Mutual Threats

Zilan Yin didn’t care in the slightest. With Xu Mu protecting her, she had no reason to fear Freya.

“What do you mean? I was only trying to save you.”

Zilan Yin turned to Xu Mu. “Why don’t you help her warm up too? As far as I know, Freya still isn’t married.”

Hearing this, Freya recalled the scene of Xu Mu helping the two of them earlier, and her expression immediately grew unnatural.

“No need. I saved you because you were both unconscious. She’s becoming more alert and won’t be in any danger.”

Xu Mu lay beside the fire, closed his eyes, and expanded his perception.

From what he could tell, there seemed to be several formations here, separating everyone from one another.

Otherwise, no matter how far away they were, the others should have rushed over when Freya released her eighth-tier power.

But they hadn’t come. Combined with the fact that he couldn’t communicate with Chen Xuan through voice transmission, this proved that they weren’t inside the same formation.

He placed both hands against the ground and carefully studied the formation beneath them.

He discovered that there didn’t seem to be any formation within this two-meter radius—or perhaps this area was simply a gap in the formation.

Based on his research into formations, the exit should have been right here.

Yet they were still trapped and hadn’t left the formation.

He didn’t know how to break it, so he could only wait until dawn and examine the surroundings again.

“Oh, the temperature here is all right, and my phone actually works.”

Zilan Yin held up her phone and took a series of pictures of Freya’s body.

Freya could only close her eyes and suppress the anger in her heart.

She could already feel the warmth of the flames.

She had to admit that Zilan Yin had helped her quite a bit. By stripping away the thick layer of ice covering her body, she had allowed her skin to come into contact with the flames sooner.

Holding her phone, Zilan Yin looked through the pictures and videos she had just taken. “Xu Mu, do you want them? I know you’re too embarrassed to ask. I can send them to you, and you can watch them in secret.”

She smiled as she came over to Xu Mu and waved the phone in front of his face.

For some reason, she felt completely relaxed around Xu Mu and didn’t need to put on an act.

Perhaps it was because Xu Mu had known what she was really like all along, or perhaps there was some other reason.

Whatever the case, Zilan Yin felt very comfortable around him.

“No need. What’s so interesting about watching a video?”

With Xu Mu’s current perception, he could clearly see every detail—and in three-dimensional, panoramic clarity at that.

It was far clearer than anything on a phone.

What mattered was being unable to feel the sensations. What was the point of merely watching?

“What a pity.”

Zilan Yin smiled and put her phone away in her ring.

“It really is a pity!”

Freya’s stiff arm suddenly moved. She then took two steps forward, drawing closer to the flames.

The heat rapidly melted the ice covering her body. Finally, she clenched her fists.

The moment Zilan Yin saw this, she immediately ran toward Xu Mu.

But Freya’s figure flashed, and she grabbed Zilan Yin by the neck.

Xu Mu opened his eyes when he saw this.

However, Freya clearly knew what Xu Mu was about to say and spoke first. “Don’t worry. I won’t kill her.”

As soon as she finished speaking, a golden cross condensed behind Zilan Yin.

Golden chains emerged from the cross and wrapped around Zilan Yin.

Only then did Freya release her grip on Zilan Yin’s neck.

“What are you doing? Xu Mu, save me! She’s trying to kill me!”

Zilan Yin struggled desperately, but she couldn’t break free.

After all, the difference in their strength was enormous. Zilan Yin was only at the second tier of the World-Breaking Realm, while Freya was already at the eighth tier.

“What do you think I’m trying to do?”

Freya extended her hand, preparing to take Zilan Yin’s spatial ring.

But Zilan Yin hid her fingers in her palm and clenched her fist tightly, refusing to let Freya take it. “Go ahead! If you’ve got the nerve, break my fingers!”

“I have no need to do that.”

After saying this, Freya grabbed Zilan Yin’s skirt and began tearing it apart.

This time, she went even further than Zilan Yin had earlier. She not only destroyed the thunder-binding item but also damaged the sealing formation around the blessed land.

“Ah! Freya! You’re shameless! Xu Mu, don’t look!”

When Zilan Yin saw what had happened, her entire body flushed red, and tears streamed from her eyes.

She felt as if her mind were about to explode and wished she could crawl into a crack in the ground.

Freya had seen everything. She was absolutely detestable. Zilan Yin had deliberately left a small part of the blessed land’s sealing formation intact for her, yet Freya had still done this.

How was she supposed to face anyone in the future?

Li Hongdou shook her head slightly. These young people really knew how to play around.

Xu Mu couldn’t help looking over as well, discovering the remnants of the grotto-heaven and blessed land.

They really were all different, with quite a few variations between them.

Freya took out her phone and imitated what Zilan Yin had done earlier.

Only after everything was over did she release Zilan Yin.

The two of them then put their clothes back on.

“Freya! You’re a member of the Holy Light Clan! I can’t believe you’re this disgusting. I even left a little for you!” Zilan Yin pointed at Freya and shouted. “Delete it right now!”

“You’re the disgusting one. You were the one who started acting shamelessly.”

Freya’s tone remained calm. “You delete yours first, and then I’ll delete mine.”

“What if I delete mine and you refuse to delete yours?”

At this, Zilan Yin looked toward Xu Mu. “Let’s have Xu Mu act as the witness. He can delete our videos for us.”

“Fine.”

Freya’s only goal was to make Zilan Yin delete the video.

She was a dignified Inner Council Elder of the Holy Light Clan, a person of considerable standing. If a video like this were exposed, how could she ever show her face again? She might as well die.

In the end, both women took out their phones and handed them to Xu Mu.

They opened the videos, and Xu Mu tapped the delete buttons. He then completely emptied the recycle bins before returning the phones to them.

Just then, the cold wind surrounding them gradually weakened, and the sky began to brighten.

Xu Mu immediately rose from the ground and examined the surroundings.

Ten seconds later, everything around them suddenly brightened, and the snow beasts scattered across the area vanished at the same time.

Suddenly, Xu Mu and the others felt as though they were falling.

The sensation lasted only an instant before disappearing. The other World-Breaking cultivators hadn’t even had time to fly up.

Xu Mu surveyed the surroundings and discovered that the ice still completely covered the ground and the mountain peaks.

There was no difference from the daytime they had experienced earlier.

“It’s daytime again. Could it be that we can’t leave this formation? Are we going to grow old and die here in solitude?”

Zilan Yin looked around and spoke helplessly.

“Xu Mu, have you discovered anything?” Li Hongdou asked as well.

Xu Mu placed his hand on the ground again. Then he stepped outside the two-meter radius and pressed his hand to the ground once more.

His expression suddenly changed. “Something’s wrong! It seems we’ve been moved into a different formation.”

“What changed? The surroundings look exactly the same.”

Zilan Yin gazed into the distance.

Xu Mu was just about to explain when a violent tremor suddenly came from far away.

Sensing the disturbance, Freya immediately flew in that direction.

Xu Mu also quickly sent a voice transmission to Chen Xuan. “Old Chen, are you there?”

“I’m here! I’m about to die, Brother Mu!”