Lin Fan had no idea so much had happened ten thousand years later. While handling his affairs, he had suddenly felt his control over time grow stronger.
It left him curious, and he kept turning over possible reasons in his mind.
Could it be because he had recently prepared custom One-Word Battle Armor for everyone in the Hidden Azure Pavilion?
Had he changed the course of their lives so drastically that his control over time had received some unseen feedback and grown stronger?
Lin Fan thought it through again and again, but he could not find a convincing answer.
Since he could not figure it out, he let the matter go and decided to see how it developed.
Just then, a faint sound came from outside. Someone stood at his door and knocked softly.
Lin Fan set aside his thoughts and told them to come in.
"Come in."
The door opened, and the Snow Empress stepped inside. She looked at Lin Fan with anticipation in her eyes and asked,
"Lin Fan, do you have the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus yet?"
Seeing her barely contained urgency, Lin Fan smiled with confidence.
"I do. The Ice Empress has everything she needs to cultivate a human form now."
He took the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus from a box beside him and handed it to the Snow Empress.
"Thank you so much," she said earnestly.
"It's only right. After all, with the decision you've made, you owe me quite a bit now."
The Snow Empress nodded without hesitation.
"I know that."
She knew the original agreement between Lin Fan and the Ice Empress had been different.
Under that agreement, the Ice Empress would have become Ling Luochen's exclusive Soul Spirit and given her a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone. But the Snow Empress's intervention had changed everything.
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