Snow Empress's injuries, to put it plainly, actually consisted of three main aspects.
Firstly, after enduring the 600,000-year Heavenly Tribulation, although she survived it, her own Origin was damaged by the Heavenly Tribulation.
Secondly, due to the damage to her Origin caused by the 600,000-year Heavenly Tribulation, she was unable to pass the 700,000-year Heavenly Tribulation. She then attempted to condense a spirit core using the method of Yin and Yang complementarity to enhance her strength and pass the 700,000-year Heavenly Tribulation.
However, the spirit core condensation failed, her Origin was damaged a second time, and ultimately, with no other options, she attempted to take on a human form using a 100,000-year Snow Lotus.
Thirdly, during the process of taking on a human form with the 100,000-year Snow Lotus, she was unexpectedly Sealed by the God Sealing Platform. Her strength was damaged due to prolonged confinement in this Sealed state.
These three problems were actually not a big deal.
The damage to her strength caused by the God Sealing Platform's Seal could now be easily resolved by Snow Empress using the cold spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
As for the first two, they could be easily remedied once Snow Empress's injuries were initially resolved, by acquiring the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow from the Earth Dragon Gate.
Ilieks and his own grandfather, Kong Deming, were both undoubtedly research-oriented talents. In particular, both of them possessed far more accumulated experience than him.
The achievements these two could attain by secluding themselves in the laboratory would definitely be greater than if they wasted time acting as bodyguards by his side at all times.
Since he didn't want to disturb these two, he naturally had to make the Snow Empress by his side strong enough to block all possible threats for him.
And because of the signed contract, Snow Empress's inherently pure personality, and her determination to protect the Land of Extreme North... numerous factors combined to allow Kong Ming'an to trust Snow Empress without reservation. Therefore, he was so dedicated to strengthening Snow Empress.
"In a sense, "Spell Cultivator" is the most suitable for Snow Empress. After all, she was Innately born with perfect "Elementalization", and the ice elements between heaven and earth have almost no repulsion towards her."
"However, the Foundation of the current "Spell Cultivator" system lies in spirit rings, and as a Spirit Beast, Snow Empress cannot possess spirit rings."
"Could it be... to let Snow Empress take on a human form? No matter how I think about it, it doesn't seem reliable... No!"
Kong Ming'an suddenly paused, his consciousness precisely seizing that fleeting inspiration amidst the myriad thoughts in his mind!
That's right! He could let Snow Empress take on a human form!
What he was thinking of was naturally not the ordinary transformation of a 100,000-year Spirit Beast.
In Kong Ming'an's view, the ordinary transformation of a 100,000-year Spirit Beast was simply too wasteful.
One must know that a 100,000-year Spirit Beast's strength could roughly rival that of a Titled Douluo.
Logically speaking, after a 100,000-year Spirit Beast takes on a human form and becomes a human, it should also possess the strength of a Titled Douluo, and then naturally have nine spirit rings.
But the actual situation was not like this. After a 100,000-year Spirit Beast took on a human form, its previous Cultivation was simply gone, and it could only honestly re-Cultivate.
Although it possessed Innate full spirit power, and the first six spirit rings could be self-condensed, compared to the Titled Douluo-level power it originally possessed, this small advantage was like giving alms to a beggar.
If all Spirit Beast transformations were like this, then he wouldn't say much more, as this might be the "setting" of the Douluo Plane, similar to a certain rule that was difficult to change.
However, there was an exception to this.
The transformation of that Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, directly resulted in her becoming a young girl, and her Cultivation reached over fifty levels, with the first five spirit rings also self-condensed.
Although compared to her original strength of a 15,000-year Cultivation rivaling an ordinary 100,000-year Spirit Beast, a Cultivation of over fifty levels was obviously also very wasteful,
But this might be due to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's own Cultivation only being 15,000 years.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion's 15,000-year Cultivation corresponding to a Spirit Master's Cultivation of over fifty levels made sense.
But in any case, this also proved one thing to him, which was that Spirit Beast transformation could directly possess the corresponding Cultivation and spirit rings!
Since the Three-Eyed Golden Lion could do it, it proved that the fact was feasible, and since it was feasible, there was no reason why it couldn't be replicated.
Even if it really couldn't be replicated, it would just mean he was too weak.
"If I want to speed up the progress of this research, the best way is actually to capture the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and have her transform into a human in front of me."
"And as long as I use Energy vision to remember the Energy model of the spirit power flow, then replicating it should basically not be a big problem, but... directly capturing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion?"
Kong Ming'an pondered for a moment, then dismissed this idea that was likely to lead to his demise.
The waters of the Star Dou Great Forest were a bit deep. Besides Di Tian, who was the most obvious and greatest threat, there was also a Silver Dragon King in slumber.
This one was an undoubtedly Divinity-level combat power. Even if he had the mark of the God of Destruction's divine trial on him, facing a Divinity, he might be gone before the divine trial could take effect.
Therefore, without sufficient confidence, he would absolutely not go to the Star Dou Great Forest. Even if there was Tianmeng, who was very suitable as a material, he currently had no intention of going there.
"Directly using the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as a material is not realistic, but letting an ordinary 100,000-year Spirit Beast transform for observation is also not realistic, so I can only start from other places..."
A hint of helplessness flashed in Kong Ming'an's eyes. The feeling of having such material right in front of him but being unable to use it was truly uncomfortable.
Looking at Snow Empress in the distance, who was gradually recovering from her injuries with the extreme cold power from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's cold spring, Kong Ming'an temporarily stopped his thoughts, and a faint blue stream of light once again appeared in his eyes.
Immediately, for an unknown number of times, he sighed in his heart—
"So beautiful..."
Although he didn't know how many times he had observed Snow Empress's almost perfect body Energy structure, Kong Ming'an was still somewhat mesmerized.
The just-right Energy transmission nodes, the impeccable matrix circuits, the complex yet not at all redundant combination... this was the most perfect Energy structure he had seen so far, and also the most perfect "Elementalization" so far.
In comparison, the "Elementalization" he currently mastered was like a clumsy imitation.
Only the "Qi-Blood Transformation" extended from the concept of "Elementalization" was somewhat interesting.
Transforming the flesh and blood of the body into Qi and blood, thereby achieving Rebirth from a drop of blood, an inexhaustible body and an indestructible body, arbitrary shaping... and so on... transforming the body into Qi and blood?
Kong Ming'an's eyes lit up, his thoughts clearer than ever at this moment!
That's right, it was "Qi-Blood Transformation"! Or rather... it was the perfect version of "Elementalization"!
As long as he achieved the most perfect "Elementalization", in essence, he would be equivalent to transforming from a human into an elemental being like Snow Empress, and would be considered the same kind!
And since he could freely switch between human form and elemental being without losing Cultivation, then conversely, there was no reason why Snow Empress could not transform from an elemental being into a human without losing Cultivation!
As long as he achieved perfect "Elementalization", then he could observe the differences between him and Snow Empress.
And this so-called difference was the spirit ring! He had spirit rings, but Snow Empress did not!
At that time, he and Snow Empress would be mutually comparison samples! Finding the differences between them, finding the key among them, and then... finding the method for Spirit Beast transformation without losing Cultivation!
"Even, "Elementalization" and "Qi-Blood Transformation" might allow Spirit Masters to freely transform from humans into Spirit Beasts, or Spirit Beasts to transform into humans... "And even combine the advantages of both... thereby achieving the Cultivation speed of humans, and the long lifespan of Spirit Beasts!"