Li Wei froze for a moment when he heard Saint Xi’s words.
Saint Xi had charged straight over the Ice Emperor’s back without being attacked.
Li Wei breathed a small sigh of relief.
He looked down, but all he could see was the Ice Emperor’s massive back, as vast as the land itself. He couldn’t make out its full form.
The Ice Emperor’s shape was somewhat similar to the legendary Kun Whale.
A colossal whale as massive as a mountain range.
After circling above the Ice Emperor’s back with Li Wei for a while, Saint Xi descended and landed on it.
"This is completely reckless," Li Wei said with a sigh.
Saint Xi landed on the Ice Emperor’s broad back.
Her thirty-meter Giant Dragon form was utterly insignificant before the Ice Emperor.
Thousands upon thousands of Saint Xis could have fit on the Ice Emperor’s back.
To say nothing of Li Wei.
Saint Xi lay flat on the Ice Emperor’s back and heard mournful cries echoing from within its body.
She said with conviction, "It’s asking for our help."
When Li Wei landed on the Ice Emperor, he also sensed something was off.
However, he couldn’t feel the plea for help that Saint Xi claimed the Ice Emperor was sending.
’This must be another one of the Holy Giant Dragon’s racial abilities.’
Li Wei glanced down at the gray-black expanse of the Ice Emperor’s back beneath his feet and looked around. He couldn’t see the end in any direction.
’Even if this enormous Ice Emperor is asking for help, what could I possibly do?’
Li Wei looked at Saint Xi and asked, "Okay, I get it. So, what do we do?"
Saint Xi glanced around, seemingly getting her bearings, then grabbed Li Wei’s hand and started running in a specific direction.
"This way."
Li Wei followed Saint Xi, running across the Ice Emperor’s back. The sensation under his feet was incredibly strange.
It felt somewhat like rock but had a slight, rubbery give to it.
If Li Wei had to describe it, it was like a massive, thick, and hard slab of rubber.
Li Wei and Saint Xi had landed near the Ice Emperor’s head, but even with Saint Xi leading the way, they still had to run for quite some time before reaching their destination.
A gradually deepening black pit appeared before Li Wei.
The pit’s diameter was likely more than twenty meters.
"What is this?"
Li Wei looked completely baffled.
Saint Xi said, "We can enter this big guy’s body from here. It wants us to help it clear out a foreign object."
"Inside its body? A foreign object?" Li Wei looked skeptical.
He looked at Saint Xi, his expression asking if he had heard her correctly. "You’re sure you want to go *inside* the Ice Emperor?"
Saint Xi nodded. "Yes, that’s right."
After a moment of silence, Li Wei nodded. "I understand."
"What is this foreign object you’re talking about?"
Saint Xi shook her head. "I don’t know either."
Li Wei speculated, "Then it must be something from the outside world that invaded the Ice Emperor’s body. Perhaps some kind of harmful Parasite?"
He thought of the figures he had seen in the Extreme Cold Abyss.
’Could the foreign object be referring to them?’
’Are they going deep inside the Ice Emperor to try and control it?’
’If that’s the case, then I have to go in and see for myself.’
Before doing anything else, Li Wei sent a Magic Communication to the Ice Queen, telling her he might be out of contact for a while.
Li Wei wasn’t sure if the Communication Crystal would even work inside the Ice Emperor.
So, he prepared for the worst.
In any case, as long as he told the Ice Queen the Ice Emperor’s current location, she could probably estimate how long it would take to reach the Ice and Snow City.
Who knew what the Ice Queen was doing? After Li Wei sent the Magic Communication, he waited for a long time, but she didn’t reply.
Li Wei put away the Communication Crystal and followed Saint Xi into the massive pit on the Ice Emperor’s back.
As he entered, Li Wei was still wondering what this pit actually was.
’The Ice Emperor’s blowhole?’
’It’s possible, but unfortunately, there’s no one here to give me an answer.’
Li Wei and Saint Xi flew one after the other into the pitch-black passageway leading into the Ice Emperor’s body.
After descending for ten meters, the fleshy walls around them became covered in thick, black bristles, each one ten meters long.
Countless bristles blocked the downward passage ahead like a thicket of crossed spears.
Not wanting to startle the Ice Emperor and cause an accident, Li Wei and Saint Xi could only look for gaps between the intersecting bristles to squeeze through; they couldn’t just destroy the incredibly thick hairs.
It was as if they had entered a giant Maze, and only by finding the correct path could they reach their destination.
Li Wei touched one of the black bristles beside him. It felt tough and coarse against his palm.
The two continued deeper, and the diameter of the fleshy tunnel steadily shrank from over twenty meters wide to less than ten.
The incredibly thick black bristles gave way to finer, fleshy tendrils.
The tendrils, however, were even more difficult to deal with. Unlike the black bristles, which were fixed in place and only swayed with the airflow, the tendrils seemed to have a degree of reactivity, moving in response to external stimuli.
Without a doubt, both the black bristles and the fleshy tendrils were meant to stop foreign objects from entering the Ice Emperor’s body through this passage.
Saint Xi flew ahead of Li Wei, her eyes emitting a golden glow that pierced the darkness before them.
A faint golden light also emanated from Li Wei’s eyes.
The two of them could see clearly in the surrounding Dark World without needing to cast a Lighting Spell.
This was all thanks to the powerful dark vision of the Holy Giant Dragons.
Saint Xi said, "The tendrils up ahead are too dense. There’s no way through."
Li Wei replied, "Looks like we’ll have to resort to special measures."
He and Saint Xi had already discovered that the tendrils would automatically wrap around anything they touched.
Because of this, they had both been extremely careful not to touch any of them on their way down.
A small Fireball slowly materialized in Li Wei’s palm.
Under his control, the small Fireball flew forward, gradually radiating heat.
The tendrils, sensing the Fireball’s stimulus, reacted instantly.
The tendrils coiled around the Fireball like tentacles, but the instant they made contact, they were seared by the flame and immediately recoiled, shriveling up.
Seeing this, Li Wei abandoned his original plan.
With a thought, the Fireball abruptly expanded and shot into the darkness ahead.
All the tendrils that touched the Fireball shriveled up.
Li Wei grabbed Saint Xi’s hand and surged forward.
"Let’s go, now!"
With the Fireball clearing the path, the two of them rushed through.
The surrounding fleshy walls began to tremble, and Li Wei realized his little stunt might have triggered something bad.
But there was no turning back now; they had to see this through to the end.
"Hurry!"
WHOOSH!
The contracting fleshy walls suddenly swelled, and an intensely frigid, bone-chilling current erupted from the dark depths.
The bone-chilling current shot up through the passage—likely its blowhole—and spewed out of the Ice Emperor’s body.
A cloud of ice and mist appeared in the sky. The Ice Crystals within it reflected the sunlight, turning the entire cloud into a rainbow of colors.
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