Faced with this situation, Li Xianxu and the others were helpless. In the end, Xu Qingsui gritted her teeth and released the Fire Attribute within her body to warm the group.

Once their bodies had recovered slightly, Li Xianxu and Jiang Xu charged at the icy temperature monster simultaneously. However, the creature’s body was as tough as solid steel. Their combined attacks landed squarely on it but only left a faint scratch.

Seeing that physical attacks were completely useless against the icy temperature monster, Xu Qingsui began to channel her attribute power once more. She hurled several fireballs at it, and the surface of the icy creature actually showed signs of melting.

The two men immediately coordinated with Xu Qingsui, launching their own strikes in tandem with the barrage of fireballs. Through this multi-pronged assault, they finally managed to finish the icy temperature monster off.

Although the creature was defeated, the intense battle had severely drained the stamina of all three combatants. Once it was over, they slumped onto the ground in exhaustion. Seeing this, Su Qingyan hurriedly took out a specially formulated potion he had developed for rapid stamina recovery and handed it to them. The moment the liquid slid down their throats, their complexions visibly improved, and their strength largely returned.

While they rested, Xu Qingsui turned her gaze toward Jiang Xu. Since they had previously discovered traces of the pharmaceutical company, they expected to find some clues here as well. Prompted by Xu Qingsui’s questions, Jiang Xu actually recalled something important. This place hadn’t always looked like this; it was only after the pharmaceutical company arrived that it suddenly transformed into its current state.

The mysteries were piling up once more. Unable to wait any longer, the group pressed forward.

Before long, all four of them halted in their tracks. Even though they were the only ones there, a bizarre sensation washed over everyone. It felt as if they were surrounded by a multitude of unseen people. There were faint whispers in the air and a suffocating sense of being tightly crowded. Their moods inexplicably grew irritable, each of them suddenly finding the others entirely insufferable.

Just as the situation threatened to spiral out of control, Xu Qingsui, relying on her formidable Spiritual Power, became the first to sense the root of the problem. They were being mentally manipulated! Something was wrong!

Xu Qingsui hurriedly channeled her Spiritual Power into the other three, instantly dispelling the abnormal irritability clouding their minds. Their eyes slowly regained clarity, completely oblivious to what had just happened.

Xu Qingsui’s gaze was solemn. She scanned their surroundings and warned, “Everyone, be careful. There’s something inside this glacier that can mess with our minds.”

The entities hidden within the glacier were formless—palpable, yet completely invisible. Standing beside her, Li Xianxu and Jiang Xu wanted to fight back, but they didn’t even know where to strike. For a moment, they were forced into a completely passive state, left with no choice but to wait and take the hits like sitting ducks.

A heavy silence fell over the group. After mulling it over, Xu Qingsui decided to make a move. She was the only one who could sense the anomaly. If she did nothing, they would be helplessly battered without any chance of winning. They had already come this far, and she refused to let their journey end here. If she wanted to uncover what the pharmaceutical company was plotting, she had to eliminate the obstacle right in front of them.

Steeling her resolve, Xu Qingsui reached out and placed her hand against the glacier.

“What are you doing? Didn’t you say you can’t use your Spiritual Power for more than ten minutes?” Su Qingyan was the first to notice her actions and hurriedly reached out to stop her.

Xu Qingsui’s brows were tightly knitted. “There’s something inside this ice. If we don’t take care of it, we’ll never make it across the glacier.”

“Then you still can’t take that risk! We can find another way!” Hearing Su Qingyan’s shout, Li Xianxu and Jiang Xu looked over. Realizing that Xu Qingsui was about to put herself in danger, they immediately voiced their disapproval.

“There’s a time limit, isn’t there? You guys just need to keep track of the time for me. As long as I keep it under ten minutes, there won’t be any problems.”

The answers they sought were right in front of them, and Xu Qingsui didn’t want to wait a single minute longer. Her attitude was unyielding, leaving the three men with no way to change her mind. Left with no other choice, they could only watch helplessly as Xu Qingsui pressed her hand firmly against the glacier. They immediately started a timer, strictly determined not to let Xu Qingsui exceed her limit.

As she channeled her Spiritual Power into the ice, Xu Qingsui finally saw what was lurking inside the glacier. They were disembodied souls. Their physical corpses had been sealed within the glacier, and their spirits were trapped here along with them. Unable to escape, a thousand years of agonizing solitude had twisted them into entities that despised all the living. As a result, they sought to drag down anyone who passed through, aiming to trap them and force them to join their damned ranks.

The moment they noticed Xu Qingsui, they swarmed her like a plague of locusts, desperate to tear her spirit body to shreds. Xu Qingsui hastily engaged her abilities to defend herself. However, no sooner had she dispatched the souls leading the charge than the ones behind lunged forward, refusing to give her a single moment to catch her breath.

Inside the glacial realm, Xu Qingsui had completely lost her sense of time. Meanwhile, the three men standing outside watched the seconds tick by, burning with sheer anxiety.

“I’m going in to find her!” By the eighth minute, Jiang Xu could no longer stand the wait. Throwing down those words, he slammed his hand against the glacier without even waiting for Li Xianxu and Su Qingyan to react.

However, unlike Xu Qingsui, who was able to willfully guide her Spiritual Power into the ice, Jiang Xu was met with a terrifying suction force that yanked his consciousness straight into the glacier. Jiang Xu was momentarily dazed, but the second he caught sight of Xu Qingsui entirely surrounded by a horde of ravenous souls out of the corner of his eye, he charged straight at them.

This was the realm of soul bodies, a place where Jiang Xu held absolutely no advantage. But seeing Xu Qingsui besieged like that, he threw all caution to the wind and rammed his way through. Relying purely on reckless momentum, Jiang Xu actually managed to send quite a few soul bodies flying. However, he completely failed to notice the alarming damage his own spirit body was sustaining in the process.

He finally broke through to Xu Qingsui. But the moment they locked eyes, Jiang Xu’s legs gave out, and he collapsed directly into her arms.

Seeing Jiang Xu’s dreadful state, Xu Qingsui’s expression drastically changed. “How is your spirit body this heavily damaged?”

Jiang Xu gazed up at her. His lips moved weakly, but no words came out. His eyes rolled back, and he lost consciousness completely in her embrace.

Looking at the path Jiang Xu had forcibly cleared through the mob, Xu Qingsui had a pretty good idea of what he had done. A profound surge of grief and rage welled up in her chest. As the relentless soul bodies lunged at them once more, the spiritual power within her body underwent an explosive surge.

Before such overwhelming Spiritual Power, the frenzied soul bodies were reduced to nothing more than insignificant specks. In a mere instant, Xu Qingsui completely obliterated the incoming horde. The soul bodies dissipated into specks of fluorescent light, which gently drifted into Xu Qingsui’s body.

Outside the glacier, Li Xianxu and Su Qingyan witnessed this spectacular scene with their own eyes, their hearts swelling with an unspeakable sense of shock.

Having absorbed the fluorescent specks, Xu Qingsui stood tall, supporting Jiang Xu with one arm. Staring down the towering glacier before her, she let out an explosive shout, “Break!”

The moment the word left her lips, the glacier in front of them instantly spiderwebbed with massive cracks. In the very next second, it shattered, scattering across the ground like broken glass.

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