Chapter 274: Dual Soul Cores – Unmatched Might!
The second soul core radiated a terrifying emptiness, a black void so profound it seemed to draw in one's very consciousness.
Light could not escape its surface—it devoured everything, creating a perfectly defined sphere of darkness, its edges rippling faintly with distortions of space.
"So… strong…"
The Ice Empress and Snow Empress stood frozen, wide-eyed in awe.
If, before, the Snow Empress had believed Ye Chen had a ninety-nine percent chance of becoming a god—
Now, in her eyes, he already was one.
Proud, domineering, and cold though she was, the Snow Empress couldn't suppress the sudden, inexplicable sense of inferiority blooming inside her chest.
And mingled with it… was admiration.
Because before her eyes stood the impossible.
A second soul core.
She had tried once herself, when her cultivation reached six hundred thousand years—and failed completely, the backlash so severe it took centuries to recover.
Before her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, she had planned to try again…
But before that happened, Ye Chen had captured her.
Even if she had tried, she doubted she could have succeeded.
Yet this man, a Soul Sage, had just done it—effortlessly.
His talent was beyond imagination.
At that moment, she no longer felt like his superior. Instead—she wondered if becoming his soul spirit wasn't actually beneath him.
Her gaze softened, her heart subtly shifting once more.
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Beside her, the Ice Empress watched Ye Chen too—but from the corner of her eye, she couldn't help glancing at the Snow Empress's expression.
"Heh~ As expected, Ye Chen is really putting on a show," she giggled inwardly. "And it looks like Snow Empress is falling for it~"
She knew Snow Empress better than anyone.
For all her pride and power, deep down she admired strength above all else.
And Ye Chen's overwhelming potential—his incomparable display in forming twin soul cores—was more than enough to conquer her heart.
Once the heart submitted, the rest would follow.
That meant one day… serving Ye Chen together might not be a dream anymore.
The Ice Empress smiled faintly to herself. Maybe… she could finally enjoy her own version of divine happiness.
Ye Chen exhaled slowly, examining the black sphere before him, its presence pulsing with silent danger.
The condensation was complete.
Just as he had predicted, the hardest part of forming complementary cores was preventing interference from the first.
To achieve that, overwhelming mental strength was required—to suppress the gravitational pull of the first core entirely.
Within his dantian, Ye Chen's will bound the first core tightly, sealing its mass and isolating its field. Its gravitational influence vanished under his command.
Without that interference, the process had become almost simple. What should have been insurmountable was reduced to little more than a challenge.
"Yes," he thought with quiet pride. "Forming soul cores all comes down to one thing—mental power."
Elder Xuan, near a hundred years old, had long been stuck below this threshold simply because his spiritual strength wasn't enough—barely at the Domain Realm's entry level.
Huo Yuhao had done it early thanks to his potent spirit, but his body and foundation had been too weak back then, forcing him to rely on external help.
Ye Chen, by contrast, had everything—excess spiritual power, unmatched physique, and even the support of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus.
Success had been inevitable.
"Now for the final step—fusion."
His late-Stage Domain Realm spiritual power enfolded the shadowy sphere, gentle as silk.
"Come," he whispered.
The fist-sized black orb drifted slowly toward his forehead, pulsing rhythmically, each beat echoing like a heart made of void.
When it touched his skin—
BOOM!
It felt like an invisible hammer had struck his body, shaking him violently.
But the true shock came from within his soul—
Countless thunders roared through his mind, exploding across his consciousness. A tidal surge of spiritual energy, wilder and heavier than anything before, crashed into him.
A storm of mental force erupted outward, shattering every trace of ice and rock in the chamber.
"Ah!"
The two Empresses gasped and instantly dodged aside, retreating to a safe distance as the cave turned into a maelstrom.
Inside Ye Chen's sea of consciousness—
The fusion was like a tsunami, waves towering like mountains crashing down with unstoppable force.
To most beings, it would have been annihilation.
But for Ye Chen's vast, limitless sea of spirit, this was barely a ripple.
He stood steady within the storm, unaffected.
"I underestimated myself again…" he mused calmly.
No human or soul beast could compare; his mental world was vast beyond reason. Perhaps, after absorbing both the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' essences, his mind had expanded to dozens—no, hundreds—of times greater than normal.
A mere thought from him, and the tsunami stilled.
Silence followed.
The black light flaring at his brow froze—and then collapsed inward, compacting until a single stable core formed at last.
The storm outside vanished instantly.
The frozen cave fell utterly silent, every trace of chaos erased.
The black "pearl" at his forehead settled firmly into place, hidden deep within his spiritual sea like a celestial star.
The Spiritual Soul Core rotated slowly, tirelessly drawing in mental energy and expanding with every cycle.
It even strengthened his mind in return, like an eternal machine of growth.
He now possessed an "auto-cultivation" function for his spirit.
Even doing nothing, his power would continue to grow.
Within his core, harmonious rhythm pulsed—one soul core at his dantian, cold and tyrannical; the other resting in his mind, deep and mysterious.
Two spheres.
Two worlds.
The Ultimate Ice and the Infinite Mind.
Opposing yet bound together—perfectly balanced.
"So this is the Yin-Yang Complementary Core…" Ye Chen whispered, opening his eyes. "Impressive… truly impressive."
The power rushing through him was unlike anything before.
His sensory range had grown exponentially—his spiritual aura now blanketed hundreds of kilometers effortlessly.
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