Douluo Continent: Tonight, a Fairy Tale Descends

Immediately afterwards, clusters of solid golden light, containing immense spiritual essence, emerged from between her eyebrows.

One, two, three... a total of nine golden rays emerged one after another and hovered in front of her.

The nine golden lights paused briefly in the air, as if summoned by some force, and then suddenly converged, collided, and merged towards the center!

The dazzling golden light illuminated the entire igloo, even shining through to form a brief golden pillar of light on the dim ice field.

As the light gradually subsided, a gigantic, pure white, plump, and round phantom silkworm, composed of pure spiritual and soul power, clearly floated in front of Xiao Wu's ice house.

The usual flattery or cunning was gone from its small eyes; only an almost insane resolve and a deeply hidden expectation remained.

This is the spiritual embodiment of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm.

Its immense will, like rolling thunder, carrying a cathartic release of millions of years of suppressed emotions and a deliberately crafted arrogance, roared unabashedly towards the core depths of the far north:

"Hyotei! I know you sensed my presence! I, Tenmu, have returned!!"

Its sound echoed across the vast ice plains, carrying a strange penetrating power, as if it could ignore the barriers of distance.

"Back then, you hunted me down and drove me to the brink of despair! I, Tianmeng, will forever remember this grudge! Today, I have achieved great success in my cultivation and have come to find you! To settle our old scores!"

It paused deliberately, a hint of contempt and provocation in its expression:

"What? The mighty Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, one of the three great kings of the far north with over 300,000 cultivation points, doesn't dare to come out and see me, Tianmeng? Or are you just hiding in your ice cave, ordering around your incompetent subordinates?"

Inside the ice house, Xiao Wu listened to Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's extremely arrogant declaration. Although she couldn't move her body, she had already cursed this stupid insect a thousand times in her heart.

"Tianmeng, you bastard! You son of a bitch! Didn't you say you came to negotiate a cooperation? This is what you call negotiation? You're clearly making an enemy of me!"

She was so angry she almost vomited blood. If she had known this bug was so unreliable, she would never have come to this godforsaken place with it.

She now fully understood why the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had been in such a hurry to come to the far north as soon as it left the Star Dou Great Forest!

What win-win situation, what cooperation? It's all a facade! This bastard is clearly using his position for personal gain, using the pretext of helping her obtain her second martial soul to settle old scores and fulfill his despicable obsession!

She had long known that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was cunning and shameless, but she never expected it to be so shameless as to deceive even its host!

Just as Xiao Wu was cursing wildly in her heart, the spiritual avatar of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm nervously sensed its surroundings.

The sky has changed.

On the distant horizon, a breathtaking emerald green hue, like a drop of thick ink falling into clear water, suddenly spreads out!

The emerald green color spread rapidly, and wherever it passed, the leaden-gray sky seemed to freeze, turning into a clear and deep emerald crystal, radiating an extremely cold pressure that made one's soul tremble.

The temperature in the air plummeted again in that instant!

A cold, arrogant female voice, carrying supreme authority and a hint of clear anger, resounded clearly throughout the verdant world, like ancient ice colliding.

"Tianmeng!"

"You damned bug! How dare you come back!!"

The voice wasn't particularly loud, but it carried a chill that pierced the soul, as if every word contained the ultimate rules of frost, making Xiao Wu, hiding in the ice house, tremble.

The sheer pressure emanating from that voice was enough to make it almost impossible for her to breathe.

Under the azure sky, a tall and elegant figure slowly materialized atop a distant icy peak.

It is about 1.5 meters long and has two colors: one is the color of ice and the other is emerald green.

Its body has four layers stacked at the front, each layer being slightly longer than half a foot. The head is located on the frontmost layer, and its silvery-white mouthparts gleam with a cold, eerie light.

The front half of the body, which is layered with four layers, is covered with a special kind of scale. Each scale is hexagonal, shimmering with an incomparably brilliant luster, like a diamond protrusion.

These protrusions are densely packed on its front half and its six long, powerful legs.

Bathed in the light of the snow, they shone with an unparalleled brilliance, resembling rows of upright, sharp thorns.

Both front claws are one meter long, and are covered with strange hexagonal, diamond-like protrusions. Only the foremost pincers and mouthparts are silver-white with a mirror-like luster.

Its eyes are yellow, like two of the purest yellow gemstones.

Its rear end, its long tail, consists of five segments, each shimmering with a vibrant emerald green luster. All five segments are the same color, widest near the upper body and tapering towards the rear. At the very last segment, there is an incredibly sharp tail hook, held high, gleaming with a mirror-like silvery-white luster.

This soul beast's overall form resembles the most perfect scorpion in the world, breathtakingly beautiful yet exuding a terrifying aura that inspires despair.

It was none other than the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, one of the three great kings of the far north, a super soul beast with nearly 300,000 years of cultivation!

Its sapphire-like eyes instantly locked onto the enormous phantom of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, formed from spiritual and soul power, in front of the ice house.

A complex emotion flashed in his eyes—shock, doubt, but above all, a chilling killing intent that seemed to tangible.

"You're really not dead?"

Hyotei's voice carried a hint of barely perceptible surprise, but it was quickly replaced by coldness.

"You dare show your face in front of me? Do you think you haven't lived long enough?"

The spirit incarnation of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm looked at the Ice Emperor's perfect and powerful figure, a hint of infatuation flashing in its small eyes, but more so a kind of desperate madness.

It deliberately made its voice sound full of resentment and arrogance:

"Hmph! Ice Emperor, you didn't expect this, did you? Not only did I, Tianmeng, survive, but I also benefited from the misfortune and my cultivation has greatly improved! I've returned today to avenge the pursuit and killing I suffered back then!"

Chapter 233 Snow Emperor

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm twisted its fat body, its phantom swaying in the air.

"However, Hyotei, before we make our move, there's something I've been holding back for hundreds of thousands of years, and I must tell you today!"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice became exceptionally sincere, even tinged with emotion: "Ice Emperor! I love you! From the first time I saw you in the far north ice plains, I fell in love with you! You are the only soul beast I, Tianmeng, have ever loved in my entire life!"

Inside the ice house, Xiao Wu listened to this earth-shattering confession and felt dizzy and nauseous.

"Tianmeng! I'll fuck your grandpa!"

She let out the loudest roar of her life in her heart.

"Are you fucking insane?! You made such a big fuss, lured out such a terrifying guy, just to say this? Are you fucking sick?! A lunatic! A pervert! A madman!"

Xiao Wu was filled with regret at this moment, regretting why she had believed this stupid worm who talked nonsense and whose brain was full of who-knows-what!

She now wishes she could turn back time and find a blacksmith to forge the insect into an iron block the moment she left the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ice Emperor was clearly taken aback by Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's sudden confession.

The murderous intent in those sapphire-like eyes froze for a moment, then was replaced by an even more intense, almost blasphemous, rage.

"You...you filthy, stupid, useless worm that only knows how to gnaw on ice marrow!"

Hyotei's voice rose slightly with extreme anger, as if the surrounding azure sky trembled, "You dare... dare to say such things to me?! You're asking for death!!"

A terrifying emerald green aura instantly erupted from its body, and an extreme chill locked onto the illusory image of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, about to unleash a thunderous attack.

"Now!"

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm wanted this moment of shock and emotional fluctuation; it had been waiting for this opportunity.

Its enormous spiritual avatar suddenly erupted with dazzling golden light. At the same time, the layer of luminous white Heavenly Dream Remnant that was tightly attached to Xiao Wu's body seemed to come alive, instantly detaching from her body and transforming into a luminous white stream of light that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.

Just as Hyotei had gathered terrifying ice-attribute energy, preparing to completely freeze and pulverize this disgusting insect that dared to desecrate it, she suddenly felt a strange power envelop her entire body.

It was not a powerful offensive energy, but an extremely tenacious binding force.

Looking down, it saw countless slender yet strong, luminous white threads that had somehow become like a spider web, wrapping around its magnificent and powerful body layer by layer.

These threads emitted a soft white light. They appeared fragile, yet contained an unimaginable elasticity and sealing power. No matter how much soul power it activated, it could not break free immediately.

"Tianmeng! You cheated!"

Hyotei was both shocked and furious, its sapphire-like eyes blazing with rage. It hadn't expected that this useless insect would possess such a method.

"Hehe, Hyotei, don't be angry!"

The spiritual avatar of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had become somewhat illusory, clearly indicating that the previous outburst and manipulation of the remains had greatly depleted it, but its tone carried the smugness of a successful scheme.

"I'm doing this for your own good! Come with me, let's have a proper talk!"

Before the words were finished, the shimmering white remains that were wrapped around the Ice Emperor suddenly burst out with an even more dazzling light. Together with the bound Ice Emperor, they transformed into a stream of light. Instead of flying away into the distance, they rushed directly towards the ice house where Xiao Wu was. More accurately, they rushed towards Xiao Wu's brow and her sea of ​​consciousness!

"No!"

Ice Emperor let out a shriek of shock and anger, and its body erupted with a frenzied green light as it tried to break free. However, the binding force of the remains was extremely strange and powerful. In addition, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm did not hesitate to burn its spiritual essence to drive it, and it dragged it away. In a violent spatial distortion, it instantly entered Xiao Wu's brow.

The azure sky suddenly returned to normal, and the terrifying pressure receded like a tide.

The core area of ​​the far north has returned to its usual coldness and deathly silence, as if the brief but thrilling confrontation had never happened.

Inside the ice house, Xiao Wu regained control of her body the instant Hyotei was dragged into her sea of ​​consciousness.

She suddenly opened her eyes, the pale gold in them had faded, leaving only lingering fear and unease.

She was panting heavily, her inner shirt soaked with cold sweat, and even with the lingering warmth of her remains, she felt icy cold all over.

She subconsciously touched her brow, where a strange fluctuation seemed to linger.

But within her spiritual sea, a monstrous wave had already surged.

The chaotic space, which was originally calm and peaceful with only Tianmeng Ice Silkworm as its resident, now has an uninvited guest.

The creature bound and restrained by layers of shimmering white silk threads was none other than the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, now shrunk countless times, yet still magnificent, domineering, and exuding a terrifying chill.

Its jewel-like eyes were spitting out indescribable rage and killing intent as it stared intently at the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, which was hovering in front of it. The silkworm had also shrunk in size and looked even fatter, but its spiritual body was noticeably dimmer and weaker.

"Tianmeng!!"

Hyotei's roar echoed within Xiao Wu's spiritual sea, causing the entire space to tremble slightly.

Xiao Wu's consciousness sank into the sea of ​​her mind. Looking at the tense scene that could explode at any moment, she felt overwhelmed and cursed Tianmeng Ice Silkworm in her heart.

……

The far north, the core area.

The wind and snow here seem to carry a certain rhythm, no longer as violent and turbulent as outside, but like orderly breathing, swirling with crystalline ice shards, flowing slowly among a group of towering ice palaces that seem to connect with the sky.

This is the Snow Emperor's residence, the true heart of the far north, a palace constructed of black ice, silent and majestic.

Inside the largest main hall, the light did not come from the outside, but rather emanated from the palace's own pure and flawless ice walls, soft and cool, illuminating every detail of the interior.

The Snow Emperor sat on a throne carved from a single block of ten-thousand-year-old ice.

She wore a simple white dress, as if woven from ice and snow, her skin was so white it was almost transparent, her eyes were an ice blue deeper than the purest sapphire, and her long hair was draped behind her, not snow white, but a silvery white like flowing moonlight.

She simply sat there quietly, without deliberately emitting any aura, yet she seemed to have merged with the ice and snow laws of the entire far northern core area, becoming the sole ruler of this world.