Countless white snowflakes spun through the air, crystalline and sharp as blades. Even the wind in the gaps between them seemed to be their cutting force, howling as it blew.
Xu Lanqing could feel the ice and snow elements in the air stirring with unusual excitement. It was the influence of the Titan Snow Demon King. Yet as soon as they neared the group, they fell quiet, like subjects bowing to a king they had just met.
"Snow Empress, you succeeded?!"
The Titan Snow Demon King's rough, excited voice rang out in the distance, deafening as it echoed between heaven and earth.
The blizzard suddenly paused. A flash of white appeared in the distance, and the hundred-meter-tall figure vanished, replaced by a burly man about two meters tall. Wrapped in a coat made from the pelt of some unknown Soul Beast, he battled through the storm and arrived before the Snow Empress.
The Titan Snow Demon King stared wide-eyed at the familiar, beautiful face before him, afraid that if he blinked, everything would vanish like a dream.
"It was a close call, but I made it," the Snow Empress said with a smile and a nod.
She looked toward the distant blizzard. Without making any obvious move, she calmed the snow and wind stirred up by the Titan Snow Demon King.
"Has anything changed in the Far North while I was away?" the Snow Empress asked.
Only then did the Titan Snow Demon King accept that this was real, not a dream.
The Snow Empress had returned, and she was even more powerful than before. The Ice Empress had returned, too. Heaven had blessed the Far North!
"Everything in the Far North is well. It's just as it was before," the Titan Snow Demon King replied gravely.
He was still