Chapter 1197 Cloaked Man
Luo Li narrowed her eyes slightly, walked over as well, and stretched out her hand to the place where the woman had just pointed.
But when she opened the secret compartment, there was nothing inside.
Luo Li's fingers slid across the empty inner wall of the secret compartment, and the cold and smooth touch seemed to mock their surprise.
She frowned, and her sharp eyes swept through every corner of the secret compartment as if it were real. She even used her soul power to explore it carefully, but still found nothing.
"Empty?" Di Xuanming's voice was hoarse and low, carrying a kind of deep anger after being fooled and a deeper despair.
He turned his head suddenly, his gaze fixed on the lifeless face of the woman in white again, his eyes filled with turbulent waves.
The shock caused by the silent "Ming'er" just now has not yet subsided, but this empty secret compartment is like a basin of ice water, completely extinguishing the glimmer of light that has just ignited.
Is it a trap? Is it a mockery?
Or was it that the mother's remaining consciousness was so difficult that it could only give such a faint hint, and the key thing had been taken away?
He took a step forward, almost touching the woman's cold arm, and asked tentatively, "Mother?"
However, all he got in response was dead silence.
The woman still maintained her sitting posture, her ice-blue eyes staring blankly ahead, as if Di Xuanming's shout was just an insignificant gust of wind passing across the ice field.
Luo Li quickly grabbed Di Xuanming's arm to prevent him from getting too close.
Her eyes were fixed on the teacup carved from cold jade.
That cup of tea, still clear and crisp, exudes an ancient and pure chill, and is the only lingering source of scent in this strange scene.
The woman's subtle movements just now seemed not only to point to the secret compartment... her fingertips seemed to be more inclined towards the teacup itself!
"A Ming, watch the teacup!" Luo Li called out softly, reminding him to pay attention.
Di Xuanming's gaze suddenly focused on the teacup.
He suppressed the turbulent emotions that threatened to burst from his chest and forced himself to remain calm.
He stretched out his hand, his fingertips trembling slightly, but he did not touch his mother, but slowly reached for the cold jade teacup.
Just when his fingertips were about to touch the wall of the lamp——
Something strange happened suddenly!
The seemingly ordinary cold jade teacup suddenly burst out with a blinding ice-blue light!
A chill that was purer, stronger, and more violent than the aura emanating from the woman suddenly exploded!
This force is not an attack, but it carries a kind of pressure that freezes time and space and solidifies the soul!
Luo Li was prepared and immediately pulled someone back a few steps with one hand, avoiding the attack.
The Chaos Jade automatically protected its master, shielding Luo Li and the other two within the protective shield, and only withdrew after the attack completely dissipated.
"Liuli." Luo Li said lightly, and the Chaos Jade returned to her palm.
Looking at the messy private room, a fierce look flashed across Luo Li's eyes. How dare someone be so presumptuous in Buli City!
Emperor Xuanming's expression was also stern, "This is a killing move."
The dazzling ice-blue light receded like a tide, leaving behind tiny ice crystal particles in the air, flashing a cold light.
The elegant pavilion was in a mess, with broken tables and chairs and thick white frost on the walls. Only the place where the woman in white was sitting and the place where the cold jade teacup was located were miraculously intact.
Di Xuanming's chest heaved violently, and extreme coldness and rage surged in the depths of his black eyes.
That teacup actually contained such a vicious killing move.
Who is the target? Him? Or anyone who tries to get close to his mother?
Luo Li's eyesight was sharp and she did not let her guard down. The Chaos Jade hummed slightly in her palm, ready to protect her master again at any time.
She stared at the cold jade teacup. After the light faded, it did not shatter. The liquid in the cup, as clear as an ice spring, seemed to be alive, slowly flowing and condensing at the bottom of the cup.
The ice-blue liquid did not overflow, but instead gathered strangely above the center of the cup, gradually outlining an extremely small but extremely clear outline.
A phantom of a woman dressed in white, as thin as ice and jade.
Her eyebrows, her temperament, were exactly the same as those of the sitting Ice Lotus woman, only she was shrunk countless times!
"Mother!" Di Xuanming's pupils suddenly shrank.
Although this shadow is small, it is more... agile than the sitting body?
No, it's regret.
A throbbing sensation from the depths of his soul gripped him fiercely.
The tiny ice-blue shadow was suspended above the teacup, its face blurred but filled with deep sorrow.
She seemed to want to turn her head and look in the direction of Di Xuanming, but the movement was extremely difficult.
Then, her slender finger made of ice-blue liquid pointed to the same place again, extremely weakly but firmly.
The direction of the empty secret compartment!
This time, her fingertips seemed to have gathered the last bit of strength, and the moment they pointed at the secret compartment, the shadow fluctuated violently.
A soul wave that was so weak that it was almost annihilated, but full of endless sorrow and warning, pierced Di Xuanming's soul like a candle in the wind.
This thought was intermittent, carrying with it the pain of having the soul torn apart, yet it was extremely clear.
It is the mother's remaining consciousness.
She was trapped in this teacup as a warning.
Di Xuanming subconsciously lost his rationality and wanted to get closer.
"A Ming! No!" Luo Li's face changed drastically, and the Chaos Jade shone brightly, trying to stop it.
She could feel that the teacup itself was an extremely dangerous container, and if Di Xuanming touched it directly, the consequences would be unpredictable.
Just as Di Xuanming's hand was about to touch the teacup.
"Humph! How dare an ant covet the Holy Soul!"
A cold and indifferent snort sounded in the Accord without any warning.
This sound was not heard, but exploded directly in the sea of consciousness of Luo Li and Di Xuanming, bringing with it a terrifying spiritual impact that shocked the two of them and made their movements stagnate.
The tightly closed doors and windows of the Accord were silently turned into dust. They were not shaken open, but annihilated in an instant.
At the door, a figure appeared without me noticing.
The man was completely shrouded in a pure black cloak that seemed to absorb all light. Even his face was hidden in the deep shadow of the hood, revealing only a section of his cold and hard jaw.
There was no powerful aura emanating from his body, but rather a suffocating silence and absolute coldness.
The temperature of the entire Accord dropped sharply again. He just stood there, as if he was the core of the entire space, swallowing up all the light, sound, and even life.
His eyes swept across the messy Accord and passed by the sitting woman in white.
In the end, like two invisible ice cones, they nailed Di Xuanming's hand that was reaching for the teacup, as well as the ice-blue shadow in the teacup that was about to disintegrate.
"Destroy the holy artifact, seize the holy soul..." The cloaked man's voice was flat, each word rubbing like ice shards. "You all deserve to die."
As the last word "death" fell, dark clouds suddenly covered the sky above the entire city of Buli. A terrifying pressure that froze everything came down like an invisible giant hand!
The city's protective formation suddenly activated, steadily resisting the powerful pressure that was almost condensed into substance.
Luo Li frowned and said in a deep voice: "Sir, this is my city!"
Luo Li's voice was as cold as an icy spring hitting a rock, but it was unusually clear under the terrifying pressure of the cloaked man, carrying with it unquestionable majesty and deep anger.
She straightened her back, and her soul power surged throughout her body, faintly echoing the power flowing through the city defense formation above her head. The city lord's momentum was fully revealed at this moment.
"Not leaving the city?" The shadow under the cloak seemed to move slightly, and the cold and hard jaw outlined an extremely subtle arc full of endless contempt.
His voice remained calm, yet it seemed to carry a chill that could freeze the soul. "A mere mortal city."
After the last word fell, he did not make any movement, but the stagnant air in the Accord suddenly exploded.
It was not an invisible pressure, but countless tiny ice needles flashing with a cold blue light that condensed out of thin air, like a swarm of angry bees, silently but as fast as lightning, tearing through the space and instantly covering Luo Li and Di Xuanming.
But he avoided Di Xuanming's 'mother' behind them.
"Liuli!" Luo Li shouted, and the Chaos Jade suddenly expanded. The dazzling liuli-colored light shield instantly enveloped her and Di Xuanming.
The dense impact sounds like a sudden rain were heard, and the ice needles hit the light shield, exploding into fine ice crystals. The light shield vibrated violently, emitting a low humming sound, resisting the deadly cover.
Luo Li gritted her teeth. This strength was at least that of a peak Saint Lord.
Almost at the same time as the ice needles hit, a flash of blood appeared in Di Xuanming's eyes, and his rage and obsession with protecting his mother overwhelmed everything.
He completely ignored his own defense, and terrifying dark power erupted from his body. A dark beam of light as condensed as a substance condensed out of thin air, with a piercing scream, and shot towards the cloaked man's heart.
This was an angry blow, condensing all his strength at the moment.
While Luo Li was maintaining the Chaos Jade's defense, she also caught sight of Di Xuanming's movements.
Her eyes flashed, and her other hand formed a seal at lightning speed.
He did not attack the cloaked man himself, but pressed down on the huge ice lotus under the white-clothed woman sitting in the center of the pavilion!
"town!"
An invisible spatial ripple spread out from the ice lotus, instantly strengthening the spatial stability of that small area and forming a tough barrier.
She couldn't let the aftermath of the battle affect the body that might be Di Xuanming's mother!
The cloaked man seemed to be indifferent to Di Xuanming's attack, and casually flicked the sleeves of his wide black robe.
A purer and more powerful chill surged out. When Emperor Xuanming's terrifying beam of light was still several feet away from the cloaked man, it was like crashing into invisible thousand-year-old black ice. Its speed suddenly dropped, and cracks quickly appeared on the surface. Finally, with a "bang", it dissipated into invisibleness.
However, when the soul power fluctuations from Luo Li's reinforcement of the space around the ice lotus came, the cloaked man's eyes hidden under the shadow of his hood seemed to flicker extremely slightly.
He seemed to have a very brief hesitation about Luo Li's action of protecting her body.
But this hesitation was instantly replaced by a deeper coldness.
"You don't know what death is!" The cold rebuke exploded in the two men's minds.
The cloaked figure finally moved.
He did not move his feet, but simply raised the hand hidden under the black robe.
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