One hundred and eighteen years ago, the ice peak in the continent's north shook restlessly, its tremors reaching the edge of the snowfield.
Blade Sage Cao Yuan and Zen Child watched for a long time from the small temple in White City, confirming that it was the little one.
So Zen Child went.
Scriptures filled the sky, and a light mirror blotted out the sun. That trail of snow dust vanished, whether back into the snowfield or into death, no one knew.
Several days later, Tong Yan, who had taken the Azure Sky Mirror from the Zhongzhou Sect, was surrounded by the Profound Yin Sect and attacked. Jing Jiu "happened" to pass by and brought him to the edge of Cold Mountain, only to be trapped by Wang Xiaoming's Blazing Sun Banner.
Flames filled the sky, and waves of heat melted rock. Snow Ji stood up from the snow on the other side of the mountain.
She extinguished the mystic fire filling the sky, seized the Universe Edge, and blocked Jing Jiu's path, then suddenly fell into a deep sleep.
Jing Jiu took her to Three Thousand Courtyard, piled cotton-padded jackets into a mountain in the round-windowed Chan Room, and set up several formations before he could keep Dayuan City from being submerged in ice and snow.
After Snow Ji awoke, he took her to Green Mountain.
The peaks were deserted. Liu Ci and Yuan Qijing both kept far away.
He tricked Snow Ji into entering the Sword Prison and locked her in the cell beyond the Thousand-Mile Ice Seal.
Apart from him, Liu Ci, and Yuan Qijing, everyone believed that Snow Ji was the daughter the Snow Nation Queen had borne that year.
Even True Person Taiping and the Zhongzhou Sect, who later guessed what had happened from certain