Douluo Continent: A Review of the Top Ten Martial Souls, Qian Renxue Breaks Through Defenses

Chapter 137 Forced
Even the three Soul Douluo masters felt their souls tremble, and their strength was suppressed by at least 30%!

“I will indeed go with you.” Qian Renxue slowly stepped towards the study door, “but not now.”

With each step she took, a footprint burning with golden holy flames was left beneath her feet. The holy flames never died out, scorching deep dents into the stone floor.

"Tell Emperor Xue Ye," Qian Renxue's voice, amplified by her divine power, resounded throughout the palace like a judgment, "that the Crown Prince Xue Qinghe of the Heavenly Dou Empire... ceases to exist from this day forward."

"I, Qian Renxue, Young Master of the Spirit Hall's Hall of Worship, Successor of the Angel God—"

She walked to the door, stopped, and glanced back.

That single glance was blindingly golden, like a god looking down upon the mortal world.

"We'll wait at the Spirit Hall for him to come and demand an explanation."

As soon as she finished speaking, the six-winged phantom image behind her reappeared and gently trembled.

"boom--!!!"

Golden flames shot into the sky, completely blowing the dome of the study away!
Qian Renxue's figure transformed into a golden streak of light, breaking through the encirclement of the imperial guards and the barrier of the palace, soaring straight into the sky and rushing towards the direction of Wuhun City.

"Stop her!"

The worshippers then realized what was happening and hurriedly gave chase.

But how could they keep up with Qian Renxue, who had opened the angelic realm and was blessed with divine power?
They could only watch helplessly as the golden streak disappeared into the horizon.

Inside the Heavenly Dou Imperial Palace, Emperor Xueye gazed at the torn-off dome and the direction Qian Renxue had gone. Finally, unable to hold on any longer, he spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.

"Your Majesty! Quickly summon the imperial physician!"

"Suppress the news! Suppress the news immediately!"

"The young master of the Spirit Hall has fled... The Heaven Dou Empire is about to descend into chaos..."

Chaos descended completely.

And this chaos has only just begun.

Qian Renxue's rise to the top and subsequent escape were like a key that opened Pandora's box.

The fragile balance that had persisted on the mainland for decades was completely shattered at this moment.

A full-scale confrontation between the Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire is now inevitable.

And Poseidon Island, the Far North, the Deep Sea Demon Whale... all the various forces will make their own choices in this chaotic situation.

The storm has arrived.

The far north, outside the Ten Thousand Year Ice Cave.

Blizzards are a constant theme here, but today's snowfall is particularly eerie.

No longer a chaotic, scattered shower, but rather swirling and coalescing with a mysterious rhythm, forming enormous vortexes of ice and snow above the ice plains.

At the center of the vortex, a faint, icy blue phoenix phantom could be seen flashing by, emitting a clear and melodious cry that pierced through the wind and snow and echoed across the vast ice plains.

Hyotei stood atop an ice cliff, his azure eyes fixed on a distant direction, his brows furrowed.

"This aura... is neither my sister's ice and snow laws nor my extreme cold power."

She murmured to herself, her voice tinged with a rare bewilderment, “It’s more like…an ancient power, a force that dances with the sky and the snow.”

On the icy plains behind her, tens of thousands of northern spirit beasts lay prostrate on the ground, worshipping in the same direction.

Titan Snow Demon, Ice Jade Scorpion, Snow Leopard, Frost Giant Bear... these powerful beings that dominate the far north all showed instinctive awe at this moment.

It's a suppression at the level of bloodline.

It was as if something superior to all creatures of the far north was awakening in that region. "Is it there...?"

Hyotei gazed toward the region where the wind and snow were most violent—one of the most famous forbidden areas in the far north, "Ice Phoenix Valley".

Legend has it that in ancient times, a divine beast-level ice phoenix perished here, its divine blood spilling across the icy plains and creating this forbidden land of perpetual blizzards.

Throughout history, no spirit beast from the far north has dared to set foot here easily, because the residual pressure of the Ice Phoenix in the valley has an absolute suppression on all avian spirit beasts, and also has a strong deterrent effect on other spirit beasts.

But at this moment, that oppressive aura is undergoing some kind of change.

From a lifeless stillness to... a vibrant life.

"Could it be..."

Hyotei's pupils contracted slightly. "It's that girl?"

She recalled a human girl who ventured alone into the far north, knelt before the Ice Phoenix Valley for seven days and seven nights, and finally gained the recognition of a wisp of Ice Phoenix remnant soul in the valley, fusing with the legendary "Extreme Cold Ice Phoenix" martial soul.

Hyotei happened to be training nearby at the time and sensed that aura, so he observed it from afar.

The girl was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and her soul power was only at the Soul King level, yet she managed to withstand the fusion impact of the Ice Phoenix's remnant soul. Her unwavering will impressed even herself.

Later, the girl spent two years training in the far north, hunting for soul rings, and her cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

Ice Emperor would occasionally sense her presence and know that she was growing rapidly, but he didn't pay much attention to it—after all, it was rare for human soul masters to cultivate ice and snow attributes in the far north, but there were precedents in history.

But now it seems...

"The Goddess Ranking... even she has been drawn into it?" A complex look flashed in Hyotei's eyes.

She knew the girl's name—Shui Bing'er.

Deep within Ice Phoenix Valley.

Instead of the raging blizzard outside, there was an eerie tranquility.

At the bottom of the valley is a huge glacial lake, its surface as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the sky.

But there was neither sun nor moon nor stars in the sky, only an eternal ice-blue canopy emitting a faint glow.

In the center of the lake, a lotus platform, entirely sculpted from millennia-old ice, floats in the air.

On the stage, a figure sat cross-legged.

She was a girl who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old. Her face was cold and beautiful, her skin was as white as snow, and her long, ice-blue hair reached her waist, with tiny ice crystals naturally forming at the ends.

She wore a simple ice-blue long dress, the hem of which was embroidered with a phoenix spreading its wings, and the pattern was emitting a faint blue light.

It was Shui Bing'er.

Her eyes were closed, and her breathing was long and deep. With each breath, an icy blue stream of air flowed between her mouth and nose.

Behind them, a huge phantom of an ice phoenix floated silently, with a wingspan of over ten zhang. Each feather was made of exquisite ice crystals, refracting a dreamlike luster under the fluorescent light.

The Extreme Cold Ice Phoenix Martial Soul has fully manifested!
Even more astonishing is her spirit ring configuration—

Black, black, black, black, black, black, red!

Seven spirit rings, six black and one red, floated silently around her. The single red spirit ring was vividly bright, radiating a terrifying aura of a 100,000-year-old spirit beast, while the six black spirit rings were all so deep they were almost purple, clearly all of extremely high quality 10,000-year-old spirit rings.

In the history of Douluo Continent, no one has ever possessed such a terrifying configuration of spirit rings at the Soul Saint level.

This was thanks to the opportunity she had three years ago in Ice Phoenix Valley—the fusion of the Extreme Cold Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, which not only gave her a divine beast-level Martial Soul, but also caused a fundamental transformation in her body, enabling her to withstand a Soul Ring age far exceeding that of other Soul Masters of the same level.

At this moment, the seven spirit rings are resonating in some way.

(End of this chapter)