Chapter 467: The God Who Governs Ice and Snow

Shuangling Bian said respectfully: "My lord, although I fell in that calamity years ago, I had already prepared a backup; even if I die, I can revive by condensing ice elements. Do you still remember my racial talent?"

"Hmm..."

The Light Dragon King pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized:

"Ah, I see. You mean resurrection through bodily regeneration, right?"

"Exactly."

Shuangling Bian affirmed the Light Dragon King's guess, speaking seriously:

"My body is entirely composed of Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow; in other words, for me the body isn't that important. As long as my soul remains, I can exist eternally—just need to condense ice elements to possibly reform my flesh."

"But the injuries I suffered back then were too severe for me, and the energy of this Douluo Continent is too scarce for me. After landing here, I exhausted my last strength to set up a formation covering the planet's northern region, hoping to recover by absorbing this place's energy. Yet the cycle far exceeded my estimate."

"Just healing the wounds deep in my soul took me millions of years, and condensing my body from nothing to its present state took another nine hundred thousand years."

"By this plane's standards, I am roughly equivalent to a nine-hundred-thousand-year soul beast now."

Tang Wulin couldn't help but ask doubtfully: "No, our nine-hundred-thousand-year soul beasts are those that have naturally grown for nine hundred thousand years. But if it's you, wouldn't less than a hundred thousand years count as a million?"

It's like the plant-type soul beasts in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well—their actual age is only about ten thousand years, but due to the nourishment from the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well formed by the Water Fire Dragon King's corpse, their growth speed is ten times faster than the outside world, so they are now considered hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.

Tang Wulin didn't believe Shuangling Bian's cultivation speed, gathering the energy of the entire Extreme North, could be slower than that of the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well; nine hundred thousand years should logically be enough for him to become a god.

Shuangling Bian glanced at him in surprise and replied: "That's correct, but that's the normal case; it doesn't apply to us divine beasts."

Hearing this, even the Light Dragon King's expression couldn't help but change.

"Wait, you mean you still retain your divine position?"

"Exactly!"

Shuangling Bian proudly said: "Although I fell, I didn't leave my divine position in the divine realm; I sealed it deep within my soul. Over these years, my cultivation speed has been so slow because I've spent a lot of energy repairing the divine position, while converting all my internal energy into divine power."

"Just wait another hundred thousand years, and the time will be ripe—I will reclaim my divine position and return to the throne of a first-rank god."

"I see, truly impressive..."

The Light Dragon King covered his face with one hand, unable to help but sigh deeply.

Seeing Tang Wulin's puzzled look, he explained: "Actually, normally speaking, soul beasts in your world cannot become gods; they almost inevitably die under the million-year heavenly tribulation."

"Even if they barely survive the tribulation, their origin spirit suffers heavy damage, making it impossible to ascend to the god's throne—you know that ice silkworm is such a case."

"And even if one manages, by whatever means, to survive the tribulation without major damage to the origin spirit and successfully becomes a god, they still cannot obtain a divine position; at best they can only become a lowly divine official, and almost never make any progress in their entire life."

"But Xiao Bing's situation is different—he secretly brought his divine position down, which solves the third problem."

"Given his situation, possessing a divine position, his body filled entirely with divine power, and his soul composed of divine awareness, theoretically he only needs to endure the million-year heavenly tribulation to regain his divine position in one go and return to his prime."

"The only flaw of this method is probably that it takes too long, but compared to that ice silkworm and that snow maiden, this approach has a much higher success rate—though only he could possibly carry it out."

After explaining to Tang Wulin, he looked again at Shuangling Bian.

"So if after another hundred thousand years you become a first-rank god again, what do you plan to do?"

Shuangling Bian said without hesitation: "Lead the beast clan, uncover the truth of those days, and make the divine realm give us an answer."

"I see."

The Light Dragon King lightly nodded, then suddenly asked a strange question.

"Have you heard of the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings?"

"?" Shuangling Bian's expression turned somewhat puzzled.

"I don't know—are they the two newly promoted Dragon Kings after my fall?"

The Light Dragon King's expression suddenly turned somewhat sympathetic.

He let out a long sigh.

"I see—back then in that accident, you were among the first to die."

"In other words, you completely missed the later fall of the Dragon God and thus never learned the truth of the matter."

He slowly closed his eyes, adjusted his emotions, then opened them again and pointed at Tang Wulin.

"Shuangling Bian, now that you see the lord, why don't you kneel?"

"Huh?"

Shuangling Bian was dazed.

"This human is the lord?" "Wait wait wait! Although I sense a part of the lord's aura from this human, it's obviously still far off—what qualifies him..."

The Light Dragon King cut him off.

"There are deep connections here; you'll gradually understand later, but for now I can't tell you. After all, I and Xiao Lan Xiao Hong stand beside him—can't that prove the point?"

"This..."

Shuangling Bian was instantly speechless.

"Indeed, the support of all three Dragon Kings is already enough to confirm Tang Wulin's lordly legitimacy."

"Moreover, most importantly, I know the nature of the Water Dragon King I follow; given her temperament, she would never casually submit to others."

"So does that mean this weak human truly is that invincible lord?"

Looking at him, the Light Dragon King felt somewhat helpless, knowing the other would find it hard to accept for a while.

He said in a deep voice: "Xiao Bing, now you have two choices."

"First, continue your plan; we won't interfere anymore, and afterward we will not interfere with each other."

"Second, follow us, help us, and become our strength."

"Which do you choose?"

Shuangling Bian said without hesitation: "Of course the second!"

"Regardless of whether Tang Wulin is his lord, following several Dragon Kings is definitely not wrong."

"But after answering, he again felt doubtful."

"However, I cannot currently move freely on land, or the divine realm will discover me—what should I do?"

Light Dragon King gave a faint smile, reached out and pointed at Huo Yutong.

"This is simple, just become her soul spirit."

"As an aside, in Douluo Dalu II, there is a description saying that the Titan Snow Demon King's clan possesses the blood of the Ice God, but the legends of the Divine Realm say that there is no Ice God in the Divine Realm."

"This is likewise Zhang Wei's habit of reading books, and the principle is the same as the City Lord of Shrek Xue Dingge; however, if one wants to rationalize it, it's not impossible—just consider the Ice God to be a Beast God."

"Thus, the current arrangement of this book came to be."

"(End of chapter)"