<h2 ss="wp-block-heading">Chapter 7223</h2>


    Marven leaped into the ice cave,


    Which was over a thousand meters deep,


    He was surprised to find the frozen ice formed a vertical, precisely measured shaft.


    Brovnen had put great care into excavating this ice cave.


    During his freefall, he had to constantly use his spiritual energy,


    To slow his speed,


    Finallynding steadily at the bottom.


    Just as he had previously explored with his spiritual energy,


    The space here had been expanded by Brovnen, resembling a yurt.


    The inside was surrounded by ice on all sides and the top,


    With dark rocks below and apletely ck entrance that seemed to devour all light.


    In the extremely dim light,


    Marven saw the dark entrance.


    He felt a little uneasy; even Brovnen couldn’t enter this ce,


    So what use would he be?


    However, the four-word mantra still held true: he was already here.


    And he had almost lost half his life to get here,


    So he had to at least try.


    However, Marven still couldn’t quite understand why this ce was called the Gate of Ascension.


    Shouldn’t ascension involve going upwards?


    This ce was thousands of meters below an ice sheet,


    Even beneath the rocks, perhaps calling it the Cave of Ascension would be more fitting.


    Marven stepped to the dark entrance and,


    With a try-it-and-see attitude,


    Crouched down and reached his hand into the darkness.


    Originally, he thought there would be an invisible barrier blocking him,


    Since Brovnen couldn’t even get a sliver of it.


    But unexpectedly, when his hand touched the endless darkness,


    It felt like dipping into warm water.


    It went in easily andfortably,


    Like immersing a frozen hand in warm water.


    Then, he suddenly sensed an extremely rich spiritual energy being absorbed directly into his body through his skin.


    Or rather, it wasn’t absorbed,


    But rather, the spiritual energy was so abundant that it seemed to seep into his body the moment his hand entered.


    He had never experienced such rich spiritual energy since he began his enlightenment,


    Not even from taking pills.


    Marven murmured to himself,


    “What kind of ce is this?”


    “How can there be such rich spiritual energy?”


    Even as he pondered this,


    Arge amount of spiritual energy actively seeped into his body,


    Replenishing his spiritual energy from 50% to 80%.


    This speed wasparable to taking pills!


    Moreover, this is only through the skin of the hands.


    If the whole body were to enter,


    The speed would probably be unimaginably fast.


    Thinking this, Marven steeled his resolve and leaped directly into the cave.


    The barrier Brovnen had encountered seemed to vanishpletely before him.


    He encountered no resistance whatsoever,


    And his bodynded smoothly inside.


    Marven had assumed that this pitch-ck cave would bepletely dark,


    But to his surprise, everything around him suddenly brightened up after he entered.


    He then realized that although the entrance was narrow,


    It seemed to expand dozens of times in an instant.


    What was originally just enough for one person to enter was now wide enough to easily amodate dozens of people side by side.


    The surrounding stone walls were incredibly smooth,


    And numerous runes that Marven couldn’t understand were engraved on the dark rock.


    These runes emitted a warm yellow light,


    Illuminating the surroundings.