After observing for a full half hour, the Ice Empress finally couldn't sit still.
She abruptly stood up, left the sentence, "I'm going back to the Extreme North Land to grab some things!" and then quickly left the room, slamming the door shut with a "bang."
Inside the door, the moment the Ice Empress left the room, Kong Mingan slowly opened his eyes.
Looking at the Snow Empress, who still maintained a cold and calm demeanor, Kong Mingan felt slightly helpless, "Is this... really okay?"
The Snow Empress's tone was as unwavering as ever, and she stated flatly, "I don't know, but in any case, Bing'er won't be able to resist. When that time comes, if you tease her a little, it will be considered a natural culmination."
Is "natural culmination" used like that? Why does it feel strange?
Just as the Ice Empress felt that the Snow Empress's words were slightly off, Kong Mingan also increasingly felt that the Snow Empress was becoming strange.
It was as if... she had flipped some strange switch?
Kong Mingan's thoughts flashed, while the Snow Empress naturally raised her hand, lightly undoing a few buttons on the upper part of her dress, revealing her fair neck and delicate collarbone.
Kong Mingan paused.
"Wait, no—"
The Snow Empress was expressionless, her gaze cold, but her actions were direct.
She raised her hand, a faint light flashing across her fingertip, easily slicing open the fabric across Kong Mingan's chest, and then a slightly cool palm covered the spot.
"This is a necessary step. If it were merely an ordinary test, Bing'er wouldn't be unable to resist. Therefore... we need to let Bing'er experience something different," the Snow Empress stated calmly.
After speaking, she paused slightly, her voice softening, yet carrying an undeniable implication: "When putting on a show, you must go all the way."
Kong Mingan: "..."
Is your "show" even a proper "show"?!
However, before he could say anything more, a cool, soft sensation already sealed his words.
Simultaneously, the lights in the room suddenly extinguished, and a power of Extreme Ice spread out, transforming into an invisible barrier that isolated the entire room, just as before.
Everything once again fell into a secretive silence... A short while later, outside the room, the Ice Empress, who hadn't truly left but had used her own authority to briefly jump through space and immediately return, stood at the doorway once more.
She repeatedly took deep breaths, her expression shifting, until she finally seemed to reach a certain resolution, extending her hand and placing it on the doorknob.
Then—
She clearly sensed the isolating barrier constructed from Extreme Ice.
The Ice Empress: "..."
I knew it! I knew it!!!
The Ice Empress screamed silently in her heart, and immediately, an inexplicable bitterness and complex emotion surged up, causing her to fall silent.
When the three of them were together before, things felt quite good. Why did it turn out like this now?
The Ice Empress felt an inexpressible bitterness in her heart. However, the next moment, her breathing involuntarily grew heavy.
Her eyes trembled slightly, and her hand seemed to be pulled by some invisible force, cautiously covering the cold door panel just like last time.
An extremely tiny thread of perception, like a feeler, quietly probed into the barrier. In an instant, images accompanied by sounds rushed directly into her mind.
The Ice Empress's small face instantly stiffened, then flushed crimson like blood, the color spreading all the way to her earlobes. Her face was completely red.
"C-can it even be like this?"
Her voice carried an unbelievable tremor, her pupils shook slightly, and her World view seemed to be collapsing and reforming.
After a good while, she abruptly withdrew her hand as if burned by a hot iron, turned and quickly fled the doorway, rushing into an empty room next door, then slamming the door shut with a "bang."
Leaning against the cold door panel, the Ice Empress gasped for air, trying to calm her frantic heartbeat and chaotic thoughts. It took quite a while before she managed to stabilize herself slightly.
Yet unconsciously, she stretched out her hand, thumb and forefinger spread open, as her mind uncontrollably replayed certain fleeting details, seemingly calculating something subconsciously.
Lowering her eyes, her fingertips continuously measured near the area of her flat lower abdomen, and then moved upwards.
But the next moment, her movements suddenly stopped.
Carrying a trace of inexplicable dread, the Ice Empress swallowed slightly, then quickly retracted her hand, her pupils trembling.
Supporting her somewhat weak body, the Ice Empress's steps were unsteady, and she stumbled directly onto the nearby bed, her eyes carrying a sense of confusion and distraction.
Her memory became somewhat chaotic, with countless fragments of images and sounds churning in her mind.
She unconsciously curled up, pulled the quilt from beside her, and covered herself tightly from head to toe, forming a small mound.
In this darkness, she seemed to gain a momentary tranquility.
However, after only a moment, those lingering memories surged forth again, clearer and more profound than before, repeatedly swirling and amplifying in her mind.
The Ice Empress's gaze gradually lost focus. Amidst the darkness and chaotic thoughts, her hand seemed to gain a consciousness of its own.
Once again,
it began to grope around...
In the silent room, faint yet inexplicable whispers abruptly rang out softly... Several days later, inside the quiet room.
The Snow Empress leaned gently in the youth's embrace, her snow-white hair naturally cascading down. Her ice-blue eyes were calm and waveless, and her slender, fair fingers softly brushed the side of the youth's face, as if tracing his features.
Suddenly, her fingertip paused, and she spoke thoughtfully:
"So this is what it feels like to repeatedly lose consciousness."
Kong Mingan: "..."
He fell into a brief silence, unsure how to respond for a moment.
As his own strength, especially his understanding of the essence of "Energy," deepened, his control over Energy was no longer limited solely to himself.
He began to effectively interfere with the outside World, able to directly interfere with the flow of Energy within others, no longer needing to rely on SpiritFusion Skills as a bridge, as he did before.
Of course, the effective range was very short. For example, if he wanted to interfere with the Energy inside another person's body, he had to make physical contact before he could interfere.
This time, he had merely tentatively and briefly sealed the vast Divine Rank power within the Snow Empress's body. Afterward... things got out of hand.
So why did things develop this way?
This method of interfering with the Energy inside others' bodies, which was clearly intended for combat or reversing the tide of battle, developed into this strange direction?
Kong Mingan rubbed his brow, feeling a deep headache.
This reminded him of the Vital Qi Solidification technique he had previously developed for Body Cultivators. Weapons shaped using this method possessed the dual characteristics of disrupting magic and suppressing magic, making it an excellent technique.
However, in Zhang Lexuan's hands, she always shaped chains out of it to use as toys.
Kong Mingan fell into contemplation, harboring deep suspicions about himself.
Did something go wrong with my development philosophy?
(End of Chapter)
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