"You! You really are the Ice God." The Ice Empress and Snow Emperor stared blankly at the Ice God's Heart, their beautiful eyes filled with shock.
"More or less," the Ice God's Heart replied.
"My Lord Ice God, Tian Meng did it for my sake back then. He didn't think that far ahead." The Ice Empress dropped to one knee and spoke up for Tian Meng again.
"If Soul Beasts saw no hope, and you abandoned your identity as Soul Beasts to seek another path, I would have no objection. Immortality—whether human or Soul Beast, so long as one has the ability, everyone has the right to pursue it. But if you dared turn around and persecute the Extreme North, that would be unforgivable." The Ice God's gaze was icy as she turned to look at the Snow Emperor. "Snow Emperor, you were Lord of the Extreme North for a very long period in the past. Tell me, how should this situation be handled?"
"Please punish us, My Lord Ice God." The Snow Emperor knelt on one knee as well, following the Ice Empress.
"People of the Extreme North, for selfish reasons, openly colluded with humans to scheme against a Heavenly King of the Extreme North." The Ice God glanced at the Ice Empress, gave a cold snort, and said, "For your own good? For—heh! For the sake of gambling on some illusory immortality, he had to scheme against you and drag you down with him? Ice Empress, let me ask you: if every Soul Beast were like him, then even if the Snow Emperor had not fallen into human hands, would you, for the Snow Emperor's own good, also scheme against her and drag her down with you? If the upper ranks of Soul Beasts all learned from you,