The Man’s Decree

Chapter 5853

When David and his companions finally arrived at the depression surrounded by three towering ice peaks, night had already fallen on the Eternal Ice Plains.

There were no stars in the sky, only the aurora borealis, like flowing, colorful rivers, dancing silently in the dark firmament, illuminating the entire ice plain with a bizarre and surreal light.

At the center of the depression, the Blood Soul Cold Pool, no more than ten zhang in diameter, gleamed with an eerie dark red light under the aurora. The water was calm and still, yet it exuded a chilling aura and a bloody stench that sent shivers down one’s spine.

Beside the pool, the thousand-year-old Ice Soul Blood Lotus swayed gently in the cold wind, its nine petals as crystalline as rubies, its central bud as crimson as blood, seemingly ready to bloom at any moment.

However, the forbidden protective array that enveloped the entire depression stood like an insurmountable chasm.

Ancient and intricate divine runes flowed across the icy blue light screen, and at the ends of the icy blue chains hanging from it, the ferocious phantoms of ice beasts flickered in and out, radiating a chilling pressure.

Even more unsettling was what lay behind the array—deeper into the three ice peaks, a magnificent ice crystal palace complex, beyond description, stood silently amidst the night and aurora. The

Northern Underworld Palace.

It was not a single palace, but a continuous cluster of undulating ice crystal buildings.

The main hall stood a thousand feet tall, carved entirely from millennia-old black ice and earth’s core jade, crystal clear, reflecting the magnificent colors of the aurora, yet retaining a cold and austere sacred majesty.

Countless smaller palaces, towers, and covered bridges surrounded the main hall like stars around the moon, connected by ice crystal staircases and suspended corridors, forming a magnificent yet perilous ice crystal city.

Faintly visible within the city were flickering ice-blue lights, and powerful auras emanated from it.

The entire palace complex exuded an ancient, aloof, and inviolable aura, like a slumbering ice and snow deity.

“Finally here…”

Crimson Cloud Demon Lord gazed at the Blood Lotus so

the protective array in front and the Northern Underworld Palace behind, the path

tightly and whispered, “Senior,

must find a way

the icy pool and the array, landing on the

their breathing before

more they felt the grandeur and oppressive atmosphere of

rings of ice crystal fences, hundreds of feet high and sharp as knives, inscribed with defensive divine runes, radiating a

only entrance was a fifty-foot-high ice crystal archway. On either side of the archway stood a ten-foot-tall ice

gazing forward; though inanimate, they gave the impression that they might

his companions were still a hundred feet away from the

The two figures,

short, one muscular and one thin, both exuded

tall, broad-shouldered and burly, with a

revealing his bronze-colored, scarred, and muscular physique, wearing only an ice-blue battle skirt,

off a sense of overwhelming

the peak of the eighth rank of the Celestial Immortal Realm, just

on the right was slender, with a sinister face, appearing to be about thirty years old. His face was as pale as paper, his

frail, but the chill emanating from him was far more concentrated and deadly than that of the

at the peak of the eighth rank of the Celestial Immortal Realm, but the

the Northern Underworld Palace, Man Shan,” the giant declared, his voice booming like a bell, causing the

the Northern Underworld Palace, Xuan Ming,” the sinister man’s voice was shrill, like an ice needle