Su Xiao walked toward the entrance of the ice cavern. He was badly injured and needed to find somewhere to recuperate.
After leaving the ice cavern, Su Xiao's vision became hazy with mist. He had returned to the island at the center of the lake. Leaving from here was simple: he only needed to go to the eastern side of the island and leap into the vortex in the lake to return to the snowfield.
Su Xiao drew the long saber at his waist and stabbed it into the full moon suspended above the lake. With a crack, the moon shattered, and the passage leading to the ice cavern vanished.
After reaching the eastern side of the island, Su Xiao leaped into a vortex roughly two meters in diameter.
With a splash, water sprayed everywhere. The surrounding world turned upside down, then, drawn by the sun behind the clouds, everything was set right again.
The drifting mist around Su Xiao vanished. The biting cold wind howled, and the ice fissures he had seen on his way there disappeared. Ahead was no longer a mirror-smooth stretch of water, but a snowfield swept by howling snow.
Snowfield Wolves stood in the flying snow. For some reason, they all threw back their heads and howled at the sky, their cries full of sorrow.
Su Xiao paid no attention to their sorrow. Moon Wolf was indeed an ally, but when he had just fought Moon Wolf, he had nearly been hacked to death by the moonlight sword. He urgently needed somewhere to recuperate. He climbed onto the sled pulled by Bubu Wang. A'Mu was tied to a stretcher behind him, while Baja hung beside the sled's backrest.
Bubu Wang, who was responsible for pulling the sled, felt tremendous pressure. After howling along with the