That green was deep and translucent, quieter than the purest seawater in the depths of the vast ocean, more crystalline and lustrous than the finest imperial green jadeite, as though it contained the spiritual essence of ten thousand years of frost.
Its carapace was not smooth, but covered in fine, orderly hexagonal patterns, as if carved by the most masterful artisan. A ring of diamond-like ice crystals was embedded along the edge of every plate.
At that moment, a faint aurora happened to drift across the sky. The shifting ribbons of colored light reflected off its emerald-green body, immediately refracting hazy, dreamlike, kaleidoscopic brilliance. It looked less like a living creature and more like an unparalleled living work of art, painstakingly sculpted by nature itself.
Its head formed a graceful triangle, while its two enormous foreclaws resembled peerless shears meticulously polished from green crystal. When the pincers opened and closed, icy-blue frost mist faintly curled around them.
The pincers were likewise covered in mysterious diamond-like particles, glittering with hard, chilling light beneath the illumination.
Most eye-catching of all was its tail, raised high.
The tail consisted of five jade-green segments linked together, each one crystal-clear, as if light flowed within.
The tip was not the ordinary barb of a scorpion, but a finer, sharper emerald-green spike that seemed carved from ice crystal. A point of dark-blue radiance continuously flickered at its tip—the manifestation of ice poison and cold condensed to the extreme. Merely looking at it made one's soul ache with piercing pain.
Ice Jade Scorpion.
One of the undisputed apex predators and overlords of the Extreme North Land.
A supreme soul beast possessing the ultimate ice attribute, standing at the peak of the ice-attribute soul beast pyramid!
Han Yuchen's gaze locked tightly onto the beautiful yet dangerous creature. His