After wasting a while longer, Qin He was truly bored out of his mind, so he tried igniting a wisp of Samadhi True Fire and dropped it directly onto the ice.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..."
In an instant, the Samadhi True Fire sank rapidly beneath the ice like a stone cast into water.
The tricolored firelight refracted like a bright moon, illuminating the darkness beneath this boundless Icefield, darkness that had stretched on for untold ages.
Qin He saw some reflective objects, hazy and indistinct, with faint glimmers of cold light.
With a thought, Qin He guided the Samadhi True Fire closer.
After sinking roughly a hundred zhang, Qin He finally saw an enormous object.
It was actually a war chariot!
Its massive wheels were set with sharp teeth, and pulling it was a Horse Beast covered from head to toe in grim scale armor.
Exquisite bronze beast-head sculptures decorated both sides of the shaft, their eyes wide with fury as though they were ready to pounce upon an enemy at any moment.
Atop the war chariot, a battle flag fluttered from the tip of a tall flagpole. Though frozen in ice, it still retained the posture of billowing forward in a charge.
Yet the shocking sight was that this ancient war chariot had already shattered. Its axle had snapped, its carriage was tilted, and the Horse Beast was frozen in the posture of falling.
As the Samadhi True Fire drew closer, the scene beside the war chariot gradually came into view.
This was actually an Ancient Battlefield, where two sides had been locked in an exceptionally fierce slaughter.
Weapons, armor, Flying Boats, Savage Beasts, battle formations, and fluttering battle flags... but even more numerous were the unbroken stretches of bones.
Beneath this Icefield, an Ancient Battlefield had actually been frozen