Ice Empress Breaks Through to Four Hundred Thousand Years

With Ice Empress and Snow Empress lighting the way, the cavern's full appearance became clearly visible.

What appeared inside the cavern was enough to greatly shock both Ice Empress and Snow Empress.

The entire cavern was composed of various azure crystals. Their original color had been deep blue, but under Ice Empress's emerald radiance, they now appeared azure.

The crystals covering the entire cavern were crystal-clear and translucent, filled with dreamlike beauty beneath the emerald glow released from Ice Empress's body.

The beauty displayed by these crystals was enough to make anyone who saw them lose themselves in their splendor.

The cavern floor, walls, and ceiling were all covered in these dreamlike crystals, varying in size and shimmering with flowing light.

Azure radiance of varying intensity filled the entire cavern with light.

"This can't be real! How could there be so many Ice Extreme Divine Crystals here?" Ice Empress was deeply shocked as she looked at the cavern full of Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.

Even Huo Yuhao, who had already come here once before, was still greatly astonished upon returning.

Moreover, for some reason, ever since entering this place, Huo Yuhao had felt his cultivation based on his age increasing faster and faster.

He was now both human and soul beast.

Unlike other soul beasts, he could cultivate soul power while also increasing his age.

Normally, when a soul beast that had reached one hundred thousand years chose to rebuild itself as a human, its original age would be discarded, and it would begin again as a human. At that point, the soul beast that had chosen to rebuild as a human could only cultivate soul power.

But he was different. The moment he was reborn, he had directly become a human infant rather than retaining the form of a soul beast. Even more astonishingly, although he possessed a martial soul that allowed him to increase his soul power, his age had been preserved and could continue increasing.

It seemed that no other soul beast besides him had ever experienced the same situation.

Still, that should count as a good thing.

Huo Yuhao's age in his Ice Qilin true form was now over five thousand years.

That was the result of his seven years of cultivation.

He had to admit, being an auspicious beast felt wonderful. His age increased incredibly quickly.

Then there was his soul master soul power level. He was currently level fifteen, with innately full soul power.

At seven years old, he was level fifteen. Aside from the level granted by obtaining a soul ring, that meant he had increased by four levels in a single year.

That speed was fairly decent. It would not take many years for him to reach level twenty, and he would definitely get there before turning ten.

"Little Yuhao, what are you thinking about? Don't tell me you're recalling how you climbed down here before?"

Ice Empress's voice suddenly sounded beside Huo Yuhao's ear.

Huo Yuhao, who had been immersed in thought, was startled badly by Ice Empress's words.

"Sister Ice, are you trying to scare me to death? I was just thinking." Huo Yuhao still felt it was better not to tell Ice Empress and Snow Empress that his age could continue increasing.

However, Huo Yuhao now had a question. What if he happened to break through to ten thousand years and encountered a lightning tribulation while he was at Shrek?

Snow Empress said, "Enough, Bing'er. Stop teasing Little Yuhao."

Ice Empress pouted, slightly annoyed. "Got it. Then let's go in now."

With Snow Empress leading the way, Ice Empress and Huo Yuhao continued deeper inside.

With Ice Empress acting as their lamp, every step they took was brightly illuminated.

The cavern they were currently in was not large. It extended inward for only about thirty meters.

Honestly, if Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Huo Yuhao had not all been soul beasts with Ultimate Ice attributes—two ferocious beasts and one auspicious beast—the extreme cold here would have frozen them directly into ice sculptures.

The farther inward they went, the more the ice within could rival Ultimate Ice. However, to reach the power of true Ultimate Ice, they had to go all the way to the deepest part.

After searching for a while, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Huo Yuhao discovered that their current location contained only Ice Extreme Divine Crystals. To find the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow, they needed to descend beneath the spring they had spotted earlier.

After reaching the spring, Ice Empress and Snow Emress protected Huo Yuhao as they jumped into it.

The spring was even colder inside than outside. Even Huo Yuhao, an Ice-and-Snow Auspicious Beast, felt the chill. Fortunately, with Ice Empress and Snow Empress helping him, the icy cold did not last long.

After descending more than fifty meters underground, they successfully arrived in a small cavern of about ten square meters, with a height of less than one and a half meters.

Though this cavern was small, the treasures inside were exceedingly rare.

There were many strange, unevenly arranged ice pillars within the cavern.

There were more than ten ice pillars in total. Every one of them was pure white, and even beneath the emerald radiance, they did not change their original color like the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals.

Within the white ice pillars, an unknown liquid could faintly be seen flowing. A terrifying chill radiated from the pillars.

"My heavens."

As they looked at the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow before them, Ice Empress, Huo Yuhao, and even Snow Empress were shocked despite having come prepared.

At that moment, Huo Yuhao suggested, "Sister Ice, why don't you absorb one of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrows here first and use it to help you break through to four hundred thousand years?"

"That's right, Bing'er. The most important thing now is for you to break through to four hundred thousand years. With the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern as such a precious place, I believe you can directly become immune to the damage caused by the lightning tribulation."

Snow Empress also agreed with Huo Yuhao's suggestion.

"All right, then. Little Yuhao, once Sister Ice breaks through to four hundred thousand years, I'll give you a reward when we return to the Far North."

Seeing that Huo Yuhao and Snow Empress both wanted her to absorb the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow first, Ice Empress could not bring herself to refuse.

With the help of Snow Empress and Huo Yuhao, the Ice-and-Snow Auspicious Beast, Ice Empress successfully absorbed nine Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrows.

After absorbing the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrows, Ice Empress's previously damaged soul origin was repaired once again. During the absorption process, she successfully broke through to four hundred thousand years.

Just as Snow Empress had said, protected by the Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern, Ice Empress directly became immune to the four-hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation.

Furthermore, Ice Empress's cultivation surged during this period, rising from four hundred thousand years to four hundred and ten thousand years. She could feel that her cultivation was still increasing, and only after she completely absorbed the nine Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrows within her body would her improvement return to its original pace.

Just as Snow Empress and Huo Yuhao were rejoicing over Ice Empress's breakthrough to four hundred thousand years, the system's voice sounded in Huo Yuhao's mind.

[Congratulations to the host for helping Ice Empress break through to four hundred thousand years. You have obtained forty consecutive draws.]

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