In the presence of a Ferocious Beast like the Ice Empress, Yu Tianjue naturally had no power to resist. In the blink of an eye, she had tucked him under her arm.
A faint fragrance slipped into his nose, but Yu Tianjue clearly had no time to think about that now.
He only wanted to know where the Ice Empress was taking him—and why she had abducted him.
The scenery raced backward before Yu Tianjue's eyes. She was moving so fast that he could barely keep his eyes open, but he didn't shout or make a fuss. Instead, he calmly took in his surroundings.
It didn't take long for Yu Tianjue to figure out his situation. The Ice Empress was heading straight for the Ice and Snow Palace.
She wanted to take him to the Ice and Snow Palace. But... why?
Elsewhere, as the Ice Empress departed, the Eternal Frozen Domain dissipated along with her.
The bone-deep cold gradually receded. Yu Yuanzhen immediately felt much better, but before he could feel relieved, his expression darkened.
Tian Jue... was gone!
Had that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's goal from the start been to trap him and abduct Tian Jue?!
Yu Yuanzhen was shocked and furious. It had only been a few days since Yu Tianjue's Second Awakening and evolution, but he had already come to see him as the family and sect's hope, their future successor. Otherwise, he wouldn't have personally taken Yu Tianjue to hunt for a Soul Ring.
He never imagined that even after personally stepping in, he still wouldn't be able to protect Tian Jue!
Damn it!
Yu Yuanzhen cursed inwardly, but quickly collected himself.
Since that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast hadn't killed Tian Jue at once and had abducted him instead, she probably wouldn't hurt him just yet.
He didn't know why the Soul Beast had gone to such lengths to abduct Tian Jue, but if he went after her now, he might still be able to save him.
That Soul Beast's strength... was formidable. But if he abandoned Tian Jue and simply went back, he wouldn't just be abandoning a genius who could revive the sect. He'd have no right to remain clan head or sect master, either!
The last fluctuation of Soul Power he'd sensed had come from that direction...
Yu Yuanzhen narrowed his eyes as he determined the direction, then quickly set off after the Ice Empress.
He didn't dismiss his Martial Soul. The pressure of a Titled Douluo poured out without restraint, spreading in every direction. The Soul Beasts in the outer circle scattered in panic, not daring to stand in the way of the enraged Titled Douluo.
With the Ice Empress traveling at full speed, it wasn't long before a magnificent ice palace appeared in Yu Tianjue's view.
Once they arrived, the turmoil in Yu Tianjue's heart gradually faded, and he found himself growing calm.
This was the place where he had spent an entire lifetime in the Life Simulation...
Yu Tianjue couldn't help letting out a quiet sigh. At the same time, he began to wonder what the Ice Empress intended.
The Ice Empress never said a word. She simply carried Yu Tianjue straight into the palace.
The interior of the great hall was exceptionally spacious. In the Life Simulation, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress had specially renovated it for Yu Tianjue, adding a room, a toilet, and a few other things that only humans would need.
Before then, the entire hall had been almost completely empty. The only thing that could be called a furnishing was a seat made entirely of pure ice... or, more accurately, a throne.
And the Snow Empress was sitting on it now.
Noticing the Ice Empress burst in, the Snow Empress lifted her head as if suddenly roused from a dream.
At a glance, the figure from her dream overlapped with Yu Tianjue's, and a complicated, stunned look gradually appeared on her face.
Seeing the Snow Empress's expression, the Ice Empress knew she'd guessed right.
Just like her, Xue'er had also dreamed something similar.
And the main character in that dream was this six-year-old child!
The Ice Empress was just about to speak when the Snow Empress gently shook her head at her. Then she rose from the throne and, barefoot, glided toward them, coming to a stop a few steps in front of Yu Tianjue.
Snow Empress...
Yu Tianjue looked just as dazed. But what he saw in the Snow Empress before him was the Snow Empress from the Life Simulation.
He wondered what had become of the Snow Empress in the simulated world, after he had gifted her a sliver of divine power.
Free from the shackles of heavenly tribulations, surely the Snow Empress would have continued breaking through, becoming an eight-hundred-thousand- or even nine-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast?
If the Snow Empress had succeeded in breaking through, she naturally wouldn't have chosen to cultivate again in human form. She wouldn't have been captured by Soul Engineers ten thousand years later and eventually become Huo Yuhao's Soul Spirit, either.
What would the future world become without the Snow Empress, such a powerful Soul Spirit?
Yu Tianjue couldn't imagine it. He didn't have time to, either.
He could clearly feel the Snow Empress's cool jade-like hand resting gently on his face.
"What's your name?"
"Yu Tianjue."
Yu Tianjue did his best to keep his voice calm. He also noticed the Snow Empress tremble slightly when she heard his name.
"Yu... Tianjue."
The Snow Empress murmured his name, her expression somewhat dazed.
The name was the same, and his appearance was exactly the same... Was he really the Tianjue from her dream?
The Snow Empress couldn't help studying Yu Tianjue closely from head to toe with her beautiful eyes.
Before long, her eyes narrowed slightly.
Noticing the Snow Empress's gaze, the Ice Empress instinctively lowered her head to look, too—and saw the translucent, exquisite Ice Crystal Necklace.
This necklace...
The Snow Empress and Ice Empress could sense the aura it carried almost at once.
The Ice Crystal Necklace unmistakably carried the auras of both of them!
Seeing the Snow Empress and Ice Empress looking at him, Yu Tianjue instinctively glanced down. Only then did he notice that the Ice Crystal Necklace had somehow slipped out from beneath his clothes.
Maybe the jostling as the Ice Empress traveled at full speed had shaken it loose...
The Ice Empress and Snow Empress had made this Ice Crystal Necklace together. Back then, he'd chosen it as a reward simply to have a keepsake, but now...
It seemed the Ice Empress and Snow Empress could sense their own auras on the necklace!
The Snow Empress and Ice Empress exchanged a glance, each seeing the emotion in the other's eyes.
After a moment of silence, the Snow Empress was the first to speak. Her voice was very soft, almost tentative, as if she were reaching for an unattainable soap bubble.
"Where did you get this Ice Crystal Necklace?"
Wait—
Yu Tianjue suddenly felt that something was wrong.
The Snow Empress and Ice Empress were acting strangely—far too strangely for someone meeting him for the first time. It was as if they had known him for a long time.
How could that be possible?
He had only ever crossed paths with the Snow Empress and Ice Empress in the Life Simulation.
Could it be that when I ran the Life Simulation, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress experienced it too?