The Snow Empress's white-robed figure hovered alone beneath the frosty heavens, surrounded by countless creatures of the Far North.
The Snow Empress had not appeared in a long time, but no soul beast dared forget the true ruler of the Far North.
Powerful and weak races alike gazed up at her with devotion and reverence, quietly waiting for her to speak.
The Snow Empress's voice rang out over the ice plains once more.
"Today, with a heart full of grief, I must announce some unfortunate news."
The soul beasts of the Far North Ice Plains fell into a brief, stunned silence. They had never expected the ever-majestic Snow Empress to display such sorrow.
The soul beasts in the inner circle whose cultivation had reached a hundred thousand years seemed to guess something, especially the towering Titan Snow Demon King and Ice Bear King, whose enormous eyes filled with shock and grief.
For something to shake the Snow Empress so deeply, perhaps she had sensed that she could not survive her next great tribulation.
They had known this day would come, but they had never expected it to arrive so soon.
Yet the Snow Empress's next words left them utterly bewildered.
"In truth, the Ice God whom all of us in the Far North have worshipped since ancient times may not exist."
Deathly silence fell over the gathered beasts. Across the vast Far North Ice Plains, only the howling wind could be heard.
The news shook the very foundations of their understanding.
To the soul beasts of the Far North, the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North were their rulers, but the Ice God was the supreme object of their devout faith.
Hearing such blasphemous words from the Snow Empress, even the beasts utterly loyal to her offered no