In the span of a few breaths, the Ice Empress appeared before them. She first glanced at the Snow Empress. When she saw the Snow Empress's illusory body and faint aura, her expression changed drastically.
Then she whipped around, glaring at Su Chen and Mu Ye with emerald-green eyes as she gritted her teeth and shouted:
"Humans! What have you done to the Snow Empress?!"
Her voice brimmed with fury. The moment she sensed an unfamiliar, powerful presence intruding into the Far North Core Area, she had rushed over. And what she found was the Snow Empress in a terribly weakened state, along with two humans!
How could she not be furious?
The Snow Empress fell silent for a moment, then spoke softly. "Bing'er, it has nothing to do with them."
The Ice Empress froze. "Snow Empress, you..."
"It was my own doing." The Snow Empress sighed. "I can't survive the Seven Hundred Thousand Year Heavenly Tribulation. My Soul Core is showing signs of breaking apart, so I found that Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus and planned to reincarnate in human form."
She paused and looked at the fragments of the God-Sealing Platform on the ground. "I didn't expect a human Soul Engineer to ambush me at the most crucial moment of my transformation. He used a powerful Soul Tool to seal me inside it. I was in no condition to notify you."
The Snow Empress turned her gaze to Su Chen. "They were the ones who rescued me. Without them, I might have already been taken away."
After hearing this, a complex look flashed through the Ice Empress's emerald-green eyes. She looked at the Snow Empress, then at Su Chen, and finally fixed her gaze on Mu Ye, her eyes full of wariness.
"They... rescued you?" The Ice Empress still sounded