Snow Empress: Cultivating Him to Godhood

The Ice Empress thought about it more and more, feeling it was entirely possible, and she paced back and forth in a panic:

"It's over, it's over! Having one brain is already stupid enough; if a second one grows out, won't he turn into a monster? No, this is too serious! Even as powerful as we, the two Ice and Snow Empresses, we have no solution for this 'second brain' business! This is definitely not a problem that can be solved by rare treasures. I must go capture that healing-type Titled Douluo immediately—no, I'm going to drag every soul master in the human world who knows how to heal to the Far North!"

Watching the Ice Empress act as if she were facing a formidable enemy and about to destroy the world, Xue Bingchen was so choked up he couldn't speak.

He opened his mouth, wanting to explain that it was just a metaphor, but looking at the Ice Empress's incredibly earnest eyes, he suddenly felt that his three-year-old vocabulary was hardly sufficient to explain the concept of "growing a brain" to this "old antique" who had lived for four hundred thousand years.

"Pfft..."

Just as the atmosphere reached a point of extreme tension, a light laugh, like melting ice springs and blooming flowers, suddenly echoed at the peak of the snow mountain.

The one laughing was none other than the Snow Empress, who was holding Xue Bingchen.

At this moment, the Snow Empress's stunning face, which had been filled with tension and worry, had blossomed once again into a gentle smile that made the heavens and earth lose their luster.

She shook her head gently, her deep eyes, which seemed capable of seeing through the essence of all things, shimmering with wisdom.

She had already realized that not only was there nothing wrong with Xue Bingchen's body, but her own three meticulous examinations just now had not been mistaken.

The reason this little guy had suddenly suffered a headache and fainted was not because of any illness or "growing a second brain."

"Bing'er, alright, stop those terrifying thoughts of yours. Rest assured, Chen'er is fine."

The Snow Empress reached out a hand, gently stopping the Ice Empress who was still on the verge of a rampage, then lowered her head to look at Xue Bingchen in her arms with eyes as gentle as water, a proud curve forming on her lips as she whispered:

"If I'm not mistaken, Chen'er must have been touched by the laws of Ultimate Ice deep within his soul while watching my 'Dance of the Heavenly Snow Woman,' leading to a moment of epiphany. That vast amount of information regarding the laws flooded his brain instantly, and his young spiritual power couldn't bear it, which is why he felt dizzy and bloated."

Speaking of this, the Snow Empress extended a slender index finger and gently flicked Xue Bingchen's small, upturned nose, laughing dotingly:

"This little guy is truly a genius. To have a resonance with the laws after watching it only once. What he calls 'growing a brain,' in the words of human soul masters, should be a breakthrough in spiritual power, or... perhaps the premature awakening of some bloodline."

"An epiphany?! Resonance with the laws?!"

Hearing the Snow Empress's explanation, the Ice Empress's originally anxious expression instantly froze, and then, a surge of ecstasy erupted from the depths of her eyes like a volcanic eruption.

She turned around abruptly, staring fixedly at Xue Bingchen, her voice trembling with excitement:

"Snow Empress, do you mean... this little guy's constitution is truly a perfect match for the origin of our Far North? He's only three years old, hasn't even awakened his martial soul, and he could already comprehend your Dance of the Heavenly Snow Woman?!"

The Ice Empress rubbed her hands in excitement, pacing back and forth, her eyes flashing with fanatical light:

"Great! That's great! I knew the rare treasures I've been finding for him over these past three years weren't in vain! Could it be... that when little Bingchen turns six, he might actually awaken the legendary 'Dance of the Heavenly Snow Woman' martial soul?! If that's true, wouldn't our Far North be giving birth to an unprecedented super genius?!"

Watching the Ice Empress dance about in surprise and joy, the smile on the Snow Empress's face gradually faded a little.

She gently stroked Xue Bingchen's soft white hair, her expression becoming somewhat complex.

Deep within those profound ice-blue eyes, a trace of imperceptible resentment and a sigh flashed quietly.

The Snow Empress sighed silently in her heart.

She glanced with a hint of melancholy at Xue Bingchen, who was still scratching his head with an innocent face.

"If only... Chen'er wasn't a human, but like me, a Heavenly Snow Woman born from the unique blessings of this Far North... how wonderful that would be..."

This thought had swirled in the Snow Empress's mind countless times over the past three years.

As she spent more time with Xue Bingchen, the Snow Empress was shocked to discover that this human child's constitution was special to an unbelievable degree.

He seemed to be a perfect vessel born for Ultimate Ice; whether it was the vast life force of the Millennium Ice Marrow Milk or the overbearing cold of the Polar Snow Lotus, he could accept it all and fuse it perfectly.

If Xue Bingchen were a soul beast, a descendant of the Heavenly Snow Woman clan, the Snow Empress would have absolute confidence that even if she failed in her future attempt to reach the ethereal god-level realm, or if she fell without surviving the terrifying seven-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation—

Xue Bingchen would absolutely have the qualifications and the ability to perfectly take over the entire Far North, becoming the new generation of the Far North's ruler and continuing to protect its myriad subjects.

But reality was cruel.

He was a human.

A human's lifespan, compared to the tens or hundreds of thousands of years of a soul beast, was simply too short.

A mere hundred years was, to the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress, nothing more than a slightly longer slumber.

If Xue Bingchen could not break the shackles of humanity and become a god, then in a few hundred years, no matter how brilliant or invincible he was, he would eventually be unable to escape the ruthless erosion of time, turning into a handful of dust on this Far North ice field.

Thinking that in a few hundred years, she might have to watch this child, who had grown up in her arms and called her "mother" countless times, grow old and die, the Snow Empress's rock-hard, icy heart felt a suffocating pain.

"No... I absolutely will not allow such a thing to happen!"

The Snow Empress's eyes instantly became incredibly firm, even revealing a sense of determination to defy the heavens.

She looked at Xue Bingchen in her arms and swore silently in her heart:

Since you carry all the hopes of myself and Bing'er, and since you have already enjoyed the most core and vast resources of the entire Far North before even awakening your martial soul, then your future must absolutely not stop at the limits of a mortal!

The Snow Empress hoped that this human child, whom she regarded as her own, could break the iron law of the Douluo Continent that had stood for tens of thousands of years and step onto that legendary path to godhood!

"If that day truly comes, and Chen'er can reach the hundredth level to become a god, breaking the shackles of lifespan and attaining eternal life..."

The image appeared in the Snow Empress's mind: she and the Ice Empress standing side by side at the peak of the Far North, watching Xue Bingchen draped in divine rings, reigning over the world.

When that time came, she and Bing'er would surely be immensely proud to declare to the entire Douluo Continent, and even to the high and mighty God Realm:

"Look, this is a god we, the two Ice and Snow Empresses, cultivated with our own hands, pouring in all the foundations of the Far North!"