Cute Little Ones, Curious Snow Empress!

"Guguga."

Gugu Gaga, Uzumaki Guga, and Uchiha doro nodded together.

"No, why did you capture her and bring her back?"

Qin Qi was somewhat dumbfounded. What exactly had these three little ones done? He had only spent some time farming.

Yet these three little ones had captured the Ice Empress and brought her back. Were they really that strong?

"Guga, guga, gugaga. (We went out to play, got lost, and wanted to find someone to ask for directions.)"

The three little ones began acting it out for Qin Qi. Gugu Gaga pretended to be lost.

Uchiha doro pretended to be an Ice Jade Scorpion, Guga went to ask for directions, and then the Ice Jade Scorpion launched an attack.

"Guga. (Then that guy hit me.)"

Gugu Gaga put on a pitiful expression.

"Guga. (When I saw our ancestor being bullied, I got angry and attacked.)"

Uzumaki Guga raised her little wings and struck a boxing pose as she spoke adorably.

"Doro, doro. (Then Doro came, and together we defeated the big bad guy.)"

Uchiha doro changed back, then continuously swung her little fists as she spoke.

"Even though I can't understand what you're saying, I roughly get it from your performance."

"The reason doesn't matter. Let's think about how to deal with this now."

Qin Qi held his forehead with one hand. He no longer had the strength to complain, nor did he feel like it.

"Guga?"

The three little ones tilted their heads together. Deal with her? How were they supposed to deal with her? They had no idea.

They had simply gotten into a fight. As for what to do afterward, they had never considered it.

"Hmph, human, don't even think about obtaining this emperor's Soul Ring! Even if I self-destruct, I will never let you benefit!"

The Ice Empress looked at Qin Qi. Though she no longer had the strength to fight back, her gaze was already fierce.

"Don't be ridiculous. I'm only level three. How am I supposed to absorb a Soul Ring?"

"What Soul Ring could I possibly absorb?"

"And even if I were level ten, I still couldn't absorb a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring."

"Unless you willingly sacrificed yourself... would you?"

Qin Qi froze after saying that, then asked tentatively.

"Hehe."

The Ice Empress sneered twice. Willingly sacrifice herself? Keep dreaming. Not even in his wildest fantasies.

"Sigh, what a hassle."

Qin Qi scratched his head. He could not absorb her, so the Ice Empress was practically useless to him.

As for handing her over to someone else, forget it. Qin Qi was six years old, with neither strength nor backing.

If anyone learned that he had a Soul Beast several hundred thousand years old here, the first one to die would not be the Soul Beast, but him!

"Guga, should we take her out?"

"I mean kill her. Crack, and she's gone."

Qin Qi explained what killing meant to Gugu Gaga and the others, then swiped his palm across his own neck.

Then he tilted his head, stuck out his tongue, and pretended to have been killed.

"Guga!"

Gugu Gaga, Uzumaki Guga, and Uchiha doro immediately hugged each other in fright.

"Guga, guga. (No, that would hurt. You can't do that.)"

Gugu Gaga hurriedly shook her head. Guga was kind. Although they had mischievously fought with someone.

They had never considered hurting anyone, much less killing someone.

"Gugu Gaga. (Human, are you going to hurt her?)"

Gugu Gaga, Uzumaki Guga, and Uchiha doro walked over to Qin Qi.

They clutched the corners of Qin Qi's clothes and looked up at him, their large eyes filled with innocence.

"Sigh, you really are adorable little ones."

Qin Qi sighed. Looking at these adorable little ones, the malice in his heart immediately vanished.

He turned to look at the Ice Empress.

"If you encountered powerful Soul Masters, they would definitely kill you and take your Soul Ring and Soul Bone."

"If you encountered powerful Soul Beasts, they would definitely devour you to strengthen themselves."

"But you got lucky and met us. We won't do anything to you."

"You can go home now."

Qin Qi sighed. "Guga, let her go, then throw her back to the Far North."

"Guga."

Uzumaki Guga nodded, clapped her hands together, and a gigantic palm appeared.

It directly grabbed the Ice Empress and threw her toward the Far North. Along the way, the restraints around the Ice Empress gradually came undone.

When the Ice Empress landed in the Far North, the restraints on her body had completely vanished, and her strength had returned as well.

"You hateful bastards!"

"You let me go back so easily. Are you looking down on me?!"

"Just wait! Sooner or later, I'll win!"

The Ice Empress clenched her little fists. She was arrogant by nature, and Qin Qi's kind gesture felt like an insult to her instead.

She swore that she would defeat those two strange little ones, then capture them.

After humiliating them thoroughly, she would let them go. That was right, she planned to capture Guga and then release them.

She would take revenge this way!

"Bing'er, why are you back?"

The Snow Empress approached at this moment, confusion in her eyes. She had watched the Ice Empress suddenly vanish into thin air.

She had been preparing to rescue her, but the Ice Empress returned the very next second. She was puzzled about what had happened.

"I... I fought my way back!"

The Ice Empress looked at the Snow Empress, her face slightly red as she stubbornly replied.

She was too embarrassed to admit that she had been thrown back. That was far too humiliating.

"Is that so?"

The Snow Empress saw through the Ice Empress's lie, but she said nothing and merely nodded. "It's good that you're alright."

"But were those two Soul Beasts or Soul Masters?"

The Snow Empress frowned. If Gugu Gaga and the others were Soul Masters, why had she not seen any Soul Rings?

If they were Soul Beasts, why did they look so much like humans?

"They should be Soul Beasts."

The Ice Empress frowned as well. She was certain that Qin Qi was human, but she truly could not determine what Gugu Gaga and the others were.

However, one thing was certain: those little ones had probably been pleading for her at the time.

The only ones who would plead on behalf of Soul Beasts were likely Soul Beasts themselves.

"Soul Beasts... aside from those in the Star Dou Great Forest, are there really such powerful Soul Beasts in this world?"

The Snow Empress's confusion deepened. She herself was a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

She was an absolute powerhouse among Soul Beasts, yet in her eyes, those three strange Soul Beasts were truly unfathomable.

"Xue'er, I was only careless back then. I never expected that palm they created to have a sealing effect."

"If we fought again, I definitely wouldn't lose!"

The Ice Empress spoke stubbornly.

"Mm."

The Snow Empress nodded along with the Ice Empress, but she did not think so in her heart.

From the beginning of the battle to its end, those three little ones had looked as though they were playing.

They had not seemed to be fighting seriously at all, yet the Ice Empress had clearly gone all out.

"Bing'er, were you thrown back from over there?"

The Snow Empress looked toward the edge of the Far North. She could clearly sense that the Ice Empress had been thrown from that direction.

Perhaps those three mysterious Soul Beasts were currently at the border of the Far North. She needed to go and see.

As soon as the Snow Empress thought of it, she acted, flying directly toward the border.