Chapter 281: Completing the Seventh Trial
"You little... Ice God, you finally decided to complete the seventh trial."
Upon hearing that Ning Bei was about to submit the seventh trial, Tian Meng supported him wholeheartedly. In his opinion, the techniques Ning Bei had developed recently were all just random experiments that wasted soul power and were not useful.
Ignoring Tian Meng's complaints, Ning Bei directly communicated with his divine consciousness.
"Submit the Ice God's seventh trial."
A few seconds later, a cold mechanical voice echoed in his mind.
"Ice God Nine Trials, Seventh Trial: Ice God's Skill. Create your own unique soul skill. The trial requires the creation of 36 soul skills, 5 of which have the potential for divine skills, 2 with the potential of Title Douluo level. 29 are not considered part of the evaluation."
"Evaluation rating: Excellent. All soul bones' age increased by 30,000 years. All soul rings' age increased by 50,000 years. One divine gift soul ring awarded."
The evaluation was complete, and the rewards were issued, but Ning Bei showed no signs of joy.
"What is this? Are you telling me that everything I worked for this year was for nothing?"
"Those with divine skill potential must be the Bei-style Four Absolutes and Black turtle Free Snow. This is simply absurd."
Ning Bei's frustrated expression nearly made Tian Meng laugh out loud.
"I told you to just submit the Bei-style Four Absolutes right after you finished it. Why insist on doing all these useless things? Looks like you've been slapped in the face, huh?"
"Hmph."
Ning Bei didn't want to bother with them, so he began to assess his own gains. His soul bones had indeed been upgraded by one level. As for the divine gift soul ring, he hadn't absorbed the soul ring from the sixth trial yet. Perhaps it would be better to absorb the divine gift soul ring along with the subsequent rewards for the soul ring age increase, but Ning Bei felt that breaking through to the 99th level wouldn't be so simple. He couldn't sense any loosening of the bottleneck, no matter how he trained.
So, he thought he would try to absorb two divine gift soul rings at once to see if that could push him to the limit of the 99th-level Title Douluo.
Speaking of which, his trials always felt too easy. Except for the fourth trial, where he had to defeat six Title Douluos, the rest felt almost like they were handed to him. Was he the Ice God's chosen child?
As he was deep in thought, the cold mechanical voice echoed in his mind again.
"Ice God Nine Trials, Eighth Trial: The first person under the gods. Defeat two 99th-level Limit Douluo alone within five years. Upon completion, in addition to basic rewards, the soul bone 'Spirit Snake's Feather' will evolve into 'Ice Snow Divine Feather.'"
With the announcement of the eighth trial, Ning Bei's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he had the urge to slap himself for his earlier complaints. This was clearly a challenge in response to his previous whining. To make matters worse, if he wasn't mistaken, the requirement to defeat two Limit Douluo meant that he couldn't rely on the little angel to help him in a two-on-one situation.
Tch, no loopholes allowed. I take back what I just said.
"What's wrong, Ice God? Did the eighth trial come through?"
Seeing that Ning Bei had fallen into deep thought again, Snow Emperor immediately realized the trial had been issued.
Her crisp voice brought Ning Bei back to his senses, and he glanced at the three giants from the extreme north before slowly nodding.
"Yes, the eighth trial has been released. Defeat two 99th-level Limit Douluo on your own."
"What?"
Snow Emperor was instantly shocked, and the Ice Emperor and Tian Meng were both confused.
"What's the problem, Xue'er? Limit Douluo? The Ice God has already defeated many Title Douluo above level 97."
"That's right, Xue Di. This should be no problem for Brother Ning Bei."
Since neither the Ice Emperor nor Tian Meng had faced opponents at that level, they thought it was no big deal. However, as someone whose strength was close to a Limit Douluo, Snow Emperor knew just how terrifying that level was.
"You don't understand. Before reaching the Limit Douluo level, it's practically impossible to defeat one."
"This..."
Although Tian Meng and the Ice Emperor didn't fully understand, they chose to trust Snow Emperor's judgment.
"What should we do, Ice God?"
Seeing the worried expressions of the three giants, Ning Bei smiled nonchalantly.
"We have five years. I don't believe I won't be able to reach that level within five years. Next, I plan to absorb two divine gift soul rings to break through the Limit Douluo bottleneck."
"Great! If you reach Limit Douluo level, this trial will be no problem at all with the power of the divine artifact."
"Exactly. Finding two opponents will be easy. Your girlfriend's grandfather is one, and the one on Sea God Island is another."
Snow Emperor listened as the three spoke optimistically and hesitated, unsure if she should remind them that reaching the Limit Douluo level wasn't easy. If it were that simple, after 600,000 years of accumulation, she would have broken through by now.
Ning Bei clearly saw the Snow Emperor's concerns, but breaking through a limit was something that had to be tried. Not trying was the real problem.
After informing Ning Fengzhi and the little angel that he would be in seclusion for a while, Ning Bei went straight to the Ice God Hall.
"It's starting!"
After telling the three giants of the extreme north, Ning Bei took a Soul Nourishing Pill and a Pulse Protecting Pill, swallowing them both. Then he took a divine gift soul ring, crushed it, and meditated to absorb the soul ring while releasing his Ice Heaven Snow Woman.
The three giants of the extreme north watched Ning Bei with tense expressions. This was crucial to their fate, so they couldn't afford to take it lightly.
"I hope the Ice God can do it."
"Impossible. To break through to that level, you need to condense a second soul core. But the Ice God only has one soul core in his body, so it's impossible to break through to Limit Douluo."
"Wait, Xue'er, why didn't you say that earlier?"
The Ice Emperor froze for a moment before asking with some reproach.
Snow Emperor shook her head, indicating that it didn't matter whether she said it or not.
"The three soul ring vacancies are still there. Whether the breakthrough happens or not, these two soul rings need to be absorbed."
"I see."
After hearing Snow Emperor's explanation, the Ice Emperor and Tian Meng thought for a moment and agreed. They wouldn't dwell on it further, as they would think of another way later.
Time passed day by day. As the seven golden patterns appeared on the blood-red soul ring, Ning Bei began to challenge the 800,000-year soul ring.
The process went smoothly, and when the eighth golden pattern formed, Ning Bei slowly opened his eyes.
"I can finally use my martial soul true form."
With two martial souls and now the sixteenth soul ring, Ning Bei finally gained the qualification to activate his martial soul true form. The Dan Ta martial soul was too unique and didn't have the ability to activate a true form.
After the excitement, Ning Bei checked his state again and fell into deep thought.
"Still not working?"
He had a premonition that even with the second soul ring, he still couldn't break through to the Limit Douluo level.
"Don't think about it, Ice God. Xue'er said it. To break through to that level, you must condense a second soul core."
Ning Bei was stunned. A soul core? Wasn't that something from a past era? But after thinking about it, how did Qian Daoliu, Poseisi, and Tang Chen break through to level 99 without a soul core? It seemed he had been too naive.
(END CHAPTER)
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