"Click—"
"Ow..." The Ice Empress covered her forehead, her little mouth jutting out in displeasure, then began rattling off complaints about Xu Qing's "violence."
She had completely forgotten how she herself had treated Xu Qing.
Xu Qing listened to that pleasant voice and felt his mood soar. As long as she did not suddenly attack him, the Ice Empress was actually pretty cute sometimes.
"Roar—!"
The Titan Snow Demon had awakened. In this past month, it had only woken twice: once when it first laid eyes on that human, and once when it had been startled awake by the destructive will of the lightning tribulation.
The Ice Empress, and that human powerhouse!
It sprang to its feet, wind and snow surging. Its nearly twenty-meter-tall body was like an apartment building, firmly blocking the cave entrance as a dark mass slowly advanced toward Xu Qing.
It did not choose to attack. After its strength had broken through to this level, its intelligence had evolved like never before.
Naturally, it understood very well how much of a... miracle it was that it had gone from a mere sixty-thousand-year cultivation to one hundred and ninety thousand years in just a short month, simply by sleeping and eating that strange food.
Yes, a miracle. Or even further than that—it would not be too much to call it a divine miracle.
This Titan Snow Demon thought this, then came to a stop, its lantern-sized eyes looking at the two short figures below.
Without hesitation, it dropped to one knee, bowed its head, and gave thanks.
"Ice Empress, and this Lord Soul Master, what do you need me to do?"
In its view, any human who could be together with one of the sovereigns of the Far North, the Ice Empress, had to be standing on