"Ah?!"
Su Zijin couldn't help but cry out in alarm, no longer concerned with what the haze was all about.
She hurried to the ice coffin to check whether the ice coffin holding Mu Jinyu had cracked or something else had happened.
After examining the ice coffin several times, Su Zijin found that there were no problems, so she looked through the hazy coffin lid at the condition of Mu Jinyu lying within.
She discovered that the jade pendant on Mu Jinyu's neck had shattered, turning into countless fragments scattered inside the ice coffin.
That sound just now must have been the noise of the jade pendant exploding, right?
Su Zijin thought, wondering why the jade pendant would suddenly burst. Could it not withstand the cold?
But that didn't make sense, if it couldn't withstand it, it should have cracked earlier, not just now.
"Hmm?!"
Then, Su Zijin saw Mu Jinyu's right hand trembling slightly.
"Is this? This is..."
Su Zijin, seeing Mu Jinyu's condition, was overwhelmed with a feeling of ecstatic joy, and she was about to run and find a doctor to perform a thawing surgery for Mu Jinyu.
But suddenly, she thought something wasn't right. What if Mu Jinyu's condition hadn't improved?
Since it concerned Mu Jinyu, Su Zijin dared not take it lightly.
With that thought, Su Zijin immediately made a call to Xiang Mantang, wanting to ask him what exactly was going on with Mu Jinyu's condition and whether it was time to let the doctors start the thawing surgery.
Oddly enough, she couldn't get through to Xiang Mantang, no matter how hard she tried.
"Strange."
The surprise in Su Zijin's heart gradually dissipated due to the unanswered calls from Xiang Mantang.
But she had no idea what Xiang Mantang was up to. He might have been on an emergency mission, right?
In that case, Su Zijin decided to call Mu Hongchen to ask what Xiang Mantang was doing.
Mu Hongchen, facing Su Zijin, the Old Dragon King's daughter and the former Dragon King's mother, did not dare to take the matter lightly. He informed Su Zijin about Xiang Mantang going to find medicine for Mu Jinyu, his subsequent disappearance, and the great changes in the world that followed.
"What?!"
Su Zijin had no idea that Xiang Mantang had done all this. While she worried about Xiang Mantang's situation, she also didn't know if Mu Jinyu's current improvement was the result of Xiang Mantang's efforts.
She asked Mu Hongchen, who naturally didn't know either, and he didn't dare to make a decision for her. He had many other matters to attend to, so after a few more words, he hung up the phone.
"What should I do now?"
Listening to the dial tone on the phone and then looking at Mu Jinyu lying quietly in the ice coffin, Su Zijin was unable to make a decision for a moment.
She had called Xiang Mantang originally to have a guiding force, to know how to handle Mu Jinyu's situation.
But with Xiang Mantang missing, how could she dare to make a decision on her own?
After some thought, the uncertain Su Zijin decided to initiate a video call with Gu Xiyan, Wen Rou, and Mei Yinxue.
"Hello, Mom, what's up?"
Gu Xiyan, Wen Rou, and Mei Yinxue, who had stopped training, answered Su Zijin's video call at the first opportunity.
"It's like this..."
Su Zijin didn't beat around the bush with them and quickly relayed Mu Jinyu's current situation to them in brief.
"Mom, do you mean Jinyu is waking up?" Gu Xiyan and the two other women, upon hearing Su Zijin's words, couldn't help but exclaim with overwhelming joy.
"Not necessarily, it's very likely that if this body thaws, and Mu Jinyu doesn't wake up, then re-freezing him could lead to unknown consequences…"
Su Zijin shook her head, her eyebrows knotted with worry and unease, "That's why I dare not make any hasty decisions, for fear of making a mistake that you would resent me for the rest of your lives, and I wouldn't be able to forgive myself either."
Upon hearing this, Gu Xiyan's eyes flickered a few times as she looked at Mu Jinyu, who was indeed trembling slightly in his right hand while lying in the ice coffin, also finding it difficult to make a decision.
Wen Rou then hesitated for a moment and suggested, "Shall we just wait and see, and make a decision after the junior master comes back?"
Mei Yinxue objected, "Haven't you seen the situation outside? And just now Mother also said that the junior master went to another place and is now missing, likely due to an accident. Given Jinyu's current condition, I think he's truly about to wake up."
Gu Xiyan also found it hard to decide but then said, "Yes, that's a possibility. Just now Mother also mentioned, someone omnipotent had said that Jinyu would wake up on his own, but the junior master couldn't wait and went to check the situation. Now it seems like Jinyu is about to wake up on his own."
"So, if we do nothing and don't thaw his body, I'm afraid something unexpected might happen…"
Su Zijin took a deep breath and said, "So it sounds like everyone is prepared to give it a try?"
"Hmm? Let's give it a try!" Gu Xiyan also took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, things can't get any worse, and if we don't wake up Jinyu now, and the junior master disappears forever, with our abilities, we won't be able to find the treasure medicine that can save Jinyu…"
Making this decision was extremely difficult.
Because no one knew whether Mu Jinyu would wake up after the body thawing, and if he didn't wake up, even if they promptly performed cryogenic surgery on Mu Jinyu again, this continuous freezing and thawing could potentially cause great harm to him.
No one could predict the consequences.
If it led to complete death.
It would be equivalent to them having killed Mu Jinyu with their own hands.
...
Leaving aside the sanatorium for now, Su Zijin, and Gu Xiyan made the difficult decision to try thawing Mu Jinyu to see if he was indeed waking up.
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Jian Ruyan boarded the private jet and after a long half-day flight, she finally arrived at the Mesopotamian Plain.
Looking at the devastated scene in front of her, her heart went cold.
If Xiang Mantang had not come to his senses in time to suppress the demon within and contain the spread of the darkness, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Perhaps not a single living soul would have remained in the world.
No, maybe those hiding in the Kunlun Ruins would have had a chance at survival.
"Demonic Buddhas, monstrous monks, strange monks, all proclaiming the ghostly Tathagata!"
Just then, a clear and melodious voice rang out.
Hearing it, Jian Ruyan turned her head toward the source of the sound.
She saw a monk in a simple monk's robe walking towards her step by step, holding a Zen staff and an alms bowl in his hands.
This monk appeared to have ordinary features, purified and attractive, but the radiant Buddha's Light shining from behind his head clearly showed his extraordinary nature.
"Victorious Buddha, Tathagata?"
Jian Ruyan looked at the monk in Cloth attire and stated solemnly these five words.
Victorious Buddha was indeed the head of Buddha's Light Shines Everywhere, a powerhouse in the God Realm.
On par with the Old Dragon King in his prime, as well as the Lord of the Killing Realm from Slaughter Redemption.
It was unexpected that the major terror caused by Xiang Mantang had drawn him out.
However, Jian Ruyan thought it over and felt it was normal.
If the Old Dragon King of the Dragon King Hall were still alive or if this disaster had not been caused by Xiang Mantang, whether it was the Old Dragon King or Xiang Mantang, they would surely have come to investigate.