Ice Emperor is Addicted, Finding the Cold Spring

Back in the room, Ice Emperor leaned against the sofa, patting her small belly with deep satisfaction: "I'm stuffed, I'm stuffed."

She savored the meal she had just had.

The milk tea shaved ice had been completely swept away, the hot dishes hadn't been spared either, and later she had even directly added Void Mysterious Ice as seasoning into the food, unable to stop as if high on eating.

Leaning on the sofa with her golden eyes still glowing, Ice Emperor smacked her lips: "It tasted so good at 500% purity. Once little Yang reaches the Title Douluo level, how amazing will the mysterious ice he creates be..."

As she spoke, crystal-clear saliva seeped out from the corner of her mouth again. She raised a hand to wipe it, seeing no problem with it whatsoever.

Snow Emperor stood to the side, watching her appearance, and couldn't help curving the corners of her lips: "Little foodie."

Hearing this, Ice Emperor immediately sat up straight, turning her head to glare at her: "Xue'er, you have the nerve to say that to me? Who was it that ate so much just now, scraping even the bottom of the bowl clean?"

Snow Emperor's cheeks flushed slightly, averting her gaze: "...That's because it was too delicious."

"Right, right!" Ice Emperor perked up, "I think so too! It's even tastier than Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow."

She turned her golden eyes toward Beiming Lieyang: "Little Yang, you can increase your cultivation by eating it yourself too, right? At this rate, I'm afraid you'll be able to get your third spirit ring in just a few days."

"Yeah, soon." Beiming Lieyang nodded.

Ice Emperor lowered her voice and added: "This effect is just too terrifying... Clearly it's something you created yourself, yet eating it can also boost your own cultivation. It feels just like stepping on your left foot with your right foot and being able to fly."

She tilted her head to think for a moment, then waved her hand: "Well, whatever. Since you can ignore levels to amplify all my attributes by three times, and can even control me, having it also boost my own cultivation when I eat it... doesn't seem that strange anymore, either."

Beiming Lieyang smiled without replying.

Snow Emperor looked at the sky outside the window. "Rest early tonight, we still need to find that cold spring tomorrow."

Ice Emperor stretched lazily, standing up to loosen her muscles and bones: "Alright, let's sleep then."

After the three of them briefly washed up, Ice Emperor was the first to pounce onto the bed, her entire body sinking into the thick comforter as she rolled around and let out a comfortable sigh of satisfaction: "Human beds are quite soft..."

Snow Emperor sat down at the edge of the bed, watching Ice Emperor's completely unladylike appearance, and shook her head, yet couldn't help the corners of her lips curving upward.

Beiming Lieyang yawned, changed his clothes, and also climbed onto the bed.

He had long since gotten used to sleeping with Snow Mom and Ice Aunt during all these years in the Far North.

The moment he lay down, Ice Emperor rolled over from the side, her arm naturally draping across as she pulled him closer into her embrace.

After all, the scorching warmth of this little sun was the only thing she didn't find annoying.

Beiming Lieyang was pulled into that familiar, cool, and faint fragrance, subconsciously burrowing and finding a comfortable position.

Ice Emperor mumbled incoherently: "Warm..."

On the other side, Snow Emperor also lay down on her side, her ice-blue eyes glowing softly under the warm yellow light of the bedside lamp.

She reached out to pull up the edge of the quilt, covering Beiming Lieyang's exposed shoulders, her fingertips gently brushing across his hair.

"Sleep." Snow Emperor's voice was cool yet gentle, as tender as when she took care of a child in the past.

Beiming Lieyang murmured an acknowledgement and closed his eyes.

The bedding was warm and cozy, with familiar scents on both sides, and drowsiness quickly surged over him.

A night without dreams.

Early the next morning, Beiming Lieyang was awakened by the daylight filtering through the window cracks.

Opening his eyes, he found that he was still snuggled in Ice Emperor's embrace. Her arm rested across his waist as she slept deeply, her emerald-green long hair scattered over the pillow, lips slightly parted and breathing evenly.

On the other side, Snow Emperor had already woken up. Half-leaning against the head of the bed, she was looking down at him, holding a handkerchief in her hand as if waiting for him to wake up before handing it over.

"Awake?" Snow Emperor's voice was very soft, as if afraid of waking Ice Emperor. "Go wash up, I had someone send over hot water."

Beiming Lieyang rubbed his eyes, carefully moving Ice Emperor's arm aside and crawling out from under the covers.

He took the handkerchief handed over by Snow Emperor, washed up briefly, and splashed his face with cold water, making himself much more awake.

Ice Emperor was still sleeping. Snow Emperor didn't wake her, simply walking over to Beiming Lieyang and reaching out to tidy his slightly tufted hair.

Morning light streamed through the window, falling upon the two of them.

Beiming Lieyang leaned against Snow Emperor, slightly tilting his head up to look at her.

From this angle, he could see Snow Emperor's lowered brows and eyes and the trace of a barely perceptible curve at the corners of her lips, sunlight plating a layer of warm golden light over her white long hair.

"Snow Mom."

"Hmm?"

"Nothing."

Snow Emperor looked down at him without pressing further, merely raising a hand to tuck a stray lock of hair from his forehead behind his ear, her action as natural as if she had done it a thousand times before.

The wind and snow outside the window were still howling, but the room was warm and cozy.

Ice Emperor rolled over, as if sensing that the side beside her was empty, and sleepily mumbled: "Mhm... little Yang?"

"You're awake?" Beiming Lieyang turned to look at her.

Rubbing her eyes, Ice Emperor propped herself up from the bed. Her golden eyes were still half-closed, and her hair stuck up in a messy fashion.

Looking at the sky outside the window, then at Snow Emperor and Beiming Lieyang who were already fully dressed, she yawned: "Up so early... Aren't you guys tired at all?"

"You just sleep too heavily."

Ice Emperor let out a hum, shook her head, jumped down from the bed, and stepped barefoot onto the dark red carpet, stretching out a huge yawn: "Fine, fine, we still have work to do today. Let's go find the cold spring."

Beiming Lieyang looked at her spirited demeanor and couldn't help laughing.

Snow Emperor also curved the corners of her lips, her ice-blue eyes rippling with light.

Over the next few days, the three of them launched a search centered around the fortress.

Ice Emperor set out from the northern gate of the fortress every day, radiating outward in circles, while Snow Emperor was responsible for cross-checking. Their Ultimate Ice perceptions mutually corroborated each other, leaving almost no omissions.

For the first three days, they gained nothing.

On the fourth day, the search area expanded to the glacial zone northeast of the fortress.

The ice surface was several meters thick, and black rocks and permafrost were faintly visible beneath the ice layer.

Stepping onto the ice, Ice Emperor walked several hundred meters before suddenly halting her steps, squatting down, and pressing her palm against the ice surface: "...There's something."

Snow Emperor leaned down to sense it for a moment: "There is the sound of flowing water underground, very deep."

Ice Emperor pressed her palm against the ice, her Ultimate Ice spirit power infiltrating inward.

The thick ice layer split open before her like tofu, and a downward-extending passage rapidly took shape.

The deeper they went, the lower the temperature dropped, and water vapor condensed into tiny ice crystals suspended in mid-air.

At a depth of about tens of meters, a pool of pitch-black water rippled with a faint blue glow, and a biting chill rushed toward them.

Ice Emperor reached her hand into the water, abruptly pulling it back to shake off ice shards. "Good grief, there really is something below!"

Snow Emperor touched the water surface with her fingertips, closing her eyes to sense for a moment before looking at Beiming Lieyang: "You were right."

Excitedly spinning around in a circle, Ice Emperor hoisted Beiming Lieyang straight up over her head: "Little Yang, you really are a lucky star!"

Suspended high in mid-air by her and looking down at the cold pool below radiating a faint blue glow, Beiming Lieyang felt the heavy stone in his heart finally drop.

The Ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice Marrow Cave was right here.

Moreover, the timeline had been advanced by a full ten thousand years.

This meant that the reserves here were extremely likely to be even more abundant than those ten thousand years later.

Ice Emperor set him down, rubbing her hands together with her golden eyes locked onto the water surface and the corners of her mouth hooked up to her ears: "Xue'er, should I go down and scout first?"

Snow Emperor pressed down on her shoulder: "Together."

Following that, the Ice and Snow Emperors directly brought Beiming Lieyang down into the ice spring together.