Chapter 111: Moon Crown, Zhang Lexuan's Family? The Ice Emperor is Numb!

Spirit power slowly retracted, a white light flashed on his hand, and then a soul bone with a somewhat strange shape appeared in Shu Yan's hand.

This soul bone is entirely silver-white, exuding a clear, cold aura; faintly, a glossy light can be seen flowing above it. The most strange aspect of this soul bone lies in its shape: unlike ordinary head soul bones that resemble a human skull, this soul bone looks like a crown, somewhat similar to Xu Jiu Jiu's Star Crown martial soul, but far less ornate and lacking its many decorations.

Compared to the Star Crown, this soul bone is obviously much more "plain," yet that strange aura is indeed quite eye-catching.

The Ice Emperor snatched the soul bone from Shu Yan's hand and then took it into the moonlight to examine it.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but after touching the moonlight, the soul bone became noticeably brighter, and even the speed of the flowing light above it increased slightly.

"Strange, this thing doesn't look like a head soul bone, nor like an external soul bone—when did such a heresy appear among soul bones?"

The Ice Emperor muttered, somewhat at a loss.

Xu Jiu Jiu also looked at the soul bone emitting a strange luster in the moonlight with some surprise, pursing her lips, not knowing what to say.

Shu Yan looked at the Ice Emperor's expression with some helplessness—wasn't the Ice Emperor supposed to be very aloof? How come he doesn't at all resemble what he initially imagined……

That said, Shu Yan then produced another piece of silver-white jade; this jade seemed somewhat similar to that soul bone, and even in a dark environment it still emitted a faint glow, feeling a slight coolness upon touch, and despite having body temperature, its temperature showed not the slightest change.

The Ice Heaven Snow Maiden martial soul granted Shu Yan not only extreme resistance to cold and superb control over ice attribute, but also keen temperature perception; this jade was extraordinarily strange in his perception—even when he sensed its interior with spirit power, its temperature remained consistent with the exterior, and even sending ultimate ice soul power into it could not alter it.

Shu Yan's long, fair fingers rubbed the jade's surface, and then he discovered a faint "moon" character hidden in a corner.

"Moon?"

Shu Yan blinked, his mind racing with many associations, but ultimately he inevitably linked it to a certain person.

That person is none other than the current Shrek Inner Court Senior Sister, Zhang Lexuan; as for Kong Deming of the Sun Moon Empire? He really isn't in Shu Yan's considerations now, after all this fellow is obsessed with researching soul guide devices and may never have left the Sun Moon Empire in his life—how could his things possibly appear out of nowhere on a duke of the Tianhun Empire?

As for Zhang Lexuan… Shu Yan's understanding of her is simple: she is a pure genius, one of the few whose talent amazes this era; besides that, there is her background issue.

Zhang Lexuan herself is a person of the Tianhun Empire; her family originally held a respectable status there, her martial soul is the moon—an absolutely top-tier martial soul, which already makes one wonder about the connection between her family and Kong Deming; moreover, her family seems to have been exterminated over a decade ago, with Zhang Lexuan being the sole survivor. Thinking further about the Frost Star Duke's conduct and the shady deeds of these years, Shu Yan's mouth twitched—could it really be such a coincidence? After putting away the jade, he seized the soul bone from the Ice Emperor's hand, and upon careful inspection indeed found a "moon" character etched onto the soul bone's surface, so faint as to leave almost no trace, within that faint glow.

The Gazing Until Autumn Water Dew's tempering of his sea of spirit is undoubtedly substantial, and it also greatly enhanced Shu Yan's spirit power and vision; had it been the former Shu Yan, trying to detect this faint, almost invisible character might have simply been overlooked.

"I have a rough guess as to where these two things came from, but never mind, it doesn't matter. Jiujiu, this soul bone—do you want it?"

Shu Yan said softly, his gentle gaze also falling upon Xu Jiu Jiu.

Xu Jiu Jiu shook her head decisively and spoke softly:

"I don't need it; the Splendid Luo Jasmine gave me a hundred-thousand-year head soul bone, and the soul skill it granted is the finest of the finest, perfectly suited to my martial soul and attribute. This soul bone's attribute leans toward yin-cold; I can't say exactly what attribute it is, but for me it would at most be a decoration, with no other use."

What Xu Jiu Jiu said is not exaggerated at all; the Splendid Luo Jasmine is hailed as the king of immortal grasses, itself standing at the pinnacle of plant-type soul beasts, and when combined with the Star Crown martial soul, the soul skill it grants Xu Jiu Jiu is naturally among the most domineering.

Perhaps in the future her fifth soul skill will bring their enemies a great surprise? The Ice Emperor looked at Shu Yan with some dissatisfaction; perhaps because they're used to roughhousing, she feels Shu Yan no longer regards her as a senior but rather as a little sister, which makes the usually proud her feel somewhat defeated, yet in that defeat she secretly enjoys the feeling, even feeling a secret joy deep down……

This is undoubtedly an astonishing and shocking matter, and even the Ice Emperor himself feels this way.

The Snow Emperor is unwilling to fully accept her feelings, which the Ice Emperor can completely sense; feeling down, she also largely senses something, and perhaps because of this, in her heart she regards the Shu Yan who resembles the Snow Emperor in appearance by eighty percent as an outlet for her emotions when she feels low, but as she vents and vents, she seems to have grown accustomed to the other's presence, and sometimes her heart even presents two nearly identical little figures for her to choose—one is the Snow Emperor, the other is Shu Yan……

The Ice Emperor is numb.

She also can't figure out what she's thinking; her long friendship and entanglement with the Snow Emperor over hundreds of thousands of years have made it hard for her to distinguish the concrete boundary between love and friendship, and she herself isn't really concerned about this issue—the Snow Emperor is her obsession and white moonlight, and Shu Yan… how could he not be her most special existence? Looking from another angle, the Snow Emperor could hardly be otherwise.

Even she, who is bright as ice and snow, has become dull and somewhat foolish in matters of the heart; this is a tangle, and also a bewilderment she herself finds hard to believe—those who can see through people's hearts often cannot see through their own; those involved are confused, but observers… also can't say clearly just how it is, who could ever fully explain it?

But perhaps soon they will together find the answer to this question; merely obtaining this answer will surely evoke some feeling……

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(End of chapter)