The ancient martial arts master traveled through time

The totem space beneath Ruan Xiaojiu's fingertips suddenly felt hot, and dark lines moved beneath her skin like a living thing. Looking down, she saw the Gu King, suspended within the space, spinning madly, its horns flickering with light, as if delivering some kind of warning.

Before she could think about it, the ground of Xuanhe Palace suddenly cracked into spider-web-like cracks. Ruan Xiaojiu thought of Ruan Siqi and Xiao Zeming who were still practicing inside, turned around and ran inside regardless of the danger. A spiritual power wrapped in ice crystals broke out of the ground.

"Be careful!" Di Jingchen's black iron sword drew a silver arc and cut off the two ice blades rushing towards Ruan Xiaojiu.

After breaking through the ground, those ice crystals turned into human forms. They were the ice-armored guards under the Emperor of Heaven, with ghostly blue fire burning in their eye sockets.

The soul whip of Hades swept across, but was frozen into frost the moment it touched the ice armor. The black mist raised by the bone banner also condensed into fine ice particles and fell to the ground.

"The seal of the Ten Thousand Year Old Ice Cave has loosened." The Hades' pupils contracted, and the vengeful spirit on the bone banner let out a sharp scream.

Ruan Xiaojiu had just burst into Ruan Siqi and Xiao Zeming's room, grabbing their hands. Before she could retreat, the totem on her hand suddenly burst into a powerful light, enveloping her completely. Amidst the chaos, she heard Di Jingchen's anxious cries, yet felt her body being pulled by some force, passing through layers of spatial rifts.

As the light faded, a biting cold washed over him. Ruan Xiaojiu stumbled to his feet. Ruan Siqi and Xiao Zeming had already fallen unconscious, yet he found himself in a vast ice palace, its icy spires radiating an eerie blue light. In the center, within the ice coffin, the Queen of Hell's eyes were closed, her body entwined in chain-like, dark purple spells. Surrounding the coffin, twelve icicles held the same totem as her finger, each one pierced with a half-broken, blood-stained soul-soothing nail.

"Xiao Jiu'er, welcome to the real cage." The voice of the Emperor of Heaven came from all directions, and his complete figure slowly emerged from the dome of the Ice Palace.

These soul-soothing nails are specially made for you. The Zixia Goddess beside the Emperor of Heaven looked down at her proudly. The Lingyun God was pinching his fingers together and controlling the Ice Palace's formation. Behind him were some strange faces that she didn't know or was not familiar with, but they were undoubtedly people who wanted her dead.

Ruan Xiaojiu dug his nails deep into his palms and narrowed his eyes. The totem space suddenly trembled violently. A familiar aura emanated from it, carrying a scorching heat.

She suddenly recalled the figure that turned into a stream of fire in her memory. She bit her tongue and sprayed her blood on the totem: "Since you have set up a death trap, let's see who will be the sacrifice!" As the blood seeped in, the totem patterns ignited with dark green flames, and the temperature of the ice palace began to rise strangely.

The dark green flame spread along the totem patterns on Ruan Xiaojiu's fingertips, burning winding scorch marks on the ice surface.

Upon seeing this, Lord Lingyun immediately made a hand gesture, and the soul-calming nails on the twelve ice pillars simultaneously burst out with dazzling purple light, confining the space around her into a cage.

Goddess Zixia raised her hand and swung out the Immortal Binding Silk, but the soft whip wrapped with golden threads was charred black the moment it touched the flames.

Ruan Xiaojiu was bound, her hair blown up by the spiritual storm. She could clearly feel the restlessness of the Gu King in the totem space - it was the flame deep in her memory that was competing with the power of the soul-soothing nail.

Suddenly, the sound of ice cracking could be heard from behind her. Ruan Siqi, who should have been unconscious, began to ooze golden blood from her fingertips, and a golden pattern she had never seen before appeared between her eyebrows.

Xiao Zeming had no time to notice Ruan Siqi's abnormality. His sword began to hum spontaneously, and ancient battle patterns appeared on the sword body. His body also floated uncontrollably in the air, with the tip of the sword pointing at Ruan Xiaojiu.

The unusual movements of the two people made Ruan Xiaojiu's pupils shrink suddenly, and she felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

"It turns out that you have already placed restrictions on them." Ruan Xiaojiu sneered and pressed a drop of blood essence in the center of the totem.

The Gu King transformed into a dark green stream of light, flew out of the space and sank into her brow. Memories came flooding back like a tide - in the great battle between gods and demons a hundred years ago, she was originally punished with thunder until her soul was scattered. Finally, her original god was sacrificed to the Emperor of Heaven to help him gain a permanent position. However, no one expected that she was immortal. Every time she died, her magic power would increase by one point compared to her previous life. Only by having the soul-locking nails driven into her heart by the hands of her beloved could she seal off her seven emotions and six desires and forget about revenge. These soul-locking nails were the weapons that pierced her soul back then.

The icicles on the Ice Palace's dome suddenly began to grow in reverse, sharp cones dangling down towards Ruan Xiaojiu. Xiao Zeming's sword, etched with ancient battle patterns, stabbed towards her, its tip pausing three inches from her heart. Deep within his pupils, golden and red light fiercely clashed with the purple restriction. Golden blood from Ruan Siqi's fingertips dripped to the ground, transforming into a divine bow burning with the sun's true fire, automatically nodding its arrow and aiming at the Lingyun Divine Lord's spell to control the formation.

"So the secret of immortality lies within the seven emotions and six desires." The Emperor raised his hand and clenched it. A nearby sarcophagus slowly opened, and within it, Ye Tingshen's soul slowly awakened. Along the route planned by the Emperor, the Purple Cloud Goddess, and the others, a small, cone-shaped object suddenly appeared in Ye Tingshen's hand, gleaming faintly.

While Ruan Xiaojiu was being restrained by Xiao Zeming and Ruan Siqi, a soul-locking needle pierced Ruan Xiaojiu's heart. In an instant, the three soul nails in Ruan Xiaojiu's body activated at the same time, trying to make Ruan Xiaojiu fall into a deep sleep.

At the critical moment, Ruan Xiaojiu's eyes suddenly exploded into a water-blue blood mist.

Ruan Siqi, who was in a coma, forcibly broke through the restriction, and her golden blood turned into chains that wrapped around the soul-suppressing nail, but she coughed up blood due to the backlash of the power.

Xiao Zeming's sword suddenly changed direction, and the light emitted from the ancient battle pattern shattered the spell of Lord Lingyun, and the sword went straight for the throat of the Emperor of Heaven.

"You're looking for death!" The Heavenly Emperor's seal crashed down, its mighty force causing Ruan Xiaojiu to bleed from all seven orifices. But then she burst into laughter and placed her hand on the icy coffin, "Mother, I will rescue you. No matter what, I will rescue you. This is my way of repaying your kindness."

The dark purple spell wrapped around her arm, and the soul of the Queen of the Underworld in the totem space slowly floated out of the space and merged with the body of the Queen of the Underworld in the ice coffin.

The Emperor of Heaven could only watch this scene angrily but was unable to stop it.

Soon, the Queen of the Underworld slowly opened her eyes, and the flickering blue flames in her eyes shone in harmony with the dark green light of Ruan Xiaojiu's totem.

Twelve icicles exploded, and the Soul-Suppressing Nail, suspended in mid-air, began to melt. The Zixia Goddess's Immortal Binding Silk suddenly swirled back, wrapping around her own neck. The spiritual energy surrounding the Lingyun Divine Lord surged, transforming into a sharp blade that slashed through his robes. The entire ice palace began to crumble, and the Queen of Hell's chains snapped. She raised her hand, and a stream of dark purple flame shot towards the Celestial Emperor's Seal.

"Do you think you can turn the tables after waking up the Queen of Hell?" Nine golden chains flew out from the Emperor's sleeves, entangling Ruan Xiaojiu and the Queen of Hell at the same time. "You were able to be sacrificed once, and you can be sacrificed a second time!" The same spell as the Soul-Soothing Nail appeared on the chains, cutting deeply into Ruan Xiaojiu's flesh.

The Queen of Hell had just awakened, completely exhausted. Amidst the excruciating pain, Ruan Xiaojiu's mind suddenly flashed back to the silver arc of Di Jingchen's slashing ice blade. She bit her tongue, spitting her last breath of blood onto the totem. The figure transformed into flaming fire from deep within her memory suddenly became clear—it turned out that Di Jingchen had been the one who had shielded her from the fatal thunderstorm a century ago. Dark green flames and the flaming shadows intertwined around her, forming a netherworld fire that incinerated everything.