Chapter 252: The Valley Master is also the Island Master, revealing her true appearance

Passing through the Northern Wasteland, a region spanning ten thousand miles without a single white cloud, Jiang Xun and the others saw countless Demonic Beasts.

Many Demonic Beasts were slaughtering each other below, and the slain would be torn apart and eaten.

They seemed to treat this as a daily activity to pass the time, a common sight.

Another twenty thousand miles passed; they had reached the center of the Northern Wasteland. The Demonic Beasts here were significantly stronger than those on the outer perimeter, and they possessed distinct individual animal characteristics rather than being chaotic hybrids of various beasts.

The three of them flew at a height almost within the dark clouds, hiding themselves well. Moreover, with Bing Yanyan leading the way, she clearly knew where they would not be discovered by Demonic Beasts, and the process went very smoothly.

This also meant that if anyone wanted to reach or escape from Ice Soul Valley, they had to pass through the dangerous Northern Wasteland.

Those who did not know the correct path would easily attract the siege of Demonic Beasts.

During the final twenty thousand miles, Jiang Xun's Spirit Energy was indeed running low, so he took out a Huiyuan Pill and swallowed it to recover his Spirit Power.

After the final twenty thousand miles passed, the three of them broke through a layer of dark clouds, the foul stench finally dissipated, and it was already evening.

"This is..."

He had thought the situation in Beimo would be better than in the Northern Wasteland, but who could have imagined it would be piles of white bones.

Endless white bones.

Hillsides paved with white bones, riverbanks filled with white bones, even the branches and leaves growing on a tree were white bones.

These white bones belonged to humans, but more were from Demonic Beasts.

The surrounding air also suddenly became much colder.

Because Beimo was the northernmost point, the temperature was naturally lower.

"These piles of white bones... Beimo is simply what the future of the Northern Wasteland looks like." Ming Ning looked down, her tone very dejected, her voice very soft.

"Jun Tianling?" Jiang Xun shouted suddenly.

"Hm?" Ming Ning subconsciously turned her head to look at Jiang Xun, stunned for a moment, then said, "Why are you bringing up Jun Tianling?"

"It's nothing." Although it was only for an instant, perhaps a 0.05-second instant, Jiang Xun still captured Ming Ning's expression.

Throughout the journey, he had been watching Ming Ning, watching the Northern Wasteland, with a sorrowful look in her eyes; especially when passing the former site of the Junlin Dynasty, she could not help but observe it repeatedly.

That look was becoming more and more familiar to Jiang Xun.

Would Senior Sister Ming Ning look at the Northern Wasteland with sorrow? How could that be possible? The Northern Wasteland had nothing to do with her. To put it bluntly, unless someone important to her in the Lingerie-Sect had died, Ming Ning would not show that kind of expression.

Thus, Jiang Xun decided to conduct a final test.

Damn it, he really did test it out.

"Ming Ning's other soul is Jun Tianling? That's too absurd!" Jun Tianling was also greatly shocked.

"The facts are right before our eyes, nine times out of ten. I'll find another opportunity to test it more later." Jiang Xun also became uncharacteristically serious, thinking in his heart about the year he met Yin Ningyu, when they were surrounded by Tianwu Sect disciples.

He had lost his memory afterward, but that group of Tianwu Sect disciples had died.

Who did it?

He didn't know.

Now, Jiang Xun perhaps had the answer in his heart.

Moreover, when he was eight years old and wanted to enter the Lingerie-Sect, the other senior sisters had all sternly refused, and in the end, it was Senior Sister Ming Ning who overcame all objections to bring him up the mountain.

If Jun Tianling was truly inside Ming Ning, then everything made sense.

"We're here."

After flying another two thousand miles, Bing Yanyan said this and descended.

Jiang Xun and Ming Ning immediately followed, only to see a field of white bones below, but Bing Yanyan passed directly through the bones.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun and Ming Ning also bumped their heads against the white bones.

When they opened their eyes again, the scene before them had changed to an ice field, with goose-feather snow falling and the temperature plummeting.

It seemed the white bones above this area were a layer of illusion and a Barrier.

After the three landed, there was an ice mountain in front of them. One could enter the interior of the ice mountain through an ice cave, and visible Spirit Energy lingered around the ice cave.

"Are you alright?" Ming Ning walked up and supported Jiang Xun, asking, fearing he had no Spirit Power left.

"I'm fine, doing great." Jiang Xun nodded and looked at Ming Ning. That's right, this is the real senior sister. Just now, when he was eating the Huiyuan Pill in the air, she didn't even glance at him and didn't care about him at all; that must have been someone else.

"As long as you're fine." Ming Ning nodded and let go of Jiang Xun's arm.

"Follow behind me, and don't take a single wrong step." Bing Yanyan turned around and looked at the two of them.

"Okay." Jiang Xun nodded and stood behind Bing Yanyan, and Ming Ning also followed behind Jiang Xun; the three walked forward in a line.

Footprints were left on the thick snow layer, but they were covered by the heavy snow the next moment.

The three of them walked an M-shaped route in front of the ice cave door before finally entering it.

The interior of the ice cave was ice-blue, with many ice thorns hanging above; some lighting Dharma Artifacts seemed to be frozen inside the ice thorns, illuminating the entire ice cave.

After passing through the corridor, they saw an ice door.

Bing Yanyan took out an Ice Token, placed it into a groove on the ice door, and activated a Dharma Formula; the ice door then opened.

Inside was an ice palace: ice sculptures, ice chairs, ice pillars, ice patterns and decorations—in short, everything was ice.

The main hall was about one thousand square feet in size, very empty, and there was not a single person inside.

"This is Ice Soul Valley?" Jiang Xun walked into the main hall, looked around, and asked.

"This is Ice Soul Hall, the main hall of Ice Soul Valley. If there is a need to discuss matters, we gather here," Bing Yanyan said while walking forward.

"Where are the people?" Jiang Xun nodded and asked.

"The people of Ice Soul Valley are not as numerous as those on Tianwai Island; all told, there are fewer than fifty people, so you won't see them everywhere. You will see them later."

As Bing Yanyan spoke, she had already arrived at the very front of the main hall, where there was a chair exquisitely carved from ice.

"Valley Master, the people have been brought."

Bing Yanyan then bowed to the empty chair.

"... Who are you talking to?" Seeing this, Jiang Xun could not help but ask.

Bing Yanyan ignored Jiang Xun, but another woman's voice rang out: "Young Master Jiang, I trust you have been well."

This voice was very familiar; it was the voice of that Island Master from back then.

The Island Master of Tianwai Island is the Valley Master of Ice Soul Valley! How strong must this power be, and with the Valley Master of Ice Soul Valley presiding, Tianwai Island will absolutely be the number one sect forever.

"Island Master, I didn't expect you to also be the Valley Master," Jiang Xun said while looking around, as he still couldn't see anyone, only hearing the voice: "We are all friends, wasn't it agreed that we would meet?"

"Wait a moment. I didn't expect you to arrive so late; I had already gone to sleep, so I will come after tidying up," the Valley Master chuckled softly.

"Alright." Jiang Xun nodded, then sat on an Ice Chair to the side, and Bing Yanyan and Ming Ning also sat down respectively.

A moment later, cold wind surged within the hall, and frost subsequently gathered on the Ice Chair on the main seat, condensing into an ice sculpture of a woman with a slender figure, after which white long hair cascaded behind the ice sculpture, and a white robe appeared.

A woman with a beautiful and cold appearance, willow-leaf eyebrows, phoenix eyes, a high nose bridge, and a faint smile hanging at the corners of her mouth with two small dimples appeared on the chair.

"Tang Ying!"

Jun Tianling and Si Yuyan shouted in unison.