A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 6570

The ice gate opened slowly.

An even denser wave of frost energy rushed out from beyond it and swallowed all three of them at once.

Jared's chaos-flame moved on its own, forcing the cold back.

Gwendolyn inhaled deeply and drew the spilling frost energy straight into her body. Some color returned to her face, and a flash of wild joy broke through her eyes.

Josephine's body trembled slightly. Dark crimson primal fire rose over her skin and sealed the frost energy outside.

Her injuries still hadn't healed, and her face remained pale, but the resolve in her dark-crimson eyes never faltered.

The three of them stepped through the ice gate and went deeper into the passage.

Both walls of the passage were carved with Frost God sigils. In the icy blue glow, they flickered bright and dim by turns, like they were telling the rise and fall of that lineage across hundreds of thousands of years.

At the end of the passage stood an enormous crystal palace.

The palace rose dozens of yards high. Its domed ceiling was packed with dense clusters of ice crystal that caught and refracted the light from outside, filling the entire hall with a clear, brilliant glow.

The floor was a single sheet of blue ice crystal, clear as glass. Beneath the frozen surface, ancient sigils flowed in slow, shifting patterns.

At the center of the palace stood a crystal dais. Above it floated a mass of icy blue light, and inside that glow, a pearl about the size of a fist came in and out of view.

Its surface was covered in dense Frost God sigils, and it gave off a terrifyingly powerful force of frost law.

The Heart of the Abyss.

All three of them stopped at the same time.

Jared stared at the icy blue glow. The shifting blue radiance reflected in his violet eyes.

He could feel it clearly—the pearl held an unimaginably vast power of frost law. Pure to the extreme. Powerful to the extreme. Ancient to the extreme.

That wasn't power a Golden Immortal cultivator could possess.

It wasn't even power a Voidrealm cultivator could possess.

It was the Frost God's progenitor's own source power, refined from blood essence. The core inheritance of that bloodline, carried through hundreds of thousands of years.

"The Heart of the Abyss,"

Gwendolyn's voice trembled as she said it. She could feel the aura inside the pearl, and it sent her Ice God Bloodline into a furious boil, as if something ancient was calling to her from a distant age.

Josephine looked at the Heart of the Abyss, something unreadable flickering through her dark red eyes.

This pearl was the reason she'd come to the Northern Abyss Frost Chasm in the first place.

But now she was injured, her spiritual power drained, more than half her blood essence already burned away. She had no strength left to fight Jared for the Heart of the Abyss.

And even if she'd been at full strength, she still wouldn't have been sure she could take it from him.

A man who could kill someone at Golden Immortal Level Four wasn't someone she could handle.

Josephine stood there in silence for a moment.

Then she turned and started toward the palace exit.

"Where are you going?" Jared's voice came from behind her.

Josephine stopped.

She didn't turn around.

"I'm hurt. I don't have the strength to fight you for the Heart of the Abyss."

Her voice stayed calm, stripped of anything he could read as emotion. "You take your treasure, and I'll go my way. We don't need to have anything to do with each other."

"If you go out now and run into reinforcements from the Hall of Radiance, then what?"

Josephine's body went faintly rigid.

He was right.

The Hall of Radiance had lost too many people here. They would definitely send reinforcements to investigate.

Her spiritual power was exhausted, more than half her blood essence was gone, and her injuries still hadn't recovered. If she ran into the Hall of Radiance's reinforcements now, she wouldn't even be able to escape.

"Stay here and recover before you leave," Jared said behind her.

"Whatever's waiting outside can wait until you're healed."

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