Snow Empress: My Master Seems to Be a Demon Pill

"Master, where should we start learning?"

Seeing that the Snow Empress and Ice Empress were both ready to train hard, Xuejian's face immediately took on a strange expression.

"No rush. How about we add each other on WeChat first?"

With that, she took out the latest Tianshu Kirin phone.

The Snow Empress and Ice Empress stared, dumbfounded.

"What? Am I not allowed to keep up with the times? I keep up with current events too.

"I'm only guarding the door here. It's not as though I can't go out."

Watching her old antique of a master handle a phone more skillfully than she did, the Snow Empress suddenly felt life was a little hopeless.

So an antique hundreds of thousands of years old was keeping up with the times, while she was still living like a primitive in the Far North. Was that right?

"Speaking of which, Xue'er, do you want to pick a name too? I can't very well call you Snow Empress like the beasts over on your side do. How about... Xue Huahua?"

Snow Empress: "..."

Seeing the hopeful look on her master's face, she felt nothing but despair.

What the hell kind of name was Xue Huahua?! Was that a name a beast should have?

Seeing her resistance, Xuejian pursed her lips. The name she had picked was clearly great, so why didn't she like it? Ah... Xuejian had really lost face.

"How about Xue Xi, then? That sounds nice. Your nickname can be Xue Huahua~"

The Snow Empress agreed. At least she had a normal name now. The mere thought of the others in the Far North finding out someone called her Huahua sent a shiver of revulsion through her.

"Xue Huahua, let's start by training your attribute. You probably won't be going back anytime soon. Aren't you going to let someone know?"

The Snow Empress checked the date on her phone. Indeed, she might really not be able to go back. As she remembered it, a single cultivation session would probably take a few thousand years, but... the time...

Perhaps seeing some of the Snow Empress's confusion, she silently remarked to herself that Lin really lived up to his name—his succubus attribute was maxed out.

"This will take about three months. Time flows differently here.

"Judging by the rate of rotation near the earth's core, three months outside is a hundred years for you. That's enough time for you to improve."

Only then did the Snow Empress breathe a sigh of relief.

(In dialogue, the Snow Empress will be called Xue Xi, and the Ice Empress will be Bing Xi.)

After replying to the messages, the Snow Empress prepared to begin her further training.

"Oh, right."

Xuejian seemed to remember something and pulled a fist-sized rhombic stone from the mountains on her chest.

"This is an Ice Source Stone, the central source I pried off the Ice God's statue back then. The Ultimate Ice attribute it contains will be enough."

"???"

A huge question mark appeared over both the Snow Empress and Ice Empress at once.

What on earth was she talking about? What did she mean, she pried it off the Ice God's statue? If we remember correctly, isn't the Ice God the one you believe in? Aren't you afraid she'll stab you to death with a spear for doing that?

Seeing the bewildered look in the eyes of the little girl with twin ponytails, Xuejian suddenly thought it was great fun.

"Bing'er, you're different from the Snow Empress. She's a Heavenly Snow Woman by birth, and even among Ultimate Attributes, hers ranks in the upper-middle range.

"You're different. You're a higher form of Ice Jade Scorpion, and at best, you're on the lower end. So you need to choose a path: either remove the poison attribute in your body and go straight for the full flowering of an Ultimate Attribute,

"or try cultivating both. But that takes a great deal of talent, and cultivating that way is a little difficult."

Xuejian tossed the Ice Source Stone to the Ice Empress.

The latter hurriedly caught it.

"For me?"

"Yes."

Although Xuejian had said cultivating both was only a little difficult, her understanding of that was surely different from the Ice Empress's.

Besides, she knew her own limits. She wasn't even confident she could survive the heavenly tribulation at four hundred thousand years.

"I choose the single path."

"Mm. What you need to do now is absorb this stone and transform your attribute into an Ultimate Attribute. This stone is enough to raise you to the upper tier. I can't speak for anything else, but getting your ice close to around two hundred and thirty won't be a problem."

"Thank you, Master."

"It was nothing, and it didn't cost me anything. At worst, I'll just pry a few more off when I get the chance."

For the first time, the Snow Empress felt sympathy for a deity.

Having a believer who was always thinking of prying pieces off her statue must have been pretty miserable.

Seeing the Ice Empress go off to absorb the stone, Xuejian slowly began drawing an ice-blue longsword from her chest. It was the same one that had held back the nail earlier.

"Why draw it from your chest?"

Before, I clearly saw her condense it directly. Why was it coming out of her chest this time? Could the necklace on her chest be a Storage Soul Tool?

"Because it's cool."

Xuejian wore a perfectly serious expression.

"I've got such a great figure. Doing it this way makes me look dashing and cool."

Snow Empress: "..."

She felt she had used up a lifetime's worth of speechlessness here. Why did she keep getting the feeling her master wasn't very smart, but a little silly?

"This sword is called Emperor Snow. It was forged by a craftsman from Zhuming. By the Divine Realm's standards, it's a Super Divine Artifact. Of course, that's because it's now ninety percent damaged."

Xuejian gently stroked the blade, then gritted her teeth, stomped her foot, and tossed the sword to the Snow Empress.

"Hey, hey, hey! Slow down!"

The Snow Empress visibly panicked and hurried to catch Emperor Snow. She just threw a Super Divine Artifact like that? Oh, Master! Please be more careful!

"It's yours."

"Huh?"

The Snow Empress was utterly stunned. This was a Super Divine Artifact! She was just giving it to me?

"Don't look at me like that. I can't get out right now anyway. My confinement isn't over yet. Passing it on to you will keep it from disgracing the name of us Heavenly Snow Women."

"But, Master, I..."

Before the Snow Empress could finish, Xuejian cut her off.

"Don't say anything else. Just listen to me. Besides, if you ever get the chance to go to Tianshu, stop by Tianshu Tower for me and see if you can get me transferred back. I've been exiled here for so many years."

The Snow Empress said nothing more. Instead, she knelt once again and bowed to her master.

"Master, I'll do everything I can."

Xuejian waved a hand, quite unconcerned.

"Just do your best. In any case, your master can be transferred back in another ten thousand years. It'll be the same then."

"Master, I'll do my best."

"Good. I'll be waiting."

At that moment, the Snow Empress remembered something else.

"Master, how did you end up being exiled here?"

Me?

Xuejian planted her hands on her hips, wearing an extremely proud expression.

"I was too eager to make progress at the time."

"And then?"

"Then I gave the young master of Tianshu at the time some tonics. Then I was found out, and after that, they exiled me! All I wanted was a cub! Was that wrong?"

"..."

The Snow Empress said nothing, merely giving her a silent six in her heart.

You really did deserve that exile.

Xuejian's eyes darted around, and she leaned in close to the Snow Empress.

"Xue Huahua, are you sure you won't consider drawing a blade from your chest? I promise it'll look good~~~"

The Snow Empress said nothing, only wearing a look of resistance. Without anyone teaching her, she had grasped two words.

A demon pill.