With Ye Yu's speed,
It took only half a day for him to pass through the Star Dou Forest and cross over half of the Douluo Continent.
He arrived at the northernmost province of the Heaven Dou Empire—Snow Spirit Province.
Here, the climate was already frigid.
Comparable to the outer northeastern region of China in Ye Yu's past life on the Blue Planet.
"Skydream, do you know where Ice Empress's lair is?"
While flying above the Extreme North,
Ye Yu projected his spiritual consciousness into the Blue Silver Space, and asked the Skydream Iceworm, who was currently inhabiting one of the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree's branches.
This time, his goal was to find Ice Empress—
To determine the third ice-attribute Martial Soul prototype as her Ice Jade Empress Scorpion form,
And then fuse the Golden Holy Dragon Martial Soul origin from Luo Sanpao—
So it could undergo mutation and evolution.
Therefore, Ye Yu naturally asked the Skydream Iceworm for the lair's location—
So he could find her directly.
After all, the Extreme North was a vast field of snowy white.
To be honest, Ye Yu was already having trouble telling directions.
If he had to bumble around aimlessly like a headless fly—
Finding Ice Empress might take forever.
Back on the journey, Skydream Iceworm had shamelessly begged Ye Yu—
That once they met Ice Empress, not to act rashly.
He claimed he had confidence he could persuade Ice Empress to voluntarily sacrifice herself to Ye Yu.
Which would benefit Ye Yu even more.
He had also ranted for quite a while about their "earth-shattering forbidden love."
Which had led Ye Yu to believe Skydream Iceworm must know where Ice Empress's lair was.
Since according to his own words, they had been locked in love and battle for many years.
But faced with Ye Yu's question—
Skydream Iceworm looked a little embarrassed.
"Lord Ye Yu, I'm sorry…"
"Actually… I don't know where Ice Empress's lair is either."
"You don't know?"
Ye Yu paused, dumbfounded.
"Didn't you say the two of you have been in a love-hate relationship for ages?"
"You're so obsessed with her, and after all this time, you still don't know where her lair is?"
…That's just useless!
Ye Yu was speechless.
Skydream Iceworm, for his part, looked utterly wronged.
"Lord Ye Yu, I didn't want this either!"
"If I could, of course I'd want to know where her lair is!"
"But all this time, I've just been on the run from her hunting me down!"
"How could I possibly know where she lives?"
"However…"
Skydream Iceworm's eyes lit up suddenly, and he chuckled slyly—he had an idea.
"Ice Empress is the queen of the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan."
"As long as Lord Ye Yu can find an Ice Jade Scorpion, I can read its memory—"
"And then I'll know where her lair is!"
"An Ice Jade Scorpion…"
Ye Yu's eyes flickered, and he nodded slightly.
He continued flying while activating his Martial Soul: Spirit Eyes, sweeping the landscape below with piercing gaze—
Searching for signs of Ice Jade Scorpions.
Very soon, Ye Yu located one.
Compared to the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion — Ice Empress herself,
Ordinary Ice Jade Scorpions only had diamond-shaped hexagonal armor on their shells with outstanding defense.
Their pincers and scorpion tails were silver-white.
But at the end of the tail hook, there were five green segments,
And their eyes glowed crystalline yellow, like gemstones—stunningly beautiful.
Yet the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it tends to be—
The Ice Jade Scorpion was no exception.
Although it possessed an extreme ice attribute, it also carried deadly venom!
"Found one!"
Upon spotting the Ice Jade Scorpion on the ground—
Ye Yu descended immediately.
He opened a small portal to the Blue Silver Space, through which the Skydream Iceworm released its spiritual power,
Directly subduing the Ice Jade Scorpion.
Although the Skydream Iceworm was widely mocked as a complete waste among million-year Spirit Beasts—
Even weaker than ordinary hundred-thousand-year beasts—
It still had no problem dealing with thousand-year and ten-thousand-year Spirit Beasts.
This Ice Jade Scorpion had only cultivated for five thousand years.
"Found it!"
After reading its memory with spiritual power,
Skydream Iceworm immediately located the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan's lair and shouted excitedly, vibrating the air with its spiritual energy.
Then, under Skydream Iceworm's guidance—
Ye Yu continued flying forward.
Very soon, a towering glacier peak came into view.
At the base of this glacier, there was a cave.
It was the lair of the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan.
"Bingbing, I'm here!"
"It's been years—did you miss me?"
"Come out and see me!"
As they approached the icy peak—
Skydream Iceworm was bursting with excitement and anticipation.
Unable to wait, he opened a portal through the Blue Silver Space,
Unleashing a vast wave of spiritual energy—
Sweeping toward the cave where the Ice Jade Scorpions resided,
And howled out in a voice full of joy like a ghost wailing or a wolf crying.
At that moment, inside the ice cave—
Amid the many Ice Jade Scorpions crawling about,
On a frozen crystal platform—
There lay a massive scorpion, significantly larger than any other of her kind.
It was Ice Empress, the queen of the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan.
She rested motionlessly atop the frozen platform, her eyes—like twin yellow gemstones—closed in deep meditation.
But when she sensed that familiar wave of spiritual energy—
Ice Empress opened her eyes in surprise and delight.
"That Iceworm!"
She hadn't expected—
That Iceworm she'd lost track of for thousands of years would finally return!
This was a creature with infinite ice-attribute energy and a cultivation of over nine hundred thousand years.
If she could devour it—
Her own bloodline might evolve once more, and she might finally survive the upcoming four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation.
Thinking this, Ice Empress was elated.
She leapt down from the ice platform,
Her massive Ice Jade Empress Scorpion body quickly crawling toward the cave entrance.
She could sense—
That Iceworm wasn't far outside the cave.
"A lowly little Iceworm dares to come provoke me in my own clan's territory…"
"You're courting death!"
Ice Empress thought viciously in her heart.