Xiao Yan reached out and caught the blood-red crystal floating before him. The instant it landed in his hand, a terrifyingly frigid force spread along his palm, freezing one of Xiao Yan's arms in an instant.
"It really is a Yellow Springs Blood Crystal. This icy force is truly terrifying..."
Seeing this, Xiao Yan nodded somewhat delightedly. With a tremor of his arm, he shattered the ice crystals, then stored the blood crystal in his Storage Ring. Turning his gaze toward Yao Ming, he asked, "How do I get you out? Destroy these four chains?"
"No need. What imprisons me is not these chains, but the Yellow Springs Yin Stones at their ends. They continuously release frigid energy that drains the Dou Qi within my body, keeping me in an extremely weakened state... At the points where the chains connect to the mountain, there are delicate mechanisms hidden inside. As long as you can destroy them, 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 and moved, appearing at the end of one of the chains. Sure enough, he saw the chain deeply embedded in a pitch-black mountain. The mountain was not large, merely several dozen zhang in size, but the frigid force it contained made even Xiao Yan, protected by Heavenly Flames, shudder from the cold.
"So this is a Yellow Springs Yin Stone?"
Gazing at the black mountain, Xiao Yan clenched his fist as vast Dou Qi surged forth, then smashed fiercely into the mountain.
Bang!
A huge ring of water erupted from where Xiao Yan's fist landed and thundered outward. Yet the black mountain merely trembled slightly. Xiao Yan's punch, powerful enough to severely injure a Half-Saint,