The ice sculpture Meng Nishang had become glittered with shifting cold light—now bright, now dim, now crimson, now violet, a kaleidoscope of colors—beneath the blaze of fiery trees and silver flowers filling the sky. Like her ice-lake-clear Dao heart, it reflected every being and thing in the outside world exactly as it was, down to the finest detail, while remaining untouched by even a speck of dust.
Paired with her peerless beauty, it formed a dreamlike, illusory scene of breathtaking splendor.
Looking at the ice sculpture, Shi Xuan could not help recalling every little thing concerning Meng Nishang.
He had first heard of her when True Person Jiang underwent his second Heavenly Tribulation. Yama Heavenly Son had mentioned her then, and Shi Xuan had learned that there was a True Person named Meng Nishang whose seniority and age far exceeded those of Yama Heavenly Son, Old Ancestor Blood River, and True Person Jiang.
Afterward, Shi Xuan gradually learned from True Person Jiang that Meng Nishang was Yuyu Heaven's sole Three Tribulation Yang Spirit True Person. She was the personal disciple of Moonlight Fairy, the Heavenly Immortal True Monarch of Guanghan Sect who had already fallen. For several thousand years, she had overawed Yuyu Heaven. Whether it was Old Ancestor Blood River, whose demonic flames surged to the heavens, or the sinister and terrifying Yama Heavenly Son, neither dared show the slightest disrespect before her. In the heart of Shi Xuan, who had not yet achieved the Golden Core, Meng Nishang represented power itself. She was a Peerless Genius.
Later still, Shi Xuan came to know Lou Yizhi, Meng Nishang's personal disciple. At the Cangmang Dharma Assembly, through her Dao technique, Wind and Snow Block the Return Path, he saw Meng Nishang for the first time. At the time, however, he