The damage caused by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detonating its Origin Power naturally struck at the target's very essence.
The Snow Empress was a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. She seemed powerful, but her Origin had been damaged when she faced her last hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation. Even though she was about to face the next one, she still hadn't recovered. Then she failed to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core and suffered a backlash.
That only made things worse.
Of the three Soul Beasts, her Origin had suffered the greatest damage.
Naturally, she was hurt the worst, too.
Her age was like a shield, but the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's attack ignored shields and directly reduced her maximum health.
The Ice Empress had suffered the second-worst injuries.
Her Origin had also been damaged during her last tribulation and hadn't recovered, but her injuries weren't as severe as the Snow Empress's.
The Titan Snow Demon King had suffered the least.
It had been in good health, and its Origin hadn't suffered even the slightest damage. Its next tribulation was still far off.
The injuries it had sustained would heal in a few hundred years.
At most, they would leave behind a few minor hidden wounds.
That was normal.
The severity of their injuries was all relative.
An attack from a million-year Soul Beast like the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, which detonated its Origin, could never be healed easily.
"Damn Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!"
The Ice Empress clenched her pearly teeth, golden eyes blazing with fury.
"I'm going to kill it!"
"I'm going to peel off its skin!"
"I'm going to..."
Before she could finish, her expression suddenly changed. She turned to stare at a certain spot in the crater, then exchanged a glance with the Snow Maiden.
Seeing the latter's astonished expression,