Chapter 70: Ice Empress
Three days later, in the core region of the Extreme North.
In a forest, Lin Xuan, who had fully recovered, was sitting in a tree hollow, sheltering from the cold wind.
"Tianmeng, you can start now. Lure the Ice Empress over."
Hearing Lin Xuan speak, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, which had been silent, finally perked up.
"No problem. Later, I'll mobilize my mental force origin to attract the Ice Empress, and then use my shed skin to trap her. By then, as long as you show your talent, given her impending 400,000-year lifespan limit, she'll most likely agree to our terms to survive."
"Mm, begin." Lin Xuan nodded.
"Then Lin Xuan, get ready."
After the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm spoke, nine golden lights began to emerge from Lin Xuan's glabella.
Immediately after, these nine golden lights slowly descended from the air, stacking one by one, finally coalescing into a blurry golden figure.
The moment the phantom formed, the world changed color!
The already biting cold wind suddenly intensified several times, emitting a wailing shriek like ghosts and wolves.
The lead-grey, heavy clouds in the sky seemed to be stirred by an invisible hand, churning violently, hanging so low they seemed about to crush the glaciers.
"Now!"
The golden phantom formed by the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm trembled slightly, releasing its million-year mental force origin like a lighthouse beam, unreservedly towards the distance!
"Hey, hey, hey! Ice Empress! Can you hear me? It's me, Tianmeng! Your Brother Tianmeng is back! This time, I'm taking back everything that rightfully belongs to me!"
After sending the message, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm quickly retracted most of its released mental force, and instead completely shielded Lin Xuan's aura within the tree hollow below. "Hehe, Lin Xuan, don't worry, it won't be long before the Ice Empress is definitely drawn here by this grand declaration of my return!"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm boasted proudly.
Lin Xuan didn't respond, merely adjusting his state to its optimum.
They didn't have to wait too long.
After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, a emerald green light, like a comet, streaked across the grey-white sky from the distant horizon, hurtling towards them at an astonishing speed!
Where the light passed, the glaciers below emitted creaking sounds of unbearable strain, the air temperature plummeted, and even the dancing snowflakes were frozen into fine ice crystals in mid-air!
In just a few breaths, the emerald green light arrived overhead. The light receded, revealing its true form.
It was a scorpion, only about 1.5 meters long, yet breathtakingly beautiful.
It was none other than one of the three Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, the 400,000-year cultivation super Soul Beast, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, the Ice Empress!
The Ice Empress hovered in mid-air, immediately locking onto the golden phantom below.
"Tianmeng Ice Silkworm?! It really is you!"
The Ice Empress's voice echoed through the heavens and earth, "You lucky-dog trash are actually still alive? And you dare to deliberately leak your aura and return to the Extreme North?"
Her tone then became extremely greedy, "But no matter what madness you're up to today, since you've delivered yourself, this old lady will devour you! Swallowing your mental force origin might just help me safely pass my next heavenly tribulation!"
Facing the Ice Empress's undisguised killing intent and disparagement, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm remained completely unperturbed. Instead, it spoke with a fawning tone, "Bingbing, after all these years, you're still so beautiful, so domineering! That perfect figure, those gem-like eyes, that cold and noble temperament—ah, in my million-year long life, only your silhouette has illuminated my lonely heart like the aurora!"
Ice Empress: "----"
"Shut up! Disgusting bug!" The Ice Empress could no longer tolerate it, and terrifying coldness instantly erupted!
"Wishful thinking! Die!"
Before her words finished, the Ice Empress charged directly towards the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, but the moment she touched the golden phantom, she suddenly missed completely.
"What?!"
The Ice Empress was startled, sensing something was wrong, and immediately tried to retreat.
But then, the ethereal golden phantom instantly transformed into an endless sea of mental force, like a vast ocean, tightly binding the Ice Empress within it.
"Bingbing, you're still so impatient! But, I won't let you manipulate me today!"
As the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm spoke, Lin Xuan took out its million-year shed skin. The next moment, the shed skin transformed into a white light that flew out from the forest below, forming a light membrane that bound the Ice Empress.
"This is—your shed skin?!"
The Ice Empress was astonished and immediately struggled violently, her Soul Power raging, her Spirit Abilities unleashed. But no matter what she did, she couldn't break through the white light membrane.
Furthermore, the light membrane was tightening at an extremely fast rate, eventually binding the Ice Empress so she couldn't move.
"It's useless, Bingbing! This is the shed skin left by my million years of cultivation. With your current strength, you simply can't break free."
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's tone was smug, "Now, come with me obediently. We'll go to a place better suited for a heart-to-heart!"
Saying this, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm was about to directly pull the Ice Empress into its Spiritual Sea, but at that moment, Lin Xuan suddenly walked out of the tree hollow.
"Human?!" The already enraged Ice Empress saw Lin Xuan, and her towering killing intent completely solidified. "Tianmeng, I never thought you'd stoop to colluding with a filthy human!"
"Lin Xuan, why did you come out?! Didn't we agree to first bring the Ice Empress back to the Spiritual Sea and talk in a safe place?" The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm asked in surprise.
"No, talking with Soul Beasts is too troublesome. Compared to verbal persuasion, I believe direct force is more convincing."
Lin Xuan shook his head, then looked at the tightly bound Ice Empress. "I imagine the commotion just now will quickly attract many Soul Beasts. There should be quite a few Ice Jade Scorpions among them, right?"
"Filthy human, what do you mean?! Are you threatening this Empress?"
"You could say that."
Hearing Lin Xuan directly admit it, the Ice Empress was momentarily stunned. She looked Lin Xuan up and down, then sneered, her tone disdainful, "What a joke, you threaten this Empress? If you don't leave now, any Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast that comes by could take your lives."
Lin Xuan smiled noncommittally. Then he clenched his fists, shadows surged at his feet, and the next moment, the void behind him rippled violently like water!
A colossal, soul-shaking shadow slowly emerged from the rippling space!
When it fully appeared, the Ice Empress's struggling movements paused, and her emerald-like eyes suddenly contracted!
Mahoraga descended once more.
But it was completely different from when Lin Xuan had first tamed it three days ago!
Mahoraga's body had swelled more than ten times, towering like a mountain, almost reaching the heavens!
It had four wings on its face and a Dharma Wheel on its head, but the most striking change was on its back.
There, three pairs of enormous, pale wings had grown! Just like the Seraphim that had long vanished from the continent!
Seeing Mahoraga appear in reality, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, who was about to say something, immediately shut its mouth.
No one knew what it had experienced in the past three days.
For three days, it had watched helplessly in the Spiritual Sea as Lin Xuan led Mahoraga on a rampage through the outer core region. Wherever they went, nothing could stop them.
It then fully understood just how heaven-defying Mahoraga's so-called 'adaptation' ability was.
For ordinary energy attacks, one rotation of the Dharma Wheel was enough to adapt to most of it and gain resistance.
After four rotations, in addition to fully adapting to the opponent's attacks, it could also analyze the attacks and develop corresponding countermeasures.
The simplest examples were: if it couldn't breathe underwater, it would grow gills; if it was worn down by flying Soul Beasts from a distance, it would grow wings; if it was beaten by strength-type Soul Beasts, it would enhance its physique and strength.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm once thought taming Mahoraga was impossible, but now it seemed that Mahoraga during the taming ritual was at its weakest.
"When Mahoraga appears, someone dies. Ice Empress, you now have three chances to speak."
Lin Xuan looked at the Ice Empress and said indifferently, "Within three sentences, if I don't hear what I want to hear, I'll let Mahoraga pay a visit to your Ice Jade Scorpion clan."
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