After playing all day, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was utterly exhausted and collapsed.
Watching the Three-Eyed Golden Lion fall asleep after playing to the very end, the Ice Empress said helplessly, "This child, honestly. I know my amusement park is fun, but there was no need to spend the entire day lost in it."
Though the Ice Empress was rather helpless, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's happiness showed that her amusement park had been built perfectly.
Huo Yuhao said to the Ice Empress, "Sister Ice, since it's already so late and Sister Snow isn't here, let the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sleep in your room. After all, isn't it somewhat inappropriate for a lone man and woman to sleep in the same place?"
"Leave her to me." Although the Ice Empress did not want to watch over the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, as Di Tian had made her reluctant to have any contact with her before, she thought it over and agreed.
If Huo Yuhao had improper intentions toward the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and something happened, the Ice Empress believed that Di Tian would have the heart to kill Huo Yuhao over his attitude toward the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
Just as Huo Yuhao was about to return, he froze.
It was not because of anything else, but because a cavern filled with Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow had appeared in his mind.
Huo Yuhao knew this place. It was the secret realm of the Earth Dragon Gate in Dragon City, the city closest to their Far North.
Seeing Huo Yuhao stand still for so long, the Ice Empress asked worriedly, "Yuhao, are you feeling unwell?"
Huo Yuhao looked at the Ice Empress and asked, "Sister Ice, would you believe me if I told you?"
"Just say it. There's no need to beat around the bush." Seeing Huo Yuhao's reaction, the Ice Empress was extremely anxious.
Huo Yuhao said steadily, "Just now, I sensed a cavern filled with Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow."
After hearing Huo Yuhao's words, the Ice Empress was filled with shock and disbelief. The rarity of a Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern could rival the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
If the place Huo Yuhao described truly existed, then the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress, and Huo Yuhao's strength would soar.
She could then directly disregard the damage to her spiritual origin caused by breaking through to three hundred thousand years and reach four hundred thousand years. With Huo Yuhao's help, her cultivation would surely rise drastically in a short time.
Moreover, Xue'er might be able to reach one million years with the help of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow. If things truly developed as the Ice Empress imagined, then Xue'er would have an excellent chance of becoming one of the few million-year soul beasts on the Continent of Douluo.
After all, if that damned big worm could cultivate to one million years with Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow, why couldn't her Xue'er?
Very quickly, the Ice Empress composed herself and said to Huo Yuhao, "We should leave this matter to the Snow Empress to decide."
"Let me ask one more thing. Can you determine the exact location of the cavern that appeared in your mind?"
The Ice Empress had no doubt at all that Huo Yuhao could sense a cavern full of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow. As for why, it was naturally because Huo Yuhao was the ice-and-snow auspicious beast of their Far North.
Since Huo Yuhao was the ice-and-snow auspicious beast of their Far North, it was only natural for him to sense the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow and Ice Extreme Divine Crystal that were so crucial to their ice-attribute soul beasts.
The Ice Empress and Huo Yuhao came to an agreement. Both wanted to ask the Snow Empress for her opinion on the matter, so Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress left with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
The places where the Ice Empress and Huo Yuhao lived were not far apart, separated only by a small hill.
After settling the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into sleep, the Ice Empress escorted Huo Yuhao to his little ice house.
The next day, the Ice Empress directly brought Huo Yuhao to where the Snow Empress was.
As for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion? She was left in the care of the Snow Empress's adopted son, Ice Bear King Xiaobai, who was also Huo Yuhao's nominal brother.
"You're saying that yesterday, a treasured land filled with Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow appeared in Huo Yuhao's mind?!" Just as the Ice Empress expected, the Snow Empress was also full of disbelief upon hearing the news.
Seeing Huo Yuhao's resolute gaze, the Snow Empress also believed that his character would not allow him to joke casually about such a matter.
The Snow Empress gently said to Huo Yuhao, "Little Yuhao, can you detect the precise location of that treasured land full of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow?"
Since Huo Yuhao could sense the appearance of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow, perhaps he could also sense its approximate location.
Huo Yuhao pretended to recall with great difficulty. "If I remember correctly, the cavern of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow seems to be at the Earth Dragon Gate, in the human world close to our Far North."
"At the Earth Dragon Gate, there is a well that connects to the underground. That is the entrance to the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern."
Upon hearing that the entrance to the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern was in the human world, the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress both looked extremely troubled.
The Ice Empress asked, "Yuhao, does that mean we can only enter the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern through that well in the human world?"
If that was truly the case, it meant they would have to fight the people of the Earth Dragon Gate and force them to hand over this known second Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern.
In the Ice Empress's eyes, the most direct method would be to trigger a beast tide and use force to make those humans hand over the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern, but that would also be the worst possible outcome.
Although that was what the Ice Empress thought, she would still follow the Snow Empress's orders. Whatever the Snow Empress chose to do, she would do.
"If that is the case, this will be troublesome." The Snow Empress could now almost confirm that the people of the Earth Dragon Gate knew the secret within the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern. After all, the entrance was right at their doorstep. Any normal person would have the urge to investigate such a mysterious place.
However, no matter what, the Earth Dragon Gate could be considered a neighbor of their Far North. The Snow Empress did not believe that the Earth Dragon Gate's well was the only entrance into the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern.
The Snow Empress gently stroked her chin with her fair hands. After pondering for a moment, she said, "How about this? We'll first take a look near the well leading to the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern at the Earth Dragon Gate. Perhaps we can find clues to another way in."
Huo Yuhao and the Ice Empress said in unison, "I'll listen to Xue'er/Sister Snow."
The Snow Empress said, "However, not now. We'll go after the Three-Eyed Golden Lion leaves the Far North. After all, I don't want Di Tian to learn that we have found the location of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern. Otherwise, we may incur Di Tian's hostility."
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