Dark and cold sky lake.
The water of Tianchi Lake was as still as a mirror, with only the ice spirit dancing lightly. On the bank of the lake, Mu Xuanyin and Yun Che stood facing each other from a distance. Both of them were wearing snow-white clothes, but under Mu Xuanyin's silent aura, Yun Che's aura and existence were as insignificant as dust.
Yesterday was the last rest day, and today is the beginning of hard training.
"Let me see your limit. There is no need to spare any strength."
As Mu Xuanyin's icy voice fell, Yun Che's profound energy suddenly erupted. The Evil Soul - Burning Heart - Purgatory of the Evil God Realm was instantly activated, and the color of the profound energy also changed from colorless to light red. After a brief pause, it was violently opened, and the profound energy suddenly changed its quality, showing a scarlet color like blood. The profound energy that was originally stable suddenly became manic like an enraged beast.
Yun Che’s eyes also became manic.
Mu Xuanyin's icy eyebrows moved slightly, and she said indifferently, "Take action."
"drink!!"
Yun Che roared, and the Heaven Smiting Sword came out. The violent profound energy in his body surged up, and the Golden Crow Flame and Phoenix Flame burned at the same time. A flaming sword light several feet long shot out from the Heaven Smiting Sword. A "Heaven and Earth Destroying" was blasted towards Mu Xuanyin amidst the roar.
The air currents in the Tianchi Lake were in chaos. The frightened Ice Spirit flew away quickly. Yun Che was like a volcano that had suddenly erupted… However, just when the Heaven Smiting Sword was still ten feet away from Mu Xuanyin, this sudden eruption of terrifying profound energy storm suddenly disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Yun Che and his sword were both frozen in mid-air. The power that he had just exploded seemed to be completely sucked away by an invisible black hole, disappearing without a trace, and without making even the slightest sound.
In front of him, Mu Xuanyin stood there quietly, her eyes cold and her snow-white clothes silent. From beginning to end, she did not move for a moment, nor did she release any profound energy.
Yun Che fell from the sky in a somewhat wooden manner and was stunned for a long while.
In front of Mu Xuanyin, his ultimate strength was just like the sand in front of the ocean, not even as humble as it could be.
“It’s OK.”
Mu Xuanyin's cold eyes were calm, but she gave Yun Che a comment that seemed to be approving. Then, she slowly raised her right hand.
Yun Che, who was in a daze, felt a sense of fatal danger suddenly coming. His body reacted instinctively and moved instantly with the Star God's Fragmented Shadow... However, five cold lights that could not be captured by the naked eye shot out from the void and hit the body behind him instantly. None of them penetrated the five phantoms he had shattered.
puff!
The moment the five cold lights touched his body, they suddenly stopped and then dissipated silently. But Yun Che's heart spasmed and his whole body was covered in cold sweat, because any one of the five cold lights was enough to kill him directly.
He only sensed a chill approaching, but in the next moment, he was touched by five chills at the same time—and this was after he instantly transformed using the Star God's Shadow.
Yun Che took a deep breath and raised his head, only to find that Mu Xuanyin was no longer in front of him. He turned around quickly and glanced around, but saw nothing but emptiness. When he turned his gaze back, he saw that Mu Xuanyin was actually in front of him, less than ten steps away from him.
“The strength of his profound energy is far beyond that of his peers, and his explosive power is acceptable. This should be the power of the Heretic God.” Staring into Yun Che’s eyes, Mu Xuanyin said coldly, “But his sense of touch, which is the most important, is far from enough.”
“Sense of touch?” Yun Che was slightly stunned.
"Go to a place with the master."
Mu Xuanyin flicked her palm lightly, and the space in front of her was silently torn apart. Before Yun Che could react, his body was sucked into the space crack.
His eyes suddenly lit up and he found himself in another world.
Looking down from the sky, the front and back were all covered in fog. This was an extremely pale and dense fog. Ordinary fog could not block Yun Che's sight, but the dense fog here made Yun Che's visibility less than a hundred feet. He tried his best to look into the distance, but could only vaguely see groups of icebergs rising and falling.
Less than ten feet away in front of him was a huge blockade formation, emitting a cold light like ice crystals.
"This place is called the Mist Valley. It is the place used by the sect to punish disciples who have committed serious mistakes. If a disciple commits an unforgivable mistake, he will be thrown into this valley and left to fend for himself. And the result is that all of them will die tragically in it very quickly, without exception."
The coldness here is naturally not comparable to that of the Minghantian Lake, but the howling of the cold wind reveals a heart-pounding eeriness.
Yun Che’s heart skipped a beat, and he asked tentatively, “Master, you brought your disciple here, could it be that…”
Since it is called "Jue Valley", it certainly can't be a good place.
"There are a large number of Shinto mystical beasts living in the Mist Valley, but they are completely different from the mystical beasts you have seen in the Ice Phoenix Realm. The mystical beasts that live in the Mist Valley are all extremely ferocious and will kill their own kind, not to mention those of different races. Every mystical beast you encounter there will want your life. The weakest of these mystical beasts is the Ice Dire Wolf you have seen before, and the strongest is comparable to a mystical practitioner in the Divine Tribulation Realm."
“…” Yun Che’s eyes were filled with shock. After hearing this, he could no longer guess Mu Xuanyin’s intention.
"In addition, there are not only profound beasts, but also some former Ice Phoenix disciples who were exiled there not long ago and have not yet died under the claws of the ferocious profound beasts. They can survive in there, their profound strength is at least in the middle and late stage of the Soul Realm, and there are even disciples in the Divine Tribulation Realm. As mortals, they will do anything to survive for a while, which is far more terrifying than the ferocious profound beasts. If you encounter any of them head-on, you will definitely die."
“Master, are you asking your disciple to… enter the Mist End Valley for training?” Yun Che asked anxiously.
"Yes, but not now. If I throw you in now, you will be dead in less than a moment."
Yun Che heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this. He was definitely not a person who would give up when faced with danger, but based on Mu Xuanyin's description of the Mist Valley, with his current strength, entering it would be a sheer act of committing suicide.
"Master will give you six months." Mu Xuanyin said coldly: "After six months, Master will throw you into this Mist Valley. If you don't want to die too quickly in there, or if you want to walk out alive, you must practice well in these six months and not slack off for even a moment."
She paused, and her tone suddenly became cold and heartless: "You won't have the chance to slack off."
"Six months?"
After his profound strength entered the Divine Origin Realm, he clearly felt how difficult it was to improve his divine profound strength. Since then, his profound strength has hardly changed compared to when he just broke through to the Divine Origin Realm. In six months, whether he could break through to the second level of the Divine Origin Realm was still unknown. Even if he could... enter the Absolute Valley, which was full of dangers and roamed with a large number of Divine Soul Realm, even Divine Tribulation Realm ferocious profound beasts and profound mist, it would still be pure suicide.
Yun Che raised his head and wanted to say something, but when he met Mu Xuanyin’s eyes, his whole body went cold. He dared not say anything more and lowered his head and said, “Yes, disciple will do his best.”
"With your comprehension, there is no need for me to teach you the Ice Phoenix God-conferring Canon. You can comprehend it on your own. During these six months, I will allow you to enter the Heavenly Dark Frost Lake at will, but you must return to the Holy Temple at noon every day and fight with me once."
“Ah? Fighting with… Master?” Yun Che was greatly shocked.
Although fighting with the strong would be beneficial to the improvement of the Xuan Dao, the dimension gap between him and Mu Xuanyin was too great. When facing Mu Xuanyin, he was not even worthy of saying the word "fight".
"snort!"
With a cold snort, Yun Che's arm was grabbed by Mu Xuanyin. A spatial crack reappeared, and Yun Che's eyes blurred and he was back in the temple.
Mu Xuanyin slowly stretched out her jade-white hand, and the aura on her body disappeared very quickly, gradually reaching a point where Yun Che could no longer sense her existence.
"Master will suppress the profound strength to the soul realm. However, the profound strength can be suppressed, but consciousness and touch cannot. Do you understand?"
Yun Che nodded, took a deep breath, and cautiously assumed a stance, but he did not dare to speak for a moment.
Fighting against someone at the Divine Lord level... let alone him, I'm afraid even the Realm Kings of the lower and middle star realms wouldn't dare to even think about it.
"Every day when we fight, I will only attack you ten times. If you can successfully resist or avoid my attacks ten times, or if you can touch me or force me to retreat even half a step before I attack you ten times, then you win. If you cannot, the consequences... you will know immediately."
The icy voice and gaze made Yun Che's heart tighten, and he had an extremely terrible premonition.
“If you fail to win once in these six months, then you don’t have to think about going to the Eternal Heaven God Realm anymore, and I will not waste my energy on a piece of trash who is destined to die in the Mist Valley.”
Yun Che's nerves suddenly felt like being pricked by needles. His brows sank, and his eyes suddenly became as cold as stars. He gritted his teeth and said, "Disciple... will definitely not let Master down."
"It would be better."
A snowflake fluttered down and landed on Mu Xuanyin’s fingertips. Mu Xuanyin pushed the snowflake lightly, and the snowflake flew towards Yun Che as if lifted by a breeze.
A chill came towards Yun Che with an oppressive force that instantly suffocated him. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, who would have thought that a piece of drifting snow could become so terrifying.
Yun Che’s reaction was extremely fast. He instantly grasped the Heaven Smiting Sword in his hand. His entire body was ablaze with flames, and he blasted out with his sword towards the dancing snowflakes.
His strongest point is the frontal explosive power of the heavy sword in his hand. When he was in the Tianxuan Continent, he could flatten mountains and shock the ocean with one sword.
As the snowflakes approached, there was a dull sound, and the force he had exerted with all his strength was instantly shattered. The thin snowflakes tore through the heavy sword storm he had blasted out and rushed straight to his heart without any hindrance.
Yun Che was horrified and didn’t care about the pain in his arms due to his imbalanced body. His profound energy burst out once again, quickly releasing the Sealing Clouds and Locking the Sun.
BANG!!!
The Heretic God’s barrier lasted only for a moment before it shattered with a loud bang. A huge icy force heavily hit Yun Che’s right arm.
"Ugh!"
Yun Che screamed as the Heaven Smiting Sword flew out of his hand. The terrifying force that hit his arm exploded and instantly severed all the meridians in his right arm.
Yun Che staggered back. His right arm had no scars or blood, and the bones were not broken, but it drooped heavily.
Yun Che supported his right arm with his hand. Before he could stand firmly, his pupils suddenly shrank violently... Mu Xuanyin's attack did not stop because of this. As she flipped her palm lightly, the space in front of Yun Che suddenly sank...
boom----
Yun Che didn't have time to react. At that moment, he felt as if a star had exploded in his body. A terrifying torrent of power poured into his body, radiating to every corner of his body, every meridian...
In just a moment, all the meridians in his body were broken, and even his consciousness was like being hit by a huge hammer.
Yun Che's eyes suddenly became dull, and he fell straight down like a puppet that had suddenly lost its life.
There was no trace of blood or scar on his body, but there was no intact meridian in his body; everything was shattered.
When he was on the Blue Pole Star, he had suffered several broken meridians due to severe injuries in fierce battles or the backlash of the evil god's power. In the worst case, nearly half of his meridians were broken... but never all of them were broken like now.
The mysterious energy circulating in the meridians also dissipated without a doubt.
In his last consciousness, Yun Che felt that Mu Xuanyin seemed to be beside him. The voice was vague and ethereal, like a dream, but it still made him feel the coldness and ruthlessness that penetrated his bones.
"It's painful, right? Then use your body to remember the pain."
The pain of having all the meridians severed is definitely a hundred times more than having all the bones broken. Yun Che's lips moved, and his consciousness finally went completely blank, but his body continued to spasm in extreme pain.
Looking at the unconscious Yun Che, Mu Xuanyin's snow-white face was filled with indifference. She reached out her hand, grabbed Yun Che's body, and in a flash, she returned to the temple.
Here, at the center of the temple, was a world of ice. In the center of the world was a pool of water that was only ten feet square, and the water was like a mirror. In the center of the pool, a snow lotus was blooming proudly.
This snow lotus is several times larger than the ordinary snow lotus. Its petals are stacked one upon another, and each petal is as big as a palm. It is extremely pure and flawless, and exudes a crystal-like blue glow.
Its rhizomes and snow lotus are like ice crystals condensed from clear water, shining brightly. At first glance, no one would think that they are grown, but rather carved from ice crystals.
Mu Xuanyin swung her arm and threw Yun Che's body into the pool. Her eyes fell on the snow lotus in the pool and her snow-like fingers lightly tapped it.
Suddenly, an invisible mysterious formation surrounding the snow lotus lit up, and then slowly dissipated as Mu Xuanyin's fingers moved slightly.
"Why."
For some reason, Mu Xuanyin sighed softly. She came to the edge of the pond and twisted her fingers lightly. A snow lotus petal flew out and landed in her palm. She then placed it on Yun Che's heart.
Clang!!
The strong profound light was like a blue sunset glow, illuminating the entire temple, because this was Mu Xuanyin mobilizing nearly 70% of her profound strength in an instant. The power at the highest level of chaos merged into the snow lotus petals, and then slowly penetrated into Yun Che's body... In an instant, the snow-white petals lit up with an extremely dazzling icy light. Under the icy light, Yun Che's body was glared icy white. Then, his body suddenly reflected faint icy light, and more and more, and in the blink of an eye, it had covered his entire body.
What released these icy rays were the broken meridians in his body.
The light of the snow lotus petals became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared completely like mist.
Mu Xuanyin's profound energy quickly converged, and her palm also moved away from Yun Che's heart. However, the icy rays that clearly penetrated from Yun Che's meridians were gradually connecting and merging at a speed visible to the naked eye...
When these icy rays completely dissipated without a trace, Yun Che's meridians that had just been broken had actually completely recovered without any damage left... In fact, if one could see through his body, one could clearly see that his meridians were clearly flowing with a strange luster like ice.
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