I Caught the Ice Empress

Above a desolate wilderness.

Su Hui took a deep breath, his fingers tightening around the handle of the Anywhere Door.

"Old Electrolux, I'm counting on you for what comes next."

Within his sea of consciousness, Electrolux's aged voice remained as calm as an ancient well: "Do as you please."

A flamboyant grin spread across Su Hui's lips as he silently chanted in his heart—the Far North Ice Plains, the domain of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.

"Click!"

The door swung open with a thunderous roar!

An aura of extreme cold struck his face like ten thousand icy blades.

A thick layer of white frost covered the ground, emitting faint cracking sounds.

Su Hui's robes whipped violently in the wind, the frigid air pouring in through his collar.

He didn't even frown, stepping forward with a bold stride.

The moment his feet touched the ground, Su Hui sensed the biting, frigid aura that permeated the entire space.

Deep blue ice walls stretched out in layers in every direction.

The ice was thick and clear, emitting a faint, cold light, having been frozen for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.

The ice cavern was shaped like an oval dome, with the vault hanging over twenty zhang high; ice shards hung down like a forest of blades, so dense it made one's scalp tingle.

The ice beneath his feet was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the icicles from the dome as if he were walking upon an abyss.

Frigid air surged in from all sides, and every breath he took turned into a thick white mist that drifted slowly along the ice walls.

Then, the vigilant Su Hui spotted the scorpion in the center of the ice cavern.

This scorpion was over one and a half meters long, its entire body appearing as if carved from a single piece of ice crystal.

Its dorsal armor was composed of diamond-shaped segments, the edges of each shell refracting a cold, ice-blue light like crushed diamonds.

A point of emerald radiance flickered at the tip of its tail hook.

Its two pincers were folded in front of it, motionless, as if it were an ice sculpture that had been sleeping for ten thousand years.

The next second.

"Ding!"

The giant scorpion's hexagonal, crystal-yellow eyes suddenly lit up.

"!!!"

A chill ran down Su Hui's spine, his hair standing on end.

Killing intent!

A killing intent so biting it had almost condensed into substance crashed down upon him, colder and deeper than the chill of the ice cavern, piercing straight into his marrow!

The Ice Empress Scorpion braced its torso with its two pincers, its shell emitting the crisp sound of clashing ice crystals as the emerald light at the tip of its tail hook flared brilliantly.

"Human—"

An angry female voice exploded within the ice cavern, the echoes vibrating so intensely that the icicles on the dome trembled and rattled.

"Trespassing in this Empress's territory, you shall die!"

Ice Empress.

A three-hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year-old fierce beast, one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion!

"Boom!"

The scorpion's pincer smashed down through the air.

The air emitted a sharp, tearing sound like rending silk, and ice shards exploded and scattered in all directions.

Su Hui's pupils shrank to pinpricks as the shadow of death loomed over him, vast and overwhelming.

Every muscle in his body was screaming, but his physical reaction could not keep up with his nerves; his legs felt as if they had been nailed to the ice.

"Old Electrolux—help me!!!"

He shouted with all his might.

Gray mist surged out from around Su Hui's body.

A pure aura of death diffused into the surroundings, the deep blue ice walls taking on a grayish, withered hue, and all warmth was drained from the already frigid air.

The light faded from Su Hui's pitch-black eyes, replaced by an indifferent, deathly gray, as if he had become a different person in an instant.

Electrolux had officially taken over!

"Little scorpion, I prefer a calm conversation over resorting to force."

Electrolux raised his arm and pointed his index finger forward.

"!!!"

Alarm bells rang out thunderously in the Ice Empress's heart.

A moment ago, this human was as weak as an ant.

Yet, the aura currently surging from his body made her, a 390,000-year-old soul beast, feel a chill run down her spine.

She whipped her scorpion tail, shattering the ice on the ground as she attempted to put some distance between them.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

A beam of gray light shot forth from the fingertip of Electrolux.

The light was not blinding, yet it carried a vast, irresistible power that instantly engulfed the Ice Empress's entire body.

In the blink of an eye, the gray light contracted into a cocoon, its surface flowing with intricate golden patterns.

Every single line moved slowly, like a living chain.

"What the hell is this?!"

Wrapped within the cocoon, the Ice Empress thrashed wildly.

She slammed her scorpion claws against it, the dull thuds exploding like a string of firecrackers, yet the light cocoon remained unmoved.

"Why can't I activate my power?!"

The Ice Empress was terrified.

Her Ultimate Ice and her strength had both been completely suppressed!

"Little one, it is your turn now."

Electrolux formed a seal with his hands, and a gray spiritual bridge manifested out of thin air, connecting the space between the Ice Empress and Su Hui's brows.

Spiritual Sea.

Su Hui's consciousness had barely steadied itself when a gray orb of light appeared before him.

The orb retracted, revealing the figure of Electrolux.

His gray robes billowed, his face as weathered as the bark of an ancient tree, and ghostly blue soul fire flickered within his hollow eye sockets.

Bound beside him was a young girl.

Her long hair reached her waist, a gradient of icy blue and emerald green, the strands lustrous like threads of frozen ice, shimmering with a faint, crystalline glow.

Her oval face was exquisite and translucent, her skin fairer than snow, possessing the cold texture of ten-thousand-year-old cold jade.

Her eyes were narrow and long, their pupils a crystalline yellow embedded with a pale blue halo, like a pair of yellow diamonds sealed in ice.

Her brows were straight like distant mountains dusted with frost, her nose bridge was petite and upturned, and her lips were pressed into a sharp, clean line.

She wore a simple dress of icy cyan and emerald, the fabric as thin as ice gauze, the cuffs flowing and ethereal, with ice crystal and scorpion patterns embroidered into the hem.

A faint, cold mist swirled around her, and she stood barefoot upon the surface of the Spiritual Sea.

She possessed the slender, upright figure of a girl of sixteen or seventeen, her features breathtakingly beautiful and refined, yet she radiated an innate imperial nobility and an untouchable, icy coldness.

This was the Ice Empress!

Or, to be precise, the Ice Empress's soul and spiritual form.

She was tightly bound by golden ropes that outlined her slender and well-proportioned frame.

She struggled twice, but the ropes did not budge.

She raised her crystalline yellow eyes to glare at Su Hui, her voice cold and laced with fury.

"Human! What have you done to this Empress?! Where exactly is this place?!"

Su Hui looked her up and down, secretly praising her in his heart.

A spiritual form of a 390,000-year-old soul beast—her presence is truly astonishing.

Even while bound in such a wretched state.

That imperial arrogance had not diminished in the slightest; if anything, it only added a touch of shame and murderous intent from being violated.

"This is my Spiritual Sea."

Su Hui's tone was flat. "Ice Empress, you are now my prisoner."

"Insolent!"

The Ice Empress's gaze was as cold as an ice blade.

"A mere human, how dare you—"

"Hear me out first."

Su Hui raised a hand to interrupt her, saying, "Elder I, thank you for your hard work."

Seeing herself interrupted, the Ice Empress's murderous intent nearly solidified.

"Human, you are courting death!"

Her voice was as cold as ten-thousand-year black ice.

Just then, a gray-gold light illuminated Su Hui's side.

The gray orb rotated slowly, radiating an aura of death that was pure to the extreme.

Another wisp of light energy coiled around it, the two intertwining into a heart-palpitating gray-gold halo.

The Ice Empress's pupils contracted sharply.

That aura—it was that very aura!

It was this exact thing just moments ago that had manipulated the frail human before her, subduing her in a single strike.

She could not fathom that power at all, yet it made her very soul tremble.

Everything about the human before her reeked of the bizarre.

His physical body was unbearably weak, yet his sea of consciousness was extraordinarily vast, containing a powerful, inscrutable spiritual entity within.

What kind of strange combination was this?