Chapter 669: Chapter 447: Cold Water Palace, Challenge

“This major state, is it perhaps the Northern State where the Cold Water Palace is located?”

Lu Qing sensed the surrounding Heaven and Earth Rules and suddenly felt a stir in his heart.

He had once received a map from Lin Zhirui, which marked the locations of various forces in the world.

It also included the four great secret places that had gradually reappeared to the world in the past two years.

However, Lu Qing’s journey with Little Yan this time was done on a whim, and he didn’t really pay much attention to their destination.

Now, sensing the strangeness of this place, he realized that they had arrived at one of the Four Great Secret Places, the state where the Cold Water Palace was located.

Rumor has it that the disciples of the Cold Water Palace mostly practice cold attribute cultivation techniques.

It was just unexpected that the state they occupied was also so peculiar.

Of course, Lu Qing merely sighed a little, without many other thoughts.

This time, he didn’t plan to have any encounters with the people from the Three Great Secret Places.

After all, he knew that ever since he destroyed the Suspended Mountain, the remaining three secret places probably had very complex attitudes towards him.

After all, though the Four Great Secret Places weren’t exactly on friendly terms with each other, some secret places had a lot of grievances against each other.

For instance, between Qingyang Temple and Suspended Mountain, they’ve always found each other disagreeable.

But Lu Qing completely annihilated the entire Suspended Mountain, even causing the entire secret realm to vanish completely.

This was truly terrifying for the other secret places.

They couldn’t imagine how Lu Qing could have possibly achieved this.

So Lu Qing figured that if he really appeared in front of the other secret places, countless people would probably be on edge.

Since that’s the case, why bother inviting trouble?

Since Little Yan liked it here, Lu Qing decided to stay a while longer.

Immediately, he took Little Yan and the others on a journey of leisure.

A few days later, they arrived in front of a huge city.

“Cold Water City?”

Looking at the large ancient characters above the city gate, Lu Qing softly recited.

According to the information provided by Lin Zhirui, this Cold Water City was also an ancient city with a long history.

However, this city was now under the control of the Cold Water Palace.

“How beautiful!”

Little Yan looked up at the giant city in front of her, exclaiming in admiration.

At this moment, Little Yan was wearing a very pretty fur coat, making her look cute as snow.

Even Lu Qing himself was wearing a robe.

Although with his cultivation, he had long reached a realm impervious to cold and heat; even mountains of ice or lava couldn’t harm him in the slightest.

Yet traveling leisurely, he and Little Yan still conformed to the local customs, donning thick clothing.

As for Little Li, who didn’t like the cold, it had already snuggled into Lu Qing’s arms and was sound asleep.

Even the Five Elements had transformed to the thickness of a thumb, curled up, and hid in Little Yan’s hood.

Hearing Little Yan’s admiration, Lu Qing smiled.

Indeed, this city was truly beautiful.

Due to the cold, the city gate and walls were adorned with all sorts of ice sculptures.

All were vivid and life-like in form and spirit.

This made the entire city wall appear both exquisite and majestic.

After admiring for a while, Lu Qing led Little Yan into the city.

Once inside Cold Water City, the scenery was even more pleasing to the eye.

Everywhere were exquisite and beautiful ice sculptures, making the whole Cold Water City look like a giant work of art.

“This city is blessed with the power of an ancient array, but it seems the people of Cold Water Palace don’t know how to use it?”

Lu Qing wandered around the city with Little Yan, reflecting the city’s starry dots in his heart and spirit.

Having inherited from the Divine Talisman Sect, Lu Qing’s attainment in array techniques was quite profound.

He could sense that this ancient city was, like the Holy City of Central State, integrated with array techniques when it was constructed.

Now, with the recovery of spiritual energy, the ancient array that lay dormant for tens of thousands of years was quietly awakening.

But what puzzled him was.

The city’s array seemed to be in an autonomous operation state, with no one controlling it, and had not been able to mobilize the array power efficiently.

Thus, the spiritual energy within the city was not much denser than outside the city.

The efficiency in utilizing the array power was far inferior to the array he had set up in Jiuli Village.

Moreover, the pedestrians on the streets also gave him a strange feeling.

Many were in a hurry, with a tense expression on their faces.

More importantly, through his Divine Soul Sensing, he could feel that.

The entire Cold Water City was filled with many rather powerful presences.

Numerous Innate Realm entities, and even some in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

This puzzled him somewhat.

While it’s true that with the changes in heaven and earth and the recovery of spiritual energy in the past two or three years, many martial artists in the world have made breakthroughs.

Innate Realm experts were no longer as rare as they used to be.

Yet the number of strong entities in Cold Water City was unusually high.

More than he had seen in the Suspended Mountain Secret Realm at least.

Can the Cold Water Palace have such deep foundations?

“Or is it that something major is about to happen in Cold Water City?”

Feeling puzzled, Lu Qing spent some time strolling with Little Yan before finding a rather bustling tavern, ordering a room, and picking some local delicacies before sitting down.

While letting Little Yan and the others enjoy their meal, Lu Qing listened in to the conversations of other patrons in the tavern.

The reason he chose this tavern was that he sensed a lot of strong presences here.

Some Innate Realm beings were eating and drinking inside.

Indeed, after listening for a while, he got the information he wanted.

“Do you think that villain will really come today?”

In a room next door, a table of guests was chatting.

Suddenly, a robust man with a not-weak aura, seemingly of Innate Realm cultivation, spoke up.