53: Chapter 53 The Contract is Activated, Reshaping the Snow Empress's Origin

The entire spiritual world fell silent.

Su Chen also stopped speaking, simply waiting in silence.

He knew that everything he could and should have said had already been spoken.

All that remained was to see the Snow Empress's choice.

The Snow Empress's consciousness was currently being swept by tempestuous waves.

Soul resonance? Life reshaping?

Each of these terms was like a heavy hammer, slamming ruthlessly against the ancient perceptions she had formed over seven hundred thousand years.

What on earth is this?

It was simply unheard of and unseen.

She, the dignified Snow Empress, the supreme ruler of the Extreme North Land, when did she ever need to rely on a green human boy to survive?

Her dignity would not allow her to bow her head.

But... that warmth from the Chaos Qi and the vitality contained within that contract were like a beam of light, shining into the dark abyss where she was about to face eternal silence.

Should she hold onto her lofty pride and perish completely?

Or should she lower herself to grasp what might be her only chance?

"Cultivating anew as a human... exploring the realm of gods..."

Su Chen's words were like a devil's whisper, constantly circling in her mind.

The temptation was too great.

So great that even she, an existence who had lived for seven hundred thousand years, could not keep her heart frozen.

But the unknown also represented immense risk.

What if this boy was lying to her?

What if this contract was a trap that would ultimately turn her into a complete slave, causing her to lose herself?

This internal tug-of-war made her soul origin flicker, becoming extremely unstable.

Su Chen could clearly feel her struggle.

But he did not rush her, merely releasing his goodwill and sincerity without reservation.

A long, long time passed.

A sigh that seemed to span across eons softly echoed within Su Chen's sea of consciousness.

In that sigh, there was relief and helplessness, but more so, a desperate resolve to burn her bridges.

"Forget it..."

The Snow Empress's weak but clear thought came through again.

"Anyway, I've already reached the end of my rope. How much worse could it get?"

"I have never gambled in my life."

"This time, I will bet everything and trust you once!"

As her voice fell, that tiny embryo suddenly erupted with a brilliant ice-blue radiance.

"I, the Snow Empress, swear upon my seven hundred thousand years of cultivation and soul origin!"

Her voice was solemn and sacred, echoing within the mental connection between the two.

"I am willing to form a 'Soul Spirit Symbiotic Contract' with Su Chen!"

"To share life and death, to walk together through honor and disgrace!"

Su Chen's eyes burned brightly, his expression solemn, as he responded without hesitation.

"I, Su Chen, accept this contract!"

Boom!

The moment both sides confirmed, the contract scroll—woven from purple-gold Chaos Runes and profound Necromantic Runes—instantly exploded with endless light.

The scroll seemed to come alive, transforming into two bands of light, one purple-gold and one ice-blue.

Following a mysterious trajectory, they respectively wound around the soul origins of Su Chen and the Snow Empress.

"Chaos as the guide, a shared soul contract!"

"Extreme Ice as the witness, never to be parted!"

A grand voice, as if from the source of the Great Dao, sounded simultaneously in the depths of their souls.

Su Chen only felt as if his soul had been cast into a warm furnace.

An unprecedentedly close connection was established between him and the Snow Empress.

He could feel the Snow Empress's weakness, her aloofness, and her resolve.

Similarly, the Snow Empress felt Su Chen's steadfastness, his optimism, and that unique soul characteristic that had traveled through time and space.

The contract scroll rotated slowly, eventually transforming into two identical imprints.

One was branded onto Su Chen's soul origin, while the other merged into the embryo that the Snow Empress had become.

At the moment the contract was established, a surge of majestic and pure Chaos Qi flowed unhindered through the contract's connection into the Snow Empress's origin.

The embryo, which was originally on the verge of collapse, was instantly enveloped by the purple-gold airflow; the chaotic energy was quickly sorted out, and the rapidly dissipating origin power miraculously stabilized.

Just as Su Chen thought everything had settled.

An old and indifferent voice abruptly rang out in his Spiritual Sea.

"Kid, don't be happy too soon."

"My power is the true insurance for this contract."

Before his voice even faded, the soul phantom of Electrolux, which had been quietly floating above Su Chen's sea of consciousness, suddenly opened its eyes.

Boom!

A grey-white light, utterly indescribable in words, erupted from his aged body.

That light was neither holy nor evil, yet it carried a supreme majesty that saw through life and death and presided over reincarnation.

Following that, countless Necromantic Runes, even more ancient and obscure than the Chaos Runes, surged out from Electrolux's phantom like a floodgate opening.

Each rune seemed like a silent world, containing the ultimate profound meanings of soul immortality and the cycle of life and death.

"This is... Elder Yi's power!"

Su Chen was startled.

This torrent of grey-white Necromantic Runes did not pause for a moment, directly penetrating Su Chen's spiritual barriers.

With an unstoppable momentum, it was also injected into the contract scroll constructed from the powers of Chaos and Extreme Ice!

If Su Chen's Chaos Runes were the "skeleton" of the contract.

Then Electrolux's Necromantic Runes were like agile and resilient chains.

They did not destroy the original structure but instead, in an inconceivable way—

Precisely wound around every purple-gold chaos line and every wisp of ice-blue radiance.

Three completely different powers actually merged perfectly at this moment.

The purple-gold Chaos represented "Life."

The ice-blue Extreme Ice represented "Silence."

And the grey-white necromantic power represented the "Soul" that spanned across life and silence!

"In my name, I construct a guardian of the soul's true spirit for you!"

Electrolux's voice was grand and solemn.

Those chains of Necromantic Runes quickly wove together, eventually forming an extremely stable guardian passage at the core of the contract, constructed by the three powers.

This passage directly connected the deepest soul origins of Su Chen and the Snow Empress.

With it, even if they encountered attacks capable of destroying the soul in the future.

They could provide the final protection for each other through this passage, and could even instantly transfer their true spirits to preserve a glimmer of life.

Feeling this rock-solid protection, Su Chen had only one thought in his mind.

Good heavens.

With Chaos Qi as the foundation, the Snow Empress's origin as the link, and finally, the Scourge of the Undead as insurance.

This move was like taking out three top-tier insurance policies; it couldn't be more stable.

The power of the contract settled.

The energy fluctuations within the entire Quiet Room also gradually subsided.

Before Su Chen could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw the origin light cluster in front of him, enveloped by Chaos Qi and necromantic power, beginning a new transformation.