Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!"

Feeling the loss of sensation in its legs and the severe damage to its tail, a glint of ferocity flashed in the eyes of the Ice Jade Scorpion.

Although it didn't understand what had happened, the beast's innate ferocity drove it into a state of heightened tension, unleashing all of its signature skills without holding back.

The green and blue parts of the Ice Jade Scorpion's body lit up simultaneously, and an intense surge of icy soul power enveloped its massive frame, drastically enhancing its defensive capabilities.

The Ice Jade Scorpion frantically hammered the ice surface with its front pincers, causing a chaotic eruption of ice pillars from all directions.

The pillars were utterly random in location, size, and power. Some were powerful enough to severely injure or even kill a ten-thousand-year soul beast, while others were so weak that even a ten-year soul beast could withstand them.

Some of these ice pillars even managed to lift the Ice Jade Scorpion off the ground. Although it wasn't injured, it looked rather embarrassed.

It was apparent that this was a highly unique random-type soul skill, where the size, power, and range of the attack depended entirely on chance. With bad luck, even the Ice Jade Scorpion itself could end up within the range of the attacks.

Under the immense force of its hammering and the chaotic eruption of ice pillars, the gorge, which had been frozen for who knows how many years, began to show signs of collapse.

Though the scene appeared extremely dangerous, Ghost Douluo moved elegantly, flickering between the variously sized ice pillars without a single ice shard touching his body.

As always, for a Rank 95 agility-type Super Douluo, these ice pillars were simply too slow.

Nearby, Chrysanthemum Douluo carried Chen Ming and stepped out from their hiding spot.

Although Chrysanthemum Douluo was also a Rank 95 Super Douluo, he wasn't adept at speed. Moreover, with Chen Ming in his arms, he couldn't move as freely as Ghost Douluo did among the random ice pillars.

Instead, he used the metallic soul power of his Martial Soul, the Chrysanthemum, to form a thick soul power shield around himself. With this powerful defense, he directly withstood most of the indiscriminate attacks.

Any ice pillar that came into contact with Chrysanthemum Douluo's shield, whether powerful enough to injure a ten-thousand-year soul beast or weak enough to barely harm a ten-year soul beast, was instantly crushed into powder by the seemingly gentle yet overwhelmingly domineering shield.

Initially, there were still some low-quality thousand-year soul beasts surviving in the gorge. However, under the Ice Jade Scorpion's indiscriminate random attacks, most of the ice-attributed soul beasts were instantly obliterated by the power of Ultimate Ice. The few that survived desperately fled for their lives.

Sensing the feedback from its soul skill, the Ice Jade Scorpion finally locked onto the target that had not disappeared—the one wrapped in the soul power shield: Chrysanthemum Douluo and Chen Ming.

At this moment, nine soul rings flickered around Ghost Douluo, and nine soul rings also flickered around Chrysanthemum Douluo.

Even though the Extreme North was rarely visited by human soul masters, and this was the first time in its thousand-year lifespan that the Ice Jade Scorpion had seen actual humans, it instinctively understood the various levels of human soul masters.

Nine soul rings meant that these humans were titled Douluo, equivalent to the rank of a hundred-thousand-year or even ferocious beasts among its kind.

One of these titled Douluo was holding a human child. Just as its elders had warned, this was a human attempting to hunt it for its soul ring.

As a proud Ice Jade Scorpion, it knew very well, especially with half of its eight legs rendered useless in a single exchange, that it had little chance of escaping from two human soul masters who were on par with ferocious beasts.

But the Ice Jade Scorpion's pride would never allow it to simply submit to being hunted by humans.

The Ice Jade Scorpion's soul power surged, and even its life force began to be consciously extracted. Staring unyieldingly at the two figures, it let out a cry of defiance. In an instant, its left pincer expanded several times in size, radiating a dazzling light.

The giant pincer slammed heavily onto the ground, releasing a tremendous amount of soul power that spread throughout every corner of the icy gorge.

The Ice Jade Scorpion poured all of its soul power into activating a special skill that was extremely rare even among its kind.

Boom!

The ice surface, infused with the Ice Jade Scorpion's soul power, began to rupture. The once-eternal ice of the gorge now boiled with fury, as if it had been ignited into a raging inferno.

Although Chrysanthemum Douluo immediately used his soul skill to pierce through the Ice Jade Scorpion's brain upon realizing something was wrong, he was unable to completely stop the beast's desperate, all-or-nothing move.

The power of the Ice Explosion Technique was pushed to its absolute limit by this ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion. Not just the gorge, but even the surrounding ice plains began to collapse violently.

Explosions, shattering, and collisions filled the air.

The Ice Explosion Technique wasn't just a simple explosion; it triggered a chain reaction, creating a small-scale natural disaster. The surrounding ice plains crumbled, leaving a massive abyss in the ground.

Even though Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were Rank 95 titled Douluo, they couldn't completely withstand this situation. Even their combined martial soul fusion technique couldn't stop the large-scale collapse of the ice plains.

Ghost Douluo regrouped with Chrysanthemum Douluo, channeling his soul power to reinforce the shield created by Chrysanthemum Douluo's Chrysanthemum, protecting the three of them.

To ensure safety, Chen Ming also did his best to mobilize the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum power within his body, injecting it into Chrysanthemum Douluo. He even transferred the special soul power refined from the Golden Core within him, hoping it would help.

After several minutes of explosions and collisions, the collapse of the ice plains finally ceased. Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo gathered their soul power and pushed away the heavy ice above them, managing to crawl out.

Before they could say anything, a surge of powerful soul energy erupted from beneath the ice plains.

A large hole melted into the shattered ice plains as intense fire energy burst forth, releasing heat into the Extreme North's frozen expanse.

A massive toad leaped out from underground, its body radiating violent soul power that reflected the fury in its heart.

This enormous toad had a body as pure white as ice, but its disproportionately large eyes gleamed a fiery red with intense heat.

As its body expanded and contracted, the toad's aura alternated between ice and fire. In these transitions, a peculiar and potent poison began to form.

Without a doubt, this extraordinary soul beast was Chen Ming's original target: the rare Red-Eyed Ice Toad, a creature unique to the Extreme North that possessed the attributes of ice, fire, and poison.

PS: What a luck...