48: Secrets of the Ancient Eldar 1

Before the dizziness from the spatial transition had fully subsided, Xiao Bing felt a bone-chilling coldness wash over him. He opened his eyes to find himself standing on a vast ice plain, with distant, continuous ice mountains piercing the sky like sharp swords.

"Welcome to the ancestral land of the Tai Ling Ancient Clan," Aunt Qing said, her silver hair fluttering and her plain white robe rustling in the cold wind. "This is the Extreme North Eternal Frozen Soil, a Small World independent of the Source World."

Xiao Bing took a deep breath, and the ice-attributed Qi in his body automatically circulated. Far from feeling cold, he felt a comfortable sensation, like a fish in water. Every wisp of cold Qi here seemed to cheer his arrival.

"I can feel it... the power here is calling to me." Xiao Bing stretched out his hand, and a snowflake obediently landed in his palm, transforming into pure Qi that merged into his body.

A hint of complexity flashed in Aunt Qing's eyes: "Because your mother was once the Saintess here, and the purest Tai Ling Bloodline flows within you." She pointed to a majestic Ice Crystal Palace in the distance. "That is the core of the ancestral land, holding all the answers you seek."

The two walked on the ice, each step leaving a faint blue glow on the crystalline surface. As they approached the palace, Xiao Bing noticed countless ancient runes frozen beneath the ice, glowing faintly like living things with his every step.

"These are ancient Tai Ling texts, recording the history of the Ancient Clan," Aunt Qing explained. "Only the Saintess's Bloodline can awaken them."

As if to confirm her words, when Xiao Bing passed an exceptionally large ice crystal, the runes within it suddenly burst forth with dazzling light, transforming into flowing images—a woman with the same ice-blue hair as Xiao Bing was performing a solemn ceremony.

"Mother..." Xiao Bing involuntarily stopped, reaching out to touch the ice surface. The woman in the image seemed to sense something, turning her head to "look" at him, a gentle smile appearing on her lips.

Aunt Qing's face showed surprise: "This... this is impossible! The Ice Heart Saintess passed away more than twenty years ago, how could her spiritual consciousness..."

Before she finished speaking, the entire ancestral land suddenly trembled violently! Countless cracks appeared on the ice plain, and seven towering ice pillars rose from the ground, each wrapped with thick silver chains. The other ends of the chains disappeared into the Void Realm, leading to an unknown destination.

"The Seven Extremes Demon Sealing Array?!" Aunt Qing's expression changed dramatically. "How could it activate automatically? Unless..."

She abruptly looked at Xiao Bing, her gaze becoming incredibly sharp: "Besides the Tai Ling Extreme Ice, what else is inside you?"

Before Xiao Bing could answer, the seven ice pillars simultaneously lit up with blinding blue light, and all the chains rattled, as if pulling something. A gap was forcibly torn open in the Void Realm, and a crystal-clear blue crystal slowly emerged.

The moment the crystal appeared, Xiao Bing's chest felt as if struck by lightning, and the Source Ice Heart pendant flew out on its own, resonating strongly with that crystal!

"A fragment of the plane of origin!" Aunt Qing exclaimed in shock. "So it was hidden in the ancestral land's Seal all along!"

Xiao Bing felt an irresistible pull, his body uncontrollably flying towards the crystal. Aunt Qing tried to grab him but was repelled by a blue light barrier.

The moment Xiao Bing's hand touched the crystal, time seemed to stand still.

The crystal burst forth with endless light, pulling him into a strange space. Here, there was no up, down, left, or right, only countless flowing images and sounds. Xiao Bing saw two infants enveloped in a soft blue light, and he saw a haggard but still beautiful woman—his mother—tearfully dividing a blue crystal into two halves, each merging into the hearts of the two infants.

"Mother divided the plane of origin into two; the ice attribute is for you, and the fire attribute is for Yan'er..." The woman's weak voice directly entered Xiao Bing's mind. "You brothers are originally a single twin birth, jointly bearing the Origin of the Plane..."

The scene suddenly changed. Xiao Bing saw his mother being ambushed by a group of black-clothed figures. She desperately opened a spatial passage, sending the two infants into it. The last image was her resolute figure, self-destructing her Qi to perish with her pursuers...

"No!" Xiao Bing clutched his head in pain. These images brought not only information but also intense emotional impact. He truly felt his mother's pain and reluctance before her death, as well as her deep affection for her two children.

Just then, a familiar burning sensation suddenly rose from the depths of his heart. Xiao Bing was surprised to find a wisp of green flame appearing within him, coexisting miraculously with the Extreme Ice Power!

Even more incredible, through this wisp of flame, he vaguely sensed Xiao Yan's existence—at this moment, Xiao Yan was somewhere in the Source World, also undergoing some kind of transformation, with ice-blue Qi and strange fire intertwined within him...

"Brother..." Xiao Bing instinctively reached out, as if he could penetrate the Void Realm and touch his distant brother. In an instant, countless memory fragments flooded his mind: Xiao Yan shielding him from bullying fists in childhood, the days and nights they Cultivated side by side as teenagers, and the scene in the spatial turbulence where Xiao Yan pushed him away but was himself entangled by golden chains...

"It turns out our connection is deeper than Bloodline..." Xiao Bing murmured.

The crystal shone brightly again, transmitting the last piece of information to him—it was the main base of the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan, where countless Saint King-level powerhouses were gathering. Standing at the forefront were three figures shrouded in black mist, their aura so strong that even space twisted beneath their feet!

"Three Evil Gods..." Xiao Bing gasped. According to the records of the Tai Ling Ancient Clan, Evil Gods were existences beyond the Heavenly Supreme, each capable of easily destroying a Plane!