Returning to Ice Empress's territory, Tianlin summoned his magic sword. Eight soul rings—yellow, purple, purple, black, black, red, red, red—appeared.
"A Soul Douluo this young—unprecedented! All thanks to me!" Skydream Ice Silkworm was smug. Since he and Tianlin were one, Tianlin's growth was his own.
"Eighth soul skill: Spiral Radiance Swallows Sun and Moon!"
Tianlin swung his sword. A pitch-black sword aura tore the air.
The stable space cracked like a mirror, then shattered.
A massive black hole appeared in the canyon's center, sucking in all the wind and snow around it. The black hole kept expanding; at this rate, the entire Extreme North would be destroyed.
"What terrifying suction—so this is the power of Tianlin's eighth soul skill!" Ice Empress was shocked. When Tianlin became a god, he could theoretically create a giant black hole, enough to destroy the world.
"Quick, Xiao Tian, find that alternate space and seal the black hole up! Or the whole canyon, even the Extreme North, will be gone!" Skydream Ice Silkworm urged.
"Got it." Tianlin slashed repeatedly, tearing space again and again. Finally, in one spot, instead of a black hole, a wave of searing flames appeared.
That had to be the reverse side of the Extreme North Ice Empress had described.
Tianlin quickly restored all the black holes and grabbed Ning Rongrong's hand. They wrapped themselves in Ultimate Ice, and before the spatial rift closed, dove in.
…
Inside was a world of fiery red.
Truly, extremes meet—just moments ago, they were in subzero temperatures; now, it was like the sun's core, hot enough to roast them instantly.
Fortunately, both had Ultimate Ice attributes and could barely endure.
Even so, sweat poured from them. Ning Rongrong's dress clung to her body, revealing her alluring curves.
"Sword brother, this place is the extreme opposite of the Extreme North. How can anywhere be this hot?" Ning Rongrong grumbled as she wiped sweat from herself and Tianlin.
Such heat was terrible for the skin!
"This space was man-made. Strange—who would create such heat in the frozen Extreme North?" Tianlin wondered. To make such a stable space, not even an Ultimate Douluo could do it. Only a god could.
"Who dares trespass in the Scorched Hell?" A deep, booming voice rang out, filled with pressure equal to Tianlin's.
"Here we go. First soul skill: Frozen Snow!" Tianlin unleashed Ultimate Ice in one direction, while a blazing fireball flew toward him. The two energies collided and dissipated, evenly matched.
"Such power—so you're a human expert." The voice sounded surprised. Though it had been a casual blow, it could tell the opponent hadn't used full strength either.
Looks like it had no choice but to appear in person.
Boom!
A giant figure, over thirty meters tall, landed before Tianlin and Ning Rongrong—a giant wreathed in flames, wearing dark red armor with two horns on its head. It looked utterly domineering.
"As expected, the Flame Lord." Tianlin had seen the Flame Lord's avatar through Yan's martial soul, but compared to this, Yan's version was nothing.
This two-hundred-thousand-year-level Flame Lord was even stronger than the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Blue Bull Python of the Lake of Life—surely at the human Super Douluo level, about 96 or 97.
If Tianlin used his twin gods, defeating it would be no problem. But alone, he'd be evenly matched.
But Tianlin didn't want to kill it today. He had his eighth ring, and couldn't add a new ring to his Holy Spirit Peral without wasting slots.
His main goal was to investigate why this space existed here and whether the creatures inside would threaten the Extreme North after Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Little White left.
But the Flame Lord gave him no chance to ask questions, swinging a fiery fist at him.
"Rongrong, get back!" Tianlin pulled Ning Rongrong behind him and activated his arm and hand soul bones.
The Ice Bear King Little White's external soul bone gave Tianlin two skills, one being its most powerful: Giant Spirit Palm.
Tianlin fused this with the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear's soul bone, creating a new soul bone fusion skill.
"Darkgolden Giant Spirit Palm!" Tianlin shouted, meeting the Flame Lord's punch.
The Flame Lord wielded Ultimate Fire, an exact counter to Tianlin's Ultimate Ice. But the Darkgolden Giant Spirit Palm also contained Ultimate Metal from the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear—the most lethal element.
In an instant, the Flame Lord's arm seemed shredded by countless blades, its massive limb starting to dissolve.
Unfazed, the Flame Lord tore off its own right arm with its left—an act that made Ning Rongrong shudder. "So ruthless—this beast is cruel to itself, too!"
"Don't let your guard down, Tianlin!" Ice Empress warned.
Before she finished, the Flame Lord drew in the surrounding flames, regenerating a new arm.
"The Flame Lord is dual fire and earth attribute, but its earth power comes entirely from its armor—its body is pure fire. As long as there's fire, it's immortal, instantly healing no matter how wounded."
Ice Empress had once beaten the Flame Lord not just through higher cultivation, but because they fought in the icy Extreme North. There, her power was at its peak, and the Flame Lord was greatly suppressed. Here in the fiery valley, she might not be its equal. Even Snow Empress would find it hard to subdue.
"So that's it. This beast truly lives up to its name as the Flame Lord," Tianlin marveled.