Douluo Dalu The Strongest God - 55 Absorbing The Ice Empress

Tian Meng replied, “Let’s do it here then. you can’t rest yet; your true test is coming now”

“Sure, I know about this” Ryu said

You need to prepare yourself as well, as there’s a prerequisite for the Ice Empress to fuse with you and become your martial spirit—she has to do it of her own accord. However, even if she willingly agrees, you’ll still have to withstand an enormous amount of pressure. It won’t be as easy as it was when I fused with you in the Great Star Dou Forest. At that point in time, I was fully drained of my energy. All I had left was my spiritual origin. Contrary to myself, she’s a true three hundred thousand year spirit beast; her cultivation is even at the 399,000-year rank. You definitely won’t be able to absorb such a terrifying amount of power by yourself. As such, I’ll have to seal her energy up in order to make sure that you won’t explode. However, this will still come as an enormous shock to your body. Thus, you’ll have to persevere no matter what. If you don’t, all three of us are screwed. Do you understand?” Tian Meng said

“My body is stronger than anyone, I believe I could absorb her. Let’s begin” Ryu said

Then Ryu saw Tian Meng and Ice Empress in his world of consciousness.

“Ice Empress, stop resisting. You’ve already tried so many times, you should know that it’s useless by now” Tian Meng said in its distinctively lazy voice.

The Ice Empress replied coldly, “What do you want?”

Tian Meng gently said, “I only want to stay with my beloved forever.”

“This is your way of showing me your love?” After thinking it over for an entire day or so, the Ice Empress had already come to the understanding that she’d been duped. At that time, if she hadn’t been so close to Tian Meng, his plans would definitely have failed. Unfortunately, there was no use in her crying over spoiled milk. She’d already fallen into Tian Meng’s hands, and she wasn’t able to escape from this strange power. An existence like the Ice Empress, someone who had lived for almost four hundred thousand years, naturally wouldn’t give up easily. Thus, she could only rely on her other abilities to escape from this strange power that she couldn’t seem to resist.

Tian Meng smiled slightly. “Don’t be so impatient, listen to me.”

Tian Meng replied coldly, “What did you say? You said that you loved me? If you really love me, then why haven’t you released your true body? I’ve already fallen into your trap, so what do you have to be afraid of?”

The Skydream Iceworm sighed. “I’m naturally not afraid of you, it’s just that there’s no way for me to let you see my true body! My true body no longer exists. Haven’t you realized that you’ve been looking at my spiritual origin all this time, not a virtual body? After ruling over your domain for so long, you’ve lost your cautiousness. If you hadn’t, I definitely wouldn’t have succeeded so easily.”

The Ice Empress was stunned. Astonished, she replied, “What? Do you have your spiritual origin? So your body…”

“You couldn’t be referring to this human, right? Even though you’ve trapped me, I can easily tell how insignificant he is, just by using my eyes. Is he your puppet?”

“No, no, of course, that’s not the case. He’s my host, or rather, he’s my master. The current me is a spirit ring that belongs to him; you should know about the spirit rings that these humans have. On the other hand, I’m the continent’s first ever intelligent spirit ring.”

The Ice Empress cried out involuntarily, “What? You’ve actually become a human’s spirit ring? How can this be?! Even though you’re a piece of trash, you’ve still lived for this long. How could a human’s fragile body withstand your enormous energy?!”

Tian Meng smiled bitterly. “Don’t bring that up. My tragedy began with you. At that point in time, you were so persistent in eating me… there was no way that I wouldn’t run away! I still needed a body to continue loving you, thus I drifted along the ocean and reached an area down south…”

Tian Meng used the most miserable voice he could muster as he recounted his experiences from the past hundred thousand years. Ryu had already heard his story, but Tian Meng used a much more sorrowful tone as he explained it to the Ice Empress. Moreover, he described himself with a much more miserable tone, describing how he’d been ‘beaten up till he was a mass of bruises’, and how ‘death would have been preferable to living’.

“…You know how terrifying limits are to us. You also know that no spirit beast has lived longer than me. Even though I’m only a piece of trash in your heart, I’m still an old piece of trash who’s lived long enough. My energy’s foundation had been drained, and I was about to reach my next limit soon. However, I’ve already lived for this long—I naturally didn’t want to die! I believe that you feel the same as I do. I can sense that your limit will arrive within a hundred years. Because of that, you’re extremely worried.”

“You and me, we both don’t want to die. We’ve already lived this long; how could we be willing to simply turn into a pile of dust? As such, I’ve found the best way to get past this.”

Tian Meng’s story finally aroused the interest of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion. She subconsciously asked, “How?”

Tian Meng replied in a low voice, “By creating God (Douluo).”

“Creating God?” The Ice Empress was stunned. She immediately became even more curious. “What do you mean by creating God?”

Tian Meng replied in a low voice, “My beloved, let me ask you this: Which race on this continent has the highest potential of all?”

After becoming ensnared in the Tian Meng’s words, the Ice Empress subconsciously followed his train of thought. “Are you referring to humans?”

Tian Meng nodded forcefully. “Right, humans. Even though there are some noble spirit beasts like you, who are innately born with a powerful physique, you have to admit that we’re much worse than humans in terms of talent. Although a human’s body can’t even be described as insignificant in the face of your Ice Jade Scorpion clan, they can still compete with your ten thousand years, or even hundred thousand-year-old clansmen after cultivating for several decades. Why is that? It’s because they have a different amount of potential than us. Humans have frail bodies and short lifespans. However, their potential has allowed them to obtain the blessings of the heavens; they’re incomparable. This is the advantage the humans have, and yet is also something we lack.”

“Most importantly, we can’t even hope to strive for the peaks that humanity can reach”

At that point, Tian Meng stopped for a moment. Afterward, he continued in an even deeper voice, “Ice Empress, we both know the truth. Only Gods have an unlimited lifespan!”

The Ice Empress fell silent. Striking while the iron was hot, Tian Meng continued, “Whenever we spirit beasts reach a hundred thousand years of cultivation, we can choose to re-cultivate as a human. However, there is an extremely small number of us who actually dare to re-cultivate. This is because we simply have no way of guaranteeing that we can cultivate and break through to the Titled Douluo stage in a short hundred years of time. Even if we did manage to break through, it would be very hard for our lifespans to exceed five hundred years. To us, becoming a God is a mere fantasy. The Douluo continent has been around for over a hundred million years, and we spirit beasts were around before humans even existed. However, how many of us were actually able to use the method of re-cultivation to achieve an unlimited lifespan as a God?”

“This is also the main reason why spirit beasts like you who have noble bloodlines are unwilling to re-cultivate into a human, am I right?”

“I’m not willing to try that vague and unreliable method, nor am I willing to die a premature death during the process of re-cultivation. I’ve chosen another method as the next best option. That is, to create a God. By creating a deity, even though I won’t be a God, I’ll still be able to follow this God and will possess an unlimited lifespan by becoming part of this God. As such, I’ve chosen to become a spirit ring. Not just any spirit ring either, but an intelligent spirit ring. I want to use my power to help him become a God, step by step.”

“You’re right. I’m just a piece of trash in your eyes, but I still have my million years of cultivation. Even though I wasn’t able to give him a spirit bone, I was able to evolve his martial spirit. He had unique eyes that could release any spirit skill without spirit rings, and his eyes got 2 skills when he absorbed me. This young man is only thirteen, but he was the most outstanding human in history. He was rank 70 spirit master now. If he has my help, why can’t he become an existence? Why can’t he become a God?”

“13 years old Rank 70 Spirit Master?” The Ice Empress was shocked.