LRAB Chapter 7 Mental Link, Xu Xinghan's Negotiation with the Snow Emperor
Chapter 7 Mental Link, Xu Xinghan's Negotiation with the Snow Emperor
Electrolux nodded.
A gray light rose from the depths of the sea of spirit, slowly spreading like ink drops into clear water, dyeing the entire sea surface with a layer of grayish-white mist.
The mist condensed into threads, which emerged from between Xu Xinghan's brows and pierced straight into the void.
The sea of consciousness trembled violently.
Xu Xinghan's vision blurred.
The grayish-white faded, replaced by an endless expanse of pure white.
It's not snow, it's ice.
Like the breathtakingly clear ice deep within a millennium-old glacier.
The ice walls closed in from all sides, enveloping him in a small space.
There was no wind, no sound, and even time seemed to be frozen.
In the center of this deathly white silence, a figure huddled up.
Xu Xinghan held his breath.
There was a woman lying there.
She looked to be only around twenty years old, but the kind of temperament that emanated from her very being was something that ordinary humans could not possess.
She lay on her side on the ice, curled up in a baby-like position, her long, ice-blue hair spread out, the strands translucent, like the purest ice crystals of the far north.
The woman's features were so exquisite they seemed unreal, like a work of art sculpted from a glacier.
Her eyebrows were long and reached her temples, and her eyelashes were thick and slightly curled. Even with her eyes closed, one could imagine how captivating they would be when they opened. Her lips were very pale, almost nonexistent. She looked like a princess frozen in ice and snow, beautiful yet fragile.
She wore a long, ice-blue dress that blended seamlessly with the ice, making it impossible to distinguish where the dress ended and the glacier began.
Snow Emperor.
The Northern Heavenly King, with 700,000 years of cultivation, is a powerful ferocious beast that was sealed away during his transformation.
At this moment, it is curled up in this small sealed space, like a small animal locked in a cage.
Beautiful, dangerous, and weak.
Xu Xinghan knelt down on one knee, trying to make his line of sight level with hers.
"Feed".
The sound wasn't loud, but it exploded in the deathly silence, like a pebble thrown into a lake.
Xue Di's long eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"It's dawn."
He called out again.
Those eyes suddenly opened.
His extremely pale, icy blue pupils resembled two frozen stars.
A blank look first appeared in the depths of his pupils, then quickly coalesced into vigilance and hostility.
Almost instinctively, she raised her hand and waved in Xu Xinghan's direction—
Nothing happened.
A hint of surprise flashed in his icy blue eyes.
"Don't hit me! Don't hit me!" Xu Xinghan quickly took half a step back, waving his hands in front of him. "I mean no harm."
Xue Di ignored his words, quickly scanning her surroundings. After confirming that she was still trapped in the seal, she turned her gaze back to Xu Xinghan.
Her voice was cold, but not the cold of anger; it was a cold devoid of any emotion.
"Human, who are you? And what have you done to me?"
Xu Xinghan pointed to his chest.
"My name is Xu Xinghan, from the Star Luo Empire. I am speaking to you in spiritual form."
"The seal that kept you outside is still there; I just used a little trick to connect to this space."
He paused, then turned and shouted into the void.
"Mr. Yi, please come out and say something."
Grayish-white mist emanated from behind Xu Xinghan, coalescing into a blurry human figure.
It had no facial features, no details, only a humanoid gray light, quietly floating there.
The moment Xue Di's gaze fell upon that gray light, her pupils contracted sharply.
Her body leaned back slightly, as if she had been pricked by something.
"Who are you……"
Electrolux didn't speak. He just hovered there, doing nothing and saying nothing.
But the aura emanating from that gray light was cold, profound, and carried an instinctive fear of death, even more chilling than the cold winds of the far north.
Xue Di lowered her hand.
She did not attempt to attack again.
It's not that I'm afraid.
As the third on the list of the top ten ferocious beasts and the leader of the three kings of the far north, Xue Di could sense that the creature in front of her was even three points stronger than she had been at her peak.
Faced with such absolute power, in my current state, I have no chance of resistance.
Her icy blue eyes turned back to Xu Xinghan, her hostility not completely gone, but her tone was noticeably softer.
"Human, what brings you to this imperial court? What do you wish to do?"
Xu Xinghan smiled and squatted down again.
"I want to make a deal. I wonder if you, Snow Empress, are interested?"
Xue Di stared at him for a few seconds before slowly speaking.
"What kind of deal?"
Xu Xinghan's lips curled up.
The fish have already been baited and hooked. As a qualified angler, all he needs to do is fill the hook with bait.
He held up a finger and waved it in front of Xue Di.
"A deal that grants you immortality—wouldn't that be appealing enough to you?"
His icy blue pupils suddenly contracted.
Xue Di stared at him, her eyes like two icy blades, cutting him open from top to bottom and then closing again.
The shock in his eyes was well hidden, flashing by in an instant, but Xu Xinghan keenly caught it.
Then she laughed.
It wasn't the kind of happy laugh.
It's the kind of laugh that comes from extreme anger followed by a calm.
Xue Di parted her thin lips slightly, her voice three degrees colder than before.
"eternal life?"
She repeated the word as if savoring a huge joke.
"Human, you probably don't know who I am, do you?"
"Let me introduce myself. I am the Snow Emperor, who has lived for nearly 700,000 years, the leader of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, and the third among the Ten Ferocious Beasts."
"Even I, the Emperor, dare not presume to speak of immortality." Her gaze sharpened, her icy blue eyes like two drawn swords. "What right do you, a mere human who has lived for only a little over a decade, have to boast like this?"
The temperature around us seemed to have dropped a few degrees.
The ice walls inside the sealed space were covered with fine frost flowers, layer upon layer.
Xu Xinghan did not back down.
He didn't even stop smiling.
"Because I'm human!"
His voice wasn't loud, but he enunciated each word very clearly.
"I admit that, as a human being, a human being who has not yet grown up, my existence may be no different from that of an ant in your eyes."
Upon hearing this, Xue Di fell silent for a moment.
For some reason, she felt that what the person in front of her was about to say would change her life.
"But isn't your current predicament, trapped in this Conferred God Platform, also caused by the humans you despise?"
Xue Di did not speak.
Complex emotions surged within his icy blue eyes, as if he were assessing whether the human before him was talking nonsense.
Xu Xinghan stood up and looked down at her.
"Perhaps because of what I said, you will feel very resentful, thinking that I only know how to play tricks and be good at talking."
"But as you just sensed, what were your chances against the man behind me in your prime?"
Xue Di's gaze passed over Xu Xinghan's shoulder and landed on the gray light.
silence.
A very long silence followed.