"Let's go, let's head northwest and check it out."
Mu Jinyu led the charge, rushing towards the location where he sensed that heart-pounding sensation.
"Sigh, I've checked that place two or three times already, why go again?"
A Heavenly Palace elder grumbled, his tone slightly discontented, but he still shook his body and followed.
The others did not dare to disobey orders and quickly followed.
They knew well the terror of the Master of Heavenly Palace, and since Mu Jinyu hadn't done anything to them, only requested their cooperation, they feared for their lives if they disobeyed.
Soon, a group of seven arrived at a snow mountain in the northwest.
Mu Jinyu held his heart, closed his eyes, quietly feeling, and murmured, "Seems like it's here..."
"Is there?"
The Heavenly Palace elders heard Mu Jinyu's words, frowned, then extended their divine senses, probing the entire stretch of snow mountains.
But they didn't detect anyone hiding in the snow mountain.
They couldn't sense the presence of any living beings.
It was a complete dead zone.
Initially, Mu Jinyu didn't find anything amiss either, but then he frowned tightly and said, "No, in other areas of the Northern Plains, no matter how cold, there's no way there's no life at all. This place is strange, like a dead zone, which indeed indicates an issue!"
Six Heavenly Palace elders immediately reacted upon hearing Mu Jinyu's words and became alert, "Indeed, it's too desolate here. We can't perceive any life, which is inconceivable even in an extremely cold place!"
"Hmm..." Mu Jinyu pondered for a moment, scanning the snow mountains several more times with his divine sense, yet still couldn't detect any array and restriction techniques.
Left with no choice, he had to awaken the Divine Silkworm Princess.
"What's up?"
The Little Ice Silkworm, disturbed by Mu Jinyu, awoke, flew out from his embrace with drowsy eyes, and grumbled in protest.
"Do you have a way to uncover the issue here? Can you see if there's a hidden array and restriction technique?" Mu Jinyu, feeling uneasy, was eager to find the Shaman Ancestor and hurriedly asked the Little Ice Silkworm.
"Finding someone..."
The Little Ice Silkworm woke up, then floated and swayed in mid-air, watching the vast snow mountain where they stood with wide eyes.
"Wow, this place has such intense deadly qi and resentment, it's about one-tenth of the Extremely Cold Hell." The Little Ice Silkworm exclaimed in astonishment after observing for a few moments.
"There's indeed a problem!" Mu Jinyu squinted his eyes and then asked, "Can you find the person?"
"I'll give it a try." The Little Ice Silkworm said, and suddenly his big eyes glowed with a faint golden light, then lifted his tiny foot, pointing not far ahead at a large snow mountain and shouted, "It's there, the restrictions there are very unique, and deep underground, there's a living being, it should be the person you're looking for!"
"Thanks."
Following the directions, Mu Jinyu led the six Heavenly Palace elders and shifted to that large snow mountain.
"Is there really something wrong here?"
An elder, with a tone tinged with doubt, felt that a little bug's sight couldn't match up with theirs in any way.
"Boom!"
Mu Jinyu lifted his hand and hurled the Dragon Phoenix Cauldron, fiercely suppressing the position the Little Ice Silkworm indicated!
"Rumble!"
The mountain shook, the ground swiftly torn open by a crack from the Dragon Phoenix Cauldron, covered by snow.
"Kaboom!"
"Whoosh!!"
Instantly, columns of visible jet-black smoke, entwined with endless grotesque faces, erupted from the fissure in the ground, soaring skyward!
"What is this..."
Six elders jumped back in shock, instinctively stepping back, and the expressions hidden beneath the black robes turned grave.
"Such dense deadly qi and resentment, it hasn't dissipated even after over a thousand years; who exactly died here?"
An elder murmured in a voice filled with uncertainty and suspicion.
The Little Ice Silkworm, hearing his words, sniffed dismissively, thinking to herself, is that what they call dense? It's just been there for over a thousand years and hasn't faded away, is that impressive?
She didn't address the men in black robes but instead transmitted to Mu Jinyu, "The restrictions in this place are very special, ordinary people can't perceive them, they can suppress the deadly and resentful qi on the surface, preventing harm to nearby areas. It must have been arranged by a master, but after so many years, the materials used in the formation have likely deteriorated, making it impossible for the formation to shield and isolate, allowing people to see and enter."
"However, although the formation has a crack allowing for entry, the intense resentment prevents anyone from entering unless their cultivation is sufficiently high and they have a similar bloodline; I don't think you can get in."
The Little Ice Silkworm kindly advised.
"Is that so?"
Mu Jinyu, hearing this, furrowed his brows, then relaxed, saying, "Fortunately, I have a portion of Blood Shaman Essence Blood left, which should help me go down."
Flipping his hand, a mass of crimson, still wriggling blood appeared in his palm.
This was the Blood Shaman Essence Blood he had extracted after dealing with those five Blood Witch Clan mighty figures at the Unity Realm Stage.
The purpose was to use this Essence Blood to employ the Secret Technique 'Immortal's Guide' to trace the whereabouts of any remaining Blood Witch Clan members when he couldn't locate them.
With this Blood Shaman Essence Blood, they managed to solve all twenty or so remnants from the Blood Witch Clan within half a day; it indeed played a significant role.
After dealing with those ordinary remnants, since the whereabouts of the Shaman Ancestor remained unknown, Mu Jinyu kept this Essence Blood, and now it could aid him in entering the formation.
...
Deep beneath the snow mountain.
In a Sword Scar Canyon, as though cleaved by a sharp sword, countless bone ashes scattered across the ground, forming a gray carpet.
Alongside the path, many incomplete skulls and remains could still be seen.
At the end of Sword Scar Canyon stood a small mound.
At this moment, a beautiful girl clad in a fox fur coat, holding a crystalline White Bone Scepter, was chanting something.
The White Bone Scepter was immaculate and jade-like, seemingly crafted from the finest suet white jade, but judging by the bone-hand shape, it resembled the hand bones of a Human Race adept in Body Refinement.
At the top was not a crystal ball, but a pitch-black skull, from whose hollow eye sockets emanated a misty red glow, appearing exceedingly eerie.
Upon Jing Wang finishing the obscure incantation, accompanied by cracking sounds, the mound on the ground split open, the cracks widening further...
Finally, a gruesome and fearsome White Bone Altar slowly rose from the mound.
"Whoosh!"
At once, the two skeletons impaled at either side spontaneously emitted a ghastly green Ghost Fire.
Then, streams of ghostly black, overflowing with endless resentment, rose from within the mound, converging in the center of the White Bone Altar into a towering, robust warrior, clad in sinister White Bone Armor!
"Blood Witch Ancestor!"
Jing Wang observed with exhilaration the success of summoning the ancestral wraith of the First Generation Witch Ancestor of the Blood Witch Clan, cheeks flushing with excitement.
"Shaman Ancestor, you were born wild and unruly, ordinary worldly rules could not restrain your ambitious nature, you have excavated countless ancestral tombs, devoured their lost souls to cultivate witchcraft, today, your descendant, Jing Wang, too wishes to emulate you, hoping that you, elder, may come forth to grant your descendant the honor of your presence."
With reverence, she concluded the obscure and inscrutable spell and, amid a series of cracking sounds from the ground, began to guide the towering skeletal warrior, clad in a fierce White Bone Armor, to float toward her.
"Rumble!!"
Jolted by a slight tremor in the ground beneath her feet, Jing Wang's actions were nearly interrupted.
"Hmm?! Who dares to ruin my grand plans?!"
Jing Wang's eyes flickered with rage upon realizing someone intended to thwart her significant endeavor.
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