Su Hui noticed Ice Empress's reaction.
She was wary—wary of Elder Yi!
Su Hui grinned.
That was a good thing.
"Sorry for the trouble, Elder Yi."
He murmured inwardly. "I'm afraid I'll have to borrow your name again."
He cleared his throat and straightened up. The smile faded from his face, replaced by a grave expression.
"Hello, Ice Empress. I'm Su Hui. As you can see, I'm a weak human."
He raised an arm and gestured toward the gray sphere beside him, as if making an introduction.
Then he said, word by word, "This is Elder Yi, the Holy Necromancer, Scourge of the Undead—Electrolux."
Silence fell over the Sea of Consciousness.
"The Holy Necromancer?"
Ice Empress repeated the title under her breath, astonishment in her voice. "Scourge of the Undead?"
The titles sounded terrifying at first hearing.
Though she had lived for hundreds of thousands of years and ruled the Far North, she had never heard such domineering titles.
The Holy Necromancer, Scourge of the Undead—every word seemed to carry the stench of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Ice Empress looked toward the gray sphere.
A gray-gold halo continued to turn slowly around it.
The forces of death and light blended perfectly, forming a kind of power she had never seen before.
Pure yet uncanny, majestic yet mysterious.
With nearly four hundred thousand years of cultivation, she still couldn't discern the true nature of his power.
She had never felt anything like this from Snow Empress, either.
This man was stronger than Snow Empress!
"Could you be a god?" Ice Empress asked in astonishment.
The gray sphere trembled slightly.
Then its light drew inward.
The sphere began to change. Its gray radiance stretched and gathered, gradually taking the shape of a person.
A black robe hung down, its golden runes flowing ceaselessly, like a river of stars hanging upside down.
The runes flickered in time with a breathing rhythm, at times blazing like the midday sun, at others as dark and deep as eternal night.
A wide cloak covered the robe, shifting in color from white to red, as if it contained some profound law of heaven and earth.
Beneath the black robe was a sharply defined face.
His eyes were deep, his gaze weathered.
Those eyes held the indifference of one who had seen through all things in the world. Now and then, a glint of sharpness flashed through them, as if it could pierce the soul.
"My name is Electrolux."
His voice was not loud, yet it carried unquestionable authority.
"The world calls me the Holy Necromancer, Scourge of the Undead."
He lowered his gaze slightly and looked at Ice Empress.
"But I am no god. As I am now... I am merely a remnant soul."
Ice Empress frowned.
A remnant soul?
A being with power and titles like his—if he wasn't a god, what else could he be?
She didn't believe him.
On Douluo Continent, apart from gods, who else could make her feel such terror?
"Elder Yi isn't a god from this world," Su Hui interjected evenly. "He isn't even from Douluo Continent."
"Elder Yi came from another world, a place called Holy Demon Continent."
"Holy Demon Continent?"
Ice Empress turned a puzzled gaze toward Su Hui.
"That's right."
Su Hui nodded. "Elder Yi was the strongest being in that world."
"If his cultivation were converted to the system used on Douluo Continent, he'd be equivalent to a demigod here—a being who came close to becoming a god."
"It's just that the rules of that world made true godhood impossible, so he ended up in his current state."
Ice Empress's heart shuddered.
A demigod?!
A demigod from another world?!
Her first reaction was disbelief.
But the aura of death and light intertwined was no fake. Neither was the power that made even her soul tremble.
The black-robed man before her was indeed more powerful than any being she had ever seen.
More powerful than Snow Empress!
"..."
Ice Empress fell silent for a moment.
Though she was hot-tempered, she was unusually calm now.
She knew full well that she had to be cautious in the face of a demigod-level being, even if he was only a remnant soul.
She collected herself and looked at Su Hui, her voice calm once more. "A human and the remnant soul of a demigod... What a strange combination. What exactly are you after?"
Ice Empress asked gravely, "Why has a demigod from another world come to the Far North? And why have you imprisoned me in this Sea of Consciousness?"
Her voice was calm and measured.
Su Hui secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The fact that the hot-tempered Ice Jade Empress Scorpion could speak so calmly meant she truly believed his words—at least seventy or eighty percent of them.
More importantly, she was wary of Elder Yi.
That wariness would make things easier!
He could finally get to the point.
"Ice Empress."
The smile vanished from Su Hui's face, replaced by a serious expression.
"I asked Elder Yi to connect our Seas of Consciousness, not to imprison you, but because I wanted to talk with you."
"Talk?"
Ice Empress snorted. "What is there to talk about?"
"Of course... a deal."
Su Hui grinned, showing a row of white teeth. "A deal that would benefit us both."
"A deal?"
Ice Empress's lips curled in a cold sneer.
"You bound me up like this, and you call that sincerity?"
Su Hui spread his hands. "If I didn't bind you, would you have listened to me calmly?"
"The moment I showed myself, your scorpion claws would have smashed me into a pulp, just like a moment ago."
"If it weren't for Elder Yi, I'd be dead."
Ice Empress snorted but didn't argue.
She knew the human was telling the truth.
The instant she saw a human, she would have struck without hesitation, not giving him time to say a word.
That was how much Ice Empress hated humans.
Su Hui didn't mind and continued, "Ice Empress, you're looking for a way to break through the four-hundred-thousand-year limit. Am I wrong?"
"You have less than ten thousand years left to live, but your tribulation is already drawing near."
"With your current strength, your chances of surviving it are probably less than thirty percent, right?"
"!!!"
Ice Empress's pupils contracted sharply.
This secret concerned whether she lived or died, and she had never breathed a word of it to any living being.
Neither of the other two kings of the Far North knew. Snow Empress didn't know. No Soul Beast could possibly know.
"How... do you know?"
"How I know doesn't matter."
Su Hui leaned forward slightly. His voice dropped, growing all the more confident.
"What matters is that I can offer you a way to live."
"Fuse with me and become my Wisdom Spirit Ring. Your soul can be preserved intact, your intelligence won't fade, and you can continue to exist in this world in another form."
"And—"
He paused. "You'll have the chance to pursue a higher realm with me."
"Godhood."
"!!!"
Ripples spread across the surface of the Sea of Consciousness, radiating outward from beneath Ice Empress's feet.
She stared into Su Hui's eyes, trying to find even the slightest hint of deceit or cunning.
After hundreds of thousands of years, she considered herself an excellent judge of character.
But the human before her had such an honest gaze that it made her uneasy.
Ice Empress was silent for a long time before asking, "Why should I trust you? And what is a Wisdom Spirit Ring? Explain yourself clearly."
Su Hui smiled.
That was exactly what he wanted to hear.
It was time to get to the point.
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