As the white light slowly enveloped Wang Lin's entire body, he felt an invisible thin membrane adhering to his whole body, slowly merging with his entire skin.
The surrounding coldness was completely isolated the moment the white light flowed, which was why Wang Lin could sit cross-legged naked in the snow now.
Controlling soul power to circulate on the surface of his body, a strange force drilled into Wang Lin's body from the thin membrane adhering to him in an all-round manner.
Wang Lin could feel that his skin, muscles, bones, and internal organs were all being continuously strengthened by that invisible force. The Staff of Life in his mind simultaneously released traces of life force.
It merged with that strange force, strengthening Wang Lin's physical body. A faint, strange fragrance permeated outwards from Wang Lin's body.
Long Xiaoyao beside him sniffed the fragrance, his brows furrowing slightly. With a wave of his large hand, invisible power enveloped Wang Lin 360 degrees without omission.
While not hindering Wang Lin's absorption of the exoskeleton shedding, he isolated the fragrance emitted from Wang Lin's body inside the barrier.
But soon, Long Xiaoyao seemed to recall something. He pointed a finger again, and a palm-sized crack opened in the 360-degree, uncompromising shield.
The faint, strange fragrance drilled out and was carried by the cold wind, blowing toward the extreme northern ice plain.
The biting cold wind, carrying goose feather-sized snow, blew onto Wang Lin's body. It slid over the surface of Wang Lin's body, as if there was an invisible transparent barrier on him.
As Wang Lin completely absorbed the exoskeleton shedding, the special power within the shedding still continuously surged into his body from the surface of his skin, cooperating with the faint life aura released by the Staff of Life.
Under the effect of the two forces, Wang Lin unconsciously began to meditate and cultivate. The soul power and spiritual power within his body continuously expanded. Wang Lin's cultivation rapidly progressed at a speed far exceeding the usual.
Time flowed minute by minute. Wang Lin cultivated selflessly until the vibration coming from beneath him awakened him from the state of cultivation.
Wang Lin opened his eyes. A sharp gleam flashed in his pair of gray eyes, then quickly converged. He immediately saw not far in front of him.
Long Xiaoyao was pressing down on a crystal scorpion that was a mixture of ice blue and emerald green. He gripped the scorpion's tail with one hand and firmly pressed down on the scorpion's head with the other.
"Ice Jade Empress Scorpion?" Wang Lin lost his mind for a moment looking at the crystal scorpion Long Xiaoyao was pressing down on.
No, it's not the Ice Empress. It's an ordinary Ice Jade Scorpion!
Noticing that the crystal scorpion Long Xiaoyao was pressing down on was quite a bit smaller than the Ice Empress and its color was not as pure as the Ice Empress's, Wang Lin reacted.
The Ice Empress's body had exploded. The Ice Empress had merged with Huo Yuhao and had long left the extreme northern ice plain.
"Awake?"
Long Xiaoyao noticed Wang Lin's awakening. Black dragon scales appeared on the palm of the hand pressing on the Ice Jade Scorpion. The hand transformed into a black dragon claw. His entire aura surged, and he pressed down hard.
Crack!
The sound of crystal shattering rang out. Long Xiaoyao's hand, which had transformed into a dragon claw, directly crushed the Ice Jade Scorpion's head. Faint emerald green blood flowed out from the damaged head of the Ice Jade Scorpion.
A profound black soul ring separated from the Ice Jade Scorpion's corpse. Long Xiaoyao stood up and casually tossed the Ice Jade Scorpion's corpse to the side.
"How do you feel?" Long Xiaoyao asked with a smile.
Wang Lin noticed the surrounding area now. There were still several corpses of soul beasts, but those corpses did not have soul rings. There were also a few that were covered by a thick layer of ice and snow, clearly having been dead for quite some time.
A small snow mound had also appeared beside them at some unknown time.
"F-Fine." His mouth twitched. He stood up straight directly. The snow covering his lower body slid down. Wang Lin asked.
"Master, how long has it been?"
"As expected, you were frozen before. Development is very good!" Long Xiaoyao did not answer Wang Lin immediately. Instead, he scanned Wang Lin's entire body and praised with a smile.
"Of course!"
Wang Lin blushed, hurriedly took out clothes from his storage soul tool to put on. The clothes he had taken off earlier were frozen rock-hard and completely unwearable.
He collected the clothes on the ground, wearing the same thin garment as Long Xiaoyao, seemingly completely unaffected by the cold.
"About thirteen hours have passed." Long Xiaoyao looked at Wang Lin and said, a questioning look on his face.
"So long?" A surprised expression appeared on Wang Lin's face.
"What is the name of the external soul bone? What soul skill did it give you?"
"Sky... uh... Ice Silkworm Exoskeleton Shedding. The soul skill it gave is Spiritual Mimicry." Wang Lin spoke. Invisible mental power permeated from his body, enveloping his entire body.
Faint golden patterns appeared on his exposed skin. The light surrounding Wang Lin's body began to twist, and the whole person turned into a human-shaped mosaic.
Visibly, this human-shaped mosaic began to stretch and widen. Golden light flashed. As the spiritual fluctuations converged, the mosaic slowly disappeared.
Wang Lin's figure vanished. In its place was a tall old man. The old man's silver hair was combed meticulously, his face was rosy like an infant's, his long eyebrows hung down on both sides of his face, and his hands were clasped behind his back.
"Interesting. It can even mimic both spiritual fluctuations and soul power fluctuations?"
Long Xiaoyao looked at the "himself" in front of him, who was exactly the same but whose spiritual fluctuations and soul power fluctuations were somewhat clumsy. He clicked his tongue in amazement.
"However, the soul power fluctuation and spiritual fluctuation are quite far from that of an Ultimate Douluo." Saying this, Long Xiaoyao shook his head.
"Master, I am only a Soul Elder who hasn't obtained a third soul ring. It's already good that I can achieve this much. Asking me to perfectly mimic the aura of an Ultimate Douluo is asking too much!"
The other "Long Xiaoyao" had a helpless expression on his face, and even his voice was indistinguishable from Long Xiaoyao's own.
"Then hurry up and change back to absorb the soul ring." Long Xiaoyao delivered a kick to his "self" and walked to the small snow mound beside them. He thrust both hands directly into the snow mound and gave it a strong shake.
Boom.
The entire ground trembled. Long Xiaoyao shook the snow mound as if shaking a blanket. A giant white-furred "savage" over thirteen meters tall appeared. The accumulated snow covering the "savage" instantly rose up.
"Is that a Titan Snow Demon?" Wang Lin looked at the "savage" with his mouth wide open. He only remembered that the area around him was flat; how did a snow mound suddenly appear?
Having seen the Titan Snow Demon King, Wang Lin recognized this huge soul beast at a glance.
"That's right. A Titan Snow Demon of about two thousand five hundred years. It also possesses the mental attribute. You brat should be able to absorb it."
Saying this, Long Xiaoyao tossed the unconscious Titan Snow Demon in front of Wang Lin.
Looking at the Titan Snow Demon, whose appearance was extremely similar to a human's, Wang Lin did not hesitate. He took out a long spear from his storage soul tool, walked to the side of the unconscious Titan Snow Demon, and thrust hard at the Titan Snow Demon's eye socket.
Most of the spear body sank into the Titan Snow Demon's body. Blood flowed out, instantly freezing. A dazzling dark purple soul ring emerged, accompanying the death of the Titan Snow Demon.
Wang Lin sat down cross-legged on the spot, drawing the soul ring toward him.
His sealed Spiritual Sea had already been broken open. Absorbing a soul ring now should grant him normal soul skills, not just amplification soul rings anymore. He just wondered what soul skill the Titan Snow Demon could bring.
Anticipating in his heart, Wang Lin began to absorb the soul ring.