125: Chapter 125 The Snow Empress's Pursuit: Does She Love Sweets?

Su Ling thought it was normal for the System to detect a human goddess, but could a Spirit Beast also be a goddess?

Although the Snow Empress's form looked no different from a human, she was actually a Spirit Beast.

"System, how am I supposed to interact with a goddess like this in the future?"

"Will she suddenly turn into her Spirit Beast form while we're interacting?"

Just as he was thinking about this, the temperature in this space dropped rapidly, and a woman appeared before Su Ling.

At first, Su Ling thought about using Teleportation to escape, but since she had already come, it was a bit dangerous, but he still wanted to take a risk and see what the Snow Empress looked like.

Sure enough, the Snow Empress before his eyes did not disappoint him; she had the appearance of a human, and perhaps only a human Spirit Master of the Titled Douluo Rank could tell that she was a Spirit Beast.

Goddess Comprehensive Value: 99. Su Ling felt it fit this value just by taking one look.

She had long, snow-white hair cascading down, and her eyes were ice-blue, looking ethereal and transparent, as if she could see through everything in the World.

Her figure was slender and flawless, and she was wearing a simple white dress without much decoration.

Stunning, noble, with an icy, frosty temperament, she gave people the feeling of being someone to be admired from afar but not to be profaned, yet she also stirred a desire to conquer.

"Human, you were actually able to find this place. Leave immediately, otherwise, die!" The Snow Empress looked at Su Ling coldly.

Favorability was still -10. Not attacking immediately was already quite good.

At this moment, the Snow Empress looked like she didn't want to be disturbed, giving off an unapproachable feeling.

Su Ling said: "You must be the Snow Empress, right? I think we can talk."

The Snow Empress said: "Leave quickly!"

It seemed the Snow Empress didn't want to say a single word more, so Su Ling could only turn and leave, thinking to himself that this Snow Empress was not easy to deal with.

If he were to fight her now, although Su Ling could be immune to the ice attribute, he definitely wouldn't be able to beat the current Snow Empress in this Extreme North.

The Snow Empress was not yet 700,000 years old at this time; her age should be around 600,000 years.

Unable to communicate with the Snow Empress, Su Ling could only walk out of the ice cave immediately.

But just as Su Ling flew out, he sensed that the Snow Empress behind him seemed to be chasing him, and she was very fast.

When she was less than a hundred meters away from Su Ling, she waved her hand, sending several ice cones toward him.

Su Ling sensed the situation behind him, and while moving, he used the Carefree Metamorphosis movement technique, accurately dodging the several ice pillars.

"Snow Empress, didn't you say you would let me go and let me leave? Why are you attacking me again?" Su Ling asked back.

"You know my identity, and you know about that place just now. It would be very troublesome if I let you go." The Snow Empress said.

Listening to her words, she must have suffered at the hands of human Spirit Masters. After all, she had lived for so many tens of thousands of years; it was impossible that she hadn't had contact with humans.

Secondly, according to the content Su Ling read in novels in his past life, as well as the speculations of many book friends, the Snow Empress should have been to the human World as well.

From this point of view, it should be correct.

Su Ling was speechless. How could a white treasure chest cause such a big mess?

"Snow Empress, don't worry, I won't tell anyone." Su Ling said.

But the Snow Empress did not give up at all, waving her hand and sending several more ice cones toward Su Ling.

Under Su Ling's Carefree Metamorphosis movement technique, the Snow Empress's attacks had no effect at all.

Su Ling had no choice but to flee quickly. The Snow Empress had no intention of letting him go, but she didn't use any major Moves.

She only used ordinary attack Moves, either using ice cones or unleashing a wave of Soul Power to freeze him.

However, these Moves were useless against Su Ling.

But the Snow Empress wasn't getting serious yet, so Su Ling could escape for a while. As for the Snow Empress, she kept a distance of forty or fifty meters from Su Ling.

Su Ling's speed was fast enough, almost the limit of using Carefree Metamorphosis in this state.

Unable to shake off the Snow Empress, Su Ling increased his speed again, activating the second speed-boosting skill brought to him by Bai Chenxiang.

The first was an arrow speed boost, and the second was a 30% speed boost for himself.

His speed increased in an instant.

The Snow Empress, who was chasing behind him, was stunned and said with a smile: "To think you could have such speed. Interesting."

[Ding... Snow Empress favorability +3]

Su Ling: ...

This damn thing could actually increase favorability, and it didn't even add a treasure chest when the favorability was negative.

In my current situation, am I not the Snow Empress's prey?

Could it be that chasing prey really gives her pleasure?

While chasing Su Ling, the Snow Empress would occasionally send ice cones, ice balls, and other attacks at him, and sometimes ice spikes would even suddenly emerge from the ground.

Fortunately, Su Ling's movement technique was superb, and he dodged the Snow Empress's various attacks time and time again.

Perhaps the Snow Empress felt it was boring to continue like this, so the various attacks began to intensify, and her speed became faster.

She was probably trying to say that if Su Ling couldn't go any faster, she would end the chase.

Playing with me, are you?

Su Ling then activated his skills again. This time it was Ning Rongrong's Support skill to increase speed, but it was only 50% of what Ning Rongrong was currently using.

Converted, Su Ling's speed increased by another 30%.

The Snow Empress saw this and said: "Oh? You sped up again."

However, the next moment, Su Ling used the skill — Shadow Clone.

Su Ling created a Clone, and then ran separately from the Clone.

[Ding... Snow Empress favorability +1]

This did indeed delay the Snow Empress, but within a few breaths, the Snow Empress had already distinguished which one was the Clone and which one was the original body.

The Snow Empress continued to chase Su Ling.

Su Ling was running while also thinking about how to build a good relationship with the Snow Empress.

At the very least, he had to make the Snow Empress respect him, which meant he had to show his strength first.

At this time, the Snow Empress was already playing with him.

In this Extreme North, the Snow Empress must be very lonely, and life must be very boring. Having finally met an interesting human, she naturally wanted to play for a while.

Suddenly, a wave of ice and snow energy struck Su Ling.

Su Ling's body became slightly stiff.

The ice attribute of Body Refining could immunize against a portion of attacks, but there was a limit. It could immunize against ice attributes of general intensity, but if the intensity of this ice attribute exceeded too much, it could not be completely immunized.

For example, would a Spirit Elder or Spirit Ancestor of Rank 30 or 40 still be afraid of this extreme ice attribute of the Snow Empress after Body Refining?

Even though Su Ling was so powerful, the Snow Empress's extreme ice attribute still had some influence on him.

However, Su Ling circulated his Soul Power, and the chill on his body immediately disappeared.

Su Ling successfully neutralized the Snow Empress's method, which surprised the Snow Empress, and her interest in the human before her increased again.

[Ding... Snow Empress favorability +2]

Even though favorability increased by 2 points, the Snow Empress's favorability was still -4.

The Snow Empress said: "Human, you are very interesting."

"If you don't want to die, then use your fastest speed to escape." The Snow Empress said.

Su Ling was speechless, then released a pair of wings from his back, flew into the sky, and accelerated away.

"Spirit Bone?" The Snow Empress took a look and followed him.

When it came to speed, Su Ling had never been afraid of anyone.

However, at this moment, his speed was still something the Snow Empress could easily keep up with.

Su Ling could have increased his speed further, but since he could still farm favorability, he would take his time.

But after a while, the Snow Empress said again: "Is this your fastest speed?"

While speaking, the Snow Empress waved her hand, and in front of where Su Ling was flying, she actually condensed an ice wall with frost.

Seeing this, Su Ling didn't care anymore; he charged directly over, Eight Desolations Fist in front, and punched the ice wall.

With a loud bang, the ice wall developed several cracks, but it didn't break, because this ice wall was a hundred meters high and at least four or five meters thick.

In the Extreme North, this was the Snow Empress's best natural battlefield.

With every gesture, she could mobilize the power of ice and snow in nature.

Su Ling was somewhat speechless. The Snow Empress behind him had already stopped at a position a dozen meters away from him.

"Your strength is not bad, but it's still not enough. What other means do you have? Use them all." The Snow Empress still had an icy expression, and her favorability was still a negative number.

Su Ling: ...

This was the strongest opponent he had met so far.

But this opponent was still toying with him, treating him as prey.

Hmph... sooner or later, I will toy with you too.

Although you treat me as prey, aren't you also my prey at this time?

One day, I will turn the tables.

"Snow Empress, how strong is your attack? Why don't you attack me once? If I die, then I die, but if I withstand it, then you..."

Su Ling thought for a moment and paused here. If she let him go, and he left, what story would there be later?

If he couldn't even get close to the goddess while farming favorability, how could he farm it?

It wasn't the same situation as Shui Binger a few days ago.

So Su Ling said: "If I withstand it, I would like to know if we can be friends?"

"Friends?"

"What is a friend?" The Snow Empress said.

Su Ling said: "It means that there is a deep friendship and affection between two people. If you can't understand this, then let me put it this way: it's who you are most comfortable with, feel happiest with, can talk about anything with, trust, and so on."

"I see. I don't know if having raised Xiao Bai counts, and does Ice Empress count?"

"I suppose they count!"

"Are you sure you want to take a hit from me?" The Snow Empress said.

Su Ling nodded and said: "Of course..."

"But I, I don't want to be friends with humans." The Snow Empress said lightly.

This really was someone who couldn't be swayed by anything.

Even if you are an ice block, I will find a way to melt you. Since the favorability is farming so fast, I'll just boil the frog in warm water; one day I will succeed.

"However, if you can accompany me to play for a few days, I might consider it." The Snow Empress said.

"Play for a few days? How to play?" Su Ling said.

He originally wanted to use the Invincible Defense skill brought by Xiao Wu to block the Snow Empress's strike, but the Snow Empress was not willing.

It seemed she did not want to kill her prey so quickly.

"You keep running, and I will keep chasing. If you can consistently evade my pursuit and attacks, then I will acknowledge you," the Snow Empress said.

"Then come on. I hope you keep your word," Su Ling said.

"I am not like you humans," the Snow Empress said.

A pair of wings also appeared behind Su Ling, and he flew into the air, crossing over the ice wall to continue flying.

The Snow Empress immediately followed.

But at that very moment, the Snow Empress felt as if her body had been obstructed, and her speed slowed down.

This was naturally Su Ling's Slow skill.

After Su Ling flew out, the Snow Empress still chased after him.

"Snow Empress, since you can attack me, then I can attack you too, right?" Su Ling said.

"You may. If you can injure me, then you have some ability," the Snow Empress said.

As expected, this Snow Empress was truly too lonely in the Extreme North. There were very few Spirit Beasts that could match her. Living for hundreds of thousands of years was indeed wearisome—though perhaps one should call it 'beast-weariness'.

Su Ling increased his speed, but the Snow Empress still followed behind.

Suddenly, Su Ling felt the entire space condensing, and the surrounding ice and snow began to freeze into solid ice.

This time, he was surrounded from all sides. He either had to break through the ice or use Teleportation. If the space were completely enclosed, he would have to use the Spirit Bone skill Teleportation to ignore the spatial constraints.

However, as it had not fully solidified yet, Su Ling immediately used Teleportation. After three consecutive uses, Su Ling had already escaped.

The Teleportation brought by Xiao Wu had a maximum distance of two hundred meters per use and could not ignore spatial constraints.

"Teleportation, is it?" The Snow Empress continued to pursue him.

After getting out, Su Ling directly unleashed six pairs of wings—twelve wings in total—and flew away at high speed.

Twelve wings were likely the limit for relatively efficient Soul Power consumption during flight; once he exceeded twelve wings, the Soul Power consumption while flying would increase significantly.

This time, the Snow Empress frowned. Following behind Su Ling, she found that she could only barely keep up.

She was still relying on the power of the natural ice and snow to achieve such speed.

And such high speed made it impossible for her to attack Su Ling easily.

The Snow Empress thought to herself, "A human's Soul Power is limited. I want to see how long he can hold out."

One human and one beast continued their pursuit just like that.

What the Snow Empress did not know was that Su Ling had another Soul Power recovery skill, which came from Ye Lingling and could be used once every forty minutes.

Each use could restore forty percent of his total Soul Power at his peak.

As long as it was not a high-intensity battle, who could compare to him in terms of endurance?

Su Ling flew in this state, and whenever his Soul Power was depleted too much, or every forty minutes, he would use it once.

Each time, he could replenish his Soul Power to the max. In this way, Su Ling did not even know how long he had been flying in the Extreme North.

In this Far North Snow Plains, Su Ling discovered that there seemed to be no night; it was basically daytime all the time.

The Snow Empress also felt strange. Would the Soul Power of this human Spirit Master before her never run dry?

Perhaps because she had been chasing for too long and still could not catch up, the Snow Empress had no choice but to stop.

In fact, if Su Ling wanted to, he could have shaken off the Snow Empress.

And if the Snow Empress wanted to, she could have used stronger Moves. Both sides were actually holding back.

"Alright, human, stop now. I won't chase you anymore," the Snow Empress said, also coming to a stop. After all, she had grown tired of the chase game.

[Ding... Snow Empress favorability +4]

Finally, the Snow Empress's favorability was normal. Although it was zero, it was still a good start.

After Su Ling stopped, he said, "Snow Empress, you must be hungry after chasing for so long. Come, have something to eat."

So, Su Ling took out two oranges from his spirit tool—well... they were called Dekopon.

When he took them out, Su Ling also condensed his Soul Power to keep them in their current state; otherwise, given the temperature here, they would quickly freeze into blocks of ice.

"An edible fruit?"

"I have one too! Human, do you dare to eat it?" The Snow Empress took out a fruit; it was ice-blue and crystalline throughout.

What is this?

Su Ling had seen it in the books given by Fengxue Pavilion. This was an Ice Ripple Fruit, a fruit that could only be borne by an Ice Ripple Tree that was at least a thousand years old.

And the one in the Snow Empress's hand, judging by its size and quality, was definitely ten thousand years old according to the records in the book.

A ten-thousand-year Ice Ripple Tree could only bear ten fruits every ten thousand years. Once it bore ten fruits, the Ice Ripple Tree would absorb the energy of the fruits and then advance by ten thousand years in age.

If an Ice Ripple Fruit was picked, the Ice Ripple Tree would never be able to advance. Therefore, every single ten-thousand-year Ice Ripple Fruit was equivalent to a thousand years of cultivation for the ten-thousand-year Ice Ripple Tree.

In the Extreme North, a ten-thousand-year Ice Ripple Fruit was extremely valuable, no worse than a Snow Lotus.

One ten-thousand-year Ice Ripple Fruit could allow most Ice-attribute Spirit Emperors to increase their Soul Power by one Rank. In Fengxue City, it was a good item worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

Especially for many people who used this fruit to break through from Rank sixty-nine to Rank seventy.

A thousand-year Ice Ripple Fruit could also help a Spirit Master break through from Rank fifty-nine to Rank sixty.

However, this Ice Ripple Fruit could not be eaten just by picking it up, because the Ice Ripple Fruit contained a type of toxin that required other medicinal herbs to be consumed alongside it.

But this auxiliary medicinal herb was extremely common, very easy to find, and could be seen everywhere in the Extreme North.

But if you did not have this auxiliary medicinal herb, it just would not work.

What did the Snow Empress mean by taking out an Ice Ripple Fruit at this time? There were no auxiliary medicinal herbs in this place.

A test?

It seems I have no choice but to eat it.

"I'll eat it!"

The Snow Empress threw it directly over, and Su Ling also threw the fruit in his hand over, saying, "Careful, this is a regular fruit. Do not let it freeze; it will not taste good if it freezes."

"Oh!"

The Snow Empress was also very curious about the fruit in Su Ling's hand; after all, she had never seen this fruit before.

She had been to the human World before, and she had not seen it there either.

Moreover, she had not stayed there for long before returning, because after going out, she had encountered many ill-intentioned Spirit Masters who made her very annoyed.

Su Ling took a bite of the Ice Ripple Fruit, and a chill washed over him; fortunately, it was nothing to fear for him.

The Ice Ripple Fruit tasted quite good. It felt icy cold upon entering his mouth; although it was not very sweet, it was not sour either, and it was quite delicious.

Moreover, after entering his body, there was a surge of energy. If he absorbed this energy, he would definitely be able to increase his Soul Power by a certain amount.

Su Ling's Cultivation Technique automatically operated, slowly absorbing the medicinal effects.

As for its toxins, Su Ling had long since stopped fearing them; his body would automatically filter them out.

The Snow Empress also listened to Su Ling and did not let the Dekopon freeze, taking a bite.

"Not good!" The Snow Empress spat it out in one mouthful.

Su Ling looked on.

"You have to eat the fruit inside for this one; you cannot eat the orange peel on the outside," Su Ling said.

"Is it this?" The Snow Empress took it out and ate it again, as if she had discovered a new World, finding it simply delicious.

"Delicious!"

This Dekopon was purely sweet, but if you ate the peel, it would definitely be bitter.

The Snow Empress liked sweets?

In the Extreme North, where could one find anything sweet?

The Ice Ripple Fruit from earlier only had a hint of sweetness; this was probably the sweetest thing the Snow Empress had ever considered, right?

The Ice Sky Snow Maiden could also be considered a woman, right? A woman who liked sweets?

The key was that this woman had not really eaten many sweets.

Suddenly, Su Ling found a Breakthrough point.

Before long, she finished one, and the Snow Empress was still looking at the other one in Su Ling's hand.

"Here, have it." Su Ling wrapped it in Soul Power and handed it over.

"Your fruit is too delicious; it's much better than the Ice Ripple Fruit."

The Snow Empress took it, peeled off the skin, and ate it clean in a few bites. Although she was a spirit formed from ice and snow and only needed to absorb the power of ice and snow, sometimes she would try eating some things.

However, what could be delicious in the Extreme North?

The Ice Ripple Fruit was what she considered the most delicious.

[Snow Empress favorability +1, obtained Low-tier blue treasure chest *1]

Blue treasure chest?

What is this!

[Blue treasure chest: Can be obtained by gaining favorability from special goddesses. Blue treasure chests are divided into four grades: Low-tier, Intermediate, High-tier, and Top-tier.]

A new treasure chest had appeared, and Su Ling was very surprised; he did not know what good things he could open from it.

And the ordinary items in Su Ling's possession were all opened from white treasure chests. He looked at the two hundred and sixty-two white treasure chests in the System.

Fortunately, he had not exchanged them for higher-tier treasure chests; after all, treasure chest exchanges were irreversible.

You could use ten white treasure chests to exchange for one yellow treasure chest, but you could not use one yellow treasure chest to exchange for ten white treasure chests.

Would these two hundred-plus white treasure chests not come in handy now?

"System, open ten white treasure chests for me," Su Ling said.

At this moment, he had not opened the Low-tier blue treasure chest yet; after all, grinding the Snow Empress's favorability was the most important thing right now.

Once the favorability was up, he would be safe in the Extreme North.

"Ding... Opened ten white treasure chests. Congratulations, Host, for obtaining 300 gold coins, 10 boxes of lollipops, 10 bottles of Moutai, 100 watermelons, 1 mountain bike, 50 cartons of milk, 1 Breitling watch, 20 boxes of spicy strips, 100 boxes of self-heating hot pot, and 100 bags of laundry detergent."

Out of the ten items, at least two could be used directly.

"Human, what is your name?" the Snow Empress asked.

Su Ling said, "My name is Su Ling! You can just call me by my name."

"That fruit you had earlier was delicious. Could you give me some more? I'll trade you for that fruit from earlier," the Snow Empress said.

Su Ling said, "Snow Empress, I still have a few of those fruits left. I'll give them all to you."

He could not give too many; giving them by the box would make them seem too worthless. After all, Su Ling had more than just this one thing in his possession.

For a goddess-level boss like the Snow Empress, grinding favorability had to be done slowly; one could not be too hasty!