Evacuation of Hundreds of Millions

She was the Ice-Snow Maiden, naturally born from the ice essence of heaven and earth—a one-of-a-kind humanoid soul beast.

Yet this Thunder Spirit had personally told them that she had been enlightened into existence by Yao Shi. That was equivalent to Yao Shi directly turning that tribulation lightning into a being like himself.

In Snow Empress's understanding, perhaps only deities could directly turn an inanimate object into life.

Yao Shi repeatedly shook his head when he heard their questions. "How could I possibly be a descendant of a deity? My martial soul is just a little unusual, so the soul skills it grants are naturally a little unusual as well."

Yao Shi did not explain much further. He feared that if he kept talking, Ice Empress and Snow Empress would surely think he was some young prince from the Divine Realm who had come down for a stroll.

"Forget it. Let's not worry about the rest for now. In any case, Snow Empress has successfully passed her seven-hundred-thousand-year bottleneck."

Seeing that Yao Shi had no intention of explaining further, the two women did not press him again.

"Oh, Bing'er." Snow Empress suddenly asked, "If I remember correctly, you were planning to go to the human world with little Yao Shi, weren't you?"

Ice Empress nodded. "That's right. This guy ran to my doorstep earlier and started smashing things like crazy. Then he knocked out dozens of my clansmen to lure me out, saying that he wanted to cooperate with me."

As she spoke, Ice Empress seemed to recall that if she had refused back then, Yao Shi might really have locked her in that space. She immediately glared viciously at him.

"Xue'er, why are you bringing this up?" Ice Empress suddenly asked.

Snow Empress smiled and looked at Yao Shi. "I was thinking... could I go to the human world with you as well?"

"What?!"

Ice Empress was utterly shocked.

Was this really the Snow Empress she knew?

Didn't she hate humans the most?

Why was she now taking the initiative to suggest going to the human world?

Could it be because of Yao Shi?

Snow Empress seemed to see through her thoughts. "Are you wondering whether I want to go to the human world because of little Yao Shi?"

Only after Ice Empress nodded did she continue, "It is indeed because of him. Besides, I have lived in the Far North for far too long. It is time for me to see the outside world. I used to hold too many prejudices against humans, but little Yao Shi made me understand that there are kind and good people among humans as well."

As she spoke, her gaze fixed directly on Yao Shi, and she smiled at him. "I wonder whether little Yao Shi would be willing to let me travel with you?"

"Of course I am. The more people there are, the livelier it gets. If it were just Ice Empress and me, someone might get bored every day and keep nagging in my ear like a broken record." Yao Shi readily agreed to Snow Empress's request while taking the chance to tease Ice Empress.

Ice Empress's face immediately darkened. Embarrassed and annoyed, she clenched her fists. "Damn Yao Shi, who are you calling a broken record? Stand right there. I promise I won't use my tail to whip you."

Seeing Ice Empress's expression change, Yao Shi had already bolted.

As the ruler of the Far North ice plains, Snow Empress needed to make some arrangements before leaving. Thus, over the next two days, Yao Shi and Ice Empress rested within the Glazed Abundance Pure Land.

It was not until the third day that Snow Empress returned, accompanied by an enormous white bear.

Ice Empress's voice sounded beside Yao Shi's ear. "This bear is called Little White. He was a little ice bear Snow Empress picked up shortly after becoming an emperor. He has been with Snow Empress for over two hundred thousand years. To him, Snow Empress is practically his mother."

Snow Empress then brought the bear before Yao Shi and introduced him. "Yao Shi, this is Little White." She then turned to Little White and said, "Little White, this is Yao Shi. It was because of him that I was able to safely pass my bottleneck."

Little White, the Ice Bear King, froze upon hearing this. He wore a foolishly blank expression, as though he could not believe that this four-ring human before him had the ability to help his mother survive her heavenly tribulation.

Seeing that Little White did not react at all, Snow Empress lightly tapped him on the head and said gently, "Be good. Hurry and say hello."

Only then did Little White nod somewhat awkwardly. "H-Hello. M-My name is Little White."

"Uh, hello. My name is Yao Shi." Yao Shi immediately replied, wondering why this bear had such an accent.

Only then did Snow Empress say to Yao Shi, "Little Yao Shi, Little White is not far from his third bottleneck. Without me by his side to protect him, it may be difficult for him to break through successfully. So I want him to accompany us as well."

Yao Shi agreed without hesitation. "Sure. There's plenty of space in the Pure Land, so accommodating all of you won't be a problem at all. Besides, after I broke through to four rings, the space inside expanded quite a bit."

Thus, Yao Shi's original goal had only been Ice Empress. Yet after all the twists and turns, Snow Empress had joined them first, followed by Little White, the Ice Bear King. Oh, and he had also conveniently reached four rings.

This time, his gains had far exceeded his expectations.

Another three days quickly passed.

At the outskirts of the Far North, Yao Shi lay leisurely by himself in a carriage. Since Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Little White were soul beasts, they all remained within the Glazed Abundance Pure Land. However, Yao Shi had granted them permission to enter and leave freely, and they could also sense the situation outside whenever they wished.

Before setting out, during the two days he had spent waiting for Snow Empress, Yao Shi had been bored and gone to loot the corpses of the soul tool squad that had been wiped out while besieging Snow Empress. Sure enough, he had found quite a few good things.

Not only had he obtained several storage soul tools with enormous capacities, but the gold soul coins inside them added up to at least a hundred million. This overwhelming fortune made Yao Shi's eyes light up at the sight of all those glittering coins. For two straight days, he placed them inside the Glazed Pure Land to keep him company, even sleeping sprawled atop them. He could not help it—when he had been young, he had been terrified of poverty from having struggled to earn money.

Seeing Yao Shi like this inside the Pure Land, Ice Empress looked utterly disdainful. "They're just a pile of useless metal scraps. Look at you guarding them like they're treasures."

After saying that, Ice Empress shook out an even larger mountain of gold soul coins from her storage space. Her explanation was that, over the past tens of thousands of years, countless human experts had entered the Far North, only to be killed by her and her clansmen. As a soul beast, human possessions were of no use to her at all, so they had simply been collected. Over time, they had accumulated into an enormous amount.

Seeing yet another mountain of gold soul coins, Yao Shi's eyes lit up again. He coquettishly pleaded with Ice Empress, "Sister Bing, please support me!"

Ice Empress merely haughtily turned her head. "Since you like them so much, I'll reward you with all of them."

Besides that, he had also obtained dozens of seventh- and eighth-grade soul tools, a ninth-grade soul tool called the Sealing God Platform, as well as some books on soul tools and soul engineers.

Yao Shi found them rather interesting after looking through them. He felt that his fourth soul skill seemed quite suitable for soul tools as well. Perhaps one day, he could use it to create an army of intelligent machines.

In any case, he had already left Shrek Academy. Thus, he immediately decided that his next stop would be the Sun Moon Empire, where he would study soul tool technology.