[Current Vitality HP: 4.0% (CRITICAL)! Time Until Complete Embryo Freezing: 60 Seconds!]
The red emergency prompt hadn’t even finished flashing across Gu Changsheng’s vision before he and all four of his children were already moving.
“Dad! The egg isn’t in a magma chamber at all!” eleven-year-old Gu Nian shouted from the top of the obsidian altar, his breath freezing into white mist in the bitter sub-zero air.
“The whole center of the planet is frozen solid!”
Gu Changsheng cleared the fifty yards from the camper van to the altar in a single flash of golden light. Landing right beside Gu Nian as twelve-year-old Ye Xiao, nine-year-old Su Nuannuan, seven-year-old Jiang Tuntun, Grandpa Yao, Auntie Qin. Grandpa Fu sprinted up the steps behind him.
Up close, the sight at the center of the Planetary Core Chamber was enough to make any parent’s blood boil.
Normally, the core of a living cultivation planet should be a warm, roaring furnace of primal earth-fire and rich ancestral spirit-veins.
Here at three thousand miles depth, however, the heart of Planet Canglan had been turned into a ten-mile torture cell of dead black ice.
