Tie Mian also spotted that figure just then and immediately moved to leap down from the tree and give chase.
"Stay here. You're not allowed to go anywhere."
Qingyu stopped him with a grab.
Though Tie Mian was deeply unwilling, the powerful aura and killing intent radiating from Qingyu left him not daring to move.
"Fine." In the end, he could only grit his teeth and agree.
Then Qingyu's figure suddenly turned into a mass of water, flowed down the trunk of the enormous cedar, and silently followed the tall, thin young man into the Ice-Crystal Cave.
Inside the Ice-Crystal Cave.
Although the entrance to the Ice-Crystal Cave looked like an ordinary mountain cave.
After passing through that winding passage, the view opened up dramatically.
A cavern two to three hundred zhang deep, bitterly cold enough to pierce the bones, came into view.
Strange rocks stood in clusters throughout the cavern, which was covered in ice crystals, and glowing ice pillars could be seen everywhere.
A narrow path along the cavern wall wound all the way down into the depths.
At the very bottom lay an enormous expanse of ice over a hundred zhang in diameter.
Around the ice were more than a dozen caves of varying sizes.
But the figure Qingyu was following entered none of those caves, instead heading straight for the center of the ice.
Then Qingyu saw the tall, thin youth take out a waterskin and pierce it with a dagger.
The instant the waterskin was punctured, crimson blood began flowing from the hole.
Then the tall, thin youth began swiftly tracing a pattern on the ice with the blood.
At this sight, Qingyu no longer wanted to wait.
From a puddle of water, he gathered back into human form.
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