Just as Gu Yue was speaking with Qiu'er, on the other side, Kong Mingan had already entered the Divine Kingdom of Order through the spatial gate.
He looked up, and a giant Star Ring, suspended in mid-air, slowly rotating and emitting a soft yet vast silver radiance, came into view.
That was the true manifestation of the Spiritual Pivot within the Divine Kingdom of Order.
Behind the Star Ring was the towering tree of billions of silver radiance, its branches and leaves like a flowing river of silver starlight, countless data streams flickering within, emanating a cold and precise aura.
Moving his gaze further up, past the enormous canopy, he could see a total of six pairs of even larger Star Rings steadily operating high in the sky.
Each pair consisted of a dark purple and an emerald green Star Ring, tightly adjacent to each other; the edges of the Star Rings were not static but vibrated and rubbed against each other at a peculiar frequency, resisting each other yet maintaining absolute balance.
This was a highly efficient Energy conversion System named the "Yin and Yang Dual-Core Energy Gathering Ring."
Its principle of composition was roughly to construct two giant spirit rings, each from the Power of Destruction and Life Qi—two forms of opposing Energy—and then condense stable Energy conversion spirit cores at their centers.
Subsequently, by drawing on the concept of Yin and Yang complementary dual spirit cores, the two were combined, allowing them to extract and convert the chaotic universal Energy drawn from the Douluo Plane with unimaginable efficiency.
Under the continuous Energy infusion from the six pairs of "Yin and Yang Dual-Core Energy Gathering Rings," combined with the Divine Kingdom of Order's current size, which was only one-third that of Mingdu,
the Energy concentration within the entire Divine Kingdom of Order had already reached more than ten times that of the outside world.
In fact, this was even with some of the Energy being used to capture plane fragments to continue expanding the Divine Kingdom of Order, and to supply the Snow Empress's cultivation.
Otherwise, the Energy concentration within the Divine Kingdom of Order had the potential to increase further.
With a slight thought, Kong Mingan briefly sensed his surroundings, then stepped out, appearing in another area of the Divine Kingdom.
As soon as he stepped in, he felt the surrounding temperature plummet, as if he had arrived in the Extreme North Land.
The next moment, a hand with a familiar cool touch naturally reached out and gently held his.
The ethereal figure of the Snow Empress approached, her body leaning slightly against his, her posture calm, with a naturalness that suggested this was how it should be.
There were no words of greeting, or rather, they were too familiar; simple greetings had already merged into the physical touch between them.
This was more direct, and more customary, a way they interacted.
Feeling his hand gently clasped in return, the Snow Empress closed her ice-blue eyes and nestled her cheek against his neck, sniffing softly.
Immediately, her brow furrowed almost imperceptibly, then she leaned in closer, her nose touching his neck, as if discerning something.
After a while, her brows relaxed, but a hint of confusion inadvertently appeared.
She looked up, expressionlessly at Kong Mingan, and asked directly, "Didn't do it?"
Kong Mingan calmly replied, "Just normal research."
"You and I also started with just normal research," the Snow Empress said calmly, but she leaned in a little closer, raising her face expressionlessly, her cool lips almost touching the corner of his, stating in a flat tone,
"She won't escape."
Kong Mingan shifted his gaze to the side but did not retort.
He suddenly felt that the Snow Empress's understanding of him seemed to surpass his own understanding of himself.
It was a bit strange.
He paused slightly, his gaze turning forward.
There, a dense, emerald-green, extremely cold ice mist swirled and rolled like a living thing, and in the center of the mist, a petite figure was faintly visible.
Clearly, that was the Ice Empress.
"How is the Ice Empress doing?" Kong Mingan asked.
"She is condensing her fourth Star Ring, and it is nearing completion," the Snow Empress replied indifferently.
Kong Mingan understood.
The Energy environment of the Divine Kingdom of Order was designed to support Divine Rank beings in their cultivation; using it to assist the Ice Empress in condensing her Star Ring was more than sufficient, with no possibility of failure.
And even if something went wrong, he and the Snow Empress could intervene at any time, making it foolproof.
The two naturally sat down nearby, the Snow Empress leaning against Kong Mingan's side, her body slightly close, her gaze calmly fixed on the distant Ice Empress, then she suddenly asked:
"Do you need my help?"
Kong Mingan pondered for a moment: "Probably… not needed?"
The Snow Empress did not even lift her eyelids, saying directly, "Then it is needed."
Kong Mingan was silent; they were naturally talking about the Ice Empress.
Last time, he hadn't even finished speaking when the Ice Empress disappeared without a trace, so fast that he couldn't react.
Her legs weren't long, after all...
So this time, he definitely couldn't let the Ice Empress off; at least, he had to tease her a bit first.
The Snow Empress calmly offered a plan: "You go first, I'll hold her down."
Kong Mingan felt that this conversation and division of labor were a bit strange, and he turned his head to look at the Snow Empress.
The Snow Empress seemed to have understood his thoughts and calmly said, "Bing'er won't really be angry; she'll probably just talk tough for a bit, then give up resisting, right?"
Kong Mingan was speechless for a moment; the Ice Empress was indeed like that—her mouth was tough, but her body was soft, and a few teases would make her compliant.
The Snow Empress was about to say something else but suddenly paused, looking at the emerald-green ice mist almost simultaneously with Kong Mingan.
There, the Ice Empress's Breakthrough was about to end.
At a certain moment, a wisp of icy aura, capable of freezing everything, slowly emerged from the core of the surging emerald-green ice mist.
Subsequently, four ice-blue spirit rings, as dazzling as ice crystal nebulae, ascended from the mist, slowly rotating around the central figure, dispersing the mist at the center and revealing the girl's figure within.
The girl had green hair and golden eyes, and her delicate, doll-like face showed unconcealed coldness and indifference.
She wore a white and green knee-length dress that outlined her petite figure, and beneath the skirt, her slender legs were tightly encased in white stockings, tiny and adorable.
At a certain moment, the girl slowly opened her eyes, and a streak of ice-blue light slowly faded from their depths.
Feeling the surging power growing within her and the fourth stably operating Star Ring, the Ice Empress gently exhaled, her eyes flickering slightly.
"Success!"
A hint of joy flashed in her heart, but then, a slight annoyance quietly emerged.
From the beginning of condensing her fourth Star Ring until its successful condensation, that guy hadn't even come to see her once!
Recalling her sudden, unheeding escape a few months ago, the Ice Empress pursed her lips, a hint of regret flashing in her heart.
However, after a moment's thought, she shook her head, dispelling the slight regret.
What good was regret now? She had already run; was she supposed to run back? If she went back, who knew how that guy would laugh at her.
Thinking this, the Ice Empress raised her hand, preparing to disperse the surrounding ice mist, but just as she raised it, the next moment...
A slender, powerful hand, without warning, penetrated the still not fully dispersed ice mist and grabbed her wrist.
"Eh?"
(End of Chapter)
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