The Legend of Shen Li (English Translation of Yu Feng Xing 与凤行)

Chapter 17

The ice encrusted doors slowly creaked open. Wisps of cold air gushed out from the Palace, revealing a 10-Foot main hall. Four icicles stood, representing four different directions. In the middle, a glittering, translucent pure ice orb floated.

Within the frozen orb, there was a woman. A dark colored robe hugged her body, clinching her waist. Her hair was loose, eyes closed as if sleeping. But when the sound of footsteps echoed throughout the hall, her two eyes suddenly opened. They glistened with a sharp light as she turned to the source of the noise.

"King," 

The black robed envoy kneeled on one knee, kowtowing in a salute, 

"Subordinate carries orders from Demon Emperor, came to escort King out of confinement." 

He fished out a porcelain bottle from his bosom and unscrewed the cork, allowing the blood within the bottle to splash out onto the ground. 

Instantly, the four icicles lit up as inscriptions circled then. 

In the middle, the frozen ice orb slowly melted. When the ice had thawed to roughly the size of half a person, the rays of light emitted by the icicles stopped.

The frozen orb that has lost it's airborne support instantly plummeted to the ground, shattering into uncountable years worth of snow and ice inside the main hall.

Being frozen for too long, Shen Li's four limbs were somewhat stiff, her body was covered with ice fragments. With the black clothed envoy's help, she slowly managed to stand up, 

"You sealed me in the Ice Sacrificial Palace, but it's only considered as confinement?"

The Ice Sacrificial Palace was one of the Demon Realm's forbidden lands, and holds the status and use as Heaven's Space-Time Rip, able to suppress even the most vicious and powerful of demons. 

The only difference between the two was that the Ice Sacrificial Palace's power was even greater than Heaven's Space-Time Rip. 

But in return, it could only trap one demon at a time. But throughout the millennia, all the felons were either captured and placed in Heaven's Space-Time Rip or killed. 

Therefore, the Ice Sacrificial Palace had remained here empty.

Shen Li had never once dreamed that she herself would've been sealed within there one day, nor has she ever thought that the marriage edict given by the Heavenly Emperor would've caused the Demon Emperor to feel this much stress- that he was so afraid of her once more trying to escape the marriage, he put her here! 

Shen Li stretched her arms, stepping over the foot of the mountain of ice. She walked to the front door, her mouth ridiculing, 

"Has the wedding team from heaven come to escort the bride there? 

That's why you're finally willing to free me."

The black clothed envoy followed behind her, respectfully answering, 

"King is impatient. 

There is still another month of preparation before the wedding."

Shen Li was startled, turning her head to ask him, 

"How long was I in there?" 

She remembered that day after she was caught by the Demon Emperor, he had ordered that she was to be confined to the Ice Sacrificial Palace. 

However, no one had told her how long she would be confined. 

Within the ice, she had no way of telling time. A day or a year they would've all felt the same to her.