Sixth Spirit Ability: Iceflame Claw.
A close-combat ability. When activated, both hands and forearms became covered in a layer of ice-blue crystalline grains like diamond, turning incomparably hard, with extremely strong offensive and defensive power.
Another seventh ability: Iceflame Bodyguard.
A defensive skill. Once unleashed, a layer of blue crystalline ice quickly condensed across the body's surface, forming an armor that protected the whole body with immense defensive power.
The two Sixth ring abilities of over three-hundred-thousand years combined, allowing Mu Yang—who was originally a long-range caster—to also take on the role of a frontline warrior when needed.
One of the two torso bone abilities of the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Torso Bone: Domain of Eternal Freeze.
This was a domain-type bone skill, control-oriented. When released, the domain was filled with terrifying currents of cold, capable of instantly freezing all enemies within its range.
The other torso bone ability: Wrath of the Ice Empress. A powerful offensive skill, its effect was to strike the enemy with the ultimate ice, carrying an extremely potent freezing effect.
It could be said that with these four abilities brought by the Ice Emperor's spirit ring and bone, Mu Yang's methods of dealing with enemies had grown far more diverse.
After finishing his tests, Mu Yang did not linger long on the wasteland. Together with Shui Bing'er, he returned to the Academy.
What he had to do next was clear: return to the Academy, attach his God-bestowed spirit ring, and become the first Food-type Title Douluo in the history of the continent's Spirit Master world. After that, he would cultivate the Solar Body Refinement to raise his physique as much as possible. Once he attached the seventh ring of the Iceflame Holy Shadow Martial Spirit, he would then head for Slaughter City to continue the Asura God Trials.
At the same time, what the Spirit Masters of the continent did not yet know was that the most powerful ruler of the Extreme North had already stepped into the human world, vowing to find the true culprit who had taken away the Ice Emperor, and to avenge the sister who had most likely already met a tragic fate.
Though the Snow Emperor did not know who Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er truly were, she was certain that Spirit Masters of such strength could not possibly be obscure figures in the Spirit Master world.
Venturing into the human realm, by looking for Spirit Masters who recognized the traits of those two Martial Spirit Fusion Skills, and by questioning some high-level Spirit Masters, the Snow Emperor believed she would definitely discover their identities.
And unlike ordinary hundred-thousand-year soul beasts or fierce beasts, even without fully transforming, the Snow Emperor appeared no different from a human Spirit Master. After all, Spirit Masters often displayed slight beast-like traits because of their Martial Spirits, so this was nothing unusual.
As long as she concealed her aura and no one learned that she had neither Martial Spirit nor spirit rings, other Spirit Masters would merely assume she was a powerful ice-type expert of unknown origin.
As for Spirit Masters who refused to cooperate?
This did not concern her. Even without the geographical advantage of the Extreme North, her strength still placed her among the very peak of the continent. Under her ultimate ice and snow, few in the Spirit Master world would dare defy her.
That same night, Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er returned to the Elemental Academy.
The next morning, all of the Academy's powerhouses gathered on a subsidiary mountain peak far from the main campus, there to witness Mu Yang advance to the rank of nine-ring Title Douluo, and to witness the birth of the very first Food-type Title Douluo in history.
"Booom—"
The Iceflame Holy Shadow Martial Spirit possessed him, its six scarlet rings blazing into light. With a crisp sound, the God-bestowed ring above his head, shining like a golden glass bead, shattered. A thick golden mist poured down, enveloping Mu Yang's body.
At the same time, surges of ice-blue and white radiance erupted as Mu Yang released the Iceflame Domain and the Killing God Domain.
As both domains spread, the golden mist around Mu Yang thickened instantly, swelling outward until even the domains themselves were engulfed within it.
Next, spirit power surged through Mu Yang's body, as golden and crystalline radiance arose all around him. His Spirit-forged Gold Battle Armor fused with his external attached bone, the Crystal Scale Armor. Then faint halos appeared from six areas—head, torso, left and right arms, left and right thighs.
Stimulated by his spirit power, the Crystal Scale Armor, the Spirit-condensing Wisdom Skull Bone, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Torso Bone, the Azure Sky Bull Python Left Arm Bone, the Titan Giant Ape Right Arm Bone, the Soft Bone Rabbit Left Arm Bone, and the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone—all seven spirit bones were activated, shortening the time of the God-bestowed ring's trial as much as possible.
Revealing such depth of foundation right from the start, to shorten the trial time of the God-bestowed ring, was indeed beneficial for condensing a higher-aged God-bestowed spirit ring.
It was like a weightlifter—when the barbell's weight was fixed, the shorter the lift time, the more strength was saved.
Very soon, the dense golden mist descending from the shattered God-bestowed ring transformed into countless threads of golden silk. Like weaving, they shuttled continuously around Mu Yang's body.
As the golden threads wove, faint changes began to flicker across Mu Yang's expression. Meanwhile, the spirit power refined and elevated by his dual yin-yang soul cores surged forth without reservation.
Before long, the golden threads weaving around him condensed into nine golden circular rings.
These golden rings expanded again and again, then contracted swiftly, crashing onto Mu Yang's body with each cycle, repeating over and over.
Under the impact of the nine golden rings, faint crimson blood seeped across the surface of his skin. With each successive strike, the damage to his body grew more severe.
Yet each time his injuries accumulated to a critical point, a faint blue-gold radiance filled with vitality would surge from his right leg.
As that blue-gold brilliance coursed through his whole body, under its majestic life force, all accumulated injuries instantly vanished. Were it not for the lingering traces of blood on his skin, it would seem as if those wounds had never existed at all.
Time passed, and half an hour soon slipped away. Mu Yang gradually felt that the pressure of the God-bestowed ring had reached his very limit.
Without hesitation, he no longer sought a higher age. He fixed his choice.
In the next instant, the nine golden rings around him fused into one, becoming a vast blood-red ring tinged with faint golden light that floated around him.
Immediately after, as if the age of the God-bestowed ninth ring he condensed was too high while the contained energy was insufficient, the vast blood-red ring with its golden halo suddenly generated a tremendous suction force.
Under that suction, the surrounding heaven and earth energy rapidly converged, forming a vast cloud above Mu Yang's head, which then funneled downward entirely into the blood-red ring.
I wonder… just how many years will this God-bestowed ninth spirit ring reach?
As he waited for the gathered energy of heaven and earth to charge the God-bestowed ring, Mu Yang thought to himself.
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