Extreme North Land, Core Circle, Ice Palace.
Deep within the palace made entirely of ice, the chill was even denser and purer than outside, as if it could freeze time itself.
Snow Empress, dressed in white and possessing an icy, lofty bearing like a snow lotus, slowly opened her eyes, ending her brief closed-door meditation.
The moment she awoke, she sensed a familiar and cheerful aura rapidly approaching.
"Xue'er! Xue'er! I'm back!"
Accompanied by a crisp voice like the ringing of ice bells, a petite emerald-green figure swept into the palace like a whirlwind. It was none other than Ice Empress.
Her face was filled with irrepressible excitement and joy, and she was practically dancing with delight.
A faint yet genuine smile appeared on Snow Empress's cold face. "Bing'er, what has made you so happy? Did everything go smoothly this time?"
She noticed that Ice Empress's aura was full and vigorous, seemingly having improved once again, and felt faintly comforted.
"More than smoothly! It was an incredible stroke of fortune!"
Ice Empress ran up to Snow Empress as if presenting a treasure. With a wave of her small hand, dazzling treasures appeared one after another, floating in midair.
A fruit that was ice-blue all over, wrapped in swirling patterns, and radiating an extreme chill that seemed to move at lightning speed;
A fungus shaped like a ganoderma yet crystalline and translucent, exuding a gentle chill that nourished the soul;
More than a dozen cold-attributed spirit medicines, each with a different shape, yet all brimming with tremendous energy and overflowing with precious light;
And finally, ten pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, seemingly formed from ice-blue stars and radiating the most primal, extreme chill!
The energy density throughout Ice Palace instantly soared to a terrifying level. Even the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice