The woman held Jiang Qinghuang in her arms, her phoenix eyes filled with icy hostility.
A startling chill radiated from her entire body.
"How could it be Great Sun True Fire?"
She murmured to herself.
Her voice was so faint it was almost inaudible.
Why would a mighty Saint of the Heavenly Human Realm like her fear Great Sun True Fire so much?
The answer to all of this.
Lay with the sect behind her, the Nine Cold Heavenly Palace.
The Nine Cold Heavenly Palace.
Had been founded in the Nine Cold Great World.
Its cultivators all practiced ice arts of the utmost yin.
From the moment they began cultivating, its disciples tempered their bodies with ice. Their blood was cold, their energy was frigid, and so were their divine souls.
What did such a path fear most?
Fire of the utmost strength and yang.
And Great Sun True Fire.
Was the most fiercely yang fire in all the world.
It was the natural bane of her Nine Cold Heavenly Palace.
That damned Nine Suns Sacred Gate had always kept her Nine Cold Heavenly Palace beneath its heel.
Was that not because the Nine Suns Sacred Gate possessed a high-grade Sacred Weapon fused with a strand of true sun fire?
And the Saintess's ice phoenix sacred body had already awakened.
By all rights.
In this world without any Heavenly Humans.
She should have been invincible.
Yet now, someone had injured her so badly that even her Dao foundation had suffered severe damage.
Could the people of the Nine Suns Sacred Gate have divined the Saintess's existence?
Had they sent someone ahead to snuff her out?
After all.
Once the Saintess's ice phoenix sacred body reached full mastery.
The Nine Cold Heavenly Palace would gain another supreme powerhouse.
Then, they could