Deep within the white clouds stood snow-capped peaks, with several winter plum trees blooming red against the snow.
At Heaven's Gate, the biting wind swept up clouds of snow mist and howled through the valley toward the frozen lake below the ice mountain.
Along the frozen lake's shore, rows of Heaven's Gate players gathered with torches in hand. Apart from the crackling of burning torch grease, the atmosphere was grave and solemn, with few people speaking.
Beyond the frozen lake, within the Immovable Human Realm reached by the stairway through the inner ice mountain, countless martial arts heroes affiliated with the Immovable Human Realm had long since gathered. All wore Mysterious Ice Masks, signifying their status as members of Heaven's Gate recognized by Di Shitian.
Further above was the Free Earth Realm, where the higher-ranking Divine Officials of Heaven's Gate resided.
The cold here pierced to the bone. Massive ice pillars stood everywhere, along with quite a number of Divine Beasts captured and controlled by Heaven's Gate.
What Di Shitian had once said to the Immortal God had not been wrong at all.
The Immortal God's claim to be a god had been secretly influenced by him. Even the methods of refining Beast Pills and controlling Beast Slaves were tricks Di Shitian had long since discarded.
As one of the finest alchemists selected layer by layer by Qin Shi Huang in the past to refine the immortal divine medicine, Di Shitian's attainments in alchemy and medicine-making were naturally extraordinary. The Divine Beast Pills he refined from the waste evil blood within phoenix blood could immediately raise an ordinary martial artist's strength by an entire major realm after a single dose, after which they would obey Di Shitian, whose body contained vast amounts of phoenix blood, as puppets.
Even Heavenly Human