Chapter 410 - The Ice Cave Predicament (1/2)

“Thump!” The spot where Xiao Chen and Su Lianyue fell through closed off. What appeared to be a powerful gravitational force underneath pulled them down and they fell just like that. They slowly found each other in the darkness, where they crashed on the ground after falling for gods know how long.

“Are you alright?” Xiao Chen’s first instinct was to sweep their surroundings with his Divine Sense and check if there was danger anywhere. However, everywhere his Divine Sense could reach, the only answer was endless darkness and coldness.

“S-So cold! Where are we?!”

It was so dark that they couldn’t even see their hands and so cold that it pierced deep into their bones. Compared to the ice cave above, this place was many times colder, so much so that even Xiao Chen felt like he could barely stand it. The ground was also slippery; they must be stepping on ice.

Xiao Chen conjured a white light and gradually illuminated their surroundings. The lightray bounced back and forth. To their surprise, they were inside a sealed ice chamber. Thick walls of ice surrounded them. Even the passage that they fell through had disappeared. Ice covered every inch of the ground that they stepped on. Besides the boundless of ice, the only things around were some disperse slabs.

“S-So cold… Don’t tell me we’re in the Ice Prison that Yu Yangzi told us about…” Even wearing the Fire-heart Jade, Su Lianyue was still so cold that her voice was shuddering.

Xiao Chen was also trembling from the cold. He shook his head and said, “I don’t think so. There are no bones or much Rancorous Qi here…”

The two of them walked around the ice chamber but couldn’t find an exit anywhere. Xiao Chen whipped out his Blood Lotus Demon Blade and slashed the ice wall with force. Ice fragments swirled in the air, but all the blade did was left a little chink in the wall.

“Guifeng!” Xiao Chen yelled. However, the only response was his voice echoing inside the ice chamber. Here, he couldn’t summon Guifeng. Even Evernight and Su Xiaomei had fallen into a deep slumber.

Su Lianyue looked at him and said in a trembling voice, “There’s no use… This is a completely closed-off space…”

Xiao Chen frowned. He slashed his palm, wanting to melt the ice wall with his Nine Heaven-scorching Flames. To his shock, he couldn’t even summon his flames here. The restrictions placed here were very severe.

“Just what kind of place is this…”

The hour slowly slipped past and the temperature inside the ice chamber seemed to have dropped lower. A layer of frost had already formed on Xiao Chen’s eyebrows. Su Lianyue was even worse off; her lips were turning white and she couldn’t stop shivering. The Fire-heart Jade was gradually becoming ineffective here.

The two of them sat next to a large slab with their backs against each other. Su Lianyue said in a shaky voice, “I can’t… It’s too cold. If we can’t get out, we’ll freeze to death here…”

Xiao Chen was also trembling from the cold. It was bitterly cold here that he couldn’t ward off the chill even if he was circulating his energy nonstop. This place was no ordinary ice chamber.

“Stay here. I’ll try and find an exit.”

Xiao Chen moved as soon as he finished speaking, but Su Lianyue grabbed him tightly. “D-Don’t go. I’ll be even colder without you…”

Su Lianyue’s mind was beginning to turn cloudy from the cold. She was shivering nonstop and her lips were turning white. Xiao Chen removed her hold and took out her fire-igniter and a crumpled book from his Divine Vessel. The book was the Nine Heaven-scorching Flames secret manual. He ripped off its pages, started the fire-igniter, and made a small bonfire that finally warmed their surroundings a little.

“Wait for me. I’ll definitely find the exit.” Xiao Chen handed Su Lianyue the fire-igniter before going up to every ice wall and probing its exterior with his Divine Sense, slowly feeling for an exit.

Some fifteen minutes later, he finally discovered an anomaly under one of the ice walls. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was an ice door. This discovery excited Xiao Chen and he turned around to say, “Fairy, I found… Su Lianyue!”

In their previous spot, the small bonfire had long stopped burning and Su Lianyue was lying unconscious on the slab. Xiao Chen dashed over. The moment he touched her shoulders, he felt like he was grabbing a thousand-year-old iceberg. He retrieved his hand as if electrocuted. Panic began to sink in. How could her body be that cold?

But she was still breathing. He didn’t think twice before pouring True Energy into her body. A long while later, Su Lianyue slowly woke up and her body temperature was gradually recovering as well. She immediately pulled him into a hug. “C-Cold…” Her consciousness at the moment was a complete mess.

Xiao Chen caressed her back and said softly, “I found the exit. Come with me.”

“Exit…”

Su Lianyue seemed to have regained her mental clarity. Xiao Chen nodded and led her by the hand to the ice door. They hadn’t walked far when Su Lianyue suddenly slipped. She was about to fall when Xiao Chen hastily held her up. “Are you alright?”

“I, I’m fine… Don’t worry, Young Master…” Su Lianyue exhaled softly. She was currently very weak.

Xiao Chen frowned. When they reached the ice door, he carefully set her down on the floor. He then circulated all his energy and slammed the door with his two palms. “Boom!” Following the loud sound, the ice door crumbled into pieces and scattered all over the floor. Behind the door was a long ice tunnel.

“We’re alright now. Fairy, let’s go…” Xiao Chen spun around. To his surprise, he saw Su Lianyue’s body slanting and then falling to the ground. He immediately went up to her, helped her up, and poured more True Energy into her body.