Chapter 55: Icestone City (1/2)

Chapter 55: Icestone City

At night, the lightless stone house was shrouded in darkness Qin Lie curled up into a ball and held his knees at a corner, staring blankly towards the front

The tables and chairs iped clean with not a speck of dust on the fro about in the rooether replayed again and again in his head, beco clearer with each repetition

And yet, she had to go

Qin Lie clutched his chest He felt that there were so s he did not say in time, and didn’t even knohere to start His heart ached

“Bang!”

Abruptly the door slaed inside his house Everyone of the of liquor in their hands

—It was Ling Feng, Ling Xing, Ling Xiao and Ling Ying

“Let’s drink, Qin Lie!” Ling Xing thren the two liquor jugs, tore open their sealing oilcloths, poured an entire bowl of liquor and passed it over to Qin Lie, yelling, “Co Xiao shouted together

Even Ling Ying had joined into the fray and urged Qin Lie to drink Everyone of them had heavy expressions, but they did not say a word of consolation Instead, they expressed theh their own actions

Qin Lie felt his heart warged it all down

The fiery liquor entered his stomach, and he felt as if his chest had burned up in flames The pain in his heart actually seeot hi Xiao and Ling Ying Ignoring their a alcohol down his throat as if he would drown hi and the others felt their eyes redden They did not say anything and siuys should drink as well Let’s get drunk together!” Qin Lie growled

“Alright! Let’s drink everyone, and don’t stop until you’re all coroup threw the inside the stone house, ht, and yet every Ling clans from the house, but they all understood They siht to theht

The next day, when Qin Lie opened his eyes once h up in the sky It was already noon

Inside the stone house, Ling Feng, Ling Xing and the others were all lying upside down and scattered on top of the table, below the table, under the bed, or at a corner of a wall Even Ling Ying was disheveled and lying soundly on top of his stone bed with saliva at the corners of her mouth, soundly asleep

These were the friends that he had gone through fire and water together back at Celestial Wolf Mountain, and when he was at the lowest point of his life, they had joined hiht in hopes that it would reduce the pain in his heart

Qin Lie felt grateful on the inside He did not wake the spirit pills on his body and carefully slipped the Xiao’s clothes

Back when he had entered the Arctic Mountain Range for the first tiroup, he received those pills after looting them from the dead bodies of Shattered Ice Manor’s practitioners He had gifted part of it to Ling Yushi+ as her betrothal gift, and now gave the rest out…

Qin Lie stared at them deeply, silently said “take care” in his heart, and walked out of the stone house and into the town

Soon, he heard froye had already announced the dissolution of his engageht, and that before the sun had even risen Ling Yushi+ and Ling Xuanxuan had left Ling Town together with the carriage from Seven Fiends Valley

“Seven Fiends Valley… I will be there one day”

Qin Lie whispered once, and went straight towards Herb Mountain beneath the scorching sun

Inside Herb Mountain’s cavern

He tidied up the loosely scattered ite the wooden sculpture, Nebula Token, fire crystals and other scatteredthe bag, he gave a complicated look at that one jutted rock behind the stone pillar, and after a while he finally said, “It’s about time to leave…”

He then pressed the jutted rock down and left the cavern without looking back Shortly after, he arrived at the foot of Herb Mountain

A long tirandfather said that the jutted rock was the central button of the strange formations inside Herb Mountain It could wipe out every trace on the inside and destroy everything

The foundation of his Heavenly Thunder Eradication had been solidified a long ti its interior environ from here on

In truth he could have left Herb Mountain and cultivated at Nebula Pavilion half a year ago But he had chosen to stay at Herb Mountain, to stay in Ling Town

Now, the one person who kept hier had a reason to stay here

“Boo explosive sound came from inside Herb Mountain, and it was as if the entireviolently

For a moment Qin Lie quietly watched from the foot of the mountain and listened to the explosions, and after one final look towards Ling Town, he strode towards Icestone City

An hour later

The Ling brothers, Elder Ling Kangan and the rest made their way frantically to the foot of thethe cave from different directions, but they found that every cave or path had been completely blocked by rubble

Even Herb Mountain itself seemed to have dwarfed a whole level, as if it had sunk deeply inside

“Until this day I still do not knohat is hidden inside Herb Mountain, and it looks like we’ll never find out in the future” Ling Chengye sighed softly