I Hate Apologies After the Fact the Most!

"Unfamiliar ceiling. Who are you?"

Ice Empress loosened her clenched, powdery fists. Her gaze swept over the clearly visible bite mark on Xu Qing's collarbone, then skipped over the wounds that had already healed.

She let out a long sigh of relief in her heart.

Physical amnesia...

"I remember now. You deadly scorpion, wearing such an innocent face while doing something so cruel."

Xu Qing stood up, rapidly condensing the Mystic Ice Marrow into his fifth ring in his palm before swallowing it. He then subconsciously touched his collarbone, where the wounds were already beginning to knit together.

"You should know that I relieved you of one-thirtieth of your strength. Shouldn't you be serving me tea, pouring water, pounding my shoulders, and kneading my legs to properly thank me?"

"To actually return kindness with enmity and wound your benefactor like this, it really is..."

Xu Qing watched Ice Empress's face turn increasingly red and continued to add fuel to the fire.

"Tsk, actually, I can understand you. After all, Lord Xu here is a handsome young man with a name and a reputation. It's only natural that someone like you, who has been holed up at home for tens of thousands of years, couldn't resist..."

"Shut up!"

"Apologize."

"No!!"

Ice Empress crossed her arms over her chest and turned her head away, crunching on that piece of Mystic Ice Marrow. Her long hair swayed with the movement, revealing half of an ear that had turned beet red.

"Hehehe..."

Xu Qing chuckled softly and said, "Ice Empress, if just one piece of Mystic Ice Marrow made from a hundred-thousand-year soul ring makes you act like that, what if I use Ring Fusion?"

As he spoke, he began to put his words into action.

"Watch closely. I'm going to stack the first four soul rings onto the fifth. Hehehe... a world-shaking delicacy is coming."

"Heh... do you think this Empress's Willpower is that weak?"

Ice Empress held up her thumb and index finger, crossing them with a tiny gap in between.

"Even with only this tiny bit of strength, this Empress can eat it without changing expression... without being affected in the slightest."

Is Xu Qing's Mystic Ice Marrow really just regular Mystic Ice Marrow?!

Ice Empress asked herself. This feeling of being unable to resist, and the way the mere scent it emitted made her feel such strange things.

She couldn't figure it out...

Moreover, this lingering fragrance on her lips and teeth, this refreshing and mellow sweetness!

And that heart-pounding palpitation...

Can this Empress hold out?

Ice Empress swallowed her saliva, staring at Xu Qing with burning eyes, preparing to snatch it the moment he finished so she could return to her room and savor it slowly!

"Hehehe... you wouldn't be planning to snatch it the moment I finish, would you?"

Xu Qing saw through everything, spotting Ice Empress's restless urge at a glance.

This stupid scorpion has all her thoughts written on her face! Wipe your drool, hey!!

"Slurp... I am not."

The Soul Power fluctuations on Xu Qing's body gradually stabilized. The fusion of the five terrifying soul rings was complete; this super Mystic Ice Marrow was about to take shape!

But it was already fragrant for miles!

The gluttonous scorpion could barely hold back!

At this moment, however, Xu Qing stopped his movements, withdrew the semi-finished Mystic Ice Marrow back into his Martial Soul Space, and paced the living room with his hands behind his back, looking calm and collected.

"Hehehe..."

Why did you stop!!? Did this Empress give you permission to stop?? Keep making it for this Empress!!

Mmph...!

Ice Empress's cheeks puffed up rapidly like they were being inflated.

Damn it! I've been seen through!!

"Apologize."

Xu Qing came before the pufferfish-scorpion, leaned down slightly, and his tall figure completely overshadowed Ice Empress.

"No! Way!"

Why should this Empress apologize!

Although you didn't take advantage of me in that state, This Emperor is very pleased about that.

But don't forget, this was all caused by you!

And now you're making This Emperor...

Hmph, impudent fellow!!

The Ice Empress kicked Xu Qing hard!

Softness and hardness clashed fiercely, and naturally, the former couldn't bear the pain first.

Her pink toes became even more delicate, crystal clear.

"It hurts so much..."

"If you're not going to apologize, then forget it. I won't give you any more to eat. I'll cut off your Mystic Ice Marrow for a month."

"I'm sorry!"

The Ice Empress immediately admitted her mistake, her attitude extremely serious, her tone very sincere, and her expression very pleasing!

If one were to ignore the look in her eyes, which was like...

After speaking, she extended her hands, cupped them, raised them high, signaling Xu Qing to quickly fulfill his promise.

"Now, shouldn't you give me that piece of ice marrow?"

"When did I say I would give it to you?"

Xu Qing, the villain, was online. He narrowed his eyes and smiled faintly.

He slowly pushed her hands down, the force so great that the floor beneath their feet creaked under the strain.

"Hehehe, if you don't give it to This Emperor, who else do you plan to give it to?"

The Ice Empress pushed her hands back up, her toes digging into the floor, her whole body straining!

"That level of Mystic Ice Marrow, This Emperor doesn't believe you can absorb it. With your small frame, you'd probably explode if you ate it! So, hand it over obediently!"

"You can't handle such an opportunity!"

"Heh! After a few months in human society, you've even learned to tell cold jokes. Not bad, not bad. Do you want me to praise you? Xiao Bing?"

Xu Qing chuckled, his large hand grabbed her small hands, and he directly lifted the Ice Empress, deliberately turning the Scorpion King around.

"Can I not eat what I made myself? What a joke, hehehe, I'm going to enjoy that ice marrow."

"Go back, wash up, and sleep!"

"Damn it! You're not keeping your word!"

The Ice Empress broke free from his grasp, turned around, and intended to argue with Xu Qing, determined to bring that 'pitiful' Mystic Ice Marrow back into the warm little belly of the Far North King!

"This Emperor has already apologized to you! And you still won't give it to me! Why are you so mean!"

"Hmph, what I hate the most is apologizing afterward."

A killing blow!

Xu Qing strode past the Ice Empress, who had turned gray, and walked back into the room step by step.

Thump, thump...

To the Ice Empress, these footsteps sounded like the Mystic Ice Marrow crying for help, and she could do nothing.

Mmmph mmmph...

No! This Emperor will not give up!

Undead Demi-plane.

Xu Qing sat cross-legged, a prism-shaped ice marrow emitting a deep blue glow suspended in the air.

This Mystic Ice Marrow was generally shuttle-shaped, but its edges were not sharp, instead being exceptionally smooth, about half the size of a watermelon.

"Elder Yi, this Mystic Ice Marrow, which has been enhanced with five soul rings, has had its energy density increased nearly tenfold from its original state."

"Its purity has reached an unprecedented level, 99.999%."

"And the most crucial part is the two soul skills from the fifth ring."

"The one the Ice Empress snatched to eat contained the effect of the second soul skill. Judging by her performance, this should be a mechanism-based soul skill."

"It ignores the user's level, physique, and even their form of existence. Soul beasts can also use it."

As Xu Qing spoke, he condensed two more pieces, each containing one five-ring soul skill.

Their forms also changed.

Soul skill one was oval, the size of a walnut.

Soul skill two was long and thin, resembling the ice cream the Ice Empress liked.