"Heh, I hope that little body of yours can still take it after I finish!"
"I just used the God Sealing Platform's remaining power to seal all my origin power and the medicinal power of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus inside your body."
As though afraid Yang Xingchen would not believe her, the Snow Empress gently raised her right palm and activated the seal inside him.
Seeing runes appear on his panel that closely resembled those on the God Sealing Platform earlier, Yang Xingchen had no choice but to believe her.
"This seal has seven layers in total. Each layer lasts only three years. Once those three years pass, the seal will automatically break, releasing my power and the snow lotus's power."
"If you can withstand the power I unseal while under the seal, you will have the right to wield and absorb it."
"Otherwise, if you cannot withstand it, that power will utterly destroy your body and Martial Soul."
At this point, no matter how powerful the Snow Empress was, a trace of worry inevitably rose in her heart.
Yang Xingchen's talent was far too poor, and his Martial Soul's compatibility with her was extremely low.
Had she not sacrificed part of her origin power to give him the Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul, he would not even have had anything capable of holding her power.
Yang Xingchen had no interest in what the Snow Empress said about the seals automatically breaking after three years. What a joke. He was a transmigrator, after all. How could he possibly fail to withstand it?
"Then is there any power I can use right now?"
Upholding his good habit of asking whenever he did not understand, Yang Xingchen hurriedly raised his hand and asked the Snow Empress.
As a spirit born of heaven and earth, the Snow Empress commanded the attribute of Ultimate Ice. If he could use it now, would he not be invincible among his peers?
"The power you can wield has already become your second Martial Soul and your Soul Power. You will know once you wake up completely."
The Snow Empress did not want to keep talking to Yang Xingchen. As soon as she finished speaking, she turned into power and returned to the seal.
Although she had now lost her physical body and had only her origin power left, her former bottleneck and the Soul Beast lightning tribulations had vanished completely.
While the medicinal power of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus remained, she could absorb it and convert it into her own power.
If this human child really could not withstand her power one day, perhaps she would still have a chance to save the situation.
"My Soul Power actually reached level ten?! Doesn't that mean I can go to the Soul Hunting Forest to get a Soul Ring!"
Yang Xingchen spent nearly two hours in his mental space before his consciousness returned to his body.
No, the information I registered with Spirit Hall said my Innate Soul Power was level six.
So little time has passed. How could I suddenly break through four levels in a row and reach level ten Soul Power!
If I really went to get a Soul Hunting permit, wouldn't I be walking straight into the net!
"Snow Empress, do you have a way to conceal my presence? I need to sneak into the Soul Hunting Forest to get my first Soul Ring."
When she learned that Yang Xingchen wanted to obtain a Soul Ring from a Soul Hunting Forest established by Spirit Hall, the Snow Empress, who had been cultivating, laughed in exasperation.
"The Soul Hunting Forest? Are you joking with me? Do you understand that your Martial Soul has the spacetime attribute?"
"Even in the Star Dou Forest, Soul Beasts with time or space attributes are few and far between, let alone ones with your spacetime attribute."
"Yet you actually want to find a time- or space-attribute Soul Beast your Martial Soul can absorb in some obscure little forest?"
Ever since discovering that the bottleneck and lightning tribulations hindering her cultivation and advancement had vanished completely, the Snow Empress had begun to entertain the idea of devouring this world's Snow Empress to become a god.
To carry out this plan, she had to nurture Yang Xingchen until he could withstand her power and defeat this world's Snow Empress.
Yet this brat actually wanted to carelessly add a Soul Ring to his extraordinarily precious spacetime-attribute Martial Soul!
"Easy for you to say. If you know where to find one, then tell me!"
Yang Xingchen rolled his eyes, rather speechless. What good did knowing his Martial Soul's attributes do when there were no Soul Beasts for him to kill?
The only creature in this era with both time and space attributes was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in the Star Dou Forest, whose cultivation exceeded sixty thousand years.
Surely he could not be expected to run off to the Star Dou Forest and kill the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger!
"Wait, you aren't thinking of having me use my Martial Soul to fish up a time- or space-attribute Soul Beast, are you?"
The fact that the present-day Star Dou Forest had few time- or space-attribute Soul Beasts did not mean there were few across the entire timeline!
"How fortunate that I did not choose an intellectually impaired human as my host."
Seeing that Yang Xingchen understood her meaning, the Snow Empress felt a rare trace of pleasure toward this human.
"Of course, if you keep fishing as randomly as you did when you caught the God Sealing Platform, I'm afraid you won't catch them even if you're given another five years!"
"Bring food. I will guide you somewhere with frequent fluctuations in time and space. Perhaps you can fish up a Soul Beast with your Martial Soul there."
"Snow Empress, isn't your true form the Heavenly Snow Woman? Why do you know so much about the time and space attributes?"
Ever since the Snow Empress said that his Martial Soul had the spacetime attribute, Yang Xingchen had found it very strange.
Logically speaking, as an incarnation of ice-attribute elemental power of heaven and earth who commanded Ultimate Ice, how could the Snow Empress know so much about time and space?
The Snow Empress actually had Yang Xingchen to thank for her understanding, and even some command, of the time and space attributes.
"When you fished me out of the river of time, the God Sealing Platform's own time and space attributes activated the elemental power of heaven and earth within the river of time."
"Faced with such pure time and space, anyone who isn't an idiot could grasp at least a little of the surface, let alone an incarnation of the elements like myself."
"Then shouldn't you thank me? If not for me, you wouldn't have comprehended any of that!"
Faced with Yang Xingchen's provocation, the Snow Empress felt some regret. She had actually felt grateful to Yang Xingchen over this just now.
The Snow Empress felt her fists thirsting for blood!
"Ah! Why is it hailing under a clear sky! Snow Empress, was this your doing?!"
Several hailstones the size of ping-pong balls struck Yang Xingchen's head without warning. Crying out in pain, he ran beneath a nearby tree.
The Snow Empress had to admit that this was the first time she had felt a trace of satisfaction from a human's screams.
Although most of the Snow Empress's power was currently sealed inside Yang Xingchen, forming a few hailstones was still quite easy.
"Hiss, I'm just saying, Snow Empress, weren't you a little too heavy-handed! The bumps on my head are almost a match for the Tathagata Buddha's."
"Besides, isn't this the Soul Hunting Forest? If you brought me here, don't you still need to hide my presence!"
Looking at the distant wall that stood dozens of meters tall, Yang Xingchen rubbed the bumps on his head and spoke rather speechlessly.
The Snow Empress acted as though she had not heard Yang Xingchen's first remark and went ahead and answered his latter question.
"Once it gets dark, all you need to do is keep your footing and not fall off the ice bridge I form. You needn't worry about anything else."
"Hey, hey, don't just pick the questions you want to answer. You still haven't answered why you hit me so hard!"
"I'm still a child. My body and brain are both developing. Doing that will affect my development, you know!"
Hearing the Snow Empress respond only about concealing his presence, Yang Xingchen immediately felt indignant and ran into his mental space to confront her.
"What a pest."
Faced with Yang Xingchen, who wanted to argue with her, the Snow Empress spoke, rolled her eyes at him, and returned to the seal.
Although Yang Xingchen deeply regretted not managing to get into an argument with the Snow Empress, seeing her expressions and emotions grow increasingly varied told him that his plan had succeeded.
Whether humans or Soul Beasts, when someone could stir their emotions, it proved that a connection, or even a bond, had formed between them.
"It's time. I will conceal your presence and tell you where their Soul Masters are. Don't get caught."