Give Him a Martial Soul Even More Worthless Than an Ice Silkworm

Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena...

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

The Ice Empress's lively eyes were wide open, a hint of contemplation showing in her gaze.

Standing beside her, the Snow Empress knitted her brows in thought, but ultimately shook her head regretfully.

"Even you haven't heard that name, Xue'er... but she's the sovereign of all Soul Beasts! Didn't you have contact with Di Tian before? Did he never mention her?"

Di Tian...

At the mention of Di Tian, the Snow Empress's expression grew slightly grave.

Years ago, Di Tian had visited the Extreme North Land, hoping to establish close ties between the Star Dou Great Forest and the Extreme North Land so that Soul Beasts could unite against humanity. She had refused him.

Afterward, she and Di Tian had briefly exchanged blows. With the environmental advantage of the Extreme North Land, she had barely managed to hold her own against him.

But Di Tian had not mentioned the existence of this Silver Dragon King then, either.

Seeing that the Snow Empress still had no answers, the Ice Empress stopped asking and turned the conversation back to Aoyao.

"That Aoyao has already entered Shrek Academy. Getting close to him now will probably be difficult. I may have survived my four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, but you haven't survived yours yet, Xue'er! We..."

Before the Ice Empress could finish, the Snow Empress gently waved a hand. "There's still some time before my seven-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation. There's no hurry. Our most pressing concern is dealing with that human named Huo Yuhao."

At those words, the Ice Empress instantly ground her teeth in hatred.

"I'll tear that damned bastard into ten thousand pieces! And that revolting worm... I'd love to hack him into eight pieces! When those two come to the Extreme North Land, I'll kill them with my own hands!"

"Killing them... I'm afraid we can't."

The Snow Empress sighed softly.

After reading the diary and learning what would happen to Bing'er and herself, how could the Snow Empress not want to crush that insignificant human with a single palm strike and put an end to all future trouble?

But she could not do that.

"Aoyao said that Huo Yuhao is the most crucial part of Tang San's plan, a true child of fortune. If we attempt to kill him, we'll certainly anger Tang San. When that happens, Tang San may well descend in person and erase us both."

The Ice Empress opened her mouth, clearly realizing the problem herself.

That's right!

This Huo Yuhao is the child of destiny, the one chosen by Sea God Tang San. If I kill Huo Yuhao in a fit of rage, won't that bring a god down upon us?

If only her own life were at stake, the Ice Empress might not have minded trading it for those of Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to vent her hatred. But she had to consider Xue'er.

"But..."

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

The Snow Empress stroked the Ice Empress's cold shell, soothing her as she said gently, "Although we can't kill Huo Yuhao, we can certainly find other ways to take revenge on this human."

Other ways?

The Ice Empress had always been rather headstrong and could not imagine what other ways the Snow Empress meant.

The Snow Empress did not keep her guessing, either. She spoke directly, her voice cold. "Since Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm intend to use you to awaken his second Martial Soul, Bing'er, why don't we turn their scheme against them and offer them a second Martial Soul ourselves? Only... what that second Martial Soul actually is won't be up to them."

The Ice Empress's eyes suddenly lit up.

We can do that?

The Ice Empress thought it over carefully and finally realized that Xue'er's method seemed entirely feasible!

"An Ice Silkworm! A worthless Soul Beast like that would be perfect for Huo Yuhao's second Martial Soul!"

Taking the idea a step further, the Ice Empress immediately came up with an excellent choice.

Although the Ice Silkworm Clan possessed both ice and spiritual attributes, the Ice Silkworm Clan of the Extreme North Land actually sat at the bottom of the food chain and had countless natural enemies. One could even say that every living creature in the Extreme North Land except bacteria was their natural enemy. Thus, very few Ice Silkworms ever cultivated to ten thousand years, let alone a hundred thousand, until the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged as an exception.

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

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

"An Ice Silkworm is a decent choice, but it isn't good enough. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm is the only million-year Soul Beast. If Huo Yuhao really awakens an Ice Silkworm Martial Soul, having an ancestor like the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm around might let him work all sorts of wonders with it."

"Since we've decided to turn their scheme against them, we must choose a Martial Soul even worse than an Ice Silkworm, one so terrible that even the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm won't know how to salvage it."

A Martial Soul worse than an Ice Silkworm?

Could we even find a Soul Beast like that anywhere in the Extreme North Land?

As though she had seen through the Ice Empress's thoughts, the Snow Empress curled her lips into a faint smile. "The Extreme North Land may not have such a Soul Beast, but the Frozen Forest outside its core region, that stretch of partially frozen ground, does."

"The Frost Velvet Ice Mite."

Hearing the name of this Soul Beast, the Ice Empress's eyes gradually widened.

As one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North Land, the Ice Empress naturally knew of this Soul Beast.

Frost Velvet Ice Mites were even rarer than her own species, the Ice Jade Scorpion. But their rarity was not due to great strength making reproduction difficult. It was because they were simply too weak.

The Frost Velvet Ice Mite species had an abysmal ability to survive. Fewer than one in a thousand survived their juvenile stage, and even adults were only a few centimeters long. At least Ice Silkworms had plump, tasty flesh, which made them sought after by other Soul Beast species and reduced them to the Extreme North Land's food supply. But Frost Velvet Ice Mites... those Soul Beasts did not even feel like eating them.

They were simply too small. A careless step might crush several to death.

From the perspective of a Martial Soul, the Frost Velvet Ice Mite's body 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 defense to speak of. Moreover, aside from having no defense, the Frost Velvet Ice Mite was outrageously poor in other respects, with practically no offensive power, either. Its only ability was to release a faint chill that clung to the surface of a target's skin, causing persistent itching without any frostbite or numbing effect.

A Soul Master with slightly stronger Soul Power would be immune, while a Soul Beast of the same level could simply scratch the itch and be done with it.

If ten-thousand-year members of the Ice Silkworm Clan were rare, then even hundred-year Frost Velvet Ice Mites were truly exceptional. Moreover, a hundred-year Frost Velvet Ice Mite probably could not even defeat a ten-year Ice Silkworm.

Just as Xue'er said, with a Frost Velvet Ice Mite as his Martial Soul, even the million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm probably couldn't turn the tables from such a hopeless position, could he?

Xue'er, you're so wicked!

But... I love it!

Ripples immediately shimmered in the Ice Empress's eyes, and anticipation began stirring in her heart.

Now, she wanted only for Huo Yuhao to break through to rank twenty sooner and come to the Extreme North Land as quickly as possible!