Snow Empress's Choice

"All right, say what you have to say." Since the amount of spiritual origin the Ice Empress had released was insufficient, it had not taken the form of her original little-girl appearance. Instead, it had formed a spiritual body modeled after Huo Yuhao's face.

Huo Yuhao took a deep breath, then sat atop the Ice Empress's nearly dormant body and said to her, "You got one thing wrong. That wasn't the script for this lifetime, but for my previous one."

The Ice Empress's mouth twitched sharply. Her face fell as she looked at Huo Yuhao. "Are you out of your mind?"

Huo Yuhao shrugged and said indifferently, "Believe it or not. My goal today wasn't you to begin with. I called you out only because there's something I needed to tell you."

The Ice Empress immediately withdrew her form and returned to her true body, shaking Huo Yuhao off her back before scrutinizing him. "What exactly are you trying to say?"

Huo Yuhao stretched and said irritably, "You really are... violent." He stood, brushed the snowflakes off himself, and said to the Ice Empress, "Whether you believe it or not, Snow Empress will obtain a method of transforming into human form after some time. But she'll encounter danger during that transformation. After we part ways, you'd better keep a close eye on Snow Empress, lest someone beat you to her."

The Ice Empress fell silent for a moment, then looked at Huo Yuhao with considerable wariness. "Why should I believe you?"

Huo Yuhao took a deep breath, then pressed his forehead against the Ice Empress's. Her crystalline scorpion head made his forehead sting. "Sense my spiritual power. Read some of my memories from it, and you'll know whether I'm telling the truth."

The Ice Empress froze for an instant. Then, guided by her spiritual origin, part of Huo Yuhao's memories was copied from his soul.

Before Huo Yuhao's reminder, she had never imagined she could truly do such a thing. It was as if some unseen power had been helping her complete this step.

"Come with me!" After reading part of Huo Yuhao's memories, the Ice Empress suddenly made her move. Her tail pincer swiftly wrapped around Huo Yuhao's waist, and the entire scorpion turned and raced toward a more distant place.

In the core region of the Far North, the bitter cold made Huo Yuhao shiver. The Ice God Pupil on his right arm opened, forming a special field around him that absorbed all the surrounding chill.

Sensing the thing on Huo Yuhao's right arm, the Ice Empress fell silent for a moment and quietly used her tail stinger to push him onto a relatively flatter spot on her back.

"I bear you no ill will now, so there's no need to be nervous. It's just that what you showed me was too terrifying, so I need Xue'er to see it as well."

Huo Yuhao did not answer, tacitly accepting the Ice Empress's intentions. In truth, he had anticipated this possibility.

But Huo Yuhao had nothing to fear. After all, he still had the trump card of traveling through time. None of his ten chances had been used yet. Even if the Snow Empress or Ice Empress truly turned hostile, he could quickly reverse time.

As the Ice Empress came to a stop, she released her thoughts and sent out a call to the Snow Empress.

Following the Ice Empress's call, an even more intense chill swept out from the depths of the Far North. Then, a humanoid figure approached the man and scorpion from afar.

The Snow Empress looked human. Her long, snow-white hair fell behind her all the way to her feet, and her sky-blue eyes were ethereal and clear, as though they could see through everything in the world.

Her slender, delicate body was flawless. Though her white gown bore not the slightest adornment, it made her appear so pure, peerless, immaculate, like a plum blossom amidst winter snow—standing apart from all others, proud against snow and frost.

"Bing'er, what is this?" Snow Empress looked at the Ice Empress. At this time, she had yet to be plotted against by humans. Although she still held no fondness for humanity, she did not possess the same intense hostility toward humans as when she had first met Huo Yuhao in the original story.

The Ice Empress no longer had her earlier arrogance toward Huo Yuhao. Instead, she said gently, "This human seems to know some things we don't, so I wanted to bring him here for you to see."

Snow Empress's gaze settled on Huo Yuhao. The Ice Empress once again wrapped her tail around Huo Yuhao, brought him before Snow Empress, and said, "Xue'er, why don't you press your forehead against his and look at his memories?"

Snow Empress frowned but did not immediately do as the Ice Empress said. Instead, she looked at the Ice God Eye on Huo Yuhao's wrist.

The Ice God Eye was releasing waves of azure aura. After pondering for a moment, Snow Empress looked at Huo Yuhao. "What exactly do you know?"

Huo Yuhao looked at her and repeated what he had told the Ice Empress. As soon as Snow Empress heard it, she furrowed her brows.

"The method you mentioned should refer to this." As she spoke, Snow Empress searched within her dress and pulled out a large ice-blue flower. Huo Yuhao inwardly wondered where she had pulled that out from.

Under the influence of the Ice God Eye, Huo Yuhao's understanding of the ice element had deepened countless times over. With only one glance at the large flower, he had already deduced its use.

This flower could temporarily divide the Soul Power within its consumer into separate portions, much like splitting a disk into volumes.

After separating her Soul Power, Snow Empress could transform into human form again in the state of a Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, then absorb the energy within the flower to ensure that her strength did not decline too greatly.

It could be called an immortal-grade treasure for ice-attributed soul beasts.

But why had Snow Empress already obtained this thing? Could it be that after acquiring it, she had spent nearly a year considering whether to use it?

Thinking about it that way, it did seem plausible. After all, it concerned her life and death. It was only natural for her to be somewhat hesitant.

Snow Empress then looked at the Ice Empress and explained the Immortal Herb in her hand. The Ice Empress could not help frowning.

Snow Empress then looked at Huo Yuhao. "The plan you and Tian Meng have has a higher chance of success than my idea. And in your original memories, although our path was stifling and tortuous, we ultimately succeeded."

Huo Yuhao said nothing. He merely looked at Snow Empress, waiting for what she would say next.

Snow Empress stepped forward and looked at Huo Yuhao. "If you intend to take a new, brighter path, I am willing to join you and Tian Meng."

Huo Yuhao shook his head, then said to Snow Empress, "In my plan, I don't intend to take any of you away at this time..."