White Clothes Stained with Killing Intent, Life-Taking Armor; Ten Thousand Mosquitoes Cover Valley, Raising a Tide!

Beside the Snow Empress, a giant scorpion lay motionless, its body wrapped in diamond-shaped, jade-green ice crystals. The ice glinted with a chilling sheen in the reflected light.

In the next moment, jade-green light flashed across the scorpion, transforming it into a woman in a long jade-green dress.

She was none other than the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, Ice Empress, one of the Far North's Three Great Heavenly Kings.

The Ice Empress wore a jade-green gown. Her delicate features were less haughty than the Snow Empress's adult form, but more aloof and beautiful.

On either side of her lovely, fair face were four jade-green Demonic Marks. Her long, dark green hair fell loose down her back.

Her skin was as white as snow, with a translucent quality; beneath it, a faint jade-green light seemed to flow.

"Xue'er, this aura is..."

The Ice Empress didn't finish speaking. She looked up at the streak of blood-red light, fear flickering in her eyes.

What kind of aura could make the Ice Empress, a being who had lived for more than three hundred thousand years, afraid?

The Snow Empress said nothing. She lightly tapped her bare toe against the ground, and her body transformed into a wisp of snow, heading toward the edge of the Far North.

"Xue'er, wait for me..."

The Ice Empress tapped her toe, and jade-green light flared around her. She turned into a streak of jade light and hurried after the Snow Empress. The two figures soon vanished into the depths of the Far North's Ice Field.

In the valley, Lu Chen stood amid the boundless blood-red light, his white clothes whipping in the gale, wrapped in blood mist.

A Dark Gold Demonic Mark crept upward along his jawline, finally stopping on his right cheek. Red-gold flecks