The entrance to the Grand Essence Ruins was large, but it didn't have any array formations blocking it. Therefore, anyone could go in.
Most cultivators who entered the Grand Essence Ruins formed a team of at least four people. Three people were rare, not to mention Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue.
For cultivators like Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue who had just arrived, if they didn't take the initiative to find other people to team up with them, few people would take the initiative to find them.
The two didn't know much about the rules of the Grand Essence Ruins. Besides, Ning Cheng wanted to go to the Grand Essence Seven Bridges, so he didn't want to team up with others. After purchasing the latest map of the Grand Essence Ruins, he took Nalan Ruxue and followed the other cultivators into the Grand Essence Ruins.
The airship only flew for a day before its speed slowed down. Ning Cheng knew what was going on. The various laws in the Grand Essence Ruins were chaotic, which made it difficult for ordinary airships to fly at high speeds. Ning Cheng didn't want to bring out the Starry Sky Wheel, so he could only use celestial essence like other cultivators.
Ning Cheng passed through a path of ruins, collapsed mountains, and crisscrossed ravines. Some places even had dead tree roots pointing upwards. Apparently, the entire ground had been turned upside down. No one knew how many tens of thousands of years these tree roots had survived, but they hadn't completely withered.
A few more days passed, and Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue's spiritual consciousnesses couldn't see a single person. From this, one could see the vastness of the Grand Essence Ruins. No matter how many cultivators came in, they would just be a drop of water in the Grand Essence Ruins.
At this point, they could see some worthless fragments of broken weapons, as well as piles of building ruins. It seemed that countless years ago, this place had once been a glorious and lively starry sky city. Ning Cheng's spiritual consciousness swept through the ruins but couldn't find anything of value. Most likely, this place had already been turned over countless times by those who came before.
Continuing to follow the directions on the jade strip map for another two days, the two stopped at the entrance of a sloping ice valley. From here, they could clearly hear the whimpering sounds coming from the ice valley, and some of the overflowing icy aura made Nalan Ruxue shiver subconsciously. At the edge of the sloping entrance, there was a huge ice sculpture lying on the ground. The ice sculpture had cracks all over it, and it only had one leg and one arm.
"The aura inside the Defying Ice Mound is so cold." Although Nalan Ruxue wasn't a body-forging cultivator, she was still a Heaven Seated cultivator. Even before she entered the Defying Ice Mound, she already felt a bit cold.
Ning Cheng hesitated before speaking, "If you can't bear it, you can enter my True Spirit World."
Nalan Ruxue refused without hesitation, "No need. I went to the starry skies from Heaven's Way alone and wandered around the starry skies. Only then did I realise that sometimes tempering is more useful than hiding in seclusion in the sect."
In fact, after entering the starry sky, she, Nalan Ruxue, was no longer the pampered child of the Thoughtless Academy. Instead, she became an ordinary starry sky rogue cultivator, a starry sky wanderer. Her harvest from wandering the starry sky for all these years was more than ten times better than when she was in the Thoughtless Clan. More importantly, her will was firmer. In the past, she would never have thought that she would be able to do this.
Ning Cheng hadn't even had the time to say anything when several figures descended. Two men and two women, four cultivators, appeared in front of Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue.
All four of them were Eternal cultivators, and one of them, a grey-robed woman, had already reached the full-circle of the Eternal Realm. A male cultivator with a star on his forehead was at the late-stage Eternal Realm, while the other man and woman were at the early-stage Eternal Realm.
"Are you also going to the Defying Ice Mound?" The grey-robed female cultivator's gaze swept over Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue before asking with some surprise.
"Yes, we're going to the Defying Ice Mound." Ning Cheng nodded.
This grey-robed female cultivator wore an old-fashioned dress, and her colour looked dull. She didn't seem to want to show off her appearance. But in fact, her appearance didn't lose out to Nalan Ruxue's.
She shook her head, "I advise you not to go in. This Junior Apprentice Sister's cultivation is only at the early-stage Heaven Seated Realm, and it's not even stable. Entering the Defying Ice Mound with such cultivation would only result in death. Although the Defying Ice Mound has many good things, it would be useless if you lose your life. "
Ning Cheng didn't respond to her words. He knew that this grey-robed female cultivator's words were unpleasant to hear, but she had good intentions.
Nalan Ruxue quickly bowed and said, "Many thanks for this Senior Apprentice Sister's kind reminder."
After the grey-robed female cultivator finished speaking, she didn't care about Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue and directly rushed into the Defying Ice Mound.
"Senior Apprentice Brother Ning ….." Nalan Ruxue looked at Ning Cheng with some embarrassment. She wasn't afraid of death, but she was afraid of implicating Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng showed an indifferent smile, "Let's go. Don't tell me we can't go in just because someone said a few words?"
The grey-robed female cultivator's spiritual consciousness swept out and found Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue still following them into the Defying Ice Mound. Shaking her head, she wasn't in the mood to care about it anymore. She had reminded them out of kindness, but if they didn't accept her kindness, then what else could she say?
"Sister Ning, they don't appreciate it. There's no need to worry about such people." The early-stage Eternal female cultivator next to the grey-robed female cultivator saw the grey-robed female cultivator shake her head and took the initiative to speak up.
The grey-robed female cultivator smiled, "I don't need to worry about them. It's just that it's not easy to cultivate to the Heaven Seated Realm. It's not worth it to lose your life in this place because of reaching beyond your grasp. As far as I know, the tasks to enter the Defying Ice Mound are all high-grade tasks. If a Heaven Seated cultivator enters this place, it would only result in death. Forget it, we're about to enter the ice mound. Everyone, pay attention and bring out your defensive weapons. "
Without the reminder from the grey-robed female cultivator, the other three had already brought out their defensive weapons and moved with even more caution.
"Wu-Wu-Wu ….." Bursts of ice-cold blade lights swept over with a whimpering sound, and these ice-cold blade lights struck the defensive weapons of the four. Even if the four brought out all their defensive weapons, they still couldn't help but shiver a few times in the face of these ice-cold blade lights.
"The ice-cold blade lights here are very powerful." The early-stage Eternal cultivator, who walked at the back, spoke up in surprise.
The grey-robed female cultivator spoke up with a cautious tone, "The ice-cold blade lights of the Defying Ice Mound contain ice-attributed laws. Even if it's cold in other cold places, it wouldn't be as powerful as the ice-cold blades containing the dao charm of these laws. This is a good place to comprehend ice-attributed laws, but it's also very easy to get sucked into these laws. Everyone, be careful. "
The grey-robed female cultivator had just finished speaking when a terrifying roar erupted, and a deathly suppressive feeling swept over the four.
"Not good, it's the Defying Ice Storm. Run ….." The grey-robed female cultivator finished speaking and rushed out diagonally.
Even without the grey-robed female cultivator's explanation, the others already understood the power of the Defying Ice Mound's Defying Ice Storm. The laws of this Defying Ice Storm were chaotic. Moreover, because of the large-scale eruption, the impact was extremely violent. There was no way to resist it directly. If ordinary Eternal cultivators got sucked into this Defying Ice Storm, only death would await them.
"Boom-Boom-Boom ….." The Defying Ice Storm containing the ice-attributed laws swept past the four like an avalanche.
After an incense stick worth of time, the most violent Defying Ice Storm finally passed, but the Defying Ice Blade Lights still kept sweeping over. As the Defying Ice Storm moved in a straight line, the grey-robed female cultivator's group of four hid in a corner of the ice cliff and managed to escape. However, these Defying Ice Blade Lights had no direction. The four of them had to join forces to bring out their defensive weapons to block the endless Defying Ice Blade Lights.
"I'm afraid we're in some danger today." The grey-robed female cultivator looked at the endless ice-attributed laws hitting their defensive weapons and spoke with a solemn tone.
The others didn't speak. Before coming to the Defying Ice Mound, they already knew about the Defying Ice Storm. It's just that they didn't expect their luck to be so bad that they encountered the Defying Ice Storm. Generally, after the Defying Ice Storm passed, the ice-attributed laws would continue for several days or even months. If the four of them hid in this corner, they might be able to hold on for a few days. But they couldn't even think about blocking the ice-attributed laws for a few months.
"If these Defying Ice Blade Lights don't dissipate after three days, we can only rush out together." The late-stage Eternal male cultivator with a star on his forehead spoke up.
Hiding in the corner of the ice cliff to resist these Defying Ice Blade Lights was much easier than rushing out.
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With a rumbling sound, Ning Cheng immediately felt the ice-attributed laws' blade lights.
Nalan Ruxue shuddered. Even before the ice-attributed laws swept over, she couldn't bear it.
"That ….." Nalan Ruxue saw the terrifying Defying Ice Storm rushing towards her. But she only had time to say one word before the law-attributed aura locked onto her. She couldn't speak anymore.
"Boom-Boom-Boom ….." The Defying Ice Storm rolled up endless ice-attributed laws' blades and shot over. Nalan Ruxue only felt herself drowning in these ice-attributed laws' blades. Not to mention resisting, she couldn't even stand.
"Am I okay?" Nalan Ruxue soon saw a huge Thunder City protecting her and Ning Cheng. When the Defying Ice Storm Blade Lights slammed into the Thunder City, it triggered ice-law fragments and lightning arcs that looked like flowers scattered by a celestial maiden.
Ning Cheng's luck wasn't as good as the grey-robed female cultivator's, and he couldn't find a place to hide in time. Moreover, he didn't know how powerful the Defying Ice Storm was. At least, he didn't know about it before using the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort.
When the Defying Ice Storm's violent ice-attributed laws slammed into the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort, Ning Cheng almost lost control of the blue thunder fort.
The violent ice-attributed law storm directly blasted open a gap in the blue thunder fort, and several ice-attributed law blade lights rushed in. Fortunately, Ning Cheng stood in front of Nalan Ruxue. Therefore, these violent ice-attributed law blade lights directly cut a few bloody wounds on Ning Cheng's body.
If Nalan Ruxue stood in front of him, even a single wound would have caused her corporeal body to collapse. This kind of law-attributed attack wasn't something a Heaven Seated cultivator like Nalan Ruxue could withstand.
As Ning Cheng stabilized the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort, the Defying Ice Storm, which looked like the Milky Way pouring down, finally stopped. If the grey-robed female cultivator saw this scene, her eyes would have popped out of their sockets in shock.
Facing such a terrifying Defying Ice Storm, apart from dodging, even a Dao Sculpting expert wouldn't dare to use a defensive weapon to block it. An Eternal cultivator using a weapon to block the Defying Ice Storm, unless they were crazy.
But Ning Cheng wasn't crazy. He had indeed blocked it. In addition to the power of the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort, his celestial essence and Sea of Consciousness had long since surpassed the scope of the Eternal Realm.
The most violent Defying Ice Storm quickly passed, and the endless Defying Ice Laws' blades that followed didn't pose any threat to Ning Cheng. With these Defying Ice Laws' blades, Ning Cheng could even block them for a few months.
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