Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect - Sharingan Intercepts Tianmeng

Chapter 48 First Encounter with the Snow Empress

"Sigh! Do I still have to meet with Yuki-tei? But she won't stoop to be your protector."

"Shut up, Tianmeng!" Bingdi kicked Tianmeng away. She would do anything to save Xuedi, even if it meant sacrificing her life.

"Waaaaah..."

"Alright, Brother Tianmeng, we have to deal with Xue Di. The God-Making Plan is already partly complete, and my talent is enough to support the next steps. But now we have a problem we have to face: I'm too weak right now. If I encounter a Title Douluo, I won't even have a chance to escape."

"The cultivation of the ultimate ice is normally extremely slow. If I use conventional cultivation methods, it will take me at least twenty or thirty years to reach the title of Douluo. Twenty or thirty years is too risky, and there are too many possibilities of things going out of control. If I perish halfway through, the God-Making Plan will also be cut off."

"But even so, the Snow Empress cannot submit to others and become their protector."

"I have no intention of making Xue Di subordinate to me. This should be considered a deal, a deal that is more beneficial to both parties."

Tianmeng curled up into a ball. "Why don't you check your strength first? I'm afraid you'll get slapped to death by the Snow Empress the moment you see her."

"There's no need to worry about that at all. I've already thought of a way. Ice Emperor, where is the gathering place of your Ice Emperor Scorpion clan? We can find a lone Ice Jade Scorpion, and then you can talk to it and have it relay the message to the 100,000-year-old soul beast of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan."

"Use the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan as a messenger. As long as the Snow Empress doesn't see me, kill me immediately. Then I'll have a chance to speak with her. If I can talk to the Snow Empress, this matter won't be too difficult."

"Are you sure?" Tianmeng asked timidly. Having already experienced the terror of ferocious beasts, he had an almost innate fear of the ruler of the far north.

He had already seen the first two of the Ten Ferocious Beasts, and those two beings left a very bad impression on him.

"I'm sure. And after spending so much time together, Tianmeng-ge, you know me. If I didn't really feel that there would be great danger without Xue Di, I wouldn't have chosen to risk taking you to see Xue Di."

"You can still sense danger?" Tianmeng asked, somewhat surprised.

"Compared to opportunities, I am much less perceptive of danger. I can sense it occasionally, but it is even more inexplicable. Moreover, the Sun Moon Empire itself is not very safe. Internal problems are manageable, but I don't know what will happen to Shrek Academy in the future."

"Preparedness prevents trouble. As long as Xue Di protects me occasionally at crucial moments, we can then walk the path to godhood with peace of mind. We don't have to worry about a Limit Douluo suddenly popping out and slapping me to death, or me having to do something like Nine Cuts and Eighteen Holes."

"Okay, but Bingbing, will it be a problem to have Bing Bixie relay the message?"

"Get lost! When did it become your place to criticize my people? Xiao Qiang, let's go, ignore this piece of trash."

"Waaah, Bingbing rejected me."

Xiao Qiang: "..."

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With the help of Tianmeng's spiritual detection and Bingdi's familiarity with the Bingdi Scorpion Clan, finding the Bingbi Scorpion Clan's gathering place was a piece of cake.

"Hyotei, which Ice Jade Scorpion is more reliable? Point one out, and I'll use mental interference and psychological suggestion to make it leave the group."

"Anything that reaches the ten-thousand-year level is fine. As long as it's a ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion, it will have the intelligence to communicate with me. You can bring any one of them over."

After Bingdi finished speaking, he saw Xiao Qiang looking at him helplessly from within his spiritual sea.

"What's wrong?"

"Hyotei, I mean, is it possible that I don't even know which one is the ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion?"

So far, the fourth spirit ring was recognized by Bingdi and Tianmeng, the third spirit ring was Tianmeng, and the second spirit ring was the already known Ice Silkworm. Only the first spirit ring was chosen by Xiao Qiang himself. As someone with only level five innate spirit power, Xiao Qiang really didn't have much time to recognize spirit beasts, let alone a spirit beast like the Ice Jade Scorpion that doesn't appear in the Sun Moon Empire. Xiao Qiang was only able to recognize it because of Bingdi. How could he possibly recognize something like the age limit?

"The third one from the right, I guess."

"it is good."

Xiao Qiang activated his first soul skill, psychological suggestion, and his third soul ring, mental interference, simultaneously. The Ice Jade Scorpion chosen by the Ice Emperor gradually slowed down and, without disturbing other members of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, slowly separated from its group.

After leaving his swarm, Xiao Qiang appeared before the Ice Jade Scorpion. The moment the scorpion saw the human, it was about to attack, but the next second, the Ice Emperor instantly took control of Xiao Qiang's body. The aura of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion made the Ice Jade Scorpion tremble with fear.

Xiao Qiang then used his Spirit Sharing skill to let the Ice Jade Scorpion see the Ice Emperor's appearance.

The ice-green scorpion stirred, appearing quite angry.

"Alright, I'm fine. Since I only have about a hundred years left to live, and I can't overcome the Heavenly Tribulation, I accepted that guy's god-making plan..."

Ice Empress explained to the ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion why she had become like this, to prevent the hundred-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion from killing Xiao Qiang with a single tail attack when it saw him later.

"That's how it is. Go and summon the elder; I have something to discuss with him."

The Ice Emperor Scorpion, having received the Ice Emperor's order, quickly departed. A short while later, seven 100,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpions arrived beside Xiao Qiang. The most powerful of them spoke in human language, "Chieftain, are you alright?"

"It's alright, you all know what happened, right?"

"We understand. It is our incompetence that we failed to find the rare and precious materials that can help the clan leader break through his life limit."

"It's alright."

After speaking with the Ice Emperor and the many Ice Jade Scorpions for a while, the Ice Emperor instructed one of the Ice Jade Scorpions to go find the Snow Emperor. The remaining six Ice Jade Scorpions were given a few instructions by the Ice Emperor and then led their respective tribesmen away. On the snowfield that belonged to the Ice Jade Scorpions, Xiao Qiang waited alone for the Snow Emperor's arrival.

Before long, a powerful pressure suddenly appeared, making it difficult for Xiao Qiang to even stand firm, and even more frightening Tianmeng in his spiritual sea to shrink into a ball.

"Bingbing, I don't want to die!"

"Calm down, Brother Tianmeng. This pressure is powerful, but it's not fatal. It's just a show of force at most, which is actually a good thing for us."

"What good is it to give them a hard time?"

"Brother Tianmeng, in business, the real buyer is the one who haggles. Giving me a hard time is just to gain control later. If she doesn't want to talk to me, she can just tell me to get lost. Why use intimidation without actually killing me?"

"Huh? Is that so?"

"Hmph, not only useless but also stupid."

After calming Tianmeng down, Xiao Qiang finally saw the icy snow maiden of the far north.

"Let's get this straight, I surrender."

"Could you please withdraw this oppressive aura?"

(End of this chapter)