Chapter 485: Chapter 165: Assassination, Stolen Fire, Peace, Wolf Mother, Invasion

Immortal Tomb...

Dark.

Pitch black.

This kind of darkness turned a formidable figure with perception extending over dozens of miles into a blind man.

Such darkness intertwined with increasingly bone-chilling hail, as if piles of cold blackness were pressing in from all directions.

Li Yuan’s braided hair had frozen into icicles, his skin was cold and hard, and the beast skin around his waist was merely decorative. The Shadow Blood around him was rapidly silencing, falling from Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade, Sixth Grade to Seventh Grade, and still descending...

Zhenyan Xue was doing fine, her body could still endure, and her eyes could still see.

Her body was warm, her long legs heated, even warmer than Li Yuan’s.

Li Yuan clamped his legs tightly against the wolf’s belly, his arms holding his wife’s waist tightly from behind, first to avoid being thrown off, and second to keep warm.

At this moment, he listened to his wife describe everything she saw and heard while rapidly pondering.

Suddenly, Yan Yu’s words flashed through his mind.

———In the memories of the Ice Coffin Ghost, there is no sun or moon in the west, no Meat Field Ghost Realm, just a world of ice and snow———

’But if there’s no Ghost Realm, then how did the Ice Coffin Ghost’s Ghost Realm form?’

Li Yuan’s thoughts flew.

’The formation of a Ghost Realm requires two conditions.

First, there needs to be a naturally formed Land of Extreme Yin;

Second, there needs to be Obsessed Dead capable of constructing the Ghost Realm from the Land of Extreme Yin.’

’Ghosts don’t lie.’

’So, here there were merely deceased with great obsessions.

But only after leaving this place did they inadvertently encounter the Land of Extreme Yin, which then formed the Ghost Realm.’

’From this, two simple conclusions can be deduced.

First, the people buried here have not been preserved but rather frozen to death;

Second, there must be something fluid here, capable of moving corpses outside, whether actively based on some entity, or passively based on some special nature.

If these two conclusions can be proven, my above inference can also be proven to some extent.’

’The first is extremely difficult to prove, but the second can be detected merely by searching, if proven, it would demonstrate to some extent that this place does not have the function of an Immortal Tomb.’

’But since the Nine Flames Clan firmly believes in the Immortal Tomb, then... during the process of disproving it, we might very well touch upon the truth.’

Li Yuan sighed secretly in his heart.

He didn’t want to seek any truth.

He only wanted an Immortal Tomb that could preserve his relatives.

Though he himself could live long, he definitely couldn’t bear to watch his family grow old and die, then pay homage at the grave, lamenting the impermanence of the world.

Just then, he suddenly heard his wife’s surprised voice.

"Husband, labyrinth, there’s actually a labyrinth up ahead."

"What kind of labyrinth?"

"Constructed of ethereal blue ice crystals, walls several feet high.

I’ve heard of this labyrinth, it’s said that the Divine Spirits abandoned this land because it harbored evil devils.

And this labyrinth was built to make the devils lose their way and unable to walk out."

"Built?"

"Yes, in the legends, it’s said our great Saint King of the Nine Flames Clan personally led the construction. But that was a very, very long time ago... Rarely do any of us come this deep."

"Are there any frozen people around?"

"I don’t see any."

"Hey, stop, stop, don’t go in." Zhenyan Xue suddenly cried out anxiously.

Li Yuan could feel her pulling the reins, preventing the wolf from entering, yet the wolf seemed intent on heading toward the labyrinth.

He only felt his scalp tingle, saying directly, "Wife, let’s turn back quickly."

Zhenyan Xue was pulling on the reins, shouting, "Don’t go in..."

"What’s going on?"

"This wolf, for some reason, just wants to go into the labyrinth."

"We can’t let it go in!" Li Yuan felt goosebumps crawling up his skin; if the Ice and Snow Giant Wolf lost control at this moment, it would be disastrous.

For a brief moment, he noticed something strange.

"I know, husband, I’m trying." Zhenyan Xue was desperately pulling the wolf.

Perhaps realizing it was futile, she suddenly raised her fist high.

Slap!

Slap!!

Slap, slap, slap!

She violently pummeled the wolf’s head several times.

The Gray Wolf winced from the pain, surprisingly twisting its body and accelerating forward.

This sudden turn of events left Zhenyan Xue at a loss, she could only gasp in shock, then kept pounding the wolf’s head.

Li Yuan couldn’t see but could feel the speed increasing.

In a decisive move, he hugged his woman and directly flipped off the wolf’s back.

And as he flipped and landed, he could only hear the rapid drumming footsteps of the Ice and Snow Giant Wolf, which gradually faded into the distance.

"What’s wrong with this wolf?" Zhenyan Xue put her hands on her hips, very angry.

And Li Yuan kept holding her, quickly saying, "Forget about the wolf, let’s get out of here first."

"Okay, husband." Zhenyan Xue saw no way to control it, after all, the massive labyrinth seemed somewhat strange...

Having said that, Zhenyan Xue bent down, hoisted Li Yuan onto her back, and her eyes gleamed red, quickly darting outward.

The cold wind howled, ethereal blue ice crystals were everywhere...

The ground was cold and sticky; if an ordinary person set foot here, they might rip the skin entirely off their foot when they lifted it.

Li Yuan’s vision was filled with darkness, and his heartbeat suddenly quickened a bit.

But the more this happened, the calmer he became...

And he kept his eyes open all the time.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank, a look of disbelief flashing through his eyes.

For in this boundless cold and darkness, a sequence of "625~635" numbers inexplicably floated out; they ghosted silently but rapidly approached from the direction of the labyrinth.