1104: Chapter 325: Southern Sea Ice Cliff_3 1104: Chapter 325: Southern Sea Ice Cliff_3 At this moment, the Southern Sea Ice Cliff existed, and after 730,000 years, it still existed.
Who could possibly not move house for such a long time?
Su He walked on, step by step moving forward, yet he never saw a trace of the Qilin or Emperor Ma Shi.
His heart couldn’t help but become agitated.
After all, it had been a year since Emperor Ma Shi had left Jixia Academy.
If he had come to the Southern Sea Ice Cliff, he would have ventured deep by now.
Even if he delayed due to collecting herbs, it was normal not to find him in two or three months.
Su He walked in silence, fully focused on advancing.
He suddenly passed through an archway beneath a cliff and stopped dead in his tracks.
As soon as he passed through the arch, darkness fell in the blink of an eye!
Su He conjured a Mountain Divine God Seal and cast it forward.
He distinctly felt the successful formation but saw no golden light.
The snake body hissed, flicking its tongue, looking around in all directions, but it could see nothing, hear nothing!
Everything suddenly fell into silence.
Even when biting down, one couldn’t feel the existence of the other, nor could the two claws sense each other when they touched.
The snake body could not sense the turtle body, nor could the turtle body sense the snake body.
They couldn’t even connect with the toad, let alone Ji Feixue, who was unconscious on their back.
It was as if consciousness was wrenched from the body and thrown into a pitch-dark space.
Su He stood motionless for a moment, then suddenly smiled.
He had experienced this sensation before.
Back at East Cloud Mountain, the Sealed Emperor Palace Monk had sealed his six senses, and it felt very similar to this.
Trusting his instincts, he paddled with his four limbs and leapt forward.
Suddenly breaking through the darkness, the view in front of him flashed and suddenly opened up, with his disappeared senses returning all at once.
Su He didn’t have time to look around but first checked on Ji Feixue on his back, making sure that she was lying properly on the turtle shell.
Only then did he look around.
If the canyon before was the mouth of a gourd, then this place was the belly of the gourd, suddenly expanding countless times in size.
From the sea surface, there were ice pillars like water tornadoes reaching down, freezing the seabed piece by piece.
This was the first time that water in the ice cliff had frozen completely.
Su He turned around and looked back; behind him was the archway through which he had just passed, with the same canyon still on the other side of the arch.
But from the other side of the canyon, looking this way, it wasn’t this scene; instead, the canyon seemed to stretch endlessly.
From the other side of the archway, one couldn’t see the true situation here!
A voice from the toad in his heart came, “Ya Ya, what the hell is this place, and what was with the darkness just now?”
As it was speaking, a fox’s head poked out cautiously from Ji Feixue’s body, looking around with some terror, until it saw Su He and finally breathed a sigh of relief before retracting back.
It had thought that the turtle had lost its mate and suddenly plunged into darkness, with neither heaven nor earth answering its calls.
It had thought it was no longer within Ji Feixue’s Intention Orifice and had even considered suicide to return.
As an ice pillar fell from the sky, Su He leapt to dodge it.
A chill spread quickly, grazing the turtle shell.
The snake body, wrapping Ji Feixue, quickly flickered to one side, and the ice pillar collided with the turtle shell, freezing a portion of the External Phase Turtle Mountain.
Su He’s expression grew slightly darker.
“This ice is Stepping Sky Seven-fold.
A slight misstep could lead to being sealed in it, right?”
Being frozen to death might not happen, but one would certainly be sealed in the solid ice, with no telling how long it would take to get out.
“Why does the Southern Sea Ice Cliff’s reputation come after Phoenix Valley?” Phoenix Valley can admit even Huanian who is at Stepping Sky Two-fold, able to meditate there for twenty years!
The toad thought for a moment, saying, “Perhaps, unknown is not difficult?”
People are always like this, only aware of the hardships before them, oblivious to how difficult unseen things are.
How incompetent the Emperor is, how would the ordinary people know?
They only know how terrifying the bullies in the village are.
Ordinary cultivators coming to the Southern Sea Ice Cliff can’t venture too deep, only able to search for treasures on the outer cliffs.
Few know of the horrors within the ice cliff, while Phoenix Valley, on the contrary, is known by too many.
Thus, the reputation of Phoenix Valley spread far and wide.
Su He continued on, dodging the ice pillars falling from the sky, but the deeper he went, the more anomalies he felt.
Perhaps the toad’s words had some truth, but it was impossible for the ice cliff to be so formidable and yet not a whisper of it spread.
The further inside, the more bone-chillingly cold it became.
Even Su He could feel the icy chill seeping into his bones.
Shifting his body, Su He transformed into a peacock.
Feathers below him alight with Phoenix True Fire, he let Ji Feixue lie on his feathers, warming her with its heat.
“Green Flower, do you think we might have taken a wrong turn?”
“Hmm?” the toad expressed its confusion.
“I mean, could it be that if we had passed through the arch gate normally, we wouldn’t be in this sea area filled with Death Ice Pillars but still in a canyon?
Maybe we inadvertently entered this place.
Otherwise, the darkness beneath the arch gate wouldn’t be unheard of from the outside.”
The toad fell silent for a moment before whispering softly, “That can’t be… Where have you seen problems arise wherever you go?”
Do you think you’re the reincarnation of a jinx?
Su He was silent for a long while before suddenly turning his head and flapping his wings, returning towards the arch gate.
But he had only shot out a hundred meters when suddenly over a hundred ice pillars, like sharp arrows, shot out in front of him, completely sealing the path.
“Now?” A mocking laugh rose from the bottom of Su He’s heart.
Clearly, someone did not want him to leave!
The toad opened its mouth wide and said nothing more.
Jinx!
Looking around, Su He let loose with his Phoenix True Fire.
In an instant, the surrounding sea water boiled into steam, blasting onto the ice pillars and causing countless pillars to collapse thunderously.
But as soon as one collapsed, two more formed.
Like tornadoes, they spun and charged towards the seabed, quelling the boiling water and deeply freezing everything around.
Above us!
Su He suddenly looked up, sensing the source of the ice pillars powering down from overhead.
Su He turned his body and reverted to his Xuanwu state.
With a stomp of his claws downwards and an upward flip, the sea rolled upside down, striking upwards.
“Come down here!” Su He bellowed, and the churning sea snagged at something, dragging downwards with a crash, pulling down two…
Kylins!
Water Kylins!
They appeared like the Wasteland Ancestor, transparent, melding with the sea, indistinguishable from the sea bottom.
Su He’s brow furrowed, “Why do you two fellow Daoists block the way?”
Kylins and Dragon Turtles, both belonging to the Four Spirits, shared a close relationship.
During the great battle at Phoenix Valley, Phoenix Chao Fei’s call was responded to by the Kirin Clan’s Water Monarch.
These two Kylins did not respond but instead, when dragged down by Su He, they howled and charged to attack.
Su He dodged with a leap, squinting his eyes at them.
“Fake?” The two Kylins exuded the immense aura of Kylins, yet appeared to be intelligent-less Exotic Beasts, akin to witless puppets, even less than Exotic Beasts.
Were these Kylins with their Spirit Wisdom sealed, or something else entirely?
Su He puzzled for a moment; these two Kylins did not exude Opening Heaven Qi so he could not discern their Boundary Status, but they gave him a semblance of the feeling one gets from Stepping Sky Seven-fold cultivators.
After their unsuccessful strike, the two Kylins flipped and trod the water, charging again.
Icicles bristled from their bodies, sharply targeted at Su He with a glint of cold light.
“Be still!” Su He stomped down, and a frigid intention swept through.
Magic skill—Snowy Night, a name he knew only after meeting Ji Feixue.
He had always called it Ice Break before.
The two Kylins, along with the icicles they had conjured, were promptly encased in ice.
Su He, however, looked up, his frown deepening.
With a swipe of his claw, he unleashed the North Underworld, and a gigantic vortex appeared on the seabed, spinning and dragging down the objects above.
At a glance, there were dozens of Kylins!