Chapter 49: Deity Sealing Platform
"What is it?" Xue Linglong asked gently, looking at Du Qianjue.
"I remember your Ice Empress's Three Ultimate Skills are self-created soul techniques: Imperial Sword, Imperial Palm, and Imperial Cold Heaven. They are some of the strongest self-created soul techniques in the world," Du Qianjue said, stroking his chin. "Now that I'm also working on my own self-created soul techniques, of course, I want to seek help from you, the ruler of the Extreme North."
Du Qianjue raised an eyebrow at Xue Linglong.
"Why so formal?" Xue Linglong playfully rolled her eyes.
Naturally, Xue Linglong wouldn't withhold anything from Du Qianjue, but instead of teaching him here, she took him back to her territory.
This was the true center of the Extreme North, a forbidden area where no soul beast dared to tread. It was a place where the Ice Empress had resided alone for centuries.
Upon returning to her territory, Xue Linglong's expression changed visibly.
"What's wrong, Xue'er?" Du Qianjue asked, squeezing her small hand.
"A human has trespassed," Xue Linglong said, her eyes flashing with cold light. Intense killing intent radiated from her. "Strangely, I didn't notice them earlier. If their aura hadn't fluctuated just now, I wouldn't have detected them."
"A human?" Du Qianjue's face twitched. "Is it a Titled Douluo?"
"Anyone below a Titled Douluo wouldn't survive in my Extreme North!" Xue Linglong's right hand formed an icy sword out of thin air.
The human Titled Douluo, sensing that Xue Linglong had discovered him, stopped hiding. Metallic wings unfolded from his back, and numerous thrusters ignited, propelling him away rapidly.
"Think you can leave after coming here?" Xue Linglong said coldly, tearing through space in a single step.
She was always the Ice Empress, and apart from Du Qianjue, no one else had the fortune of experiencing her gentleness. Whatever the human's intentions were, once discovered by the Ice Empress, they were doomed.
"Damn! The Ice Empress actually brought a man back to her territory!" the Titled Douluo cursed inwardly. He was a ninth-level soul engineer from the Sun Moon Empire, who had used several ninth-level soul tools to hide his aura and infiltrate the depths of the Extreme North.
If not for his brief moment of shock causing a fluctuation in his soul power, he wouldn't have been discovered even with several ninth-level soul tools concealing him.
"What the hell is... damn it!!"
The unknown ninth-level soul engineer's pupils shrank as a sword light, seemingly splitting heaven and earth, appeared before him. Time seemed to freeze around the sword light, and he could only watch helplessly as the blade struck him.
A white light flashed before his eyes, and the Sun Moon Empire's ninth-level soul engineer lost consciousness completely.
He didn't die; his consciousness was merely frozen by the extreme cold.
This was the current Xue Linglong, the Ice Empress. With her eighty-thousand-year cultivation, even Du Buzhi would be wary of her. How could the soul engineers of the Sun Moon Empire, who relied on soul tools and had weak personal combat strength, compare?
Unless they were at the limit, anyone below that level was almost the same to her—just a matter of how many strikes it took.
Even those below a Titled Douluo couldn't withstand her gaze, being instantly crushed by her soul power.
This was a suppression of cultivation and combat strength that no technique could overcome.
The so-called level ninety-eight Gourmand Douluo being able to withstand Di Tian for several hours was just because Di Tian wasn't serious. Otherwise, the semi-divine Di Tian could end him with a single Dragon God's Claw.
The gap between level ninety-eight and ninety-nine was greater than between Soul Saint and Titled Douluo, and the differences between level ninety-nine were just as vast.
Moreover, each ten-thousand-year increment after fifty thousand years was a chasm for soul beasts.
In the past, without the Heavenly Tribulation, a fifty-thousand-year soul beast could already aspire to become a god!
Du Qianjue, waiting patiently, felt only a few seconds pass before Xue Linglong returned, carrying an ice sculpture with soul power.
The ice sculpture was lifelike, even showing fear and despair in its eyes.
"Tsk, look at all these soul tools," Du Qianjue clicked his tongue, examining the Titled Douluo. "He must be from the Sun Moon Empire. The three Douluo kingdoms don't have ninth-level soul engineers, and the Sun Moon Empire doesn't usually let ninth-level soul tools slip away. Titled Douluos from the three Douluo kingdoms also disdain using so many soul tools."
"But why did he come to my Extreme North? And how did he sneak into my territory?" Xue Linglong frowned, her eyes still filled with anger.
This ninth-level soul engineer's infiltration was an enormous humiliation to her.
"Let's see," Du Qianjue said, though he had a guess. He summoned the Ice Dragon King's right arm bone, turning his right arm into a dragon claw, and sliced off the soul engineer's finger with the storage soul tool.
"Oh, it's a Starlight Sapphire. And it's bigger than mine," Du Qianjue raised an eyebrow, his spiritual power delving into the storage soul tool.
It was filled with all kinds of rare metals and soul tools, a pile of gold soul coins, and several Sun Moon Empire gold soul coin savings cards.
No wonder he was a ninth-level soul engineer; he was rich!
Du Qianjue even found two ninth-level fixed soul cannon shells!
"What the hell is this guy's background?" Du Qianjue was shocked. Not every ninth-level soul engineer had such items. These were strategic weapons of the Sun Moon Empire!
Each ninth-level fixed soul cannon shell's explosion was comparable to an attack from a Limit Douluo. The Sun Moon Empire had about a hundred of them, accumulated over thousands of years. Ordinary ninth-level soul engineers wouldn't dare to make these.
They were volatile!
A slight mishandling could cause an explosion, and no ninth-level soul engineer could survive being near a detonation.
Such a precious item, and he had two. Plus, he had many other ninth-level soul tools. Du Qianjue saw at least five just by glancing through the storage soul tool.
And that didn't count what he had on him!
A ninth-level flying soul tool and a ninth-level trigger soul shield had been destroyed by Xue Linglong's strike but still counted. A ninth-level single-use mental defense soul tool, which was still intact, and three ninth-level aura concealment soul tools, a ninth-level Thunder Annihilation Soul Beam, and a ninth-level scattering light cannon.
There were also three seventh-level invincible shields he didn't get to use before being frozen.
Thirteen ninth-level soul tools!
What kind of background did this guy have?
Du Qianjue pulled out a plate covered in various gems from the Starlight Sapphire ring. The plate, the size of a dish, had an array of gems forming a formation.
The formation emitted a faint sealing aura.
"A ninth-level soul tool, the Deity Sealing Platform..."
(End of Chapter)
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