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Thoughts annihilated (Monthly Ticket Request at the Start of the Month and March Lottery Event Details) Ice Mirror Mountain.
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As the spring breeze warmed, the sound of ice armor melting and splitting echoed through the enormous cave. The ice sheet stretching over a hundred feet was crystal clear, droplets of ice water falling onto stalagmites and gleaming with reflected light.
Half a foot, transparent as ice, was exposed to the air. Following the half-foot upward, one could see that the young girl had already been frozen inside the ice. Not a trace of blood remained where her knees had been bitten to pieces by fish.
Sunlight from beyond the mountain pierced through the cave entrance, while candlelight shone neither hot nor cold. Anyone could see every organ within the girl's ice-clear body. A thumb-sized bitterling still swam in her intestines, likewise frozen in that instant.
Within the ice were several hundred corpses like the girl's. Some were nothing but white bones, some were half flesh and half bone, while others looked lifelike. As for those not frozen inside the ice, their bones were piled atop one another like branches gathered to build a bird's nest.
In early April, the weather atop the high mountain had grown slightly warmer. The ice surface was covered in white frost, making it impossible to see clearly. After Bai Mingzhe ordered it cleaned, the cave doors were thrown wide open, and the warm winds of fifth month blew in, gradually increasing the ice's transparency.
These were all Consorts who, after cultivation, meditated in the ice river for three days to reveal the Tathagata Storehouse.
The Consorts had been wantonly harvested, their bodies and minds already at their limits. They simply could not endure the ice river's scouring currents and bitter cold. Lasting