Young Master, Spare the Beast!

"Xue'er, little Shuangbai, I'm back!"

Having finished handling affairs within the clan, Ice Empress returned to their dwelling as usual, calling out the names of Snow Emperor and Yu Shuangbai.

Silence.

Receiving no reply, Ice Empress pushed open the ice door in confusion.

Only to find the room completely empty.

"Strange, where could Xue'er and little Shuangbai have gone at this hour?"

Ice Empress murmured to herself, puzzled.

Neither Snow Emperor nor Yu Shuangbai were the type to wander about aimlessly.

Usually, aside from conducting combat training at the rear barracks, the two would only ever stay at home.

She expanded her spiritual power.

Yet, there was still no result.

Ice Empress's brows furrowed slightly.

At the same time, her peripheral vision caught sight of something placed on the ice table.

It was a rectangular block of ice.

Ice Empress walked over, picked up the ice block, and examined it in her hand.

A message was clearly engraved upon the ice.

After reading it.

Blue veins bulged on Ice Empress's fair forehead.

The strength in her small hand increased involuntarily.

The ice block shattered with a boom, turning into ice crystals that scattered across the floor.

The words on the ice block were, unsurprisingly, left by Yu Shuangbai.

They explained that he and Snow Emperor would be leaving the Far North for a period of time to head to the human world.

In the time it took her to handle some clan business, she had become a lonely old woman left behind at home?

"Bastards!"

"Bastard Xue'er!"

"Bastard little Shuangbai!"

Ice Empress stomped her feet violently, her voice of vexation echoing through the empty ice house.

Her emerald-green twin tails bounced with every step.

Meanwhile.

Yu Shuangbai and Snow Emperor had already left the Far North Core and arrived at the border of the Far North, not far from the human city-states.

"Sister Xue'er, is this really okay?"

"Do we not need to wait for Sister Bing'er to return and tell her?"

Yu Shuangbai was still somewhat worried.

He had originally intended to wait for Ice Empress to return, explain the matter to her, and then leave the Far North.

However, Snow Emperor had said there was no need, that leaving a note would suffice.

Thus, the ice block with the many characters engraved upon it that Ice Empress had seen.

"It is of no consequence."

Snow Emperor waved her hand, signaling him not to worry.

"That girl Bing'er will understand once she sees the note."

"Besides, you know as well as I do that Bing'er has always looked down upon the human world; she certainly wouldn't have followed us."

"Having This Seat by your side is enough."

If Ice Empress were to hear these words from Snow Emperor, she would surely be furious enough to cry and throw a tantrum.

When had she ever said such a thing?

Clearly, it was Snow Emperor who had always acted as if she had no interest in the human world!

"Alright then." Yu Shuangbai nodded, feeling that there shouldn't be any major issues.

They would not be away from the Far North for long.

At most, a few years.

For a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast like Ice Empress, that should be nothing more than the blink of an eye.

Yet, Yu Shuangbai did not notice the flash of success that flickered through Snow Emperor's snow-clear eyes.

Suddenly.

Snow Emperor paused, her eyes narrowing.

The aura around her body turned dangerous.

Just as she prepared to raise her hand to act, she was stopped by Yu Shuangbai at her side.

"Hm?"

She glanced at Yu Shuangbai in confusion.

Her response was a light chuckle from Yu Shuangbai.

"Sister Xue, leave this kind of thing to me."

As his voice fell.

The ice surface not far ahead suddenly shattered.

Under the cover of flying ice crystals, a white figure darted out with lightning speed, swinging a sharp, cold light toward the two of them.

Three ice-blue soul rings, completely defying the common understanding of the soul master world, appeared around Yu Shuangbai.

The first ice-blue soul ring in the sequence flashed abruptly.

He raised his hand and pointed lightly.

A rose formed from ice crystals bloomed, binding the white figure firmly in place.

At the same time, the true appearance of the white figure became clear.

It was, shockingly, a peculiar soul beast.

It had the appearance of a wolf.

Yet, it lacked the fur typically possessed by wolf-type soul beasts.

Instead, it was covered in a layer of white scales that resembled armor.

A White Lurking Fish-Wolf.

A special soul beast unique to the Far North.

It possessed the aquatic adaptability of a fish, combined with the aggression and agility of a wolf.

Usually, it would lurk beneath frozen ice lakes, waiting for prey to appear.

It would seek the perfect moment to burst through the ice from the lake below, aiming to take down its prey in a single strike.

It was also known as the predator hidden beneath the ice.

Because it could not afford to provoke the powerful soul beasts in the core area of the Far North, the White Lurking Fish-Wolf often hunted and roamed only on the fringes of the region.

It was just that Snow Emperor had not expected this.

She had merely concealed her aura as a 700,000-year soul beast monarch, and a mere soul beast of just over a thousand years had actually dared to launch an attack on her!

This thousand-year-old White Lurking Fish-Wolf could be considered quite ambitious.

Normally, even the powerful ten-thousand-year-old Fish-Wolves of the species would only dare to hide quietly underwater when encountering Snow Emperor, not daring to act out in the slightest.

Yet it had taken the initiative to launch an attack on Snow Emperor.

One could say it had completely surpassed its predecessors.

Although the price of this transcendence might be somewhat heavy.

The White Lurking Fish-Wolf was bound tightly within the Ice Rose.

It let out a low growl from its throat, struggling frantically.

However, it was of no use whatsoever.

The binding power of the Ice Crystal Rose released by Yu Shuangbai, who was at the Soul Elder level and nearing the Soul Ancestor realm, was already sufficient to firmly imprison this thousand-year-old soul beast.

Only a race with superior bloodlines like the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, or soul beasts purely in the domain of strength, would have the ability to break free at this cultivation level.

The White Lurking Fish-Wolf was an assassin hidden beneath the ice.

The vast majority of its threat lay in that sudden, fatal strike.

Its inherent physical quality was not particularly superior.

Naturally, it could not break free.

"Sister Xue?"

Yu Shuangbai cast an inquiring look toward Snow Emperor.

"Kill it," Snow Emperor said coldly.

She did not subscribe to the notion that those who do not know are innocent.

Even though this thousand-year-old White Lurking Fish-Wolf had launched the attack without knowing her identity.

The fact remained, as solid as iron, that it had dared to make a move against her and Yu Shuangbai.

The Snow Emperor was never one for soft-heartedness.

Countless soul beasts of the Far North had perished by her hand.

After all...

The soul beast world had always believed in the law of the jungle, and the Snow Emperor had carved her way to the position of the Far North's supreme powerhouse one sword strike at a time.

Hearing this, Yu Shuangbai did not hesitate.

If the Snow Emperor, the sovereign of the Far North's soul beasts, was this decisive, he naturally would not play the saint.

With a flick of his mind, he acted.

The Ice Crystal Rose entwined around the White Lurking Fish-Wolf bloomed, its petals sinking deep into the creature's scales like razor-sharp blades.

The White Lurking Fish-Wolf's armor-like scales were as fragile as tofu before those petals.

The petals easily pierced through the scales and drove straight into the muscle, drawing a painful roar from the White Lurking Fish-Wolf.

Crimson blood spread along the blue ice crystals.

The pale blue Ice Crystal Rose was stained with a touch of blood-red, inexplicably adding a hint of alluring, demonic beauty.

Just as Yu Shuangbai prepared to end the White Lurking Fish-Wolf's life once and for all.

An ethereal and urgent voice rang out:

"Young Master, please show mercy!"