Yao Xiaotian
Xiao Yan reached out and caught the blood-red crystal floating before him. The moment it landed in his hand, a terrifying icy force spread along his palm. In an instant, one of Xiao Yan's arms was frozen solid.
"It really is a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal. Such icy power is truly terrifying..."
Seeing this, Xiao Yan nodded with some satisfaction. With a shake of his arm, he shattered the ice crystals, then stored the blood crystal in his Storage Ring. Looking toward Yao Ming, he asked, "How do I get you out? Destroy these four iron chains?"
"No need. What traps me isn't the chains themselves, but the Yellow Springs Yin Stones at their ends. They constantly release icy power to drain the Dou Qi within my body, keeping me in an extremely weakened state... There is an intricate mechanism hidden where the chains connect to the mountain. As long as you can destroy it, these chains, though forged from special materials, will no longer be able to hold me."
Yao Ming shook his head as he spoke.
"Oh?"
Xiao Yan raised his brows slightly and moved, appearing at the end of one of the chains. Sure enough, he saw it buried deep within a black mountain. The mountain was not large, only several dozen zhang wide, yet the icy power contained within it made even Xiao Yan, protected by Heavenly Flames, shudder from the cold.
"This is the Yellow Springs Yin Stone?"
Staring at the black mountain, Xiao Yan clenched his fist. Vast Dou Qi surged out, and he fiercely slammed it against the mountain.
Bang!
A huge ring of water spread thunderously from where Xiao Yan's fist struck, yet the black mountain merely trembled. Xiao Yan's punch, powerful enough to seriously injure a Half-Saint, failed to