Chapter 68: Taming Mahoraga
A biting, bone-chilling cold wind swirled up snow as hard as iron, like countless invisible ice blades, crazily cutting and howling in this world ruled by pure white.
As far as the eye could see, there was only endless white and gray; the boundaries of heaven and earth were blurred, all things were silent, and only the wind and snow were eternal.
This was the Extreme North, a forbidden zone for humans.
At this moment, Lin Xuan was riding his Shikigami..., traveling like a bolt of black lightning through this daunting, desolate realm of death. "Right, right, right! This direction! Keep it up!"
Inside the Spiritual Sea, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was dancing with excitement. Having been away from its hometown for a long time and being about to see the Ice Empress it had been longing for, it was so hyper that it almost wanted to crawl out and carry Lin Xuan itself. "At most one more day! We'll be able to enter the core circle of the Extreme North! When that time comes—hehehe—"
However, Lin Xuan then controlled a dive, heading toward a relatively flat ice plain below.
"Let the matter of the Ice Empress wait for now. I have a more important matter to attend to at the moment."
"Huh?" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's excitement came to a screeching halt as it asked in confusion, "Important matter? What important matter could be more important than seeing the Ice Empress?"
Lin Xuan did not answer immediately.
Landing steadily on the deep layer of snow, he flipped down and looked around.
As far as his vision could reach, besides the vast snow plains and craggy ice hills, there was only the never-ending wind and snow, without any sign of life.
This was a place sufficiently empty and secluded.
Only after confirming that there were no other living beings within his vision and perception did Lin Xuan slowly speak, "Right here, right now, I am going to tame Mahoraga."
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The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm first froze for a full three seconds.
Then, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, it suddenly exploded!
"What?! You say you want to tame Mahoraga here?! Are you kidding me?!"
Extreme terror made its voice change pitch. "No! Absolutely not! Lin Xuan, are you crazy?! How can you be in such a rush to tame that monster?! You're only a Spirit Ancestor! A Spirit Ancestor! Can't you wait until you're a Titled Douluo, no, at least a Soul Douluo or even a Soul Saint?!"
"By then, this brother will definitely agree with both hands and feet! You can mess around however you want! But now, I don't agree! I won't agree even if you kill me!"
"It's useless even if you don't agree."
Lin Xuan's tone didn't waver in the slightest. He began to loosen his wrists and ankles, doing a warm-up before the battle. His Soul Power slowly steamed around his body, resisting the biting chill. "I must tame it today. Even if Tang San came, he couldn't stop me. I said so."
"Lin Xuan! I'm begging you, okay?!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was truly panicked, pleading incessantly, "You really can't let that thing out now! You'll die! We'll all die! I haven't seen my Bing Bing yet! My god-making ambition has only just begun!"
No matter how the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm wailed and persuaded, Lin Xuan's movements did not stop for a second.
He took off the heavy fox fur coat he was wearing. The cold air instantly enveloped him, but it couldn't make him shiver even slightly.
"Tianmeng,"
Lin Xuan suddenly spoke, interrupting the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's endless dissuasion. "Do you still remember the life-and-death crises I've experienced over the past year or so?"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was stunned.
"The Dark Demonic Evil God Tiger, the Six-Armed Demon Ape, the Thorn Demon—"
Lin Xuan said slowly, "Every single time, the slightest mistake would have led to eternal damnation."
"I ask you, why is that?"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm answered subconsciously, its voice weakening, "Because... your strength isn't great enough?"
"Exactly."
Lin Xuan nodded and exhaled a long breath of white mist. The heat instantly froze into fine ice crystals in the wind and snow, scattering away. "Soul Power levels cannot be achieved overnight. In the short term, it's difficult for my Soul Power to have a qualitative leap. If my Soul Power level doesn't go up, whether it's the power of Dismantle or Cleave, or the strength of my Shikigami, they will all be fundamentally limited."
"But Mahoraga is different."
"Whether I am a Soul Elder, a Spirit Ancestor, or a future Soul Saint or Titled Douluo—"
"It will always be it, the strongest Shikigami that can adapt to and counter all phenomena!"
Lin Xuan's voice suddenly rose, his eyes growing brighter. "As long as I can tame Mahoraga now, from then on, I can slay even a Titled Douluo!"
With that, under the terrified gaze of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, Lin Xuan clenched his fists and directly formed the hand seal to summon Mahoraga!
"No—!!!" the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm cried out in alarm.
But unfortunately, it was too late. Lin Xuan's chant already rang out in the wind and snow.
"Furube Yurayura—"
A low and solemn chant resonated through the howling wind and snow.
The surrounding light suddenly dimmed by several degrees, and even the roar of the gale seemed to be suppressed.
Endless shadows spread out from beneath Lin Xuan's feet, forming a deep, bottomless pool of black water.
"Awoo—!!"
Several sleek, pitch-black Divine Dog Shikigami were the first to leap from the shadows. They surrounded Lin Xuan, tilting their heads toward the sky and letting out long, wild howls.
"Eight-Handled Sword—Divergent Sila Divine General—"
"Mahoraga—"
"Boom!!!"
The moment the last syllable fell, a massive pressure crashed down!
A towering, mountain-like giant shadow, tightly bound by layers of pale bandages stained with dark grime, rapidly condensed from illusion into reality!
"Snap— Snap—..."
The tooth-aching sound of bandages snapping rang out one after another.
With the Dharma Wheel atop its head, four wings on its face, and the Demon-Slaying Sword in hand, the Eight-Handled Sword, the Ultimate Quality Inspector, Divergent Sila Divine General, Mahoraga, officially descended upon the Extreme North!
The next moment, the second Soul Ring beneath Lin Xuan's feet flashed, and he instantly disappeared from the spot.
At the same moment he disappeared, Mahoraga's fist, as large as a boulder, had already smashed into the position where he had originally stood, carrying a terrifying whistle that tore through the air!
"Boom—!!!"
Ice and snow mixed with frozen earth and rubble shot into the sky, and a giant crater dozens of meters in diameter suddenly appeared!
The shockwave even scraped away a layer of snow dozens of meters away!
The Tu Tu that had been swapped in was instantly crushed into a pathetic mist of blood by the wind from the fist!
In mid-air, dozens of meters behind Mahoraga, black incantations appeared on the face of the Lin Xuan who had appeared here. Immediately after, he made a vicious slash toward Mahoraga's back.
"Dismantle!"
Swish—!!!
An invisible slash flew out, instantly striking Mahoraga's back. Dark red blood gushed out, but in just a few blinks of an eye, the wound was completely healed.
"It's over, it's over! This monster really came out!" the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm wailed in fear.
"Shut up! Watch closely!"
Lin Xuan shouted in his heart, his expression incredibly solemn.
He didn't dare stay in place for even a second. The moment the slash was released, the Soul Power beneath his feet erupted again, and his figure shot away from Mahoraga like an arrow from a bow!
In the very next instant after he swept away, Mahoraga's seemingly heavy body erupted with a terrifying speed that completely belied its size!
It crossed dozens of meters in an instant, its giant fist grazing past Lin Xuan's afterimage and smashing viciously into the ice hill on the side!
"Boom—!!!"
Half of the small ice hill exploded at the impact! Countless pieces of ice as hard as iron, mixed with snow powder, shot out in all directions like shrapnel!
That pure, ultimate violence and the accompanying pressure of death that almost condensed into substance made the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm in the Spiritual Sea not even dare to breathe.
The battle erupted completely on the ice plain, yet it presented a one-sided chase.
Lin Xuan pushed his speed to the limit, his figure constantly flickering between the wind, snow, and ice hills, trying his best to pull away from Mahoraga.
He didn't dare let Mahoraga get close; that power, enough to shatter mountains and crack stones, would wound him if it grazed him and kill him if it hit him!
And Mahoraga was like a tireless killing machine; every one of its strikes contained the terrifying power to collapse mountains and split the earth, and its speed was getting faster and faster, its attack angles more and more tricky!
Three minutes later, the sound of the Dharma Wheel turning for the second time rang out on the snow plain.
Lin Xuan gasped for air, his eyes fixed on Mahoraga, who was reattaching its severed right hand after he had risked his life to launch a close-quarters Cleave.
Then he patted the snowflakes off his body as Soul Power surged within him. Immediately after, the sound of clothes tearing rang out.
Six dark-red, muscular arms sprouted from his back. This was exactly the External Soul Bone provided by the Six-Armed Demon Ape, and Lin Xuan had given it a name.
Demon God Six Arms!
"The playing is almost over. Next—the formal taming begins."
After Lin Xuan spoke, two of the Demon God Six Arms were raised and formed a hand seal!
At the same time, the first Soul Ring beneath his feet lit up!
"Thousand Needles: Endless Burial Wind—"
"First Soul Skill: Endless Slash Domain!"
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