Chapter 405 - Scroll of the Flowers of Snow (1/2)

Moment later. Bai Shuyue and Zhong Yue reached the front of an ice palace. The surroundings grew colder as they walked through a few doors. Zhong Yue glanced around and found that all of the buildings were made from pure ice. They seemed cold and frigid, but yet, stronger than the typically-constructed buildings. Within the ice were also the abstruse and obscure totem patterns.

These totem patterns were very profound, left behind by the gods of the Bai Zhe Clan. Furtively, Zhong Yue slashed the Golden Peng Sword at the wall, but only a little piece crumbled away from the wall before new ice formed over the damage to return it to its original state.

"Going further, it will be the core of the ice palace. We need to be careful when we reach there."

Bai Shuyue led the way, and suddenly, Zhong Yue exclaimed in shock. They had walked for more than fifteen minutes, but with their speed, they had already traveled for more than a hundred miles, and the end of the corridor was still nowhere to be seen!

"This ice palace is not that huge, we can literally move through the whole palace in just one step if we want to, but why is this corridor so long?"

The two of them continued moving forward, and the surroundings slowly turned wider. Soon, they were inside a world of ice and snow.

Snow fluttered down from the sky, and the breeze was still cold like it could freeze their bones.

Bai Shuyue and Zhong Yue trekked across the snow, and all of a sudden, a nearly imperceptible sound rang in their eyes. A thin, narrow line of blood then appeared on Zhong Yue's cheek – a falling snowflake had cut the side of his face.

Zhong Yue locked his brows, and he cast out the divine third eye and stared into the falling snowflakes.

All of a sudden, he raised his hand and gripped a snowflake in between his fingers. Contrary to his expectations, the snowflake didn't melt upon touching his hand and was still emanating the same frigid air.

Zhong Yue then looked at the snowflake and found that it seemed identical to the ordinary ones, but in his divine third eye, it appeared totally different.

It looked ordinary but was made of abstruse and profound totem patterns. The myriad totem patterns formed an intricate fractal network that went on to create the snowflake's shape and surface!

"This is … a skill?"

Zhong Yue startled, he raised and looked at the falling snow. These snowflakes have been mixed with the ordinary snowflakes, making them difficult to distinguish from 232the latter!

Fortunately, these special snowflakes were few in number. Otherwise, the two youngsters would be in great danger.

"This is a skill of the Bai Zhe Clan. We call it the Flowers of Snow."

Bai Shuyue exhaled a breath of air, and her inner core flew out of her mouth, turning into the crystal-white Bai Zhe beast. Then, snowflakes of the same skill started flowing out from the Bai Zhe beast to counteract the incoming snowflakes. "We are now at the outer rim of the ice palace. The first layer of seals is the Flowers of Snow. The further we venture, the stronger the snowflakes would be. Senior Martial Brother Zhong, do you have any way to defend against it?"

Zhong Yue stared at the snowflake in his hand. Suddenly, a surge of psyche emanated around him, and snowflakes were then formed, flowing outward and clashing with the falling snowflakes.

Bai Shuyue was shocked, and she said, "Senior Martial Brother Zhong has learned the Bai Zhe Clan skills before?"

Zhong Yue shook his head and responded, "No, but this skill isn't too difficult to deduce anyhow."

Bai Shuyue was shocked, she thought, I needed to use half a month to learn it. There was even an elder guiding me along the way. But this human only needed to look at the snowflake's totem patterns for a few minutes and was able to learn it? Is all-encompassing knowledge really the key to omnipotence, or is it something else?

As they walked deeper into the core of the ice palace, the snow began to grow heavier, blowing on their faces like billowing waters and obstructing their visions.

Zhong Yue turned his head back, and the corridor they came from had turned into a tiny black dot. Soon after, it had disappeared entirely from his vision.

In front of them, the Flowers of Snow had gotten more powerful and vicious. Sparks of fire could be seen, and raucous screeches could be heard as the snowflakes continually collided with one another.

Zhong Yue and Bai Shuyue struggled, and their pace greatly slowed. At this point, the snowflakes were as powerful as Inner Core Qi Practitioner soul weapons!

With the countless snowflakes blowing at them, it was tantamount to hundreds of the soul weapons relentlessly attacking them.

Even Zhong Yue was shocked; he never thought that the young lady would still be in such decent condition after all of that!

He then looked carefully at her and immediately, he discovered the little tricks she used; Bai Shuyue's control of power was exceptionally fine. The little snowflakes she let out did not only clash with the incoming snowflakes, but they have also redirected the other snowflakes to clash with the others. Like this, each snowflake of her's would counter two or more snowflakes in the ice palace, allowing her to save a whole lot more energy.

On the other hand, Zhong Yue had been relying on his abundant arcane energy to neutralize each snowflake individually.

All of a sudden, an ice statue appeared in front of them – a Bai Zhe beast that was frozen in ice.

Bai Shuyue's beautiful countenance then turned gloomy, and she said, "He is one of ours, a senior that had entered the ice palace for Lord Bai's heritage; but now, it seems like his prowess was lacking and is now sealed in the ice forever."

The two of them continued going, and they then saw another young lady that was frozen in the ice. She was incredibly beautiful and was donned in a flowery dress.

The further they went, the more Bai Zhe Clan seniors they could see. For the past 50,000 years, an uncountable number of experts tried to enter the ice palace for Lord Bai's heritage, but none have ever succeeded.

"A Heavenly Dharma expert!"

Zhong Yue and Bai Shuyue reached the front of another ice statue. It was a thousand-foot tall Heavenly Dharma Bai Zhe Clan member. He had morphed into the state of [Atman Body as One] but still died of exhaustion.

At this point, the snowflakes had reached Heavenly Dharma soul weapon levels of strength. Bai Shuyue was now beginning to suffer wounds as blood trickled down from her mouth while Zhong Yue was also feeling the struggle of advancing.

What has Lord Bai left in the ice palace? Why are there such powerful seals? It's like he doesn't even want his descendants to obtain his heritage.

"The Boundless Great Sun!"

Zhong Yue yelled softly and morphed into his Golden Crow form. He spread his wings out, and a great sun was blasted forward, melting the snow away in its path.