The Snow Empress's Cultivation

Oh~ ho ho ho~

Two hours later...

Chen Jie gave a dismissive scoff. "Heh~

"The leader of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, the strongest in the Far North? Nothing but a..."

He sat in front of the Snow Empress, his dark gaze resting on her as she lay there helplessly.

The Snow Empress lay quietly on her back, her entire body weak and aching. Fine beads of sweat covered her skin, along with the red marks left by the whip. Her eyes rested on his face, brimming with humiliation and helplessness. She had no strength to evade him or fight back.

Chen Jie slowly extended both hands and gently laid them over her chest, firmly covering the faintly glowing mark of the Pink Contract.

After a brief silence, the Snow Empress spoke coldly, a trace of stubbornness in her voice. "Didn't you leave something unsaid?"

Chen Jie slowly leaned down toward her ear and whispered intimately, "Why don't you guess? Get it right, and I'll tell you."

The Snow Empress fell silent. She knew it certainly wouldn't be anything pleasant, so she asked no further questions.

The next instant, Chen Jie slowly applied pressure with both hands.

The Snow Empress's expression abruptly changed. An intense sense of restraint spread from the contract brand on her chest throughout her body, making her stiffen slightly.

A blush rose to the Snow Empress's cheeks. Enduring the discomfort, she said, "Remember what you promised me. You mustn't lay a hand on Bing'er. You mustn't hurt her."

Chen Jie answered calmly, "All right. I won't."

Yet he was secretly scheming. Though he had agreed aloud, he had something else in mind. But if she approaches me of her own accord and takes the initiative to do something to me, then there's nothing I can do...

After speaking, he looked at the Snow Empress beneath him and murmured, "You two sisters really do have something in common."

Dazed, the Snow Empress hadn't quite caught his words. Enduring the discomfort coursing through her body, she asked softly, "What did you say?"

As soon as she spoke, an aching tightness spread through her chest, deepening the color in her already flushed cheeks. A persistent, uncomfortable soreness rippled through her body.

Watching her discomfort, Chen Jie said slowly, "I said you two share a truly deep sisterly bond. You're always thinking of each other."

He paused, then changed the subject.

"All right, let's leave Bing'er aside for now. Next, I'll help you cultivate and break through the seven-hundred-thousand-year barrier. Bear with it."

A series of sharp cracks rang out around Chen Jie as waves of scorching light rose from his skin.

His Pure Yang Sacred Body activated, and dense, searing pure yang power surged from within him.

Chen Jie's hands swiftly formed seals, spiritual light gathering in his palms. Once the seal was complete, a stream of scalding pure yang power flowed straight into the Snow Empress's body.

Warmth slowly spread inside her. Enduring the surging heat, the Snow Empress panted lightly and carefully sensed the power flowing into her. She shook her head slightly. "The pure yang power you're releasing is still far from enough. At this rate, it will take at least half a month to accumulate the energy needed for a breakthrough."

Chen Jie leaned down, wrapped his arms tightly around the Snow Empress, and drew her firmly into his embrace, pressing his chest against her body. His warm breath washed over her ear. Panting slightly, he curled his lips into a wicked smile and said in a gentle, mellow voice, "Then we'll stay together day after day, morning and night, accumulating it slowly until our deep reserves burst forth."

Half a month later.

After half a month together, embracing each other and circulating their power day after day, the Snow Empress's state of mind had quietly changed. At first, she had still harbored misgivings. She couldn't stop worrying about the Ice Empress or let go of the old grievances from the Far North, and she remained wary of Chen Jie.

But as pure yang power flowed into her again and again, she could truly feel her cultivation steadily rising. The bottleneck that had held her at the seven-hundred-thousand-year threshold for so long loosened little by little, and her resistance to Chen Jie gradually faded. She slowly grew able to accept his closeness without deliberately resisting his embrace.

The Snow Empress nestled in Chen Jie's arms, a faint sheen of pearly-white frost surrounding her. The power she had accumulated over so long had reached its limit, and the bottleneck that had trapped her for years was on the verge of collapse.

She slowly exhaled a breath of icy air and looked up at Chen Jie. Her gaze was complicated, holding emotions even she couldn't quite name. She said softly, "I've accumulated almost enough power. I feel like I'm about to break through the seven-hundred-thousand-year barrier."

That familiar wicked smile rose to Chen Jie's lips. He tightened his arms, holding her firmly against him.

"Good. Now focus your entire mind and don't resist. I'll transfer all my remaining pure yang power to you and help you break through in one stroke."

As his words fell, sharp cracks rang out around him once more.

His Pure Yang Sacred Body operated at full strength. Abundant, scorching pure yang spiritual power rushed like a raging torrent through their touching bodies, pouring endlessly into every limb and bone of the Snow Empress.

Her bone-piercing Ultimate Ice Soul Power violently mingled and collided with the scalding pure yang power inside her. The Snow Empress shuddered fiercely, and a wave of icy-blue frost suddenly burst from her body, sending the room's temperature plummeting.

She pressed tightly into Chen Jie's embrace, clenched her teeth, closed her eyes, and devoted herself entirely to the breakthrough.

The two forces continually adjusted to each other and converged within her, until the energy she had long accumulated erupted with a thunderous surge.

The seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation bottleneck that had imprisoned her for years shattered in an instant. Vast, pure spiritual power swept through her entire body. Icy-blue radiance blazed around the Snow Empress, and her aura swelled severalfold as she completed her breakthrough.

Once the Snow Empress's spiritual power had fully settled and her condition was completely stable, Chen Jie slowly withdrew his pure yang power and loosened his arms around her.

He quietly gazed at the mature beauty before him, whose face was cool and whose bearing had grown even more ethereal and untouched by worldly dust. The lingering warmth faded from his eyes as he spoke softly:

"All right, Xue'er. Your cultivation breakthrough is complete, and it's time for me to go back. Enter my Sea of Consciousness for now and rest properly with the Ice Empress."

After spending every day and night together for half a month, she had long since shed her initial distance and wariness. The Snow Empress nodded lightly. The old frost had faded from her cool features, leaving a hint of gentle acquiescence. "All right," she answered softly.

With that, her figure turned into a translucent streak of icy-blue light and obediently merged into Chen Jie's Sea of Consciousness, quietly going to the Ice Empress's side.

After settling the Snow Empress, Chen Jie left the Sumeru Micro-World with a thought.

Light and shadow flickered before his eyes. A moment later, he stood once more amid the vast snowy plains of the Far North.

The bitter wind howled, snow and ice filled the sky, and the familiar chill of the Far North struck his face. With the Snow Empress's cultivation breakthrough taken care of, he prepared to set off for Shrek Academy.