Some people said that the first woman a person saw when opening their eyes in life was mother.
If so, the first woman I saw when opening my eyes was Heavenly Snow Woman, Snow Empress...
What should I call her then?
Extreme North.
Boom~!
A strange trace of Heavenly Thunder crashed down from the nine heavens.
Without dark clouds, beneath a clear sky of ten thousand miles, it smashed straight into the icy plains of the Far North.
At the instant that bolt of thunder landed, it instantly blasted away countless pieces of solid ice.
That Heavenly Thunder was not strong, and for Extreme North, this bit of power was simply not worth mentioning.
Yet the strange thing was.
This bolt of Heavenly Thunder actually pierced directly dozens of meters deep into the ice layer of Extreme North.
Where the Heavenly Thunder landed, an aura that annihilated everything slowly permeated the air.
Inside Ice Crystal Palace.
Snow Empress was leisurely sitting on the throne, snowflakes faintly swirling around her entire body.
Her appearance was supremely beautiful, her skin fair and outshining falling snow, and her ice-blue eyes were cold, clear, and contained a king's indifference.
Snow Empress suddenly opened her eyes, her brow furrowing slightly as she sensed it.
This aura...
Although the aura of that Heavenly Thunder was faint, the power within it was extremely pure.
Even separated by several miles, Snow Empress could still sense the terror contained within that aura.
Such an anomalous scene.
Even for Snow Empress, who had lived for an unknown number of hundreds of thousands of years, it was her first time encountering this situation.
"Interesting."
Snow Empress stood up and stepped out of Ice Crystal Palace.
As the ruler of Extreme North, she had the obligation to go and investigate the situation.
If it were something harmful to Extreme North, she would annihilate it without the slightest hesitation.
Snow Empress did not think much, her figure flashing as she directly transformed into a streak of light and flew away.
However, when Snow Empress arrived, she was shocked by the scene before her.
The dozens-of-meters-deep ice cave had smooth edges, sliced open by an absolutely terrifying force.
The aura that had annihilated everything just moments ago came precisely from deep at the bottom of the cave.
Snow Empress lowered her head and looked down, a trace of solemnity flashing through her ice-blue eyes.
Although this aura of annihilation is still weak, it contains the aura of the laws of heaven and earth.
Pondering for a moment.
Snow Empress decided to go down and take a look.
Snow Empress descended through the air from the mouth of the cave.
The deeper the ice cave, the lower the temperature, and the chill in the air had almost condensed into a solid substance.
This chill was enough to freeze everything, but to Snow Empress, it was merely routine.
However, as Snow Empress went further and further down, she felt that aura become increasingly familiar.
Although the other party's aura was weak, it was exceptionally pure, pure to the point of bordering on the origin source.
As if just like herself, they were Innate Elves nurtured between heaven and earth.
No.
Even purer than an Innate Elf.
Her heartbeat involuntarily sped up a bit.
When Snow Empress descended to the bottom, she finally saw clearly the source of that aura.
That was an infant.
An infant whose life aura was extremely weak and whose entire body emitted a faint purple thunder light.
The other party was curled up in the deepest part of the ice cave, wisps of purple thunder arcs surrounding her entire body.
Snow Empress's pupils constricted slightly.
"This is... an Innate Thunder Spirit?"
She recognized the other's identity.
Innate Thunder Spirit.
Just like her Heavenly Snow Woman, they were both Innate Elves nurtured by heaven and earth.
It was just that she took ice as her origin, while the other took thunder as his.
She did not know how many years had passed, but this was the first time Snow Empress had ever encountered a so-called kindred spirit.
In this world and realm.
Innate Elves were extremely rare.
Innate Thunder Spirit.
Snow Empress had never even heard of such a thing.
Thunder and lightning were the forces of heaven and earth's punishment; to be able to give birth to intelligence with thunder as an origin meant that the other's potential might even surpass her own.
Yet now, this Innate Thunder Spirit with limitless potential was already on the verge of death.
Snow Empress looked at the infant before her, and an inexplicable sorrow welled up in her heart.
She did not know where the other came from, nor did she know why he was an infant.
But she knew that if she turned and left right now, this child would undoubtedly die.
Snow Empress was silent for a long time.
Then, she slowly reached out her hand and carefully picked up the infant.
Snow Empress placed her palm against the infant's back, slowly injecting a trace of Soul Power into him.
The infant's complexion gradually grew ruddy, and his breathing also gradually steadied.
Mh...
In a daze.
Ling Xiao only felt the cold.
It was a bone-chilling cold.
It was as if the entire world was made of ice, with every inch of skin being eroded by the frigid Qi.
He wanted to struggle, only to find that he did not even have the strength to move a single finger.
So, will one still feel cold even after dying?
Ling Xiao smiled bitterly in the darkness.
In his past life.
He was a blind orphan who grew up in an orphanage from a young age.
He had never seen the light, had never been adopted by anyone, and had never felt maternal love.
After the orphanage taught him Braille, he touched the first novel of his life:
Douluo Continent.
That was the only light in his darkness.
He had fantasized about the Douluo World, fantasized about Spirit Hall, and fantasized about the ice and snow of the Extreme North.
Until he accidentally died of an electric shock.
At the very moment his soul plunged into the void, the last thing Ling Xiao thought was:
If only I could travel through like a transmigrator and visit Douluo Continent in person...
Then he lost consciousness.
When Ling Xiao regained his perception once more, he felt this bone-chilling cold of the Far North.
Gradually, he felt warmth, a gentle yet pure power slowly injecting into his body, dispelling the cold throughout his entire frame.
That power was like the gentlest embrace, tightly wrapping his entire person within it.
Ling Xiao's consciousness gradually awakened.
Light.
He felt light.
Ling Xiao was instantly stunned.
In his previous life, he had lived for a full twenty years and had never once seen the light.
He did not know what color this world was, and could only perceive everything through touch and hearing.
Ling Xiao suddenly started.
He desperately forced his eyes open, wanting to take a look at what color this world truly was.
However, the very first thing Ling Xiao saw was an exceptionally beautiful, aloof countenance.
That was a woman.
A woman who was unrealistically beautiful.
Her skin was white as snow, and her ice-blue eyes were like cold ice, clear and profound.
Her long hair cascaded like a waterfall, and her brows and eyes carried a trace of imperceptible gentleness, but more than that was an innate coldness and aloofness.
Ling Xiao did not know who she was.
In his past life, Ling Xiao was a blind orphan, so he did not know what Snow Empress looked like.
He only felt that the other person's embrace was very warm, which was a temperature he had never experienced in his past life.
Ling Xiao thought he was dead, and the woman before his eyes was his mother in this life.
Ling Xiao reached out his own hand, tightly grasping Snow Empress's lapels. At this moment, he was very afraid that this warmth would disappear at any time.
"Mother..."
Ling Xiao used almost all the strength in his body to softly call out these two words.
His voice was very light.
Yet in this silent ice cave, it clearly reached Snow Empress's ears.
Snow Empress's body trembled slightly.
Snow Empress was silent for a long time.
Seeing the infant in her arms, Snow Empress suddenly recalled that she had once adopted a child.
That was a little white bear, who had now grown into an overlord of the Extreme North.
Although the other's influence was already formidable, he was still calling her mother to this day.
Now she had picked up another child.
An Innate Thunder Spirit, just like her, an Innate Elf nurtured by heaven and earth.
"So be it."
Snow Empress let out a soft sigh, the corners of her mouth rising slightly into an affectionate arc.
"Since you have already called me mother, then I shall take you in and adopt you."
After speaking, Snow Empress lowered her head slightly and planted a kiss on Ling Xiao's forehead.
"From today onwards, you are also my, Heavenly Snow Woman's, child."
"Ling Xiao."
"Like Heavenly Thunder, soaring above the nine heavens, this is your name."
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