While Bai Yunfei was fighting Lin Xiangtian in the Phantasm and the Bloodhowl Wolf King had just used the Starfall of the Celestial Wolf.

In the mountains deep beneath the back peak.

The only inhabitants of the cave were the same withered elder and the white-robed male. Rich energy filled the air of the cave and illuminated it with a cold bluish light. Condensation and frost formed everywhere in the cave and robbed it of any warmth, but neither persons seemed to have any indication that they noticed. It appeared that the both of them were in a dreamlike state.

The withered elder was named Xue Ziye, a paragon of the Beast Taming School from one of the earlier generations. He was a senior teacher of Lin Xiangtian and was a Late-stage Soul Emperor!

𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

“Just...just a little more! Let me succeed!!”

The expression on his face was tired, but determined. He was pushing his limits to try and use a secret technique of the school to pour his soul into the body of the ‘soulbeast’ in front of him.

“Boom!!!”

That was the moment when he felt the earth beneath him heave violently. Something had happened to the south.

A quick glance with his soulsense told him the horrible news—another elder of his school had died!

He was furious! Furious that a Soul Emperor had died! But then tragedy struck him again and left the elder even more ashen than before!

“Xiangtian!!”

His soulsense had told him that someone had thrown something—the head of Lin Xiangtian!

“Ahhh!!!”

White-hot anger surged through Xue Ziye. His tired eyes—now bloodshot and red with anger—honed in on the white-robed male in front of him with renewed determination. He’d make sure he succeeded in his task even if it was the last thing he did!

More and more of Xue Ziye’s soulforce began to pour into the pores of the soulbeast. Once inside, the soulforce began to transform into some kind of esoteric runic script!

Then the soulbeast’s body began to tremble.

“Ahhh!!!”

Roaring loudly, Xue Ziye slammed a palm onto his own head!

“Pcht...”

Blood poured out from his mouth. None of it was spilt onto the other male due to a barrier of some kind, but it sprinkled the ground with a dark-red hue. From the wound he inflicted onto himself, Xue Ziye pinched at some kind of gray wisp of light and pulled it from his head!

Then with the very last vestige of his energy, he forced it onto the soulbeast!

“Pa!!”

The barrier shattered apart from his palm, allowing Xue Ziye to slam his hand onto the soulbeast’s forehead!

Sandwiched in between palm and forehead, the gray wisp of light in Xue Ziye’s hand dug into the soulbeast’s body!

“Thud...”

Xue Ziye’s arm sagged to his side. A small smirk was forced onto his lips before he seized up and collapsed onto the ground. He was dead!

There wasn’t even a sign of life in his body now! Without even a fragment of his soul left, Xue Ziye was without a doubt dead!

The passage of time felt like it froze in the cave without anything moving. Seconds passed before at last the soulbeast’s body began to tremble again!

“Bzz...”

It started with a tremor. A large one that threatened to collapse the cave the soulbeast was in. Then a terrifying wave of energy exploded out from the soulbeast’s body!

Like the reawakening of a slumbering giant, this soulbeast was starting to rise!

Several moments passed before the soulbeast finally opened its eyes...

The pupils were light-blue in color, a color not unlike that of ice. With a gaze as sharp as the cold edge of steel, the soulbeast let out another wave of soulforce fly out from him!

Like a man waking from a dream, the soulbeast took a moment to regain his bearings and give a bloodthirsty expression!

“Everyone shall die!!”

He decreed with icy-cold authority. Though his expression was red-hot with rage, his words felt like they could freeze any ordinary man in seconds!

“Boom!!”

In a burst of bluish-white light, the soulbeast disappeared from the caves to fly up into the sky!

Hardly any time later. In front of the Beast Taming School.

“Retreat!”

A single word of dread and terror was spoken out to everyone on the battlefield and alarmed them all.

It was the Blue-eyes White Dragon King that spoke! And the way he said the word...made it seem like he was afraid?!

A Peak late-stage class eight soulbeast afraid of something?!

As confused as they were, Bai Yunfei and everyone else began to retreat at once!

Waves of class six soulbeasts ran away from the battlefield while the remnants of the Beast Taming School retreated to the gates of their school to stare at one another.

“Boom!!”

A loud explosion erupted from far behind the gates, prompting everyone to watch as the back peak blew up for a white streak of light to fly out from!

That was when the figure of a giant ice-blue bird appeared!

“Bzz...”

The pressure Bai Yunfei and the others felt was enormous! He felt fear like never before—it almost made him feel like buckling at the knees and prostrate himself on the ground!

This had to be the result of a being far powerful than anything he met. It was a being even stronger than the Blue-eyes White Dragon King!

Knowing that, Bai Yunfei could hardly stop himself from whispering two words from his chattering teeth...

“A Saint!!”

A type of soulbeast on the same level as Soul Saints. A class nine saintbeast!!

The Blue-eyes White Dragon King was white with fear. His eyes were frozen stuck on the giant figure above him. Trembling as he took in the visage of the giant bird above them all, he began to speak:

“An ice-type...and a class nine...this figure...it...it can’t be!!”

Several of the other soulbeasts, specifically the ones from the avian clans like the White-browed Hawk King and the Two Winged Kings, were struck dumb with realization of who this soulbeast was. Like the Blue-eyes White Dragon King, they too began to tremble in fear at the figure.

Several seconds passed before someone spoke. “The...Frostfeather Saint!! It’s impossible!”

The White-browed Hawk King’s words set off a disturbance across the battlefield. “The Frostfeather Saint?” Wu Dijian repeated, “That’s the Frostfeather Saint?! No way!!”

Afraid as he was of this saintbeast in front of him, Bai Yunfei had no idea who the Frostfeather Saint was. “Headmaster Wu, who...is the Frostfeather Saint?”

Still white in the face and staring at the bird, Wu Dijian whispered to Bai Yunfei, “It’s the soulbeast puppet the founder of the Beast Taming School used. A class nine saintbeast of the avian clan three thousand years ago...the Frostfeather Saint! But...the rumors said that it perished with the Beast Taming School’s founder. Even if it was inherited by someone else, the saintbeast should’ve died of old age by now! Actually, the Beast Taming School doesn’t even have a Soul Saint, how are they even using the Frostfeather Saint?!”

“The soulbeast of the Beast Taming School’s founder?! A class nine saintbeast?!”

Bai Yunfei repeated in awe. A class nine saintbeast...a soulbeast capable of inflicting calamity and disaster upon all...this was the strongest trump card the Beast Taming School had to offer!

“It’s the Frostfeather Saint! It’s really the Frostfeather Saint!”

“Master Xue succeeded! He managed to tame the Frostfeather Saint! Our school is saved!”

“Our school will live on!! Our enemies will die! They’ll all die!!”

Many of the beast tamers began to cry out in jubilation. The appearance of the Frostfeather Saint meant they were saved at last!

Not even the last remaining Soul Emperor could prevent himself from trembling in excitement and hope.

“He did it...senior Xue actually did it!”

In the blink of an eye the white figure was now standing in front of the Beast Taming School’s gates.

“Senior Xue!” He cried out.

The Frostfeather Saint...or perhaps it was better to say Xue Ziye, had eyes only for Bai Yunfei and those around him. Those eyes were bone-chilling as his gaze pierced deep into them.

“You intruders that endanger the Beast Taming School so...today all of you will die!!”