Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 902: Heavy Snow Falls on Youyan, Hiding a Hidden Danger

Meow?

Chen Huaian froze in place. He had sensed something unusual about this million-year World Beast from the very beginning, noting many feline-like attributes. However, upon hearing such a fawning sound now, he could no longer contain his surprise.

Is it truly a cat?

Well, not entirely.

To be more precise, it resembles a spinosaurus-shaped cat.

This creature must be an offspring born from the Golden Dragon King and some sort of feline World Beast.

The Golden Dragon King's genes dictated ninety percent of its external appearance, while its inner nature was almost completely dominated by the cat's genes.

Chen Huaian narrowed his eyes. "Is this posture you're adopting a sign of submission to me?"

North-South Green Bean Haimi cautiously glanced at Chen Huaian, its voice a squeaky pitch that utterly belied its immense size. "Please... please don't kill meow..."

"Yet, you were hissing at me just moments ago," Chen Huaian countered, twisting his wrist with a hint of amusement. "I currently require a means to enhance my strength, and you are excellent material for my cultivation. Now, give me a reason not to end your life."

North-South Green Bean Haimi quivered from head to tail, finally managing to articulate a sentence after a prolonged silence. "Meow's father is the Golden Dragon King. If you kill meow, you'll draw the ire of all the World Beasts in the entire Canglan World, and ultimately face meow's enraged Dragon King father."

Upon hearing the mention of the Golden Dragon King, Chen Huaian's demeanor shifted to one of dismissiveness.

Through the gourd left behind by the middle corpse, he had long understood that the system's rewards were not conjured from nothing. Instead, the middle corpse utilized its own 'connections' to procure these assets from relevant 'individuals' or factions – it was all about cultivating relationships.

When he had claimed a reward previously, the Golden Dragon King had been compelled to hand over the million-year World Ring. As long as his own identity remained concealed, the Golden Dragon King was, in essence, his subordinate.

However, Bixixi and the other Battle Masters perceived the situation quite differently.

"Your father is the Golden Dragon King among the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings?"

The face of the Battle Soul Hall's Pope, Your Holiness, became grave at this revelation. She could sense the exceptionally noble bloodline of this million-year World Beast, but she had never fathirst imagined it would be of such exalted status.

The Golden Dragon King... that is a Dragon God!

An entity that even the deity she served, Lucifer, would hesitate to provoke.

"That is correct, it is indeed that Golden Dragon King."

North-South Green Bean Haimi lifted its head, a smug expression attempting to surface despite its battered visage. Though, with its face so swollen and bruised, the smugness was hardly convincing.

"It truly is a descendant of the Golden Dragon King... Should we... let it go?"

Bixixi gazed at the colossal beast, which even in its injured state exuded a terrifying aura of its bloodline. Ultimately, her greed was tempered by a surge of prudence.

"Your Excellency..." she took a deep breath, her tone imbued with deep sincerity. "Know when to cease. Today, we have already secured two hundred-thousand-year World Beasts, a truly bountiful harvest. If we were to truly kill this dragon descendant and provoke the wrath of such a powerful existence, the entire Canglan Continent could face utter devastation."

The surrounding Battle Masters voiced their assent, nodding vigorously in agreement. They were utterly spent from the day's exertions and could not possibly endure another intense confrontation. As long as they could ensure their own survival, letting this million-year World Beast depart was a small price to pay.

"Yes, yes..."

"Your Holiness speaks with great wisdom. Our objectives for the day have already been met."

Seeing the general consensus among the Battle Soul Hall's Battle Masters, North-South Green Bean Haimi secretly rejoiced. It made a concerted effort to force a 'sincere' smile, employing its awkward, squeaky voice to declare, "As long as you allow meow to depart... meow can overlook the events of today. Those subordinates who perished... they were simply unlucky. This meow shall pretend not to have witnessed their demise."

As it spoke, it subtly circulated the Battle Power within its body, mending its fractured bones and torn flesh. Yet, inwardly, it seethed with rage: Once this king returns, I shall have my father meticulously chew all you insects to pieces and devour you! Especially that fellow clad in white! Meow will skin him alive to fashion a scratching post!

"Let bygones be bygones?"

Chen Huaian's voice held the incredulous tone of someone hearing the world's most absurd jest. Standing with his hands clasped behind his back, his sleeves fluttering gently in the breeze, his gaze swept playfully over Bixixi before settling on Haimi's disingenuous, oversized face.

"It appears you all have a fundamental misunderstanding."

Chen Huaian stated calmly.

"Who This Venerable One slays has never needed anyone's permission.

If I let you go, where would This Venerable One find another replacement for your million years of Cultivation, for that World Bone that is guaranteed to drop?

Since you are unwilling to offer yourself up with dignity..."

Chen Huaian slowly lifted his right hand. Though no sword was present at his fingertips, a point of cold brilliance, surpassing even the stars in its radiance, began to condense there.

"Then This Venerable One will assist you... in achieving dignity."

"Meow——!!!" North-South Green Bean Haimi, sensing the bone-chilling Killing Intent, instantly abandoned all pretense of composure.

Its colossal body tensed abruptly, the immense power accumulated within erupting without restraint in this critical moment.

It had no desire to fight; its sole wish was to escape!

However.

As swift as its movements were, Chen Huaian's Sword Intent proved even faster.

Without any visible blade gleam or sword shadow, not even a whisper of sound.

Chen Huaian's finger lightly traced a path through the empty air.

Much like a master calligrapher adding a stroke of effortless grace onto delicate rice paper.

Sshh——!

Across the heavens and the earth, it was as if a tautly drawn string had suddenly snapped.

North-South Green Bean Haimi's massive form, which had just launched itself into the air, abruptly froze mid-flight.

The terror, the resentment, and the cunning that filled its eyes solidified in that single instant.

The wind ceased its movement.

The clouds halted their drift.

An incredibly fine, dark line slowly materialized across its supposedly unbreakable neck.

Then.

Crash——

Like a meticulously constructed tower toppling down.

That enormous, cat-eared dragon head detached silently, sliding off. The severance was as smooth as polished glass; not even a drop of blood had time to spill before the lingering Sword Intent sealed the wound.

Chen Huaian withdrew his hand, his expression utterly impassive.

This single sword strike.

Represented merely one-tenth of a Golden Immortal's might.

As the physical form disintegrated, a million-year World Ring, shimmering with a profound azure-golden luminescence, slowly detached itself from the corpse.

"Roar————!!!"

A soul phantom, brimming with hatred and utter unwillingness, erupted from the World Ring.

It was the vengeful spirit of North-South Green Bean Haimi, flailing and snarling with a visage contorted in ferocity.

"Human! You dare to kill meow!!"

"Meow will curse you! Meow will tear your souls asunder!!"

It roared, unleashing the mental tempest of a million-year Fierce Beast's death throes, and slammed with immense force towards Chen Huaian and Li Qingran.

Chen Huaian served as Li Qingran's Battle Soul. It was only at this precise moment that North-South Green Bean Haimi finally perceived Chen Huaian's peculiar nature.

Chen Huaian was not truly human, but rather a Battle Soul—a soul existing without a physical vessel. While his soul was potent, it was inextricably linked to that young girl.

Yet, that girl herself was not even a Soul King.

Here lay a vulnerability!

Concurrently, it represented an opportunity to reverse their fortunes.

"Tiresome noise," Chen Huaian stated with a cold snort.

Observing the million-year World Beast soul hurtling towards him, he not only refrained from defending but deliberately expanded his Divine Soul wide open.

"You wish to tear This Venerable One's Divine Soul to shreds?

Come in and attempt it."

Whoosh——

The colossal soul phantom was instantly drawn into the ethereal space situated between Chen Huaian's eyebrows.

Simultaneously, the masterless million-year World Ring, compelled by an unseen attraction, steadily floated to settle at Li Qingran's feet.

Boom!

A torrent of violent energy, akin to a river flowing in reverse, surged madly into Li Qingran's body.

Under Chen Huaian's guidance, this formidable power did not tear her apart but instead transformed into the purest nourishment for advancing her Cultivation.

Li Qingran's aura escalated dramatically, level by level. In mere moments, she ascended across ten distinct tiers, ultimately stopping at the precipice of becoming a sixty-fifth-level Battle Emperor!

...

Meanwhile.

Within the confines of Chen Huaian's Divine Soul space.

An infinite expanse of pale whiteness presented itself.

There was no sky above, nor earth below, only a swirling blizzard of snowflakes drifting through the atmosphere.

Each individual snowflake carried within it a volatile Sword Intent.

North-South Green Bean Haimi's soul phantom manifested within this domain. Once the size of a mountain, here, within this peculiar heaven and earth, it appeared as insignificant as a mere speck of dust.

It gazed around in utter terror.

A profound cold.

A cold that seemed to penetrate the very marrow of its existence.

This was not the chill of mere temperature, but rather... the chilling essence of Sword Intent.

"Where is this place?!"

It trembled violently as it shouted.

"This is This Venerable One's soul world."

A grand, resonant voice echoed from all directions.

Haimi abruptly looked upward.

It beheld a sight that would be forever seared into its memory—

Suspended high in the firmament, a figure adorned in white gazed down upon it with an air of absolute indifference.

That figure was not particularly imposing in size.

Yet, in Haimi's perception, it was akin to the boundless vault of the heavens itself.

An overwhelming pressure, comparable to the tumult of a raging ocean, enveloped it completely.

It felt as though, in the presence of that swordsman's soul, its own status as a "million-year World Beast" soul was nothing more than that of an insignificant ant, oblivious to its true place.

"Did you not wish to tear This Venerable One's Divine Soul to shreds? Come now~"

"You... are you a deity... No, that can't be right... Even Meow's father also..." North-South Green Bean Haimi crumbled to the ground in utter despair.

The subsequent words became stuck in its throat.

"In your next life, choose a better birth."

Chen Huaian stated calmly.

Then, a snowflake, drifting through the void, gently settled upon Haimi's soul.

Sss——

Like a tiny spark landing in a vast expanse of ice and snow.

The instant that snowflake made contact, Haimi's soul began to disintegrate, inch by inch, transforming into countless specks of light that vanished within this immense and boundless white world.

Great snow descends upon the shadowed northern lands, a solitary sliver of killing intent lies hidden.

...

In the external world.

Li Qingran's eyes slowly fluttered open.

Deep within her pupils, a fleeting streak of azure-golden light briefly flashed.

At her feet, two World Rings gleamed, one a deep sapphire blue, the other an azure-gold, both radiating an aura of suffocating nobility.

And Chen Huaian stood silently beside her, his presence feeling several degrees more substantial than mere moments before.

At that precise instant.

Ding.

A clear, resonant sound drew everyone's attention.

Hovering above Haimi's colossal, headless corpse.

A crystalline, translucent skull, suffused with a rainbow-hued halo, slowly materialized.

This skull was utterly flawless, subtly resembling the form of a crown. The mental undulations it emanated caused all the Battle Masters present to feel a sense of disorientation.

This was the skull bone of a million-year World Beast!

It could be considered the most coveted treasure among all World Bone fragments.

Gazing upon this World Bone.

It signified that North-South Green Bean Haimi's soul had been completely consumed, leaving no possibility for rebirth.

Instinctively, everyone's gaze shifted towards Chen Huaian and Li Qingran.

Utter silence descended upon the entire scene.

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