"You saw what happened to the Snow Empress. Do you think you're stronger than her?"
"Uh..."
She had been too worried about the Snow Empress and too eager to rush forward to find out what had happened, but she had overlooked the fact that if she charged in too, there was an extremely high chance she would turn into a little-girl ice sculpture as well.
"Then what do we do?"
Ning Bei shot her a speechless glance, then simply took her back into his Sea of Consciousness to keep Tian Meng company.
"I'll handle it. You go back and stay there for now."
After taking the Ice Empress back, Ning Bei looked gravely toward the direction the light source came from and slowly walked forward.
Just like the black mist on the ground, the location of the light source also could not be probed with Spiritual Power. That meant this place was very likely also the work of a god.
When he drew closer and saw the glowing object clearly, Ning Bei's heart suddenly jolted.
"Bones?"
That was right. The thing giving off that dazzling light was precisely a skeleton. Unlike the weathered white bones of ordinary people who had been dead for many years, the bones of this corpse looked crystal clear, like a work of art, radiating an ice-crystal-colored glow. If one sensed it carefully, they could even feel a faint pressure from the skeleton, proving how extraordinary its owner had been in life.
"Ice God, could it be this skeleton that trapped Snow'er?"
"I'm not sure, but I think it's very possible."
Just as Ning Bei was about to move closer and investigate, a beam of white light suddenly shot out from the area of his heart and struck the skeleton right in front of him with