Just as Ma Tianyan was frozen solid, tens of thousands of miles away on Blood Bat Mountain, Zong Shenhua, the "Illuminating World Demon Lamp" and sect master of Blood Bat Mountain, abruptly opened his eyes as he cultivated in a mountaintop retreat and looked at the black Eight-Sided Glazed Wind-Extinguishing Lantern before him.
The flame inside had actually frozen, remaining rigidly in place without flickering or changing at all.
A closer look revealed a thin coating of ice on its surface, giving off wisps of cold.
Zong Shenhua's gaze sharpened slightly. With a sweep of his sleeve, he shattered and extinguished the lantern flame. Then he summoned a ball of demonic fire and lit the lantern again.
But the new flame remained as motionless as before, and thin ice began forming on its surface again.
Zong Shenhua's eyes grew still graver.
He pressed his hand against the Wind-Extinguishing Lantern and concentrated on sensing the Heavenly Order Power within the ice.
"Heaven-Severing-"
Zong Shenhua raised his head and looked north through the window, across the distant skies.
The Cold Heaven Art within this ice also warranted serious attention. Though its level was not high, it was exceptionally substantial and solid, and its fusion with the Cold Ice Heavenly Order had reached an almost outrageous degree.
But the most terrifying thing within it was still that Heaven-Severing Art.
For some unknown reason, the person who had sealed Ma Tianyan's Primordial Spirit was far from employing those three Heavenly Orders to their fullest, but it was still enough to seal the greatly weakened lamp spirit.
That was "absolute freezing," a power even Zong Shenhua had to regard with considerable wariness.
Zong Shenhua's brows knitted deeply. For some reason, savage impatience surged within his chest and belly, making him want to tear apart and