On the ice walls in the darkness, ancient runes could faintly be seen flickering. Twisted and bizarre, they seemed to have been drawn in blood, radiating a sinister aura that made hearts tremble.
At the entrance to the Upright-Coffin Ice Mound, the cold had almost solidified, forming a visible white mist that instantly froze any living creature that approached.
Yun Che held Ling Xue in his arms, divine light surging around him to keep the bone-piercing cold at bay. You Xiaoli drew her sword, a faint azure glow spreading over its blade as she warily watched their surroundings.
"The dark aura here is more than ten times stronger than before," You Xiaoli said in a low voice, her sword trembling slightly. "And these ice coffins are arranged strangely. This doesn't look like a normal burial site, but rather the core of some evil formation."
Yun Che swept his divine sense over the upright ice coffins and discovered that every coffin was densely covered in carved runes. These runes connected with one another to form an enormous formation that enveloped the entire Upright-Coffin Ice Mound.
A cold, sinister energy flowed through the formation, slowly corroding everything around it, including the corpses inside the ice coffins.
"Be careful. The things inside these ice coffins might not be completely dead," Yun Che warned as he cautiously entered the Upright-Coffin Ice Mound with Ling Xue in his arms.
The moment he stepped inside, a sudden disturbance ran through the ice beneath his feet. The lid of an ice coffin split with a crack, and a deathly pale hand reached out.
Immediately afterward, a frost-covered corpse slowly sat up, eerie green light flickering in its hollow eye sockets, and lunged at the three of them.
You Xiaoli's gaze sharpened. With a flash of sword light,