Chapter 480: Time Secret Realm
Li Wei and Gu Sewei hid in the ice shelter, awaiting the transition between polar day and polar night.
Since they didn’t know how much time had passed, Li Wei and Gu Sewei could do nothing but wait, afraid of missing the critical moment.
After waiting in the darkness for a long time, Li Wei couldn’t help but grow restless.
A terrible thought surfaced in his mind. ’What if we’ve already missed the transition between polar day and polar night?’
Completely immersed in darkness, they had lost all concept of time.
If they had truly missed it, they might not even know.
Li Wei shook his head, thinking, ’That’s unlikely. If the polar night had truly turned into polar day, the environment should have changed in some way.’
It was the only way he could console himself.
Yet he knew this reasoning was flimsy, as they were hundreds of thousands of meters underground.
Even if the night outside had vanished, replaced by endless day, no light could penetrate hundreds of thousands of meters of the Abyss to reach the bottom of the Extreme Cold Abyss.
This place would remain a pitch-black, lightless expanse.
With no other choice, Li Wei could only suppress his anxiety and try to focus on other things, waiting for time to pass quietly.
Gu Sewei felt uneasy as well.
She was afraid that while they waited, that group would succeed in awakening the Ice Emperor.
If she and Li Wei failed to stop the Ice Emperor’s awakening, the City of Ice and Snow, Fred, could be completely wiped out.
Gu Sewei was terrified of missing the chance to stop the Ice Emperor’s awakening.
She kept glancing at Li Wei, but the words caught in her throat each time she tried to speak.
On one hand, she wanted to suggest they follow that group to see where they had gone.
On the other hand, she considered going to check on her own. ’That way, I wouldn’t delay Li Wei.’
But the thought of facing the boundless darkness and cold alone filled her with a deep-seated loneliness and fear.
Without Li Wei, she might have already gone mad after spending so much time in this dark environment.
Both Li Wei’s and Gu Sewei’s minds were teetering on the edge of madness.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Wei suddenly spoke. "Hasn’t a current of extreme cold passed by in a while?"
Gu Sewei froze for a moment, then nodded as his words registered. "I think you’re right."
Li Wei opened his eyes and looked out. "Let’s go," he said. "I think it’s time."
At his words, Gu Sewei opened the ice shelter.
The two stepped out of the ice shelter to find that the biting wind from before had vanished.
Normally, even when no current of extreme cold was passing through, there was always a flow of frigid air at the bottom of the Extreme Cold Abyss.
But now, it seemed the cold air current had vanished completely.
Li Wei looked up, craning his neck to gaze at the sky.
Or what passed for a sky.
All he could see was boundless darkness.
Suddenly, he sensed the darkness seemed to lighten.
Li Wei’s eyes widened. A razor-thin white line had appeared overhead.
Then, like a curtain being drawn open, the white line rapidly expanded to fill his vision.
"What is this?"
"Ah! Look!"
Gu Sewei cried out in alarm, shouting and pointing at the bizarre transformation taking place in front of them.
Li Wei lowered his head, his eyes stinging from the light.
He saw a dreamlike, distorted swirl of colorful light manifest before his eyes.
Taking a step back, he realized a beam of light was shooting from the very top of the Extreme Cold Abyss all the way to its bottom.
The beam illuminated the location of the Time Secret Realm.
Gu Sewei shouted, "The beam is fading! Do something, quick!"
Li Wei had already noticed. The beam of light shooting down from above was gradually weakening, about to disappear.
His only chance was this single instant during the transition between polar day and polar night.
Li Wei was already prepared.
He immediately released Saint Xi, who had been cooped up inside the Beast Taming Ring for days.
Summoning it from the Magic Cottage would have been too slow.
Afraid of missing his chance, Li Wei had put Saint Xi into the Beast Taming Ring ahead of time.
The moment Saint Xi appeared, it activated the Time Dragon Scale on its chest.
Gu Sewei stood frozen in astonishment at the creature that had suddenly appeared beside Li Wei.
For a moment, she couldn’t quite process what was happening.
"Is that... a dragon?"
The Time Dragon Scale on Saint Xi’s chest erupted with a seven-colored light.
The seven-colored light merged with the dreamlike, distorted glow within the Extreme Cold Abyss.
Saint Xi let out a great cry, "AWOOO!"
The light flared, instantly enveloping Li Wei and Gu Sewei.
The beam of light that had pierced the Extreme Cold Abyss vanished.
The glow marking the Time Secret Realm also vanished.
Vanishing along with them were Li Wei, Saint Xi, and Gu Sewei.
WHOOSH!
Li Wei let out a long sigh of relief. The air around him was no longer cold.
He knew then that he had successfully entered the Time Secret Realm.
"Ah! So this is the Time Secret Realm?"
Gu Sewei looked around, her initial expression of delighted surprise slowly fading into one of disappointment.
There was nothing here.
It was like an empty room.
The walls and ceiling radiated a strange, seven-colored light, while the floor beneath their feet gave off a gentle white glow.
Li Wei quickly scanned the area and saw a massive dragon egg, as tall as a person, not far away.
He hurried over and found the slumbering Saint Xi inside the dragon egg.
A strange Power enveloped Saint Xi’s body.
Li Wei could see the Dragon Scales on Saint Xi’s body changing at an astonishing speed.
He looked at the strange Power enveloping Saint Xi.
’Is this the Time Dragon’s treasure? The Power of Time?’
Until Saint Xi finished absorbing the Power of Time and its growth was complete, Li Wei would be unable to wake it.
He and Gu Sewei had no choice but to wait for Saint Xi to awaken in this empty space.
Li Wei could only hope it wouldn’t take too long.
Gu Sewei looked at Saint Xi and asked, "That’s a dragon?"
Li Wei nodded. "Yeah."
She glanced at Li Wei, at a loss for words.
’Li Wei actually has a living dragon with him.’
She was utterly stunned.
Gu Sewei glanced around, her mind turning to a critical problem.
She asked, "What now? Are we supposed to just stay in here forever?"
Li Wei shrugged. "For now, it looks like that’s our only option."
Gu Sewei’s expression changed drastically. She grabbed Li Wei by the collar and yelled, "Are you kidding me?! How long do you expect me to stay here? I have to get back and stop that group from resurrecting the Ice Emperor!"
Li Wei pried her fingers off his collar. "Don’t worry," he said. "This is the Time Secret Realm. Years can pass in here while only a few days go by outside."
Gu Sewei couldn’t accept his explanation.
"Even so, I can’t just stay here for years! Damn it, let me out!"
Li Wei shook his head. "Sorry, I can’t help you."
"The only way out is to wait for her to awaken."
With that, Li Wei sat on the ground and began his Cultivation.
Gu Sewei remained standing, staring at Saint Xi, who was enveloped in the Power of Time.
After a long moment, she gripped her Frost Staff and approached Saint Xi, attempting to wake the slumbering creature.
Li Wei glanced at her but wasn’t worried she could affect Saint Xi’s growth.
The Power of Time was one of the mightiest Powers in existence.
Not even a Divine Spirit could necessarily break through it.