Sky Dream Ice Silkworm

Su Xuan used Soul Power to dry the sweat from his body.

"Emma, next time, remember to dock the pay of those idiots in the Technology Department. What kind of junk is this? It was completely useless."

Emma glanced at her sailor uniform, her face flushing slightly. Soaked with sweat, her curvaceous figure was completely on display.

Su Xuan turned his head aside, signaling that he would not look at anything improper.

"Have Snow Girl take care of it for you. This is rather awkward."

Emma suddenly looked a little aggrieved. Women really were strange—when you acted like a pervert and took advantage of them, they would be shy, angry, and upset. Yet when you acted like a gentleman, they would somehow be unhappy instead.

"How bizarre... I really don't understand women."

With his back to Emma, Su Xuan muttered to himself.

"Aba aba."

As the master of ice, Snow Girl's control over water was equally terrifying. Drying clothes was naturally no challenge for her.

"Phew... Master, is my figure... not attractive?"

Emma cast Su Xuan a resentful glance, as if he were some scumbag.

Su Xuan wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Emma, a gentleman doesn't take advantage of someone in a vulnerable position... Mmph!"

Emma seemed to have become a completely different person. Ignoring whatever Su Xuan was saying, she pounced on him like a starving tiger.

She grabbed Su Xuan and started kissing him fiercely.

"Emma? What are you doing?"

This body of Emma's possessed no Soul Power and was no different from an ordinary person, so naturally she could not have been a match for Su Xuan.

"Master, I'm really... afraid. Afraid that you'll abandon me. Can't you... give me a definite answer?"

Su Xuan fell silent for a while.

"Emma, there's no point talking about this now. At the very least, let's wait until this battle is over."

"You're always putting it off..."

Emma knelt on the ground, tears already welling in her eyes. She had waited for so long. After all these years, could he not give her a definite answer? She had served as his secretary for so many years—how much had she contributed? Did he really not know? Why was it so hard for her to simply want a proper place by his side?

Su Xuan was truly speechless. What on earth had gotten into her? Emma was usually the calmest and most level-headed one, the least troublesome and most reassuring person. Yet today, she seemed like an entirely different person.

"Fine. Once this is over, I'll tell Na'er. Then, after we finish this operation, we can discuss anything else. Is that okay?"

Emma raised her head in surprise. It had been that easy? She felt a little regretful. If she had known it would be so easy, she would have confessed earlier. Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret in this world.

"Phew, phew, phew."

Su Xuan stood before a cave. At its end lay another world entirely, containing an enormous space.

All kinds of bizarrely shaped mysterious ice pillars stood throughout the space. Though it lay deep underground without a trace of sunlight, the crystalline glow of the mysterious ice still illuminated the entire cavern.

"This is... Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice?"

Su Xuan gently touched the mysterious ice and murmured.

Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice... With so much of it gathered here, this place was simply a paradise for ice-elemental beings.

The Great Prophecy Technique was forever the best!

Su Xuan clenched his fist, giving himself a boost.

With this, Snow Girl's memories and cultivation could probably recover much faster.

Moreover, Su Xuan stroked the Myriad-Year Mysterious Ice. There was so much Myriad-Year Mysterious Ice here, so finding Myriad-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow was not impossible...

If Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice was equivalent to a Soul Bone, then Myriad-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow was undoubtedly a treasure on the level of an External Soul Bone!

The energy contained within it was enough to raise an ice-elemental soul beast's chance of success in breaking through by several tenths.

Su Xuan immediately began searching for Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

"Emma, Xue'er, split up and search for Myriad-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow."

Snow Girl's expression turned serious. This was extremely important to her, so she stopped joking around and carefully searched in every direction.

Su Xuan activated his Daoist God Eye to scan the area, Emma used high-tech equipment, and Snow Girl relied on her innate affinity with the ice element.

Yet, to the three of their disappointment, they searched the entire mysterious ice cave without finding any Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

Other than several thousand-year ice marrows, they found nothing.

"Has someone already gotten here before us?"

Su Xuan sighed. Entering a treasure mountain only to leave empty-handed was truly infuriating.

Snow Girl suddenly pointed upward at the cave ceiling. Su Xuan followed her finger and looked up. A huge bug was clinging to the top of the ice cave.

Its round head looked plump and soft, over a meter in diameter, while its body exceeded seven meters in length. Its entire body was jade-white and crystal-clear, with halos of light flowing beneath its surface. There was even a pair of tiny golden eyes on its head. Most peculiar of all, beginning half a meter below its head, a golden ring-shaped pattern appeared at every interval. From head to tail, there were nine such golden patterns. Looking closely, there was even half of another golden pattern beside the ninth.

"An ice silkworm? I heard these are incredibly delicious when deep-fried."

Su Xuan licked his lips. He was already in a foul mood, and now that he had discovered something tasty, his inner foodie immediately burst into flames.

"Damn it, who the hell threw me down here? I was sleeping just fine." The ice silkworm cursed as he spoke in human language.

The moment he opened his tiny eyes and saw the Snow Girl before him, his whole body stiffened.

He might have slept for hundreds of thousands of years, but that didn't mean he had forgotten his place as food.

As the very bottom of the food chain in the Extreme North, the ice silkworm race was surrounded by natural enemies.

"Oh? You can actually talk?"

Su Xuan found it strange. Logically speaking, soul beasts needed at least a hundred thousand years of cultivation before they could speak human language.

Seeing Su Xuan steadily approaching him, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm realized things were going badly and prepared to make a run for it.

His innate skill, Simulation, activated instantly.

The moment he used his own energy, the Snow Girl's expression changed drastically.

"Ababa, ababa, ababa..."

The Snow Girl seemed extremely anxious. As a proud Snow Girl, she usually only said "ababa," but this time, she actually said it three times in a row. That showed just how worried she was.

Su Xuan was equally astonished. The fluctuations of energy coming from this ice silkworm were terrifying—far stronger than his own, even comparable to some not-so-weak gods.

"What's going on with you? How do you have such terrifying energy? Don't even think about running. If you dare move, what awaits you definitely won't be a pleasant end."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stared blankly at the blood-red blade in Su Xuan's hand.

What was that thing? Its killing intent was so heavy. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had no doubt that if he made even the slightest move, he would be separated from his head the very next second.