At that moment, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was somewhat puzzled within Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness. Who were these two people before him?
But he was not particularly worried. If they had wanted to harm Huo Yuhao, they would have acted long ago. Everything about the scene before him clearly suggested they were saving Huo Yuhao.
At the spring at the bottom of the Lake of Life,
The Snow Empress lowered her eyes, her fingertips gently brushing over Tian Chen's brows and eyes, yet a trace of pressure that made her heart tremble still lingered.
She remembered how, amid the wind and snow of the Far North, she had followed a guiding presence and found him.
The infant had been amid blood and thunder, tiny ice crystals still clinging to his eyelashes, like a sprite sleeping within amber.
"Back then, all you knew how to do was pull my hair." The Snow Empress suddenly chuckled. A six-pointed snowflake condensed at her fingertip, and she placed it beside the boy's lips. "And look at you now. You've grown so big."
Beside her, the Ice Empress snorted coldly, but her scorpion tail quietly curled around Tian Chen's dangling fingers. "This brat peed all over me when he was little. Now he knows how to play dead and make people worry."
Her voice was hoarse, and fragmented light reflected from the liquid gold of life shimmered in her yellow eyes.
Ripples suddenly spread across the liquid metal. Tian Chen's ring finger twitched, catching the hook of the Ice Empress's tail.
The liquid gold of life silently rose, gently cradling the overlapping silhouettes of all three.
The lake bottom was utterly still. Only the Ice Empress's embarrassed, indignant grumbling and the boy's long, steady breaths could be heard.
Within his Sea of