An Zhen.
Ice Empress pulled An Zhen's hand.
Alright, alright.
Under Snow Empress's gaze, An Zhen intimately stroked Ice Empress's cheek, lowered his head, and lightly kissed her cherry lips. "I was just scaring Snow Empress. Why would I go kill that Ice Bear King?"
Ice Empress pursed her cherry lips and leaned forward proactively.
Snuggling~
Snow Empress:...
Ice Empress's small body pounced onto An Zhen.
Phew~ An Zhen slowly exhaled.
Ice Empress's cool body pressed against An Zhen, yet it made the young man feel a surge of heat in his heart. Some feelings just came suddenly and couldn't be stopped.
An Zhen glanced at Snow Empress beside him.
With a thought.
Snow Empress's figure instantly retreated. With a "bang," under the gaze of her sky-blue eyes, the door to Ice Empress's boudoir tightly closed.
Although Snow Empress had never experienced such things, she knew what was happening inside. They were doing things only partners would do.
Inside the bedroom.
An Zhen lifted one of Ice Empress's snow-white calves.
We just did it earlier, and I want to talk to Snow Empress.
Ice Empress's orange-gold eyes were hazy. Although she said this, her small hands gently pulled at her skirt, showing no resistance to An Zhen's actions.
We can talk about anything later.
Outside the bedroom.
Hmm~
A joyful hum reached Snow Empress's ears.
Snow Empress was puzzled as to why Ice Empress would make such a sound.
But she felt that Ice Empress truly wasn't resisting.
The beautiful girl with long white hair squatted at the door, hugging her knees, as if recalling past times.
Perhaps, it's destiny.
Snow Empress sighed softly.
She and Ice Empress were both girls.
In the Spirit Beast World, there was no concept of same-sex relationships. Except for some special existences, male and female, and yin and yang were the concepts of partners for every Spirit Beast.
Snow Empress squatted at the door.
She wanted to make sure Ice Empress was truly willing.
Time seemed to pass in an instant, and yet it felt like a very long time. Aside from the torment of failing to condense her Spirit Core previously and feeling unable to overcome the upcoming great tribulation, choosing to re-cultivate into human form, Snow Empress felt this period was equally agonizing.
Until there was no sound from the room.
Hmm?
Snow Empress's dazed eyes refocused.
Done?
Snow Empress tried to push the door.
Inside the bedroom.
An Zhen released Ice Empress's dark green twin tails and turned to look towards the bedroom door.
She actually listened to the whole thing.
An Zhen lowered his head. Ice Empress lay on the bed with a hazy look in her eyes. The young man's voice sounded in her ear. The next second, Ice Empress's eyes instantly cleared. "Snow Empress is listening at the door."
Ah?
Ice Empress was surprised. "Snow Empress must be worried about me."
An Zhen:?
An Zhen, with a thought, cleaned up the mess in the bedroom. A neat emerald green dress appeared on Ice Empress, and a pair of exquisite jade feet were clad in white socks.
The door opened.
Snow Empress finally opened the door, her sky-blue eyes reflecting the two neatly dressed figures. Snow Empress's cherry lips were tightly pursed, and her eyes showed a dejected expression.
Treat Ice Empress well.
Snow Empress said softly.
Of course.
An Zhen said. He would naturally be good to his woman.
The room fell silent for a moment.
After a while, the white-haired girl proactively spoke, "When do you plan to absorb me?"
Not re-cultivating?
An Zhen sized up the beautiful girl in front of him.
Re-cultivating. I failed to condense my Spirit Core with nearly 700,000 years of cultivation, and I'm not confident that I can condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Spirit Core in human form.
Snow Empress's sky-blue eyes showed a look of recollection, then it faded. "Even if I succeed, I'd at most have a few hundred years of life."
I don't trust humans, but I trust Ice Empress's choice.
This was the main reason.
Snow Empress.
Ice Empress threw herself into Snow Empress's arms.
The Ice and Snow Two Emperors embraced each other.
I have a question.
An Zhen spoke.
Human!
Snow Empress's willow brows slightly furrowed. "Don't go too far!"
She was already like this, agreeing to become his Soul Spirit. Did he still want to bully her?!
No.
An Zhen gently shook his head. "Just a simple question."
An Zhen looked at Snow Empress, "Failing to condense the Yin-Yang Complementary Spirit Core, getting injured, finding a 100,000-year-old Snow Lotus, choosing to re-cultivate into human form through the power of this 100,000-year-old Snow Lotus, and then being caught and sealed in the Seal God Stage by a human who ventured deep into the Far North core."
Yes.
Snow Empress nodded lightly, not knowing what An Zhen was saying. She had told Ice Empress, and felt it was Ice Empress who told An Zhen.
When did that happen? Re-cultivating into human form, such an important matter should be done in a very safe place, right? With your friendship with Ice Empress, why didn't you go find Ice Empress to protect you?
An Zhen was puzzled.
According to the original timeline, after Lord Huo took Ice Empress away, Snow Empress, who was preparing to re-cultivate, did come looking for Ice Empress.
Yes, Snow Empress.
Ice Empress looked at Snow Empress, her eyes full of confusion. "When An Zhen found me, I went to look for you, but you had already disappeared by then."
I was too severely injured at the time. All my original power was starting to dissipate. I didn't have time to look for you, Ice Empress. I only had time to find a hidden place and begin re-cultivating with a 100,000-year-old Snow Lotus I had found not long before.
Snow Empress's face showed a complex expression. "The core of the Far North is inherently a forbidden zone for humans. I didn't expect a human to suddenly break in and happen to find me while I was re-cultivating."
She thought it was a slim chance.
But she didn't expect to actually encounter that one-in-a-million probability.
Butterfly effect?
An Zhen murmured words that Ice Empress and Snow Empress didn't understand.
Was he really just overthinking? After all, Lord Huo was gone, and it was normal for there to be other differences from the original work.
Failing to condense the Spirit Core shouldn't be this serious, right?
Forget it, don't overthink. What's meant to come will come. Just strive to become stronger.
If it really is the butterfly effect, who knows if other ridiculous things will happen.
Then wait until I reach level fifty.
An Zhen looked at Snow Empress. "I will ask my teacher to perform the Soul Spirit contract for us. Before that, your main body will remain in the Seal God Stage, and your consciousness will stay in this space."
Okay.
Snow Empress nodded lightly.
Since she had already chosen this path, it didn't matter whether her main body continued to be sealed or was released.
An Zhen, following the design of Ice Empress's bedroom, created another bedroom next to Ice Empress's, for Snow Empress to rest in. Being able to be with her good sister, Ice Empress was naturally very happy. In the Virtual World, she usually didn't even have anyone to talk to. Now with Snow Empress, Ice Empress enthusiastically recommended human delicacies and comics to Snow Empress.
...
Individual competition against Dou Ling Academy.
Shrek Academy, as expected, completely crushed them.
By now, very few Spirit Ancestors were still participating from the various academies. Most were Spirit King main forces, unless some were too heavily injured in previous matches and hadn't recovered in time after a day's break. This is where the important role of a healing-type Spirit Master was evident. However, the situation faced by the Shrek Academy team now wasn't as difficult as in the original work. They didn't need Huo Yutong and the others to fight head-on against stronger opponents. In individual matches, if they couldn't win, they would directly concede, with Ling Luochen as a fallback.
Ice Queen Ling Luochen's reputation was now extremely well-known. Even high-level Spirit Kings couldn't last a single move against her. Among the reserve team, those who frequently participated now, besides Ning Tian who provided support, were Huo Yutong, who had reached the quasi-Spirit Ancestor level. Her Pole Ice combined with her Domain allowed her to continuously defeat several Spirit Kings before being forced to withdraw due to insufficient spirit power.
As for An Zhen.
An Zhen was slacking off.
He was studying dual-opening.
Dual-opening in virtual and reality.
The frequent occurrences made Snow Empress feel that perhaps her staying next door to Ice Empress was superfluous. Was that kind of thing really that enjoyable?
Shrek Academy advanced to the quarterfinals as the top seed.
Then, in the quarterfinals, they drew their old opponent, Zheng Tian Academy.
Having reached this point, although they knew they couldn't beat the opponent, even Captain Ye Wuqing had no confidence. The memory of being instantly killed by the opponent's Pole Ice Spirit King seemed like it was just yesterday. He was hailed as the academy's strongest genius in the past thousand years, yet in a competition of this level, he was instantly defeated by an opponent of the same age and rank. But they couldn't just surrender, could they?
The first team match.
Amidst the cheers of the entire audience, Ling Luochen once again displayed the terrifying power of Pole Ice. Her first Spirit Ability, an ice crystal staff, condensed in Ling Luochen's hand. She raised it, and at the same time, her pitch-black fifth spirit ring lit up. A sky-blue circle spread rapidly in one direction, directly freezing the seven members of Zheng Tian Academy who had just come up to unleash their strongest Spirit Abilities. Three Spirit Kings, four Spirit Ancestors, how could they contend with a level 59 Pole Ice user? Zheng Tian Academy was instantly defeated.
So irritating~
Ma Xiaotao watched Ling Luochen displaying her power on the arena, feeling very sour. She was clearly stronger.
After a day, the second individual match.
From Zheng Tian Academy's team, a golden-haired beautiful girl, with long, slender legs, quickly walked out of the team and directly ascended the arena, her face full of unwillingness and stubbornness, as if she had been played with and abandoned by a scumbag. Yu Mengdi's fair finger pointed at the Shrek Academy team, "An Zhen, if you're a man, come up here!"
No thanks.
An Zhen shook his head and refused.
You tell me to go up and I go up?
Are you even a man?!
Yu Mengdi's golden eyes stared intently at the lazy, handsome young man. He was clearly so likable, but why did that lazy expression on his face look so punchable!
She was defeated by the opponent using her own Spirit and Spirit Abilities.
Their academy team would definitely be eliminated, but if she didn't beat this guy up, she would never forget what happened that day.
You're not my girlfriend, you don't need to know.
An Zhen gently rubbed Huo Yutong's cheek with his own. It was cool and comfortable.
Come up.
Yu Mengdi stomped her feet in anger, her beautiful legs in golden boots stomping hard on the arena. The aggrieved expression on her pretty face deepened, and her golden hair swayed lightly in the air, as if she had made some major decision. "You're not allowed to copy my Spirit. If you win, this young lady will be your girlfriend!"
Oh~
A cheer erupted from the audience.
Gossip!