"Lu Yi."
The Snow Empress stood at the entrance, her expression grave. "We can set the Soul Spirit Ritual aside for now. What I want to know is how you learned my identity."
Lu Yi had expected the question.
Instead of answering it directly, he returned to the subject of the God-Sealing Platform.
"Snow Empress, I haven't started studying the God-Sealing Platform yet, but I can tell you it would be hard to find another Soul Tool in the world with the same function. That makes it extremely valuable for research. Could you tell me what being sealed inside felt like?"
"Hmph. And you claim you don't want to use that thing against the Soul Beast Clan? You humans really are all so cunning."
The Snow Empress looked displeased. Lu Yi was reopening an old wound, and in the process, he seemed to have inadvertently revealed what he truly wanted.
"I'm just curious about how it felt. Stop pinning accusations on me!"
Lu Yi was a little helpless and hurried to cut her off. "Don't forget, freeing you was part of a trade. I've been more than frank with you."
The Snow Empress paused. That much is true. Only then did she say quietly, "It felt like soaking in warm water. Every time I struggled, most of the energy in my body was drawn away, then used to suppress me. But if I stayed still and didn't resist, the inside actually kept my life-form unchanged."
Then, as though trying to save face, she added, "That thing only worked because it caught me unprepared, when I couldn't fight back. Under normal circumstances, not one of those humans would have escaped."
"That's exactly the problem."
Lu Yi nodded and pointed it out. "How small are the odds of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast