I have added this story to my Patreon. You can support me and read the 40 latest and advanced chapters there. It also fed and motivate me to write more chapters!
Free Members will get 10 Chapters Ahead of the schedule on Patreon!!!
Link: Patreon.com/AVRKingsTL
—------------------—
Xue Tianxing followed behind the two emperors of ice and snow. Although he felt a little complicated, he also knew that this was the law of survival in the far north.
All he could do was to make good use of this spirit ring and live up to this "gift".
When we arrived at the nest, we saw a smaller Ice Eagle curled up on the hay, breathing weakly. It was the seriously injured cub.
Xue Di raised her hand and waved it, and a soft ice energy wrapped around it. The cub's body gradually relaxed, and the pain in its eyes dissipated.
"We can begin now."
Xue Di said to Xue Tianxing.
Xue Tianxing took a deep breath, sat down cross-legged, circulated his soul power, and released the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
The body of the Frostwind Ice Eagle cub transformed into a blue-black light and slowly merged into his body—there was no painful struggle, only the pure power of the spirit ring and bloodline, flowing into his dantian along the meridians.
Thanks to the bonus brought by the sacrifice, Xue Tianxing found it extremely easy to absorb this spirit ring. The power of the spirit ring of the young Frost Wind Ice Eagle flowed smoothly into his dantian along his meridians like a trickle of water. There was no sense of rejection at all, and it spontaneously merged with the Ice Phoenix martial spirit without even requiring him to deliberately guide it.
But after a moment, the black soul ring surrounding his feet stabilized.
Xue Tianxing slowly opened his eyes, feeling the fluctuations of soul power in his body, and nodded slightly:
"It went smoothly indeed."
But then Xue Tianxing felt a sense of helplessness - his soul power only increased from level 40 to level 42, which was far less significant than when he absorbed the soul ring before.
"This is the trouble with the Ultimate Martial Spirit. Even just advancing to the next level is several times more difficult than for others."
Xue Tianxing understood it in his heart, but he was not discouraged. After all, the ice and wind attribute bonus brought by this soul ring increased his combat power far more than the increase in soul power level.
After absorbing the soul ring, Xue Tianxing stood up and walked to the body of the young Frostwind Ice Eagle.
Then Xue Tianxing felt around carefully and soon found a hard, protruding object on the body of the Frostwind Ice Eagle.
Xue Tianxing used his soul power to carefully peel off the bone, and a piece of right arm bone with a blue-white luster suddenly appeared - it was the 20,000-year-old Lingfeng Ice Eagle soul bone, which contained extremely strong ice wind cutting power.
"A good catch."
Xue Tianxing put the soul bone into the storage ring, and had a plan in mind:
Although the attributes of this soul bone are strong, its age is only 20,000 years, which is too short. If I absorb it myself, it will be a waste of a place to absorb soul bones. It is better to bring it back to the Kingdom of Barak and give it to my father Xuezhe.
Xuezhe's Bingluan martial soul also has ice attributes. The soul bone of this soul beast with extreme ice attributes can just make up for the shortcomings of his martial soul.
Thinking that he had absorbed the fourth soul ring, Xue Tianxing wanted to immediately possess his martial soul and try out the power of the fourth soul skill, but out of the corner of his eye he saw the Cold Wind Ice Eagle King squatting in the corner of the nest, with his back to them, silently wiping his eyes. His lonely back revealed an unspeakable sadness.
Xue Tianxing paused - this was someone's sad place, and it would be too inhumane to test his soul skills here.
He suppressed his curiosity and turned to look at the Ice and Snow Emperors.
Bingdi saw all of this, nodded slightly, and softened his tone a little:
"Now that you have the spirit ring and spirit bone, I will take you back."
Xue Tianxing nodded in agreement without saying anything more.
The next second, the Ice Emperor grabbed his arm, and his soul power surged, turning into a blue-white stream of light, rushing towards the center circle of the Far North.
The speed of the Far North Overlord was astonishingly fast. In just a stick of incense, they arrived above the ice field where Xue Tianxing was originally taken away.
"We're here, let's get off."
Bingdi let go of his hand and waved at Xue Tianxing.
Xue Tianxing bowed to her:
"Thank you, Senior Hyotei. I will definitely come back to the Far North when I reach level 70."
After saying that, he jumped down and landed steadily on the ice field.
The moment he landed, Xue Tianxing looked towards the direction of the ice valley - he saw that the valley was in a mess, with dozens of blizzard wind wolf corpses lying on the ground. The huge blizzard wind wolf king had long since lost his breath, and there were still strong soul power fluctuations beside the corpse.
Obviously, Liu Tianfeng has successfully absorbed the ninth soul ring and officially became a Titled Douluo.
But then, Xue Tianxing frowned - there was no one around the ice valley, and Liu Tianfeng and Dugu Bo had long disappeared.
"They must have noticed I'm missing, and they're probably frantically searching for me throughout the Far North."
The fact was just as Xue Tianxing expected, the battle situation in the ice valley progressed extremely quickly.
Dugu Bo waved his hand and released the green phosphorus snake venom mixed with the medicinal power of the Snow Swan Kiss. The ordinary blizzard wind wolves fell down as soon as they came into contact with it. In just a moment, most of the obstacles were cleared away.
Liu Tianfeng, holding the Frost Wind Sword, engaged in a head-on confrontation with the huge Blizzard Wind Wolf King - the wolf king's ice wind claws were extremely sharp, and every swing was accompanied by a whistling sound that tore through the air. However, Liu Tianfeng, relying on his years of combat experience, responded calmly with exquisite sword moves. The frost sword energy collided with the wolf king's ice wind power, stirring up ice and snow all over the sky.
"Old Liu, let me help you!"
After dealing with the outer wolves, Dugu Bo leaped up, condensed a ball of thick green poisonous mist in his right hand, and threw it towards the wolf king's eyes.
The Blizzard Wolf King was caught off guard, his vision blurred by the poisonous fog, and his movements slowed down instantly.
Liu Tianfeng seized the opportunity, burst out with all his soul power, and the Frost Wind Sword turned into a blue light and pierced into the wolf king's neck.
"Ouch—"
The wolf king let out a shrill roar, his huge body fell to the ground with a bang, and the light in his eyes gradually faded.
"It's done!"
Liu Tianfeng let out a long sigh and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Dugu Bo walked forward, kicked the wolf king's body, and said with a smile:
"Quickly absorb this eighty thousand year old spirit ring. I'll go check around to see if there are any hidden dangers."
Liu Tianfeng nodded, sat cross-legged beside the wolf king's corpse, and began to guide the power of the soul ring.
Dugu Boze flashed and began to patrol around the ice valley - the Far North was full of dangers, and he had to ensure that Liu Tianfeng would not be disturbed when absorbing the soul ring.
After some investigation, no trace of other powerful soul beasts was found. Dugu Bo felt relieved and turned to walk towards the ice rock where Xue Tianxing was hiding, preparing to call Xue Tianxing to guard Liu Tianfeng together.
But when he walked behind the ice rock, his face suddenly changed - Xue Tianxing was gone!
There was only a thin layer of snow on the ground and no footprints, so it was obvious that Xue Tianxing did not leave on his own.
"Where did this kid go?"
Dugu Bo's heart tightened, and he immediately released his mental power to investigate, but he could not sense Xue Tianxing's breath at all.
He recalled what Liu Tianfeng had told Xue Tianxing before he left:
"If there is danger, release your soul power and call us."
But from beginning to end, he did not feel any soul power fluctuation released by Xue Tianxing.