Ice-and-Fire Relic Treasure Hunt
After passing through the rippling, water-like vortex in the barrier, they found neither the ancient palace nor the deep cavern they had expected.
The scene that replaced them made even Lin Chen and Medusa, both widely traveled and knowledgeable, narrow their eyes slightly.
Before them lay a broken, bizarre world.
There were no sun, moon, or stars in the sky, only a vast expanse of hazy gray.
It was as if some enormous force had twisted that gray expanse out of shape.
An invisible boundary split the land into two sharply divided halves.
On the left was a sweltering realm of molten lava.
Dark-red magma flowed across the ground in crisscrossing streams.
The magma bubbled and frothed, releasing searing heat, while the air was thick with the pungent stench of sulfur.
Strange crimson crystals and flaming lotuses grew in the magma.
They radiated pure yang energy.
The space itself warped slightly from the heat.
On the right lay a lifeless, frozen plain.
As far as the eye could see, everything was a deep blue, frozen for countless ages.
Towering glaciers rose up, and an eerie chill filled the air as if it were tangible.
A thick layer of profound ice covered the ground.
Sapphire-like ice crystals and jade marrow wreathed in wisps of cold dotted the landscape.
They contained the purest yin energy.
At the boundary between the two regions stretched a chaotic zone hundreds of yards wide.
Here, the crimson energy of fire and the deep-blue energy of ice clashed and annihilated each other in a frenzy.
Their collision rang out with a grating hiss, while spatial rifts flickered in and out of existence.
The violent energy currents could easily tear an ordinary Dou Zong to pieces.
This was the perilous Yin-Yang Annihilation Zone.
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