allendalepharm Chapter 1: The time travel part isn't even rigorous, what can I do?
Chapter 1: The time travel part isn't even rigorous, what can I do?
Chapter 1: The time travel part isn't even rigorous, what can I do?
In the far north, frigid storms roar and snowflakes swirl in the air. 🐻💥 69𝓢ħᵘｘ.𝕔ᗝⓂ 🐜✌
On an ice cliff, a figure floated above, with long, pure white hair reaching her waist, and an ice-blue robe that could not conceal her stunning curves, but her beautiful face was filled with a cold expression.
With a slender hand outstretched, she gently caught the swirling snowflakes. The Snow Empress gazed at the vast white earth, her waist-length hair fluttering in the cold wind.
The Snow Fairy, the leader of the Three Kings of the Far North, the Snow Empress.
Releasing her grip, she let the snowflakes in her hand be carried away by the cold wind. The rich, icy blue soul power swirled on the surface of the Snow Empress's body, and snowflakes danced around her, as if she were an ice fairy descending to earth. It was just a pity that no one appreciated this unparalleled beauty.
After a long while, the soul power surrounding her body dissipated. The Snow Empress sighed, looked up at the sky, and lamented, "The Heavenly Tribulation of the Year is coming soon. I have a premonition that this time the odds are against me. If I perish, I wonder what will become of the far north, trampled by humans. And Bing'er, will she be heartbroken without me?"
The Snow Emperor chuckled self-deprecatingly, gazing up at the sky as if trying to see through the world behind it, and murmured to himself, "Give me a chance, at least for now I don't want to perish."
Whether it was Heaven that heard the Snow Empress's voice or not, accompanied by a flash of lightning, a black vortex was reflected in the Snow Empress's widening eyes.
The entire sky seemed to be surging upwards, with jet-black lightning constantly shooting out from inside the black hole, and countless ice and snow being sucked into it.
Gazing at the black vortex that was devouring the sky, Xue Di could hear the roars of beasts emanating from within. As the roars grew fainter, Xue Di's heart suddenly skipped a beat, a strange premonition rising within her. She muttered to herself, "This black hole seems to hold an opportunity!"
After speaking, Xue Di rose into the air, transformed into a blue streak of light, and disappeared from the spot, flying towards the black hole.
At this moment, the black hole seemed to have completed its charging, and a white light shot out from it and crashed to the ground. With Xue Di's sharp eyesight, it was not difficult to see that it was a humanoid creature.
When Xue Di arrived at the very center below the black hole, a large crater had already appeared on the ground. It was completely silent, with no sound coming out. The ground was smooth and the edges were even. The crater looked as if the earth had been swallowed up.
Snow Emperor slowly flew closer and saw a human lying in the crater.
"Humans?"
Startled, Xue Di looked up at the sky above, where the black hole spewing lightning gradually disappeared.
The Snow Empress was filled with doubt: "How could a human cause such a commotion? Could it be related to the legendary realm of gods?"
If Ye Nanxiao heard this, he would probably roll his eyes. In fact, Xue Di was completely overthinking it; he was just one of the vast army of transmigrators.
Compared to all sorts of bizarre reasons for time travel, Ye Nanxiao said that his was much more normal: he went hiking and got buried by a collapsed fox temple deep in the mountains.
As a tech geek of the new century, after overworking himself to the point of developing a serious illness and learning that he had no hope of recovery and only a year left to live, he tore off all the tubes of treatment, said goodbye to the hospital, bought a plane ticket, packed his backpack, and went to see the world, climbing an unknown mountain.
Ye Nanxiao shook his head slightly and began to recall.
"I remember climbing the mountain and seeing a litter of fox cubs trapped in a hunter's net. Seeing that the foxes were still small, I opened the net, put some money in it, and fed the fox cubs some ham from my backpack."
"After feeding them, when I tried to leave, two little foxes grabbed my trouser legs. Out of curiosity, I followed them and was then taken to a dilapidated fox temple. Seeing how ruined the temple was, I suddenly had the urge to clean it all afternoon. Finally, I offered a prayer to the fox statues, and then the temple collapsed." Ye Nanxiao recalled the scene before his transmigration with all his might.
"By the way, that stone statue is strange!" Ye Nanxiao remembered that before the Fox Temple collapsed, the only nine-tailed fox statue in the temple seemed to smile at him.
Is it that nine-tailed fox statue?
As he slowly moved his body, Ye Nanxiao clearly felt a mysterious power within him, and this power was enormous.
Ye Nanxiao blinked, and suddenly his whole body emitted a dazzling light.
From Xue Di's perspective, a pillar of light shot into the sky from within the crater. Unlike the previous silent landing, it was powerful and resounded throughout the far north.
In an instant, all the powerful beings in the far north turned their attention to the direction where Ye Nanxiao was.
Throughout the entire ordeal, Xue Di silently sensed the changes in Ye Nanxiao's power. With the great calamity approaching, she was not confident that she could survive safely. If Ye Nanxiao was her opportunity, she would spare no effort to achieve it.
Gazing at the towering pillar of light, Xue Di suddenly remembered an idea that Bing Di had told her about the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm a long time ago—an idea that she couldn't understand.
Just as Xue Di was pondering, Ye Nanxiao's situation was nearing its end. A phantom of a nine-tailed fox appeared behind Ye Nanxiao. Although the nine-tailed fox was clearly just a phantom, Xue Di felt as if a living, ancient ferocious beast was standing in front of her.
The nine-tailed fox opened its jaws and roared at the Snow Empress.
As the master of the far north, every creature in the far north worships the Snow Emperor.
Snow Empress frowned slightly, raised her right hand, and a blizzard rose up, enveloping the entire pit.
Surrounded by the blizzard, the nine-tailed fox phantom became curious about the blizzard summoned by the Snow Emperor. After circling Ye Nanxiao a few times, it opened its mouth wide and unleashed a powerful suction force, swallowing the blizzard whole.
The blizzard was sucked away, and a hint of surprise flashed in the Snow Empress's eyes. Her soul power seemed to have been devoured, and her icy blue soul power immediately erupted. Although the Snow Empress did not know what the nine-tailed fox in front of her was, at present, the Snow Empress wanted the nine-tailed fox to submit to the master of the far north.
A blizzard that covered an area of hundreds of miles descended silently, and the snowflakes flying everywhere turned into fierce blades, howling and swirling around the Snow Emperor.
The Snow Empress crossed her arms, looking down at the nine-tailed fox guarding Ye Nanxiao, and asked coldly, "Submit?"
The nine-tailed fox phantom glanced at the Snow Emperor, then turned to look at the blizzard surrounding it, and opened its jaws again.
Just as the phantom of the nine-tailed fox opened its jaws, the Snow Empress controlled countless snowflakes to attack the nine-tailed fox. The originally soft snowflakes were now transformed into deadly blades.
Refuse to submit? Then beat them until they submit.
The Snow Empress is the ruler of the far north. Although she doesn't know the origins of the nine-tailed fox phantom and the human before her, this is her territory.
Ye Nanxiao seemed to sense the threat and suddenly roared to the sky. The surrounding天地能量 (heaven and earth energy) surged wildly and merged into the Nine-Tailed Fox's body.
The snowflakes, which had transformed into blades, were absorbed by the nine-tailed fox's phantom as if they had been thrown into the sea.
After the nine-tailed fox phantom swallowed the Snow Empress's attack, the Snow Empress slowly floated down surrounded by snowflakes, drifting directly to a few meters in front of Ye Nanxiao.
The nine-tailed fox phantom looked at the Snow Empress, its body slightly bowed, ready to attack at any moment.
Having witnessed the nine-tailed fox's miraculous devouring ability, the Snow Empress asked, "What kind of being are you? Why have you descended upon my far north?"
After hesitating for a moment, the nine-tailed fox phantom nodded to the Snow Emperor and transformed into a blue light, entering Ye Nanxiao's body.
Ye Nanxiao's body began to grow snow-white fur, his body became stronger, two beast-like ears appeared on his head, a light blue line appeared under each eye, nine tails appeared behind him, and a soul imprint pattern appeared on his right collarbone, a pattern of a nine-tailed fox.
Feeling the emergence of his martial spirit, Ye Nanxiao felt a surge of inexplicable excitement.
With the martial spirit possessing him, Ye Nanxiao could no longer suppress his excitement and roared to the sky once again.
The Snow Empress, lost in thought, was startled awake by Ye Nanxiao's roar. After carefully sensing the creature before her, she realized that Ye Nanxiao did not seem to be human, but he was not a soul beast either.
"Martial Soul Awakening? Is it a human?" Xue Di frowned slightly and muttered to herself.
"What are you, and why have you descended upon the far north?" the Snow Empress asked Ye Nanxiao.
While in a daze, Ye Nanxiao heard someone asking him a question. Despite his unclear mind, Ye Nanxiao still answered Xue Di's question.
"They should be considered human; their arrival was not my intention," Ye Nanxiao replied.
Just as Xue Di was about to ask another question, she noticed that the surrounding brightness was rapidly decreasing, and a muffled clap of thunder made her look up at the sky.
Dark clouds churned in the sky, with streaks of lightning as thick as buckets flashing within them, interspersed with purple lightning.
This scene almost made the Snow Empress think that her own tribulation had arrived. However, the Snow Empress knew very well that there was still a lot of time before her next tribulation, and before the next tribulation arrived, the Snow Empress already had other ideas to get through the tribulation.
The thunderclouds continued to expand, and the lightning continued to gather power.
Xue Di looked at Ye Nanxiao, who was awakening his martial soul. Besides Xue Di, Ye Nanxiao was the only living being here, and it was obvious that Ye Nanxiao was the one who could attract the heavenly tribulation.
Without a second thought, Xue Di flashed out of the crater and witnessed the arrival of the lightning tribulation.
Bolts of lightning struck Ye Nanxiao, as if an apocalyptic catastrophe had descended.
A blood-red barrier suddenly appeared on Ye Nanxiao's body. The lightning that struck it disappeared silently, as if it had vanished into thin air.
However, with each lightning bolt that disappeared, the crimson light on the blood-red barrier intensified.
Ye Nanxiao's actions seemed to have angered the thunderclouds. With a rumble of thunder, the thunderclouds slowly shrank, and bolts of lightning rolled like thunder dragons.
"Is the Heavenly Tribulation gathering its power for the final strike?" Xue Di stared intently at the blood-red barrier, seemingly trying to see Ye Nanxiao behind it.
After sensing for a while, Xue Di found that she could not perceive the situation inside Ye Nanxiao's body in detail.
A moment later, Ye Nanxiao began to exude an aura that the Snow Emperor was very familiar with.
Sensing the familiar aura, a hint of surprise appeared on the Snow Empress's refined face. "This feeling... the ultimate ice?"
Just as Xue Di released her spiritual power to try to figure it out, the spiritual power that spread out was swallowed up by the blood-red barrier.
"Boom!!"
The final bolt of lightning, carrying the power to destroy the world, crashed down on the blood-red barrier.
This time, the lightning successfully shattered the blood-red screen and struck Ye Nanxiao.
However, the lightning did not harm Ye Nanxiao; instead, it was absorbed into his body.
Ye Nanxiao was currently reviewing the information transmitted to his mind. After absorbing the power from the outside world and fusing it with his own power, his awakened martial soul was the Nine-Tailed Snow Fox. The martial soul carried the power aura of Blue Star, so much so that the Snow Emperor could not detect Ye Nanxiao's martial soul.
After absorbing the lightning, Ye Nanxiao's martial spirit possessed him, and he roared to the sky.
Suddenly, an aura that made all soul beasts tremble appeared in the far north.
The Snow Emperor's expression was solemn, and a storm of snowflakes was brewing behind him.
That was the aura of the heavenly tribulation that had just occurred.
Xue Di felt her vision suddenly blur for a moment, and she seemed to see a nine-tailed fox standing between heaven and earth, looking up at the sky. The beastly eyes seemed to hold contempt. Faced with this power, Xue Di felt that even if she tried her best, she would not be able to resist.
The thunderclouds in the sky quickly disappeared, and the world returned to calm, with only the north wind still howling.
The strange phenomenon that made all the soul beasts in the far north tremble was fleeting, and the Snow Emperor suddenly awoke.
"What was that fleeting thing? Its aura was even stronger than Di Tian's? A million-year-old soul beast? Or perhaps, a god? But such a strange power." A hint of shock flashed in Xue Di's eyes as she stared intently at Ye Nanxiao, who was sensing the power.
Just as Ye Nanxiao began to withdraw his power back into his body, Xue Di thought to herself, "If he can't break through the Heavenly Tribulation of the Age Limit, then the only path left is to start over. But starting over is ultimately too dangerous. If this little guy has the chance to become a god..."
Sensing that Ye Nanxiao's aura was beginning to subside, and having just experienced the impact of the Nine-Tailed Fox's oppressive aura, Xue Di didn't have time to think it through. A resolute glint flashed in her eyes as she decided to take a gamble.
Her long, snow-white hair fluttered, and blue flames enveloped her delicate body, causing Xue Di's aura to rise steadily. As her aura increased, the flames on Xue Di's body grew stronger and stronger, gradually spreading to Ye Nanxiao.
The Snow Empress, her face solemn, said, word by word, "I am the Ice and Snow Maiden, and today I offer myself to you!"
Ye Nanxiao quickly noticed the blue flame. As his gaze moved upward, he could only see a figure enveloped in the blue flame.
Ye Nanxiao instinctively crossed his arms in front of his chest to try to block the blue flames. The flames wrapped around his arms, but he did not feel any heat.
A red spirit ring rose from Xue Di's body, representing her cultivation level, and slowly landed on Ye Nanxiao.
As Ye Nanxiao was trying to unleash his power, he finally saw the Snow Empress surrounded by flames. While marveling at her beauty, he also felt the power from her sacrifice entering his body.
The sacrifice was quick; in less than a quarter of an hour, the Snow Empress had become a phantom, and all her power poured into Ye Nanxiao's body. The Snow Empress's final task was to seal her soul into Ye Nanxiao's spiritual sea.
The red spirit ring merged into Ye Nanxiao's Nine-Tailed Snow Fox Martial Soul, becoming the Nine-Tailed Snow Fox's first spirit ring. The spirit ring was decorated with gorgeous patterns, with the Nine-Tailed Snow Fox pattern on the left and the Snow Maiden pattern on the right.
After Ye Nanxiao's soul ring appeared, Xue Di seemed to be drawn to him, her whole body turning into a small point of light and merging into Ye Nanxiao's body from between his eyebrows.
An invisible wave erupted, like a supervolcano erupting violently in the far north where only the wind could be heard. All the soul beasts felt Ye Nanxiao's powerful soul power fluctuations and the Snow Empress's final farewell.
In an instant, all the soul beasts in the far north region revealed themselves and knelt in the direction of Ye Nanxiao.
In the secret realm of the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, a powerful surge of soul energy shot into the sky. The Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion roared as it flew out, shouting, "Who is it! Why is the Snow Empress's aura disappearing? Is it some despicable human! Daring to covet my far northern lands?!"
However, Hyotei did not sense Ye Nanxiao's presence.
The Titan Snow Demon Ape clan, the Titan Snow Demon King, sat on a huge ice throne, his tightly closed eyes slightly opened, and he muttered to himself, "The Snow Emperor's power is beginning to disappear, but this soul power fluctuation doesn't seem like a battle."
However, Xue Di didn't understand one thing: the method that Tianmeng Ice Silkworm had mentioned to her before was based on crossing the million-year threshold.
As the Snow Emperor's power entered Ye Nanxiao's body, the fox that had been dormant within Ye Nanxiao's body temporarily awoke.
As the sacrifice ended, Xue Di's consciousness gradually became hazy, and her thoughts gradually ceased.
As a newbie, this is a reflection I wrote after reading Douluo Continent for many years. Please be gentle with your criticism.
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