"...You know who I am?"
After everyone else had left, the girl spoke up at once.
"I do. You're from the Snow Race."
"I mean my identity."
"How would I know that?"
"But since you can order the Snow Race's chieftain around, you must have quite a status."
"A... progenitor of the Snow Race?"
Hearing Chen Changan's words, the girl shook her head. Then she walked into the palace and sat down on the throne.
"The Snow Race in Beidou Land is just one branch of the Snow Race."
"There are many branches like it throughout the Sacred Domain."
"Once every ten billion years, an empress is born among the Snow Race."
"The Ice Snow Empress!"
The Ice Snow Empress?
So the woman in front of him was the Ice Snow Empress, who appeared among the Snow Race only once every ten billion years?
This made even less sense.
As the Snow Race's empress, why was she seeking a husband?
"Every Ice Snow Empress has led the Snow Race to glory."
"But the Ice Snow Empress can never have children."
"That's because, powerful as the Ice Snow Empress is, she has one fatal weakness: the cold inside her body is tens of millions of times stronger than that of an ordinary member of the Snow Race."
"So the Ice Snow Empress must marry someone from another race and rely on his powerful, pure yang energy to suppress the cold inside her."
Hearing this, Chen Changan frowned. "So even if she marries, the cold inside her means the Ice Snow Empress can't conceive?"
"That's right."
"And no matter how high the Ice Snow Empress's cultivation reaches, her lifespan... is limited."
"Ten billion years. That's how long an Ice Snow Empress lives."
"Not one of the Ice Snow Empresses before me has