Ice-Fire Body Tempering

"You two seem to have misunderstood something. I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. If you really refuse, I'll have no choice but to use your bodies for Ice-Fire Body Tempering."

"I doubt your essences and your bodies will differ much in effect."

"Don't forget, you attacked us. That alone is reason enough. If you won't hand over your essences, Ice Empress, get ready."

Endless cold lay beneath Jiang Yue's gentle tone. Behind him, the Ice Empress had already raised her hand, gathering diamond-like ice crystals. She was ready to kill the two Immortal Herbs where they stood.

She was a Soul Beast, but plenty of Soul Beasts had died by her hand. Even if these two were Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, she would kill them without hesitation.

Soul Beasts lived by a simple rule: the strong preyed on the weak. Not one Plant-type Soul Beast here could match the Ice Empress in battle, so she had no reason to take them seriously.

And spare them because they were fellow Soul Beasts? Please. This was not the Extreme North, and these were not Soul Beasts of the Extreme North. Why would the Ice Empress, one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, pity them?

She would kill Soul Beasts from the Extreme North, too!

At the sight of the menacing Ice Empress behind Jiang Yue, the leaves of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass drew back. They were the strongest fighters in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but even they were no match for a genuine 390,000-year-old Ferocious Beast.

Yet they could not simply surrender. Their essences took many years to produce, and their value went without saying.

The essences mattered too much for them to hand them over willingly. Jiang Yue