Treasure Exchange, Treasure Exchange... (Reset)

With his eyes closed and mind focused, Gu Yuan entered his Spirit Sea and looked displeasedly at the Ice Empress.

"Little Scorpion, I'm very happy that you sacrificed yourself to me, the Ice God, but your attitude has made me very unhappy."

"You... What do you want?"

The Ice Empress instinctively wanted to spit out a few harsh words.

But when she saw the blue-haired little loli, the Ice Dragon King, glaring menacingly beside Gu Yuan,

the words reached her lips, yet she changed them.

"Nothing much. I just want to teach you a lesson."

As Gu Yuan spoke, he walked straight over to the Ice Empress, scooped her up by her slender waist, and placed her across his lap with her little butt raised.

"Teaching you not to disrespect the Ice God. Teaching you not to disrespect the Ice God..."

Gu Yuan spoke as he struck her.

He showed no mercy whatsoever, hitting as hard as he pleased.

The pain made the Ice Empress whimper endlessly, overwhelmed by unprecedented shame, humiliation, and an indescribable strange feeling.

It hurt, yet it also felt good.

And the Ice Dragon King was watching from the side. The moment the Ice Empress made any move, the other woman's dragon might descended upon her.

In the end, unable to bear it any longer, the Ice Empress endured her immense shame and admitted, "I was wrong, Lord Ice God. Please forgive me. I was wrong..."

"Where were you wrong?"

"I was wrong about everything. I shouldn't have disrespected Lord Ice God."

"It's good that you know you were wrong. If there's a next time, I'll spank your butt until it blooms."

Only then did Gu Yuan stop. Before letting go of the Ice Empress, he gave her little butt one last squeeze.

The Ice Empress gritted her teeth in anger, but she could only endure it.

She had no choice. She was at someone else's mercy.

At that moment, the Ice Dragon King walked over and said in a childish voice,

"Da Gu, your exchange ability has reset now. Hurry and get some good things from Snow Empress and the others to exchange."

"Ability?" The Ice Empress, tears glistening at the corners of her eyes as she rubbed her little butt, revealed a puzzled expression upon hearing that.

"What, are you curious?" Gu Yuan looked at her with a faint smile.

The Ice Empress nodded, only to hear Gu Yuan say, "Call me Big Brother, and I'll tell you."

The Ice Empress gave a soft huff and proudly turned her head away, but the occasional furtive glances betrayed her curiosity.

Outside,

The moment Gu Yuan opened his eyes, the Snow Empress hurried over and supported him. "Brother, are you all right?"

This intimate gesture made the Titan Snow Ape King and Ice Bear King beside them widen their eyes.

Though Gu Yuan was Lord Ice God's son, while the Snow Empress was the daughter Lord Ice God had only recently acknowledged,

the two were now brother and sister.

But wasn't this a little too intimate? She was practically a completely different person from the usually cold-tempered Snow Empress.

Naturally, the two beasts did not know

that the Snow Empress had been born of heaven and earth and had never experienced the warmth of parents. When she came into the world, she had been utterly alone.

Aside from a brief encounter with the Ice Dragon King, who had once been Lord Ice God,

she had always been alone.

She longed deeply for familial affection.

Now that she had the Ice Dragon King as her mother and Gu Yuan as her brother, she naturally could not help becoming attached to this hard-won family bond.

"It's nothing. I was weak earlier because summoning Mother's projection causes a month-long period of weakness. But after receiving Bing'er's sacrifice, I've fully recovered."

Gu Yuan shook his head, then asked, "Xue'er, Xiao Bai, A-Tai, do you have any treasures in your collections?"

The Snow Empress spoke first.

"I have a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus."

"I originally intended to use it in case something went wrong if I failed to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core."

"I have no use for it now. If Brother needs it, I can give it to you."

"However, I suggest that Brother absorb it after reaching level thirty, because that is when cultivating Ultimate Ice becomes the most difficult."

Gu Yuan nodded. Even if she had not said so, he had no intention of refining it yet.

After all, he had already refined the fine wine God King Tang had stored away.

The remaining medicinal power in his body was enough to support his cultivation for a long time.

If he rashly consumed the Snow Lotus before fully refining that medicinal power, causing it to conflict with the power already in his body, it would not be good.

"Lord Ice God, I..."

The Titan Snow Ape King had barely begun speaking when Gu Yuan interrupted him.

With a slight smile, he said, "A-Tai, since you are also Mother's descendant, you can just call me Uncle."

"And Xiao Bai as well. You are Xue'er's adopted son, so you can call me Uncle too."

The Titan Snow Ape King was delighted and hurriedly said, "Uncle, I have a right arm bone that dropped after one of my clansmen died."

"Many years ago, one of my clansmen was killed by a human Soul Master. When I found out, I killed that person and seized the soul bone back."

As he mentioned killing a human Soul Master, he cast Gu Yuan a somewhat uneasy and nervous glance.

Seeing no displeasure on Gu Yuan's face, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

At last, the Snow Empress and Titan Snow Ape King both looked toward the Ice Bear King.

The Ice Bear King grew a little embarrassed under their gazes and said sheepishly,

"Uncle, I only have a Swift Ice Bird egg..."

The Snow Empress explained from the side, "Swift Ice Birds are nearly extinct in the Far North."

"They are a rare delicacy for ice-attributed Soul Masters and ice-attributed soul beasts."

"Later, I happened to obtain a Swift Ice Bird egg."

"Since it could not be hatched, I gave it to Xiao Bai as a snack. I didn't expect him to have kept it all this time."

"That's enough." Gu Yuan nodded.

A moment later, the Snow Empress brought over the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus, the Ice Bear King brought over the Swift Ice Bird egg, and the Titan Snow Ape King brought over the Titan Snow Ape Right Arm Bone.

Gu Yuan did not hide anything and told them about his "ability."

They would find out sooner or later anyway.

Before the Snow Empress and the others, Gu Yuan held the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus she had given him and silently recited in his heart,

"System, exchange this Snow Lotus."

[Ding, system exchange in progress...]

[Ding, exchange successful. Congratulations, Host, you have obtained a Golden Dragon-Nurturing Fruit.]

As the system prompt fell, a golden fruit patterned with dragon markings appeared in Gu Yuan's hand.

"Oh, it's actually this." The Ice Dragon King gave a soft cry and revealed herself.

"Mother!"

"Lord Ice God!"

"Grandmother!"

The Snow Empress, Titan Snow Ape King, and Ice Bear King hurriedly bowed to her.

The Ice Dragon King waved her hand and looked at Gu Yuan. "Da Gu, this is a Golden Dragon-Nurturing Fruit. For us dragons, it is an absolute tonic. It can grant one an ultimate power attribute. Even an ordinary draconic subspecies can transform into a true dragon after consuming it. Put it away for now. It will be of great use when you obtain your second martial soul in the future."

Gu Yuan nodded. This time, he had truly found a treasure.

If he possessed Ultimate Ice along with ultimate power, he would be unbelievably strong.

The Ice Dragon King did not hurry back into Gu Yuan's Spirit Sea. After casting the two of them a knowing smile, she simply watched curiously.

Gu Yuan took the right arm bone given to him by the Titan Snow Ape King. This right arm bone was roughly seventy thousand years old.

If it were sold, it would probably fetch forty or fifty million Gold Soul Coins.

Gu Yuan was also curious what it could exchange for.

Putting away the Golden Dragon-Nurturing Fruit, Gu Yuan called out in his heart, "System, exchange this Titan Snow Ape Right Arm Bone."

[Ding, system exchange in progress...]

[Ding, exchange successful. Congratulations, Host, you have obtained all the Gold Soul Coins in Shrek Dean Yan Shaozhe's treasury.]