October 20, Extreme Eastern Ice City.
City-Toppling Sword Wen Zhuyi slowly awoke on her "Sun Crystal Bed."
The main city of Extreme Eastern Ice City was a vast, magnificent city of ice.
It stretched over a thousand li in diameter, built entirely from profound ice that never melted even after a thousand years.
Its interior was divided into nine levels, enough to house tens of millions.
Yet only a little over two million people lived permanently within the main city.
The vast majority of Ice City's subjects lived in its eight satellite cities and numerous branch cities.
Cold permeated the main city's structure. Anyone whose cultivation had not reached upper seventh rank would freeze into an ice sculpture after spending three days inside.
Yet in Wen Zhuyi's bedchamber, in the southeastern corner of Ice City, the heat was like a furnace.
Her "Sun Crystal Bed" had been forged from a water-vat-sized piece of sun godstone, combined with a large quantity of dao tribulation remnant crystals collected by Extreme Eastern Ice City.
Sleeping on it was like sleeping on molten lava-indeed, it was ten times hotter than lava.
Over a hundred transparent Great Sun Divine Mirrors hung above, drawing down Sun True Fire and sunflame power to shine upon Wen Zhuyi.
The temperature here was far higher even than above the clouds of the nine heavens. Anything mundane melted upon contact.
Yet Wen Zhuyi barely felt any heat. She merely felt a little warmth within her body.
As the sun gradually sank in the west, Wen Zhuyi felt that trace of warmth within her rapidly dissipating once more.
Her premonition grew ever clearer: her life was nearing its end.
Like the setting sun on the horizon, she was about to sink behind the western mountains.
With a sigh, she rose and