"You don't like me."
"That's fine!"
"I don't have any feelings for you either."
"We both chose to marry for our own purposes."
Inside the room.
Lin Ye claimed the comfortable newlywed bed, while Shui Bing'er could only stand awkwardly by the doorway.
This distance was entirely out of place with the red wedding attire they wore, looking just like two strangers forcibly crammed into the same room.
And that was indeed the case...
Their bridal chamber on their wedding night was only the second time they had ever met.
Seeing that Shui Bing'er did not speak, Lin Ye promptly sat cross-legged on the bed and closed his eyes to rest his mind.
He was originally a student at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
During a sparring session with the Skywater Academy, he had defeated Shui Bing'er with absolute, crushing momentum.
Afterwards.
The Shui Family ambushed him.
At the time, he thought the Shui Family couldn't afford to lose and had started playing dirty.
Little did he know...
The Shui Family Patriarch opened his mouth and asked if he wanted a wife?
That "wife" was Shui Bing'er.
He was completely dumbfounded at the time!
Because nobody had told him this was a premeditated martial arts competition to select a son-in-law.
After some explanation...
Lin Ye finally understood that it was because his Ice Dragon and Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix had produced a martial soul resonance.
The Shui Family elders conferred late into the night and reached a conclusion: they confirmed that his martial soul compatibility with Shui Bing'er was extremely high.
Dual Cultivation between the two would not only help Shui Bing'er resolve the hidden danger of her Martial Soul Foundation Instability, but even held the promise of spawning an exclusive Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
Even more...
He and Shui Bing'er might produce an ice-type offspring with exceptionally high talent, thereby elevating the Shui Family into the ranks of top clans.
Lin Ye's original intention was to refuse.
He wasn't a stud pig!
Yet the Shui Family offered far too much.
The Shui Family used a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Soul Snow Lotus, a Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Heart Fruit, and a Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Marrow Flower as a dowry.
From then on, they would also regularly provide him with one Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Medicinal Herb every month, and allowed him to use the Shui Family's Cold Jade Bed for cultivation once a month.
The Shui Family Patriarch even promised with his own lips that from then on, he would mobilize the entire clan's strength to find suitable Soul Rings for him.
This, this, this...
One ten-thousand-year ice-type medicinal herb every month!
Lin Ye truly could not find a reason to refuse.
He took out the Ice Soul Snow Lotus, Frost Heart Fruit, and Cold Marrow Flower from his Storage Soul Tool.
These were all ice-type herbs.
They were of immense benefit to him as a Soul Master with an Ice Dragon Martial Soul.
"Gulp~"
Shui Bing'er subconsciously swallowed her saliva.
All these precious cultivation resources were given to Lin Ye?
She knew her father did this for the family, and to repair the hidden danger of her unstable martial soul foundation.
However...
She really found it hard to accept sharing a bed with a stranger she had only met once.
Even though Lin Ye's cultivation at level forty-eight left his peers far behind, his talent surpassed hers, and his looks were outstandingly handsome...
Shui Bing'er's brows furrowed slightly.
What surfaced in her mind seemed to be entirely Lin Ye's merits.
Her heart was even subconsciously persuading herself to welcome the upcoming bridal chamber proceedings.
"Hey--"
"What are you standing there for?"
Shui Bing'er's body froze instantly when she heard Lin Ye call her.
Is it about to start?
This couldn't help but make her heartbeat suddenly speed up.
"Although we don't have the reality of husband and wife, we already have the name of husband and wife."
"Shui Bing'er!"
"Please fulfill a wife's duties."
"I am going to absorb three Ice-Type Herbs right now, so stand by and guard my back."
Shui Bing'er let out a long sigh of relief inwardly upon hearing this.
Immediately afterward...
She was left between tears and laughter.
What did Lin Ye take her for?
A gate-guarding bodyguard, or a maid to be ordered around at will?
Lin Ye didn't pay attention to Shui Bing'er's rich inner monologue at this moment.
He sat cross-legged on the bed.
The next breath.
The three Ice-Type Herbs had already been sent into his mouth one after another.
The herbs melted the moment they entered his mouth...
Without a shred of piercing pain.
The medicinal power turned into a warm, icy current that slowly spread out along his meridians.
Three streams of origin ice force blended and converged at his dantian, quietly nourishing his Martial Soul foundation.
The very instant the medicinal power surged into his brain.
A low dragon roar came from the depths of his spiritual sea of consciousness.
Appearing at the exact same time was a bone-chilling, utmost cold aura circulating throughout his entire body.
"This is...?"
"The Ice Dragon King Bloodline?!"
Lin Ye had known from the moment of his Martial Soul Awakening that he possessed the Ice Dragon King Bloodline on his body.
Only...
This portion of ancient bloodline had always been dormant.
Yet now, the three Ice-Type Herbs had actually awakened it.
"Hiss~"
Shui Bing'er's face was full of astonishment.
Because she saw that the Soul Power surrounding Lin Ye's body was solidifying at a speed visible to the naked eye.
His Soul Power climbed steadily...
And mysterious ice crystal scales also began to emerge on his arms.
What startled Shui Bing'er the most was that her breathing began to grow hurried; this was the coercion brought by a Martial Soul bloodline.
This made her very confused.
She hadn't felt this kind of pressure when she did Soul Fighting with Lin Ye last time.
Could three Ice-Type Herbs bring such a huge enhancement to a Soul Master?
Amidst her shock and suspicion.
Lin Ye had already completed the absorption.
His Soul Power charged straight through the barrier of level fifty in one go.
He was a Soul King!
This wasn't the enhancement brought by the three Ice-Type Herbs, but rather the feedback from the awakening of the Ice Dragon King Bloodline within his body.
Aside from that.
The effects of all his soul skills were doubled overall.
A trace of extremely faint Ice Dragon King aura was attached to his Soul Power, possessing a natural deterrent against ice-type Soul Beasts below ten thousand years, while also causing bloodline suppression to Soul Masters of the same rank.
And this was just the Ice Dragon King Bloodline showing the initial signs of awakening.
Lin Ye was already starting to imagine what kind of effect it would be when the Ice Dragon King Bloodline inside his body completely awakened.
Shui Bing'er parted her red lips slightly...
She really wanted to ask right now what exact enhancements the three Ice-Type Herbs had brought.
In the end, she still forcefully suppressed this curiosity deep in her heart.
At this moment.
Lin Ye suddenly walked over carrying a quilt, which could not help making her heartbeat speed up once again.
Then she saw Lin Ye spread the quilt out on the floor.
Mm...
This fellow was not a total scoundrel.
Knowing that she did not have that kind of thought, he did not intend to force himself upon her.
Otherwise...
She definitely would not let Lin Ye succeed so easily.
What made the corners of her mouth curve upward even more was that Lin Ye took the initiative to sleep on the floor, which made a trace of goodwill toward Lin Ye sprout in her heart.
"All right!" Lin Ye clapped his hands. "You sleep on the floor tonight."
Shui Bing'er froze in place on the spot.
What was the meaning of this?
This fellow Lin Ye was making the bed for her just now?
Dammit!
She retracted that tiny trace of goodwill toward Lin Ye that had just arisen in her heart.
Lin Ye lay down on the soft bed and said, "The elders of the Shui Family told us to make a child as soon as possible. You should know about this, right?"
His mood right now was extremely cheerful.
This marriage not only allowed him to break through to the rank of Soul King, but it also awakened the Ice Dragon King Bloodline within his body.
"I don't know."
By comparison, Shui Bing'er did not have such a good mood.
"It doesn't matter."
"You know now."
"Whether we actually want a child or not, we should put on a show for the elders of the Shui Family. So whenever you are ready, just stick your butt up."
"I'm going to sleep first!"
Shui Bing'er looked at Lin Ye lying on the soft and comfortable large bed, her anger already flaring up from who knows where.
What did he mean by saying that whenever she was ready she should stick her butt up?
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