The water spirit gathered over countless ages upon the loftiest peak of a blessed grotto heaven had lost much of her power for some reason, yet as she swept forward with wind and snow, her might remained irresistible.
Though snowflakes danced lightly around Su Shui Ruo and her slow footsteps were barely audible, anyone facing her in that soundless stillness would feel as though all Heaven and Earth before them had frozen and contracted in an instant into one enormous icicle, bearing surging waves of utmost cold. An ordinary person would have frozen stiff at once before such bitter cold, torn apart into countless tiny shards of ice. Never mind fighting her-one glance from this water spirit, steeped in the deepest chill of countless ages, might scatter their soul and leave not even their bones!
Facing this perilous elemental spirit, Kou Xueyi felt no fear. She, too, was a pure spiritual being born of Heaven and Earth within a secluded grotto heaven.
Feeling the immense force of icy water pressing toward her, the spirit naturally formed upon Ice Cliff hesitated no longer. She raised her face and gave a clear cry, and her clothes burst into fragments. With another low shout, dazzling radiance immediately shone over her fair, immaculate body.
Amid the swirling auspicious vapor and rainbow light, the young man behind her saw, for the first time, the woman who had lived beside him day and night clad in her innate battle armor.
Steadying eyes dazzled by that jeweled, blossoming radiance, Xing Yan looked at Xueyi from behind. Feathered armor flowing with light now covered her rounded, full buttocks; its fine, close-set plates gleamed silver and gold, graceful and slender. From behind, they resembled the tail feathers of a divine bird, or the sepals supporting plum blossoms. Apart from