The skin-covered skeleton frowned deeply.
For some unknown reason, a hint of fear suddenly emanated from this human.
A human at the Golden Core stage...
Making him feel fear?
How was this possible!
Although he had been defeated by the City Lord of Myriad Law City, he was still a top-tier Tribulation Transcending expert. How could a Golden Core cultivator make him feel this way?
The skin-covered skeleton stared intently at Li Shuang.
Li Shuang was still enveloped in frost, appearing no different than before.
Suddenly!
His eyes stung.
In his perception, an ancient, unmelting glacier appeared behind Li Shuang! Countless strange runes were carved onto this glacier.
An ancient aura, as if from the primordial wilderness, emanated from the depths of this ice mountain.
He wanted to look closer.
Suddenly.
From the depths of the glacier, cold veins converged into a giant dragon, roaring angrily at him.
He felt a chill throughout his body, and for a moment, he had an urge to flee in panic.
He suppressed it, continuing to look behind Li Shuang.
In the extreme cold, he only managed to see a green lotus slowly blooming behind this human.
When he tried to look more closely.
His eyes stung again, and he couldn't help but let out a wail.
The skin-covered skeleton suddenly let out a cry of pain.
Yi Lan and the other two looked over with some surprise and uncertainty.
The skin-covered skeleton ignored them, suppressing the stinging sensation, and looked again, still shaken.
However.
This time.
In his line of sight, Li Shuang was just sitting quietly, with no other abnormalities.
It was as if everything he had just seen was merely a hallucination.
The skin-covered skeleton's expression changed slightly.
But.
How could the spiritual perception of a Tribulation Transcending mighty being be wrong?
Even now, recalling that glacier and that terrifying green lotus, he still felt a lingering fear.
This human!
What was her origin!
"Senior. It's been a long time. Why don't we just serve the next dish?" Yi Lan's eyes flickered as she suddenly spoke.
The skin-covered skeleton gave her a cold glance.
Yi Lan quickly put on a fawning smile: "Senior, according to past situations, isn't it almost time to enter the final stage?"
Yi Lan subtly glanced at Li Shuang.
She didn't know what was happening with Li.
But if the final stage began.
If she was still in this state, she would surely die with the eighth dish!
"What, since when did it become your turn to decide here?" The skin-covered skeleton sneered.
Yi Lan's heart tightened: "This junior didn't mean that."
She closed her mouth, not daring to say anything more, but a hint of doubt was unavoidable in her eyes.
She wondered if it was her imagination.
Why did she feel that this skin-covered skeleton was deliberately buying time for Li?
No, no, no.
This must be an illusion.
The guardians in the Eighteen Hells wished for all humans who entered to be annihilated, and would never favor any human cultivator.
The skin-covered skeleton snorted.
Did Yi Lan take him for a fool?
Something extreme was happening to Li.
If he were to forcibly interrupt this process, not to mention whether he could do it, even if he could, just thinking about the ancient and magnificent aura that had just surged from Li Shuang made him shiver.
Why would he needlessly incur such immense karma with such a person?
In the Hell of Gluttony, even the constantly wailing skeletons fell silent, all eyes on the woman in the center.
Li!
How much longer would she meditate?
When Yi Lan and the other two even started to feel a bit impatient.
Suddenly.
The frost covering Li Shuang began to slowly melt.
The extremely cold domain around her also dissipated.
But Li Shuang still hadn't opened her eyes; her transformation was reaching its final stage.
Yi Lan and the other two exchanged glances, then, with a tacit understanding, simultaneously lunged at Li Shuang.
Closer!
Even closer!
That Li still hadn't opened her eyes.
Had the three of them overestimated her?
A hint of joy flashed in Yi Lan's eyes, and the curved knife in her hand thrust directly towards Li Shuang's glabella.
However, in the next instant,
A terrifying aura emanated from Li Shuang.
A profoundly mysterious green lotus appeared behind her, and a giant, holding a massive axe, cleaved the sky. Then, the heavens wept blood, staining the green lotus, and this green lotus, dyed with blood, emitted an endless chill.
As the green lotus unfolded, Li Shuang also opened her eyes.
The curved knife was right in front of Li Shuang.
Li Shuang merely glanced at it.
And so.
The curved knife was frozen section by section, and finally shattered!
A biting cold wind swept towards Yi Lan, and in an instant, she turned into an ice sculpture.
The little girl and the meat mountain dodged quickly, but they were also affected, covered in layers of frost.
"What's going on?" A hint of horror flashed in the meat mountain's eyes, and he subconsciously looked at the little girl.
He saw that the little girl's face was even uglier than his.
The little girl's eyes were wide open, and her voice was even hoarse: "Supreme Ice Spirit Root! A Supreme Ice Spirit Root has actually appeared!"
According to legend.
Every cultivator with a Supreme Spirit Root has a unique destiny.
And this person in front of them, her spirit root's destiny was clearly related to the manifested green lotus.
Supreme Spirit Root!
It was rumored that throughout the entire Central Continent, there were only three possessors of Supreme Spirit Roots.
The City Lord of Myriad Law City was one.
The Sect Master of Divine Heaven Sect was one.
The mysterious person behind the Unbounded Sect's mountain was one.
Such a vast Central Continent had only produced these three Supreme Spirit Roots.
But now.
In this Hell of Gluttony, she had actually witnessed the birth of a Supreme Spirit Root cultivator!
Li!
The little girl stared intently at Li Shuang; she would remember this person.
"Supreme Ice Spirit Root?" A hint of horror involuntarily emerged in the meat mountain's voice.
A cultivator with such talent, as long as they didn't fall midway, was destined to become a peerless expert.
If he had met such an expert outside, he would naturally try every means to get close to her; even if they couldn't be friends, it was best not to be enemies.
But...
They had already deeply offended this person.
If she were to leave this place, with her Supreme Ice Spirit Root talent, all sects would vie to take her in, and her every word would be of great importance.
His small cooperation with Yi Lan would definitely not be able to be kept secret.
With the Supreme Ice Spirit Root fully formed, Li Shuang felt quite good after a quick assessment.
Her cultivation speed was already very fast.
After her spirit root officially advanced, her speed of absorbing spiritual energy was even more astonishing.
It wouldn't be long.
She could officially advance her spiritual energy cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage.
Thus.
She would truly return to the realm she had reached in her previous cultivation.
Li Shuang was in a good mood.
Suddenly, applause broke out in the arena.
The little girl looked at her with a smile: "With the power of the Cold Soul Ice, you actually stumbled upon this one-in-ten-thousand chance, allowing your spirit root to successfully advance. Fellow Daoist, this can be considered a blessing in disguise for you."