66: A blood oath from the past, a frozen soul branded in my heart.

The ruins of Medicine King Valley steamed with green smoke under the embers of the Chaos Star Flame. Jiang Linfeng held the unconscious Su Ningxue in his arms, his warm source power continuously pouring into the Jade Peach Blossom Mark on her heart, like watering a newborn seedling with Chaos nectar. The Profound Elixir Talisman Seal on his brow flickered, and the icy "Thought-Slaying" within it became clearer than ever before—the ice soul mystic crystal of his past life! That protection that had nearly destroyed itself, shattering a corner for the sake of the newborn Fire Spirit Origin... The scenes within the Thatched Cottage and the frantic images of Ning Yudie self-mutilating her collarbone and floating in the blood pool within the Remnant Cauldron Space tore through his Sea of Consciousness in alternation! The Mystic Crystal of the past life and the demonic woman of this life, ice and fire intertwined! The cold Killing Intent and the ancient connection awakened deep within his Bloodline collided fiercely! Luo Yan's worried gaze, and the weak yet steady aura of Su Ningxue and the Immortal Fetus in her womb, acted as anchors pulling him back to reality.

Just then!

Buzz—!!!

An indescribably vast and attribute-less cold will! Like the Universe that had slept for billions of eons in Chaos opening its heartless eyelids! Crossing the barriers of time and space, it locked onto the ruins of Medicine King Valley! It further locked onto Jiang Linfeng, whose aura had yet to settle after just embedding the Thought-Slaying Profound Elixir!

Buzz... buzz... buzz... All the unextinguished Chaos Star Flames in Medicine King Valley suddenly froze and went out! Even the dust in space stopped drifting! Absolute suppression! Like ants looking up at the starry sky!

It wasn't a gap in spiritual power levels, but a crushing of dimensional essence! That will seemed to only need to "see" this broken battlefield for all time, energy, and rules within it to instantly freeze, solidify, and head toward extinction!

【Warning! Warning! High-dimensional existence's will projection detected! Energy level: Primordial Chaos Rank!】

【Analysis: Target will possesses "Absolute Cold," "Eternal Oversight," and "Chaotic Devouring" attributes (Highly compatible with... Primordial Ice Soul Mother Origin?)】

【Threat Rank: World-Extinguishing Rank!】

【The "Thought-Slaying" (the Origin mark of the ice soul mystic crystal's predecessor) within the host's Profound Elixir has been forced into resonance!】

Jiang Linfeng's pupils instantly shrank to the size of needles! His Divine Soul felt as if it had fallen into an eternal ice prison! The light of the ice-blue Immortal Fetus star-vortex within Su Ningxue's body flickered violently, letting out a silent, fearful throb! Even Luo Yan in the Thatched Cottage suddenly hugged Star Universe tightly, her chest feeling as if it were weighed down by ten thousand tons of profound ice!

“Linfeng Gege—!!!”

A heart-wrenching wail, like the pure sob of melting snow! Carrying despair that pierced through the ages and reckless love! It suddenly tore through the deathly silence that froze all things! It surged frantically from the depths of Chaos, from the direction of the Ice Soul Palace!

The blood pool exploded with ten thousand layers of red waves!

Ning Yudie’s slender, jade-like body was completely covered in dark-gold blood runes! But deep within those ice-blue pupils, the obsession of the past life's Mystic Crystal's protection finally tore the demonic woman's resentment to shreds! She threw her head back, hot tears of blood streaming from the cracks in her ice soul divine talisman! The Origin of her entire Ice Soul Divine Body was boiling and burning! Sacrificing everything! Just to deliver that call!

Blood runes surged frantically beneath her smooth collarbone! A vow pattern, condensed from the pure ice soul mystic crystal Origin and the demonic blood of this life, instantly manifested! Shaped like a frozen heart, with a beating Chaos flame mark at its center!

Vow Mark: Ice Soul Heart Brand! The Vow Fire shall never be extinguished!

“Wait for me to find you! Wait for me to wash this filthy demonic body clean... Wait for you to personally... brand upon my heart... the Medicine King Holy Seal that belongs only to you!” Ning Yudie’s voice trembled with the sound of weeping blood, yet it was as decisive and sharp as ice crystals. “You owe me! The position of your first Cauldron... can only be given to me, Ning Yudie!” Her words exploded like thunder! Shaking the Chaos space until it hummed!

“Boom—!!!”

That cold, overseeing will seemed to be stung by this blood oath, which was filled with the aura of the Primordial Ice Soul, protective obsession, and chaotic love! Or perhaps, it had found a truly clear target! The frozen pressure suddenly withdrew! The chaotic gaze instantly pierced through the spatial cracks of Medicine King Valley, locking onto the figure in the blood pool who was frantically burning herself and using a vow to tear through the high-dimensional barrier!

The ruins of Medicine King Valley mirrored that boiling blood pool like a mirror! Billions of dark-red demonic threads emerged from the spatial cracks, like a pack of snakes locking onto their prey! Ning Yudie was like a broken-winged ice butterfly in the blood waves! The last trace of the Ice Soul Divine Body's Origin was drawn out by the invisible will, and together with the entangling demonic threads, it constructed an ever-extending, distorted coordinate leading to the Ice Soul Palace!

She looked toward Medicine King Valley, her gaze complex to the extreme: the satisfaction of self-destructing to protect the Fire Spirit in her past life, the humiliation of becoming a blood-runed Cauldron in this life, the fear of being about to be sacrificed to a terrifying existence... In the end, it all turned into a touch of nearly sorrowful, gentle relief directed at the center of the ruins? As if saying: “Go! While you still can!”

Silent, yet heavier than a thousand tons!

Buzz—

The last trace of the Ice Soul Origin burned out! The passage slammed shut! That cold will and its prey vanished into the distorted passage at the same time!

Jiang Linfeng’s hand holding Su Ningxue suddenly tightened! The agonizing pain of the Thought-Slaying within his Profound Elixir receded like a tide, leaving only a bone-chillingly cold emptiness! A connection from a past life? A blood oath of this life? The one forcibly taken away... was it an enemy, or... the Mystic Crystal that had once shattered itself for him?!

“Pfft—!” Su Ningxue in his arms suddenly spat out a mouthful of foul blood mixed with gray Death Qi! But this time, the blood contained specks of crystalline ice-blue starlight! The emerald light on her brow suddenly became as bright as jade! The Jade Peach Blossom Mark on her heart circulated frantically, bursting with vitality! A warm and vast Chaos medicinal power automatically surged along her Meridians, repairing the injuries!

The ice-blue star-vortex within her belly rotated rapidly, emitting a soft yet resilient ice-jade light, striving to protect the mother and disperse the last remaining shock.

“Ningxue?” Jiang Linfeng called out in a low voice, pouring source power into the saint rune on her brow. Su Ningxue’s eyelashes trembled violently as she struggled to open her deer-like eyes. Her gaze was somewhat unfocused, but her small hand instinctively protected her lower abdomen. Her voice was as thin and weak as willow catkins in the wind: “Sect... Master... the child... wasn't... hurt...”

Luo Yan rushed forward holding Star Universe, seeing her husband's cold face and Su Ningxue's panicked movement of protecting her belly, her beautiful eyes full of worry: “Husband... she...”

Jiang Linfeng slowly released his hand from Su Ningxue's abdomen and looked toward the spatial coordinate point where the Ice Soul Palace had completely fallen silent. His voice was hoarse and low, each word hitting like a falling ice bead: “Send word to Qingyun.”

The cold decree echoed through the ruins with a bone-chilling coldness that severed the ages:

“First! Announce to the heavens! Medicine King Valley coveted the consort of the Sect Master of Qingyun and intended to defile this seat's Bloodline! Now the valley is destroyed! The Cauldron is shattered! The people are dead! They shall never exist again!”

“Second!” His gaze pierced through the ruins like a physical force, cutting into the endless Chaos. “Ning Yudie! For stealing this seat's Chaos spoils of war from Medicine King Valley, insulting my primary consort, and harming my beloved concubine! Her crime is punishable by death!”

He paused, and with a flick of his finger, a brand intertwined with ice-blue and dark-gold, carrying the aura of a piercing blood oath, was drawn from the void. It transformed into an absolute seal of “Ice Soul Heart Brand, Chaos Fire Vow” in his palm!

“Announce a bounty to all domains! To the one who captures this person alive! I shall grant... the position of Protector of the Outer Sect of Qingyun! To the one who takes her head... I shall grant a Ten-Thousand-Year Longevity Pill!”

The final sentence shattered the wind and snow:

“ I swear again in my name.！ This life！ I will personally go to the Ice Soul Ancestral Nest！ Burn its sacred soul！ Cut off its foundation！ Shatter it ice soul divine talisman！ Let her... May they never be reincarnated！” A chilling killing intent swept across the entire ruins.！

Luo Yan looked at the mark containing the blood oath in his palm, then at the clear eyes of Star Universe in her arms, and finally let out a sigh.

Su Ningxue curled up in Jiang Linfeng's arms, feeling the lingering shock beneath that violent Killing Intent and the comfort of the fetus in her womb. The Jade Peach Blossom on her heart circulated silently. Ning Yudie's final look back was like a poison-tipped thorn, quietly pricking the heart of every woman in the Thatched Cottage.

The cold war order echoed in the deathly ruins. The mark of the blood oath gradually solidified in Jiang Linfeng's palm. The final protection of the past life's ice soul mystic crystal had finally, on the demonic woman of this life, branded a heartless mark of eternal enmity. At the other end of the passage, was it a sacrifice worse than death, or another frantic reunion? No one knew. Only between the Qingyun war order and the Ice Soul Ancestral Nest, the shadow of Chaos spread like an abyss. Beside the base of the medicine king cauldron's remains, a scorched fragment of tortoise shell tumbled in the wind, faintly revealing several blood-stained, unsettling characters:

“The Mystic Crystal cracks, the heart talisman shatters; the blood soul returns to its ancestors... all heavens shall be chilled to the bone.”

The wind swept past, and the characters vanished.

A new storm was already brewing in the silence.