Douluo Continent: The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda? A Soul Beast Pagoda!

Chapter 69 No Snow During the Great Cold

Xue Di demonstrated for Jiang Bai.

She didn't offer any further explanation, but simply raised her right hand slightly.

Those slender, white hands seemed to blend into the ice and snow.

The next instant, her body floated up like the lightest snowflake.

Without any trace of soul power eruption, it simply floated naturally and gracefully into the air.

Jiang Bai held his breath and watched intently.

Immediately afterwards, Xue Di's raised right hand changed.

Her hands, which were already as smooth and lustrous as white jade, became even more translucent and whiter at this moment.

The entire palm seemed to be sculpted from the purest essence of ice and snow, emanating a faint yet chilling coldness.

She gently waved her snow-white hand toward a snow-covered mountain in the distance.

The movement was very light and gentle, like brushing a snowflake off your shoulder.

But in that instant...

A strange sound, like ice and snow being squeezed and rubbed, came from the air.

The seemingly delicate and harmless snowflakes, swirling in the air, seemed to be imbued with soul and will in that instant. No longer falling haphazardly, they changed direction in unison, like millions of tiny ice blades, shooting towards the mountaintop!

That was no simple physical impact. Each snowflake carried with it the extreme low temperature and the condensed will of ice, and when they hit the rocks, they made a dense "clanging" sound like a torrential rain hitting sheet metal.

What's even more frightening is that these attacks didn't happen all at once, but were continuous and relentless.

Snow Empress's pure white hand was like an inexhaustible source of ice, continuously guiding the ice and snow to transform into endless attacks.

The snow on the mountain's surface was the first to be penetrated, frozen, and turned into a harder layer of ice.

Next came the exposed rocks. Under the continuous impact of low temperatures, the rock surface cracked rapidly, and the cold air immediately penetrated into the cracks, causing them to freeze and disintegrate from the inside.

Just then, Xue Di's gesture suddenly changed.

All the swirling blizzards and howling winds suddenly came to a standstill at that moment.

Every snowflake froze in mid-air, retaining the posture of the previous moment; every gust of cold wind stopped in its flowing trajectory, like a frozen transparent ribbon.

The whole world seemed to have been paused, leaving only the mountain peak being eroded by ice and snow, and the snow-white hand in mid-air.

However, there was no loud noise, no explosion.

The mountain, tens of meters high, was completely covered, penetrated, and frozen by a layer of crystal-clear, deep blue ice crystals at a visible speed, from its surface to its interior, in absolute stillness and extreme cold.

The ice crystals refracted a magnificent yet dangerous luster under the sunlight. The entire mountaintop had been transformed into a gigantic ice sculpture.

Xue Di slowly lowered her hand.

She landed gracefully, her movements light and agile.

The stillness of the snowstorm vanished, and the surrounding environment returned to its original green, as if the terrifying stillness had never happened.

She turned around and looked at Jiang Bai, a faint smile on her beautiful face: "I have finished demonstrating the essence of the Emperor's Palm."

Its core lies in attracting momentum, concentrating intent, transforming form, and establishing domain. First, digest what you've seen and felt today. If there's anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me.

Jiang Bai took a deep breath of the icy air, suppressing the shock in his heart, and solemnly cupped his hands: "Alright, thank you, Snow Empress!"

That palm strike just now, though seemingly gentle, actually contained an ultimate understanding and control of the laws of ice and snow.

Compared to the extreme sharpness of the Emperor's Sword, the Emperor's Palm is more expansive and all-encompassing, yet it freezes all things and annihilates all life without a sound.

Xue Di nodded, about to say something more, when suddenly her beautiful eyes turned, as if she remembered something important.

She hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Jiang Bai, I have a question for you. When your ice dragon broke through 100,000 years, did it undergo a heavenly tribulation?"

Jiang Bai was slightly surprised to hear this, but still answered truthfully: "No. Xiao Bing's breakthrough was completed within my tower space and did not trigger any external tribulations."

A look of "I knew it" flashed in Xue Di's eyes, and she exchanged a glance with Bing Di, who was not far away.

Xue Di said softly, her expression turning serious, "Jiang Bai, Bing'er and I have an idea we'd like to discuss with you."

She paused, organizing her thoughts: "When a soul beast cultivates, a heavenly tribulation will descend upon it whenever it breaks through the 100,000-year mark. If it passes, its lifespan will greatly increase and its strength will leap forward; if it fails, its soul will be scattered, and its 10,000 years of arduous cultivation will be in vain."

"And every 100,000 years, such a calamity will descend again, each time more terrifying than the last."

The Snow Emperor's voice was calm, but Jiang Bai could hear the heaviness within it. "My cultivation is now approaching the 700,000-year mark; Bing'er is also approaching 400,000 years. Although we have received the aid of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and are quite confident in surviving the next Heavenly Tribulation, but—"

She looked at Jiang Bai, her icy blue eyes filled with a rare solemnity and anticipation: "If we can avoid the heavenly tribulation and break through safely, that would be the best outcome. Therefore, we'd like to—enter your tower's inner space to attempt a breakthrough. Is that feasible?"

Not far away, Hyotei, who was sitting on a boulder swinging her short legs, also stopped what she was doing. Her emerald green eyes stared unblinkingly at Jiang Bai, her eyes filled with undisguised tension and anticipation.

"I don't know if it will work either," Jiang Bai pondered. "Although the space inside the tower is special, your cultivation levels are both very high, and the energy levels triggered during your breakthroughs far exceed those of the Ice Dragon. However—"

He raised his head, his eyes resolute: "It's worth a try!"

Upon hearing this, both the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress's eyes lit up with a bright light.

"Okay!" Xue Di rarely showed a genuine, somewhat relaxed smile.

Hyotei jumped off the boulder and rushed over in a few steps. Although she still had that arrogant look, her slightly trembling fingertips betrayed her inner excitement.

Jiang Bai said no more, raised his right hand, and had a thought.

As the light shimmered, a pagoda appeared above his palm, its body crystal clear and radiating a mysterious aura.

The Snow Empress and the Ice Empress exchanged a glance, then transformed into two beams of light and plunged into the pagoda.

Jiang Bai sat down cross-legged to rest and recover his soul power.

Inside the tower.

The figures of Xue Di and Bing Di appeared.

Feeling the rich and pure ice-attribute elemental energy here, both beasts felt an indescribable joy.

"The energy concentration here seems to be getting higher and higher," Xue Di sighed softly as she looked around.

Hyotei clenched her small fists, her blue eyes sparkling with excitement: "Xue'er, I'll try first! You protect me!"

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"Yes, be careful." Xue Di nodded, stepped aside, and focused her attention.

Without further hesitation, Hyotei immediately sat down cross-legged.

With a flick of her hand, several strands of ancient ice marrow, radiating terrifying cold, appeared before her.

Without the slightest hesitation, she grasped one in each hand and began to absorb the incredibly pure ice-attribute energy within.

The Xuanbing Marrow dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A surge of intense, frigid energy flowed into the Ice Emperor's body, causing her aura to rise steadily, and the emerald green light around her grew ever brighter.

In just a quarter of an hour, the energy of several strands of Xuanbing Marrow was completely absorbed.

Hyotei's aura has reached a critical point, like a reservoir filled with water, ready to burst at any moment.

She took a deep breath, and her body began to change shape.

A bright emerald light shone forth, and Hyotei's petite humanoid body swelled and deformed within the light.

It eventually transformed into a scorpion about 1.5 meters long, its entire body resembling a piece of jade.

The true form of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion!

The scorpion has a long, slender body, and its carapace is as clear and translucent as jade, reflecting a cold luster.

Its two front claws are huge and sharp, and its tail hook is curved and upturned, exuding a chilling aura.

The full release of four hundred thousand years of cultivation caused the terrifying pressure of the ferocious beast to freeze the ice and snow of the entire small world.

However, Hyotei did not trigger the Heavenly Tribulation.

The rules of the inner world of the tower seem to have truly recognized this breakthrough, or rather—blocked external perception.