After hearing Shuang Ying's words, the Ice Empress remained silent and did not respond.
Shen Hanyu continued, "See? Aside from that Sea Soul Beast, everyone else willingly chose to sacrifice themselves. I'm sure you can distinguish the conflicts involved. Becoming a god isn't impossible. As long as we work together, this will only be a starting point..."
The Ice Empress nodded silently. Her gaze swept across the endless snowfields, her eyes filled with complexity and reluctance, especially when she looked toward the depths.
Tian Meng added at the right moment, "Bing Bing, trust me. I like you so much—how could I bear to trick you? Hanyu isn't a bad person. Once you get to know him, you'll find that he treats his companions almost too well. Time will prove everything I've said..."
The Ice Empress glanced at the tiny Ice Silkworm baby on Shen Hanyu's shoulder but said nothing.
Her feelings were complicated and hesitant.
Being reduced from the second strongest being in the Far North to a prisoner in an instant did not feel good. Her instincts made her desperately want to kill Shen Hanyu to vent her hatred, but the mark in her Sea of Consciousness told her that she could only dream of it.
The moment she made any unusual move, that mark would unhesitatingly make her vanish along with it. It had practically become a blade hanging over her heart.
"Alright. As Tian Meng said, time is the most effective tool for proving right and wrong. Now, take us to find the Snow Empress..."
Shen Hanyu spoke softly, while also letting out a sigh of relief.
He had only just learned the proper way to use this pearl—or rather, the pearl had told him itself. At the end, he even seemed to hear an extremely faint