The ruins of the Lotus Kingdom, in a frozen cave.

A stunningly beautiful woman wearing a crown was sitting on the highest throne in the cave, her expression was serious, her brows were slightly furrowed, her jade hands were raised, and her fingertips seemed to point to the group of people kneeling in front of her, saying something.

The men kneeling in front of her were men and women, some of whom looked like soldiers, others who looked like ordinary people, and a few who were dressed like maids.

These people were motionless, white and flawless, and although they looked like they were lifelike, they were just a group of ice sculptures with no signs of life at all.

But if you look closely, you'll be amazed!

Because these people are not really ice sculptures, but living people are just a thin layer of ice sealed on the outside, under this thin layer of ice, you can clearly see the delicate white skin of the people inside, as well as the very good texture of the clothing fabric.

Obviously, these kneeling people should be listening to the words of the woman on the throne who looked like a queen, but suddenly they were all frozen inexplicably.

And the process that should be frozen is extremely unexpected and happens instantly, so the expressions of these people do not look flustered and surprised, and they still maintain the same appearance as they were at the moment before they were frozen, so it is inferred that this group of people should have been frozen without knowing it at all.

As for this white cave, it must not have been frozen like it is now, because there are still many oil lamps on the walls around the cave, and the flames burning in the oil lamps have not been extinguished, but they continue to burn, but the surface is also covered with a thin layer of ice.

If you can make the burning flame also be sealed by ice, it is by no means ordinary ice, it should be a rare thousand-year-old ice in the world to do this, otherwise it should have melted long ago.

This cave has a large space, about three or four hundred people, and there is a long corridor with winding paths leading to the outside, and on both sides of the corridor, there are soldiers guarding every few steps, which continues until the entrance of the cave.

It's just that the entrance to the cave is sealed by a thick layer of ice, and this layer of ice has not melted despite the spring flowers outside.

Outside this frozen cave entrance, extremely tall trees are overgrown, which obscure the sky and the sun, making this cave extremely hidden, and it is difficult for outsiders to find this place if they do not know it in advance, or if there is some guidance.

It can be seen that this group of people live here and do not want to be known by outsiders, and based on the food and water stored inside, it is enough for them to live for a long time without leaving the cave.

In the originally dead and dreary ice cave, because of a small black bead, a crack was burned at the entrance of the cave with a golden beam, and after flying in again, it also became a little angry.

After the bead drills into the crack, the crack heals on its own.

Ignoring all this, the bead still persistently flew down the corridor towards the depths of the cavern.

In the process of flying, a layer of ice flowers will appear on the surface of the small bead from time to time, and the ice flower quickly spreads and connects with the surrounding cave walls, so that the speed of the small bead also slows down, and even has to stop, as if it is about to be frozen.

Fortunately, the small orb emitted a golden light all over its body every once in a while, and the ice flowers that had just formed quickly melted again, so that they avoided the danger of being frozen and continued to fly forward.

It can be seen that the golden light on the small bead can resist the invasion of this thousand years of ice.

After about a quarter of an hour of flying, Xiao Yuanzhu finally came down the corridor to the cave hall, and then flew directly towards a middle-aged woman kneeling on the ground.

After flying around the middle-aged woman with the ice sculpture three times, the bead emitted a golden beam of light again, and began to try to melt the ice on her fingertips, although it melted very slowly, it could still be seen that the fingers of the ice sculpture woman were showing their original skin little by little.

After another quarter of an hour, the woman's hand was finally completely unfrozen, but the golden light of the small bead was also significantly dimmer, obviously not enough to completely unfreeze the middle-aged woman's whole body.

At this moment, one of the woman's fingers moved, and then more and more fingers were able to move, and after a while, the hand was completely able to clench its fist, and then it was released, and the ice was completely lifted.

The small orb, after feeling the woman's hand recover, flew to her palm and landed on a pattern that looked like a birthmark.

Although the birthmark was blurry, when the bead landed on it, the birthmark became clearer and clearer with the golden light emitted by the bead, and finally showed a pattern of a golden-crowned black-tailed frog.

At the moment when the birthmark turned into a golden-crowned black-tailed frog, the hand suddenly cut the palm birthmark with a fingernail, and the blood flowed out in an instant, and the small bead burst out again with a golden light after absorbing a part of the blood.

When the light dimmed, I saw that the body of the frozen woman was actually slowly shrinking, and finally completely turned into a fist-sized golden-crowned black-tailed frog.

Obviously, this woman is not a mortal, but a humanoid in the form of a golden-crowned black-tailed frog.

The small bead that was originally in the woman's palm fell to the ground, and it seemed that she didn't even have the strength to fly.

And the thousand-year-old ice layer that was originally wrapped around this woman's body still maintained the woman's original appearance, kneeling on the ground, but through the translucent ice, you can see that it is empty inside.

The only difference is that the ice on one wrist is broken, revealing a hole the size of a fist, and then a golden-crowned black-tailed frog can be seen slowly crawling towards the fracture of the wrist in the transparent ice shell in the shape of a woman.

Because the ice shell was very slippery, the golden-crowned black-tailed frog had a very hard time crawling, and sometimes when it managed to climb to the arm, it slipped down again and had to start all over again.

And at this time, at the fracture of the wrist, the originally open hole began to slowly freeze, that is, if the golden-crowned black-tailed frog did not come out as soon as possible, it would be sealed inside again.

When the golden-crowned black-tailed frog accidentally discovered this problem, it also became more anxious, and hurriedly sped up, but it didn't reach the speed, but fell even worse.

When the golden-crowned black-tailed frog finally crawled to the broken wrist and jumped to the ground, it gasped for breath, obviously really tired.

And at this moment, outside this cave entrance, Yuan Xunshuang, who was attracted by some kind of inexplicable call, also came to the cave entrance with Yanyu in his arms, and was studying this strange frozen cave entrance, and from time to time he put his ears on the ice to listen to whether there was any movement inside.

If Yuan Xunshuang could enter the cave at this moment and see this golden-crowned black-tailed frog, he would definitely be very surprised, because this golden-crowned black-tailed frog was Aunt Yerong back then.

The Aunt Yerong who she thought was dead had actually come to the ruins of the Lotus Kingdom with Princess Yuanfeng a long time ago.

It's just that not long after they came to the ruins, they were unfortunately ambushed, and a group of unknown people were unexpectedly frozen in this cave for more than ten years.

In the past ten years, it is precisely because she has not hesitated to use the essence and blood in her body to burn a little bit to resist the cold of ice, so that she has not fallen into hibernation like others.

After feeling like she was unconscious all over, she struggled to find a way to break the ice, but no matter how hard she tried, it still didn't help.

That feeling that life is worse than death made her want to die many times. If he hadn't been relieved that Yuan Xunshuang hadn't been relieved, he might have really given up this effort.

Fortunately, she used the magic frog beads to create a doppelganger, and still retained a wisp of consciousness on this gray-haired, withered female corpse, died instead of herself, and was buried in the cemetery of Yanjia Village.

In her dreams, she always dreamed that she turned into a golden point of light, flew to the tomb of her clone outside the ruins, and then drilled into the eyebrows of the doppelganger to listen to what Bai Yuan Xunshuang said to her in front of the grave.

Every time she heard Yuan Xunshuang's bad words, she was also very sad, if it weren't for the fact that the doppelganger was trapped in the underground coffin, she even wanted to go to Yuan Xunshuang's house to see her, and hold her in her arms to comfort her.

It is precisely because of this that she really can't bear to die like this, so she persists to this day.

Unexpectedly, since a month ago, she no longer dreamed of Yuan Xunshuang talking to her in front of the grave.

When she turned into a golden point of light again at midnight, entered Yanjia Village through the stone tablet, and then entered the eyebrows of her doppelganger, she found that the tomb where her doppelganger was located had collapsed, the coffin was also rotten, and her doppelganger was completely exposed!

Because her feelings were not very clear in this kind of dream, and she had never left the coffin in a dream before, she did not realize that the dark and turbid Yanjia Village in front of her was actually soaked in water.

When she used the golden point of light to control the doppelganger and saw that the houses in the whole village had collapsed, she was also surprised, considering that after the time passed, she turned back into the golden point of light and returned to the ruins, this doppelganger could still have a place to live, and she started to repair her house.

Everything was rebuilt as when she lived in Yanjia Village, even the yard was planted with her favorite vegetables and fruits, and when it was time, she lay on the bed, controlled the golden point of light to leave the doppelganger, and returned to her frozen body in the ruins through the stone tablet.

Every now and then, she would come to her senses from the ruins and wake up again.

Then he continued to go to Yanjia Village at midnight the next day, and then searched for Yuan Xunshuang everywhere in Yanjia Village all night, and called her name, which is the reason why a woman could always be heard calling at midnight when the caravan merchants who had passed through Yanjia Village spent the night.

Until one day, Tong County Ling came to Yanjia Village, and after confirming that her doppelganger was not Nalan Qiqing, he kindly buried her on the shore.

Unexpectedly, this helped her break the spell applied to the doppelganger, causing the doppelganger to fail and turn back into a magic frog bead.

Because the Demon Frog Bead is a divine object, and it has already recognized the owner with Ye Rong's blood, it has the ability to automatically return to its master, so it entered the stone tablet, returned to the ruins, and successfully found Ye Rong's frozen cave.

Later, under Ye Rong's control, she tried to let her birthmarked hand break the ice, and then used her own blood and the golden light of the Demon Frog Bead to restore the golden crown black-tailed frog body.