Su Shi'er silently grumbled to himself, his peripheral vision sweeping over the surroundings.
The look in his eyes turned bright and sharp in an instant.
Before his eyes, the Ice Cave Grotto had already been turned upside down.
The thick, solid ice covering the ground had vanished without a trace.
Even the meltwater produced by the melting ice was nowhere to be seen.
Beneath their feet lay solid, genuine earth.
The surrounding grotto, originally formed from condensed solid ice and frigid qi, had also completely melted beneath the surging firelight and blazing flames.
Where the grotto had vanished, Su Shi'er could clearly sense faint formation fluctuations emerging and swiftly growing stronger.
What that meant was self-evident.
The Ice Cave Grotto had reached the brink of destruction.
Only then, when he looked up, did Su Shi'er see it.
Above the cavern hung a massive ice sword formed of solid ice, like a sharp sword suspended upside down.
Most of the solid ice on the sword had melted into water, allowing Su Shi'er to vaguely make out something.
Deep within that icy sword, a headless black shadow seemed to be frozen within it.
"What is that?"
The instant he saw the black shadow, Su Shi'er's pupils abruptly constricted.
A huge ice sword had always hung upside down above the Ice Cave Grotto; he had noticed that from the moment he awoke within the Ice Cave Grotto.
But there was actually a black shadow concealed deep within the ice sword.
That was something he had never discovered before.
Even now, with the Ice Cave Grotto nearly destroyed and much of the ice sword melted away.
The black shadow within the sword still appeared somewhat indistinct.
Yet at the very least, he could vaguely tell that it was a headless human figure.
"A headless