"I already have three Soul Spirits by my side: the Soft Bone Rabbit, the Titan Giant Ape, and the Sky Azure Bull Python. You would be the fourth.
"Every one of them is doing well. If you don't believe me, ask Xiao Wu."
Xiao Wu nodded vigorously, her voice full of sincere pride and contentment:
"Master's right! Ice Empress, I was captured by Master too—no, rescued by him.
"Anyway, I thought becoming a Soul Spirit would cost me my freedom, but it was nothing like that!
"I'm stronger than before, and I can go shopping and eat out with Rongrong and the others.
"It's so much better than living in the Star Dou Great Forest, afraid every day that someone would hunt me down.
"And everyone around Master is really nice.
"Master never forces us to do anything we don't want to do. All he needs to do is focus on his cultivation.
"Ice Empress, you've lived for 380,000 years. Don't you want to see what the Divine Realm is like?"
As she spoke, she spun around to show off her 160,000-year aura, then scooped up a snowball and tossed it toward Er Ming.
Er Ming's phantom poked half his head out of the Martial Soul space and gave a goofy, good-natured grin.
The Ice Empress fell silent. Her jade-green compound eyes shifted from Xiao Wu to Fang Fan, then from Fang Fan to Bibi Dong.
The Demigod had not spoken once. She merely stood with her hands behind her back, watching the Ice Empress calmly, as if to say,
My disciple is willing to give you a chance. If you refuse, only one path remains.
The Ice Empress knew better than anyone what that path meant.
If the Demigod attacked, the Ice Empress might not lose, but she would