But Xiao Bai had clearly gotten the wrong idea.
One second, he had still been denying that he was an uncle-in-law, and the next, he suddenly came out with, "I still need to work hard"...
"I'll help you, Xu Qing!" Xiao Bai offered up his loyalty.
Tsk. What was this? Had he somehow won over someone from the bride's family without even trying?
"Carrying me around the Far North right now while I absorb the energy of heaven and earth is already helping me. This piece of Mystic Ice Marrow drained the energy within dozens of miles, and with the qualitative change caused by my Ring Fusion on top of that..."
Xu Qing paused. "It should help you break through that final thin barrier."
"What's a thin barrier? Why does Xiao Bai have to break it (⊙_⊙)?"
The illiterate Polar Bear crunched on the Mystic Ice Marrow with loud cracks as he asked that.
"...Nothing." Xu Qing broke into a cold sweat and decided he would stop using proverbs in the future. "With your current cultivation and energy reserves, how confident are you in getting through the tribulation?"
His spiritual power spread out, sensing the Soul Power fluctuations beneath him, which were steadily rising.
Mystic Ice Marrow was practically no different from a cheat for ice-type soul beasts.
"Sixty or seventy percent." Xiao Bai swallowed the Mystic Ice Marrow that had been chewed into bits. "Now eighty or ninety percent."
"Rumble—!!"
The instant his words fell, the white clouds in the sky were almost instantly swallowed by blackness.
All at once, lightning flashed, thunder roared, and the wind and snow fell into silence.
"Whoosh—" A piercing sound of air being torn open rang out as the Ice Empress appeared out of thin air.
She looked solemnly at the Heavenly Tribulation