Winter plum blossoms cried in sorrow through the chilly night,
Winter rain beat upon the pavilion beams.
All toil came to nothing, both ears rang,
Startling the short pavilion long...
After the wind and snow came the endless cold of melting snow.
The entire Snow Domain had become a realm of ice, with only one small town brimming with spring.
Seen from afar, a streak of divine grace even reached into the heavens from the town's center!
This town, so full of life, stood out starkly in the icebound Snow Domain...
As though some rare treasure had descended into the world...
The white-clad figure in town gazed at the scenery before him with a smile, then rose and returned to the school...
That day, after the wind and snow stopped, a rift appeared in the sky above the Northern Region, which lay at the End of Heaven.
The rift seemed to connect to somewhere beyond this world, as though the bitter snow that had fallen for months on end had blown down through it...
Suddenly, several figures descended from the rift. Among them were men and women, young and old.
Heaven-reaching auras erupted from several of the older arrivals. They frowned as they glanced at the ice and snow blanketing the Snow Domain, then took several of the younger ones with them and soared through the air, turning into streaks of rainbow light heading toward this world's Three Great Sect.
A few young people remained. They swept their gazes over the Snow Domain from on high, then began searching aimlessly for something...
Judging by their clothing, these people did not seem to be from this Ninth Heaven and Earth.
In the Hua Kingdom's Imperial Palace, the emperor, dressed in dragon robes, stood before his desk with his brush