"Hmm, it's nothing more than the fantasies of some pitiful people. Just let her continue to live peacefully in this Secret Realm."

Watching the 'First Generation Snow Demoness' stand up blankly, ignoring Chen Zhixing standing beside her, and walking further away like a puppet on strings, Chen Zhixing raised an eyebrow thoughtfully. In his eyes, a mysterious light fleetingly appeared before he revealed a look of sudden realization.

This so-called First Generation Snow Demoness was not a true person, but a creation made by mana, a being that seemed both real and illusory, whose essence was tied to this environment itself.

When Chen Zhixing looked around, the previously bustling cityscape beside him became equally illusory at this moment.

A coughing sound interrupted Chen Zhixing's gaze, followed by the old man speaking:

"Child, are you also here to receive the legacy, wanting to leave this snowfield?"

"Yes."

"Alright, follow me."

As he spoke, the old man turned and walked towards that courtyard from before. Seeing this, Chen Zhixing frowned and followed.

"Our Snow Demon Race has lived on this Snowfield Plateau for generations, from the First Generation Snow Demoness until now, few have ever stepped out of this Frozen Plateau. In truth, it's not that we prevent them, but there's an inevitable cause and effect."

With the old man's words, Chen Zhixing, stepping into the courtyard, paused, for when he entered, the internal and external scenes changed again.

In the instant he stepped into the courtyard, it seemed as though he returned to the bone-chilling Frozen Plateau. The bustling scenery was gone, and before his eyes were immense heaps of piled-up snow slopes.

The old man stood under a large tree sculpted like ice crystals at the base of the snow slope and motioned for Chen Zhixing to come over.

"You're not the first child to come here wanting to leave the permafrost, and I doubt you'll be the last. I won't stop you; if you can truly comprehend this permafrost, you'll naturally grasp the method to leave the Frozen Plateau."

As he spoke, the old man pointed to the ice crystal treasure tree behind him: "This ice crystal treasure tree is the core of this plateau. Come, child, sit beneath the tree. Whatever you comprehend will be yours rightfully."

Then, unexpectedly, the old man sighed inexplicably, and before Chen Zhixing's eyes, he dissolved into ice and snow, scattering into the heavens and earth.

"Comprehend?"

Chen Zhixing took a deep breath. Though he didn't know who the inexplicably appearing old man in this illusion realm was, he thought it shouldn't harm him. After all, from the root, the one who brought him here to accept the legacy was the Snow Demon King, his mother's mother...

"Thank you, senior, I'll give it a try!"

As his words fell, Chen Zhixing approached the tree, extended his hand to summon the Cyan Pheasant Immortal Sword, and stabbed it into the snow in front of him. Though he felt the old man wouldn't harm him, necessary precautions were still needed.

Communicating with the Cyan Pheasant in his heart, instructing it to wake him at any moment, Chen Zhixing leaned against the ice crystal treasure tree and slowly entered meditation.

In an instant, countless scenes of the Snowfield Plateau flickered before his eyes. Generation after generation of Snow Demons emerged and grew from the Frozen Plateau, only to remain in this vast, icy wilderness for a lifetime...

...

Outside.

A group of Snow Demons watched with varied expressions at the humans waiting inside the Snow Demon King's Ice Palace, listening to their exchanges with the Snow Demon King, and occasionally showing surprise or longing on their faces.

"Lii Shuang, do you think the outside world, as those outsiders say, really holds so many wondrous and strange things?"

"Fruits, sweet and sour, covering hills and dales with flowers and grass, filled with numerous humans who look like us in grand and magnificent cities, and all kinds of strange things they've created... I really want to go out and see."

"Didn't Xue Kuang say before that there's nothing good outside, that the world is full of evil people, and advised us not to go out lest we get harmed by those villains?"

"But I still want to see, don't you? Don't you want to see the world beyond the Frozen Plateau?"

At this, a group of Snow Demons fell silent.

Princess Yingy Shuangshuang was not the first Snow Demon to leave the permafrost, nor was she the first with this desire. Throughout countless ages, countless Snow Demons have wanted to see the world outside. They've entered the Fivefold Ancestral Lands for trials, yet few have ever emerged.

Those few lucky ones who walked out of their ancestral lands weren't so lucky in the end. After emerging, they became entirely mad.

Crying and laughing, quarrelling and clamoring.

And gradually, growing insane in this icy expanse, they eventually turned into heaps of ice crystal bones, eternally buried beneath the permafrost.

To the Snow Demon Race, ancestral lands weren't regarded as places of legacy but cursed realms filled with madness.

After a period of silence, the tall Snow Demon named Lii Shuang suddenly spoke:

"I hope that human can walk out of the ancestral lands."

"Because he's Shuangshuang's son?"

A member of the Snow Demon Race teased Lii Shuang, knowing too well that Chen Zhixing's mother, Yingy Shuangshuang, was once the object of Lii Shuang's affections. They were supposed to be a perfect match within the clan, except that Yingy Shuangshuang went to the outside world once and returned insane, bringing back a human man.

Hearing this, Lii Shuang tightened his grip on the ice spear, expressionless as he replied to the Snow Demon: "It has nothing to do with that; I just want to see the outside world."

"Haha, Lii Shuang, don't tell me you've really let it go. Ever since Shuangshuang returned, I've felt there's something off with you... wait, don't tell me you also want to challenge the five trials of the ancestral lands?"

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