Chapter 326 – Assassination Attempt, StolenFlame, Tranquility, Wolfmother, and Invasion - Part 1
The Deathless Tomb was pitch-black, so dark that even a fifth rank martial artist whose sense stretched more than five kilometers was rendered completely blind.
That darkness mingled with the ever-harsher blizzard, as though lumps of icy night were pressing in from every side.
Li Yuan’s braids had frozen into stiff icicles, his face numb and rigid, the pelt around his waist mere ornament now. The shadow blood circulating through him fell silent, his cultivation slipping from fifth to sixth rank, sixth to seventh rank, and still sinking.
Snow fared better. Her body could take the cold; her eyes could still see. Warmth clung to her frame, her long legs giving off a constant heat.
Li Yuan clamped his knees against the direwolf’s flanks, arms locked around his wife’s waist partly so he wouldn’t be thrown off and partly to share her warmth. While she described what lay ahead, he thought at speed.
Suddenly Yan Yu’s previous words flashed through his mind.
“The ice coffin ghost remembers no sun or moon, no meat fields or ghost domains, only a world of ice and snow.”
But if there are no ghost domains, Li Yuan mused, how did the ice coffin ghost create one?
Creating a ghost domain required two things. The first was a naturally formed region of extreme Yin. The second was a dead soul with a lingering obsession strong enough for that Yin energy to be weaved into a ghost domain.
Ghosts don’t lie. The ice coffin ghost came from here. But it somehow reached Cloudpeak Province and formed a ghost domain when it encountered a land of Extreme Yin.
From this, two simple deductions followed.
First, the bodies interred here aren’t preserved. They simply froze to death.