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.
The environment here was already at the edge of what ordinary humans could survive.
Beyond this, after leaving Snow Spirit Province—
Lay the Extreme Northern Region.
And deep within the Extreme Northern Region was the true Extreme North.
While the Extreme Northern Region had an arctic climate with snow year-round,
Every summer, there would still be short periods where snowfall ceased,
And the snow on the ground partially melted.
But once one entered the Extreme North—
The true North Pole of Douluo Planet, one of the coldest places in the world—
Snowstorms raged all year round, and the cold wind howled with bone-chilling intensity.
The ground was buried under thick snow, and every mountain peak was covered in ice and frost, becoming snowy summits.
Everywhere was a vast expanse of blinding white.
Here, neither ordinary people nor regular plants could survive.
Only ice-attribute plant-type and animal-type Spirit Beasts could live in this environment—
Truly a paradise for ice-attribute Spirit Beasts!
So, whether from the Heaven Dou Empire or the Star Luo Empire, ice-attribute Spirit Masters never went to the Star Dou Forest to hunt Spirit Rings.
Instead, they would come to the Extreme North.
After crossing the border of Snow Spirit Province—
Ye Yu transformed into a bolt of lightning and flew swiftly through the skies, entering the Extreme North.
Upon entering,
The ground was completely blanketed in snow, and the temperature dropped to an extreme low.
In the air, the icy wind howled, cutting to the bone, and snowflakes filled the sky.
However, having consumed both the Fiery Apricot Delicate Branch and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, and having undergone the Ice-Fire Body Tempering—
Ye Yu had already gained immunity to extreme ice and fire-attribute energy attacks.
And the environmental conditions of the Extreme North were, after all, an ice-attribute energy assault.
Thus, Ye Yu was completely immune.
"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.