Douluo: Reborn as a Dragon, I am the Lord of Soul Beasts

Chapter 14: Far North, Ice-Blue Emperor Scorpion
Ying Qian walked slowly to the front of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and got closer. The dreamlike body of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm seemed even more illusory. Ying Qian did not hesitate and gently placed his hand on the chubby body of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.

"System, can I choose to devour the spiritual power of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm?" Ying Qian asked silently in his heart.

[Ding! The host cannot change the energy system of the swallowed target, but the system will give the host new abilities based on the random attributes of the swallowed target.]

"I know, let's get started!"

After getting the answer, Ying Qian started to activate the system's swallowing ability. A stream of extremely pure heaven and earth energy was instantly absorbed into Ying Qian's body. The heaven and earth energy surged in Ying Qian's body, as fresh and pure as a spring, full of vitality and energy. Ying Qian felt the purity of this power. Perhaps because the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm has always been feeding on black ice, his heaven and earth energy is actually helping him to accelerate the fusion of the remaining energy of the Ice Dragon King. This unexpected surprise was something Ying Qian had not expected.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host, you have obtained the Ice Silkworm Talent, Simulation]

After an unknown amount of time of absorbing, the system’s voice finally rang in Ying Qian’s ears again.

"Simulated soul skills? That's good. This way, I'll have more security when entering the human world." Ying Qian thought.

When they returned to the Lake of Life, the moonlight had already covered the entire lake. The originally clear and tranquil Lake of Life, now with the background of the fairy grass, actually added a bit of vitality. Hearing Ying Qian's arrival, the three-eyed golden lion, who was originally lying on the lakeside for a nap, immediately raised his head and looked in the direction of Ying Qian. The sleepiness of the three eyes was instantly swept away, and he trotted all the way towards Ying Qian.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Ying Qian squatted down and gently stroked the three-eyed golden lion.

"I don't want to. You haven't even come to play with me this time you came back. Do you know how bored I was during this month when you were away?" The three-eyed golden lion narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing an expression that showed he really enjoyed Ying Qian's touch.

Ying Qian heard this and gave a helpless smile, "My return this time is an accident. I'm afraid I'll have to leave again soon."

Hearing this, the three-eyed golden lion immediately dodged Ying Qian's touch, stared at Ying Qian with all three eyes and asked, "So soon? When will you come back next time?"

Ying Qian didn't know, but seeing the aggrieved expression of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, he was reluctant to leave here. Ever since Ying Qian became Di Tian's disciple, the two soul beasts have been together, practicing together, playing together. When Ying Qian was tired of playing, he would tell the Three-Eyed Golden Lion about the strange stories of his previous life. Unconsciously, the two of them had become familiar with each other and lived in their own worlds.

"This is for you." Ying Qian fumbled in his arms for a moment, and finally took out something that looked like a stone and handed it to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

"What is this?" asked the three-eyed golden lion curiously.

"This is the gift I brought you this time. Don't look at it as just an inconspicuous stone now. But it can bloom!" Ying Qian said with a smile.

"Flowers bloom on stones?" Even for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, it was the first time he heard that stones could actually bloom. The three eyes all looked at the black stone in Ying Qian's hand.

"I promise you, when the stone blooms, that's when I'll be back." Ying Qian promised.

"Really?" The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was delighted when she heard that. Her idea was very simple. She could just go to Aunt Brigitte and use her powerful life force to activate the stone. Even if it was really a piece of stone, it would be able to break out of its cocoon and become a butterfly, and a hard tree would bloom.

Ying Qian asked back: "When have I ever lied to you?"

"Wait for me, I'll go find Aunt Brigitte now." The three-eyed golden lion picked up the stone and trotted towards the outskirts of the Lake of Life.

"He's still a child after all!" Ying Qian looked at the innocent three-eyed golden lion and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. But this sigh turned into motivation. Since he was reborn as a dragon, he would never let the sacrifice of the auspicious beast happen again in this life.

Thinking of this, Ying Qian did not delay any longer and went straight to the location of the Eight Aniseed Mysterious Ice Grass.

"Bajiao, I want to borrow something from you"

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and Ying Qian hurried northward. The Far North Land is located in the northern border of the Sky Soul Empire, one of the forbidden areas for humans. It has extremely powerful soul beasts and extreme cold that ordinary people cannot resist. The closer you get to the core area of ​​the Far North Land, the closer the temperature will be to the temperature of extreme ice, and even extremely cold things like the Ten Thousand Years Mysterious Ice Marrow will appear in the core area.

If Ying Gan had not inherited the Ice Dragon King's legacy, this bone-chilling cold alone would have been enough to greatly delay Ying Gan's steps.

Along the way, Ying Qian relied on the system map to help him avoid fighting with any native soul beasts in the Far North. This saved Ying Qian a lot of trouble. The purpose of coming to the Far North this time was to find two people. No, to be more precise, it would be better to find two fierce beasts.

One is the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, ranked seventh among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, and the other is the Ice Snow Girl, ranked in the top three of the Ferocious Beasts List. Ying Qian couldn't say whether the Ice Snow Girl could be found, because the original text did not explain whether the current Snow Emperor had started to rebuild. But at the current time point, it is estimated that it will not be long before the Ice Emperor's 400,000-year catastrophe ends.

So before coming here this time, Ying Qian specially borrowed the ice crystal core from the eight-angled black ice grass. The power of this thing is even better than that of the ten thousand year old black ice jade. So with this as capital, Ying Qian is not afraid that the Ice Emperor will not cooperate with him. After all, no creature is not afraid of death, especially these fierce beasts that have lived for hundreds of thousands of years.

As for how to find the Ice Emperor, Ying Qian doesn't need to look for him. He only needs to simulate the breath of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, and the Ice Emperor will come to him.

Look, Ying Qian's body has begun to emit golden light. The aura of the million-year-old soul beast that belongs to the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was immediately released by Ying Qian. In order to play the whole play, Ying Qian even released a part of the heaven and earth energy that he swallowed from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. Attracted by this heaven and earth energy, Ying Qian saw countless cursors on the map approaching him rapidly.

But the next moment, all the cursors stopped moving, and some even began to retreat. "Here it comes." Ying Qian looked at the blood-red cursor on the map, his eyes revealing a hint of pride that his plan had succeeded.

The originally pitch-black clouds suddenly fluctuated violently, and then, from the distant sky in the north, a layer of emerald green light instantly spread over.

The dark sky suddenly turned into a turquoise color, a transparent and attractive turquoise color. The moving color was like the sky above suddenly turned into a huge turquoise gem. The originally oppressive atmosphere in the air also disappeared in an instant. When the turquoise color spread to the thousand-meter diameter of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Ying Qian was not afraid, but felt excited. The warlike gene of the dragon race was boiling in Ying Qian's blood.

"Tianmeng, you are still alive. You are indeed the longest-lived guy in our far north." Clear voices sounded from all directions. The appearance of this sound was accompanied by a terrifying sound wave, and the snow on the ground rose to a height of three meters almost instantly, like a sudden wave of waves.

Ying Qian did not reply. He could imitate the breath of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, but he could not imitate the gradual tone of voice of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. So he stood there without saying a word, waiting for Bingdi's arrival.

But the Ice Emperor didn't seem to make Ying Qian wait for long. The next moment, the dark sky turned green again. A ray of green light created a horizontal streak in the sky. In just a flash of green light, a soul beast appeared in front of Ying Qian.

Although the original novel describes Bingdi's true form in great detail, when Bingdi actually appeared in front of Ying Qian, Ying Qian couldn't help but gasp at Bingdi's beauty and said, "This is simply a work of art!"

"Tianmeng, you actually transformed into a human form?" Bingdi did not see the true form of Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, but asked in surprise when he saw Ying Qian's figure.

Ying Qian smiled slightly, then released the simulated soul skill, and the unique aura of Tian Meng immediately disappeared. In its place was a giant dragon that was tens of meters tall, and the dragon's horns reflected a dark blue light. Like the twinkling stars in the sky, it exuded a mysterious and majestic aura. The spine behind it was nearly a hundred meters long, like a huge ice volcano ridge, with cold frost and hot flames intertwined, forming a spectacular scene. Each spine exuded a powerful energy fluctuation. The most peculiar thing was that several of Ying Qian's breastplates had turned silver-white, shining with a mysterious light.

"Dragon clan?" Bingdi was startled, and his two one-meter-long front claws immediately took a fighting stance, and the hexagonal diamond-like protrusions on his front claws immediately began to shine with a turquoise glow. The scorpion tail with only five sections was raised high, and the tail hook with diamond-like particles was suspended between Ying Qian and Bingdi. The tip of the hook was also a silver-white mirror-like luster, shining with an attractive but extremely dangerous light.

Seeing the Ice Emperor's fighting posture as if facing a formidable enemy, Ying Qian's fighting spirit also became a little impetuous. For some reason, since he inherited the Ice and Fire Dragon King's legacy, Ying Qian felt that his temper was getting more and more irritable. He felt that any creature that did not submit to the dragon clan would be taught a lesson.

But this time, Ying Qian came to discuss cooperation with Bingdi, so Ying Qian suppressed his inner desire to fight.

"Ice Emperor, I came all the way here from the Star Dou Great Forest not to fight with you." After saying that, Ying Qian was the first to transform into a human form, and all of a sudden the figure of Ice Emperor immediately became majestic again.

Bingdi was stunned. He didn't expect Ying Qian to suddenly turn back into a human. You know, it's better to use the original body when fighting between soul beasts, because whether it's Ying Qian's dragon claws or Bingdi's poisonous stingers, they can only exert their maximum attack power in the form of their original body.

However, Ying Qian's actions did reduce Bing Di's suspicion a little bit, but Bing Di did not transform into a human form like Ying Qian, he just canceled his fighting stance.

"Hey, you dragon clan member, why are you here looking for me?" Ice Emperor said coldly.

"First of all, my name is not Hey, my name is Ying Qian. Secondly, since I didn't come here to fight you, I must be looking for your cooperation." Ying Qian said unhappily. Bingdi's fiery personality can really arouse people's desire to conquer! No wonder in the original book, Tianmeng Bingcan was tortured to death by Bingdi.

"Cooperation? I have no connection with your dragon clan, so how can I talk about cooperation?"

Ying Qian smiled faintly and said, "But we all have one goal, don't we? That is to survive. If I'm not mistaken, you should be not far from the 400,000-year catastrophe! Otherwise, you wouldn't have rushed over immediately after sensing the breath of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm without even thinking too much!"

Ying Qian hit the nail on the head. Bingdi waved the pliers in his hand and said unhappily, "What does this have to do with you?"

Seeing that the Ice Emperor still had this choking tone, Ying Qian didn't say much and directly took out the ice crystal core of the Eight Aniseed Mysterious Ice Grass.

The appearance of the ice crystal core immediately attracted the attention of the Ice Emperor. With her strength of nearly 400,000 years, she immediately sensed the heaven and earth energy nurtured by the ice crystal core. As long as she had this ice crystal core and absorbed it completely, the 400,000-year catastrophe would not only be easy, but also almost certain.

"What do you want to cooperate with me for?" Seeing that Ying Qian could get the Ice Crystal Core, Bing Di also saw that Ying Qian was in charge and prepared, and he was determined to win. So, he just talked to Ying Qian to see what Ying Qian was up to.

"Well! It's not something that will make things difficult for you. I just want you to follow me. I wonder if you are willing to do so?" Ying Qian said lightly.

Hearing Ying Qian's request, Bingdi laughed angrily and said, "You are so arrogant. Do you want me to follow you just because of this? Do you still think that it is the time when your Dragon God dominates all races? Even if Emperor Tian comes to this extreme north, he may not be able to get much benefit from me? Besides, even if I kill you, isn't that thing mine?"

Hearing Bingdi's words, Ying Qian shrugged helplessly and said, "If you don't agree, forget it. I didn't expect you to agree to me so easily."

"This is for you." Ying Qian threw the ice crystal core to the Ice Emperor.

"What do you mean?" Feeling the elemental force of heaven and earth contained in the core of the ice crystal, the Ice Emperor looked at Ying Qian in confusion.

"Live well and survive the 400,000-year catastrophe, and I'll come find you again. Oh, by the way, be careful next time. Even if the real Tianmeng Ice Silkworm comes to find you, it won't be so stupid as to wait for you to eat it without any preparation."

Before leaving, Ying Qian also reminded Bing Di. He had no intention of taking anything from Bing Di. The purpose of doing everything was to make Bing Di lose the reason to be Huo Yuhao's second martial soul. As long as Bing Di was not in love, this 100% chance of survival would be more reliable than the one in ten thousand chance of success in the god-making plan! Moreover, without the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion as his second martial soul, it was still unclear whether Huo Yuhao could become a god.

(End of this chapter)