Chapter 101

They thought they would continue to be hunted when they returned to the Ice Palace, but the Ice Palace was no longer the same as it was before when they entered the Spirit Palace.

Qi Meng Sheng's frost broke through the boundary, and the vast Ice Palace became a true demonic cave of ice and snow. The floors, beams, tables, chairs and ornaments, were all covered in a thick layer of frost and snow, as if the place had been lifted off the top and a heavy snowfall like a downpour, covering everything with an eerie white, never to see the day again.

The disciples of the Cangyu Sect who did not have time to escape, or of lower rank, turned into stiff ice statues, emitting a cold deadly aura.

"Master, big brother Lan ..." Xie Bi An jumped off Fan Wu She anxiously, but just as his feet touched the ground, he fell into the snow.

Fan Wu She was flustered and exasperated and held up his feet, "Do you still want your feet anymore?"

"I'm going to help Master." Xie Bi An pushed Fan Wu She away, drew out Pei Xue and rose up with his sword.

The moment he stood up, the pain in his two feet was so intense that Xie Bi An rocked back and forth on his sword. Blue veins protruded from his forehead, his fists clenched, blood almost oozed out from his lips from biting before he forced himself to steady himself.

"Senior brother!"

Seeing Xie Bi An flying out of the ice palace with his sword, Fan Wu She could only chase after him.

The moment he rushed out of the Ice Palace, the blinding white light forced Xie Bi An to close his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, he was stunned.

The vast and boundless white was from here to the far end where the naked eye could not reach. There was only white, even the blue waves of Fengming Lake had disappeared because it was covered with white snow. There was nothing else but white.

This white took away all the colors of heaven and earth, sucked the life out of all things, and brought the cold hell to earth.

Above Fengming Lake, an icy demoness wielding white feathered wings is looking coldly out of the sky at all beings. Beside her hovers a clear ice coffin, and that person sealed in it is dressed in a lake blue suit, with black hair like ink.

It was none other than Lan Chui Han.

Zhong Kui pointed his sword at the blue sky and said sternly, "Qi Meng Sheng, if you kill the son of Xianyue Pavilion, there will be no turning back!"

"I have long since been unable to turn back." Qi Meng Sheng had white hair and white eyebrows. Her face was bloodless and expressionless. She no longer looked like a human being, "My body is already extremely decayed. Even with a high cultivation level, it is as difficult as a mortal to defeat the fate of heaven. If I cannot ascend after death, then what have I sought for in this lifetime?”

"To ask the Dao and cultivate, one must seek to understand the Dao. If one cultivates just because one wants to ascend and become an immortal, how can one enlighten the method of Dao with such utilitarianism? This is neglecting the fundamentals and concentrating on the details!” Zhong Kui's loud voice echoed in the cold wind.

"Neglecting the fundamentals and concentrating on the details?" Qi Meng Sheng said coldly, "Why can't cultivation just be about becoming immortal? Who doesn't want to become immortal?"

"Since everyone wants to become immortal, then cultivating diligently is the way to go. Why do you not follow the right path and have to harm people?

"After the disconnection between heaven and earth, the spiritual energy on earth is constantly being depleted, and now it is so thin. In the past few hundred years, no one has ascended after death. Walking the right path will lead to nothing despite having hundreds of years of cultivation.” Qi Meng Sheng said with one word at a time, "I, am, not, willing."

"So you want to find the reincarnation of the Human Emperor and dig up his golden core?"

"Only the Absolute Human Emperor can allow me to reshape my flesh with the Ice Crystal." Qi Meng Sheng sneered, "If the celestial beings don't want us to become immortals, I will borrow an immortal core from the reincarnation of the celestial beings."

"I will never let you get away with it!"

Qi Meng Sheng waved her hand, and the icy coffin that had frozen Lan Chui Han suddenly rose: "Hand over the Qingfeng Sword, or else I will smash him to pieces. On the Huangquan Road, you will personally guide his human soul, just in time to explain to him why you did not save him."

Zhong Kui clenched his back molars, his expression showed endless struggles.

"Qi Meng Sheng!" Xie Bi An shouted.

Zhong Kui was relieved to see Xie Bi An and Fan Wu She: "Are you guys all right?"

"Master, you're injured." Xie Bi An saw the blood on Zhong Kui's body and was distressed.

"It's not a problem. What are you guys doing out here?"

Xie Bi An spread out his hand and said to Qi Meng Sheng, "Do you recognize what this is?"

In his hand lay an ancient wooden ruler.

Qi Meng Sheng narrowed her eyes.

"Gong Shu Ju is in my hands, and so is that man and the Seven Star Lamp." Xie Bi An said in a loud voice, "Release Mr. Lan."

"That man? What man?" Zhong Kui said.

"The man I saw at the bottom of Fengming Lake last night." Fan Wu She replied.

A sinister expression flashed across Qi Meng Sheng's face as she snorted coldly, "Then leave it here with you."

"You!" Xie Bi An said angrily, "Aren't you afraid that I will kill him? He is very important to you, isn't he?"

"As an underworld general, how can you kill an innocent person indiscriminately?" Qi Meng Sheng looked at Xie Bi An from a high position. She always felt that this little Impermanence Immortal looked familiar, but she did not think deeply about it, "Keep him, when I get the Golden Trunk Jade Policy, then I will exchange the boy from the Lan family with you."

"Don’t you think about it!"

Fan Wu She asked, "The innocent man you are talking about, is it Cheng Yan Zhi?"

Zhong Kui looked at Fan Wu She with slight surprise.

Qi Meng Sheng's expression looked sluggish, and she looked at Fan Wu She with a fierce gleam in her eyes.

"It seems so." Fan Wu She said in a deep voice, "Why do you want to keep Cheng Yan Zhi? What does it have to do with Xu Zhi Nan?"

Qi Meng Sheng did not answer. Her gaze shifted to Zhong Kui, "Heaven Master Zhong, hand over the Qingfeng Sword. Otherwise, I will not only kill Lan Chui Han, but I will also freeze everyone in Kunlun and other continents into ice."

"You crazy person…" Zhong Kui gritted his teeth and glared at Qi Meng Sheng.

"Hand over the Qingfeng Sword!" Qi Meng Sheng opened her five fingers, and Lan Chui Han plummeted to the ground from a high altitude.

"Stop!" Zhong Kui shouted.

That ice coffin braked violently when it was near the ground.

Xie Bi An's heart almost stopped for a moment.

Fan Wu She narrowed his eyes. It was extremely foolish to hand over the Qingfeng Sword because of Lan Chui Han, but he knew Zhong Kui would definitely compromise.

Sure enough, Zhong Kui took a deep breath and threw the Qingfeng Sword into the snow.

With a bang, the Heaven Master of the Underworld, the Immortal Lord in the present age, the acknowledged number one man in the world, has thus surrendered with his sword.

Qi Meng Sheng sucked away the Qingfeng Sword from across the void.

Zhong Kui said in a deep voice, "Qi Meng Sheng, the Golden Trunk Jade Policy is only a legend. Even if you have the Soul Weapon, you may not be able to find the Mount Tai Boundary."

"I will find it." Qi Meng Sheng took Lan Chui Han with her and flew off into the distance without looking back.

Zhong Kui stared deadly at Qi Meng Sheng’s back.

"Master." Xie Bi An flew to Zhong Kui and grabbed his arm, carefully checking his injuries, "Are you badly injured? Did you bring any medicine?"

"A small injury, it's not a problem." Zhong Kui's face was full of anger, "This demonic woman, she is simply heartless."

"Master, can she really find the Golden Trunk Jade Policy? I'm afraid that only Official Lord Cui knows where the Golden Trunk Jade Policy is."

"The Golden Trunk Jade Policy has long been a legend on earth, yet she actually knows about it. Perhaps she read about it from some lost ancient book. Looking at her confident manner, I'm afraid she can really find it."

"Then how? If we really let her know who the reincarnation of the Human Emperor is, won't that person be in danger?"

Zhong Kui said in a deep voice, "We must not let her have her way. Otherwise, it would be a repeat of the nightmare from a hundred years ago."

Xie Bi An gasped. A hundred years ago, during the era of Emperor Zong, the matchless Supreme Demon Zong Zi Xiao had swept away the entire immortal cultivation world, and everyone had to live under his lustful authority to survive. If Qi Meng Sheng cast an ice crystal body, nobody could ever defeat her, and everything that happened in that year will repeat itself.

Unless Zhong Kui uses the Eastern Emperor's Bell to deal with her.

But Eastern Emperor’s Bell is used to fill up the gap of the Fengdu boundary. Without the Bell, millions of ghosts will roam the earth, and the people in Jiuzhou will be in a terrible situation.

Now that Zhong Kui did not have the Qingfeng Sword, it was impossible for them to stop Qi Meng Sheng. In just one night, the immortal cultivation world had come to a life or death situation.

Xie Bi An said, "Master, let's immediately inform the Immortal Alliance. With the strength of the Immortal Alliance, we can definitely stop Qi Meng Sheng."

"They have heard that the demon foal Wuya has appeared and are already on their way to Kunlun." Zhong Kui remembered Wuya and turned his head to look for it, but the sky and earth were white. Where was the shadow of the skeletal warhorse? "It's not frozen to death, is it?"

"Wuya was originally an evil spirit, it couldn't have died again." Fan Wu She said, "It was just buried in the snow."

Zhong Kui frowned slightly, "You know it clearly."

Fan Wu She didn't answer.

"Let me ask you, how did you know that the man was Cheng Yan Zhi?"

"I guessed."

"Bullshit, how did you guess?"

Xie Bi An let out an "ah" and his body plunged downwards.

"Senior brother!"

"Bi An!"

The two of them held Xie Bi An at the same time.

"Master, we are both injured. Why don't we go back to the Ice Palace to recuperate first?" Xie Bi An was grimacing in pain. Although there was an element of drama, the pain was real.

Zhong Kui looked at Xie Bi An's foot and then at Fan Wu She's bloodstained front lapel, "Who did this?"

"The Flying Plume Ambassadors, but we captured them."

"Go back to the Ice Palace first."

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Xie Bi An held a cup of hot tea in both hands, looking at the white frost on the windowpane and spacing out.

Although it was frosty on all sides in this Ice Palace, at least they could find rooms that weren't covered in snow and bedding that wasn't freeze-dried, and a fire could be made. Compared to outside, it was a world of difference.

The cultivators of the Cangyu Sect who were still alive were hiding in the depths of the Ice Palace. Zhong Kui had set up a boundary in their guest rooms so that for the time being, the two would not come into contact with each other. They were all wounded now and could only stay here and wait for the people from the Immortal Alliance.

At this moment, Zhong Kui went to the Spirit Palace to capture Yun Xiang Yi and Hua Xiang Rong back. There were only the two of them in the room and a pot of burning charcoal.

"Senior brother." Fan Wu She called out in a small voice.

"Hmm?"

"Does your feet still hurt?"

"It’s much better, how about you?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore."

Xie Bi An swirled his teacup and took a sip, then put it against Fan Wu She's face, "Are you warmed up yet?"

"Warmed up." Fan Wu She lay back on the bed and looked at Xie Bi An, "What were you looking at just now?"

"Nothing."

"Then why didn't you look at me?"

Xie Bi An said with a faint smile, "You and I look at each other every day, what is there to see?"

"I wanted you to look at me."

At those words, Xie Bi An put down his teacup, lowered his head and looked down at Fan Wu She.

The smaller the boundary, the stronger it became, so the two were now on one bed, one sitting and the other lying down.

The flirtatious air flowed between them.

Xie Bi An's face heated up as he remembered what had happened in the Spirit Palace.

Fan Wu She gazed at Xie Bi An and was just about to say something when the door to the room was violently pushed open and Zhong Kui walked in, carrying Yun Xiang Yi and Hua Xiang Rong.

 

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PS: Aiyaaaa Zhong Kui why you come back at this timing?!   (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

 

Edited on 13 Apr. 21 (Emzie)

 

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