Begging You, Please Let Me Go

Heh heh heh... Now A-Tai had been gravely wounded by the shock waves from the battle, and Xue'er was nowhere to be found.

The Far North. There was only this emperor.

But so what!!

As the leader of the Far North, the emperor of my clan, how could I tolerate humans barging into the Core Area and slaughtering A-Tai's people!!

So what if he was a Limit Douluo! This was the Far North!!

My territory!!

What's more, he had brought along a deadweight. Heh heh heh... a mere Level 40 Soul Ancestor...

"Um... comrade, you're not wearing any shoes."

Xu Qing's words were like a bolt from the blue. Du Busi almost couldn't keep a straight face.

Who could face a situation like this without the slightest fear, stay perfectly calm, and even taunt their opponent with such arrogance!!?

Only my precious disciple! That's the spirit!! He's got the bearing my true self ought to have!

Yes, in Du Busi's eyes, that simple greeting was nothing less than the most brazen provocation!

Was he worried his master wouldn't be able to win, so he deliberately tried to distract the enemy?

Heh heh ha ha! Your master understands!

"Heh heh heh... human."

Ice Empress held it together! Not only did she hold it together, she even looked furious!!

Her fair little face had turned bright red.

"This emperor has never seen anyone so... shameless!!!"

She gritted her teeth and forced out those words, but it didn't seem to help.

No, it helped. Uh, it probably just made her mad.

But those words did snap Ice Empress out of her near-impulsive attack.

Meanwhile, Du Busi, who had been waiting for the right moment to defeat her in one strike, stayed silent after hearing Xu Qing's mental transmission.

[Master, that Titan Snow Demon King has already been knocked unconscious by the shock waves.]

[I'll just absorb any old beast for my fourth ring later. A Titan Snow Demon should still do. The Soul Skills produced by this Soul Beast are relatively stable and suit me pretty well.]

[By the way, I want her. Take her back and make her my fifth ring.]

Ice Empress looked at Du Busi, whose presence was sharp and terrifying. The pressure radiating from him rivaled Xue'er's!

She felt like backing down.

But could she flee in the middle of a fight?

I think she could.

As long as the green hills remained, there'd be no shortage of firewood.

"Thanks for the compliment, Ice Empress."

Xu Qing continued to perform steadily, sticking to the principle that if someone got mad, it wasn't his fault.

"Why didn't you focus on cultivating instead of disturbing me while I was obtaining a Soul Ring?"

"Do you know that unlike you Soul Beasts, who only have to eat and sleep to grow stronger naturally and enjoy extraordinarily long lifespans, we humans..."

"In your eyes, what's the difference between us and mayflies?"

"Just a hundred years, gone in a flash."

"...So... balabala... It's really hard, you know?"

His eyes stayed fixed on Ice Empress's feet.

The moment he noticed the slightest hint that she might move, the old geezer would make his move! He'd crush her with overwhelming force!

This Soul Beast Transformation was really something. She wasn't even wearing shoes, and her feet had gone red from the cold.

"Bah! What nonsense!"

Ice Empress had already given up on attacking, and her thoughts were racing.

She knew that the key to escaping now lay with this human, who seemed to be missing a screw!

"If you hadn't kept coming to the Far North Core Area, would A-Tai and I have bothered you?"

"If you hadn't kept hunting down A-Tai's people, would he have been blinded by rage and foolishly challenged a Limit Douluo?"

Her eyes were clear as she looked at Du Busi. The murderous intent had left her voice, though it remained cold.

"We Soul Beasts have always respected the strong, but you can't go this far!"

"Titan Snow Demons already have trouble reproducing. They might not gain even one new clan member in a hundred years. And for the past five years, you've specifically hunted those who've already grown up—the pillars of their clan..."

"What does that have to do with you?"

The palm of Xu Qing's left hand, held behind his back, quietly lit up with a faint blue glow. He said lightly:

"What do those things have to do with you?"

"Have I hunted the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan?"

"..."

Ice Empress's little hands tightened, then loosened. Her tiny head had no knowledge of how to debate with humans.

"Ah, when she runs into a hard question, she goes quiet again."

"...This emperor..."

"The strong prey on the weak. The law of nature applies not only among Soul Beasts, but in the human world as well."

Xu Qing continued to manipulate the Ring Fusion technique, focusing most of his Soul Power and spiritual power on this piece of Mystic Ice Marrow.

"Why did you come to stop me?"

"Heh heh heh, now that you've successfully stopped me, you've taken on the consequences of that Titan Snow Demon King challenging his betters."

"Tell me, should I hunt down an Ice Jade Scorpion for my fourth ring?"

"No!"

"Heh, you don't get to decide that. A mere 399,800-year Ferocious Beast dares challenge a Level 99 Limit Douluo?"

"Did you think you could do whatever you wanted just because you were in the Far North?"

"Go get Snow Empress!!"

Xu Qing, you little bastard!!!

Huff...

Ice Empress's tense shoulders relaxed, as if she'd accepted her fate.

Heh heh heh... I'd never imagined I'd die not beneath a Heavenly Tribulation, but at the hands of greedy humans.

How fate toyed with me...

Damn it!! This emperor doesn't want to die... sob sob sob...

Xue'er wasn't here either. Hmph... Xue'er...

Sigh...

Farewell, Far North.

Farewell, Xue'er.

Farewell, my people.

No!

I can't die!!

I have to find Xue'er!!!

She suddenly opened her eyes. She didn't choose to flee, but instead rallied herself to fight to the bitter end!

"Dummy."

Those were the last words Ice Empress heard before she lost consciousness. Right after that, she felt something enter her mouth.

Cool and icy. A sensation she'd never felt before, a taste she'd never encountered...

"Let go of me!! You bastard!!"

"Beg me?"

"I'm begging you, please let me go..."

"Nope."

"Shameless, shameless, shameless!! Xue'er won't let you get away with this! Xue'er can slap you and that Green Baldy into a cloud of blood mist with one hand!"

Xu Qing ignored her completely and kept stuffing Mystic Ice Marrow into Ice Empress's mouth.

"Mmph, mmph..."

"Mmph?"

Chew, chew, chew...

What kind of heavenly treasure was this? It definitely wasn't Mystic Ice Marrow!

It had to be some kind of ice-attribute treasure disguised as ice marrow!

Even her Soul Power, sealed and deadened, had begun to stir!

The change was tiny, but she absolutely couldn't be mistaken about that feeling!!

Xu Qing kept feeding her, determined to find out how much her stomach could hold!

Ice Empress naturally accepted everything he gave her, and even started to feel he was going a little too slowly.

Mm... Though she didn't understand what this human was trying to do.

But this emperor's instincts told her...

All right, even this emperor's instincts couldn't figure it out.

At this point, she might as well eat first.

"Tsk, how can you eat so much!!"

Xu Qing was getting annoyed. Feeding the little scorpion was exhausting. His back and legs ached.

What a great chance!!

Ice Empress seized the moment Xu Qing stretched and immediately threw a punch!