With a crisp crack!
Two figures sped one after the other across the land sealed in ice for thousands of miles, fractures occasionally blossoming across the ice sheet beneath them.
The weather was far too strange. It was clearly the season of spring blossoms, yet Putuo Prefecture was like the depths of midwinter.
The clouds churned, and black currents of air carried heartrending howls. They were icy vapors from somewhere beneath the ground, the true culprit behind the abnormal climate.
"Ice Extreme Earth Lung Mansion?"
Having obtained a crucial clue from Pharmacist Ku Tang, Zhou You fell into thought.
Mingjian Prefectural Lord's question came from behind him. "Nanchen Prefectural Lord, are we still going forward?"
"The farther ahead we go, the lower the temperature. Dripping water turns to ice, frozen iron crumbles to powder. Unless one is an Earth Sect and builds a 'city' from the space around oneself—where a person becomes a city, sealing off the effects of the outside climate—you and I won't last much longer."
The moment he finished speaking, those words froze into a lump of ice, which dropped to the ground with a clatter and shattered to pieces.
Suddenly, Zhou You's body trembled. The information fed back by Pharmacist Ku Tang had arrived.
"Mingjian Prefectural Lord, rest here for now. I'll head over first!"
Evil Alchemist Qi Wei had already refined the "medicinal catalyst" and vanished into the basin with that medicine furnace. Unless something unexpected had happened, he had surely gone to the Ice Extreme Earth Lung Mansion.
Though he did not know Qi Wei's ultimate objective, Zhou You felt he could not be allowed to succeed.
Mingjian Prefectural Lord had just opened his mouth when the figure before him flashed away. Zhou You's silhouette had already vanished into the frozen wilderness.
It turned