Li Xiaoya suddenly pushed off hard with his feet!
Thud, thud! Heavy footsteps rang out as he sprinted along the Ice Bridge!
But!
Crack! Li Xiaoya's foot suddenly slipped!
Thump, thump, thump! This Great Cultivator of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, who had cultivated for thousands of years, actually slipped on the ground. He tumbled head over heels, taking a spectacular spill and sliding several hundred zhang, leaving a long scrape in the ice...
Thump! Li Xiaoya planted a hand against the ground and forcibly hauled himself upright. But then, crack, crack, crack! An uncanny undulation passed through the icy surface...
"Whoa, whoa!" Li Xiaoya felt his feet slip again. Just as he was about to land on his backside, boom! Orange light erupted all over him, and a mass of incredibly tough Stone Spikes instantly sprouted from his Stone Armor...
Clang, clang, clang! Li Xiaoya twisted in midair. A startling series of metallic collisions rang out as the spikes on his armor drove straight into the tough surface of the Ice Bridge. Only then did he manage to stand firm!
"Whew! Good thing no one saw that, or I'd have lost every shred of face!" Cold sweat broke out on Li Xiaoya's forehead. He looked around and muttered to himself. If anyone learned that a Great Cultivator of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm like him had fallen flat on his face, it would be truly humiliating... But he soon noticed what was wrong. The bridge was slowly rising and falling, as though he were standing in a little boat on a river. His expression shifted, and he exclaimed in surprise, "This damned bridge tilts?" He looked down and saw water spiritual qi flowing slowly through the ice on the bridge's surface like running water. As it flowed, he felt his body slowly drifting