Inside the Pure White Gate.
The moment Yang Yi entered, he felt the heat rapidly draining from his body. He seized the opportunity, propped the Spear That Pierces Everything beside him, and stripped off the protective suit called White Coffin while he was still warm, exposing himself to the extreme cold.
Flames still burned across his skin, but the strange phenomena around him had vanished. This was the endpoint of all heat, where any agitated matter would come to a standstill before the Ice Nest Lord.
Once removed, White Coffin became a mass of gel, then turned into a suit of armor after leaving his body. But now it had more than one hole in it-there were over a dozen. The rough treatment had severely damaged it, and it would no longer attach itself to a target on its own.
When Istil had first broken it, it probably had more than one hole as well. Who knew how long these Ice Nest Believers had spent repairing the armor until only one hole remained? Now all that progress had been undone.
Yang Yi kept his attention on the ice beneath his feet. A blood-red, hand-shaped tongue covered his left eye, preventing him from seeing anything he should not.
Just then, several Ice Nest Worms followed him through the hole behind him, followed by more and more. Some collided with Yang Yi and instantly vaporized, while the others wobbled a couple of times before dropping to the ground like crashing planes.
"What is...?"
Yang Yi found it strange.
He had not seen any Ice Nest Worms before entering, yet the moment he came in, they had arrived.
But he soon worked out why.
Time flowed at different rates inside and outside the gate.
Yang Yi's body temperature was very high now, so