Looking at that throne of ice, Yan Zhaoge could feel the aura of a crouching tiger and coiling dragon not dissipating for a long time.
It was as though he had traversed through time, able to see the scenes of the past. A powerful Martial Saint sat there just like that, looking at the ice pillar at the centre of the great hall.
Coming to the side of the throne, Yan Zhaoge turned to look at the great hall, at the true dragon's corpse sealed in ice at its centre.
Ah Hu calmed down now as well, asking, "Young Master, the difficulty of collecting this true dragon's corpse has increased. What should we do to bring it away completely?"
Yan Zhaoge said, "You don't have to worry about that. I already have an idea. Let's first check the other things in the ice palace."
Ah Hu agreed, volunteering to search for it.
Yan Zhaoge remained where he was, stroking his lower chin as he pondered.
When Ah Hu returned, he saw that their gains had been rather abundant.
Having originally already been greatly excited by the true dragon's corpse, Ah Hu was now smiling to the point where his eyes could not be seen.
Because of the long passage of time, many of the things stored in the ice palace had already decayed by now, losing their original value and use.
Even so, however, there were still many treasures left behind where the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint had once resided, still usable now.
As a Martial Saint expert, the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint's personal wealth was still very abundant.
While it could not compare to a Sacred Ground like Broad Creed Mountain in terms of wealth, as a solitary practitioner, he was truly filthy rich.
As a fellow Martial Saint, the collection of the Devil Saint Yuan Tian was much inferior.
After inspecting the items, Yan Zhaoge felt even more confident, "Right, from the looks of it, when the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint returned to this place for the last time before leaving, he did not seem to have been in a hurry. In his mind, perhaps it was just a relatively ordinary outing."
"At the very least, he did not expect that he would never return."
Yan Zhaoge pondered, "Perhaps he went to explore that so-called 'Dragons Entering the Sea' secret, vanishing from there, his life and death a mystery."
Thinking of this, Yan Zhaoge began searching through the treasures of the ice palace once more, searching for possible clues.
Finally, a few shattered scales drew Yan Zhaoge's attention.
"Dragon scales …" While the spiritual qi within the scales had already gradually dissipated, Yan Zhaoge was still able to identify them very quickly.
Walking to the ice pillar at the centre of the great hall, Yan Zhaoge carefully observed that true dragon corpse sealed within before looking at the shattered scale in his hand, "It's not from this dragon."
"After piecing the scales back together, there might be some gains." Yan Zhaoge stopped thinking, before raising his head to look at the massive ice pillar before him.
Extending his hand and pressing down on the ice pillar, feeling the cold aura within, Yan Zhaoge closed his eyes.
A moment later, he took out the pillar that had turned into a short stone rod.
The pillar of the divine palace became huge again, and together with the icicle, they supported the ice palace.
Yan Zhaoge pressed both his hands on the ice pillar that sealed the true dragon's body, infusing his aura-qi within.
With his hands as the center, a four-sided pattern appeared. As they intertwined with each other, light patterns began to appear on the ice pillars.
Yan Zhaoge retracted a palm, retrieving a pair of silver rings from the things left behind by the Glacial Dragon Martial Saint.
With a light flick of his fingers, the two silver rings flew out, one above and one below.
The silver rings that flew upwards landed where the ice pillar touched the top of the great hall, while the silver rings that flew downwards landed at the foundation of the ice pillar on the ground below.
The two silver rings also transformed into rings of silvery-white light, slowly merging within the ice pillar, vanishing.
Yan Zhaoge pressed his hands on the ice pillar once more, next his aura-qi surging in reverse as he sucked on the ice pillar.
The massive ice pillar that had still seemed inseparable from the great hall of the ice palace earlier shuddered now, actually gradually being moved by Yan Zhaoge.
Amidst the friction, a great amount of shattered ice descended from above, the ice pillar becoming a little smaller. Yan Zhaoge exerted force downwards, causing the ice pillar to topple horizontally.
The ice pillar was densely covered with silvery-white light patterns, flickering with radiance unceasingly. The true dragon corpse sealed within remained unmoving, as though in a deep slumber.
Yan Zhaoge tried to store this massive ice pillar within his Shadow Shrinking Pouch.
However, an extremely powerful aura suddenly surged from within the ice pillar that had previously been quiet, even seeming rather ordinary, terrifying to the extreme.
The ferocious spiritual force resisted entering the Shadow Shrinking Pouch, virtually wanting to rip it apart.
"Extraordinary indeed," Yan Zhaoge's expression did not change as he lightly patted the pillar of the Divine Palace beside him.
The pillar of the Divine Palace shrunk slightly before, under Yan Zhaoge's control, descending onto the ice pillar. The powerful aura within the ice pillar finally calmed somewhat.
Yan Zhaoge immediately sent the pillar of the Divine Palace and the true dragon corpse into the Shadow Shrinking Pouch.
On the other side, having also kept the other things, Yan Zhaoge said, "Let's go."
Without even having to think, he knew that the people of the Heavenly Thunder Hall were currently waiting outside the ice palace, outside the ice lake.
It was very likely that the Heavenly Thunder Hall's Elder Zhen and the others who had been at the Ice Pith Vein earlier had also hurried back at top speed.
Over at the Ice Pith Vein, having caused the Heavenly Thunder Hall to suffer disastrous losses in their manpower in the Extreme Northern Lands, it might not be impossible for the Heavenly Thunder Hall to send reinforcements over from the Thunder Domain.
However, this did not pose a problem for Yan Zhaoge. Exiting the ice palace, he did not leave the ice lake, instead taking out the Underground Splitting Shuttle and entering the depths of the lake, leaving from underground.
Within the Underground Splitting Shuttle, looking at the numerous cracks on its surface, Yan Zhaoge smacked his lips, "Over at the Ice Pith Vein earlier, the pressure was still a little great ah. The damage to the Underground Splitting Shuttle was also rather severe, even worse than in Old Man Great Sorrow's tomb earlier."
Ah Hu was even more shocked, "Young Master ah, it wouldn't have broken down in the middle of the journey, right? Then we would have been buried underground. "
Yan Zhaoge chuckled, "Relax, it's at least enough to complete this journey."
Very quickly, the Underground Splitting Shuttle shot out of the ground, the two seeing the light of day once more.
Yan Zhaoge kept the Underground Splitting Shuttle, gazing back. Amidst the all-encompassing snowstorm, the snowy plains of the Extreme Northern Lands were vast and desolate.
"While this place is rather close to the Thunder Domain, at the end of the day, it is not the territory of the Heavenly Thunder Hall," Yan Zhaoge shook his head.
While Lin Zhou and the others might not recognise the Underground Splitting Shuttle, they should still know that he had this unique treasure.
However, other than guarding the ice lake, they also didn't have much of a choice. Their manpower was far from enough to spread out in all directions, completely surrounding the surrounding area.
Controlling the Underground Splitting Shuttle, he could choose any direction underground, which was extremely convenient.
To the martial practitioners of the Heavenly Thunder Hall, finding a way to open the ice palace as soon as possible was still a little more realistic.
Yan Zhaoge said to Ah Hu, "Let's go. Pay attention to clearing away our tracks, lest we be followed."
The two headed east once more, hurrying towards that blue hot spring they had discovered earlier.
Calculating the time, Yan Zhaoge estimated that the spiritual qi there should already have accumulated enough.
After many days of trekking, returning to their old home, Yan Zhaoge broke through the ice and frozen earth once more, the blue hot spring that emanated steam once more appearing before them.
Yan Zhaoge took out an object that resembled a transparent crystal, throwing it into the blue hot spring.
Instantly, the hot spring began to boil even more, at the same time its blue light faded completely, turning bloodred. (To be continued.)
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