The Flame Emperor's Gaze

"Bing'er, we should be heading back. We've been away from the Body Sect for two months already." Xiao Jinchen smiled gently.

"Ah Chen... um... could you give me another Humanoid Transformation Pill?" Ice Empress nestled against Xiao Jinchen's chest and asked softly.

"You want one for Snow Empress too, don't you?" Xiao Jinchen said with a smile.

"Huh?" Ice Empress asked in surprise. "Ah Chen, how did you know I wanted to ask for one for Xue'er?"

Xiao Jinchen reached out and lightly scraped her delicate nose, smiling. "Your thoughts are written all over your face. Other than Snow Empress, I can't think of anyone else you'd ask me for a Humanoid Transformation Pill for."

"Xue'er isn't far from her seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation... and before you took me out of the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well, Xue'er had already disappeared somewhere." Her cheeks faintly flushed as Ice Empress twisted the corner of his robe between her fingers and murmured, "I'm worried about Xue'er..."

Snow Empress? She should already be a Soul Beast Embryo by now, right? Xiao Jinchen thought to himself. "Going by the timeline of the original work, she should be in the Star Luo Empire now."

Ice Empress lifted her head, her beautiful amber eyes brimming with anticipation. "Ah Chen, please?"

"Fine. I'll refine another Humanoid Transformation Pill for you after a while." Xiao Jinchen rubbed Ice Empress's emerald-green hair affectionately.

Hearing that, Ice Empress excitedly kissed his cheek. "Yay! Ah Chen is the best!"

"Ah Chen, then let's go back now." Ice Empress had just started to rise when Xiao Jinchen caught her wrist.

Xiao Jinchen looked at Ice Empress with a teasing half-smile. "Bing'er, that reward just now was too light. Shouldn't we go a little deeper?"

Ice Empress froze, then immediately understood. Her fair skin was instantly dyed crimson.

She bit her lower lip and said in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz, "Then... then you..."

"Mmph!"

Before her cry could finish, Xiao Jinchen directly sealed her lips! Hehehe!

Xiao Jinchen grabbed a fistful of Ice Empress's emerald-green hair and kissed her domineeringly.

Ice Empress weakly clenched his lapels with both hands, able to let out only a long, muffled moan.

Ice Empress weakly clutched Xiao Jinchen's lapels, her body soft as water as she could only let him plunder her domineeringly.

Only when Ice Empress's breathing grew ragged did Xiao Jinchen pull back slightly. Resting his forehead against hers, he whispered, "Bing'er, why can I never get enough of kissing you?"

Ice Empress's face flushed scarlet at his words. She simply buried her face deep in Xiao Jinchen's chest and did not dare lift her head again.

The far north of the Great Thousand World, the Endless Fire Territory.

Countless Heavenly Flames had transformed into brilliant Fire Lotuses that flowed through the heavens, yet they held all their terrifying heat within, leaving only streams of light that filled the sky.

Within a bamboo garden deep in the Fire Territory, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao were leisurely playing chess.

Suddenly, Xiao Yan paused slightly. His gaze seemed to pierce through the void, and his fingertips trembled faintly. The chess piece he held actually landed an inch away from its intended position.

Yao Lao looked at the terrible move and helplessly shook his head. "Little Yan, what's wrong? Did you sense something?"

"Nothing." Xiao Yan frowned slightly. "Teacher, I merely sensed earlier that an inheritance I left in a certain lower plane had been activated. I thought someone fated had obtained it, but in that instant just now, even the trace of Half-Saint-level spiritual intent I left for the inheritor to protect their life was forcibly triggered by an external force."

"A mere four-star Dou Zun dared lay hands on my inheritor." A faintly mocking curve appeared on Xiao Yan's lips. "Overestimating himself."

"Oh? Little Yan, someone touched your inheritor. Want to kill him directly?" Yao Lao asked blandly.

"No need." Xiao Yan placed another piece and said calmly, "Why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken? A small punishment is enough to make him remember the lesson."

"Little Yan, you should take a look at your inheritor too." Yao Lao chuckled. "Activating your inheritance isn't easy. We might as well see what kind of genius was able to trigger it."

"Alright." Xiao Yan nodded and waved his hand. A pale-red light screen appeared before them.

When Xiao Yan and Yao Lao saw the image on the pale-red light screen clearly, both of their mouths twitched.

Because the screen showed Xiao Jinchen and Ice Empress kissing.

Inside the bamboo garden, the air fell silent for three full breaths.

"Little Yan, this is the inheritor you chose?" Yao Lao stared at the screen, the corners of his mouth rising wildly. Pointing at the inseparable pair in the image, he laughed. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. You didn't leave behind some of your youthful experience in that inheritance too, did you? Like... the Magical Beast Mountain Range... hehehe..."

"Cough, cough, cough..." Seeing Xiao Jinchen acting so domineeringly on the screen, Xiao Yan's old face reddened as well. He coughed dryly. "Teacher, this is merely... a special method of soul communication."

"A method of soul communication?" Yao Lao wore a shamelessly improper expression. "Then tell me, what kind of communication leaves a young lady too weak to stand? He really does resemble you back when you took Medusa at the bottom of Jia Nan Academy's Heavenly Burning Qi Tower."

As he spoke, Yao Lao rubbed his chin with a deliberately serious expression. "Still, isn't it a little inappropriate for us to be peeping on a young couple kissing?"

Xiao Yan helplessly pressed a hand to his forehead and waved away the light screen. "Teacher, please stop making fun of me. That was so many years ago. Xiao Xiao is nearly ready to break through to Sovereign."

Heaven Dou Empire, Body Sect.

"Sect Master, Little Chen has been out for two months now. Could something have happened to him?" Golden Body Douluo Jin Peng asked.

"Don't worry about that brat. He's probably gone off to hunt his sixth Spirit Ring himself." Du Busi lounged on the Blue Star sofa Xiao Jinchen had gotten for him, basking leisurely in the sun.

"His sixth Spirit Ring? Is Little Chen really capable of it?" Jin Peng asked.

"Don't forget, that brat's fifth Spirit Ring came from a seventy-thousand-year Soul Beast. He killed it himself." Du Busi waved his hand dismissively.

Suddenly, a drastic change occurred. Du Busi and Jin Peng's expressions changed sharply.

"A Limit Douluo has arrived!" Du Busi's eyes abruptly turned cold. A terrifying wave of Soul Power swept out from his body as he transformed into a streak of dark-green light and shot toward the sky.

The instant Du Busi moved, Jin Peng beside him and powerful figures from every corner of the Body Sect shot forth at the same time.

Above the Body Sect, more than a dozen figures looked ahead with grave expressions. At their head was naturally the Rank 98 Super Douluo, Du Busi.

A green-haired young woman and a black-haired youth stood suspended in the air.

"Who goes there?!" Du Busi shouted as he sensed the terrifying aura emanating from Ice Empress.

Xiao Jinchen grinned. "Old man, why did you all come out to welcome me? Are you that happy I'm back?"

Wrapped in Soul Power, Xiao Jinchen's voice reached the ears of Du Busi and the others.

"Little Chen? It's you!" Du Busi exclaimed in delight upon hearing that familiar voice.