"You little bastard! You still dare to tease me!" Ice Empress's pretty face flushed red as she grabbed Lin Xuan by the ear. "Believe it or not, I'll tear your ear off right now!"
"I don't believe it." Lin Xuan shook his head. "I know Sister Bing'er can't bear to do it."
Ice Empress froze slightly at his words, then released his ear and scolded him irritably, "Smooth talker!"
Buzz!
At that moment, a powerful wave of Soul Power surged from Wang Qiu'er in the distance.
Wang Qiu'er slowly opened her beautiful eyes and rose from the ground beside the Icefire Yin Yang Well. At the same time, yellow, purple, black, black, black, and red soul rings rose around her.
"Phew."
Wang Qiu'er took a deep breath and clenched her delicate hands. Feeling the abundant Soul Power within her, she could not help but smile.
"Qiu'er, what level are you now?" Lin Xuan walked up to Wang Qiu'er and asked with a smile.
"Hubby, I'm level seventy now!" Wang Qiu'er threw herself into Lin Xuan's embrace and said happily.
"As expected of my wife. You're amazing!" Lin Xuan lovingly rubbed Wang Qiu'er's head.
"Oh, right." As if suddenly recalling something, Lin Xuan looked at Wang Qiu'er in his arms. "Qiu'er, go back to the Star Dou Great Forest first!"
"What?" Wang Qiu'er was momentarily stunned, then said pitifully, "Hubby, don't you want Qiu'er anymore? Why are you sending Qiu'er away...?"
"Qiu'er, that's not what I mean!" Seeing how aggrieved Wang Qiu'er looked, Lin Xuan hurriedly comforted her. "Qiu'er, the place I'm going this time might be dangerous, so I won't be taking you with me. Once I'm done, I'll go to the Star Dou Great Forest to find you, alright?"
"Really, Hubby?" Wang Qiu'er raised her pair of pink-blue eyes.
"Really!" Lin Xuan nodded. "Once I'm done this time, I'll go to the Star Dou Great Forest to find you."
"Then what are you going to do, Hubby? Where are you going? You have to tell me!" Wang Qiu'er asked.
"I'm going out to sea to hunt my seventh soul ring. Looking across the entire Douluo Continent, there are no longer any soul beasts on land that I need," Lin Xuan slowly explained.
What Lin Xuan said was indeed true. His seventh soul ring should be able to absorb a Ferocious Beast soul ring at the two-hundred-thousand-year level, and since he needed one with spiritual attributes, he naturally set his sights on the sea.
As for the Evil Demon Forest, it was highly likely that it no longer had an Evil Eye Tyrant ruler with a cultivation of two hundred thousand years. Besides, he had killed Evil Emperor's son not long ago. If he returned to the Evil Demon Forest now to hunt an Evil Demon Tyrant, it would likely provoke Evil Emperor's fury.
However, Lin Xuan had already made plans for his upcoming soul rings. He would hunt his seventh and eighth soul rings in the sea, while his ninth soul ring would naturally be Evil Emperor.
After all, Evil Emperor was a Ferocious Beast with a cultivation of seven hundred and ninety thousand years. The abilities contained within him were incomparably powerful, and Lin Xuan could even use that energy to perfect his God King Godhood Prototype.
"You're going to the sea to hunt soul beasts?" Upon hearing this, Wang Qiu'er pouted her red lips unhappily, her pretty face filled with displeasure.
"Hubby, you can take me with you when you go hunting in the sea! Aren't Sister Bing'er and Sister Xue'er coming too? There's no problem with bringing me along!" Wang Qiu'er said unhappily.
"Alright." Lin Xuan reached out and gently scraped Wang Qiu'er's pert little nose.
"Mm... alright." Though Wang Qiu'er still felt somewhat dissatisfied, she nodded and agreed.
"Ah." Looking at Lin Xuan and Wang Qiu'er embracing each other, Ice Empress could not help feeling sour inside. She looked at Snow Empress and sighed, "Xue'er, why do I feel like we're light bulbs?"
"Mm... a little..." Snow Empress nodded in agreement, feeling the same sourness as Ice Empress.
"I remember there being two dragon skeletons beneath the Icefire Yin Yang Well." Suddenly, Lin Xuan shifted his gaze away from Wang Qiu'er's delicate body and looked toward the bottom of the Icefire Yin Yang Well.
At once, Lin Xuan recalled the setting descriptions of the Icefire Yin Yang Well from the original third Douluo novel.
He remembered that the original work said the Dragon God had fallen in the God Realm, while the Nine Dragon Kings each met different fates. Among them, the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, the two great dragon lords, had fallen here together. Their corpses were buried ten thousand zhang beneath the Icefire Yin Yang Well, which was how the well came to be, nourishing all living things.
At this thought, a scorching glint flashed through Lin Xuan's violet-black eyes.
"System, System, are you there?" Lin Xuan called out to the system in his mind.
"Ding! Host, I am here." Before long, a cold mechanical voice rang out in Lin Xuan's mind.
"System, investigate beneath the Icefire Yin Yang Well for me. Are there really skeletons of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King down there?" Lin Xuan ordered.
"Replying to Host, there are indeed two dragon skeletons beneath the spring of the Icefire Yin Yang Well. They are the skeletons of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King," the system replied in Lin Xuan's mind.
"Oh-ho, they really are there. Looks like the original work didn't deceive me!" Lin Xuan rejoiced inwardly and murmured to himself.
"Sister Bing'er, Sister Xue'er, Qiu'er, I'm going to dive down to the bottom of the Icefire Yin Yang Well. I have a feeling there may be a great opportunity down there—an opportunity meant for me." Lin Xuan raised his eyes and looked at the three women.
"What? Hubby, you're going down to the bottom of the Icefire Yin Yang Well?" Wang Qiu'er suddenly raised her head and looked at Lin Xuan in surprise.
"Yes." Lin Xuan rubbed her head again. "Qiu'er, I'm only going down for a while. I'll be back soon."
"Little Xuan." Snow Empress did not try to stop Lin Xuan. She merely walked up to him and called softly.
"Sister Xue'er, you're not going to stop me?" Lin Xuan looked at Snow Empress in surprise.
"Of course I won't stop you." Snow Empress smiled gently. "This is your choice. Besides, you just said that you felt there was a great opportunity below, one meant for you. Since that's the case, why would I stop you?"
"Exactly, exactly. We won't stop you." Ice Empress also walked up to Lin Xuan. "We'll wait for you up here, so don't die down there."
"Alright." Lin Xuan nodded heavily. He had not expected Ice Empress and Snow Empress to support his choice and decision so strongly, and warmth filled his heart.
"Hubby... but..." Wang Qiu'er grabbed Lin Xuan's hand and said worriedly, "Are you really going to be alright? The temperature at the bottom of the Icefire Yin Yang Well may reach an extremely terrifying level."
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