"Bang!"
The ice sculpture fell, smashing heavily into the deep snow.
Yet only the ice encasing Guo Dundun shattered. He himself did not crumble to pieces along with it.
Guo Dundun had thought he was doomed. He could feel both the chill piercing his heart and the breath of death, and both were intensely strong. Although the city wall was not high, it still stood some twenty meters tall. Anyone else falling from that height would have had all their internal organs smashed apart. Yet Guo Dundun discovered to his surprise that he was not dead. He merely lay in the snow, letting the cold within him eat away at his flesh, while a mysterious power continuously repaired the damaged places.
It was as though ten thousand years had passed in a glance. He suddenly opened his eyes. Before him was, before him was a misty world, and he stood at its very center. Only when something unusual stirred behind him did he turn to look. His Beast Pet, Pang Dudu, had followed his scent and found him.
Where was this?
What struck him as even more incredible was that the hazy, mistlike substance was constantly pouring into Pang Dudu, faster and faster, more and more wildly. Pang Dudu's aura kept climbing as well. That strength, which had already reached its peak, advanced into the divine valor realm in the brief moment he stood dumbfounded.
And it showed no sign of stopping. From the early stage, it only just stopped upon reaching the middle stage. The misty world before his eyes was no longer hazy. He discovered in astonishment that everything before him was snowy white. The icy chill no longer ate away at his flesh, and the two people atop the city wall gradually came into focus.
*Had I...