Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 20 Breakthrough, Great Soul Master

An 8,800-year-old soul ring, purplish-black in color, slowly rose up, emanating immense soul power pressure.

Because it is the soul ring of the Titan Snow Demon, a powerful race represented by one of the three great kings of the far north.

Titan Snow Demon represents the pinnacle of physical strength among spirit beasts in the far north, and is also the most suitable spirit ring for Lin Yun in the far north, without exception!

If it were an ice-attribute, offensive-type Soul Master, they would fight tooth and nail to get a Titan Snow Demon Soul Ring. It's just a pity that almost no one dares to mess with the Titan Snow Demon in the far north!

Looking at the spirit ring before her, Snow Empress lowered her eyes slightly and bowed gently to the corpse of Titan Snow Demon.

Standing beside her, Hyotei also bowed slightly to the corpse of Titan Snow Demon.

This Titan Snow Demon died for their far north, becoming the soul ring of the Soul Beast Lord. Its contribution was worthy of the salute from the two Ice and Snow Emperors.

And this was probably the peak of its beastly life.

Even Titan Snow Demon King Atai is not worthy of bowing to the two Ice and Snow Emperors at the same time!

Titan Snow Demon: Good, good, good. After I died, I became the most glorious one in my race.

"Your Majesty, please allow me to take its body back to the far north and bury it," the Snow Empress said earnestly to Lin Yun.

If it were just the death of an ordinary soul beast, it would simply be gone. Only soul beasts of the same clan might, out of affection, bring its body back to their clan.

Soul beasts that die naturally are ultimately devoured by other soul beasts. They take from nature and return to nature; this is the way of survival for soul beasts.

But this Titan Snow Demon had, after all, sacrificed its soul ring and died for the cause of soul beasts. The Snow Emperor was willing to make another trip to the far north to return its body to the Titan Snow Demon clan.

"No problem, then I'll trouble Xiaoxue to take it back to the Titan Snow Demon Clan." Lin Yun nodded and readily agreed.

He had no use for the Titan Snow Demon's corpse, and he had no appetite for humanoid creatures.

"Please pass on a message to the Titan Snow Demon King: I have received the contributions of their race. As a return gift, I will protect it during its next tribulation." Lin Yun waved his hand. "Di Tian, ​​a ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Marrow."

"I will not forget the races that have made contributions. As long as they work hard for the development of the Soul Beast race, I will help them and reward them generously."

Di Tian nodded and used his soul power to lift a ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing marrow in front of Xue Di.

The original story mentions that Titan Snow Demon King's current cultivation level is 290,000 years, and like Ice Bear King, he is about to face the next tribulation.

We don't know why the four strongest beings in the far north were all cursed by some third party. From the Snow Emperor and Ice Emperor down to the Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King, none of them could survive the next heavenly tribulation.

But in Xue Di's words, a single strand of ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Marrow would be enough for Atai to break through to the next Heavenly Tribulation.

An 8,800-year-old Titan Snow Demon is certainly not worth a 10,000-year-old Profound Ice Marrow, but Lin Yun will never lose out, because he not only appeased the emotions of the Titan Snow Demon clan, but also let the Ice and Snow Emperors know that following Lin Yun, he will not mistreat them.

Even when facing the Soul Ring, Lin Yun could feel the burning gazes of the Ice and Snow Emperors behind him.

The art of managing subordinates!

Let's see who dares to say that I'm all muscle and brains!

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xue Di bit her lower lip with her pearly white teeth, her hands trembling as she carefully put away the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and bowed deeply to Lin Yun.

The Snow Emperor knew that Atai wouldn't survive the 300,000-year tribulation. With both she and the Ice Emperor away from the far north, Atai was the pillar of the far north. This ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Marrow was enough to solve the far north's urgent problem.

Moreover, Lin Yun had saved her and Hyotei's lives.

He is truly the undisputed ruler of all soul beasts. With such a majestic and compassionate ruler, what reason do these beast kings have not to burn their blood for him?

As for Lin Yun's address to the Snow Emperor as "Little Snow," it was the Snow Emperor herself who requested it. In her words, how could she accept such an imperial title from the Venerable One? Besides, at her age of hundreds of thousands of years, she was just a little girl compared to the Golden Dragon King's countless years.

She had no objection.

And the title of the Ice Emperor has also changed to Bing'er, the same as that of the Snow Emperor.

Filled with gratitude, Xue Di collected the corpse of the Titan Snow Demon and left Xing Dou once again.

Under Bi Ji's guidance, Hyotei went to a secluded location to recover from his injuries and prepare for his tribulation.

"His Majesty has treated the Far North so well, I absolutely cannot let him down! I must transcend my tribulation as soon as possible, and then personally protect His Majesty's safety!"

This is the voice of Hyotei.

After arranging things in the far north, Lin Yun sat down in front of the spirit ring, released his martial spirit, and drew the Titan Snow Demon's spirit ring onto himself.

It's unclear whether it's because this Titan Snow Demon chose to die, but the pressure its spirit ring exerted on Lin Yun was even less than that of the Berserker Behemoth. In fact, the spirit ring was actively cooperating with Lin Yun, integrating the spirit power within it into his body.

It couldn't have gone more smoothly!

Even though the soul power contained in the 8,800-year-old soul ring was immense, it was gradually transformed into Lin Yun's own power through methodical refining.

During this time, Di Tian and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion stayed by Lin Yun's side at all times, protecting him.

Three hours later, Lin Yun refined the last bit of energy in the soul ring into his body.

The Golden Dragon King tattoo on his body lit up again, and the small golden dragon appeared behind Lin Yun once more. However, this time it did not show any contempt for the Titan Snow Demon's spirit ring. It simply nodded slightly to it and then opened its mouth to absorb the spirit ring into its body.

Your contribution is acknowledged by the King!

In my great mercy, I allow you to become a part of me, to become my power!

The level 20 bottleneck was broken instantly, and two dazzling purple soul rings rose from beneath Lin Yun's feet, eventually encircling his right hand, which had transformed into a dragon claw.

Soul power breakthrough, level 23!

It seems that the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear right palm bone that Lin Yun absorbed was not as useless as he had imagined. He absorbed the soul bone when he was at level nineteen, and he thought that the soul bone would at most help him break through to level twenty. Unexpectedly, it actually gave him extra power.

Along with the Titan Snow Demon's soul ring, Lin Yun's soul power level was directly pushed to level twenty-three.

Lin Yun was mentally prepared for this level. After absorbing the Behemoth Soul Ring, he had already anticipated the difficulty of his soul power breakthrough and understood that the quality of his soul power was probably the difficulty of cultivating an ultimate martial soul from the very beginning.

As for the total amount of soul power...

It's hard to say, since I haven't compared him to a normal Soul Master, but judging from this speed of breakthrough, Lin Yun's total Soul Power is probably already no less than that of a high-level Soul Venerable or a low-level Soul Master.

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