Zhutian Panlong: They've all become gods, and they're only just joining the chat group.

Chapter 83 Douluo Continent

Douluo Continent, the far north. This place is located at the northernmost point of Douluo Continent, and as far as the eye can see, it is a vast expanse of white.

The temperature here is extremely low, making it impossible for ordinary creatures or even spirit beasts to survive.

Only cold-resistant spirit beasts adapted to this climate can survive here.

This is a forbidden zone for humans; even ordinary Soul Masters cannot survive here, let alone ordinary humans.

The Snow Emperor's residence is located in the heart of the far north.

The temperature here is close to what is known as the world's extreme ice.

Even soul beasts resistant to low temperatures cannot survive here, so only the Snow Empress exists in this vast region.

Only occasionally would another ferocious beast, Hyotei, come to visit.

Today, a guest has arrived here after a long absence.

Richard appeared here just like that.

The first thing I did upon arriving, as usual, was to assess the impact of the increased strength.

The laws governing this world are quite similar to those of the Panlong world, second only to Xia Mi's world.

Moreover, Richard has traveled through so many worlds that he knows far more than just the laws of the Panlong world.

This allows him to unleash most of his power in this world.

This strength should be enough, right?

After all, this is a fantasy sewer, and the combat power in this world doesn't seem to be very high?

The surrounding environment was too cold, and Richard was finding it a little difficult to adjust. It wasn't that he couldn't stand the cold, but he hadn't expected it to be this cold before coming, so he was just a little unaccustomed to it for a while. It would be fine in a little while.

From a distance, Xue Di gazed at him curiously with her sky-blue eyes.

Richard was also observing this new group member who had only recently joined the group.

With snow-white hair, snow-white skin, and even her dress, which was decorated only with some light blue ice crystals, she seemed to blend into the world around her.

Although Snow Empress is a soul beast, she is a snow spirit born of heaven and earth, naturally nurtured by nature.

She was originally humanoid; this is her original appearance, not her transformed form.

"Hello, Snow Empress. I'm Richard."

Xue Di nodded to Richard.

"Hello, I am Yuki-onna (Snow Woman)."

Richard was also quite curious about this naturally gifted group member.

I was curious about her gestation process, wondering if my own little world could also give birth to such a naturally born creature.

However, this is a private matter and it's not appropriate to ask directly. Most importantly, even Xue Di herself might not know how she was conceived.

He can just observe secretly on his own.

Perhaps due to years of solitude, Xue Di is very aloof. She appears quite cold and distant.

Richard presented Xue Di with a bracelet he had made himself, which had a storage function, as a gift.

He had given storage equipment to most of the previous group members.

These new group members, however, haven't gotten to know each other well yet. They can be given out as a greeting gift later.

Xue Di curiously took the bracelet and, following Richard's instructions, used her mental power to check the storage space inside. It was about several dozen cubic meters in size, enough for daily use.

She wore it on her hand as a gesture of acceptance of Richard's gift.

Although storage soul tools exist in the Douluo Continent, Xue Di has lived in the far north for many years and has never been to the human world. Therefore, she doesn't actually have such storage equipment.

Having this thing can definitely make daily life much more convenient.

Subsequently, the Snow Empress also gave Richard a piece of soul bone as a return gift.

This thing is practically a specialty of the Douluo Continent world. In this world, monster drops are real, although the drop rate for low-level soul beasts is rather low. But soul beasts over 100,000 years old will always drop soul bones upon death.

Just like now, if he were to kill the Snow Emperor in front of him, he could also obtain a piece of soul bone.

Richard mentally complained about the strange rules of this world.

If the Snow Empress on the other side knew what he was thinking, she would probably slap him.

This person is not a good person. What kind of good person would kill their group members and loot their equipment upon meeting them?

As for this soul bone, it's a 100,000-year-old soul bone.

Long ago, a spirit beast from the far north, who had been over 100,000 years old, foolishly came to provoke her and was killed by her with a single slap.

Despite the fact that they were both 100,000-year-old soul beasts, and that cultivation was difficult, as well as that there were few of their kind over 100,000 years old in the far north, she spared that guy's life.

But that guy didn't appreciate it and came to ambush her again while she was going through the ordeal of the ferocious beast.

It was truly a case of "the uncle can tolerate it, but the aunt can't." The second time, she didn't hold back and slapped the guy to death.

Richard examined the soul bone with curiosity, though of course he had no intention of absorbing it. This thing wouldn't provide him with any enhancement, and might even affect the purity of his body.

However, he was curious about the soul skills in soul bones and soul rings, and what was the situation in this world where one could melt soul bones into divine equipment after becoming a god.

In short, although the power ceiling of this world may seem low, there is still a lot worth studying.

The existence of martial spirits is quite peculiar.

This world has a semi-gamified feel; the rules of the entire world are somewhat like the rules of a game.

At this moment, Richard disregarded the fact that Xue Di was still standing beside him and directly used his spiritual power to delve into the soul bone.

Under the influence of his powerful mental strength, he finally saw the secret at the very core of the soul bone.

That was a combination of the soul fragments of this soul beast and tiny fragments of laws, cleverly packaged into an integrated package.

Once a Soul Master merges with this Soul Bone, they can use the Soul Bone's Soul Skills simply by activating this object.

This soul bone contains two soul skills. He wasn't sure what they were, but he could sense that one was related to ice and the other to power.

I imagine that spirit rings operate on the same principle.

From Richard's perspective, those golden fragments of law should be the source of these soul beasts' soul skills.

To verify this, Richard had the puppet capture a soul beast from a distance.

It was a thousand-year-old ice silkworm. Due to being captured, it had a stress reaction and used its soul skill to simulate the aura of a ten-thousand-year-old ice jade scorpion in an attempt to scare Richard away.

Richard chuckled and used his mental power to probe directly, and sure enough, he found tiny fragments of laws within the ice silkworm's body.

So that's how these soul beasts got their soul skills?

Will fragments of the laws be passed down through bloodlines?

Where did the initial fragments of the law come from?

We can discuss this another time; Richard, put aside your doubts for now.

He continued to study the ice silkworm in his hands.

After obtaining Xue Di's consent, he killed the Ice Silkworm.

Then observe the formation process of the spirit rings.

As expected, a fragment of the Ice Silkworm's soul combined with some fragments of the laws within its body to form a purple soul ring.

The remaining fragments of the law, lacking a soul to bind with, dispersed and disappeared directly within its body.

Why would the soul of a soul beast merge with the fragments of rules within its body?

Ah, the rules of this world are truly strange.

Richard sighed again.

He was becoming increasingly curious about why the world had such peculiar rules.

Xue Di watched him study quietly without interrupting.

Only after he looked up did he ask, "So, from the perspective of a god from another world, how do you see the differences between my world and yours?"

She had never thought that the rules of her world were anything special.

Perhaps it's because she's lived in this world since she was a child that she developed a cognitive bias that she herself wasn't even aware of.

Now that Richard, this god from another world, has come, we can let him compare the differences between the two worlds.

"It's very strange. I've never seen a world with such strange rules."

The laws of your world are very similar to the laws of my world and Xia Mi's world.

However, regarding the underlying rules, it's a bit strange that soul beasts drop soul rings and soul bones after they die.

It seems like the underlying rules of your world are somewhat gamified.

Richard spoke the truth.

But Xue Di didn't understand.

"Is it strange that soul rings and soul bones drop?"

But isn't this normal? Soul beasts have always produced soul rings when they die.

"Of course it's strange, it's like getting equipment after defeating a monster."

When you have time, ask Feng Baobao, Ye Zhen, and Xia Mi for some single-player games. After playing them, you'll understand what I mean by strange.

The biggest question is, if soul beasts can drop soul rings, why can't soul masters?

If both soul beasts and soul masters develop soul rings after death, then I would simply conclude that your world has special rules.

But now only spirit beasts are dropping them, which feels off. This definitely didn't happen naturally.

Furthermore, Soul Masters must hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings in order to advance in their cultivation. I've never seen such a bizarre advancement requirement.

Richard explained.

"You mean, someone's manipulating these rules? Who? The gods of the divine realm?"

Although she didn't fully understand, Xue Di understood what Richard meant by it not being formed naturally.

She had already suspected that the Beast Calamity was the work of the gods in the divine realm, and now it was just that the appearance of the soul rings and soul bones was also problematic.

Having too many lice doesn't make you itch, and having too many debts doesn't make you worry; it's just another mark added to the mental record of the gods' names.

"Heh, the gods of the divine realm? I doubt the gods of your world have that kind of power."

"I don't believe your world's god-kings could possess the ability to alter the fundamental rules of an entire realm."

Richard certainly knew the plot of the Douluo Continent novel, but now that the world in the novel had become a real existence, everything that was unreasonable in the original work should have a reasonable explanation.

Now he is trying to analyze how the underlying rules of Douluo Continent, a game-like phenomenon, were formed.

Either this world wasn't formed naturally, but rather by a creator god who established these game-like rules during creation.

Either this world once had a powerful individual who broke through to a level comparable to a creator god, and that person rewrote the underlying rules of this world.

Whether a creator god exists is hard to say.

If the second hypothesis is true, then the former Dragon God is a suspect.

The Dragon God was indeed very powerful, that much is undeniable.

I reckon they'll eventually surpass the God-King realm.

I just don't know if something went wrong during the breakthrough, which led to the series of consequences that followed.

However, it still cannot explain why it imposes such restrictions on soul beasts.

The current rules are extremely unfavorable to soul beasts. If things continue like this, soul beasts will be driven to extinction by soul masters within tens of thousands of years.

Xue Di was speechless. She hadn't expected Richard to throw such a huge bombshell at her so soon after arriving. It had made her a little paranoid.