X-Dragon Era

Seeing the slender figure standing at the entrance, clad in light blue clothes, perched on the shoulder of the Ice Blue Angel, Xin Yun couldn't help but smile. At the same time, the figure at the cave entrance also revealed a slight smile, her eyes shining as she gazed at Xin Yun, whom she hadn't seen in a year.

Under Xin Yun's command, Yinglong twisted and turned, quickly drawing closer, and upon seeing this, the figure hurriedly opened a pathway, allowing Xin Yun to descend.

"You're back!" she said with a faint smile.

Staring at her, Xin Yun felt enchantingly captivated. She was dressed in light blue, her skin fair, but what was most striking was that even her long hair had turned a pale light blue. Her eye color had also changed from black to light gray, much paler, giving off a cool demeanor.

Looking at her, Xin Yun felt both a sense of familiarity and strangeness; the familiar face now bore an unfamiliar image. At a glance, she seemed like a celestial being untouched by worldly dust. Standing before her, simply gazing at her, one couldn't possibly associate her with anything impure.

Smiling and nodding, Xin Yun said, "Yeah, I'm back... How have you been? Have you been well this past year?"

Hearing his words, her gaze flickered, and she nodded, "Yeah, very well... better than ever before. This is the life I want, the paradise of my dreams. If possible, I don't want to leave here again."

"Ah!" Xin Yun exclaimed in surprise. "That won't do, we had an agreement. In another year and a half, you're supposed to battle Po Kong, do you intend to break your promise?"

With an elegant smile, she shook her head, "The outside world has nothing to do with me anymore. Let it be a broken promise, for it holds no meaning to me now."

Saying this, she blissfully spread her arms, dreamily saying, "This is my world, where I've become one with everything around me. I have no desire to leave anymore. So, regarding the academy, I'd like you to handle that for me. Under normal circumstances, I won't be leaving this glacier."

"Become one?" At her words, Xin Yun was startled. What did she mean?

Observing Xin Yun's puzzled expression, her gaze flashed. With a smile, she waved her right hand, and in an instant... chilling currents burst forth, large amounts of solid ice formed out of nowhere, rapidly spreading. While Xin Yun watched, the ice wall extended swiftly, spreading until, in just a moment, it completely covered the entrance's ten-meter diameter.

"Wow!" Seeing this, Xin Yun couldn't help exclaiming in amazement. The ice wall was no simple feat; it was a meter thick and exceedingly cold, possessing incredible hardness—over a hundred times harder than ordinary steel. And although it was only ten meters thick, even an atomic bomb might not be able to blast through it!

Under Xin Yun's watch, the ice wall rapidly thickened. In ten seconds, it grew from one meter to ten meters thick. Looking closely, the ice wall was clear and transparent, resembling an enormous sheet of glass, and sunlight could still filter through from outside.

With a slight retraction of her hand, she stopped, smiling as she said, "This is the special ability I've acquired after switching my development direction—Condensing Ice! It's equivalent to your Thunderbolt and Yi Luo Xiang's Soul Enslavement!"

"Hiss..." Hearing this, Xin Yun involuntarily gasped in astonishment. Condensing Ice was a super combat technique formidable in both offense and defense, capable of condensing ice from the void for protection or freezing enemies solid by directly applying it.

With her current abilities, Yi Luo Xiang only needed ten seconds to wrap her enemies in a giant iceball with a diameter of ten meters, and... the strength of this iceball was a hundred times that of ordinary steel!@@novelbin@@

While marveling, Yi Luo Xiang continued, "Moreover, my Dragon Ball energy now is extremely cold! It allows the solid ice I control to possess an intense coldness which not only strengthens the ice's hardness but also inflicts fatal cold harm to any creature trapped inside!"

I was speechless... utterly speechless! This deep cold energy is comparable to Xin Yun's True Water Physique and Yan Qingying's Phantom Body, each bringing unique characteristics. However... not all abilities and characteristics can be paired so perfectly.

The combination of solid ice and deep cold energy created an incredibly terrifying existence like Yi Luo Xiang's. Although it may seem slightly inadequate for attacking, for defense, it was truly formidable.

It was at this moment that Xin Yun finally understood why she didn't want to leave. The environment here was just too suitable for Yi Luo Xiang; the place was filled with Mysterious Ice Qi built up over a hundred million years—the glacial interior was essentially Yi Luo Xiang's domain!

Seeing Xin Yun's astonished expression, Yi Luo Xiang said with a gentle smile, "Alright, let's go inside and I'll show you the effort I've put in over the past year."

Hearing Yi Luo Xiang's words, Xin Yun smiled and nodded, steering Yinglong down the ten-meter wide ice passage toward the depths of the mountain...

They raced along, but the path was not just a single route; with each distance covered, several forks would appear, sometimes one, sometimes two, and at one point, an astonishing twelve pathways spread out within a single cavernous hall!

Seeing Xin Yun's stunned look, Yi Luo Xiang smiled slightly and handed over a map. Xin Yun, taking the map and glancing at it, felt dizzy; the dense network of routes on the paper made her head spin.

To put it simply, this was a giant labyrinth, completely formed of Profound Ice and seemingly indistinguishable from any angle. Without a guide, one would undoubtedly get lost within.

Though the distance from the outer to the inner surface of the ice walls was only about one hundred kilometers, the labyrinth wound left and right, up and down, zigzagging for who knows how far—probably well over a thousand kilometers.

It is worth mentioning that although it was a glacier, it was not the kind of small grain-sized feature found on Earth. The entire glacier stood millions of meters tall, with a diameter several times larger than Taiwan Island—it was the largest glacier Xin Yun had ever seen in this world.

Under Yi Luo Xiang's guidance, the two hurried along and soon advanced over ten kilometers, reaching a spacious cavern that... looked exactly like a crystal palace.

The entire hall was square, with a domed ceiling, cut into countless diamond-like facets. Yi Luo Xiang had somehow made it so that each facet reflected a soft light, filling the entire hall with very soft, very bright illumination.

Watching Xin Yun's admiration, Yi Luo Xiang said with a smile, "Everything here is still under construction. I want to build a palace of ice here, so I can't leave, and I don't want to leave."

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Xin Yun didn't interfere much with Yi Luo Xiang's decision. Relying on her current ice condensing and the extreme cold, she could indeed do whatever she wanted here. To build anything, she needed no tools, just a thought, and most importantly, constructing the ice palace was also the perfect time for Yi Luo Xiang to cultivate. (To be continued, for more details, please visit . More chapters are available there, support the author, support genuine reading!)