Therefore, no matter how well she hid, she could not possibly escape Lu Yuan's eyes.
"Found her!" Lu Yuan murmured. He exchanged a glance with Qian Renxue, and the two nodded in tacit understanding before pretending not to care as they continued onward.
"Good, they didn't notice me!" Beneath a patch of snow, a pair of orange-yellow eyes watched Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue through holes in the snow.
Seeing that they seemed not to have noticed anything and were continuing onward, a soft, relieved voice rang out.
The voice was exceptionally crisp and pleasant, yet it carried a trace of anguish, as if its owner were enduring something.
"Those damned people have truly lost all conscience, slaughtering wantonly throughout the Land of Extreme North. Those two are simply too strong. I only hope Snow Empress is safe."
"Unfortunately, I'm badly wounded and can't spare any attention for anything else!"
Her words brimmed with unwillingness and resentment.
"How about I help treat your injuries?" A clear voice rang out. The patch of snow instantly scattered, and two figures appeared on the spot.
"What a beautiful scorpion!" Qian Renxue's eyes were filled with astonishment. She had seen many scorpion-type Soul Beasts, but this was the first time she had seen one so beautiful.
The scorpion before them was entirely translucent jade-green, without the slightest flaw. The armor covering its body was as pure as crystal.
Its two golden-yellow eyes gleamed with intelligence and were exceptionally lively. Its pair of enormous pincers were covered in hexagonal transparent scales, crystalline like diamonds and refracting seven-colored light through the air.
Its tail was slender and long, consisting of six segments. At its tip was a sharp hook that gleamed with a dazzling cold light.
"The second-ranked of the Three Great Kings of the Extreme