Douluo Continent: Martial Soul - Ice and Snow Maiden, Calls Snow Empress "Mom"

Xue Di didn't say the rest, but Bing Di understood her meaning perfectly.

If this human child fails to awaken the Ice and Snow Maiden Martial Soul, then he loses his value as someone to be specially treated by the Snow Empress.

What awaits him is the cruelest natural law of the far north.

Even without the Snow Empress lifting a finger, the Ice Empress would simply throw him into the bottomless icy abyss to feed the ice bears. He'd be in deep trouble!

"Okay, since you've made up your mind, I'll listen to you."

Hyotei nodded; she always blindly followed Yuki-tei's decisions.

Then, she looked at the baby boy, pursed her lips, and said, "Since we're going to raise him for six years, we should at least have a name for him, right? We can't just call him 'human child' every day."

The Snow Emperor pondered for a moment, gazing intently at the howling snowstorm in the distance, and said softly:

"He was born in the ice and snow, like the purest snowflake in this far north."

But he was still human, carrying the scent of the mortal world.

In that case, let's call him... "Snow Ice Dust".

"Snow Ice Dust?"

Hyotei repeated the name twice, his eyes lighting up slightly:

"The snow of the Snow Emperor, the ice of the Ice Emperor, plus the dust of the mortal world."

"Hmph, this name is a good deal for that brat; it's like he's got both of our names on him."

Xue Di smiled slightly and did not refute.

She looked down at Xue Bingchen in her arms, who seemed to smack her lips slightly upon hearing her name, and whispered:

"From today onwards, you are Xue Bingchen."

……

In the days that followed, an extremely strange yet heartwarming scene unfolded in the core area of ​​the far north.

The two rulers of the far north, whose mere stomp could shake the entire northern part of Douluo Continent, have actually started clumsily taking on the role of "full-time babysitters."

For Xue Di and Bing Di, raising children is definitely ten thousand times more difficult than fighting against the ten thousand-year heavenly tribulation.

In the first few days, the core area of ​​the far north was in complete chaos.

Although Xue Bingchen has a special constitution and is not afraid of the cold, he is still an infant and needs to eat.

Where in the far north can you find breast milk suitable for human infants?

Seeing Xue Bingchen crying loudly from hunger, Bingdi was so anxious that she almost smashed all the icebergs within a ten-mile radius of the core area. In the end, Xuedi calmed down and went deep into the oldest glacial fissure in the far north to forcibly extract the "Millennium Ice Marrow Milk" that had been nurtured deep in the earth for thousands of years.

This ice marrow milk contains an extremely vast and gentle life force and ultimate ice energy, making it a rare and precious item for soul beasts. However, the Snow Empress is now using it as "milk powder" for Xue Bingchen.

To ensure that Xue Bingchen's fragile human meridians could withstand the energy of the Ice Marrow Milk, Xue Di would first hold the Ice Marrow Milk in her mouth each time, using her 700,000-year-old primordial power to repeatedly purify and nourish it, dissolving the violent coldness within, leaving only the purest and gentlest nutrition, before carefully transferring it mouth-to-mouth into Xue Bingchen's small mouth.

Hyotei was not idle either.

Although she was proud and arrogant, she devoted a great deal of effort to this little guy who was valued by the Snow Emperor.

In order to lay the most solid physical foundation for Xue Bingchen and greatly improve his future potential, Bingdi turned the extreme north into a complete mess of rare and precious natural resources.

The Ice Emperor collected everything from the "Ten-Thousand-Year Polar Snow Lotus" that grows on the frigid cliffs, to the "Thousand-Year-Old Extreme Ice Essence" buried deep beneath thousands of feet of ice, and even the extremely rare "Ice Dragon Bone Powder."

Although Xue Bingchen was just an infant and could not actively cultivate and absorb these terrifying energies, the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress had their own unique methods.

Every so often, Hyotei would boil these rare and precious herbs into a pot of crystal-clear medicinal liquid.

Then, the Snow Empress would place the naked Xue Bingchen into the medicinal liquid.

While Xue Bingchen was soaking in the medicinal bath, Xue Di would place her cool, soft jade hands on Xue Bingchen's back and inject strands of soul power into his body, guiding the enormous energy in the medicinal liquid to wash over Xue Bingchen's bones, meridians, blood, and even every cell in an extremely slow and gentle manner.

Meanwhile, Bingdi would stand by, using her exquisite soul power control skills to massage Xue Bingchen's acupoints, ensuring that every bit of medicinal power could be perfectly absorbed by this small body without causing any damage.

Under the relentless, even wasteful, nurturing of the two extreme northern rulers, Xue Bingchen's body underwent a dramatic transformation.

His skin became increasingly translucent, as if radiating a faint glow.

His meridians were expanded to an outrageous degree, becoming as resilient as the silk of a thousand-year-old ice silkworm.

His bones even faintly revealed a jade-like luster, containing explosive potential power.

Time always slips away silently in this snow-covered far north.

Spring comes and autumn goes. Although there is no spring or autumn in the far north, three whole years have passed in the Douluo Continent outside.

……

On this day, atop a towering snow-capped mountain in the far north's core region.

Sunlight shone through the thin clouds onto the pristine snow, refracting into countless golden rays.

A little boy who looked to be about three years old was being pulled by Hyotei to sit on a huge ice rock at the edge of the snow mountain.

The boy was extremely handsome and cute, with a healthy blush on his exquisitely sculpted face.

Most strikingly, he possesses short, pure white hair as white as the first snow, and a pair of deep, icy blue eyes just like Xue Di's.

This is clearly the result of long-term absorption of rare and precious materials from the far north and the influence of the Snow Emperor's original aura.

He wore an exquisite white robe woven from millennia-old ice silkworm silk mixed with the long hair that the Snow Emperor had shed. Not only was it impervious to swords and spears, but it could also automatically regulate its temperature, making him look like a little fairy boy who had stepped out of a painting.

He was none other than Xue Bingchen, who was already three years old.

Now, he can not only run and jump, but is also exceptionally intelligent and can already speak fluently.

At that moment, Hyotei was sitting next to him.

Hyotei, in human form, still looks like a twelve or thirteen-year-old green-haired twin-tailed loli. Three years have passed, and her appearance has not changed at all.

She swung her two fair legs, her bright green eyes filled with excitement and anticipation, and her hands kept rubbing together.

"Quickly, Little Ice Dust, I'm so lucky to see Snow Empress dancing again today!" Ice Empress said excitedly to Snow Ice Dust beside her, her tone filled with undisguised fervor.

In the far north, who doesn't know that Hyotei is the number one "fangirl" of Snow Emperor?

Being able to watch Yuki-tei dance is the happiest thing in the world for Hyotei.

Xue Bingchen sat on the ice rock, her two small hands supporting her chin, a hint of doubt beyond her years flashing in her icy blue eyes.

He tilted his little head, looked at Hyotei beside him who was as excited as a little girl, and asked in a childish voice, "Aunt Hyotei, why did Mommy dance for me? Is it because I obediently drank that bowl of bitter snow lotus soup today?"