As the Ice Empress spoke, her voice grew quieter and quieter, as if her throat were blocked by something.
She had always been proud and never easily showed weakness in front of others, but at this moment, she found she could not say a complete sentence.
Tears swirled in her eyes, and she bit her lip, stubbornly refusing to let them fall.
In the end, she said nothing, simply throwing herself into Lin Yaoyang’s arms and hugging him tightly.
She buried her face in his chest, her small body trembling slightly.
Lin Yaoyang was stunned for a moment, then gently patted her back, his voice as gentle as if coaxing a child: “Sister Binger, don’t be sad.
Every time I come back, I will bring you lots of delicious things, okay?”
The Ice Empress lifted her head from his arms, her eyes red, the tip of her nose also red, looking pitiful.
“Then…
then it’s a deal!”
“It’s a deal.”
“You aren’t allowed to lie!”
“I won’t lie.”
“If you lie, you’re a puppy!”
“Alright, if I lie, I’m a puppy.”
The Ice Empress was finally satisfied, burying her face back in, muttering: “Then you must remember, I like eating sweets…”
Lin Yaoyang was torn between laughter and tears: “Alright, alright, sweets, I’ll remember.”
The Snow Empress, who was to the side: “…”
Are you really that easy to satisfy?
Watching this scene, the corners of her mouth couldn’t help but rise slightly, but deep in her eyes, there was a trace of imperceptible reluctance.
She was not like the Ice Empress, who wore her emotions on her face.
Hundreds of thousands of years of time had taught her how to hide her own emotions.
But only she knew that when she heard the words “go to the academy,” her heart also gave a slight tug.
She just knew that this child did not belong to the Far North.
He belonged to a wider world.
After a moment of silence, the Snow Empress spoke.
“Do you really want to go to an academy?”
Lin Yaoyang let go of the Ice Empress, turned around, and nodded earnestly.
“Yes, Sister Xueer.”
The Snow Empress looked at him.
The twelve-year-old boy stood on the ice in front of the Snow Palace, his orange-red short hair still striking under the grey sky.
His eyes were very bright, as if hiding two small suns.
In those eyes, there was anticipation, determination, and reluctance.
She knew it was time.
“Alright.” The Snow Empress sighed softly, stepped forward, and gently ruffled his hair.
“When the time comes, I will take you there.”
Lin Yaoyang’s eyes lit up: “Really?”
“Mm.” The Snow Empress smiled slightly, “But before that, you must finish these two months.
And…”
She paused, her gaze becoming serious.
“Have you decided which academy you want to go to?”
Lin Yaoyang nodded, a flash of light appearing in his eyes.
“I have decided.”
He lifted his head and looked toward the south.
“Shrek,” he said.
The Snow Empress’s brows furrowed slightly.
“Shrek?”
“Mm.” The corners of Lin Yaoyang’s mouth rose slightly, forming a meaningful arc, “That’s right, Shrek.”
“I heard it is the number one academy on the continent, I’ll go take a look.”
…
Two months of time—it was not long, nor was it short.
Lin Yaoyang spent these two months in a fulfilling and simple way.
Cultivate during the day, accompany the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress at night.
His Soul Power had already reached level thirty-nine two months before returning to the Far North.
After several months of accumulation, plus the occasional sunlight in the Far North to assist his Cultivation, he finally reached a Breakthrough to level forty.
After level thirty, the limitations of his extreme attributes began to appear.
His cultivation speed was indeed much slower than ordinary Spirit Masters, but fortunately, his first three spirit rings were all thousand-year spirit rings absorbed beyond his level, and every Breakthrough brought Soul Power accumulation far exceeding that of ordinary people.
Coupled with his diligent cultivation every single day without fail, this allowed him to reach the Spirit Ancestor Realm at the age of twelve.
A twelve-year-old Spirit Ancestor.
Throughout the history of the entire Douluo Continent, this was a Genius worthy of being recorded in history.
…
Early morning, the core area of the Far North, the Snow Palace.
In Lin Yaoyang’s room, a beam of faint daylight shone through the ice crystal window, casting mottled light and shadows on the bed.
He had long been awake, but he dared not move.
Because the Ice Empress was nestled in his arms, sleeping soundly.
She was wearing that emerald green nightgown, her petite body curled into a ball, her head resting in the crook of his arm, her breathing even and long.
Her twin tails had come undone, her emerald green hair spread across the pillow, shimmering with a soft luster in the morning light.
On that exquisite little face, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, as if she were having a sweet dream.
Lin Yaoyang looked at her sleeping face and couldn’t help but sigh softly.
When he was little, the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress took turns sleeping with him.
At that time he was small, and he didn’t feel there was anything inappropriate about it.
After his Spirit Awakening, he took the initiative to suggest sleeping separately, and the two women agreed with smiles at the time.
But their understanding was clearly different from his.
The meaning of “sleeping separately,” for them, probably changed from “sleeping together every day” to “sleeping together every few days.” And the frequency showed absolutely no signs of decreasing.
These two months, the Ice Empress was even worse.
Every night she would righteously crawl into his quilt, saying things like “You are leaving, yet you won’t let me hold you more.”
If it weren’t for the Snow Empress watching from the side, Lin Yaoyang seriously suspected that the Ice Empress would have eaten him whole.
As for the Snow Empress…
although she appeared to have an “I can’t control her” attitude on the surface, occasionally she would also come to sleep with him for a few days.
Thinking about these things, his gaze unconsciously fell back onto the Ice Empress’s face.
Just at this moment, those bright yellow eyes suddenly opened.
Their eyes met.
The Ice Empress stared straight at him, her eyes as clear as if she were not someone who had just woken up.
Lin Yaoyang was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously reached out to touch her small hand.
The Ice Empress’s hand was very small and very soft, her fingertips carrying a trace of an icy-cool sensation.
“Sister Binger…” He had just opened his mouth, but his words were blocked.
The Ice Empress propped herself up and gently kissed him on the face, her movements as natural as if she had done it ten thousand times.
Then she lay back down, buried her face in the crook of his neck, and said muffledly: “Just come back early.”
Her voice was very light, so light it was as if she were speaking to herself.
Lin Yaoyang opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.
After a moment of silence, he deliberately used a relaxed tone to say: “Maybe this time when I go out, I can find some Opportunity to help Sister Binger and Sister Xueer Breakthrough.”
The Ice Empress lifted her head from the crook of his neck, a trace of helplessness flashing in her bright yellow eyes.
“I hope so.”
She sighed, “But you don’t need to be too anxious, just focus on your cultivation.
With my and Xueer’s cultivation, if we want to Breakthrough, the external objects we need are no longer ordinary treasures.
We need ten thousand year mysterious ice marrow, or the legendary Immortal Plant.”
She spoke very calmly, as if stating a fact that could not be realized.
Lin Yaoyang of course knew where there was ten thousand year mysterious ice marrow.
He also knew where there was an Immortal Plant.
It was just that in the eyes of the Ice Empress and the Snow Empress, he had been burying his head in cultivation all these years, rarely going out, and it was even less likely that he would know the whereabouts of these Heaven And Earth Treasures.
He planned to wait until he returned next time, feign that it was information he had accidentally heard outside, and then tell them.
“Maybe I really can find them?” he said with a smile.
The Ice Empress looked at his earnest expression and couldn’t help but laugh.
She reached out and poked his face, her tone suddenly becoming somewhat sly: “If you can really find them…
hm, then I will give you a reward.”
“What reward?”
“Secret.” The Ice Empress rolled over and sat up, her emerald green hair hanging down like a waterfall, “We’ll talk about it when you find them.”
She jumped off the bed, barefoot on the cold mysterious ice floor, and turned back to wink at him.
“Alright, hurry up and get up.
Xueer is still waiting for you outside.”
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