During the teleportation, the Longbrow Real Person silently chanted in his heart over and over: “This time it will not go wrong, we will surely reach the Azure Cloud Sword Sect…”
Bang!
Suddenly, the teleportation array trembled violently, as if it had crashed into a mountain. Immediately after, Ye Qiu and the others fell to the ground.
In an instant, bone-piercing cold assailed them.
Ye Qiu looked around, only to see the same endless expanse of ice and snow before him. Clearly, they were still on the Ice Plains.
“Old thing, what happened?”
As Ye Qiu spoke, he had already produced the God-Striking Whip.
The Longbrow Real Person cried out in fright: “Little rascal, listen to this poor Daoist’s explanation…”
Crack!
Ye Qiu whipped the Longbrow Real Person flying and raged: “Can you not be reliable for once, you bastard?”
With that, he raised the God-Striking Whip again, preparing to strike the Longbrow Real Person.
Ye Qiu was truly furious.
The Hundred Flowers Immortal was afflicted with fire poison and in dire peril. Only by reaching the Azure Cloud Sword Sect in time was there a slim chance of survival. Yet unexpectedly, the teleportation array kept encountering mishaps.
“Little rascal, do not strike, hear me out.”
The Longbrow Real Person said aggrievedly: “This time it truly was not my fault. This poor Daoist clearly adjusted the coordinates properly. By rights, we should have arrived at the Azure Cloud Sword Sect without fail. As for why the mishap occurred, this poor Daoist truly does not know.”
Ye Qiu did not believe him at all and glared at the Longbrow Real Person: “Spare me the act, it must be your mistake again.”
“Little rascal, I am not deceiving you. This time it really was not this poor Daoist’s fault.” The Longbrow Real Person said: “If you do not believe me, I can swear to the heavens. If the failure was due to this poor Daoist, then may I be struck by five bolts of heavenly lightning…”
Rumble!
Before the Longbrow Real Person could finish, a earth-shattering thunderclap resounded from the ninth heaven.
Bloody hell, even the heavens are toying with me?
The Longbrow Real Person felt so aggrieved he wanted to cry.
“Old thing, what more do you have to say?” Ye Qiu looked at the Longbrow Real Person with unkind eyes.
“This poor Daoist has nothing to say. In any case, it was not my fault.” After speaking, the Longbrow Real Person closed his eyes, too lazy to explain further. Anyway, it was a case of a hundred mouths unable to refute.
“Then do not blame me.” Ye Qiu raised the God-Striking Whip.
“Enough, let us not sour the harmony.” The Hundred Flowers Immortal advised Ye Qiu: “Though the Real Person is sometimes unreliable, he would not jest about such a matter. I believe he speaks the truth.”
In truth, how could Ye Qiu not wish to believe the Longbrow Real Person? It was just that the two failed teleportations had bred despair in his heart.
He had gone to great lengths to obtain two hundred thousand spirit stones from Jiang Shan, thinking they could smoothly reach the Azure Cloud Sword Sect, obtain the recognition of the Heavenly Fate Divine Spring, and thereby cure the Hundred Flowers Immortal.
Who would have thought that the first time, the Longbrow Real Person’s hand slipped, teleporting them to the Ice Plains, and now the second attempt had also failed.
The two teleportations had consumed two hundred thousand spirit stones. Now, Ye Qiu had only the thirty thousand spirit stones obtained from Bright Moon City left, utterly insufficient to activate the saintly array pattern.
In other words, they could not go to the Azure Cloud Sword Sect now, nor save the Hundred Flowers Immortal.
Moreover, this damned Ice Plains was extraordinarily cold. If they could not leave soon, they would freeze to death.
What Ye Qiu worried about most was still the Hundred Flowers Immortal.
Afflicted with fire poison, the Hundred Flowers Immortal was extremely weak at this moment. In such an environment, she likely could not hold out for long.
The matter had come to this, so be it!
Ye Qiu put away the God-Striking Whip, lowered his head to look at the Hundred Flowers Immortal in his arms, and said guiltily: “I am sorry.”
“Everyone’s fate is predestined in the shadows. If this is my lot, then I shall accept it calmly. You need not feel guilty.” At this point, a smile appeared on the Hundred Flowers Immortal’s pale face. She mustered her courage, looked into Ye Qiu’s eyes, and said: “In truth, you have done so much for me already. I am content.”
Hearing these words, Ye Qiu’s heart felt as if it were being sliced by a knife.
“Young Master Ye, let us hurry and leave this place. It is too cold here.” Lu Luo said.
Ye Qiu glanced at Lu Luo, only to see the little girl shivering uncontrollably from the cold. He made a snap decision.
“Old thing, lead the way ahead.”
“No matter how vast the Ice Plains, we must walk out of it.”
Ye Qiu said to the Hundred Flowers Immortal: “You hold on too. Believe in me, I will surely save you.”
Ye Qiu had resolved himself: until the very last moment, he would never give up. No matter how difficult, he would exhaust every means to save the Hundred Flowers Immortal.
“Go!”
After the Longbrow Real Person spoke, he charged ahead first.
Unexpectedly, the Longbrow Real Person had only rushed four or five zhang when he bounced back with a bang, tumbling into a supine split.
“Ouch, it hurts this poor Daoist to death.”
A bright red lump swelled on the Longbrow Real Person’s forehead, like a tumour of flesh.
This sudden turn of events stunned Ye Qiu.
“Old thing, what is the situation?” Ye Qiu asked.
The Longbrow Real Person replied: “This poor Daoist seems to have collided with something just now, as if there were an invisible wall in the air.”
Ye Qiu looked up, only to see vast emptiness ahead, with nothing in sight.
Without a word, Ye Qiu drew a golden needle and flung it forth. The next second, with a ding, the golden needle bounced back and landed in his palm.
“Hm?”
Ye Qiu was somewhat surprised.
“Little rascal, this place seems rather peculiar.” The Longbrow Real Person climbed to his feet and said.
Ye Qiu was just about to open his heavenly eye when suddenly, the void trembled. A massive circular white light barrier appeared abruptly, emanating dazzling radiance, enveloping heaven and earth in boundless expanse.
“Holy shit, what is this thing?”
The Longbrow Real Person cried out in alarm.
“Oh no!” Ye Qiu inwardly cried ill. This white light barrier was far too large, completely blocking their path forward. To go around it, who knew how long it would take to circumvent.
Not only that, after the white light barrier appeared, the chill in the air grew even denser. They now felt as if they were in a freezer at hundreds of degrees below zero.
“We must leave this place at once, or we are doomed!”
With this thought, Ye Qiu directly summoned the four Universe Cauldrons, intending to smash through the white light barrier and find a way out.
“Boom!”
The four Universe Cauldrons, like four great mountains, carried a force of a million jin as they crashed into the white light barrier, producing a heaven-shaking roar.
Yet, the white light barrier withstood the strike from the four divine artefacts without the slightest damage, not even a tremor.
Ye Qiu continued bombarding with the Universe Cauldrons, over a dozen times in succession, yet still could not shake the white light barrier in the least.
How could this be?
Ye Qiu was greatly shocked in his heart and said: “What exactly is this white light barrier? How is it so sturdy?”
Just at this moment, runes suddenly flowed across the white light barrier, emanating an aura of ancient desolation.
The Longbrow Real Person said: “In this poor Daoist’s view, this white light barrier resembles an array formation.”
“The Real Person is correct, this is indeed an array formation.” The Hundred Flowers Immortal followed up: “However, the one who laid it was no ordinary person. It should have been a saint!”
