"Maybe I should not have threatened him." Li Ming muttered under her breath as she looked up at the opening of the rabbit hole in which she had ended up falling around ten minutes ago.

"What? Already missing your mates? Can you please focus on the more important matter? We need to get out of here soon, or maybe you are planning to spend the night here." Snowy taunted her as he also tried to look at the faintest light that was visible through the mouth of the pit.

They were stuck forty feet under the ground with no light or magic. It was a miracle that Li Ming ended up forming a protective shield around them which saved them from breaking their bones or probably also from losing their lives.

But that protection spell was the last magic that she was able to do before losing contact with both her magical and spiritual energy.

No matter how hard she tried, she could not make her powers emerge at the surface. Her powers had returned deep into the magical oceans and they refused to follow her command.

"Can you just stop it? We are stuck here because you suddenly started somersaulting through this mountain slope out of blue. If not for you we won't have ended up here." Li Ming retorted back at the Pomeranian.

She was definitely regretting listening to the furball and letting him out to play around in the snow.

"It's not my fault that your powers decided to let you suffer when you needed them.....OUCH!" Snowy shrieked as a huge ball of snow hit him on his head.

He looked at Li Ming with accusing eyes after giving a deathly glare to the snowball which was now scattered all around him.

"What? Why are you looking at me like I'm the one who made the snowball fall from above and hit you on your head? Remember, I can't use my powers right now!" Li Ming showed him her empty hands as if they could prove her innocence.

Not like she was actually guilty or something!

"Can you find the reason because of which your powers are not working?" Snowy asked her while changing the topic.

A sigh left the girl's lips as she looked around at the walls of snow around her.

"No idea, I could not feel any kind of magical presence here. Though there are traces of spiritual energy on these walls as if some kind of spell was used here at some point, strong enough to last for such a long time." She said while taking off her right-hand globe to trace the walls with her fingers.

Just then a faint sound entered her ears, making her fault in her steps as she looked at the walls and then slowly pressed her ears to the wall of snow.

There it was! The same sound that grabbed her attention.

"What is it? Did you find something?" Snowy asked her as he started walking closer towards her.

Li Ming nodded her head as she signaled at the snow walls with her index finger, urging Snowy to listen to the sounds that were coming from behind those walls.

The little furball followed his master's instructions and pressed his small ears to the cold walls.

At first, he could not pick anything special as all his attention was on the snow that was covering the expensive boots of his master.

"You know what, if we were back in the modern world and any girl or woman saw you ruining such a luxury like this, they would surely have cut you into thousands of pieces and sold your soul to Satan..."

As his eyes moved from her boots to her eyes which were glaring daggers into him, his voice automatically refused to come out from his mouth.

His voice was probably smarter than his brain since it knew when to stop working to save his life.

"Hehe! Win win, you should not pay much attention to my nonsense. You are already aware of the problem from which I'm suffering. Forget that I even opened my mouth." Snowy quickly said in a sweet begging tone as he looked at the girl with his puppy eyes.

"Really? What kind of problem are you suffering from? Please enlighten me because it looks like I can't remember even though according to you I'm already aware of it." Li Ming stared at the little furball with s fake smile plastered on her lips.

Snowy chuckled nervously as he stepped a few steps back to create some distance between himself and his master who surely was not looking happy.

"Oh! I have a huge problem that I'm dealing with currently. As you can see my tongue is just too loose and it mostly ended up slipping and uttering nonsense. Please don't pay me any of your precious attention. Though I'm struggling with this problem at the moment but I'm pretty sure that I will get control over the situation very soon. Really!"

"Enough of your nonsense! Now pay attention to what I'm trying to show you if you are interested in getting out from here. Otherwise, I think I won't really mind leaving you behind in this beautiful place." Li Ming ordered Snowy while giving him a soft smile which was filled with nothing but evilness.

Snowy scoffed at his heartless master but thankfully stayed silent as he once again pressed his small ears to the chilled walls of ice.

As he concentrated his attention to grasp on any kind of sound coming from the opposite side of the walls.

".....is....this what you are talking about? The sound of flowing water?" Snowy asked his master as he tried to grasp any other kind of sound.

Li Ming hurriedly nodded her head as she replied, "Yes! Exactly that. There's either a lake or stream behind this wall."

"There is something else too....!" Snowy suddenly said after the silence is a few seconds.

Li Ming looked at Snowy with serious eyes as she asked, "What is it? Did you hear anything else too?"

The little pomeranian pulled away from the cold wall and looked at Li Ming as he nodded his head.

"Yeah! There's some weird type of sounds mixed with the sound of flowing water, like that of fluttering of wings or movements." Snowy replied to her question.

Li Ming once again placed her ear against the wall to see if she could grasp the other sounds too.

However, even after five entire minutes, she got nothing except her ear turning chilled because of the cold ice wall.

"What are we going to do now?" Snowy asked her.

"Not only I can't get access to my powers but we are also unable to link with the magical space or Xiao Tiantang. There's nothing with us to use for craking this wall." Li Ming said as she appeared deep in thoughts.

"Are you sure playing around with such a high ice wall would be a good idea? I mean there are too many chances for us to end up buried under this much ice." Snowy looked at her with uncertain eyes as he questioned her sensibility.

"We have no food, no water, no light, no fire, no place to live, no magic or spiritual energy, and nothing that could save us from this chilled weather. If we didn't keep moving I'm sure our ending would be no different than ending up burying under these ice walls. In both cases, we would be dead." Li Ming replied to the little furball's question.

"Fine! But how are we going to crack this huge wall of ice?" Snowy asked as he stared around the small space.

Li Ming was quiet for a few minutes as she pondered on her options. Well, there was barely any options for her.

She needed to get out of that deep pit as soon as possible.

She reached her hand out to her ponytail and unfolded the dark blue ribbon which was holding her hair up.

The ribbon had silver designs carved on its border and a huge silver moon in its very center.

Li Ming took both the ends of the ribbon, each in one of her hands as she started twirling the ribbon speedily around her index finger.

With two continuous turns, she positioned herself in the center of the pit and signaled Snowy to take cover behind her.

With all the strength that she had in her body, she flung the ribbon towards the ice wall that was standing in front of her.

"What are you doing? There is no time for playing around. Should not you be paying more attention to.....WOAH! Where did it go?"

Snowy ran towards the ice wall and tried to look at the spot where the ribbon had just disappeared.

Unfortunately, he was too short to get s better look at the wall.

One moment the ribbon was still wrapped around Li Ming's fingers and the next second it disappeared through the ice wall.

"What did you...."

Snowy did not get to complete his question as that exact moment a loud cracking sound disturbed the silence of their small cavern.