Amid a bout of earth-shaking tremors, the Titan Snow Demon King and the Ice Bear King arrived.
The two Soul Beasts immediately spotted the Snow Empress, hazy as mist.
The Ice Bear King choked up.
"Mom, what happened to you?!"
"Why did you choose this path?!"
Beside her, the Titan Snow Demon King was equally bewildered, staring at the Snow Empress with confusion written all over his face.
Now, he was the only one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North who remained truly alive.
The Snow Empress curled her hand in a beckoning gesture, and the Ice Empress's figure emerged alongside her. She said softly:
"Bing'er and I can no longer survive our next great tribulation, so we chose this path and decided to stake our hopes on this human."
"We gave him our power."
"To strive for more possibilities and a future."
With that, she pointed at Wu Qingkong.
The two great Soul Beasts looked at Wu Qingkong, their eyes filled with profound wariness.
The aura emanating from this man gave them a profound sense of danger.
The Ice Bear King's tears fell like rain.
"Mom, I can't bear to part with you..."
"Even without sacrificing yourself, you could have lived another ten thousand years. Why take this path?"
"Don't you want me anymore? Don't you want the countless subjects of the Far North anymore?"
The Snow Empress glanced back at the homeland that had given her life and nurtured her, a trace of sorrow rising in her eyes.
"Xiao Bai, as Soul Beasts, we can never become gods. The day of our parting would have come sooner or later. It isn't a bad thing for that day to come a little earlier."
"You need to grow up too. You're already a Soul Beast over