"Perhaps this is Xiaotao's fate?"
Xuan Zi picked up his wine gourd and took a few swigs. "At first, I wanted to find a top-tier Ice Element Soul Beast with a sufficiently high cultivation and drag it back to the academy to raise it, using it to suppress the Evil Fire in Xiaotao's body. But I found nothing."
"Later, I found a crack beneath the Ice Cap of the Far North Land and entered it. I wandered through the Underground World of the Far North Land for a month, but unfortunately, I couldn't find even a single portion of Ten Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow."
"After that, I thought that if all else failed, I could secretly capture an Ultimate Ice Soul Beast at the one hundred thousand year level and give it to that girl Ling Luochen. Once she was capable of absorbing a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, she could take over Xu Sanshi's task of suppressing Xiaotao's Evil Fire, but..."
At this point, Xuan Zi sighed again. After taking a few drinks, he said, "I even risked venturing deep into the heart of the Far North Land and encountered several Soul Beasts at the one hundred thousand year level. But the Titan Snow Demons and Ice Bear Kings were too large, and fighting them would easily cause a commotion. The several one hundred thousand year Ice Jade Scorpions were always near that Ice Empress, so I didn't dare act rashly."
"As for the Snow Empress, I truly never noticed her presence. However, in the regions where records showed the Snow Empress had once lived, I caught an extremely faint trace of a top-grade Ten Thousand Year Snow Lotus. It might even have been a one hundred thousand year snow lotus, but in the end, I still failed