The malevolent aura surged skyward, and the snow that fell around it was swept upward by the airflow and sprayed back into the clouds.

The blizzard also fell on Xi Heng's hair and shoulders, the tiny white snowflakes sliding down his clothes and onto the ground.

The footprints were gradually covered and blurred by the newly arrived snow, and disappeared completely when the distance was more than a hundred meters away.

This time, she did not use her spatial abilities again, but simply took one step at a time.

With each step, he would occasionally amplify his spiritual light to defend against the bone-chilling cold.

The closer you get to the mountain peak, the colder it gets.

On the outer battlefields, the cold air can only freeze cultivators and monsters at the Golden Core stage.

Even a nascent soul cultivator would find it difficult to withstand this.

If Xi Heng were to use his spatial abilities to traverse thousands of meters again as before, he might be frozen in place like an ice sculpture.

She's just taking it one step at a time right now.

Even using magic to overcome terrain limitations, it still took half an hour to travel from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside.

The chill grew increasingly fierce, like a swarm of man-eating ants clinging to a shield of spiritual light, relentlessly gnawing away.

Half of the protective shield was eaten away, but the girl used her spiritual power to repair it.

Meanwhile, the enormous monster on the mountain had been completely dealt with by the white-robed cultivator high above.

However, from the crevice above that almost splits half of the mountain in two, eerie howls and cries still echo.

The noises were layered and overlapping, suggesting that there were still many monsters below the rift, and they would soon burst out.

Incantations were chanted from the people on the mountaintop, spreading throughout the heavens and earth.

The voice was clear, but Xi Heng couldn't understand a word she said.

That seemed to be no ordinary language, but a special language that directly communicated with heaven and earth.

With each syllable uttered, the earth and the sky would respond.

The blizzard continued, and the fissures attempted to close during the earthquakes, only to widen again amidst eerie roars.

After a long period of turmoil, the fissures in the earth are finally expanding.

When Xi Heng finally arrived at the mountainside, the ground cracks had grown to her feet.

I took a small step to the side to create some distance and saw a bluish-green light emanating from the crack as I passed through.

She casually calculated in her mind—if this crack were allowed to continue growing, the entire mountain would be split in two in less than half an hour.

The incantation from the mountaintop above continued, but it was drowned out by the unpleasant, eerie howls.

She looked down into the crack and saw that its bottom was dark purple and deep black, not the surging blue.

The azure aura didn't seem to be surging out on its own; rather, it was being forced upwards by the dark purple.

If all the cyan and blue are sent out, then what might emerge next is the dark purple below, and even deeper, terrifying things that are emitting eerie roars.

Xi Heng compared this dark color with the dark color he saw in the spatial rift when he was teleported here, and they were exactly the same.

"Is this what they call an enemy...?" she muttered to herself.

After observing carefully for a while, the white-haired man turned his gaze back and continued walking towards the mountain peak.

The intensity of the surrounding cold air fluctuated within a certain limit and no longer increased.

Xi Heng quickened his pace and arrived at the top of the mountain several thousand meters high a few minutes later, getting close to the white-robed, blue-eyed female cultivator by a dozen meters.

Only when they reached this distance did the other party react and glance at them again.

The girl instinctively tried to guard against the cold, but this time she only saw the other person's deep blue eyes, and no icy chill spread through her body.

Then, a clear and cheerful female voice came from the other end:

"newcomer?"

Despite the critical situation, the other party inexplicably had a smile on their face, and their words were concise and clear.

"...I guess so." Seeing that his attitude was alright, Xi Heng took a few more steps closer.

"Then let me remind you, next time you see this kind of scene all around you, you should quickly fly away to avoid being affected," the other party continued.

"Let's talk about it next time. What's wrong here?"

The rift before us has expanded to hundreds of meters in width.

Under the bluish light, an ordinary person would not be able to see the opposite cliff at all.

The heavens and earth trembled with a deafening roar, accompanied by the howls of beasts that disturbed people's minds.

"What else could it be? We were defeated," the white-robed cultivator said casually.

Within a mere five or six meters, Xi Heng was able to clearly see the other person's face.

His skin was ice-blue with a frosty sheen. Although his features were exquisite, several cracks etched on his face gave him an unnatural, fragmented appearance.

His entire body seemed to be made of extremely cold blue ice, with a faint chill emanating from his skin, and his clothes were stiff and motionless.

Every now and then, talismanic characters would light up from her body, fall down and plunge into the cliff, filling the blue light.

But with each word she wrote, another crack appeared on her body, making her appear even more icy.

"Defeat?"

“That’s right, so the heavens have torn a rift here as well. This place is of great importance, and someone needs to stay behind to seal this rift,” the other party said easily.

"Alas, what is this again?" Xi Heng seemed like a complete novice who didn't understand anything.

"Those strange things you've seen along the way are part of the Alas Heaven," the white-robed cultivator said casually. "Now you should leave too, otherwise I'll jump off the cliff and cause a tremor, and then we won't be able to leave."

"If I jump in... will I survive?" The girl looked down, but due to various obstructions, she couldn't see the bottom at all, only feeling the surging energy.

"With my life, I can seal it for hundreds of years." The other party chuckled, then raised his finger and steadily drew a distorted character in front of his eyes.

The characters are intricate and strange, resembling talismans at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they are quite different.

Xi Heng tried to memorize the character, but upon closer observation, he discovered that the character changed every second, making it impossible to memorize it completely.

As the writing was completed, the woman next to her suddenly uttered a muffled sound that was difficult to understand.

Immediately afterwards, her body tilted towards the crevice, pressed against the ever-changing large characters, and plummeted into the depths of the chasm.

Just five meters after falling, the chill in the surroundings suddenly increased several times over.

A strong sense of threat immediately arose in Xi Heng's mind, and he urged his spiritual fire to perform the fastest spatial transfer.

The surrounding scenery changed, and in the blink of an eye, we were thousands of meters away.

But that distance was still not enough, as Ju Leng was still chasing after them from behind.

The girl closed her eyes and teleported another hundred miles away. Only when she reached another high mountain in the distance did the intense threat in her heart gradually subside.

Looking back, my spiritual sense extended outwards, expanding my field of vision. I could see that in the middle of the distant mountain that had been split in two, a burst of blue light suddenly erupted, illuminating the originally dark world as bright as a sunny midday.

After a long while, a long, continuous buzzing sound came.

Seeing this, Xi Heng flashed to an even farther distance, watching the blue light spread and gradually dim over time.

That person is right. If they don't move immediately... this avatar will likely remain there forever.

The blue light faded, and the clouds in the sky were split open with a cross-shaped crack.

The figure and aura of the white-robed cultivator had vanished, and the entire region was covered by a thick layer of ice, with a new ice peak replacing the split mountaintop.

When the buzzing in my ears gradually subsided and the eerie roars and howls of beasts ceased, everything returned to calm.

Xi Heng stayed at the far end for a while. She had just teleported over when she encountered a series of chaotic scenes, and she still couldn't tell which way was which.

"If only I had asked where I was supposed to go first," she muttered to herself.

However, the man didn't seem to be in the mood for a casual chat; he said a few words and then jumped down.

I don't know who the other person is or what their name is.

"I still have to find my own way." Xi Heng raised his left hand and looked at the white marks on his palm.

The white interface reappeared; clicking the map function revealed only a vast expanse of white.

Only by pinching the map to zoom out can you see a little bit of the terrain.

I zoomed out on the map for another half minute before I finally realized where I was.

"Northern Lujiu Liubu Prefecture, the Remnant Heaven Domain, the land of the original Chuan Benjie and the land of harmony, on the south bank of Juxin Lake..."

"It's over 2,700 jun (a unit of time) from the Heavenly Palace, so it's quite a distance."

"Next, we should travel south for 1.75 kilometers to find a front-line position called Wildheart Valley." Xi Heng clicked his tongue: "Why are the battlefield and the position so far apart? Did the cultivators fly for more than a year to get here to start the battle?"

"Never mind, it doesn't matter how we fight, as long as I have enough cultivation resources." She drew spatial fluctuations with her index finger and fixed the teleportation direction with talismans, lengthening the teleportation distance as spiritual power was injected.

For some reason, opening a portal in this place is much more difficult, and the farther the teleportation distance, the more difficult it becomes.

However, after the portal was formed, the scene behind it was not the same icy and snowy landscape that Xi Heng had imagined, but rather a deep purple, just like the rift in front of him.

The girl tilted her head: "Did the portal open in the wrong place?"

Suddenly, a monstrous hand, as thick as a large vat, emerged from behind the portal and lunged at her—

Snapped,

With a snap of the fingers, the portal closed instantly.

The monstrous hand was severed by space, lost its vitality and withered on the ground, turning into black mist from the wound and gradually dissipating.

Xi Heng squatted down and poked the strange hand with his finger.

This thing is not flesh and blood, but a kind of aggregated entity made up of strange fine threads. Its texture is like muscle, mixed with vortex and hole shapes, making it look messy and ugly.

The shape of the entire strange hand was also chaotic, with uneven size and thickness, and the meridian routes even turned at right angles and acute angles, completely contrary to nature.

She was lost in thought—if humans and cultivators are considered the most intelligent of all beings, then such monsters are the complete opposite.

According to the laws of nature, this thing should never have been born.

There was no description of this item in ancient books before.

There must have been some error or oversight somewhere that caused this strange thing to appear in the world.

"The greatest mistake in this world is the collapse of the heavens," Xi Heng mused. "Perhaps these kinds of monsters are related to the collapse of the heavens."

But the truth remains unknown.

She continued to open portals in another direction, but encountered purple energy again as she opened them.

"..."

I tried several different directions, but the situation remained the same.

Xi Heng stopped what he was doing and gradually realized that he seemed to have been teleported into enemy territory.

This place is safe for the time being because the powerful cultivator just now froze the surrounding monsters and sealed the nearest crack in the ground.

But there may be even more fissures in the surrounding area, and they are constantly producing all sorts of bizarre monsters... and they are marching south.

A bizarre swarm had enveloped her, covering both the sky and the ground.

Although I can teleport over extremely long distances, it consumes too much spiritual energy. If I accidentally teleport to a dangerous area, I will probably have to take refuge in the Spirit Fire Space for the time being.

"Right now, it seems the best option is to slowly figure out how to fly out on my own..."

She looked south and saw an endless expanse of ice and snow.

……

Volume 1: Chapter 353, The Reversal of Human and Ghost

A pale golden light floated around the girl, swaying for thousands of meters in the sky, leaving a long, trailing trail.

Her clothes fluttered and rippled.

"The duration of the Wind Shelter spell has expired again..." Xi Heng clicked his tongue, made a hand seal, and slapped it open, restoring his clothes to their original calm.

Flying away alone like this was not what she wanted.

Xi Heng also wanted to sit comfortably on the airship, turn on the automatic navigation mode, and pass through this endless expanse of ice and snow.

However, in practice, things went wrong not long afterward.

During the voyage, she only relaxed her mind slightly, and a huge floating ghost head inexplicably appeared in the air. Its face was ferocious and twisted, and its veins and muscle lines were dark purple and deep black.

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