Frostcold City stood on the Northern Border of Douluo Continent, right at the edge of the Far North.
Snow that never melted blanketed the entire city. Eaves, streets, and walls alike lay wrapped in thick silver-white.
It was a gathering place for the Northern Border Beast-Hunting Mercenary Corps and the city with the greatest concentration of ice-attribute Soul Masters on the continent. Soul Masters in heavy furs, carrying Soul Tools on their backs, were everywhere. The air held the biting scent of snow and strong liquor.
Seven days had passed since Star Luo City. The Snow Empress had traveled north with scarcely a pause, reaching this gateway to the Far North.
The Heavenly Water Tavern was Frostcold City's best-known haunt for ice-attribute Soul Masters. Its liquor was brewed with Far North Icespring water and tasted crisp and pure.
The Snow Empress sat quietly by a window in a corner of the tavern. Her plain white dress blended with the snowy view outside. Her skin was fairer than snow, her features breathtakingly beautiful and cool, and an aura that warned strangers away lingered around her.
She held a crystal-clear cup between her fingertips. It contained blue-glowing Ice Soul Brew, but she had barely touched it. Her gaze remained fixed on a table across from her.
A young woman with long silver-purple hair sat there, her face delicate and a trace of cold radiating from her.
The Snow Empress's eyes flickered.
She knew that aura all too well—it was the original aura of a Heavenly Snow Woman. Though faint and impure, marked by an inborn flaw in its Martial Soul inheritance, it was unmistakably the bloodline of her own kind!
The young woman was Su Tong, a level sixty-three Control System Battle Soul Emperor with the Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul. She