Chapter 295 - The Man Sealed in Ice (2/2)

Xiao Chen teased it, “Hey, is it not enough that you are already eating them? You wanna pack them away too?”

With a fruit in its mouth, Zhiluan slurred, “I’m bringing some back for that little girl.”

Xiao Chen chuckled and did not tease it anymore. Suddenly, he felt that same horrible feeling from earlier and its source was coming from nearby. At once, he followed its trail cautiously.

“Oi! Where are you going, kiddo! Wait for me!”

Xiao Chen ignored it and went half a mile alone. A cave appeared in front of him, and upon seeing it, his face was filled with shock.

In the cave was actually a man dressed in green and the mass was sealed in ice. That horrible feeling he felt was coming from the inside of this cave. Xiao Chen tried as hard as he could to suppress his shock as he walked closer to the man. The man had silver hair that was down to his shoulders. Despite being sealed in ice, he had a majestic aura around him. The aura spoke: “The world is under my feet, within the heaven and earth and the four seas, I am the only master of it!”

At this moment, it was like there were huge waves slapping his heart. Xiao Chen was in awe. He had never admired anyone in this life, but this man in front of him brought out his reverence. If it were a normal cultivator who had seen this man in the ice, he would probably have knelt before this man to show his respect uncontrollably.

“Within the heaven and earth and the four seas, I am the only master of it!” None of the countless men of the hour throughout the six realms would dare to name themselves as the master of all beings. Except for this man here!

“But who is this person really? Why is he being sealed here in ice?” Xiao Chen could not help himself from walking closer. Upon closer inspection, there were no scars on the man’s body nor were there any signs of a fight before he was sealed up in the ice.

If he had guessed correctly, this person was not sealed by anyone else but himself!

But what would be the reason for such a powerful man to seal himself in ice? At this moment, Xiao Chen noticed 12 sarcophagi in green that were neatly arranged behind the frosty ice. The horrible feeling he felt earlier had to be coming from these sarcophagi.

“What the meow! Why is there an iceman here?” Zhiluan flew in suddenly.

“Shh!” Xiao Chen made a shushing gesture immediately, afraid that he would disturb the man within the frosty ice.

Zhiluan was still in shock as it flew around the frosty ice. Suddenly a cold shiver ran down its spine, and it whimpered, “Kiddo let’s go now, this person seems to have an ambiguous persona, he could either be good or evil. If he comes alive, we would both be dead here…”

Before it could even finish the sentence, one of the sarcophagi in the cave vibrated. Alerted, Xiao Chen backed off to the entrance of the cave.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang. The lid of that sarcophagus shot up into the sky, and a sense of devilishness filled the air.

“The person who has disturbed the master will die!”

A voice that seemed to have come from the netherworld rang in their ears. From the darkness, a pair of crimson red eyes emerged and came at them at breakneck speed. A powerful force sealed the space around.

Under this overwhelming force, Xiao Chen surprisingly could not even move his fingers. It was as if even a Grand Completion Realm cultivator could not take a blow from it.

It seemed that this was the end of their lives. All of a sudden, a harp sound emanated at the most critical moment. Before Xiao Chen could react, he was 10 miles away.

“Meow! What the meowing heck! That was so scary! I thought I was going to die just like that!”

Xiao Chen’s face went as white as a sheet as well and his back was entirely drenched in sweat. He had yet to recover from the fright. The level of that force from just now must have been higher than that of the Grand Completion Realm. Suddenly, a voice in a chilling tone came from behind. “Kiddo! You really wanna die, huh?”

“Meow! And where did you, weanling, come from!”

Xiao Chen turned around only to see a young man dressed in a moonlight-white robe suspending in midair just a few feet above the ground. It was Evernight in its human form that came to their rescue in the moment of crisis.

“Nonsense! How dare a mere Lingzhi Spirit have the audacity to call me a weanling!” Evernight bellowed.

Zhiluan stomped its foot. “You are the impudent one! I have lived for 3,000 years. Why can’t I call you a weanling?”

Evernight tilted his head back and laughed out loud. “3,000 years. I am the Archean Zither Spirit and I broke out of the cycle of Samsara way back. I am entitled to thousands, millions of years of life. You’re just a mere Lingzhi Spirit and you dare to have the audacity to compare yourself to me!”

Xiao Chen shoved Zhiluan away with his foot before it could argue back, then said, “Thank you, Evernight.”

“Hmph!” Evernight responded coldly, his arms folded in front of his chest as he continued to look in the direction of that cave in the quiet valley. He seemed to be in deep thought.

Xiao Chen followed his gaze and could not help feeling relieved again. He was so glad that the thing that attacked him did not pursue. That thing must have been a puppet, as he could not feel any signs of life from it earlier.

But it was not a Corpse Puppet. A Corpse Puppet was the most ominous puppet of all and it did not have a mind of its own. The Corpse Refinery Sect was the best at refining them. However, that puppet seemed to have a certain extent of its own mind and was way more powerful than a Corpse Puppet from the Corpse Refinery Sect.

But he really could not piece it together who the ice-sealed man was. A being with 12 puppets that were in such defiance of the natural order would have been unchallengeable in the human realm.