Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue

Chapter 521 The Throne of Gods Was Forged with Blood

Xue Di's mind and voice were trembling.

"Xiaoxue said that this artifact is currently ownerless, but if it encounters the God of Emotions, it may instinctively choose its former master."

Hyotei's eyes lit up: "But if you plant your mark here now, you can slowly take control of it? Then hurry up and get more, don't be stingy."

"This process can't be rushed." Xue Di took a deep breath to calm herself down.

She pointed to a gem on the Morning Dew Blade and said, "In the past few days, I've sensed that this gem on the Morning Dew Blade seems to possess a projection ability. If I fully activate this divine weapon, a figure will appear."

"Who?"

"I don't know her, but she's very likely an elemental god. Do you remember? Xiaoxue said that there's no ice god in the Douluo God Realm right now, only a water god. Ice and water are elements of the same origin, so it should be the water god." Xue Di said solemnly, "But I can already sense that my godhood will be that of the ice god. So only when this projection becomes myself can I guarantee that my path to enlightenment will reach its end."

Hyotei pondered for a moment: "The Ice God bloodline within us doesn't originate from this Water God, but from the true former Ice God. He left behind a crystal called the Heart of the Ice God in the far north. Should we try embedding that crystal into the Morning Dew Blade?"

"No!" The Snow Empress's eyes gleamed. "I want to condense my own projection into this! I am the one and only future Goddess of Ice and Snow!"

"Yes, I'll stay with you." Hyotei's eyes softened.

"Xiaoxue has truly given us a great gift this time. If it weren't for her, we might never have discovered that such a place exists in the human world," Xue Di said, shaking her head. "I have a feeling that if I could really take this dagger, then..."

She hesitated for a moment, then said to Hyotei, "Just like Xiaoxue's enemy, who stole Xiaoxue's divine attributes with a divine artifact and slowly raised his own divine position by relying on the enhanced trident."

In fact, if Tang San could cultivate the Sea God to the level of God King, a super-powerful trident alone would not be enough. He would also have undergone the baptism and nourishment of the God Realm's central authority and the power of faith.

While Xue Di was also absorbing a certain amount of faith, her greater advantage over Tang San lay in her control over the elemental laws.

Tang San's water element was forcibly applied; how could it possibly compare to the Snow Empress's hundreds of thousands of years of understanding of ice and snow elements?

"The path to godhood is really troublesome," Hyotei sighed. "I'll protect you and help you ascend, okay? I don't want to start over yet."

Xue Di rolled her eyes at her: "What are you talking about?"

It took the two of them half a day to finally collect all the Ice Extreme Crystals.

After the mine was excavated, an entrance appeared before them. After exchanging a glance, the two Ice and Snow Emperors were simultaneously excited; the aura of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow was emanating from beneath this place!

They went down together and began to continue digging for these good things.

"Sister Xue'er, do you think we could recreate an ice cave if we brought these things back to the far north?" the Ice Emperor suddenly asked.

"It's a bit difficult, but I feel it's worth a try." Xue Di nodded slightly. "Bing'er, do you remember? The most important function of these things is not actually to be directly absorbed and used to increase cultivation."

"Yes, they can even help ice-attribute soul beasts like us strengthen our origins and even reshape our bodies," the Ice Emperor said in a low voice. "Although what is reassembled will mainly be energy, it is undoubtedly like gaining a second life. This is the trump card we had if we had obtained the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow absorbed by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, thus surviving the Heavenly Tribulation."

"That's why I said we owe Xiaoxue a debt of gratitude that's growing ever larger." The Snow Empress looked up at the top of the ice cave, as if gazing at the sky tens of thousands of meters away across an endless distance. "Then we must work even harder." The Ice Empress smiled brightly, "They're just a bunch of old dogs from the divine realm. We've already gone from being the Sea God's mount to his father. What's there to worry about?"

"That god of emotions might just be some kind of lackey of the sea god, so we won't have much of a psychological burden when we kill him, right? As for that goddess of ice water..."

A fierce glint flashed in Hyotei's eyes: "Although I don't understand much about this kind of thing, I believe that when a new god ascends the throne, the blood of the old gods must always be used to irrigate the throne."

"You're right!" Xue Di laughed. "Come on, let's get back to work."

Within this ice cave, there are a total of forty-five strands of ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Marrow. The Ice Emperor directly absorbed twelve of them to nourish her own source power and physical body. With the help of these things, her cultivation level has been continuously increasing.

Although only a little over a year had passed since she survived the Heavenly Tribulation, her actual cultivation level far exceeded 400,000 years.

The Snow Empress absorbed ten, which was her current limit. She had previously absorbed an Ice Pill refined from the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, which helped her better control her attributes, allowing her to cooperate with the Ice Empress ahead of time.

The infusion of these millennia-old Xuanbing marrows further elevated her soul power level, bringing it to level seventy.

Most importantly, she used these Xuanbing Marrows to finally reactivate the Primordial Immortal Grass she had absorbed before. That immortal herb helped the Snow Empress compress her soul power and form her first soul core.

Besides Qian Renxue, the second person in the world to form a soul core before being granted a title is Xue Di!

Indeed, Qian Renxue had just experienced the Second Great Battle of the Far North. Under the pressure of the Peerless Douluo, she forcibly burned her own essence, which allowed her to successfully compress and release her soul power. Later, while recuperating by the Ice God Lake in the Far North, she completed the transformation of her two nascent soul cores into true soul cores.

This is also partly due to her ability to fuse her own martial soul. Her two current soul cores are the original soul cores of the Little Angel and the Little Devil, representing their main martial soul attributes: Solar True Fire and Ultimate Devouring, respectively.

The process of Xue Di condensing her soul core was not difficult. With the protection of Bing Di, she quickly completed the task.

"I'm level 70 now," Xue Di said softly. "My fifth spirit ring comes from a mermaid princess who lived 100,000 years ago, and my sixth spirit ring is an autonomously formed 130,000-year-old one."

Since there are too few soul beasts with the ultimate ice attribute, it's better to let the Snow Empress do it herself than to choose other soul beasts.

The fifth spirit ring was chosen to be absorbed because of its spiritual attribute.

Let's get real. If the spirit beasts of the far north knew that the Snow Empress wanted a spirit ring, most of them would probably choose to sacrifice themselves without hesitation.

"Can your seventh spirit ring, the spirit ring representing the true form of a human martial spirit, still be formed on its own?" Ice Emperor asked solemnly. "If possible, it's best not to obtain this spirit ring through a spirit beast."

"Yes, I know. Because I may be the only ferocious beast in the world to have undergone a rebirth, I can still create my seventh spirit ring on my own."

"But the eighth and ninth soul rings will be limited. Unless it's a rebirth of the Dragon God's bloodline, it's possible to autonomously condense all the soul rings," said Xue Di. "My seventh soul ring is very important. I want to take advantage of the fact that this place hasn't disappeared yet, and use the low temperature here and the power of a piece of ice marrow to do it."

"Okay, I'll keep an eye on things and keep the temperature stable here."

Ice Empress nodded solemnly. If Snow Empress's seventh spirit ring was formed by herself, then she could undoubtedly replicate one of the most terrifying martial spirit true forms in the world!

That must have been the Snow Empress herself!

The next chapter will return to the main war storyline.

(End of this chapter)