Starting as a stray dog, I embarked on a journey of cultivation.

The demon soldier at the front had just put down his foot when he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"Don't move!"

He sensed something was wrong and immediately shouted behind him.

The group stopped, and the demon general leading the group immediately demanded, "What happened?"

"The...the ground! It's cracked!"

The demon soldier looked down and saw that, sure enough, the ground beneath his feet was rapidly spreading like ice cracks.

"retreat!"

Upon seeing the cracks spreading, the demon general immediately shouted to the troops behind him.

But it was too late.

The team retreated in panic, their footsteps scrambling, which accelerated the cracking process. Most terrifyingly, the cracks continued to spread towards the cliff walls on both sides.

Click!Click!

As the cracks spread, the fissures widened, and the cliffs on both sides began to collapse, with rubble falling in a flurry.

"Your Majesty! This place is about to collapse!" The demon general turned around and took to the air, trying to fly away from the rift valley.

But just as he stood up, a huge rock fell from above, smashing him back to the ground, where he was buried alive by the collapsing rubble.

Seeing this, Gou An tried to retreat, but found that cracks had spread all over the field, leaving him with nowhere to go.

So he simply hid next to the Demon King Xueyin. Since this woman was a Demon King, she should at least have condensed her golden core and must have a way to protect herself. The closer he was to her, the safer he would be.

Just as Gou An got close to Xue Yin, the cliff walls on both sides collapsed faster, and a huge crack appeared under his feet.

Below the rift lies an even deeper abyss!

Many demon soldiers panicked and fell into the abyss, leaving only a scream that faded into the distance before disappearing completely, without even a sound of them hitting the ground.

The rift continued to widen, eventually causing the entire narrow snow valley floor to collapse. Combined with the collapse of the cliff above, everyone fell deeper into the rift.

Because Gou An was close enough to the Demon King Xueyin, the protective shield he used for self-protection completely enveloped him.

After landing, there was another space underground.

A spacious underground snow cave, filled with icicles hanging upside down.

The surrounding area was extremely cold and frozen, with temperatures even colder than the snowfields on the ground.

This forced Gou An to quickly circulate all his demonic power to envelop his body and resist the cold.

If one does not take the initiative to protect oneself from the cold, even if Gou An has already taken human form, it will be difficult to last long.

After the incident ended, only Gou An and another lightly injured demon general remained by the Demon King's side.

The demon soldiers who went to explore were not powerful enough, and they all perished in the collapse.

"Your Majesty!" The remaining demon general, still shaken, asked Xueyin, "Should we continue forward?"

Yukine quickly discerned the directions and finally pointed to one of them.

"This way!"

The demon general immediately nodded and clasped his hands in greeting, then took the initiative to scout ahead.

Gou An chose to stay at the rear, following Xue Yin cautiously and constantly looking around.

The deeper you go into the snow cave, the narrower the passage becomes.

Gou An even noticed that he could vaguely see many dried corpses of demonic beasts in the ice walls on both sides, which were obviously frozen for many years.

Further in, Gou An saw humanoid dried corpses inside the ice wall; some appeared to be demon cultivators, while others appeared to be human cultivators.

This place looks like it was the site of a great battle many years ago, which resulted in them being buried alive and frozen here.

Gou An also saw many magical artifacts sealed inside, but the ice wall was very hard to the touch, and even secretly burning it with demonic fire could not melt it, so Gou An had to give up the idea of ​​melting the ice to get the treasures.

After Gou An followed Xue Yin through an ice-covered passage, they saw an even larger underground snow cave.

However, the sight before him stunned Gou An, who opened his mouth wide and remained speechless for a long time.

In the center of this snow cave, a colossal beast, the size of a small mountain, was tightly bound by eight massive iron chains, its entire body encased in extreme cold and frozen in a strange posture.

Gou An looked closely and saw that the giant beast had a pair of huge horns on its head, but it was not like a bull. Its head and body shape were more like a tiger, but its body was covered with scales.

Its single front paw is larger than Gou An's, and its claws are like sharp knives.

If the wild beast hadn't been frozen and unable to move, Gou An would have definitely turned tail and run.

Upon seeing this, Yukine murmured, "I've finally found it."

"Your Majesty, this monster should be dead, right?" The demon general leading the way was also somewhat wary of the giant beast and asked uneasily.

"He's not dead!" Xueyin shook her head, staring straight at the frozen behemoth.

"They're frozen solid, and they're still alive?" The demon general couldn't believe it.

"It's precisely because he can't die that he's simply sealed here!" Xueyin pointed forward gently and said, "Let's get closer and take a look."

The demon general swallowed hard and had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue leading the way, while Gou An could only reluctantly continue to follow.

When Gou An arrived at the foot of the behemoth, he had a direct feel for the oppressive aura emanating from it.

Although the wild beast remained motionless, it far surpassed all the enemies and crises Gou An had encountered before.

"Your Majesty, you're not going to unseal this thing, are you?" Gou An asked Xue Yin beside him anxiously.

"No!" Xueyin shook her head directly: "This monster is beyond my ability to deal with. If we release it, we will all die."

Upon hearing this, Gou An felt much relieved.

As long as the monster is not actively released, the level of danger will be greatly reduced.

"So what do we need to do now?" Gou An asked again.

"This wild beast is called Qu Liao!" Xueyin circled the monster, examining it closely. "I saw it in an ancient book before, and it is also the last recorded wild beast in this world."

"This beast had lived for over ten thousand years when it was sealed away, wreaking havoc on the world. It was eventually suppressed by the combined efforts of powerful human cultivators at the time."

"The Gou Liao has thick skin and flesh, extremely strong vitality, and also possesses a terrifying self-healing ability."

"I came to find it, only to take a gourdful of its blood!"

At this point, Xueyin flipped her hand and took out a jade gourd.

"But Your Majesty, this monster is frozen in ice, how can we get its blood?" the demon general asked curiously.

Xueyin walked to one of the giant beast's hind legs, looked it over, and said, "I will melt the ice in this area separately. Then we can just cut the wound along the seam of the armor plates and take the blood."

Gou An, standing to the side, felt a vague unease upon hearing this.

I have a vague feeling that once the seal is broken even a little, and the balance is disrupted, the monster will break free.

But at this point, it's no use trying to persuade them.

Because Xueyin took out another jade ball, which was entirely red and clearly a fire-type magic weapon.

She arrived at the hind leg of the giant beast, activated her magic weapon, and transformed the flames from the fire pearl into a drill, which she then slowly began to break the ice at the location she had envisioned.

Gou An appeared calm, but he had already silently begun to look for an escape route.