Chapter 756: Chapter 180: Power of Time
Zhou Yan couldn’t help but feel that something was amiss upon hearing the explanation of the green-clothed woman, Qing Lan.
When the Xuanyuan Ancestor had mentioned the Ancient Ice Glacier to him, he had talked about the space-time origin point, but he never mentioned how extremely dangerous this place was.
Yet this woman Qing Lan, as well as her brother and the other two Cultivators with her, all had a sense of despair emanating from their souls.
To make the elite Cultivators of an upper-class plane feel hopeless and devoid of any will to resist was enough to illustrate the dangerousness of the current environment, but at the same time, Zhou Yan believed that the Xuanyuan Ancestor would never deceive him over such a trivial matter.
Then, was this place really, as Qing Lan said, completely devoid of a way out?
Seeing that Zhou Yan seemed somewhat skeptical, the green-clothed woman Qing Lan revealed a wistful smile, sighed and said, “Lei Yan King, perhaps you don’t feel it as intensely, but you should be able to sense the fear in your soul. That is probably because, in your last life, you were a king at the Venerable Realm, and there is still the king’s imprint within you. But we are different, even in the outside world we are only at the Third Transition, around the Fifth Transition Sword God realm. Our souls do not fear divinity, so in this place, we will naturally feel an instinctive fear, completely lacking the ability to resist, and can only slowly adapt to this sense of dread.”
It seemed she knew they were doomed to die, so the green-clothed woman Qing Lan wasn’t afraid of Lei Yan King Zhou Yan, whom many Cultivators feared; instead, she could communicate calmly with him.
If a person no longer feared death, then many of the things they previously feared would no longer scare them.
Qing Lan was exactly like that.
Zhou Yan looked at Qing Lan in some surprise, then at the green-clad young man beside her and the fat and skinny Cultivators, and said, “All of you… you also have soul fear?”
When Zhou Yan asked this, the green-clad young man was slightly taken aback, and asked in return, “Lei Yan King, you don’t feel it?”
“Feel it? Indeed, there is a feeling, but I think the soul power here is very strong, which is greatly beneficial for the soul, and moreover, the aura of the Cold Ice here is dense and stagnant, which is extremely beneficial for those with the Ice Cold series Sword Bodies. The Extreme Cold Ice Soul Stone must also be quite easy to find here.”
Zhou Yan smiled and spoke placidly.
These people feared him, so Zhou Yan retracted all his aura and did not oppress them.
In the outside world, these Cultivators were also extremely powerful; they were only limited here.
“This… as expected of Lei Yan King, truly powerful, to be able to resist such heaven-defying pressure on the soul in this place.”
The green-clad young man sighed with some lamentation.
Beside him, the fat and skinny Cultivators looked at Lei Yan King on tenterhooks, with eyes filled with both anticipation and timidity, wanting to say something but feeling too troubled to speak.
Zhou Yan’s gaze fell on these two, and a familiar feeling subtly emerged in his heart.
Subconsciously, an idea flickered in Zhou Yan’s mind, and in the Memory Soul Crystal within his Soul Sea, various scenes flowed, finally pausing on one.
Zhou Yan directly extracted it, and after absorbing the memory, his eyes lit up slightly as he said, “So it’s you two! I didn’t recognize you before. Liu Jin, Fang Hong, how did you two end up here?”
Upon hearing Zhou Yan’s words, the fat young man and the skinny young man immediately showed excitement, joy, and frustration, with their expressions changing rapidly.
“It’s all the fault of this dead fatty, sigh, insisting that there was a Goddess in the Extreme Cold Ice Soul Stone for Dual Cultivation, wanting to come in to snag one for himself, and now I’ve been dragged into this mess!”
The skinny young man immediately complained.
“Fang Hong, if you didn’t have that idea yourself, could you have come in? But now that we have arrived at the Extreme Cold Ice Palace, we’re all done for.”
The slightly chubby young man squinted, immediately discontent.
The two immediately started arguing.
Zhou Yan helplessly shook his head; these two, still the same as ever, had not changed one bit, a true pair of oddities, notwithstanding being descendants of the Taichu Hidden Land.
During the era of the Lei Yan King, these two were just budding youths, who had fought alongside the Lei Yan King, and their friendship was also quite good. At that time, Lei Yan King was just rising to power.
Now, after countless years, they remained unchanged, and Zhou Yan could only be speechless.
However, Zhou Yan also understood that after stepping into the Sword God Realm, each transition was incredibly difficult, and someone like Lei Yan King could only be an exceptional case. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so exceptionally gifted, becoming the Ten Thousand Realms Supreme King.
Normal elites might only manage to cultivate from Sword God First Transition to Third Transition in a thousand years. Perhaps some outstanding geniuses could go further, stepping into more realms, but such individuals were the minority.
“So it’s you two. But you two stop arguing for now, let’s see how we can survive safely first. My name is Qing Feng from the Qingmu Clan, and this is my sister, Qing Lan.”
The green-clad young man sighed, interrupting the quarrel and introduced himself.
“Hmm? You both are Cultivators from the Qingmu Clan? No wonder it is such a ‘dragon and phoenix’ pair of siblings. If it’s from the Qingmu Clan, it’s not surprising.”
The slightly chubby young man, Liu Jin, looked at Qing Lan with a fiery gaze, and then said with a grin.
After speaking, he came over to Zhou Yan’s side in a flattering manner, respectfully saying, “Lei Yan King, you are really too powerful. Before, I thought you might have grown so strong over the years that you wouldn’t recognize us brothers.”
“More than thirty years ago, you were just beginning to rise. I never expected that in your next life, you would live so mightily. It seems I should consider going to the Plane Prison to endure hardship, to experience the tempering power of time and reincarnation.”
“Hmm? More than thirty years ago?”
Zhou Yan felt a jolt in his heart, suddenly realizing what he had greatly overlooked, which was time.