"Don't tell me you want Ice Empress to take human form like I did, then leave the Far North with you and come to the human world?" Snow Maiden suddenly asked.
She seemed to have thought of something, and a complicated look appeared on her face.
As true overlords of the soul beast race, they possessed long lives and immense strength in the eyes of outsiders. They could even look down upon the vast majority of soul beasts and human soul masters.
Yet only they themselves knew that the path of a soul beast had been destined as a road of no return from the very beginning.
The higher their cultivation and the greater their strength, the closer they came to that inescapable end.
For Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, every breakthrough beyond a hundred thousand years of cultivation required them to endure a terrifying heavenly tribulation.
It was a trial imposed upon them by the laws of heaven and earth, and also the sword of death hanging above the heads of all high-level soul beasts.
If they survived, they could continue living, but the injuries left behind by the heavenly tribulation would gradually erode their very origin.
Again and again, even with lives spanning tens of thousands of years, they were merely exhausting their own foundations and clinging to life.
Until one day, when their bodies could no longer endure the next heavenly tribulation, and they would perish completely.
This was also one of the important reasons Snow Empress had chosen to take human form back then. She knew things that others did not.
She was unwilling to accept it.
She did not want to continue like that, gambling on an illusory future and struggling onward along a road fated to reach its end.
In order to take human form, she