The Evil Emperor turned its eye.
"What else?"
That Evil Eye dared not answer.
The Crystal Divine Crown released a ripple of spiritual power.
The Evil Emperor soon found the answer in the memories of humans from the Sun Moon Empire.
It fell silent for a moment.
"Ning Xian indeed did not tell her the truth."
"But to think the Snow Empress was willing to leave the Far North with a human."
"Just what is hidden within this human?"
The Soul Beasts in the Evil Demon Forest all looked toward the Sky Screen.
They had little interest in relationships between humans.
But one of the two in the scene was the Lord of the Far North.
The other was a powerhouse who could easily break open the God Sealing Platform.
Even the Evil Emperor continued watching.
The Star Dou Great Forest.
Beside the Lake of Life.
Xiong Jun sat on a massive rock.
He watched the scene of the Snow Empress sitting beside the bed, a strange expression on his face.
"So the Lord of the Far North has this side to her too."
The Myriad Demon King's branches and leaves swayed gently.
"She had only just taken human form then."
"It's hardly strange that she knew nothing of the human world."
Bi Ji gazed at Ning Xian.
"He's the one who truly deserves our attention."
"After the Snow Empress lost her cultivation, she neither chose the Ice Empress nor stayed in the Far North."
"She chose to follow Ning Xian."
Di Tian nodded slightly.
"The Snow Empress trusts him deeply."
The many Ferocious Beasts looked toward the center of the lake.
Gu Yuena stood upon the silvery, shimmering water.
She had not spoken all this time.
Yet her purple eyes were studying the courtyard in the scene.
Living together.
Claiming to be husband and wife to others.
The Snow Empress would even take the initiative to clutch Ning Xian's sleeve.
These scenes reminded her of her experiences several hundred years ago.
Back then, Ning Xian had also lived beside the Lake of Life.
Gu Yuena had entered his courtyard.
She had also sat beside him, watching him repair the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda.
The Snow Empress in the scene really did resemble her back then.
Gu Yuena lowered her eyes.
"He hasn't changed."
Bi Ji turned to look at her.
"My lord, did you live with Ning Xian before too?"
Gu Yuena did not answer.
But the silver ripples on the lake grew somewhat denser than before.
Xiong Jun was just about to speak when Di Tian shot him a look.
He immediately swallowed his words.
Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
The Shrek group stood beside the mountain path.
Ma Hongjun watched the Sky Screen, his face full of disdain.
"So this is the sort of person Ning Xian is."
"The Snow Empress had only just taken human form, and he tricked her into believing they were husband and wife."
Oscar glanced at Ning Rongrong.
"At least he didn't sleep on the bed."
Dai Mubai sneered.
"He's just deliberately putting on the air of an upright gentleman."
"If he truly had nothing to hide, he should have told the Snow Empress what being husband and wife meant."
Tang San stood beside Yu Xiaogang.
His gaze settled on the scene of Ning Xian holding the Snow Empress's wrist.
"Taking advantage of someone's weakness to keep them by his side."
"This senior may be very powerful, but his character deserves no respect."
Xiao Wu frowned.
"Ning Xian saved the Snow Empress."
"If he really wanted to hurt her, he wouldn't have shattered the God Sealing Platform just now."
Tang San shook his head.
"Saving someone is one thing."
"Deceiving them is another."
"The Snow Empress knew nothing of the human world, and he exploited that."
Yu Xiaogang clasped his hands behind his back.
"Strength does not reflect character."
"The more powerful a Soul Master is, the more they should restrain themselves."
"Otherwise, their power will only bring disaster to the continent."
Ning Rongrong stood at the back of the group.
She did not join their discussion.
The Ancient Bronze Small Tower rested against her palm, Mystic Yellow Radiance flowing slowly over it.
The Ning Xian on the Sky Screen was no different from the Ning Xian she knew.
He seemed casual, but he had never forced the Snow Empress to do anything.
When the Snow Empress could not walk steadily, Ning Xian supported her.
When the Snow Empress had nowhere to go, Ning Xian took her into a human town.
Even when they stayed in the same room, Ning Xian had voluntarily slept on the floor.
The way they got along was much like when Ning Xian had given her the Ancient Bronze Small Tower.
Ning Rongrong lowered her head to look at her palm.
"He once took care of me like this too."
Oscar stood closest to her.
"Rongrong, what did you say?"
"Nothing."
Ning Rongrong put away the Ancient Bronze Small Tower.
She looked back up at the Sky Screen.
Yet the curiosity in her heart only grew.
Ning Xian had once lived with the Snow Empress.
The Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda was something he had left behind several hundred years ago, no less.
Just how much had this man experienced?
High in the sky.
The scene continued to change.
Early morning.
Sunlight streamed through the window.
The Snow Empress woke in bed.
She turned her face and discovered that Ning Xian was no longer in the bedding on the floor.
Faint sounds came from outside the door.
The Snow Empress walked barefoot out of the room.
In the courtyard.
Ning Xian was sitting beside a stone table.
A bowl of hot congee sat on the table.
Beside it were several small plates of side dishes that humans often ate.
The Snow Empress walked over to him.
"Is this for me?"
"There's no one else in the courtyard."
The Snow Empress sat on a stone stool.
She picked up a wooden spoon and took a sip, imitating Ning Xian's movements.
The moment the scalding rice congee entered her mouth, she frowned slightly.
"It's very hot."
"When humans eat, they need to wait for it to cool."
The Snow Empress raised a finger.
A wisp of cold air fell into the bowl.
The steam vanished in an instant.
A thin layer of ice even formed over the congee.
Ning Xian looked at the bowl of congee.
"You don't have to eat it."
"No."
The Snow Empress broke the thin ice.
She took another sip.
"I'm human now."
"Humans have to eat every day."
Ning Xian placed a piece of green vegetable in her bowl.
"At least keep your cold air under control first."
The Snow Empress picked up the vegetable.
"Teach me."
The scenes that followed flashed by rapidly.
Every day, Ning Xian helped the Snow Empress regulate the seven hundred thousand years of origin power within her.
Mystic Yellow Radiance circulated along her meridians.
Ultimate Snow went out of control again and again, only to be drawn back into her body each time.
The Snow Empress was also learning the human way of life.
She learned to put on elaborate dresses.
She also learned to pin up her long hair with a hairpin.
The first time she entered a bustling market, she clutched Ning Xian's sleeve the entire time.
The street was crowded.
The Snow Empress disliked strangers coming close.
Whenever someone passed, she moved a little closer to Ning Xian.
Their shoulders pressed together.
Her white hair fell against his white robes, making it hard to distinguish one from the other.
A woman selling jewelry saw them and immediately greeted them with a smile.
"Young master, why not buy a hairpin for your wife?"
The Snow Empress stopped.
She looked at the hairpins on the stall.
"She called me your wife."
"Mm."
"Does 'wife' also mean a married woman?"
"Yes."
The Snow Empress picked up a snowflake-shaped silver hairpin.
She placed it in Ning Xian's palm.
"Then put it on for me."
Ning Xian looked at her for a moment.
Then he stepped behind the Snow Empress.
His slender fingers gathered her white hair.
The Silver Hairpin passed through her silky hair, securing the bun at the back of her head.
The Snow Empress turned around.
A few strands of white hair rested against her cheeks.
"Does it look nice?"
"It's all right."
The Snow Empress looked at the bronze mirror beside her.
A silver snowflake rested among her white hair.
She raised a hand and touched the hairpin.
"I like it."
Outside the scene.
The Far North fell silent again.
The Ice Empress gazed at the matching Silver Hairpin on the Snow Empress's head.
Hundreds of years had passed.
That hairpin was still tucked into the Snow Empress's hair.
She had never asked where the Silver Hairpin had come from.
Now, the Sky Screen had shown everything.
The Ice Empress looked up at the Ice Palace.
"Snow Empress."
"You still have the hairpin he gave you."
The doors of ice remained tightly shut.
There was no response from inside.
A moment later.
A wisp of cold wind flew out of the Ice Palace.
The accumulated snow in front of the Ice Empress buried her outright.
The many Soul Beasts of the Far North hurriedly turned their heads away.
None dared laugh aloud at that moment.
The scene in the sky had yet to end.
Night.
The Snow Empress sat beside the stone table in the courtyard.
She had changed into a snow-white nightgown.
Its collar hung slightly open, revealing her long neck and delicate collarbones.
Her damp white hair clung to her back.
Droplets ran down its tips onto her skirt.
Ning Xian stood behind her.
Mystic Yellow Radiance surged from his palm.
The moisture in her long hair instantly evaporated.
The Snow Empress turned her face to the side.
"Do humans have to bathe every day?"
"You can use Soul Power to clean your body."
"It's different."
The Snow Empress turned back around.
She placed all her long hair in Ning Xian's hands.
"The neighbor said husbands help their wives dry their hair."
Ning Xian held a white silk cloth.
"What else did she teach you?"
"A lot."
"Visit her less often from now on."
"Why?"
"She has too much time on her hands."
The Snow Empress turned around.
Her loose sleeve slipped a little down her arm.
Her fair hand rested on Ning Xian's knee.
Only half a foot remained between them.
"You don't like me visiting her?"
"What she teaches you isn't suitable for you."
"Then you teach me."
The Snow Empress turned her back to him again.
Her white hair fell onto the back of Ning Xian's hand.
"I'm your wife."
"You should teach me."
Ning Xian was silent for a moment.
"Who taught you to say that?"
"Her too."
"We're moving tomorrow."
A faint smile appeared on the Snow Empress's lips.
The smile was slight, yet it lent a little more softness to her cool, beautiful features.
The barrage of comments on the Sky Screen spiraled completely out of control.
[This is way too intimate!]
[The Snow Empress is actually letting Ning Xian dry her hair while wearing a nightgown!]
[She even remembers she's his wife!]
[Ning Xian says they're moving, but his hands haven't stopped!]
[How is this being deceived? The Snow Empress has clearly already grown used to it!]
[So this is the life the Lord of the Far North led in a human town!]
[Ice Empress, look! Someone has carried off your best friend!]
[And they're a pair of sisterly beauties, too!]
The Far North.
The Ice Empress had just crawled out of the snow.
Her expression changed immediately upon seeing the last two comments.
"What does this have to do with me?"
More comments swept past in succession.
[The Snow Empress is closest to the Ice Empress!]
[Since Ning Xian knows the Snow Empress, could he know the Ice Empress too?]
[One is the Lord of the Far North, and the other is an Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion!]
[This senior Soul Master certainly knows how to pick a place!]
The Ice Empress raised her scorpion tail.
Jade-green light shot straight toward the Sky Screen.
Yet the comments passed through the light and continued flying into the distance.
On the Ice Throne.
The Snow Empress had already lowered the hand covering her face.
She watched herself on the Sky Screen, her pale blue eyes flickering slightly.
That life had not lasted long.
Yet it had been the most peaceful stretch of her hundreds of thousands of years.
She had not needed to lead the Soul Beasts of the Far North.
Nor had she needed to consider her next Heavenly Tribulation.
Every day after waking, she had only needed to follow Ning Xian.
The Snow Empress raised a hand to touch the Silver Hairpin in her hair.
"It's been a hundred years."
"Do you still remember all this?"
Outside Sunset Forest.
Dugu Yan turned to look at Ning Xian.
Her gaze lingered on Ning Xian's face for a long time.
"So you even know how to comb someone's hair."
Ning Xian did not respond.
Dugu Yan continued asking, "That Silver Hairpin-did you give it to the Snow Empress?"
"She chose it herself."
"But you paid for it."
"She didn't have any human currency then."
Dugu Yan stepped closer.
Her green eyes held a probing look.
"Do you really only see her as someone from your past?"
Ning Xian looked at the Sky Screen.
"Watch the rankings."
Dugu Yan gave a soft huff.
She had already noticed.
Whenever the Snow Empress came up, Ning Xian was unwilling to say much.
The scene in the sky began to speed up.
The Snow Empress lived in the human town for a year.
The seven hundred thousand years of origin power sealed within her were also gradually awakened by Ning Xian.
A Snow Mountain appeared in the center of the scene.
The Snow Empress stood at its summit.
Her long white dress fluttered in the wind.
Seven snow-white halos unfolded behind her, one after another.
Each halo contained a hundred thousand years of origin power.
Ning Xian stood behind her.
The Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda hovered above their heads.
Mystic Yellow Radiance enveloped the entire Snow Mountain.
The Snow Empress raised her slender hand.
The snow filling the sky gathered in her palm.
A crystalline longsword gradually took shape.
She slashed forward.
Snow-white sword light swept across the mountains.
Wherever the sword light passed, all the energy of heaven and earth stopped flowing.
Snowflakes hung motionless in midair.
The cold wind froze in the mountain valleys.
Even the drifting clouds in the distance retained their original shapes.
Golden text slowly appeared.
[Ning Xian helped the Snow Empress rebuild her Transformation Foundation.]
[Seven hundred thousand years of origin power awakened once more.]
[The Snow Empress used the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda to develop Ultimate Snow.]
[The origin power of Ultimate Snow completed its transformation.]
[The Snow Empress broke through her bottleneck.]
[She comprehended a God-Level Soul Skill, Absolute Zero.]
After a brief silence.
The entire continent instantly erupted.
[A God-Level Soul Skill?]
[Snow Empress hadn't become a deity yet, but she'd actually comprehended a God-Level Soul Skill!]
[What was Absolute Zero?]
[Even the energy of heaven and earth had been frozen!]
[When that sword strike fell, could a Titled Douluo still mobilize their Soul Power?]
[Ning Xian had merely used the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda to help work out the technique, and that had allowed Snow Empress to cross the eight-hundred-thousand-year bottleneck!]
[What realm was he in, exactly?]
[Could he be a deity too?]
Spirit City.
Bibi Dong looked up at the motionless Snow Mountain.
The dark purple Divine Runes on the Rakshasa Demon Halberd had also grown sluggish.
"Absolute Zero."
"It doesn't just freeze matter."
"Soul Power, Spiritual Power, and the Heaven-Earth Rules will all be affected."
Inside the Worship Hall.
Qian Daoliu stood before the statue of the Six-Winged Angel.
Golden divine light fell upon his robes.
"A God-Level Soul Skill has already touched upon laws."
"Snow Empress has yet to become a deity, yet she can make the rules within a region of space stop functioning."
Golden Crocodile Douluo looked at the Heaven-Earth Xuanhuang Pagoda above Ning Xian's head.
"The truly terrifying one isn't Snow Empress."
"It's Ning Xian, who helped her finish working out the technique."
"He can work out God-Level Soul Skills."
All the worshippers in the great hall fell silent.
A God-Level Soul Skill.
That was already beyond what ordinary Soul Masters could comprehend.
Star Dou Great Forest.
Di Tian stared at Snow Empress's Ice Longsword.
Black-Gold Dragon Scales emerged on the surface of his arms.
Even through the Sky Screen, his bloodline still reacted to that sword strike.
"Absolute Zero can freeze the power of the Dragon God Claw."
Xiong Jun abruptly turned his head.
"It can freeze even the Dragon God Claw?"
Di Tian looked at the clouds that had stopped drifting.
"It would only restrain it briefly."
"But when powerful opponents clash, a single instant is enough to decide victory or defeat."
Bi Ji looked at Gu Yuena.
"My lord, is this really a God-Level Soul Skill?"
Gu Yuena nodded gently.
"Snow Empress's Ultimate Snow has already touched upon the Ice and Snow Laws."
"She has no Divine Position."
"But this move possesses God Level power."
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