Upon the endless frozen plains.
Zhang Meng and Li Cang stood before that enormous ice crystal.
Their breaths instantly condensed into white mist in the freezing air.
They were going to destroy this Source of Disaster and end the devastation of this apocalyptic ice and snow.
Yet Zhang Meng had a bad feeling.
It seemed a terrifying future was about to emerge.
But on second thought, wasn't this exactly the future the Deities wanted to see?
If the plot went smoothly all the way through, the Deities would grow bored watching it.
The Deities complained about humanity's foolish choices while also enjoying the terrible consequences brought about by that foolishness.
If humanity grew stronger without a hitch, the Deities would instead be disappointed and find it dull...
So he chose silence and attacked the ice crystal alongside Li Cang.
They were both powerful, after all. Their levels were already quite high.
When the ice crystal shattered beneath their combined attack, an unprecedented force erupted from its fragments.
A massive BOSS—the Flame Demon—slowly rose from the wreckage of the ice crystal.
The Flame Demon's arrival stunned Zhang Meng.
He felt that Fate really had a sense of humor.
This was clearly an apocalypse of extreme cold, yet an extremely hot BOSS had appeared.
"Should we leave?" he hurriedly asked Li Cang while the Flame Demon was still striking its entrance pose.
"No. Kill it. I feel like we can win," Li Cang said, filled with a sense of victory.
"Fine. Whatever makes you happy." Zhang Meng did not mention that he had a very bad feeling about this.
The two looked up at the Flame Demon.
This Flame Demon stood a full hundred zhang tall.
Its enormous body was made of a scorching outer shell of flame and a hard Ice