Collecting Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow

"Crunch! Crunch!" Thinking this, the Ice Empress went to the nearest stalk of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, opened her rosy little mouth, and bit down on it.

In an instant, the bite of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow she had taken turned into a gentle stream of energy that flowed into her body, and her cultivation unexpectedly surged by several thousand years.

"Mmm... that feels so good." The Ice Empress narrowed her eyes and let out a blissful moan.

"Bing'er, don't eat it yet." Lin Xuan slowly made his way over to the Ice Empress with Wang Qiu'er and said with a smile.

"Hm? What's wrong with this Empress eating a little?" the Ice Empress asked in confusion.

"Hehehe." Lin Xuan chuckled confidently. "Bing'er, I can refine all this Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow into pills! And I even have a mysterious prescription here. Its effects will surpass anything you and Xue'er can imagine."

"What prescription could possibly have effects beyond what Bing'er and I can imagine?" The Snow Empress, who was not far from the Ice Empress, immediately became interested and asked curiously.

"A Seventh-Grade Pill—the Transformation Pill!" Lin Xuan's lips curled slightly as he explained, "As its name suggests, the Seventh-Grade Transformation Pill can help soul beasts successfully take human form. But it isn't cultivation from scratch after abandoning their cultivation. Instead, they can transform into human form while retaining their original strength, gain the cultivation speed of humans, and even retain a soul beast's lifespan."

As soon as Lin Xuan finished speaking, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress both froze, their beautiful eyes filled with astonished disbelief.

"Little Xuan... y-you're serious?" It took the Snow Empress a long while to recover as she stared at Lin Xuan in disbelief.

"Yes, Xue'er. Of course I'm serious." Lin Xuan nodded. "Besides, when have I ever lied to you or Bing'er?"

The Snow Empress was briefly stunned. Thinking back, it did seem to be true. As far as she remembered, Lin Xuan had never lied to her or the Ice Empress.

From the very beginning, Lin Xuan had said that he possessed several prescriptions that could help her and the Ice Empress heal the hidden injuries within their bodies and successfully survive the Heavenly Tribulation.

At first, the Snow Empress had not believed him. But later, Lin Xuan had persistently pestered both her and the Ice Empress, and he had truly refined pills for them.

At the time, the Snow Empress had taken the pills Lin Xuan gave her with a try-it-and-see attitude. Yet who could have expected that, after taking them, the hidden injuries in her body truly healed?

Not only did her hidden injuries heal, but with the aid of that powerful medicinal energy, she successfully condensed Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and crossed the great threshold of the Seven Hundred Thousand Year Tribulation.

"Little Xuan, what you said is true? There really is such a miraculous pill?" Unlike the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress could not remain so calm. She grabbed Lin Xuan by the shoulders and asked excitedly.

The Heavenly Tribulation was the fatal weakness of soul beasts. In other words, if there were no Heavenly Tribulation, soul beasts could be immortal from birth.

After all, soul beasts had never faced an age limit. As long as they lived another year, even without cultivating, their cultivation would slowly increase by one year. If there truly were no Heavenly Tribulation, soul beasts would be immortal beings.

"Alright." The Snow Empress nodded solemnly. "Little Xuan, since that's the case, Bing'er and I will first collect the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in this Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave, then hand it to you to refine those so-called Transformation Pills."

"Mhm!" After hearing the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress nodded her little head as well. "Little Xuan, then your big sister will be waiting for your Transformation Pills!"

"Uh... but..." Lin Xuan scratched his head. "Bing'er, Xue'er, when I refine the pills, I may need your help with something."

"What kind of help? Just say it, Little Xuan." The Ice Empress patted her chest confidently.

"The Transformation Pill I just told you about is a Seventh-Grade Pill. Refining a Seventh-Grade Pill will attract Pill Lightning. This Pill Lightning is similar to the Heavenly Tribulation faced by Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but its power may even exceed the lightning tribulation an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast must endure." Lin Xuan spoke slowly.

This was also one of Lin Xuan's concerns. Refining a Seventh-Grade Pill would inevitably attract Pill Lightning, and Pill Lightning was something he currently could not withstand.

Otherwise, after absorbing the Evil Eye Tyrant's soul ring, Lin Xuan's Soul Power had already soared to rank seventy and still had room to rise. He was fully confident that he could try refining the Seventh-Grade Transformation Pill.

But Pill Lightning was a huge problem. If he refined the pill but could not withstand the Pill Lightning and was struck to death by it, that would be more loss than gain.

That was why he needed the Ice Empress and Snow Empress's help. He refused to believe that the Pill Lightning of a mere Seventh-Grade Pill could not be blocked by the Ice Empress, who possessed four hundred thousand years of cultivation, and the Snow Empress, who possessed seven hundred thousand years of cultivation and had already condensed Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores.

"Pill Lightning with power comparable to the Heavenly Tribulation brought by a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast undergoing its tribulation?" Upon hearing this, a trace of surprise flashed through the Snow Empress's ice-blue eyes, but she quickly accepted Lin Xuan's explanation.

A pill so heaven-defying causing some special phenomena between heaven and earth was something the Snow Empress could accept.

Among the pills Lin Xuan had refined for her and the Ice Empress before leaving the Extreme North, the highest grade had only been a Sixth-Grade Pill.

Even a Sixth-Grade Pill would trigger phenomena between heaven and earth during refinement. So the fact that a Seventh-Grade Pill would attract Pill Lightning did not seem all that hard to accept.

"Xue'er! Come on! Let's collect all this Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow right now!" While the Snow Empress was still pondering the Pill Lightning Lin Xuan had mentioned, the Ice Empress had already excitedly grabbed her hand and brought her before the nearest stalk of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

"Bing'er, what are you rushing for? Is the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow going to grow legs and run away? Besides, since Little Xuan promised to refine pills for us, he won't go back on his word." Seeing how unusually excited the Ice Empress had been ever since she saw the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, the Snow Empress could only smile helplessly.

"Hehe." The Ice Empress giggled. "I'm just too excited. There's Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, and we're getting rid of the Heavenly Tribulation. I don't think I've ever been this excited in all my hundreds of thousands of years."

"Forget it. Stay put. I'll collect the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow." The Snow Empress first soothed the Ice Empress, then floated into the air. Her long white dress fluttered around her, making her look like an immortal maiden.

With a wave of the Snow Empress's jade-like hand, her sleeve swept through the air, and the forty-five stalks of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow within the cave immediately rose into the air, evenly arranged around her delicate body.

The Snow Empress then traced a slight arc before herself, and her ten slender jade fingers began to draw in the air.