Dragon's Origin

Wang Sheng had seen this frozen pillar before, but seeing it again still stirred his heart. He walked forward a few steps, reached out, and stroked the ice pillar, speechless for a long time.

Song Yan and the others followed, one after another. Seeing this scene, no one spoke, but they spread out and stood guard, waiting for Wang Sheng's next move.

"Is it convenient for the people below to know?" Wang Sheng didn't look at them, but he could feel that they had already taken their positions, and he asked in a deep voice.

The others looked at each other and shook their heads with wry smiles. If it were convenient for everyone to know about this, they would have told everyone long ago. Why wait until now?

Song Yan signaled to the Shi family expert beside her, who understood and immediately took out an array stone and activated it at the entrance. This was a soundproof array, and the sound above would never reach below.

As for safety, no one was worried. There were hundreds of ninth-level experts below. If Wang Sheng were to do anything here, as long as the Shi family expert's spiritual energy was cut off, those experts below would rush up.

The hole left by the metal tube the last time Wang Sheng came was still there. It was difficult for the ice here to turn into steam, and in the few months that had passed, it was not enough to fill the gap.

The first thing everyone saw when they came up was the ice pillar in the center, sealing the girl in the dream. No one noticed the top. Only Song Yan glanced at it intentionally and quickly discovered the hole at the top, but she just looked at it silently and didn't look again.

It was estimated that only Song Yan would believe that Wang Sheng had been here once before. No one else would have thought that someone could come down here when the glacier lake was still hundreds of meters deep. So many experts diving, finding the location underwater was unimaginable, let alone entering here.

That was dozens of miles in circumference, tangled with various ice-sealed shrubs and houses, and still four hundred meters deep underwater. The experts from each family were still searching inch by inch. Going up once and then going down again might make it impossible to find the original location. In this situation, could someone accurately find this place?

Clap clap, Wang Sheng reached out and patted the ice pillar twice, attracting everyone's attention. The ice pillar felt the same to Wang Sheng as it did last time. He couldn't feel any signs of melting at all. Wang Sheng didn't know what to do if the energy source was cut off. He could only rely on everyone's collective wisdom.

"Come and take a look!" Wang Sheng shouted to everyone: "See who recognizes this array, who has a way to open it?"

Actually, even without Wang Sheng's words, everyone had wanted to come up and take a look. They were just giving face to Wang Sheng and Song Yan. Now that Wang Sheng himself had invited them, how could they be polite? They swarmed up to observe, even Song Yan herself was no exception. Anyway, the ice pillar was four or five zhang in diameter, and sixteen or seventeen people couldn't even hug it, so no one would get in anyone's way.

After some inspection, everyone shook their heads. They could only feel the array on the surface of the ice pillar, and they didn't know what was inside. But just the array on the surface gave them the feeling that they had no clue at all. They didn't know how this array was arranged or what its purpose was.

"Try attacking it a few times," Wang Sheng suggested again.

The others didn't have any objections. A few people looked at each other, then took out their weapons and slashed at the ice pillar in tacit agreement.

After a series of clanging sounds, everyone was dumbfounded. Seven or eight ninth-level experts, attacking with all their strength, didn't even knock off a bit of ice from the ice pillar. How could they save face? Without Wang Sheng saying anything more, a few people simply discussed it and immediately changed their attack method.

They added a few more people, and everyone joined forces to attack a single point on the ice pillar. This was also a common attack method for general arrays. Concentrating their attacks on one point could always affect the array, and might even disrupt the balance of the array in a short time, forming a gap that could be used to break the array.

Boom, almost at the same time, everyone's attacks landed on the point they had agreed upon in advance. Everyone expected the array on the ice pillar to shake violently, then form a gap, allowing people to attack the ice inside. However, reality gave the attacking experts a deep mockery.

The attacked position on the ice pillar was motionless, without even a white mark. Wang Sheng had known this would be the result, and didn't find it strange. Song Yan seemed to have guessed the result, so she didn't participate at all when they attacked. Others thought she was too proud to act, but they didn't know that Song Yan understood Wang Sheng. If this ice pillar was so easy to deal with, would Wang Sheng have waited for the second time to come down and cut off the energy source of the array below?

Everyone was dumbfounded. A combined attack couldn't even leave a trace. What was there to attack? A group of people stopped and gathered together to discuss a problem—what to do?

The top-secret books that each family had recently discovered in their secret vaults recorded some secrets from five hundred years ago. The only purpose of everyone gathering here was to kill the woman with the phoenix soul sealed in this ice pillar. This was the ancestral instruction. Although the reason was not explained, none of the insiders in each family would take it lightly. Being able to be instructed so solemnly by their ancestors was definitely not an ordinary matter.

"The energy source of the array should be the one hundred and eight stone pillars below, which we have destroyed." Wang Sheng didn't mind revealing some of what he knew, so that he could relieve the girl in the dream's pain: "What about this array?"

Each family had made arrangements. Among the two people who knew, one must be an array expert. Eight array experts discussed it, and then went to the array to probe with several kinds of array stones, and then came back to discuss. After several rounds, they finally shouted out a result.

"In theory, the energy source of this array has been destroyed, and it shouldn't last long." The Song family's array expert became the spokesperson, explaining to the people of each family and Wang Sheng: "But after our inspection, we found that the scale of this array is very large, and it can store very strong spiritual energy itself, so even in this state, it can last for a long time."

"How long is a long time?" Song Yan asked directly.

"At least more than a year." The Song family's array expert quickly replied. When he answered, the array experts from the other families nodded frequently.

More than a year? Song Yan frowned. Who knew what would happen in more than a year? To prevent any unforeseen events, it was best to solve it as soon as possible.

"Is there no way to solve it quickly?" Song Yan asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Yes!" The Song family expert hurriedly replied: "That is, sustained destruction with instantly powerful spiritual energy. If so, it will only take a few days."

"What level of powerful spiritual energy?" Song Yan asked again.

"The level of spiritual energy tempering when a ninth-level expert advances." The Song family expert didn't hesitate and directly gave the answer.