I Gave You a Chance, but You Still Couldn't Make It Count!

Lin Xuanchen walked up to the lotus, bent forward slightly, and reached out to touch it.

After all, he had never seen such a special hundred-thousand-year plant-type soul beast in the original story. What was more, it was so small, and it happened to possess the light attribute he needed.

Naturally, this stirred his curiosity and made him want to touch it. With the Ice Empress around, he wasn't afraid of this hundred-thousand-year immortal herb daring to do anything out of line.

"What are you doing? Don't touch me!" Just as Lin Xuanchen's palm was about to touch the lotus, a soft, sweet female voice suddenly rang out from its heart.

"Hmm?" Lin Xuanchen paused briefly, then slowly withdrew his hand and said with a smile, "Let's talk."

"Hmph!" The Mysterious Lotus snorted. "You want me to sacrifice myself, don't you? I heard everything you said to Mo Mo just now!"

After the Mysterious Lotus finished speaking, a faint golden halo spilled from her heart, then condensed into a little blonde girl in front of Lin Xuanchen.

"Oh? You can even take human form?" Surprise welled up inside Lin Xuanchen as he looked at the little blonde girl who had suddenly appeared. Then he reached out and poked her cheek.

"Ugh! Don't touch my face!" The little blonde girl pouted indignantly and waved her small hand, knocking Lin Xuanchen's hand aside.

"To think an immortal herb can take human form. I never expected that." Lin Xuanchen looked the little girl up and down, surprise flashing through his azure eyes.

She was the first immortal herb he had seen capable of assuming human form on her own since he arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

From what he knew of the original story, it seemed that only those who reached the two-hundred-thousand-year level and became ferocious beasts could freely assume human form.

For a hundred-thousand-year soul beast to take human form, it had to abandon its cultivation and start cultivating anew. Yet the little blonde girl before him looked nothing like someone who had started over, which only deepened Lin Xuanchen's curiosity.

"Hmph!" The little blonde girl gave a proud snort. "I am the Dawn-Burning Golden Lotus, with a hundred and twenty thousand years of cultivation! Ordinary immortal herbs can't compare to me!"

"Dawn-Burning Golden Lotus?" Lin Xuanchen murmured, briefly searching his memories for any information about this kind of immortal herb, but he came up empty.

"Your name is Dawn-Burning Golden Lotus, right?" Lin Xuanchen asked with a grin.

"Mm-hmm." The little blonde girl nodded.

"Then I'll call you Xixi! How does that sound?" Lin Xuanchen said with a faint smile.

"No, no!" The little blonde girl shook her head vigorously, rejecting him without hesitation.

"Your objection doesn't matter. From now on, I'm calling you Xixi." Lin Xuanchen smiled indifferently.

"You!" Xixi glared at Lin Xuanchen and raised her little hand, wanting to strike him, but ultimately held herself back. She couldn't end up like the aromatic silk beauty and infernal delicate apricot, kicked to death by the Ice Empress like some stray by the roadside.

"Xixi, I don't want to waste any more words on you. You'll sacrifice yourself to my girlfriend in a moment, and I'll have her resurrect you after she becomes a god." Lin Xuanchen pointed at Wang Dong'er, who was still refining the medicinal power of the Soul Restoration Pill.

"Why should I?" Xixi's gleaming golden eyes were filled with reluctance. "What if your girlfriend never becomes a god? Wouldn't I have sacrificed myself for nothing?"

"Why should you?" Lin Xuanchen sneered. "Because this is your only chance to stay alive, and because my side has enough strength to decide your fate."

Lin Xuanchen wasn't about to change his mind just because the Dawn-Burning Golden Lotus had turned into a little girl.

When it came to little girls, wasn't the petite, somewhat prickly Ice Empress far more appealing? Why would he harbor any improper thoughts about a lotus?

"Damn you!" A thin veil of tears slowly welled up in Xixi's gleaming golden eyes. "You utterly shameless, wicked human!"

"Stop wasting words. Either sacrifice yourself, or I'll kill you outright and find another way for my girlfriend to absorb your soul ring," Lin Xuanchen said coldly.

"Could I... could I... not sacrifice myself...? I'll give you all the Dawn Radiance Lotus Marrow I've condensed through ten thousand years of cultivation..." Xixi pleaded pitifully.

"I already gave you a chance." At her words, Lin Xuanchen's previously mild gaze abruptly turned cold and fierce, and a faint trace of killing intent flashed through his azure eyes.

"Senior Ice Empress." Lin Xuanchen turned toward the Ice Empress, who was lounging against a blue-gray rock behind him, her slender fingers still toying with a pink flower, and called out, "Freeze her. Just leave her a breath of life."

Hearing Lin Xuanchen's call, the Ice Empress merely cast a casual glance their way. She aimed her delicate hand at Xixi and flicked a finger lightly. A wisp of frost blossoms shot from her hand and hurtled toward Xixi.

"Don't kill me! I'll sacri..." The Ice Empress's attack splashed over Xixi like water, instantly encasing her in ice. The plea Xixi had been about to utter was cut short halfway through.

"Begging for mercy now? Too late!" Lin Xuanchen said as he looked at Xixi, frozen by the Ice Empress, a trace of mockery slipping through his azure eyes.

"I gave you a chance, but you still couldn't make it count!" Lin Xuanchen shook his head, bored. If this fellow hadn't kept babbling and trying to bargain with him, and if Wang Dong'er hadn't needed this soul ring, he certainly wouldn't have left her alive.

"Hmm... what was it you said just now? Something about Dawn Radiance Lotus Marrow cultivated over ten thousand years, wasn't it? Let me look. Where did you hide it?" As Lin Xuanchen looked at Xixi, a wicked smile slowly curled his lips.

"Eight Extremities Collapse!"

The next instant, Lin Xuanchen summoned the life spirit flame and wrapped it around his right fist. Then his fingers abruptly clenched, and he drove a punch toward Xixi's abdomen.

Squ elch!

In an instant, Lin Xuanchen's fist plunged savagely into Xixi's abdomen. The scorching emerald-green flames melted a little of the solid ice around her belly.

"Let me see where it is." Lin Xuanchen kept stirring his hand around inside Xixi's abdomen.

Before long, Lin Xuanchen brutally ripped a hexagonal crystal core radiating a rich aura of light straight out of Xixi's abdomen.

As Lin Xuanchen pulled the hexagonal crystal core from Xixi's abdomen, her face visibly drained of color in an instant. Even the brilliance in her once-gleaming golden eyes dimmed somewhat.