Chapter 186: The benefits of Ice Spiritual Root compared to those offered by Wan Moxiao...
Compared to the benefits offered by Wan Moxiao, the Netherworld Cold Flame is of course more tempting and more worthy of her risk.
Zhong Lingyue's mind was completely attracted by the Netherworld Cold Flame, and she almost forgot about Mu Yuan's existence. She turned around without hesitation and rushed along the trajectory of the dark bell.
She did care about this man before, but compared to her own life and death and interests, it seemed that love was not that important.
Without saying a word, she chased after An Ling and disappeared into the formation. After finding An Ling a few times, she immediately broke through the formation according to the method provided by Wan Moxiao, but she did not go out. Instead, she changed directions several times and rushed towards the depths of the palace.
At the same time, Xu Hui and Lotus Venerable finally found the ice room where the Netherworld Cold Flame was located. It was located in the deepest part of the palace. The deeper you went, the colder it became. When they reached the vicinity of the ice room, even within the realm of Lotus Venerable, they still felt the bone-chilling cold.
In addition, Xu Hui also felt a faint evil aura that was trying every means to penetrate into her soul, and the deeper she went, the more obvious this feeling became.
The feeling became particularly strong until they stood at the entrance of an ice room.
It is obvious that the Netherworld Cold Flame is here!
The ice room was shrouded in a layer of faint blue light. Venerable Lotus tried it out briefly. It was just a simple sealing method. After trying for a quarter of an hour, he was able to break it.
As you step into the ice room, the sight before you is breathtaking.
All around, the thousand-year-old ice was carved into walls and pillars that were ingeniously crafted. They were crystal clear and emitted a faint blue light, adding a touch of mystery and depth.
In the center of the ice room is a huge lake. The surface of the lake is as calm as a mirror, and water vapor rises, turning into wisps of blue mist that swirls and rises.
The water mist contains extreme coldness and is the purest essence of ice and snow in the world. Once you get close to it, you will immediately freeze into an ice sculpture.
"This is... the Eternal Ice Heart," Venerable Lotus swept his eyes through the layers of blue mist and saw a swaying flame in the center of the lake, jumping in the water.
The Eternal Ice Heart is the coldest and purest spiritual object in the world, formed by the eternally unmelting Arctic ice and the Nine Heavens Mysterious Frost.
It is shaped like a crystal clear heart-shaped ice crystal, with a faint blue-purple light flowing on its surface, and it is extremely powerful.
Once it appears in the world, the air around it will immediately freeze into frost, and the area within a thousand miles will instantly turn into an ice-covered land. The bone-chilling cold is enough to make immortals and demons tremble.
At the same time, it can also seal the Netherworld Cold Flame, freeze it, and weaken its power to the extreme.
It seems that this vast glacier was caused by the Eternal Ice Heart.
This is a good thing, especially for cultivators with ice spiritual roots. It is a holy product that can improve cultivation. It can also be refined into magic weapons or trial grounds. It is useful to all cultivators with ice spiritual roots.
Xu Hui's heart was shamefully moved, but when she saw Venerable Lotus, she silently retracted the idea.
But she looked around but couldn't find any trace of the ice crystal. She looked around curiously and murmured, "Where is it?"
Even if you can't get it, it's good to see it. This kind of spiritual object from heaven and earth can only be condensed over tens of thousands of years.
The environment for condensing the Eternal Ice Heart is not special. Whether it is the Ten Thousand Years of Ice or the Nine Heavens Mysterious Frost, there are several areas in the world of cultivation that meet the requirements.
The only difficulty is time!
Yes, only in the land where cultivators rarely go and cannot reach can the eternal ice heart be condensed.
The reason is very simple. The thousand-year-old ice heart can also be used by monks, and it is more convenient. After picking it, you can carry it with you. There is no need to worry that it will condense into ice and turn the surrounding area into a glacier.
This way you can wear it on your body at all times and speed up your practice progress.
Moreover, as long as it does not transform, it is useful to cultivators at any level. It can be said to be simple, convenient and easy to operate.
The Eternal Ice Heart requires an ice-type weapon refiner to undergo a major transformation, using various precious materials to refine it so that it can be used without causing too much impact.
Of course, the power of the Eternal Ice Heart is dozens or hundreds of times that of the Thousand Year Ice Heart, and the speed of condensing spiritual power is incomparable.
But the materials it requires are also extremely precious, and many of them are unique treasures.
Furthermore, it must be refined by a weapon refiner with ice spirit roots of the fifth rank or above, using internal fire.
With such stringent requirements, not to mention individual monks, even a large family may not be able to prepare them all.
Even if all the conditions are met, Bing Ling is basically a mutated single spiritual root, and his cultivation speed is extremely fast. Most of the time, he has to suppress his cultivation to gain experience, so as to prevent his cultivation from being too fast and his state of mind from not keeping up.
In this case, the role of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Heart in promoting cultivation seems extremely useless.
It is not as good as the Thousand-Year Ice Heart, which can be used directly after being picked. A small piece can be used for forty or fifty years. It is really convenient and easy to use.
Therefore, the ice hearts condensed in those icy places will be picked up by people after a thousand years of birth, and will never live to ten thousand years.
Xu Hui doesn't have ice spiritual roots, so this thing is not that attractive to her.
However, she saw an interesting legend in some rare texts, which made her particularly want to verify whether it was true.
It is said that Venerable Xuanshuang Wang Hanxue was raised by a snow fox. She met with an accident at birth and was kidnapped by thieves.
The Wang family tried their best to track down the thief and even asked for help from the main family, the Wei family. With the help of the Wei family, they chased the thief and left him nowhere to escape.
So he decided to go all out and threw Venerable Xuanshuang into an extremely cold place. He then deliberately appeared in Yanshan, thousands of miles away, and strangled a baby to death in front of everyone, making people mistakenly believe that the child was Wang Hanxue.
He used a method to obtain Wang Hanxue's blood to cover it up deliberately, and then burned it directly after strangling her to death. Everyone was misled at the time.
Therefore, after killing the thief, the Wang family never looked for Wang Hanxue again, and just assumed that she was really dead.
A baby who is barely one month old cannot survive in an extremely cold place, but that place is an exception.
In the entire world of cultivation, there are currently seven extremely cold places that cultivators can explore. This place called "Hanchuan" is even more rarely visited and uninhabited.
The thief chose this place obviously on purpose. I don’t know what his purpose was, but he did intend to let Wang Hanxue freeze to death.
However, what was unexpected was that about ten years ago, a monk noticed the remoteness of this place and specially raised a group of snow foxes here.
The snow fox is probably the most human-like and closest spiritual animal to human cultivators.
They are born with the IQ of a five or six-year-old child. Although they are only of the third rank, they are extremely agile and good at hiding.
The fur and blood of the snow fox are rare and good materials, and are very useful for refining weapons and drawing talismans.
But the most useful thing is the single teardrop that condenses when they are about to die. It is the purest spiritual dew, which can be used to make elixirs and greatly improve the quality of the elixirs.
Therefore, the cultivation world raises a large number of snow foxes and will wait for them to die before obtaining materials.
Before this, they had been fed with good food and drink, and in order to make the condensed tears pure enough, they were fed various spiritual fruits from time to time.
Snow foxes are easy to feed and will eat any spiritual fruits and vegetables. Their only shortcoming is probably their fertility.
A female fox can only give birth to one cub in her lifetime. The number of cubs in the fetus is uncertain, but under natural conditions, usually only one cub survives. The other cubs die in the womb due to nutrition or various problems, and become food for their brothers and sisters.
Therefore, snow foxes were extremely rare in the early days. Later, after generations of human breeding, the best nutritional combination was found. After a female fox became pregnant, she could give birth to at least two or three cubs.
As a result, there are more and more snow foxes, and their relationship with humans is particularly close.
Wang Hanxue was really lucky. The place where she was thrown happened to be near the cave of a female fox who had just given birth.
The mother fox sensed the human presence and took her back, raising her as her own cub. The snow foxes here were raised by monks. In the glacier, there was an isolated place with a formation, where various spiritual fruit trees suitable for snow fox cubs were planted.
It’s just that the snow fox has to grow in an environment of ice and snow, while the spiritual fruit tree has to grow in an environment full of birdsong and flowers.
Therefore, the mother fox would regularly enter the formation to pick spiritual fruits for her cubs.
Wang Hanxue could also eat these spiritual fruits, so she grew up successfully.
What's amazing is that she originally had a single water spiritual root, but as she grew up, it unknowingly became an ice spiritual root.
This also made her feel at home in the extremely cold place. She was not frozen at all. On the contrary, the colder the place was, the more spiritual power penetrated into her body unconsciously.
The icy spiritual power made her body feel particularly comfortable, and she naturally wanted more, so she kept absorbing the spiritual power whether she had something to do or not.
To the extent that she was able to master the way of cultivation without any teacher, even without any cultivation techniques.
A hundred years passed unknowingly, and the mother fox who raised her passed away.
These snow foxes were specially raised by human cultivators, and for convenience, a complete system was designed. Once the snow fox died, it would consciously walk into the formation and die in a magic weapon.
Then the magic weapon will collect the snow fox's tears, blood and fox fur.
The same goes for that female fox!
Snow foxes have a strong sense of family. When the mother fox dies, all the cubs will go to see her off. Wang Hanxue considers herself a fox, so she naturally wants to go with them, but she can't get in.
The monk raised foxes, so of course he couldn't let humans come in and take away his spoils, so snow foxes could enter freely, but humans were not allowed.
This was the first time Wang Hanxue had doubts about her identity. Before this, she hadn't paid much attention to the fact that she was hairless, unusually large, and could walk on two legs.
She felt that she was special and could absorb the essence of the sun and the moon. She must be an unexpected figure among snow foxes.
Until this moment, she had great doubts about her identity as a snow fox cub.
After her mother fox died, she tried to explore the secret of her identity. Now, she is still a Jindan-stage cultivator, and it is easy for her to leave the extremely cold place.
After leaving the glacier, she unexpectedly discovered that there were endless snow-capped mountains outside. Beyond the snow-capped mountains, there was a vast ocean, then grasslands, deserts, and huge mountain ranges covered with rocks...
All of this amazed her, and more importantly, she found her own kind.
She was already very talented, and after a period of observation and learning, she naturally integrated into the crowd.
Then, she discovered a new world as if she had discovered a new continent, unlocking a brand new and exciting world of cultivation!
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