The More You Live as a Soul Beast, the More You Discover That Soul Beasts Have Limits, So...

The front half of her body, layered in four sections, was covered in a layer of special scale-like protrusions.

These protrusions were hexagonal, gleaming brilliantly like diamonds. They covered not only her upper body and appendages, but also her two front claws.

The pincers of her front claws, like her mouthparts, were silver-white with a mirror-like sheen.

Yet the most eye-catching part was not her upper body, but the long, upraised tail at the rear of her body.

The Ice Empress's long tail had only five segments in total, each one jade-green. On the final segment, the tail hook raised high overhead was studded with diamond-like granules, while the hook's very tip gleamed with the same silver-white, mirror-like luster as her front pincers.

She was a Soul Beast as dazzling as a jewel.

"Hmph, Tian Meng, do you have any last words before you die? Spit them out already!" The Ice Empress's voice was full of majesty.

"Who dies is still uncertain. Lord Tianmeng came prepared!"

As she spoke, Tian Meng habitually put her hands on her hips.

At the Ice Empress's level, her senses gave her a strong advance warning of danger.

But no matter how keenly one sensed danger, it was not true foresight. Across the entire continent, only Tian Meng possessed Spiritual Power vast enough to conceal such perceptions.

Still, at the moment she was about to make her move, the Ice Empress ultimately sensed that something was wrong.

"No, who exactly are you? You aren't Tian Meng—no, no, you aren't alone. You brought someone else with you!" The Ice Empress shrieked as she swung her tail hook, the jade-green tail blazing with light.

"Are you crazy? Using your Spiritual Power like this, aren't you afraid you won't be able to return to your true body?"

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