Ice Empress's Deliberation and Choice

Little White and the Ice Empress merely glanced at the strange bead.

Li Qingming held it in his hand somewhat helplessly. Since the thing could not be placed inside his storage ring, he had no choice but to carry it like this.

Of course, no one but him could use this thing, nor could they even understand it.

That was why Li Qingming did not care in the slightest.

Once they had confirmed that the Snow Empress was not in danger, the two of them returned directly.

Naturally, Li Qingming knew the truth, but he did not say anything.

At this moment, the Snow Empress was either undergoing her tribulation somewhere or had already been taken away by humans.

Li Qingming did not care about that. In any case, she would eventually end up at an auction house in the Sun Moon Empire. When the time was right, he could simply go there and take the Snow Empress away.

Before they left this time, Little White also gave him some ten-thousand-year Ice Essence.

This was Little White's apology to him.

Li Qingming was quite pleased with this. This hundred-thousand-year Ice Essence would be of great use to him.

Although his innate martial soul was the Holy Angel Martial Soul, this Ice Essence could also help improve his ice constitution.

More importantly, this Ice Essence had been infused with the Ice Empress's power.

In the place where the Ice Empress had lived for tens of thousands of years, every strand of Ice Essence had been permeated by her power.

They contained the laws of the Ice Sky Snow Maiden—the power of ultimate ice.

When the two returned, several Ice Jade Scorpions immediately rushed over as soon as they arrived, chattering away about something.

Listening to them, Li Qingming was somewhat bewildered.

The Ice Empress, who had been relatively calm just moments ago, suddenly flew into a rage.

She shot forward, and Li Qingming followed after her.

The Ice Empress moved swiftly, racing toward the edge of the Extreme Northern Snowfield at incredible speed.

Yet even upon reaching the very edge of the Extreme Northern Snowfield, the Ice Empress did not stop.

Only when they reached the boundary between the Extreme Northern Snowfield and human territory did Li Qingming look down.

What entered his sight was a familiar figure: Huo Yuhao, carrying a backpack.

At this moment, Huo Yuhao looked utterly exhausted, and the power around him had been drained dry.

Yet there was no ultimate ice belonging to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion within his body, which left Li Qingming confused.

He did not understand how things had reached this point.

Normally, Huo Yuhao should have arrived more than ten days later. Li Qingming had not expected him to come so soon.

And now that he had come, why was Huo Yuhao suddenly leaving?

Li Qingming's first thought was that Huo Yuhao was about to fuse with the Ice Empress, or that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm was preparing to provoke her.

But judging by Huo Yuhao's current state, that did not seem to be the case.

At that moment, at the border, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm formed from Huo Yuhao's spiritual power looked at the Ice Empress.

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm blinked at the Ice Empress, regret in its eyes.

"What a pity, my lady wife. I originally wanted to take you with me, but I never expected you to be absent from the Ice Jade Scorpion tribe during that time."

The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm spoke with some regret.

Its gaze lingered on the Ice Empress with longing—or perhaps greed—but it could only sigh helplessly.

It had already taken away a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion and no longer had enough spiritual power to trap the Ice Empress again.

Thus, it could only let the Ice Empress leave.

Sensing the terrifying killing intent in the Ice Empress's gaze, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm helplessly began to explain.

"I did not kill that hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion. It willingly chose to follow me."

Heavenly Dream spoke earnestly. It even released its spiritual power and allowed that Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion to communicate with the Snow Empress.

The Ice Empress stood there in silence, listening to the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's words as the three parties communicated for a long time.

Huo Yuhao looked at the ice sphere wrapped in frost, curiosity in his eyes.

Clearly, he could not see Li Qingming inside, but Li Qingming, standing within it, could easily see him.

Li Qingming did not believe that the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had casually taken away some random hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion.

Clearly, during the time Li Qingming and the Ice Empress had gone to the Snow Empress's residence, they had failed to arrive in time.

Moreover, a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion probably looked very similar to the Ice Empress, so it had been trapped by Heavenly Dream the moment it appeared.

At this stage, Heavenly Dream could no longer trap the Ice Empress again, as it had already exhausted all its spiritual power.

That was what led to this somewhat absurd scene.

At that thought, Li Qingming's eyes flickered slightly.

His appearance seemed to have changed this part of history, preventing the Ice Empress of this timeline from being taken away.

As he watched the Ice Empress's gaze gradually fill with anger and contemplation, Li Qingming remained silent from beginning to end.

The negotiations between the two sides continued for a long time.

The Ice Empress had originally wanted to strike immediately and kill the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao.

But that Ice Jade Scorpion had willingly chosen to follow them, leaving the Ice Empress in a difficult position.

After all, it was a member of her tribe, and could even be considered one of her younger sisters or descendants.

In the end, the Ice Empress did not stop them and instead allowed the two to leave.

Watching Huo Yuhao slowly depart from the Extreme Northern Snowfield, preparing to find a place to completely fuse with the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul, Li Qingming sighed.

Hearing Li Qingming sigh, a gentle and pleasant voice sounded.

"What is there for you to sigh about? Do you know that boy?"

"Ah, yes, Senior. He is a student at Shrek Academy and in the same class as me, so of course I know him. I just did not expect there to be such a thing inside him."

"Hmph. It was merely food for this Empress. That fellow was simply lucky enough to come up with some so-called godhood plan. How absurd. Who knows whether it can even succeed?"

As the Ice Empress spoke, her eyes held a trace of contemplation. She was currently stuck at three hundred and ninety thousand years and was about to face her four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.

She knew her own situation best. This was almost her limit—or rather, the limit of her species.

During their earlier discussion, even the Snow Empress believed that she would not survive this four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation.

In other words, she would die in at most a few hundred years.

That was not something the Ice Empress wished to see. Or rather, no soul beast wished to face death.

Yet the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's idea had actually given her an opportunity—a different path.

Sensing the Ice Empress standing still, Li Qingming hesitated.

Then, in the next instant, a surge of freezing spiritual power pierced directly into his body and began examining it.

The Ice Empress's spiritual power was extremely strong, far beyond Li Qingming's expectations.

After sensing that spiritual power inspect the pathways within his body, Li Qingming was somewhat stunned, but he did not stop it.

After all, this Senior probably would not kill him.

Just as Li Qingming was pondering this, the Ice Empress's leisurely voice rang out.

"You should have seen Heavenly Dream's condition. It is actually a million-year soul beast. And soul beasts can sacrifice themselves, merging their power into a human's body."

"While helping a human obtain a second martial soul, they can also become that person's soul spirit and reside within their spiritual sea."

"That boy named Huo Yuhao has very strong spiritual power, but compared to yours, his spiritual power is like the difference between a firefly and the bright moon."

"He cannot inherit my power, or rather, it would be difficult for him to inherit all of it. But if it were you, you should be able to inherit all my power completely!"