Its entire body seemed carved from the finest emerald, its carapace crystal clear and reflecting a cold luster. It was about one and a half meters long, with a long tail held high, featuring five crystal-clear segments. The tail hook was like a pyramid polished from diamond, its tip flashing with a lethal, ghostly blue cold light. Its front pincers were as sharp as crystal, and as they slightly opened and closed, they emitted an extreme cold capable of freezing the Soul.
Seeing this figure he had yearned for day and night, a look of infatuation couldn't help but flow from the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's eyes. He stared intently at the Ice Empress, whispering almost like a sleepwalker: "You've come..."
The Ice Empress's crystal-yellow eyes coldly swept over the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's golden body, which was entirely condensed from mental force in a human form, and a flash of surprise and suspicion crossed them. "Tianmeng, do you think that by hiding your main body and meeting me only with a mental projection, I won't be able to find your main body? Even if your mental force is strong enough to condense a form on its own, it's absolutely impossible for it to be too far from the main body." The Ice Empress's voice remained cold, but her vigilance had risen to its peak.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm smiled slightly, his gaze greedily lingering on the Ice Empress as if admiring a peerless treasure: "You are still so charming, making me intoxicated. I remember the last time I saw you, your tail still had six segments; now it has fused into five... What I love most is this emerald green, full of temptation and danger. It seems my memory was correct; you are indeed not far from that fatal Great Limit."
The Ice Empress snorted impatiently: "Using your tongue to gain a quick advantage will only make your death more painful. You've been hiding for ten thousand years, and now you suddenly return just to seek death?"
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm immediately switched to that deeply affectionate, even slightly flamboyant tone: "I came back so you could continue to live, of course! This long and bitter unrequited love of mine is finally going to reach its end today. Darling, imagine it, we are about to never be separated again..."
"Absurd! I don't care what conspiracies or tricks you have; since you've delivered yourself to my door, there is only one path: death! After devouring your Origin energy, I will be the true Supreme on this continent!" The Ice Empress was finally completely enraged by the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's nearly intoxicated expression. Her high-held scorpion tail suddenly lit up with a blinding white light, and a beam of pure white light, condensed to the extreme, pierced through the heart of the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's mental projection like a bolt of lightning!
Even as bystanders, Furina and Huo Yuhao felt speechless seeing the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's nearly bottomless infatuation.
Furina could only facepalm in her heart: "This... truly interprets the word'simp' to its fullest extent."
However, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's pierced body did not show the slightest hint of pain. Instead, a trace of regret that his plan had succeeded crossed his face: "I wanted to catch up with you a bit more... You are still so hasty. But no matter, so that we can truly become one sooner, let's begin now!"
For a Vicious Beast of the Ice Empress's level, her perception of danger was sharp to the extreme. The moment the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's words fell, she sensed that something was very wrong! The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's pierced golden body suddenly became illusory and then lunged toward her like a stream of light. The entire space seemed to freeze instantly, and a terrifying mental force, like a suddenly rising tidal wave, locked her firmly within, making all her movements sluggish and thick.
The Ice Empress's gaze instantly became incredibly sharp, her long scorpion tail waving frantically as the emerald light flared, attempting to break free from this mental quagmire. "Tianmeng! You're crazy! How dare you burn your mental Origin so recklessly! Aren't you afraid your spirit will dissipate, leaving you with no way back?! Besides, even if you give it your all, how long can a piece of trash like you trap me? One second? Or two?!" For the first time, her voice carried a trace of undetectable shock and rage.
The Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice remained so gentle it made one's heart go numb, but beneath that gentleness was an unquestionable resolve: "It doesn't need to be long; even if it's just for an instant, it's enough for me!"
"No! This is impossible! Tianmeng, how could a piece of trash like you possibly bind me! What kind of bizarre skill is this? Why can't even my Ultimate Ice break through it?!" The Ice Empress frantically mobilized the massive Soul Power in her body, which was nearly reaching four hundred thousand years. One after another, peerlessly powerful skills exploded with light, white and green colors reflecting each other, but they were like crashing into an invisible wall of cotton, dissolving one after another under that vast, sea-like mental imprisonment, unable to shake it in the slightest.
The golden light quietly retracted, and the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, taking on the appearance of Huo Yuhao, solidified before her again with a faint, relieved smile on his face: "I have truly looked forward to this moment for a very, very long time. All the doubts and confusion in your heart, right? I will answer them for you one by one. However, this place is not suitable for a long stay. Once we leave this core region of the Extreme North, I will explain everything to you in detail. Now... it's time for us to leave."
The ink-green in the sky began to churn violently, signaling that the Ice Empress's Origin power was in a final struggle against Tianmeng's shed power. But that seemingly thin yet incredibly tough white light membrane had already, like a net of fate, completely sealed off all escape routes for this Ruler of the Extreme North.