How could there be such a strong spiritual aura fluctuation in this lake? Li Jinzhi pondered for a moment, then he simply retracted his flying light and stood on the ice.

The first time he fell into the lake, he didn't feel any spiritual aura fluctuation because he hadn't drawn spiritual aura into his body.

However, when he left the city a year ago and the carriage passed by this lake, he was already a cultivator in the fourth layer of the Aura Refining realm, but he didn't feel any spiritual aura fluctuation at that time.

It's only been a short year, so how did this spiritual aura fluctuation come about?

The spiritual pressure was so strong that it could even affect his flying light.

The ice wall of the ice lake was very thick, and silver fish occasionally slid through the dark blue water under the white ice. Li Jinzhi slowly walked on the ice, looking for the place with the strongest spiritual aura.

Heart Infant Lake was the moat of Polar Domain City, and it was connected to the natural ice wall to form a natural moat. Its area was extremely wide. Li Jinzhi closed his eyes to sense the spiritual aura fluctuation and slowly walked toward the place with the strongest spiritual aura.

When he opened his eyes at the place with the strongest spiritual aura, he found that he was already near Polar Domain City, very close to the place where he fell into the water.

The spiritual aura here was so strong that the spiritual aura in his dantian was stagnant.

What could emit such a strong spiritual aura? Li Jinzhi stared at the dark blue water under the ice and frowned, secretly considering whether he should go down to check it out. If he couldn't deal with it, the danger he would encounter if he rashly went down was unpredictable. Moreover, there was no description of this spiritual aura in the original work.

There was no description, which meant that he might not be able to deal with it with his current ability.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Jinzhi still decided to go back to the clan to find Ye Cheng first and achieve the purpose of this trip.

However, when he stood in his room and looked at the furniture that was already covered in thick dust, panic and anger appeared in his heart for the first time.

Not here?

The thick dust in the room indicated that no one had lived in this room for a long time. He opened the cabinet and found that Ye Cheng's clothes were still there.

His frown deepened. Since he didn't take his clothes with him, he didn't leave without saying goodbye, nor did he move to another courtyard. But where could he have gone?

Li Jinzhi turned to look at the pageboy by the door and asked in a low voice, "Where did Ye Cheng go?" This pageboy was usually in charge of delivering food to Li Jinzhi.

"Young Master." The manservant's body trembled, and his eyes flickered as he stuttered, "This lowly one doesn't know."

"When did Ye Cheng start disappearing?"

Li Jinzhi stared intently into the other party's eyes, not missing a single trace of emotion. He used to be a scriptwriter and was very attentive to the subtle emotions revealed in the eyes of the characters. "Don't try to lie to me."

With that said, he raised his left hand in front of him and spread out his five fingers. A slender hexagonal icicle spun silently, and a bone-piercing chill instantly spread throughout the room.

"The icicle technique condenses the spiritual power of the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin in the palm of your hand. The icicle is a slender hexagonal icicle, and there will be no pain when it pierces the brain. The cold poison will spread throughout the brain and eventually condense into an ice body." Li Jinzhi narrowed his eyes and smiled. "Guess, how does it feel when this thing enters the brain?"

The pageboy's trembling legs turned to jelly, and he almost fell down. With a trembling voice, he secretly looked at Li Jinzhi, only to see that the delicate young master's eyes were clouded over. The white icicle in his hand gave him a strange sense of holiness.

Li Jinzhi waited quietly. For a moment, only the hexagonal icicle spun slowly in the room, and the cold fog spiraled up.

"Yes, yes, Miss Gu."

The pageboy gritted his teeth and said with a trembling voice, "When I came to deliver food that day, I saw Miss Gu leading a group of people out of the courtyard before I even passed through the long corridor of the courtyard. The group of servants carried a person, and from afar, I could tell that it was Ye Cheng."

Bang!

The spinning icicle exploded, and Li Jinzhi stood up. He walked a few steps to the pageboy and lifted him up. The broken ice suddenly entered his body. "Do you know where they took him?"

"I, I, I don't know." The pageboy's eyes flickered as he answered.

"You really don't know?"

Li Jinzhi stared intently at the pageboy's pupils. A wisp of ice flame shot out from between his eyebrows and went straight to the pageboy's glabella.

"I, your servant, know!

I, your servant, know! "

The pageboy struggled frantically, trying to move his head away. However, no matter how hard he struggled, the cold ice flame remained around his head. "Li Si, my roommate, was one of the servants who participated in that incident. Although Miss Gu ordered us to keep it a secret, there were too many people involved. She couldn't control them at all."

"Get to the point." Li Jinzhi bit his trembling lips.

"Ye Cheng was tied to a boulder and thrown into the ice cave of Heart Infant Lake outside the city." The pageboy quickly said.

Li Jinzhi was startled. He frowned and asked, "How long ago?"

"The day Young Master left home." The pageboy's teeth chattered.

Li Jinzhi's pupils constricted. He nodded thoughtfully. "Don't tell anyone about my return. Otherwise, based on what you said today, Hu Sisi won't let you off." After saying that, he threw the pageboy out of the room. He sat on the chair dejectedly, feeling extremely stifled.

It was all his fault. If he hadn't left the other party alone in the Li residence, this wouldn't have happened!

He clearly knew that Hu Sisi had a sinister personality. He clearly knew that he didn't have any trusted aides here. He clearly knew that the other party had no one to rely on here. Why did he still leave the other party here alone? Even if he gave him the young master's token, he wouldn't be able to protect the other party.

Although he was forced to do so, there was a way. If he had persevered a little more at that time, the other party wouldn't have ended up like this.

One year ago.

The other party met with an accident on the day he left home.

And he was thrown into Heart Infant Lake?

In the original work, the slave who saved him also fell into Heart Infant Lake. The one who did it was also Hu Sisi.

So, no matter how many times the plot had a butterfly effect because of his arrival, the final outcome would still not change?

Li Jinzhi gritted his teeth. Although he had long understood that the weak were prey to the strong in this world, at this moment, he realized that he was still naive.

He had underestimated the sinister nature of the human heart, underestimated the unpredictability of the human heart, and underestimated the insignificance of human life.

As a modern person, he had received a modern education. In that era where killing was illegal, people who were educated naturally wouldn't understand the cruelty of this world.

Actions were not bound by the law, and human lives were worthless.

This year, his life in the sect wasn't as smooth as others thought. His brothers secretly stabbed him in the back, fellow disciples who came to find trouble for the sake of a groundless treasure. One by one, they polished his heart.

After sitting for an unknown period of time, Li Jinzhi suddenly opened his eyes. His dark pupils were gloomy. He pushed open the door. The bright moon was shining brightly outside. It was already nighttime.

Under the moonlight, the slender figure suddenly turned into a white stream of light and flew straight towards a house.

In a small courtyard in the west of the Li Family's Castle, there were many gorgeous Ice Crystals surrounding the translucent ice sculpture. The Ice Crystals on the tree branches were extremely delicate and beautiful. At a glance, one could tell that this courtyard was where a woman lived.

The white light landed silently. Li Jinzhi stood in front of the door. After listening to the movements inside, he pushed the door open and entered. After a long while, he slowly came out.

Standing under the shadow of the tree in the courtyard, Li Jinzhi was at a loss for a moment. He desperately cultivated and wanted to quickly bring Ye Cheng back, but now he was suddenly told that the other party had been killed. Even if Hu Sisi was skinned alive, the other party wouldn't come back alive.

What's more, he couldn't do such a bloody thing. He hadn't overcome the urge to kill, even if he knew that killing was inevitable in the future.

He could only avenge Ye Cheng to the best of his ability!

Li Jinzhi looked in the direction of the Heart Infant Lake and pursed his lips. How helpless must he have been to be thrown into the lake with a huge rock tied to him? When the ice water poured into his nose, did Ye Yu ever blame him?

If Ye Cheng didn't die, if there was a medicine for regret in this world, he definitely wouldn't leave his savior alone in the Li Family's Castle.

If he was alive, he wanted to see him. If he was dead, he wanted to see his corpse. He must find him!

Li Jinzhi made up his mind and shot towards the Heart Infant Lake.

Above the Heart Infant Lake, Li Jinzhi stopped on a piece of ice not far from the Polar Domain City. He condensed a hexagonal icicle with one hand, and a strong cold air spread out. He put the icicle close to the surface of the lake, and the layer of ice on the lake silently melted.

Li Jinzhi lowered his eyes and stood on the ice, looking at the dark lake reflecting the bright moon. A strong spiritual pressure slowly spread from the calm bottom of the lake, as if something was hibernating in it. Ye Cheng was thrown from here.

A layer of sparkling and translucent Ice Crystals slowly seeped out of his white skin. After the Ice Crystals quickly spread to his entire body, Li Jinzhi jumped into the water with a splash. Before the ripples on the surface of the water could subside, the cracked ice surface quickly melded and finally returned to normal.

The lake water was quiet and deep, and only the silver fish swam quickly, creating waves. Li Jinzhi calmly analyzed the situation. Ye Cheng was tied to a huge rock and thrown into the lake, so naturally, he didn't have the slightest chance of survival. However, because of the huge rock, at least his corpse wouldn't float too far away.

Recalling the helplessness he felt when the ice water penetrated his heart and lungs when he first transmigrated, Li Jinzhi's heart ached. In the end, he still harmed that person.

Gritting his teeth at the bottom of the lake, he turned around and swam downstream. Looking from afar, there was a faint flash of red at the quiet bottom of the lake, and the spiritual pressure in the lake was increasing as he went deeper. What was at the bottom of the lake?

Li Jinzhi looked cautious, but he only hesitated for a moment before he gritted his teeth and swam downstream. The dark water was mixed with bubbles.

The layer of ice on his body was getting thicker and thicker. The deeper he swam, the clearer the spiritual pressure was and the lower the water temperature was. In the end, Li Jinzhi found that there was a thick layer of ice at the bottom of the lake, and the red color at the bottom of the lake gradually revealed its true form.

He saw that in the transparent layer of ice, a blood-colored cocoon the size of an ostrich egg was sealed in ice, and the source of the strong spiritual pressure was this cocoon.

If he looked closely, he would find that the surface of the cocoon was actually made up of intertwined dark red blood lines, and the blood lines were wriggling at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, Li Jinzhi's attention was focused on a huge rock next to the cocoon. There was a hemp rope tied to the rock, and the knot at one end of the hemp rope was scattered around the blood cocoon, as if it had been tied to something before.

While Li Jinzhi was wandering, the dark red blood lines on the blood cocoon were wriggling crazily like living creatures!

Li Jinzhi was caught off guard by the strong light, and the spiritual power circulating in his body was forced to stop by the spiritual pressure. Even the Ice Crystals Shield on the surface of his body was difficult to maintain, and the cold lake water at the bottom of the lake poured into his nose.