Volume Two: Naked Primitive Accumulation of Capital - In Deep Trouble (Part One)

The light faded, and the brilliant reds of the flowers and greens of the trees turned a uniform black. Night had fallen. Luo Qian suddenly found he could move again. Xie Tang had not struck him too hard; after a day, his Immortal Veins had cleared on their own.

He stood, gathered the light gauze around him, bundled it up, and stuffed it into his satchel. After a moment's thought, he took out the tiny Golden-Armored Automaton puppet and held it in his hand, then felt his way toward the place where Xie Tang had disappeared.

He did not dare fly through the sky. Fortunately, Sky-Leaping Vault worked for leaping across the ground too. Luo Qian bounced like a pellet between mountains and streams. He moved quickly enough to cross several peaks in no time, only to plunge headfirst into a stretch of ice and frost.

Something like a membrane slid across Luo Qian's cheek. Once he passed through it, the scenery changed completely. Pillars of ice rose all around him in a white expanse, and the bone-piercing cold made him shudder. This was no ordinary chill, but a cold poison that sank straight into his marrow. Luo Qian knew he had stumbled into some expert's peculiar Formation barrier. He turned to leave, but a sinister wind blew against his back. Only a few ice pillars stood there, grim and silent. The way in was nowhere to be seen!

Amid the dozens of massive pillars in that frozen world, a hazy point of fire flickered. Luo Qian felt his way toward it. Within the flames, a palm-sized, shuttle-shaped Magic Treasure gleamed. It looked familiar. Then realization struck: wasn't this the Flame Shuttle Pursuit Token that had carried the two Golden Turtle Immortal Soldiers pursuing Xie Tang? When it had flown