"Wait!"
A sudden voice echoed over the square.
It forcibly halted Xuan Bing's flight.
It also brought the square's previously fervent atmosphere to an abrupt standstill.
Everyone's gaze focused on the figure that had suddenly appeared in midair.
A handsome and otherworldly young man in a blue-green robe stood in the air ahead of Xuan Bing, as though he had appeared out of thin air.
The next moment, a commotion swept through the crowd in the square.
"Hmm... who is that? He looks unfamiliar."
"Whoever he is, has he gone mad? He even dares to interrupt the Ancestor's imparting of power to the Saintess."
"Where did this madman come from? How dare he disrupt our Snow God Palace's Saint Selection Ceremony!"
As the crowd erupted in an uproar, Xuan Bing also looked at the newcomer, a trace of surprise and uncertainty appearing in her eyes.
"Who are you, and why are you blocking my way?"
Seeing the unfamiliarity and wariness that naturally surfaced in Xuan Bing's eyes, Gu Chenfeng's gaze briefly faltered.
"You don't remember me?"
"You..."
Xuan Bing froze, then looked Gu Chenfeng up and down again. Her gaze remained unfamiliar, and a hint of coldness rose in it.
"I don't care who you are. You had best leave at once. You cannot bear the charge of disrupting the Saint Selection Ceremony."
After giving Gu Chenfeng that cold warning, Xuan Bing circulated the heaven and earth power within her, intending to go around him and head to Back Mountain.
Yet her expression changed the instant she began circulating her power.
To her shock, Xuan Bing discovered that the heaven and earth power around her had turned into an invisible cage.
It confined her completely within a tiny patch of air.
She tried to muster her power and break