Inside the dormitory.
Xu Cheng stole a glance at the little girl nestled tightly against his side, utterly motionless.
Something was wrong! Nine parts out of ten kinds of wrong!
How the hell could this be the Snow Empress? Why did she look so goofy?
In the Sea of Consciousness.
Tian Meng looked bewildered. "I haven't had much contact with the Snow Empress, but she definitely wouldn't act like this. Something must have gone wrong!"
The Ice Empress looked equally suspicious. She glanced at Xu Cheng, who spread his hands helplessly and said, "Ice Empress, after all this time, you know what kind of person I am. Would I really stoop to something as vile as using an Illusion Technique on a little girl?"
The Ice Empress sighed helplessly. "Sorry, A Cheng, but this is Snow Woman. I..." She was nearly frantic enough to cry.
Xu Cheng felt rather helpless too.
Judging by the intelligence the Snow Empress was displaying now, she really was probably no different from a six-year-old girl. Yet when she had assumed human form not long ago, she had clearly retained her original mind.
There were simply too few cases of hundred-thousand-year soul beasts assuming human form. So even though one of the two beasts had a million years of cultivation and the other four hundred thousand, neither knew the first thing about it.
"How about... asking Elder Yi? He's seen a lot and knows a lot," Xu Cheng suggested, smacking his lips.
"All right!" The Ice Empress nodded.
"Hey, that old gee- ahem, Elder Yi doesn't seem to be in the Sea of Consciousness? He can leave it now?" Tian Meng looked around with wide eyes.
"He didn't sacrifice himself. He's merely in soul form. The gold of life A Cheng bought at auction restored