"Zhou Nong, are you provoking me?"
The Ice King's voice was calm, but it was bone-chilling.
"Of course not. I've come to negotiate with the Icefang Dragon."
Looking at the main subject in front of him, Zhou Nong sat down on the ground with a smile.
He didn't expect to be so lucky, encountering the Icefang Dragon King as soon as he entered the Icefang Dragon's territory.
"Oh? Has your Yan country come to negotiate with me, or have humans come to negotiate with me?"
The Ice King raised an eyebrow, a hint of戏谑glinting in his eyes.
"Have you come to beg me to cease hostilities? It's simple. I don't need your Yan country's emperor to kneel. As long as you, Zhou Nong, kneel down and kowtow to me, this matter will be settled."
Zhou Nong laughed so hard as if he had heard a joke, slapping his leg and looking up at the sky.
"Ice King, Ice King, it seems your intelligence system is a bit lacking. I've already received the battle reports from the front lines. Haven't you received them yet? Now, it's not a matter of whether you cease hostilities, but that your four-race allied forces have been utterly defeated on the front lines. You either completely abandon those few True King-level Icefang Dragons, or you reinforce and expand the battlefield."
"If you really expand the battlefield, you'll have to prepare for a full-scale war with humans. Don't worry, humans definitely can't defeat the joint extermination of four victorious races. They will definitely be annihilated, but in the process of being annihilated, they can still take one or two races with them. Our Emperor and Prime Minister have heard all of our conversation. When the time comes, the Icefang Dragons will definitely be prioritized among the races that humans take with them."
In an instant, the Ice King's face turned extremely ugly. It rubbed its teeth together, sparks flying from its ice-blue fangs.
It was annoyed by Zhou Nong's words, but it had to admit that Zhou Nong's words did strike a chord with it. This was what it had always been worried about.
"Hmph, since you haven't come to persuade me to withdraw my troops, then state your purpose."
With a cold snort, the Ice King lay down on the ground, changing to a more comfortable position as it spoke.
Hearing this, a smile appeared on Zhou Nong's face. He stood up, gathered his previous listless expression, and immediately revealed a happy and admiring smile, the speed of his facial transformation far exceeding that of a face-changing drama.
"Your subject congratulates the Ice King!"
He bowed to the Ice King and shouted loudly, his voice traveling far in the vast ice plains and snowy mountains.
"Oh? Congratulate me?"
The Ice King rested its chin on a forepaw, watching Zhou Nong with interest, wanting to see how this frail human would use his silver tongue to turn the impossible into the possible.
"Under the Ice King's leadership, the Icefang Dragon race has annexed the Sky Canopy Bull race, and together with the Soul Devourers, Voidsky Cranes, and humans, the other three races are dividing the Sky Canopy Bull's inheritance, allowing the Icefang Dragon's power to expand unprecedentedly, far surpassing all previous ancestors. Your Majesty's name will enter the bloodline inheritance of all Icefang Dragons, to be remembered by endless future generations. Humans will even send people to help you compile books and biographies. Isn't this worth celebrating?"
Zhou Nong bowed, his head lowered, not raising it, and said in a loud and full voice.
But after hearing these words, the Ice King stood up from the ground with a disappointed expression.
"I thought you could say something, but it's just this? Forget it, I shouldn't have had any expectations of you. You will be buried in this snowstorm."
As it spoke, it extended its claws, and the surrounding wind and snow and the entire world seemed to become a part of its body at this moment, wrapping around the Ice King's dragon claws, and grabbing towards Zhou Nong's head.
Zhou Nong still maintained his bowing expression, as if he was deliberately sending his head towards the Ice King's dragon claws, causing those behind him to be terrified.
Du Ruo subconsciously wanted to block in front of Zhou Nong, but was stopped by Zhou Nong's gesture behind him, and could only look at his back in confusion.
The wind and snow stopped only a dozen centimeters away from Zhou Nong's head, followed by the Ice King's uninteresting voice.
"Boring, you're too boring. Tell me, what makes you so bold that you dare to provoke the unbreakable alliance between us Icefang Dragons and the Sky Canopy Bulls?"
The Ice King lay down in the ice and snow again, speaking in a bored tone.
Zhou Nong raised his head with a smile, his face devoid of any relief from surviving a disaster, but instead filled with a kind of expected smile.
For a leader of the Ice King's level, each country on the human side has assigned at least a hundred psychological experts to study its thoughts. It can be said that what this guy is thinking has already been figured out by humans.
He took out a jar from his space backpack, which contained the core of a Sky Canopy Bull.
"What is this?"
The Ice King squinted its eyes, sizing up the thing in Zhou Nong's hand. It thought Zhou Nong could take out something good, but it turned out to be this. This thing looked useless, how could it shake the unbreakable alliance between the Icefang Dragons and the Sky Canopy Bulls.
"Ice King, this is the Sky Canopy Bull."
Zhou Nong pointed to the core in the container, and said with a smile.
"What? Sky Canopy Bull? Haha, what are you joking about? The Sky Canopy Bull is so majestic…"
The Ice King chuckled, but before it could finish speaking, it suddenly reacted, and directly jumped up from the ground, its huge head suddenly approaching Zhou Nong. When it got closer, Zhou Nong could see clearly that one of the Ice King's teeth was taller than himself.
At this time, the Ice King didn't bother to pay attention to Zhou Nong's thoughts. It approached Zhou Nong, and its two huge vertical pupils turned into circles due to shock, staring straight at the small container in Zhou Nong's hand.
This was the first time since humans and this old dragon had been dealing with each other for so long that they had seen the Ice King so失态.
"This… is the Sky Canopy Bull?"
After looking at it for a long time, the Ice King took back its gaze with three steps back and one look back. It retreated, and the wind and snow turned into its throne, asking in a solemn and grand tone.
Zhou Nong smiled faintly. He understood that his side's matter was settled. From now on, the nature of this negotiation had changed.
"That's right, this is the Sky Canopy Bull."
As he spoke, Zhou Nong opened the container holding the Sky Canopy Bull's core in the Ice King's horrified gaze, took out the core, and wantonly rubbed it in his hand.
"This is the real Sky Canopy Bull, so weak that it doesn't have any ability to resist even when facing an ordinary person like me."
The Ice King was silent, silently looking at Zhou Nong and the Sky Canopy Bull's core in his hand, its pair of vertical pupils uncertain, not knowing what it was thinking. Then, it waved its hand, signaling the attendants to take these people down first.
Afterwards, ice and snow condensed, turning into several human-shaped ice men, leading this group of human envoys to a rare warm area in the snowy mountains to settle down.
No one knew what the Ice King was thinking, but they could be sure that from then on, the Ice King never said another word about the unbreakable alliance between the Icefang Dragons and the Sky Canopy Bulls.
