“Outside in the tunnel? That’s Chief Overseer Xuan Bing—Warden Tianfa’s sworn brother!”
Inside the Abyssal Frost Core, Empress Luo Qingxue stiffened inside her fluffy fox-fur cloak. Meanwhile, The thunderous footsteps of two thousand elite Frost-Law Enforcers echoed down the outer corridor toward the 9th Vault Door.
Instinctively, the newly freed Sword Empress tried to push herself to her feet and summon her sword Qi to shield her husband and the five children.
However, ten years of Abyssal Frost Poison accumulated from the Ten-Thousand-Year Frost Pillar still suppressed nearly ninety percent of her primary meridians. The moment she tried to stand too fast, a wave of dizziness washed over her, and her knees wobbled on the wool rug.
“Whoa there, Madam. Sit right back down,” Gu Changsheng said calmly.
Before Luo Qingxue could protest, Gu Changsheng scooped her effortlessly into his arms—fox-fur cloak, mittens, stickers, and all. Carried her down the flower-covered steps of the pillar, and set her onto a plush, heated velvet armchair right beside the bubbling nine-grid copper cauldron of the [Trojan Nine-Grid Hotpot Cart]!
“Changsheng, you don’t understand!” Luo Qingxue said urgently, gripping his white chef sleeve with her mittened hand. “Xuan Bing is a Rank 8 Early Star-Lord who cultivates the Ten-Layer Glacial Domain!
