The mountain wind swept up grains of snow that stung people's faces;
Xu Jiuling hunched his neck and clung to an icicle at the cliff's edge, the spiritual glow beneath his boots already mottled from the corrosion of Primordial Magnetism Killing Intent.
He drew his neck in again, raised a hand to wipe the frost flowers from his brows, and inwardly cursed Digu Pass Peak's damned weather.
Ever since the Hall Vice Lord had entered seclusion, Digu Pass Peak seemed to have been steeped in Primordial Magnetism Killing Intent;
Even the clouds, mist, and snowy haze carried a chilling baleful aura.
The mountain was lofty and precipitous, and the layers of restrictions laid down by the Hall Vice Lord left most of it blanketed in snow and wind year-round.
It was only late autumn, yet snow already lay three feet deep in many places.
Even with his Foundation Establishment Peak cultivation and his protective Gang Qi circulating, he still felt the cold and Primordial Magnetism's baleful energy burrowing along his meridians into his marrow.
"The Hall Vice Lord's formation must be burning magnetic origin power like firewood!" He spat out the ice around his mouth, formed a finger seal, and struck the mountain wall.
A pale blue screen of light rippled like water, revealing a crack barely wide enough to pass through sideways-this was Digu Pass Peak's unique "Cloud-Piercing Path."
Dark iron stakes that suppressed the earth veins were embedded at every turn, but now they were so frozen that white vapor rose from them.
If an outsider who knew nothing of this and had no command token dared to intrude, they would instantly die without a place to be buried.
Sensing the transformation of heaven and earth, Xu Jiuling marveled inwardly, *Being a Golden Core True Person really is