Chapter 916: Chapter 783: Qiankun Ice Gate, Heavenly Consort's Ambition
Chapter 916: Chapter 783: Qiankun Ice Gate, Heavenly Consort’s Ambition
Generally speaking, Soul pet trainers usually train war general level soul pets to the peak monarch level at most. Very few people would spend a lot of resources to strengthen them to the emperor level. Some pickier soul pet trainers might not even strengthen their commander-level soul pets to the emperor level, but instead, look for monarch-level or higher, or purchase emperor-level young pets.
This is mainly because the skill effects of low-ranking soul pets aren’t very prominent, making their racial abilities seem more generic. If these pets were to comprehend some abilities, perhaps it would be fine, yet those without comprehension and remain stuck at the war general level, even if strengthened to the emperor level, would still be restricted by other soul pets with powerful racial abilities at the same level.
Of course, there are always exceptions, so soul pet trainers must carefully weigh their options.
If someone else had summoned an intermediate emperor from a war general soul pet race, the two women wouldn’t be so surprised. This is primarily because Princess Tianji recently used this person to criticize them while invisibly praising Chu Mu. Their preconceived notion was that Chu Mu needed to summon a more domineering soul pet to be considered “superior to others.”
Princess Tianji calmly glanced at Chu Mu’s Ice-Feathered Spirit and wondered in her heart why this young man, who had shown such talent and astonishing strength, spent his efforts on a creature that could only reach the peak emperor level when he was worthy of moving beyond the emperor level.
“Perhaps, people who can step into the dominator level are few and far between, and he simply doesn’t have that kind of ambition.” Tianji secretly thought, and couldn’t help feeling some disappointment towards this young yet outstanding youth.
After the four of them had finished summoning, Tianji also recited the spell to summon her soul pet that hadn’t reached the tenth rank.
High-level soul pet trainers often avoid using their stronger soul pets when training new ones, as this would cause their new soul pets to develop a strong dependence and laziness. On one hand, Tianji wanted to train her new pet, and on the other, she didn’t have much soul power. Therefore, she didn’t summon her higher-ranked soul pets but simply recited the spell to summon the ice-element soul pet she needed to train.
“Princess Tianji, there is a white-haired demon below that is close to the high-level emperor level. You’re responsible for dealing with it…”
Teng Lang hadn’t finished speaking when Guan Guan glared at him fiercely and said, “Does Your Highness need you to command her?”
“Alright then.” Teng Lang smiled bitterly and looked at Chu Mu, saying, “The emperors below should have already agreed to distribute evenly and are guarding the surrounding area. What are your Ice-Feathered Spirit’s special abilities?”
“Nothing special; it just has high attack and defense.” Chu Mu replied. The Ice-Feathered Spirit indeed had no special abilities.
“Then take care of yourself.” After saying that, Teng Lang didn’t take the initiative to command the battle any longer. He let the Ice Mountain Lion lead the way and entered the vast fissure first.
Soon, Teng Lang and the Ice Mountain Lion disappeared from everyone’s sight. But within a few seconds, Teng Lang let out a cry of surprise, apparently not expecting that Chu Mu and the three women hadn’t followed.
It was normal for Chu Mu and his Ice-Feathered Spirit not to follow as they release ice-element skills at long range, which is a regular battle strategy. As for the three women not taking action, it could only be said that they didn’t know how to work together with others.
“Let’s go.” Finally, Tianji spoke, and her two maids, Guan Guan and Xiao Tong, each drove their soul pets into the fog-shrouded depths of the fissure. A moment later, they could hear the sounds of ice shaking the mountain and the roar of ice beasts.
Chu Mu and Tianji didn’t immediately jump into the fog-covered battlefield because both of their soul pets were elemental soul pets.
Chu Mu had never seen the ice-element soul pet Tianji summoned, but with the intermediate emperor level strength it had before reaching the tenth rank, it certainly had a terrifying combat power.
After roughly pausing for about ten seconds, Chu Mu felt that the three other people should have attracted firepower by now, and only then did he and the Ice-Feathered Spirit jump in. The next second, Tianji also leisurely jumped into the depths of the fissure with her mysterious ice demon!
“Brother Chu, support me!” Teng Lang shouted amidst the white fog.
After Chu Mu jumped into the fissure, his vision became very blurred. He immediately had the Ice-Feathered Spirit disperse the surrounding white fog, only to find Teng Lang’s Ice Mountain Lion had been knocked into the fissure by two Ridge Ice Beasts, nearly expanding the entire thick fissure by thirty hundred meters!
The thickness of the ice in the polar-ice region is a hundred times stronger than that of other ice. To knock out three to four hundred meters, it’s clear that the Ice Mountain Lion was hit hard by that attack.
“Ning, Ice Colored Glaze Armor.” Chu Mu’s first move was to have Ning cast this auxiliary skill.
Ning barely needed to chant any spells. She locked her gaze on the Ice Mountain Lion, raised her hand and controlled countless ice glazed dust. The dust swirled around the Ice Mountain Lion’s body and quickly condensed, covering the important parts of the Ice Mountain Lion with a thick layer of ice glazed armor!
“Brother Chu, aren’t you digging a pit for me? At least limit one Ridge Ice Beast, this armor…” Just as Teng Lang was about to say that the armor was of no deciding factor, the two Ridge Ice Beasts launched another attack on the Ice Mountain Lion!
“Bang~~~~~~~~~~”
Even though the Ice Mountain Lion was overbearing, it couldn’t handle the attacks from the two giant Ice Beasts. It was once again sent flying, causing a mountain collapse-like avalanche of ice blocks smashing down from the fault, burying the Ice Mountain Lion beneath.
Teng Lang didn’t have time to speak. He saw that his Ice Mountain Lion seemed to be unable to hold up against the onslaught, so he recited a spell to summon another soul pet.
Since it was a training exercise, summoning other soul pets for help wasn’t a good habit, but Teng Lang had no choice as the situation was urgent.
“Roar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
However, before Teng Lang could finish chanting his spell, the nearly 100-meter high pile of ice blocks crumbled as the Ice Mountain Lion let out a roar that shattered the surrounding giant ice rocks. Afterward, the Ice Mountain Lion performed an Ice Mountain Trampling, forcefully knocking the two giant Ridge Ice Beasts flying away.
Teng Lang hesitated, not expecting that the heavily injured Ice Mountain Lion could actually stand up unscathed!
However, Teng Lang’s reaction was swift. Casting a glance at the meticulously crafted ice-glazed armor on the Ice Mountain Lion, he quickly understood something. He immediately gave the Ice Mountain Lion an attack command: “Ice Tai!”
The Ice Mountain Lion roared again, its body turned into an ice-colored lightning that pounced into the air!
As the two giant Ice Beasts fell to the ground after being shocked, the Ice Mountain Lion had already reached their heads. Its body rapidly transformed into a mountain of ice and snow. Although it only had a diameter of 100 meters, its height had reached at least 2,000 meters. It ferociously slammed down on the two giant Ice Beasts!
“Bang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The ice beneath the fault cracked once more, collapsing wildly and forming a huge abyss. The two Ridge Ice Beasts were both crushed to the bottom!
Subsequently, the Ice-Feathered Spirit’s Ice Element skills gathered like hailstones in a 100-meter area after the Ice Mountain Lion completed its attack. The densely packed hail rained down, causing the exploded abyss to sink further, and the two giant Ice Beasts were unknowingly smashed into the frozen soil thousands of meters below ground.
“Haha, I really underestimated your Ice-Feathered Spirit. The armor it provided withstood the simultaneous attack of two intermediate emperors. Its defense is truly thick, and not just ordinary thick at that!” Seeing that the situation was already in his grip, Teng Lang laughed happily and said to Chu Mu.
After obtaining the Ice-Feathered Spirit, Chu Mu made it follow a simple training path: focusing on damage and defense, without any other fancy tricks. It really didn’t have any special abilities or racial abilities, but for Chu Mu, as long as it had these two traits, the Ice-Feathered Spirit would be the best ice-element soul pet!
“Speaking of which, how did you nurture this Ice-Feathered Spirit? How could you make its Ice Soul Power crystal so hard and its Ice Soul Power so pure?” Teng Lang asked curiously.
“It’s due to ice attribute resources.” Chu Mu answered nonchalantly.
Chu Mu didn’t lie. The Ice-Feathered Spirit had consumed more spirit items than any of his other soul pets. This was of course due to Chu Mu’s half-demonization, requiring him to constantly consume ice attribute spirit items to cool down. The Ice-Feathered Spirit, as Chu Mu’s only ice-element soul pet, reaped the benefits.
In Chu Mu’s estimation, the Ice-Feathered Spirit was not only stronger than those intermediate emperors, but also benefited from the massive consumption of ice attribute resources. Regardless of how eye-catching its skills were or how high its innate talent was, its offensive and defensive power was definitely stronger than that of ordinary intermediate emperors.
After witnessing the strong defense of Chu Mu’s Ice-Feathered Spirit, Teng Lang quickly experienced the astonishing ice skill killing power of this war general level Ice Emperor!
When an ice attribute soul pet combined with a rock attribute soul pet, it would be the soul pet with the thickest defense in the world. The white-haired giant demon that Teng Lang once referred to as being close to a high-level emperor had such a combination of attributes.
The white-haired giant demon’s attack was undoubtedly equivalent to that of an ordinary intermediate emperor, but its mobile meat-mountain and iron-like defense made it challenging to shake even with the full force attacks from the Ice Mountain Lion, Glazed Glass Ice Spirit Emperor, and Snow-Drinking Honorable Eagle!
However, when a series of ice attribute skills bombarded by the Ice-Feathered Spirit, cracks appeared on the white-haired giant demon’s sturdiest chest. These clear wounds made the two female soul pet trainers, Guan Guan and Xiao Tong, extremely uncomfortable.
“Brother Chu, your Ice-Feathered Spirit’s attack is high, not just ordinary high. If it hits a high-level emperor, it would make them shed several layers of skin!” Teng Lang had to admit that he had doubts about Chu Mu’s Ice-Feathered Spirit before, but now he genuinely had to give it a thumbs up.
The white-haired giant demon was defeated by the combined efforts of Chu Mu’s Ice-Feathered Spirit and Heavenly Consort’s mysterious ice demon. Tianji’s two apprentices were puzzled after the battle!
Both of their soul pets were also intermediate emperors, with their species ranking at the quasi-emperor level. It was unbelievable that they would be inferior to Chu Mu’s soul pet that had been promoted from the war general level. This was too bizarre!
“This Ice-Feathered Spirit must have been nurtured by spirit items all the time. The spirit items spent on it are several times more than other intermediate emperors. Moreover, it focuses on strengthening and training in both attack and defense…” Tianji analyzed calmly.
Tianji was the teacher of these two female attendants, and naturally, she would explain any doubts to them. However, she personally didn’t approve of Chu Mu’s way of nurturing soul pets.
To put it bluntly, she still believed that a war general-level creature that could never surpass the emperor, even if it reached the peak emperor level, would not catch her eye.
Ice-breaking Yulan was soon discovered at the bottom of the central fissure. As a material, Tianji carefully collected it and put it into her space ring.
Teng Lang watched as his saved spirit item was taken away by this woman without a word of thanks. In Tianji’s eyes, this material was just something to be used when needed and casually given away. But in Teng Lang’s eyes, it was also a spirit item that could forge another intermediate emperor.
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Of course, Tianji didn’t just need these materials. Under Teng Lang’s guidance, the five of them continued to delve deeper into the Ice Silk Canyon.
All the way, Chu Mu hoped that more powerful creatures would appear, allowing him to consume Tianji’s soul power and hopefully help him probe whether this woman had any hidden cards or not.
Chu Mu had been observing Tianji intentionally or unintentionally, and he always felt that this woman seemed to be hiding something in her heart. Even when teaching her disciples and training her new pets, she seemed absent-minded. Was it because she had no interest in this level of battle, or was it because she was scheming something like Chu Mu?
“Could it be that she detected that I am a demon man?” Chu Mu asked himself in the dark, but then he negated the guess.
If she really detected that he was a demon man, she would never follow him into the depths of the Ice Silk Canyon like this. If a real fight broke out, she would be the one to suffer.
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“I heard that there is a Qiankun Ice Gate in the deepest part of this icy land. Is this a legend or a real existence?” As they walked through the howling ice cracks, Tianji suddenly broke the silence and asked.
Her voice made all four of them stop in their tracks, and the ethereal sound seemed to silence the fierce howling wind.
“Your Highness wants to go to the Qiankun Ice Gate?” Teng Lang hesitated a little.
“You asked this, so it means the Qiankun Ice Gate exists?” Tianji’s wise eyes spoke.
Since it was pointed out, Teng Lang no longer had any reason to lie. His expression turned serious, and he said, “First of all, the Qiankun Ice Gate is guarded by the five ice emperors of the canyon, and no one has ever entered the ice world behind the gate and come out to tell the world…”
“You only need to answer me, do you know how to reach the Qiankun Ice Gate?” Tianji’s tone carried her habitual majesty, making Teng Lang dare not play any tricks with words.
Teng Lang, affected by Heavenly Consort’s mental pressure, naturally couldn’t argue, and could only nod his head with difficulty.
“Do you have any objections to going to Qiankun Ice Gate next?” This time, Heavenly Consort did not use her Soul Sense, and her tone was slightly gentler.
“How dare Teng Lang object if Your Highness commands so…” Teng Lang said somewhat insincerely, his words showing less respect for Heavenly Consort and more coldness and falsehood as he suppressed his own temperament.
Subsequently, Teng Lang slightly changed the direction of their journey, moving along a small ice crevice, which looked very much like a dead-end. This caused Guan Guan and Xiao Tong, the two female attendants, to repeatedly want to scold Teng Lang for deliberately making them take detours, but they were all stopped by Heavenly Consort.
During this process, the atmosphere became very strange. Teng Lang, who liked to show off his knowledge of Ice Silk Canyon, became reticent and focused only on leading the way. Heavenly Consort’s attitude towards Teng Lang was less indifferent and more authoritative. Even the battles along the way felt extremely dull; Teng Lang and Chu Mu fought separately from the three women, who resolved their own enemies and allowed their Soul pets to train.
Five whole days passed like this.
Chu Mu finally couldn’t help but ask about the Qiankun Ice Gate issue.
“Brother Teng, what exactly is going on? Why do I feel that woman seems to have some sort of issue with you?” Chu Mu asked using his Soul Sense.
Teng Lang finally squeezed out a bitter smile on his stern face and replied, “Brother Chu, I don’t know if you’re just slow-witted or really good at holding your breath. You’ve waited five days to ask me. I couldn’t help but want to ask you why you haven’t asked me yet!”
“What’s going on?” Chu Mu asked.
“This Female War Goddess did not come here to teach disciples and collect materials at all. She is targeting the Qiankun Ice Gate. I was so foolish to believe her words and actually led the way for her,” Teng Lang said with some annoyance.
“No wonder she seemed distracted,” Chu Mu said.
Indeed, Chu Mu found it strange as well. Why did this woman come here so leisurely to collect Spirit Items and teach disciples? Did she forget that she was injured and the threat of the Silver Demon, or the need to track Ning Man’er?
“I am sure that this woman has spied on the Qiankun Ice Gate before. I don’t know how she found out that the only map to the Qiankun Ice Gate in the world was passed down to me by my father. My familiarity with Ice Silk Canyon is due to this map. Now that I have burned the map and put it here…” Teng Lang said, pointing to his temple.
“Is there anything special about this Qiankun Ice Gate?” Chu Mu immediately inquired.
“My ancestors have always been in charge of Snow City, and since they are Soul Hall Elders, there should have been a Holy Land that we planned. You must have been there. The Qiankun Ice Gate is similar to the Holy Land Gate and is a Space Gate leading to an independent region. Some elders even call it the Ice and Snow Sacred Domain, the Ninth Holy Land. However, to this day, no one except my ancestors has ever entered the Qiankun Ice Gate and returned alive. Everything there is unknown, mysterious, and the resources are unimaginably vast!” Teng Lang said.
“So this woman is spying on the unknown Ice Sacred Domain, deliberately using the pretext of having you lead the way. No wonder your attitude changed so suddenly,” Chu Mu stroked his chin.
Indeed, there was a hidden world deep within the Ice Silk Canyon, and Heavenly Consort’s appearance in their team was no coincidence!
“If I could maintain a good attitude, I would be her grandson. That’s the treasure of my ancestors, and I had planned to go there once I was strong enough. I never thought I would be tricked by Heavenly Consort. Humph, these five days, I’ve cursed at Heavenly Consort’s Virgin Holy Land a thousand times!” Teng Lang said angrily, his last words lacking any Soul Hall Young Master’s quality, just like a vulgar hooligan.
“I’ll curse on your behalf too…” Chu Mu joined Teng Lang in cursing, but had a devilish smile in his heart!
Heavenly Consort had tricked Teng Lang into coming here and taking her to the Ice Sacred Domain. Although Chu Mu didn’t know why the woman dared to venture into such a place while her soul was injured, Chu Mu didn’t need to think about it in detail.
That’s because Heavenly Consort certainly wouldn’t think that the Silver Demon who had injured her was right beside her. He was secretly watching her, with an evil smile on his face!
(This is a big chapter, almost two chapters in volume~~~~ Afraid it’s too late, let’s post it first~~~~) (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian () to vote for recommendation votes, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)