Douluo Continent: Little Huo Niang Taken Away by Di Tian

Chapter 235 I am... Xue...

This place was once the blessed land where the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm devoured endless millennia-old ice marrow and lay dormant for hundreds of thousands of years.

Now, the will of the plane has personally plucked the strings of the earth's crust, drawing all the remaining ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow essence of the far north to this place, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea.

Deep within the dark blue cave, the Ice God Pearl floats silently.

The bead shimmered with a breathtakingly brilliant, cold light, and was connected to the cave walls by streams of pure, visible ice-type soul power.

That was not a simple energy transfer, but a kind of almost sacred "return" that the Ice God Pearl was using to reshape its cradle.

In the middle of the mountain, the stunningly beautiful girl with snow-white hair is still asleep.

But as energy was poured in, her features became clearer, her skin glowed with a jade-like luster, and her breath seemed to stir the cold tides of the entire cave.

Little White lay at the entrance of the cave, staring blankly at its mother inside the bead.

"Mom, I miss you so much." His voice was soft, yet it echoed in the deathly silence of the icy cave.

Since the conclusion of the previous Soul Master Competition, Zi Ji has sent Xue Di, who has become the spirit of the Ice God Pearl, back to the far north.

Under the escort of beasts such as Atai, the Ice God Pearl was placed here.

At first, Xue Di was just a baby inside the pearl; but now, having absorbed a massive amount of ice marrow, she has grown into a graceful young woman.

"Mom, we've been amazing lately! We led the tribe to mine in the mountains and found so many rare metals. Even Atai praised us for being the most efficient!" Xiaobai wiped her mouth. "I wonder when Yutong will come again... Her grilled fish smells so good, that taste, tsk tsk, it makes my mouth water just thinking about it..."

As he spoke, the light within the Ice God Pearl seemed to ripple slightly.

The girl sleeping in the pearl had her long eyelashes tremble almost imperceptibly for a moment.

Snow Emperor's consciousness sank into endless darkness and cold, tracing back to the ancient primordial era.

She possessed nearly 700,000 years of cultivation, yet she did not actually live past 700,000 years.

Her memories begin with the arrival of the Ice God Pearl.

That was an era capable of upending heaven and earth.

At that time, the far north was not the frozen inferno before us, but a desolate plain.

There was no snow, no wind, only lifeless rocks and cracked yellow earth, with the scorching sun burning the land without any obstruction.

Until that day, with the collapse of the Heavenly Ladder, Di Tian, ​​Jin Zhao, and the Silver Dragon King fell into the later Star Dou Great Forest; the remains of the Fire Dragon King and the Ice Dragon King turned into the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire, eternally suppressing the Sunset Forest; and the Ice God Pearl crashed deep into the sky, smashing into the center of this plain!

"boom--!!!"

It was a silent explosion, but it was a reconstruction on a material level.

The Ice God Pearl contains the power of the laws of higher-dimensional deities.

The moment it touches the ground, the extreme cold is no longer just a temperature, but a "conceptual freeze".

The hard rock layer did not shatter upon contact with the Ice God Pearl, but instead disintegrated directly into basic particles, recombining into the most primitive ice crystal structure.

An invisible wave of extreme cold ripples spread wildly outwards from the point of impact.

It drained the earth of its moisture, froze the dust in the air, and completely swallowed the barren yellow, transforming it into a deep, dark blue.

The once flat wasteland was frozen, cracked, and lifted, forming a continuous range of glacial mountains.

Those plants that could not adapt to the cold withered instantly, then turned into glistening ice shards in the cold wind, blending into the new landscape.

In an instant, the barren plain vanished.

Instead, there is this far north, a place that inspires despair in all things—a forbidden zone where even the flow of time seems to be frozen.

As the environment changes dramatically, the evolution of life also changes.

Within the pure ice-based energy field emitted by the Ice God Pearl, ordinary creatures that originally lived on the wasteland could not withstand this divine chill and perished one after another.

But at the same time, some faint sparks of life stubbornly survived in the crevices of the ice marrow.

That marked the birth of the first ice-attribute soul beasts in the far north.

Initially, it was just an ice fish that accidentally ate a fragment of millennia-old ice. In the frigid current, it shed its skin and evolved scales to withstand the extreme cold. Then came the snow fox living in glacial crevasses. In order to hunt, its fur became whiter than snowflakes, and its eyes turned ice blue. Later, there were ice bears on the plains, ice phoenixes in the sky...

For hundreds of thousands of years, the Ice God Pearl has been buried beneath layers of ice, like a giant heart, pumping the laws of ice into this land.

Countless generations of soul beasts have gone through cycles of life and death and evolution, with the weak being eliminated and the strong inheriting a trace of the Ice God Pearl's aura.

They multiplied and thrived, gradually forming a vast system of spirit beasts in the far north.

At the top of this ice and snow pyramid, the Snow Emperor, born from the blood of the Ice God, naturally became the ruler of this land.

The birth of the Snow Emperor was a miracle woven together by the consciousness of the plane and the core of life.

The blood of the Ice God provided the skeleton, the millennia-old ice marrow provided the nourishment, and a wisp of life force from the core of life gave it the soul.

After hundreds of thousands of years of gestation, the purest snow in the world has finally come to consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, the Ice God Pearl had sunk deep into the earth.

In the dark waters beneath the ice, the once calm lake surface suddenly began to ripple.

A flawless, white jade hand emerged from the water.

First the fingertips, then the palms, and then the entire arm, slowly rising upwards.

A stunningly beautiful woman with white hair and blue eyes floated on the water's surface like a lotus emerging from the water.

She tilted her head slightly and stretched out one arm, as if trying to touch the non-existent blue sky above her.

The cold wind ruffled her wet, long hair, and her eyes were both bewildered and clear, like those of a newborn baby.

"I am... Xue..."

Time moves slowly like a glacier, and hundreds of thousands of years have passed.

The Snow Emperor of yesteryear is no longer the innocent newborn sprite, but has become the absolute overlord of this far north.

Over the long years, she met Hyotei. The two women became inseparable, becoming the most dazzling twin stars in the skies above the far north.

It was around that time that Xue Di adopted Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai's birth mother was the previous Ice Bear King, who perished shortly after giving birth to her because she could not overcome the heavenly tribulation.

Looking at the little bear cub shivering in the ice cave, Xue Di was reminded of her own loneliness, so she took the cub back to her side.

From then on, the two Ice and Snow Emperors had a little follower. They taught him together and watched the little bear cub grow up little by little, learn to speak, and eventually become the "Ice Bear King" Xiaobai.