The tribulation clouds hung low, as though they would crush the entire Far North. Snow Empress's eyes narrowed slightly, and her heart sank.
With a heavenly tribulation of this magnitude, Ice Empress simply could not withstand it without the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
After obtaining that Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus and devising the method of transformation, Snow Empress had actually considered helping Ice Empress break through to four hundred thousand years first. Although doing so might affect her to some extent, she would transform immediately afterward, so that minor effect would not matter much.
As for what came afterward... Snow Empress had not thought that far ahead.
Then, a turning point appeared when news arrived that Du Busi was bringing the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow to the Far North.
But...
Judging by the intensity of this four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, even if Ice Empress used the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow to survive it, she would still find it difficult to overcome the five-hundred-thousand-year tribulation later on.
Even without Du Busi saying anything, she could guess that the Body Sect did not possess very much Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
And she was probably in the same situation.
After breaking through to seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, she would likely find it difficult to break through to eight hundred thousand years as well.
What were they supposed to do then?
That question once again weighed on Snow Empress's heart like a heavy mountain.
The next instant, the first bolt of heavenly lightning crashed down. It was as thick as a giant python, carrying a scorching wave of destruction as though it would annihilate everything beneath that terrifying lightning.
Yet there was not the slightest fear in Ice Empress's eyes. Rather than retreating or evading it, she directly raised her right pincer.
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