The wind and snow still howled across the Extreme North.
But the area before Ice Peak was so quiet that a pin could have been heard dropping.
Everyone's gaze was fixed on the same person.
Snow Empress.
She stood quietly in the snow, her ice-blue hair fluttering gently in the wind. Anticipation shimmered in her ice-blue eyes.
The first three had finished evolving.
Yinye, five hundred thousand years old, Void Emperor.
Ice Empress, eight hundred thousand years old, Eternal Freeze Emperor.
Qingzhu, one hundred thousand years old, Life Bamboo Emperor.
Now—
It was her turn.
And she was the strongest of them all.
"Snow Empress," Bai Lan said.
Snow Empress looked at him.
Bai Lan raised his hand, and the Contract Book appeared in his palm.
He opened it.
The fourth page.
The ice-blue snowflake emblem glowed faintly.
Seven hundred thousand years.
Heavenly Snow Woman.
Next came four evolutions.
"Are you ready?" Bai Lan asked.
Snow Empress nodded.
"I'm ready."
Bai Lan took a deep breath.
He focused his thoughts.
Snow Empress, first evolution, confirmed!
Boom—
Ice-blue light shot into the sky!
It was even more brilliant and dazzling than the light during Ice Empress's evolution!
The entire ice field trembled!
The distant snow-covered mountains began to shake, and snow slid down in sheets!
Countless Soul Beasts rushed out of their hiding places and prostrated themselves in this direction!
Because that aura—
Was a pressure they had never felt before!
It was the call of the Origin of Ice!
Seven hundred thousand!
Seven hundred and ten thousand!
Seven hundred and twenty thousand!
Seven hundred and thirty thousand!
Seven hundred and forty thousand!
Seven hundred and fifty thousand!
Seven hundred and sixty thousand!
Seven hundred and seventy thousand!
Seven hundred and eighty thousand!
Seven hundred and ninety thousand!
Eight hundred