The Cunning Uninvited Guest

On the other side of the starry sky.

The heavens and earth of this world were sealed in frozen stillness. Vast white snow wrapped the mountains and locked the land beneath ice.

Howling gales carried a murderous chill capable of sealing away all life, sweeping mercilessly across the world.

The only creatures able to live in this world were ice-aspect demon beasts. Not a single human cultivator could be seen.

Yet even ice-aspect demon beasts, when those gales swept past, fled in blind panic beneath the snow, not daring to confront head-on the frigid winds that could freeze even the soul.

Rip! A spatial fissure was suddenly torn open in the void where dripping water froze into ice.

Kong Jiao stepped through the portal with one foot. The instant his body came into contact with this world's air, he felt a wave of cold rush straight at his Flawless Spiritual Body.

It burrowed through the pores of his spiritual body and into his flesh, as though it would freeze even his bones.

Fortunately, his Lunar Yin True Soul emitted light in time. It circulated through Kong Jiao's body once and swept that chill away completely.

Still, the lingering cold in his body made Kong Jiao frown.

After sweeping his gaze over this icy world, he took out the jade slip containing a map of the countless stellar worlds in the sea of stars.

He compared it repeatedly. Once he confirmed there was no mistake, the gravity on his face deepened.

"There's no mistake. This is the Mingluan Domain."

The location was correct, yet this world was entirely different from the Mingluan Domain Kong Jiao knew.

The chill pervading heaven and earth was enough to strain even a Zao Xuan cultivator, let alone other cultivators.

More importantly, after cultivating the Moon