"Really?!!"
Ice Empress transformed into a charming girl with emerald green hair, her two pigtails swinging back and forth, her pretty face full of surprise and suspicion.
That was ten thousand years of profound ice marrow. Tianmeng was able to advance to a million-year cultivation base because of this thing. For an ice-attribute spirit beast, it could definitely be called a great tonic, even more precious than a hundred thousand-year Snow Lotus. If what they had encountered earlier was not the Snow Lotus but the ten thousand-year profound ice marrow, then the Snow Empress would not have needed to risk transforming into a human but could have directly chosen to break through the next Heavenly Tribulation Bottleneck.
She would have joined the ranks of those over eight hundred thousand years, an existence on the same level as Di Tian, the Evil Eye, and other top-tier vicious beasts.
"Speak, where is that thing? I'm going to get it right now—" the Ice Empress said urgently.
"In the human territory, Dragon City, inside a cavern of the Earth Dragon Gate, located in the southern part of the Far North, on the border connecting with humans." Lu Cheng took a deep breath and said quickly.
"No, there is no need."
The Snow Empress suddenly spoke. Her slender, graceful figure, nearly 1.8 meters tall, looked down at Lu Cheng, her sky-blue, noble, and ethereal eyes gentle and beautiful.
"I choose to sacrifice to him and become his martial soul."
"Snow Empress, you—" Ice Empress's eyes were stunned, and then she said with some anxiety.
"This is my choice, Bing'er," the Snow Empress said softly.
"But the place he mentioned is not that far from here. I could retrieve it in the time it takes to burn an incense stick. Everything could clearly be in time. Snow Empress, why—" The Ice Empress was somewhat irritable and depressed, but she dared not disobey the Snow Empress's words, so she said in a muffled voice.
"Even if he didn't reveal this news, I would still have sacrificed for him. But he said it, personally pushing away the sacrifice of a master of the Far North, a spirit beast with over seven hundred thousand years of cultivation—" the Snow Empress said gently.
"This is unfair to him."
Ice Empress fell silent.
"A-Tai is coming over soon; remember to help me stop him—" the Snow Empress said slowly.
Ice Empress turned her head away and didn't speak, but crystal-clear teardrops still hung from the corners of her eyes.
"Silly girl, it's not like I'm dying." The Snow Empress was helpless. Like a gentle big sister, she bent down and stretched out her flawless white hand, her slender, white fingers wiping away the tear stains, and gently stroked Ice Empress's head.
"I am just sacrificing to him; one day in the future, I will return. By then, perhaps I will already be a deity. But before that, I still have to entrust you with protecting the children of the Far North—"
Rumble!
The earth trembled.
The surroundings seemed to raise a layer of snow waves, and as the white mist dissipated, a massive figure that blotted out the sky slowly emerged. Seeing this scene, the Titan Snow Devil King's eyes instantly turned red, and his palm was about to descend upon the youth who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, enduring the torment and pain.
But the next instant, the rough giant palm covered with white, hard hair stopped abruptly in midair.
"If you want the Snow Empress to die completely, with soul flying away and spirit scattering, then go ahead and do it." A little girl with two pigtails, exquisitely carved and pink and tender, said slowly with an indifferent expression on her face that did not match her age.
Roar~
The behemoth retreated a step dejectedly, then sat on the ground. Its voice also lowered unconsciously.
"Big worm, the Snow Empress sacrificing to him—it won't be a problem, right?" Ice Empress said indifferently.
"— — — — This." In the palm, a cowering Tian Meng condensed, looking hesitant.
How could it dare to guarantee a 100% success rate? The Snow Empress had already failed to transform, was in an embryonic state, and had suffered heavy injuries. It could only be said that the success rate was not low.
Ice Empress's eyes were dangerous: "If it fails, don't think about surviving alone!"
"Rest assured, I sacrificed to Xiao Cheng, so we are like grasshoppers on the same string; I have long been unable to stay out of it." Tian Meng sighed softly.
Who knows how much time has passed? The snowflakes around became more and more numerous, hiding the youth's figure under the thick snow, as if all vitality had faded away, leaving a deathly silence.
Just when Ice Empress's patience was about to run out, a crack appeared on the surface of the thick snow, followed by more and more cracks. Finally, Lu Cheng's body rushed out of the thick snow layer, and between his brows, a complex and ancient light blue pattern was revealed, like the purest snowflake in this world.
"Third martial soul, Snow Maiden!"
As his eyes slowly opened, an extremely oppressive aura emerged from this seemingly small body.
"Bing'er, A-Tai—" From Lu Cheng's mouth, a female voice was emitted.
"From now on, the Far North is entrusted to you."
"Okay!" Ice Empress slowly exhaled a breath, her eyes softening significantly, mixed with a little attachment and reluctance.
The next instant, the Snow Empress's eyes changed, as if the real Snow Empress had returned inside this body. The real Lu Cheng was online."
He clenched his fist, feeling the abundant power in his body. Even with the Snow Empress now, he didn't need to mobilize the Sun Refining Fire in his body to resist the extreme cold of nearly minus two hundred degrees in the surrounding climate. Instead, it was as if he had completely merged into this snowy land, becoming one of the thousands of snowflakes.
Feeling the cold, he was even enjoying it somewhat.
While becoming his third martial soul, the Snow Empress also gifted him a seven hundred thousand-year-old left leg bone. This was also the source of the pain during his absorption process: injecting the massive origin power into the left leg bone, and then he absorbed the left leg bone. Although this avoided the risk of self-detonation, the pain was unavoidable. A thick layer of blood scabs fell from his skin, and his face became increasingly fair and handsome.
And his soul power naturally soared to level 57.
"As your first soul ring, the soul skill I give you is also three skills, which are the unique skills I rely on to be famous: Emperor Sword, Emperor Palm, and Emperor Cold Heaven."
"If you like, you can try them out."
The Snow Empress condensed her true body from Lu Cheng's side, her tone gentle and soft.
"Emperor Sword, Ice Extreme Peerless!" Lu Cheng was not polite either. Beneath his feet, the seven hundred thousand-year-old orange-gold color was bewitching, with seven golden patterns looming, appearing increasingly majestic and powerful.
A sword of ice and snow slowly condensed in his hand, and what was surprising was that a plain hand reached out from behind, a snow-white, soft palm holding Lu Cheng's hand, as if embracing the youth from behind.
"—" Lu Cheng's eyes were somewhat stunned.
"Concentrate." A crisp and moving voice sounded from his ear.
Lu Cheng's eye twitched.
He had no choice but to follow the Snow Empress, while two dangerous gazes also fell directly on him from not far away. The pressure of the two vicious beasts made him feel like he had needles on his back.
"Slash!" The Snow Empress gave a light shout.
The momentum was quite grand.
A light blue sword qi attached with frost slashed forward violently, raising layers of snow waves. When the white mist dissipated, a long chasm hundreds of meters long and ten meters deep appeared on the originally empty and traceless snowfield.
"Master, this is one of my unique skills, Emperor Sword."
"Not bad—" Lu Cheng nodded subconsciously, but his body stiffened for a moment.
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