As clear and crisp as ever. After spending three months together, Bai Cai of course remembered the sound of the Ice Empress's voice. Like water from a melting glacier, sweet and refreshing, yet cold to the bone.
A month had passed since the Ice Empress and Snow Empress had sacrificed themselves. If the Snow Empress hadn't seemed perfectly fine, Bai Cai might even have thought the Ice Empress had met with disaster and her soul had been scattered.
[One month apart, and you've gotten quite a bit bolder.]
The Ice Empress took human form and appeared in Bai Cai's Sea of Consciousness. Her bright eyes and pearly teeth, her delicate and charming face, her jade-green hair tied into twin ponytails, and her clear pupils, like autumn chrysanthemums, seemed as if they had been cast from pure gold.
[That was then. This is now.]
Bai Cai remained neither servile nor overbearing. If she died, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress wouldn't survive either, so the three of them ought to stand as equals. Bai Cai respected the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, but that didn't mean she was willing to be their puppet.
[I shouldn't have been so nice to you back then.]
The charming young girl knelt in the Sea of Consciousness, cupped her hands, scooped up a handful of clear water, and took a small sip. Her clear pupils gained a hint of vitality.
As the name suggested, everything in the Sea of Consciousness was a mental illusion. The Ice Empress was absorbing Bai Cai's mental power to maintain her human form.
After sacrificing herself, preserving her soul, and connecting with the Soul Bone, the Ice Empress's Spiritual Origin had nearly dried up. She was absorbing Bai Cai's mental power both to maintain her human form and to nourish