The group followed Nie Renwang to the end of the Dragon Path, only to find another frozen waterfall before the dragon's head. In front of the dragon's mouth stood a massive sphere, far larger than the dragon's head itself. Water from the waterfall had fallen onto the stone sphere, enveloping it in a huge ball of water—but now, it had become a ball of ice.
Looking up along the waterfall, they saw an underground river passing through this place, forming the waterfall by chance.
Because it was an underground river, its entrance was extremely narrow. At this moment, it was completely sealed by ice, with no excess water flowing down. Yet from the frozen shape that had fixed everything in place, they could still make out the full course of the water that had once flowed down from above.
Standing atop the frozen stone sphere was an imposing middle-aged man in yellow. His calm gaze swept over the group one by one as he said with slight displeasure, "I clearly showed mercy just now, yet after being saved, not only did you fail to leave this troubled place at once, you even rushed in here to die. Utterly foolish."
There was none of Di Shitian's usual lofty arrogance in his voice. Instead, he sounded more like a kind old elder.
Even his voice itself was vastly different from Di Shitian's.
If not for the extremely dense internal energy fluctuations unique to the Sacred Heart Art permeating the surrounding ice, along with Yin Bukui's Strategy Guide as a reference, Ye Weiming would never have been able to connect this kind-looking middle-aged man with the arrogant Di Shitian beneath the ice sculpture.
Hearing Di Shitian's words, Nie Renwang stepped forward and declared proudly, "The Dragon Vein concerns the peace of the Divine