The emerald-green light grew ever brighter, and the Ice Empress's illusory figure finally became a little more solid.
She stretched lazily, her emerald eyes carrying the languor of someone who had just woken up, and glanced casually across from her.
Then she froze.
That stunning, cold face and skin as white as lustrous jade left the Ice Empress utterly shocked.
"Xue... Xue'er?!"
The Ice Empress's phantom shuddered violently, her languid expression completely replaced by shock.
Her eyes widened. She looked at the Snow Empress opposite her, then abruptly turned toward Wu Qingkong, her voice rising. "Xiao Qingkong! Why were you fighting my Xue'er?!"
"What on earth happened?!"
Wu Qingkong put away the Shura Divine Sword and briefly recounted what had happened.
From the Snow Empress wanting to strip his Soul Rings and Soul Bones from him, to their fight, and finally to his lucky reversal with the Heavenly Frost Sword.
After hearing him out, the Ice Empress fell silent.
Her emerald eyes looked first at Wu Qingkong, then at the Snow Empress, before finally settling on the sword mark before the Snow Empress's neck that had yet to fade completely.
She floated over to the Snow Empress and leaned her phantom slightly forward, a radiant smile slowly blooming across her mischievous little face.
"Hehe, Xue'er."
"You really do care about me."
"For my sake, you actually chose to recultivate as a human ahead of time. You were even willing to kill Xiao Qingkong."
The Snow Empress looked at the Ice Empress's hazy, illusory figure.
She reached out, wanting to touch the Ice Empress's cheek, but her fingers passed straight through the phantom.
"Silly girl, we've been companions for hundreds of thousands of years. Of course I couldn't bear to lose you. How could I possibly just watch you die?"
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