The Three on the Divine List Were All Seriously Sick (The Nine Heavens Azure Cloud List Officially Concludes!)

In the far northern polar region, beneath ten thousand fathoms of profound ice, lay the core forbidden grounds of the Ice God Palace.

The scarlet corruption that should have lunged straight at Yun Qing instead followed the source aura of the ice soul within the Ice Doll substitute the instant she shattered, winding its way back to its origin and silently invading this utterly still domain of bitter cold.

At the bottom of the Ice God Palace, cold condensed into frost, and all was silent.

Rows of crystal-clear Ice Dolls stood quietly on the pristine ice. Following some profound rhythm, they slowly spun across its surface, chiming softly.

Their music was clear, cool, and otherworldly, peaceful and sacred. Every note was so "perfect," played solely for the "perfect being" who slept eternally within the ice.

This was the holiest, most tranquil resting place in the world.

Yet as a wisp of blood-red seeped inside, the pure, flawless Ice Dolls began to take on the faintest tinge of red.

The sacred lullaby was about to go off-key.

"Drip."

It was like a faint sound heard in a hallucination.

The next instant, blood-red abruptly spread across several Ice Dolls, staining their crystal-clear bodies an eerie scarlet in a flash!

"Crack, crunch."

The Ice Dolls' graceful spinning suddenly twisted into disarray, as though a naughty child had yanked haphazardly at a puppet's strings.

Then,

With stiff smiles, the reddened Ice Dolls pulled gongs, drums, cymbals... and one particularly shrill, piercing suona horn from inside their own bodies.

"Clang, clang, clang! Boom, boom, boom! Crash, crash, crash! Dee-dee-da-da-daaa-!"

The music that should have been melodious and ethereal went completely off-key, becoming a piercing, chaotic racket!

They hammered away madly beside the Ice Lord's ears and blew with all their might, their horns deafening, their