"Muah" from the Ice and Snow Emperors

The moment he heard that he had a chance at forty consecutive draws, Huo Yuhao was completely stunned.

Combined with his identity as an auspicious beast, wasn't this basically guaranteed gold with his eyes closed?

Still, the draws would have to wait until he got back.

"Congratulations, Bing'er. You successfully broke through to four hundred thousand years." As the Ice Empress's close friend, the Snow Empress was even more excited than the Ice Empress herself about the breakthrough, stepping forward to embrace her in congratulations.

The Ice Empress's round little face turned as red as an apple from Snow Empress's hug.

With a rosy face, the Ice Empress said, "Now that I've finished absorbing it, we'll leave the rest to Xue'er and little Yuhao."

Huo Yuhao said, "No, Sister Bing. I think the most important thing is finding an entrance that doesn't rely on Earth Dragon Gate's well."

Snow Empress nodded. "Little Yuhao is right. Don't forget why we came here in the first place. As long as we find that entrance to the Far North, we can come whenever we want."

"Absorbing Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow isn't simple. After all, Ice Empress, you've probably only finished digesting half a stalk of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow."

The Ice Empress asked, "But where should we start looking?"

Snow Empress replied, "We should leave our coordinates beneath this Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cavern first. That will make it much easier to find."

Huo Yuhao volunteered, "Sister Xue, leave this task to me. After all, I'm the one and only Ice-and-Snow Auspicious Beast. No soul beast or soul master can imitate my power."

"Alright, then we'll trouble you, little Yuhao." Snow Empress agreed without a second thought. After all, Huo Yuhao was the only suitable choice here.

An icy blue qilin appeared behind Huo Yuhao.

This was both his martial soul and his true form: the Ice Qilin.

As the Ice Qilin appeared, a purple soul ring emerged beneath Huo Yuhao's feet. This purple soul ring had come from a thousand-year soul beast that had willingly sacrificed itself to him.

The first purple soul ring lit up, and an Ice Illusion identical to Huo Yuhao appeared before him. As long as his allies and he were near this Ice Illusion, their attacks would be greatly enhanced and gain massive ice-element damage.

Those were its effects in combat. Its effects in daily life were as follows.

If Ice Illusion was released in a specific location, it could serve as a teleportation point. Whenever he wished, he could use Ice Illusion to teleport to its location. As an auspicious beast, Huo Yuhao had no distance limit on this ability.

Furthermore, only Huo Yuhao himself could make this Ice Illusion disappear. Otherwise, it would vanish automatically once its time limit was reached. No matter who it was, no one could destroy the Ice Illusion.

This was the strength of Huo Yuhao's first soul skill, Icebound Phantom Realm.

After Huo Yuhao left his Ice Illusion here, he set off with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress to search for an exit—or rather, an entrance—from above that led into the Far North.

After countless hardships, the three of them finally found the exit.

They were now on the outskirts of the Far North, near the core region.

"Great, I can finally breathe the air aboveground." The moment Huo Yuhao reached the surface, he was so exhausted that he collapsed onto the ground.

The Ice Empress came before him and asked "concernedly," "Is that all you've got, Yuhao?"

Huo Yuhao weakly retorted, "How could I compare to an old hag who's lived for hundreds of thousands of years?"

"Yuhao~" The Ice Empress and Snow Empress spoke at the same time, but their voices no longer held their usual gentleness. Only then did Huo Yuhao realize he had said the wrong thing.

Just as Huo Yuhao closed his eyes, ready to accept the Ice and Snow Emperors' mockery, he suddenly heard two different "muah~" sounds on his cheeks.

Huo Yuhao opened his eyes and discovered that not only had the Ice Empress and Snow Empress not hit him, they had each kissed one side of his face.

Huo Yuhao's face flushed slightly from what the Ice Empress and Snow Empress had done.

A little dazed, Huo Yuhao asked, "Sister Bing, Sister Xue, aren't you angry?"

Snow Empress answered gently, "Of course we're angry. Any girl would be angry if she were called an old hag. Consider this your punishment."

"Don't look at me. This is the reward I promised you before, bundled together with your punishment. It doesn't mean anything else." The Ice Empress's words carried a hint of tsundere pride.

Huo Yuhao said, "Oh, right, Sister Xue. I just remembered that when I introduced Ice Illusion to you earlier, I only told you about its combat uses. I forgot to mention that if I send Ice Illusion's power into your bodies, you can directly activate that power to teleport."

"I have to say, your first soul skill is tremendously useful in both combat and everyday life." Snow Empress was quite surprised by Huo Yuhao's words.

The Ice Empress said in surprise, "Then hurry up and begin, little Yuhao, so we can finish up and go back to rest."

"Alright, I'll begin."

The Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Huo Yuhao, the three soul beasts, sat down together in meditation.

Then Huo Yuhao's power spread into the air, and icy blue currents of frigid air radiated outward from him.

Ice energy entered the bodies of the Ice Empress and Snow Empress. The instant it did, they felt an incomparable sense of pleasure.

Now the Ice and Snow Emperors could also freely teleport beside Huo Yuhao's Ice Illusion.

After returning to his room, Huo Yuhao immediately activated his forty consecutive draws without any hesitation.

Only one gold appeared. Everything else was trash.

[Achievement Unlocked: Even an auspicious beast cannot change the fate of having terrible luck]

Looking at the pile of trash filling his inventory, Huo Yuhao shouted darkly, "Why? Why does an Ice-and-Snow Auspicious Beast like me still have luck this bad?!"

They said the higher the cultivation age, the richer the rewards. That was all complete bullshit!

A scam, an absolute scam!

Was this achievement mocking him?!

Feeling deceived by the system, Huo Yuhao could only find several ice sculptures to vent his frustration on.

Before long, Huo Yuhao calmed down again and looked at his inventory, which contained only five purple items, two gold items, and nothing but trash otherwise.

This time, his gold reward was rather unimpressive. It had only one effect: enhancing his Ice Illusion. Any soul beasts around his Ice Illusion would also receive the blessing of fortune.

At the same time, even if he left the Far North, the fortune of the Far North would not disappear as long as this Ice Illusion remained.

The only benefit of this gold reward was that it gave him a reason to leave the Far North.

All the other purple items increased his cultivation age, so they were not particularly helpful to him.