Queen Revania raised her eyebrows, then she smiled. She never thought that Aldrian would so easily decide to help her. She had expected that she would need to persuade him, especially with how he had been trying to keep his distance from her.

There was no way she did not know that all this time he had been trying to distance himself and ignore her feelings for him.

But that still did not stop her from doing things her own way, trying to make him open his heart to her and give her a chance.

"So Your Majesty has a way to complete my special physique?" she said.

The avatar thought for a moment before answering her.

"Well, to be honest, this is the first time I will try it, if you agree to it. If it succeeds, then you will have your special physique. If not, I have another method."

Queen Revania raised her eyebrows again.

"So you are making me your test subject?"

The avatar nodded. "You could say that."

Queen Revania smiled. "What a blunt response. You are truly cruel, Your Majesty, making me your test subject. What if something bad happens to me?"

The avatar also smiled. "But it looks like you don’t seem to mind being the test subject."

"Isn’t it a win-win situation? I am trying to test something, while you will get your complete special physique if it succeeds."

Queen Revania nodded. "That’s true. Then what do we need to do?" She found that Aldrian’s confidence made her trust him as well. It felt as if there would be no problem even if he wanted to test something.

"Follow me," the avatar said as he walked out of the throne hall.

They then walked toward one of the training rooms, where they met Baek Jimin.

Baek Jimin seemed surprised to see Aldrian and Queen Revania walking together.

"Your Majesty, it’s good to see you again," Queen Revania greeted Baek Jimin.

Baek Jimin also showed a smile. "Me too, Your Majesty. But where are you going?" she asked, her gaze shifting toward the avatar.

The avatar smiled at her. "Queen Revania has a problem, and she asked for my help to solve it. It could be said that this is a problem that only I can solve."

Baek Jimin nodded in understanding. "I see." She then smiled. "Then please excuse me. I just finished my training, and I feel dirty. I want to take a bath for now."

"Go on, dear," the avatar replied before he and Queen Revania continued walking.

Baek Jimin also walked away from them and turned into another hallway. But she did not leave immediately. Instead, she peeked back with narrowed eyes as she looked at the avatar and Queen Revania.

She saw them entering one of the training rooms, which made her eyes narrow even further. What kind of problem required a private training room? This was something that had never happened between Aldrian and Queen Revania before.

’Whatever it is, I need to tell Sister Sylphia and Sister Angelica. This might be interesting,’ she thought before leaving the place.

Inside the training room where the avatar and Queen Revania entered, he gave his instructions.

"Please cultivate the same way you did when you gained your special physique. I will need to touch your back without any obstacle to try my method. In other words, I need direct skin-to-skin contact with your back."

But then he saw her blush, and she seemed hesitant, which did not suit her usual demeanor at all. It made him raise his eyebrows.

"What’s wrong?"

After a moment of silence, she finally opened her lips.

"Well... I have to cultivate entirely naked if I follow that method."

Then there was silence.

The avatar coughed to brush off the awkwardness, his face also slightly flushed.

"Well, I’m sorry. Then you don’t have to be completely naked. Just your back is enough."

Queen Revania nodded, though her blush did not fade. She slowly loosened her upper dress and turned her back toward him. Then she sat in a meditative position, exposing her back to him. Her blush deepened, but she still held herself steady.

Because she had to maintain a proper cultivation posture, she could not cover her chest with her hands. If Aldrian were to walk in front of her at this moment, he would see her chest, larger than any of his wives’, laid bare without anything to conceal it.

She could not help but imagine it. What if he walked around and saw her like this?

’Maybe I should just turn around and let him see... then make him take responsibility for it?’ she thought.

But she quickly shook her head inwardly.

’Relax, Revania. He will not like that kind of stunt. Be patient, and you will get what you want.’

The avatar did not know what was going on in her mind. But as he looked at her back, he nodded. He had to admit that her back was beautiful. That fair skin was tempting to touch, to stroke, even to kiss.

But he quickly brushed off that thought and entered a business state.

The avatar sat behind her and, for the first time, placed his hand on her back. Her body trembled slightly at his touch. She could feel the warmth of his palm, while the avatar could feel the faint coldness of her skin.

The avatar did not react much and focused on his task. He checked her body thoroughly, and he could see how the nether ice energy was trying to freeze her entire being, even her soul.

But her other elemental energies were still resisting, even though they were slowly being frozen as well. The avatar sighed inwardly.

He thought that Queen Revania had been reckless for cultivating with nether ice energy just to gain a special physique.

The nether ice in the Cerdian Kingdom was only the size of a palm. But even a crystal that small could bring doom to the entire Orian Continent if something went wrong with the secret realm where it was sealed.

Although he knew that the nether ice was sealed within a complex formation from the higher heavens, which greatly suppressed the cold it emitted, it was still a power that came from another realm.

In the first place, nether ice energy was something that should not be touched by cultivators below the Immortal Realm unless they possessed a special physique. No, even those below the Divine Realm should not recklessly attempt to handle it.

The nether ice energy was not normal ice energy. It could not be controlled by just any ice-element cultivator.

In truth, the existence of nether ice was meant to punish sinful souls who were worthy of such torment in the ice hell. It was a power that should only be controlled by the ruler of the underworld.

But the existence of someone with the Heavenly Ice Empress Constitution broke that rule, allowing them to also control it.

From his estimation, if the queen’s condition continued like this, she would only have a week at most to live.

The avatar thought that Quee Revania had not delayed taking action when she sensed something wrong with her body. She must have come to him immediately, which was why her condition had not yet reached its worst stage.

After checking her entire body, he nodded to himself.

Queen Revania truly needed to complete her special physique to restore balance in her body. In this case, the only thing that could suppress the nether ice energy was a fully formed Heavenly Ice Empress Constitution.

What he needed to do was support her by providing enough energy, one that matched the intensity of the nether ice energy.

But how would he do that? How could he replicate an energy that existed only within nether ice?

The answer was simple.

Create his own nether ice energy. As long as he understood the concept and the "ingredients" required to form it, he could recreate his own version of nether ice energy.

Luckily, he had already comprehended all the components needed to form nether ice energy. However, because he had never tried to create it, he did not know if it would succeed.

Even if he managed to form it, he was not certain whether this energy could be absorbed by Queen Revania to complete her special physique.

Still, he wanted to try.

Nether ice originated from the underworld realm, so it was naturally tied to death laws. Death itself was a laws belonging to the yin aspect of the universe, just like ice laws. Both carried coldness, ice in a physical sense, while death embodied a deeper, spiritual cold.

From his comprehension, nether ice was formed when ice within the hell ice absorbed an immense amount of death laws over a long period, causing it to mutate. This ice also carried a strong karmic connection to the underworld, something he had already comprehended as well.

To recreate it, he needed to combine the cold aspect of ice laws with death laws in perfect equilibrium, then infuse it with the karma laws.

The role of karma laws was to bind the ice and death together, allowing the resulting ice energy to freeze not only the physical, but also based on karmic nature itself.

Suddenly, the temperature of the entire training room dropped drastically, which astonished Queen Revania.

Ice crystals of various sizes began to appear all around them. The temperature kept falling to the point that even her body started to feel cold, which shocked her even more.

"Queen Revania, you can start cultivating. Keep your concentration," he said.

Queen Revania snapped out of her shock and nodded. She calmed herself and brushed away all unnecessary thoughts before beginning to cultivate according to the method for forming her special physique. The surrounding energy began to gather toward her.

This was the moment of truth.