Chapter 90 Trends from all parties
Under the leadership of Du Bu Si, many Soul Douluo and above masters in the Body Sect have been gathered.
At the same time, they have also secretly formed a loose alliance with the forces that were eyeing the wealth and the real dragon egg because the Xingluo Empire secretly spent 100 million gold soul coins to launch the Mingde Hall treasure hunt mission in the Continental Adventurer's Guild.
While everyone in the alliance was wary of each other and hiding their identities, this group of forces, each with their own ulterior motives, were already preparing to test Mingde Hall.
"Master, are these misfits really useful?" A Titled Douluo from the Body Sect asked in confusion.
Du Bu Si sneered and said, "They are just a bunch of chickens and dogs. Although they are of no use, we can let them harass the guys in Mingde Hall and cause some trouble for Mingde Hall."
"Even if most of them think the same as us, they hope that others can first test Mingde Hall's layout, or force Mingde Hall to reveal more of its cards, but there are always idiots willing to be scapegoats."
"Let them make a fuss first. Once they muddy the water, we will be in a better position."
Everyone in the Body Sect nodded repeatedly and went to make preparations according to Du Bu Si's arrangements.
However, although this so-called treasure-hunting alliance has been formed, it will probably take quite some time before it can actually launch real action and a general attack on Mingde Hall.
After all, the various forces still need to work together, reach a tacit understanding with each other, and at the same time, they also need to weaken the power of Mingde Hall.
This period of time also gave the people of the Body Sect the opportunity to openly build a plank road while secretly attacking Chencang.
Because the fundamental purpose of the Body Sect and other forces is different, their real goal is to take away as many basic soul guide systems as possible from Mingde Hall and capture the low-level soul guide researchers therein.
The cultivation level of high-level soul engineers is not low, and they are difficult to be controlled and influenced by various means. At the same time, the weak and almost non-existent soul guide equipment system possessed by the Tianhun Empire and the Body Sect cannot support the work and research and development of high-level soul engineers.
But it is different for low-level soul masters. There are many soul masters in the Body Sect who are good at mental power.
When facing those soul masters who are relatively weak, the strength of the soul masters of the main body sect can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack. As long as they can brainwash and control these abducted low-level soul masters.
By utilizing the systems of those basic soul guides and polishing them a bit, it won't take much time for them to be put to use. The Heavenly Soul Empire and the Body Sect can also use them to train their own soul guides.
As for high-level soul guides above level seven, they cannot be replicated by just snatching blueprints or having theories.
And every soul engineer above level seven needs to spend a lot of rare metals and time to train from a young age.
Therefore, when it comes to soul guides above level seven, the target of the Body Sect is not on the blueprints, but on its own soul guides.
In short, the idea of this action of the Body Sect is to snatch blueprints and soul masters at a low level in order to build its own military-industrial system.
Just rob the high-level soul guides. If you take one more, the Sun-Moon Empire will have one less. Just use them directly.
And in the far north.
Since last year, the time Ice Emperor spends in his own territory has been greatly reduced, and most of the time he stays in Snow Emperor's territory.
Although his tribesmen were puzzled by this behavior, no one dared to ask Bingdi any questions.
As the three kings of the Far North, the Snow Emperor, Ice Emperor and Titan Snow Demon King do not have the same proportion of territory, and it can even be said that it is inversely proportional to their strength.
The weakest Titan Snow Demon King occupies the largest territory in the Far North, but his territory is also the farthest from the core area of the Far North and is almost on the edge of the core area of the Far North.
This is also because the huge Titan Snow Demon clan needs the most vast territory to support the survival of its members.
The territory occupied by the Ice Emperor is the middle section of the core area of the Far North.
The Ice Scorpions abandoned the poisonous abilities of ordinary scorpion soul beasts and embraced the power of ultimate ice.
Each Ice Jade Scorpion needs extremely low temperatures to move and grow normally, otherwise low-level Ice Jade Scorpions may even become unable to adapt.
The territory owned by the Snow Emperor is located in the most core part of the Far North, but it is also the smallest in area.
The most central place in the Far North is not a lifeless expanse of ice and snow like other areas in the Far North, but a lake.
A lake that condenses the most abundant spiritual energy of the Far North. Its blue waves seem to be filled with some kind of vitality. Wind and snow gather around it, as if elves are playing here.
In the center of the lake is a small island formed by ice.
The temperature here has reached the level of extreme ice, which is even colder and harsher than ordinary extreme ice. Therefore, even in the far north, few creatures would dare to come here.
Even for the Ice Emperor, who was previously a ferocious beast and one of the three kings of the Far North, this place is not a suitable place to live.
Because in addition to the extremely low temperature factor here, only those who are favored by the Far North can be nourished by the spiritual energy here.
Otherwise, others who come here will just suffer in vain. The past is the past, and the present is the present.
After obtaining a portion of the Snow Emperor's original energy, the Ice Emperor can now use the spiritual energy of this place to nourish himself.
In addition to using the spiritual energy here to nourish himself in order to recover from his injuries, increase his strength, and give himself a better chance of surviving the tribulation next time.
The most important purpose of the Ice Emperor coming here is actually to protect the Snow Emperor who has now transformed into a human.
At this time, a year had passed since the Snow Emperor transformed. Even with the help of the 100,000-year-old snow lotus, she forcibly sealed her own original power to transform.
This allows the Snow Emperor to retain some of his original power after transforming and to rebuild himself.
Therefore, even if the Snow Queen does not rely on the breath of humans, with the favor of the Far North, she can practice without violating the laws of heaven and earth, and can also use the power of the origin to quickly improve her own cultivation.
However, the Snow Empress now only possesses the strength equivalent to that of a human soul master at the Soul Saint level.
Although the attributes of the Snow Queen are also extreme attributes, as a Soul Saint, her strength is far different from that of the previous Snow Queen. Many things that she could do before, now, must rely on the help of the Ice Queen to avoid revealing flaws and thus not shake the situation in the Far North.
Therefore, in order to avoid any accidents during Xue Di's reconstruction, or to help her at any time, Bing Di has been guarding her during this period.
Moreover, this protection is necessary, because if it were not for the protection of the Ice Emperor, the Snow Emperor would have been almost interrupted by a human ninth-level soul instructor when she was transforming.
Fortunately, the furious Ice Emperor was present, and he killed her right there, so that Snow Emperor did not encounter any other accidents and successfully completed the transformation process.
However, even though she possesses the original power of a ferocious beast, Snow Emperor's reconstruction has its limits.
In order to help the Ice Emperor survive the next catastrophe, the Snow Emperor also separated a portion of his own essence for her to absorb.
Coupled with the constraints created by the rules of heaven and earth, the Snow Emperor's own original power had already returned to part of the Far North when she transformed.
Therefore, the original power she currently has sealed in her body is probably only 30% to 40% of that in her prime. This amount of original power is only barely enough for Xue Di to cultivate to the bottleneck of level 90.
Generally, when a hundred thousand year soul beast rebuilds itself, after obtaining the seventh soul ring as its martial soul avatar, the original power it has accumulated before will be exhausted, and it will need to obtain the eighth and ninth soul rings on its own.
As a ferocious beast, half of the Snow Emperor's original power will return to the Far North even after the reconstruction.
However, the remaining half is enough for him to condense the ninth soul ring, but in order to increase the success rate of the Ice Emperor's tribulation.
After Xue Di split her own original power again, the remaining original power could no longer help her condense a ninth soul ring.
Because soul beasts that have been rebuilt can be strong or weak, as a rebuilt ferocious beast with extreme attributes, the energy consumed by the Snow Emperor when condensing each soul ring and the energy consumed when improving each realm are far more than those of an ordinary 100,000-year-old soul beast.
Therefore, even if she used the hundred thousand year old snow lotus to seal her own origin and complete her reconstruction, the current Snow Emperor, after reaching the bottleneck of level ninety, must also enter human society like an ordinary hundred thousand year old soul beast.
Unless she relies on the legendary God-given soul ring, or if she has the pure and extremely powerful ice-attributed source power to supplement it, Snow Queen can condense the ninth soul ring on her own.
Otherwise, Xue Di would also need to use the human's 'breath' to wash away the part of herself that was originally a soul beast, so as to integrate into human society. After complying with the rules of heaven and earth, she could normally hunt other soul beasts and fuse with the ninth soul ring.
"Bing'er, how is your injury recovering now?"
Xue Di, who looked like a human girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old, gently stroked the crystal clear and beautiful emerald green diamond shell of the giant scorpion in front of her.
The Ice Emperor responded: "Although my injuries have begun to recover gradually with the help of the energy of the Ice God Lake, I am afraid it will take at least ten years to eliminate all the hidden dangers."
"But I have a feeling that my next catastrophe will come within three years." At this point, Bingdi's tone became a little lower. The closer she got to the catastrophe, the greater the pressure in her heart.
And Xue Di was also silent for a long time. Three years, there are still three years left.
By then, even if she absorbed all the original power, she would not be able to break through the bottleneck. No matter how she arranged the original power, the remaining part could only enable her to regain her past strength and make one more move.
However, the beast's tribulation was prevented by heaven and earth, and there could not be only one wave of tribulation. Even if she could help the Ice Emperor resist it once, she could only increase the success rate by half at most.
"I just hope that the sacrifice of that little fox can really buy you, Bing'er, a glimmer of hope." Xue Di sighed.
If it weren't for the fact that both she and Ice Emperor were approaching death, she would not have risked rebuilding. Otherwise, with her level of cultivation, as long as she existed, the status of the Far North would not be shaken.
Shrek Academy at this time.
After Huo Yuhao left, for some unknown reason, the Haotian Sect also recalled Wang Dong back to the sect.
Even though he had no choice, Moon had to let him leave, but he had already expected this.
Now, among the original Shrek reserve team, only Beibei, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan and Xiaoxiao remain in school.
Like Wang Dong, Ning Tian was recalled by her sect and was considered to have dropped out of school. It was said that something happened in the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect, so they recalled her as the young sect leader.
Nowadays, Moon En's main energy is focused on Beibei, Jiang Nannan and Xiaoxiao.
The training potential of Jiang Nannan, whose martial soul is the Soft Bone Rabbit, can only be considered average, while Xu Sanshi, who has the royal blood of the Douling Empire and the identity of the Xuanming Sect, is...
Moon's main training targets are Beibei and Xiaoxiao. Beibei is Moon's great-great-grandson, and his bloodline and talent are the most compatible with him.
Xiaoxiao is a rare twin martial soul. If she can be cultivated, she will be able to add another backbone force to Shrek Academy.
In addition to the four of them, this year's Shrek team also added three other potential outer courtyard students, who were allowed to join the inner courtyard in advance as an exception and enjoy the inner courtyard's resources for training.
But this is just the preparation made by Shrek Academy and Moon on the surface for the next Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Fighting Soul Competition to be held in the Sun-Moon Empire.
In fact, secretly, apart from Beibei and Xiaoxiao, the student that Shrek Academy invested the most resources in was not Zhang Lexuan, the senior sister of the inner courtyard, but Ma Xiaotao.
The Dark Phoenix Martial Soul was so powerful that even at the Soul Sage level, it possessed the combat power comparable to that of a Titled Douluo. Although the abnormality in the Martial Soul could not be corrected, it was left as a trump card for the future Shrek Academy.
Moon still trained Ma Xiaotao secretly, and after his observation, Ma Xiaotao is now controllable.
In addition, the three countries that originally belonged to Douluo Continent also began to form an unsolid alliance against the Sun-Moon Empire under the efforts of Moon En and the elders of the Sea God Pavilion.
After all, if we have to talk about new and old grudges, the internal conflicts within the three former Douluo Kingdoms, which had been fighting for tens of thousands of years on the former Douluo Continent, are even greater than the hatred with the Sun-Moon Empire.
The previous frictions between the Xingluo Empire and the Tiandou Empire, and the grievances between the Tianhun Empire and the Douling Empire, the contradictions among them have long been too numerous to sort out, but they are helpless against each other.
If there hadn't been the emergence of the Sun-Moon Empire, which could overturn the entire continent and reshuffle the original social system, the first to fight would probably have been the original Douluo Three Kingdoms.
(End of this chapter)