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"Actually, the purpose of my visit this time isn't to kill you and take your spirit ring, but to seek cooperation."

Li Chang'an slightly sugarcoated his true intentions with a more palatable term: cooperation.

"Cooperation?"

The Snow Empress was still somewhat puzzled. She couldn't fathom what common ground soul beasts and humans could possibly have for cooperation.

"To be honest, the reason I've come to you is that I hope you can offer yourself as a sacrifice to me," Li Chang'an stated his purpose directly.

The Snow Empress's expression instantly turned cold. Or rather, her expression was already cold, and now it simply became even colder.

"Human, you are very strong. I have nothing to say if you defeat me and take my soul ring. But wanting me to sacrifice myself to you, what makes you think I would?" The Snow Empress's words were direct, without any beating around the bush.

"Because I can help you become a god!"

Li Chang'an revealed his bargaining chip. He then explained, "Don't disbelieve me. The reason I came to you this time is because I obtained the key to the Ice God's inheritance. As long as you sacrifice yourself to me, with your help, I will be able to pass the Ice God's trials. Once I become a god, resurrecting you will naturally be a simple matter."

"The Ice God's inheritance!?"

Upon hearing this, a hint of astonishment appeared in the Snow Empress's eyes, along with a touch of amusement. Although the soul beasts of the Extreme North all revered the Ice God, because the Ice God had never appeared or displayed any miracles,

most soul beasts harbored doubts about the Ice God's existence.

Even if the Ice God truly existed,

why should she believe that this human would resurrect her after becoming a god?

Sensing the Snow Empress's mockery and disdain,

Li Chang'an directly unleashed his ultimate weapon, "Are you confident in surviving the next 700,000-year tribulation?"

"..."

The Snow Empress fell silent.

This was a problem that all soul beasts had to face. Frankly, the Snow Empress had no confidence in surviving the next 700,000-year tribulation. Even the current 600,000-year tribulation, which had yet to arrive, already made her feel that she had a very high chance of failing. Let alone the next 700,000-year tribulation.

And once one failed to overcome the tribulation, the only outcome for a soul beast was death!

"Becoming a god..." A trace of longing and unwillingness appeared in the Snow Empress's eyes.

Longing for the freedom from the tribulations and the constant threat to life that came with becoming a god. Unwilling because the one favored by the Ice God wasn't her, but this human. Heaven was truly unfair to soul beasts.

At this moment, Li Chang'an dropped another bombshell.

"Have you always believed that soul beasts can become gods after reaching a million years?"

"Isn't that so?"

Hearing him say this, the Snow Empress's heart tightened.

"Heh, do you know how many years my seventh spirit ring is?" Li Chang'an smiled disdainfully, then pointed to the seventh golden spirit ring floating around his body, slightly stimulating a bit of the aura contained within.

In an instant, the Snow Empress felt as if struck by lightning!

Because from this dazzling golden spirit ring, the Snow Empress sensed a powerful aura far beyond her imagination. She could feel that this power was not the power of 800,000 or 900,000 years, but a power of another level!

Could it be that this spirit ring is...

"That's right, it's as you think."

Li Chang'an nodded, agreeing with her guess.

"My spirit ring comes from a million-year-old Ice Silkworm!"

"A million-year-old Ice Silkworm? How is that possible!"

On the Snow Empress's clear and cold face, an extremely complex expression appeared for the first time. The Ice Silkworm could be said to be the lowest-level creature in the Extreme North. Those that could reach ten thousand years were few and far between.

Not to mention 100,000 years or a million years.

The bloodline limit of the Ice Silkworm was at most ten thousand years. How could there be a million-year-old Ice Silkworm?

"Normally, it would be impossible for there to be a million-year-old Ice Silkworm through normal cultivation, but if this Ice Silkworm was lucky enough to fall into a Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave, and coincidentally, this Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave also contained a large amount of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow..." Li Chang'an stopped there.

But the Snow Empress already understood, nodding and saying, "If there really was such a lucky Ice Silkworm, it would indeed be possible... No! How could the Ice Silkworm withstand ten tribulations?" She keenly noticed the discrepancy.

"That's because the unique environment of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave isolated the Ice Silkworm's aura, allowing it to cultivate safely to a million years," Li Chang'an said, "During that time, this Ice Silkworm didn't experience a single tribulation. How is it? Envious?"

"..."

What else could the Snow Empress say? Could she say she was extremely envious?

"Still not right!"

The Snow Empress frowned and said, "I have encountered Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Caves before, and even cultivated in them, but I didn't discover any effect of isolating aura. When cultivation reaches a certain level, the tribulation will still arrive. Are you lying to me?"

"Haven't you noticed that the strength of the tribulations faced by different soul beasts varies? Even tribulations of the same age have different strengths depending on the soul beast," Li Chang'an explained, "This shows that the tribulation mainly targets soul beasts with powerful bloodlines! Perhaps it is not so sensitive to those soul beasts with weak bloodlines. That's why the Ice Silkworm was lucky enough to transform into a million-year-old one in the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave!"

The Snow Empress frowned and pondered for a long time before finally reluctantly accepting his explanation.

"Even so, so what? What does this have to do with what you said?" she said.

"Of course it does."

Li Chang'an nodded and said, "I just want to tell you that soul beasts can never become gods! Even if they become so-called million-year soul beasts, they still have a lifespan limit and have nothing to do with gods."

"The key to becoming a god lies in the godhood!"

"Godhood?!"

Hearing this unfamiliar term, the Snow Empress felt somewhat bewildered.

"The so-called godhood can be understood as the key to becoming a god. Without godhood, even if you are a million-year soul beast, you are not considered a god."

"The reason why a god is a god is because of the existence of godhood!" He explained simply.

"Doesn't that mean that if a soul beast can obtain godhood, it can also become a god?" The Snow Empress noticed the key point.

"Theoretically, that's true."

Li Chang'an did not deny it, but instead stated a more cruel fact.

"But the problem is, soul beasts can never obtain godhood!"

"Why?"

The Snow Empress only asked this one question, waiting for his answer.

"Haven't you felt strange?"

"Why must soul beasts undergo tribulations? Why don't humans have tribulations?"

"Why do soul rings appear after soul beasts die? Why can only humans absorb soul rings?"

"Why do soul bones appear after soul beasts die? And why are these soul bones in the shape of human bones? Similarly, only humans can absorb them?"

"Don't you think all of this is too deliberate?"

"It's as if soul beasts are born to be foils for humans, and everything on their bodies can only be used by humans, not by soul beasts. The final result of hard cultivation is only to provide soul rings for humans."

A series of questions were thrown out.

Successfully causing the Snow Empress to fall into deep thought. She had never thought about these questions before because everyone took them for granted. But now, with the reminder of others, she seriously thought about it and realized that's right!

Abnormal!

All of this is too abnormal.