83: Mother and Daughter Flowers

“—The first one, the mother cauldron!”

Lin Chen’s cold and cruel voice, like a demonic curse from the Nine Hells, clearly echoed through the beast-fighting arena, which had long fallen into deadly silence.

The group of “besties” in the stands were already terrified, their faces pale and their spirits scattered!

Their bodies trembled like leaves sifting in a strong wind.

The luxurious dresses they usually used for showing off now clung tightly to their backs, soaked with cold sweat, outlining twisted curves born of extreme fear.

Their meticulously applied makeup had long been washed away by tears and snot, revealing pale, bloodless faces underneath, as white as paper. Their teeth chattered violently, making a grating sound that set one's teeth on edge.

Mother cauldron?!

What did this term mean to them, to all the women of Snow Wolf City?

It meant ultimate humiliation, a thousand times more terrifying than death!

In their worldview, men were merely playthings dependent on them, tools for amusement, consumables that could be discarded at any time.

But now, this man, this “Pet Number 108” in their eyes, actually intended to treat their noblest and most favored Young Miss Tuoba Yan... as a tool for procreation?!

This... how insane was this?! How blasphemous?! How utterly rebellious?!

This was a trampling of their entire group! This was the most naked provocation and declaration of war against all of Snow Wolf City!

And the perpetrator, Tuoba Yan, who was being held in mid-air by Lin Chen with one hand clutching her neck, like a dying chick, felt as if she had been struck by billions of bolts of lightning simultaneously!

Her consciousness was on the verge of collapse under the dual strike of suffocation and shame.

The large hand gripping her throat was as hard as ten-thousand-year profound iron, carrying a despairing, scorching masculine aura that continuously poured into her mouth and nose.

His strength was so brutal and unreasonable that her cultivation, which she was so proud of, was as fragile as thin paper before him.

Her Phoenix eyes, which had already begun to roll back from suffocation, instantly widened, almost tearing out of their sockets! Her eyeballs were covered in terrifying, dense bloodshot veins!

Her pupils were filled with endless shame, humiliation, resentment... and a trace of disbelief, even she herself was unwilling to admit, from the deepest part of her Soul!

She, Tuoba Yan! The undisputed “Little Delinquent” of Snow Wolf City!

From childhood, she had been a favored daughter of heaven, admired and feared by all men. She was accustomed to being high above, accustomed to Dominating the life and death of others.

She still clearly remembered that her “Pet Number 107” was personally ordered by her to be thrown into the beast-fighting arena and torn to shreds by Demonic Beasts, simply because he accidentally spilled wine on her skirt while serving her.

At that time, she even felt a hint of excitement from the splashing blood. She took it for granted that men were “pets” to be toyed with and tortured at will.

But now... this man, whom she regarded as “Pet Number 108”.

This ant, whom she had thought she could torment to death at will like previous men... was actually going to treat her as... a mother cauldron?!

This was a thousand, ten thousand times more painful than killing her!

“You... you dare...?!” Tuoba Yan's nails frantically clawed at Lin Chen's arm, but the arm was as hard as divine metal, unable to leave even a white mark. Instead, her own nails broke, bleeding profusely.

She painfully squeezed out a few words from her tightly constricted throat. Her voice was hoarse and broken, like a leaky drum, yet still filled with a threatening, blustering bravado!

“My... my mother... is... is the City Lord of Snow Wolf City! She is... a Nascent Soul True Monarch! If you... if you dare to touch a single hair on me...”

“Oh?” Lin Chen smiled upon hearing this.

“Nascent Soul True Monarch?”

“That's perfect.”

“I just happen to be missing a Nascent Soul-level ‘mother cauldron’.”

“Presumably, the offspring conceived using her body... using the womb of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, should have higher talent, right?”

Madman! A complete madman!

This man not only wanted to humiliate her... he even wanted to lay his hands on her mother, the high and mighty City Lord of Snow Wolf City?!

Tuoba Yan was utterly desperate! The last glimmer of light in her eyes faded. For the first time, she felt the shadow of death so close, so cold.

And just then!

“—Audacious madman! How dare you harm my daughter!!!”

A majestic female voice, filled with endless fury and monstrous killing intent, suddenly boomed from the deepest part of the City Lord's Mansion, like a Heavenly God's thunder descending from the Nine Heavens!

This voice was no longer mere sound waves; it was the Sound of Law, containing the terrifying Divine Thought of a “Nascent Soul True Monarch”!

Boom—!!!!

A terrifying pressure, a hundred or even a thousand times more formidable than that of the previous Snow Mountain Demonic Ape, belonging to a “Nascent Soul True Monarch,” descended with a roar!

It was like the sky falling and the earth collapsing! Like the wrath of a god! The entire beast-fighting arena groaned under this unbearable pressure!

The incredibly hard profound ice iron ground, capable of withstanding a full-force attack from a Golden Core Cultivator, began to crack inch by inch from beneath Lin Chen's feet!

The towering walls around them trembled violently, and countless ice shards and rubble rained down!

The “besties” in the stands, who were already terrified out of their wits, didn't even have time to scream!

Under this targeted, terrifying pressure, they felt as if their internal organs were being crushed by an invisible giant hand!

“Puff—” They all spat out a mouthful of crimson blood.

Their bodies, like boneless invertebrates, tumbled one after another from the high stands, like dumplings falling into a pot!

Immediately after!

“Hiss—!”

The Void Realm directly above the beast-fighting arena was forcibly torn open like a canvas by an incomparably domineering force, creating a hideous black gap!

A figure, enveloped in endless cold Qi capable of freezing the Soul, stepped out from that spatial rift!

It was a woman. A woman of extreme beauty and extreme majesty.

She wore a luxurious snow-white royal robe embroidered with an ice Phoenix. Spiritual light flowed across the robe, clearly indicating it was a Magic Treasure of extremely high grade.

She wore a crown made entirely of pure ice crystals, from which cold Qi emanated, making her exquisite face appear noble and aloof.

Her figure was voluptuous and mature, not as unripe as Tuoba Yan's, but like a perfectly ripe peach, exuding a fatal allure.

The luxurious royal robe perfectly outlined her breathtaking S-shaped curves; both her ample bosom and her round, perky buttocks were full of the astonishing charm unique to mature women.

She was the sole and absolute Dominator of Snow Wolf City!

—Tuoba Hongyu!

The female City Lord of the Early Nascent Soul Stage!

When she saw her only daughter, whom she cherished and protected, actually being held in mid-air by an unknown man—an ant in her eyes—with one hand choking her neck... and her daughter's face, usually arrogant and willful, now only showed bruises and despair, her breath faint, teetering between life and death!

“Boom!!!”

Tuoba Hongyu's maternal reason was instantly completely swallowed by endless fury!

Her killing intent, belonging to a “Nascent Soul True Monarch,” materialized at this moment!

The entire sky instantly darkened because of her rage!

“—Die-for-me!!!”

Her well-maintained, slender, fair hand, like a work of art, clenched in the air!

“Ang—!!!”

Accompanied by an earth-shattering wolf howl, a demonic wolf's roar seemingly from the primordial ice plains!

A monstrous “Frost Giant Wolf,” entirely condensed from the purest ice-elemental spiritual Qi, instantly formed behind her!

Every strand of its fur shimmered with chilling light, as if it were the sharpest blade in the world!

Its eyes were two burning, eerie blue ghost fires, locked onto Lin Chen below!

It opened its blood-red maw, large enough to swallow mountains, revealing terrifying fangs like icebergs!

“Roar!”

A Nascent Soul True Monarch's enraged strike! Its might was enough to instantly flatten the entire beast-fighting arena and everything within a ten-li radius, turning it into a forbidden zone of extreme cold and death!

However. Facing this terrifying strike that would make any Golden Core Cultivator instantly lose their courage, give up resistance, and despairingly await death!

“Good timing!” He let out a long cry full of heroic spirit!

His roar was like a Dragon's cry, actually dispersing some of the incoming cold Qi!

He had been waiting for this moment for a long time! Ever since his Physical Body, under the super reward of the Dragon Phoenix Auspice, had evolved to an unprecedented and terrifying Realm whose limits even he didn't know!

He had always longed for a hearty battle!

He needed an opponent of sufficient caliber to test his current true limits!

And this female City Lord of the Early Nascent Soul Stage was undoubtedly the best... whetstone!

“Open—for me!!!” Lin Chen let out a terrifying roar, like an ancient Chaos Dragon Elephant stomping the earth!

Facing the world-destroying Frost Giant Wolf, he didn't even put down Tuoba Yan, who was already scared out of her wits and half-dead, from his hand!

He simply slowly raised his other free left hand!

Then, he simply punched out at the hundred-zhang “Frost Giant Wolf” that descended from the sky, covering it!

Boom—!!!!

One hundred thousand chaos dragon elephant particles simultaneously detonated within his body, within his left arm, at this moment!

Within that force field, it was as if a hundred thousand Chaos Dragon Elephants were roaring towards the sky!

That power was so condensed and terrifying that even the space around him began to subtly distort!

The next second!

Fist and wolf!

The fist, as tiny as dust, and the wolf head, as massive as a mountain, collided fiercely!

There was no earth-shattering explosion as imagined! Nor was there a world-destroying energy impact! All that existed was a spine-tingling... "silence"!

Absolute dead silence! It was as if all the sounds of the world were completely swallowed by Lin Chen's fist at that instant!

One could only see.

That monstrous and awe-inspiring "Frost Giant Wolf," the moment it came into contact with Lin Chen's seemingly unremarkable fist, a human-like... fear flashed in its eerie blue ghostly eyes!

Immediately after! It was like a punctured ice and snow bubble! Starting from its head! It disintegrated inch by inch! Annihilated inch by inch!

Just like that... from head to tail... it completely turned into a sky full of ice crystal dust! As if it had never appeared!

One punch!

Directly clashing with a Nascent Soul True Monarch's enraged strike! He didn't fall into a disadvantage! No! It was even... a complete crushing!

"What?!"

Tuoba Hongyu's expression instantly froze! For the first time, a violent emotional fluctuation named "shock" and "disbelief" appeared in her majestic Phoenix eyes!

Although her strike just now was rushed, she had still used fifty percent of her power!

That was definitely not something a Golden Core Stage Cultivator could directly contend with! Let alone contend, it would be a miracle to even leave a complete corpse after that strike!

But this man in front of her, who seemed not even to have reached the Nascent Soul Stage... this man, who was no different from an ant in her eyes... actually... actually crushed her Divine Ability with pure Physical Body strength?!

This... what kind of monstrous freak is this?! Is he a Body Cultivator?! But even the Body Refining Cultivators from ancient legends couldn't possess such terrifying Physical Body strength during the Golden Core Stage!

This had completely exceeded her understanding!

And Lin Chen, after smashing her attack with one punch, not only didn't pause in the slightest!

His eyes, burning with blazing Battle Intent, instead locked onto Tuoba Hongyu in the sky even more intensely!

He stomped his foot fiercely!

"Boom!" The already overburdened arena collapsed with a thunderous roar under this destructive stomp! A colossal deep pit appeared beneath his feet!

And his body, like a human cannonball surging against the current!

Carrying Tuoba Yan, who had already been completely terrified by the aftershocks of the collision of the two terrifying powers!

Shot up into the sky!

He actually took the initiative to charge towards that female City Lord in the Early Nascent Soul Stage!

"You... courting death!" Tuoba Hongyu was both shocked and enraged!

She was shocked by the opponent's unbelievably terrifying Physical Body! She was enraged that she, the dignified Snow Wolf City Lord, a Nascent Soul True Monarch, was actually provoked so openly by a junior of the Golden Core Stage!

This was simply a great humiliation!

"I'd like to see how many moves your brute strength can take from me!"

"Ice Age!" Tuoba Hongyu was completely enraged! She fiercely formed a hand seal in front of her chest!

"Buzz—!" All the ice-elemental spiritual power within a hundred-mile radius seemed to respond to the queen's summons, transforming into billions of white streams of light that furiously converged towards her palm!

A more solid and even more terrifying frozen long river, as if summoned from the Nine Netherworlds, instantly formed in front of her!

That was no longer a mere condensation of spiritual power; it even carried a trace of Tuoba Hongyu's Nascent Soul Law!

"Go!" She pointed her jade finger from afar!

That frozen long river swept towards Lin Chen with a speed that tore through space!

Wherever it passed, even space was frozen, revealing hideous white cracks!

This was a true Divine Ability! Capable of freezing all things!

However! Facing this terrifying Divine Ability capable of freezing an entire mountain range! Lin Chen's face revealed a cruel smile!

"Good timing!"

"Competing with Laws?"

"human emperor seal, suppress!"

With a thought from him!

Buzz—! A

Majestic Heavenly Might descended with a roar! That supreme Yang and rigid Imperial Dragon Qi, which suppressed all ancient demons and governed all spirits in heaven and earth, instantly erupted!

That golden Imperial Dragon Qi and the white frozen long river were simply natural archenemies!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!"

The sweeping frozen long river, upon contact with the spreading Imperial Dragon Qi, was instantly evaporated by more than half, as if boiling hot oil had met ice and snow!

"What?! Imperial Dao Divine Ability?!" Tuoba Hongyu's pupils suddenly constricted!

And Lin Chen seized this opportunity! His figure flashed like a ghost!

He actually directly pierced through the remaining thin ice river!

In Tuoba Hongyu's utterly shocked gaze, he instantly appeared before her!

"What?!" Tuoba Hongyu's heart suddenly stopped!

She had never expected! The opponent's speed was also so unbelievably fast! So fast that even her Divine Thought almost failed to capture him!

She had just wanted to mobilize her Nascent Soul power to retreat!

However, it was already too late!

Lin Chen revealed a sinister smile, filled with an extreme desire for conquest!

His gaze brazenly swept over her slightly parted red lips due to shock, swept over her full breasts that were violently rising and falling due to anger... finally settling on her Phoenix eyes, which were filled with horror.

He released Tuoba Yan, who was already like a dead dog.

Allowing her to fall from high in the sky like trash.

Then, in Tuoba Hongyu's horrified and desperate gaze, he extended his large hand, like iron tongs cast from Chaos divine iron!

And tightly gripped her equally well-maintained, elegant, and snow-white swan-like... neck!

"Ugh...!" Tuoba Hongyu's breathing suddenly caught!

Her impending Nascent Soul power was actually forcibly dispersed by a strange and domineering Chaos power emanating from the opponent's palm!

She... the dignified Nascent Soul True Monarch! Was actually... choked by a Golden Core junior?!

Lin Chen just like that, held this high and mighty Snow Wolf City Lord!

This arrogant Nascent Soul Queen!

And similarly, lifted her with one hand as if carrying a small chicken!

"…" The entire world fell silent.

Time seemed to be completely frozen at this moment. The wind stopped. The clouds ceased.

Lin Chen quietly floated above the arena, which had already turned into ruins.

His left hand held his daughter, who had just fallen and been casually retrieved by his spiritual power, now unconscious. His right hand held the mother, who was struggling in vain with a face full of disbelief.

He held the noblest mother and daughter of Snow Wolf City, one in each hand, like an unparalleled demon god who had walked out of primeval myths!

"Now..."

He slowly brought his face closer to Tuoba Hongyu, who was still struggling in vain.

His nose almost touched her smooth forehead.

He could even smell the noble body fragrance on her, a mixture of ice and orchid, cultivated from her long years in a high position.

However, this body fragrance was now mixed with a faint, fishy smell called "fear."

A victor's smile curled at the corner of his mouth. His voice was low and full of magnetism.

"...Can we finally have a good talk about the 'Mother Cauldron' matter?"

...Half an hour later. In the innermost main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, entirely constructed from "Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul."

The cold Qi here was biting, enough to freeze steel into powder, but at this moment, Lin Chen sat imposingly on the central ice crystal throne that should have belonged only to the City Lord.

He rested his chin on one hand, his expression indifferent yet majestic.

Below him, on the icy cold Ice Soul ground.

Tuoba Hongyu and Tuoba Yan, who had just been forcibly woken up by him with cold water.

This pair of equally beautiful and equally arrogant "mother and daughter" knelt on the ground with humiliated expressions.

Their once luxurious dresses were now tattered beyond recognition.

Tuoba Hongyu's high-piled hair bun had long since come undone, her ink-like dark hair scattered messily over her slightly trembling fragrant shoulders, obscuring her beautiful, pale-as-paper profile.

Her ice crystal crown was nowhere to be seen.

Her once majestic and domineering Phoenix eyes now only held endless emptiness and... numbness.

Beside her, Tuoba Yan was even worse off; she was curled up on the ground, her entire body trembling violently like a frightened small beast. She didn't even have the courage to look up at the man on the throne. All the pride and arrogance of that "little delinquent" had been completely shattered!

On their smooth, jade-like brows, a complex and profound Chaos-colored Soul Imprint had appeared.

That Soul Imprint subtly squirmed as if alive.

That was the most domineering master-servant contract planted by Lin Chen; their lives, their Souls, everything about them, had already been completely controlled by Lin Chen!

"From today onwards."

"I am the only... King of Snow Wolf City."

"You, mother and daughter, will still be the City Lord and Young Miss on the surface."

"But you only have one thing to do."

"—That is to integrate all the forces of the entire Snow Wolf City for me!"

"Then..."

"—Unify the entire Northern Region for me!"