Getting Ready

"Calm down, Xiao Wu! Calm down!"

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm jolted at her shout and hurried to explain. "Not hunt her! Who said anything about hunting her? Does your big brother look like the kind of idiot who'd send his host to her death?"

"Then what are we waiting for her to come here for?" Xiao Wu didn't believe him for a second. Her eyes had gone red.

"To invite us to dinner?"

"To negotiate! To cooperate!" the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said urgently, his voice more serious than ever. "The Ice Empress is in a very unusual situation!"

A chill shot from the soles of Xiao Wu's feet straight to her head, sharper than the bitter cold of the Far North.

She clenched her fists, barely resisting the urge to drag the stupid worm out of her Spiritual Sea and beat him senseless. Through gritted teeth, she answered in her mind, Unusual? She's close to four hundred thousand years old, and you're telling me her situation is unusual? Tian Meng, were you locked beneath the Lake of Life so long that your brain rotted?

Would a mighty Soul Beast that had survived several Heavenly Tribulations beyond the three-hundred-thousand-year mark really be willing to sacrifice herself for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast who had only recently taken human form?

That was more absurd than the sun rising in the west!

Xiao Wu couldn't believe it. As far as she could tell, this was the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's crazed fantasy, and he was dragging her along to die with him.

"It's true!" Sensing Xiao Wu's almost tangible fury and disbelief, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rushed to explain.

"When the Ice Empress survived her three-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, she'd already reached her limit! That tribulation was incredibly dangerous. She made it