That same year.
At year's end.
Winter arrived.
Heavy snow drifted through the air, and the howling north wind swept across the earth, bringing endless cold.
The Ice Snow Forest Territory, already a place of low temperatures and year-round snowfall, became even colder.
The same was true of Ice Snow Valley, at the heart of this region.
Indeed, because this place possessed a Third Rank High Grade Ice Spirit Vein, it was even colder than elsewhere.
However, none of this affected cultivators.
That day.
A vast ripple of divine sense suddenly spread outward from the depths of Ice Snow Valley in the Ice Snow Forest.
Ling Pengyun, who had been in seclusion refining the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome, was immediately startled.
This divine sense fluctuation has likely reached the Golden Core Late Stage?
Its aura also matches that child Li Hao's. Could it be that he truly succeeded?
At that thought, Ling Pengyun's eyes immediately lit up.
He promptly emerged from seclusion and headed to the cave abode from which the disturbance in divine sense had come.
Ling Chengxin and Yan Siyi, who were also within the valley, were likewise alerted. Before long, they too arrived outside the cave abode.
The three of them chatted idly for a while, but their gazes never left the cave abode before them.
After waiting a short while.
The disturbance of divine sense within the cave abode finally subsided, gradually withdrawing before vanishing completely.
Immediately afterward, the cave abode's doors opened.
A refined young man in a blue Daoist robe, carrying the air of a scholar about him, emerged from within with boundless joy on his face.
The moment he saw Ling Pengyun and the others, he immediately cupped his hands apologetically.
"Great-Grandfather Pengyun, Great-Grandmother Siyi, Cheng Xin, this junior's divine sense broke