Chapter 140: Mutual Feeding with the Snow Empress
"Snow Empress, I've come to see you!"
A crisp, clear voice rang out. Snow Empress felt that today's Ice Empress seemed a little different from usual.
However, her nature was cold and detached, with few thoughts and little concern for such matters. She didn't think too deeply about it and merely cast a calm glance toward Ice Empress as she walked over.
Qi Tian didn't mind Snow Empress's cold attitude at all. This was simply her temperament.
Perhaps she was like Zhu Zhuqing—seemingly cold on the surface, but extremely passionate beneath.
"Snow Empress, take a look at my cultivation," Qi Tian said, deliberately releasing his aura for Snow Empress to sense.
Only then did Snow Empress speak, her voice calm and clear.
"You've broken through to four hundred thousand years?"
Her voice was as cold and pristine as her appearance. Only now did Qi Tian truly feel just how difficult Snow Empress was to approach.
Still, he wasn't discouraged. The mission had to be completed—and quickly!
"That's right. I was actually planning to come ask you about your experience in surviving the fourth heavenly tribulation," Qi Tian said.
Snow Empress nodded lightly. "Alright."
Qi Tian walked up in front of Snow Empress and stared at her for a moment.
Snow Empress's features were exquisite, her skin flawless. She wore nothing more than a simple white dress.
Her pair of snow-white jade feet was like works of art, stepping directly upon the freezing ice and snow.
As expected of an ice-and-snow spirit, her looks and figure are absolutely flawless. She's just a bit too proud and aloof, Qi Tian thought to himself.
She allowed him to look at her without showing the slightest discomfort, as if none of it had anything to do with her.
"Snow Empress, do you know how I managed to break through?" Qi Tian began, searching for a topic to continue the conversation.
Snow Empress looked at him quietly, as though waiting for him to continue. Qi Tian didn't keep her in suspense.
"I discovered an ice silkworm that had grown to 990,000 years just by feeding on Manifold Mysterious Ice Essences—and it hadn't gone through a single heavenly tribulation."
Snow Empress immediately understood. She knew Ice Empress was a natural enemy of ice silkworms, so she didn't feel any need to defend it.
However, her attention was focused elsewhere.
"Ice Empress, do you know how that ice silkworm managed to avoid its heavenly tribulations?" Snow Empress asked.
"Oh no, what should we do now?" The Ice Empress panicked inwardly because she had no idea how to answer the Snow Empress.
She had been too busy enjoying the food to think about that at all.
She hadn't expected Snow Empress to care about this detail—if she'd known, she might've spared the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
Fortunately, Qi Tian knew the answer.
"It hid in a place that was completely isolated from heaven and earth. There were no heavenly tribulations there."
Snow Empress nodded slightly.
"I see. In that case, its tribulations didn't disappear—they must have accumulated."
"If it hadn't been eaten by you, the heavenly tribulation it faced in the future would have been unprecedented in power."
After learning the truth behind how the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm avoided its tribulations, Snow Empress quickly lost interest.
"Snow Empress, do you know? That ice silkworm could really run—it actually fled all the way into a human empire."
Snow Empress listened quietly as Qi Tian continued, talking to her about various things from the human world.
Watching Qi Tian use her body to chat so naturally with the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress gradually began to understand something.
So… is it actually possible to chat with a Snow Empress like this? Ice Empress thought.
Because of Snow Empress's personality, her past conversations with her had always ended quickly.
Yet Qi Tian was able to talk with the Snow Empress for such a long time.
She finally realized—this was how she should interact with Snow Empress in the future.
"Snow Empress, living here doesn't really suit your status."
"In the human lands, I saw some of the buildings they constructed—they're quite nice. How about I build you a palace?" Qi Tian suggested.
"Alright," Snow Empress replied, not rejecting the idea and seeming slightly interested.
This was the core region of the Extreme North, where ice and snow never melted.
Qi Tian planned to use the ice and snow here to build a palace.
As for the design, he could model it after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's castle—something elegant and fitting.
However, Qi Tian didn't plan to build the palace too large. If it were overly spacious inside, having just two people living there would make it feel emptier instead.
Only a refined, delicate palace could allow Snow Empress to feel a sense of home, helping her step out of her loneliness.
Holding Snow Empress's hand, Qi Tian used less than a single day to erect a palace upon the snowy plains.
Both of them possessed extraordinary control over ice and snow. Under Qi Tian's guidance, a palace built of ice gradually took shape.
The palace resembled a "Crystal Palace"—visually, it was even more exquisite than the luxurious castle of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
"How is it? Is it beautiful?" Qi Tian asked.
Snow Empress nodded. She felt that today's Ice Empress was very different—she seemed to have become… interesting.
She realized she didn't dislike this kind of interaction. In fact, she even faintly looked forward to it.
"Snow Empress, how about I live here with you?" Qi Tian asked.
His suggestion happened to align perfectly with Snow Empress's thoughts. She nodded and agreed without hesitation.
Watching Qi Tian interact with Snow Empress throughout the entire day, Ice Empress initially felt a twinge of jealousy. The person she wished could spend all day with Snow Empress was herself.
But when she heard that she would be able to live together with Snow Empress in the future, her heart instantly felt lighter.
'Humans are… truly terrifying,' the Ice Empress thought, completely convinced.
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Qi Tian led Snow Empress into the Crystal Palace, but the place still seemed to be missing something.
He then transmitted over various decorations and pieces of furniture, arranging the interior and giving the palace a sense of warmth and life.
"Snow Empress, are you hungry?" Qi Tian asked.
Snow Empress looked at him calmly. However, her mood today was rather good, so she still answered.
"Ice Empress, have you forgotten what I am? I don't need to eat."
She was a being born of ice and snow, feeding on the energy of heaven and earth—someone who truly did not partake of mortal sustenance.
"Snow Empress, I haven't forgotten. I just want you to try food from the human world."
Feeling Qi Tian's concern, Snow Empress nodded slightly and accepted his suggestion.
Qi Tian didn't immediately give her hot dishes. Instead, he took out several light, delicate pastries, letting her sample them and slowly adapt.
Beside an ice table, the two sat facing each other. Several pastries were laid out atop the table, lending the palace a touch of homely warmth.
Qi Tian picked up a piece of pastry and brought it to Snow Empress's lips.
Snow Empress didn't sense anything inappropriate. She parted her crystal-clear lips and accepted the pastry, savoring it slowly.
The way she ate was extremely pleasing to the eye. Qi Tian sat across from her, quietly admiring the scene.
"How does it taste?" he asked.
Snow Empress hadn't transformed into a human, and Qi Tian worried that her sense of taste might differ from humans—or that she might not have taste at all.
But he had worried for nothing.
As a favored child of heaven and earth, born in human form, how could she lack taste?
"It's quite good," Snow Empress replied, nodding gently.
Seeing Qi Tian staring at her, she also picked up a pastry and brought it to his lips.
"You eat too."
Watching this scene, the Ice Empress felt an overwhelming urge to kick Qi Tian out immediately.
This was Snow Empress feeding him!
Unfortunately, Qi Tian clearly had no intention of leaving so soon.
He opened his mouth to accept the pastry—and even took advantage, pretending to accidentally brush a kiss against her fingertips.
Snow Empress narrowed her eyes slightly and watched quietly.
But inside Qi Tian's mind, the Ice Empress was already losing her mind.
"Mmm, delicious," Qi Tian said, looking at Snow Empress.
It was unclear whether he was talking about the pastry—
Or her fingers.
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End of Chapter