Lin Ye sat cross-legged on the Ice Empress's broad backplate, as hard as jade.
Cold mist curled around him.
The Snow Empress sat quietly a short distance behind him, her white robes outshining the snow, her aura almost blending into the blizzard filling the sky.
The Ice Empress's enormous claws pierced the thick ice, every step accompanied by a muffled boom.
"Master, how much longer until we find the entrance to that hidden realm?" Boundless ice and snow reflected in the Ice Empress's emerald compound eyes, her voice carrying a trace of her usual impatience.
Lin Ye sensed his surroundings with his eyes closed. His Dragon God Bloodline and circulating soul core granted him supreme affinity with the elements.
"Soon. That place has unique spatial fluctuations. It's deep in the ice valley ahead."
Lin Ye had never expected a hidden realm beneath the Snow Empress's Emperor's Cold Heaven. Just moments ago, they had sensed the energy fluctuations of the realm opening beneath the mountain.
The Snow Empress's cool voice sounded like shards of ice striking together. "The energy tides here are abnormal. Even divine perception is blocked by the blizzards in the Core Area."
Lin Ye was about to say something when his brow suddenly lifted.
The Ice Empress also stopped abruptly, raising her front claws in alarm as her joints let out a piercing scrape of metal against metal.
Buzzz!
Ahead of them, a massive glacier that seemed to have been frozen for ten thousand years suddenly began vibrating violently.
Dazzling ice-blue radiance erupted like countless shattering prisms!
An exceptionally pure, biting pressure imbued with a higher divinity descended without warning!
Cold light flared in the Snow Empress's eyes. The blizzard around her instantly congealed into countless sharp ice blades, poised to strike. "A divine presence! Who is it?"