Old Ancestor Yin Yang smiled faintly and raised his hand, pointing with one finger.
"Hiss."
A stream of black-and-white finger force shot through the air, Yin Yang Qi circulating within it in an endless cycle.
The ten-thousand-year mystic ice, seemingly indestructible and capable of freezing apart the flesh of a Daluo Golden Immortal, melted swiftly like ice and snow beneath a blazing sun. The ancient seal-script runes carved upon it shattered as well, turning into specks of spiritual light and fading away.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Old Ancestor Yin Yang flicked his sleeve, a trace of emotion in his voice. "Earlier, fellow daoist Five Elements sent word that fellow daoist Huo Yan had gained new life. I was already filled with mixed feelings then. I never expected that two old friends would also be hidden within this Northern Sea Cold Abyss. I simply do not know what they encountered back then, to have fallen into such a state."
With that, he stepped into the cold abyss first.
Xuan Ming followed close behind.
As the Ice Ancestral Witch, she was like a fish in water within this abyss steeped everywhere in bone-piercing chill. The cold aura around her body complemented the ice-spiritual qi within the abyss. With every step, an ice lotus bloomed beneath her feet, then melted away, untouched by even a speck of dust.
After passing through layer upon layer of ice walls, the view before them suddenly opened up—
This was not the dark, frigid abyss they had imagined, but an independent realm of time and space unto itself:
A boundless ocean churned beneath their feet. Its waters were a pure deep-sea blue, calm and unruffled, yet containing a vast, majestic aura of the Great Dao of Water that inhaled and exhaled heaven and earth;