Yun Sheng carefully sensed her surroundings, then shook her head. "Everything else has shattered into dust and merged into this world with the wind and snow. There's nothing worth collecting."
Chen Lin nodded and placed the broken sword in a special jade box.
The instant he put the broken sword away,
something unexpected happened.
Rumble.
The glacier beneath their feet shook with a dull rumbling.
The wind and snow in the sky suddenly froze, then dissolved into water vapor as though they had lost their support.
The bitterly cold temperature began to soar.
"What's happening?" Heavenly Hatred True Lord exclaimed in alarm.
"This world remained frozen because Senior Han Yi's frost law and the spirit treasure fragments sustained it." Yun Sheng looked around. "Now that we've taken the fragments, the laws have fallen out of balance. The Ice and Snow World is fading."
Everyone looked down.
The endless glaciers melted at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Ice a thousand zhang thick turned into towering floods that surged in every direction.
The land's original appearance emerged.
It was a scorched wasteland, riddled with enormous impact craters and bottomless fissures.
After the floodwaters receded,
the wreckage of shattered black warships lay piled like mountains across the wasteland.
This was the true face of the Ancient Battlefield where Integration powerhouses had once fought.
There was no life, only death and destruction.
Suddenly,
at the very center of the wasteland, a mountain-sized heap of warship wreckage slowly split apart.
Accompanied by a piercing scraping sound,
a Bronze Giant Gate a hundred zhang tall rose from underground and stood in the center of the wasteland.
The bronze gate was covered in strange, twisted runes.
As they passed through the hundred-zhang-tall Bronze Giant Gate covered in twisted runes, space seemed to stretch and compress