Electrolux shook his head with a solemn expression. After a moment of silence, he spoke slowly: "This energy is already extremely unstable. The turbulence of the Origin is far beyond normal levels. Even if I were to strike with all my might, I fear I would be unable to successfully and completely Seal her Origin."
When these words fell, the Ice Empress beside him trembled violently.
Her complexion turned deathly pale in that instant, seeming even colder than the frost filling the room.
In those eyes that had been fixed on the Snow Empress, a glimmer of hope that had been burning was now ruthlessly extinguished by an invisible hand.
Her lips trembled slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Could it be... was the Snow Empress truly going to dissipate just like this?
Tens of thousands of years of friendship, the long years spent side by side in the winds and snow of the Far North, those days and nights on the ice plains where they stood in silence yet relied on each other—all of this surged into her heart like a tide, pressing down on her until she could barely breathe.
However, just as her sorrow welled up in her throat, before it could even turn into a sob, Huo Yuhao's voice rang out.
And it was precisely this sentence that instantly halted the sorrow in the Ice Empress's heart.
"Teacher, please stop keeping me in suspense. You must have a way, right?"
Knowing Electrolux as Huo Yuhao did, although his teacher had just said it was "impossible to Seal," his expression clearly lacked the heaviness of someone truly powerless.
Upon hearing this, a hint of a smile appeared on Electrolux's face, as if his trick had been seen through, carrying a touch of helplessness and a touch of gratification.
"As expected of the Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, your eyes are indeed sharp, kid."
Immediately, the smile on his face receded a little, and he looked at Huo Yuhao: "Yuhao, take out that Ice God Pearl of yours."
Huo Yuhao was slightly stunned, and then it was as if something had dawned on him.
The Ice God Pearl, a supreme treasure naturally born in the Far North of the Douluo Continent, possessed a naturally suppressing effect on turbulence due to its containing an extremely pure Origin of extreme cold.
This bead was a gift Leng Yaozhu had given him after winning it at an auction; Huo Yuhao had kept it all along and had never thought of using it for anything in his daily life.
Now, reminded by Electrolux, he suddenly remembered he still had such a treasure in his possession, and he instantly understood his teacher's meaning.
Although the Ice God Pearl bore the name "pearl," its form was not a perfectly round sphere, but rather an exquisite teardrop-shaped crystal.
Thus, it had another name: Heart of the Ice God.
It was only the size of a dragon's eye, and its entire body presented a clear and deep ice blue, like that single drop of water taken from the deepest part of the Far North glaciers, frozen into eternity by time.
Huo Yuhao took the Ice God Pearl out of his Spirit Tool and held it in his palm.
He lowered his head to look at it, then raised his head to look at Electrolux.
Electrolux did not waste any more breath, directly stating his plan: "We can use the Ice God Pearl to carry the Snow Empress's erupting Origin. The Ice God Pearl naturally possesses an affinity for and tolerance of extreme cold attributes. As long as we guide that Origin into it, I can use the Ice God Pearl as a medium to complete the Seal."
He paused, his gaze sweeping over the increasingly unstable cold current of the Snow Empress, and continued: "But in doing so, the Snow Empress, having lost her Origin, will be unable to exist alone for long."
"However, she can become your Spirit Soul. The Origin will only be temporarily stored within the Ice God Pearl, and in the future, it can be slowly reabsorbed by the Spirit Soul."
Upon hearing this, the Ice Empress did not hesitate in the slightest and said directly: "Then let's do that!"
She had no other choice now; the Snow Empress's situation was urgent. Every moment of hesitation would make the loss of control of that Origin even more severe.
Given her relationship with the Snow Empress, she would make this decision!
As for becoming Huo Yuhao's Spirit Soul, the Ice Empress was a veteran herself; she knew better than anyone that this choice was not bad. After all, Huo Yuhao had a high probability of becoming a God King in the future.
Once he truly took that step, those of them existing as Spirit Souls alongside him would also have the opportunity to obtain eternal life.
Huo Yuhao nodded immediately, his gaze calm as he looked at Electrolux: "Then I will trouble you, Teacher!"
As his words fell, with a thought, he slowly withdrew the Space-Time Illusory Extinction Domain that shrouded the Snow Empress.
The moment the Domain dissipated, he felt a wave of soreness deep in his brow, and his Spiritual Sea was churning with obvious fatigue.
Using the Space-Time Illusory Extinction Domain to suppress the Snow Empress's rampaging Origin had consumed far more mental force than he had anticipated in just a short while.
Now that the Domain was withdrawn, he felt that weariness pressing down heavily on him.
However, before he could catch his breath, the situation in the room changed drastically once again.
That Origin, which had been suppressed for so long, surged out with a roar like a floodgate being opened now that it had lost the restraint of the Spirit Domain.
But this time, what Huo Yuhao felt was no longer piercing extreme cold.
It was... extreme heat!
A wave of scorching heat exploded suddenly, rushing towards him, burning his cheeks until they felt hot.
The heat came without warning, and it was different from the heat of ordinary flames, carrying a kind of scorching pain that seemed to penetrate the skin and reach the marrow.
The thick, one-foot-deep ice that had originally covered the entire room melted visibly in the instant this heatwave swept through, turning into water stains that dripped from the walls and floor.
Then, water vapor steamed up instantly, shrouding the entire room in a white mist.
As an Ice Sky Snow Maiden, the Snow Empress's own attribute was extreme cold.
But at this moment, the ice and snow that had originally covered the entire room had turned into a sea of fire, and its heat had even approached the level of Ultimate Fire.
"What is going on?!"
The Ice Empress's expression changed, her exclamation filled with obvious astonishment.
A trace of shock also flashed in Huo Yuhao's eyes, and he blurted out: "Ultimate transformation, when things reach an extreme, they reverse."
He thought almost instantly of his experience on Devil Island. That time, he had come into contact with the powers of the two God Kings of Destruction and Life, and it was also during that experience that he had learned a Law regarding the essence of attributes.
Once any attribute reaches its extreme, it will transform into its opposite.
When destruction reaches its extreme, life is born; when life condenses to its limit, it also breeds destruction.
By the same token, the Snow Empress's situation at this moment was clearly just like that.
Her being Sealed for many years, her interrupted transformation, and her out-of-control Origin—these factors combined to push her power of extreme cold to the breaking point.
Once that boundary was crossed, the extreme cold was no longer cold, but had transformed into its opposite: Ultimate Fire.
The Snow Empress could not control this power at all now. The Ultimate Fire currently permeating the room was actually fueled by the Snow Empress's own Origin.
If there were no external interference, she would soon be burned to nothingness in this Ultimate Fire.
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