Yet this brief peace did not last long. During a routine spiritual energy scan, the guardians were shocked to discover a mysterious power surging deep beneath the Immortal and Mortal Realms, completely unlike anything they had encountered before. This power was extraordinarily cold, as if it could pierce straight into one's marrow. Wherever it passed, all spiritual energy was instantly frozen.
Faced with such a bizarre situation, the guardians did not dare relax in the slightest. They quickly gathered once more to discuss a response. After some deliberation, they decided to dig down along the source of this power and find out what secret lay hidden below.
As the excavation deepened, an astonishing sight appeared before them—an ancient palace hidden underground! Its gates were tightly shut, covered in dense curse runes that sent chills down their spines.
The guardians hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to force the gates open. As they slowly swung apart, a powerful icy current rushed toward them like raging waves, nearly making them lose their footing. Even more shocking, the Ice Sculpture Monsters inside the palace began to awaken one after another. With ferocious faces and bared claws, they lunged at the guardians.
These Ice Sculpture Monsters were exceptionally hard, impervious to blades and spears. Even the Divine Bell's Purifying Power had little effect on them. The guardians fell into an unprecedented predicament and, for a time, were at a loss.
Just as everyone began to despair, the mysterious ancient book suddenly flashed again, revealing the Ice Sculpture Monsters' weakness—the Ice Crystal cores within their bodies.
The guardians immediately understood. They swiftly changed tactics and concentrated their attacks on the monsters' Ice Crystal cores. Sure enough, once the cores were shattered, the monsters instantly collapsed into fragments, turning into shattered ice scattered across the