Her eyes widened as she saw white frost spreading from the distant valley, engulfing everything in its path until the mountains themselves quaked.
Then the icy wind reached her.
A deadly chill poured in through the cave's entrance, and frost instantly glazed the ground.
Her body stiffened as panic flashed across her face. If that cold touched her directly, even if she didn't freeze solid instantly, her body would be paralyzed in seconds.
She stumbled backward...but just as frost began to form on her lashes, a dark figure appeared before her.
With a low whoosh, a wall of ghostly white flame flared up, sealing the entrance and cutting off the freezing wind.
The biting chill that followed turned harmless as it passed through the flame.
"Sorry," came a gentle voice beside her. "I almost froze you there."
She looked up to see Xiao Yan smiling softly, warmth in his eyes.
Relief flooded her chest.....but also disbelief.
"Th-that terrifying commotion just now… was that you?" she stammered.
Xiao Yan chuckled. "Besides us, who else could it be?"
Her dazed look made him smile. He took her slender hand, sending a wave of Dou Qi into her body.
A comforting warmth spread through her, driving out the chill.
"I'll need to explore that place," he said lightly. "It shouldn't take long."
He flicked his finger, and a jade bottle appeared. "It may take a day or two.
The cold energy will fade soon, but once it does, there won't be any food left here."
Scratching his head, he handed her the bottle. "There are three Warmth Pills inside. If you feel hungry or cold, take one."
The Warmth Pill was a first-grade elixir that could sustain a person for an entire day while keeping the body warm.
But though effective, it was expensive...one pill worth several years of a common family's savings.
Only Dou Masters or Grand Dou Masters would carry a few for emergencies. Long-term use could unbalance the body, but for short periods, it was harmless.
After explaining, Xiao Yan gently ruffled her hair, then disappeared once more.
The fiery barrier faded with him, leaving the valley eerily quiet beneath midsummer frost.
A stray gust of icy wind slipped into the cave, making Little Fairy Doctor shiver.
Dressed in a thin white dress and lacking strong cultivation, she could barely withstand the chill.
She exhaled a misty breath and quickly swallowed a Warmth Pill.
Heat spread through her body, driving away the cold.
Only then did she lower her gaze toward the valley's center.
There, a pitch-black void had appeared....a gaping hole that devoured light itself.
She couldn't discern what it was, but her intuition screamed that it was something far beyond her reach.
Thinking of the destruction Xiao Yan had caused, she couldn't help but shake her head lightly.
"What a strange and mysterious man…" she whispered.
While she murmured to herself, Xiao Yan had already arrived before that dark void.
The so-called darkness was in fact a spatial gate nearly ten meters wide.
It wasn't perfectly formed....rough and incomplete.....but far sturdier than the portals created by ordinary Dou Venerates, though still weaker than those found in the tombs of true Saints.
That was natural. This place was merely the remnant of a Half-Saint's power.
"Beyond this gate… should be that Half-Saint's tomb."
A glint of light flashed in Xiao Yan's eyes. Without hesitation, he stepped forward.
Though he hadn't paid much attention to this tomb in his past life, he remembered that decades later, the cultivator who gained its inheritance had become a Dou Venerate and joined the Heavenly Court Alliance.
At that time, countless experts had perished here....but only because of the battle for treasures.
The tomb itself wasn't overly dangerous, not even to Dou Kings, and posed almost no threat to a Dou Sect.
Yao Lao's current soul power was equivalent to that of a mid-tier Dou Sect.
With Xiao Yan guiding, few beneath Dou Venerate could threaten them.
As Xiao Yan stepped into the gate, the surrounding space rippled like a flowing river.
The turbulence wasn't deadly, but it would make an ordinary Dou King dizzy and even a newly advanced Dou Sect feel disoriented.
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