Baby Snow Empress

The Snow Empress was startled.

That is the presence of a Million-Year Soul Beast. He has a Million-Year Soul Beast so firmly in hand that it cannot muster the slightest temper, even sacrificing its soul to bear the pain in his stead. This human truly is favored by fortune!

Following him... perhaps I really can become a god...

The Snow Empress finally steeled her resolve. Constantly shifting between the forms of a cold, proud mature beauty and an embryonic baby, she used the last of her strength to merge her origin and soul into her Ultimate Ice Soul Core.

Then she followed the bridge formed by the burning soul of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and merged into Li Jin's body.

As that vast, boundless power flowed into him, Li Jin's body turned completely into an ice sculpture.

Yet becoming an ice sculpture did not diminish his life force. Instead, it grew even more vigorous, like a slumbering volcano.

The Snow Empress no longer resisted. During the fusion, she actively used her origin power to cleanse Li Jin's body, bringing an unprecedented transformation to his skin, flesh, sinews, bones, and internal organs.

He had practiced the Mysterious Jade Hand, making his hands like icy jade, impervious to water and fire and as tough as steel.

Now, after the cleansing by the Snow Empress's origin, his entire body transformed into a mysterious jade physique, just like his Mysterious Jade Hand.

Probably not even the Tang Sect predecessor who had created the Mysterious Jade Hand in Tang San's previous life had ever reached Li Jin's current level.

If that predecessor actually saw Li Jin, he would probably be so shocked that he would drop to his knees on the spot, kowtow, and call him Grandmaster.

Watching every change in his body from an outsider's perspective, Li Jin gave a slight nod of satisfaction.

Just then!

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's soul finished burning away. Thanks to the sacrifice of his soul, the Ice Element embryonic Second Martial Soul he had provided achieved a perfect, one-hundred-percent fusion with the Snow Empress.

An Ultimate Ice Soul Core appeared in Li Jin's dantian, drawing in and refining his Soul Power, causing both its quality and reserves to begin increasing geometrically.

That was a Soul Core! Possessing a Soul Core at the Soul Grandmaster stage was absolutely unprecedented, with no one before him or after him.

Li Jin had blazed a new trail.

The Snow Empress's sacrifice had not provided a Soul Bone, but it had provided a Soul Core whose value far exceeded one.

That could certainly be considered more than worth the price.

Within that Soul Core, a tiny figure could be seen. It was his Second Martial Soul, the Snow Empress, formed from the fusion of the Snow Empress's soul and origin with the Ice Element embryonic Second Martial Soul.

As a Million-Year Soul Beast, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had provided an embryonic Second Martial Soul of extremely high quality.

It had perfectly fused with the Snow Empress's soul and origin, and some mutations had occurred during the process, bringing the Snow Empress Martial Soul to God-Level Martial Soul quality, not the least bit inferior to the Angel Martial Soul of Spirit Hall's Qian Family lineage.

The tiny figure's eyelashes fluttered, and she opened her eyes. As she awoke, orange-gold Soul Rings appeared around Li Jin, one after another.

They were not ordinary hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, but multiple special Soul Rings that only a Ferocious Beast-level Soul Spirit could bestow.

Meanwhile, outside!

With a crisp cracking sound, countless spiderweb-like fractures spread across the ice covering Li Jin. Finally, with a bang, the shattered ice fragments tumbled down.

Li Jin opened his eyes, and before he could even take a breath, his Snow Empress Martial Soul came out on her own.

"Daddy!"

Li Jin pressed a hand to his forehead as he looked at the baby Snow Empress floating before him, who looked only about three years old and wore a little blue outfit.

"Who would've thought? This body of mine is only six, and I already have a three-year-old daughter."

"After fusing with the embryonic Second Martial Soul, the Snow Empress actually mutated into a God-Level Martial Soul. Unfortunately, my Soul Power is too low to support a God-Level Martial Soul right now. The Snow Empress Martial Soul is currently equivalent to having undergone a first awakening, and she'll need an opportunity for a Second Awakening."

"This baby Snow Empress before me is the limit of what she can manifest after her first awakening."

The baby Snow Empress looked sculpted from pink jade, her skin as white and flawless as jade, exquisite to the utmost. She blinked her large, innocent ice-blue eyes at Li Jin and stretched out her little hands.

"Daddy, hold me!"

Who could possibly resist that!

She was too adorable, so adorable she melted his heart.

A gentle smile curved Li Jin's lips as he gathered the baby Snow Empress into his arms. Her tender body was soft as though boneless, so light that it seemed to weigh nothing.

With the Snow Empress's consciousness asleep, the baby Snow Empress had no memories at all. But because she was Li Jin's Martial Soul, she felt an immense closeness to him, her eyes filled with filial affection and dependence.

Her little hands clutched Li Jin's clothes, and she pressed her small face against his chest.

A thoughtful look appeared in Li Jin's eyes. After a moment, he said:

"You're not the Snow Empress's consciousness, so I won't call you Snow Empress. You're you. I'll name you Snow Maiden."

"Snow Maiden, don't call me Daddy anymore. Call me Big Brother. A six-year-old boy with a three-year-old daughter-that's a setup I still can't accept."

Snow Maiden indicated that she had heard him, but none of it had actually sunk in.

"Okay, Daddy! No problem, Daddy! Then I'll be called Snow Maiden from now on."

Li Jin was utterly helpless. He refused to believe he couldn't correct this bad habit of calling him Daddy.

He reached toward Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges and took out the Ice God's Pearl. Holding it in front of Snow Maiden, he waved it and said in a voice full of temptation:

"Snow Maiden, as long as you call me Big Brother from now on instead of Daddy, I'll give you this Ice God's Pearl to play with."

At the sight of the Ice God's Pearl, Snow Maiden's eyes lit up, her little face full of longing. The Ice God's power within the pearl held an irresistible allure for her.

Snow Maiden reached out her little hands to grab the Ice God's Pearl.

But Li Jin held the Ice God's Pearl far away.

Snow Maiden's little hands could not reach it at all.

A hint of urgency appeared in Snow Maiden's large ice-blue eyes, and she opened her soft pink mouth again.

"Da... Big Brother!"

Hearing her call him Big Brother, Li Jin finally beamed. Big Brother and Daddy were completely different. Big Brother was quite fitting; Daddy was far too taboo.

"Yes!"

"This Ice God's Pearl is yours from now on."

Li Jin tossed the Ice God's Pearl to Snow Maiden, who hugged it joyfully to her chest.

In an instant!

The Ice God's Pearl shone with an icy-white light, actually resonating with the origin within Snow Maiden. Fine strands of the Ice God's power began subtly merging into her body.

A snowflake mark slowly condensed on her forehead.

Snow Maiden's awareness was still very hazy, and she did not yet understand what this meant. But Li Jin knew: the divine seat left behind by the Ice God had already chosen him and Snow Maiden.

Li Jin glanced at Snow Maiden in his arms, who hugged the Ice God's Pearl and could not bear to put it down. Following the call in his heart, he turned his gaze toward the depths of the ice cavern.

The Ice God's divine seat was responding to them.

But they were still too weak. His Koi Martial Soul had two Soul Rings, and his Snow Maiden Martial Soul had three. He could at most be considered a Soul Elder, still very far from inheriting a divine seat.

"I'll come back once I'm a Titled Douluo, once the Snow Empress's consciousness has awakened. It should be about time then."