56 Absorbing the Ice Empress 2 (1/2)

At this point, the Ice Empress was finally moved. She solemnly asked, ”How confident are you?”

Tian Meng replied, ”By myself, 1000%. Moreover, he was someone which reincarnated from another world…”

Ryu was shocked ”So this Tian Meng could read my mind”

”My beloved, Now what is your choice?”

”Do I have any other choice?” The Ice Empress replied in an indifferent tone. Despite her tone, however, her dense killing intent and chilliness had already decreased by a large amount. She was clearly trying to reach a compromise. Although she'd have to give up her freedom in for this chance at achieving immortality, living was still much better than dying—especially to a spirit beast like her, who'd already lived for nearly four hundred thousand years.

Tian Meng let out a large sigh of relief. ”It's no wonder that you're the Bingbing I love the most. In the future, you'll definitely be delighted by the choice you've made today.”

The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion angrily replied, ”Tian Meng, if a piece of trash like you dares to take advantage of this old woman, I'll see to it that you two follow each other to the grave, even if it means risking my life to do so. I don't believe that I won't be able to destroy this cage of yours if I self-destruct. If that happens, you two will have no choice but to accompany me to my death. I'm fine with creating a God with you, but I have a request: Don't speak so much bullshit.”

”Err… you don't have to be this merciless. I really came here just for you….”

The Ice Empress looked at him coldly but remained silent.

”Alright fine, I agree. Release your spiritual origin for me. You can't just hope that I'll release you like this. That temper of yours doesn't reassure anyone.”

Even though the Skydream Iceworm had been shooting his mouth off, he was still an extremely careful person. The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's strength ranked her second in the entire Extreme North—how could releasing her be an option? The risks were too high if he did that. At the same time, Tian Meng wasn't worried about her self-destructing as she'd mentioned earlier. A spirit beast would almost always choose the path of survival, so long as there was even a trace of a chance that they would.

A trace of hesitation appeared in the Ice Empress' eyes. The second she released her spiritual origin, with the disparity in spiritual power between her and the Skydream Iceworm, there would be no way for her to back out. If the Skydream Iceworm was lying to her, she'd have no hope of turning the tables.

When he saw the doubt in her eyes, Tian Meng solemnly said, ”Almighty Ice God, I, Tian Meng, the Skydream Iceworm, vow on the name of Ice that I shall be stripped of all my Ice if I lie to the Ice Empress and don't help her become an intelligent spirit ring once she releases her spiritual origin.”

This vow didn't seem to hold much meaning to Ryu, but the Ice Empress didn't have the same view; in the Extreme North, this was the most important vow a spirit beast could make.

”Fine, I believe you.” As someone who had become one of the Extreme North's Three Emperors, the Ice Empress was capable of killing without sparing a second thought. After hesitating for a brief moment, she decided. After all, the current Tian Meng had already lost his body. Besides, it was just like he'd said: It wasn't an impossibility for her to be reborn from the ashes. Furthermore, she'd always known that Tian Meng liked her. After considering several factors, she finally confirmed her decision.

Her crystalline yellow pupils gradually turned jade-green, while her long, jade-green tail suddenly rose into the air. This was something that she was only able to do after the Skydream Iceworm had loosened her bindings.

A soft, jade-green halo began to undulate from the root of her tail, then moved backward and gathered at the tip of her tail. In a flash of jade-green light, small, jade-green balls of light began to separate from one another as they slowly rising into the air. At the same time, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's eyes immediately lost their luster and dimmed.

This was her spiritual origin.

Even though the process of releasing one's spiritual origin seemed simple, not just any spirit beast could do it. Only when a spirit beast broke through their limits and reaching the hundred thousand year rank could they do such a thing. Of course, it naturally didn't pose any problems to unrivaled experts such as the Skydream Iceworm and the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.

After letting out a large sigh of relief, Tian Meng's own golden ball of light immediately glided forward and glued itself to his shedding skin. The golden light increased in size the instant the jade-green ball of light made contact with it as it swallowed the jade-green ball of light like a whale swallowing its food. After swallowing the jade-green ball of light, it returned to Ryu's body and re-entered it via his forehead. Afterward, Tian Meng's shedding skin rapidly retreated back into Ryu's semi-frozen body.

After losing her spiritual origin, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion's main body fell to the ground. With her spiritual origin no longer control it, her body immediately began to release an extremely terrifying amount of murderous might, while a jade-green luster simultaneously appeared in the sky. It could be imagined how terrifying the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion was from this.

”I'll introduce you two. Ryu, this is Bingbing. Er… I meant to say Ice Empress. Anyway, this is the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion who is the second-ranked Empress of the Extreme North's Three Emperors. Ice Empress, this is Uchiha Ryu”

”Hello, Ice Empress,” Ryu said

The Ice Empress hesitated for a moment, then said, ”Hello. I hope that you'll be able to persevere through this process. If you can't, all of our efforts will have been for naught, and we'll all have to face the consequences.”

The Ice Empress said to Tian Meng ”Since I'm going to become an intelligent spirit ring, I want to transfer as much of my strength as possible to him.”

Tian Meng said, ”Are you saying that you want to transfer your bone, your spirit, then your ring last?”

The Ice Empress nodded.