"Hehe, anyone can say nice things—" the Snow Empress said indifferently.
She looked at Lu Cheng somewhat playfully, then pointed at the white-haired old man opposite them. "Since you are willing to befriend me, then drive him away and save me, otherwise—
You are just like him, a despicable human."
She had naturally seen through the clumsy acting of the guy opposite her, who wanted to fish in troubled waters. But as the ruler of the Far North who had governed this land for countless years, how could she not distinguish it?
"Alright."
Just as the Snow Empress was sneering, Lu Cheng spoke up casually.
"Brother Tianmeng, help me out, call the Ice Empress over—"
"I'm really crazy for following a gambler like you." Tianmeng was trembling, his whole warm body going soft. The Snow Empress was one thing; after all, her transformation had failed, and her strength was less than a tenth of her peak state, but the Ice Empress was in her peak period.
If that guy comes and sees this scene, I'm afraid they'll all be sliced into minced meat.
"Fine, fine, I'll go crazy with you for once."
"Anyway, if you die, I won't survive either." Tianmeng grumbled, but he didn't delay at all. A vast aura surged out from within Lu Cheng's body.
The entire sky seemed to change color.
mental force spread out toward the surroundings.
His voice rolled like thunder: "Ice Empress, I, Tianmeng, am here. Do you dare to meet?"
The scene gradually became silent.
That white-haired old man was dumbfounded as he looked at Lu Cheng. "Are you crazy?!! If you attract the other Kings of the Far North, we'll all die!"
And the Snow Empress was also stunned in place.
She could feel Tianmeng's aura from opposite her, and she could also feel that this was definitely not a fake performance. This aura almost covered the entire core region of the Far North.
As long as the Ice Empress was not blind or deaf, she would be able to perceive it.
And calling the Ice Empress over also basically meant that she would no longer be taken away by anyone. Regardless of whether she survived or not, at least she had a means of counterattack.
Given her relationship with Tianmeng, it certainly wouldn't have reached this step.
But—
"As expected of the person I value."
Within the Sea of Spirit.
A large fiery red flower surfaced. Her eyes were full of pride and love. In her memory, he also had such an upright style, which completely won her over, making her willing to sacrifice and die for him.
And now he was radiating ten thousand zhang of light.
"You beast!" Veins bulged on Master Wei's neck, and his eyes were blood-red. He wished he could swallow him alive. A long blade slashed directly toward Lu Cheng.
This was the Snow Empress!
The true ruler of the Far North, a figure from myth. If he could control her, the gold coins she could be sold for would probably be counted in the hundreds of millions. Even if he didn't sell her, keeping her for himself would be a huge opportunity.
But it was ruined by this kid just like that.
"I'll hack you to death!"
The might of a titled Douluo erupted. The light blue long blade in his hand seemed to cut through frost and snow, emitting waves of power as it slashed toward Lu Cheng.
Lu Cheng frowned slightly.
This was the first time he had directly faced a powerhouse of the Titled Douluo level. This terrifying pressure alone was enough to make him unable to lift his head. The gap was still too large—
Just as he was thinking of a way to escape, a light blue figure suddenly blocked the way in front of him.
It was exactly the Snow Empress.
Boom!
The two figures each retreated.
The Snow Empress's body became increasingly dim, while Master Wei bared his teeth, grinning as he stepped on the snow and walked over slowly.
"I didn't expect that a human and a spirit beast could actually get together. Today, I—"
But before he could finish, his expression suddenly changed.
As the dark clouds shifted, he glanced at Lu Cheng with cold eyes.
"Kid, you'd better not let me catch you—otherwise, you're going to suffer."
After saying that, a pair of Bionic Wings appeared on his back, and he suddenly soared into the sky, fleeing toward the horizon in a panic.
Lu Cheng looked at the increasingly dim Snow Empress, hesitating to speak.
The humanoid form condensed from that cloud of snow mist became increasingly dim. She glanced at the somewhat dazed young man and curled her beautiful lips. "Didn't you say we are friends?"
"Helping between friends is only right—"
Tianmeng's eyes widened, full of disbelief.
In the next second, the surrounding snow vibrated, the ground trembled, and emerald-green clouds pressed in from the distance. A terrifying aura rose in the distance; it was a terrifying existence countless times more powerful than the previous Master Wei.
One of the Three Great Kings of the Far North in her peak period.
The Ice Empress.
At the same time, another powerful aura also rose, hundreds of meters high, like a giant whose body entered the clouds, also stepping on the snow and rushing toward this place.
"It's over, it's all over—" Tianmeng trembled.
"Snow Empress! Who harmed you to such a state?!" The moment the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion appeared, she instantly became enraged, and the entire Far North completely boiled over.
"Is it this human?" The Ice Empress glanced at Lu Cheng with cold eyes, her scorpion tail about to pierce his heart.
The latter's mouth twitched, but he didn't look away.
"It's not him—" The snow empress became increasingly weak.
She explained briefly. She had accidentally discovered a hundred thousand-year-old snow lotus. Spirit beasts that originally exceeded two hundred thousand years are almost impossible to transform. In fact, the higher the cultivation, the higher the difficulty, because the first step to transforming is to first compress all the origin power into the body. Those exceeding two hundred thousand years are very likely to explode and die at this step.
But with that hundred-thousand-year snow lotus, everything was different; she had the confidence to transform.
But it was also because of this that she was encountered by that guy who suddenly broke into the core region of the Far North.
"So—he saved you?" The Ice Empress's small face was full of suspicion, especially as she looked at the Snow Silkworm on his shoulder. "Would this cowardly fellow save you? It's good enough if he didn't take advantage of your peril, hehe—"
"It's true," the Snow Empress said softly.
She glanced at Lu Cheng with complex eyes. "Regardless of what it is, he saved me in the end. This friend, I accept. As for the matters of the future—Bing'er, I'll leave the Far North to your care. I have now failed my transformation, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover. Being able to hold on for this long is already due to my deep cultivation, but there will eventually be a moment when it's exhausted."
"Is there really no other way?!!" The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's eyes were filled with tears as she clung to the Snow Empress, seemingly unwilling to let go.
The Snow Empress shook her head helplessly.
She glanced at the Far North with some nostalgia and gently opened her fair hand, a snowflake slowly falling upon it.
"I have a way!" Tianmeng suddenly spoke up.
"Speak!"
A stiletto heel suddenly landed on top of Tianmeng's head.
Following that was the Ice Empress's anxious and cold voice.
"Whew—sacrifice!" Tianmeng spoke at a rapid pace. "Like me, sacrifice to this young man. You've seen his natural talent; even looking at all of humanity, he is definitely a top-tier existence. According to my estimation, it's very likely he will advance to become an existence like a god."
"We spirit beasts cannot become gods. Even someone as strong as the Snow Empress now has to take the path of transforming into a human. But even after truly transforming into a human, can one become a God? Hehe—it's very difficult. So I have a plan: God-making! I have already gone completely all-in. If we have the Snow Empress as well, our success rate will increase greatly."
As Tianmeng's words fell, the scene was also unusually quiet.
The Ice Empress's brow was tightly knit. She wanted to refute, but seeing the snow empress's nearly dissipating state, she closed her mouth somewhat helplessly.
She hoped more than anyone that the Snow Empress would survive.
"I am willing to sacrifice—"
The Snow Empress pondered for a moment and also nodded slightly.
"What Tianmeng said indeed has its logic."
"How difficult it is for a spirit beast to become a god. If one wants to possess that eternal lifespan and no longer be troubled by the Heavenly Tribulation, becoming a god is the only way. And if I sacrifice to him, then in the future it might not necessarily be impossible to become a god."
"Actually, there's no need to sacrifice." Lu Cheng shook his head.
He looked at the Snow Empress with sincere eyes.
He would inevitably go for the ten thousand-year profound ice marrow later, and if he went after that, a rift would surely arise with the Snow Empress. To know and yet conceal—then his so-called sincerity would be nothing more than a deception cloaked in lies.
"I know of a place with ten thousand years of profound ice marrow. The reserves there are enough for the Snow Empress to once again condense her physical body."
"What Tianmeng said is not the only choice."
The scene was eerily quiet.
Tianmeng was full of helplessness. How could this silly child be so upright? The words spoken at this time couldn't possibly be lies. Although it didn't know where these things were either, but—
If you were going to say it, you should have waited until after the Snow Empress had completely sacrificed herself before revealing it.
The Ice Empress's eyes were even more peculiar.
And the Snow Empress's eyes, which were as calm as an ancient well, also flickered at this moment.
Friends, huh—
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