Cold Abyss Divine Palace, "Descendants of the Gods"

The pillars of light stretched upward from below, reaching so high that their ends could not be seen at a glance. Even ordinary True Immortals could not sense their limits when they extended their perception toward them.

These pillars were not stationary. They revolved around one another, slowly rotating with you at the center. With every full rotation, the temperature around the small settlement dropped another degree...

Only a few hours passed, yet the temperature within the small settlement grew ever lower. Blue-white snowflakes even began falling from the sky, as though a snow disaster had descended once more, throwing the other living beings in the settlement into panic.

Yet there were quite a few clever people in the settlement. Suspecting that the pillars of light were responsible for the situation and the source of it all, they gathered everyone and tried to approach for a closer look. But just as they were about to draw near, it was as if an invisible wall blocked them, keeping them outside and preventing them from getting any closer.

Moreover, the closer these people came to the pillars of light, the lower the temperature became. An inexplicable force capable of affecting the soul had already begun to emerge. The strongest cultivators in the entire small settlement were merely three Golden Immortals, without a single True Immortal among them. Faced with this situation, they were utterly helpless.

At that moment, several incomparably powerful auras rapidly approached. Only when they drew near did it become clear that these auras came from an enormous flying ship engraved with snowflake patterns. It had not seemed particularly remarkable from afar, but once it arrived overhead, it blotted out the sky and covered the sun, plunging the entire small settlement into gloom.

A similarly enormous snow maiden statue stood