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Chapter 268 The Snow Empress's Unwillingness

Although the battle between Han Feng and the Serpent Spear Douluo was terrifying, the power of a mere Soul Douluo was not enough to completely shake the outer perimeter of the far north, let alone the mixed zone and core zone where all sorts of creatures mingled—such as the Ice Emperor and the Titan Snow Demon King, which were not even worth paying attention to.

Only Xue Di glanced at it from afar.

The Snow Empress sensed that one of these two powers belonged to one of the two deities' successors from that day!

However, Xue Di had no intention of joining in the fun. After all, after what happened two months ago, Xue Di realized that it was not very reliable to ask the human god's successor to help her find the Ice God's divinity. Rather than risking another battle with Qian Daoliu, Xue Di preferred to rely on herself!

But gazing at the vast expanse of white ice before him, even the Snow Emperor, with her composed nature, couldn't help but sigh.

Three months have passed since the Ice God's divinity made a lightning-fast appearance in the far north.

Over the course of three months, Xue Di searched almost every inch of the surrounding area, digging three feet into the ground and leaving no place unchecked. But no matter how carefully Xue Di searched, the divine nature of the Ice God seemed to be just her imagination and never appeared again!

What troubled Xue Di was not the lack of results over the past three months, but the fruitless search itself.

Snow Empress herself knew that Ice God probably did not want her to inherit the divine position!

Otherwise, he would have stayed in the far north for tens of thousands of years. If the Ice God had any intention, he would have appeared long ago!

"Could it be... that the Soul Beast race is destined to be unworthy of the eyes of the gods?" Thinking of this, the Snow Empress couldn't help but look around, let out a sad laugh, and a look of bewilderment appeared in her eyes.

Xue Di was not afraid of the long and arduous road ahead, but she was afraid that the road ahead was blocked, and that all her persistence and efforts had been nothing but a joke!

"Why!"

Just as Xue Di was feeling lost, a distant, ethereal, and chilly sigh suddenly reached her ears!

Xue Di was immediately shaken!

With six hundred thousand years of cultivation, the Snow Emperor was confident that she wouldn't be hallucinating. Almost instinctively, her pupils contracted, and she shouted sharply, "Yes!"

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But Xue Di never expected that she would feel dizzy and unable to utter the next word after just uttering a syllable. Xue Di wanted to resist, but it was as if an inexplicable force of order suppressed all the power in her body. Even the most primal extreme ice seemed to have encountered its natural enemy, shrinking into a corner and remaining motionless!

The Snow Empress was both surprised and delighted to realize this!

The power of order is the exclusive power of the gods, and this situation must be the will of the gods!

But whether it's a blessing or a curse, even the Snow Emperor couldn't see through it.

When Xue Di came to her senses and opened her eyes again, it seemed that nothing had changed.

It was still a world of ice and snow, with wind and snow everywhere you looked, but the fierce and cold winds, as powerful as the heavens, made the Snow Emperor certain that he was no longer in the far north!

The sky here was even darker, and the sound of the cold wind reminded the Snow Emperor of the thunder she had heard when facing the heavenly tribulation. She was terrified. What surprised the Snow Emperor even more was that, as an elf born from ice and snow, she felt a bone-chilling cold under this world!

However, Xue Di soon lost interest in these issues.

The Snow Emperor saw a throne made entirely of ice crystals amidst the wind and snow, emitting a soft blue light. Seated on the throne was a stunningly beautiful woman who appeared languidly. Although the Snow Emperor did not care about her appearance, she was quite confident in her looks. However, in front of this woman, for the first time in her life, the Snow Emperor felt ashamed of her own appearance!

In terms of looks, there is no comparison; Xue Di and this woman are equally matched. However, in terms of temperament, the difference is more than just a little bit!

With the same aloofness and arrogance, the woman before him completely overwhelmed the Snow Emperor!

If the Snow Emperor is the embodiment of ice and snow, then that woman is the goddess of ice and snow!

"Snow Maiden of the Lower Realm! Paying Homage to the Ice God!" Almost instantly, the Snow Emperor confirmed the identity of the woman before him and knelt down before the Ice God with heartfelt admiration.

The Snow Goddess sized up the Ice God, and the Ice God also sized up the Snow Goddess.

Upon seeing the Snow Empress for the first time, the Ice God's first thought was one of regret!

The Ice God saw through the Snow Empress's birth at a glance: a naturally born ice and snow spirit, a vessel of the innate laws of ice and snow!

Strictly speaking, Xue Di cannot be considered a soul beast. Soul beasts are either born from parents or are plants that have become spirits. Xue Di, who is neither a father nor a mother nor a spirit, should be called an elf—although similar to a soul beast like Bing Tian Xue Nu, they are completely different!

If it were another world, with the Snow Empress's birth, she wouldn't need any divine inheritance at all. Once her cultivation reached a certain level, she could establish her own divine position like the Sea God, let alone endure tens of thousands of years of hardship!

However, the Snow Empress was born on the Douluo Continent, where the laws were not kind to non-human beings. She could only cultivate slowly like a soul beast, and thus was classified as a soul beast.

Thinking of this, the Ice God couldn't help but sigh again, saying with pity, "Snow Maiden, give up! You are not a descendant of the Ice God!"

These words were like a thunderclap exploding in the Snow Emperor's heart!

Although the Snow Empress was prepared, meeting the Ice God rekindled her hope, but the Ice God's words plunged her into despair once again!

What could be more painful than the despair that follows hope?

Snow Emperor's prostrate body trembled violently, feeling a chill throughout her body. She clenched her teeth, and for the first time in tens of thousands of years, her eyes stung with tears!

The Snow Emperor spent his entire life seeking to become a god, but now, his dream has been shattered!

"Snow Maiden, if you dare ask the Ice God, are soul beasts unworthy of becoming gods?" Snow Maiden did not shed tears, but asked in a dry voice filled with resentment.

Upon hearing this, the Ice Goddess pursed her lips slightly. As a veteran deity, she knew that the God Realm's rejection of soul beasts was far more cruel than the Snow Emperor had imagined!

It is true that a soul beast can become a god after a million years. If a soul beast truly breaks through a million years, even the Destruction and Asura realms would have to accept it. But the problem is, since the fall of the Dragon God, when has a soul beast with a million years of life ever been seen?

The gods have countless ways to kill soul beasts on their path to godhood!

Divine Trials and Heavenly Tribulations—aren't they both methods specifically designed to target soul beasts?

What's even more disheartening is that even if a soul beast were to be reborn as a human, it would still be impossible to gain the approval of the gods!

After a soul beast undergoes a period of rebuilding, it does not reach maturity. It cannot even fool the eyes of a human titled Douluo, and it has nowhere to hide in the eyes of gods. Among the Douluo series, the only soul beast that has been rebuilt and can reside permanently in the God Realm is the wife of the next Asura God!

Even when the Ice God summoned the Snow Empress, he could only choose this endless ice prison, not the realm of gods, which shows just how important it is!

The Ice God remained silent for a moment, his eyes filled with even deeper pity, but he still did not deceive the Snow Empress, sighing, "After the Dragon God, there will be no more Beast Gods!"

Upon hearing this, Xue Di nearly ground her teeth to powder, her nails digging into her palms, and crimson blood dripped onto the icy plain, staining the snowflakes red. Yet, Xue Di showed no resentment or unwillingness on her face; she kept it all hidden in her heart.

The Snow Empress also has her pride. She doesn't need the Ice God's pity; what she wants is the path to enlightenment!

"There's always a way out. The God Realm's rejection of soul beasts is beyond my power to change alone, but nothing is absolute. There's still a glimmer of hope!" The Ice God looked at the Snow Empress's stubborn expression, a strange glint in his eyes, and said, "I have two methods to help you achieve eternal godhood with the body of a soul beast!"

How could the Ice God not see the resentment in the Snow Empress's heart?

But the Ice God is no saint. What makes the Ice God's heart tremble is not the Snow Empress's resentment, but the Snow Empress's stubbornness and arrogance!

The Ice Goddess saw herself from tens of thousands of years ago in the Snow Queen!

Back then, she was just as stubborn, and just as aloof!

That's why she's been punished to guard the Endless Ice Prison!

(End of this chapter)