Giving Him a Martial Soul Even Worse Than the Ice Silkworm

Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena...

"Xue'er, have you heard that name before?"

Ice Empress opened her lively eyes, a thoughtful look in them.

Snow Empress, standing beside her, furrowed her brows and pondered hard, but eventually shook her head regretfully.

"Even Xue'er has never heard that name... But this fellow is the ruler of all Soul Beasts! Come to think of it, didn't Xue'er meet Di Tian before? Did Di Tian never mention her?"

Di Tian...

Mentioning Di Tian made Snow Empress's expression turn slightly grave.

In the past, Di Tian had visited the Far North, hoping to forge closer ties between the Star Dou Great Forest and the Far North, so the Soul Beasts could unite against humanity. But she had refused.

Afterward, she and Di Tian had a brief confrontation. Thanks to the environmental advantage of the Far North, she had managed to hold her own against him.

But Di Tian had never mentioned the Silver Dragon King.

Seeing that Snow Empress still had no idea, Ice Empress didn't press her further. Instead, she went back to talking about Ao Yao. "Ao Yao has already entered Shrek Academy. It'll be difficult to get close to him now. I've already overcome my four-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, but you still haven't, Xue'er! We..."

Before Ice Empress could finish, Snow Empress gently waved her hand. "There's still some time before my seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation. No need to rush. Right now, our top priority is dealing with that human named Huo Yuhao."

At that, Ice Empress gritted her teeth in fury.

"I'm going to tear that damnable bastard limb from limb! And that disgusting worm... I want to rip him apart, too! When those two arrive in the Far North, I'll kill them with my own hands!"

"Kill them... I'm afraid we can't do that."

Snow Empress sighed softly.

After reading the Diary and learning what had happened to Bing'er and herself, how could Snow Empress not want to kill that insignificant human with a single strike and eliminate the threat?

But she couldn't.

"Ao Yao said Huo Yuhao is the most crucial part of Tang San's plan, a true Child of Destiny. If we try to kill him, we'll surely anger Tang San. When that happens, Tang San may very well descend in person and wipe us out."

Ice Empress opened her mouth, clearly realizing the problem.

That's right!

Huo Yuhao was the Child of Destiny, the one chosen by Sea God Tang San. If she killed Huo Yuhao in a fit of rage, wouldn't that bring down a god?

If she were alone, Ice Empress might not have minded trading her life for Huo Yuhao's and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's just to vent her anger. But she had to think of Xue'er.

"But..."

"I know how wronged you feel, Bing'er."

Snow Empress stroked Ice Empress's cold shell, soothing her as she spoke gently. "We may not be able to kill Huo Yuhao, but we can certainly get back at him in other ways."

Other ways?

Ice Empress had always been rather impulsive, and couldn't figure out what Snow Empress meant.

Snow Empress didn't keep her guessing. Her voice turned cold as she said, "Since Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm are planning to use you, Bing'er, to unlock a Second Martial Soul, why don't we play along and give them a Second Martial Soul ourselves? Only... they won't get to choose what that Second Martial Soul is."

Ice Empress's eyes suddenly lit up.

So that's possible, too?

Ice Empress thought it over carefully and realized that Xue'er's plan seemed completely workable!

"The Ice Silkworm! That trash of a Soul Beast would be perfect as Huo Yuhao's Second Martial Soul!"

Ice Empress took the idea a step further and came up with an excellent choice.

Although the Ice Silkworm Clan possessed both ice and spiritual attributes, the Ice Silkworms of the Far North were actually Soul Beasts at the bottom of the food chain, with countless natural predators. In fact, almost every living thing in the Far North, aside from bacteria, was their enemy. That was why hardly any members of the Ice Silkworm Clan ever cultivated for ten thousand years, let alone a hundred thousand. Then Sky Dream Ice Silkworm came along as an exception.

Making an Ice Silkworm Huo Yuhao's Martial Soul would be the perfect way to disgust them.

But to Ice Empress's surprise, Snow Empress slowly shook her head.

"The Ice Silkworm is a decent choice, but it's not good enough. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm is the only million-year Soul Beast. If Huo Yuhao really awakens an Ice Silkworm Martial Soul, having Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as its ancestor might let him make something impressive of it."

"Since we've decided to play along, we have to choose a Martial Soul even worse than the Ice Silkworm—one so bad that even Sky Dream Ice Silkworm won't know how to salvage it."

A Martial Soul worse than an Ice Silkworm?

Could there even be a Soul Beast like that anywhere in the Far North?

As if she had read Ice Empress's mind, Snow Empress curled her lips into a faint smile. "There may be no such Soul Beast in the Far North itself, but the Ice-Sealed Forest beyond its core region, that stretch of semi-frozen land, has one."

"The Frost Velvet Ice Mite."

At the name of that Soul Beast, Ice Empress's eyes widened.

As one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, Ice Empress knew of this Soul Beast, of course.

The Frost Velvet Ice Mite was even rarer than her own species, the Ice Jade Scorpion. But it wasn't rare because it was powerful or difficult to reproduce. It was rare because it was simply too weak.

Frost Velvet Ice Mites had a terrible chance of survival, with fewer than one in a thousand surviving infancy. Even as adults, they were only a few centimeters long. At least the Ice Silkworm Clan had tender, delicious meat, which made other Soul Beast species seek them out as food, reducing them to prey in the Far North. But the Frost Velvet Ice Mite... other Soul Beasts didn't even want to eat it.

It was simply too small. A casual step might crush several of them.

As a Martial Soul, the Frost Velvet Ice Mite was covered in a sparse layer of short white fuzz, making it look like a moving clump of dandruff from a distance. It had virtually no defensive ability. And as if having no defense weren't bad enough, it was also ridiculously weak, with practically no offensive power. Its only ability was to release a faint chill that clung to its target's skin and caused persistent itching. It couldn't cause frostbite or numbness.

Soul Masters could resist it with even a little Soul Power, and a Soul Beast of the same level could just scratch the itch and move on.

If members of the Ice Silkworm Clan rarely reached the ten-thousand-year level, then Frost Velvet Ice Mites rarely even reached a hundred years. A hundred-year-old Frost Velvet Ice Mite probably couldn't even beat a ten-year-old Ice Silkworm.

Just as Xue'er had said, if Huo Yuhao had a Frost Velvet Ice Mite for a Martial Soul, even a million-year Soul Beast like Sky Dream Ice Silkworm probably wouldn't be able to turn things around.

Xue'er, you're so wicked!

But... I love it!

Ice Empress's eyes shimmered, and anticipation began to well up inside her.

Now all she wanted was for Huo Yuhao to break through to level twenty as soon as possible and come to the Far North!