Chapter 283: Your Name
[Do you know my true name?]
That question, posed by the breathtakingly beautiful Snow Monarch, clad in a white wedding dress, within the icy realm of the Ranking Battle’s secret realm, had haunted Gong Lianyue.
The Snow Monarch’s true name? It was likely lost to time, unknown even in the entire spirit world…
After the Nether Spring Narcissus returned, Gong Lianyue was even more certain of this. She was probably the only one in the entire spirit world who knew the Water Element’s true name.
Other legendary spirit beasts, relying on inherited memories and knowledge, only had a vague impression of the Lord of the Nether Spring. They knew of it, but not its true name.
The Snow Monarch was the same. As an ancient being, born in the mythical era, like the Lord of the Nether Spring, its true name had been lost to time.
The Legendary Seven Concubines had changed countless times, but the Snow Monarch remained, standing at the pinnacle of the spirit world.
So, how could she possibly know its true name?
In this world, there was no one who could tell her.
However, when the Snow Monarch asked that question, Gong Lianyue hadn’t been the only one present!
Nearby, a small, insignificant, frozen spirit beast had also heard it.
The Frost Snow Woman…
The question had sent the Frost Snow Woman’s mind reeling, back to her youth. Other lost Frost Snow Women were always eagerly sought and retrieved by the Snow Monarch, but she… she had been deliberately banished from the Nether Snow Sacred Domain.
Only those ignorant, uncivilized smaller realms dared to lay a hand on a Frost Snow Woman. The overlord-level realms, even the Ten Sacred Domains, treated them as honored guests, even those who had been banished.
That was why she had been able to wander freely for so long, unharmed, no one daring to offend the Snow Monarch, until she reached the Sea Region…
And the reason for her banishment? She knew the Snow Monarch’s true name.
—
Cangsheng Palace, the Reclaiming War.
The Snow Monarch, before leaving, had asked the same question, this time with an additional warning:
[Do you know my true name?]
[Be careful. Moon Calamity. Three years.]
Gong Lianyue had a rough understanding of the Moon Calamity, the leader of the Six Disasters, and the reason for the Nether Spring Narcissus’s defection.
But the Snow Monarch’s words also held a deeper warning.
A warning from a being of such power… it indicated a disaster far beyond Gong Lianyue’s current capabilities.
And this warning… wasn’t just for her.
The Frost Snow Woman…
After the Snow Monarch’s departure, the Frost Snow Woman had followed its cryptic instructions.
She had carefully collected the Snow Monarch’s fallen hairs and woven them into a robe, impenetrable even to ordinary Saint-ranks, a replica of the Snow Monarch’s own mourning clothes.
And the Ice Coffin, shattered by the Nether Spring Narcissus, its fragments carefully collected and brought back.
The Ice Coffin fragments, the corpse, the hair, the blood, the clothes, the wedding ring… all assembled. Only the core and the spirit energy remained.
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Sea Concubine Palace, Saintess Palace.
The Frost Snow Woman meticulously wove the Snow Monarch’s fur, shaping and cutting the threads, forming solid, crystalline fragments.
As she worked, the white threads gradually formed a chilling white snowflake, resembling a spirit beast’s life core.
A core made from 75 strands of the Snow Monarch’s hair, the spirit energy contained within terrifying.
And this scene… happened to be witnessed by Hong Xiaoqianyu.
Hong Xiaoqianyu had promised to help.
And so, the final components, the core and the spirit energy, were also obtained.
At this moment, the Frost Snow Woman recalled the day they had met, a year ago.
–Ice Shield Palace, Wind Valley.
The Frost Snow Woman floated in the air, looking down at the unconscious, blue-haired girl, a hesitant expression on her face.
Should she form a contract with her? After all, she was just a Dead Sea Stage Spirit Master, a Dual Soul Body whose cultivation speed would be agonizingly slow.
She didn’t know how long it would take her to reach the Nether Traverse Realm. It wasn’t worth it.
Just then, the purple elemental figure, having retreated earlier after… their encounter, reappeared.
No one noticed, not even the Water Element, which had already returned to Gong Lianyue’s body. They were alone.
In the strange silence, the Ice Soul Cold Star, a strange smile on its face, reached out to the Frost Snow Woman.
“Let’s… trick her into giving us… the wedding ring… shall we?”
“…”
“…”
“…”
Crack!
The mirror shattered, memories flooding back.
This was the Frost Snow Woman’s perspective, a different world from Gong Lianyue’s.
—
Sea Region, the Water-Moon War.
Facing the combined threat of the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer and the Sea Breath Cradle, Gong Lianyue’s spirit energy depleted, the Nether Spring Narcissus and the Nine-Colored Cloud Dream Flower both recalled, she was helpless, cornered.
Just then, a pair of cold, pale hands reached out and took the ice flower wedding ring from her finger.
!!!!!
???
As Gong Lianyue stared in shock, a white-haired woman in mourning clothes, holding the ring, stood beside her.
The Frost Snow Woman…
How could it still maintain its materialized form with her spirit energy depleted?
Then, Gong Lianyue noticed the source of the Frost Snow Woman’s spirit energy.
Ah, that was—Hong Xiaoqianyu!!!
Hong Xiaoqianyu, who had been… conserving its energy, was now channeling its spirit energy, willingly supporting the Frost Snow Woman.
Why was Hong Xiaoqianyu helping her?
This unexpected turn of events stunned both Gong Lianyue and the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer.
However, they weren’t shocked by the same thing.
[Very well, but first… you have to defeat us.]
[Do you know my true name?]
As the blue-haired girl stood there, dazed, the Frost Snow Woman suddenly pulled her into a tight embrace.
A chilling cold seeped into the girl’s mind, her consciousness almost freezing.
But her body gradually adapted to the cold, the icy aura spreading through her veins, her blood resonating.
A faint ice frame, shaped like a snowflake, appeared around her teardrop eyes.
Then, icy patterns, like frost-covered branches, spread across her teardrops, obscuring her pupils.
The Frost Snow Woman whispered, her voice a soft murmur in the girl’s mind,
[Speak it. My true name.]
Your true name…
Your name is—
As Gong Lianyue slowly spoke, the entire Sea Region was bathed in a brilliant, snowy light.
Chapter 284: The Third Legendary Spirit Beast of the Sorrowful Saintess!!!
Within the swirling chaos of spirit energy, Gong Lianyue’s clothes vanished.
She stood there naked, exposed, like a lamb ready for slaughter.
But the girl had no time for modesty. The Frost Snow Woman’s shroud-like robe also disappeared, replaced by the Snow Monarch’s wedding dress.
Icy blood flowed, soft white hair cascaded down.
In that instant, the Frost Snow Woman’s aura and appearance underwent a complete transformation.
The Frost Snow Woman knew the Snow Monarch’s true name, not because she had overheard it or seen it written, but because…
The reason the Snow Monarch had banished her wasn’t because she knew its true name.
She could go anywhere, except the Nether Snow Sacred Domain.
The reason for this was a secret known only to legendary beings.
Clad in the Snow Monarch’s wedding dress, the Frost Snow Woman’s aura intensified, its icy chill deepening. It swallowed the snowflake-shaped core.
This core, containing the power of 75 strands of the Snow Monarch’s hair, would push her to a new level.
The transformation didn’t end there. The Frost Snow Woman took the ice flower wedding ring given to Gong Lianyue by the Snow Monarch and placed it on her own finger…
Swish—
Instantly, the ring pulsed with a terrifying power, and the Frost Snow Woman’s body disintegrated, dissolving into snowflakes, a silent death.
The Frost Snow Woman was dead, but it didn’t reappear in Gong Lianyue’s spirit space. It remained in this… state of death, its life force lingering, a new form of existence.
The Ice Coffin fragments, the Snow Woman’s body, the Snow Monarch’s hair, blood, and wedding dress, the core, Hong Xiaoqianyu’s spirit energy—all these energies merged, and the dimmed ice flower ring regained its icy brilliance.
[Speak it. My true name.]
Your true name…
Your name is—
Whoosh!!!
As Gong Lianyue slowly spoke, a blizzard erupted, a chilling aura, snowflakes filling the Sea Region.
Both the Snow Monarch and the Jade Concubine of the Waterfall Lake, when they had appeared, had been incomplete forms, their power suppressed to the Dead Sea Stage by the secret realm.
The Nether Spring Narcissus’s manifestation had only lasted ten seconds. Hong Xiaoqianyu and the Shadowlurking Blade, Night’s Executioner, were… insignificant. So far, nothing in the Sea Region had surpassed the combined power of the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer and the Sea Breath Cradle.
However, at this moment, their understanding of power would be redefined.
As the snowflakes fell, the ethereal being that emerged wasn’t a Frost Snow Woman.
Its previous form had perished, replaced by something more perfect, more powerful.
A woman in a snow-white wedding dress, a shroud-like garment, her face hidden behind a veil, identical in appearance to the Snow Monarch, an ice flower ring on her pale finger.
The Snow Monarch of the Nether Snow Sacred Domain, its origins a mystery.
Countless beings sought to uncover the Snow Monarch’s true name and its origins, but they had found nothing.
Besides the Lord of the Nether Spring and the White Moon Lord, both born in the mythical era, like itself, it had no equals, no one to converse with. (During the Reclaiming War, the enraged Nether Spring Narcissus had almost revealed the Snow Monarch’s true name.)
But the next time she faced the Snow Monarch, Gong Lianyue would know its name!
[?????Legendary-rank????]
[??Nether Princess Bai Xue??] (Bai Xue “white snow”)
Nether Princess Bai Xue, of the same species as the Snow Monarch, the second such being to appear in forty thousand years, since the fall of the mythical era!
At this moment, Gong Lianyue’s third legendary spirit beast descended upon the Sea Region!!!
As the bride’s chilling aura spread, covering thousands of miles, the surrounding seawater began to freeze.
Sustained by Hong Xiaoqianyu’s spirit energy, Nether Princess Bai Xue radiated an icy aura that froze the minds and bodies of all nearby Sea Concubine Palace Spirit Masters.
Of course, she would unfreeze them after the battle. For now, they needed to… rest… to avoid being caught in the crossfire of the upcoming legendary battle.
Facing the newly manifested Nether Princess Bai Xue, the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer’s expression shifted from confusion to shock, disbelief, then to a manic excitement.
This aura… this was the being it had been searching for, the reason it had traveled all the way from the Hegemony Moon Realm!
The aura it had sensed in the Soul Prison Trial… it had been this hidden Snow Woman, the Frost… no, the Nether Princess Bai Xue!!!
So that was what the purple elemental doll had meant by “us.”
For the first time, the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer’s gaze fell upon the blue-haired, teardrop-eyed girl, the master of these spirit beasts—Gong Lianyue, the Sorrowful Saintess!
Her beautiful crescent moon eyebrows, her sorrowful, downcast eyes, her six neatly arranged teardrops, her flowing, water-like hair, the ice flower pattern around her pupils, and her… revealing attire.
It was impossible to tell what she was thinking. She was like a final boss from a game, a bizarre and unsettling combination of features.
Contracting with multiple legendary spirit beasts, bearing the marks of their favor… it resulted in this strange transformation.
This wasn’t ugliness or deformity, but a divine form, the ultimate aspiration of every Spirit Master in the spirit world!
The embodiment of beauty, elegance, nobility, supreme power!
The White Flower Moon-Treading Deer, its face flushed with excitement, its hooves tapping impatiently on the frozen sea, its aura surging, a cloud of vapor erupting behind it.
Its slender legs shifted and twisted, the bones at its knees protruding, sharp as blades, a grotesque and unnatural running posture.
The Sea Breath Cradle, transformed into a shimmering blue ribbon, wrapped around its leg, a strangely… seductive sight.
Charge Mode, tenth stage, unleashed!
And facing the White Flower Moon-Treading Deer’s terrifying power, the Nether Princess Bai Xue simply clasped her hands together, her eyes closed, like a maiden in prayer, a serene expression on her face.
The final, ultimate battle of the Water-Moon War.
[White Flower Moon-Treading Deer, Sea Breath Cradle] VS [Nether Princess Bai Xue, Hong Xiaoqianyu].
