Chapter 443: A Lively Spirit Sea
This web seemed soft.
Yet every Blue Silver Emperor was connected to the ice layer, the earth, and the plant veins further away.
Boom!
The Titan Snow Demon King's first punch smashed into the buffer web.
Large swathes of the blue-gold Blue Silver Emperor instantly snapped, countless blades of grass were blasted into specks of light by the force of the punch, and the entire Ice Valley was shaken, causing it to collapse downward.
But to the Titan Snow Demon King's surprise,
its punch did not smash directly through that buffer web as it had imagined. Its power, after entering the Blue Silver Emperor Life Domain, seemed to be split apart by countless fine roots; a portion was channeled into the ground, a portion was neutralized by the Emerald Light Wave, and another portion was forcibly borne by the Blue Silver True Body.
Tang Chuan still stood in his original spot, only the ice layer beneath his feet had cracked, and his robes were flapping violently from the shockwaves. He seemed to have caught the first punch.
Seeing this, a flash of surprise crossed the Titan Snow Demon King's eyes, and it said incredulously:
"Using life force to dissipate the force?"
"Interesting."
Shifting his body slightly, Tang Chuan made a gesture of invitation and said in a low voice:
"Continue."
The Titan Snow Demon King grinned.
"Not bad."
"I understand a bit now why the Ice Bear King is willing to follow you."
In the Spirit sea, Xiao Bai immediately said:
"I told you Dad was amazing!"
The Ice Empress said indifferently:
"A-Tai's first punch was just testing the waters, what are you so proud of?"
Xiao Bai said:
"I'm happy for Dad in advance."
The Ice Empress: "..."
The Titan Snow Demon King did not give Tang Chuan much time to recover.
It raised its left fist again. This time, the Bloodline patterns on its body lit up, and the ancient power of the Extreme North Snow Demon clan awakened from within its body. The ice layer beneath its feet vibrated continuously, and immediately after, streams of heavy ice power rose from deep underground, converging onto its fist.
"Second punch."
"Snow Demon Mountain Splitter."
Boom!
The second punch was heavier than the first. If the first punch was like a snowy mountain colliding, then the second punch was like an entire ice vein being uprooted and smashed down.
The terrifying pressure had not yet truly landed.
The surrounding ice layer had already begun to fail, with cracks spreading crazily in all directions.
Tang Chuan's gaze tightened, and his Fifth Spirit Skill lit up.
"Fifth Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Destiny's Sorrow."
A blue-gold light containing a trace of illusory destiny patterns spread out from the Blue Silver Emperor leaves.
This time, Tang Chuan did not use Destiny's Sorrow to attack the Titan Snow Demon King itself, but instead cast it onto the Titan Snow Demon King's fist momentum. Destiny's Sorrow was originally meant to make a target's old injuries, flaws, poisons, and weaknesses easier to erupt; the same applied to fist momentum.
No matter how strong the Titan Snow Demon King's second punch was, it could not be without flaws. The moment Blue Silver Destiny's Sorrow landed, Tang Chuan saw extremely fine cracks in his eyes.
Those were the nodes where the Soul Power in the fist wind was most chaotic.
Tang Chuan did not dodge. The next second, his Second Soul skills lit up beneath his feet.
"Second Soul skills, Blue Silver Clone."
A Blue Silver Clone exactly the same as Tang Chuan appeared beside him.
Immediately after, his First Soul Skill lit up.
"First Soul Skill, Mimicry."
The aura of that Blue Silver Clone instantly became almost identical to Tang Chuan's true body.
The Titan Snow Demon King's gaze sharpened. Its punch was locked onto Tang Chuan's true body, but after the Mimicry Soul skills combined with the Blue Silver Clone, its lock deviated for a very short instant.
It was only for an instant, but it was enough.
Tang Chuan's true body took a step forward, while the Blue Silver Clone actively met the head-on force of the punch.
Boom!
The second punch landed.
The Blue Silver Clone was smashed to pieces almost instantly, but the moment the Clone shattered, it actually turned into countless cyan-gold specks of light, drilling into the fist wind along the weak points found by Destiny's Sorrow.
Tang Chuan's true body raised both hands, and all the leaves of the Blue Silver True Body spread out forward simultaneously.
"Third Spirit Ability, Instant Healing."
Powerful life force was not meant to be used after being injured, but to put the body into a state of extreme recovery before the fist force landed. At the same time, the Fourth Soul skills, Emerald Light Wave, spread out again, combining with the Blue Silver True Body to push Tang Chuan's Life Domain to the limit.
The second punch finally smashed into Tang Chuan's body.
Bang—!
The cyan-gold life web shattered by more than half instantly.
Tang Chuan was blasted back dozens of zhang, his feet plowing two deep trenches into the ice layer.
His chest felt stifled, but the moment he was injured, the Third Spirit Ability, Instant Healing, had already activated, and his shaken internal organs were forcibly repaired by the life force.
The Emerald Light Wave continuously washed over his injuries, allowing wounds that would have normally caused an ordinary Titled Douluo to collapse to be suppressed within a few breaths.
Tang Chuan steadied himself, looked up at the Titan Snow Demon King, and said indifferently:
"That's the second punch."
Hearing this, the Titan Snow Demon King did not throw another punch immediately; it lowered its head and looked at its left fist.
That punch just now had indeed hit Tang Chuan.
But it also clearly felt that its fist momentum had been disrupted at the last instant. It wasn't a contest of strength, but a capture of weaknesses.
A plant-type grass Spirit could actually use Clones, Mimicry, destiny, and life force to tear open a sliver of survival within its powerful attack—it was simply incredible!
The Titan Snow Demon King's look at Tang Chuan finally became serious, and it said in a deep voice:
"I truly didn't expect your Blue Silver Grass to be this strong."
Tang Chuan did not answer immediately, but stood on the shattered ice layer, his white robes flapping, the roots of the Blue Silver Emperor still plunged deep into the earth, and the cyan-gold life light circulated in strands, repairing the Meridians and internal organs shaken by the second punch.
The Titan Snow Demon King's power was even more terrifying than he had expected.
This was not just strength at the Soul Power level.
It was a heavy pressure originating from the Bloodline, the Physical Body, the earth, and the Extreme North snowy mountains.
For the first punch, Tang Chuan relied on the Blue Silver True Body, Emerald Light Wave, and life force to dissipate the force.
For the second punch, Tang Chuan relied on Destiny's Sorrow to capture flaws, used the Blue Silver Clone combined with Mimicry to disrupt the attack lock, and then used Instant Healing and Emerald Light Wave to forcibly suppress the injuries.
In his view, this third punch would definitely not be this simple.
The Titan Snow Demon King slowly stood up straight, its massive body growing taller little by little in the wind and snow, its white long fur blown backward by the extreme cold Soul Power, and ancient ice-blue patterns emerged from under its fur, as if the totems of ancient ice plain giants were awakening.
The entire Ice Valley began to vibrate.
It was not just a simple ground vibration.
It was as if the entire Extreme North Land had been awakened by some kind of power.
The next second, the distant snow mountains emitted a rumbling low roar, cracking sounds came from deep within the glaciers, and heavy accumulated snow rolled down from the peaks, only to be pulled by the aura released from the Titan Snow Demon King's body halfway, turning into streams of white snow that converged onto its fist.
The Titan Snow Demon King looked down at Tang Chuan, its voice as deep as thunder:
"Human."
"For the third punch, I will use my full strength."
After speaking, it raised its right fist.
The surface of that fist was instantly covered in a layer of deep blue ice armor, and on the ice armor, ancient patterns lit up continuously, as if every pattern was pressing down with a snowy mountain.
"If you cannot catch it."
"You will die."
Tang Chuan exhaled a breath of cold air and said:
"Come."
A flash of appreciation crossed the Titan Snow Demon King's eyes.
"Good."
"Third punch."
"Titan Snow Demon King True Body — Extreme North Peak Press!"
Boom—!
In that instant, the world in front of Tang Chuan seemed to disappear.
No wind or snow.
No Ice Valley.
No massive figure of the Titan Snow Demon King.
All he could see was an entire Extreme North Continent pressing down on him.
That punch was not fast.
It even looked very slow.
But precisely because it was slow, it was even more terrifying.
It was like a ten-thousand-year glacier falling from the sky, or an entire snowy mountain range pressing down, leaving no room for evasion.
Before the fist arrived, the ice layer beneath Tang Chuan had already collapsed with a boom, the Blue Silver Emperor that had been rooted into the ground was snapped off one by one, and the snowfield trembled crazily under this terrifying pressure, as if it would shatter at any moment.
Tang Chuan's pupils shrank slightly.
He could feel that this punch could not be neutralized by ordinary force dissipation.
The Titan Snow Demon King's third punch was no longer just smashing into his Physical Body, but was pressing down with the surrounding space, earth, glaciers, and wind and snow all together.
In the Spirit sea, Ice Bear King Xiao Bai's voice became somewhat nervous:
"Dad, this big dummy is really using its full strength!"
The Ice Empress said coldly:
"The Titan Snow Demon King is one of the strongest Soul Beasts in the Extreme North. This punch of his is already close to a life-or-death struggle."
The Snow Empress also said in a deep voice:
"Tang Chuan, you'd better not try to brute-force it to the end."
Tang Chuan did not respond, but raised his head to look at that Extreme North Continent, his right arm suddenly lighting up with a red glow; that was the hundred-thousand-year Soft Bones Rabbit Soul Bone from Xiao Wu's complete sacrifice.
The moment the red Soul Ring's light erupted, a layer of strange golden light appeared on his body surface.
The life-saving power within the Soft Bones Rabbit's Origin was driven to the limit by him at this moment.
"Invincible Golden Body."
Boom!
The Titan Snow Demon King's third punch finally landed.
The terrifying power of the Extreme North Peak Press smashed fiercely onto Tang Chuan, and the golden light shield erupted from the Invincible Golden Body instantly lit up to the limit, like a golden sun being forcibly pressed into the glacier.
First breath.
The golden light held steady.
The ice layer under Tang Chuan's feet was completely pulverized, and he was pressed half a foot into the ground.
Second breath.
The golden light began to tremble violently. The Titan Snow Demon King's fist momentum had not been completely blocked, and that heavy, extreme Extreme North power was like snowy mountains stacking up one after another, layer pressing on layer, forcibly causing fine cracks to appear on the outer layer of the Invincible Golden Body.
Third breath.
Crack!
On the golden light shield, a clear gap actually cracked open.
Tang Chuan's expression changed slightly.
The Invincible Golden Body was not truly invincible.
It could withstand most damage in a short time, but the Titan Snow Demon King's punch was too heavy.
This was not a sword stabbing, nor was it a Soul skills blasting, but the weight of an entire Extreme North snowfield pressing down. The Invincible Golden Body blocked the most terrifying first wave of impact, but could not completely block the subsequent superimposed pressure.
Tang Chuan only felt his chest stifled, and a bloody taste surged into his throat.
The golden light shield continued to collapse.
A flash of shock also crossed the Titan Snow Demon King's eyes.
It did not expect that Tang Chuan would still have such a means of near-absolute defense.
But soon, it let out a low roar, and its fist pressed down again.
"Break for me!"
Boom!
The power of the Extreme North Peak Press erupted again.
The Invincible Golden Body finally could not withstand it, and the golden light shield shattered with a boom.
The sky full of golden light turned into fragments and scattered.
Tang Chuan's whole body trembled from the aftershock, but at the very last moment when the fist momentum landed completely, Tang Chuan's figure suddenly became illusory, as if his body had been stripped from reality.
The destructive power that should have landed on him actually passed through most of his body and smashed fiercely into the ice plain below.
It was one of his Sixth Spirit Abilities — Void.
A life-saving divine skill from the hundred-thousand-year Soft Bones Rabbit's sacrifice; in the Void state, Tang Chuan's body briefly became immune to physical attacks and significantly weakened other damage.
Although the Titan Snow Demon King's punch contained Extreme North Soul Power and earth pressure, the core was still physical giant force and physical suppression. The Invincible Golden Body helped Tang Chuan withstand the initial, most domineering impact.
Void allowed him to avoid the final bombardment that could have truly crushed him.
Rumble—!
The Titan Snow Demon King's third punch finally landed completely in the Ice Valley.
In that instant, the entire Ice Valley was as if it had been punched by an ancient giant from the sky.
The earth collapsed.
The ice walls shattered.
Hundreds of zhang high ice peaks cracked from their roots and then collapsed with a roar.
The distant continuous snowy mountains vibrated simultaneously, and the thick snow that had accumulated on the peaks for who knows how many years was shaken loose by this punch, then turned into an overwhelming white torrent, pouring down in all directions.
An avalanche.
And not just an avalanche from one mountain.
It was a chain reaction avalanche after the entire Extreme North mountain range was shaken.
Rumble!
Rumble!
The sound was like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting; waves of snow rolled over from the distant mountains, a hundred zhang high, a vast expanse of white, like a sea of snow pouring backward.
Deep in the Extreme North Land, countless Soul Beasts were awakened.
Ice Plain Giant Wolves rushed out of snow caves, Cold-Wing Ice Eagles soared into the sky, Snow-Armored Devil Scorpions burrowed into the ice layer, and large groups of Soul Beasts looked toward the Ice Valley direction in horror, having no idea what had happened.
And in the center of the Ice Valley, Tang Chuan's Void state gradually dissipated.
His face was pale, blood was at the corner of his mouth, and his white robes were even more damaged.
Although the Invincible Golden Body had blocked the first wave.
Void had also neutralized the final lethality, but the Soul Power shock, spatial pressure, and Extreme North chill caught in between still caused his Meridians to suffer not-insignificant impact.
The Third Spirit Ability, Instant Healing, activated immediately.
Cyan-gold life light surged from his body, rapidly repairing his injuries.
The Fourth Soul skills, Emerald Light Wave, also spread out from the Blue Silver True Body, gently sweeping over his body, smoothing out the remaining shock injuries little by little.
Tang Chuan slowly raised his head, looked at the Titan Snow Demon King, and said solemnly:
"Your third punch."
"I have also caught it."
The Titan Snow Demon King maintained its punching posture, its massive body slightly stiff.
It looked down at Tang Chuan and remained silent for a long time.
Invincible Golden Body.
Void.
Life Healing.
Blue Silver Emperor force dissipation.
Tang Chuan had used many methods.
But this was nothing to be ashamed of.
Because what the Titan Snow Demon King wanted to test from the beginning was not whether Tang Chuan was qualified to stand and take a beating, but whether he could survive under the Titan Snow Demon King's full-strength punch, and whether he could withstand the heaviest pressure of the Extreme North.
The result was obvious.
He had done it.
He had even done better than the Titan Snow Demon King had imagined.
The Titan Snow Demon King slowly retracted its fist.
It took a deep look at Tang Chuan, then suddenly grinned and said:
"Good."
"You caught it."
"I admit that you are qualified to bear my Soul Ring."
In the Spirit sea, Ice Bear King Xiao Bai cheered immediately.
"Dad won!"
"Big dummy, are you convinced?"
The Titan Snow Demon King naturally could not hear its voice, but Tang Chuan heard it clearly. The next moment, another lazy and sleepy voice suddenly sounded deep in Tang Chuan's Spirit sea.
"What exploded?"
"Who is tearing down the house?"
"Brother was sleeping so well, why is there suddenly an earthquake like Sea God Island?"
Tang Chuan was slightly stunned.
Deep in the Spirit sea, a mass of white-gold light slowly emerged.
It was a chubby, round, white-gold silkworm.
It opened its eyes in a daze, its two small eyes full of confusion from not being fully awake.
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm. Since Tang Chuan obtained his ninth Soul Ring, Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had spent most of its time sleeping deep in the Spirit sea, helping Tang Chuan stabilize his Spirit Origin.
As a result, the commotion caused by the Titan Snow Demon King's punch was too great, even causing an avalanche in the entire Extreme North Land, and the Spirit sea was also shaken endlessly, forcing it to be woken up from its sleep.
As soon as Tianmeng Ice Silkworm opened its eyes, it saw an extra white bear phantom in the Spirit sea.
Ice Bear King Xiao Bai also saw it.
The two looked at each other.
Xiao Bai asked curiously:
"Who are you?"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm blinked.
"Brother wanted to ask who you are."
Xiao Bai said:
"I am Ice Bear King Xiao Bai, Dad's Fifth Spirit Skill."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was stunned for three breaths.
"Dad?"
It looked abruptly at Tang Chuan's Spirit projection.
"Tang Chuan, since when did you have such a big son?"
Tang Chuan: "..."
The Ice Empress said coldly:
"Shut up, fat worm."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm trembled all over.
"Bingbing?!"
"You're awake too?"
The Ice Empress sneered.
"What? Did I wake you up?"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm immediately switched to a fawning tone.
"No, no, how could Bingbing's voice be called waking up? That's called the sound of nature."
Ice Bear King Xiao Bai looked at Tianmeng, then at the Ice Empress, and couldn't help but whisper:
"Mom, this worm's brain doesn't seem very good either."
The Snow Empress said indifferently:
"Hmm."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was immediately unhappy and said: "What do you mean 'this worm'? Brother is a million-year Spirit Beast! Million-year! Do you know what that concept is?"
Xiao Bai thought seriously and said:
"Is it better at sleeping than me?"
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said proudly:
"That goes without saying!"
After saying this, it suddenly felt something was wrong.
The Ice Empress sneered, and the Spirit sea instantly became as lively as a boiling pot.