"Freezing?"
Su Ming could not help being stunned.
"Yes." Chi Qian said indifferently, "At the time, I had no means whatsoever to keep them alive, but I happened to have an Alchemy Tool that could be used to freeze them. Left with no other choice, I could only resort to this."
Su Ming nodded in understanding.
When there was no other option, this was still a viable emergency measure.
At the very least, after being frozen, Chi Qian's team members' injuries would not worsen, and their last breath would be preserved. Although it was called a last resort, it was actually an unexpectedly practical method.
"After the freezing ended, I sank the surviving team members, along with the ice, straight to the bottom of a nearby lake. Then, dragging myself along with my last breath, I barely made it back to Tianfeng City and survived."
At this point, Chi Qian bit her lip.
This was where the problem lay.
"When I was rescued from my severely wounded state and regained consciousness, a month had already passed."
"The moment I woke up, I immediately went to that lake, planning to bring back all the surviving team members."
"But who could have imagined that, in this short month, the terrain there would have changed completely?"
Chi Qian spoke with some frustration.
"That area had become a wonderland, completely falling under the control of Phantom Demons."
A wonderland.
It referred to a type of terrain that appeared under the influence of the Spirit Fiend Abyss.
As the underside of the world, when an entrance to the Spirit Fiend Abyss appeared on the world's surface—in other words, when it appeared in the real world—if it remained open for a long time, the terrain around the entrance would gradually be assimilated by the Spirit Fiend