The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's Torso Bone!

"If you deceive me, this Empress will choose to self-destruct rather than let you succeed."

Hearing the Ice Empress's threat, Long Yaochen gave a light smile and said, "Rest assured, I am still waiting for you to persuade the Snow Empress."

"You... you even know about the Snow Empress? Then why didn't you go directly to her?" The Ice Empress's expression shifted.

This fellow knew far too much.

"She..." Long Yaochen shook his head slightly, "She is not suitable for me right now."

Although the Snow Empress possessed a higher cultivation, to the current Long Yaochen, she was truly not as useful as the Ice Empress's Ultimate Ice.

Besides... he did not need the Winter-Thinking Fist right now, the Win... cough cough.

Seeing the Ice Empress's mood dampen, Long Yaochen changed the subject: "However, you will certainly have a chance to reunite in the future."

"You brat..." The Ice Empress fell silent for a moment, "Fine, how should I cooperate with you?"

"Open your mind and do not resist."

Long Yaochen withdrew the smile from his face, his voice becoming somewhat more serious.

The Ice Empress took a deep look at him, and finally, she slowly retracted her tail hook.

The next instant, Long Yaochen closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, his entire pupils had turned a grayish-white.

His aura changed along with them.

The demigod substitute had come online.

Although the body was still that of a young man, standing there, he resembled a dead soul walking out from the ancient ages—calm and profound, as if he had long since seen through the boundaries between life and death.

The Ice Empress felt a slight tremor in her heart.

She knew that the one controlling this body at this moment was no longer Long Yaochen himself.

Long Xiaoyao also narrowed his eyes slightly.

However, he did not speak, merely allowing his dark Soul Power to quietly spread, sealing off this area as much as possible.

No matter what happened next, he would not let the aura of the Core Area of the Far North leak out too far.

Long Yaochen raised his hand, and grayish-white light spread from his fingertips, landing upon the Ice Empress's crystal-clear scorpion pincers.

The Ice Empress felt her soul tremble slightly, a strange sensation rising from the depths of her soul.

It was as if an invisible hand had gently pressed down upon her soul origin, which was on the verge of being torn apart by the heavenly tribulation.

Following this, Long Yaochen raised his other hand, and the Holy Blade of Life quietly manifested.

The dense aura of life intertwined with the grayish-white Undead Law; one life, one death—two diametrically opposed forces were, at this moment, forming an eerie balance.

The deepest doubts in the Ice Empress's heart began to waver at this moment.

This brat's method actually seemed to work!

"Compress all of your origin onto your soul bone, and condense a torso bone." Long Yaochen spoke, his voice carrying a sense of age that did not belong to his years.

The Ice Empress no longer hesitated; her massive Ultimate Ice origin began to shrink into her body bit by bit.

The Domain of Eternal Freeze vanished completely, and the violent wind and snow in the surroundings grew quiet at this moment.

On the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's crystal-clear body, streaks of emerald-green patterns lit up like countless flowing glaciers, converging toward her torso.

Pain struck instantly; even with the Ice Empress's willpower, she could not help but let out a suppressed groan.

This was not a simple condensation of a soul bone, but an active abandonment of her soul beast body.

Her bloodline, origin, and cultivation—everything was compressing toward a single core.

The grayish-white light in Long Yaochen's eyes deepened abruptly.

Countless fine, grayish-white runes flew from his palms, spreading bit by bit along the Ice Empress's body, firmly protecting the soul that was about to be extinguished by the soul-bone-transformation process.

The Ice Empress's consciousness jolted violently.

She could clearly feel her physical body disintegrating and her power being reshaped.

Yet, her consciousness did not dissipate.

She was still there; she could still feel the wind and snow, feel the Ultimate Ice, and could also feel that she was being sheltered by an ancient and powerful law.

Long Xiaoyao stood with his hands behind his back, but his expression had become completely grave.

Even he had never seen such a bizarre scene.

For a soul beast to condense a soul bone should signify death.

But now, although the Ice Empress's physical body was clearly turning into a soul bone, her soul aura had not extinguished.

This did not resemble a sacrifice at all.

It was more like the creation of an entirely new form of life.

Boom--!

A low, rumbling sound echoed out.

The Ice Empress's roughly 1.5-meter-long scorpion body suddenly shattered into a sky full of emerald light.

The next moment, all the emerald light contracted frantically under the pull of the gray-white runes.

A crystal-clear soul bone slowly emerged in mid-air.

A 400,000-year Ice Jade Empress Scorpion torso bone!

Its entire body displayed a color interwoven with ice blue and emerald green, its surface covered in hexagonal ice crystal patterns, with a faint, miniature phantom of an Ice Jade Empress Scorpion coiled within.

A terrifying, extreme chill radiated from the soul bone.

Just a wisp of its aura leaking out caused the snowfield beneath Long Yaochen's feet to instantly freeze into emerald-green ice.

Long Yaochen let out a muffled groan, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Even just bearing the aura of this soul bone at close range was still too much for his current body to handle.

Long Xiaoyao was about to intervene.

But the next instant, Long Yaochen raised his hand to stop him.

The gray-white runes lit up once more.

The Holy Blade of Life hovered above the soul bone, life energy descending like threads to entwine the Ice Empress phantom deep within the bone.

The Ice Empress's soul was not sealed shut.

Instead, it was placed at the very core of the soul bone.

With the soul bone as the body, the soul as the core, and the contract to maintain consciousness.

At this moment, the prototype of the Soul Spirit was truly complete.

The gray-white light in Long Yaochen's eyes flickered violently, and he then raised his hand to tap his own glabella.

His Sea of Spirit opened with a roar.

Wrapped in the gray-white runes, the soul bone did not exist in its physical form but temporarily transformed into a primal brand.

The next moment, the emerald-green stream of light submerged into his glabella, entering the depths of his Sea of Spirit.

Boom!

Within Long Yaochen's Sea of Spirit, the originally blazing solar aura instantly boiled.

And the moment the Ice Empress soul bone entered, an extreme chill erupted along with it.

Light and ice.

Scorching heat and freezing cold.

The two diametrically opposed forces merely touched, and Long Yaochen's body shuddered violently.

One half of his skin glowed with scorching white light, while the other half congealed with emerald-green frost.

Long Xiaoyao's expression shifted slightly.

Fortunately, the next instant, the gray-white runes emerged from Long Yaochen's glabella, transforming into an ancient seal that forcibly suppressed the Ice Empress soul bone deep into his Sea of Spirit.

It was not absorbed, nor did it truly merge with his body; it was merely temporarily stored there.

Like an Ice Star sealed in the deep sea, it hovered quietly and dangerously.

A long while later, the gray-white light in Long Yaochen's eyes finally receded bit by bit, and he stumbled half a step, nearly falling.

Long Xiaoyao reached out to press his shoulder, saying in a deep voice, "Is it done?"

Long Yaochen's face was pale, yet he slowly began to smile.

"It is done."

Deep within the Sea of Spirit, a cold and weak voice also rang out at this moment.

"Human, do not forget what you promised this Empress."