortable life, and doesn't pay much attention to the Ice Jade Scorpion with tens of thousands of years of cultivation in the glacier.

This ancient ice scorpion was also very clever. It never provoked Mengbing and Xiaobing, and lived a peaceful and tyrannical life in the glacier.

When it was in the far north, although it was a powerful being, it was not actually ranked among the top in its kind at that time.

In the far north, the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan and the Titan Snow Demon Clan are the most elite clans!
Because the number one ranked Ice and Snow Emperor is a special spirit born of nature, it is very difficult for its population to expand.

Possessing extreme ice and with a sufficient number of members, the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan can be considered the absolute overlord of the far north!

With tens of thousands of years of cultivation, the Ice Jade Scorpion is at the very top of the food chain in the far north, with almost no rivals.

However, if placed within the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan, this would only be considered a minor high-ranking member, not even qualifying for the true inner circle.

The core of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan consists of Ice Jade Scorpions with cultivation periods of nearly 100,000 years, or even more! And in this glacier, as long as Meng Bing and Xiao Bing don't come out, it is the boss!

Moreover, it recently acquired some good stuff: tentacles containing a large amount of energy fell from the sky and slammed right in front of it.

This is great!

It means that one is so happy here that one does not even think about the far north!

It's a bit of a pity that there are no other members of its kind here, so it can't create its own Ice Jade Scorpion clan. If it could create its own Ice Jade Scorpion clan, it could become the new generation of Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion!

An Ice Jade Scorpion that doesn't want to be an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion isn't a good Ice Jade Scorpion!

Ice Jade Scorpion savored the delicious treat that had fallen from the sky, bit by bit, with its two large pincers, all the while thinking happily.

If it knew that it had eaten a part of the body of the Evil Eye Tyrant, the second-ranked of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, it would probably be strutting around with its tail held high.

The Evil Lord's cultivation level alone is more than double that of the Ice Emperor! Not to mention his strength, which is far superior.

Have you ever eaten at Hyotei?
I've never eaten at Hyotei, so am I better than Hyotei?

Jiang Ming was unaware of the Ice Jade Scorpion's inner thoughts, but when he saw that there was only one Ice Jade Scorpion in the glacier of the small world, he also felt that something was amiss.

For the sake of sustainable development and normal reproduction, he decided to get another ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion when he returned to Qingshui City.

No, get more, that way they'll reproduce faster.

Jiang Ming focused his mental energy again and saw Meng Bing sleeping deep in the glacier.

She ate most of the tentacles of those evil-eyed tyrants, and the rest, which she couldn't finish, ended up with the Ice Jade Scorpion, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and the Black Armored Giant Rhinoceros.

Even though Meng Bing is now an ice dragon with 100,000 years of cultivation, after eating so many good things, she still needs to go into a deep sleep to digest them.

"You're here? Come and help me see how this soul tool I made is doing."

Sensing Jiang Ming's spiritual power, Xue Di called out to him in her small world.

As a naturally born ice and snow elf, Snow Empress's wisdom goes without saying. After diligent study, her soul tool skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

The Snow Empress is now a genuine Level 8 Soul Master! And she is steadily progressing towards becoming a Level 9 Soul Master.

Keep in mind, Xue Di has only been using soul tools for a few years!
All I can say is that talent is something you either have or you don't.

Of course, this is also related to Xue Di's spiritual power with 700,000 years of cultivation, as well as the occasional guidance from Jiang Ming, a level nine soul master. It was due to these multiple factors that Xue Di was able to reach the level eight soul master so quickly.

"Let me see."

Jiang Ming glanced at the white porridge still cooking on the soul guidance pot, estimating that it would take some time, and then concentrated his mental energy to enter the small world to help Xue Di check the soul guidance device.

The soul tool that Xue Di created this time is a staff-type soul tool. The staff is ice blue all over and more than two meters long. It was carved and shaped directly from a whole piece of precious Ice Extreme Mystic Crystal. The top of the staff has a hollow design with three palm-sized snowflakes forming a triangle inside.

Jiang Ming immediately recognized that the snowflakes were actually extremely precise core magic arrays, and the Ice Extreme Mystic Crystals in the entire staff were actually for activating the power of these three snowflake-shaped level eight core magic arrays.

"This is...Ice Extreme Mystic Crystal? I don't remember having this material. Snow Empress, where did you get it?"

Jiang Ming asked, somewhat surprised.

Over the years, he had brought many things into the small world, all sorts of strange and unusual things, but he remembered that he had never obtained this Ice Extreme Mystic Crystal.

Xue Di pursed her lips and said softly, "It was catalyzed by Meng Bing and Xiao Bing using the power of the world."

Now, Mengbing, a 100,000-year-old ice dragon, actually possesses the ability to catalyze the growth of rare and precious materials.

For example, the ice bed she's sleeping on now, given enough time, will absorb her ice dragon aura and become an ice-attribute natural treasure.

Not to mention that it was catalyzed by Meng Bing and Xiao Bing using the power of the world. In fact, this Ice Extreme Mystic Crystal is even more precious than the normal Ice Extreme Mystic Crystal because it is imbued with Meng Bing's Ice Dragon Aura!

"Oh, I see."

Jiang Ming nodded, not paying any attention, and continued to look at the ice and snow scepter in front of him.

He had no complaints about Xue Di having Xiao Bing and Meng Bing help her catalyze the materials for making the soul tool. After all, Xue Di was now his soul spirit and was bound to him. They were all friends and partners, so they should help each other.

After carefully examining it for more than ten minutes, Jiang Ming nodded and couldn't help but exclaim, "Snow Empress, your talent in soul tools is truly remarkable! This Ice and Snow Scepter is of very high quality even among level eight soul tools!"

Hearing such praise, even though Xue Di had lived for 700,000 years, a faint smile appeared on her cold and beautiful face.

She said softly, "When do you have time to teach me how to make a level nine soul tool? The power of a level eight soul tool is still too low to unleash my full potential."

An eighth-level soul tool is already very powerful, but for Xue Di, it is undoubtedly not enough.

As the Ice and Snow Empress with 700,000 years of cultivation, let alone an eighth-level soul tool, even a ninth-level soul tool might not be enough for her. What can match her is a tenth-level soul tool!
However, no level 10 Soul Masters have been born in the entire Douluo Continent yet. If Xue Di wants to have a level 10 Soul Tool, she either has to wait for Jiang Ming to become a level 10 Soul Master, or she has to try to become a level 10 Soul Master herself.

To be honest, Xue Di could have waited for Jiang Ming to become a level 10 Soul Master and then have him forge a level 10 Soul Tool for her. She could even have Jiang Ming make a suitable level 9 Soul Tool for her now.

But she didn't want to do that. As one of the three great kings of the far north, the Ice and Snow Empress said she didn't want to be a kept woman.

Moreover, learning about soul tools in this small world was a way for her to alleviate her loneliness. She had lived for 700,000 years, and rather than continuing to wait for the years to pass by, she might as well try something new.

Upon hearing that Xue Di wanted to start learning how to make level nine soul tools, Jiang Ming was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "I can teach you, but it will take a long time. It is very difficult to break through from level eight soul tool master to level nine soul tool master."

Don't be fooled by the fact that Jiang Ming is already a level nine soul master at the age of twenty-five. He is not only talented, but he also used the best resources in the Sun Moon Empire, had the guidance of the most powerful level nine soul masters, and spent several years to take this step!
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