Bi Ji and Zi Ji instinctively circulated their Soul Power to ward off the cold, while Snow Empress, a being born and raised by the Extreme North Land itself, naturally felt no chill.
The entrance to the ice cave had been carved from a single piece of Thousand-Year Profound Ice, its surface covered in densely packed Ice Patterns.
Faint fluctuations of Soul Power flowed through the Ice Patterns, clearly forming a restriction placed by Ice Empress.
Snow Empress extended her hand. A wisp of cold air coiled around her fingertip as she lightly touched the point where the patterns converged at the center of the ice door.
"Vmmm—"
The ice door gave a faint tremor. The Ice Patterns lit up with a dim blue glow, then slowly slid apart to either side, revealing the profound ice cave within.
The cold inside the ice cave was even more intense than outside. At the very center, atop an Ice Platform, a slender figure sat cross-legged, her entire body covered in a thin ice shell.
The ice shell was crystal clear, perfectly blending her with the surrounding ice cave.
Without a careful look, one might almost mistake her for a natural part of the Ice Platform.
(The premise is that Ice Empress and Snow Empress have both undergone Humanoid Transformation and become human.)
She wore a light-blue dress, its hem seamlessly joined to the edge of the ice shell, like a skirt carved from ice and snow.
Her features were breathtakingly beautiful, with an innate coolness between her brows. Her skin was as lustrous and pale as the finest Ice Jade.
Long eyelashes were dusted with tiny ice crystals, resembling butterfly wings encrusted with diamonds.
With her steady breathing, they occasionally trembled lightly, shedding a few nearly imperceptible specks of ice dust.
Even