Snow Empress walked over to Ice Empress, gently patting her shoulder. Her gaze returned to Shen Lian, and her tone turned colder as she said,
"Ice'er is right. The Far North has never submitted to anyone. If you keep spouting such shameless nonsense, don't blame us for being impolite."
"Impolite?"
Shen Lian laughed, his laughter filled with undisguised mockery as he said to the two of them,
"You two?"
Before his words had even faded, a vast aura suddenly erupted from Shen Lian's body.
"Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon, possess me!"
Dark purple dragon scales instantly covered his entire body. Enormous dragon wings spread behind him, blotting out the sky.
Nine Spirit Rings rose from beneath his feet and circled his body—the first six were a deep blood-red, three of them entwined with golden patterns, the unique mark of Ferocious Beast Spirit Rings. The last three were brilliant gold, like molten sunlight, radiating a suffocating pressure. They were unmistakably Million-Year Spirit Rings!
"Boom—!"
Shen Lian's aura spread like a tsunami. The raging wind and snow were instantly frozen in midair. The condensed ice cones hung motionless, and even the falling snowflakes stopped in the air, as though time throughout the Far North had been pressed to a halt.
Snow Empress and Ice Empress's expressions changed drastically at the same time. They could clearly feel that every Spirit Ring on Shen Lian contained the power to destroy heaven and earth. Especially the three golden Spirit Rings—their aura made their souls tremble.
"Th-this... what level of power is this?"
Ice Empress instinctively hid behind Snow Empress, her scorpion tail raised tensely.
She had lived for more than three hundred thousand years, yet she had never seen such a terrifying Spirit Ring configuration, much less felt such an overbearing aura.
Snow Empress's pupils contracted