The Land of Ice God Inheritance, Extreme Ice Temple, Officially Meeting the Ice God's Remnant Soul

Far North, core region, Unfrozen Lake, lakeside.

"As a royal Soul Beast, why would you sacrifice yourself to such a weak human?"

A delicate, adorable little girl with emerald green hair and golden eyes, dressed in a short emerald green skirt, asked the pink phantom sitting beside her with obvious displeasure.

"Hmph! Even if I told a cold-blooded Soul Beast like you, you wouldn't understand. Zixi and I are in love!"

That was right. This little girl with emerald green hair, golden eyes, and a short emerald green skirt was the second of the Far North's Three Heavenly Kings, the Ice Empress. The pink phantom was naturally Xiao Wu, who had already sacrificed herself to Luo Zixi.

"In love? As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, you actually fell for a human after taking human form. How pathetic."

"Hehe, still better than a cold-blooded Soul Beast like you!"

Inside the ice house, Luo Zixi sat facing the Snow Empress. Before him were spirit fruits she had somehow obtained.

Listening to Xiao Wu and the Ice Empress bicker outside, Luo Zixi looked at the Snow Empress with a trace of apology in his eyes.

"So, you were chosen by another god, and Lord Ice God misunderstood your meaning during your conversation?"

No emotion could be heard in the Snow Empress's voice. There was only calmness and indifference.

"Fine, I understand your situation. Rest here tonight. Tomorrow, I'll escort you to Lord Ice God's inheritance site, the Extreme Ice Temple."

She slowly rose to her feet. Luo Zixi was stunned upon hearing her words.

"So I still have to go to Ice God's inheritance site?"

"No. In truth, I do not wish for you to accept Ice God's inheritance. However, Lord Ice God's Divine Decree was for me to bring you there. As for whether you carry another god's trial, that has nothing to do with me."

The Snow Empress lightly glanced back at Luo Zixi, and at that moment, he could see a faint trace of jealousy in her eyes.

Yes, the Snow Empress had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years before reaching the peak of the continent, yet she could not advance even a single step further. Soul Beasts were forbidden from becoming gods; that was an iron law of the God Realm.

Yet now, she was seeing a child who had cultivated for only a few years being fought over by two gods. Such an immense disparity left her feeling deeply powerless.

But she quickly shifted her gaze to Hu Liena.

"As for you, human girl... forget it. Go with him tomorrow."

With that, the Snow Empress left the Snow House directly. Even the blizzard could not conceal her serene and detached aura, as though she were a spirit untouched by the mortal world.

Outside, Xiao Wu and the Ice Empress, two girls with equally bad tempers, were still arguing about something. When the Ice Empress saw the Snow Empress emerge, a few traces of joy appeared in her golden eyes.

"Xue Er!"

With light steps, the Ice Empress darted to the Snow Empress's side.

"Mhm."

Seeing the Ice Empress embrace her as usual, the Snow Empress's icy eyes softened slightly.

"Don't make things difficult for that little fellow. His first spirit ring was a God-Given Spirit Ring. His third spirit ring came from a twenty-thousand-year Evil Shadow Flood Dragon, while his second ring was obtained through this little sister Xiao Wu's sacrifice."

The Ice Empress froze upon hearing this, but quickly came to her senses. As the Snow Empress stroked her, she muttered under her breath.

"What a freak. He only has three rings, yet he possesses the cultivation of a Soul King. He even withstood my attack, and two of his rings are Hundred-Thousand-Year spirit rings..."

Then, the Snow Empress turned her gaze toward Xiao Wu.

"As a fellow Soul Beast, you little girl are truly fortunate."

Yet before Xiao Wu could react, the Snow Empress casually picked up the Ice Empress and entered the Snow House where they lived.

Xiao Wu: Huh??? What did that mean?

The next morning, the sky was still dark. Heavy snow continued to fall in the Far North's core region, where temperatures of over minus one hundred and fifty degrees Celsius were perfectly normal.

This was the polar region of the Douluo world. Combined with its exceptionally harsh environment, the sun was rarely seen here. That was why the inhabitants of Douluo Continent called it a forbidden zone for humans.

After all, even a Soul Saint would shiver in ultra-low temperatures of over minus one hundred degrees Celsius.

The Unfrozen Lake, located in the Far North's core region, was even colder. Although it was called a lake, Luo Zixi learned from the Snow Empress that it was actually liquid ice formed when Ultimate Ice elements, each the size of Soul Power particles, condensed and compressed together.

According to the Snow Empress, the Unfrozen Lake's temperature was around minus two hundred and seventy degrees. It had been created by the previous Ice God after becoming a god, and it was also the only path leading to the Extreme Ice Temple.

Though the ice house blocked out the freezing wind and blizzard, the temperature inside was still around minus seventy or eighty degrees Celsius.

For even a Soul Saint to rest in a place like this would be no different from courting death.

However, Luo Zixi, as the possessor of the Ice Spirit Body, was completely unafraid of the extreme conditions here.

But things were somewhat difficult for Hu Liena. Even wrapped in the fur of a third-tier fire-element magical beast, she simply could not withstand such extreme cold.

In the end, however, in order to survive, she chose a relatively safe yet extremely shameful method.

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At nine in the morning, when the sky had only just begun to brighten, Luo Zixi woke from his sleep.

Steady breathing brushed against Luo Zixi's cheek, and the warm breath carrying a faint orchid fragrance instantly brought him back to his senses.

"Mmm..."

A soft whimper came from Luo Zixi's arms, but it wasn't what you were thinking.

Hu Liena had pressed tightly against Luo Zixi while sleeping solely because she did not want to freeze to death.

At that moment, there were only two words in Luo Zixi's mind: fragrant and soft.

As a fortunate, outstanding young man who had once lived on Blue Star for eighteen years, waking up to find a breathtakingly beautiful girl his own age tightly hugging him in her sleep was indeed enough to set anyone's heart racing.

But if he had not been afraid that she would freeze to death, Luo Zixi would never have agreed to let her hold him while they slept.

Half an hour later.

Hu Liena followed behind Luo Zixi with a crimson face, covering her backside as she muttered under her breath.

"You may be the master, but you still can't..."

That was right. Hu Liena had been spanked by Luo Zixi for sleeping in, just like Xiao Wu had been back then.

Escorted by the Snow Empress, they successfully arrived at the deepest part of Unfrozen Lake—the Extreme Ice Temple.

"You have finally arrived, my inheritor."

Before Luo Zixi had even stepped into the freezing palace forged from ice, a familiar middle-aged man's voice sounded in his mind.

"Hey, old man. I never agreed to become your inheritor. You were the one who decided on your own to have your temple guardian bring me here."