Deep in the Far North, the Ice Empress slowly swept her powerful mental power across the hundred-mile radius around the Ice Palace.
Where was Sister? Why had she disappeared?
While the Ice Empress slept soundly the night before, a sudden pang of unease had struck her heart, and she had taken it seriously.
That morning, she discovered that the Snow Woman was gone. Normally, the Snow Woman would always tell her before going far away.
Yet today, the Snow Woman had mysteriously vanished. Even after searching a hundred miles with her mental power, she found nothing.
Could something have happened to Sister?
At that thought, deep worry welled up in the Ice Empress's heart.
Could that human Sister imprisoned have done it?
Only Sister, she herself, and that human were in the Ice Palace. If something had happened to Sister, that human must have done it!
At that thought, raging fury flashed in the Ice Empress's eyes. Her enormous emerald scorpion tail slammed into the ground, sending countless shards of ice flying.
The Ice Empress moved swiftly, soon arriving at the ice chamber where Cao De was imprisoned.
Her enormous scorpion tail smashed the door of ice crystals to pieces.
Cao De instantly woke from his cultivation.
He looked toward the doorway and saw an emerald-green scorpion, three people tall, standing amid the shattered ice. Her enormous tail swung through the air.
A name surfaced in Cao De's mind-the Ice Empress, before she had assumed human form.
What was the Ice Empress doing here? The question rose unbidden in Cao De's mind. And where was the Snow Woman?
He had already figured out how to get the Snow Woman under his thumb.
Snow Woman, you wouldn't want to go without blood to drink, would you? First, she would stubbornly resist,