Master of Strange Dao

In just a few breaths, massive ice pillars appeared, each at least several hundred zhang tall.

At the top of those ice pillars, countless ice spikes intertwined, emerging out of thin air, as if forming a tattered ice cap in the sky.

When the ice cap expanded to a certain range, it suddenly collapsed onto the ice pillars, with countless ice shards like endless blades, covering an area of over a hundred li.

After the rumbling sound dissipated, the debris and snow fell to the ground again, making everything appear as if nothing had changed.

"Let's go, once it appears, it won't appear again for at least ten days, we must hurry on our journey."

As Yu Ziqing stepped onto the plain, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He sensed carefully, it wasn't a sensing from the Dayan Preface, but from the Earth Devil Venerate.

Yet, he didn't feel any change in the power of the Three Calamities.

...

A thousand miles from where Yu Ziqing was, in the world of ice and snow, the missing Wang Zixuan was sitting atop an icy peak, resting his head on one hand, quietly watching the snowflakes float in the sky.

Quietly listening to the faint sounds made by the snowflakes colliding in this silent world.

At this moment, he suddenly turned his head, looking eastward.

After frowning and sensing for a moment, he sighed softly and took out the White Jade Long Bridge filled with little blacks.

"Tell me, why am I doing this to myself.

If I hadn't cared about you in the beginning, I wouldn't need to be on the run now.

In that place of comfort, eating, drinking, and sleeping safely, wouldn't that be nice.

I'm just too meddlesome.

Since I've taken you away, it's probably difficult for the one in the depths of the Fallen Abyss to awaken again.

Those fools still want to awaken that one, truly beyond foolish.

Years did not make them any smarter.

But now that I've run to here, I still feel the danger.

Tell me, if I send you all back, will it be better?"

Wang Zixuan muttered softly, as all the little blacks squatting on the White Jade Long Bridge turned their heads to Wang Zixuan, giggling.

"If you laugh again, I'll send you back and let you become that one's fodder."

On the bridge, a little black with a sharp face continued to grin.

"You know that one's secret, sending us back is useless, once he awakens, you're definitely dead."

"I'll go and be his dog, surely that'll save my life." Wang Zixuan replied earnestly.

Instantly, all the little blacks burst into laughter.

"If you wanted to be that one's dog, would you have gone through all the trouble to escape and take us away?"

"What's wrong with being a dog, woof woof..." Wang Zixuan barked twice.

Seeing the little blacks still laughing, Wang Zixuan chuckled along, murmuring a phrase.

But being a dog that could be skinned and eaten at any moment, that's the problem.

"Aren't you running away?" a little black asked.

Wang Zixuan lay in the snow, in a posture saying he was tired and whatever happens, happens.

"Not running anymore, if I can still be caught here, where else can I run?

I want to see who's pursuing me.

Anyway, it certainly isn't the one in the Fallen Abyss.

He didn't devour you, so he's surely not awakened yet.

As long as it's not him, I can try to negotiate with the others."

As he spoke, Wang Zixuan lifted his eyelids, in his view, an eerie blue glow enveloped the sky.

The strands of glow seemed to drip down, freezing everything it touched.

He put away the White Jade Long Bridge, letting the glow envelop him, those Extreme Cold Streams froze him, and slowly, he absorbed strands of power, shuddering as he exhaled warm breath.

He cupped his hands in greeting to this world of ice and snow.

"Boss, I've come to see you, now it's unsafe even here, seems you died quite thoroughly back then.

No one fears you, there are those from back then who dare to step into your Land of Fallen.

If I am to die too, accompanying you here wouldn't be so bad."

...

Three months later, Wei Jing led Yu Ziqing across the dangerous plain, but soon after, they encountered an extreme cold storm.

The storm whipped through the skies, mixed with Extreme Cold Streams, wantonly sweeping across the world.

With great difficulty, Wei Jing managed to lead them into an ice cave, where one of Yu Ziqing's arms had been frozen solid, and he dared not light a fire, having to slowly thaw it with Qi-Blood.

After months on this icy journey, Yu Ziqing was starting to tire, finding it worse than a real fight.

He now understood why almost no one ventured into the Great Forbidden Land.

In the wind and snow, Wang Zixuan sat on a snow summit, gazing into the distance at the ice cave dozens of li away.

The Extreme Cold Streams swept over his body, but were absorbed by him, transformed into his own power.

Wang Zixuan felt somewhat puzzled, he had seen Qing Ziyu from Jinlan Mountain again.

Besides Qing Ziyu, there were three others, each with some special power, but none aligned with the person he was waiting for.

Wang Zixuan rubbed his head, beginning to ponder what was going on.

He was waiting for a former Deity, but it was the bothersome Qing Ziyu who had arrived.

Honestly, he would rather face a former Deity than Qing Ziyu.

He's waited here for a long time, the wind and snow telling him that lately, only these few people have come from outside, no one else.

Thinking it over, Wang Zixuan suddenly opened his eyes, an unusual light flashing in them, his gaze seemingly piercing through the ice and snow, focusing on Yu Ziqing.