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Chapter 393 Ancient Rune-Inscribed Ice Wall! [Please Subscribe! Please Vote!]

In the dilapidated building beneath the Ice God Ruins, Xu Ke'er, dressed in cotton clothes but still covered in frost, looked at Ning Quan, whose face was also covered in frost and pale, and gently exhaled a breath of warm air, smiling tenderly: "But being able to witness the magnificent aurora of the far north plateau with Brother Ning is already the most satisfying thing in my life."

"To be able to witness the magnificent scenery of different parts of the world at the end of my life, especially with Brother Ning, is enough to make me content. Why ask for more?"

"It was Brother Ning who made Ke'er understand that the same starry sky can present a different and more dazzling beauty in the desert, the vast ocean, and the far north plateau than the Tianxing City Observatory." As a girl in the Xingguan family, Xu Ke'er's life was almost entirely bound to her family and she could not leave Tianxing Province.

Until Ning Quan appeared, the clan's elder observed the stars at night and said that although this child's fate was like a summer flower, he was destined for their Xu clan and was the catalyst for their Xu clan's birth. Thus, the Seven Star Ning clan and the Star Crown Xu clan later formed a marriage alliance.

Ning Quan's plan to travel around the mainland was largely for Xu Ke'er's sake. Because Xu Ke'er had never traveled far from home, Ning Quan "forgot his principles for the sake of beauty," abandoned Chen Hong, and chose to elope with Xu Ke'er.

"Brother Ning," Xu Ke'er seemed to want to say something, but Ning Quan, who remained silent, pulled her into his arms, his soul power surging as he tried to smooth away the frost between Xu Ke'er's brows.

Ning Quan, whose soul power level is a full 67, is obviously more resistant to freezing than Xu Ke'er, who is at level 54. If nothing unexpected happens, Ning Quan will silently watch Xu Ke'er freeze to death in his arms.

"Oh, does Brother Ning have any other ideas?" Xu Ke'er sighed softly as she was being held in his arms, but she didn't resist.

Their travel plans were not reckless; they were actually only on the southern edge of the far northern plateau, considered its outskirts. Although this area was called the Ice God Mountains, they weren't far from the Snow Spirit Province. Of course, if they wanted to go to Snow Spirit City, there was a near-shore sea separating them from the city.

But this seemingly conservative travel plan somehow ended up like stirring up a den of ice scorpions. Before even venturing deep into the far north plateau, they somehow stumbled upon the millennia-old ice scorpions in the southern part of the Ice God Mountains.

In this home-field environment of Ice Green Scorpion, Ning Quan and his companion couldn't avoid it even if they wanted to.

Ning Quan and his companion were originally preparing to retreat, but they soon ran into the Ice Jade Scorpion clan. Xu Ke'er was not a speed-type Soul Master, so Ning Quan and his companion had no choice but to launch a strong attack to break through the encirclement and engage in battle with a ten-thousand-year-old Ice Jade Scorpion.

Fortunately, Ning Quan and his companion gradually mastered a Star-type Martial Soul Fusion Technique during their two years of training; otherwise, they would have been no match for the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Jade Scorpion in such an extreme environment.

What kind of martial soul fusion skill will emerge when the Seven Star Sword, with its extreme amplification and powerful attack, is combined with the Star Crown, with its extreme explosive power? (The Star Crown martial soul is a martial soul that requires starlight to charge and then bursts forth to leave enemies of the same realm covered in welts.)

When the brilliance of countless stars transformed into an imperial crown, adorning Ning Quan's head as he wore a star-studded robe, it seemed as if the stars themselves were twinkling for him. With a single sword strike, Ning Quan discovered that he had surpassed his father Ning Ji's peak attack, which was at level seventy-nine, and had reached the level of a Title Douluo.

In the extreme cold, a single sword strike annihilated the millennia-old Ice Jade Scorpion. At the same time, for some unknown reason, it disrupted the balance beneath the glacier, causing the glacier below to collapse and tear apart.

With his strength greatly depleted, Ning Quan wanted to escape with Xu Ke'er in the chaos, but he was shocked to find that the glacier tear had attracted all the soul beasts around the Ice God Mountain Range to gather here (for a mouthful of ice marrow). Among them were many powerful ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. Forced to make a choice, Ning Quan had no choice but to turn around and retreat down the glacier crevice, trying to escape along the crevice.

After several twists and turns, they were driven to this mysterious glacial ruin by the ancient soul beast above the glacial crevice.

Ning Quan discovered that the surrounding soul beasts seemed afraid to enter this glacial ruin, so they were temporarily safe.

However, they couldn't stay here for too long. The temperature here was much lower than outside. Staying here made Ning Quan feel as if the cold wind blowing through the rift was an ice-attribute soul master throwing soul skills at him.

Seven days—this is the countdown Ning Quan has set for his own life.

Given that he and Xu Ke'er could only hold out here for seven days, and perhaps Xu Ke'er, whose constitution was even weaker, could only hold out for six days.

And now, they have been trapped under this glacial crevice for five days!

"Stop talking nonsense. There's always a way out. There will be a solution." Ning Quan, who was holding Xu Ke'er in his arms, had an unusually firm look in his eyes. His gaze passed through the cracks in the ruins and he coldly glanced at the shadowy figure of the Ice Jade Scorpion that appeared from time to time in the faint glow of the millennium-old ice marrow and the ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow. Then he turned to look at the wall behind him that was covered with exquisite runes.

Ning Quan, who used to often follow Chen Hong to observe, had a different opinion about the icy blue runes that clung to the glacier wall of the ruins.

Although he didn't know the meaning of the patterns on it, the well-informed Ning Quan subconsciously realized that the icy blue runes on this glacier wall must be some kind of energy pattern with mysterious effects!

Because he often saw similar patterns at Chen Hong's place!

For the past few days, he has been trying to understand the meaning of the runes on the wall. He believes that there is always a way out and that he will definitely be able to find a way to solve his predicament!

"The runes on this wall." Ning Quan, holding Xu Ke'er, picked up a small stone from the ground and then marked two very symmetrical dots on it.

"These two points should be the energy nodes of this rune wall." Ning Quan wanted to see more, but unfortunately, he was only able to analyze the energy nodes of this ancient rune wall originating from the Ice God Ruins in five days. In this era of the decline of soul tool civilization, that was already incredibly impressive! Anything more was beyond his comprehension!

Moreover, the reason he was able to understand even a trace of these ancient runes was thanks to the fact that soul guide inscription is a realistic technique. Over millions of years, as long as the rules of divine runes in this world do not change, the runes of the two eras are almost identical!

"This is the limit of what I can understand. If Chen Hong were here, he would definitely be able to see more than I can," Ning Quan sighed in the face of danger.

Shaking his head, Ning Quan coughed under Xu Ke'er's admiring gaze and then said:

"Soul power, or blood, could be used to try and activate these runes."

(End of this chapter)