Ye Ying turned and stepped to the left, keeping a watchful eye on her surroundings as she walked.
As she walked, she suddenly noticed some strange patterns hidden on the wall, which looked like mysterious runes left over from an ancient era.
"Huh? What's this...?" Ye Ying couldn't help but stop and lean closer to the wall to examine it carefully.
She wondered to herself why she kept encountering places with talismans lately.
Could there be some connection between them?
It's as if all these talismans were wholesaled from the same wholesale market.
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The further they went, the lower the temperature became, and the biting wind made Ye Ying shiver involuntarily.
She wrapped her thin clothes tightly around herself, but could still feel the biting chill seeping into her skin through the fabric.
Meanwhile, Ji Wuchen chose to explore to the right. For some reason, an inexplicable sense of unease lingered deep within him.
This feeling grew stronger, making him extremely cautious with every step he took.
An extremely eerie atmosphere permeated the place, seemingly hinting at an impending catastrophe.
Suddenly, an extremely faint sound reached Ji Wuchen's ears.
The sound was faint, like a gentle breeze brushing against the strings of a zither, yet it carried endless sorrow and grief, sounding as if someone were sobbing softly.
Driven by curiosity, he slowly followed the sound and eventually arrived at a huge ice cave. By the light of his torch, he was astonished to discover a blurry figure frozen inside.
At this moment, Ye Ying was not idle either.
As she continued forward, she used the dagger she carried to carve simple, easy-to-understand marks on the walls along the way.
In this way, if Ji Wuchen loses track of him or encounters other situations, he can find his whereabouts again based on these markers.
Meanwhile, Ji Wuchen, on the other side, stared at the figure frozen in solid ice before him, and his heart suddenly trembled.
Without hesitation, he raised his fist and slammed it hard against the seemingly fragile but actually incredibly hard ice layer, trying to rescue the people trapped inside.
However, to his surprise, the ice was as tough as steel. No matter how hard he tried, even striking it with all his might, it remained unmoved and undamaged.
Ji Wuchen was extremely anxious, filled with unease. He knew that he could not possibly break the hard, thick ice layer by himself with his bare hands.
So he began to look around, scanning his surroundings, trying to find a handy tool or a key clue to help him.
Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something gleaming in a corner of the ice cave.
Curious, he quickly stepped forward to investigate. Upon closer inspection, he discovered it was a crystal-clear stone with some strange and enigmatic symbols engraved on it.
Ji Wuchen stared intently at the symbols, as if he could decipher the hidden mysteries within them.
After a moment's thought, he resolutely decided to follow the instructions of the talisman and risk trying the ancient secret technique that was rumored to have been lost for a long time.
As he chanted obscure and difficult-to-understand incantations, his palms danced up and down like butterflies flitting among flowers, and a mysterious and profound power surged from within his body, gathering and condensing in his palms.
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