Douluo Continent: Long Live the Spirit Hall

"When?" Ice Emperor was startled. In order to conserve her power, she had not used her area-of-effect soul skill to destroy all of Yan's figures in the field. Obviously, this left an opportunity for Yan to use tricks to deceive her senses. At this moment, she made the wrong choice and the opponent seized the flaw. However, Ice Emperor still couldn't believe that she had made such a mistake.

Yan had no time to answer Hyotei's questions. He had finally managed to make Hyotei make a mistake and reveal a weakness, so how could he possibly let this opportunity pass?

Chapter 357 Capture and Turmoil

"Bang!" In the sky, taking advantage of Ice Emperor's mistake in targeting his own body, Yan launched an attack in an instant. Just as his fist, wreathed in golden dragon flames, was about to land on Ice Emperor, a whistling wind suddenly rang out, and a tail hook, as sharp as a steel whip, accurately struck his fist.

Ice Emperor truly lives up to her reputation as a top powerhouse who roams the far north. Even if she temporarily exposes a weakness, she can quickly make up for it. Compared with humans, soul beasts still have a greater advantage in terms of physical strength, especially beings like Ice Emperor who have multiple pairs of limbs and a tail.

Ice Emperor's eyes flashed, and as its tail hook collided with Yan's fist, it used the force to spin around and prepare to launch another attack. The green light of its tail shimmered, and the ice light on its body became even brighter. Countless ice lights surged out and transformed into dozens of sharp blades over a foot in size that soared into the air.

The whirlwind ice blades, like a tornado, enveloped Yan's entire body, whistling as they slashed towards him, determined to tear this despicable human to pieces.

Unfortunately, since Yan had made his move, how could he not have a countermeasure? A torrent of flames erupted in the sky, and a sea of ​​fire quickly spread, not only dispersing the ice blade storm but also completely shattering the power of the Eternal Frozen Domain.

In the previous exchange, it was Hyotei who made the mistake, not Yan, and Hyotei will naturally be the one who suffers the real loss.

With her domain broken, even if Hyotei reacted quickly, she would inevitably fall into Yan's domain and be suppressed. Even if she wanted to rebuild her domain and fight back, it would take time, and Yan would have enough time to do many things.

Flames swirled on Yan's right hand, and his golden claws created a whistling wind as they gripped and clenched, as if they could easily slice through anything.

Enraged by the mid-air repositioning, Hyotei lashed out with her tail once more, unleashing a straight beam of emerald light that pierced Yan's right claw. In an instant, the attack collided with Yan's right claw.

However, to Ice Emperor's surprise, Yan's golden right claw was completely unharmed, and could even be said to have shattered her ultimate ice power quite easily, and it continued its downward momentum as it grabbed at her body.

Realizing that this attack was not simple, Hyotei naturally dared not directly use defense to block it. Her two pincers, second only to her tail hook, shot forward at an odd angle to parry. Although they accurately clamped Yan's right claw, they also caused her to suffer her first injury since the start of the fight.

"Human, you deserve to die." Above the sky, the Ice Emperor's pincers were left with five wounds by Yan's dark golden claws, which completely enraged the Heavenly King of the far north. Terrifying icy fluctuations spread across the sky, and this top ice-type powerhouse prepared to launch his strongest attack, the Wrath of the Ice Emperor.

Circles of light rippled across the sky, the interplay of emerald green and icy white light spreading outwards. The Ice Emperor's Wrath, this soul skill, is the Ice Emperor's strongest move.

This is the strongest of Ice Emperor's four soul skills, possessing super freezing power. It is accompanied by the explosive power of extreme ice to attack the opponent, fighting to the death.

"This move is a bit scary, let's not use it." Yan could naturally feel the power of Ice Emperor's move. At such close range, and with Qiu'er and Bai Xiuxiu so close, he wasn't confident he could completely suppress the energy aftershocks to prevent them from leaking out and hurting people. Of course, he couldn't let Ice Emperor continue.

Yan's seventh spirit ring lit up for the first time, and the power of his martial spirit true body was revealed to everyone. Endless red light filled the heavens and the earth, and an incomparably terrifying and powerful fire giant appeared between heaven and earth, with intense red light spreading rapidly.

Yan's seventh spirit ring is at the 100,000-year level, so it naturally comes with two spirit ring skills. The first spirit ring skill is the True Form of the Martial Soul, which is the current Flame Giant body. The second spirit skill is also related to fire, which is the power of the True Flame Domain of the Martial Soul.

That's right. All three of his 100,000-year soul rings have the skill of the fire domain. The triple stacking of these three soul rings, combined with his own fire domain, allows him to suppress most of the beings in the world. Even powerful beings with domains would most likely be completely suppressed by him.

The current Ice Emperor is in this situation. The two are so close, and Yan has temporarily broken her Eternal Freeze Domain soul skill. Without the protection of the domain, when Yan releases her seventh soul ring, she is essentially subjected to the full suppression power of this superimposed domain.

Although ice and fire are nominally mutually restraining, there is no such thing as complete restraint. There is only relative restraint. The powerful cold of ice can freeze everything, while the even more powerful fire can burn everything in the world.

Yan is in this situation now. His flame domain has suppressed Ice Emperor with an absolute advantage. The latter is subjected to the fourfold suppression of the flame domain at close range. While floating in mid-air and falling, his explosive power is constantly suppressed by the flames.

After Yan released the true form of the Flame Emperor Giant, his right eye also pulsated with an astonishing red light, and the two 100,000-year soul skills of his right eye soul bone were activated at the same time.

Yan's right pupil suddenly opened, and circles of crimson light patterns immediately spread outward from him, enveloping the Ice Emperor and instantly creating a tremendous upheaval.

The right eye soul bone that Yan refined came from the Fire Evil Tyrant, who lived for 100,000 years. The Fire Evil Tyrant possessed mental attributes. Although he also had fire attributes, all his soul skills were related to mental skills. For example, these rings of fire patterns also carried the ability to suppress mental energy.

Yan currently holds the advantage and naturally intends to take down Bingdi in one fell swoop. As a peerless and ferocious beast, Bingdi is unlikely to lose her ability to resist so easily. Faced with mental attacks, she is not weak in her evil mental cultivation and will certainly fight back.

In an instant, a terrifying mental storm erupted between Yan and Bingdi, with fiery red and icy green light spreading outwards. As the mental storm spread, it continuously destroyed everything around it.

The aftershocks of the collision between mental and physical forces continued to rage, and the air between Yan and Bingdi was violently distorted, making everything seem unreal. This eventually triggered a series of terrifying explosions, and Bingdi's aura weakened considerably afterward.

The fire giant's right eye flashed with crimson light, and strange, distorted patterns of light continued to spread outward, making the surrounding space seem illusory.

This mental energy field is a variant and upgrade of the Evil Eye Clan's mental energy field soul skill. It retains the characteristics of the Evil Eye's mental energy field. Any opponent whose mental strength is weaker than Yan's will be suppressed by this mental energy field, and the suppressed person will experience various negative states.

And that's not all, because his mental field ability originates from the Flame Tyrant, and naturally also carries the power of the fire element. He suppresses his opponent while simultaneously using high temperatures to burn and refine everything within the field, which is equivalent to a dual suppression of mind and fire.

Hyotei had already been suffering losses after Yan exploited their weaknesses, and now they were subjected to force field suppression, causing their unit capabilities and status to drop to rock bottom. Naturally, Yan would not let this opportunity pass.

Just as Hyotei was trapped in the state of being suppressed by the mental fire field, Yan's right eye gathered its crimson light to the extreme, and a beam of red light shot out, causing scorching in the space it passed through. After crossing the space, it accurately hit Hyotei.

Fiery Gaze – This is another powerful soul skill from the external soul bone of the right eye, which is 100,000 years old. The mental fire field suppresses the opponent while releasing an incomparably powerful fire attack. The red light contains not only fire power but also mental attack.

Both of his soul skills are dual-attribute soul skills, but they have different focuses. The force field domain mainly focuses on mental suppression, while the red light attack focuses on fire energy. When both soul skills are fully utilized, even a 100,000-year-old soul beast will be instantly killed.

Beneath the fire giant's feet, the 1.5-meter-tall Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion struggled frantically, trying to break free from the negative effects of the mental fire field. But in the next instant, this powerful soul beast, who had roamed the far north for hundreds of thousands of years, truly felt fear. Even her desperate struggles were to no avail.

A beam of red light shot out and suddenly descended upon her. In that instant, she felt immense pain, and the unprecedented burning sensation made her think she was dead.

For an ice-type soul beast, the feeling of intense heat is the taste of impending death. Ice Emperor was hit by the Spiritual Fire Field and the Fiery Eye Gaze soul skill one after the other, and simultaneously suffered two 100,000-year soul skills of the same element that countered her. This weakened her to the extreme, and her injuries were extremely serious.

At this moment, Yan released four layers of fire domain ability, which continuously enveloped her, making her condition worse and her injuries more severe.

A scorching fiery hand slowly descended and scooped up the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion that had landed on the ground, easily grabbing it into the fiery palm.

Ice Emperor was not one to be easily subdued. Even when captured by Yan's Martial Soul True Form, she did not give up resisting. Instead, she continuously gathered her own power in an attempt to dispel the negative status and launch another counterattack against Yan.

In this situation, Yan would certainly not give her another chance. Having finally defeated the Ice Emperor by taking advantage of the information gap, he did not want another great battle. So he quickly circulated more soul power and used the power of three ultimate flames and four exotic flames to suppress the Ice Emperor at the same time.

Seven powerful flames enveloped its entire body, and Ice Emperor immediately felt the binding force within the palm growing stronger at an alarming rate, pressing down on its body. No matter how it struggled, the binding force continued to increase, and even it could not resist it.

Its raised front claws were gradually pressed down, and its upturned tail hook was also pressed tightly against its body. This Ice Emperor, one of the three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, was actually bound tightly like this.

A thin white light membrane reappeared in the air, but Ice Emperor had vanished. The white light membrane slowly drifted down to the ground and re-entered the ice chamber, covering Huo Yuhao's body.

The extreme cold was instantly blocked, but Huo Yuhao's body remained stiff as iron, with a layer of frost covering his entire body.

The moment Hyotei is completely suppressed by Yan, a storm will inevitably break out in the far north, and the long-calm far north will soon be in turmoil.

Chapter 358 Let's Have a Good Talk

"No, no, this is impossible. You wretched human, how could you possibly bind me? What kind of skill is this? Why can't even my abilities break free? What are you trying to do?" Hyotei's voice carried a hint of panic. Completely suppressed and bound by Yan's flame abilities, she seemed to see her own end.

This human possesses three 100,000-year spirit rings, and this time he has approached me, this ferocious beast, most likely because he is even more ambitious and wants spirit rings and spirit bones of even higher age. Am I really going to die because of this? No, absolutely not.

Hyotei was in a state of panic, struggling to unleash her powerful beastly energy. Unfortunately, she was already completely under Yan's control, and any struggle was futile and had no effect whatsoever.

"Ice Emperor, I think we can have a proper talk." After binding Ice Emperor, Yan increased the suppression of its soul power attribute. The chains formed by the seven intertwined flames left marks and patterns on Ice Emperor's body, completely suppressing the resistance of this peerless ferocious beast.

When everything settled down, the enormous fire giant disappeared, leaving only Yan and a scorpion about 1.5 meters tall standing opposite each other.

This giant scorpion is none other than Ice Empress. At this moment, she is sealed layer by layer by Yan's seven flame powers, and can be said to have lost the power to resist. She can only let him do as he pleases, which is quite frustrating.

"Human, although I was caught off guard and captured by you, don't be smug. You will never leave the far north, and even if I die, I will take you with me." The Ice Emperor's reaction was unusually agitated, which was actually quite normal. As one of the three Heavenly Kings of the far north, she was confident in her strength and originally did not take Yan, a mere Soul Saint, seriously. In the battle just now, she had even gained the upper hand for a time.

However, it wasn't as bizarre as Xiang Yan's third soul skill, the clone technique, which caused her to mistake the real body, leading to a series of wrong moves and her current imprisonment.

Since she wasn't defeated by overwhelming strength, she believed her temporary setback was merely due to carelessness. Naturally, she was unconvinced by Yan and had no interest in talking to this guy who supposedly hunted down three 100,000-year-old soul beasts.

"If you're not convinced, then I'll show you what true strength is." Yan looked at Bingdi with a calm smile, then gestured with his right hand toward the sky. Above the snow-white clouds, wisps of purple light appeared, and an enormous dragon-shaped shadow enveloped the sky.

"BOOM!!!" A deafening explosion resounded in the far distance, and everything within a radius of a thousand meters centered on the iceberg that was hit was reduced to nothingness.

"Do you think you can survive this attack?" Beneath the Flying Dragon Mech, Yan crouched down, patted Ice Emperor's head, and pointed to the vanished iceberg.

The 1.5-meter-tall scorpion's head wasn't particularly large, but it felt like a piece of fine, warm jade to the touch, giving it a gentle warmth that Yan found irresistible.

"Human, what exactly is your purpose?" Ice Emperor spoke again after a period of silence. She had lost her previous arrogance. The Flying Dragon Mech could destroy mountains with a single blow. Such terrifying power was something that even her strongest soul skill, Ice Emperor's Wrath, might not be able to achieve.

No matter how stubborn she was, she had to admit that she was not confident in dealing with the strange soul tool controlled by the person in front of her in the face of absolute power.

"Didn't I already say? I just wanted to have a proper talk with you." As Yan spoke, he picked up the 1.5-meter-tall scorpion, ignoring Hyotei's struggles, and carried her into the cabin.

The fire in the cabin was blazing, bubbling and boiling hot tea. After casually putting down the big scorpion, Yan ate some tea and snacks to fill his stomach. Leaning against the soft belly of the golden retriever, with a little beauty serving him, life couldn't be better.

"A 100,000-year-old transformed soul beast? A 10,000-year-old soul beast? How come you two are following this human? Human, you are so despicable." Ice Emperor's gaze unconsciously fell on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Bai Xiuxiu, especially when she saw Bai Xiuxiu, her reaction was extremely intense.

Ice Emperor had already mentally constructed a scenario of how Yan obtained the 100,000-year soul ring. The other three 100,000-year soul rings must have been obtained by this human through sweet talk and deception, just like the little girl in front of him. Only in this way could it be reasonable.

She, Bingdi, had come into contact with human soul masters before, so she knew perfectly well that most human soul masters couldn't withstand a 100,000-year soul ring. Apart from those level 90 quasi-titled Douluo, most human soul masters simply couldn't obtain a 100,000-year soul ring through hunting.

Besides hunting 100,000-year-old soul beasts, there is only one way to obtain a 100,000-year-old soul ring: the self-sacrifice of a 100,000-year-old soul beast. Moreover, this situation mostly occurs among 100,000-year-old soul beasts that have taken human form.

This strange human soul master has three 100,000-year soul rings and is accompanied by a 100,000-year-old soul beast in human form. This is probably not the first time he has done something like this.

"Brother Yan, this big scorpion is so fierce!" Bai Xiuxiu seemed frightened after hearing Bingdi's words. She clung to Yan's arm and whispered. In reality, she realized that Bingdi was female, which was not a good sign.

"Ice Emperor, I think you really have some misunderstanding about us..." The golden-haired cat, Three-Eyed Golden Lion, glanced at the dramatic Bai Xiuxiu and was speechless. However, she also knew that Yan was not suitable to speak at this time, so she took the initiative to step forward and talk to her. As she spoke, the vertical eye between her eyebrows lit up, and the aura of an imperial auspicious beast was released.

After a brief exchange, Hyotei and Akiko calmed down somewhat, but Hyotei still harbored hostility towards Yan.

"A mythical beast from the Star Dou Great Forest, and this human possesses three 100,000-year soul rings. Do you truly know anything about him...?"

"Ice Emperor, regarding his spirit rings, I can assure you that he hasn't hunted any spirit beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest or the Far North." The Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained to the Ice Emperor, "So far, he has only hunted one 100,000-year spirit beast, and that 100,000-year spirit beast also advanced by hunting other living beings. You should understand what I mean..."

"I understand." Hyotei's emotions softened slightly. After this exchange, her gaze towards Yan was no longer so hostile, but it wasn't exactly polite either.

"So, human, what is the purpose of your coming to the far north? Is it simply to have a chat with me?" Yan turned his head as the Ice Emperor spoke, and said with a calm smile, "Ice Emperor, if I'm not mistaken, you have nearly 400,000 years of cultivation now, and your time is almost up."

"What exactly do you want to say?" Ice Emperor's voice suddenly became agitated because Yan had touched a nerve. As a powerful beast that had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, Ice Emperor was now facing a predicament, and her time was running out.

After a soul beast cultivates for 100,000 years, it will have two paths to choose from. The first path is to rebuild its human body, which is the path chosen by Xiao Wu and her mother, as well as Bai Xiuxiu in the present day.

This path is actually not easy. Soul beasts that are reborn as humans not only face the risk of being hunted by humans, but also have almost no chance of becoming gods at level 100. This means that after being reborn, they can only live for one or two hundred years before dying completely.

The other path involves preserving the soul beast's body and undergoing a tribulation every 100,000 years of cultivation. This path allows the soul beast to live longer, but the further one travels, the more despair one feels.

Because the final million-year tribulation is almost impossible to overcome. In addition, not all soul beasts have the aptitude to advance to a million-year soul beast. Most soul beasts, even if they embark on the path of ferocious beasts, can only survive a few tribulations before sensing that they cannot survive and their time is coming to an end.

Hyotei is currently facing this situation. She has long since reached the edge of 400,000 years of cultivation, but has never dared to break through.

Because she had already sensed that her limit was 400,000 years, and once she truly broke through that limit, she would not be able to survive the 400,000-year tribulation.

So, a long time ago, Hyotei stopped cultivating, but her cultivation level continued to rise year by year. Now she has 390,000 years of cultivation. In another 10,000 years at most, she will have to face her tribulation.

Now that Yan has brought up her Heavenly Tribulation, it has naturally put the Ice Emperor on guard, and her tone is no longer very friendly.

Yan smiled calmly and continued, "Ice Emperor, I can sense your deep anxiety. You don't want to die, but you have no way to solve your problems. You've lived so long; you must be content to become dust. What if I told you I could help you?" Yan's words naturally piqued the interest of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, which almost instinctively asked, "What method?" After a moment of contemplation, Yan said solemnly, "In this world, whether human or soul beast, everyone has a lifespan limit. Only one kind of being transcends this limitation; it's on a completely different level—that is, a god." The Ice Emperor was slightly taken aback, then asked with some doubt, "You mean to have a god intervene? Or do you mean to cultivate into a god?" Yan continued, "It seems you know about becoming a god at level 100, but I don't know if you understand that it's almost impossible for a soul beast to become a god. And besides soul beasts, what is the most promising being in the world?" The Ice Emperor, having been drawn into Yan's train of thought, subconsciously followed his train of thought.

"Humans? Wait, what did you mean just now? Why did you say that soul beasts can never become gods?"

"Ice Emperor, this involves a secret, a hidden secret about the God Realm. Judging from your appearance, not many soul beasts seem to know about it. You seem very eager to know, so I will tell you." Yan discerned a lot from the Ice Emperor's reaction. It seemed that the other party was unaware that the God Realm did not allow non-humans to become gods, which gave her the perfect opportunity to persuade the Ice Emperor more easily.

Chapter 359 Hyotei Relents

"No, this is impossible, impossible..." In the cabin on the far north ice plains, after listening to Yan's account, the Ice Emperor appeared unusually anxious and incredulous, reacting quite strongly.

This was mainly because Yan's words challenged her values. In the current God Realm, there is no place for beast gods, and the God Realm will not allow aliens, including soul beasts, to become gods. This basically means the death of soul beasts.

Historically, very few soul beasts choose to revert to human form after breaking through 100,000 years of cultivation, because this path is extremely difficult.

For a soul beast to become an adult, there are various dangers in breaking through to the Soul Saint realm. Even after breaking through to the Soul Saint realm, there is no guarantee that it will be able to break through to the Title Douluo realm.

Moreover, even if one breaks through to become a Title Douluo, it is almost impossible to reach level 100 and become a god; at most, one can only prolong one's existence for a few hundred years.