Chapter 548

As she spoke, Huo Yutong's body gradually gave rise to nine soul rings.

The colors of these nine soul rings could only be described as strange.

Red red red blue red red red white white.

The first seven soul skills are at least hundred-thousand-year level, while the eighth and ninth are pure white like jade.

At first glance this is puzzling: why are the colors of the final two soul rings the lowest white, forming a stark contrast with the previous monstrous rings.

But if observed carefully, one can see that within the eighth and ninth white soul rings, a white mist faintly roils.

Anyone who has seen Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow might notice that Huo Yutong's two soul rings have exactly the same texture as that marrow.

In fact, while Tang Wulin spent three years collecting dragon bones, Huo Yutong was not idle.

The most important thing she did was to completely fuse Shuangling Bian's power with herself.

Initially, the soul ring color brought by Shuangling Bian was an unusual blue, but after complete fusion it changed again to become the present white.

And Huo Yutong's cultivation rose three levels with the complete fusion of its energy, reaching the ninety-eighth rank.

If it weren't for the enormous energy needed to condense a third soul core to break through Extreme Douluo, she might have directly broken through the ninety-ninth bottleneck in one go.

And the eighth and ninth soul skills of the Ice Sky Snow Girl, which had always been sealed, could now finally be used.

Unlike other god-level soul rings, Shuangling Bian's soul ring doesn't even have two soul skills, let alone four; a single soul ring gives Huo Yutong only one soul skill.

But this does not mean weakness; for Huo Yutong, the strength of these final two soul skills even exceeds the combined strength of all the previous soul skills.

As the eighth soul ring shone brightly, Huo Yutong reached out her hand, palm toward the fallen Dark Blood Demon.

The Dark Blood Demon was startled, quickly exerting force with his hand, preparing to tear off his own arm to make a desperate escape.

Losing an arm would be nothing; his intuition told him that if he didn't run now, he would lose something far more important than his hand.

Unfortunately, he was still a step slow; from the moment Huo Yutong activated her eighth soul skill, he had no chance left.

""Crack!""

A crisp sound rang out, and the Dark Blood Demon's movement stopped instantly, frozen in solid ice.

This is Huo Yutong's eighth soul skill, Absolute Freeze.

Huo Yutong sensed that she had consumed about thirty percent of her soul power, and sighed helplessly.

The consumption is still too great; she still needs to strive.

After she successfully condensed the yin-yang complementary second soul core, Shuangling Bian completely awakened in her Sea of Spirit, occasionally guiding her on how to master ice and snow power.

Once he asked Huo Yutong: 'What do you think is the essence of controlling the Ice Attribute?'

Huo Yutong answered confidently at the time: 'Controlling temperature.'

Unexpectedly, Shuangling Bian denied it: 'That answer is indeed correct, but the level is too low; it must have been taught by the Snow Emperor.'

He said lightly:

'Temperature is naturally important for the Ice Attribute, but having reached your level, you cannot focus solely on temperature; you should direct your gaze to a higher realm, namely the law of the Ice Attribute.'

Seeing Huo Yutong still puzzled, he explained: 'The power of law is the foundation of this world and its most important component; if one's grasp of law is strong enough, it becomes possible to overcome higher-level challenges and accomplish feats once thought impossible.'

'For example, in the face of ice at minus two hundred degrees, a flame at one hundred degrees is truly too low; but if that flame contains sufficiently powerful combustion law, even two-hundred-degree ice could be melted.'

'Likewise, if your freezing law is strong enough, even ice you create at just minus one degree could potentially freeze all things.'

'This is the power of law; if you want to fully master the eighth soul skill I bring you, you need to study well how to grasp the law of freezing, for this soul skill is directly related to that law.'

Soon afterward, Huo Yutong understood Shuangling Bian's meaning.

Absolute Freeze, as its name suggests, can in theory freeze anything.

The most obvious is plain matter; any ice-attribute soul master can attempt to freeze it.

Then comes energy; at this level, one needs the cultivation of a Titled Douluo or even Extreme Douluo to achieve it—not to mention gentle soul power, even fire energy, which is completely opposite to the ice element, Huo Yutong can now easily freeze.

After freezing into ice blocks, the flame still exists within the ice, appearing extraordinarily bizarre.

Then comes the highest level: freezing concepts and law.

This step is undoubtedly the most difficult; even the Snow Emperor in his lifetime never touched this realm, a world accessible only to god-level Shuangling Bian.

Fortunately, Huo Yutong has Shuangling Bian as her soul spirit, and also possesses the Absolute Freeze soul skill akin to the law of freezing as assistance; her learning progress can be described as making leaps and bounds.

Now she can readily freeze areas of space and time; of course, proficiency is one thing, consumption another.

What she did to the Dark Blood Demon was to freeze his entire existence.

At this moment, the Dark Blood Demon's existence is frozen within this ice sculpture; unless Huo Yutong releases him, shattering this ice sculpture will kill him completely.

As for whether to completely annihilate the Dark Blood Demon, Huo Yutong's action was undoubtedly successful, but regarding consumption, she is not very satisfied.

According to Shuangling Bian, the consumption of her eighth soul skill is highly flexible, mainly depending on two aspects.

One is the target of freezing; the other is her own mastery of the freezing law.

The stronger the target, the greater the consumption; the stronger her command of the law, the less soul power she consumes.

Freezing a spent Dark Blood Demon actually cost her a full thirty percent of her soul power; if that thirty percent were used to cast necromancer's undead magic, she could have killed the Dark Blood Demon countless times already.

It seems that for now, the practicality of this soul skill is still low; she still needs to work hard to master ice and snow law, so that in the future she might be able to use it flexibly in battle.

(End of chapter)