Chapter 575: Ice Empress: "Xue’er, if you and I join forces, we can keep them here!"
Chapter 575: Ice Empress: "Xue’er, if you and I join forces, we can keep them here!"
"Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, why have you trespassed into the Far North?"
"And why bring a human along to injure our Far North kin?"
The Snow Empress’s voice was not loud.
But within that cold and distant tone carried the majestic heavenly might of the entire Far North ice sheet.
The wind and snow came to a complete standstill amidst these few questioning words.
The surrounding air grew cold to the extreme, and even the space itself showed visible distortions to the naked eye.
The pressure of the Far North ruler bore down mercilessly.
Lin Qingmo did not retreat.
Nor did he signal Bi Ji to step forward and negotiate on his behalf.
Instead, he strode forward with his long legs.
Facing the gazes of the two Far North Sovereigns all by himself.
"Your ExcellencySnow Empress."
Lin Qingmo cupped his fists in a salute.
His spine was held straight, and his tone was steady and crisp, without a single shred of stage fright.
"We have come here solely to borrow a path."
"The Far North Core Circle was never on our planned route, let alone any intention to provoke any Soul Beasts of the Far North."
He pointed to the mountain-of-flesh behemoth on the ground.
"As for this Titan Snow Demon King, it was purely a chance encounter."
"Fighting this match was merely because my hands were a bit itchy recently, and I wanted to find someone durable to practice with."
"I exercised restraint and didn’t deal a fatal blow."
Lin Qingmo looked straight into the Snow Empress’s pure and flawless ice-blue eyes.
"If we had truly harbored murderous intent."
"With the lineup on our side, he definitely wouldn’t have lasted until the two of you arrived to rescue him."
The atmosphere plummeted to the freezing point.
The killing intent emanating from the Ice Empress rose wave after wave, and her emerald-green tail stinger flickered with a fatal eerie light.
But the Snow Empress did not issue an attack command.
Since the true Sovereign of the Far North hadn’t spoken, the Ice Empress would endure the urge to leap forward even if she ground her teeth to pieces.
The Snow Empress quietly scrutinized Lin Qingmo for a moment.
This human showed no fear whatsoever in front of a crowd of Ferocious Beasts over "100,000-year" old, and even faintly acted as the backbone of this group of Star Dou Soul Beasts.
She looked away and gazed at the soft emerald figure beside him.
"Injuring my people cannot be brushed aside with just a few lightweight words."
"Emerald Swan, you are the top healing-type Soul Beast of the current era. Can you cure A-Tai’s injuries?"
Bi Ji fell silent for a moment.
She glanced at A-Tai, who was breathing his last on the ground, and gently shook her head. "I can’t cure him."
"An extremely domineering force of destruction is entrenched within his internal meridians."
"My life force simply cannot seep in."
"Forcibly intervening will only cause the two forces to clash violently inside his body."
Bi Ji turned her head sideways, casting her gaze back toward Lin Qingmo.
"Under the vast heavens, I’m afraid he is the only one who can pull A-Tai back from the gates of hell."
"Oh?"
The cold wind of the Far North blew the Snow Empress’s snow-white long hair.
A human.
Beaten the Titan Snow Demon King, who possessed over 200,000 years of cultivation, to the point of being completely unable to fight back.
Yet the Emerald Swan, with over 500,000 years of cultivation, actually admitted with her own mouth that her healing power was inferior to that of a human youth.
This youth probably harbored a heaven-shaking secret.
After listening, Lin Qingmo did not waste a single word of nonsense, nor did he offer any pretense of refusal.
He had never planned to kill the Titan Snow Demon King in the first place.
If he had truly killed one of the three heavenly kings of the Far North, today’s matter would have been completely irreconcilable.
He walked in a few steps right up to the Titan Snow Demon King.
His figure was as tiny as a speck of dust in front of A-Tai, who was like a mountain.
Lin Qingmo raised his right hand, pointing his palm directly at A-Tai.
"Big guy, endure it a bit. It’s going to hurt a little next."
The words were still drifting in the wind.
A wisp of bizarre black-and-red intertwined light oozed out strand by strand from Lin Qingmo’s palm.
The light was as thin as a gossamer thread, yet it carried a destructive aura that made one’s scalp tingle.
The black-and-red threads followed the air, drilling bit by bit into A-Tai’s battered body.
At this moment, all the living beings present sensed that pure-to-the-extreme aura of destruction.
It was a power that seemed capable of completely obliterating everything in the world.
The Ice Empress’s expression changed abruptly, subconsciously taking half a step back.
"This aura..."
Even an existence of her level experienced a violent sense of shivering deep within her soul when coming into contact with the aftermath of that black-and-red airflow.
Immediately following that, an even more astonishing scene appeared.
Lin Qingmo flipped his left hand.
A cluster of emerald halo, so dense it couldn’t be dissolved, blossomed in his left palm.
Pure life force, like a warm current in early spring, covered A-Tai’s wounds without reservation.
One hand of destruction.
One hand of life.
Two extreme forces that should have been incompatible like water and fire flowed freely in Lin Qingmo’s hands.
The black-and-red threads in his right hand precisely extracted the rampaging destructive power inside A-Tai’s body.
Meanwhile, the emerald halo in his left hand continuously injected vitality.
A miracle happened.
The Titan Snow Demon King’s body was regenerating flesh and producing blood at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Its originally weak breath gradually became steady and powerful.
Just over a dozen breaths of time later.
A-Tai let out a low, muffled grunt.
Its mountain-like body heaved violently a few times, and it actually propped itself up with its arms.
The Snow Empress’s ice-blue eyes, which had always been as calm as an ancient well, showed drastic fluctuations for the first time.
A-Tai opened its huge eyes, its vision gradually focusing.
What came into view was none other than the human standing before him—the one who had just personally driven him into the abyss and then pulled him back to the mortal world.
There was no humiliated fury.
Nor any thoughts of revenge.
This Titan Snow Demon King, who roamed freely across the Far North, extremely solemnly lowered its arrogant head.
A huge shadow enveloped Lin Qingmo.
"Thank you for sparing my life," A-Tai’s voice was as deep as rolling thunder.
The Ice Empress, who witnessed all of this from the side, had her pupils sharply constrict.
She knew better than anyone the unyielding pride in A-Tai’s bones.
Even if this big guy died in battle, he would never beg outsiders for pity.
And now, he was actually willingly bowing his head and admitting defeat to a human!
Lin Qingmo flipped his palm, withdrawing the dual-colored light.
He took a step back and said casually, "Rest up properly."
"Next time, keep your eyes open wider and stop crashing straight into my fists."
A-Tai didn’t retort a single word; it only silently lowered its huge head even further.
The Snow Empress quietly watched the scene before her.
The high-position scrutiny in her eyes had completely transformed into a curious examination.
A youthful human.
Accompanied by four Star Dou Divine Beasts of over "100,000-year".
Not only defeated A-Tai with absolute martial force.
But also used this method to make this unruly Far North heavenly king convinced of his defeat.
He was definitely not simple.
"Where are you going?" The Snow Empress spoke again, her voice still cold and detached.
"Our target is a sea area deep within the Far North."
Lin Qingmo answered very crisply.
"We are truly just borrowing a path. Once we finish our business, we will leave very quickly and will never stay a moment longer."
The Snow Empress restrained her gaze, not expressing her stance immediately.
The Ice Empress beside her could no longer hold back, her hurried thoughts directly transmitting into the Snow Empress’s mind.
"Xue’er! Are we really just going to let them pass like this?"
"The power on this human boy is too bizarre; we must never leave a future trouble!"
"If we make a move now, with you and me joining forces, keeping them all here will definitely be no problem!"
(End of Chapter)
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