After leaving the Beast Mountain Range, Ling Xue was flying rapidly in a straight line towards the central continent, with Li Yuemei still in his arms. Though she was bothered at first, she now seemed to accept it; in fact, she felt quite comfortable in his arms.
They flew for five days, finally exiting the Beast Mountain Range region. On the fifth day before dusk, Ling Xue suddenly slowed down and then stopped, his usually monotonous face showing a slight expression of strangeness.
"Are we stopping? What happened?" Li Yuemei asked, noticing that Ling Xue seemed eager to reach the central continent and wondering why he suddenly stopped.
Having spent a lot of time with Ling Xue and observing him, despite his beautiful cold face rarely showing any emotion, she realized the emotions were still there, albeit almost imperceptible. Now she could see them, and she wondered when she started noticing these things.
She saw the strange expression on his face and looked around, also using her spiritual sense, but she didn't see or feel anything out of the ordinary.
"I don't know… I feel something is wrong," Ling Xue murmured, feeling a strange sensation. His intuition told him something wasn't right, but he didn't know what it was.
"Really? I don't feel anything wrong," Li Yuemei said while still looking around.
Ling Xue then thought for a moment and quickly came to a conclusion. He didn't care; after entering that special state, he was aware of his strength and thought he would be fine in any circumstance, so he decided to ignore the strange feeling.
He then decided to start flying again, determined to reach the central continent quickly, regardless of how much time had passed, still hoping to see his sister again.
Everything continued normally as they flew at great speed. They flew for a whole day, but on the night of the second day, Ling Xue felt a strange sensation again, but this time something bigger happened.
Just before, while he was flying rapidly, the Qi of ice around him inexplicably disappeared. As soon as this happened, he immediately noticed.
Ling Xue tried to use the Law of Ice to control and sense the Qi of ice at a gigantic distance, but he couldn't feel any ice Qi even at a great distance; it had suddenly vanished in just an instant.
Because of this, he stopped flying again, trying to understand the situation, but he didn't have a chance to think.
As soon as he stopped, a terrifying pressure afflicted the minds of both Ling Xue and Li Yuemei at the same time. Ling Xue felt confusion in his mind suddenly, as if his senses and consciousness were being obscured by a fog.
An invisible force collided with his mind; the pressure of the attack compressed his consciousness, causing agonizing sensations throughout his mind and body.
He felt disoriented, as if his thoughts were fragmented, impairing his ability to think and focus on what was happening.
Li Yuemei was not much different from him. As soon as the pressure hit her, she felt a sensation of drowning, as if she were being submerged in a dark sea, unable to breathe or swim to the surface. Her mind, much weaker than Ling Xue's, felt as if it were being dragged away from reality.
Quickly, her mind was affected by the strength of the attack, enveloping her in extreme weakness. She had no chance to do anything before her consciousness darkened, and she completely fainted.
This happened in just an instant, while Ling Xue struggled to resist the mental attack. In front of the two, a man in a black cloak suddenly appeared as if fused with the night, an immense amount of dark Qi surrounding his body and a black dagger in his hand.
As soon as he appeared, the man quickly raised his dagger towards Ling Xue's neck, while his other hand reached for Li Yuemei.
The mental attack and the man's appearance happened in just a second. As soon as Ling Xue realized the man was trying to attack him and trying to grab Li Yuemei, a wave of anger hit him.
The appearance of the man in front of him reminded him of the men from the Tower of Dreams who had attacked his mother before. As soon as he saw him almost grabbing Li Yuemei, and the dagger with terrifying dark Qi approaching his neck, the snowflake on his forehead lit up while his mind rapidly transformed.
His mind, previously oppressed by the mental attack, suddenly transformed into a cold entity, imbued with the essence of pure ice from his physique.
His turbulent mind, due to the attack, began to crystallize, becoming as sharp as ice, while a cold and calm wave replaced the chaos of the previous attack. The terrifying mental attack collapsed without any chance of resistance and began to crack and crumble under the icy force.
At a great distance from Ling Xue, an old woman was sitting in the air with her eyes closed, concentrating, with numerous people around her.
She was the one who had used her mental attack technique on Ling Xue and Li Yuemei. Everything was going normally, but suddenly she felt her technique break. Then she suddenly felt an intense cold invading her mind, as if ice claws were crushing her consciousness. A terrible scream of pain came out of her as the coldness in her mind became unbearable. Her mind felt a sharp pain and quickly withdrew her attack from Ling Xue's mind. She felt that if she continued for one more second, her mind would be frozen forever.
In Ling Xue's mind, his consciousness, filled with pure ice, followed the trail of the mental attack, freezing it to its origin.
As soon as the mental attack crumbled and his thoughts returned, an imminent danger appeared before him. The black dagger of the man in front of him was about to reach his neck, while Li Yuemei had already been grabbed by the other hand of the man.
A sharp and terrifying dark Qi was coming to his neck, but Ling Xue with his thoughts and reflexes fast after his mind combined with his physique, instinctively dodged the dagger by leaning back at the last second with terrifying speed while quickly creating a pure ice barrier around his neck.
The dagger missed his neck by a hair's breadth. However, the dark Qi collided instantly with the pure ice barrier, impacting Ling Xue and sending him tens of meters back. The barrier began to be corrupted by the Qi, but it was not strong enough to reach his neck.
Despite this, the impact was enough to snatch Li Yuemei from Ling Xue's arms. Having succeeded in his objective, the man in black forgot Ling Xue and tried to flee quickly while wrapping himself in the dark Qi around him.
But he had no chances. As soon as Ling Xue felt the impact, his mind was still completely focused on the man and Li Yuemei. He instantly created a pure ice explosion that hit everything a few meters around him. The man, still close to him, wasn't fast enough to escape and seemed about to be hit by the ice explosion.
But as soon as the ice attack was about to hit the man in black, numerous attacks were launched from a distance, creating a storm of lights of various elements arriving at an absurd speed towards Ling Xue.
Ling Xue, sensing the power of the attack, focused on defending instantly, creating an immense and thick circular ice barrier around him. At the same moment the barrier formed, the countless attacks hit the barrier with extreme force, causing a gigantic explosion in the sky.
The pure ice barrier showed signs of cracking but was held firmly while Ling Xue was sent flying from the sky towards the ground due to the great impact of the attacks.
The man in black took the opportunity to flee quickly, while taking the unconscious Li Yuemei with him.
Ling Xue saw Li Yuemei being taken through the dust from the attacks, while a deep fury surged in his mind. But unlike other people, there was no explosion of uncontrolled anger. No, his face became even colder, and an unusual and extreme calm hit his consciousness. In his mind, instead of a storm of emotions, an internal ice storm, powerful but controlled, emerged.