The piercing cold wind, the chaotic dance of snow and hail...
Heaps of blackness pressed in from all directions, yet upon touching Li Yuan’s body, they swiftly lted away.
He paused, looked up, silently watching the majestic and myth-like scene before him.
This seed like a giant’s Ice Crystal Garden, where ghostly blue broken pillars lay scattered across the earth. The freezing wind, like giant pythons ard with snow-white blades, slithered between them, alternating speed and making eerie sounds.
Between the ice pillars, various human figures frozen in ghostly blue ice and snow appeared lifelike, still maintaining the sa posture as the mont they were frozen.
Li Yuan bent down, grasped one frozen person. Flas reluctantly spread, quickly thawing the frozen figure.
Water dripped down, transforming into ice particles mid-air, clinking and clattering as they hit the ground, rging with the frozen soil.
Li Yuan quietly looked at that person.
If he were still alive, he would awaken after thawing.
However, that person did not wake up.
Upon thawing, his body hung limply with no sign of life.
"Hey, wake up."
Li Yuan called out to him.
"Wake up."
But the person still showed no response.
Li Yuan was patient, maintaining this person’s body temperature, and even took the Wine Gourd from his waist, giving him a sip of Spring Dream Brew.
He waited for a full half-hour until a strange, long-dead stench began to emit from the body. Only then did he frown, reposition the person, press them back into the ground, and refreeze them.
"Indeed, this is not an Immortal Tomb, but a lie."
Li Yuan was grateful he hadn’t been deceived; otherwise, bringing Xue Ning and other loved ones here would have been akin to sending them to Hell.
He continued to walk, observing his surroundings.
Soon, he discovered a staircase-like ravine to the west of the Immortal Tomb.
This ravine connected far into the distance, forming a natural slide. As the snow fell, the slide’s height was continuously accumulating thick and high layers of snow.
When the snow accumulates to a certain extent, it would be pushed into the slide’s opening and gradually pushed downwards.
So corpses nearby were also slowly moved by this pushing force towards the slide.
Over ti, corpses would certainly flow out.
’Ice Coffin Ghost.’
’People who co here, upon realizing they are not rely frozen but truly dead, must feel an imnse grievance deep in their hearts.’
’Though there is no Ghost Realm at Field here, this flowing glacier can carry these grievance-ridden corpses outside, potentially reaching so Land of Extre Yin, thus forming Ice Coffin Ghosts.’
’Everything fits.’
’So then...’
Li Yuan pulled out the White Snake Blade from his coat, turning towards the depths of the Immortal Tomb.
’All answers lie within that labyrinth.’
He walked forward cautiously, alertly watching his surroundings.
However, the ’3600~51341’ flashing around him brought him a sense of relief.
After all, the black shadow that attempted to assassinate him previously was only ’625~635’ in data.
’Whatever unexpected events happen, at least I can fight, right?’
Li Yuan thought so, then stopped before the labyrinth.
The labyrinth, towering several stories high, with its twists and turns vaguely visible inside.
Except for the entrance, both sides of the labyrinth descended into bottomless abysses.
Li Yuan stood at the maze’s entrance, pondered briefly, raised his hand, and pressed it against the giant ice crystal wall at the entrance.
Sss...
Ssss...
Flas surged from his body, making contact with the ice crystal.
The massive wall began to lt, but like a sandcastle being toppled, it refroze just as it began to flow.
Li Yuan tried for a while; after lting several dozens of feet of the wall with no resulting change, he no longer held back.
Clenching the White Snake Blade tightly, the Concealing Power within it resonated like the sea as he lightly tapped the ice wall...
Bang!!
The ice wall shattered.
Li Yuan continued forward.
Bang bang bang!!
One ice wall after another shattered.
Li Yuan began deconstructing the maze.
After dismantling for a while, finding still no reaction from the labyrinth, he attempted to fly.
"No flying restrictions."
He started to maneuver.
Twisting around the fracturing maze entrance, occasionally tossing ice blocks into the distance, he appeared to be testing the existence of boundaries or sothing similar.
Li Yuan advanced steadily.
Steadily dismantling the maze.
Finally, as he dismantled several more feet, he heard a resigned and distraught female voice from deep within the labyrinth.
"Barbarian King, stop tearing it down, co in for a talk."
Li Yuan halted his actions and said, "You co out for a talk."
"Is the Barbarian King, such a figure, really afraid to see a little woman like ?"
Li Yuan shouted, "Afraid!"
Deep in the labyrinth, the woman was silent for a very long ti before saying, "This involves a great secret, and since you’ve made it here, you are qualified to know it.
In the future, you lead, I assist, we govern the Western Pole Nine Flas together, defending this place, how about it?
As a token of sincerity... I am willing to beco your woman."
At the sound of her voice, a coquettish laugh...
Ice and Snow Giant Wolves surged out of the vast labyrinth like a tide, their number surpassing that of the Nine Clans combined. Clearly, these Ice and Snow Giant Wolves held a secret; otherwise... Li Yuan should have been able to ta them.
He quietly narrowed his eyes, smiling, unmovable.
The giant wolves moved gracefully like dancers, sweeping their tails around him. At the far end, a girl draped in Silver Gauze, barefoot, danced seductively atop the wolves’ backs, erging with the snow.
Her face was pure, her gaze alluring, like a virtuous maiden first taking to water, stirring one’s heart.
Upon seeing Li Yuan, she smiled sweetly, stretching her body, swaying her hips like a ripe peach on a branch ready to be picked.
"Barbarian King, co..."
Wolf Mother tempted.
"Take , and let’s rule this place together."
Li Yuan glanced at the ’625~635’ beside her, stepping forward.
Wolf Mother smiled, opening her arms. She lightly tapped the fluffy back of a wolf and swept down from midair.
Li Yuan reached out, as if to embrace her, but just as he was about to touch her body, he accelerated suddenly, turning into a blur, his fingers grasped her neck like lightning, slamming her savagely onto the ice ground.
The pack of giant wolves imdiately snarled.
Wolf Mother still grinned, saying, "Does the Barbarian King like to use such force? Then... why not co and crush my body."
Li Yuan chuckled, "No, now we can chat, what secrets are hidden here?"
Wolf Mother said, "Can’t the Barbarian King just carry into the maze? Once inside, you’ll naturally know. Now, I’m in your hands, to kill or not is but a thought away."
Li Yuan replied, "No rush... First, tell why I can’t ta your wolves. I’m a Beast Tar with so skills; logically, I should be able to ta your wolves."
Wolf Mother paused, "Is this the right ti to talk about this?"
Li Yuan replied, "Yes."
Wolf Mother: ...
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