153: Chapter 153: A Glance Suppresses the Titan Ape and the Azure Bull Python

The Star Dou Great Forest under the veil of night was quiet and mysterious.

The roars of beasts and chirping of insects that echoed during the day had died down; only the rustling of the night breeze through the canopy and the occasional heart-stopping, unknown low growls from deep within the forest remained.

Thick Soul Power and the aura of life felt more active at night, surging through the forest like an invisible tide.

A stream of ice-blue light, like a shooting star cutting through the night sky, streaked in rapidly from the northern horizon.

Its target was clear: it flew straight toward the most core and mysterious area of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Lake of Life.

The light faded, and a woman dressed in white, with hair like snow and a cold, peerless countenance, landed silently on the shore of the Lake of Life, without a speck of dust on her.

It was none other than the Snow Empress, who had traveled from Heaven Dou City.

Her ice-blue eyes scanned her surroundings calmly.

This was her first time truly setting foot in the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The massive lake before her shimmered with a strange and magnificent emerald green, reflecting the moonlight and starlight, as if it were a giant emerald embedded in the black earth.

A dense, inseparable aura of life radiated endlessly from the lake water, refreshing to the spirit, yet carrying a majesty and mystery born of ancient times.

She could feel that the power contained within this lake water was not inferior to the Sea God Hall on Sea God Island.

The Lake of Life played an indispensable role in making the Star Dou Great Forest the premier holy land for Spirit Beasts on the continent.

The last time she saw Di Tian was many years ago.

That Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King had taken the initiative to travel to the Far North, acting as a spokesperson for the Spirit Beast Co-Master, attempting to persuade her and the Ice Empress to bring the Far North under the Co-Master's command to plot great things together.

At that time, she had politely declined, citing the frigid, isolated nature of the Far North and the fact that she was at a critical stage in her cultivation.

Although Di Tian was strong, he did not push her too hard on her home turf and eventually left.

Since then, the two sides had no further interaction.

Just as the Snow Empress was examining the quiet lake and contemplating how to draw Di Tian out!

"Roar—!"

"Awoo—!"

Two roars containing terrifying pressure and violent aura erupted almost simultaneously from the depths of the Lake of Life and the dark, boundless ancient forest behind the lake shore!

The lake surged violently as a massive beast with a bull's head and python's body, covered in blue-black scales, bearing a single horn, and exuding a prehistoric aura, broke through the surface. It raised its head, its cold bull-eyes locked onto the woman in white on the shore—it was the Forest Emperor, the Sky Azure Bull Python.

At the same time, the earth by the lake rumbled and shook. A black giant ape as towering as a small mountain, with knotted muscles and fur like steel needles, smashed through countless ancient trees and stepped out of the forest with heavy strides.

It beat its chest with both fists, letting out a deafening roar. Its wild gaze also fell upon the Snow Empress—it was the King of the Forest, the Titan Giant Ape!

They had guarded the Lake of Life for many years, and any powerful aura that dared to approach without permission would invite their thunderous attacks.

Now, sensing the undisguised, cold, and vast terrifying aura on the Snow Empress, as well as her human-like silhouette that felt out of place in the forest, the two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts did not hesitate for a moment, judging the Snow Empress to be an invading formidable enemy!

"Human! Trespassing in forbidden grounds, die!" The voice of the Sky Azure Bull Python was as deep as thunder, carrying cold killing intent. It opened its mouth and spat out a highly condensed blue energy beam containing binding power, shooting toward the Snow Empress!

The Titan Giant Ape was even more direct. With a roar, its massive feet stomped on the ground, causing the earth to explode.

Its massive body sprang up with astonishing speed that defied its size. Its giant fist, covered in thick, earth-yellow energy, carried the power to collapse mountains and split the earth as it smashed down toward the Snow Empress!

The air let out unbearable explosions as the fist wind passed!

The combined attack of the two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts was terrifying enough to make ordinary Super Douluo change color and retreat.

However, facing this terrifying attack capable of destroying cities, the Snow Empress on the shore did not even have a ripple in her eyes.

She still stood there quietly, white clothes as white as snow, silver hair fluttering, as if the fatal attack approaching her was merely a gentle breeze.

Just as the blue light beam and the mountain-like giant fist were about to touch her body.

The Snow Empress's ice-blue eyes merely glanced extremely calmly in the direction of the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.

"Hum—!"

No Soul Power exploded, no ice or snow emerged.

Only an invisible, intangible, yet seemingly supreme and terrifying pressure—originating from the source of life and the laws of heaven and earth—suddenly awakened like a sleeping Ice Age. It boomed and spread out with the Snow Empress at its center!

This pressure was cold, pure, and vast, carrying the supreme majesty of a spirit of heaven and earth elements and the ruler of the Far North, which stood above ordinary Spirit Beast bloodlines!

That was the suppression of life level accumulated over seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, a soul-shaking manifestation of the laws of Ultimate Ice!

"Thud!" "Boom!"

The Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, which had been aggressive and filled with killing intent a second ago, were hit by an invisible, billion-ton iceberg the moment they touched this pressure!

Their massive bodies suddenly stiffened, and the fierce glint in their eyes was instantly replaced by boundless fear and horror!

The blue light beam spat out by the Sky Azure Bull Python dissipated instantly like a candle in the wind. Its massive head was forcibly pressed into the lake water by an invisible force, splashing water into the sky. Only half its body remained stiff on the water surface, shivering, without even the strength to lift its head!

The Titan Giant Ape's giant fist, which could shatter mountains and split rocks, stopped abruptly when it was still several meters above the Snow Empress's head, unable to advance even a fraction of an inch!

Its mountain-like body was frozen as if by the hardest black ice. It remained in the posture of throwing a punch, frozen in mid-air, and then fell like a puppet with cut strings, crashing heavily onto the ground, creating a deep pit, dust flying, unable to move even a single finger!

Just one glance!

Releasing just a trace of the true life pressure belonging to a seven-hundred-thousand-year fierce beast!

The two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast lords that dominated the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and made countless human Spirit Masters tremble in fear were completely suppressed, like fish on a chopping block, their lives resting on the other party's whim!

This was the gap!

The absolute gap in race, cultivation, and life level, like a chasm!

The Snow Empress was an ice and snow spirit nurtured by heaven and earth, the embodiment of Ultimate Ice, an ancient existence that had cultivated for seven hundred thousand years.

And Da Ming and Er Ming, although they were also powerful hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beasts, were as different as cloud and mud compared to the Snow Empress in terms of bloodline, foundation, and comprehension of laws.