The dead silence of the Cold Pool was left far behind. Beneath a canopy of gray mist and vapor, a man and a dog set out along the Dark Ice Path.
Chen Mo leaned on his right arm, which was covered in the Starlight Bone Membrane and carried a faint blue-gray Platinum Ice Flame on its surface, looking much like he was leaning on a heavy crutch of frozen iron. Each step he took on the cold, hard dark ice produced a dull thud, leaving behind a shallow footprint dusted with frost. Inside his body, the balance of the Three Talents Ice Mirror Art maintained a slow rotation. Every breath tugged at the lingering, needle-like pain buried deep within his meridians, yet the speck of Nirvana Edge in his Sea of Consciousness was sharper, colder, and more condensed than before.
Xing Shuang (Lord Dog) trotted alongside with a much lighter step. Its massive silver-gray body was swathed in a deep blue glacial glow, and its newly grown Platinum Ice Fangs gleamed with an unsettling sharpness in the dim light. The grief of its broken tooth had long since been washed away by a "promotion and a pay raise" (transforming from a baleful spirit beast into an official path-guarding spirit beast) and the majesty of its new fangs. Its huge tail swept casually back and forth across the ice, kicking up a flurry of ice chips. Its blinding white ice-flame eyes curiously surveyed the unfamiliar icy wilderness around them, occasionally letting out a satisfied, heavy burp that expelled a few glowing ice motes i…
Chapter 128