In that instant, it was as if heaven and earth had frozen still.
Suddenly, the ice cavern trembled violently, as though it were about to collapse.
Yet the two locked in a deep kiss seemed not to feel the shaking at all, and still embraced each other passionately.
Beneath the ice, ice-blue flames visibly surged up from deep underground. In almost an instant, they broke through the ice and wrapped around the two people holding each other.
The dazzling flames seemed like proof of their true feelings, slowly stripping away the clothes on their bodies and letting them merge completely together.
A thousand miles away, Huo Yuhao and the others watched as the ice-blue flames suddenly erupting from the Core Circle of the Extreme North covered the sky, and once again revealed shocked expressions.
"Heart-Burning Flame!" Ma Xiaotao blurted out instinctively. Wasn't that flame rushing into the heavens the very Heart-Burning Flame she wanted to obtain?
"What on earth happened this time?"
"Xue'er, congratulations! You finally conquered that bastard!" The Ice Empress's voice rang out in Huo Yuhao's mind, her tone carrying relief as well as a hint of unwillingness.
"Bingbing, I've been in the Extreme North for many years too, but I've never heard of any Heart-Burning Flame. I even thought you were tricking me before! I can't believe something like this really exists! A flame without the slightest temperature—how strange!" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stared in astonishment at the Heart-Burning Flame covering the distant sky.
"Do I need to explain anything to you?" the Ice Empress said, somewhat displeased.
"Heh heh!" The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm laughed awkwardly. As a million-year Soul Beast, he really had no dignity at all.
"Ice Empress, I'm also very curious about what special effect this flame has. You said before that