Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1668 - 49: Jinx True Spirit, Time’s Up

Only advancing a few dozen miles, the concentration of Spiritual Energy, activity, etc., were down to just one third, and as they continued forward, the decline became greater.Only coldness remained, and it was that kind of void, hollow coldness, where there was absolutely nothing.

The sky became increasingly dim here, with that unique feeling of darkness everywhere in sight, and even looking back south, it wasn't much better.

Sense of direction here would also be distorted, worsening the deeper one went.

Yu Ziqing frowned slightly; after advancing just a few hundred miles, the surroundings had already dimmed, like a starless, moonless night, and even with the Divine Light in his eyes, he couldn't see far.

This was somewhat reminiscent of the Endless Darkness beneath the Mountain Abyss.

He reached out his hand, the three Tokens rotating in his palm, still not much change.

He judged the direction, carrying the Tokens, turned east, entering the Hengduan Mountains' range.

Unexpectedly, he had only entered the Hengduan Mountains about ten miles before the three Tokens simultaneously shone with a faint light, and their rotation speed suddenly increased.

Judging by this change, it was certainly not just entering the sensing range; it was already within five to six hundred miles.

Yu Ziqing pondered for a while, retreated ten miles westward, and once he exited the Hengduan Mountains, the glow of the Tokens instantly vanished, no longer detecting anything.

Yu Ziqing looked at the Hengduan Mountains, stretching from south to north into the darkness, deep in thought.

This mountain range might have major issues.

It is the only mountain range that can stand on earth after penetrating the Extreme North Ice Field.

Now it seems that the Hengduan Mountains not only rely on their massive size to withstand the power of the Extremely Cold Forbidden Land, but there are indeed some mysteries within them.

He entered the Hengduan Mountains once more, and the Tokens responded. Everywhere he looked, it was covered in ice and snow that hadn't melted for millennia.

This place is already much farther north than Dazhen's northernmost region, and within the Hengduan Mountains, looking north, although the north was getting darker, the range of vision here was far greater than outside.

This further confirmed Yu Ziqing's suspicion.

Looking up, he could see the distant boundary of the Pallid Blue Sky.

Yu Ziqing roughly understood why others couldn't find it.

Prior to this, it should have been under the coverage of the Pallid Blue Sky, coupled with that strange shielding power, unless someone entered the Hengduan Mountains, went north beyond Dazhen's northernmost area, and continued north, it would be impossible to detect it.

The ice columns here rise like mountains, deep blue in color, and are genuine Ten-thousand-year-old Mysterious Ice.

There were also many marks left after the eruptions of Extreme Cold Stream, proving this place used to be a high occurrence area for the stream.

Yu Ziqing reached out, flicked a finger, and knocked on a thousand-foot-high deep blue ice mountain; its texture was extremely hard, at least several ranks higher than refined Mysterious Iron.

Harvesting any bits to take back could sell for a high price.

It's just that the mining difficulty was overly high.

Yu Ziqing didn't rush to act; he continued to move forward as guided by the Tokens, traveling east for over four hundred miles, the three Tokens were already completely enveloped in glow.

Proving the target was extremely close, definitely within ten miles.

He constantly adjusted his position, searched around within a ten-mile radius twice, but found nothing.

Even when his Yang God opened its eyes, it found nothing.

He threw out the three Tokens in his hand, letting them fly separately in three directions. Radiating with glow, the Tokens rotated within a few miles nearby, eventually revolving around a deep blue ice mountain.

Yu Ziqing gazed down, realizing he was indeed correct; it was right here.

Retrieving the Tokens, he brushed away the snow covering the ice mountain, revealing the translucent body of Profound Ice underneath. With the Divine Light in his eyes, he could vaguely glimpse that there seemed to be something beneath the ice mountain.

His eyes ignited with Blood Flame, transforming into two streaks of blood light, landing on the ice mountain, burning bit by bit, creating a large hole that pushed inward.

Days later, Yu Ziqing dug out a spherical space inside the ice mountain, several feet large.

The center of this spherical space was specially left with a chunk of Profound Ice, about ten feet high, within which was a white skeleton, curled into a ball, frozen within.

Yu Ziqing smacked his lips, thinking his voice was indeed like a bad omen.

Earlier, he mused that since he couldn't find this fourth Ancient Demon's bloodline for so long, and it hadn't revealed itself, it might have perished.

Well, now indeed, it hadn't perished; it had maintained the state of a skeleton all along.

This deep blue Ten-thousand-year-old Mysterious Ice Mountain, where his Blood Flame burned in, only burned an area several feet large, and it took several days.

Such a scale of Ten-thousand-year-old Mysterious Ice its development, under the influence of Extreme Cold Stream over time, wouldn't achieve such magnitude without tens of thousands of years.

Moreover, this small ice mountain formed under the large ice mountain, slowly created due to influence, could have taken even longer.

Yu Ziqing circled around the ice sphere; this skeleton had already begun to jadeify, and glimpsed through the Ten-thousand-year-old Mysterious Ice, its color was excellent and preservation superb.

Judging by the skeleton alone, it could be confirmed as human.

Yu Ziqing reached out, gestured, and instantly noticed the pelvis, indicating that it should have been a woman in life.

Short stature, small skull, long shin bones; considering this skeleton was at least tens of thousands of years old, that leads to a conclusion.