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330: Enter the interior of the ice cliffLin Jingyu jerked his head up, only to see a monster that looked like a giant lizard cast from black ice, with wings on its back, hanging upside down from a protruding giant icicle above him, a pair of pale eyes locked tightly onto him.

The monster’s aura was not strong, roughly equivalent to the early stage of Foundation Establishment, but its movements were silent, it was extremely adept at concealment, and coupled with the suppression of the Formation, it wasn’t until this close distance that Lin Jingyu noticed it.

”Ice-Winged Demon Lizard!” Lin Jingyu recognized this common predator in the Secret Realm, known for being cunning and cruel, and preferring sneak attacks. Appearing now, it seemed it had mistaken him for a snack delivered to its doorstep.

”Hiss!” The Ice-Winged Demon Lizard’s slender tongue shot out like a whip, its forked tip carrying potent poison and intense stickiness, aiming straight for Lin Jingyu’s neck! At the same time, it opened its large mouth, and a foul-smelling, icy breath gushed out.

On the narrow ice wall, there was nowhere to hide.

A cold light flashed in Lin Jingyu’s eyes; since he couldn’t avoid it, he would end the fight quickly!

His left hand remained tightly gripped in the ice crevice, steadying his body, while his right hand formed a sword finger, and without even looking, he pointed backward.

”Crackle!”

A streak of purple lightning, condensed like a thread, arrived after being launched but struck first, precisely hitting the tip of the long, rapidly shooting tongue.

”Puff!” The tip of the tongue was instantly vaporized by the thunder!

The intense pain made the Ice-Winged Demon Lizard let out a shrill scream, and its breath faltered.

Lin Jingyu’s finger wind did not stop; the lightning, as if possessing life, spread rapidly up along the long tongue.

”Bang!”

The power of the thunder exploded inside the Ice-Winged Demon Lizard’s mouth!

The demon lizard couldn’t even let out a second scream before its head was blown to pieces, and then its entire body turned into powder.

Lin Jingyu’s current strength was enough to annihilate it silently.

He quickly checked his surroundings, confirmed that he hadn’t attracted the attention of the Formation, and continued climbing upward.

But after this encounter, he became even more vigilant. There were likely other dangers lurking on this Ice Cliff.

He climbed another nearly a hundred feet, and he was not far from the base platform of the temple. He could even see, through some ice windows, a smaller temple above the Ice Cliff, with dim blue light and shadows inside.

Just then, a sudden change occurred!

An immensely vast and overbearing power rose from the distance.

It was as brilliant as the scorching sun, its aura arrogant and peerless.

He looked outside.

A giant bone Dragon hundreds of feet in size appeared.

Although it was just a skeleton, it could still suppress everyone.

Even the light on the temple ahead was suppressed on its surface.

”Roar!”

A ball of light, dozens of feet in size, was fired from its mouth.

It smashed fiercely onto the temple.

”Boom!”

It felt like the apocalypse had arrived.

The entire ground began to shake.

The frozen earth beneath the temple, which had existed for who knows how many ten thousand years,

was easily torn apart, creating cracks that spread for dozens of miles.

It seemed as if the whole world had tilted.

”Too strong! I wonder what Realm this bone Dragon was in before it died.”

Lin Jingyu swallowed secretly.

Clearly, the struggle between the guardian deity and the temple faction had reached a white-hot stage.

Many powerful people appeared from within the temple.

Everyone’s aura was extremely powerful, and more than a dozen people working together were actually able to barely contend with the bone Dragon.

He turned around and discovered that a crack had appeared on the edge of the Ice Cliff.

It seemed to have been cracked by the shock.

It was pitch black inside, with waves of spatial fluctuations. It seemed to be an... entrance?

Lin Jingyu’s heart stirred, and without hesitation, he immediately changed direction.

Approaching the abnormal spatial fluctuation point, his Divine Sense acted like the finest comb, combing through the ice wall ahead over and over again.

Finally, in an inwardly recessed ice hollow about dozens of feet from the temple’s base platform, he discovered the source of the anomaly.

The ice wall there was slightly darker in color, presenting an unnatural sense of distortion, as if viewing the scene behind through a layer of fluctuating water curtain.

Traces of imperceptible spatial ripples were slowly rippling out from the center of this distortion.

Lin Jingyu did not dare to rush in rashly; he first carefully separated a wisp of Divine Sense as thin as a hair, and like an antenna, probed toward the distorted point.

The moment his Divine Sense touched that layer of ”water curtain,” a powerful suction force and a chaotic sense of spatial tearing came over, nearly shredding that wisp of Divine Sense directly.

Lin Jingyu let out a muffled groan, hurriedly cut off the connection, and his face turned slightly pale.

”How dangerous! This crack is extremely unstable, and the interior is full of spatial turbulence!”

He had lingering fears.

Forcibly passing through, even Golden Core or Nascent Soul Cultivators would likely risk falling.

Could it be that he should just go directly to the main entrance of the Ice Cliff temple and break in?

He immediately shook his head; the foundation of the temple faction was too deep.

Even if just one guardian came out, he would find it difficult to deal with them flexibly.

He pondered for a moment, his gaze falling on the ”ice soul stone” in his hand, which he had obtained from the remnant soul of the Frost Prophet.

This gem contained pure ice-attribute Soul Power; perhaps... it could temporarily stabilize this spatial node?

He might as well try it as a last resort!

He circulated his spiritual power, carefully injecting a wisp of gentle Evergreen Spiritual Power into the ice soul stone.

The cracks on the surface of the gem glowed slightly, emitting a circle of soft blue halo.

Lin Jingyu guided this circle of light, slowly approaching the distorted spatial node.

A miracle happened!

When the blue light touched the spatial ripples, the originally violent and chaotic fluctuations actually gradually calmed down a bit; although still dangerous, that fatal tearing sensation weakened significantly, vaguely forming a highly unstable, short-lived passage that could only accommodate one person!

The interior of the passage was dark and deep, with no end in sight.

”It works!”

Lin Jingyu’s spirits lifted. There was no time to think; the opportunity was fleeting! He took a deep breath, gripped the startling thunder sword in his hand, and spread his thunder spiritual power throughout his body.

Especially his legs, with ”Thunder Shadow Steps” ready to go, and without further hesitation, his figure flashed, and he resolutely rushed into the blue halo passage.

”Hum!”

The world spun!

It felt as if he had been thrown into a high-speed rotating drum; countless chaotic light shadows and sharp spatial fragments swept past him, and his protective thunder light emitted a ”sizzling” wail, being cut until it flickered uncertainly.

Immense pressure squeezed in from all directions, wanting to crush him into powder.

Lin Jingyu gritted his teeth, running the Spirit Refining Art with all his might to keep a point of clarity in his mind, while simultaneously pushing his Thunder Shadow Steps to the limit, dodging left and right in the narrow and chaotic passage to avoid the most dangerous spatial cracks.

The blue light emitted by the ice soul stone was like a fragile bubble, protecting him, but its light was also dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This short passage felt even longer and more dangerous than climbing the entire Ice Cliff.

He didn’t know how long had passed, perhaps just an instant, or perhaps an eternity, when suddenly the front lit up, and that terrifying tearing force vanished abruptly.

”Thump!”

Lin Jingyu felt his feet touch solid ground, stumbled a few steps to steady himself, and gasped heavily.

He quickly looked around and discovered that he was in a deep, wide, and silent corridor.