Lu Xiaotian personally inspected the Icefire Mountain from one end to the other, but he did not find any Body Integration Realm demons. He simply drove away the low-level cultivators who had been cultivating their divine abilities there.
As time passed, the Page Stone Clan had settled down in the Scarlet Moon Desert, and everything proceeded in good order. Lu Xiaotian and Ye Ziyu had also nearly finished their preparations. Before setting out, he refined a batch of spirit pills for Yun Cangyue. After saying his farewells, he and Ye Ziyu rode their swords away.
It was a place where frigid winds howled, snowflakes swirling down amid the gale. The branches of the cold-plum trees were already covered in glistening, barbed icicles that shone brilliantly beneath the sunlight. Set against the cold-plum forest stretching across several thousand mu, they formed a dazzling, multicolored spectacle that left the eyes in a whirl.
Yet the scattered cultivators and demons trapped deep within this crystalline cold-plum forest were suffering in silence.
"This cold-plum forest is rather strange." Ye Ziyu sensed its peculiar nature from afar: an inexplicable force was pulling at them. Even a Body Integration Realm cultivator had to circulate their magical power to resist it. As for Void Initiation Realm cultivators and demons, once they passed nearby, they would be dragged inside with hardly any power to resist.
"According to the introduction on the map scroll, we've entered the outer area. Naturally, we'll encounter all sorts of strange phenomena." The surroundings were a kingdom of snow. Lu Xiaotian and Ye Ziyu floated down directly onto the mountainside, overlooking the entire cold-plum forest.
The map scroll contained some scattered information. What met the eye was a boundless kingdom of ice and snow. In truth, this was merely the tip of the iceberg