Two days later.
Mu Ci bid farewell to Lord Loran and Bishop Sai Dong, and entered the Frozen Forest with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er.
The Frozen Forest covers an extremely vast area, spanning the northern borders of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.
On the Douluo Continent, no matter where you are, as long as you travel north, you will inevitably encounter this forest.
This also limits the exploration of the far north by Douluo Continent's soul masters to a certain extent.
Even the Spirit Hall knows very little about this.
With the help of the power of his domain, Mu Ci led the two girls through the Frozen Forest quickly, effectively avoiding sudden encounters with soul beasts.
However, this method is only effective within the Frozen Forest. Once they enter the barren land of the Far North Forbidden Zone, the amplification effect of the plants on the domain will be greatly reduced.
After all, even grass is scarce there.
Due to his further relationship with Shui Yue'er, Mu Ci used the Frostwind Demon Wolf siege as an excuse to postpone the Soul Hunting Plan by one day. Even with the Abundant Power, Shui Yue'er was actually unharmed.
Shui Bing'er understood this.
After all, the two sisters needed time to calm down after the carnage.
But when Shui Bing'er looked at Shui Yue'er, who followed Mu Ci closely with a happy expression, her eyebrows involuntarily furrowed. Her woman's intuition told her that something was amiss.
However, Shui Bing'er couldn't quite put her finger on what was wrong, since Shui Yue'er had always acted this way.
Perhaps, Shui Yue'er was simply being more affectionate than usual?
Just as Mu Ci and the others had stepped into the Frozen Forest, dozens of kilometers in,
deep underground in the far north, beneath thousands of feet of thick, millennia-old ice, a long-dormant ice-blue palace suddenly trembled.
It was as if some kind of restriction had been triggered. Wisps of white light began to emerge from the palace, bringing light to this abyss that had been shrouded in darkness for hundreds of thousands of years.
But this white light did not merely bring illumination; it contained unparalleled power beyond the comprehension of the Douluo Continent.
With a series of cracking sounds, a pure white pillar of light shot out from the revived palace, instantly piercing through the ice above. This spectacle was witnessed by numerous soul beasts in the core area of the far north.
However, none of the soul beasts who saw this scene were more shocked than the Snow Empress.
As a permanent resident of the core area of the far north, this towering pillar of light was right before her eyes, within her reach.
Her beautiful face was filled with shock, her azure eyes widened involuntarily, her cherry lips trembled slightly, and her snow-white hair fell still.
Her essence, her soul power, and her soul core trembled the moment the pillar of light appeared—a testament to the awe of a higher-dimensional power.
In the end, even this queen wearing the crown of the far north had to bow her head before this majesty.
This was faith and reverence for the Ice God.
Yes, the Ice God!
The Snow Empress had already sensed the Ice God's aura within this pillar of light—that pure, extreme cold. Only the Ice Goddess could unleash such power.
The pillar of light arrived and vanished quickly, disappearing into the core of the far north in mere breaths.
Only an unfathomable abyss remained.
Aside from that, everything seemed as if it had never happened.
Only the lingering divine power in the air testified to its existence.
As the Snow Empress composed herself and looked again at the abyss, a streak of emerald light streaked across the distant sky, landing nearby.
A stunningly beautiful woman, slightly shorter than the Snow Empress, emerged from it. Her captivating emerald eyes and exquisitely white face were adorned with four emerald demonic runes on each side.
Her long, dark green hair cascaded down her back, and her skin was as white as snow, with a faint emerald glow emanating from beneath it.
The Ice Empress, one of the Three Kings of the Far North, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion!
Of course, since she was appearing before the Snow Empress, the Ice Empress would still appear in human form, making her feel that she and the Snow Empress were a perfect match.
"Snow Empress, what exactly happened? What was that pillar of light?"
Because the Ice Jade Scorpion's territory was vast, the Ice Empress only saw the towering pillar of light from afar and didn't sense the power of the Ice God like the Snow Empress did.
"Bing'er, you're here. Wait for Xiaobai and Atai, then we'll talk about it together."
The Ice Empress agreed, then unconsciously moved closer to the Snow Empress, a slight smile playing on her lips.
Compared to that unknown celestial phenomenon, she felt the Snow Empress was more important.
However, the Snow Empress was completely absorbed in the Ice God's aura and didn't pay much attention to the Ice Empress's small gesture.
A moment later.
A white giant bear several meters tall and a Titan giant over a hundred meters tall arrived before the Snow Empress and the Ice Empress with a tremendous tremor.
The earth shook and the ice cracked, immediately bringing the engrossed Ice Empress back to her senses.
These two rude creatures had disrupted the peaceful atmosphere between her and the Snow Empress.
"Hey Atai, with your size, can't you transform into human form and fly over here?"
"Xiaobai can't? Can't you?"
But Titan Snow Demon King wasn't interested in Ice Empress's questioning. After transforming into human form, he quickly walked to a spot not far from Snow Empress.
His somewhat stiff face was now showing excitement as he looked at Snow Empress and asked eagerly,
"Snow Empress, do you know what the pillar of light was all about? I could feel the Ice God bloodline within me boiling."
"That strange phenomenon must be related to the Ice God!"
Hearing this, Ice Empress and Xiaobai looked at Atai in shock, then looked at Snow Empress, wanting to find out the truth.
You see, in the far north, the Ice God is the sole faith of countless ice-attribute soul beasts.
This is something that neither the Dragon God of the Star Dou Great Forest nor the Sea God of the Endless Sea can shake in the slightest.
Snow Empress had also recovered from her thoughts about the Ice God and looked at the three people in front of her.
Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and Titan Snow Demon King were both the most powerful kings in the core area.
And Ice Bear King Xiaobai was her adopted son.
This sudden situation obviously couldn't be kept secret from these individuals.
Hearing the Titan Snow Demon King's question, the Snow Empress nodded, acknowledging his guess.
"Indeed, I sensed the Ice God's divine power within the pillar of light, and beneath this icy abyss, there's a high probability that the Ice God's relics or legacy exist."
After the Snow Empress finished speaking, the breathing of the two humans and the bear became rapid.
The Ice God's legacy—this was a place that countless soul beasts of the far north yearned for.
However, after their initial excitement, both Hyotei and Shiro cast somewhat unfriendly glances at Titan Snow Demon King.
Hyotei wouldn't compete with Snow Demon King for the inheritance for certain reasons, and Shiro certainly wouldn't fight with her godmother for it.
Only Titan Snow Demon King was a different story; who knew what she might do?