Chapter 236: Words of Temptation | Contract | Soul Spirit

"Yes, I felt that you must have used power just now. I sensed the aura of your power, so I came over." Xue Di nodded, but looked at Ning Feiliu with some confusion in her eyes and said, "But you..."

"Why do you still have other powers on your body? Besides ice and snow, there is also fire... and a little bit of the taste of the moon."

Ning Feiliu hadn't expected that his use of 【Summoning of the Ice and Snow God】 would actually attract Xue Di.

This was also because the three Demigods of Freljord—the Forge Demigod Ornn, the Ice and Snow Demigod Anivia, and the Thunder Demigod Volibear—were indeed the same as Xue Di.

They were all primordial deities nurtured by the elements of Freljord; fire and iron nurtured the Forge Demigod Ornn, ice and snow gave birth to the Ice and Snow Demigod Anivia, and thunder and storms transformed into the Thunder Demigod Volibear.

Therefore, as fellow Demigods nurtured by Freljord, they would address each other as brothers and sisters.

And in this situation, Xue Di, as a natural creature nurtured by the Extreme North, would subconsciously regard Ning Feiliu, who possessed the aura of Anivia, as kin.

"Hehe... that is because my power actually comes from a blessing." Ning Feiliu thought for a moment and said with a smile.

"A blessing?" Xue Di said, somewhat puzzled.

"That's right. The two natural powers of ice and fire that you sensed actually come from two elemental creatures just like you." Ning Feiliu decided to make up a story that was half-true and half-false.

"They... are they also elemental creatures like me? Then where are they!" Xue Di was indeed very excited and asked urgently.

She had felt very lonely since she was born into this world, and now that she heard there were creatures like her, also nurtured by natural elements, she was naturally incredibly excited.

"They are indeed elemental creatures as well, known as the Forge God Ornn, nurtured by the iron and fire elements, and the Ice and Snow God Anivia, born from the ice and snow elements." Ning Feiliu said with a faint smile.

"Ornn... Anivia, Brother Ornn... Sister Anivia..." Xue Di said, her eyes suddenly shining brightly.

She was already calling them brother and sister; it was clear she truly longed to find kin like herself.

It was precisely because of this that, in the original work, she would cause the farce of calling Huo Yuhao 'father' after becoming a Soul Spirit.

Excessive loneliness in her heart led to her extreme yearning for family affection.

"Then where are they now..." Xue Di asked immediately.

She was clearly impatient to see these two relatives of hers.

"They... have already become gods and gone to another world, but they ultimately passed their inheritance to me, so it is called a blessing." Ning Feiliu said immediately.

He could be considered to have given a reasonable explanation, and he was indeed not entirely lying to Xue Di.

Just ask yourself, are Ornn and Anivia gods, and are they in another world?

At the very least, according to the power levels of Douluo Continent, if Ornn and Anivia came to Douluo Continent and could still maintain most of their strength, they could even fight the original Goodness and Evil God Kings.

And since Ning Feiliu possessed both the 【Blessing of the Forge Demigod】 and the 【Blessing of the Ice and Snow Demigod】, he could be considered to have received the blessings of Ornn and Anivia.

So he was not wrong to say so.

"They became gods and went to another world... I see." Xue Di felt a bit disappointed, yet she believed everything Ning Feiliu said without doubt.

After all, the aura of power on Ning Feiliu was not fake; not only did it truly give her the feeling of a natural creature she could be close to, but the level of power reaching the god-tier was also absolutely genuine.

And if Brother Ornn and Sister Anivia were still in this world, Xue Di would definitely have been able to sense it if they revealed their power.

Just like how this human was so weak, yet when he displayed the power of Sister Anivia, she could sense it from far away.

But since they had gone to another world, Xue Di still felt lonely and disappointed.

She also wanted to be like her brother and sister, become a god, and go to another world.

"However... Xue Di, I don't know if I should say this." Ning Feiliu coughed and then said.

He had made up enough of the story; next... he would officially exert his influence.

Since he had met Xue Di and was able to strike up a conversation and gain her trust, he certainly could not let this opportunity pass.

Rather than letting Xue Di encounter a life-and-death crisis ten thousand years later and then become Huo Gua's Soul Spirit.

It would be better to make her useful to him here.

Moreover, with Ning Feiliu, a transmigrator, stirring things up, it was uncertain whether there would even be a Huo Gua ten thousand years later.

That's right...

Ning Feiliu next wanted to coax Xue Di into becoming his Soul Spirit! It wasn't really coaxing; after all, she would be becoming a Soul Spirit, and he would surely become a god in the future, and a Supreme God at that.

After all, as a transmigrator with a cheat, his goals were certainly high and far-reaching.

He was not going to be an ordinary god; First-Class Gods or Main Gods were nothing.

If he was going to do it, he would be the supreme, one-and-only Supreme God.

So, Xue Di becoming his Soul Spirit could also be considered a good thing.

Of course, Ning Feiliu would not act hypocritically and say this was for Xue Di's own good.

He was very clear about his true thoughts: it was to gain Xue Di's help! It was just that he could guarantee that after achieving godhood, he would repay her help tenfold! As Ning Feiliu looked at Xue Di with these thoughts, Xue Di looked at him with some confusion and said, "What... do you want to say?"

"Your cultivation progress has already become quite slow, hasn't it?" Ning Feiliu sighed and said.

Although this was ten thousand years ago, in this era before the method of the Spirit Core, it was clear that Xue Di had not yet condensed a Spirit Core.

So, at this moment, without having condensed a Yin-Yang Complementary Spirit Core, Xue Di's cultivation had actually hit a bottleneck.

After all, ever since the Dragon God took an oath and placed restrictions on Soul Beasts, it had become very easy for Soul Beasts' cultivation progress to get stuck.

Even someone as strong as Di Tian would suffer when facing the great tribulation after seven hundred thousand years.

And it was very difficult for Soul Beasts to improve their cultivation; although a Soul Beast's cultivation was not entirely equivalent to its age, it was still very hard to improve.

Except for the Emperor Beast and those that devoured or consumed other powerful Soul Beasts.

There were almost no other means.

The key was that an elemental creature like Xue Di, born of heaven and earth, was actually a god-in-waiting and should have had a smooth path of cultivation.

But what was baffling was that in the original work, she suddenly got stuck at the point of breaking through seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, failed the breakthrough, and was forced to transform into a human form.

It was hard not to suspect that the Dragon God's oath—"Unless the Dragon Clan is revitalized and the Dragon God reappears, no beast shall become a god within the God Realm"—was at play.

So Xue Di was actually being affected right now.

Xue Di was indeed like that; upon hearing what Ning Feiliu said, she was stunned for a moment.

"Yes... how did you know about this? But our Soul Beast improvement has always been like this; the further we go, the slower the improvement becomes." Xue Di said this.

"No..." Ning Feiliu shook his head at this time and said, "You are a Soul Beast, but you are even more so a creature nurtured by nature. Generally speaking, it is unlikely that you would encounter a bottleneck."

Xue Di was somewhat puzzled.

"His Excellency Ornn and Her Excellency Anivia once told me that natural beings like them are born like gods, so becoming a god is an inevitable matter," Ning Feiliu continued to fabricate. "You are the same as those two great gods, so under normal circumstances, you will not encounter cultivation bottlenecks."

Xue Di was somewhat curious, "So... why is that?"

"Actually, the two Excellencies once told me that the God Realm of this world was created by the Lord of Soul Beasts—the Dragon God," Ning Feiliu said immediately. "However, later on, the Dragon God made one wrong step after another, causing a great disaster. In order to atone for his sins, he once swore an oath as the Master of Soul Beasts that unless the dragon race was revitalized and the Dragon God reappeared, the beast race would not be allowed to become gods in the God Realm."

"So that is why it is not only difficult for soul beasts to become gods, but their cultivation progress also slows down and becomes fraught with difficulties."

Ning Feiliu's half-truthful words made Xue Di suddenly realize the truth.

In fact, Xue Di was not entirely naive; although as a being nurtured by the Extreme North, she indeed rarely interacted with the outside world.

But she would not easily trust others either. However, when Ning Feiliu spoke these words, the expression on his face did not seem fake, and Xue Di vaguely felt that what he said was true, or at least the vast majority of it was true.

At the very least, Ning Feiliu's tone and spiritual power fluctuations did not reveal any signs of deception.

In reality, it was indeed so; Ning Feiliu's words contained fabricated elements, but at least sixty or even seventy percent were true.

Therefore, Xue Di could not sense any fabrication in his words.

"Soul beasts cannot become gods? Then wouldn't I..." Xue Di felt somewhat lost.

"Yes, it is precisely because of this that when the two Excellencies left, they once bestowed a divine oracle upon me..." Ning Feiliu looked at Xue Di and said, "They actually sensed that you were about to be born and even foresaw your situation, telling me... that in ten thousand years, you will fail to break through to seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, and then, intending to cultivate as a human, your embryo will be captured by other humans..."

"I... fail to break through to seven hundred thousand years of cultivation in ten thousand years...?" Xue Di was even more flustered, especially by Ning Feiliu's latter sentence, which made her feel somewhat afraid.

She did not even try to doubt Ning Feiliu anymore; after all, Ning Feiliu could know about her affairs, starting with him directly calling out her name in the Extreme North and knowing that her current cultivation was nearly seven hundred thousand years.

Aside from divine means, let alone such a weak Ning Feiliu, even those humans stronger than Ning Feiliu would likely find it difficult to perceive that.

"Yes, so... the two Excellencies told me that if I could meet you, I should help you out..." Ning Feiliu said with a smile immediately.

"Help me? Do Brother Ornn and Sister Anivia have any way?" Xue Di asked, suddenly full of hope.

"That is... to let you, Xue Di, become my Soul Spirit!" Ning Feiliu said directly with a smile.

Actually, at this point, he could hardly hide his excitement, and his eyes even became somewhat burning.

After all... if Xue Di became his Soul Spirit, it would very likely bring him his first Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and his first Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone!

And it would basically be the most noble Torso Bone! How could he not be excited! Xue Di also noticed something at this moment, but she could still feel that although Ning Feiliu was excited, he was not lying to her.

So she continued to ask, "Soul Spirit... what is that?"

"A method that can preserve a soul beast's spirit and intelligence, but you will become my Soul Ring," Ning Feiliu took a deep breath and said bluntly, "At that time, we will share honor and disgrace, and we will live and die together. Therefore, by the same logic, if I become a god, you will also become a god. And because you have become my Soul Ring, there will be no restrictions, and you won't need to worry about the Heavenly Tribulation descending at any time."

"Moreover, rest assured, this method... requires signing a Soul Contract. I will establish a contract. This Soul Contract comes from the two Excellencies; once I fail to fulfill my promise, my spirit will also be annihilated."

Actually, the first Soul Spirit born in Peerless Tang Sect should have been the Tianmeng Iceworm, but the way the Tianmeng Iceworm became a Soul Spirit was not quite the same as Xue Di's situation later.

Later, Xue Di became one because Huo Yuhao encountered a crisis in the Clear Sky Sect, with several forces surging within his body, and Huo Yuhao was in danger of exploding and dying at any time.

When his life was hanging by a thread, the Necromancy Saint Yi Lai Ke Si used his own divine consciousness to stabilize the power in Huo Yuhao's body to save him, and at the same time used the Soul Contract from the Soul Seal World so that Xue Di's power could be used by Huo Yuhao.

And the Tianmeng Iceworm and the later Bing Di did not have this thing called a contract at all; they directly became "intelligent Soul Rings" through self-sacrifice and fusion, but in fact, they were Soul Spirits.

This proves that even without a contract, as long as a Beast of over four hundred thousand years is willing, and the Spirit Master is also completely willing, and both sides have no other thoughts, a Soul Spirit can be born.

But in order to gain Xue Di's trust, Ning Feiliu could sign a Soul Contract with her.

Moreover, the Necromancy Saint Yi Lai Ke Si of the Soul Seal World had magic for signing Soul Contracts, and the Rune Continent had it too.

Among Mordekaiser's Undead Forbidden Arts, there happened to be an Advanced Undead Forbidden Art called Soul Contract.

Xue Di thought for a moment and then said, "Okay! We will sign the contract, and then I will become your Soul Spirit!"

She did not blindly trust Ning Feiliu; she only had a little trust in him because the aura on him and the words he said did not seem fake.

But if there were no Soul Contract, or if Ning Feiliu could not produce any Soul Contract, she would leave this place directly.

After all, becoming a human's Soul Ring or something... was too dangerous.

"However, it is a bit dangerous here, Xue Di... summon your blizzard again, but don't let it blow here, let it blow all around..." Ning Feiliu said.

Actually, his worry was a bit redundant, because when this blizzard descended, the few residents of Extreme North City had already run away.

Even the City Lord and the Defense General of Extreme North City, feeling Xue Di's terrifying aura, did not dare to come over; after all, they were only at the cultivation level of a Soul Saint and a Soul Emperor.

"Okay..." Xue Di followed suit without hesitation.

Immediately, the blizzard blew up again, isolating the outside from peeking in or entering.

To break through the blizzard created by Xue Di, one would need at least the level of a Title Douluo.

Only then did Ning Feiliu feel relieved. He nodded, then bit his finger on the spot, and blood immediately flowed out.

But at this moment, he began to chant in a strange language, "Yue, Wei Zheng, Ban Tuo Ling, Wei Ji Dang Hei!"

Then, as if he had activated a mysterious power, Xue Di could even feel that an invisible piece of paper seemed to appear before her eyes.

This time, using blood as ink, Ning Feiliu kept writing characters in the air, and this time, Xue Di could understand them.

Because they were the common characters of Douluo Continent.

"I, Ning Feiliu, sign a Soul Contract with Xue Di, the Ice Sky Snow Maiden. Xue Di becomes my Soul Spirit, to be used by me, living and dying together with Xue Di, sharing honor and disgrace. In the future, we shall surely die together, and we may also become gods together!"

After Ning Feiliu finished writing, those blood characters suspended in mid-air immediately turned into two streams of power, one entering Ning Feiliu's body.

And one came before Xue Di.

"Accept the contract, and the contract will be established directly. Then, the process of becoming a Soul Spirit will begin. Just listen to what I say and do it," Ning Feiliu said.

Xue Di no longer hesitated at this moment and directly accepted the Soul Contract.

Then she had a strange feeling; there was a peculiar link between Ning Feiliu and her.

Just as the contract said, they shared honor and disgrace; if Ning Feiliu died, she would also die, but once Ning Feiliu's cultivation surpassed hers, she would also receive feedback.

At the same time, blood fire began to burn on her body.

Because the contract stated that the contract was established, Xue Di was to become Ning Feiliu's Soul Spirit.

Now, the process of the Soul Spirit's formation had actually begun.

However, it was according to the method in Ning Feiliu's mind, which was to sacrifice first.

Xue Di directly began the process of active sacrifice.

"Very well." Xue Di completely trusted Ning Feiliu.

After all, things had reached this point.

"It begins... First, you must actively sacrifice yourself to me, transforming into a soul bone and a Soul Ring, but remember to preserve your own Spirit Soul and consciousness during this process—do not burn it all away—and then merge into them." Although Ning Feiliu said he was letting Xue Di become his Soul Spirit.

In reality, he was splitting it into two parts, not following the exact method of Soul Spirit creation used by Huo Gua.

After all, he did not know how Huo Gua's method was done either.

But since Bing Di could succeed in the original plot, it was impossible for Xue Di, a Soul Beast with nearly 700,000 years of cultivation, to fail.

Sure enough, under Ning Feiliu's patient guidance, and with that Soul Contract seemingly taking effect, Xue Di's Spirit Soul was able to be preserved.

Before Ning Feiliu, only two things remained... a blood-red Soul Ring with six tiny golden circular patterns inside, and a... peculiar, pure white soul bone featuring a spine, ribs, and a sternum.

This was naturally a Torso Spirit Bone, and this Torso Bone not only included the sternum and spine but also extended toward the arms.

Because Xue Di's cultivation had reached as high as 600,000 years, nearing 700,000 years, the soul bone began to gradually condense into other parts.

Fortunately, this place was isolated by a blizzard; even as Xue Di transformed into a Soul Spirit and the blizzard gradually subsided, it was still blowing.

It would take at least some time before it could completely slow down and calm.

Ning Feiliu looked with burning eyes at this 100,000-year Ice Jade Empress Torso Bone, as well as that blood-red Soul Ring with six tiny golden circular patterns inside.

(End of chapter)