Lu Ran waved a hand.
"No need. I have a friend who needs to absorb a medicinal herb. During the process, she'll need Ultimate Ice to suppress the Ultimate Fire released by the herb, so I thought I'd come ask you for help."
The Ice Empress heard him out. That was no problem at all.
She immediately thumped her chest and promised, "What do you mean, ask for help? Leave it to me!"
"Where is she? Outside the Far North?"
Lu Ran looked around, puzzled. "I brought her with me. By the way, where's the Snow Empress? I don't see her."
She should have shown up, surely.
Before he could say another word,
the Ice Empress suddenly grew excited. Her long scorpion tail swished back and forth as she gestured with her pincers.
"Oh, right! After you left, so many things happened!!"
She drew out "many" for a long, long time, her pincers stretching wide to show just how much.
Then,
under Lu Ran's half-understanding, half-doubtful gaze,
the Ice Empress deliberately lowered her voice and began her tale, slow and dramatic. "That day..."
Outside the Ice Crystal Palace,
"Ha ha ha ha...!! Ice Empress, come out and meet your death!"
Sky Dream's voice rang across the world, carrying an endless, terrifying aura—the desperate presence that only a million-year Soul Beast could possess!
That's right,
it was a million-year Soul Beast! There couldn't possibly be a second one on the entire continent!
The instant the words fell,
a vast tide of emerald energy swept toward Sky Dream, forcibly driving back the thick aura it released. Its strength was plain to see.
"Hmph, Sky Dream! You dare come back?"
The Ice Empress appeared. Though she had yet to reach four hundred thousand years, her aura could actually stand against the million-year