Tang Wulin blinked his large, jet-black eyes and looked up at the breathtakingly beautiful Ice and Snow Goddess before him. In a babyish voice that nonetheless carried a hint of seriousness, he asked, "Who exactly are you?"
Hearing that childish voice, the white-haired woman's exquisite face took on the faintest smile, like an ice lotus unfurling its first petals. She gently brushed the frost-white hair draped over her chest, her voice ethereal and distant, as though it had crossed an endless river of years. "My name... no one has called it for so long that even I have almost forgotten it. But the living beings of this world once honored me as the first Heavenly Snow Woman, and as the one the world revered and feared—the Ice God."
She paused briefly, her ice-blue eyes settling on the softly glowing pearl against Tang Wulin's chest, then continued gently, "Now, only this wisp of my remnant soul remains, housed here. The necklace around your neck was refined from one of my divine artifacts, the Ice God Pearl, wasn't it?"
Tang Wulin instinctively tightened his grip on the Ice God Pearl against his chest and nodded vigorously, answering obediently, "Yes! Gu Yue gave it to me. So why did you come looking for me?"
The Ice God looked at the little fellow before her, as exquisite as carved jade yet harboring the terrifying golden dragon king bloodline, and a trace of helplessness and fondness flickered in her eyes. She sighed softly, her tone tinged with resentment and teasing that spanned ten thousand years. "I need to find an inheritor. There's nothing I can do about it, really. The most gifted and purest Heavenly Snow Woman in this Plane was spirited away ten thousand years ago by a human brat named Huo Yuhao and