"Thank you for your great kindness and grace, Your Majesty the Ice Empress."
"Were you thinking I should say something like that?"
"Hehe, I'm in a very good mood right now. Of course, if you did say that, I'd be even happier."
The Ice Empress chuckled, hands clasped behind her back, though the corners of her eyes kept flicking toward the rear. Clearly, she was itching to get going.
Xu Qing naturally saw through her. Without wasting any time, he directly mobilized his spiritual power, and in a single instant, the countless Ice Extreme Divine Crystals were all taken into his Sea of Consciousness.
"Done, right? Hurry up and come over."
The Ice Empress turned around, her twin ponytails swaying as she bounced to the very center of the cave and said excitedly:
"It's very, very cold down there! Even you might not be able to withstand it. Come closer to me so I can take you down!"
In front of the Ice Empress was a spring only one meter wide. The ground around it was frosted over with cold, extremely solid, and the spring itself was as deep and black as ink.
It was precisely the entrance to the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave.
Xu Qing stepped forward and gazed at the dark-blue spring. Just as he was about to reach out and test its depth, the impatient Ice Empress seized the chance, slipped softly into his arms, and the two of them fell in together.
"Hold... me... glug glug~~"
The process of entering was hard to describe. Xu Qing only felt that at first, it was like being stuffed into ten-thousand-year-old solid ice, extremely cramped.
Fortunately, Xu Qing was strong and sturdy, and with the Ice Empress taking meticulous care of him at his side, that crushing pressure