Chapter 472.1. The Snow Empress' Dance
Time passed day after day. From Ju Zi’s perspective, Huo Yuhao should be making his move soon. At least, he should make some kind of probing attack, and attempt to destroy some of their surveillance soul tools on this side. His concealing abilities could be maximized only when there were fewer surveillance soul tools.
But what caught her a little off-guard was that she was waiting around as five days flashed by. Huo Yuhao didn’t appear in the end, and their plan was successfully carried out. They were starting to extract the metals from the mine.
The roads were too far, and in addition to the terrible conditions in a cold and dreadful place like the Extreme North, transport was very inconvenient. Therefore, Ju Zi had decided before they departed that they would extract, refine and process everything on the spot. They would only transport all the rare metals when refinement was complete.
Xu Tianran was the only person who knew that she was here in person, while all the rare metals that they would extract from this operation would all belong to the empire’s royal family, so that they could strengthen their control over the imperial family. Everything was arranged after she had a discussion with Xu Tianran.
Has he really left? That’s not quite like his personality! He has always been the kind to become braver as pressure piles on, and he will never admit defeat. Even if I am his enemy, there’s no reason for him to leave just like that, since he is so determined to oppose me.
Ju Zi was as dejected as she was suspicious. Truthfully, she would rather clash with Huo Yuhao than receive news once more that she had lost him. In the end, she had absolute authority over the army here, and all she had to do was not hurt him, even if they faced each other on the battlefield. She didn’t feel very comfortable that he would leave just like that. This was how complicated a woman’s emotions were.
Of course, Huo Yuhao wouldn’t give up. After travelling continuously for a long time, and three days after departing the Sun Moon empire’s great army, he was inside the Extreme North’s core region.
Huo Yuhao didn’t run into too much trouble as he flew forward. Typical soul beasts couldn’t threaten him at all with his strength, and even those that were relatively stronger would immediately scamper away when he imitated the Ice Empress’ aura.
The Ice Jade Empress Scorpion was one of the Extreme North’s Three Heavenly Kings. Most high-level soul beasts from the Extreme North were very familiar with the Ice Empress’ aura, and that was the reason why Huo Yuhao’s imitation was almost always successful.