The Snow Empress Awoke and Nearly Exploded! The Ice Empress Panicked: Xue'er, It's Me!
"Good."
Dai Huabin placed the God Sealing Platform on the ground, not in a hurry to take action.
"However, Elder Yi will be needed to oversee the operation before it begins."
Ice Empress looked up at him, her emerald green twin tails swaying slightly.
"Why?"
"Think about it, if the God Sealing Platform opens and the Snow Empress goes berserk, can you control her?"
Ice Empress opened their mouths, then closed them again.
She stood there in silence for a few seconds, her mind racing through the thoughts.
She knew Snow Empress's personality best. Having been sealed away by humans for so long, her first reaction upon being released would definitely not be to calmly communicate.
Given Snow Empress's temper, there's a high chance she'll just explode.
However, her strength is indeed inferior to that of the Snow Empress.
Ice Empress's fingers clenched slightly.
"Alright then," she said in a low voice, with a hint of reluctance.
Dai Huabin closed his eyes, his spiritual power sinking inward, touching the Eye of Life deep within his spiritual sea.
"Elder Yi."
Within the Eye of Life, a phantom figure slowly materialized. A greyish-white robe, an aged yet gentle face.
After being continuously nourished by the Life Gold during this period, Electrolux's fragments of consciousness have recovered considerably, and his overall outline is much clearer than before.
Electrolux stepped out of the Eye of Life, his phantom appearing in the Undead Semi-Plane.
"Huabin, I understand your concerns."
Electrolux's voice was steady.
"But open it with confidence. Within this Undead Semi-Plane, I can control everything."
Dai Huabin nodded. "Thank you, Elder Yi."
Ice Empress glanced at Electrolux.
She had always been somewhat wary of this old man who existed in Dai Huabin's mental world.
But now it concerns Snow Empress.
"Thank you," Ice Empress said softly.
Electrolux nodded slightly, without saying anything more.
Dai Huabin squatted down and placed his hands on either side of the God Sealing Platform.
Xu Jiujiu's method for activating it was simple: inject Soul Power into the four rune nodes on the altar base and activate them in a specific order, and the seal would automatically dissipate.
He took a deep breath and placed his finger on the first node.
Pale blue Soul Power seeped into the runes through his fingertips, causing the runes to glow with a dark golden luster.
The moment the four nodes lit up simultaneously, the semi-transparent spherical seal at the top of the God Sealing Platform emitted a soft sound, and countless cracks appeared on its surface.
The seal shattered.
In an instant, an extremely pure aura of ice and snow surged out from the God Sealing Platform, and the temperature of the entire Undead Semi-Plane dropped by more than ten degrees.
Fine snowflakes began to fall from the gray sky, and a thin layer of frost formed on the ground.
The white mist rose from the seal, spinning rapidly in mid-air and expanding in size quickly.
Electrolux's phantom took half a step forward, a clear look of surprise appearing on its aged face.
"It's an elemental Ice Snow Spirit?"
He had lived for countless years and seen countless living beings, but naturally born Elemental Sprite were extremely rare.
Even on the Holy Demon Continent, pure Elemental Sprite are not many.
Dai Huabin had no time to respond to Electrolux's emotion, because the atmosphere in the Conferred God Platform changed too quickly.
"Bing'er, quickly contact the Snow Empress!"
He had barely finished speaking.
A chilling voice burst forth from the white mist.
"Despicable humans! Even if I die, I will not let you have your way!"
The voice wasn't loud, but every word carried a chilling edge and undisguised hatred.
The white mist suddenly expanded, the energy inside the mist surged dramatically, and a large number of ice crystals burst out from it, crashing onto the ground with a crackling sound.
The temperature was still dropping, and the ground of the Undead Semi-Plane was already covered with a layer of ice about an inch thick.
Dai Huabin took two steps back.
He could feel the terrifying power of that energy. It was the primordial power of a 700,000-year-old Soul Beast, and even though it had been sealed and weakened by more than half, it was still something he couldn't withstand in his current state.
Electrolux raised his hand.
But someone was faster than him.
Ice Empress rushed to the God Sealing Platform and placed his hands on the expanding white mist.
A burst of emerald green Ultimate Ice erupted from her palm, colliding with the icy energy within the light mist.
Two ice powers, though of the same origin, clashed, producing a sharp buzzing sound.
Ice Empress's emerald green ice light firmly locked the white mist, suppressing its expansion.
"Xue'er! It's me! Ice Empress! Stop right now!"
Ice Empress's voice rose, filled with an unprecedented urgency.
The expansion of the white mist suddenly stopped.
There was a silence of about two seconds.
"Bing... Bing'er?"
The cold voice changed; the hatred faded, replaced by disbelief and bewilderment.
"Were you caught too?"
Upon hearing this, Dai Huabin's heart tightened.
Snow Empress's first reaction was that Ice Empress had also been captured by humans. This shows that her hostility towards humans had reached its peak.
Ice Empress did not answer this question.
"Xue'er, stop for a moment."
Ice Empress slowed down their speech, enunciating each word clearly. "Take back the energy, and I will tell you everything."
The energy fluctuations within the light mist rose and fell violently a few times, as if the Snow Empress was hesitating.
"Is it really you?"
It's me.
Ice Empress reached her hand into the misty light; the emerald green ice light mingled with the white mist.
"Feel this; this is my aura. Can this aura be faked?"
A few more seconds passed.
The expansion of the white light mist finally stopped.
The expanding energy began to slowly recede, the ice crystals stopped shooting out, and the temperature drop also stopped.
Electrolux lowered his raised hand, took a step back, and gave more space.
Dai Huabin breathed a sigh of relief.
He turned to look at Electrolux nodded slightly at him.
Above the God Sealing Platform, the white light mist shrank into a palm-sized ball of light, hovering in mid-air.
Inside the ball of light, one could vaguely see the outline of a small, curled-up human figure, entirely white, resembling an infant that was not yet fully formed, but slightly larger than an infant.
Ice Empress held the ball of light in both hands, his fingertips trembling slightly.
"Xue'er, listen to me."
Ice Empress's voice was very low, and all traces of his usual arrogance were gone.
She recounted the whole story from the beginning.
Dai Huabin appeared in the Far North, signed Blood Pact, obtained the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and the Immortal Herb of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and finally searched for the whereabouts of the Snow Empress.
Ice Empress didn't embellish or exaggerate; they simply presented the facts one by one.
"His name is Dai Huabin, a human."
Ice Empress's emerald green eyes were fixed on the huddled figure within the ball of light.
"I signed Blood Pact with him. He helped me extend the lifeline of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and then traded you for me from a human auction house."
The ball of light remained silent for a long time.
Dai Huabin stood a few steps away, not interrupting. This was a matter between the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress; he shouldn't speak up.
About a minute passed.
"You signed Blood Pact with a human, binding you to a life together?"
The Snow Empress's voice came from the ball of light, her tone complex.
"Right."
"Are you crazy, Bing'er?"
"I'm not crazy," Ice Empress replied, his tone hardening.
"If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to withstand the heavenly tribulation of four hundred thousand years."
Silence fell again within the ball of light.
"So you signed the Blood Pact first, and then had him come to me?"
"Almost."
How can you be sure he won't change his mind?
Ice Empress snorted, "The bond between soul and life, can he go back on his word?"
Dai Huabin listened from the side, his lips twitching slightly. Although Ice Empress's words were rough, they were indeed true.
The light in the orb flickered slightly, as if the Snow Empress was processing the information.