A bone-chilling coldness, as though it could freeze Xu Tianming's soul, radiated from Snow Empress's skin.
In just a few breaths, the arm Xu Tianming had extended toward Snow Empress's brow had already become coated in frost.
Xu Tianming's expression remained unchanged. The Spirit Soul Contract he had obtained through the system flowed along his arm, transforming into a torrent of information that poured into Snow Empress's Sea of Consciousness.
Under the impact of that immense flood of information, a trace of confusion flashed through Snow Empress's eyes.
His arm trembled slightly, and all the frost covering it shattered.
Ice Empress, standing nearby, saw clearly that at that very instant, an extremely faint golden light had flashed across Xu Tianming's arm.
"This method is called a Soul Spirit. This contract is also an equal contract. There is not the slightest trace of enslavement involved."
As Xu Tianming withdrew his arm, his voice roused Snow Empress, who was still processing the information in her mind.
"Snow Empress, are you willing to become my Soul Spirit?"
Snow Empress pursed her lips, momentarily speechless.
The choices and events she had encountered over the past few days surpassed everything she had faced in the hundreds of thousands of years before that combined.
The failure to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core had still been within her expectations.
But Xu Tianming's appearance had disrupted all her plans.
Yet it had also given her another choice.
According to the introduction to the Spirit Soul Contract in her mind, she truly seemed able to retain her consciousness and memories, even continuing to exist in the world with her physical form.
But the price was that everything in her future would be permanently bound to this young man whose composure did not match his age.
"Xue'er?"
Seeing Snow