The Snow Empress stood a few steps away, taking in everything that had just happened.
She had not moved in directly like the Ice Empress, but something that had not been there before now lingered in her ice-blue eyes as well.
It was like water flowing beneath a thin sheet of ice, slowly yet irrevocably changing course.
Seeing the Ice Empress receive Gu Linyuan's promise, she suddenly felt an emotion so unfamiliar that even she found it strange.
She was a little jealous.
Even though the Ice Empress was her good sister, she could not help but feel jealous.
It was an instinctive emotion shared by all living beings.
She had lived longer than the Ice Empress and seen far more.
She had seen countless Soul Beasts attempt to approach the Extreme North, and countless lives devoured by the icy plains.
Those so-called powerhouses, regardless of their strength, had all ultimately had their traces erased by the wind and snow.
She had long grown accustomed to standing alone at the highest point of the ice plains, looking down upon everything. She had also long accepted that she, too, would one day fall beneath a heavenly tribulation.
Such was the fate of Soul Beasts!
But Ah Yin's existence showed her a fork in the road she had never considered.
At the end of that road lay an outcome she had never imagined.
She would no longer need to bear the shadow of heavenly tribulation alone, nor stand by herself upon the ice plains whenever thunderclouds gathered, waiting for lightning to descend.
She could not say it aloud.
She could not throw herself forward like the Ice Empress, cling to his arm, and act spoiled.
The Ice Empress hid her feelings less deeply than the Snow Empress, so she naturally sensed the