155: Chapter 155: Are you threatening me?!

After Snow Empress finished her account, she looked at the silent Di Tian, her icy blue eyes filled with inquiry.

Di Tian pondered for a long time, seemingly digesting the massive amount of information and weighing something.

Finally, he spoke slowly, his voice regaining its previous composure:

"I am indeed unaware of this matter. The Lord does not awaken easily, and even if She does awaken, Her whereabouts are uncertain. She does not inform me of everything She does or where She goes. However, based on your description, that silver-haired woman is almost certainly the Lord. As for that human youth..."

He paused, looking at Snow Empress. His tone carried a hint of admonition and an undeniable sense of authority:

"Since he was taken away by the Lord, his fate is no longer under your control or mine, nor even his own. Snow Empress, I advise you to return. Just wait patiently for news. If the Lord has no intention of harming him, he will naturally be safe. Conversely... if the Lord is determined to do something, then it doesn't matter who comes. You, me, it is all the same."

Di Tian's words were calm, yet they revealed a sense of awe and trust in the absolute power of the Silver Dragon King, also implying that Lu Jing's life and death were beyond the intervention of anyone at their level.

However, upon hearing this, Snow Empress narrowed her beautiful icy blue eyes slightly, and the cold aura around her seemed to become a bit more piercing.

She looked at Di Tian and said slowly, her voice still calm but every word clear, carrying a weight that could not be ignored:

"Di Tian, there is something you may not know yet."

"The youth taken away by the Lord is named Lu Jing. He is the successor of the God of Destruction. And the wife he has chosen, Wang Donger, is the successor chosen by the Sea God; she has now passed the Seven Tests of the Sea God and holds the Sea God Trident."

"Now, the traces of the Lord's awakening have been exposed, and She has taken away the successors of two Divinities. Do you think this matter can still be easily covered up? If this information becomes known to the Divinities behind them, or even... transmitted back to the Divine Realm, Di Tian, have you considered what serious consequences this will trigger?"

Snow Empress's words exploded in Di Tian's ears like a thunderclap!

The composure on his face vanished instantly, his pupils constricted in his golden eyes, and a flash of undisguisable shock and solemnity suddenly appeared!

God of Destruction?

Sea God?

And the one the Lord took away is the successor of that hot-tempered God of Destruction?

This... this is a huge problem!

The Divine Realm is already extremely sensitive to the Lord's existence, and the aftermath of the Dragon God War has yet to settle.

Now that the Lord has just awakened, She has rashly taken away a successor to a God King. This is simply... voluntarily handing a handle to the Divine Realm!

If it attracts the attention of the Divine Realm, or even causes Divinities to descend to investigate, not only will the Lord be in trouble, but their entire Soul Beast Clan will face annihilation!

"Are... are you threatening me?"

Thinking of this, Di Tian's voice turned cold. A faint dark golden dragon aura began to rise around him, and his golden eyes, sharp as knives, locked onto Snow Empress.

He thought Snow Empress was using the power of the Divine Realm to pressure him.

Snow Empress shook her head gently, her stunningly beautiful face still expressionless, her tone indifferent but firm:

"I am not threatening you, Di Tian. I am merely stating a fact that is about to happen, or may have already happened. As for my stance..."

She lifted her chin slightly, a trace of arrogance and detachment flashing in her icy blue eyes:

"I, Snow Empress, was born in the Far North and raised in ice and snow. If it concerns the overall survival of the Soul Beast Clan, I will naturally stand on the side of my kin. But Lu Jing, he saved my life, helped me break through, and we have spent years together. Compared to the so-called Lord's orders, I care more about his life and death. I came here today not as a Spirit Beast ruler, but as a friend of Lu Jing. Remember, Di Tian, not all Spirit Beasts are like you, treating the Lord's will as supreme and unquestionable law. At least, I, Snow Empress, am not."

Her words clearly defined her stance and bottom line.

In her heart, kindness and personal friendship are sometimes more important than that ethereal righteousness and the order of the common ruler.

After all, from beginning to end, except for that one time in the Sunset Forest, she had never met the other party face-to-face again.

Since that is the case, what does this so-called common ruler have to do with her?

After speaking, Snow Empress stopped looking at Di Tian's changing expression and simply added calmly:

"I will wait for you here. I hope you can communicate with the Lord as soon as possible, or give me a clear answer. I believe that at this moment, the successor on Sea God Island is already trying to communicate with the Sea God, or even... contacting the God of Destruction. Time waits for no one."

Di Tian stared fixedly at Snow Empress. In those golden dragon eyes, the light flickered violently; anger, fear, weighing of options, worry... various emotions intertwined.

Snow Empress's words were like cold needles pricking at his heart.

He had to admit that what Snow Empress said was the truth, and a truth that was extremely dangerous and could trigger a monstrous disaster!

Silence, like tangible pressure, permeated the shore of the Lake of Life.

Even the suppressed Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape felt this suffocating atmosphere and dared not breathe loudly.

What common ruler, what Di Tian, what Snow Empress, what God of Destruction and Sea God, what on earth are they talking about?

Also, wasn't it said that Spirit Beasts with one hundred thousand years of cultivation were already the top in this World?

Since that is the case, what is this situation?

For a long time, the light in Di Tian's eyes finally calmed down slowly, regaining that bottomless composure, but beneath that composure, monstrous waves were being suppressed.

He looked deeply at Snow Empress, his gaze complex and difficult to decipher.

Finally, he said nothing more, just snorted coldly, his figure flickered, and the surrounding space rippled again.

His figure, like ink dissolving in water, slowly faded until it completely disappeared from the spot, leaving only a faint trace of dragon aura in the air, and Snow Empress's words "Time waits for no one" still echoing faintly by the lake.

He needed to confirm, communicate, and deal with this sudden variable that could affect the fate of the entire Soul Beast Clan immediately!

Snow Empress stood quietly in place, looking in the direction where Di Tian disappeared, with deep worry hidden beneath the calm in her icy blue eyes.

She knew that she had done and said everything she could to the limit.

Next, she could only wait.

Waiting for Di Tian's reply, waiting for... the final news and fate of the youth who was taken away.

The night remained deep.

The water of the Lake of Life flowed silently, as if it had not changed since ancient times, existing eternally, nurturing all things.