Chapter 68 Seizing Five 100,000-Year Soul Bones, Aiming for Heavenly Dragon City
"It's not suppression."
Electrolux's voice carried a hint of helplessness.
"It's a fusion. Blood contracts have a master and servant distinction. Hua Bin is the master of the contract, so he will naturally gain more contract benefits. He can call upon your ice attribute power, and his martial spirit will also change due to your bloodline."
Furthermore, you won't feel your power being suppressed when you fight others.
Hyotei tightened her arms.
"What will this emperor gain?"
Electrolux's silvery mist swayed slightly.
"What you get may be more valuable than you think."
Hyotei raised an eyebrow, waiting for what would follow.
"In Hua Bin's spiritual sea lies a piece of living gold, the purest source of life in the world. After the blood pact, your spirit can continuously draw nourishment from the living gold through the bond of the contract."
Hyotei's pupils contracted slightly.
"The reason why the 400,000-year heavenly tribulation is so terrifying is not only because it destroys the physical body, but also because it erodes the soul."
Electrolux's voice was calm, but every word struck Hyotei's heart.
"The nourishing effect of the Gold of Life on the soul far surpasses that of ten thousand years of arduous cultivation in the far north."
Hyotei remained silent.
But Dai Huabin could feel her heartbeat quickening through the bond of the blood pact.
Hyotei didn't lose out on this deal.
Electrolux's projection dimmed rapidly after uttering its last words.
"Old Master Yi?" Dai Huabin called out in his heart.
"Constructing the magic array is too costly… I need to… sleep for a while."
Electrolux's voice was broken. "Hua Bin, you handle the rest yourself. You'll get used to Little Scorpion's temper."
The silvery mist dissipated.
Silence returned to the sea of consciousness.
Dai Huabin sighed silently to himself.
The time Elder Yi spent constructing the Blood Pact array and guiding the soul fusion was probably more costly than when he purified the Soul Devouring Carving Blade to open the Eye of Life.
Hyotei noticed the disappearance of the silver mist.
"Is he asleep again?"
"Hmm." Dai Huabin nodded. "Constructing the magic array consumes too much energy."
Hyotei didn't respond.
Although she didn't say it, the mental pressure that Electrolux released just now had indeed left a deep impression on her.
If a mere fragment of divine consciousness can make a 400,000-year-old soul beast like her feel looked down upon, how strong must he have been when he was alive?
"Alright." Hyotei interrupted his thoughts, her tone decisive.
"When should we retrieve the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Profound Ice Marrow? When can we find the Snow Emperor?"
Dai Huabin knew she would be in such a hurry.
"The Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow is located in the Dragon City region of the Heaven Dou Empire, which is only a few days' journey away. The Snow Emperor's embryo is in the hands of a nobleman in the Star Luo Empire, which may take longer."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Hyotei's emerald eyes were filled with urgency. "Let's go now."
"Wait a minute," Dai Huabin interrupted. "You've been in the far north for so many years, aren't you planning to take any of the good stuff from the palace with you?"
Hyotei stopped in her tracks.
"We won't be back for a while after we go out."
Dai Huabin continued.
"Your palace should contain many soul bones and treasures. As for the Snow Emperor's palace, since she has already taken human form and left, it would be a waste to leave the things inside."
Hyotei thought for two seconds.
"I have two 100,000-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bones in my palace. I'm too lazy to keep the ones that are younger."
Two pieces of soul bone that are 100,000 years old.
Dai Huabin's heart raced. The Ultimate Ice Soul Bone required the Ultimate Ice Martial Spirit to absorb, and Dai Huabin now met that requirement.
"Take them all." Dai Huabin's voice was somewhat happy. "I need to become stronger; I can't leave these things to others."
Hyotei glanced at him: "You're quite impolite."
"We have a contractual relationship; there is no distinction between you and me."
Hyotei was momentarily speechless after hearing that.
She found herself unable to refute it.
The bond of blood pact is there; if Dai Huabin dies, she will die with him.
In a sense, making this human stronger is indeed a way of saving her own life.
"Let's go."
Hyotei turned around, her emerald green dress leaving a trail on the ice.
"Go to my palace first."
Dai Huabin quickly followed.
The Hyotei Palace is hidden beneath a glacier deep within the core region of the far north. The entrance is completely invisible from the outside. With a gentle touch of Hyotei's spiritual power to the surface of the ice, an entire ice wall silently slides open, revealing a passage leading downwards.
The walls of the passage were so smooth they reflected light, and the temperature was twenty degrees lower than outside. But Dai Huabin only felt a comfortable coolness.
Hyotei walked ahead, her pace quick.
As they walked, Dai Huabin asked, "How many years have you lived here?"
"I can't remember," Hyotei said without turning her head.
"Wouldn't moving be a lot of trouble?"
Hyotei slowed her pace by half a beat: "Are you pitying me?"
"No, I'm just curious."
Hyotei remained silent.
But Dai Huabin could sense through the blood pact that her emotions had undergone an extremely subtle fluctuation.
The main hall of the palace was vast, constructed entirely of extremely cold ice crystals. The Ice Emperor walked to the deepest ice wall, placed her hands on it, and a vibrant green light surged into the ice wall.
The ice wall slowly melted, revealing two ice coffin-like recesses.
Two pieces of soul bone lay quietly inside.
A piece of azure blue, shaped like a breastplate, the torso bone of a 100,000-year-old ice-blue scorpion.
The other piece is entirely emerald green, with its end forked into the shape of a scorpion tail. It is 100,000 years old and has an attached soul bone, the Ice Jade Scorpion Tail.
Both soul bones radiated the unique luster of a 100,000-year-old soul bone, having been stored in the Ice Emperor's palace for countless years, yet their quality remained perfect.
Hyotei took out the two soul bones and casually tossed them to Dai Huabin.
"Then."
Dai Huabin reached out and caught them; they were icy cold to the touch.
The two 100,000-year-old soul bones were lighter than he had imagined, but the energy contained within them made his arms feel slightly numb.
"Let's go to Xue Di's place."
The Snow Emperor's Palace is about half an hour's walk northwest of the Ice Emperor's Palace.
As the two traveled across the ice field, Dai Huabin observed the way Hyotei moved for the first time from the perspective of a contractor.
Her bare feet made no sound on the ice; each step seemed like gliding across the surface. Her long, emerald-green dress remained motionless in the cold wind, as if even the wind dared not touch her.
The palace of the Snow Emperor is much more magnificent than that of the Ice Emperor.
The dome, made of ice crystals, is inlaid with countless tiny snowflake crystals that shimmer with iridescent light under the refraction of light.
Hyotei led Dai Huabin straight to the storage room.
Five ancient snow lotuses were sealed in an ice crystal container. Each one was the size of an adult's palm, with petals as white as jade and emitting a faint fragrance.
The three 100,000-year-old ice-attribute soul bones were sealed in three separate ice coffins.
Dai Huabin examined them one by one. Of the two left leg bones, one was of slightly higher quality than the other, and a 100,000-year-old right leg bone—but all were genuine 100,000-year-old pieces.
That's all.
Hyotei leaned against the ice wall with her arms crossed.
"That Xue Di has a lot of other things, but these are the only ones that are actually usable."
Dai Huabin carefully packed everything away and put it into the soul tool.
"That's about enough." He straightened up and turned to Hyotei. "Let's go, leave the far north. First stop, Dragon City."
The Ice Emperor raised an eyebrow: "Dragon City? Where is the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow?"
"Yes." Dai Huabin nodded. "It's located in the headquarters of a sect called Dilongmen, hidden at the bottom of a well."
Hyotei's emerald green pupils flickered.
How did you know?
"I have my own sources of information," Dai Huabin said, offering no further explanation.
Hyotei snorted and didn't ask any further questions.
The two left the Snow Emperor's Palace and headed south.
With the Ice Emperor by her side, all the soul beasts in the far north avoided her. Not to mention ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts—even hundred-thousand-year-old ones dared not approach.
The temperature dropped another thirty degrees Celsius in the area within a radius of several miles along the path taken by Hyotei. The instinct of any living creature told them to stay away from this path.
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