Settling Old Debts

This was an exceedingly precipitous ice peak.

It stood over three thousand zhang tall. Had the skies above the snow plain not been bluer than elsewhere, and the clouds thinner, its summit would already have pierced straight into the heavens.

Across the entire ice peak, apart from the several hundred zhang above its foothills, where snow pines common to the snow plain and other snowy plants could still be seen, every area above one thousand zhang was covered in gleaming white snow and solid ice. In the several hundred zhang nearest the summit, the ice even reflected a blue glacial radiance—it was blue ice that had not melted for millennia.

Zhou Yang had been observing this ice peak from several hundred miles away for over half a month.

More than half a month ago, after he and True Person White Deer arrived here, they had originally planned to rely on True Person White Deer's help to charge directly up the ice peak, kill or trap the Three-Headed Ice Vulture atop it, and pluck the Ice Tear Flower growing at the summit.

However, just as they were preparing to act, True Person White Deer sensed the lingering aura of a Sixth-Rank Demon King on the ice peak, startling them both.

At the time, Zhou Yang had thought he had arrived too late, and that the Three-Headed Ice Vulture had already advanced from a Tier 5 Demonic Beast to a Sixth-Rank Demon King.

Only after the two of them carefully observed the situation did they discover that the Sixth-Rank Demon King aura atop the peak did not belong to the Three-Headed Ice Vulture. It had merely been left behind by a Sixth-Rank Demon King who had once visited this place.

Thus, the true situation was likely that a Sixth-Rank Demon King had