Douluo: The Glory of the Peerless Angel

Chapter 90 The Path to Godhood, The Soul Contract (4K)

"Despicable and shameless humans! Die, all of you!"

The woman's shriek was accompanied by the sound of the ninth-level soul tool, the God-Sealing Platform, shattering. Extreme snow instantly erupted in the Snow Mountain Lotus Pond, and the bone-chilling cold swept over Ling Bai's body.

Having used extreme death to kill ice elements along the way, Ling Bai had hardly been affected by the low temperatures of the far north. But now he actually felt the cold. His body and soul seemed to be frozen, and the soul power flowing in his body also became sluggish.

After the white stream of energy burst out of the Conferred God Platform, it immediately transformed from an embryo into the original body of the Snow Emperor, defying frost and snow, embodying the essence of heaven and earth, like a winter plum blossom blooming in the far north.

As the heavy snow fell, the Emperor Hantian Snow Dance descended under the blazing sun. Ling Bai stood on the head of the Death Prison Bone Dragon, his expression calm as still water. He did not show any emotional fluctuations despite facing the Snow Emperor, the ruler of the far north. However, the crimson soul fire in the Death Prison Bone Dragon's eyes burned even more fiercely, and the candle-like blood-red light was exceptionally dazzling in the snow-covered world.

"Snow Empress, bluffing is useless. Forcibly stopping the cultivation process will inevitably damage even the most powerful beast's essence. How much soul power do you have left in your body?"

Ling Bai's clear voice spread in all directions, and the Snow Emperor's furious roar echoed through the swirling snow.

"I have enough soul power left to kill you!"

For nearly 700,000 years, the Snow Emperor ruled the far north, and all beasts submitted to him wherever he went. He had never been provoked by a human. The Snow Dance and Radiant Sun instantly began to shrink, and the snowflakes fell three times faster. Their edges spun like sharp blades and rushed towards Ling Bai. Even if Ling Bai's flesh and blood could not withstand the snowflakes, even the undead creature, the Death Prison Bone Dragon, would have a layer of bone dust scraped off!

The Death Prison Bone Dragon raised its head and let out a dragon roar that shook the heavens and the earth. The intense extreme death, combined with the Death Prison Spider Emperor's innate domain of Death Realm, forcibly occupied a blood-red territory within the Snow Emperor's innate domain.

The Snow Emperor felt deeply humiliated. A sky-blue longsword materialized in her jade-like palm. This was the Snow Emperor's Three Ultimate Skills: the Imperial Sword, Ice Extreme Unparalleled!

Ice Extreme Unparalleled unleashed a hundred-meter-long sword beam, while the Death Prison Bone Dragon's blood-red dragon claws, fused with the Death Prison Demon Scythe, condensed the mark of the Underworld Emperor's Demonic Basket Extreme Punishment. The two extreme attributes collided fiercely.

A crack of sky blue and blood red was torn open in the earth, as if a sword had cleaved the glacier surface of the far north, which had never melted for thousands of years, in two. Ling Bai, who was on top of the Death Prison Bone Dragon, could clearly see the cross-section of the earth. At this moment, the figure of the Snow Emperor, which was hidden in the Snow Dance Radiant Sun, suddenly appeared above the Death Prison Bone Dragon, and her fair palms shone with dazzling light!

Emperor's Palm, Great Cold with No Snow!

"Snow Emperor, you need to think this through. Once this palm strike is unleashed, the Far North and I will be locked in a life-or-death struggle."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xue Di actually stopped. She silently looked into the pair of dark eyes that were staring at her, and saw a surging killing intent as vast as mountains of corpses and seas of blood within them.

The air pressure nearby seemed to have increased. Xue Di knew that it was not an illusion, but something that was really happening. It was as if a monster far stronger than the Death Prison Bone Dragon was quietly staring at her, waiting for the Great Cold and the absence of snow to fall, and then it would take mad revenge on her and the far north without regard for the consequences.

There's an old saying: "Once is enough, twice is enough, but three times is not enough." I'm giving you face, so I hope you won't trample on it like a doormat.

The bleak light of the Great Cold, devoid of snow, had not yet faded. The Snow Emperor snorted coldly and said, "Do you think I, the Emperor, would be threatened by humans?"

"You should understand that with your origin severely damaged and your soul power disordered, your strength is less than one-tenth. Even with the advantage of the extreme north, you still cannot defeat the Death Prison Bone Dragon, which is also of the ultimate attribute."

Ling Bai exuded an ominous and calamistic aura of death. Instead of panicking and fleeing or dodging, he boldly followed the skull of the Death Prison Bone Dragon and walked to a spot only one meter away from Xue Di. The two stared at each other, one with a smile and the other with cold anger.

"If it weren't for me, this despicable and shameless human, you would have been sold to the human world in your most vulnerable embryonic form, reduced to becoming some soul master's soul ring or soul bone. Theoretically, I'm your savior, right?"

Ling Bai's smile was colder than the raging snowstorm of the far north: "Ungrateful wretch, your race will pay the price in your blood."

Xue Di fell silent. A gentleman judges by actions, not intentions. Ling Bai's tone was aggressive, but he had indeed done her a favor.

"Why don't you just stop holding back and unleash the Great Cold Without Snow?" Ling Bai counted on his fingers, calculating for the Snow Emperor. "The Ice Emperor is facing his fourth Heavenly Tribulation within a hundred years, and his chances of survival are almost zero."

Your 700,000-year tribulation should have occurred earlier than Ice Emperor's, otherwise you wouldn't have absorbed the 100,000-year-old Ice Heaven Snow Lotus at this time, resulting in your failure to rebuild your human form and severe damage to your origin. To be honest, you don't even have a fraction of Ice Emperor's power; the word "death" is already etched brightly on your forehead.

I'll return to Douluo Continent and cultivate diligently for a hundred years. Once you and Ice Emperor die from the Heavenly Tribulation, do you think those two idiots, Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King, can stop me?

You can rest assured, I guarantee the far north will cease to exist, and I've shaken every single soul beast egg until they're yolk.

Having said that, the Snow Empress's delicate body trembled violently for a moment. The Great Cold Snowless Light that had been gathering power vanished, and she instead channeled her soul power to the remaining seven ten-thousand-year-old Ice Heaven Snow Lotuses in Ling Bai Lotus Pond. After calming down, she sighed:

"You can leave now. I'll pretend you've never been to the far north."

Xue Di conceded defeat. Given her current poor condition, Da Han Wu Xue was unable to kill Ling Bai and the Death Prison Bone Dragon, and Ling Bai's threat was right on target.

A century later, the two Ice and Snow Emperors perished, and Ling Bai broke through to level 99 in soul power. The terror of the Limit Douluo who had reached the extreme of death is self-evident. The Ice Bear King and the Titan Snow Demon King were definitely hung up and whipped. A moment of impulsiveness brought about a cataclysmic disaster in the far north, which was definitely not the outcome that the ruler of the far north wanted to see.

"Thump."

The snow lotus fell back into the lotus pond on the snow mountain, splashing up several water droplets. A hint of doubt flickered in the Snow Empress's beautiful sky-blue eyes as she spoke:

"This is an Ice Lotus that I have cultivated over tens of thousands of years. It contains the ultimate ice attribute. There is no more precious natural treasure than it in the entire far north. Consider it a small gift from me."

She thought Ling Bai was ignorant and looked down on a few snow lotus flowers.

"Although snow lotus is rare, it seems pointless to hold onto it now that the person who cultivated it is no longer here."

Ling Bai slowly began to reveal his true intentions. He wanted to seduce a Soul Beast Emperor like Xue Di, who ruled over a region. He could neither threaten her nor flatter her. The best strategy was to use both kindness and force to get closer to her and make his move gradually.

Upon hearing this, the Snow Emperor shook her head and laughed, "You humans are quite interesting. Wouldn't my death be a great blessing for humanity, completely eliminating one ferocious beast as a formidable enemy?"

"Yes, so you need to think more about what will happen to Hyotei after you die. What will happen to Hyotei if you die?"

With the two Ice and Snow Emperors falling one after another, what will happen to the far north?

With the rapid development of human soul tools, given time, soul masters will eventually invade the far north with the help of soul tools. Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King will not be able to defend it, and they will probably end up like you just now, becoming testing grounds for various soul tools such as the Conferred God Platform.

Snow Empress, you wouldn't want the Ice Empress and the far north to end up like this, would you?

Mentioning the Conferred God Platform, Xue Di couldn't help but feel a little wistful. That level-nine soul tool, which even prevented her from self-destructing, had left a deep impression on her. She and Ling Bai had a somewhat tumultuous relationship, so she tentatively asked, "Would you mind revealing how well humanity is developing soul tools?"

"Things are changing rapidly. If we lose you, the far north will surely perish in ten thousand years."

"Ten thousand years..."

Ten thousand years may seem like a long time, but for a soul beast, it's just a blink of an eye; ten thousand years pass in the blink of an eye.

Ling Bai said in a deep voice, "Since the path to reconstruction is blocked, Snow Emperor, have you ever thought about taking another path?"

"What are your brilliant insights, Your Excellency?" Xue Di asked curiously.

"The far north connects to the sea. Have you heard the story of one of the ocean's overlords, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King?"

Snow Empress narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly: "A sacred beast guarded by deities, accompanying two generations of sea gods as they grow."

"Ten thousand years ago, the world changed color and a god was born. The Demon Soul Great White Shark clan became sacred beasts of the ocean, and two hundred-thousand-year-old soul beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest followed the god and gained immortality."

At this point, Ling Bai paused for a moment, then continued in a deeper and more seductive voice: "Snow Emperor, the life of a god is infinite, but the God Realm has placed a bloodline restriction on soul beasts, so that soul beasts can never become gods! Even the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, the Ice and Snow Maiden of the Far North, and the 800,000-year-old Beast God Emperor Tian, ​​are still destined to die under the Heavenly Tribulation!"

I know you wanted to make a change, to revert to human form and change your race to fight for a chance of survival for yourself and for the soul beasts of the far north, but unfortunately you failed.

However, Snow Empress, you've met me; this is your good fortune, and mine as well. Let us join forces, and the path to godhood will open wide!

The snow clouds behind him resembled a flat tide sweeping across the sky. Ling Bai stood atop the skull of the Death Prison, unmoved amidst the blizzard, like a majestic mountain peak.

At this moment, the Snow Empress's stunningly beautiful face was expressionless, almost icy cold, giving the impression that she might utter a single word of 'get lost' at any moment. Yet, this couldn't conceal her breathtakingly ethereal beauty. She slowly said:

"You speak of the path to godhood so casually. I don't deny that soul beasts cannot become gods, but how many gods have emerged throughout human history? If you want to cooperate with me, show some sincerity."

Ling Bai suddenly smiled, because Xue Di was moved. Two beams of light suddenly rose behind him, a golden six-winged angel and a purplish-black Death Prison Spider King. Compared to Xue Di, their soul power was only a drop in the ocean, but the suppression from the source of life made Xue Di blurt out:

"God! Might!"

"You know your stuff."

As Ling Bai dissipated his radiant light, the Snow Empress subconsciously raised her hand, as if to seize that fleeting opportunity to become a god. She was completely moved and pressed for an answer: "You are the successor to a god? What god? How can we cooperate?"

As the Snow Empress's life drew to a close, she couldn't bear to leave the Ice Empress, nor could she bear to leave the far north, which she had protected her entire life. Ling Bai's glimmer of hope was too bright; no wonder he dared to stand here so confidently. He had grasped the Snow Empress's weakness!

"Integrity is paramount in cooperation. There are some things I don't intend to hide from you, lest you get angry with me later," Ling Bai said. "My divine power consists of the Angel God and the Rakshasa God. The Angel God's position was shattered ten thousand years ago, and it's highly unlikely that any deity in the divine realm would be willing to pass on their divine position to the direct bloodline of another deity. The Rakshasa God's position still exists, but the previous Rakshasa God died an unnatural death, and I'm not sure where the position is now."

Rebuilding the positions of angels and seeking the position of Rakshasa may not sound easy, but at least there is a direction and hope to strive for.

"Come with me, and become the only... rare intelligent spirit ring in the history of Douluo Continent, providing spirit skills while preserving your soul. Walk with me on the path to godhood. If we lose, consider me your tribulation; if we win, the far north will be blessed with peace and prosperity, and you can forever protect the land you love."

Xue Di fell into deep thought, gently biting her red lips with her pearly teeth. There is no free lunch or great bargain in the world. Before you can reap the rewards, you must pay the price. Her 700,000-year tribulation will arrive in ten years. In that short time, she won't even be able to restore her original essence. Transforming into a smart soul ring and cooperating with the human with divine power in front of her is an excellent method.

"We can cooperate, and we can also use intelligent spirit rings."

Snow Empress made a decisive decision, her bright, captivating sky-blue eyes sparkling as she resolutely declared:

"The prerequisite is that you must make a soul contract with me."

First, I assure you that what you said above is true.

Second, you shall not harm any Northern Soul Beast without cause.

Third, if we cannot become gods together, I will not blame you; that is our destiny. But I would like to ask you to protect the far north for another hundred years, and help Bing'er with her four hundred thousand-year tribulation... If you can lend a hand, it would be best to help her as well.

"By the Ice God, the Snow Empress swears in the name of ice that if the above conditions are met, you and I will be on the same path; if we break them, may everything belonging to ice be stripped away by the Ice God."

The spirit beasts of the far north are the children of the Ice God. The Snow Empress made the most solemn oath to the spirit beasts. As the ruler of the far north, her own life is secondary. She wants to seek more protection for the far north.

Ling Bai chuckled, shedding his disguise as a bewitching demon, revealing his true face with golden hair and eyes. Xue Di's eyes widened. "No, you humans are so cunning, you even change your face when you go out?"

"My name is Ling Bai. Since we are bound by life and death, I should naturally show my true face to the world."

The aurora seemed to coat Ling Baican's golden pupils with the color of heavenly radiance. When their eyes met, the Snow Emperor saw the golden sun rising slowly in those clear eyes.

The image of the sun rising in the east.

A great talent.

For a fleeting moment, Xue Di suddenly felt, without any reason, that Ling Bai was destined to become a god in the future.

Ling Bai drew a gray scroll in the void, inscribing the Snow Emperor's three conditions.

Necromantic magic, soul contract.

After reviewing it, Xue Di nodded slightly, indicating that there were no problems. The two then left their spiritual imprints on the soul contract and simultaneously swore an oath:

"Ling Bai (Snow Emperor) is willing to sign a soul contract with Snow Emperor (Ling Bai)."

Snow Empress became a Wisdom Soul Ring, assisting Ling Bai on his path to godhood.

Ling Bai will not fail the Snow Emperor, nor harm the people of the far north. If things cannot be accomplished, he will protect the far north for a hundred years. If he still has the strength, he will help the Ice Emperor overcome the heavenly tribulation.

I solemnly swear an oath, willing to sacrifice my life; if I ever betray this cause, may Heaven and Earth, and the spirits of the gods, punish me severely!

(End of this chapter)