Inside some of the enormous blocks of ice nearby, countless dense threads of spiritual light could faintly be seen flowing slowly, like frozen electric currents, or blood surging through the veins of some ancient divine beast.
These threads of spiritual light pulsed slowly and heavily within the profound ice. Each alternation of light and dark suffused the surrounding profound ice with a dreamlike crystalline glow.
Countless crystalline ice peaks together formed a winding, undulating mountain range of magnificent grandeur.
At the heart of this crystalline mountain range, a main vein of spiritual energy, vast beyond imagination, wound through the entire underground space like a sleeping dragon.
The spiritual light frozen within that main vein no longer took the form of branching channels. Instead, it resembled a boundless, slumbering galaxy of spiritual energy!
The profound ice at the heart of the mountain range was so deep a blue that it was almost black. Yet the galaxy sealed inside stretched majestically onward, flowing with brilliant spiritual radiance woven from silvery white and icy blue. In its unparalleled splendor, it cast its light through the transparent mountains.
They could clearly see that, an unknown number of years ago, this immense spiritual energy had once flowed like roaring, rushing water deep within the earth, a great river of spiritual energy running beneath the ground.
Then King Hanli had used his supreme divine powers to bring down ice peaks of near-absolute stillness, freezing this ceaselessly surging river of spiritual energy in time.
But naturally, this river of spiritual energy, containing endless vitality and power, could not willingly accept being frozen.
It resisted constantly, flowing laboriously within the confines of the profound ice at a pace so slow it almost seemed to creep.
This was also why the concentration of spiritual energy in the cold pool