51: Chapter 51 Awakening the Snow Empress, the Power of Ultimate Ice

Electrolux's words were like a morning bell and an evening drum, instantly snapping Su Chen back to his senses.

The chill coming from the other party wasn't an energy attack at all, but a rule, a concept.

It was the ultimate manifestation of the word "cold."

Going head-to-head with such an existence—how was that any different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot?

"If you can't beat them, join them. I get it."

Su Chen quipped inwardly, and his tense mind relaxed completely.

Since it couldn't be conquered, he would embrace it.

He no longer attempted to use his mental power to resist that extreme cold.

Instead, he proactively opened his Spiritual Sea.

The chill, capable of freezing the soul, rushed in instantly. Su Chen's consciousness felt as if it had been put in slow motion, and his entire thought process became sluggish.

But he endured the discomfort, offering no resistance whatsoever.

Simultaneously, he altered the form of his mental power, transforming it into an extremely gentle, trickling stream.

This stream of mental power carried Su Chen's purest goodwill, without a single trace of stray thought.

He cautiously extended this "stream" back toward the source of the chill.

This time, he encountered no obstacles.

Smoothly, his mental intent once again arrived before the embryonic outline curled up at the core of the seal.

Without forcing himself closer, Su Chen simply let his mental stream surround and brush past it gently, like a cool breeze under the moonlight.

"Hello."

"I mean no harm."

"I'm here to help you."

He didn't make a sound, merely transmitting these simplest, purest thoughts over and over again.

Within the mental stream, there were also traces of Chaos Qi and the newly evolved Five Elements Source Power.

He hoped to use his own source aura to bring a touch of warmth and vitality to the other party.

This was an extremely mentally exhausting process.

Every moment, his mental power was being worn down and frozen by that absolute zero chill.

And he had to continuously supply new mental power, maintaining that call of goodwill.

Time ticked away, second by second.

One hour.

Two hours.

The temperature inside the quiet room had dropped to a terrifying level. Fine frost hung from Su Chen's eyebrows and hair.

His face was as pale as paper, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

His Spiritual Sea was nearly dried up.

He felt his eyelids growing heavier and heavier, and his consciousness began to blur.

A full two and a half hours passed.

Su Chen's mental power had reached the brink of exhaustion.

He felt like a candle about to burn out, liable to be extinguished at any moment.

"Is it... going to end here?"

The moment that thought flashed through his mind...

Buzz...

An almost imperceptible hum, sounding as if it came from another dimension, suddenly rang out.

Within that eternal absolute zero, there seemed to be a slight, different fluctuation.

Immediately following that.

Su Chen saw the embryonic outline, which had remained curled up and unresponsive to the outside world, give an extremely, extremely slight...

Tremble.

It worked!

Su Chen's spirits lifted; he nearly cut off the output of mental power due to his excitement.

However, before his joy could last three seconds...

"Buzz—!"

A chill a hundred times more terrifying than before suddenly erupted from the embryonic outline.

This chill was no longer an unconscious radiation of rules, but carried a piercing, bone-chilling killing intent.

Pfft!

Su Chen felt as if his Spiritual Sea had been violently pierced by countless icicles.

Under the intense pain, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning white instantly.

A cold, haughty intent, like a deity from the highest heavens, boomed in his mind.

"Ant, how dare you pry into this Seat!"

Holy crap!

Su Chen's heart skipped a beat.

This voice was cold and carried a hint of weakness, but that high-and-mighty queenly demeanor was practically etched into its bones.

No mistake, it was definitely the Snow Empress!

Enduring the agonizing pain of his soul being torn, he did not retreat. Instead, he became even more resolute in his intent.

"I can feel your pain... Relax, everything will be alright."

Su Chen transmitted his goodwill once more.

At the same time, he mobilized the extremely weak but incredibly pure Ultimate Ice Soul Power within his body.

This Soul Power was the source power that had evolved when he absorbed the Ice and Fire Dragon King Spirit Bone.

He didn't condense this power into an attack, but instead transformed it into a gentle snowflake, which drifted slowly toward the embryonic outline.

The moment this "snowflake" lightly touched the surface of the embryo...

The violent chill suddenly stalled.

The frost patterns on the embryo's surface seemed to come alive, rapidly contracting.

The cold queenly voice rang out again, but this time, it carried a hint of undisguised surprise and suspicion.

"...A human?"

"To actually have... an aura of the same origin as this Seat?"

Before Su Chen could respond, the embryo's consciousness suddenly became incredibly chaotic.

"Boom—!"

Countless fragmented, frenzied images rushed into Su Chen's Spiritual Sea like a bursting dam.

He saw it.

A boundless ice field was collapsing, and countless ice mountains were turning into dust.

Above the sky, seven incredibly powerful figures formed a battle array, surrounding a silver-haired woman. The light from various soul skills dyed the world in colors.

He saw the ice crystal throne the silver-haired woman sat upon shatter under the siege.

"Three Tribulations of the Snow Empress... Ice Spirit falls... Cultivating anew as a human..."

Under the impact of these images, Su Chen's mental power nearly dissipated on the spot.

But he still managed to capture several key pieces of information.

He understood everything in an instant.

This was the 700,000-year Spirit Beast, the Snow Empress. After failing to break through to the million-year God Rank and undergoing tribulation to cultivate anew, she had transformed into this new body—the Ice Seed!

Just as Su Chen glimpsed this shocking secret...

The Snow Empress's consciousness also sensed his prying.

"Impudent!"

The cold female voice was filled with rage at having her privacy invaded.

On the surface of the embryo, nine layers of incredibly complex ice seal runes suddenly appeared.

Crack!

An irresistible force of extreme cold instantly locked onto Su Chen.

The blood in his body seemed to freeze at this moment, and the circulation of his Soul Power stalled for half a second.

"If you dare transgress again, this Seat will turn you into an ice sculpture to guard the Far North Abyss forever!"

Su Chen trembled all over, a strong sense of crisis making his scalp tingle.

He knew that if he didn't do something, he would really meet his end here today.

Time to go all out!

A look of determination flashed in Su Chen's eyes as he suddenly bit the tip of his tongue.

He didn't use this mouthful of essence blood to attack. Instead, using his finger as a brush and blood as ink, he rapidly drew a profound rune in his Spiritual Sea, drawing on his memories of the original novel from his past life.

That was precisely the main rune of the Ice Heart Sutra that the Heavenly Dream Iceworm had passed to Huo Yuhao in the original story!