Tian Meng and the Ice Empress!

Deep within the Extreme North Land, day and night changed at an exceedingly slow pace. The snow covering the ground was more than half a meter deep, and in a place like this, every step could bring unknown danger.

The temperature here was extremely low; even the snowflakes were hard. The biting wind swept up the snow from the ground, and the layers of ice powder were practically comparable to an all-around soul skill attack.

Yet within this dangerous core region of the Extreme North, muffled thunder began to rumble through the previously gloomy sky. Such a tremendous commotion naturally drew the attention of many powerful soul beasts nearby.

"Roar, roar..." Beastly roars rose one after another from all directions.

"Get lost, all of you! This has nothing to do with you!" The next moment, an angry feminine shout rang out, accompanied by an overwhelmingly powerful pressure. In an instant, tens of thousands of soul beasts scattered in terrified flight.

Boom!

With a low explosion, the pitch-black clouds above the snowfield suddenly rippled violently. Then, from the distant northern horizon, a layer of jade-green light instantly spread over.

The black sky turned jade-green in the blink of an eye, translucent and alluring. That captivating color made it seem as though the lofty heavens had suddenly become an enormous jade-green gemstone.

"Tian Meng, you can't escape..."

The crisp voice echoed once more from every direction. Along with it came a terrifying sound wave that swept across the surroundings. The snow on the ground was almost instantly thrown three meters into the air, surging ceaselessly like suddenly raised waves.

"Ah!"

"Icey, I love you! You have to believe me..."

A shrill scream rang out. Across the snow-white earth, a plump, fleshy ice silkworm over seven meters long rapidly wriggled along the ground.

Its movements did not seem fast, but strangely, every time, it managed to evade one attack after another from the Ice Empress.

"Love me?" The Ice Empress's cold, disdainful voice followed at once. "You're nothing but food. If you love me, then let me eat you!"

A flash of jade light, and the Ice Empress appeared directly before the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. She was a scorpion of peerless beauty.

The Ice Jade Scorpion's body was covered in hexagonal diamond-like ice crystals, while her five-segmented jade-green scorpion tail looked lush enough to drip. The Ice Jade Scorpion was known as the most beautiful scorpion-type soul beast on the Douluo Continent, and the Ice Empress's beauty had reached the utmost extreme.

Under the gleam of the snowfield, the Ice Empress's entire body radiated incomparably dazzling brilliance. At that moment, she seemed to have become a source of light, refracting countless rays of splendor from herself.

At the sight of this, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm completely ignored the icy killing intent and deep desire in her eyes. A dreamy look unconsciously surfaced in his gaze as he stared fervently at the Ice Empress. "Icey~"

Seeing this, the Ice Empress felt a wave of revulsion. Her upraised tail hook suddenly lit up, and a beam of pure white light instantly shot toward the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

"Sigh, Icey, why can't you be a little gentler with me?" Sensing the lethal threat within the beam, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's immense Spiritual Power began to surge violently, and everything around him became blurred.

Boom! The Ice Empress's attack strangely passed through the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm without harming him at all.

"Icey, although I can't beat you, no soul beast on the Douluo Continent can match me in Spiritual Power. If I want to leave, you can't stop me."

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's smug voice echoed in the Ice Empress's mind. In the past, he could only flee miserably whenever he faced her. Now, with the immense Soul Power of a nine-hundred-thousand-year cultivation and Spiritual Power unrivaled in the present age, he could finally face the Ice Empress head-on.

Eternal Frozen Domain.

Mocked so openly by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the Ice Empress immediately flew into a rage. In her eyes, food from the past actually dared to claim that she could do nothing to him. It was blatant mockery, and she responded by unleashing a powerful move.

A jade-green gleam abruptly shone at the tip of the Ice Empress's scorpion tail. The jade-green light connected along the entire tail, forming a straight line.

The next instant, a burst of blinding jade-green light expanded outward.

Coldness—ultimate coldness—engulfed dozens of kilometers around them. It was a cold that could freeze one's very soul.

What the Ice Empress had unleashed was one of her strongest innate soul skills, Eternal Frozen Domain.

With her cultivation of three hundred and eighty thousand years, her Extreme Ice attribute, and the amplification of the Extreme North Land's environment, Eternal Frozen Domain unleashed at full strength was enough to make even Super Douluo-level experts deeply wary.

The bone-piercing cold around him was like a bucket of cold water poured over the heat in the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's heart. He gazed at the Ice Empress with a resentful expression.

"Icey, you're so cruel. Even when I was trapped in that ice cave, you remained in my heart. I've only just gotten out, and I came to find you filled with joy, yet you treat me like this."

"By the Ice God above, the sun and moon can bear witness to my sincerity toward you."

Powerful spiritual fluctuations erupted from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body as he resisted the bitter cold of Eternal Frozen Domain.

"You bastard! How dare you insult Lord Ice God like this?" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's words had thoroughly struck the Ice Empress's sore spot. Fuel was added to the flames, and her rage burned ever hotter. Only by eating him could she dispel the hatred in her heart.

And erase the insult to Lord Ice God.

Seeing the increasingly terrifying aura radiating from the Ice Empress, Tian Meng's heart sank. He knew that she could no longer listen to anything now. The nine golden markings on his body suddenly lit up together. One by one, the nine golden markings left the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body, then overlapped to form a round golden door!

"Icey, we'll meet again. I'll definitely prove my love for you. One day, you'll accept me." After another heartfelt declaration, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm slipped through the door and fled before Ice Emperor's Wrath descended.

Rumble!!!

A terrifying explosion echoed across the icy plains of the Extreme North. The Ice Empress stared darkly at the land, now empty of even a single beast. She had not expected the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to possess such a method. He had actually escaped.

"Damn it!"

"Tian Meng, don't let me see you again, or I'll suck your marrow dry!" The Ice Empress angrily swung her enormous foreclaw, and the ice plain within a radius of ten thousand meters suddenly sank a great distance.

"Icey, what happened?" At that moment, an ethereal voice rang out. Goose-feather snow began to drift down from the sky, and a graceful figure slowly descended through the wind and snow.

She had long snow-white hair cascading behind her, falling straight to her feet. Her sky-blue eyes were ethereal and clear, as though they could see through everything in the world.

Her luxurious, exquisite ice-blue gown perfectly displayed her slender, delicate body and flawless figure. Her snow-white skin was as crystalline, smooth, and translucent as jade.

Her features were even more breathtaking, the most exquisite creation of heaven itself—truly flawless. She was like a cold plum blossom in the twelfth lunar month, aloof and noble, proud amid the snow and frost.

The newcomer was none other than the ruler of the Extreme North Land, the Snow Empress.

"Snow Empress!"

At the sight of her, the Ice Empress immediately became delighted.