As he listened to the Ice Empress, Ling Jing grew genuinely curious about what this so-called Ice God actually was.
There was no Godhood of the Ice God in the Divine Realm, yet every Soul Beast in the Far North firmly believed in the Ice God's existence. They even swore that the Ice God's blood flowed through their veins.
Either this so-called Ice God had indeed once been a deity in the Divine Realm, only to later leave or perish, or the Ice God was actually a Divine Beast under the Dragon God.
Ling Jing leaned more toward the second possibility.
After all, so many Soul Beasts in the Far North claimed to be the Ice God's descendants. The Titan Snow Demon King, for instance, was descended from the Ice God and an ancient titan, while the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox was descended from the Ice God and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox... probably only a Divine Beast could be that prolific.
Soon, the Snow Empress led Ling Jing and the others to an ice field near the Ice Sea.
"This is the Heavenly Ice Snow Fox's territory. The Heavenly Ice Snow Fox with a hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation lives here."
The Snow Empress turned to the Ice Empress. After a brief pause, she pursed her lips and said, "I'm only responsible for bringing you here. If you want her to sacrifice herself to this human, you'll have to persuade her yourself. I won't help."
The Ice Empress nodded without objection.
After all, she had never intended to seek the Snow Empress's help on this trip.
The Ice Empress gave Ling Jing a reassuring look. In the next instant, an invisible aura surged from her body.
That rising aura instantly became an almost tangible current of cold, spreading