Chapter 1048: The Sound of Blood Flowing (1/2)

Ignoring You Huoran, Lu Yun and Ying Luo each clutched a fist-sized hunk of ice crystal and allowed its chilly air to waft over their bodies. Then, they jumped onto the skull island.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

The crowd of blood-red mosquitoes descended as expected, but was instantly repelled when they sensed the glacial air coming from Ying Luo and Ying Luo. Some too slow to react were frozen to death by arctic breezes.

“It worked!” Ying Luo cheered. “But what do we do next? I deduced that the entrance to the tomb is here, but where is it?”

The girl looked around blankly. The island was only a few meters across and its surface seemed to be the top of a skull. Barren of everything, there was nothing on its surface.

“Don’t move.” Lu Yun shook his head at Ying Luo and took out another piece of ice crystal.

The cold air over its surface streamed toward the center of the island at a pace visible to the naked eye. Not only did its energy flow away from them, so did the wintry air over Lu Yun and Ying Luo’s bodies churn toward that central point.

The mosquitoes that’d retreated quietly reappeared again.

Lu Yun snorted and took out another crystal, replenishing his stock as soon as the two in his hands disappeared. Ying Luo also took out ten more pieces and dumped them on the ground.

A polar vortex formed in the center of the island, devouring all of the cold air wafting off of the crystals. It didn’t subside until Lu Yun’s last crystal and Ying Luo’s three hundredth piece were consumed.

A large door made of ice appeared in front of them. It was ghastly white, roughly six meters wide and nine meters tall. Towering in the center of the island, it radiated dreadfully frosty air. The mosquitoes that’d been eying the two living beings scattered out of sight.

“We did it!” Lu Yun’s eyes lit up and he quietly operated the Dragonquake Scripture. He made some careful calculations to confirm that they would find the interior of the tomb behind this great door made of ice.

All tests had come to an end now that they’d reached this point. Everything was unpredictable after this. Pursuit of any opportunities would be up to one’s own abilities alone.

“Let’s go inside!” Lu Yun took in a deep breath and walked through the door of ice with Ying Luo.

“Eh?” Recovering by the banks of the Blood Sea, You Huoran brightened at the sight. “So they didn’t just arrive, but had already discovered the solution to the puzzle! Well now, I’ll just benefit from your hard labor then! Ying Luo, you bitch, how dare you attack me!”

He chuckled darkly and flew toward the tiny island.

Craaaaack.

Ugly cracks snaked over the door the moment he set foot on land.

“No!” Frantic, You Huoran streaked into a ray of light and barreled toward the door.

Bam!

The unexpected occurred. He didn’t pass through it like Lu Yun and Ying Luo had, but smashed his head against the doorframe.

Crack crack craaaack.

The door crumbled to pieces after You Huoran’s headbutt.

“Why… how?” He naturally couldn’t have missed his mark. The only explanation was that the door had denied him entrance.