Disregarding martial ethics, the Great Xia Dynasty has intercepted the future Empress of the Cangxuan Great Realm!

Taibai Academy Plaza.

With a strange distortion of space, a biting chill descended instantly.

Swoosh!

A pitch-black spatial rift appeared out of thin air.

The first to climb out was Gu Zhiyun, dressed in a goose-yellow dress.

She patted her chest; clearly, the high-speed spatial travel had left her a bit dazed.

Immediately after, the figure of Lin Xiyue also stepped out.

In her hands, she was suspending a massive azure ice crystal several times larger than her entire body!

Sealed within that ice crystal was a sleeping young girl, looking like a beautiful work of art.

Thud!

Lin Xiyue carefully placed the ice crystal on the plaza floor, creating a dull sound.

"Hmm?"

"Girl Yue, you're back already?"

"So fast?"

Li Zhanjun, Qin Ming, and the others, who had been waiting anxiously on the spot, hurried over when they saw this scene.

"Is this the little girl who had the anomaly?"

"Good heavens... this cold air..."

When everyone gathered around and saw the massive ice crystal clearly, they couldn't help but marvel.

Although all of them were at least in the Qi Refining Realm and could use spiritual energy to protect their bodies, this bone-chilling cold still made them feel a sense of trepidation.

"Senior Jian, in your opinion, has this young lady actually awakened a Physique?"

Li Fan, who hadn't left, couldn't suppress his curiosity and crowded forward to take a look.

He reached out and tentatively tapped on the extremely hard ice crystal.

However, apart from feeling a chill that seemed to pierce his bone marrow and made his spiritual energy circulate sluggishly, limited by his vision and cultivation, he couldn't discern much else.

Thus, he could only seek help from his knowledgeable Revered Master.

"..."

Facing Li Fan's inquiry, Senior Jian did not respond immediately.

In fact, from the moment this ice crystal appeared, his Divine Soul perception had been completely locked onto Shen Qingyi.

Beneath that thick layer of ice, within the body of the seemingly peacefully sleeping girl, Senior Jian sensed an extremely obscure yet supreme fluctuation!

"This is..."

"The aura of a Law?!"

Senior Jian's heart skipped a beat.

In his perceptual field, white threads, thin as spider silk but undeniably real, seemed to be coiled around Shen Qingyi's body.

Those threads exuded a terrifying Dao rhythm that froze all things and made time itself stand still.

That was the Law of Ice!

It was a fundamental truth of heaven and earth that only experts who had touched the threshold of the Holy Realm were qualified to contact!

But now, these Law threads were actually actively drawing near, and even actively transforming this little girl who hadn't officially stepped into the threshold of cultivation?

"Tsk... interesting, truly interesting."

"This little girl is not simple."

A moment later, Senior Jian's somewhat emotional voice finally sounded.

"I can almost conclude that she is Awakening an extraordinary Sacred Physique."

"And it leans toward the extreme cold attribute; if it reaches Major Achievement, it could even touch upon the legendary Dao of 'Taiyin'!"

"What?!"

"It really is a Sacred Physique?!"

Hearing Senior Jian's definitive judgment, Li Zhanjun, who was beside him, was so excited that his face turned red.

He rubbed his hands together, staring at Shen Qingyi inside the ice block with glowing eyes, as if looking at a rare treasure.

"Then, Senior Jian, if this child has some kind of Sacred Physique, what is her potential?"

"How high will her future achievements be?"

This was the question they cared about most!

After all, Great Xia was currently severely lacking in top-tier combat power.

"Potential?"

Senior Jian pondered for a moment, seemingly weighing his words.

"It's hard to say for now."

"After all, this little doll hasn't fully awakened yet, and everything has variables."

"However..."

Senior Jian changed the subject, his tone carrying an extremely high evaluation.

"To be able to draw the Laws of heaven and earth to coil around oneself before the Awakening is even complete."

"This is enough to show that her Physique is extremely formidable; even among many Sacred Physiques, it definitely belongs to the top tier!"

"In my opinion..."

"If she doesn't die young and can receive good cultivation, she has a huge probability... of becoming a Quasi-Emperor!"

Quasi-Emperor!

When these two words came out, everyone present was shocked.

Although they didn't fully understand the specific value of a Quasi-Emperor, anything with the word "Emperor" in it couldn't be bad!

However, just as everyone was feeling excited about this, Lin Xiyue on the side was slightly stunned and blurted out with some disappointment:

"Ah?"

"Only a Quasi-Emperor?"

"I thought she could become an Emperor too..."

Hearing Lin Xiyue's "let them eat cake"-like remark, Senior Jian was almost laughed to anger.

"Hehe, Girl Lin."

"You certainly have a big appetite."

"It seems you still don't understand what the words 'Quasi-Emperor' actually mean."

Senior Jian shook his head helplessly, his tone becoming somewhat wistful and weathered.

"Let me put it this way."

"The Cangxuan Great Realm is vast and boundless, with Prodigies as numerous as crucian carp in a river."

"But for a full one hundred thousand years, there hasn't been a single true Great Emperor!"

"That is the severed path to the Emperor, a chasm that all living beings cannot cross!"

"And in the last twenty thousand years..."

Senior Jian held up two fingers, his expression serious.

"Not even a single new Quasi-Emperor has appeared!"

"A Quasi-Emperor, having touched the word 'Emperor', is already a true supreme expert in this world, the endpoint that countless Holy Land ancestors strive for their entire lives but cannot reach!"

"To have the potential to become a Quasi-Emperor is already an unimaginably Heaven-Defying Opportunity!"

"You girl, you're actually dissatisfied?"

After Senior Jian's explanation, everyone finally understood how heavy the weight of the words "Quasi-Emperor" was.

That was a peerless Prodigy encountered once in twenty thousand years!

"Uh... is that so."

Lin Xiyue stuck out her tongue embarrassedly.

"But isn't Little Sister Qingyu's Physique guaranteed to become an Emperor?"

The Little Sister Qingyu she mentioned naturally referred to Liu Qingyu.

It is worth mentioning that ever since Liu Qingyao and Liu Qingyu were teleported to Great Xia, because these two girls were so adorable and lovable, and their backgrounds were so pitiful, Chen Mei, who was Lin Mo's mother, whose maternal instincts were overflowing, loved them so much that she immediately adopted them as her goddaughters.

Now, these two girls accompany Chen Mei every day, calling her "Godmother" with every breath, as close as a real mother and her daughters.

Even Lin Xiyue sometimes felt like she had lost favor.

"Cough..."

Hearing Lin Xiyue use Liu Qingyu for comparison, Senior Jian was choked up and rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"That cannot be generalized!"

"The Innate Sacred Demonic Dao Fetus is a recognized forbidden Physique, an existence that defies reason!"

"In the long ancient history of the Cangxuan Great Realm, only three have ever appeared!"

"It is a special existence that transcends all Physiques, the true darling of the Heavenly Dao."

"Honestly, to see one appear in this era, even I was very shocked at the time..."

Speaking of this, Senior Jian suddenly stopped.

He looked at Lin Xiyue in front of him, then at Li Zhanjun and the others beside him, his expression suddenly becoming somewhat strange, even carrying a hint of playfulness.

"But then again..."

"According to the original trajectory of fate, that little girl named Liu Qingyu was supposed to be the destined new Great Emperor of the Cangxuan Great Realm, the supreme Empress who would rule over billions of territories in the future."

"But now..."

Senior Jian shook his head, his tone filled with an indescribable banter.

"That's hard to say..."

After Senior Jian's words fell, Qin Ming, Li Zhanjun, Zhang Zhenghua, and Liu Jianshe looked at each other.

Immediately after, expressions of undisguised, and even somewhat "sly," amusement appeared on the faces of the four.

Yes!

Liu Qingyu was supposed to be the hope of the Cangxuan Great Realm's future, the destined Empress.

But now?

She had been contracted by Lin Mo!

She had been sent to Great Xia!

She had even become the goddaughter of Lin Mo's parents!

Doesn't that just mean...

Great Xia had suddenly intercepted the future Emperor of the Cangxuan Great Realm!

And they even took the person and her heart, kidnapping the whole thing!

This was no longer something that could be described as a huge profit!

This was simply arrogantly plucking away a huge portion of the Cangxuan Great Realm's Luck!