When Snow Empress Watched Her Own Story

Listening to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm describe being hunted down as being pursued in reverse, Huo Yuhao smiled. What was there for him to be proud of?

"Brother Sky Dream, you kept obsessing over Ice Empress, stubbornly fighting your natural enemy for several hundred thousand years. That kind of conviction really is beyond the reach of ordinary silkworms."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm moved itself to tears in the Sea of Spirit. Gazing toward the distant depths of the Far North Land, its eyes brimmed with sincere emotion. "What do you know, Yuhao? This is called love that transcends species... True love is often full of challenges, but I fear nothing."

In the Sea of Spirit, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm held its head high and struck a domineering pose.

It thought that mutually rushing toward the leader of its natural enemies was a very cool thing.

It was just that things could easily turn into an accident.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had faith in its own wisdom. Though it was a simp silkworm, it still mattered who it simped for. Simping for an ordinary Ice Jade Scorpion and simping for Ice Empress, a four-hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion—how could those be the same?

Huo Yuhao used Soul Power to propel his snow sled, speeding toward the Core Zone of the Far North Land.

"Yuhao, there's no need to deliberately look for a route. Just follow the spiritual guidance and keep heading toward the center of the Far North Land."

"I understand, Brother Sky Dream."

Huo Yuhao popped a Soul Return Pill into his mouth and spared no expense with his Soul Power, doing nothing but pushing forward.

The low temperature here had little effect on him. He possessed the Origin Ice Martial Soul, and with the Bone Spirit Cold Fire, which was both supremely cold and supremely hot, he could barely feel the chill. Instead, he found this environment rather comfortable for sledding.

The deeper he ventured into the Far North Land, the lower the temperature became. Bone Spirit Cold Fire formed a thin, pale icy membrane over Huo Yuhao's body.

"Yuhao, you're wearing my shed skin. I'll use my origin spiritual power to conceal your aura. Once we get there, I only need to call out for Bing Bing, and she'll come over."

Huo Yuhao nodded. It had to be said that the shed skin nurtured by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's million years of cultivation was absolutely a supreme treasure. After all, in the Original Work, this very shed skin could even restrict Ice Empress's movements.

Several days later, in the Far North Land, near the center of the Core Zone.

Through the hazy icy mist permeating heaven and earth, Huo Yuhao saw a towering snow mountain in the distance, soaring into the clouds and radiating a holy aura.

Pale golden light flowed through his eyes as Huo Yuhao studied the snow-white mountain hidden amid the snowy fog, feeling somewhat puzzled.

"Something doesn't seem right, Brother Sky Dream. Where exactly have we come?"

Huo Yuhao looked at the snowflakes dancing across the sky. This environment had an ethereal, immortal air to it.

Is this really the place where the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion appeared in the Original Work?

He remembered that in the Original Work, Huo Gua had seen absurdly enormous footprints on his way to the Far North Land. They had been left by the three-hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King, a creature with Ice God bloodline and immense racial potential.

Huo Gua had only narrowly escaped disaster by hiding beneath Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's aura concealment.

But along this entire journey, he had not seen any enormous footprints, nor had he encountered the Titan Snow Demon King.

Just in case, Huo Yuhao had used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Mental Origin to weave an illusion Light Orb specifically for the Ice and Snow Two Emperors along the way.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm also felt they had gone deep enough. "Yuhao, your spiritual guidance can't be wrong. How about I come out and shout for her?"

As it spoke, a stream of golden-white light darted out. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm simulated its spiritual body outside Huo Yuhao's body.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's temptation: "Wahaha, Bing Bing! I, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, am back! Hurry up and come welcome me, then throw yourself into my arms!"

The moment its words fell, every snowflake drifting around them seemed to lose control, fluttering chaotically through the air.

At the summit of the distant snow mountain, an enormous sky-blue curtain abruptly veiled the heavens and spread toward Huo Yuhao at incredible speed. In an instant, the sky above became an endless sky-blue canopy.

"Human!!"

A clear yet stern female voice, carrying an authority that brooked no defiance, rang out from every direction at once.

Just hearing that royal sister voice was enough to conjure the solemn image of an empress whose majesty needed no anger.

"Yuhao, run!"

"The plan has changed! She isn't Ice Empress!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was instantly terrified. Every one of its plans had been prepared for Ice Empress, and given their past encounters, it had a small connection with her, so it had some confidence in succeeding.

But Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had never expected this person to appear, much less imagined using its shed skin to trap her before telling her about its God Creation Plan.

That stern royal sister voice rang out once more.

"Those who trespass into the Core Zone of the Far North Land shall die!"

High in the sky, a massive Ice Blue Longsword instantly condensed amid the swirling snow.

"Emperor Sword: Ice Limitless!" Through the falling snow, a Blue Silhouette could vaguely be seen waving a hand.

The next second, the massive Ice Blue Longsword slashed down at Huo Yuhao from the sky not far away.

"Yuhao, quickly! Use my shed skin!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shouted in terror, inwardly praying that its shed skin, which could trap the four-hundred-thousand-year Ice Empress, would be able to block this strike.

With a thought from Huo Yuhao, an item of lustrous white wrapped in ten golden patterns instantly stretched longer and wider, blocking the space diagonally above him.

At the same time, the gray bead in the Sea of Spirit gave a faint tremble.

Electrolux released an extremely thin wisp of air. It flew out from the Sea of Spirit and shot into the shed skin, now enlarged several times over.

"This is... Divine Sense?!"

The clear, stern royal sister voice seemed to have seen something unbelievable, and her tone abruptly shifted in surprise.

Why would Divine Sense appear on such a weak human?

By the time she tried to withdraw her attack, it was already too late.

The Emperor Sword struck the shed skin. The point of impact in the air seemed to form a momentary vacuum. The next instant, the surrounding snowflakes completely melted away as lustrous white ripples mixed with traces of gray and ice blue spread outward, continuing farther and farther.

The commotion was great, but it had all happened in an instant.

With the shed skin and a trace of Old Yi's Divine Sense, the Emperor Sword's attack was blocked.

Then the massive Ice Blue Longsword shattered like an ice blossom, turning into countless snowflakes and dissipating between heaven and earth.

"It actually blocked it. Not bad."

There was a hint of surprise in her clear voice, like a powerful expert entering a beginner village and finding someone who had not been instantly killed by a single move.

Oh? He had some skills.

She simply felt that this weak human's possessions were a little too formidable. First was the shed skin capable of restraining three- or four-hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, and then a trace of Divine Sense had emerged.

Although there had been very little Divine Sense just now, she could clearly sense the suppression on the level of quality.

The enormous ice-blue curtain in the sky dispersed.

The owner of that stern royal sister voice descended from the heavens.

A graceful, ethereal woman in a white dress drifted down from the sky, hovering before Huo Yuhao.

She wore the appearance of a human: an astonishingly beautiful girl of seventeen or eighteen, with long snow-white hair and clear, ethereal sky-blue eyes. She exuded a cold and peerless aura.

Bare jade feet extended beneath her white dress, yet she was slightly taller than Huo Yuhao. An ethereal, immortal presence washed over him. "Speak. Why have you come here?"

"And what was that Divine Sense just now?"

Her voice was cold and calm, neither pleased nor angry, yet the pressure she possessed from birth was fully on display.

Anyone whose will was not firm enough would likely have been frightened into collapsing under her aura. Sky Dream Ice Silkworm beside him had already gone limp with fear.

"Snow... you're Snow Empress!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm said, its voice trembling.

"Oh?" Only then did Snow Empress turn her gaze toward Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Projection beside her.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm shuddered and carefully said, "Snow... Snow Empress, we met a long time ago. Do you still remember me?"

Snow Empress sensed Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's current condition and frowned slightly. "You are from the ice silkworm race, yet you possess ten golden patterns..."

"Based on my understanding of the ice silkworm clan, one golden pattern represents one hundred thousand years. Yet because they are far too weak, even cultivating a single golden pattern is as difficult as ascending to heaven. How did you obtain ten golden patterns and a million years of cultivation?"

Snow Empress felt that she had encountered rather too many strange things today: a one-ring Soul Master trespassing into the center of the Far North Land, an ice silkworm that had cultivated for a million years, and Divine Sense that she found hard to believe.

"It's a long story." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm briefly explained, "I was originally an ordinary ice silkworm from our Far North Land, one with slightly better luck. I was chased by natural enemies and fell into an ice cave."

"I discovered a great amount of Ten Thousand Year Cold Marrow, then ate while sleeping, continuously advancing in my sleep and breaking through bottleneck after bottleneck..."

Snow Empress waved a hand to interrupt it. "I remember."

"So you were that ice silkworm. Bing'er even chased after you back then. She never found you, and later told me that you had disappeared."

Snow Empress looked at Huo Yuhao and once again asked about that trace of Divine Sense.

At that moment, Electrolux's aged voice sounded. "You should be a life form condensed from the primordial energy of heaven and earth."

"Your spiritual consciousness is very powerful. Even on the plane where this old man lived, with your strength, you would count as a powerhouse ruling one side."

As he spoke, wisps of gray mist emerged and condensed outside Huo Yuhao's body into the image of an old man dressed in white.

Upon seeing Electrolux appear, Snow Empress spoke with a touch of respect. "Senior, why are you residing within a human Soul Master's body?"

Old Yi chuckled and gave Huo Yuhao a look.

Understanding, Huo Yuhao took out a Light Orb and handed it over. "Snow Empress, you'll understand once you look at this."

Snow Empress accepted the Light Orb, her eyes narrowing slightly. "This is... a Memory Light Orb?"

"More or less." Huo Yuhao did not deny it.

Snow Empress immediately began examining it with her Mental Power.

"So your name is Huo Yuhao."

Very soon, she saw the scene of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm becoming Huo Yuhao's Wisdom Soul Ring.

"I was wondering why, despite cultivating for a million years, I could only sense the aura of Mental Origin from you. So that's what happened."

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stammered, "That isn't important. Snow Empress, keep watching."

Huo Yuhao took out a grill at the side and began roasting fish by himself.

Heavenly Flames grilled fish.

Snow Empress noticed the pale white flames he had released and abruptly raised her eyes to look at him, disbelief filling her expression. "Huo Yuhao, is this your martial soul?"

"The supreme cold attribute contained within it seems to surpass every living creature in the Far North Land, including me."

Huo Yuhao smiled. "Only a little higher. Just a little."

"Snow Empress, continue watching the Memory Light Orb. You don't need to pay attention to me."

Snow Empress nodded slightly and focused on examining the scenes contained within the Light Orb.

Night fell, and the surroundings grew quiet. Snowflakes drifted down slowly from the sky, which seemed washed clean and bright, filled with glittering stars. Snow Empress faced the Light Orb while Huo Yuhao grilled fish, creating a peaceful and beautiful scene.

After some more time, Snow Empress finished watching the scene of Huo Yuhao obtaining his Second Martial Soul in the Far North Land.

"Tian Meng, I didn't expect you to hold such sincere feelings for Bing'er. Knowing that she was unlikely to survive her next Heavenly Tribulation, you still came all the way to the Far North Land to find her."

Snow Empress thought carefully. "Your God Creation Plan is not impossible, but the 'Huo Yuhao' in this Light Orb seems too weak."

She felt that if it were the Huo Yuhao within the Light Orb, she might as well follow her original plan: use a hundred-thousand-year Snow Lotus as a catalyst to rebuild herself into a human, then cultivate with the Snow Empress Martial Soul.

Then Snow Empress looked toward Huo Yuhao, who was grilling fish. If it were him, he indeed had a higher chance of becoming a god.

"Embryo..." When Snow Empress saw the later scenes, her brows drew tightly together. "Why was it that just as I was taking human form, a Ninth-Level Soul Engineer entered the Far North Land with the God Sealing Platform and found me?"

Huo Yuhao shrugged. "Buddha's Light Flashes. He randomly refreshed, I guess."

"The embryo appeared in the Star Luo Empire, while every Ninth-Level Soul Engineer on the continent was in the Sun Moon Empire. Not one of the original three nations had a Ninth-Level Soul Engineer. There is no way to determine the identity of this Ninth-Level Soul Engineer who suddenly appeared out of nowhere."

Snow Empress frowned slightly, realizing something was wrong, and continued watching.

Then she saw herself self-destruct, only to be sealed with Electrolux's help. Later, the Ice Jade Marrow Bed of the Clear Sky Sect ignited the origin power within her seal.

To save everyone, Electrolux sacrificed himself and ignited the fragments of his Divine Sense.

"Senior." Snow Empress looked at Electrolux, her heart stirred by an indescribable feeling.

Electrolux chuckled. "In that sort of situation, what teacher would not do everything in his power to help his own student?"

Snow Empress was deeply moved, but when she saw the later scene where she became a Soul Spirit—

Her sky-blue eyes widened sharply. Surprise and confusion eventually turned into utter disbelief. For the first time, she lost the composure expected of the Far North's ruler.

She, Snow Empress, the Far North Queen, after becoming a Soul Spirit—

Not only had her body turned into that of a little girl acting cute, she had even called someone...

Huo Yuhao ate grilled fish beside her.

Snow Empress stared at Huo Yuhao, her lips moving, yet for a moment she did not know what to say.

Huo Yuhao had naturally noticed Snow Empress's gaze, but he naturally pretended not to. Before Snow Empress finished watching the Light Orb, he would not say a single word.

At last, Snow Empress finished viewing every scene contained within it.

Huo Yuhao braced himself.

"What? Did you come to the Far North Land this time because you want to obtain a Soul Spirit? Whose Soul Spirit do you want?" Snow Empress's voice remained ethereal and cold, her emotions impossible to discern.

Huo Yuhao handed Snow Empress a grilled fish and once again showed a smile like that of the boy next door. "Would you like some?"

Snow Empress condensed an ice-blue chair out of thin air. Reclining sideways upon it with her jade feet raised, she wore a lazy expression, her tone laced with mockery.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Dad's grilled fish smells so good. If I don't eat it, Dad won't be upset, will he?"

Huo Yuhao's scalp went numb.