Eternal Glacier

Chen Nianzhi stood upon Netherworld Island, silently watching Netherworld Ancestor's departing back, and could not help but sigh.

After putting away the Heaven-Deriving Tome, he glanced once more at the Haoran Heavenly Sword, and his heart filled with boundless melancholy.

Unlike the master of Heaven's Edge Sea Pavilion, who had undergone Liberation by Violence of his own accord, Dao Lord Haoran had fallen at the hands of an Outer Realm Demon God. His soul had now utterly scattered, with only a wisp of true spirit entering the cycle of reincarnation.

Even if Chen Nianzhi attained immortality in the future and found True Lord Haoran's reincarnated true spirit, he would likely find only a newborn soul, unable to recover the memories of his previous life.

"The senior has passed on. Only this immortal sword remains, to offer a small remembrance."

With a sigh in his heart, Chen Nianzhi carefully stored away the Haoran Heavenly Sword.

Having settled Netherworld Ancestor's affairs, he did not linger in the Netherworld Sea and immediately headed for the Far-Northern Icefields.

The Far-Northern Icefields were vast and boundless, situated at the uttermost north of the Purple Yin Realm.

Across these limitless icefields, apart from eternally frostbound permafrost, there were glaciers that never melted all year round.

And in the deepest reaches of the Far-Northern Icefields, farther still than Heavenly Mountain, lay a glacier that had remained sealed in ice from ancient times until now.

No one knew how ancient the Eternal Glacier truly was. People only knew that, when all living things in the Purple Yin Realm were still steeped in ignorance, this glacier had already existed.

Perhaps it was an everlasting glacier that had existed in the Purple Yin Realm since heaven and earth first opened.

"Eternal Glacier."

Chen Nianzhi stood before the glacier, his