Ice Empress, You Don't Want to... (Don't Let the Book Sit on Your Shelf; Please Keep Reading)

"Ke ke ke..."

At that moment, Lan Yu looked just like a major villain, while Ice Empress was a helpless little girlfriend, standing off to the side and "begging" Lan Yu to "be gentle."

With Di Tian there, Ice Empress couldn't stir up any trouble. All she could do was watch helplessly as Lan Yu forcibly contracted Snow Empress.

"You bastard! I'll kill you!"

"Let Snow'er go!"

"Snow'er! My Snow'er! No!"

"Ahahaha—" she cried. "My Snow'er..."

"Bing'er... Run! Run! Aah—"

"Please, let Snow'er go. I'll be your Contract Beast instead..."

"Waaah, please, be gentle, be gentle. Don't make Snow'er suffer so much..."

"Ke ke ke. You flat-chested bratty little loli, how could you ever compare to Snow Empress?"

Di Tian: ...

I don't dare open my eyes. I hope this is just my imagination.

My lord, is it really wise for us to work with this guy?

Before long, a mark belonging solely to Lan Yu appeared between Snow Empress's brows. It wasn't purple, though, but a moonlit pattern.

At the same time, Snow Empress's strength plummeted to Great War General level. She would only be able to gradually unseal and recover her strength as Lan Yu's Summoning Element cultivation improved.

"The contract's finally complete." Lan Yu wiped away sweat that wasn't there and let out a long breath.

"Snow'er, my Snow'er." Ice Empress hurriedly embraced Snow Empress. After sensing how drastically her aura had weakened, she glared at Lan Yu. "What did you do to her? Why is Snow'er so weak?"

"It's simple. I'm weak right now, so after I forcibly contracted Snow Empress, her strength became roughly equal to mine," Lan Yu said.

"Bing'er, I'm fine. Most of my strength has only been sealed away. It'll all be unsealed eventually." Snow Empress reassured her.

Snow Empress's attitude had turned around completely, all because of Lan Yu.

"Ice Empress, Snow Empress is now my Contract Beast, so you'll guard the Far North in her place," Lan Yu said.

At his words, Ice Empress flew into a rage. "Bastard, give Snow'er back to me!"

"Bing'er!" Snow Empress chided. "Just listen to him."

"Snow'er, you..."

Lan Yu smiled. "Ice Empress, you wouldn't want the Far North to be left without anyone to protect it while Snow Empress is away, would you?"

"I can make you a promise. Now that Snow Empress is with me, I'll show her a whole new world, and I'll help her break through the seven-hundred-thousand-year barrier."

With me...

Hearing those three words, Snow Empress couldn't help feeling shy. She admitted that her appearance was immensely attractive to human men, but she was now his Contract Beast. Could anything like that even be possible?

At that, Ice Empress looked at Lan Yu. "Are you serious?"

"I am," Lan Yu said. "And I've made a deal with the Silver Dragon King. I'll tell you what it's about another time."

"Fine!" Ice Empress agreed. "If Snow Empress suffers any mistreatment while she's with you, I won't let you get away with it!"

She delivered the threat with such absolute conviction, but to Lan Yu, it sounded rather strange.

Fortunately, their trip to the Far North had ended safely, and they had secured Snow Empress.

As the Ice-Sealed Forbidden Forest's Heavenly Snow Woman, her potential for growth was immeasurable. The world's energy throughout the entire Far North was at her command.

Snow Empress's strength was currently only at the level of a full-fledged Demon Beast Great War General, so the ice and snow power she could call upon was rather limited. But her foundations and standing were still there.

Good. I've got the Heavenly Snow Woman. Next, it's time to get Elemental Spirit Little Flame Belle from Zhuoyuan.

Lan Yu was a greedy man. If he let such an opportunity slip by, he wouldn't be living up to his greed.

Besides, since he'd secured Snow Empress, he might as well make it a pair and get Little Flame Belle too.

It was worth mentioning that this forced contract was an additional ability granted by the Summoning Element cheat. His original Summoning Contract still existed, so Lan Yu could make another contract.

Of course, he still had his ordinary Beginner-Level Summoning, but now that he had the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, he couldn't be bothered with ordinary Summoned Beasts.

"Snow'er, may the Ice God watch over you!"

As they parted, Ice Empress and Snow Empress said their goodbyes reluctantly.

"Bing'er, take care!"

After leaving the Far North and just entering the Ice-Sealed Forbidden Forest, Lan Yu suddenly turned back.

"I thought you'd forgotten," Di Tian couldn't help saying.

"Forgotten what?" Snow Empress asked, puzzled.

"To look for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow," Lan Yu replied.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow!

Snow Empress was stunned. She knew of this treasure, but had never found it in the Far North.

To prepare for her seven-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, she had searched the entire Far North from end to end for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Unfortunately, after all these years, she hadn't found even a single ice chip of it.

"Snow'er, did that guy bully you?"

Seeing Snow Empress, Di Tian, and that detestable human who had separated her from Snow Empress, Ice Empress immediately shifted into her Spine-Back Dragon battle form.

"No, Bing'er, you've got it wrong." Snow Empress said, "We came back to look for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow."

"The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow?!" Ice Empress exclaimed in surprise. "But we searched the Far North for so long and never found any. Are we sure we can find it this time?"

"According to that fat worm, he once fell into an ice cave by accident, and was lucky enough to reach a place where the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow was kept," Di Tian said.

"A worm? The Ice Silkworm Clan?" Ice Empress knew that clan well. After all, they were extremely weak and fit only to be food for the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan.

Di Tian nodded. "He was later captured and taken to Star Dou Forest. By then, he'd already cultivated for nine hundred thousand years."

Nine hundred thousand years?!

Snow Empress and Ice Empress stared in shock. This Ice Silkworm had been that lucky?

"He wasn't much of a fighter, though. His spiritual power was quite strong."

"If we're looking for ice caves, there are countless of them throughout the Far North. If we just search like this, how long will it take?" Ice Empress said.

"No worries. I'll release my Martial Soul and sense which area has the densest ice-elemental aura. Then we'll know we're close to the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lan Yu released his Ice and Fire Dragon King Martial Soul.

When they saw his Martial Soul, Snow Empress and Ice Empress were even more astonished.

So the reason they had sensed something different about this human earlier was that he possessed the power of the Ice and Fire Dragon King.

No wonder he didn't seem like a pure-blooded human.

After summoning his Martial Soul, Lan Yu said to Snow Empress and the others, "Snow Empress, you and Ice Empress help me look for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow."

"All right." Snow Empress readily agreed.

"Will that really work?" Ice Empress murmured.

"Bing'er..."