Chapter 1228 The Patriarch of the Su Family
It was as if both forces had experienced a catastrophe and temporarily exhausted their edge.
Luo Li observed her surroundings keenly. Su Qingyue was walking in front, at a moderate pace.
She didn't look back, but Luo Li could feel a faint icy aura that was far more pure and powerful than the chill in the corridor itself, enveloping Di Xuanming like an invisible barrier.
This breath was not a suppression, but more like a guidance and combing, subtly soothing the pain caused by the collision of forces in his body, allowing the torrent of ice and fire to flow a little more smoothly in the destruction?
Was it the remaining power of the ice bead? Or was it the silent help of this cold-hearted saint?
Luo Li couldn't be sure, but Di Xuanming's condition did get a slight respite because of this.
The long ice crystal corridor finally came to an end.
Taking a step forward, he returned to the entrance to the outer realm of the Frozen Throne, which was ruled by absolute cold.
The leaden sky, the pale icy peaks, the deadly gray light, the biting cold wind...
Compared with the extreme silence in the depths of the Soul-Condensing Abyss, there seems to be a hint of life here.
Su Qingyue stopped on the ice field and turned around.
Her ice-blue eyes swept across Di Xuanming, pausing for a moment on his face, which was trying to remain calm but could not hide his extreme weakness and fatigue, and then looked at Luo Li.
"Follow me, the clan leader is waiting in the 'Hall of Eternal Silence'." Her voice was still cold and no emotion could be heard.
This time, she did not use space teleportation, but took the lead and walked towards the depths of the ice peak barrier.
Her footsteps made no sound on the thick black ice, and left no footprints in the snow.
Luo Li supported Di Xuanming and followed behind her.
Di Xuanming tried hard to regulate his breathing, trying to make himself look less embarrassed.
He knew that the person he was about to face was the real ruler of the Su family.
The grief in the Soul Condensing Abyss was forcibly suppressed, replaced by a cold vigilance and deep determination.
He straightened his back, even though the pain in his body was still surging.
After passing through several arches naturally formed by huge ice crystals and bypassing several icebergs that seemed to have stood for eternity, the scenery ahead suddenly changed.
A breathtakingly magnificent palace appeared at the end of the sight.
It is not built of ore, but carved from a piece of pure, almost transparent blue black ice of unimaginable size.
The lines of the palace are cold and simple, without any superfluous decoration. Huge icicles support the towering dome, and the eaves made of ice crystals are like frozen waves.
The entire palace exudes an ancient, vast, and extremely pure icy aura, as if it is the embodiment of the will of the Frozen Throne.
The palace gate was open, and inside the gate was not a magnificent sight, but a deeper and purer ice-blue light, as if leading to another icy world.
Above the door lintel, three ancient ice characters, seemingly condensed from eternal cold flames, emanated a pressure that froze time and space:
Palace of Eternal Silence.
Su Qingyue stopped in front of the palace gate, stepped aside to make way, and looked at Luo Li and Di Xuanming with her ice-blue eyes. Her voice was calm and unperturbed:
"Lord Luo, please go in. The clan leader is inside."
Her figure, against the backdrop of the faint blue light coming through the temple door, appeared particularly lonely and cold, like an ice-sculptured goddess guarding the temple.
Luo Li took a deep breath, and the cold air pierced her lungs, making her feel refreshed.
She glanced at Di Xuanming beside her. Deep in his crimson eyes, the frozen lava core was burning silently. It was a kind of calmness and determination that showed that he was ready to face everything.
The two looked at each other without saying a word.
Luo Li supported Di Xuanming's arm and exerted a little force, supporting him to take heavy steps, and stepped into the palace that symbolized the highest power of the Su family and the most ancient will of ice.
Inside the Palace of Eternal Silence.
The moment you step into the Palace of Eternal Silence, it feels like you have stepped from the ice field into the heart of ice.
The extreme cold was no longer a biting wind, but turned into a heavy pressure that was everywhere.
The air was as stagnant as ten-thousand-year-old black ice. Every breath was painful like a knife cutting. It seemed that what was inhaled into the lungs was not air, but frozen ice chips.
As far as the eye could see, there was a pure, heart-poundingly deep blue. Massive icicles, like giant jade trees supporting the sky, stretched upward, fading into the flowing, icy-blue halo of the palace dome, a halo that seemed to contain a galaxy of stars.
The ground was as smooth as a mirror, clearly reflecting the intruder's figure, but it also made the place seem even more empty and dead.
Deep in the temple, the light seemed to be distorted and concentrated by some force.
There, there was no throne as imagined, but only an extremely huge, pure and flawless dark blue ice platform.
On the ice platform, there was a figure sitting upright.
She is not very tall, and even looks a little slender, but her presence is like the cornerstone of this icy world.
The light around her was strangely distorted. It was not blurry, but as if surrounded by a layer of flowing ice crystal prisms, making it impossible to see her specific face. People could only feel a pure and vast icy will, like the core of an ancient glacier, quietly suspended in the center of this space.
That is the current head of the Su family.
No words or actions are needed, just existence itself is the embodiment of the law and the agent of the will of the Frozen Throne.
Her gaze, or rather her omnipresent will, was like a tangible cold current, instantly locking onto Luo Li and Di Xuanming who had stepped into the hall.
Di Xuanming's body suddenly tensed up, as if being pressed down by an invisible iceberg, and his knees almost bent again.
The ice and fire power in his body, which had calmed down slightly, instantly showed signs of boiling again under the pressure of this absolute will. The tearing pain made him groan, and a trace of dark red blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and then quickly froze into ice chips in the extreme cold.
Luo Li immediately took half a step forward, and the power of chaos surged out without reservation, forming a barrier with a hazy halo in front of her and Di Xuanming.
As soon as the barrier appeared, it made subtle and frequent "clicking" sounds, as if an invisible ice blade was cutting madly.
Her beautiful face turned pale in an instant, as she was under unimaginable pressure.
She met the invisible gaze from the depths of the ice platform and said loudly, "Luoli, I'm from the city, greeting the head of the Su family."
The voice echoed in the empty and silent hall, with a slight tremor, but extremely clear and firm.
Di Xuanming forced himself to swallow the blood in his throat, straightening his back even more. He stared directly at the core surrounded by ice crystal prisms, and said in a hoarse voice with an almost provocative calmness: "Di Xuanming."
Dead silence.
The Palace of Eternal Silence seemed to have frozen time itself.
There was only the chaotic halo that kept flickering on Luo Li's barrier and the icy will that was as real as substance emanating from the depths of the ice platform in silent confrontation.
After a long time, a voice sounded.
The voice did not emanate from the ice platform, but seemed to resound directly into the depths of Luo Li and Di Xuanming's souls. It was cold, majestic, and without any emotion, yet it carried a unique, penetrating power that belonged to a woman:
"Lord Luo, I have long heard of your great name."
Luo Li said calmly, "No need for pleasantries. I came to the Frozen Throne for only two things. I've already done one. I wonder if Patriarch Su is interested in the other."
Luo Li clearly felt the tenseness of Di Xuanming's body beside her and the restlessness in his body that was on the verge of getting out of control again.
His forced back was like a fully drawn bow, and the frozen blood residue at the corner of his mouth looked particularly glaring in the dim blue light.
She had to lead the conversation and get to the point as quickly as possible.
"Oh?" The voice of the Su family's patriarch once again resonated directly in the two people's souls, with a hint of elusive meaning.
The ice crystal prisms surrounding the ice platform seemed to flow slightly, and the pure icy will became more condensed, like a real ice cone, piercing Luo Li.
"After you stepped into the Frozen Throne and even set foot in the Soul Condensing Abyss, is there anything else that would interest the Su family? Feel free to speak frankly."
Strange, Su Hanyi hasn’t told her about the demon fragments yet?
Although she was a little confused, Luo Li still stared directly at the core surrounded by distorted light, and spoke every word clearly:
"The first thing is to bring him here to confirm his mother's safety. This matter is over."
She tilted her head slightly, motioning to Di Xuanming beside her. "As for the second thing... it's about the disaster that's about to strike the world again."
Her words were like a stone dropped into an icy lake at absolute zero, causing no ripples, but the omnipresent icy will seemed to have stagnated ever so slightly.
"Disaster?" The Su family head's voice remained calm. "Disasters have never ceased in this world. Which one are you referring to?"
Luo Li took a deep breath. The cold air seemed to carry ice needles, piercing her lungs painfully, but it also made her more sober.
"The Demon God. The one who unleashed a raging sea of blood during the Great Desolation Era and was ultimately slain by the gods."
The moment the word "Demon God" was uttered, the air in the entire Eternal Silence Palace seemed to instantly solidify into a solid object harder than black ice.
The ice crystal prisms surrounding the ice platform suddenly burst out with a dazzling blue light, and countless tiny ice crystal runes flowed and disappeared frantically in them.
A chill that was a thousand times more terrifying than before, like a glacier that had existed for billions of years suddenly collapsing, carrying the will to freeze time and space and crush all things, pressing towards Luo Li and Di Xuanming like a tidal wave!
Snap!
boom!
The chaos barrier in front of Luo Li could no longer bear it, and let out a wail of being overwhelmed. It was instantly covered with spider-web-like cracks, and the next moment it shattered.
The terrifying icy will was like an invisible iceberg, crashing heavily into the two of them.
"Ugh!" Luo Li groaned, his face instantly turned as pale as paper, a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, his body shook violently, and he staggered back a step before he could barely stand firm.
Emperor Xuanming was struck by lightning.
The balance in his body, which was already on the verge of collapse, was completely broken by this absolute will.
The blood of the Frozen Throne roared wildly under the stimulation of the Su family's patriarch's power, trying to resist the pressure of the same origin but higher level.
The black and red flames in the Emperor's bloodline were like an enraged beast, and they launched a violent counterattack in an instant.
Emperor Xuanming could no longer suppress his anger, and a large amount of dirty blood mixed with dark red blood and ice crystal fragments spurted out, and his body fell backwards like a kite with a broken string.
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