Chapter 557: Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor

The Extreme North is located in the northern frontier of the Heaven Dou Empire and is one of the forbidden zones for humans, containing extremely powerful Spirit Beasts and extreme cold that ordinary people cannot withstand. The closer one gets to the core area of the Extreme North, the closer the temperature becomes to that of Extreme Ice; in the core area, one can even find extremely cold objects like the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

"It is truly cold here. Even I, an Ice Soul Master, feel as if my blood is about to freeze. However, if one can endure the biting cold winds here, it is simply the best place for simulated cultivation for me," Shui Bing'er sighed. At this moment, they had already ventured deep into the Extreme North.

She discovered that this place had a tremendous influence on her, and of course, it was not a bad one.

This was simply a natural training ground. If she were here, combined with Feihuang's Increase Experience assistance, she did not know how fast her cultivation speed could become.

In the past, she did not dare to come here and wasted a great deal of time, but now that she had Feihuang protecting her, she absolutely had to seize the opportunity.

"That's right, even I am affected by it," Nan Feiling agreed. Her Gu Lei Book possessed all attributes; although she focused on developing the wind and earth attributes, the bone-chilling cold winds of the Extreme North provided a cultivation environment no less inferior to the Hurricane Canyon for her.

"The two young ladies are truly extraordinary. It is difficult for ordinary people to even live here, yet the two of you can think of utilizing this environment to cultivate," Haote said with admiration.

He was also an Ice Soul Master, and his hometown was not far from the Extreme North, but he had never thought of venturing deep into this place to cultivate. Even if he looked for a suitable cultivation environment, he would at most wander around the Frost Dense Forest on the periphery.

"Hehe, Mr. Haote is too kind. If I didn't even have this bit of ability, how could I hang out with my younger brother?" Nan Feiling said proudly. She had not been this diligent in the past; she was completely spurred on by the others around her.

As Feihuang's own older sister, she certainly could not be inferior to his senior sister, Shui Bing'er.

"By the way, Wenruo, we have already ventured deep into the Extreme North, but this place is so vast, how are we supposed to find the Three Great Kings of the Extreme North?" Nan Feihuang asked Xun Yu.

In the original work, Huo Yuhao was able to easily find Bingdi because the Tianmeng Iceworm simulated Xuedi's aura, which lured her out.

But now, Feihuang did not know what Xuedi's aura was like, nor had he ever seen her.

The area of the Extreme North was no smaller than an empire; trying to find a scorpion here was no different from finding a needle in a haystack.

Xun Yu smiled slightly, "It might be difficult to find an Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor, but it should be much simpler to find a tribe of Ice Jade Scorpions."

"My Lord, do you remember what you told me about how the Tang Family treats Spirit Beasts?"

"The Tang Family?" Feihuang was stunned, then immediately understood, "So that's it. We can use the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe to lure the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor out."

Xun Yu nodded; as expected of his Lord, he understood at once.

They were going to learn from Tang San for once and properly target this "evil" group of Spirit Beasts.

While they were at it, they would look to see if there were any Ice Jade Scorpions capable of the Ice Explosion Technique, though this move was extremely rare; even the leader of the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe, the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor, had not mastered it.

Of course, he would not truly slaughter the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe; the goal was merely to attract the attention of the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor and make her appear on her own.

When Feihuang told everyone his method, Nan Feiling immediately became interested, "That sounds very fun. Little brother, let Han Han and me do it."

She was quite enthusiastic about this kind of "punishing the treacherous and eliminating the evil" business.

Soon, they arrived in front of an Ice Jade Scorpion that was feeding.

Feihuang revealed an evil smile, "Haote, help keep watch. E Lai, Third Sister, go ahead. For the sake of justice, today we shall act on behalf of Heaven."

On the side, Shui Bing'er sighed silently. This new Lord she had acknowledged seemed to be becoming increasingly unscrupulous. Several days later, the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe was plunged into deep water and scorching fire because two scourges had suddenly appeared here, catching any lone Ice Jade Scorpion and beating it wildly, shouting while they fought that they were doing it for justice.

Although Feihuang and the others only sought out Ice Jade Scorpions that looked more ferocious, and they never let E Lai and the Third Sister deal a killing blow—stopping after inflicting only minor skin injuries—given the physical toughness of the Ice Jade Scorpions, they would be fully recovered in a few days. However, since they had beaten the members of their tribe, the one acting as the leader should have come out to take charge.

Just as he had expected, several elderly Ice Jade Scorpions, unable to defeat Dian Wei and the others, finally approached the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor. After hearing their report, the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor was instantly enraged, "Which death-seeking fool dares to come and bully our Ice Jade Scorpion tribe? Watch as I freeze them into ice cubes and then blow them into powder!"

The Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor was angry but not hateful. Those few blockheads, although they came to her home to cause trouble, had not killed a single Ice Jade Scorpion so far, at most inflicting some skin and flesh wounds.

In fact, she was also curious: what exactly were these two guys planning? Deliberately offending the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe meant they either had an ulterior motive or were pure idiots.

Thus, she decisively sought out Feihuang and his group.

That day, Feihuang was leading everyone to continue looking for trouble with the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe, but he did not expect to be blocked by their entire tribe.

Leading them was a Spirit Beast the likes of which he had never seen before.

It was also an Ice Jade Scorpion, but its body was larger. The Ice Jade Scorpion was not a species with a massive physique; a regular Ice Jade Scorpion was only a little over a meter long.

But this one was 1.5 meters long and had two colors on its body: one was the color of ice, and the other was emerald green. The front of its body had four overlapping layers, each layer being slightly more than half a foot long, with its head growing on the very front layer. Its mouthparts were silver-white, and the front half of its body, consisting of the four overlapping layers, was covered in hexagonal protrusions.

These protrusions were densely packed on the front half of its body and its six long legs. Its two front pincers were each a meter long and were also covered in diamond-like hexagonal protrusions, with only the front-most claws and mouthparts being silver-white with a mirror-like luster.

Its tail was also different from the multi-jointed long tails of ordinary scorpions; this scorpion's long tail had only five segments in total. Each segment was emerald green, all five segments were the same color, and the segment closest to the upper body was the widest, narrowing as it went back. At the position of the final segment, there was a tail hook with diamond-like grains, and the very tip was also a hook tip flashing with a silver-white mirror luster.

Feihuang certainly could not fail to recognize this image, "You are... the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor?"

"Hmph, human, you have some discernment to actually recognize this Emperor. Now, can you tell me who you are? And why you are attacking our Ice Jade Scorpion tribe? If it were for Spirit Rings or soul bones, I haven't seen you hunt a single Ice Jade Scorpion," the Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor asked. "If you did this to deliberately lure me out, now that you have seen me, speak your mind!"

If it were any other time, she would not be so good-tempered and would have likely grabbed them with her pincer directly, but upon truly seeing Feihuang, she dismissed the idea.

For one, she could feel that Feihuang's strength was not below hers; if they really fought, she feared she would not gain any advantage.

For another, she could clearly sense the extremely powerful aura on Feihuang's body. This was clearly a beastly aura, and it was fire-attributed, completely countering her.

It was not only above her but even exceeded Xuedi.

In fact, this was the power Chitu had left on Feihuang; its aura had a very powerful suppressive force against ice-attributed Spirit Beasts.

"Greetings, Bingdi. My name is Nan Feihuang, a Spirit Master from the Gu Lei Kingdom. I came to the Extreme North this time to obtain a Spirit Ring. The reason I did not attack the ordinary Ice Jade Scorpions is because my true target is you!" Feihuang said bluntly.

He knew Bingdi had a fiery temper; rather than deceiving her, it was better to state it clearly from the start.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Bingdi was immediately enraged, "The target is me? Human, you truly have guts. So you deliberately bullied my Ice Jade Scorpion tribe just to lure me out, and you actually want to hunt me for your Spirit Ring? You are truly arrogant and conceited. Since you want to die, I will grant your wish!"

With Bingdi's anger, the surrounding cold winds began to blow violently.

But this had no effect on Feihuang. He knew that to talk properly with Bingdi, he had to first use his strength to beat her into submission. This battle was unavoidable!

(End of chapter)