"Make a bet with me?"
"Heh."
"You don't have the right!"
Faced with Chen Mo's proposed wager, the Ice Empress rejected it with utter contempt.
Seeing that the Ice Empress refused to take the bait,
Chen Mo found himself with something of a headache.
Just then,
Electrolux's voice quietly sounded.
"Little Mo, let me borrow your body. I'll speak to this little scorpion."
At that,
Chen Mo offered no resistance.
After all, given the Ice Empress's current attitude, she would never believe him.
It would take someone whose strength was close to hers.
The next second,
Chen Mo's eyes turned grayish-white, and he radiated an aura like the god of death.
"How could this be?"
"Why did this fellow's aura suddenly become so sinister and terrifying?"
Sensing this change, the Ice Empress
could not help feeling stunned.
She hurriedly asked, "Who are you?"
"Don't be alarmed, little scorpion. I mean you no harm. I merely wish to discuss what my young disciple just said." Electrolux's deeply resonant voice
made the Ice Empress take him seriously.
For she could sense that this mysterious person who had suddenly appeared before her
was strong! Extremely strong!
Still, the words "little scorpion" made the Ice Empress frown.
She ranked second among the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North and seventh among the ten great ferocious beasts, an existence whose very name sent humans trembling in terror.
And yet he called her a "little scorpion!"
That was truly an unprecedented first.
But under the circumstances, she could not afford to argue over such trivialities.
"You do indeed have the right to negotiate with me."
"Speak. What do you want?"
Electrolux said softly, "It's simple. Didn't Little Mo propose a wager? Then let us wager that he can help you survive this Tribulation Lightning. If you survive it, we win, and you must stay beside my young disciple as his bodyguard for ten years."
"But what if he fails?" The Ice Empress posed a fatal question.
This wager appeared to help her.
But in reality,
she would bear all the suffering while this little brat reaped the rewards without lifting a finger.
If she survived the Tribulation Lightning, all would be well. At worst, she would serve as this human child's bodyguard for ten years.
But if she failed, she would be reduced to ashes, while this boy would lose nothing at all.
Electrolux naturally understood this.
So he continued, "If he fails, I will personally block the Tribulation Lightning for you! How does that sound?"
The Ice Empress fell into thought.
But the thunderclouds overhead gave her no time to consider.
Rumble—
Peals of falling thunder exploded.
The fifth strike of Tribulation Lightning had almost finished forming.
Its power exceeded that of the previous four combined.
It was making its intentions perfectly clear: it did not want the Ice Empress to live past today!
Heaven's will was merciless!
"Fine! I agree!" The Ice Empress glanced at her wounded body and damaged essence.
She knew full well that she could not withstand the Tribulation Lightning alone.
Rather than sit and await death,
she might as well throw caution to the wind and gamble!
If she succeeded, there was nothing more to say. But if she failed, she could at least drag someone down with her before she died.
"However..." The Ice Empress raised her right claw, and several walls of ice surrounded them. "For safety's sake, you don't mind if I enclose the area with ice walls, do you?"
"No objections."
Chen Mo spoke, having now regained control of his body.
He had underestimated how calculating the Ice Empress was.
She had quite a few tricks up her sleeve.
Seeing that the fifth strike of Tribulation Lightning was about to fall,
the Ice Empress asked, "Hurry up and tell me. How will you help me survive this Tribulation Lightning?"
"Simple. Just sit inside the cage and wait for the Tribulation Lightning to hit you." Chen Mo's explanation was brief and blunt.
The Ice Empress fell utterly silent after hearing it.
She glanced at Chen Mo and said flatly, "I must have gone mad to agree to your wager!"
With that, the Ice Empress had no time left to show her disdain.
Dragging her gravely wounded body, she quickly crawled into the cage.
After Chen Mo shut the door and drove all the surrounding hooks into the frozen soil,
he immediately took to his heels and ran more than a hundred meters away.
Meanwhile,
the fifth strike of Tribulation Lightning had finished forming.
The lightning, originally deep purple, had now turned somewhat black.
It aimed at the Ice Empress's location and smashed down viciously.
Watching the two abyssal pillars of lightning plunge straight down from the sky,
the Ice Empress squeezed her eyes shut.
Bang—bzzzz!!!
A dull, heavy impact rang out, like an object crashing down from a great height.
Countless electrical currents surged wildly.
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"Huh? It doesn't hurt?"
The Ice Empress slowly opened her eyes and looked up.
Every current from the terrifying fifth strike of Tribulation Lightning was flowing through the hooks into the ground.
Until it dissipated.
"The fifth strike of Tribulation Lightning is over, just like that?" The Ice Empress still found it hard to believe.
What kind of joke was this?
That terrifying Tribulation Lightning, which could have killed her, had actually been blocked by this shabby cage.
And aside from trembling a little, the shabby cage was completely undamaged.
Before she could wonder further,
the Tribulation Lightning high in the heavens seemed to notice what was happening below.
Seeing that the lightning it had sent down had been blocked so easily,
it was both shocked and enraged!
It immediately formed the sixth, seventh, and eighth strikes of Tribulation Lightning!!!
Three strikes of Tribulation Lightning radiating terrifying electrical might
fell one after another.
The sharp, violent cracks of thunder made the earth shudder repeatedly.
Yet the Ice Empress inside the Faraday Cage remained completely unharmed.
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Tribulation Lightning was thoroughly enraged.
In an instant,
lightning with an aura far beyond the four-hundred-thousand-year level gathered into a World-Destroying Thunder Dragon.
Heaven and earth fell deathly silent.
Even soul beasts fifty kilometers away could feel its tremendous pressure.
Hiding behind a block of ice, Chen Mo looked at the World-Destroying Thunder Dragon and could not help complaining, "Damn, Tribulation Lightning isn't fighting fair! This is clearly way stronger than the four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation!"
Boom!
As though it had heard Chen Mo,
a bolt of lightning landed precisely beside him.
"Tribulation Lightning really is petty. It gets upset over a couple of comments."
The Ice Empress could not help worrying now, either.
Could this Tribulation-Transcending Artifact withstand the blow?
If it could, she would become a four-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast.
As she pondered,
the World-Destroying Thunder Dragon, powerful enough to annihilate heaven and earth, had already descended silently.
Low-frequency spatial tremors swept in every direction. Wind and snow howled, and glaciers cracked.
Rumble—
The thunder dragon collided violently with the Faraday Cage.
The resulting shock wave
shattered the surrounding ice walls the Ice Empress had formed from ultimate ice.
Only Electrolux's protection kept Chen Mo from being caught in the blast.
The strike continued for a long time.
Fortunately, the Faraday Cage was sturdy enough, and it conducted electricity exceptionally smoothly.
About half an hour later,
the World-Destroying Thunder Dragon gradually dissolved into lightning and dissipated.
The thick tribulation clouds in the sky also slowly dispersed.
The wounds the lightning had left on the Ice Empress's body began to heal.
Her cultivation also began to rise.
Her lifespan increased.
The only drawback was that surviving the Tribulation Lightning had not restored her essential power.
Instead, because she had endured the first four strikes of Tribulation Lightning head-on,
the damage had grown even worse.
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