"Daoist Li! Your meridians..."
Su Muqing hurriedly caught him, asking with concern.
"Dear..."
Zhao Qi was just as worried, her bright eyes glistening with tears.
"The cold has invaded my body. I need to go into seclusion and dispel it."
Li Yunjing struggled to his feet and looked toward the collapsed Ice Abyss, still shaken. "The protective restriction around the Nine-Turn Profound Ice Lotus was probably left behind by an ancient mighty being. If we hadn't been well prepared..."
Before he could finish, the ground beneath their feet suddenly shifted.
The four of them warily looked toward the Ice Plains.
Countless ice-blue lines were spreading out in every direction from the Ice Abyss!
"Oh no!"
Zhao Qi's expression changed dramatically. "The cold is spreading! The entire Ice Plains are about to awaken!"
As if to prove her words, a deafening crack rang out in the distance. A ten-thousand-zhang ice mountain suddenly thrust up from the ground and came crashing down upon them!
"The restriction has recovered!"
Ye Wuhen drew a sharp breath. "Run! We can't withstand the power of nature here!"
By the time the Sky Patrol Warship started up again, the scene behind them had become a vision of doomsday.
The Ice Plains were boiling. Countless ancient beasts, long frozen in ice, burst free. The sky was shrouded in icy mist, and even the sunlight had turned a strange blue.
Looking at the trembling Mystic Ice Casket in his arms, Li Yunjing suddenly understood. "What we took wasn't a spirit herb...but the formation core suppressing these Ice Plains!"
"Rumble!"
The Sky Patrol Warship sped through the air above the boiling Ice Plains, its hull shuddering violently, as if it could be swallowed at any moment by the icy mist sweeping after them.
Li Yunjing gripped the railing until his