81: Chapter 81: No one knows better than me, because I come from ten thousand years in the future.

Looking at the beautiful and majestic figure in mid-air, Lu Jing froze in place, his heart filled with disbelief.

"Hey buddy, are you kidding me? We just took the Ice Empress out not long ago, and the Snow Empress actually chased us down?"

"That speed is too fast!"

Subconsciously, he asked urgently in his mind: "Tian Meng, what do we do? With this aura from the Snow Empress, won't she just crush us both to death?"

In the mental sea, the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm fell into silence, its chubby body tense, clearly caught off guard by this sudden turn of events.

The Snow Empress's strength far exceeded the Ice Empress's, and with the support of the Far North as her home turf, the Mental Energy he prided himself on couldn't even suppress her, let alone get Lu Jing and the Ice Empress out safely.

Just as the cold intent gathered by the Snow Empress was about to erupt, Tian Meng finally spoke, his voice coming through Lu Jing's mouth, carrying a hint of imperceptible tension: "Snow Empress, it's me, Tian Meng."

Hearing this name, the Snow Empress in mid-air stopped abruptly.

The beautiful face, originally filled with anger and killing intent, was instantly replaced by deep confusion.

She slowly retracted the cold air around her, a trace of scrutiny flashing in her ice-blue eyes: "Who? Tian Meng?"

This voice... it indeed had some traces of the Tian Meng Ice Silkworm, but the person in front of her was clearly a strange human boy.

The Snow Empress spun gently, her snow-white skirt like a blooming ice flower, landing elegantly a few meters in front of Lu Jing.

The ice layer under her feet didn't ripple in the slightest, as if she had always been one with this ice field.

She looked Lu Jing up and down, her tone carrying a bit of uncertainty: "How did you become like this?"

Tian Meng sighed helplessly through Lu Jing's body: "I didn't want to be like this either, but my luck was too bad. I was caught by someone a few years ago and used as a power bank to extract my power. I only just escaped a few years ago, and I can only survive by attaching myself to him."

"Power bank?" The Snow Empress and the Ice Empress were both stunned for a moment; clearly, they hadn't heard this term before, but combining it with the context, they roughly guessed it meant being imprisoned and exploited.

The Ice Empress's face, which had been full of anger, was instantly filled with curiosity, even forgetting most of her dissatisfaction with being restrained, unable to help but prick up her ears.

The Tian Meng Ice Silkworm was a notorious "old slick," yet it actually stumbled? This was news.

The Snow Empress's curiosity was also piqued, but she was, after all, the ruler of the Far North, and she quickly collected her expression, her gaze becoming sharp again: "Since you just escaped, why aren't you hiding properly, but instead ran to the Far North to abduct the Ice Empress? What exactly do you want to do?"

Tian Meng knew that trying to hide it now would be useless, so he simply confessed: "I brought him here today because I want the Ice Empress to offer a sacrifice to him."

As soon as these words came out, the Ice Empress exploded: "Are you crazy! I, a dignified King of the Far North, why should I offer a sacrifice to a human brat?"

The Snow Empress also frowned, clearly not agreeing with this proposal.

Tian Meng ignored the Ice Empress's anger and continued: "Only in this way can the Ice Empress avoid falling under the four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, and be able to ascend to godhood with him at the fastest speed, gaining true eternal life."

"Eternal life?"

Hearing this, the Snow Empress narrowed her beautiful eyes, her tone carrying scrutiny as she questioned: "Why do you think that offering a sacrifice to him can lead to eternal life? Even if a human Spirit Master has great talent, it is already a fantasy to be able to bear the spirit ring power of the Ice Empress's nearly four-hundred-thousand years, let alone take her to become a god."

"Because he has already obtained a God Position inheritance."

Tian Meng's voice was extremely serious as he explained: "As long as he passes the final test, he can officially inherit the God Position. And during this period, he needs absolutely powerful strength as support. After all, you should know the danger of God Position inheritance; a slight carelessness leads to being scattered and destroyed. The Ice Empress's power can help him, and after he becomes a god, he can naturally take the Ice Empress to ascend to the Divine Realm together, escaping the shackles of this Douluo Continent."

The Snow Empress fell silent, light flowing in her ice-blue eyes, clearly weighing the credibility of Tian Meng's words.

She had lived for nearly seven hundred thousand years and knew the terror of the heavenly tribulation better than anyone, and understood even more what eternal life meant for a Spirit Beast.

But to let the Ice Empress offer a sacrifice to a human... this was simply too absurd.

"Release the Ice Empress first." The Snow Empress ultimately did not express her stance immediately, only saying to Tian Meng.

Tian Meng hesitated for a moment, looked at Lu Jing, and seeing that he didn't object, he withdrew the Mental Energy that was restraining the Ice Empress.

Having regained her freedom, the Ice Empress immediately took a few steps back, widening the distance from Lu Jing, and then glared at Tian Meng: "Even if what you said is true, why do you think I can't survive the four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation? There are still over ten thousand years left, enough for me to prepare!"

The Snow Empress also nodded, agreeing with the Ice Empress's statement: "That's right. With over ten thousand years, there are too many variables; it's not necessarily impossible to survive the heavenly tribulation."

Tian Meng suddenly sneered, his tone carrying a certainty that saw through everything: "There is no such possibility, and no one knows better than me what will happen in the future, not even you, Ice Empress and Snow Empress, because I come from the World ten thousand years later."

"What?!"

This sentence exploded over the ice field like thunder.

The anger on the Ice Empress's face instantly froze, her mouth slightly agape, her eyes filled with disbelief.

The Snow Empress also suddenly raised her head, a look of horror appearing in her ice-blue eyes for the first time, her gaze toward Lu Jing filled with shock.

From the future?

The World ten thousand years later?

This was even more absurd than Tian Meng asking the Ice Empress to offer a sacrifice to a human!

Although the lifespan of a Spirit Beast is long, they had never heard of anyone being able to cross the boundaries of time and return from ten thousand years later.

Time—that is a Domain that even a Divinity can hardly fully control!

"You... you say you come from ten thousand years later?" The Snow Empress's voice carried a hint of imperceptible trembling, clearly heavily impacted by this information.

The Ice Empress also came back to her senses and shook her head repeatedly: "Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! How can time be reversed? You must have been driven crazy by that power bank experience!"

Tian Meng did not get angry, but said calmly: "I know this is hard for people to believe, but that is the fact. Not only me, but two other humans have also come to this era, and one of them is him."

It looked at the Ice Empress, its tone carrying a bit of complexity: "Although you hadn't started your tribulation before we traveled through time, I have absolute certainty that you will not pass it."

Once these words were spoken, the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress fell into silence again.

Tian Meng's tone was too certain; it didn't sound like a fabricated lie.

Moreover, the details of the heavenly tribulation it mentioned were something only they knew—the Ice Empress was indeed unsure about the four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, and the Snow Empress could also vaguely sense that there was a great tribulation concerning the survival of Spirit Beasts in the future.

Could it be... that what Tian Meng said was true?

The snow and wind were still howling on the ice field, but it seemed to be frozen by this sudden secret, becoming exceptionally quiet.

Lu Jing stood in place, watching the two Far North overlords whose expressions were changing, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

He didn't expect Tian Meng to drop the bombshell of "coming from the future"; this was undoubtedly a gamble—gambling that the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress would believe this almost fantastic claim.

And the result of this gamble would directly determine whether they could persuade the Ice Empress, and even... whether they could leave unscathed in front of the Snow Empress.

The Snow Empress took a deep breath, suppressing the turmoil in her heart, her ice-blue eyes becoming deep again: "You say you come from ten thousand years later, do you have any proof?"

Tian Meng knew the critical moment had arrived.