"Whoosh-"
The silver Heavenly Shuttle streaked through the clouds at a terrifying speed far beyond the speed of sound, heading straight for the northernmost reaches of Earth.
Auroras twisted across the night sky, glowing an eerie dark red.
On the Arctic glaciers, wind and snow howled.
Chen Lin stood at the bow, the fierce wind unable to stir even the hem of his robes. Behind him stood the Star Moon Demon Saint, Changqingzi, Heavenly Hatred True Lord, and Yun Sheng, their expressions grave.
His divine sense spread like an invisible net, instantly enveloping a radius of fifty thousand meters.
Beneath the glacier, all was silent.
Chen Lin frowned slightly. Some high-level array had deliberately concealed the spiritual power fluctuations here. Without divine sense comparable to that of an early Deity Transformation cultivator, he would never have detected them.
"Below." Chen Lin's gaze sharpened as he uttered the word.
The five figures flashed, turning into streaks of light as they plunged downward.
Boom!
Chen Lin used no spells. With nothing but his physical strength and the momentum of his descent, he smashed straight through hundreds of meters of ancient ice.
A dark rift with no visible bottom appeared before them.
As they descended through the rift, the cold grew increasingly intense, until even their divine sense felt a faint sting. Accompanying that cold, however, was a stench of blood so thick it turned their stomachs.
At the deepest point of the rift, the passage opened into an enormous underground ice cavern.
At its center stood not ice or snow, but a dark red altar a thousand feet tall.
The altar's material resembled both bone and metal, its surface densely covered in strange array patterns. Those patterns had not been drawn in cinnabar, but filled with the essence blood of countless polar