Far North, Ice Bear King Xiaobai was happily rolling around. As an ice bear over fifteen meters tall, his playfulness was enough to trigger an avalanche.
The main reason such natural disasters did not occur frequently was his master, the Snow Empress. Her true form was the Heavenly Snow Woman, a humanoid Soul Beast formed from the energy of heaven and earth. She possessed peerless beauty, an exceedingly proud nature, and immense strength despite her extreme rarity. She wielded the strongest Ultimate Ice and had once beaten the Titan Snow Devil King half to death when he courted her.
The Snow Empress had always raised the Ice Bear King as a pet, so even though Ice Bear King Xiaobai was already a powerful Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he still loved to play like a cub. The Snow Empress had never deliberately tried to teach him anything, letting everything take its natural course.
"Roar—"
A roar came from afar. Xiaobai, who had been playing, instantly curled himself into a ball and burrowed into the snow. In all his life, he had never heard such a terrifying sound.
The Snow Empress slightly narrowed her icy eyes. She too was surprised by that roar, but she felt no fear. As the most powerful top-tier ice-attribute Soul Beast, unless it was a true god, no Soul Beast or Soul Master was qualified to make her feel fear. This did not mean she was invincible beneath the gods; it was simply the pride in the Snow Empress's heart and the dignity of the ultimate ruler of the Far North.
Not being afraid did not mean she would not take it seriously. The Snow Empress knew very well that a Soul Beast capable of producing such a roar was anything but ordinary. She also vaguely sensed that