Activating the Four Seasons Protective Array

At last, Xiao Yun led everyone to the Winter Garden.

In the Winter Garden, the clubs had just begun to bloom. Red clubs blazed like fire, white clubs resembled snow, and the wintersweet was golden yellow, filling the air with a faint, delicate fragrance.

A bluestone path wound through the club grove. At intervals of several yards along both sides stood stone lamp pillars, each topped with a lotus-shaped lamp base, though none had yet been lit.

Xiao Yun followed the path to the heart of the club grove and stopped before one of the lamp pillars.

He took out a lamp.

It was a glazed lamp supported by a black turtle shell, with a coiled spirit snake forming its handle. The turtle shell was as black as ink, naturally patterned with profound markings that seemed to contain the ultimate truths of heaven and earth. The handle was a coiled spirit snake, its body slender and scales distinct. Its head was raised high, its mouth holding the lamp.

The lamp itself was transparent glass. There was no flame within, only a deep, abyss-like gleam of water.

The watery glow flowed silently, unfathomably deep, as though it contained an entire ocean. Though it was water, it gave off an eternally unfrozen aura. A single glance at it brought peace to the mind.

"Black Tortoise Zhiming Lamp." Xiao Yun spoke softly as his hands formed seals.

The glazed lamp slowly rose, floating before the lamp pillar. The Mysterious Nether True Water within began to circulate, sending out rings of deep blue radiance. Wherever the light passed, even the chill of the Winter Garden seemed soothed.

Xiao Yun raised a hand and pointed. A black glow lit up on the ordinary stone lamp pillar. When the light faded, the pillar had become a