Raking In Five Hundred Thousand-Year Soul Bones, Destination: Heaven Dou Dragon City
"It's not suppression."
Electrolux's voice carried a hint of helplessness.
"It's a fusion. Blood Pact have a master and servant distinction. Huabin is the master of the contract, so he will naturally gain more contract benefits. He can call upon your ice attribute power, and his Martial Soul will also change due to your bloodline."
Moreover, you won't feel your power being suppressed when you fight others.
Ice Empress tightened their arms around each other.
"What will this emperor gain?"
Electrolux's silvery mist trembled slightly.
What you receive may be more valuable than you imagine.
Ice Empress raised an eyebrow, waiting for what would follow.
"Huabin possesses a piece of 'Life Gold' within his spiritual sea, the purest source of life in the world. After the Blood Pact, your spirit can continuously draw nourishment from the Life Gold through the bond of the contract."
Ice Empress's pupils contracted slightly.
"The reason why the Four-Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation is terrifying is not only because it destroys the physical body, but also because it erodes the soul."
Electrolux's voice was calm, but every word struck Ice Empress's heart.
"The nourishing effect of the Life Gold on the soul far surpasses that of ten thousand years of arduous cultivation in the Far North."
Ice Empress remained silent.
But Dai Huabin could feel her heartbeat quickening through the bond of the Blood Pact.
Ice Empress didn't lose out on this deal.
After Electrolux finished speaking his last words, the light in his projection dimmed rapidly.
"Elder Yi?" Dai Huabin called out in his heart.
"Constructing the magic array is too costly... I need to... sleep for a while."
Electrolux's voice trailed off. "Huabin, you'll handle the rest yourself. Get used to Little Scorpion's temper."
The silvery mist dissipated.
Silence returned to the sea of consciousness.
Dai Huabin sighed silently to himself.
The time Elder Yi spent constructing the Blood Pact Array and guiding the soul fusion was probably more costly than when he purified the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife to open the Eye of Life.
Ice Empress noticed the disappearance of the silver mist.
"Is he asleep again?"
"Hmm." Dai Huabin nodded. "Constructing the magic array consumes too much energy."
Ice Empress didn't respond.
Although she didn't say it, the mental pressure that Electrolux released just now had indeed left a very deep impression on her.
If a mere fragment of divine consciousness could make a 400,000-year-old Soul Beast like her feel looked down upon, how powerful must she have been when she was alive?
"Alright." Ice Empress interrupted his thoughts, his tone decisive.
When will we retrieve the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow? When will we find the Snow Empress?
Dai Huabin knew she would be in such a hurry.
"The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow is located in Dragon City of the Heaven Dou Empire, which is only a few days' journey away. The Snow Empress's embryo is in the hands of a nobleman in the Star Luo Empire, and it may take longer."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Ice Empress's emerald eyes were filled with urgency. "Let's go now."
"Wait a minute," Dai Huabin interrupted. "You've been in the Far North for so many years, aren't you planning to take any of the good stuff from the palace with you?"
Ice Empress stopped in their tracks.
"We won't be back for a while after we go out."
Dai Huabin continued.
"Your palace should contain many Soul Bones and treasures. As for the Snow Empress's palace, since she has already taken human form and left, leaving the things inside is a waste."
Ice Empress thought for two seconds.
"I have two 100,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone in my palace. I'm too lazy to keep the ones that are younger."
Two pieces of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
Dai Huabin's heart raced. The Ultimate Ice Soul Bone required the Ultimate Ice Martial Soul to absorb, and Dai Huabin now met that requirement.
"Take them all." Dai Huabin's voice was somewhat cheerful. "I need to become stronger; I can't leave these things to others."
Ice Empress glanced at him. "You're quite impolite."
"We have a contractual relationship; there's no distinction between 'yours' and 'mine'."
Ice Empress was momentarily speechless after hearing that.
She found herself unable to refute it.
The bond of Blood Pact is there; if Dai Huabin dies, she will die with him.
In a sense, making this human stronger is indeed a way of saving her own life.
Let's go.
Ice Empress turned around, her long emerald green dress leaving a trail on the ice.
"Go to my palace first."
Dai Huabin quickly followed.
The Ice Empress Palace is hidden beneath a glacier deep within the Core Area the Far North. The entrance is completely invisible from the outside. With a gentle touch of the Ice Empress's spiritual power on the surface of the ice, an entire ice wall silently slides open, revealing a passage extending downwards.
The walls of the passage were so smooth they reflected light, and the temperature was twenty degrees lower than outside. But Dai Huabin only felt a comfortable coolness.
Ice Empress walked ahead, their pace quick.
As they walked, Dai Huabin asked, "How many years have you lived here?"
"I can't remember," Ice Empress said without turning around.
"Wouldn't moving be a lot of trouble?"
Ice Empress slowed his pace by half a beat. "Are you pitying me?"
"No, I'm just curious."
Ice Empress remained silent.
But Dai Huabin could sense through the Blood Pact that her emotions had undergone an extremely subtle fluctuation.
The main hall of the palace was very large, constructed entirely of extremely cold ice crystals. The Ice Empress walked to the deepest ice wall, placed his hands on it, and a bright green light surged into the ice wall.
The ice wall slowly melted, revealing two ice coffin-like recesses.
Two pieces of Soul Bone lay quietly inside.
A piece of azure blue, shaped like a breastplate, the Ice Jade Scorpion Torso Bone.
The other piece is entirely emerald green, with its end forked into the shape of a scorpion tail. It is 100,000 years old External Soul Bone, Ice Jade Scorpion Tail.
Both Soul Bone radiated the unique luster of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, having been stored in the Ice Empress's palace for countless years, yet their quality remained perfect.
Ice Empress took out the two Soul Bones and casually tossed them to Dai Huabin.
"Next."
Dai Huabin reached out and caught it; it was icy cold to the touch.
The two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones were lighter than he had imagined, but the energy contained within them made his arms feel slightly numb.
"Let's go to Snow Empress's place."
The Snow Empress's Palace is about half an hour's walk northwest of the Ice Empress Palace.
As the two traveled across the ice field, Dai Huabin observed the way Ice Empress moved for the first time from the perspective of a contractor.
Her bare feet made no sound on the ice; each step seemed like gliding across the surface. Her emerald green dress remained motionless in the cold wind, as if even the wind dared not touch her.
The palace of the Snow Empress is much more magnificent than that of the Ice Empress.
The dome, made of ice crystals, is inlaid with countless tiny snowflake crystals, which shimmer with iridescent colors under the refraction of light.
Ice Empress led Dai Huabin straight to the storage room.
Five Ten-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus were sealed in an ice crystal container. Each one was the size of an adult's palm, with petals as white as jade and emitting a faint fragrance.
The three 100,000-year-old ice-attribute Soul Bone were sealed in three separate ice coffins.
Dai Huabin examined them one by one. Of the two left leg bones, one was of slightly higher quality than the other, a 100,000-year-old right leg bone, but both were genuine 100,000-year-old pieces.
That's all.
Ice Empress leaned against the ice wall with their arms crossed.
"That Snow Empress guy has a lot of other things, but these are the only ones that are actually usable."
Dai Huabin carefully packed everything away and put it into the Soul Tool.
"That's about enough." He straightened up and turned to Ice Empress. "Let's go, leave the Far North. First stop, Dragon City."
Ice Empress raised an eyebrow. "Dragon City? Where is the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow?"
"Yes." Dai Huabin nodded. "It's located in the headquarters of a sect called Earth Dragon Gate, hidden at the bottom of a well."
Ice Empress's emerald green eyes flickered.
How did you know?
"I have my own sources of information." Dai Huabin did not elaborate further.
Ice Empress snorted and didn't press the matter further.
The two left the Snow Empress's Palace and headed south.
With Ice Empress by her side, all the Soul Beast in the Far North avoided her. Not to mention Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, even hundred-thousand-year-old ones dared not approach.
The path taken by Ice Empress would cause the temperature within a radius of several miles to drop another thirty degrees. The instinct of any living thing would tell them to stay away from this path.