Xue Nianbing's Dirty Mind, Snow Empress Gifts a Soul Bone

Inside the Ice Cave, Snow Empress's residence, the color scheme was extremely simple. Everything was either sky blue or ice white, all forged from ice.

Moreover, the interior of the Ice Cave was beautifully crafted, resembling an Ice and Snow World.

"Sister Xue, isn't it inappropriate to do that now?"

Xue Nianbing offered a reminder.

"..."

After a moment of silence, Snow Empress turned around and gazed at Xue Nianbing with an enigmatic look, a teasing smile on her lips. "How is it inappropriate?"

"Sister Bing is still here..."

"Then should I have Bing'er come in too?"

"Is that okay?"

"What do you think!"

Snow Empress raised her voice and viciously tugged Xue Nianbing's ear. "Xue Nianbing, you've got some nerve, huh? Thinking about such things at your age, and you even want Bing'er to join in!"

"Hiss~"

Xue Nianbing sucked in a sharp breath.

Snow Empress's grip was not lethal, but it still hurt like hell.

"It hurts, it hurts... Sister Xue, can't I admit I was wrong?" Xue Nianbing knew when to back down.

"Wrong?"

"I don't think you're admitting you were wrong. I think you're just scared."

Snow Empress said flatly.

Xue Nianbing: "..."

She was way too clever, like a parasite in his stomach that knew everything he was thinking.

Snow Empress's merciless exposure made his old face flush red.

Still, Xue Nianbing reacted quickly and put on a solemn expression. "I was wrong, truly wrong. I really know I was wrong."

"You'd better."

Only then did Snow Empress release Xue Nianbing.

Xue Nianbing immediately let out a breath of relief, muttering inwardly, Admit the mistake, acknowledge the mistake, never correct the mistake.

If Snow Empress knew what he was thinking, she would definitely skin him alive.

Unfortunately, Snow Empress had long understood Xue Nianbing's nature.

She could not be bothered to expose him again and changed the subject. "I brought you here to give you a few things."

As she spoke, Snow Empress casually reached out, and two masses of white light flew from the depths of the Ice Cave.

As the light dispersed, one of the objects was a blue-white ice ring. An image of some strange beast was carved in the center, while snowflakes decorated both sides.

"This is the Ice Snow Ring. It can store over a thousand cubic meters of items. It contains Gold Soul Coins needed in the Human World, taken from human Soul Masters who have died in the Far North over the years."

"I haven't counted the exact amount. There should be over a hundred million."

Snow Empress spoke with remarkable ease, as though more than a hundred million Gold Soul Coins were merely stones in her eyes.

And indeed, that was the case. To Soul Beasts, Gold Soul Coins were worth no more than roadside rocks.

If she had not adopted Xue Nianbing back then, and later gained Zhang Lexuan as well, she would never have bothered collecting such things.

"...She's definitely a rich beauty."

Xue Nianbing looked at the Ice Snow Ring in his hand and could not help sighing inwardly.

"Besides the Ice Snow Ring, there's also this Soul Bone. Though it's only a hundred years old, it's incredibly rare. There may only be one of it on the entire Douluo Continent," Snow Empress continued.

Xue Nianbing looked over. The other mass of light dispersed, revealing a pair of Ice Crystal Wings. Every ice crystal emitted a cold, piercing gleam, with scattered Ice Shards drifting around them.

Looking at the Ice Crystal Wings, Snow Empress's expression turned slightly wistful. She sighed. "This is an External Soul Bone called the Extreme Cold Ice Wings, from the savage Extreme Cold Ancient Eagle clan."

"Because they delighted in slaughter and often caused large-scale massacres in the Far North, bringing disaster to the region, I personally exterminated their entire clan several thousand years ago."

"The Extreme Cold Ancient Eagle is a Soul Beast as renowned as the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and Titan Giant Ape. The most valuable thing on its body is this External Soul Bone, the Extreme Cold Ice Wings."

"In addition to exceptionally fast flight speed, the Extreme Cold Ice Wings possess the Extreme Cold Ice Feather soul skill, a large-scale area-of-effect attack soul skill."

After hearing Snow Empress's introduction, Xue Nianbing looked equally astonished.

Based on Snow Empress's description, this Extreme Cold Ice Wings Soul Bone was no worse than the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear's External Soul Bone.

"Fuse it now."

Snow Empress said.

"Alright."

Xue Nianbing did not refuse. He sat cross-legged and used Soul Power to guide the Extreme Cold Ice Wings into his body.

Perhaps it was because Extreme Ice was compatible with the ice element, perhaps it was because Xue Nianbing's physique was powerful, or perhaps it was both.

The fusion of the Extreme Cold Ice Wings went exceptionally smoothly.

After only the time it took an incense stick to burn, Xue Nianbing completed the fusion.

"It worked."

Xue Nianbing looked at the ice wings extending more than a meter from either side of him, his face full of delight.

However, before he could celebrate for long, the mass of light in his Sea of Consciousness stirred once more. Familiar Ice Blue mist drifted out and merged into the Extreme Cold Ice Wings Soul Bone.

The next second, the Extreme Cold Ice Wings Soul Bone's age instantly rose to the Thousand Years level.

"It can increase the age of Soul Bones too."

Xue Nianbing and Snow Empress spoke in unison, both utterly shocked.

Increasing the age of Soul Rings was already astonishing enough, yet it could even increase the age of Soul Bones. That was absurdly outrageous.

"Your physique... is very strange."

Even Snow Empress did not know what to say.

Hearing that, Xue Nianbing could not help laughing bitterly. "I think it's strange too, but I simply can't see through that thing in my Sea of Consciousness."

"When you become strong enough someday, you should be able to learn what it is," Snow Empress said.

She had wanted to inspect the object in Xue Nianbing's Sea of Consciousness, but her spiritual power could not penetrate it at all. Every time she came close to succeeding, it was annihilated by a mysterious force.

In a sense, that was also a good thing.

After all, spiritual attacks were ineffective against Xue Nianbing.

"Perhaps." Xue Nianbing nodded, though he had no real confidence in his heart.

Snow Empress examined him for a while before trying once more to penetrate with her spiritual power. Yet just as before, it was annihilated by the mysterious force.

Seeing this.

Snow Empress no longer wished to dwell on the matter. She changed the subject again. "After you leave the Far North, you should be going to Shrek Academy too, right?"

"Mm."

"Sister Xuan and Nannan are both there. Of course I'm not planning to go anywhere else."

Xue Nianbing nodded.

Although going to Shrek Academy meant prancing around beneath God King Tang's nose, he might not necessarily draw any attention. Perhaps the Child of Destiny would still be Huo Yuhao.

Even if he truly replaced Huo Yuhao and became the new Child of Destiny, thereby attracting God King Tang's attention.

Honestly, that would not be a major problem.

He only needed to slowly follow Huo Yuhao's old path, make a few adjustments at certain critical moments, and avoid following convention.

A transmigrator was a transmigrator. If he did not put his "god's-eye view" to use, would his transmigration not have been for nothing?

After all, foresight was far better than the unknown.

"Zhang Lexuan has indeed fulfilled the agreement from back then over these years, and she's done fairly well. Take this Howling Moon Ice Wolf Emperor Left Arm Bone to her."

Snow Empress casually beckoned, and another mass of light floated out from the Ice Cave. It was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Looking at the Soul Bone, Xue Nianbing fell silent for a moment before storing it in the Ice Snow Ring. Smiling, he said, "Sister Xue, I'll thank you on Sister Xuan's behalf."

Back then, although he had been adopted by the Ice and Snow Emperors, Soul Beasts and humans ultimately had different living habits. Thus, Snow Empress had specially made a trip to the border of the Heaven Dou Empire, intending to capture a few humans to care for him.

By chance, she encountered Zhang Lexuan, whose family had been wiped out.