The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 339 - 319 Retrospection_1

Chapter 339: Chapter 319 Retrospection_1

Time froze, and the void was locked.

Only Pang Jian, floating in mid-air, could sense the vision unfolding behind him in the void, one by one.

The elders of the Ice Tribe and those warriors who had taken to the sky, along with the flying birds and spiritual birds, were frozen in mid-air, still in a state of eerie stillness.

The entire Frozen Land became incredibly silent, without a whisper of sound.

How long this lasted, no one knew.

"Crack!"

There was a sudden crisp sound from the Altar of Praying to God below, and the thick white fog suddenly condensed.

All the cold fog disappeared into the "Heart of Winter" in an instant.

Looking down, Pang Jian saw a point of light that was gradually brightening deep within the clear and lustrous heart.

It was so bright that it was startling.

Then, all the glaciers shining frosty divine light upon him also suddenly became more dazzling.

"Whoosh!"

The huge Ice Crystal heart, following the "crack" sound, released dazzling Frosty Divine Light, slowly rising from the altar.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Around the altar, from the tops of six towering Sky-Piercing Ice Pillars, the same Frosty Divine Light burst forth.

Six broad beams of divine light shot out as if to penetrate the void, or break through the Heaven Forbidden barrier, aimed at Pang Jian’s back.

Those, cast from Pang Jian’s "Chaos Sea" located within his dantian – the Bright Moon, Fierce Sun, stars, Thunder Vortex, Flame Pool, Leaf of Life, Mysterious Turtle shell...

One by one, were gradually enveloped by the thick six beams of divine light.

At this moment, Pang Jian suddenly had the strange feeling that some kind of incomplete law of Heaven was being repaired.

Deep within the earth, inside the glaciers, within the rocks of the snowcapped mountains, in certain mysterious places surrounded by Cold Fog where frozen Ice Lakes lay, mysteries he couldn’t explain quietly emerged.

Hidden laws were being sorted out, the twisted law of Heaven was being smoothed out, and the erased divine essence was reappearing.

Because of his Chaos Sea, and the many oddities within it, this Frozen Land, forgotten in the Mysterious Fog, underwent a transformation he could not understand.

And leading all of this was the "Heart of Winter," revered by the Ice Tribe as a Divine Object!

A moment later.

"Whoosh!"

The many wonders manifested by the Chaos Sea were pulled by those six broad beams of divine light and suddenly fell back onto the six massive Sky-Piercing Ice Pillars.

On those six pillars, intricate patterns swiftly formed, featuring the Sun, Moon, stars, flames, thunder and lightning, leaves, scale armor, and many other vivid designs.

The Ice Pillars shone with divine light, and the patterns seemed to come alive, vivid and moving.

The slowly rising "Heart of Winter" kept shrinking, until it was the size of a fist.

"Zoom!"

The "Heart of Winter" slipped into Pang Jian’s abdomen, into his dantian, falling into the Ice Pool in his Spiritual Sea, and became a crystal at the bottom.

At that moment, the spatial lock suddenly lifted.

"Bang!"

The out-of-control Pang Jian fell from the sky, crashing in front of the elders of the Ice Tribe, right where the Divine Object "Heart of Winter" had originally been.

The visions in the void disappeared, the "Heart of Winter" was gone, only the six Sky-Piercing Ice Pillars remained, shining with divine light.

"Outsider!"

"What happened?"

"Just now, my consciousness stopped. But I... I saw a series of wonders, right behind the outsider in the void!"

"In the legends passed down through generations, our ancestors also lived in a world with the Sun, Moon, and stars, bathed in the radiance of stars and moonlight!"

"Stars, the Moon! They once existed in the sky of the Frozen Land!"

The people of the Ice Tribe murmured as they looked up at the sky.

"Quickly look, look at those six Ice Pillars!"

With a startled shout, the eyes of all the people of the Ice Tribe turned to the six looming Ice Pillars.

They saw on the surface of the pillars, miraculous patterns of the Sun, Moon, stars, as well as flames, thunder and lightning, leaves, scale armor, and various other intricate designs.

After a moment, some of the Ice Tribe people began to scream in terror, "The Heart of Winter is missing!"

"Shut up!"

The Ice Tribe’s Second Elder, Ice Plain, clutching the Frost Wand, trembled all over as he knelt beside the fallen Pang Jian.

Looking at Pang Jian with his lifeless eyes, also staring blankly at the sky, Ice Plain’s voice was filled with panic as he cried out, "Outsider, what exactly happened? How did the Heart of Winter disappear inside your body?"

He clearly sensed that the "Heart of Winter," regarded as a Divine Object by them, regarded as the core of the Frozen Land, had settled within Pang Jian’s body.

"Second Elder, even if it means flaying and deboning him, the Heart of Winter must be retrieved!"

"This child, he truly is wicked to the extreme, his crime is monstrous!"

"He has stolen our Heart of Winter!"

Exclaimed the other elders in shock.

As elders, possessing a sixth-level bloodline, they could all vaguely sense the "Heart of Winter."

They also knew that the Ice Tribe’s Divine Object was inside Pang Jian’s body.

"You all shut up as well!"

In the equally distraught Ice Plain, he knelt down to stare at Pang Jian’s face, taking deep breaths one after another to stabilize his emotions, and tremblingly asked again, "Excuse me, you..."

Coming back to his senses, Pang Jian remained silent for a long time before saying with a faint tone, "Allow me to recover a moment."

The Ice Plain was taken aback.

"I am sensing the message left by the Ice Demon."

Having said this, Pang Jian simply closed his eyes, focusing his mental awareness solely on himself.

Within his Spiritual Sea of dantian, Spiritual Power had been exhausted, the stars no longer shone brightly, and the sun and moon had shrunk to the size of rice grains.

The Thunder Vortex had become a swirl without thunderbolts.

The Flame Pool existed only as a pool, devoid of Flame Force.

The Eight Leaves of Life, the Mysterious Turtle shell, their inner powers were also empty.

Except for the Sea of Consciousness where everything was normal, the "Creation Divine Pool" still harbored qi and blood, the many strange powers within his body were all absorbed clean by the six ice pillars during the time when time-space was frozen.

What he had received, on the other hand, was the "Heart of Winter" that sank into the Ice Pool.

When the "Heart of Winter" fell into the Ice Pool, he had formed a mysterious connection with it, feeling that he had been acknowledged by the Divine Object.

At this moment.

"Huff! Huff huff!"

Leading with the Bee King, a succession of Golden Bee Insects’ Bee Souls, without encountering any hindrance, began to whiz through the dense fog that encircled the "Heart of Winter."

For millions of years, the Divine Consciousness left behind by the puppet Alien Gods who died in The Frozen Land were sealed within the dense fog inside the "Heart of Winter."

It was these Divine Consciousness that the Bee King and Bee Insects feasted upon lavishly.

Pang Jian, too, gathered all the golden Divine Sense together, delving deep into the crystal core of the "Heart of Winter."

In the very depths of the "Heart of Winter," there was a bright spherical crystal, small as a walnut.

Sitting upon this walnut-sized crystal core was an Ice Tribe man dressed in silver Divine Clothing, with a delicate and handsome appearance.

He was none other than a fragment of the fallen Ice Demon’s Spiritual Soul.

From this fragment of Spiritual Soul, streams of silver-white frost light constantly drifted, and upon contact with Pang Jian’s golden Divine Sense, imprints of scenes were branded.

In a distant land, there was a world known as the Profound Ice Realm.

There, a star named "Star of Winter" existed; it was the homeland of the Ice Demon and the origin of all members of the Ice Tribe.

The Ice Demon had ascended to become a God Spirit on the Star of Winter and ruled over all creatures of the Profound Ice Realm, providing protection to the people of the Ice Tribe.

In the world beyond the heavens, the Profound Ice Realm, there were many other strange stars like the Star of Winter, along with different tribes and various exotic Spirit Beasts.

Because the Ice Demon was a God Spirit of the Profound Ice Realm and also a member of the Ice Tribe, the Ice Tribe was forever the supreme ruler of the Profound Ice Realm.

One day.

An Alien God shrouded in fierce snowstorms crossed the Boundless Star River to the Profound Ice Realm and stirred up a Divine Battle with the Ice Demon.

This Divine Battle lasted for hundreds of days.

During the battle, nine stars in the Profound Ice Realm were entirely shattered, and even the Ice Tribe’s origin, the Star of Winter, was torn asunder during the fray.

As the Divine Battle neared its end, the Ice Demon, realizing its inevitable defeat, stripped the crystal core of the shattered Star of Winter and imbued it with a portion of his Divine Power, casting it along with a piece of Fragment Land originating from the Star of Winter deep into the Mysterious Fog.

Thus, he preserved the essence of the Ice Tribe, ensuring their continued existence.

Not long after, he perished, and the Goddess of Cold Crystal replaced him, becoming the new deity of the Profound Ice Realm.

The Ice Tribe, who had once ruled over all creatures of the Profound Ice Realm, were slaughtered to the brink of extinction by tribes worshipping the Goddess of Cold Crystal.

Over time, the Fragment Land pushed by the Ice Demon’s Divine Power into the Mysterious Fog became the now present The Frozen Land.

The Ice Tribe of this place is the last branch of the Ice Tribe from the Profound Ice Realm and the essence of the entire tribe.

Since it had split from the Star of Winter and had completely severed ties with the Profound Ice Realm, the heavenly laws of this fragment were incomplete.

The Ice Demon also deliberately sealed this place with the "Heart of Winter," making it difficult for the bloodline of the Ice Tribe there to ascend to their peak.

Moreover, because of the seal, the Goddess of Cold Crystal, who replaced the Ice Demon as the new deity of the Profound Ice Realm, was unable to sense The Frozen Land.

The new deity of the Profound Ice Realm, unable to exterminate the remaining Ice Tribe, could not obtain the Divine Object, "Heart of Winter."

However, the Sovereign of the Profound Ice Realm, the Goddess of Cold Crystal, had never forgotten this matter.

She had always been arranging for her worshipers to search for this lost fragment of land, attempting to retrieve the "Heart of Winter."

The Frozen Land, flawed by the incomplete heavenly laws and hidden for many years deep within the Mysterious Fog due to the Heaven Forbidden barrier, had yet to be discovered by the Alien Tribes of the Profound Ice Realm.

"Huff!"

After the last strand of frost light vanished, the Ice Demon’s fragment of Spiritual Soul dissipated, leaving no trace in the world.

And there was Pang Jian, beside the crystal core of the "Heart of Winter," silently digesting this unknown piece of history.

He was like a bystander, witnessing everything from deep within the sky of the Profound Ice Realm.

In the meantime, the Golden Bee Insects around the perimeter of the "Heart of Winter" continued to consume the Divine Consciousness left behind by the puppets of the Alien Gods.

One Bee Insect after another, as their bellies swelled from feeding, deposited golden honey into Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness.

The honey, after a period of settling and accumulating, began to gush forth strands of golden Divine Sense from the "Spring Eye."

Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness was day by day filling with the golden Divine Sense, the amount becoming extraordinarily substantial.

As for the Ice Tribe people led by the Ice Plain, in a land without the alternation of day and night, could only stand guard beside Pang Jian, watching him as he lay motionless on the altar, enshrouded by the cold fog.

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ps: There will be three updates today~