What Came Next

Di Tian didn't leave immediately after setting down the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. He also wanted to know what could make the Snow Empress and the Evil Lord join forces and come to Star Dou Forest. Was this Ice Silkworm really that tempting?

Di Tian stood quietly to the side, watching the Snow Empress and the Evil Lord, and no one asked him to leave. He saw the white-haired human girl go and talk to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. It wasn't the Snow Empress or the Evil Lord, but this human. Di Tian found it very strange. He had never understood why the Snow Empress and the others had brought along a human child, but from the way the human looked at the Ice Silkworm, they seemed very familiar, as if they were old friends reuniting after a long time apart. The earlier battle had been unusual, and now it seemed that she held a significant position among the Snow Empress and the others as well. All of this left Di Tian increasingly unable to figure out what exactly this girl was.

As he spoke with Huo Yuhao, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gradually calmed down and lost his fear. But when he noticed the Snow Empress and the others behind Huo Yuhao, Sky Dream still felt afraid and shrank back.

Seeing Brother Sky Dream react that way, Huo Yuhao hurriedly introduced them. "It's all right, Brother Sky Dream. Everyone came here to save you. No one's going to imprison you anymore. You're free now, Brother Sky Dream."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm listened to Huo Yuhao and looked at everyone behind her. He had never imagined that anyone would come to save him. For a moment, all the grievances in his heart surged up, and tears began to fall uncontrollably from his tiny eyes. Then he let out a loud "Waaah!" and burst into tears. Even Huo Yuhao, who had spent the most time with Brother Sky Dream, had never seen him cry like this. For a moment, she didn't know how to comfort him.

While Huo Yuhao stood there at a loss, the others behind her wore all sorts of expressions. The Evil Lord, Xiao Bai, and Li Ya remained quite calm. A Ling, A-Tai, Wolf King, and Raven were amazed that there really was a Soul Beast with such high Cultivation and such poor fighting ability. The Snow Empress could only marvel that Tian Meng was truly lucky to have found so much Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Only Ice Empress's face looked rather grim at that moment. Ever since Huo Yuhao had told her that she would end up with this guy, she had found it hard to believe. Before coming here, she had still been wondering how she should face Sky Dream and how to deal with her feelings for the Snow Empress. But looking at this guy, who had already been crying for a while and was still sobbing, she felt utterly embarrassed. She had thought that after leaving the Far North, Sky Dream would at least have grown stronger and tougher. But nothing before her made sense: just how unwanted was she to have ended up with this guy?

Ice Empress, her face dark with exasperation, walked up from behind. Seeing Huo Yuhao still comforting Sky Dream, she came over and punched him on the head.

"Ow!" Sky Dream's sobs, as he vented his grievances over being imprisoned, were cut short by the punch. Feeling the pain on his head, he looked up and saw a green-haired girl with twin tails glaring at him with a dark expression. He sensed the Cultivation she radiated.

Sky Dream timidly asked the girl, "Are you Ice Empress? Did I do something to make you unhappy?"

"That's right. I'm Ice Empress. I just think it's embarrassing that you're still sniveling. You're a Soul Beast with Over Nine Hundred Thousand Years of Cultivation, aren't you? Can't you show a little backbone?"

"I'm sorry. I won't do it again." Perhaps he still feared the Ferocious Beasts. Sky Dream shrank back and answered in a tearful voice.

Behind them, Li Ya and Xiao Bai watched Ice Empress scold Sky Dream, and it felt like old times again. A-Tai recalled the time Ice Empress had scolded him in the cave a few days earlier and silently prayed for Sky Dream. Raven, meanwhile, dragged Wolf King along to watch the show.

Huo Yuhao watched the two of them and wiped the sweat from her forehead, thinking, You really can't beat Ice Empress. I didn't even know how to comfort Brother Sky Dream, and she took care of it with one move. Still, she worried that Ice Empress might scold him too harshly and upset Brother Sky Dream again, so she hurried over to intervene.

After watching everything, Di Tian turned to the Evil Lord and asked, "I've handed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm over to you. When will you be leaving?"

"No rush. We'll stay for a few days and see."

Di Tian grew somewhat angry when he heard that. "Don't push your luck. Don't think I'm afraid to fight you a second time."

The Evil Lord thought about how that old rascal Di Tian always made threats, only to back down for no apparent reason, while putting on a stern face all the time. Seeing Di Tian get the worse of things now pleased him greatly. He said unhurriedly, "You think you can win a second time?"

After hearing the Evil Lord's words, Di Tian wanted to throw himself straight into another fight with him. But remembering that their Master was still asleep and healing at the Lake of Life, he silently repeated to himself, This is for the sake of our Master. This is for the sake of our Master... Then he left after saying, "Leave as soon as you've had your fill of staying here."

After returning, the more Di Tian thought about it, the angrier he got, so he went to work out his frustration on Xiong Jun. Poor Xiong Jun had been blown up by Ice Empress during the day, only to get beaten up by Di Tian again that night. With his face swollen and bruised, Xiong Jun was thoroughly depressed-but that's another story.

Watching Di Tian fly away, the Snow Empress walked over to the Evil Lord and asked, "How did Di Tian manage to hold back and not attack you? Could he really be that easygoing?"

"Maybe he really is easygoing," the Evil Lord said with a smile.

The Snow Empress looked at the Evil Lord's smiling face and said, "I didn't know you could smile. I thought you couldn't."

"I have Di Tian to thank. I haven't been this happy in a long time."

Hearing the Evil Lord's words, the Snow Empress remembered the way Di Tian had flown off just now, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly.

After Huo Yuhao had talked Ice Empress down, the Evil Lord told her that everyone would be staying here for a few days. Huo Yuhao didn't ask why. She took one of the three pillars of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow she had brought from the cave out of her bracelet and placed it in front of Sky Dream. "Brother Sky Dream, absorb this first."

Sky Dream looked at the pillar of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow in front of him and asked, "Is all of this for me?"

Huo Yuhao nodded. "It's all yours. Don't worry."

At that, Sky Dream lunged at it. Ever since leaving the Ice Cave where he'd lived, he had been fleeing and imprisoned for who knew how long, and he hadn't tasted Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow in ages. Sky Dream hugged the marrow and munched away. Its familiar taste made him feel as if he had returned to his old life of eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating.

While Sky Dream was still enjoying himself as he munched on the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, Raven, who was sitting nearby, could no longer hold back. She had never seen anyone bite straight into Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. Everyone absorbed it with Soul Power. Now, watching Sky Dream chomp away and scatter ice shavings all over the ground made Raven's heart ache. What a waste!

Raven's body instinctively lunged over to Sky Dream and began gathering the crumbs he'd bitten off and dropped. That caught Sky Dream by surprise as he enjoyed the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and everyone behind them saw it too. The others were used to Raven's "thrifty" nature. After all, every time they ate, Raven always managed to clean her plate, never leaving even a crumb behind. So they weren't surprised by it-except Wolf King and Sky Dream.

Wolf King came from the Sun Moon Continent, just like Raven and the Evil Lord, so he naturally considered Raven one of his own. Seeing her like this, he couldn't help covering his face with his hand to hide his embarrassment. Then he hurried over to stop her.

Sky Dream watched Raven gathering the crumbs he had dropped from the ground. Thinking that she wanted some too, he was about to break off a piece for her, but Wolf King arrived and stopped him.

Wolf King hurried over, pulled Raven to her feet, and whispered to her, "That's enough. You've absorbed it before, haven't you?"

"This is going to waste. You don't feel bad about it, but I do." Raven tried to pick up the crumbs again, but Wolf King wordlessly hooked an arm around her and dragged her back. Looking at the crumbs on the ground, Raven shouted, "Put me down!" as she struggled while he dragged her away.

After Huo Yuhao reassured him that everything was all right, Sky Dream, who had watched all this, went back to enjoying the delicacy he hadn't tasted in so long, but he now saw the crumbs on the ground differently.