Master of Strange Dao

"Why aren't you speaking? Are you afraid of dying?

You just found an excuse to hide here after being defeated. You're not really seeking the power of death, are you?"

Yu Ziqing said, and saw the smooth blue halo, as if disturbed, beginning to flicker with glitches, and chaotic scenes started to appear.

Yu Ziqing saw Shi.

Several people sat around, a campfire in the center, with the perspective coming from the campfire.

Shi was solemn, speaking in a deep voice.

"Only the power of death can send those undying deities to their end.

We must grasp this power before them and never let them get hold of it.

I already have some ideas, maybe in a few more years, we can try...

Hmm?"

Shi abruptly turned a sharp gaze towards the campfire.

The image ended there.

Yu Ziqing stared blankly as the clearest image flashed by.

Impressions of Shi floated in his mind.

He's willing to bet, Shi definitely did it on purpose, deliberately luring!

Stopping halfway, letting people hang in suspense, then suddenly acting as if he discovered a peeper, this acting could only fool people back then.

He knew those undying deities were all more talk than action.

If there came a day telling the undying deities they would perish, they'd resist more than anyone else.

Yu Ziqing finally understood why this guy who claimed to chase the power of death left a glimpse of life.

He's not ignorant, he's forcing himself to be ignorant.

Yu Ziqing pinpointed this, overturning countless years of deep-rooted beliefs, which would definitely spark the fiercest ideological conflict.

As he was thinking, the world trembled more intensely, and the next moment, Yu Ziqing's view changed.

The surrounding dense cold qi invaded.

He hadn't found a way out, and the other side voluntarily tossed him out...

Yu Ziqing was dumbfounded; what's the meaning of this, get kicked out when hitting a sore spot?

Promised to bicker to the end, to wait till he died?

Yu Ziqing pursed his lips, looked around, seeing no one.

Glancing at the distant apparent Extreme Cold Stream, Yu Ziqing had no intention of going back in.

Yu Ziqing got disgusted by that guy, and similarly, Yu Ziqing disgusted him.

Yu Ziqing met such a character for the first time; I can't kill you, but I can trap you, till your lifespan runs out.

Yu Ziqing understood the essence of that place but hadn't figured how to get out.

That guy's true form shattered; after rank shattered, could even reveal some external form, his consciousness clung to part of the rank turned external form.

Yu Ziqing hadn't planned how to kill the opponent, unsure if killing him would trap him there permanently.

The opponent's power wasn't weak, just the revealed parts were few, possibly due to severe shattering limiting power.

Taking a bite feels somewhat full, swallowing completely must take quite a time.

Moreover, this guy's shattered rank had substantial lost parts in the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land, some scattered elsewhere.

Hell knows if dispersed like this, resolving wouldn't count as sending him away.

Yu Ziqing noted, determined to clarify things there.

Initially, the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land wasn't forbidden, like ordinary high-altitude areas.

Since that guy fell here, not yet fully dead, continually absorbing yang qi, disturbing local yin-yang balance, this massive land occupying half of Dazhen transformed into a frozen world.

Back then when he fell, his external form was a huge fireball, akin to a meteor falling.

A hundred years ago, in the northern Wilderness, the Great Sun Dominating the Sky shared great similarity.

The outcome remained almost the same, bringing extreme cold.

The difference was when this guy fell in the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land, he turned the western half of Dazhen into an icy realm.

While a hundred years ago, the Great Sun Dominating the Sky, cold chilling southwards, devastated the Northern Wilderness.

The climatic impact ranged from northern Dazhen spreading a diagonal line across northeast to southwest and to the southeast.

Yu Ziqing felt, this time coming here seemed to hit the key point.

The disaster years ago must be related to the guy in the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land.

But to claim it was his doing, Yu Ziqing didn't believe he had the skill, possessing vast power but incapable of harnessing much, unable to cause the Great Sun Dominating the Sky.

...

Underneath the thick ice layer, Wei Jing and Wei Tai kept progressing, both somewhat silent.

The previously encountered old Family Head Big Zombie, they re-sealed using the Extreme Cold Stream, unsure how long it'd hold, the so-called finding ancestors remains was obviously nonsense.

"Family Head, is Qing Ziyu really gone?"

"His flesh vanished, naturally he's gone."

"Alive unseen, dead without a body; how do we report back?"

Wei Jing was silent, though coming to the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land type of Forbidden Land, life and death defined by destiny, dying meant bad luck.

But these were only words, Wei Jing continuously sought relatively safe paths, dodging places upon sensing danger, genuinely not wishing Jinlan Mountain's Qing Ziyu to perish here.