What Happened? Was She Dead or Not?

"Don't ask me how I appeared. I'm asking you, weren't you just dead?"

Snow Empress looked at Ice Empress in her arms with great surprise, and quickly checked the wound on Ice Empress's chest. The wound was gone, as if it had never appeared.

What exactly happened? She had just clearly sensed that Ice Empress's life force was gone.

Or is it just my imagination?

"Yes, didn't I just get stabbed in the chest?"

Ice Empress also looked at his own body with a puzzled expression.

Snow Empress helped her up and said, "Never mind her, it's good that she's not dead. I'll kill all these intruders."

The Snow Empress, dressed in a white dress, turned to look at the eye of the storm, her icy blue eyes filled with chill.

This is her unique Blizzard Domain; within minutes, the humans inside will be sliced into pieces by snowflakes as sharp as blades.

But the next moment, Snow Empress's expression suddenly changed. She sensed a very violent energy gathering in the center of the snowstorm ahead.

An energy that didn't belong to her.

"Whoosh!"

Sure enough, a much more intense blizzard soon broke through the area created by the Snow Empress.

The blizzard roared fiercely, even forming a snow tornado, and was hurtling towards the location of the Snow Empress Ice Empress.

The two sisters immediately retreated, moving away from the area.

And they finally saw clearly who had unleashed this incredibly powerful blizzard—it was one of the humans.

As She Long emerged, radiating Kamisato Ayaka of divine power, the ice and snow energy surrounding him far surpassed any controllable ice and snow in this Far North region.

Seeing this, Ice Empress ignored Snow Empress's attempts to stop him and angrily charged towards them.

"Court death!"

She Long was taken aback, and his expression became even more serious.

He took a step forward, gripped the hilt of his one-handed sword with his right hand, and quickly delivered a powerful blow.

"Swish swish swish swish!"

White sword slashes imbued with ice and snow elements formed in front, densely packed and dazzling.

Ice Empress was startled and used her Ice Emperor's Protection skill again, but this time she wasn't so lucky because she met a tough opponent.

The ice crystals covering Ice Empress shattered into powder, and Ice Empress coughed up blood. Countless deep sword wounds, revealing bone, appeared on his body, covered with grayish-white Cryo Cryo that continued to seep into his Ice Empress.

"Bing'er!"

Ignoring the danger of the Snow Empress immediately arrived at the scene. She struck forward with her palm, and in that instant, She Long felt an extremely powerful energy attacking him. He immediately retreated and at the same time unleashed another heavy blow.

This powerful palm strike actually canceled out his heavy blow.

She Long was somewhat surprised, astonished that his Snow Empress's palm strike could be evenly matched with his heavy blow enhanced by the ice and snow elements.

Even more astonished was Snow Empress, for this was one of her signature moves, the Emperor's Palm!

It couldn't hurt the opponent at all!

And that skill, which the opponent just used not long ago, can still be used again now?! How long has it been?!

Snow Empress dared not delay and quickly carried Ice Empress's body away from the place.

She quickly realized that these humans were not easy to deal with, but just as Snow Empress was preparing to escape with Ice Empress, her body suddenly froze.

Ice Empress's vitality has vanished once again.

Snow Empress looked at Ice Empress, who was lying in her arms with her eyes closed, in disbelief. She gently patted Ice Empress's cheek, but received no response.

Ice Empress died in her arms this time.

"Bing'er! Bing'er!"

Snow Empress called out twice more, but it was to no avail.

Soon, a row of items appeared in front of She Long. She Long glanced at the others with a hint of pride. He hadn't expected that he would be the first person to obtain Artifact from Ice Empress.

He had already given the five-star Artifact he had just obtained from the Titan Snow Demon King to Kamisato Ayaka, but he was still missing three. There was no other way, so he directly obtained three Flower of Life.

The changes brought about by Kamisato Ayaka equipping the Artifact were quite obvious. The snow tornado she just created was clearly larger and more intense than the one she demonstrated in Spirit City, and the ice and snow energy within it was also much more violent.

She Long looked at the items he had obtained this time, which were also eight five-star Artifact. What excited him was that the missing Artifact had all been replenished this time.

Of course, these Artifact haven't been upgraded yet, and their sub-items are a complete mess. However, Shen Luo hasn't provided any explanation, so She Long doesn't know what kind of Artifact are considered good and what kind are considered bad.

All he knows is that five-star is awesome!

Equipped with a complete ice suit, Kamisato Ayaka exudes a completely different aura at this moment.

Shen Luo even felt that Kamisato Ayaka's aura was approaching that of his Furina, of course, not including Furina with her fully-equipped weapons.

As expected, the Artifact are the core equipment. Kamisato Ayaka is only level 5 and already has this level of aura.

"Bing'er!"

Not far away, Snow Empress held Ice Empress and wept bitterly.

At this moment, everyone could see Snow Empress's appearance clearly.

Compared to Ice Empress's petite figure, Snow Empress is more like a cool and aloof older sister.

She had long, pure white hair, and was very beautiful, with no trace of vulgarity. Her features were almost flawless, and her eyes were ice blue. She had a cold, noble temperament, giving off an aura that kept strangers at bay.

As Snow Empress was crying, she suddenly heard another voice.

"Sister, what happened...?"

Ice Empress opened her eyes, looking at Snow Empress somewhat dazedly, only to find that Snow Empress was still looking at her sadly, just as before.

Unlike before, this time the shock in Snow Empress's eyes was even more intense and profound.

You've come back to life?!

Snow Empress stood up in surprise, staring at Ice Empress as if she were a monster.

"It's back to life?"

Ice Empress listened to these words with confusion, then suddenly recalled what had just happened.

Indeed, it seems she was killed by that human with a sword...

What exactly happened?

Ice Empress instinctively looked at his body, but was still unharmed.

After a long pause, she raised her head and shook it, completely bewildered. "I don't know what happened either."

Snow Empress reached out and pulled Ice Empress up, while warily watching the group of humans ahead.

"This group of humans is problematic. Not only is their strength unprecedented, but the effects they inflict are also incomprehensible."

The Snow Empress attributed the strangeness of the Ice Empress to the special attack methods of these humans.

The effect may be to induce a state of suspended animation, rendering the target unable to resist, before they wake up after a few tens of seconds.

"But that doesn't make sense..."

Snow Empress immediately expressed her doubts.

Why was it a state of suspended animation? Given that human's strength just now, he certainly had enough to kill Ice Empress.

So Ice Empress must have really died just now...

How did we end up back here again? Snow Empress suddenly felt a headache coming on.