Chapter 235: The True Form of the Ice Soul Cold Star Revealed
The air roared, the cold wind howled, the shattered air extending to the horizon, dust obscuring their vision.
The moment the black Water Element and the purple Ice Spirit’s auras clashed, the spirit energy in the sky seemed to crack, spreading outwards in a spiderweb pattern, shaking and shattering, the world plunged into a pure, inky black void.
Hiss, hiss, hiss—
The purple Ice Spirit, its imposing horn held high, was propelled backwards by the black water droplet, sliding across the ground, unable to stop, sparks flying from its feet, like a rocket, creating swirling ice clouds that exploded, cushioning the impact.
All creatures caught in the blast were vaporized, either by the black water droplet or the ice clouds erupting around the Ice Spirit.
The black wave of annihilation lasted for more than ten seconds, and the purple, one-horned, elemental female figure was sent flying nearly a hundred kilometers, carving a deep, terrifying chasm in the ground.
As the dust settled, the onlookers, including Gong Lianyue, finally saw the true form of the Ice Soul Cold Star’s clone.
At this moment, in the void behind the Ice Spirit, a ring of ice, resembling a Samsara Wheel, shimmered.
Like a shedding skin, its form evolved, its curves becoming more alluring, its body a shimmering, mysterious purple, reflecting the colors of the aurora.
An icy horn on its head, its severed arms floating, seven massive crystalline hands, like a peacock’s fanned tail, extended from its sides, a terrifying, four-armed celestial being.
The ice ring, radiating a purple starlight, its tail a magnificent plume of ice flames, was like an Ice Empress from legend.
These strange, almost comical, enhancements were vomited out by the one-horned Ice Spirit during its flight, including the ice ring and the seven arms.
Wait, why seven arms?
Three on one side, four on the other. It looked unbalanced, a nightmare for anyone with OCD!
According to human understanding and basic spirit beast anatomy, it should have eight arms, symmetrically arranged.
Where had the other arm gone…?
This form was simply… unsettling.
At the same time, Gong Lianyue sensed a massive disturbance within her soul core.
The moment she opened her status panel, the blurry text for the Ice Soul Cold Star flickered, like a faulty light bulb.
A few seconds later, the four characters for Ice Soul Cold Star seemed to regress, becoming three characters—Ice Spirit.
Then, Ice Spirit began to flicker, suddenly changing back to Ice Soul Cold Star.
Ice Spirit, Ice Soul Cold Star, Ice Spirit, Ice Soul Cold Star, Ice Spirit, Ice Soul Cold Star. Gong Lianyue closed the panel, her consciousness leaving her soul core.
She looked at the seemingly innocent Ice Soul Cold Star before her, then at the one-horned, deified Ice Spirit in the distance. Could this be a clone created by the Ice Soul Cold Star’s unknown talent…?
After all, she still didn’t have the clearance to view the details of the Ice Soul Cold Star’s bloodline talent, [Sea Soul]. Only its name was displayed.
She couldn’t view the Tyrant Demon Seed’s strongest battle technique, [War Mantle], either, but she could after reaching the Samsara Stage. So she guessed this Sea Soul talent required her to reach the Sixth Full Cycle, or perhaps even break through the Samsara Stage.
“Gong Lianyue’s Ice Soul Cold Star is still there. What is that…?”
Meanwhile, the Wind Realm Spirit Masters, watching from the sidelines, stared in confusion at the one-horned Ice Spirit, which had been sent flying dozens of kilometers by the Water Element.
After all, this wasn’t the Ice Soul Cold Star itself, but something it had vomited out. What was it?!
No, its aura wasn’t even Saint-rank. It felt like a low-rank Ice Spirit. Why had it been able to withstand the Water Element’s attack?
No, not a Water Element’s attack, but a legendary-rank Water Element’s attack. A low-rank Ice Spirit could indeed withstand an ordinary Water Element’s attack.
Snap!
Just then, the Ice Soul Cold Star beside Gong Lianyue snapped its fingers, and the one-horned, seven-armed, deified Ice Spirit in the distance vanished.
So it was just a useless illusion…
Strangely, although the Ice Spirit hadn’t radiated a powerful aura, its… pay-to-win… appearance had been incredibly extravagant, and it had indeed withstood the Water Element’s attack.
But the Ice Soul Cold Star was incredibly rare. They couldn’t understand its strange talents and techniques.
It couldn’t be related to a legendary being. Legendary Spirit Masters had to reach the Nether Traverse Stage to summon a legendary being’s true form. Otherwise, death was inevitable.
Bang!
The next second, the Ice Soul Cold Star beside the blue-haired girl exploded, scattering icy blood everywhere.
Gong Lianyue was sprayed with purple liquid, and a question mark formed in her mind.
“?”
Did the Water Element’s attack have a delayed effect, only manifesting a minute later?
But she was now a Samsara Stage Spirit Master, a Dual Soul Body with two cores. Her spirit beasts could die a few times. They would revive immediately.
After a moment of stunned silence, Gong Lianyue snapped back to reality, her eyes widening.
The black Water Element had approached her. She had no time to worry about the Ice Soul Cold Star.
The Water Element floated closer, reaching within a few meters of the Snow Monarch.
The Snow Monarch remained motionless, but the Water Element brazenly passed through it, face to face, mouth to mouth, chest to chest.
Like a translucent ghost, it passed through the Snow Monarch, experiencing its icy organs and skin, a completely unreasonable violation.
“Don’t touch me!” Not only that, but it also spoke, a cold, accusatory tone.
“Buzz, buzz, buzz—”
The Snow Monarch remained silent, but its water cat ears, the Eternal Holy Water, roared in fury.
Although the black Water Element had no spirit energy, it had surrendered, so no one was allowed to disrespect it.
Passing through the Snow Monarch’s body and aura, the black Water Element finally reached the blue-haired girl.
“…”
“…”
Chapter 236: The Water Element Returns, The True Name of a Legend
–Cangsheng Palace, First Saint Court
Having passed through the forms and auras of the Snow Monarch, the black Water Element finally reached the blue-haired, teardrop-eyed girl.
At this moment, the Saint-rank spirit beasts that had been defeated earlier began to regain their mobility, staring in disbelief at the devastated area outside the Saint Court.
The Libra Fighting Swallow crawled out of the mud, the Water God Four Symbols awoke from its coma, and the Watery Years, severed in two by the Shadowlurking Blade while trapped in the Ice Coffin, could only sense its own intense emotions, its form invisible.
The Six-Faced God, the Sleepless Sparrow, the Windchaser Emperor, the Nether Bell Maiden, and He Daoqi… they had all been secretly observing from the ruins within the Saint Court.
Terrifyingly, they hadn’t noticed that legendary-rank Hong Xiaoqianyu, the Crimson Night Thousand Feathers, was only a few walls away.
The spirit beasts’ faces were blank, looking foolish.
Although the battle had begun less than an hour ago, the spirit beasts felt as if an eternity had passed.
What was going on? The final boss battle was over? They hadn’t even recovered yet!
Waking up, the dust settled…
At the same time, the six shimmering teardrop beauty marks on the blue-haired girl’s face pulsed, and the beautiful girl with blue hair, her hair flowing in the wind, gazed at the black Water Element with deep affection.
Compared to two months ago, the Water Element’s aura and form were completely different.
Perhaps because it wasn’t in its complete form, it was currently just a hazy black elemental mist, and no human Spirit Master could discern its true name.
After all, the concept of a legendary-rank being was too ethereal for human comprehension. Most had either never seen one or had been annihilated upon seeing one.
Therefore, few legendary beings were recorded in history. It was a realm beyond human reach.
All spirit beasts, from birth, possessed some bloodline and memories of their kin or ancestors. The higher the rank, the greater the scale and volume of inherited knowledge.
For example, most Saint-rank spirit beasts chose to hide and wait for the right moment to unleash their power.
Let alone legendary spirit beasts. From birth, they understood the structure of the spirit world, a concept trillions of times beyond human comprehension. That was why the Snow Monarch had instantly recognized this black Water Element’s true identity.
However, for ordinary Spirit Masters, they had never encountered such beings, nor had they heard its name. Naturally, they couldn’t discern its true name from its form.
Therefore, Gong Lianyue speculated that the Water Element’s act of stealing the blade and defecting was likely a result of inheriting its bloodline memories. Based on its understanding of the spirit world’s development over ten thousand years, it had made this strange decision after long deliberation.
“I’ve come to take you back~~”
After a few seconds of silence, the blue-haired girl extended her hand towards the Water Element.
At the same time, the six teardrops on the girl’s face shifted in a strange direction, a beautiful smile slowly appearing on her expressionless face.
Although Gong Lianyue herself had done nothing but stand there, in the spirit world, Spirit Masters and their spirit beasts were not judged separately.
The quality of the spirit beast represented the essence of the Spirit Master.
The Spirit Master’s flaws were compensated by the spirit beast.
The Spirit Master’s power was based on the spirit beast.
That was why most Saint-rank Spirit Masters were extraordinary.
And a Spirit Master who gave birth to a legendary being was an absolute ruler, standing at the pinnacle of the human world from birth!
[If she hadn’t contracted a Saint-rank spirit beast, she would be trash.]
Such statements were like the following nonsensical pronouncements:
[If she didn’t eat, she would starve to death!]
[If she didn’t have a mother, she wouldn’t be born!]
[Lucky people are lucky!]
Therefore, this blue-haired girl, Gong Lianyue, the Sorrowful Saintess.
Her six downcast teardrop beauty marks, in the eyes of outsiders, were like a divine creation. No matter how absurd the events, they seemed perfectly reasonable.
As a contractor of a legendary being, she was quite formidable.
Hearing the girl’s words, the Water Element simply lowered its head, its lips pressed together, silent.
Perhaps the Water Element had never imagined that this girl would grow so powerful in such a short time, coming to retrieve it herself.
Just then, Gong Lianyue spoke again.
“Alright, I know you’re a good child.”
“Whether it was not unleashing your full power, or that strike in the Wind Realm, it was all to protect me, wasn’t it?”
For a legendary being, unleashing its full power upon birth and killing its host was commonplace. Countless examples existed.
If the Water Element had truly unleashed its legendary power, the resulting spirit energy surge would have shattered her soul core. As an infant, she couldn’t have survived.
Even if the Ice Soul Cold Star could have completely sealed the Water Element’s power, it would have required a greater ice power than the Water Element’s power itself, resulting in a mutual escalation of power that would have ultimately caused Gong Lianyue, as the host, to explode.
Therefore, the Water Element, unable to unleash its power and kill its master, had instead restrained itself, clashing with the Ice Soul Cold Star’s seal. This was an undeniable fact.
Otherwise, it could have unexpectedly seized the Shadowlurking Blade, Night’s Executioner, in the Wind Realm, unleashed its power, killed the Ice Soul Cold Star and herself, and gained true freedom.
But it had chosen to injure itself, shattering its own core, and even left its most important possession, the black crown, to Gong Lianyue.
“Whether you want to rule the spirit world or have a harem of three thousand, I won’t stop you. But you’ll have to wait until I reach the Nether Traverse Stage. It won’t be long, okay?”
“If you’re worried about future enemies, you don’t have to go it alone. After all, I’m stronger than you now.”
Extending her hand towards the Water Element, the blue-haired girl radiated a gentle spirit energy, displaying the powerful aura of the Samsara Stage. When she said “stronger,” she didn’t mean she could defeat it in a physical fight, but that she had reached the Samsara Stage, while the Water Element was still at the Dead Sea Stage.
At this moment, as Gong Lianyue spoke, the black Water Element’s head lowered, almost burying itself in the girl’s chest.
“Good child, come back.”
The moment Gong Lianyue gently touched the Water Element’s skin, its elemental form transformed into a wisp of black water, flowing into the girl’s soul core.
Instantly, the previously shattered soul core erupted with a terrifying black light, her blue hair whipping upwards, as if bathed in a sacred water.
[?Legendary-rank?]
[??Nether Spring Narcissus??]
