Ice and Frost World

Looking up from the third-floor stairway landing, the extending wooden stairs were only a little over ten zhang long, their end seemingly close at hand.

Yet when Chu Mu stepped onto the wooden stairs, these seemingly ordinary steps appeared able to stretch on without end. In an instant, he crossed several hundred zhang, yet still saw no end.

Indeed, the farther upward he went, the darker the ascending wooden stairs became to the naked eye.

Even the lamps embedded in the walls on either side of the stairs gradually took on a distinctly bleak, chilling air as Chu Mu advanced.

Farther ahead, even the light cast by the lamps carried an increasingly bewitching pale-blue chill, like cold flames within ice, piercing to the bone.

Chu Mu studied this anomaly, clear surprise visible between his brows.

Within the immortal cultivation system, there were not many possibilities for such an abnormality. One could even say there were scarcely any.

Either he had silently fallen into an illusion, where illusion gave rise to all things, and no matter how bizarre it became, it would not be impossible.

But whether he had fallen into an illusion was naturally something he himself knew with absolute clarity.

With Spirit Radiance Blessing upon him and Blade Intent honed to an edge, making him fall into an illusion without a sound would likely be difficult even for a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator.

Or else, the unknown space above the third floor of Langya Pavilion was a place entirely separate from this Secret Realm Small World.

Something akin to a world within a world.

Such worlds within worlds had a unique name in the Cultivation World.

They were called... Immortal Abodes.

Put simply, they were Cave Abodes, something exceedingly commonplace in the Cultivation World today.

Yet in the era