As the leader of the Qingxuan Army, Shang Shaojun had suppressed the Roaring Abyss for a hundred years, maintaining composure even in the face of a terror such as the Apocalypse Demon Tide.
But now, he genuinely felt a deep, bone-chilling fear that he hadn’t experienced in a long ti.
There were simply too many Death Cultivators in the Frozen Ocean.
Shang Shaojun found it hard to imagine where all these cultivators ca from.
He feared that the number of cultivators buried here might exceed that of the entire Xuanhuang World!
Sacred Embryo Li Fan also pretended to be scared by the scene before him, his body trembling slightly and his face showing a horrified expression.
"Young Master, do not act rashly, be cautious."
After a while, as if coming back to his senses, he comforted Shang Shaojun.
Shang Shaojun’s face was still ugly, as he occasionally surveyed his surroundings as if there were so unknown enemies hidden around them.
"Sothing’s not right here… Did you hear any sound?" Shang Shaojun transmitted his question through a whisper.
"Sound? What sound?" Sacred Embryo Li Fan was sowhat startled, and this was not an act.
Shang Shaojun’s face darkened, "Perhaps it’s because I’ve spent too much ti in the Roaring Abyss, I’m particularly sensitive to any sound. Ever since arriving in this Mystical Realm, I’ve constantly been hearing a kind of whisper. It cos and goes; didn’t you hear it?"
Sacred Embryo Li Fan narrowed his eyes.
This wasn’t his first ti here.
In fact, he had guided various cultivators to this place.
But none were like Shang Shaojun, who actually heard inexplicable sounds in the silent expanse of the Frozen Ocean.
With different thoughts arising in his mind, Sacred Embryo Li Fan solemnly said, "What do you think, Young Master? This place must involve a great secret. However, if we delve deeper, we will certainly face enormous risks. Should we leave before we are discovered, or shall we investigate further?"
Shang Shaojun didn’t imdiately reply to Li Fan. Instead, his ears twitched, seemingly distinguishing the sounds he heard.
After a while, he transmitted his explanation, "Brother Li, follow . I have a premonition that if we trace the source of this sound, we might uncover so of the mysteries of this place."
Sacred Embryo Li Fan nodded slightly, his Sword Shadow unsheathed, standing guard by their side.
"Caution is paramount."
The two traversed the endless Ice-sealed Ocean.
In truth, Li Fan had long been clear on the overall structure of the [Great Array of Life-Death Reversal].
However, since he was pretending it was his first visit, he didn’t expose Shang Shaojun as they walked in circles within the Array Technique, rely following silently behind.
But as Shang Shaojun stubbornly kept moving in a certain direction, Sacred Embryo Li Fan also noticed subtle changes occurring around them.
Changes that had even eluded the analysis of the Final Separation Disk, overlooked by him!
"There’s even a hidden variation within the Great Array? It’s truly worthy of an Array Technique that can lead to Longevity," Li Fan thought with surprise.
They continued forward.
It felt as if they were stepping in place, except the ice-sealed coffins in the surrounding sea kept revolving around them.
The deeper they went, the faster the surrounding scenery spun.
"Be careful, Brother Li. It seems the source of the sound is just ahead!" Shang Shaojun’s voice was also tinged with nervousness.
Like passing through a narrow and elongated space-ti tunnel, the surroundings, due to the rapid movent, turned into overlapping lines.
When they broke through the tunnel’s end, the myriad circles converged to one point.
Then exploded in their field of vision with a bang.
Their view suddenly opened up.
But the air around them grew even colder.
So much so that both Li Fan and Shang Shaojun felt as if they were being frozen stiff.
"Huh..."
They stimulated their Spiritual Power, trying to dispel the bone-chilling coldness.
Both of them scrutinized their surroundings carefully.
It seed to be the interior of a silver-white sphere, with nothing inside but so blurry boundaries that were visible.
Looking back in the direction they had co from made their pupils suddenly contract.
Like Yin Yang fish, small spheres continuously rotating, quietly floating in midair.
From the dim parts of one of them, the Sacred Embryo Li Fan could faintly sense the atmosphere of the deathly silent, ice-sealed ocean they experienced before.
And inside this white sphere, there were eight more of these Yin Yang spheres!
Nine in total, forming a special formation.
Shang Shaojun swallowed hard with difficulty.
Just one of the Yin Yang spheres contained an uncountable number of dead.
If this number were to be multiplied by nine…
The two exchanged glances, both seeing the shock and fear in each other’s eyes.
Even their soul transmission communication beca cautious.
Fearing they might disturb the nine Yin Yang spheres here.
"Young Master, the sounds you heard before..."
"Gone. As soon as we entered this place, it abruptly stopped and mysteriously disappeared. Wait a mont..." Shang Shaojun suddenly froze, then turned his head towards the opposite direction of the Yin Yang spheres.
Sacred Embryo Li Fan followed his gaze but didn’t see anything.
"Be careful."
Shang Shaojun simply uttered a cautious reminder and said no more.
His body stiffened, motionless. His breath also beca exceedingly weak in an instant.
That was when Sacred Embryo Li Fan beca aware of so invisible presence descending upon this space.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Even though there was no concrete sound, that heavy footfall resonated firmly in Li Fan’s heart.
The distance was getting closer.
It paid no mind to the two intruders, instead heading straight for the vicinity of the nine Yin Yang beads.
Sigh...
The sound of a light breath erged.
The space near the Yin Yang beads also began to display waves of distortion.
Like being boiled in hot water, the Yin and Yang parts of the nine small spheres swirled around each other, becoming even more distinct.
And both Shang Shaojun and Li Fan clearly saw ice-sealed corpses being drawn into the nine Yin Yang beads with each breath of the unknown entity.
The entire eerie process did not last long.
The oppressive footsteps gradually faded away, and the silver-white space slowly returned to normal.
The nine Yin Yang beads also began to settle down and beco calm again.
It was a long ti before they felt safe communicating through soul transmission.
"What was that just now?"
"A sense of crisis pricked all over my body, my spiritual sense screaming warnings, as if disaster might strike at any mont... That feeling, even the Immortal Sovereign might not be able to bring it about, right?"
After a few short sentences, the two fell into an extrely oppressive silence.
"The sounds I just heard must have been the echo of that unknown entity’s footsteps here," Shang Shaojun speculated, "Even though it’s gone, the reverberations linger."
"The countless ice-sealed dead in the Yin Yang beads seem to be that guy’s doing. But I still can’t understand where all these bodies ca from? And what might be outside this silver-white space?"
Sacred Embryo Li Fan was unable to answer these questions.
He had thought that this was rely the domain of the Transcendence Heavenly Sovereign. Yet, in this life, by a fluke, he had stumbled upon even deeper secrets hidden behind.
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