The little girl's voice was icy and piercing, carrying unquestionable authority. She sat upright atop ten-thousand-year Mysterious Ice, her tiny body seeming to merge with the entire Ice Cave as it radiated a chilling aura that made one's heart tremble. The surrounding ice-element laws leaped and submitted around her, forming an invisible yet powerful domain.
Ling Yun's gaze sharpened, and understanding dawned on him. This little girl was most likely one of the three great kings of the Extreme North mentioned by the Silver Dragon King—the Ice Empress, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, a super soul beast whose cultivation was nearing four hundred thousand years!
He just had not expected her to appear in human form, and to look so young. She must have assumed this human shape for some purpose.
"Ice Empress?" Ling Yun spoke calmly, exposing her identity.
The little girl—Ice Empress—flashed a trace of surprise in her eyes before they turned even colder. "You know me? Then you are not some ant that wandered in by mistake. State your name, human. You are worthy of letting me know it."
Her tone was lofty, as though allowing Ling Yun's name to remain in her memory was a gift. That was hardly surprising. With cultivation nearing four hundred thousand years, she was an absolute overlord in the Extreme North. Even a Titled Douluo was merely a slightly larger insect in her eyes.
"Ling Yun." Ling Yun answered indifferently, his gaze sweeping over the spring behind Ice Empress and the strange plants around it. The spring radiated incomparably pure ice-element origin energy, while the plants came in all shapes and sizes, crystalline and translucent, containing immense life force and ice-element laws. Clearly, none of them were ordinary. This place was likely one of the core treasure lands of the Extreme