Chapter 87
The Golden Jade Tower fell down again, and the wisteria trees not far away swayed in the wind, giving the impression of a peaceful and tranquil life, as if the previous danger was just an exciting dream in the eyes of the monks.
However, the appearance of the stone giant made all the monks happy, especially those monks who thought they were quite powerful but could not get as many fragments as others. If God had mercy on them once, they could kill a stone giant and get many fragments. Then what would their previous bad luck be?
There are many people who hold this idea, and even monks with many fragments feel a sense of crisis.
In this situation, the first thought of many monks was to come to the Jinyu Tower to inquire about the situation.
Beneath the wisteria tree, the owner of Jinyu Tower waved his fan with a melancholy expression, glancing at the silver-haired monk across from him. A silver-white longsword lay unsheathed on the table, yet a lingering chill lingered.
In addition, there is the famous Lanyang Palace Master, who stands behind the woman with an indifferent expression, his hand on the silver-haired woman's shoulder, as if to support the occasion with her.
Feng Jue said impatiently, "Hurry up, stop dawdling."
03 raised his hand and gestured to Zhao Hang, saying, "Please."
"Wow." Zhao Hang put away his fan and said with a smile, "Okay, then I'll begin. This stone giant has dropped 500 fragments in total, and not a single one is here."
"It was Brother Xue who discovered the stone giant, so I gave him 100 fragments. Brother Xue and I fought the stone giant but were defeated, so I took him away and he gave me 50 fragments..." Zhao Hangyi first gave 100 fragments from the table to Xue Bufan, and then gave half of the 100 fragments to himself. Feng Jue listened to his mumbling and the movement of his fingers on the abacus and made a "tsk" sound.
Zhao Hangyi said loudly: "Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly, so that they can get along happily in the future."
Xue Bufan nodded and said, "I'll do as Brother Zhao says."
03 listened to Zhao Hangyi's words seriously, listening to him talk about how many pieces were awarded for killing the stone giant using the Jinyu Tower, how many pieces were returned for not killing the stone giant, and how many pieces were saved by fellow Taoists—finally, it was her turn! 03 sat upright and said, "Human life is precious, worth a thousand gold. I think all five hundred pieces can be given to me."
Zhao Hangyi's palm trembled as he placed it on the abacus, his voice shaking a little: "Fellow Daoist Xi is right..." But he still wanted to fight for some fragments for himself. You see, his Jinyu Tower still plays a certain role, so it's not too much to give him some fragments!
03 said, "But you did find the stone giant and brought it here. I can give you some fragments."
She took the initiative and picked up Jiuxiao and gathered all the fragments on the table in front of her.
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3 said, "My fragments will be divided with Feng Jue. I will take four hundred, and the remaining one hundred can be divided among you."
Zhao Hang was overjoyed and said, "Okay!"
"Don't bother me, I'll do it myself!" He rolled up his sleeves, carefully counted the one hundred pieces, and nodded. He felt that the cooperation with Zhao Hangyi was successfully achieved. After putting the fragments into the storage ring, he stood up.
When she turned around, she caught a glimpse of Feng Jue's curved mouth, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Feng Jue suppressed the corner of his mouth and said slowly: "Very good, let's go."
Hand in hand, the two of them jumped onto the Fire Rock Dragon's back and were carried by Ling Shi all the way to the northern ice field. Behind them, Zhao Hangyi began to divide the one hundred fragments with Xue Bufan, one by one...
Shuanglong Secret Realm, Xiyanglin.
A long sword split the ancient tree that blocked out the sun before him, allowing a few rays of sunlight to filter through the dense vines on the ground. Nie Xiu's eyes turned cold, and he slapped the poisonous snake hiding in the vines. He set fire to the vines and the tree that had nearly killed him.
Black smoke billowed up. Nie Xiu's previous battle with the ancient tree had already scared away the nearby birds and beasts. He was the only one hiding in the barrier to regulate his breathing, waiting for the fire to burn the forest to ashes.
After a day and a night, Nie Xiu came out of the barrier after regulating his breathing. He kicked away the snake bones at his feet in disgust and walked slowly to the place where the ancient tree had taken root. He saw ten fragments lying on the ground, and Nie Xiu felt a little annoyed.
This ancient tree was at the same level of cultivation as him, and was extremely difficult to deal with. Countless green poisonous snakes were hidden in the vines, and Nie Xiu was nearly bitten by the snakes several times. He finally managed to take down the ancient tree, but there were only ten fragments left!
"Waste!" Nie Xiu cursed fiercely, taking out a water mirror from his storage ring and injecting spiritual energy into it. Soon, another person's face appeared in the mirror. It was his apprentice.
"Greetings, Master." Nie Xiu's disciple hurriedly asked, "Master, what are your instructions?"
Nie Xiu asked directly, "How many fragments have you accumulated since entering the secret realm?"
His disciple lowered his head and whispered, "Master, I have only collected fifty-six golden dragon fragments so far."
Only fifty-six!
Nie Xiu glared at her with disappointment and said in a cold voice, "How could this be?" His disciple thought to herself that when they first started adventuring together, not to mention being tripped up by others, all the fragments obtained were naturally given to Nie Xiu. Later, the two separated, and many places around them had been looted. It was not easy for her, a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, to collect the fragments.
"Master, do you still remember the stone giant that the golden dragon mentioned when it appeared in the secret realm that day?" Nie Xiu's disciple asked.
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Nie Xiu nodded, "Yes, but I haven't encountered a stone giant in the past two months."
His disciple quickly said, "Master, I've inquired at the Golden Jade Tower. Stone giants don't appear without a trace. They appear every five years, following the five continents, in the east, south, west, north, and center. I heard there was a cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment who, by good fortune, encountered a Stone Giant barely at Foundation Establishment level in the southeastern part of the secret realm. She was alone when she encountered the Stone Giant, and she easily killed it, obtaining two hundred fragments!"
Nie Xiu was shocked and said, "Two hundred!"
“What a strong luck!”
Disciple Nie Xiu was also filled with mixed feelings. He said, "It's said that even a Jindan-stage cultivator who killed the stone giant only dropped fifty fragments. Master, since the beginning of the secret realm, the twin dragons have dropped an estimated thirty to fifty thousand fragments, and the secret realm itself contains a similar number of fragments. But when divided among three thousand cultivators, it's just a small number. This shows that the stone giant is the one that must be fought over!"
"That's right," Nie Xiu whispered. "Next, search the Shuanglong Secret Realm. If you see the stone giant, notify me immediately."
"yes!"
Nie Xiu stared at his own face reflected in the water mirror, narrowing his eyes as he muttered to himself, "I can't just sit there and wait for death, but in this secret realm, is there still a place I haven't been to..."
He flew high into the sky, looked at the huge secret realm, and his gaze slowly fell on the north.
Northern ice sheet.
The cold wind that could almost blow off a person's face blew past, and the ice crashed into the huge iceberg with a "bang bang". The fallen ice chips were then carried by the wind and blown farther away.
It was a desolate place. There was not a single plant to be seen, nor any trace of spiritual beasts. There was only the endless ice-blue sky, undulating under the sky.
Originally, the wasteland today should be no different from usual, but a stone giant wrapped in ice suddenly stood up and moved slowly on the glacier.
Its body was enormous, but it was too cold here. The seawater had frozen into a layer of ice hundreds of meters thick, firmly supporting it as it moved across the ice. However, the vibrations from each footstep made it easy for hunters to catch it and come at the sound.
"Huh." 03 exhaled a breath of white air, raised two popsicles frozen into round shapes and waved them in the air.
"come on!"
Feng Jue glanced at her and asked, "Are you not cold?"
It’s not cold, because she is a powerful cultivator in the God Transformation Stage!
03 He narrowed his eyes, put down one hand, opened his mouth, took a bite of the popsicle, and started chewing it with a "crunch, crunch" sound.
Delicious, peach flavor!
This is such a great place to make popsicles!
03. Adapt to local customs
, chop the fruits in the storage ring into pieces, mix them with the various syrups that Feng Jue had bought for her before, and leave them outdoors for a while, then they can be frozen into small popsicles!
03, who was already a qualified popsicle maker, quickly handed another popsicle to Feng Jue.
Please ask Feng Jue to eat the popsicle, and then beat the ice man after eating the popsicle.
Feng Jue glared at her unhappily, then lowered his head to take a bite of his popsicle. Without the presence of palace attendants, her hair was styled simply, and it had been ages since she had worn a flower ornament between her brows. She only used lip balm daily, and her bright red lips were as delicate and soft as a blooming flower.
03 He lifted up the small popsicle that Feng Jue had bitten, looked at the remaining red mark on it, and narrowed his eyes. Feng Jue was truly beautiful.
The fiery red-dressed Feng Jue was like a fire burning on the ice field. She stepped on the fire rock dragon and swung her long whip, creating thousands of waves of fire. The ice layer wrapped around the stone giant melted, and the ice and fire collided, and white steam rose.
Stone giants are extraordinary creatures, devoid of life and intelligence. Like puppets under the control of a weapon refiner, they mechanically destroy all living things they encounter, including spirit beasts. Some clever individuals will lure spirit beasts into conflict with stone giants, allowing the other party to profit.
However, Feng Jue prefers to go into battle herself. She never fears a fight and even enjoys the feeling of dancing on the tip of a knife in a life-and-death struggle.
Of course, she wasn't looking for death.
Feng Jue raised an arrogant smile on her lips, and there seemed to be flames burning in her dark eyes. In the steaming mist, her smile was seductive, but her eyes were colder than ice. She swung the whip without any tenderness.
"Bang!"
The fiery whip smashed the attacking boulders, and the originally huge stone giant was reduced to a huge, irregular torso. It flew up and down suddenly, and the surrounding ice and rocks shattered. Countless ice cubes flew up and attacked Feng Jue with a bang.
03 He took a bite of the popsicle nervously and waved towards the fire in the sky, "Come on, Feng Jue!"
"Clang."
Amidst the impenetrable ice and stone attack, a golden-red phoenix leaped up, spreading its flaming wings. Wherever it went, the ice and stone melted and evaporated in an instant. It fearlessly crashed into the stone giant who was stubbornly resisting on the ice. With a loud "boom", the glacier shook, and countless cracks spread out with the impact site as the center.
"Huh?" 03 chewed ice, a question mark popped up in his head, and looked at the cracks under his feet.
The moment the ice cracked, she seemed to feel the fluctuation of spiritual energy.
"Master." A golden bird appeared, landed on her shoulder, and whispered, "The spirit heart you need is in the spirit mine nearby."
Okay, okay.
03 nodded, holding the small popsicle that Feng Jue had bitten, and went to look for
she.
Around the battlefield, the place hit by the fire phoenix sank dozens of meters to form a huge ice pit. The scattered stone fragments and ice chips mixed together and froze into close shapes in the blink of an eye in the cold wind.
"Phoenix Secret." 03 shouted to the people at the bottom of the pit, "How many fragments did you open?"
Feng Jue's voice echoed in the huge pit: "Only three hundred, but I have other discoveries, come down." 03 quickly went down. At the bottom of the pit, a long Lingshi tail was exposed, shaking at 03.
Go this way.
03 walked forward along Lingshi's body. The ice on both sides stretched her shadow. 03 laughed heartily and saw a long fish frozen in a piece of ice.
"What are you laughing at? Hurry up." Feng Jue's urging voice came, and 03 shrunk the distance into an inch and quickly caught up.
In the ice cave, Feng Jue sat on the back of the Fire Rock Dragon with his legs hanging casually, while Ling Shi not only led 03, but also continuously spewed flames from his mouth to burn a path.
Feng Jue waved at 03, and when she approached, he said happily: "There is abundant spiritual energy here, there must be a spiritual vein here. If my guess is correct, the spiritual heart of the northern ice field is here.
03 He narrowed his eyes, clapped his hands and said, "Feng Jue is so clever!"
"Hmph." Feng Jue raised his chin arrogantly.
The two of them descended along the ice cave burned by Ling Shi, passed through an empty ice area, and came to the rocky part of the mountain. Feng Jue sat lazily on the back of the dragon and said, "You come."
03Draw out the Nine Skies.
Above the ice sheet.
After searching the ice field for over a month without finding a single stone giant, Nie Xiu frowned deeply. He flew low over the glacier on his sword.
"No wonder no one wants to come here. Besides the dangerous climate and rare spiritual creatures, there are icebergs everywhere that get in the way." Nie Xiu said dissatisfiedly. According to his apprentice, most of the stone giants disguise themselves as ordinary stone mountains and will only get up and fight when people get close. For this reason, Nie Xiu had to travel through the mountains. If he was not afraid of attracting other people's attention, he really wanted to cut off all the icebergs on the ice field!
Nie Xiu continued forward, suppressing his anger and cursing inwardly, "This ice field is so huge!"
However, he didn't know that countless icebergs suddenly rose up in front of him, forming layers of obstacles that blocked his way forward, but also left a slightly lower passage on the other side for him to pass through. Nie Xiu didn't suspect anything and circled around and around in this wasteland.
He was supposed to circle here endlessly until the owner of this place got bored and gave him a way to leave, but Nie Xiu was not such a patient person. He sneered and suddenly drew out his sword.
"Well, in that case, I'm not afraid of anyone competing with me. The right thing to do is to find a stone giant first!" After he said that, he swung the sword in his hand in all directions, and there was a continuous "boom" sound. The icebergs collapsed one after another, and the ice and snow fell like a torrent.
The mirror spirit possessing the mountains and rivers looked at his arrogant back calmly, then transformed into a flying bird and landed beside its master.
"We can no longer stop him," said the golden bird.
03 was clearing a path through the mountainside, where spiritual light was shimmering. He nodded and said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work. I'll go find him."
The golden bird flew up, turned into a shadow and flew into the mountains, continuing to stare at the people in the wilderness.
After neatly cutting the spirit stones, 03 suddenly asked Feng Jue, "Feng Jue, don't you need the other spirit stones?"
Feng Jue, who was lying on Ling Shi's back reading a storybook, frowned and calmly turned a page. He said, "This is your cave, why should I bother with all this effort? Besides, I seem to be short of spirit stones."
Ah, that seems to be the case.
03 A small bubble of hard work appeared above her head, and she did not forget to say: "It's your cave." She didn't need such a thing as a cave, she just wanted to keep it for Feng Jue.
Feng Jue snorted and said, "How about we consider it our secret realm?"
"Okay!" 03 laughed. At this time, a ray of light flew out from Feng Jue's sleeve and landed on 03's shoulder. It was a diamond-shaped stone.
"Dig quickly, it's hungry." Feng Jue said lazily.
03 took the spirit heart in her hand, and an expression of "I really can't do anything with you" appeared in the bubble. She raised her hand and threw out Jiuxiao, and the translucent long sword "swooshed" into the spirit mine in front of her, and 03 took a step back.
Lingxin, held in 03's palm, stood up.
Jiuxiao emitted a faint light, which complemented the fluorescent light of the surrounding spirit stones. It made a clear sword sound and suddenly stabbed forward under the control of spiritual power.
The bluish-white spirit stone ore instantly turned into a huge piece of tofu, allowing the long sword to pass through its body without any resistance.
Feng Jue closed the storybook and asked in surprise, "Why didn't you use this method at the beginning?"
03 said softly: "Because Feng Jue said that there is no shortage of these spirit stones."
Jiuxiao drilled a passage with the same thickness as its sword body. The surrounding spirit stones turned into powder under its sharp blade. Rich spiritual energy surged. The spirit heart standing in 03's palm trembled, and suddenly flew forward and drilled into the passage.
It's coming!
Looking at its back without even turning back, 03 and Feng Jue said at the same time: "Why are you so anxious to fight each other?"
"Huh?" 03 turned around, glanced at Feng Jue, and
Putting his hands on his stomach, he laughed heartily. But now that the problem of "spiritual heart foraging" had been solved, the next thing to do was to solve the problem of that thing flying around in the sky.
03Clap your hands and look up at the sky.
She put her hands behind her back, shook her head, and read out the line "Song Composed by Seeing Nie Xiu's Anger"
——"I felt the sky was approaching, and suddenly golden scales were flying under my feet."
Autumn is about to pass and winter is coming. The free-range pigs are ready to be slaughtered, and it is time to get closer to Jiuxiao.
03 narrowed his eyes and snapped his fingers with his hands behind his back.
The Nine Heavens, which had been moving through the spiritual ore, suddenly soared upwards, piercing through the spiritual ore and piercing the mountain. It leaped out of the darkness, roaring in the sky, and emitting a cold white light.
Nie Xiu, who was flying on a sword, suddenly stopped and looked at the ice wall rising in front of him, and a bad feeling came over him.
Beneath the thousand-foot glacier, Feng Jue raised an eyebrow and smiled sweetly at 03. 03 cleared his throat and said, "I planted this wall, I carved this mountain. If you want to pass through here, leave your golden scales behind."
Nie Xiu retreated fiercely, but Jiuxiao's sword energy was faster than him. One ice wall after another rose up, carrying sword intent that made him shudder.
"It's you again!" Nie Xiu was furious. "It's Ling Ren, Feng Jue!"
03's voice came from all directions in the west, as if it had been contaminated by the wind from the northern plains, and was as cold as the eternal ice on the plains.
"Hello," she said, "Please make your decision soon, whether to stay or leave."
Nie Xiu gnashed his teeth, shaking with anger. He said unwillingly, "I just wanted to seek justice from Feng Jue that day, but you bullied me to this extent!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiuxiao, who was floating in the air, waved his hands, and another ice wall rose up next to the ice wall next to it. Someone used the ice wall as paper and Jiuxiao as a pen to crookedly carve the words "Yuding Sect disciple Nie Xiu's face" on the wall.
Nie Xiu was furious, swinging his sword forward, his sword gestures flying towards the ice wall. Hovering nearby, Jiuxiao didn't try to stop him, watching the sword energy fly towards him and even making way. However, it was so enthusiastic that the sword energy collided with the ice wall without damaging it in the slightest. Nie Xiu's fury instantly plummeted from the volcano to the ice cellar, and he exclaimed in shock, "You...your cultivation..."
The last time Xi Lingren had tried to stop him, his cultivation level was only one level higher than his. The trials of the Twin Dragons Secret Realm hadn't even ended yet, and yet this person had already reached the early stages of the Spiritual Transformation Realm! He'd leaped from one level to another in less than a year. How could such a thing happen?
"You were hiding your cultivation from the beginning?" Nie Xiu was horrified. He could not think of any other reason except that he did it on purpose. He also did not believe that there was anyone in the world with such strong talent.
It is the hurdle between the middle stage of Nascent Soul and the early stage of Spirit Transformation. How could anyone cross it as easily as drinking water!
03 said calmly: "Please hand over the golden scale fragments on you."
Nie Xiu was filled with fear and anger. He knew very well that he was no match for 03 before, and he was even less able to resist now. But how could he be willing to give up the opportunity to enter the Wendao Academy!
"Gudong." Nie Xiu swallowed his saliva and bowed his hands to beg for mercy. "I was disrespectful first. I apologize to my fellow Taoists and to Palace Master Feng. After the second round of the competition is over, I will come out with a generous gift to apologize to you two in person! Please forgive me. Thank you very much!"
In front of him, there was only a long sword floating, but Nie Xiu always felt that there was a pair of clear and indifferent eyes staring at him from a place where he could not see, making him feel at a loss and covered in cold sweat.
Nie Xiu continued, "There are only three months left until the end of the secret realm. The final chance for the second round of competition is right before us. There are still many stone giants waiting for you two to kill. Instead of wasting time on me, why not snatch the fragments from the stone giants!"
He lowered his head, his eyes flashing. As long as he could leave here, he would definitely hide from these two people and wait for the second round of competition to be over. Then there would be no rule of not hurting others. He had the Yuding Sect as his backing, so why would he be afraid of them then?
Not knowing nor caring what Nie Xiu was thinking, she asked curiously, "How many fragments do you have?"
Nie Xiu's eyes rolled and he whispered, "I have three hundred and forty fragments."
"Ah, that's a bit too few," 03 suddenly said. "Three months ago, I saw a list where the 100th cultivator had 400 fragments. Now, three months later, with the Stone Giant's help, the number is much higher. I estimate that the 500th cultivator has 400 fragments. You're far behind. You might as well just give up."
Hearing her words, Nie Xiu couldn't help but look ferocious. Why was he so far behind? Didn't these two know the reason?
But he didn't dare to say it, and smiled apologetically: "Wait until I work hard in the next three months, and then I'll have a chance!"
03 said calmly: "No, I won't give you this chance. Please hand over the fragment."
Her cold words stabbed Nie Xiu's heart like a knife. Nie Xiu could no longer maintain his composure. Veins bulged in his forehead as he angrily demanded, "Are you going to fight me to the death for the next three months? Aren't you afraid that someone out there will surpass you and you two will be eliminated along with me?"
"Hey, why do you come up with such an idea?" 03 asked curiously, "You don't seem very smart."
After she finished speaking, she suddenly showed a surprised expression, turned around to look at Feng Jue, and said silently: "Fortunately, he is a man."
Phoenix Technique: "..."
idiot!
Who can be more stupid than you!
Nie Xiu's heart was icy cold. Seeing that they were unmoved by any persuasion and were determined to force him to this point, his anger surged and turned into wild laughter. "Oh, so what if I don't enter the Wen Dao Academy! But I will never give you the Golden Dragon fragment! You think using my fragment to surpass others is just wishful thinking!"
He suddenly took out a piece of golden dragon fragment, curled up the corners of his mouth coldly, revealing a disdainful smile, and the next moment, he crushed the golden dragon fragment without hesitation.
"I will fight you to the death!"
In the Twin Dragons Secret Realm, crushing a golden dragon fragment signified withdrawal from the competition. After the fragment shattered in Nie Xiu's hand, a door appeared in mid-air. Nie Xiu's lips curled in a smug grin, intending to take all the fragments with him and leave the secret realm. However, the next moment, the golden dragon fragment from his storage ring flew out, landing on the ground as Nie Xiu stared in disbelief.
The rocks on the ground rolled, swallowing up the golden dragon fragments, and a stone giant was born -
"bass."
The sword flashed across, killing the newly born stone giant, and the golden dragon fragments fell to the ground again. The whole process took less than five breaths, and Nie Xiu had not even left the secret realm.
"Huh?" The voice that hadn't appeared from beginning to end was surprised and said softly, "I didn't expect there was such a method. Thank you, and I wish you a safe journey."
Nie Xiu died and was instantly pulled out of the secret realm.
He stood in the empty meeting hall. Some monks who stayed there expressed surprise and pointed at him, saying, "There is actually someone who voluntarily withdrew from the competition."
"Isn't this Nie Xiu from the Yuding Sect?"
"What? He's not a Nascent Soul cultivator? The Foundation Establishment cultivators didn't quit, so why did he?"
The words of the people around him were more stinging than the ice on the northern plains. Nie Xiu was so ashamed and angry that he clenched his fists and left with gritted teeth.
Xi Lingren, if you have the ability, don't leave the Shuanglong Secret Realm in this lifetime!
Secret place, under the ice field.
03 He rubbed his hands, hugged Lingshi's head, and smiled at Fengjue. Fengjue smiled and touched her head.
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