Twelve Earthly Branches Spirit Gathering Array

The pale-blue Sky Dream Ice Butterfly was so frightened that it abruptly retreated several zhang, its wings clamped tightly shut as it shrank behind a rock, showing only a pair of compound eyes as it stared at that mass of flame in terror.

Its instincts told it that the flame could easily burn it to ash.

And not only it—the temperature of the entire small world was rising. Scorching heat filled the air, the leaves of distant spirit herbs began to curl, and steam rose from the nearby stream.

Xiao Yun immediately mobilized the pagoda to release a barrier, separating them from the outside world.

At the same time, deep in the core of the Extreme North Ice Plains.

Beneath ice that had not melted in ten thousand years, the most powerful existence on this ice plain lay sleeping.

She sensed it.

It was a mass of flame, a flame so blazing it was absurd, burning upon this land that had been covered in ice and snow for tens of millions of years. The danger brought by that flame pierced through several thousand zhang of ice, through the solid rock shell, through the ice coffin in which she slept, like a red-hot needle stabbing into her dreams.

She opened her eyes.

They were a pair of ice-blue eyes, like the purest sapphires, deep and cold.

Reflected in those eyes was the light of fire—that flame burning deep within the Extreme North Ice Plains, a flame that should not exist.

She sat up from the ice coffin, her long hair falling like a waterfall, every strand condensed with fine frost.

Her skin was as fair as snow, her features so exquisite they seemed inhuman, and a suffocating chill radiated from her entire body.

Heavenly Snow Woman—Snow Empress.

The true master of