Near dawn.

In the ancient city, the cold wind howled, and the illuminating gems within the city still radiated dazzling light, ensuring this unimaginably magnificent city never experienced night.

Suddenly, a rumbling sound erupted, as an earthquake struck the ancient city.

Aside from the ice sculpture building at the city's center, violent vibrations appeared in the other high-rises and along the streets.

Immediately, the city's dreaming elite awoke in alarm, their screams of panic incessant.

At the top floor of the ice sculpture building, the Second Generation Nether King, having felt the tremor, also awoke and then walked to the rooftop of the building. By this time, most of the city's administrators had arrived in airships.

"Your Majesty, there has been an earthquake within the city!" an elderly man said to the Second Generation Nether King.

The Second Generation Nether King's eyebrows knitted deeply, then he walked over to the railing to look out. He saw all the high-rises within the city shaking and lurching, at risk of collapse at any moment.

"It's probably the heart of the Volcano King erupting suddenly," the Second Generation Nether King murmured to himself. Similar occurrences had happened several times over the past tens of thousands of years.

No sooner had he spoken than the tremors suddenly intensified. Many buildings' tops began to crack and some even started to crumble, falling below and creating a series of thunderous crashes.

The Second Generation Nether King's eyes sparkled with keenness, sensing that this matter was far from simple. He activated the Nether Vision Technique and looked beneath the ice sculpture building. After a while, his vision penetrated hundreds of meters through the ground, where he saw the heart of the Volcano King below.

The scorching lava flowed slowly over the heart of the Volcano King, showing no signs of any explosive unrest.

"What is going on?" a flash of light crossed the eyes of the Second Generation Nether King, who by now began to suspect that it was either the work of humans or the intrusion of a strange beast.

Just as his gaze moved away from the heart of the Volcano King to check every corner of the city, suddenly, the ice sculpture building under his feet also began to shake.

The administrators behind the Second Generation Nether King all collapsed in a heap.

The Second Generation Nether King was startled, and immediately infused the ice sculpture building with an abundance of cold Yin Qi Spiritual Power to maintain the building's stability.

After a while, once the ice sculpture building stabilized, he quickly left the ice sculpture building and headed south toward the city.

He had already seen that at the city's southern corner, an ice-constructed restaurant was on the verge of crumbling down, and he needed to rush over there for maintenance.

At that moment, a pale white mist floated to the side window of the ancient city, and then transformed into Xie Xiaofeng.

The earthquake just now had been his doing, as he instructed Ou Yuanlin to stir the tree roots beneath the ancient city, with the intention of drawing away the Second Generation Nether King. By doing so, he could approach the ice sculpture building, to meet with the elder of the Snow Mountain Tribe.

Although the first floor of the ice sculpture building was equipped with a Seal Barrier, for an Onmyoji, breaking it was not a difficult task.

Moreover, not long before, Tang Jing had taught him the Tang Family's inherited forbidden spell capable of breaking most of the Seal Barriers between the Yin and Yang realms.

So very quickly, Xie Xiaofeng managed to break the seal and transformed into a vine to enter through the side window into the first floor of the building.

After moving around on the first floor for a while, he quickly found another Seal Barrier at the core of the floor.

Once again, he easily broke through the central Seal Barrier of the first floor and then transformed into a mist of water vapor to enter the temple below.

The seal on top of the temple had been undone, yet no one had approached for quite some time. The Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe, who had been closing his eyes to rest, suddenly opened his eyes wide and asked loudly, "Who is it!"

This shout of alarm also disturbed the dozen or so maiden girls seated in meditation around the area below.

Although these so-called maiden girls were all tens of thousands of years old, to the people of the Snow Mountain Tribe, this age still considered them to be young women.

"Elder, what's happened?" asked the Jade Girl seated nearest to the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe.

"Someone has come in," the Clan Leader explained, his gaze fixed on the ceiling above, "but it shouldn't be 'him.'"

The 'him' he referred to was the Second Generation Nether King.

At this moment, the mist that Xie Xiaofeng had transformed into drifted in front of the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe and then he materialized.

Seeing Xie Xiaofeng, both the Clan Leader and the maiden girls below were taken aback.

"Who exactly are you, a holy deity?" the Clan Leader asked in amazement, finding Xie Xiaofeng's Incarnation Technique utterly unbelievable.

"Are you the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe?" Xie Xiaofeng hurriedly said, "Rest assured, I won't harm you. I just want to discuss some matters with you."

"We have never met before. What do you want with me?" the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe asked warily.

"I want to discuss with you how to deal with the Second Generation Nether King," Xie Xiaofeng stated his purpose.

Having heard from Chen Hao about the matters concerning the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe, the Ancestor of the Nether King, and the Nether King's Heart, and after witnessing firsthand today the Clan Leader confronting the Second Generation Nether King, Xie Xiaofeng concluded that the relationship between the Clan Leader and the Second Generation Nether King was not harmonious and might even be fraught with mutual hatred. The tolerance between them was only due to vested interests.

"The Second Generation Nether King?" The eyes of the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe suddenly narrowed sharply.

"That's the Onmyoji Emperor!"

"How do you know he is the Second Generation Nether King from the Southern Continent?" the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe asked suspiciously.

"I was recently captured from the Southern Continent by them," Xie Xiaofeng explained, "Not only do I know he is the Second Generation Nether King, but I also know about the matters between you, the Nether King, and the Glacier Heart."

A glint shot from the narrowed eyes of the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe. After a pause, he asked again, "How did you come to know of this?"

"It's a long story, but what matters is that I know." Xie Xiaofeng urged, "I don't have much time left. The Second Generation Nether King will be returning soon, tell me quickly if you truly wish to join me in confronting the Second Generation Nether King."

The Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe looked at Xie Xiaofeng, remaining silent for quite some time.

Seeing this, Xie Xiaofeng grew almost frantic, his eyes occasionally darting up to the seal exit above.

"That half of the Glacier Heart is with a friend of mine!"

Seeing no response from the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe, Xie Xiaofeng felt compelled to continue, "He is on his way to the Ancient City right now, and the Second Generation Nether King is aware of it. I know the Second Generation Nether King has taken the other half of the Glacier Heart and you have been too indignantly silent. Now the opportunity has come, if you want to retrieve the half of the Nether King's Heart, then join forces with us."

"Did you say that half of the Nether King's Heart is in your friend's possession?" the Clan Leader of the Snow Mountain Tribe abruptly widened his eyes, "Is your friend not the one who came with a woman inheriting the Netherworld Azure Bird's bloodline? Weren't their intentions to destroy the Glacier Heart and release the Volcano King's heart power?"

"Impossible!" Xie Xiaofeng sighed.

After thinking for a moment, a look of sudden realization lit up his eyes, "You must have heard this from the Second Generation Nether King, you've been deceived. My friend's purpose in coming here is to fuse the two Nether King's Hearts and release the soul of his beloved. And the woman who inherited the Netherworld Azure Bird's bloodline, she is the Nether Soul Body of his beloved."

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