"Ice Empress, you haven't died yet, so why can't I be alive? Do you remember what I said back then? If I don't die, the day will come when I become your companion."
The voice from earlier suddenly became lewd.
Hearing this, Wang Lin and Long Xiaoyao, who were covered by the ice and snow, couldn't help but chuckle inwardly.
"You're courting death, Skydream!" The crisp voice roared.
"No, I spoke my true feelings. I have lived for a million years, and I spent most of that time in my sleep. The only thing that left a trace in the depths of my heart is you..."
"You are not worthy of liking me. You are only my food....."
...
Listening to the conversation between the Skydream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, Wang Lin was truly speechless. The relationship between the two was like a sheep falling in love with a wolf.
Furthermore, the wolf, Ice Empress, had no feelings for Skydream and only wanted to kill the sheep, Skydream Ice Silkworm, eat its flesh, and devour its bones.
Thinking this, Wang Lin couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "A bootlicker will not have a good end..."
Long Xiaoyao beside him was momentarily stunned when he heard Wang Lin's remark. He was about to ask what a "bootlicker" meant, but after parting his mouth, he ultimately refrained from asking aloud.
Long Xiaoyao could be certain that "bootlicker" was not a good term.
In the midst of the conversation, the Skydream Ice Silkworm suddenly changed the topic and asked: "By the way, Ice Empress, I've always wanted to ask you, is that joke that spread across the Far North true? Did you really fall for Snow Empress back then?"
"Skydream, I will definitely tear you into ten thousand pieces!" As soon as Skydream said this, the crisp voice instantly became sharp.
A terrifying aura of a fierce beast erupted. The dark green sky instantly turned black.
"Don't move!" Long Xiaoyao seized the opportunity, grabbed Wang Lin, and jumped out of the snow. The two stood on the snowy surface again.
They just happened to see a crystal scorpion composed of emerald green and ice-white colors descend from the sky, landing in front of the golden human figure.
The scorpion was about 1.5 meters long. Its front end had four stacked layers. The length of each layer was slightly more than half a foot. Its head grew on the topmost layer, and its silvery-white mouthparts flickered with a faint cold light.
Its front body was covered with unique, hexagonal scales that shone with incomparable brilliance, like diamond scales.
Its two front claws were one meter long, also covered with the peculiar hexagonal diamond-like protrusions, and a pair of unusual yellow gemstone eyes.
The five-segmented scorpion tail behind it glowed emerald green, and the tip of the tail was silvery-white, just like its mouthparts.
The moment the Ice Empress landed, a faint white light membrane, like a fishing net, instantly enveloped the Ice Empress.
"Let go of me!" The Ice Empress's terrified voice rang out. She struggled constantly, yet she couldn't break free from the faint white light membrane.
The golden human figure pointed a finger. Golden light flashed, and the Ice Empress's figure instantly vanished.
A thin white light membrane reappeared in the sky. The golden human figure and the white light membrane vanished together, and the celestial phenomenon in the sky slowly dissipated.
"Did it disappear?" Wang Lin asked confusedly, but Long Xiaoyao shook his head.
"No."
As soon as his voice fell, a youth suddenly drilled out of the snow, running directly toward their direction.
Pfft!
Long Xiaoyao grabbed Wang Lin and plunged into the snow with him. Invisible power smoothed over the traces around them.
Soon,
Slightly hurried footsteps passed by the snowy area nearby, without discovering any abnormality.
After those footsteps had run a distance, Long Xiaoyao immediately took Wang Lin out of the snow.
They continued to follow Huo Yuhao from afar. Although he didn't know what method Skydream used to restrain the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.
But with Long Xiaoyao's experience and insight, Skydream merely restrained the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, rather than truly subduing her. Therefore, now was not the time to act.
From the conversation between Skydream and Ice Empress, they learned that Skydream was also definitely a soul beast. If he acted now.
No matter how much hatred Skydream and Ice Empress had for each other, the two soul beasts would inevitably unite to deal with him, a human.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. What was needed was patience.
Long Xiaoyao had plenty of patience. Wang Lin, who was beside him, was not in a hurry either, following Huo Yuhao from afar with Long Xiaoyao.
Compared to the journey in, Huo Yuhao was obviously much more hurried on the way back.
He hardly rested on the road, grabbing a handful of snow from the ground to stuff into his mouth when thirsty, and not eating any food. When his soul power was depleted, he would meditate on the spot.
He ran for fourteen hours straight, running out of the core area of the extreme cold land and reaching the fringe area.
This made Wang Lin, who was following behind Huo Yuhao, feel somewhat unbearable. Long Xiaoyao, who had a hardened heart tempered by hundreds of years, felt nothing at all.
Pfft!
Suddenly, Huo Yuhao, who was running ahead, plunged headfirst into a snowdrift. Long Xiaoyao, who was following behind him, stopped with Wang Lin.
After waiting in place for a while, Huo Yuhao, who had fallen into the snow, immediately began to shovel snow, burrowing his entire body into the snow.
"Wait a moment. It should be time to act soon. Little Linzi, hold the Dragon Elixir in your hand. If you can't hold on, crush it. Did you hear me?"
Long Xiaoyao looked at Wang Lin beside him.
Even though they had reached the fringe area of the extreme cold core, the surrounding temperature was still not something Wang Lin could endure for a long time.
"I heard you, Master." Wang Lin nodded and held the black Dragon Elixir in his hand.
Soon, a streak of golden light drilled out of the snow. The golden light flew into the air, instantly transforming into a light disc about one meter in diameter.
An emerald green light figure drilled into the light disc at the same time the light disc formed.
Subsequently, a ball of golden light flew out, floating in front of the light disc, clearly communicating with the figure inside the light disc.
This time, their power did not dissipate, so Long Xiaoyao and Wang Lin couldn't hear their conversation.
But Long Xiaoyao was not in a hurry and continued to wait quietly on the side.
After a good while, they seemed to have reached an agreement. The golden light disc suddenly lit up with emerald green light. The emerald green light flew out from the golden light disc.
The golden light disc transformed into a faint white light membrane in the blink of an eye. The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's body subsequently fell down, landing on the snow like a corpse.
Long Xiaoyao looked at that scene and stood up abruptly: "Soul beast sacrifice? No, it doesn't look like soul beast sacrifice!"
The old Black Dragon almost instinctively wanted to go over and check. Wang Lin beside him noticed Long Xiaoyao's movement and couldn't help but say.
"Is it time to act, Master?"
"No, wait a little longer!" Long Xiaoyao reacted. Whether it was a soul beast sacrifice or not, he had to act at the crucial moment.
If he acted now, and the soul beast still had consciousness and detonated its origin, the gain would not be worth the loss.
It was also at this time that the body of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, which had fallen on the ground, suddenly moved. Its emerald green scorpion tail fiercely plunged into the snow.
Emerald green light halos lit up on the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's body, continuously injecting into the snow from its scorpion tail.
Not long after, a hysterical shout rang out.
"Don't worry about me! I can do it! I can do it!!!"