Beiming Yuan opened his eyes, a faint red glow in them. His scorching gaze seemed ready to swallow the Ice Empress whole.
Seeing this, the Ice Empress knew Beiming Yuan was losing control.
"Xiao Yuan, you... mmm!"
Before the Ice Empress could finish, Beiming Yuan pulled her into his arms and kissed her.
The kiss made the Ice Empress's brain crash on the spot.
"M-my first kiss! I was saving it for Xue'er... mmm!" The Ice Empress was furious, but Beiming Yuan kissed her again.
She instinctively tried to force him away, but when she saw his reddened eyes, she couldn't quite bring herself to do it.
The medicinal power of the Ten Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue had gone completely out of control inside Beiming Yuan... and the medicinal power accumulated from years of consuming Whale Rubber had erupted along with it.
If he didn't release it, he really would explode!
"Xiao Yuan, you're really getting off easy."
"Xue'er, I'm sorry..."
"Mmm..."
The Ice Empress stopped resisting and took the initiative to kiss Beiming Yuan. Together, they fell onto the ice jade bed and began an earth-shattering battle.
Meanwhile, the Snow Empress, who had returned to the Far North from the human cities, felt an inexplicable heaviness in her heart and couldn't seem to cheer up.
"What's going on?" The Snow Empress stopped flying and hovered high in the air, her brows tightly furrowed. "Why have I been so restless since just now?"
Normally, an expert at her level wouldn't feel restless. Only when something major was about to happen would she feel this way.
Could something have happened to Xiao Yuan and Bing'er?! The Snow Empress's heart trembled. She didn't dare delay, bursting forth with all her strength and flying toward the core region of the Far North.
With her strength, she quickly swept past the outer and inner regions of the Far North, reaching the core region and returning to the palace.
As soon as she returned, the Snow Empress spread out her spiritual power, taking in everything below.
But what she saw gave her the shock of her life.
"!!!"
The Snow Empress's eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at the scene playing out in the bedchamber. She even blinked instinctively, as if wondering whether her eyes were deceiving her.
But she wasn't seeing things. It was real!
Those two, those sounds, that shameful... heavens, Beiming Yuan and the Ice Empress were actually "betraying" her!
"Beiming Yuan! Ice Empress!" The Snow Empress's expression turned cold. Furious, she instinctively wanted to go down and confront them on the spot.
But she held herself back and didn't descend.
The Snow Empress suppressed her irritation, shifted her attention, and observed the two of them.
As far as she knew, neither Beiming Yuan nor the Ice Empress would "betray" her. There had to be something else behind this.
"This scent is Whale Rubber. Its quality is so high, it's definitely more than ten thousand years old... it's Ten Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue!" Sensing a trace of the scent lingering in the bedchamber, the Snow Empress immediately understood something.
For a moment, her gaze became somewhat complicated.
She hadn't expected Ten Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue to make Beiming Yuan like this either. She had thought he could withstand it as he had before, but he hadn't.
Bing'er was here today. If it had been her... it probably would have been the same.
"Sigh."
Looking at the two of them carrying on absurdly in the bedchamber, the Snow Empress sighed softly. "Forget it. Bing'er's getting off easy, and so is Xiao Yuan."
Beiming Yuan had betrayed her, and so had the Ice Empress. Worst of all, even the ice jade bed was hers. Were those two trying to make her feel a little involved?
"Hmph!" The Snow Empress snorted coldly and continued watching them with a sour expression. She looked calm, but in her heart, she was growing more and more shocked.
Beiming Yuan's physical prowess in this respect was actually so frightening that the Ice Empress was about to be unable to...
Could this be a hidden problem left behind by all those years of consuming Whale Rubber? The Snow Empress fell into thought. Suddenly, she felt that it wasn't such a problem for the Ice Empress to go before her. She could let the Ice Empress try out Beiming Yuan's specialty first.
Time ticked by, and the battle remained exceptionally fierce, with no sign of dying down.
The Snow Empress had to hand it to Beiming Yuan.
"Hm? Xiao Yuan seems to have come to his senses, but he seems to... that lecher!"
The Snow Empress spat, her face red, then instinctively observed the Ice Empress's reaction. Her tone was helpless. "Bing'er, just keep indulging him."
Watching the absurd pair, the Snow Empress felt both angry and helpless, with a touch of jealousy besides.
Beiming Yuan was hers, the Ice Empress was hers, and even the ice jade bed was hers.
Yet all of them had betrayed her!
For the next few days, she had to watch all three betray her. It was infuriating.
Several days later.
The warmth in the bedchamber gradually subsided, the temperature slowly falling until it returned to its cold, desolate chill.
Yet on the ice jade bed, a warm, blazing fire remained, difficult to extinguish.
No pillow, no blanket, no sleep, no escape.
"Bing'er..."
Holding the lovely woman in his arms, Beiming Yuan's gaze was complicated at first, then softened with heartache. "You've really had a hard time."
"You... you know I had a hard time?" The Ice Empress struck Beiming Yuan's chest in a fury and said petulantly, "I told you no, but you still bullied me like that!"
"I couldn't help myself."
"Liar, you did it on purpose!"
"..." Beiming Yuan fell silent for a long moment. He gently embraced the Ice Empress and smiled tenderly. "Bing'er, I'll take responsibility for this."
"Who wants you to take responsibility? I belong to Xue'er!" The Ice Empress grew agitated and blurted out, "I only helped you because you were about to explode!"
"Then... I don't have to take responsibility?" Beiming Yuan asked tentatively.
"Beiming Yuan! What did you say?!!!"
The Ice Empress flew into a rage. Forcing herself to prop up her body despite the discomfort, she stared fixedly at Beiming Yuan. "Say that again if you dare?!"
Her voice sounded angry, but beneath it lay panic and fear.
Not take responsibility? How could that be?!
She had only said it offhand just now. How could Beiming Yuan take it seriously?
"I'll take responsibility," Beiming Yuan repeated, his expression solemn. "Bing'er, from now on, you're my woman."
This time, the Ice Empress didn't play coy again. Instead, she gave a delicate huff and lay back down on Beiming Yuan, a smile unconsciously curling her lips.
Her expression relaxed, and the panic in her heart faded. Only the fear remained, though now she was afraid of something else.
"You scoundrel."
The Ice Empress spat softly and said gloomily, "Xue'er was clearly the one who told you to eat more Whale Rubber. Who would have thought that after eating it for so many years, you'd take it all out on me?"
Others ate Whale Rubber as a temporary supplement, but Beiming Yuan did the exact opposite.
Because of the Ice God Pearl's properties, Whale Rubber left only benefits in Beiming Yuan's body, not only nourishing his pure Yang but also strengthening his essence Qi.
Beiming Yuan might be in sage mode now, but if he wasn't careful, he could still "succumb to Qi deviation" right away.
"Then I'll go find Xue'er."
Beiming Yuan smiled. "After all, it's Xue'er's fault. I can't let you keep taking the blame."
"No! I have to take it!" The Ice Empress practically blurted it out. Afterward, she realized what she had said, and her pretty face turned crimson. She explained, "Xue'er's business is my business, and Xue'er's blame is mine to bear."