Walnut used me to boost her sales performance.

Light the torch and walk further inside, until you see a ruin guard that has lost its power.

Even though it had lost its power source, the guardian of the ruins continued to emit unintelligible sounds, as if it were conveying some kind of message.

Paimon floated in front of the ruins guardian, tilting his head in confusion.

"The guardians of this ruin don't seem to be anything special."

"Let's keep going in."

The two walked along the ice surface, and the further they went, the smaller the water flow became, until they reached the very end where there was no water at all.

They too have reached a dead end.

It's not entirely a dead end; the road is simply blocked by a collapsed wall.

The wall is quite old, but judging from the surrounding traces, it wasn't there from the beginning; it looks like it was forcibly moved there.

The color of the surrounding stone walls is also different from that of the stone walls a little further away, as if they have not been exposed to the air for too long, and they look quite fresh in contrast to the colors of the stone walls next to them.

There were also many rubble and broken bricks scattered around, as if some kind of explosive device had been detonated here.

Clearly, this is the very place that triggered the avalanche.

Chapter 357 Paimon was terrified

Kong did not choose to break the stone wall, fearing it would trigger a landslide and bury them.

He took out his tools and, using the rock element, began to clear a path at the corner of the stone wall.

After opening a gap large enough for one person to pass through, he rubbed his frozen fingers and stepped inside, where he saw the gate to the secret realm before him.

This is a rather ancient gate to a secret realm, covered in dust.

Like all the secret realm gates he had seen on the ground, the gate was carved with ancient and enormous symbols.

"There's actually a secret realm hidden here, so well hidden!" Paimon exclaimed in astonishment.

She felt that she was already deep in the snow-capped mountains, or even underground. There was even a secret realm in this place!

"If I'm not mistaken, this is where my sister's goal is. In order to find this secret realm, she forcibly blasted open the passage, and then deliberately sealed it off after leaving."

"If that's the case, then there must be a secret hidden in this secret realm!" Paimon suddenly became a little nervous.

"Anyway, we'll know once we go and take a look."

Kong placed his hand on the door and pushed open the door to this secret realm.

The stone door was pushed open with a heavy thud, revealing a deep, unknown place behind it.

Sora and Paimon walked in together, but unlike when they usually entered ruins, they appeared on a platform. It was as if he had returned to the distant past.

We've returned to a time when the snow-capped mountains weren't yet snow-capped mountains.

He looked around in confusion, gazing at the lush, green grass, and for a moment couldn't recognize where he was.

Until he looked up and saw the towering mountain peak that reached into the clouds.

That's the main peak of the snow-capped mountain.

Although the lush green grass of today is very different from the snow-covered landscape of many years later, the remarkably similar mountain shape still allowed Kong to recognize it.

The main peak has not yet experienced the incident of the sky nail falling down, and from a distance, one can see a huge altar on the summit.

The altar is located extremely high, making it the closest point in the entire area to the sky.

He tried to reach the main peak, but the surrounding scenery seemed like an image, with no real path.

The scene suddenly changed, and he was instantly back in the snow-covered mountains.

A dragon's roar came from afar. He looked up and saw a huge black dragon flying towards him with its wings outstretched. The dragon was so large that it almost blotted out the sky and completely blocked out the sunlight above his head.

The dragon exuded an ominous aura, yet it remained a mere phantom.

The scene shifts again, and in Denil's castle, he sees a young girl waking up from a dream and telling her father that she dreamt of a giant dragon that blotted out the sky.

After a black screen transition, Kong finds himself on a mountaintop.

At this time, the mountaintop was not yet a basin; the enormous altar was luxurious and exquisite.

It was night.

Thick, dark clouds obscured the moonlight and the starry sky.

Huge spikes fell from the sky, piercing through layers of dark clouds, and crashed onto the snow-capped mountain peak with a tremendous sound.

The altar collapsed, rubble flew everywhere, and the earth shook violently. The mountaintop that should have been towering upwards was smashed into a huge crater.

Kong saw the long nail from the sky break into three pieces, one of which fell beside the carefully enshrined ancient silver tree in the mountains.

The trunk and crown of the white tree were destroyed and frozen by debris.

From then on, the scene seemed to be accelerated. The originally meaningful mountains were quickly covered by ice and snow, and the icy wind and snow blocked the moonlight.

Sora already knows what happened next.

The king went to the highest point to try to listen to the voice of the sky, but he never returned. The princess took the most intact branch from the white tree and tried to revive it.

The prosperous Fendnir vanished in the cold wind and snow.

The last reporter witnessed all of this, standing alone in the wind and snow, gazing at the sky where the moonlight could no longer be seen.

The scene flashed by, and after an unknown amount of time, the colossal dragon that had once appeared in the princess's dream, which blotted out the sun, was killed by the Sky Dragon on the snowy mountain, and its body was buried by the wind and snow.

Kong saw the fiery red poisonous blood seep into the ground, gradually merging into the roots of the ancient tree, and eventually spreading throughout the entire snow-capped mountain.

But the poisonous blood that had ravaged Dvalin did not pollute the snow-capped mountains. Under the suppression and purification of the long nails that fell from the sky, bright red stones containing energy grew out of the vast white snowfield.

The dragon's rich life force combined with the snow mountain's unique energy field to transform into [Crimson Chalcedony], which was distributed throughout the snow mountain.

The lonely chronicler who witnessed all of this, under the influence of time, transformed into a silent Hilichurl.

He could no longer speak, and had long forgotten his past as a human being.

For thousands of years, he has stood silently in the wind and snow, guarding his homeland, gazing up at the sky where the moonlight can no longer be seen.

Suddenly, Kong heard a murmur.

It was as if the voice was right next to his ear, and he knew it all too well.

"So, it was moonlight..."

The voice carried a sense of sudden realization, as if a long-standing question had been answered.

"Ying..." he called out subconsciously, but received no reply.

This is still just a fragment of the past that has been captured.

Kong waited in the same spot for a long time, but there were no more images or sounds.

He turned around, trying to find Paimon, but realized that Paimon, who had been following him, seemed to have been gone since he came in.

He had so many questions, whether it was the scribe turning into a Hilichurl or his sister's words, they all tugged at his heartstrings.

What appears to be merely the destruction of the snow-capped mountain by long spikes may conceal many hidden secrets.

Why was the princess able to dream of a dragon from many years in the future?

Why did the Frost Nails fall on Sky Island?

Why destroy the ancient silver tree?

Why did the once lush and verdant mountains turn into cold snow-capped mountains after the ancient silver trees were destroyed?

Why did the princess believe that saving the ancient tree would make the snowstorm disappear?

Is it because the ancient tree was connected to the earth's veins, and the destruction of the ancient tree caused the earth's veins in this area to become disordered?

Why were these images preserved and hidden in this secret place?

What is the effect of moonlight that my sister mentioned?

And why has the moonlight never been seen on the snow-capped mountains since the celestial nails fell?

Filled with questions, Kong left the ruins.

As soon as he came out, he saw the anxious Paimon.

"Waaaaah, you're finally out! You scared Paimon to death!" Paimon's voice was trembling with tears.

"Didn't you come in with me?"

"I went in, but as soon as I entered, I found myself in a completely empty place, and I couldn't see you anywhere. It took me a long time to find the exit..."

Paimon felt wronged.

Suddenly she was all alone; heaven knows how terrified she was.

Kong patted her head to comfort her: "It's alright, we're out now."

Chapter 358 The Honeysuckle Tree Sprouts

"I just saw a lot of things in the secret realm. I'll tell you about them as we go out..."

"Uh-huh!"

Emerging from the excavated tunnel, Kong glanced back at the place, reburied the tunnel, and then left with Paimon.

Although I don't know why my sister blocked this place, blocking it certainly won't go wrong.

The two walked towards the mountaintop, recounting to Paimon what they had seen in the secret realm as they went.

"This is so strange! Why is this secret realm like this?"

Paimon was also puzzled.

Kong didn't expect Paimon to answer his questions; he just wanted someone to share his thoughts with.

As the two walked towards the mountaintop, they also took care of Yuxia's requests along the way.

By the time we reached the summit, several days had passed without us realizing it.

The scene at the mountaintop had changed considerably since their last visit.

The fragments that were originally broken into pieces and floating in the sky all came together and became several large fragments.

These large fragments, riddled with countless cracks of all sizes, came together to form the shape of the celestial nail he had seen in that ruin.

However, this nail is clearly incomplete and not quite right.

"Huh, how did these fragments get together?" Paimon exclaimed in surprise.

"It might be due to the crystals that flew up to the mountaintop." Kong thought this was very likely.

Now that these fragments have been pieced together, let's see what happens when they are fully assembled.

Thinking it over, he looked around to see if there were any more of those frozen fragments, hoping to remove them and restore the Frost Nail.

After a busy afternoon, the Frost Nail was finally restored to its original appearance.

Having been ravaged by a massive amount of explosives, this large nail is now a pitiful sight.

It's covered in all sorts of cracks and fragments, so fine and dense that it can easily trigger trypophobia.

The battle-damaged Frost Nail rose into the air and floated in the clouds above the snow-capped mountains.

After a tiring climb to the top of the Frost Nail, surprisingly, once the Frost Nail was complete, standing on it did not feel cold.

He felt that the environment of the snow mountain was not caused by this cold nail, but by the disorder of the earth's veins after the destruction of the silvery-white ancient tree.

This disordered geological formation has persisted for thousands of years and remains unrepaired.

"Wow, it's so high!" Paimon appeared around him, his little hands above his eyes, looking around.

"This is the first time Paimon has ever been this high up!"

"Can't you just fly up to such a high place?"

Looking at the little guy beside him, Kong felt that this little guy also had quite a few secrets.

Although this little guy usually floats in mid-air, the height she floats seems to be tied to him. In other words, she can't fly from the ground to the clouds on her own; she can only come up with him.

Even the teleportation was because she was bound to him.

But why is Paimon able to bind him?