Chapter 67: The Situation in the Extreme North, Persuading the Snow Empress
"They are not focusing. Continue moving!" Ye Wen's powerful aura pressured the Snow Empress, who was forced to avoid direct confrontation and instead began attacking from different angles.
Boom, boom, boom!
The two sides clashed fiercely, one wielding dual hammers, the other a long sword, attacking, countering, and battling in intense combat.
However, the Snow Empress was occasionally glancing at the battle between the Ice Bear King and the Ice Emperor. The Ice Emperor was managing, but the Ice Bear King was in trouble, being assaulted by Daming, Erming, Xie Hu, and Xiao Bai, overwhelmed by attacks.
It couldn't hold on much longer.
"You're still distracted while fighting me?" Ye Wen appeared behind the Snow Empress and suddenly caught a whiff of her intoxicating, fresh fragrance.
At such a moment, of course, he wasn't focused on the woman's fragrance. Ye Wen immediately swung his hammer.
Boom!
The Snow Empress managed to block the attack but was still sent crashing into the ground.
Ye Wen followed through with another strike, but the Snow Empress managed to dodge in time.
Boom!
The Snow Empress was being pushed back further, unable to control the situation enough to aid her companions.
After a while, the Ice Bear King finally couldn't withstand the onslaught and was knocked down by Daming, Erming, Xie Hu, and Xiao Bai, losing its combat ability.
Erming stayed to control the Ice Bear King while Daming, Xie Hu, and Xiao Bai joined the fight, teaming up with the King of Slaughter to focus on the Ice Emperor.
The situation grew increasingly desperate for the soul beasts of the Extreme North. They had essentially lost their chance to win.
After the three joined in, the Ice Emperor quickly began losing ground.
The Snow Empress knew that there was no time to waste. She had to give her all and defeat Ye Wen with her strongest power!
"Imperial Palm! Great Cold No Snow!"
The Snow Empress unleashed her most powerful move, facing Ye Wen head-on.
"Eight-Point Overlord Hammer!" Ye Wen countered with his ultimate hammer technique, swinging a hammer toward her.
Boom! Boom, boom, boom!
The two forces collided again, equal in strength, but neither was able to knock the other down. They continued to fiercely battle.
Meanwhile, the Ice Emperor had finally fallen to the combined efforts of Daming, Erming, Xie Hu, and Xiao Bai, losing all fighting ability.
"Your companions are powerless now, surrender, Snow Empress. You've already lost." Ye Wen continued, while still attacking.
"Even if you defeat all of us, we will never submit to you!" The Snow Empress gritted her teeth.
"Heh, normally at this point, someone would say, 'You won't submit? Then I'll just kill you all!' You'd be left with the choice to die or submit, or watch them die. But I, Ye Wen, am above such tactics. I don't need to convince you with force."
"Because, even if you refuse to submit to me, once you fall, unable to fight, you will absolutely submit to me."
Just as Ye Wen finished speaking, the Titan Snow Demon King, who had been surrounded by the master-servant contract power, slowly got to his feet.
The Titan Snow Demon King had now been fully subdued.
He knelt before Ye Wen with utter loyalty, bowing deeply. "Master!!!"
"What... A'tai, you!"
This scene shocked the Snow Empress, Ice Emperor, and Ice Bear King. The leader of the Titan Blood Demon Clan, the Titan Snow Demon King, one of the highest-blooded soul beasts in the Extreme North, had bowed his head and submitted!
"See? This is what I mean by my ability to make you all submit to me," Ye Wen said calmly.
The Titan Snow Demon King then spoke. "Snow Empress, surrender. We've lost. Continuing the fight won't change the outcome."
"What did you do to A'tai? If I fall, will we also submit to you like A'tai did, in that same manner?" The Snow Empress asked, her face filled with disbelief.
A'tai looked as though he had been controlled, becoming an absolute servant to Ye Wen!
The Snow Empress, Ice Emperor, and Ice Bear King found this difficult to accept, as if their minds and thoughts were being controlled.
"Don't worry, the master-servant contract doesn't alter your thoughts or self-awareness. You are still yourselves, but in your hearts, there will be one absolute thought: absolute loyalty to me!"
"If that's the case, won't we accept whatever you tell us to do? If that's true, I'd rather die than submit to you," the Snow Empress responded with great resistance.
"First of all, you can't change the result. Secondly, as long as it's not a major decision, you can still act based on your own judgment," Ye Wen said.
"It's like how you, Snow Empress, are the soul beast leader of the Extreme North. As long as you don't cross any boundaries, your soul beasts will still obey you, just like my companions—Xie Hu, Xiao Bai, Daming, and Erming. They can confirm this," Ye Wen added.
In fact, with companions like Xie Hu and Xiao Bai, their relationship with Ye Wen was more of friendship and partnership than master-servant.
Even Daming and Erming, who were reluctant to enter the human world, were given the freedom to make their own decisions, as long as they didn't interfere with major plans.
When Ye Wen spoke like this, the Snow Empress begrudgingly accepted it in her heart.
Ye Wen continued, "Actually, I know that you, Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, are nearing 400,000 years of cultivation. You almost didn't survive the 300,000-year tribulation, facing death. So you realize that you're likely not going to pass the 400,000-year tribulation, am I right?"
"How do you know that!" The Ice Emperor was once again shocked.
Ye Wen smiled and didn't reply immediately. He then turned to the Snow Empress and said, "Snow Sky Woman, Snow Empress, you've reached the peak of 690,000 years of cultivation, haven't you? You've been trying to break through the 700,000-year barrier, but each attempt has ended in failure. You even considered using the Yin-Yang complementary soul cores to break through, but you know that the failure rate is high."
"Once you fail, your original essence will be severely damaged, making it impossible to attempt breaking through the 700,000-year bottleneck and tribulation again. And I can clearly tell you, you will fail."
"I also know that you've been preparing for this, thinking that if you fail, you'll use a 100,000-year snow lotus to seal your essence and choose to reincarnate as a human, right?"
Ye Wen's words left the Snow Empress stunned, shocked, and incredulous!
This person seemed to be a mind reader! How could he know all of her thoughts and future plans? It was beyond her comprehension.
"How do you know all of this!" The Snow Empress asked with confusion.
"Hehe," Ye Wen smiled.
He knew because his soul didn't belong to this world. He came from a world that was clear about this one.
(END CHAPTER)
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