As these events were unfolding in Nangong Villa, in an unnamed cave, Li Zerui was immersed in a Cold Pool, undergoing torturous cultivation. Ever since he was taken away by the cloaked elder, the elder had brought him to this place and thrown him into the Cold Pool. It was then that Li Zerui truly understood what it meant to wish for death, and he realized the pain the elder spoke of. If it weren't for the burning rage of revival in his heart, he would have likely been unable to bear such agony and would have turned into solid ice and died outright.