mousepad-d2 Chapter 444 Take 3 punches from me and I'll sacrifice myself!
Chapter 444 Take 3 punches from me and I'll sacrifice myself!
The next moment, it saw the still not completely dissipated icy blue sacrificial light spot in the center of the valley, as well as the empty shell of ice crystals left behind by the original huge body of Ice Bear King Xiaobai on the ground.
That wasn't a real corpse.
After the sacrifice, Xiaobai's flesh, essence, and spirit had all merged into Tang Chuan's body, leaving only a shell like an ice sculpture, lying quietly on the snow.
But in the eyes of the Titan Snow Demon King, this was already glaring enough.
Its enormous, icy blue eyes suddenly contracted, and it said incredulously:
"The Ice Bear King... sacrificed himself?"
Titan Snow Demon King seemed somewhat incredulous.
After all, although Ice Bear King Xiaobai is usually lazy, acts like a child when he sees Snow Empress, and always bickers with Ice Empress, in the far north, he is still the Ice Bear King.
With over two hundred thousand years of cultivation, he was the lord of a clan.
Even though the Titan Snow Demon King always fought it for territory and called it a lazy bear, a sleeping bear, and a good-for-nothing bear, it was still shocked when it saw Little White sacrifice itself.
It never expected that the guy who was usually too lazy to even move his nest would actually offer himself up as a sacrifice to a human.
Titan Snow Demon King slowly raised his head, his icy blue eyes fixed on Tang Chuan:
"Humans!!!"
"You tricked it into offering a sacrifice?"
boom!
Immediately afterwards, an extremely violent and icy pressure erupted.
The ice walls of the entire Ice Valley began to tremble violently, and countless inverted ice cones cracked and shattered, falling to the ground and being pulverized in mid-air by the aura of the Titan Snow Demon King.
Tang Chuan stood still, his white robes fluttering, his fifth spirit ring slowly pulsating beneath his feet.
He neither backed down nor offered an immediate explanation.
He knew that in the eyes of the far-northern spirit beasts, it was all too common for human spirit masters to hunt spirit beasts. It wasn't surprising that the Titan Snow Demon King would be enraged by this sight.
Just then, the phantom of the Snow Empress slowly appeared behind Tang Chuan, and then spoke calmly:
"Atai."
Upon hearing this voice, the massive body of the Titan Snow Demon King trembled violently.
Its eyes, which were originally full of anger, immediately turned to Xue Di.
"Snow Emperor?"
Its voice was filled with astonishment.
"You...you're really back? I sensed your presence just now and thought it was Ice Bear King sleeping soundly and transmitting his dream."
Tang Chuan: "..."
The relationship between these three Heavenly Kings of the far north seemed to be more subtle than he had imagined.
The Snow Empress said calmly, "Little White wasn't killed."
Titan Snow Demon King frowned, looking puzzled.
"Then why did it offer it as a sacrifice?"
Xue Di said, "It did it voluntarily."
Titan Snow Demon King paused for a moment, then a deeper incomprehension appeared in his enormous eyes.
"voluntary?"
"That little white guy usually complains about getting tired even after walking just a few extra steps. You're saying it willingly sacrificed itself?"
"Snow Empress, are you sure this human didn't give it some kind of bewitching potion?"
Upon hearing this, in the Sea of Spirit, the Ice Bear King Xiaobai immediately bristled and roared:
"You big oaf! Who are you calling lazy?"
Titan Snow Demon King, of course, couldn't hear it.
Tang Chuan heard it all clearly.
Hyotei said coldly, "He's talking about you."
Xiao Bai retorted angrily, "I was conserving my energy! What does he know?!"
Hyotei said, "Going to sleep is fine, but you make it sound so nice."
noob:"……"
Tang Chuan ignored the commotion in his spiritual sea for the time being, and instead looked at Titan Snow Demon King, saying, "Although Little White has become my fifth spirit ring, its spiritual consciousness is still intact."
Titan Snow Demon King narrowed his eyes, clearly somewhat disbelieving.
"It's become a spirit ring? Or does it possess sentience?"
It suddenly looked at the blood-red fifth spirit ring with ice-blue bear claw patterns at Tang Chuan's feet. The aura on it was indeed that of the Ice Bear King, Xiao Bai.
Moreover, there was no pain, nor resentment.
There was no lingering regret after being forcibly hunted.
Only the purest sacrificial essence.
Titan Snow Demon King's expression softened slightly, but his eyes remained cold and hard as he said:
"Human, even if it was a voluntary sacrifice, you still owe me an explanation."
"Why is the Snow Empress on you?"
"Why did the Ice Bear King also sacrifice himself for you?"
"What exactly do you want to do?"
Before Tang Chuan could speak, Xue Di briefly recounted Tang San's story.
Tang San fell into the Rakshasa realm, slaughtering cities and devouring souls.
He refined the dead into spirits, and then slaughtered Star Dou Soul Beasts.
At first, Titan Snow Demon King just frowned as he listened, but when he heard about Tang San devouring souls and slaughtering cities, and hunting down 100,000-year-old soul beast origins everywhere, his face turned completely dark.
After the Snow Empress finished speaking, the Titan Snow Demon King remained silent for a long time before slowly saying:
"So, that human named Tang San not only kills people, but also devours souls, and even uses the essence of soul beasts as nourishment?"
Tang Chuan nodded.
"good."
Titan Snow Demon King sneered.
"It seems this guy is no longer human."
"It is a calamity disguised in human skin."
It looked at Tang Chuan.
"So the Ice Bear King sacrificed himself to help you become a god as quickly as possible, so you could kill Tang San?"
Tang Chuan did not refute, and said, "Yes."
Titan Snow Demon King said coldly:
"And what about you?"
"How will you treat the far north after you become a god?"
Tang Chuan said calmly:
"I will not use the far north as a hunting ground for spirit rings."
"I need spirit rings, but that doesn't mean I'll forcibly take the lives of spirit beasts."
"The Ice Bear King's sacrifice was its own choice."
"If you don't want to, I won't force you."
Upon hearing this, the Titan Snow Demon King suddenly laughed.
The laughter was extremely deep, so deep that it made the surrounding snow tremble slightly.
"You won't force me? Human, do you know how ridiculous it is for you to stand in the far north and say such things to me? You have the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, and now the Ice Bear King."
"If you really want to make a move, with the addition of Poseidon's Trident, I may not be able to stop you."
"But you said you wouldn't force me."
Tang Chuan did not deny it.
"Being able to do something doesn't mean I will do it."
A strange light flashed in the eyes of the Titan Snow Demon King.
It seemed it hadn't expected to hear such words from a human Soul Master.
It is only natural for Soul Masters to hunt Soul Beasts.
This is a rule that has been established in the Douluo Continent over many years.
But this human in front of him, who clearly possessed enough power, did not make a move immediately.
This left Titan Snow Demon King somewhat uncertain.
Just then, Tang Chuan's fifth spirit ring trembled slightly.
Ice Bear King Xiaobai's voice suddenly came through his soul ring.
"Hey big oaf, don't come in with that sour face right away."
Titan Snow Demon King's body stiffened.
It stared wide-eyed at the fifth spirit ring beneath Tang Chuan's feet in disbelief.
"The Ice Bear King?"
Xiao Bai's voice was very smug as he said:
"it's me."
"How about that? Didn't expect that, did you? I've moved!"
Titan Snow Demon King: "..."
move place?
Having lived for so many years, this was the first time it had ever heard a soul beast refer to sacrifice as moving house.
Titan Snow Demon King's lips twitched, and he asked:
"Are you really doing this voluntarily?"
Xiao Bai said:
"Of course. Mom's here, Dad's here, if I don't go with them, am I supposed to stay in the Ice Valley and keep sleeping?"
Titan Snow Demon King's eyes twitched violently, and a look of doubt appeared on his face:
"dad?"
Xiao Bai said confidently:
"Yes, Tang Chuan is my father."
Titan Snow Demon King slowly looked at Tang Chuan, his eyes gradually becoming strange.
Tang Chuan remained expressionless, while Little Bear shrugged and said:
"It made that sound on its own; I didn't force it."
The Titan Snow Demon King remained silent for a long time, then suddenly looked at the Snow Empress and said:
"Snow Empress, aren't you going to do anything about this guy?"
The Snow Empress said calmly:
"It's beyond our control."
Hyotei's voice also came through.
"It's never been very bright."
Xiao Bai immediately retorted angrily:
"Hyotei-neechan! I heard you!"
Hyotei sneered:
"I'm just telling you this."
Titan Snow Demon King: "..."
It suddenly felt that after the Ice Bear King's sacrifice, there was no sense of tragedy left.
It even got noisier, but it was precisely because Xiaobai could still speak like that that the last bit of hostility in Titan Snow Demon King's heart finally dissipated.
It could sense that Xiaobai's spiritual consciousness was intact and had not been refined into a soul ring without consciousness, which meant that Tang Chuan had indeed not deceived it.
Titan Snow Demon King looked down at Tang Chuan and said:
"Since the Ice Bear King offered himself willingly as a sacrifice, I will not pursue the matter further."
"However, it won't be that simple if you want me to sacrifice myself."
Tang Chuan remained expressionless and asked with a puzzled look:
"Do you have any conditions?"
Titan Snow Demon King grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth, and said, "Not bad. Unlike that Ice Bear King, I didn't just sell myself out as soon as I heard I could follow the Snow Emperor."
Within the sea of spirit, Xiaobai roared:
"Who did you say sold it?"
Titan Snow Demon King continued:
"I believe in only one thing—power. If you want me to hand over the essence of the Snow Demon Clan of the Far North to you, then you are qualified to receive it."
Tang Chuan looked at it and pressed for an answer:
"How can you prove it?"
Titan Snow Demon King raised his enormous fist and slammed it heavily into his own chest.
Boom!
A muffled thud shook the entire glacier valley.
"Take three punches from me."
"You are not allowed to use the Trident of Poseidon."
"You are not allowed to let the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress, or the Ice Bear King fight for you."
"You can only use your first martial soul to withstand three punches from me."
"If you are still standing after three punches, then I will acknowledge that you are qualified."
Xue Di frowned slightly and said in a deep voice:
"Atai, what do you mean by this?"
Titan Snow Demon King looked at her and said in a low voice:
"Snow Emperor, I know you acknowledge him, but the far north doesn't belong to you alone."
"The Ice Bear King's sacrifice was its own choice, and I won't stop it."
"But if I also offer a sacrifice, then the three Heavenly Kings of the far north will all become his soul rings."
"This kind of thing can't be decided based on a single moral principle."
"He must prove that he can withstand the power of the entire far north origin."
Tang Chuan raised his hand, signaling Xue Di not to say anything more, and nodded.
"Alright, then I'll take three punches from you."
Xue Di looked at Tang Chuan and reminded him in a deep voice, "The power of Titan Snow Demon King is extremely strong. Its three punches are enough to severely injure a Super Douluo."
Tang Chuan nodded slightly.
"I know."
Titan Snow Demon King said coldly:
"You knew that, yet you still dared to accept the call?"
Tang Chuan slowly released his first martial soul.
In an instant, amidst the wind and snow, a blue-gold Blue Silver Grass slowly grew from his palm.
It lacks the delicate feel of ordinary blue silver grass; its leaves are slender, with veins resembling flowing life. Each leaf is shrouded in a faint golden halo, like spring sunlight falling on snow—gentle yet imbued with an undeniable vitality.
The next second, nine spirit rings rose up one after another beneath Tang Chuan's feet.
Red, red, red, red, red, red, platinum, red, gold. The moment the nine spirit rings appeared simultaneously, even the Titan Snow Demon King's enormous ice-blue eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly.
Although it was a ferocious beast from the far north and had seen top-tier beings like the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, it had never seen a soul ring configuration as terrifying as Tang Chuan's before.
Especially the seventh platinum spirit ring and the ninth gold spirit ring.
That aura was something that ordinary soul masters couldn't possibly possess.
At this moment, Tang Chuan was clearly standing in the far north ice plains, but behind him it seemed as if a cyan-gold forest and a deep blue sea appeared at the same time.
Titan Snow Demon King stared at Tang Chuan and said in a deep voice:
"You really don't want to use a second martial soul?"
Tang Chuan said calmly:
"I promised you, I would only use my first martial soul."
Titan Snow Demon King snorted coldly and said:
"I thought you would try to bargain."
Tang Chuan said:
"Since I've promised, I won't change my mind."
A strange light flashed in the eyes of the Titan Snow Demon King.
It could tell that Tang Chuan wasn't just putting on a brave face.
This human is really planning to use the Blue Silver Emperor to take three of its punches.
The problem is that, in Titan Snow Demon King's mind, neither Blue Silver Grass nor Blue Silver Emperor are martial souls that can be used to directly withstand power.
A plant-based martial soul, specializing in life, recovery, and domain control.
But its fist is pure, far-northern power.
A single punch can shatter mountains.
If Tang Chuan were to use the Snow Emperor Martial Soul to resist the power of the extreme north with the help of extreme ice, it would be somewhat plausible.
Is Blue Silver Emperor usable?
Thinking of this, the Titan Snow Demon King grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth, and said:
"Human, let me remind you, my fists won't hold back just because your Blue Silver Grass looks beautiful."
Upon hearing this, Tang Chuan remained silent. His seventh spirit ring slowly lit up, and a platinum-gold light instantly spread out. "Seventh Spirit Skill, Blue Silver True Body."
boom--
A blue-gold aura of life surged into the sky.
The Blue Silver Emperor behind Tang Chuan suddenly enlarged, transforming into a gigantic Blue Silver Emperor phantom tens of feet tall. Countless blades of grass fell like a long river of cyan and gold, each blade not to bind the enemy, but to pierce into the ice, the earth, the wind and snow, and the life veins in the distance.
Although the far north is sparsely populated with vegetation, it is not devoid of life.
Beneath the ice lies dormant moss.
At the edge of the snowfield grows hardy polar grasses, and deeper into the ice crevices, countless tiny lives thrive.
After the Blue Silver Emperor's true form was unleashed, Tang Chuan connected all these faint, almost imperceptible life forces. Countless tiny cyan-gold rays of light spread beneath the ice, as if weaving the entire ice valley into a web of life.
Gazing at the scene before him, Titan Snow Demon King's eyes narrowed slightly.
It could sense that Tang Chuan wasn't using the Blue Silver Emperor for simple defense.
Instead, it is using the entire earth to absorb the force.
Standing behind Tang Chuan, Xue Di's eyes showed a hint of approval as she said:
"He didn't use the Blue Silver Emperor as a vine."
Hyotei said coldly:
"It would be foolish to only try to entangle the Titan Snow Demon King. The Titan Snow Demon King's power can break any number of ordinary blue silver vines that try to entangle him."
Within the sea of consciousness, Xiaobai immediately said:
"Dad is very smart!"
Hyotei said:
"You're getting used to saying it now."
Xiao Bai said confidently:
"He's my father."
Hyotei snorted coldly and didn't reply.
Outside, Titan Snow Demon King had slowly raised his right fist.
As he raised his fist, the surrounding wind and snow instantly reversed direction.
A massive amount of icy soul power gathered at its fist, and a thick layer of ice armor appeared on the surface of its fist. That ice armor was not like ordinary ice, but more like a crystal compressed from a millennia-old glacier in the far north.
Titan Snow Demon King whispered:
"First punch, Snow Demon Shakes the Earth."
As soon as it finished speaking, it threw a punch.
There are no frills, no tricks.
Only pure power.
The moment that punch landed, it felt as if a snow-capped mountain was crashing down on Tang Chuan.
The air was compressed into a visible white shockwave, the snow on the ground was instantly blown away, and the ice walls of the entire ice valley cracked and shattered under this punch.
Tang Chuan stood still, his fourth spirit ring lighting up beneath his feet.
"Fourth Soul Skill, Emerald Light Wave."
Instantly, a vibrant green life force emanated from the Blue Silver Emperor's true form, not directly healing the injuries, but first merging into the Blue Silver Emperor's roots that had penetrated the ground.
Countless blue-gold and blue-silver emperors burst forth from beneath the ice. Instead of attacking the Titan Snow Demon King, they intertwined in layers before Tang Chuan, forming a massive buffer net. (End of Chapter)