"Bing'er, I never imagined you would choose a path like this." After hearing the Ice Empress's account, the Snow Empress sighed, her emotions settling considerably.
The Ice Empress smiled bitterly. "I had no choice! If I hadn't reached the very last moment, if there had been even a sliver of hope left, I would never have entrusted my fate to someone else.
"Luckily, my gamble paid off.
"As Tian Meng puts it, stick with our lord and we'll eat nine meals a day. Ascending to the Divine Realm and becoming beasts again is only a matter of time."
"Tian Meng," the Snow Empress called.
"Here! I'm here, I'm here!" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm eagerly popped out again.
"I never expected you to be so loyal," the Snow Empress said. "You found a path that might succeed, yet you still remembered Bing'er."
Inside Qin Xiao's spiritual space, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reached his stubby limbs toward the back of his head to scratch it...
Only...
He embarrassingly failed to reach.
"Snow Maiden, come on, join us!"
The Ice Empress extended the invitation again.
But the Snow Empress shook her head.
"Snow Maiden, do you really not want to take the same path as me?"
The Snow Empress smiled bitterly. "It isn't that I don't want to. I can't. Your circumstances are different from mine. I already chose recultivation into human form, and my power has been compressed into my origin power. If my recultivation succeeds, that power will gradually be released as my human body grows, becoming my strength once more. But right now, all that power is still there, and it's immense. Even a Titled Douluo would burst trying to take it in..."
"Besides, Tian Meng set aside an ownerless martial soul for you back then, allowing you