Giving the Ice Empress a Thorough Training~

This time, the Ice Empress had gone even further. When Hui Ye checked the Flying Soul Tool, he found that its core component had frozen and cracked in the low temperature.

"Not another word, Ice Empress. Pay up."

Hui Ye smiled without mirth and held out his hand.

The Ice Empress folded her arms and looked away.

"Don't tell me you don't have any money?" Hui Ye's face instantly darkened.

"Obviously," the Ice Empress said, completely unabashed. "I've already sacrificed myself to you. How could I still have money? Even if I did, I wouldn't have anywhere to keep it."

"Fine. You win."

Without another word, Hui Ye locked the Ice Empress away in the depths of his soul.

Then he used his spiritual power to construct a prison, stuffed the Ice Empress inside, and locked the gate.

"One year pays off ten thousand Gold Soul Coins."

"What do you mean, ten thousand? How can your heart be so black? No, one day!" the Ice Empress protested.

Hui Ye ignored her outright.

The Ice Empress suddenly came to her senses. Wait, why should I listen to him?

"Hurry up and let me out! All I did was break a lousy toy. Do you really have to take revenge on me like this?"

The Ice Empress was so furious her nose nearly twisted out of shape.

I'm the Ice Empress, one of the dignified Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, and someone actually imprisoned me. Don't I have any face?

Hui Ye was still angry and had no desire to pay her any attention. Watching her struggle gave him a rush of satisfaction.

"Let me out, now! Believe it or not, I'll take you down with me!" The Ice Empress bared her teeth in fury.

"You might die, but I won't."

After a moment's thought, Hui Ye added:

"Of course, as long as I don't die, you can't die either.

"Even if your soul gets squeezed until it bursts, it can reform inside my body.

"As long as I don't let you die, nobody can do anything about it."

"Bastard!"

The Ice Empress kicked the prison gate.

Thud!

"Think about what you've done. I'll let you out when you come around."

"Don't even dream of making me submit!"

Electrolux clutched his forehead, feeling a headache coming on.

"Sigh~"

Ever since the Ice Empress moved in, things had gotten livelier here. In the course of a day, the two brats would quarrel a hundred times.

Hearing Electrolux sigh, Hui Ye had an idea.

"Teacher~"

"The Ice Empress broke the Flying Soul Tool while playing with it. It's such a long way; I can't just walk the whole distance.

"How about you get a bone dragon from the Undead Plane to carry me there?"

"As long as you don't mind being taken for an Evil Soul Master and arrested." Electrolux shot Hui Ye a sidelong glance.

Hui Ye thought it over and abandoned the idea.

He wasn't afraid of death, but what if he ran into some stubborn Soul Master on the road who saw him riding a bone dragon and, without bothering to distinguish right from wrong, insisted he was an Evil Soul Master and wanted to execute him on the spot?

The journey was already long. If people harassed him along the way, when would he ever get there?

Hui Ye smiled wryly. "Then what do I do?"

"Magic. How are you doing with the basic magic I taught you?" Lex asked.

"Not bad. I can understand all of it."

"Then I'll teach you an advanced spell now. It's called Wings of Shadow."

Hui Ye nodded furiously. "I'll learn it. I have to."

Electrolux taught Hui Ye the magic incantation.

Hui Ye carefully analyzed the profound principles within it.

A moment later, he tried concentrating his Soul Power on his back, gradually condensing it into black-gray wings.

An ordinary Soul Master would have failed by now for lack of Soul Power.

But Hui Ye was different. He simply used brute force to work a miracle, pouring in Soul Power until the wings took shape on the first try.

Actually getting them to fly, however, wasn't so simple.

He tried flapping the wings many times, but every attempt ended in failure.

Electrolux wasn't in a hurry to give him pointers. Instead, he let Hui Ye figure it out himself. Only by truly finding the problem himself could he progress faster.

What Hui Ye did next took Electrolux completely by surprise.

Hui Ye covered his feet and palms in black-gold flames.

Then he increased his Soul Power output. The black-gold flames flared and pulsed violently, spraying scorching heat across the ground.

The next moment.

Boom!

With a sound like an airplane engine starting up, a black shadow shot straight into the clouds, trailing a long tail of fire.

Behind him was a trail of black smoke clouds left by the burning.

Electrolux stared, dumbfounded.

That works too?

Hui Ye used the black-gold flames as thrusters and the wings on his back as airplane wings. His entire body was like a fighter jet, roaring through the air at high speed.

A hundred kilometers, and he didn't even consume a single steamed bun.

He was a perpetual motion machine that cost nothing to run.

Forget it.

Electrolux slapped his forehead and gave up trying to argue with Hui Ye.

Who could have imagined that Hui Ye would take a perfectly good flying spell and use it to such a different effect?

Fortunately, the end result was good.

Hui Ye enjoyed the sights along the way. He should have reached his destination in three days, but it took him a week to arrive at the outskirts of the Sunset Forest.

As soon as he landed, Hui Ye called silently, Ice Empress, come out and get to work.

No. Whoever wants to do it can do it. I'm not serving you.

From the depths of his soul came the sound of the Ice Empress banging things around.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. The dignified Ice Empress has actually turned into a turtle hiding in its shell right at her enemy's doorstep," Hui Ye sneered.

The Ice Empress gritted her teeth and roared, "You're trying to goad me into action, but I'm not falling for it!"

"Sigh, my Sister Snow Maiden is so noble and pure. Who would have thought, who could have thought, that one day a stinking bug would harass her?

"I feel so sorry for Sister Snow Maiden.

"My heart aches!"

Hui Ye clutched his chest, looking utterly heartbroken.

The Ice Empress rolled her eyes. "Act. Keep acting!"

"Forget it. Since you don't care about Snow Maiden, let's turn around and go home. There are plenty of Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, so there's no way it's short of space-attribute Soul Beasts.

"At worst, I'll just spend more time looking."

Hui Ye composed himself and really did turn and leave, without another wasted word.

Human fighter jet, start!

A black figure shot into the clouds.

Hmph, keep acting. You'll be begging me soon enough, the Ice Empress thought smugly.

After more than half an hour of flying, the Ice Empress began to feel that something wasn't right.

"Why hasn't that bastard asked me for help yet? He can't really be flying back, can he?"

Another half hour passed.

The Ice Empress was getting genuinely anxious.

She had had her eye on that damned Void Beast for a thousand years. Now that a big shot like Electrolux was here, it definitely couldn't escape.

But!

She was angry. If I admit defeat just like this, wouldn't I lose face?

I'll endure!

Yet another half hour passed.

I'll keep enduring!

And yet another half hour passed.

The Ice Empress couldn't sit still any longer. "Hey, Hui Ye, you..."

"What about me? If you've got a fart, let it out!"

Hui Ye spoke impatiently.

"Can't you see I'm flying? Don't interfere with my driving. Who's responsible if there's an accident?"

"You!"

The Ice Empress was so furious she nearly unleashed Ice Emperor's Wrath to live as long as heaven.

A warm, big-boy smile appeared on Hui Ye's face.

"Oh, right. After I find Sister Snow Maiden, I'll be sure to tell her everything that happened today, down to the smallest detail, point by point, exactly as it happened, without missing a single word, leaving everything just as it was, holding nothing back, completely and thoroughly!"

Thump!

The Ice Empress dropped to her knees.

"Don't, please don't! Little brother, I was wrong. I really was wrong."