Back then, a human had held a strange-looking device with unusual functions. While the Snow Empress was still in the middle of transforming and utterly unable to resist, he had tried to capture her by force.
Although she had struck him down immediately, that strange device had already stripped away and absorbed part of her origin power. In his final moments, the man had fought back with everything he had, even detonating the energy left inside the device. The violent force had thrown the Snow Empress's steady transformation completely out of rhythm.
Now, the Snow Empress's transformation was stuck in a hopeless limbo. She couldn't move forward and complete her metamorphosis, but with her origin power depleted, she couldn't stop midway either. Every passing second brought the risk of failure, ending in her death and the complete dissipation of her origin—a truly tragic fate.
Watching the Snow Empress struggle to endure inside the Ice Cocoon, the Ice Empress felt as if her heart were being carved apart. Anxiety and helplessness consumed her.
She knew that there were only two ways to save the Snow Empress's life: find pure life force, or obtain a top-grade ice-attribute origin power of extraordinary purity.
Right, life origin power.
The green-haired, twin-tailed little girl's eyes lit up at once. Wasn't there a ready-made lump of it over there, calling out just moments ago?
The Snow Empress's safety mattered more than anything. The Ice Empress had no time to care whether the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm lived or died.
"Xue'er, wait for me!"
The Ice Empress turned back and gazed deeply at the fragile, slender figure inside the Ice Cocoon. Resolve and determination surged in her eyes. Without another moment's hesitation, she transformed into a streak of emerald light, tore through the air, and sped toward