novelonline Chapter 5253 The Frozen Scroll
Chapter 5253 The Frozen Scroll
Chapter 5253 The Frozen Scroll
Instantly, he felt a chill run down his spine, and without any hesitation, Xiao Yan slapped his own shoulder.
His entire body trembled instantly. When Xiao Yan looked again, the black hair had disappeared. But when he turned around, the black hair appeared on the other side of him.
"Daddy, are you going to kill me?"
A chill blew past Xiao Yan's ear, instantly making his mind reel.
Daddy?
What's going on? How did I end up with a child out of nowhere?
The Lord's child?
That's not right. The Empress once told Xiao Yan that the Venerable One had not conceived any other children. From the beginning to the present, the Venerable One only had one known child, who has now been reincarnated as Xiao Yan's daughter.
In her previous life, she was named Mingyue; in this life, she is named Xiao Yueli.
As for other children, Xiao Yan was unaware, but it could not be ruled out that the Venerable One had left behind other offspring.
However, the creature clinging to him and refusing to leave, even if it were the Venerable's offspring, didn't seem like a human being; Xiao Yan couldn't even detect its aura.
That means the thing clinging to him has no soul and no life.
"You don't need to be too nervous. Just resist the chill and continue exploring." Ye Beijing seemed to be able to see something on Xiao Yan's body, but she remained calm.
"Isn't that obvious?" Xiao Yan thought to himself. "I'm not lying on top of you."
Try lying on top of you, then call out "Mother" in your ear, and see if you explode.
However, Xiao Yan knew that unless he left this place, he would have no way to deal with the person lying behind him.
The surrounding icy air seemed to freeze everything, while the Annihilation Flame covering Xiao Yan was resisting this rule of ice.
It gradually sank, into darkness, into gloom, until a sliver of light appeared.
"Daddy, hurry up, I've been waiting for you for a very long time."
A chilling breath escaped from his ear, and the voice came again.
Xiao Yan frowned slightly. What exactly was hidden in this Xuanming Ice Abyss? Could it be that Hua Can wanted to lure his true self out by freezing his clone?
All caution and apprehension stem from a lack of strength.
Knowing full well that everything was orchestrated by Hua Can, and that she herself had become his pawn, she now knew there were tigers in the mountains, yet she had no choice but to risk moving forward.
Xiao Yan was also curious to see what Hua Can was trying to do by going to such lengths. Surely he wasn't trying to kill him, since Hua Can's strength was enough to make such a fuss unnecessary.
If all the arrangements were merely aimed at taking Xiao Yan's life, then it was like taking off your pants to fart—completely unnecessary.
Xiao Yan and Ye Beijing were not moving fast. They sensed the rules of ice around them. In the depths of this ice abyss, the cold was more than ten times that of the outside world, as if it could truly freeze everything inside.
The chill from the depths of the icy abyss is not merely a low temperature, but carries a strange power that freezes the soul and solidifies time.
Xiao Yan's Annihilation Flame burned fiercely around his body, forming a crimson barrier that struggled to resist the all-pervasive icy breath.
The chill down his spine and the mental shock of hearing "Daddy" made him feel like he was being pricked by needles, and every step he took down was accompanied by indescribable tension.
"Senior Ye Beijing, are you sure this thing is safe?" Xiao Yan couldn't help but ask again, his gaze sweeping warily over the increasingly dark abyss, which faintly emitted an icy blue light.
"Danger?" Ye Beijing chuckled lightly, walking with ease as if strolling in his own backyard. "Of course there is, but compared to the greetings from this 'daughter' on your back, there's probably a greater danger ahead. Old Man Hua Can didn't create this place just to raise ice sculptures."
Her beautiful eyes darted around as she looked at Xiao Yan's tense profile with great interest: "At this moment, you and the Venerable One are very similar, both cautious and cowardly."
"Daddy, we're almost there... Everyone's waiting for you..." The child's voice beside his ear carried a hint of excitement, but it made Xiao Yan's heart sink.
As we ventured deeper, the view suddenly opened up—but this openness brought a suffocating sense of oppression.
They seemed to have stumbled into a colossal underground palace formed naturally from millennia-old ice, or more accurately, an icy prison.
Countless incredibly thick ice pillars rise from the ground, supporting the towering ice dome. Between the ice pillars are massive ice walls, tens of meters high and as smooth as mirrors.
The space was filled with an extremely dense and ferocious aura, as if it contained resentment and tyranny accumulated over millions of years, icy cold yet scorching the soul.
Countless powerful, chaotic auras filled with destructive desires, like invisible tentacles, coiled around him from all directions. Even with the protection of the Annihilation Flame, Xiao Yan still felt a pang of fear.
The source of these auras is within those ice walls.
Each of the massive ice walls resembles a frozen, terrifying painting.
Inside, ancient beings of various forms are frozen, including ferocious beasts with bodies as large as mountains, their scales broken and fangs exposed, frozen in the moment of their final roar.
There were humanoid creatures clad in tattered armor and wielding broken weapons, their faces contorted, their eyes filled with overwhelming fighting spirit and resentment.
Some are even more bizarre in form, resembling neither insects nor mist, emanating an evil aura that sends chills down one's spine.
Without exception, they all exuded a suffocatingly powerful aura, as if they had been forcibly paused and sealed in this eternal icy hell.
"What a grand gesture..." Ye Beijing's relaxed expression finally vanished, replaced by a solemn look. "These are all... the immortal beings of the gods that Hua Can suppressed here..."
"This Star-Devouring Beast is already extinct, and this one is the Soul-Eating Ghost... also extinct. Hiss~ Could it be that Hua Can has a special hobby of collecting ancient bloodlines?"
Xiao Yan did not answer; his entire being was gripped by a deeper, blood-rooted sense of horror.
He followed the passage through the ice walls, his gaze sweeping over the terrifying, frozen beings, until—
His feet froze on the spot, and his pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints! His blood seemed to freeze completely at that moment, and even his soul trembled!
"Senior Ye Beijing, look, am I seeing things?"
Not far ahead, within the ice wall, a figure was frozen solid.
It was a man dressed in a simple blue robe, with a tall and straight figure and a face... exactly the same as Xiao Yan!
No, it's not just the same!
The contours between his eyebrows, the curve of his nose, and even the fine lines on his eyelids when his eyes are closed are exactly the same as Xiao Yan's original self!
The only difference was their temperament. The frozen person exuded a calm demeanor that came from having experienced the vicissitudes of life and seen through the ways of the world, as well as a kind of... ancient nobility and majesty that came from the very bones.
"You look just like him!" Ye Beijing exclaimed. She quickly approached, pointing to the frozen figure inside the ice wall and comparing him to Xiao Yan.