After hearing the Ice Empress's words, the Snow Empress suddenly remembered the snow lotus rooted in her birthplace.
Snow lotuses had an extremely difficult time awakening intelligence.
Thus, even with the purest essence of heaven and earth, one could not break through the hundred-thousand-year barrier.
Yet that snow lotus had done precisely that.
The Snow Empress had once thought that the snow lotus was merely another fortuitous encounter in her long life that spurred her strength to greater heights.
But recalling it now, the Snow Empress noticed the most unusual detail.
The instant that snow lotus broke through to a hundred thousand years of cultivation, it had actually emerged from beneath the frozen earth as the tiniest shoot, tenaciously breaking through the ice!
This was a spark of life that had never appeared in the heart of the Far North in all its millions of years!
It was different from Soul Beasts reproducing.
It was just like the Snow Empress's own birth long ago.
It was a miracle of life nurtured by the purest, most untainted laws of ice and snow between heaven and earth!
Pure ice and snow Yuan Power had taken form as the Snow Empress.
The pure essence of heaven and earth in the Far North had grown from the frozen soil, becoming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus.
The Snow Empress had never been alone.
That snow lotus was the silent companionship the Far North, this world of ice and snow, had given her.
It was also a marker guiding her toward understanding the road ahead.
The ice fields had long since buried the answer in the Snow Empress's birthplace.
The Far North had always been waiting for the Snow Empress to understand that she had never been its solitary sovereign, but the hope that would lead the