Heaven and earth lay deathly still beneath a blanket of white.
Centered on Tian Yuan Base, hundreds of miles had become a world eternally sealed in ice crystals. Thick, deep-blue ice covered everything: mountains, valleys, mining pits, and even the wreckage of abandoned machinery.
All life and sound had fallen into oblivion in this extreme cold.
Tian Yuan Base was the most jarring part of this frozen tableau.
The alloy walls, three hundred feet high, and the ranks of laser towers and energy cannons atop them were all encased in crystal-clear ice.
On the walls, the soldiers had become hundreds of ice sculptures, frozen in the act of firing, shouting, and running. They looked lifelike, yet not a trace of life remained in them. Even the bullets they had fired were frozen.
Fang Mo and the four True Lords stood in the sky, staring at the scene in prolonged silence. The air was as still as death.
True Lord Qingshui surveyed the ground below, his gaze grave. "To turn a thousand miles of land into an absolute-zero domain in such a short time, completely freezing life and energy... this must have been at least a Heaven Piercing Realm mutant beast that has mastered a complete ice law."
True Lord Yuanhua's expression was grim, his voice low, anger flashing in his eyes. "Damn it! This ice law freezes even the soul. I'm afraid hardly anyone could have survived!"
Anger flickered in Fang Mo's eyes, mingled with heartache.
Everyone here was a disciple of Taichu Peak. There had been over a dozen Transcendent Realm cultivators, and even True Man Realm cultivators, yet all of them had been frozen.
He drew a deep breath, slowly circulating the Savage Ancient Divine Dragon Art within him. The dim dragon markings along his spine glimmered faintly,