Courtyard House: My Time Travel is a Bit Too Strong

Lin Quan's gaze swept over everyone, finally settling on Li Hanyi, his voice steady:

"Only one last step remains before Operation Soul Hunt can be successfully completed."

"The Endless Ice Sea is just a hundred miles away. Let's catch a few deep-sea spirit fish along the way and have a taste of freshness."

What do you think?

Before she finished speaking, Qiao Jingjing and the others exchanged smiles and nodded in agreement.

Boom!

The moment the words were spoken, the earth trembled violently, and a distant, thunderous roar echoed.

Looking up, a snow wave tens of meters high was surging and rushing towards us, with snow spray flying everywhere, just like a raging tide crashing against the shore!

"here we go again……"

Lin Quan and the other women frowned in unison, their expressions revealing a hint of weariness and helplessness.

They had encountered this scene more than ten times, for two whole days without stopping.

Indeed, in just three short days since they entered the far north, they spent two-thirds of their time traversing, dodging, and panting through the snow.

This story begins two days ago—

It was precisely when Li Hanyi was refining her eighth soul ring.

That 100,000-year-old soul ring came from a lone snow maiden.

And this snow woman is a member of the same clan as the overlord of the far north, the Snow Empress, the Ice and Snow Goddess.

Upon first meeting, Lin Quan was shocked: it turned out that the Snow Empress was not an isolated case, and the Snow Maiden clan still had descendants!

Upon closer inspection, these snow maidens, though humanoid, have faint ice scales floating between their brows and eyes, cold mist rising from their fingertips, and frost particles gathering at the ends of their hair—clearly, their true forms as soul beasts cannot be concealed.

Otherwise, no one would dare to make a move so easily.

Unfortunately, that's precisely where the problem lies—

They did indeed kill the Snow Woman, and Li Hanyi successfully refined the Soul Ring...

But from that day on, the wind and snow in the far north seemed to have a memory and began to chase after them.

But it was this snow maiden who forced out the supreme ruler of the far north—the Snow Emperor. This overlord, who had ruled the ice plains for hundreds of thousands of years, had a cultivation level approaching seven hundred thousand years and possessed the advantage of the terrain, causing the heavens and earth to freeze wherever the cold air reached.

Lin Quan and his group were caught off guard at first and were forced to retreat in a series of attacks, facing constant danger!

Fortunately, Li Hanyi was there to protect them—a top-tier expert of the Great Freedom Realm, whose sword intent was as cold as frost and snow—and she managed to keep everyone safe and sound. Even so, the Snow Emperor's pursuit never stopped for the next two days.

The moment they paused, a sudden blizzard erupted, with thousands of ice crystals, like blades and spears, accompanied by howling icy currents, pelting them relentlessly. "If it weren't for the suppression of the Heavenly Dao in the Martial Soul World, the Snow Empress would have long since broken through the divine barrier and ascended to heaven..."

"Even with these limitations, with 700,000 years of cultivation and the power of the vast ice plains of the far north..."

"For now, the only option is to temporarily avoid their attack."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Quan and Qiao Jingjing exchanged glances, their eyes meeting in unison.

What flashed across his eyes was an unconcealable weariness and helplessness.

In the past two days, they have clashed with the Snow Emperor more than ten times. Although they escaped each time, they never gained the upper hand, let alone counterattacked—they were frozen in the wind for even the slightest chance to catch their breath.

"Walk!"

Seeing the surging, sky-covering cold wave crashing towards him, Lin Quan didn't hesitate any longer. He turned his gaze to Qiao Jingjing and Wang Yuyan and shouted in a low voice.

Swish!Swish!Swish!

The two responded immediately, their spiritual energy spreading out like a silver veil, instantly enveloping everyone and taking them into the air.

Before the icy torrents could crash against the cliffs, their figures had already transformed into points of light, tearing through the clouds and disappearing into the vast sky.

"Damn it! They got away again..."

Deep within the snow-covered landscape, two imposing figures slowly emerged.

They are the only two beings to reign supreme in the far north—

The one on the left, dressed in white like snow, with eyes filled with eternal frost, is none other than the Ice and Snow Maiden, the Snow Emperor;

The person on the right, with his scorpion tail suspended in the air and swirling with blue light, was none other than the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, Ice Emperor, who later joined the hunt!

The soul ring that Li Hanyi obtained back then came from the Ice Jade Scorpion clan—an Ice Jade Scorpion with 90,000 years of cultivation died by her sword.

"Fine, these people are no less powerful than you or me."

"After more than ten battles, they fled in disarray, and we failed to capture a single one..."

"Driving them out of the far north is already the limit."

The Ice Emperor clenched his teeth, and the veins on his forehead throbbed slightly; the Snow Emperor, however, remained calm, and the raging fury he had felt upon first hearing of the annihilation of his clan was gone from his brow.

When she first heard of the massacre of Yuki-onna's followers, her killing intent was even greater than that of Hyotei. But after a series of direct confrontations, she finally realized: she could neither keep them nor trap them.

From initial fury to calmly backing down now, it's not compromise, but a profound understanding.

Despite her title of "Ice and Snow Maiden" and her leadership of the Snow Maiden clan, she is actually not on the same level as those Snow Maidens who are born with soul beasts.

Although the Snow Maiden clan resembles humans and is intelligent and spiritual, they are ultimately soul beasts, relying on bloodline inheritance and the accumulation of time.

But the Snow Empress is different. She is a primordial spirit nurtured for a thousand years by the cold marrow of the far north and refined by ten thousand years of wind and snow; she is a spirit naturally born from the breath of heaven and earth.

If it weren't for the ironclad rules of the Martial Soul World that rigidly confuse spiritual status and forcibly classify her into the Soul Beast category—

What 700,000-year-old soul beast? It is clearly a chosen spirit, the most ancient and purest embodiment of ice and snow in this world!

Regardless of how the Snow Emperor and Ice Emperor stood in the wind and snow, gazing at the horizon and sighing in vain, Lin Quan and his group, who had long since fled, continued their journey south without stopping.

Until the horizon, a vast and boundless ice sea suddenly unfolds.

Lin Quan raised his hand to signal, and everyone slowly landed.

The sea was not frozen, but the floating ice was like a forest, the glaciers were scattered, and the solitary icebergs drifted with the waves, glowing with a dark blue light, and the cold was bone-chilling.

"Get out of here."

Before he finished speaking, everyone had already jumped down and landed on the edge of the floating ice.

Lin Quan crouched down, bent over, and reached his hand into the seawater—

"hiss……"

The moment my fingertips touched the water, a bone-chilling cold shot straight up to my head!

A wisp of true energy flowed through Lin Quan's fingertips, and his stiff, cold body came back to life.

"The seawater is bone-chillingly cold, probably dropping to minus twenty degrees Celsius, even more frigid than the ice caves in the far north..." Before he finished speaking, his gaze suddenly darkened, staring straight at Qiao Jingjing and Wang Yuyan.

Without any preamble, Lin Quan raised his hand and said:

"Jingjing, Yuyan, use your mental powers to scan the surroundings."

"it is good."

The two nodded in response, without uttering a single word, but their thoughts were already out like threads—whoosh!

Only a dozen breaths later, Qiao Jingjing raised an eyebrow and a smile appeared in the corner of her eyes.

The next instant, the sea surface, which was only ten meters away from the crowd, suddenly surged and the waves exploded!

boom--!

A column of water shot into the sky, and a soul beast resembling a giant lobster, its entire body gleaming with a cold, eerie blue light, burst forth from the waves. It was ten meters long, its carapace covered with dense frost patterns, and its limbs clanged and rattled.

"A thousand-year-old soul beast... no, a ferocious creature over nine thousand years old!"

Lin Quan's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed his dry saliva. Although this world of martial spirits was absurd and bizarre, soul beasts were always treasures—they could condense soul rings and refine soul bones. What was even more rare was that more than 80% of them were edible, with tender and delicious meat.

The lobster in front of me, with only a thousand years of cultivation, has already grown to a height of ten meters, its shell as thick as black iron, and its pincers flashing with a cold light.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As soon as the first lobster was lifted out of the water, the entire sea churned as if boiling water.