"Sluurp..."
Ling Ye smacked his lips in satisfaction, his fingers deftly digging the last spoonful of vanilla ice cream mixed with chocolate chips out of the paper carton. His movements were far too practiced for a Primordial Great Expert who had slept for billions of years. He looked more like the boy next door sneaking snacks—if one ignored the profound gleam that occasionally flashed through his eyes, as though he were analyzing the structure of the universe's origin.
He licked the cold milky residue from his fingertips, then turned his gaze to the empty, badly torn ice cream carton. His brows drew together almost imperceptibly.
"It's gone." He stated the obvious with a trace of regret, as though he had just found a toy only to break it. The ice cream, which contained a faint trace of "Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow," was ultimately too little and too impure. To him, it was barely enough to get a taste, let alone fill the gaps between his teeth.
His gaze swept over the smart refrigerator in the kitchen like a precision searchlight. Its door was still wide open, all the cold air long gone, and its interior was a complete mess. His eyes pierced through the jumble of food packaging and locked once more onto the depths of the freezer compartment. There seemed to be two more cartons with the same packaging!
Su Wanqing's heart clenched as his gaze shifted that way. Those were the last two cartons of the limited edition she had stocked up on! She had not even been willing to eat them herself!
However, Ling Ye did not immediately get up to retrieve them. Instead, he lowered his head and looked at his fingers, dotted with melted milk residue, then glanced at the empty, ruined carton. A trace of... disgust appeared on his face?
"Sticky." He muttered a single word, seemingly very displeased by the cloying, tacky sensation.
Then, under Su Wanqing's wary yet bewildered gaze, Ling Ye naturally took the hand stained with milk residue and casually... rubbed it against the expensive, soft sofa cushion beside him.
Once. Twice.
His movements were as natural as washing his hands in a stream.
Several obvious melted ice cream stains instantly appeared on the expensive silk-embroidered cushion.
The corner of Su Wanqing's eye twitched violently. Her heart was bleeding! This sofa was a custom-made piece from a top Italian brand, and the cushion alone had cost five figures!
Ling Ye, meanwhile, seemed satisfied that he had completed the most ordinary of tasks and that his fingers were dry again. He casually tossed the ruined carton onto the carpet, adding another piece of evidence to the list of his crimes, then went barefoot toward the refrigerator that looked like a disaster zone, pattering all the way.
He leaned in with practiced ease and took out both remaining cartons of ice cream from the freezer, carrying them back to the sofa as though they were precious treasures.
This time, he did not tear open the packaging roughly. His gaze swept over the two identical cartons, as though he were considering something. Then he made a move that left Su Wanqing dumbfounded.
He picked up one carton of ice cream but did not open it. Instead, he pressed two fingers together and lightly... tapped the center of the carton through the hard paper packaging.
A barely perceptible glimmer of chaotic light flashed at his fingertips, vanishing almost instantly.
"Vmmm..."
A faint hum, as though low temperatures were crystallizing, came from inside the carton.
Ling Ye withdrew his fingers and casually tore open the packaging of the ice cream carton he had "processed."
The ice cream inside... had not melted. Instead, it radiated a fiercer, purer chill! Within the originally milky-white ice cream, countless tiny ice-blue motes seemed to slowly swirl and settle. A several-times-purified, though still faint, yet far higher-grade chill of "Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow" mingled with the scent of milk and drifted outward!
He had actually... casually refined the ice cream inside without even opening the carton?!
Ling Ye looked at his "upgraded" ice cream with satisfaction and began to enjoy it leisurely. He narrowed his eyes with every bite, savoring the faint pleasure brought by that trace of purified cold energy.
The other untreated carton was casually placed on the sofa's armrest, as though it were an insignificant complimentary extra.
Su Wanqing watched him completely absorbed in his enjoyment, then looked at the ordinary carton on the armrest, which was rapidly melting. She thought of her expensive sofa, now being used as a rag, and an overwhelming sense of helplessness swept over her. Trying to reason with this great expert about hygiene or value was like playing a lute to a cow!
Just as Ling Ye was intently dealing with the second carton of "specially supplied" ice cream, the last bit of melted pink milk residue mixed with chocolate chips slowly flowed out of the empty carton he had tossed onto the carpet, seeping into the soft carpet fibers.
That spot happened to be not far from the load-bearing pillar on the eastern side of the living room.
The insignificant liquid, containing a trace of the extremely faint "Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow" aura left behind after purification and marks of Chaos Origin Qi, touched the carpet and slowly seeped downward. It seemed to have stirred some incredibly hidden... earth-vein node.
"Vmmm..."
A vibration clearer and deeper than before, like a sleeping giant disturbed from its slumber, suddenly rose from deep underground! This time, it was not limited to beneath the load-bearing pillar. The foundation of the entire villa seemed to tremble slightly!
The ordinary carton of ice cream on the sofa's armrest was shaken off. With a wet smack, it fell onto the carpet and was completely ruined.
The sudden shaking startled Su Wanqing into jumping to her feet, her face turning pale. "Was... was that an earthquake?!"
Ling Ye's ice-cream-eating motion halted. He abruptly raised his head, and his gaze instantly became as sharp as a blade, no longer lazy or careless as before! In his deep eyes, galaxies seemed to flow. In an instant, his gaze pierced through the floor and layers of rock, "seeing" directly into the depths underground!
His brows drew tightly together, and for the first time, his face clearly revealed... impatience and... a trace of genuine murderous fury!
"Are you still not done?!" His voice was not loud, but it carried a bone-chilling coldness that seemed capable of freezing even the soul!
He had clearly sensed that the cold, sinister shadow energy underground had not completely given up despite suffering a heavy blow! It seemed to have been stirred once more by the innate chill of the "Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow," weak though it was, and the lingering aura of Chaos Origin Qi. Like a shark smelling blood, it had begun to stir again, attempting to bypass the suppression of the "Fragment of Buzhou Mountain" in an even more covert and circuitous manner, to touch and corrode that Primordial Anchor Fragment!
After repeated peeking and repeated harassment, buzzing like flies, it had finally exhausted what little patience this Primordial salted fish had left!
Ling Ye slammed the half-eaten carton of ice cream in his hand onto the coffee table! It landed with a dull thud!
He rose abruptly, his bare feet stepping onto the carpet, and swept a cold gaze toward the load-bearing pillar!
This time, he did not casually point through the air or wave his hand as he had before.
Instead... he started walking, pattering barefoot directly toward the load-bearing pillar!
Seeing his terrifying expression, as though he were going to strangle something to death with his own hands, Su Wanqing retreated several steps in fright. Her back pressed tightly against the cold wall, and she did not even dare breathe loudly!
Ling Ye stopped in front of the load-bearing pillar. He lowered his head and looked at the spot where the pillar met the carpet, which had been soaked by the earlier "foot-washing water" and ice cream stains.
Then he made a move that nearly scared the soul out of Su Wanqing!
He slowly... raised his right foot!
That pristine foot had just soaked in the Chaos Green Lotus Basin, been stained with Xirang dust and the essence of noodle soup, and even been "intimately" touched by her!
A difficult-to-describe chaotic radiance, heavy to the extreme, instantly condensed beneath his sole! It was as though the weight of the entire starry sky had been compressed into the bottom of his foot! The surrounding air let out an overwhelmed wail, and the light twisted violently!
"Get lost!"
Ling Ye's voice was cold as Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice, carrying an indisputable, supreme will of expulsion!
Then, that terrifyingly powerful right foot came down like a hammer of heavenly retribution and fiercely... stomped onto the carpet beneath the load-bearing pillar!
"BOOM!!!!!!"
A terrifying crash, so deep and heavy that it seemed the entire planet trembled, suddenly erupted from the deepest reaches of the earth!
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