At the foot of the cliff.

The Frost Armor Bear King lay on the ground, panting heavily, with a charred rear, surrounded by swirling heat, and the accumulated snow within a ten-zhang radius had turned to water.

In its bear eyes, filled with a glint of fear, was reflected a face, ’kind and gentle’, with smiling eyes.

"In another half hour, you’ll definitely be poisoned by the fire toxin, roasted into bear jerky. I’m a person who values kindness and credibility. Just tell me where the Snow Demon is, and I’ll remove the Fire Seal for you immediately."

The Frost Armor Bear King panted heavily, preferring death over speaking.

"Oh, you’re quite tenacious!"

Jiang Yuebai’s eyes shifted slightly and suddenly changed his aura, rubbing his hands together and speaking in the language of the Demon Clan.

"To be honest, I’m actually a demon too. I’ve always admired the elegance of the Snow Demon. I would like Brother Bear to introduce me."

The Frost Armor Bear King looked bewildered at the green demon energy emanating from Jiang Yuebai, then glanced at its still-smoking rear.

Jiang Yuebai hurriedly waved his hand, dispelling the Fire Seal.

The Frost Armor Bear King felt a weight lifted and let out a low growl at Jiang Yuebai.

"You mean you can’t speak, or you’ll die if you do?"

The Bear King nodded, an ice-blue snowflake imprint flashing between its brows.

"So you’ve been controlled by her, are the other demons in Jiancang Mountain the same?"

Ugh~

"So you didn’t want to attack the Yun Family at all, but were forced to?"

Jiang Yuebai furrowed his brow in thought. If the Snow Demon placed some kind of mark in the Bear King’s Sea of Consciousness, it indeed would prevent the Bear Demon from revealing anything.

Then how could he gather information?

Wait, in the Doumu Realm, thanks to Immortal Monarch Fatian, there are many such Law Contracts that are quite special, requiring verbal articulation in the human language or written contracts in the Human Clan’s script to take effect.

Jiang Yuebai’s eyes lit up, "Did the Snow Demon say while marking your Sea of Consciousness, ’Don’t disclose her information to anyone’?"

The Bear King nodded.

"It doesn’t matter the exact words, are you sure the final specific target was any ’person’?"

The Bear King was dazed, nodded with a moan before it fully reacted.

"Then you can tell me, because I’m not a person."

Bear King: ???

"The word ’person’ is a habitual term of the Human Clan, which can refer to all beings, but the word ’person’ itself only refers to humans. Demons are called demons, demons are called demons, as long as I’m not a person, you can tell me about the Snow Demon without suffering backlash from the mark, rest assured!"

The Bear King blinked, finally having a moment of realization after a while, and attempted to send a stream of Divine Thought to Jiang Yuebai, and after waiting a moment, nothing happened.

Bear King’s eyes shined, it immediately poured out all its grievances about being oppressed by the Snow Demon all this time.

"Wait, slow down!"

Jiang Yuebai pressed his temples, receiving the Bear King’s jumbled Divine Thought, discovering this guy was quite the chatterbox and spoke without order, jumping from one topic to another.

Most of it was along the lines of ’Bear life is hard’, ’Bear skills are inferior to demons’, ’Bear just wants to hibernate’, and ’Bear hasn’t eaten in months’.

Jiang Yuebai held his forehead, enduring until it finished venting.

A full quarter-hour later, the Bear King was still howling with tears, Jiang Yuebai finally couldn’t stand it and ignited a blaze in his hand.

"Get to the point!"

Ugh!

"You know where the Snow Demon is and you want to take me there? Well, you aren’t stupid, knowing how to use a borrowed knife to kill a demon? Alright, I’ll fall for your plan, lead the way."

Jiang Yuebai healed the Bear King’s injuries with a Little Demon Technique, and the Bear King stood up, shook its white fur, bowed its upper body, and raised its charred rear, signaling Jiang Yuebai to ride on.

Jiang Yuebai leaped up, settling firmly on the Bear King’s broad back; had it not been burned, the fur would have been rather soft.

Roar!!

The Bear King roared, sprinting wildly, carrying Jiang Yuebai across mountains and rivers, traversing icy lakes, heading deep into the remote parts of Jiancang Mountain.

The deeper they went, the more traces of High-Level Demon Beasts there were, most of them had Golden Core Stage leaders, eyeing the Bear King with intent to fight.

Jiang Yuebai even sensed several Nascent Soul Stage Divine Thoughts sweeping over her and the Bear King.

Checking the map, the Bear King was heading for the Demon Eye Gorge west of Jiancang Mountain, where the terrain was complex, filled with glaciers that never melted.

The cold there was intense; without Nascent Soul Stage cultivation, getting close would result in being frozen solid. Even Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators could only enter during the summer when the cold abated.

This area had produced some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the past, but they had been excavated thoroughly eight hundred years ago, leaving only the cold, which could still be used by those specializing in Ice Attribute Cultivation Techniques.

Now being the depth of winter, Demon Eye Gorge was amidst raging storms and heavy snow sealing the river.

The Bear King carried Jiang Yuebai for more than three days, finally reaching the summit of a mountain closest to the Demon Eye River.

The wind raged, and snow blinded the sight. Jiang Yuebai faced the wind and snow, seeing the distant land with glaciers undulating and crossing, forming a massive ice-blue Demon Eye, glaring at the sky, awe-inspiring.

Roar—

The Bear King indicated it could only escort Jiang Yuebai this far; going further, it couldn’t withstand the cold winds there.

Jiang Yuebai waved, letting the Bear King go on its own.

Roar!

Before leaving, the Bear King told Jiang Yuebai something that shocked her.

The Bear King said the Snow Demon had already controlled four Nascent Soul Stage Great Demons in the mountain, probably planning something big.

Jiang Yuebai looked at the Demon Eye Gorge below, waited for the Bear King to leave, and pulled Bai Jiuyou out from Lotus Platform Cave Heaven.

"Why are you disturbing again... So much ice! I want to take over this peak!"

Bai Jiuyou saw the snow and ice mountain, excited like a child, directly falling face-first into the snow, flailing arms and legs.

Jiang Yuebai couldn’t bear to look at her childish behavior; this must be Yuchen’s personality, nothing to do with her.

"The ice below is even better, let’s go down together."

Jiang Yuebai activated Flame Armor, descending in mid-air, with Bai Jiuyou following closely behind.

"Great! Let’s later bring this peak into Lotus Platform Cave Heaven, from this side to that side, and even the ’big eye’ below, I want to live inside it."

"Alright, but let’s first find the Snow Demon hiding in Demon Eye Gorge; I need to borrow something from her."

"Snow Demon? Is it tasty?"

Bai Jiuyou asked with blinking eyes, having a fondness for eating anything icy.

Mentioning food, Jiang Yuebai couldn’t help but swallow.

"I don’t know, I’ve only read in books that Snow Demons are more beautiful than Merfolk."

"Then it must be delicious!" Bai Jiuyou asserted.

"..."

The cold winds of Demon Eye Gorge couldn’t effectively harm Jiang Yuebai and Bai Jiuyou, with one enveloped in blazing fire, consuming the cold wind, and one devouring the cold, swallowing it like a dragon.

Bai Jiuyou eventually gathered the cold into a big ice chunk and began gnawing on it.

"This ice has a great flavor, very spiritual." Bai Jiuyou praised.

"Give me a piece."

Jiang Yuebai took the ice chunk, surveying Demon Eye Gorge from above, finding no signs of living beings inside.

However, the ice chunk condensed by Bai Jiuyou did have the spiritual nature of Spiritual Objects.

"I’ll go down first, you keep watch."

Jiang Yuebai flashed several times, directly appearing at the central position of the Demon Eye. Her Divine Infant was sharp, able to sense things ordinary cultivators couldn’t.

The central area was an Ice Valley, with blue ice as clear as glass underfoot, crisscrossed with cracks.

The Protective Gang Qi almost instantly shattered, but the cold couldn’t penetrate the Flame Armor formed by the Phoenix True Fire.

Without Divinity Transformation Stage cultivation, entering here would be impossible.

She felt the weak spiritual nature emanating from one of the cracks beneath, cautiously approaching and squatting down to look inside, her pupils contracting.

She saw beneath the ice, half a woman’s face revealed.

With divine features like chiseled jade, pure as ice and clean as jade.

Snow Demon?!

Jiang Yuebai tensed up, fearing the Snow Demon might suddenly open its eyes and attack.

But upon closer inspection, she found only an empty shell, nothing but a dead demon!

Bang!

A loud explosion above, glaciers cracked inch by inch, threatening to collapse, Jiang Yuebai’s expression turned grim, ascending quickly into the air.

Bai Jiuyou had gotten into a fight with someone!