"Alas..."
Deep in the Far North.
A sigh carrying a hint of coolness echoed in the bitter wind. As the view drew closer, a tiny figure could be seen sitting on a jut of ice, her face tinged with misery.
She stood just over a meter and a half tall and looked like a little human girl, but her figure was anything but girlish.
Though petite, she had curves in all the right places. A little emerald-green dress with gold embellishments lent her a particularly dignified elegance. Emerald-green, gold-edged claw-shaped hair ornaments gathered her waterfall of long hair into twin ponytails that hung down on either side of her body. Her slender calves, wrapped in black stockings, swayed gently beneath her skirt.
Most eye-catching of all was the scorpion tail swaying gently behind her skirt. Each segment looked like flawless jade, making it impossible to look away.
She was the second of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North, the chief of the Ice Jade Scorpion Clan, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion-the Ice Empress.
But the Ice Empress was in a poor mood.
Just as Ye Qing had told the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress had injured her origin while undergoing her three-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, and it had never healed. That was why she had searched all over the Far North for ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow to heal the injury to her origin.
If her origin could not be healed, it meant her days were numbered. She would have absolutely no chance of surviving her next heavenly tribulation.
But what infuriated the Ice Empress, and what she still could not get over, was that her tireless efforts had finally led her to a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave capable of producing ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, only for all the