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Chapter 531 - 254: Tier Three Apostle!!

The muffled sound of footsteps echoed faintly from the passage ahead, along with heavy breathing and the crunching of ice being crushed underfoot.

Fang Qingyu and the four others moved like true shadows.

Far behind, they concealed their presence to the utmost.

As they ventured deeper, the ice walls on both sides of the passage were no longer purely blue, and strange scenes began to appear.

Deep within the ice, massive and grotesque bones were frozen.

There were spines like giant serpents, fearsome skulls bristling with fangs, and enormous bodies covered in bone spurs...

These bones clearly belonged to powerful Life Ghosts of the ice plains, frozen in an instant by some unknown force, trapped in the Eternal Ice, forever in their death throes.

More chillingly, some ice walls even held human figures frozen within!

They wore ancient armor or cloth garments, now decayed, their faces twisted, their eyes locked in extreme terror and despair, as if their lives were snatched away by eternal ice in an instant.

A suffocating aura of death pervaded the passage.

"Damn... this ghostly place..."

Chu Kuanglan’s voice carried a barely detectable dryness within the Eternal Night Territory.

Lu Jiuyuan clutched his sword, his gaze sharp as a hawk’s, scanning the frozen horrors, his body in a constant state of readiness.

Wei Banmeng’s cool face was also full of gravity, and she instinctively moved closer to Fang Qingyu.

Jiang Wei remained quietly hovering, her small hand at some point lightly clutching the corner of Fang Qingyu’s clothes. Her clear red pupils reflected the dreadful bones deep within the ice wall, her little face expressionless, but Fang Qingyu could feel her small hand slightly tightening.

After approximately ten more minutes of progress, the passage suddenly opened up.

A gigantic ice cave, as if carved out of the mountain’s belly, appeared at the end of their sight.

The towering dome of the ice cave was draped with countless gigantic icicles of various shapes, like an inverted forest of swords and knives.

The ground was relatively flat, covered with a thin layer of frost.

At the very center of this enormous ice cave, a gigantic altar, constructed entirely of some dark gold metal and towering over ten meters high, stood silently like a slumbering giant beast.

The altar was pyramid-shaped.

The surface was inscribed with countless intricate and dizzying ancient runes, filled with a primitive aura.

These runes exuded a faint dark golden glow, like a gentle breath.

An indescribable, overwhelming pressure, as if able to suppress all things, emanated from the depths of the altar.

It was this aura, intertwined with the icy chill, that formed the unique oppressive force within the ice cave!

"An altar?!"

"The core of the Martial Saint Ruins?!"

"What... what are those runes? Never seen them before..."

Up ahead, Violent Bear and others finally saw the scene at the center of the ice cave, unable to suppress their astonished exclamations.

They had braved fear and struggle to reach here, their greed and fervor igniting to the peak upon witnessing this magnificent and mysterious altar!

However.

Just as this fervor began to surge.

At the entrance of the ice cave, a wine-red figure slowly turned around.

Her gaze swept over the excitedly trembling Tier Two beings, her red lips gently parted.

"From here on, I’m counting on all of you."

"Rest assured, after the task is complete, no one will know you left the front line, and the promised rewards still stand..."

The crowd listened to the Apostle personally give them assurances.

The minor friction on the ocean’s surface was instantly forgotten.

"Rest assured, Apostle He, we will do our best..."

In contrast to their unity...

In the darkness of the passage behind them.

It was now Fang Qingyu and the others’ turn to be conflicted.

"Should we still follow?"

Wei Banmeng and the others all looked to Fang Qingyu, awaiting his decision.

Previously, they were unsure... and did not know where He Manhe had gone.

Now, they discovered He Manhe had been at the forefront the entire time, and moreover...

She was a Tier Three Apostle!!!

No matter how strong Fang Qingyu was, it was impossible to challenge a Tier Three entity from a Second Tier Initial Realm.

So if they continued to follow...

The risk might be considerable.

Fang Qingyu stared expressionlessly ahead, also wrestling with this dilemma.

In truth, he was more shocked than anyone.

After all, he had killed the Martial Arts Apprentice level He Manhe, killed the Martial Artist level He Manhe.

He never expected there would actually be an Apostle level He Manhe...

And whether this was her true form.

It was currently undetermined.

As the five of them were caught in their dilemma...

Another unfamiliar voice emerged from the darkness.

"Follow, why not follow?"