Chapter 157: Encountering a Legendary
The Soul Prison Trial, in the current era, was like a myth, its origins and purpose shrouded in mystery, as if it had appeared out of thin air.
Initially, some speculated it was a secret realm created by a mythical spirit beast.
But this theory was quickly debunked when a mythical spirit beast emerged from the Soul Prison Trial…
This earth-shattering event triggered a contracting frenzy. Countless legendary Realm Overlords and even titled legendary beings rushed to form contracts with promising human Spirit Masters, preparing for the next Soul Prison Trial.
However, it was all for naught. The Soul Prison Trial didn’t accept legendary spirit beasts. They were all rejected.
Some legendary spirit beasts, enraged, even killed their Spirit Masters, suffering severe injuries as a result. Others waited patiently for their contractors to die of old age, their existence never revealed. There was even a legendary spirit beast that experienced a dramatic, star-crossed love affair with a human, their story immortalized in a classic novel.
After the initial frenzy, most spirit beasts gave up on the Soul Prison Trial, leaving only a small number still secretly researching it.
To this day, the secrets of the Soul Prison Trial remained unsolved.
Soul Prison Trial, Fourth Level, Tower of Heaven, 21st Floor.
This level consisted of four sessions, each 25 floors representing a round of battles, with a week-long break in between for recovery.
Only four more floors remained in this round, and at this critical juncture, the Frost Snow Woman and her team encountered another group.
A scorching heat, like an inferno, filled the area, burning steam billowing outwards, as five crimson spirit beasts emerged from the flames.
The most formidable force in this Soul Prison Trial, the fire-type team led by the Desolate Fire Netherworld Rakshasa, had encountered the Frost Snow Woman’s team.
The Desolate Fire Netherworld Rakshasa, a Saint-rank biological offensive type.
The Hellfire Princess, a Saint-rank elemental support type.
The Thousand Star Blazing Flame, a high-rank weapon-type possession type.
The Nether Fire Shroud, a high-rank weapon-type armor type.
The Fire Spirit, a low-rank elemental all-purpose type.
The two teams, water and fire, faced each other, a strange, awkward tension in the air.
The most out-of-place among them were the Ice Spirit and the Fire Spirit, dwarfed by the other, more powerful spirit beasts.
Water and fire were inherently opposing elements. A clash was inevitable.
The opposing team had also noticed the number of Saint-ranks on their side. The Hellfire Princess, a beautiful woman with fiery red hair, frowned, seemingly wary.
However, if it came to a fight, she wasn’t afraid.
Because…
“They have five Saint-ranks,” the Fire Spirit suddenly said, looking at the Ice Spirit.
Hearing this, the eyes of both the Desolate Fire Netherworld Rakshasa and the Hellfire Princess widened in disbelief.
“Where’s the rabbit?” the Fire Spirit asked, glancing around.
“It got lost,” the Frost Snow Woman replied coldly.
The opposing team had clearly recognized them as the Sorrowful Saintess Gong Lianyue’s spirit beasts.
This meant they knew the Ice Spirit was actually the Ice Soul Cold Star, and the little Snow Fox was the legendary Blood Garden Phoenix Stage.
Conversely, knowing the current situation in the Wind Realm, and with such a powerful fire-type team, they must be from the nearby Sun-Seizing Divine Metropolis.
The Sun-Seizing Divine Metropolis, the Infernal Saintess…
And it seemed the Fire Spirit was the leader, which was unusual for a low-rank spirit beast to be giving orders to Saint-ranks.
“There’s something… unusual… in this group. Although you have many Saint-ranks, be careful.”
“I suggest you split up soon. You don’t want to be wiped out all at once.”
After saying this, the Fire Spirit, its crystalline body floating, drifted past the Frost Snow Woman and her team, without looking back.
The other fire-type spirit beasts, albeit hesitantly, also passed through the area where the little fox and its two… admirers… were engaged in their… activities, both sides surprisingly avoiding conflict.
“Eh?”
Seeing them leave, the pink flower and the green vine swayed in confusion, seemingly unable to comprehend their decision to avoid a fight.
The Frost Snow Woman watched them disappear, her expression still wary, not moving.
A few minutes later, with no sign of pursuit, the Frost Snow Woman finally relaxed and signaled for her team to move on.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Suddenly, a massive explosion of fire engulfed the maze for several kilometers.
The scorching flames almost incinerated the entire level, the terrifying heat boiling and burning, clearly the Fire Spirit and its team engaged in battle.
However, in less than half a second, the flames died down.
Swish—
A battered Fire Spirit, its body half-destroyed, its appearance disheveled, came flying towards them.
The Saint-rank auras of the Desolate Fire Netherworld Rakshasa and the Hellfire Princess were gone, as if they had vanished into thin air.
[Run.]
The Fire Spirit fled without looking back, its panicked message echoing in the Frost Snow Woman’s mind.
The Frost Snow Woman’s cold expression flickered. How could anyone defeat a Saint-rank team so quickly?
Even ten Saint-ranks couldn’t have defeated them so effortlessly…
Whoosh—
Without warning, the Frost Snow Woman’s shroud-like robe dissolved into a white, viscous liquid, her snow-white skin exposed, bathed in a faint purple light, a sight that stunned the three plant-type spirit beasts.
This humanoid spirit beast, so shameless, stripping naked in public!
Covered in the shimmering purple light, the Frost Snow Woman glanced gratefully at the Ice Spirit, then turned towards the shadows ahead, her expression serious.
She hadn’t deliberately removed her clothes. They had been melted away by something. And just as her own body was about to melt, the Ice Soul Cold Star had shielded her.
[Death Tribulation]
The purple starlight clashed with the white water, the starlight fading, being consumed and assimilated by the water.
A beautiful, white-haired woman with antlers emerged from the shadows. She was clearly the one who had annihilated the Fire Spirit’s team.
The Frost Snow Woman froze.
Sensing a familiar aura, she recalled a memory from her youth.
The Snow Monarch had once taken her to this woman’s birthday celebration…
A legendary-rank spirit beast… in the Soul Prison Trial…!!!
Chapter 158: The Most Ferocious Clan
Logically, legendary-rank spirit beasts shouldn’t be able to enter the Soul Prison Trial.
However, at this moment, the Frost Snow Woman was certain she wasn’t mistaken. She had seen this woman from afar once before!!
Her features as delicate as snow, her white hair shimmering like fireflies, her grayish-white eyes devoid of emotion.
Branches and leaves sprouted from her head, her icy antlers like a crown, a regal, winter queen.
[Legendary-rank – White Flower Moon-Treading Deer]
No, not her. It must have been one of her kin…
Even with the Frost Snow Woman’s limited intelligence, she understood. Although the same species, they weren’t the same individual.
The White Flower Moon-Treading Deer, a biological type with dual water and moon attributes, one of the top three most ferocious legendary spirit beasts, an unstoppable force.
Ten thousand years ago, two titled White Flower Moon-Treading Deer had existed simultaneously: the Cold Deer King and the Illusion Sea Concubine.
The Cold Deer King, having devoured the moons of countless realms, causing them to vanish from the sky, was hunted down and killed by enraged Spirit Masters and spirit beasts.
The Illusion Sea Concubine, however, was still alive. It was her birthday celebration that the Frost Snow Woman had attended with the Snow Monarch!
And the one before them now… was a newly born White Flower Moon-Treading Deer!
After all, the Illusion Sea Concubine’s power was beyond human comprehension, while this White Flower Moon-Treading Deer was only at the Dawn and Dusk Stage.
Why could a legendary-rank spirit beast enter the Soul Prison Trial…?
There was no time to ponder. A legendary being stood right before them.
For Gong Lianyue’s sake, they couldn’t be defeated here!
Whoosh, whoosh—
Waves of white water surged, the Ice Soul Cold Star’s purple star rapidly eroding, about to shatter.
Just then, the Iron Jade Ice Scorpion lashed out, its massive, scale-covered pincer striking the white-haired, antlered woman.
[Jade Shatter]
[Nether Stone]
Boom!
A violent explosion, a deafening roar, the shockwave clearing a path through the white water, reaching the antlered woman.
However, the blast passed right through her, as if she were a ghost.
Half of the antlered woman’s body dissolved into water, then reformed, her expression unchanged as she continued walking.
Whoosh~~~~
As she approached, a suffocating pressure descended, the white water surging even more violently.
She wasn’t even attacking, but these weaker beings couldn’t withstand her presence, their bodies dissolving upon contact.
Her grayish-white eyes reflected nothing, as if she didn’t even register the presence of these lesser beings.
So this… was a legendary being…?
And she was only at the Dawn and Dusk Stage!!!
Any spirit beast witnessing this would surely despair, convinced that a legendary being was an insurmountable foe.
Just then, the antlered woman bumped into something hard and collapsed to the ground, clutching her forehead in confusion.
A purple, star-shaped barrier, its watery surface rippling, had stopped her.
The white water’s corrosive power hadn’t been faster than her walking speed, so she had collided with the barrier, caught off guard.
Her grayish-white eyes finally focused, reflecting the forms of the spirit beasts before her, their species and appearances now clear.
Boom!!!!
As if in response to her gaze, the white water surged, threatening to engulf everything.
The Ice Soul Cold Star calmly created ten more Death Tribulations within its existing Death Tribulation. Although it couldn’t completely stop the white water, it prevented their immediate annihilation.
“Hmph…”
Seeing this, the antlered woman frowned, displeased.
She extended a slender finger and drew an illusory full moon in the air.
As a pure, unblemished moonlight enveloped the area, silence fell, no shockwave, no tremors, no sound, an eerie stillness.
The next second, like a splash of water, like the blooming of moonlight, the surrounding maze vanished.
The walls and floor within a radius of several dozen kilometers evaporated, a terrifying wave of spirit energy, like a nuclear blast, spreading outwards, the lingering water continuing to spread, dissolving everything in its path.
Within half a minute, nothing remained within sight, the entire maze destroyed.
The Iron Jade Ice Scorpion and the three plant-type spirit beasts on its back were effortlessly dissolved by the water, their auras vanishing.
Even the Ice Soul Cold Star’s Death Tribulation couldn’t protect them, instantly vaporized.
Gong Lianyue and Luo Kuxin’s team had been completely annihilated!
A few seconds later, the white-haired, antlered woman stood up, shaking her beautiful, icy antlers.
Just as the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer was about to leave, it paused, a puzzled expression on its face.
A strange ice coffin, radiating a chilling aura, lay nearby.
Made of some unknown material, it was completely undamaged by her devastating attack.
She approached the coffin and examined it for a long time, then shook her head.
“The Snow Monarch’s coffin?”
“I can’t do anything about this right now…”
Recognizing the coffin’s origin, the antlered woman didn’t even bother trying to open it, turning to leave.
The Snow Monarch’s ice was beyond the comprehension of ordinary beings, unbreakable even by fellow legendary-rank spirit beasts.
As the antlered woman’s terrifying aura faded, the Frost Snow Woman remained hidden within the coffin, determined to stay there until the 100th level.
She was the only spirit beast left. Another death would result in a complete wipeout, delaying Gong Lianyue’s progress.
Just then, a small, ice-blue flower, bouncing on its stem, hurried over from the shadows.
It frantically tapped and nudged the coffin lid with its petals, until it became dizzy and almost fell over.
Sensing the ice-blue flower’s presence, the Frost Snow Woman inside the Ice Coffin paused, a strange expression on her face.
She silently opened the coffin lid a crack, allowing the grateful flower to slip inside, then closed it tightly, her aura disappearing once more.
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