84: Chapter 84: Hyotei and the Heavenly Dream Sacrifice from Ten Thousand Years Ago

The air inside the ice cave gradually became heavy; the dim blue light emitted by the Myriad-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow was like a flickering flame, reflecting on everyone's faces.

Snow Empress stood quietly to the side, her ice-blue eyes devoid of any ripples, yet she invisibly controlled the rhythm of the entire ice cave.

"Begin." Ice Empress took a deep breath, stepped forward, and a rich blood-red light instantly surged around her body.

That light was like a burning flame, outlining her exquisite figure, and also releasing the majestic pressure of a nearly 400,000-year-old Spirit Beast.

Her emerald-green long hair moved without wind, and the gaze she cast upon Lu Jing carried determination, as well as a trace of expectation for the future.

"With my soul, I offer it to the inheritor. With my body, I forge the foundation of a Divinity!"

Ice Empress's voice was crisp and solemn, echoing throughout the ice cave.

Following her words, the blood-red light suddenly surged, completely enveloping her body, turning into a brilliant pillar of light that shot into the sky, then plunged downwards, submerging into Lu Jing's body.

Lu Jing only felt an extreme freezing power surge into his limbs and bones, as if it wanted to freeze his blood, but it was instantly neutralized by the destructive aura emitted by the World-Destroying Black Lotus.

Immediately after, a spine Spirit Bone, emerald-green throughout but covered with Emperor Scorpion tail patterns, emerged from the pillar of light and precisely fused into his spine.

"Hum—"

The moment the Spirit Bone entered his body, a dragon roar seemed to resound within Lu Jing.

He could clearly feel that the seed of his second Spirit had been thoroughly activated, and the unique dominance and agility of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion awakened within his sea of Mental Energy.

"Second Spirit... Ice Jade Empress Scorpion!" Lu Jing was shocked, feeling the ice-attribute energy that was completely different from the World-Destroying Black Lotus, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Tian Meng in the sea of Mental Energy immediately took action, its chubby body releasing soft Mental Energy like a gentle stream of water, guiding the power of Ice Empress's sacrifice to circulate within Lu Jing's body, avoiding a conflict between the two powerful forces.

In the center of the ice cave, Ice Empress's figure gradually became transparent within the blood-red light, finally dissipating completely, leaving only a red spirit ring radiating terrifying energy hovering above Lu Jing's head, slowly rotating.

Tian Meng from ten thousand years ago watched this scene, shrank its neck, but did not shout anymore.

It knew, it was its turn.

It turned to look at Snow Empress to the side, and seeing that she remained silent, it couldn't help but ask: "Snow Empress, what are you planning? Could it be... you also want to sacrifice yourself?"

Snow Empress heard this, her willow eyebrows slightly furrowed, and she still didn't answer, only letting her gaze fall on Lu Jing, seemingly observing something.

Tian Meng curled its lips, feeling a bit bored, and muttered: "If you don't want to say it, then don't. As if anyone cares to know."

Just at this moment, the red spirit ring above Lu Jing's head began to slowly descend, merging with the spirit ring sequence at his feet.

Tian Meng in the sea of Mental Energy guided with all its might, ensuring the spirit ring energy was perfectly absorbed.

Lu Jing's aura climbed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the bottleneck of his Soul Power level was easily broken through as if it were made of paper.

"It's my turn!" Tian Meng from ten thousand years ago took a deep breath, its chubby body also surging with blood-red light.

It was not as solemn as Ice Empress, but instead wore a somewhat cheeky smile: "Remember, when you become a Divinity, don't forget to resurrect me. By then, I will be more powerful than Ice Empress!"

Before its voice had faded, the blood-red pillar of light it had turned into also rushed into Lu Jing's body.

Almost at the same time, the ice cave began to tremble violently.

The energy of Tian Meng, a Spirit Beast of nearly a million years, was too vast; the ice layers of the entire ice cave were cracking, as if they might collapse at any moment.

Snow Empress's eyes narrowed, and she finally made a move.

She lightly raised her jade hand, and a vast power of extreme cold spread out; wherever it passed, the trembling ice layers instantly solidified, and even the energy fluctuations in the air were frozen.

The entire ice cave seemed to be enveloped in an invisible ice cover, steady and secure, without any more shaking.

Her gaze inadvertently swept over Lu Jing's head, and her pupils slightly contracted.

She saw a jet-black lotus flower slowly rotating, which was exactly Lu Jing's first Spirit—the World-Destroying Black Lotus.

A thick aura of destruction lingered above the lotus flower; that aura was overbearing and pure, as if it could devour all laws, and even her power of extreme cold had to retreat three points.

"What kind of Spirit is this?" Snow Empress's heart was stirred with stormy waves.

She had lived for nearly seven hundred thousand years and had never seen such a terrifying Spirit.

It was not that she had never come into contact with the power of the destruction attribute, but the aura on the World-Destroying Black Lotus had already exceeded the legal boundaries of the Douluo Continent, carrying a kind of... pressure from the Divine Realm or even a higher dimension.

"No wonder it could travel through time and space..." Snow Empress was lost in thought.

Such terrifying destructive power might truly be able to tear through the barriers of time and space. It seems that this Lu Jing's origin is even more extraordinary than she had imagined.

Time passed slowly during the sacrifice.

Snow Empress consistently maintained the ice cover, her gaze falling on the World-Destroying Black Lotus from time to time, the curiosity in her eyes growing stronger and stronger. Tian Meng in the sea of Mental Energy cooperated with Lu Jing, continuously absorbing and fusing the two vast Spirit Beast energies.

Seven days later.

The trembling inside the ice cave completely subsided, and the blood-red light gradually dissipated.

Lu Jing slowly opened his eyes, a flash of sharpness in his pupils.

He stood up from the ground, feeling the unprecedented powerful force within his body, and couldn't help but clench his fist.

The spirit ring sequence at his feet had already been updated; red, black, black, black, black, red—six spirit rings radiated brilliant light, declaring his strength as a level 66 Spirit Emperor!

"Success." Lu Jing thought silently, then with a movement of his mind, the World-Destroying Black Lotus above his head slowly dissipated.

Immediately after, he released his second Spirit.

Ice-blue light shone, and a giant scorpion covered in ice crystal armor with a tail hook flickering with green light appeared behind him.

The true form of the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion floated in mid-air, exuding an aura of ruling the world, and its tail was also surrounded by a red spirit ring—it was precisely the 100,000-year spirit ring sacrificed by Ice Empress.

"Ice Jade Empress Scorpion..." Lu Jing felt the power brought by his second Spirit, his eyes full of shock.

The sacrifice of Ice Empress and Tian Meng was ultimately not in vain.

Although it could not compare to the World-Destroying Black Lotus, one of the four great lotus platforms, the trip to Sea God Island could still be very useful.

Snow Empress looked at the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion behind him, then looked at the spirit rings at his feet, and a trace of fluctuation finally appeared in her ice-blue eyes.

She walked forward, her tone calm but carrying a trace of solemnity: "The sacrifice is complete. What do you plan to do next?"

Lu Jing retracted his Spirit, his gaze firm: "Go to Sea God Island."

"Sea God Island?"

Hearing this place name, Snow Empress was slightly stunned, searched her mind for a while, and after discovering she had never heard this name, asked: "Is it the inheritance place of a Divinity?"

Lu Jing nodded, and after admitting it, he explained: "Correct, it is indeed the inheritance place of a Divinity, but it is not my inheritance place."