A Man Like None Other Novel Chapter 5853
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- January 9, 2026
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Chapter 5853
When David and his companions finally arrived at the depression surrounded by three towering ice peaks, night had already fallen on the Eternal Ice Plains.
There were no stars in the sky, only the aurora borealis, like flowing, colorful rivers, dancing silently in the dark firmament, illuminating the entire ice plain with a bizarre and surreal light.
At the center of the depression, the Blood Soul Cold Pool, no more than ten zhang in diameter, gleamed with an eerie dark red light under the aurora. The water was calm and still, yet it exuded a chilling aura and a bloody stench that sent shivers down one’s spine.
Beside the pool, the thousand-year-old Ice Soul Blood Lotus swayed gently in the cold wind, its nine petals as crystalline as rubies, its central bud as crimson as blood, seemingly ready to bloom at any moment.
However, the forbidden protective array that enveloped the entire depression stood like an insurmountable chasm.
Ancient and intricate divine runes flowed across the icy blue light screen, and at the ends of the icy blue chains hanging from it, the ferocious phantoms of ice beasts flickered in and out, radiating a chilling pressure.
Even more unsettling was what lay behind the array—deeper into the three ice peaks, a magnificent ice crystal palace complex, beyond description, stood silently amidst the night and aurora. The
Northern Underworld Palace.
It was not a single palace, but a continuous cluster of undulating ice crystal buildings.
The main hall stood a thousand feet tall, carved entirely from millennia-old black ice and earth’s core jade, crystal clear, reflecting the magnificent colors of the aurora, yet retaining a cold and austere sacred majesty.
Countless smaller palaces, towers, and covered bridges surrounded the main hall like stars around the moon, connected by ice crystal staircases and suspended corridors, forming a magnificent yet perilous ice crystal city.
Faintly visible within the city were flickering ice-blue lights, and powerful auras emanated from it.
The entire palace complex exuded an ancient, aloof, and inviolable aura, like a slumbering ice and snow deity.
“Finally here…”
The Crimson Cloud Demon Lord gazed at the Blood Lotus so close at hand, his eyes filled with both longing and anxiety.
With the protective ar
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Ling Shuang gripped her longsword tightly and whispered, “Senior, that array…”
“We must find a way to break it first.”
David’s gaze swept past the icy pool and the array, landing on the distant Northern Underworld Palace. “And the solution must be within the palace.”
The three paused briefly to adjust their breathing before heading towards the Northern Underworld Palace.
The closer they got, the more they felt the grandeur and oppressive atmosphere of this ice crystal city.
The palace was not surrounded by city walls, but instead by rings of ice crystal fences, hundreds of feet high and sharp as knives, inscribed with defensive divine runes, radiating a cold sense of rejection.
The only entrance was a fifty-foot-high ice crystal archway. On either side of the archway stood a ten-foot-tall ice sculpture statue
, holding an ice halberd, gazing forward; though inanimate, they gave the impression that they might come to life at any moment.
When David and his companions were still a hundred feet away from the archway, two figures slowly emerged from within.The two figures,
one tall and one short, one muscular and one thin, both exuded a suffocatingly terrifying aura.
The man on the left was nine feet tall, broad-shouldered and burly, with a rugged face sculpted like rock, a full beard, and large, piercing eyes.
He was shirtless, revealing his bronze-colored, scarred, and muscular physique, wearing only an ice-blue battle skirt, and carrying a massive ice crystal axe the size of a door.
Just standing there, he gave off a sense of overwhelming weight.
His aura had reached the peak of the eighth rank of the Celestial Immortal Realm, just like the Third Divine General, Han Yu!
The man on the right was slender, with a sinister face, appearing to be about thirty years old. His face was as pale as paper, his thin lips were tightly pressed together, and his long, narrow eyes were as cold as a venomous snake.
He wore a magnificent ice-blue robe with wide sleeves, his hands tucked into them. He appeared frail, but the chill emanating from him was far more concentrated and deadly than that of the giant.
His aura was also at the peak of the eighth rank of the Celestial Immortal Realm, but the sense of danger he exuded was far greater!
“The First Divine General of the Northern Underworld Palace, Man Shan,” the giant declared, his voice booming like a bell, causing the surrounding ice crystals to tremble.
“The Second Divine General of the Northern Underworld Palace, Xuan Ming,” the sinister man’s voice was shrill, like an ice needle slicing through glass.
The two stood side by side, blocking the entrance to the archway. Behind them, dozens of elite divine warriors could be vaguely seen standing ready within the archway.
“To have fought your way here, even falling to the Cold Prison, you do have some skill.”
Xuanming’s narrow eyes swept over David and the other two, lingering on David for a moment before revealing a hint of surprise. “First-grade Celestial Immortal Realm? Interesting… It seems you have quite a few secrets.”
Manshan impatiently swung his giant axe, creating a gust of cold wind: “Enough nonsense! Trespassing into the forbidden area of the Northern Underworld Palace and killing my people, you deserve to die! Boy, state your name, for I do not kill nameless ghosts!”
David took a deep breath, stepped forward, and cupped his hands, saying, “I am David. I have no ill intentions here, only to retrieve the Thousand-Year Ice Soul Blood Lotus from the Blood Soul Cold Pool to save people.”
“This item is of great use to me, and I am willing to exchange it for treasures of equal value. I humbly request that you two divine generals grant me this favor.”
“Do me a favor?”
Man Shan laughed as if he’d heard the funniest joke in the world, his laughter cracking the ice. “Boy, have you lost your mind? The Blood Soul Cold Pool is the sacred pool of my Northern Underworld Palace; every blade of grass and every tree within belongs to the divine race!”
“You killed so many of us, and you expect us to do you a favor?”
Xuan Ming coldly retorted, “Hand over the sword you’re carrying, along with the cultivation techniques and secret arts you practice, then cripple your own cultivation, and perhaps we can spare your corpse.”
“As for the two behind you… the man will have his soul extracted and refined, the woman will be used as a servant—this is the consequence of trespassing within the divine race!”
The arrogance and malice in his words were undisguised.
David’s face darkened.
He knew negotiation was impossible, but the other side consisted of two peak eighth-grade Heavenly Immortals, far stronger than any enemy he had encountered before.
Though confident, he was not arrogant.
