All around them were icy layers of blue-green, while overhead stretched a round dome. The mirror-smooth ice reflected Lin Qi and the others.
Beneath their feet lay pure, azure Mystic Ice. The thick ice contained not the slightest impurity and was so transparent that they could clearly see enormous shapes winding through the waters beneath it. In many places below the Titan Great Ice Plain were bottomless ocean trenches. The place Lin Qi and the others had been teleported into was separated from the seawater by only a few hundred meters of ice.
Lin Qi released a thread of spiritual power to peer below. He sensed thousands of powerful demigod-level sea beasts and fish lazily swimming beneath them. What startled him was that, in waters several thousand miles deep, he discovered a gigantic demonic octopus with the strength of a Low-God and a body over a hundred miles long.
The deep sea truly was a mysterious and terrifying domain, far more dangerous than the surface world—even the abyssal world.
At the center of this cave deep within the ice stood a towering, blue-black stepped pyramidal altar. The altar spanned roughly a mile and stood about a hundred meters tall, with nine tiers of steps rising from bottom to top. Between each large tier were small stone steps a foot high. The pyramid's surface was uneven, covered everywhere in protrusions like human ribs. Combined with the altar's blue-black color, it looked bizarre beyond measure.
Lin Bule surveyed the surroundings, took out several dozen fist-sized luminous pearls, and casually tossed them in every direction. Their bright glow illuminated the cave. She took a few steps toward the altar, then turned and beckoned Lin Qi. "Where are the sacrifices? There's no other way to activate this altar. It can only be opened with