I Came at Just the Right Time

"Snow Empress (sob, sob), I don't want you to die (sob, sob)!"

A burst of emerald light erupted from the Ice Empress, and her original Soul Beast body shrank, transforming into a little girl with twin ponytails.

Hugging the ice cocoon, she wept like pear blossoms drenched in rain, without the slightest thought of absorbing the Snow Empress's leaking cultivation.

Her eyes were filled with reluctance to part and bewilderment!

The mere thought that the Snow Empress would die left the Ice Empress in such anguish that she could hardly breathe.

In a sense, the Snow Empress truly had chosen correctly when she asked the Ice Empress to guard her.

The Ice Empress wanted nothing but for the Snow Empress to live well, and had no intention whatsoever of harming her.

The chance to absorb the Snow Empress's cultivation, reasonably and legitimately, lay right before her, yet she remained unmoved.

The Snow Empress's heart filled with gratification. The little scorpion she had raised back then was indeed utterly loyal to her.

But loyalty was not what she needed now. She needed to raise a second guardian for the Far North.

The Snow Empress's cool, clear voice carried an unquestionable authority, her resolute tone almost an order:

"Ice Empress, are you no longer willing to listen to me?"

"I told you to hurry and absorb my leaking cultivation. Otherwise, with your current foundation, your fourth heavenly tribulation in ten thousand years will be the death of you."

"If you die too, who will oversee the Far North? Xiao Bai or A-Tai? They are nowhere near your equal."

The Ice Empress had always followed the Snow Empress's lead, but today, she did not listen to her.

The Snow Empress was about to die, yet she was supposed to absorb her cultivation. The Ice Empress simply could not get past that hurdle in her heart.

"I don't want to (sob, sob)!"

The Snow Empress was both gratified and exasperated. Halfway through taking human form, she had already lost control of her body. The ice cocoon had cracked, and she could not stop her cultivation from leaking.

Otherwise, she would have liked to stuff her cultivation straight into the Ice Empress's body.

"Ice Empress, you... sigh!"

A thousand words dwindled to a single sigh.

Such was fate, and she could not resist it.

"It seems... I came at just the right time!"

The Snow Empress's leaking cultivation had stirred up a blizzard inside the ice cavern. Just then, a figure walked in against the blizzard.

The blizzard caused by the Snow Empress's cultivation was enough to freeze an ordinary Titled Douluo into an ice sculpture, yet that slender figure still stood tall within it, head held high.

His red robes, like burning flames, stood out strikingly against the snow-white world of ice and snow.

"Who's there?" The Ice Empress and Snow Empress grew alert at the same time.

Neither of them had noticed that a human had silently infiltrated the depths of the Far North.

The Ice Empress wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. In her little-girl human form, she put on a ferocious expression, though she actually looked like a fierce little baby.

"A mere human dares intrude into the Far North? This Empress will kill you right now!"

Li Jin spoke rapidly, wanting to prevent the Ice Empress from developing killing intent and suffering a backlash as the Nine-Colored Koi devoured her luck.

"Ice Empress, don't you want to save the Snow Empress?"

"Her cultivation is leaking right now. The moment it runs dry will be the moment her body dies and her soul is destroyed!"

"I have the embryo of a Second Martial Soul, a soulless ice element. Have the Snow Empress sacrifice herself to me. As long as she becomes my Second Martial Soul, she can survive!"

"When I become a god in the future, she can become a god with me. That's killing two birds with one stone."

Hearing that this human actually wanted the Snow Empress to sacrifice herself to him, the Ice Empress flew into an uncontrollable rage. This was looting a burning house! Fury surged in her heart, and then the Snow Empress's leaking cultivation went out of control, turning into a raging blizzard that froze the Ice Empress into an ice sculpture.

Inside the ice sculpture, the Ice Empress was dumbfounded!

She had cultivated Ultimate Ice for 390,000 years. How could the day ever come when she herself was frozen into an ice sculpture?

Li Jin sighed repeatedly at the sight. This hotheaded little girl-he had already explained the terms clearly, so why had she still developed malice toward him?

Luck did not listen to reason!

One only needed to look at how miserable the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was to understand!

Inside the cracked ice cocoon, the Snow Empress's heart grew solemn. She was a spirit born and nurtured by the Far North, brought into being by its gathered luck.

Just now, she had clearly sensed how terrifying the power of luck within this human was. It could even disregard the rules.

At that moment, the whispers beside her ears sounded again, as though the Far North were urging her to agree to the sacrifice.

Even the will of the Far North favors this human?

He wanted to obtain her power and make her his Second Martial Soul. A surge of pride rose in the Snow Empress's heart.

"Human, even a Titled Douluo's body cannot withstand this Empress's 690,000 years of cultivation. What makes you think you can?"

"Hah! Then give it a try. If you can withstand this Empress's cultivation, we can discuss taking this Empress to godhood afterward!"

She was going to die anyway!

The Snow Empress decided to treat a dead horse as though it were still alive. If this human could withstand her cultivation, that would mean he truly had hope of becoming a god. If he burst during the sacrifice, that would mean the will of the Far North had misjudged him.

"I can no longer control my cultivation. If you want it, come and take it yourself."

Li Jin did not shrink back either. Braving the howling wind and blinding snow, he came before the ice cocoon and placed a hand on it.

In an instant!

A surge of blood-red energy shot into the sky, forming a barrier within this world of ice and snow.

Inside the barrier, the Snow Empress's constantly leaking energy flowed along Li Jin's arm and poured endlessly into his body.

That violently raging energy stretched his sinews, bones, and meridians to their limits in an instant. Even though he had eaten ten-thousand-year whale glue, absorbed a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone, and undergone tempering by ice and fire Immortal Herbs, 690,000 years of cultivation still exceeded the limit by far.

This sacrifice was nothing short of arsenic coated in honey.

Even a Titled Douluo who swallowed it would have a one-hundred-percent chance of exploding and dying.

Li Jin, a mere Soul Grandmaster, was turning into an ice sculpture bit by bit.

The Sea of Consciousness!

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in the corner had long since begun entertaining ideas. Having seen the Ice Empress, how could he still be content to remain trapped in this Sea of Consciousness?

At that moment, Li Jin's attention was entirely focused on the Snow Empress.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm immediately decided to turn against him. He would seize back his Spiritual Origin and his shed body with its million years of cultivation, then revive and fly off with the Ice Empress as a loving pair.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sprang up and lunged toward the ten masses of Spiritual Origin in the sky.

"My origins, I've missed you so much! Once I escape this human's body, return my soul to its rightful place, and revive, my million years of cultivation will definitely make Bingbing swoon over me!"

However, just then!

The Nine-Colored Koi glanced at the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. That intense malice prompted an immediate response from the divine being.

With a soft whoosh, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's soul burst into flames.

"Aaaaah... it hurts, it hurts so much! Li Jin, I was wrong! Spare me! I'll never dare harbor thoughts of rebellion again!"

Li Jin's voice came from the Nine-Colored Koi:

"It's already too late!"

"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, why do you think I've kept you until now? You provided me with this Second Martial Soul embryo. Without your sacrifice, it could never reach perfection!"

When Huo Yuhao absorbed the Snow Empress as a Soul Spirit, it had only succeeded because Electrolux burned himself up.

Now that Li Jin was fusing with the Snow Empress, the best sacrificial offering was the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

With the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's sacrifice, a bridge formed between the Snow Empress's power and the ice-element Martial Soul.

The Snow Empress's power surged across that bridge into the ice-element Martial Soul all at once, and the ice-element Martial Soul accepted every bit without refusing anything.

Li Jin let out a long breath!

Li Jin had the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm take his place. Now he stood outside the process, watching the Snow Empress become his Second Martial Soul.