Chapter 277: Ye Chen, Invincible Under Heaven, Huo Yuhao's Second Soul Ring
It was as if the entire world had turned fragile like frozen glass before the icy-blue sword light.
The deep-blue light struck like lightning, cutting clean through the frozen region sealed by the Imperial Palm on the thousand-year-old glacier.
No loud explosion accompanied it—only a sharp shiiing before a clear diagonal mark appeared across the mountain, slicing straight through its body.
That massive glacier, which had endured tens of thousands of years and was hundreds of meters thick, began to slide down along a perfectly smooth, mirror-like cut surface.
Rumble—
Half of the glacier slid down silently like a block of cut tofu, crashing into the ground and causing the entire icy surface to tremble violently.
Though the mountain didn't seem large from a distance, it still weighed millions of tons.
When it hit the ground, it shook like a meteor impact—earth-shattering but dustless.
All the dust particles froze instantly, sealed within the frigid air.
Ye Chen's gaze fell on the severed mountain.
At the cut surface, there were no jagged stones—only smooth, polished ice, gleaming like a perfect mirror.
What remained upon it, besides the boundless chill, was an unmatched sword aura.
Even the hard glacier surfaces in the far distance that were merely brushed by the edge of the sword's pressure cracked apart with a continuous crackling sound, spiderweb fractures spreading across several meters.
The might of a single sword—terrifying beyond imagination!
"Domain for enhancement, Imperial Palm for control, Imperial Sword for slaughter. As expected of the Snow Empress—truly invincible," Ye Chen murmured in awe.
After all, the Snow Empress was his soul spirit. Anything she could unleash, he could too.
And that wasn't even counting his other amplifications—not even his Martial Soul True Body was factored in yet.
If those amplifications were included, Ye Chen could hardly imagine how overwhelmingly powerful he would become.
In terms of ultimate offense, his combat strength now reached the level of an Ultimate Douluo.
Yet, Ye Chen was still not a true Ultimate Douluo.
In a life-or-death fight, he probably still couldn't kill one—they weren't fools who would engage him head-on.
Even so, Ye Chen possessed attack power matching an Ultimate Douluo, and though his defense was weaker, he had instantaneous teleportation.
Aside from the Silver Dragon King, there might be no one in this world capable of threatening him.
"Wow~ Snow Empress, you're so awesome!"
A delighted voice called out—it was the Little Ice Empress, watching the battle from afar.
The Ice Empress admired the Snow Empress precisely because of her domineering aura.
She envied and looked up to her immensely.
Born over two hundred thousand years earlier, the Snow Empress had been like an elder sister to her. When she was still young, she followed the Snow Empress everywhere...
Over time, that admiration turned into something deeper.
Although the Snow Empress never accepted her feelings, the Ice Empress still adored her. Seeing her fight with such power again after so many years brought long-buried memories rushing back.
"Yes, the Snow Empress truly is powerful. If only you had half her strength," Ye Chen said teasingly, appearing behind the Ice Empress and pulling her into his arms, giving her chubby cheek a gentle pinch.
Hmm… it felt softer than before—rounder, but pleasantly so.
"What do you mean by that?! Are you looking down on me?"
The Ice Empress spun around, baring her teeth at Ye Chen, displeased at being underestimated.
After all, she was a 400,000-year-old soul beast—even as a soul spirit, she was still formidable!
Her aura began to surge as if she were about to draw soul power from Ye Chen and show him what she could do.
But after only a second, her energy faded abruptly.
Ye Chen had forcibly cut off the soul power supply.
Though both the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress could fight independently like summoned beings, they still required his soul power to function.
Without it, they were no different from ordinary humans.
"Alright, alright, my Ice Empress is the strongest, okay?"
Ye Chen chuckled, cupping her face and planting a quick kiss on her cheek.
"Hmph, that's more like it~"
The Ice Empress, tasting affection for perhaps the first time, couldn't handle Ye Chen's sudden sweetness. Her beautiful eyes turned into thin crescents, her heart blooming with warmth and joy.
Seeing this, Ye Chen let out a small sigh of relief.
The Snow Empress's full-power strike had already consumed seventy percent of his total load.
If the Ice Empress exerted her full strength too, it would push him to his limit—he could bear it, but it would be dangerously close.
If his cultivation improved, reaching the Soul Douluo realm, his maximum output would multiply several times over.
At that point, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress could fight alongside him with full force while he simultaneously unleashed all his soul skills and even his Martial Soul True Body amplification.
Then—he would truly be invincible.
For now, though, he was almost there—pseudo-invincible, unbeatable across the continent.
Such was the overwhelming might of Ultimate Ice.
A Soul Saint with Ultimate Ice could already rival an ordinary Title Douluo.
Ye Chen, with his extraordinary circumstances, could stand toe-to-toe with an Ultimate Douluo itself.
He used to worry that because of Tang Ya and Zhang Lexuan, Mu En might suddenly lose reason and strike him, but now Ye Chen had nothing to fear.
Of course, he wasn't foolish enough to provoke Mu En.
Like, say, inviting him to witness his engagement to Tang Ya and Zhang Lexuan…
He wouldn't dare tempt fate to that degree.
So long as nobody messed with him, Ye Chen seldom sought trouble himself.
"You two are going too far!"
At that moment, the Snow Empress floated over from afar.
For some reason, though she had found Ye Chen pleasing to the eye just minutes ago, now seeing him flirt with the Ice Empress in front of her filled her with inexplicable irritation.
Was she still a dignified Empress—or had she become his housemaid?
In battle, Ye Chen merely supplied soul power while she did all the fighting. This was too much!
Why did she feel more like his pet?
Ahem...
Ye Chen and the Ice Empress immediately separated, sensing her mood.
"Alright, alright. We've gained a lot this time. Snow Empress, let me take you to the human world—it's far better than this barren far north."
Ye Chen quickly shifted the topic.
This trip had yielded incredible rewards: he'd obtained the Snow Empress, a hundred-thousand-year Snow Lotus, condensed dual soul cores, reached level 76, and achieved power close to the peak of the world.
Though he was still far from godhood, his strength now allowed him to move unhindered through the continent, advancing his plans ahead of schedule.
"Exactly, Snow Empress—the human world is really amazing! You definitely won't be disappointed," the Ice Empress chimed in eagerly.
"Hmph. The human world is full of deceit and cunning. I have no interest in it," the Snow Empress replied coldly, pride unwavering.
Finishing her words, she disappeared back into Ye Chen's spiritual sea.
Ye Chen and the Ice Empress exchanged helpless smiles before she, too, returned to his spiritual sea.
Ye Chen didn't mind.
The Snow Empress had simply grown up in hardship—she had never experienced a better life.
It reminded him of elderly people in remote villages from his previous life: as long as they could eat, smoke, and chat, they were content.
But once they were introduced to smartphones and short videos, they became completely addicted…
Smiling at the thought, Ye Chen activated the Heaven and Earth Infinite Eye, locking onto Shrek City, and vanished from sight.
…
At the same time—
Elsewhere—
Huo Yuhao and the Heavenly Dream Iceworm were chasing a thousand-year-old ice silkworm.
Unable to find the Snow Empress and struggling with the extreme cold, Huo Yuhao could barely hold on.
The Heavenly Dream Iceworm decided to help him first acquire his second soul ring before making further plans.
(END CHAPTER)
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