Spirit Realm Chapter 687
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Spirit Realm Chapter 687-690
Chapter 687: Ancient Divine Language
La Pu’s eyes shined as he looked at Qin Lie, his face filled with astonishment.
He realized that the Blood Spirit Art, Heavenly Thunder Eradication, and Records of Geocentric Magnetism within Qin Lie’s body had all combined together with Qin Lie’s bloodline.
To him, this was the most astonishing discovery. In fact, he couldn’t even believe what he was seeing.
In general, the biggest issue faced by a martial practitioner who practiced various different spirit arts would be the conflicts that could ensue.
Normally, as multi-art practitioners cultivated and broke through, the conflicts between their various spirit arts would become more and more disastrous in result, eventually barring them from any further improvement!
As a result, for practitioners who cultivated two or more different attributes of spirit arts, breaking through would become nigh impossible after reaching a certain point.
Their different spirit arts not clashing could already be considered the greatest fortune.
As for combining them?
It was something that these practitioners wouldn’t dare think about even in their wildest dreams.
Only the strongest practitioners who had reached the farthest limits of cultivation and gained the deepest comprehension of each attribute, those who had touched upon the laws and formed their own interpretations of different energies, would try to combine different spirit arts.
These were experts who had already reached at least the late stage of the Imperishable Realm. Only then… would they even dare to try.
Yet Qin Lie was merely at the early stage of the Fulfillment Realm.
La Pu looked at Qin Lie as if he were a monster.
However, Qin Lie didn’t know the thoughts running through La Pu’s mind as he remained in a world of his own and continuously utilized the “blaze” divine characters within his bloodline and assimilated them with his spirit arts of varying attributes, releasing more and more energy.
A long time later, Qin Lie finally felt his body’s exhaustion as the power surging out from his bloodline continuously weakened.
He also finally calmed down, constantly adjusting his mood and maintaining a calm mind.
The violent blaze bloodline power also gradually faded.
“I feel so tired. This is physical exhaustion, but there has not been a large expenditure of spirit energy.” Upon regaining his composure, Qin Lie furrowed his brows as he commented on his current state.
“When expending a lot of bloodline power, it is natural for the body to become tired. This is extremely normal.” La Pu’s seven eyes all glowed with a strange glint. “As long as the body recovers, bloodline power will similarly recover. There is nothing to worry about.”
“So using my bloodline power expends my own body’s energy…” Qin Lie thought to himself.
“To control a bloodline, you must know how to activate it, and how to use circulate it. It seems like you have already learned both, and approximately know the methods.” La Pu continued, “The last part is strengthening the bloodline. However, the method for this is quite simple. All you need to do is continuously temper and refine your body, strengthening your body and soul. As your vessels contain more blood, muscles contain greater amounts of energy and your bones become increasingly tough, your bloodline will naturally strengthen alongside it.”
“Tempering the body is the easiest way to strengthen the bloodline?” Qin Lie’s eyes lit up.
“As far as I know,” La Pu responded with a nod.
Qin Lie had a revelation.
For as long as he could remember, he had been bitterly cultivating Heavenly Thunder Eradication in Herb Mountain. This extreme method of cultivation had not only enhanced his ability to absorb thunder in his dantian’s spirit sea, but had also tempered his body to an unbelievable state.
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This was something which most spirit arts failed to do.
In fact, most of the high level spirit arts on the Scarlet Tide Continent, and even in the Land of Chaos, did not contain any tempering of the physical body.
Instead, they mostly focused only on the accumulation of spirit energy as they believed that as long as the spirit energy was dense and pure enough, it could condense to form a shield to protect the body.
It was apparent that Heavenly Thunder Eradication was extremely different from other mainstream spirit arts.
In the past, Qin Lie had never understood why his grandfather had him cultivate only one spirit art, and such a torturous one at that, forcing one to be struck by thunder and lightning and experience the pain which could only be endured in the state of Thoughtless Tranquility.
However, as his pool of knowledge expanded and his cultivation rose, as he experienced more and more, respect he felt for his grandfather began to increase as well.
His grandpa had known from the start that his body contained a foreign bloodline!
From the beginning till now, his path of cultivation had always been on the right path and never strayed the slightest!
By following the carefully constructed path of cultivation set for him by his grandfather, he had managed to set the most stable foundation for his future cultivation during those hazy five years!
His grandpa had created a plan just for him which was extremely effective and also suited for his innate gifts.
The foundation for his vast future prospects had been firmly laid during those five years.
“Ah, that’s right. There is one more way to strengthen a bloodline which has an even greater effect and benefit!” La Pu said while Qin Lie was lost in thought. “By repeatedly stimulating your body’s potential and keeping your blood, bones, muscles, and cellular fibers in their most excited states, you can pull out the potential hidden in the deepest parts of your body and more easily excavate the secrets of your bloodline.”
Qin Lie became shocked.
“I’ve heard people say that Old Monster Duan’s Limit Sublimation Art is exactly this kind of spirit art which can activate a body’s potential.” La Pu’s eyes were filled with admiration as he continued, “In fact, the potential and secrets hidden away within a body can be considered as talent. According to rumors, Duan Qianjie’s cultivation talent was extremely subpar until he began to gradually increase his body’s potential and awaken his body’s secrets through the Limit Sublimation Art. In fact, his talent for cultivating was even worse than an ordinary practitioner’s. Only after this tempering did he become a cultivation genius and reach the stage he is at today.”
“He is absolutely one of the most terrifying geniuses of the Land of Chaos. This kind of potential-tapping technique which can forcefully increase cultivation talent is something which is practically unheard of even in the places that contain Gold rank forces.”
“Such techniques are truly heaven-defying.”
La Pu praised Duan Qianjie, then said, “If you could temper your body, raise your potential, and awaken the secrets hidden within your body with the Limit Sublimation Art, the growth rate of your bloodline would also increase, allowing you to experience the secrets of your race hidden within your bloodline even earlier. It might even allow you to discover some of your own origins through your bloodline. You might be able to observe some powerful existences of some glorious former era or the tyrannical spirit arts of some ancient, powerful force.”
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Qin Lie’s shoulders both trembled.
He suddenly realized that the reason he was able to awaken his bloodline on the Scarlet Tide Continent after the bloody fight at the Setting Sun Islands was definitely related to Duan Qianjie’s Limit Sublimation Art which he had imparted to him!
In the past, he could somewhat notice his blood boiling, but whenever he checked his blood vessels for any abnormalities, there was nothing that stood out.
However, during the bloody battle on the Setting Sun Islands, he had constantly been forced to overcome his limits as Duan Qianjie purposefully forced him to clash with practitioners from Black Voodoo Cult and the three great families. During those clashes, he had killed until his spirit energy ran dry and his body’s potential had been completely exhausted. He had unknowingly cultivated the Limit Sublimation Art.
This cruel self-cultivation stimulated his body’s potential, and had allowed him to finally awaken his bloodline.
“Limit Sublimation Art, stimulating the body’s potential, forcefully increasing one’s talent, developing the bloodline…” As Qin Lie silently thought to himself, his respect for Duan Qianjie greatly increased.
Of course, he was not going to reveal his relationship with Duan Qianjie and the Limit Sublimation Art to La Pu.
He was going to keep it a secret like his Soul Suppressing Orb.
“The most crucial three aspects of bloodline power is stimulating, circulating, and continuously developing.” La Pu thought for a moment, then continued, “With my help, you have discovered how to activate your bloodline. However… while your ability to circulate is quite good, you need to continue improving the strength of your bloodline. Based on the strength of your body, you should not need me to teach you how to do so. Thus, all you need to do right now is continue to familiarize yourself with your bloodline and wait for your body to recover. Then, once you are recovered, you should try to activate your bloodline without using any medicines to stimulate it.”
After he was, La Pu turned into a shadow and flew into the sky like a huge bird.
He tried to extinguish the blazing fire.
However, after trying for a while, he realized that nothing could extinguish the fire, regardless if he used water or something else.
Even when he used nether demonic energy to envelop and cover it, he could only somewhat offset the violent energy within the flames.
It seemed like it was near impossible to forcefully extinguish the flames. He could only wait for them to exhaust all of their energy and disappear by themselves.
However, La Pu would rather use his own power than wait. Thus, he began to clash head on with the flames, trying to use his energy to make them disappear faster.
A while later, an ugly expression appeared on La Pu’s face as the price it took to finally extinguish the flames created by Qin Lie was much higher than he had originally expected.
“Boy, next time tell me before you try to activate your bloodline so that I can take you to a place with no vegetation.” La Pu said after returning, an ugly expression on his face as if the flames had annoyed him. “As your bloodline grows stronger, the flames produced by it will strengthen as well and become even more terrifying. Also, those flames seem to contain some kind of strange symbols, only they were too small so I couldn’t make them out. Could you write them down for me to look at?”
“Sure.” Qin Lie agreed without hesitating. He quickly picked up a branch and drew the divine character for blaze on the ground.
The character was like a cluster of flames and contained the characteristics of a flickering fire.
“This…” La Pu crouched down and carefully analyzed the character. It was a long time later when he suddenly said in astonishment, “This is the ancient divine language! It’s a language which was only used by the ancient God Race!”
“God Race?” QIn Lie asked, dazed.
“The Heaven Fighting Race!” La Pu explained, “I am certain that this is the ancient divine language. In the past, I was trapped in an ancient ruin just so I could obtain a corpse of a member of the God Race. During the seven hundred years I had been trapped, I had nothing to do so I began to research their language. I can still precisely remember this divine character, it is ‘blaz”! It represents a once glorious ancient family. This ancient family was called Blaze! This divine character is one which is unique to them! It can be considered their symbol!”
“Ancient divine language, God Race, Blaze Family, family symbol…”
As La Pu explained everything, word after word began to enter the depths of Qin Lie’s mind, causing loud echos to reverberate in his head.
Under the stimulation of these words, memories which had been sealed by an unknown power seemed to begin to fiercely struggle, trying to break through this seal and emerge.
Chapter 688: Extreme Hunger
Qin Lie felt as if his mind was being tortured with sharp blades. The sharp, stabbing pain had exceeded the limit of his endurance as he uncontrollably began to scream in agony.
“AHHH!”
As Qin Lie was severely exhausted to begin with, he immediately fainted amidst the screams.
La Pu remained silent as he carefully observed Qin Lie. Once he was certain that Qin Lie had indeed become unconscious, he finally walked over and began checking Qin Lie’s body with his bony hands.
La Pu was extremely detailed in his examination as he took advantage of this period where Qin Lie’s bloodline was weakened and unlikely to release such a strong repulsive force again. He even utilized his unfinished eight eye again.
A faint green light with the miraculous ability to directly examine every nook and cranny of a human body pervaded Qin Lie’s vessels.
La Pu’s other seven eyes also continued to observe Qin Lie from their various angles.
“It’s different. Event though Qin Lie has the bloodline of the God Race, his flesh is still that of a mortal,” La Pu murmured. “Then he must be a half-blood…”
After an hour of examination, La Pu’s understanding of Qin Lie’s body had perhaps exceeded even Qin Lie’s own understanding.
Not too long afterwards, Qin Lie slowly regained consciousness, only to experience a head-splitting headache. His body was also extremely weak.
“You’ve tried using the power of your bloodline too many times after just awakening it, so your body is extremely exhausted. You need to rest for a period of time and also eat some food to replenish your body’s energy.” La Pu looked at Qin Lie, then threw a couple pieces of dried meat to him. “This dried meat is made from the meat of a Rank Five or Six spirit beast. It contains an extremely thick vital essence, which will help you recover.”
“Thanks,” Qin Lie said as he received the dried meat. This time, he didn’t hesitate at all and began to eat with big bites.
La Pu hadn’t harmed him while Qin Lie had been in his slumber. This meant that La Pu was someone he could trust, at least for now. Thus, he was no longer cautious around La Pu.
“I’ll leave you to recover then. I will wait until you are almost fully recovered before I tell you about the God Race, the ancient divine language, and that ancient family.” La Pu said.
“Alright.” Qin Lie nodded.
Thus, for the time being, Qin Lie remained on this nameless island in the middle of the sea.
He had originally believed that his recovery would be simple and easy, and that it would at most take him one or two days to regain his strength.
However, it turned out that he had wrongly estimated the severity of completely exhausting his bloodline power for the first time.
In the end, he stayed on the island for seven whole days as he gradually regained his strength through eating the dried meat which La Pu delivered. The amount he was eating every day greatly surpassed the amount he normally ate in the past.
During these seven days, he followed La Pu’s plan for recovery, eating as much as he could every day and then resting.
Even so, he only managed to recover approximately sixty percent of his strength by the end of the seven days.
“Bloodline power is very mysterious. Once it’s exhausted, you must eat incredible amounts of food to recover it. Because it was your first time releasing bloodline power, and because you slightly overdid it by releasing all of it in one go, the period of recovery is a bit longer.” La Pu explained.
“So eating is the only way to recover bloodline power? It cannot be recovered through spirit stones or consuming spirit pills?” Qin Lie asked in surprise.
“Spirit stones replenish spirit energy. The main purpose of a vast majority of spirit pills is to quickly recover spirit energy. Thus, neither can be used to recover bloodline power,” La Pu explained patiently. “Consumption of energy within the flesh requires nourishment from meat full of vital energy. As such, the stronger the spirit beast, the easier its meat can help your body recover and replenish your bloodline power. In fact, many powerful spirit beasts similarly eat copious amounts of food to recover after expending too much energy. If what they consume includes other high rank spirit beasts and the flesh of some more powerful martial cultivators, they can recover even quicker.”
“From this perspective, those who possess bloodline powers recover in a way which is quite similar to wild beasts.”
“Powerful martial practitioners of the human forces enjoy hunting spirit beasts to obtain the best beast cores for the energy within, and to use them as spirit materials. However, for those who possess bloodline power, the flesh of high rank spirit beasts is also a great supplement, making it just as valuable as any other material that can be obtained from a spirit beast.”
“Of course, powerful spirit beasts also enjoy eating practitioners of high cultivation. The stronger the practitioner’s body, the denser their vital energy, and the more beneficial it is to the beasts.”
“The flesh of strong practitioners is necessary for spirit beasts to obtain more powerful bodies. This will increase their physical power, which is their biggest advantage when fighting.”
La Pu explained carefully.
Qin Lie was very surprised.
In the past when the eight god corpses didn’t have heads and were buried in the depths of the sea, they would unconsciously call storms, actively killing creatures and then devouring them.
Later on, even though the eight god corpses fought for him numerous times after their heads flew out from within the Graveyard of Gods and recombined with their bodies, they never gave up on eating the flesh of fallen practitioners.
Could it be that their vital energy was also very weak? Were they gradually recovering through eating flesh?
As he thought about it more deeply, he wondered, could it be that the eight god corpses also possessed bloodline power?
Could it be that when the first voodoo creature, which had occupied the body of the Voodoo Progenitor and hid within it, devoured Ye Yihao and Huang Zhuli’s voodoo insects, it was also recovering through eating?
Did the first voodoo insect also have bloodline power then?
An expression of being lost in deep thought emerged on Qin Lie’s face.
“In the future, as you strengthen your bloodline power, you will need consume even greater amounts of flesh to quickly recover after using it. When that time comes, just know that higher the rank of the spirit beast, the faster it will help you recover your vital energy. If you survive long enough, someday you might even need to roast a dragon or cook an ancient colossal beast to recover your vital energy faster.” La Pu continued in a natural manner.
Qin Lie silently listened without moving.
“However, it’s not something to be too surprised about. In ancient times, it was extremely normal for powerful existences and races to travel to auxiliary worlds and hunt dragons and other creatures to bring home. They ate the flesh of dragons and other colossal beasts every day.”
“For example, the God Race. They were very particular about the food which their pure-blood descendants ate from the moment they were born. They specifically studied what kinds of spirit beast flesh should be consumed during the different stages of bloodline growth. Their most powerful descendants, because of their natural strength, were able to absorb more powerful energy. Thus, even when they were still infants, they would drink the blood of ancient beasts instead of milk. From there, they would gradually begin to eat the flesh of dragons, qilins, heavenly snakes, and black tortoise, in increasing quantities.”
“This method of nourishment allowed their descendants’ bodies to be capable of destroying mountains even when they were still young.”
“Moreover, in their eyes, those descendants who could eat more and bear eating flesh of higher rank spirit beasts were considered of purer blood. Thus, those descendents were thought to have superior and boundless latent talents, and were being looked after better.”
As La Pu continued his explanation, Qin Lie had devoured another dozen or so pieces of dried meat, yet he still felt hungry.
He immediately realized that La Pu was right.
Following the awakening of his bloodline, his appetite had clearly increased. This was especially apparent following his recent expenditure of a drastic amount of bloodline power, as his body’s demand for food had become even greater.
Currently, there was always a feeling of extreme hunger within him, as if his body wanted him to eat more meat. It seemed like this feeling of hunger would not disappear until his body fully recovered.
“Your bloodline is more powerful than you think. I didn’t expect your bloodline to be so strong either, and thus didn’t prepare enough food. My stock of dried meat has also been almost all consumed by you, so I will have to leave to go and hunt more spirit beasts.” La Pu thought a bit, then said, “As long as you stay on this island, nothing should happen. Although there are countless foreign races, evil spirits, and crazed bloodthirsty murderers in the Ruined Lands, very few are brave enough to intrude my territory. As for those evil spirits who possess sufficient strength to dare step onto my island, they have no interest towards it. Thus, you should be safe here”
“I understand,” Qin Lie nodded.
Qin Lie knew that the only reason La Pu was going out was because of how explosively his appetite had increased. Qin Lie needed even greater amounts of vital energy containing flesh to recover.
“Remember, try to not use bloodline power before you fully recover. After awakening it for the first time and completely exhausting it, this relatively long period of recovery is beneficial for both your body and your bloodline. However, if you use your bloodline power again during this period, you may never reap the benefits from this first recovery,” La Pu said sternly.
Qin Lie carefully remembered La Pu’s words.
“Then I shall take my leave now.” After a short goodbye, La Pu enveloped himself in a thick layer of nether demonic energy, transforming into a shadowy streak, and left the island. It was as if a pitch-black demon had flown out from the island.
This large sea island was dark during the day, and even darker at night. It was completely covered with skeletons and terrifying plants from the Nether Realm, giving it an aura of darkness and strangeness.
This was the most well known forbidden area of the local lands. Very rarely would an evil spirit be brave enough to intrude.
Thus, Qin Lie was able to peacefully stay there and slowly recover his strength with the dried spirit beast meat that La Pu had left him. As he did, he began to sense the slight changes occurring in his body, and also thought about everything La Pu had explained to him.
Chapter 689: La Pu Trapped
For Qin Lie, life immediately became simple.
Each day, other than constantly consuming dried beast meat, he was recovering in order to eat even more.
His stomach seemed to have become a bottomless hole that could never be filled.
And yet, he could clearly feel that the exhaustion and weakness of his body was slowly disappearing through the simple action of eating meat.
He could feel the power of the bloodline wondrously recovering.
He was reassured by this and continued to eat.
La Pu would come back every few days after going out. Each time, he would return with some Rank Five or Six spirit beasts for Qin Lie’s continuous feasting.
After a dozen days passed like this, Qin Lie’s feeling of weakness disappeared completely. He was filled with power again. Each tendon, muscle and blood vessel seemed to be filled with even more refined power.
He immediately realized that through complete draining of the bloodline power and replenishing it over a long period of time, both his body and the bloodline had undergone a thorough transformation.
After that, he tried to adjust his emotions according to the method La Pu taught him in order to get angry and thus activate his bloodline’s power.
After the bloodline was activated, he could channel the power of the bloodline into different spirit arts and master new ways of fighting.
On the nameless island, a certain desolate area became Qin Lie’s corner to master the bloodline power. He was beginning to feel familiar with it.
In this period of time, after he used up his bloodline power, he would continue to eat in order to recover.
La Pu would frequently go out and hunt spirit beasts for him. Each haul, he would bring back enough meat for Qin Lie to eat for the next few days. Then, Qin Lie would then roast the meat with him, learn more about bloodlines, ancient languages, the God Race, and the secrets of the ancient families.
La Pu would answer all of Qin Lie’s questions without keeping anything back.
When he was familiarizing himself with how to channel the bloodline power, Qin Lie gradually gained a new understanding of many ancient mysteries.
The Spirits of Void and Chaos popped up a few times and consumed spirit materials of the six attributes. Qin Lie also asked La Pu about the wonders of the Spirits of Void and Chaos.
However, La Pu didn’t know anything about the Spirits of Void and Chaos, so he wasn’t able to help Qin Lie.
Fortunately, La Pu had all kinds of spirit materials of various elements on his island.
Originally, Qin Lie did not have enough spirit materials for the Spirits of Void and Chaos. After telling La Pu about his concerns, La Pu took out some of the spirit materials he had gathered throughout many years of adventuring to help the growth of Spirits of Void and Chaos.
The unpicky Spirits of Void and Chaos began to feast like Qin Lie had been until recently.
Time passed rapidly. In a blink of an eye, half a year had passed.
Qin Lie was not in a hurry to go to the Heavenly Silence Continent. He stayed on this island in the Ruined Lands, and slowly familiarized himself with and mastered the power of the bloodline. When he rested, he would consume the meat of beasts to recover his energy.
His cooking skills were improving daily.
On this day, Qin Lie cooked and ate the remaining half of a rank five dragon python. After even drinking the juices, he looked into the dusky sky and frowned.
“Seven days, he still hasn’t come back. Did he encounter some trouble?” Qin Lie murmured.
In the past half year, La Pu would go out every few days and return three to five days later. He would never leave for longer than that.
This time, it had been seven days since La Pu had gone out. He started to worry.
After being in contact for half a year, he and this elder from the Ghost Eye Race had unconsciously developed a kind of relationship.
La Pu would do his best to explain whatever Qin Lie was puzzled about, and would go out to hunt and kill spirit beasts for Qin Lie’s bloodline maturation. The two would frequently roast meat together and talk about the world, becoming friends across generations.
Seeing that La Pu had not returned for seven days, he naturally grew worried that something had happened to La Pu.
These were the Ruined Lands after all.
All kinds of experts from other races, humanoid evil spirits, and the strongest of the major forces would appear here.
La Pu said himself that he was not the strongest in the Ruined Lands and could not do as he pleased.
That meant that even he could be in danger.
“Let’s wait and see,” Qin Lie thought.
Five more days passed and La Pu still had yet to return or send any news.
Qin Lie finally couldn’t sit still.
He stopped furthering his mastery over the power of= bloodline. He decided to leave the island and find news of La Pu.
Through interacting with La Pu in the past half a year, he obtained vast knowledge of the Ruined Lands. He knew many of the rules unique to this place, and knew that there were many terrifying evil spirits hiding deep within the Ruined Lands.
The more he learned, the more wary he was of the Ruined Lands, and the more he felt how dangerous his first day’s rampage had been.
This time, he was very cautious.
It was noon, the time when the sun was hottest. He flew out of La Pu’s Seven Eye Island, and drove the crystalline war chariot to fly towards a marketplace in the Ruined Lands.
Certain strong races and evil spirits of the Ruined Lands that cultivated secret arts disliked the sunlight.
La Pu was the same.
He would choose to leave when the sky had just turned dusky and the night was about to come. He would also return in nighttime.
Evil races of the Nether Realm that had reached La Pu’s level of power could cover their bodies completely with thick nether demonic energy which could block the sunlight, and so they would not be exposed to the strong sun, but they still instinctively disliked it.
Therefore, travelling at noon meant that Qin Lie could avoid many dangers or meeting evil demons with strange habits.
There were many marketplaces in the Ruined Lands. Many other races and evil spirits gathered there. The things sold there were eerie and of various origins. Some were bloody, some were taboo. Their common trait was that they could be seen everywhere.
After gaining a basic understanding of the Ruined Lands along with some experience, Qin Lie managed to safely reach a marketplace called “Dark Prison” safely— also known as Dark Prison Island.
In the daylight, Dark Prison Island was not very populated. The beings that Qin Lie saw appeared to be humans and also beings of races that were not afraid of sunlight.
Dark Prison Island would only be busy under the cover of night.
He drove the crystalline war chariot and took a while to look at Dark Prison Island from the sky. He found that the island was covered in all kinds of strange buildings. Round and cone-shaped towers, pagoda-shaped ancient houses tall towers that had sharp tips, buildings made from crystal, houses that were extremely cold, and little houses that were carved from enormous shells.
Many races were living together on Dark Prison Island so the construction on the island was filled with different styles.
Qin Lie came in front of a building that was made from an enormous turtle shell. He got off the chariot and walked directly into the room. Without even thinking, he took out Earth Grade spirit stones from his spatial ring. “I want to know the location of Seven Eyed Monster La Pu!”
In the oval house, an old Sea Race man that carried a turtle shell and had white eyebrows that reached the floor was resting with his eyes closed.
Hearing Qin Lie’s shout, he opened his eyes and glanced at Qin Lie. He said in the language used among humans, “Three thousand Earth Grade spirit stones.”
“No problem.” Qin Lie nodded and poured a pile of Earth Grade spirit stones in front of the old man.
“Stupid.” The Sea Race man muttered and put the spirit stones Qin Lie took out away. Then he said neutrally, “The Seven Eyed Monster is being trapped on Frost Island.”
“Frost Island?” Qin Lie frowned.
He had heard of such a place from La Pu. Frost Island was an island in the Ruined Lands. This island was cold and icy all year around as though it was sealed by thick ice. It was filled with teeth-chattering cruel cold energy.
Yet there were many spirit beasts that liked the cold on Frost Island. On top of that, some evil spirits and people of various races that cultivated ice- attribute secret arts dug out ice caverns in Frost Island and hid in there to cultivate.
Frost Island was not a place that was usually in chaos. With La Pu’s strength, how could he be trapped there?
“Seeing how brisk you were, I’ll tell you a piece of information. The present Frost Island is not the same as before.” The old Sea Race man did not open his eyes. “Frost Island now has a mysterious owner. He can channel all of the frost energy on Frost Island and is extremely powerful. All the ice spirit beasts on the island have submitted to the new master. La Pu went to hunt spirit beasts. It was only natural that their master would target him. It wasn’t just La Pu. Many people who thought they were strong are currently being trapped on Frost Island.”
Qin Lie was shocked inside.
“Thanks.” He did not continue to talk. After learning where La Pu was trapped, he did not stay on Dark Prison Island any longer, flying away on his crystalline war chariot.
He was headed in the direction of Frost Island.
Chapter 690: Frost Island
Frost Island was a famous place in the Ruined Lands.
The rumors said that a long time ago, there had been a martial practitioner that cultivated frost spirit arts that used Frost Island as a home, and gathered a considerable faction on Frost Island.
Yet for some unknown reason, suddenly, all of the martial practitioners that cultivated the frost spirit arts on Frost Island completely disappeared.
In the end, only their spirit beast steeds were left on the island to reproduce. A long time later, Frost Island became the paradise of frost-type spirit beasts.
After the Ruined Lands became the gathering place of the other races and evil spirits, many of the beings that lived in the Ruined Lands frequently went to Frost Island to hunt spirit beasts. There was a portion of those that cut out ice caverns on Frost Island and cultivated the cold energy there.
However, Frost Island was never rebuilt.
Most of the rank five or six spirit beasts La Pu had killed recently were frost-type. The dragon python that Qin Lie had just consumed was similar to the Ice Soul Python. Its entire body gave off cold energy.
He believed what that old sea race person at Dark Prison said.
Driving the crystalline chariot, he carefully avoided the dangerous areas. After flying for an hour, he slowly reached where Frost Island was.
The white frosty mist entered his field of view like steam off boiling water. While it was still thousands of meters away, Qin Lie felt a terrifying cold.
The degree of cold was slightly similar to the cold he felt at the Land of Frost, in the Forbidden Land of Ice, and in the Graveyard of Gods.
“Another icy place, I really have karma with these…” Qin Lie thought.
Back under the Arctic Mountain Range, the Land of Ice had been bone-chilling. Later, when he entered the Graveyard of Gods, the Land of Buried Gods also was in the Forbidden Land of Ice under the protection of the ice spirit.
For some reason, he always seemed to have a connection to cold places.
After learning that La Pu was trapped in Frost Island, he had slightly more confidence because he cultivated the Frost Ice Arts which was also very profound.
Whoosh!”
His crystalline chariot turned into a thread of crystal light that flew towards Frost Island.
He came closer and closer to Frost Island.
When he got closer, he could see through the white cold mist and make out the scene on Frost tIsland.
There were many transparent glacier around the island that seemed to be swords of ice pointing at the heavens, cold and bone-chilling.
The ground of the island was covered in a thick layer of snow like a world frozen by ice. It also flashed with cold light and was shrouded in intimidating cold energy.
“Hm?” He couldn’t help but exclaim.
As he got closer to Frost Island and saw the scenery more clearly, he suddenly had a wondrous feeling—he seemed to have been here before!
He seemed to feel that many of the features on the island were familiar…
“This is…” after frowning and thinking hard, his eyes suddenly lit up and he shouted, “Frost Concept Diagram!”
He immediately stopped the movement of the crystalline chariot. He was still hundreds of meters away from Frost Island as he channeled the Frost Arts.
A wave of cold energy came out of his spirit sea, spreading over his entire body rapidly and forming a thin layer of ice on his body.
He felt deep with his mind into the space inside the Soul Suppressing Orb to the second level.
There were the four basic spirit diagrams on that level. Other than that, there was also the Frost Concept Diagram!
The Frost Concept Diagram had manifested miraculously in the Soul Supressing Orb through the Ice Emperor’s frost concept back in the Land of Ice. What the Frost Concept Diagram depicted was a world made out of ice. After looking closely, he found that it was extremely similar to Frost Island!
Every time he comprehended the frost concept, he would feel as though his soul was floating out and deep within the Frost Concept Diagram.
This was also why when he reached Frost Island, he felt a feeling of familiarity immediately.
“It really is very similar!”
After closely examining it, Qin Lie’s mind shook slightly. He felt that the world of ice depicted in the Frost Concept Diagram was copied from Frost Island.
As he channeled the Frost Arts, he noticed that while he had not stepped onto Frost Island, the cold energy that shrouded Frost Island seemed to be attracted by him and were gathering towards him.
Qin Lie’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“Whoosh!”
Just as he was pleasantly surprised, the Demon Sealing Tombstone hidden in his spatial ring moved without being summoned.
Seven god lights suddenly came out of the surface of the tombstone and shot like a rainbow with astounding power towards Frost Island.
Qin Lie shook again and shouted mentally, “The ice Spirit!”
The Demon Sealing Tombstone had a wondrous ability to sense the seven spirit bodies. He had experienced this back at the Graveyard of Gods. It was because of the Demon Sealing Tombstone that he was able to enter the Forbidden Land of Frost and then to find the Land of Buried Gods with the ancient beings that was hidden there!
After the Graveyard of Gods shattered, the ice spirit and the first voodoo insect had fled. There had been no news of them after.
The reason that Gao Yu left was to search for the ice spirit and Jia Yue who was being possessed by the ice spirit.
When they came to this land, the Demon Sealing Tombstone was reacting so violently. This meant that the ice spirit who had disappeared was hiding in Frost Island!
Frost Island was extremely cold. The intensity of cold inside was higher than the Forbidden Land of Ice in the Graveyard of Gods.
For the ice spirit that liked cold, there was nothing that was more attractive or suited to it than Frost Island.
“Such a coincidence!” Qin Lie’s eyes were bright.
Just as he prepared to follow the Demon Sealing Tombstone and enter Frost Island to explore, he suddenly felt the ice energy of Frost Island seemed to slightly retreat.
That Demon Sealing Tombstone that was giving off rainbow light seemed to have lost the aura of the ice spirit. The seven blinding rays of light moved around and then receded back into the tombstone.
The Demon Sealing Tombstone once again floated in front of Qin Lie.
“Do not worry, it is still on Frost Island, it will definitely show up.” Reaching out a hand to put away the Demon Sealing Tombstone, he did not hesitate this time. His body shrouded in cold energy, he flew towards Frost Island.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”
“Zing zing!”
Just as he was flying, three soul fluctuations that were not weak were quickly coming towards him at the perimeter of Frost Island.
After pausing, he slowed down and looked towards the people that were coming towards him.
“What just happened? There were seven bright lights that penetrated into Frost Island and rapidly scanned it! Did you see it?” an enormous lizard man shouted loudly.
This person was completely red, and his body was in the shape of a lizard. However, he was upright. When he talked, his long tail whipped constantly.
“I saw it! Seven lights that contained an unknown power fluctuation. It is mysterious. I didn’t even feel it,” a person with a dragon head but a human body called out.
“The seven mysterious lights came from this side!” A cool and pleasing voice came from the mouth of a white barbarian female. The female wore a silk dress, and had a veil over her face. She gave off cold energy.
The gazes of the three met in the air and then gathered together on Qin Lie.
“Don’t look at me, I don’t know what happened. I hurried over from far away to see after finding the seven rainbow lights.” Qin Lie said with an expression of innocence.
“It doesn’t seem like it was you.” The lizard man licked his lips and laughed strangely. Then he rumbled, “Young Fulfillment Realm human, this is not a place that you should come. Leave quickly, otherwise you do not know how you will die!”
“Leave, I do not want to eat human meat today!” The dragon-headed human also urged with impatience on his face.
“It will be best if you leave now.” The white barbarian female that came from the three large tribes of the eastern barbarians said coldly.
When they thought that Qin Lie had nothing to do with the seven lights, they did not want to pay attention to him and wanted him to go away, as though they were afraid that Qin Lie would delay their matters.
“My senior is trapped in Frost Island, I want to go in to find him,” Qin Lie asid.
“Are you stupid?” The white barbarian female looked over cold and lectured ruthlessly, “Your senior is trapped in Frost Island, what can you do there? Get buried with him?”
Qin Lie smiled and wasn’t angry. He said, “That’s my business, no need for you to worry.”
As he spoke, the crystalline chariot that had stopped once again gave a deep rumble. Under the shocked eyes of the three, Qin Lie passed between them.
“Damn it! Don’t let this boy ruin it!’ The lizard person suddenly reacted and shouted.
The eyes of the other two turned cold. With cold snorts, they immediately chased after Qin Lie.
“Hm?” Qin Lie turned around.
Behind him, the two other races and the white barbarian female were giving off ear-piercing howls.
Just as he was about to charge into Frost Island, he felt a wave of terrifying shaking power flood out of the island and create enormous waves.
Qin Lie’s expression changed slightly.
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