"Ice Empress..."
As Lin Yao fell silent after speaking, the faint blue halo surrounding Sky Dream Ice Silkworm trembled slightly.
He feared that the cold and arrogant Ice Jade Scorpion Emperor would lose her temper. Just as he was about to smooth things over, he met the Ice Empress's gaze.
Those eyes were like ice that had not melted for ten thousand years, devoid of the slightest warmth. Even the air seemed frozen by her stare.
Sky Dream Ice Silkworm swallowed the words at his lips, his plump body instinctively shrinking back as even the fluctuations of spiritual power around him weakened.
After easily intimidating Tian Meng with a glance, the Ice Empress slowly turned back. Light flickered through her golden eyes, and the hook at the tip of her scorpion tail trembled faintly, clearly revealing her inner turmoil.
She lowered her gaze in thought. Tian Meng's words echoed repeatedly in her mind like heavy hammer blows.
The four-hundred-thousand-year tribulation that would come a century later was a fatal knot she could not escape.
Before this, she could only wait in despair for the tribulation to descend. But now, Lin Yao's appearance had given her another path.
A new path filled with uncertainty, yet with an enormous chance of success—a path that made her want to risk everything and take a chance.
She was unwilling to ignore such an opportunity.
The Ice Empress's gaze quietly swept over Lin Yao.
The youth sat cross-legged, his back as straight as a pine. Even when facing a top-tier Fierce Beast like her, his eyes held only calmness and resolve, without the slightest trace of fear.
Then she thought of Tian Meng's almost heaven-defying Million-Year Soul Ring foundation. Combined with Lin Yao, the brilliance was so dazzling that she could not look away.
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