"Shen Yunhao! You brat! Wake up! Don't scare me!"
The distant sound gradually became clearer. Shen Yunhao slowly opened his eyes and found himself kneeling on the ground. Mo Yan was slapping his face hard, her purple eyes showing a rare panic!
Seeing Shen Yunhao open his eyes, a huge weight lifted from his heart, but he immediately put on an indignant expression.
"You idiot! Do you have to kill yourself to be happy?! Can't you just let me have this kind of thing... um..."
The next second, the girl's eyes widened in surprise.
The warmth of the lips can often easily soothe a person's anxious emotions.
For example, right now, after being kissed, Mo Yan only struggled symbolically for a moment before giving up and slowly closing her eyes.
A long time passed...
Shen Yunhao released his lips, looked at the girl's flushed face, and smiled foolishly.
"Not again!" Mo Yan gritted her teeth, her clenched fist weakly pounding against the boy's chest. "When will you stop bullying me?"
"Then I'm sorry, I might have to bully you for the rest of my life..."
Shen Yunhao wrapped his arms around the girl's slender waist, pulled her into his embrace, gently stroked her hair, and stared blankly into space.
Mo Yan seemed to sense something and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? What's in that book?"
Shen Yunhao just smiled lightly, "It's just a useful cultivation technique, nothing special. You've wasted so much of my time!"
"snort……"
The girl pouted, but ultimately said nothing.
At this moment, Shen Yunhao suddenly asked, "Wisteria... do you still think of your master now?"
"Um?"
Mo Yan was slightly taken aback and looked up at him: "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask..."
"There's nothing to think about..." Mo Yan pouted. "I'm the Dark Abyss Demon Vine, I won't waste my time and energy on a dead man!"
"What if I die someday?"
"That's the same, I'll forget about you right away!"
The girl raised her head and looked directly into Shen Yunhao's eyes, her gaze revealing a barely perceptible hint of stubbornness.
Shen Yunhao was stunned for a long time, then smiled faintly.
"I hope so..."
"Tch... You stinky older brother! So hypocritical!"
"Your little sister isn't much better..."
"What do we do now?"
"Now... go and prepare something for me!"
...
The door to the underground chamber slowly opened under the light of the runes in the palm, and a chill ten times stronger than that outside rushed out.
Shen Yunhao was prepared; the blue light of the runes formed a protective shield to keep the cold air out, while Mo Yan let the cold air invade her. The ice crystals that condensed on her long hair only added to her eerie beauty.
"This is it!"
Shen Yunhao's gaze swept over a huge black coffin in the center of the secret chamber. The coffin was ancient and old, yet spotless, and its surface was covered with patterns that were the same as the runes on his palm.
Furthermore, what is even more eye-catching is the back of the coffin, where a seven-foot-long ice crystal sword is stuck upside down in the ground, its blade bound by nine thick black iron chains, each chain covered with yellowed talismans.
Mo Yan narrowed her eyes: "That is... the so-called divine artifact, Void Illusion?"
"It should be."
Shen Yunhao nodded slightly, but a dark and unfathomable light flashed in his eyes.
At this moment, he deliberately raised his voice: "Wisteria, you go and examine Hanxiaozi's remains first. I'll study the seal on this sword and see if there's any chance to open it for him..."
Mo Yan glanced at him, said nothing, and walked forward expressionlessly.
However, Shen Yunhao seemed to have no interest in the remains at all, and walked to the large area of ice crystals at the back on his own.
And this greatsword was exactly the same as the weapon Han Xiaozhi had seen in the scene before...
Most of the paper talismans on the black iron chains were already tattered and broken, clearly having lost their sealing ability.
"It seems... he still managed to escape..."
Shen Yunhao muttered to himself.
After a while...
"Alright! There's nothing wrong with the coffin! Come and take a look!"
At this moment, Mo Yan's voice came from behind him, and Shen Yunhao immediately turned around and walked over.
Only upon closer inspection could one see that inside the enormous, pitch-black coffin lay a small coffin made of cold jade, inside which lay an old man dressed in blue robes.
It was none other than Han Xiaozi, who had passed away many years ago!
Even though he had been dead for so long, his body was still very well preserved, with not a single wrinkle visible on his skin.
"What do we do now? Should we take this body to see that old man, or... just unseal this illusion here and take it?"
Shen Yunhao pondered for a moment, "Since you've agreed, let's keep our promise first! Let's retrieve the remains first!"
However, just as Shen Yunhao reached out to touch the cold jade coffin, a beam of blue light suddenly shot out from the Guixue sword at his waist!
"Hahaha! Young friend, you don't need to go back to the ice cave. I came along myself!"
Blue light condensed in the air to form a phantom image of Han Xiaozi. However, the phantom's smile carried a strange chill, completely lacking the melancholy one would expect after seeing one's own "remains".
Shen Yunhao took a half step back in surprise, frowning as he asked, "If you were able to come here, why did you trick us into risking our lives?"
"Please forgive me, young friend!" The illusory figure smiled faintly. "If I had a way to come directly here, I wouldn't have waited until now..."
Shen Yunhao narrowed his eyes slightly, "Then senior..."
"Young friend, rest assured, I am no ordinary person and will certainly not break my promise! I will now bring you the divine artifact!"
As the phantom spoke, it floated to the sealed ice crystal greatsword, fiddled with it for a moment, and the chains wrapped around the greatsword mysteriously disappeared!
"Okay, okay!"
At this moment, the old man burst into laughter again.
Shen Yunhao frowned even more deeply, and couldn't help but ask, "Senior? This is the divine artifact?"
"A divine artifact?" The phantom's lips curled into a smile, its voice gradually changing from aged to clear and crisp. "What divine artifact! This is merely the weapon that old man used in his lifetime!"
"What!"
Mo Yan's expression changed in surprise.
It wasn't entirely because the old man said the artifact didn't exist; it was more because the voice the old man had just made... was clearly a young girl's voice!
The next second, the old man's phantom image shattered and reformed like a bubble, transforming directly into a young girl in a blue dress.
The girl appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, with long, flowing hair and pure, ice-blue eyes. She was holding the sealed ice crystal greatsword in her hand.
"This is the real me! Pretending to be that old man was exhausting!"
The girl twirled in the air with a grin, "Thank you so much for escorting me all this way. In all these years, you're the only one who has successfully brought me here. Don't worry! I'll give you the Ice Soul Sword later!"
"Wh...what sword?"
Shen Yunhao, whose expression had remained unchanged since the beginning, was stunned upon hearing this name!
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