Spirit Realm Chapter 694-698

Chapter 694: The Terror that Came from the Blood

“Supposedly, the Graveyard of Gods was the place the God Race used to train their descendants. Each of the seven forbidden lands inside has spirit guarding it. The ice spirit is an ice type being responsible for guarding the Forbidden Land of Ice!”

Qing Luo was a mix of the giant dragons and humans. His race still had the records the giant dragons left behind. Through those records, he gained a relatively vast knowledge about the Heaven Fighting Race that called themselves “gods.”

“A while ago, the rumor was that the Graveyard of Gods exploded. Not long after, Frost Island gained a new master! Judging by the time, it is very likely that the new master of Frost Island is that ice spirit!” Qing Luo said.

Originally, Lu and Hui Jia, and even Bai Li doubted Qin Lie’s words.

After Qing Luo’s explanation and thinking it through, they trusted Qin Lie’s words more.

“Boy, how do you know about the ice spirit?” Lu Heng said.

Qin Lie smiled softly. “Apologies, I cannot…tell you this.”

Lu Heng’s expression turned cod.

“I can try to help you find the location of the ice spirit.” Qin Lie observed the ice glaciers in front of him.

The icy mountains were not tall and were covered in thick pieces of ice. From afar, they were clear and bright like perfect crystals of ice.

Inside the ice mountains was icy energy, around them was thick frosty mist, and the air was filled with wind wailing piercingly in his ears.

The environment was extremely similar to the environment of the Forbidden Land of Ice.

Probing with his mind, he found that the cold energy of this place surpassed the land of frost and Forbidden Land of Ice. These icy mountains seemed to contain even more cold energy.

Some of the glaciers seemed to have had avalanches occurring on them in the past, apparent from thick pieces of ice piled up and burying the middle of many mountains.

According to Bai Li, there had been enormous caverns up in the middle of those ice mountains. Many martial practitioners that cultivated frost and ice spirit arts and spirit beasts lived in those ice caverns.

When the avalanches occurred, the ice caverns would be buried by ice and stone, completely covered up.

And so, the martial practitioners that cultivated frost spirit arts and the spirit beasts disappeared.

La Pu was among them.

“If the ice spirit is the master of Frost Island, it is not within the glacier. It would be under Frost Island.” Lu Heng frowned. “In the last few days, we tried to open a passage into the mountain. However, we found that the ice the mountain is made of is unusually hard, and the rate at which we shatter the ice is much, much slower than we had predicted. Thus, even though we know where the ice spirit is, we have no way of getting to it soon.”

“Boy, from the aura of your body, you cultivate a frost type spirit art.” Qing Luo added. “Maybe you can adapt to the extreme cold and survive here. However, if you want to help us open the glacier and the passageway to go down, you need to cultivate fire power or be someone who possesses many high level flames and spirit stones.”

“Normal fire crystal stones and Fiery Solar Jade won’t work. It has to be at least Heavenly Flame Crystal or other spirit stones of fire attribute that can ignite and then melt the ice,” Jia Hui lamented.

Qin Lie was slightly shocked.

“It’s like this.” Bai Li grimaced. She took out a Fiery Solar Jade and tried to burn it with flint in front of Qin Lie.

Just as the flint gave off a few sparks, they were quickly extinguished by the cold air waves.

The flames couldn’t ignite the Fiery Solar Jade.

If this was outside, just a tiny spark would cause the Fiery Solar Jade to immediately burn.

“I can ignite the Fiery Solar Jade but it will not burn for a long time. It will be affected by the cold energy and quickly extinguish.” Hui Jia of the Lizard Race most likely cultivated a fire spirit art. He held a piece of Fiery Solar Jade and crimson red flames appeared in his palm.

The jade ignited, but after Hui Jia stopped channeling power, it was quickly extinguished.

“We have all tried. The ice here is extremely hard, and it will take a long time to use tools to dig through. Only fire type spirit stones of high quality like the Heavenly Flame Crystal will not be extremely affected after being lit up and burn to melt the ice,” Qing Luo said helplessly.

“I have some Heavenly Flame Crystal,” Qin Lie said as he rubbed his chin.

When he said this, the eyes of the other people lit up. Lu Heng who had an unfriendly attitude all this time showed joy in his eyes. He said, “Then come over here!”

Qin Lie followed.

Soon after, under Lu Heng’s guidance, Qin Lie followed them to the middle of a glacier.

There was a large hole in the ice that was several dozen meters deep which appeared in Qin Lie’s view. “Come in.” Lu Heng stepped in first.

Qin Lie walked into the depths of the cavern. He found that the cavern was still in the process of being excavated. Shattered ice was everywhere.

“If we dig about fifty or sixty meters deeper, we should find a group of people that were buried inside.” Lu Heng’s tone was certain. “I searched using a secret art. I can sense their life force. This means that while they are frozen, they have not died yet.”

“If we find them and wake them up, we should be able to learn what had happened to them, and who was the culprit!” Hui Jia said.

“Yao Tian, take out your Heavenly Flame Crystals and see if you can help,” Bai Li pleaded.

Qing Luo pointed towards the end of the cavern. “Start there, ignite the Heavenly Flame Crystal. After melting the ice there, you can speed up.”

“Give the Heavenly Flame Crystals to Jia Hui. The power he cultivates can use the Heavenly Flame Crystals to better effect,” Lu Heng said.

“Give them to me. I can release all the power in the Heavenly Flame Crystal,” the lizardman Jia Hui reached out.

“No, I’ll do it.” Qin Lie walked towards the depths of the cavern.

Everyone frowned.

“Boy, you cultivate a frost spirit art. If you activate the Heavenly Flame Crystal, you will waste a portion of the flame power in the Heavenly Flame Crystal, I think you…” Lu Heng’s expression was not pretty. He was extremely dissatisfied.

However, before he could finish, he was stopped, his eyes betraying his shock..

Inside the cavern, Hui Jia, Qing Luo and Bai Li were also looking with shock and complex expressions at Qin Lie.

A strong surge of heat appeared from Qin Lie’s body like a ten thousand year old volcano about to erupt.

Qin Lie used the power of the bloodline.

“Wooargh!”

After Qin Lie used the power of the bloodline, the dragonman Qing Luo suddenly let out an abrupt dragon roar and instinctively moved back.

For some reason, he felt instinctive terror at the aura Qin Lie was giving off.

Qing Luo’s body had the blood of the giant dragons. While it was extremely thin, it was still dragon blood. Strictly speaking, Qing Luo had the bloodline of a dragon.

It was that extremely thin dragon blood in his body that caused Qing Luo to tremble all over. He felt terrified in both body and mind. He only wanted to get away from Qin Lie as fast as possible and hide far away.

This was the deep terror imprinted in the bloodline of the giant dragons.

Strangely, even the lizard Hui Jia couldn’t help but make a sound after Qin Lie awakened the power of the bloodline.

Just like Qing Luo, Hui Jia also stared at Qin Lie and moved back step by step.

Hui Jia also instinctively felt terror!

They were not the only ones. The dragomans and the lizards that had come in with the two of them were slowly retreating out of the cavern like the two.

Only Lu Heng, Bai Li, and the other humans did not feel anything after Qin Lie activated the bloodline power. They stood inside the cavern.

“What is going on?” Lu Heng quickly noticed the strangeness of Qing Luo and Hui Jia. “What are you… retreating for? Did you feel something in the cavern?”

Bai Li also became puzzled. “Did you feel the presence of the ice spirit?”

Lu Heng and Bai Li all thought that the unusual actions of the Lizard Race and the dragonmen were because of the possible presence of the ice spirit deep in the ice cavern.

They knew not to underestimate these other races. Many of the other races had superhuman perception and senses. They could sense many special auras.

“It’s not because of the ice spirit,” Qing Luo’s voice trembled slightly. He pointed at Qin Lie and said, “It’s him. His aura makes us… instinctively want to flee.”

Hui Jia and the members of the Lizard Race nodded.

Lu Heng and Bai Li looked with deep astonishment at Qin Lie.

“Boom!”

At this time, fiery flowing light appeared out of Qin Lie’s body. In the rays of fire were mysterious characters that were difficult to make out with the naked eye. They contained a terrifying aura that could burn the world and turn it to ashes.

“Snap snap snap!”

The Heavenly Flame Crystal in Qin Lie’s hand suddenly exploded. The Heavenly Flame Crystal turned into a fireball that released the fire power in a short burst.

The ice walls deep in the cavern gradually melted. Large amounts of mist that steamed inside the cavern gradually shrouded Qin Lie’s body.

The humans and other races that were outside the cavern were unable to see how Qin Lie’s body was moving due to the steam.

They only felt that Qin Lie seemed to be a volcano brimming with lava and fire and was releasing wild heat outwards.

“Retreat!” Qing Luo shouted.

The dragonmen and the lizards were no longer able to withstand the terrifying aura Qin Lie was giving off a long time ago and hurriedly fled from the cavern.

Only Lu Heng and the humans were still inside.

“Why is it like this? What is the aura that we are afraid of?” Qing Luo’s expression was puzzled.

The lizard Hui Jia also had a grave expression. “This young human has a special bloodline. What we fear is the aura that comes from his blood.”

“Could it be some ancient and powerful race’s blood?” Qing Luo was astounded.

“I don’t know.” Hui Jia shook his head.

“There were many strong races in the ancient era, the ancient giant dragons were one of them. I have dragon blood inside of me. While the dragon blood is thin, it is still dragon blood! My instinctive terror comes from the dragon blood. There seems to only be one race that the ancient giant dragons were afraid of.” Qing Luo took a deep breath and organized his thoughts. He shouted, “The bloodline of the Heaven Fighting Race!”

Chapter 695: Silver Snake of Profound Ice

“Heaven Fighting Race, the race that fights against heaven itself! They truly are a race that sports extreme arrogance and might!”

Hui Jia of the Lizard Race wore a dark expression on his face, sparks flying off his dark red pupils. “I have the blood of giant lizards flowing inside my body, and although giant lizards couldn’t compare to giant ancient dragons, they had their glorious time. The blood of the giant lizards is also why I felt instinctive fear towards him. It would appear that the Heaven Fighting Race had not only hunted down high rank living beings such as the giant ancient dragons, but also our ancestors, the giant lizards as well!”

“They are the prey and food that the Heaven Fighting Race enjoyed regularly. Therefore, their experts had raised them as food for their descendants… our elders and ancestors were their food,” Qing Luo said solemnly.

The two race leaders didn’t try to keep their voices down. Therefore, their clansmen had heard everything they said.

The lizardmen and dragonmen couldn’t help but stare at the ice hole with fierce eyes after hearing the ancient secrets their leaders had spoken off.

“How dare a human with the blood of the Heaven Fighting Race show his face in our territory! My lord, how should we deal with this fellow?” a dragonman exclaimed.

Qing Luo frowned deeply as he fell silent for a moment. Then, he said, “For now, we still need his power to find the ice spirit!”

Hui Jia nodded and added, “We shall pretend as nothing had ever happened!”

Their conversation had happened outside the ice hole.Therefore, Lu Heng and Bai Li couldn’t hear the conversation, and thus didn’t know that Qing Luo and Hui Jia were harboring ulterior motives towards Qin Lie now.

Lu Heng and Bai Li’s attention was focused at the inner region of the ice hole.

Right now, the violent lava flames surging turbulently out of Qin Lie’s body were melting the inner region of the ice hole that couldn’t be easily shattered even with a high rank spirit artifact..

The ice hole continued to expand deeper and deeper.

Lu Heng and Bai Li had no choice but to condense their spirit energy and form many layers of shields around their body to be able to continue hanging around inside the ice hole.

The lava-like flames continued to gush out of Qin Lie’s body for five to six minutes.

“That’s enough, Yao Tian!” Lu Heng suddenly cried out in pleasant surprise.

Bai Li’s eyes also lit up abruptly.

Deep inside the ice hole and covered in white mist, Qin Lie heard Lu Heng’s cry and cooperatively withdrew the power of his bloodline.

Once his mind had calmed down and his breathing had stabilized, the blazing flames on the surface of his body swiftly retracted back into his body in the blink of an eye.

The high temperature inside the ice hole was fading quickly.

Even more frost vapor had appeared from the translucent ice walls of the ice hole and flew outside creating many thick white clouds.

When they noticed that he was no longer unleashing blazing flames from his body, Lu Heng and Bai Li finally walked into the ice hole. The two foreign race leaders, Qing Luo and Hui Jia, had also led their clansmen into the cave.

It didn’t take long before the quartet had gathered around Qin Lie’s side once more. When they stared at the ice hole that had been penetrated at least dozens of meters deep by Qin Lie alone, they began to look at him in a completely different light.

“You truly are no ordinary martial practitioner to dare venture into Frost Island with that Fulfillment Realm cultivation of yours, kid. At the very least, you have won our respect!” Even Lu Heng, the guy who had been looking at Qin Lie with hostile eyes had changed his attitude and said, “You are now qualified to join us!”

“We, the Lizard Race, have no objections regarding this,” Hui Jia said.

“I agree” Qin Luo also nodded.

“What’s the… benefit of joining you?” Qin Lie looked astonished.

Judging from their expressions, it was as if his participation would win him a portion of the pie he wasn’t privy to until now. This made him feel a little confused.

“Bai Li, please explain it to him for a bit,” Lu Heng instructed.

“Alright.” Bai Li began explaining with bright eyes and a spirited expression, “Yao Tian, among the many abnormal changes that had happened in Frost Island, the bottom of the island was one of them. The aura of absolute frost had come from beneath the ice mountains of Frost Island. We believe that Frost Island must be hiding some sort of secret that drew the attention of its new master. At the very least, we dare guarantee that there exists some high rank frost attribute ores at the bottom of these glaciers. Who knows, there may even be a frost crystal ore vein or a frost type treasure!”

“When we say we allow you to join us, we mean that you have the right to take a share of whatever we discover in Frost Island!” Lu Heng said loudly.

Qing Luo and Hui Jia also nodded in agreement.

Qin Lie was startled for a second as he stared at these people. He finally understood what they meant.

The trio’s attitudes could hardly be called friendly when he had come over with Bai Li. Lu Heng especially had worn a frigid expression that almost seemed to suggest that Qin Lie had owed him a great debt or something.

But now, he understood that the trio had thought that Bai Li and him couldn’t aid them in their efforts. They were also afraid that their arrival would eat into their share of profits.

After he had opened a path through the ice hole and display his extraordinary ability, Lu Heng finally thought that he was capable of helping them in Frost Island. That was why he had changed his attitude and told him that he now had the qualifications to join them.

Lu Heng was obviously a very pragmatic person.

“Please move aside while I make an inspection.” Lu Heng walked over and urged Qin Lie and Bai Li to move further away from him. He himself went into the deepest area of the ice hole before a dark green light that almost couldn’t be discerned with the naked eye appeared from his body.

A strange soul ripple penetrated the ice walls and travelled deep into the ice hole like the ripples on a lake.

A few seconds later, the dark green light in Lu Heng’s eyes abruptly lit up, “It’s right behind this wall!”

An ancient longblade burning with green flames flew out of Lu Heng’s sleeves and transformed into a dark green light beam. It stabbed fiercely into an ice wall.

The ice wall instantly shattered into pieces.

The eerie fiendish aura of the Greenflame Longblade continued to radiate with sharpness and vanished in the blink of an eye after the ice had shattered.

“We’re through!” Lu Heng followed the green light of the Greenflame Longblade and walked through the crushed ice.

Qing Luo, Hui Jia, and Bai Li didn’t hesitate. They immediately walked past the crushed ice and entered the new area behind Lu Heng.

Qin Lie only hesitated for a brief moment before flashing into the new area before the dragonmen and lizardmen behind him could come in.

What entered his eyes was a huge ice cave.

The ice cave was hundreds of meters wide and a dozen or so meters tall. Many gigantic translucent icicles that looked like giant swords hung off the cave’s ceiling. Upon closer inspection, one would discover that there were seven people frozen inside the seven icicles.

There were humans, Gray Wing clansmen, and dragonmen inside the icicles. Although cold air was emanating from their bodies, their life forces were still pretty strong. If the group listened closely, they would even be able to hear their heartbeats.

“Dong Qiu! Jia Yang!” Bai Li immediately cried out when she saw the two human martial practitioners who were frozen inside the icicles. “They used to cultivate in Frost Island just like me. They vanished after they had gone to express their reproach towards Frost Island’s new master!”

“The remaining five Gray Wing clansmen and dragonmen are also cultivators who cultivated at different areas of Frost Island. They were probably frozen by Frost Island’s new master after they came in,” Lu Heng said.

“Let’s destroy their seals first and wake them from their slumber. We’ll ask them what exactly had happened to them,” Qing Luo suggested.

The quartet immediately went to an icicle each and unleashed their power in an attempt to shatter those icicles and free the people trapped inside.

“Hss! Hssssss!”

It was at this moment a sharp hiss rang from the surroundings. When the group turned to look intently at their surroundings, they noticed that there were many caves at the secluded corners of the giant ice cave.

Many frost type spirit beasts had suddenly appeared from these caves. There were Ice Soul Pythons, Dragon Pythons, Giant Frost Crystal Alligators and Silver Snakes of Profound Ice.

The Dragon Pythons were rank four spirit beasts, the Giant Frost Crystal Alligators were rank five, and the Silver Snakes of Profound Ice were rank six. A rank six spirit beast was the equivalent of a Fragmentation Realm martial practitioner.

Although this cave was wide, the sudden appearance dozens of frost type spirit beasts including six Giant Frost Crystal Alligators, four Silver Snakes of Profound Ice, and dozens of Ice Soul Pythons and Dragon Pythons had caused the place to become jam packed with bodies immediately.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

The caves the spirit beasts had emerged from were also gushing with terrifying cold streams of air. They caused the temperature inside the ice cave to drop rapidly, making the cold air even deadlier.

The frost type spirit beasts let out strange howls and attacked the crowd.

The quartet immediately stopped their rescue actions and screamed for their clansmen to work together against those spirit beasts.

The moment the battle began, the supposedly wide ice cave immediately felt all too narrow.

“Protect that kid!” Lu Heng sucked in a deep breath and sent two subordinates to Qin Lie’s side. Then, he told Bai Li, “Just protect him from harm! He is very useful to our journey, so make sure that he doesn’t die yet!”

After realizing how useful Qin Lie was, Lu Heng had begun showing him special care and attention. He wanted Qin Lie to continue displaying his usefulness in future endeavours.

“Got it!” Bai Li promised him.

“There’s no need!” Qin Lie shook his head once. The second the battle had begun, he charged towards a Giant Frost Crystal Alligator and attacked with the intent to kill the beasts himself.

The Rank Five Giant Frost Crystal Alligator was almost ten meters long. Its body was covered in thick ice armor so strong that the average spirit artifact couldn’t pierce through it.

The Giant Frost Crystal Alligator could crush most living being’s bones with just its sharp teeth. Its teeth also contained a terrifying cold energy that could be injected into an enemy to freeze their blood. It was an incredibly annoying opponent to deal with.

A Rank Five spirit beast’s power was equivalent to that of a Fulfillment Realm martial practitioner. However, all frost type spirit beasts would experience a huge rise in power in this cold, icy cave.

This meant that the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator Qin Lie was fighting was even more difficult to deal with compared to most other human Fulfillment Realm martial practitioners.

“Keep yourself safe, Yao Tian! A Rank Five Giant Frost Crystal Alligator will be able to unleash the strength of a late stage Fulfillment Realm martial practitioner here! There’s no way you’re its match!” Bai Li shouted.

“Hula!” The Giant Frost Crystal Alligator opened its mouth and sprayed out a freezing stream of energy mixed with ice bits, ice pieces and ice blades.

Freezing cold intent appeared from inside the freezing air and poured down on Qin Lie’s head.

This power of absolute frost was enough to cause most Fulfillment Realm martial practitioners to freeze all over to the point where they couldn’t even circulate the spirit energy.

However, Qin Lie was able to move as smoothly as ever.

Under Bai Li’s astonished gaze, Qin Lie swung his arms and sent the ice bits and ice pieces bouncing away from his body. Then, he laughed loudly and landed on top of the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator’s body. He made a grabbing gesture in midair, and a sharp ice spear appeared in his hand.

The ice spear turned into a harsh beam of ice that stabbed straight at the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator’s head.

“Crack!”

The ice spear exploded into countless fragments as the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator began twisting its body intensely upon feeling the pain. It let out a shockingly loud roar.

Qin Lie looked down and discovered that his full power strike had only managed to leave a tiny bleeding hole in the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator’s head.

It hadn’t penetrated its skull as he had imagined before the strike.

“The softest part of a Giant Frost Crystal Alligator’s body is its neck and waist. Its head and back are its toughest spots!” Bai Li hastily reminded him.

“Got it!” Qin Lie answered.

“Uooh!”

As the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator roared, Qin Lie jumped down its head in a flash.

Just as he was ready to make a move and slip under the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator’s stomach, a dark shadow threw a strike at him from the side like a silver whip.

“Crackle!”

The shrill hisses in the air sounded like a rattlesnake swinging its tail wildly. It sent a shiver through the spine of anyone who heard it.

“Watch out!” Lu Heng screamed.

But the silver whip had already reached Qin Lie’s back.

“Bang!”

A tearing pain racked his entire body as Qin Lie was sent flying through the air before he slammed heavily into a suspended icicle, shattering it into many pieces.

Qin Lie landed on ice and stone as the icicle shattered into many pieces, and he couldn’t prevent the blood from spraying out of his mouth.

He looked behind him in shock.

A silvery spirit snake that was only three meters long was slithering in an odd fashion in midair. Whenever it swung its whip-like tail, it conjured many terrifying whip shapes that caused a sharp noise in the air.

“The Silver Snake of Profound Ice!” Qin Lie’s expression changed.

The Rank Six Silver Snake of Profound Ice was the equivalent of a Fragmentation Realm martial practitioner. It possessed terrifying strength, and all the places struck by the silvery whip shapes were engulfed in loud explosions.

The hanging icicles above the cave instantly shattered into bits when they were struck by the Silver Snake of Profound Ice.

The two icicles that contained the Gray Wing Race clansmen were also struck by the tail of Silver Snake of Profound Ice. After the icicles had shattered, the two Gray Wing clansmen actually shattered along with the ice and turned into many pieces of frozen flesh.

They hadn’t bled even a drop of blood.

Forget blood, even boiling oil would instantly cool into a piece of ice crystal in this cave and at this temperature.

“Still alive?” Lu Heng cast a glance at him from afar.

Qin Lie stood back up on his feet after wiping the blood from his mouth. “I’m fine.”

“Stay away from the Silver Snake of Profound Ice!” Lu Heng yelled once before he went after the Silver Snake of Profound Ice that had hurt Qin Lie.

“Whoosh whoosh!” Almost at the same time, the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator that had fought against Qin Lie charged towards him again.

“Well met!” Qin Lie abruptly charged towards the beast.

This time, the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator didn’t spit out a freezing stream. Instead, it opened its bloody mouth in attempt to crush Qin Lie between its teeth and swallow him whole.

Three dazzlingly glowing lifeblood essences that looked as red as blood crystals appeared and begun to spin in midair. The beautiful orbs flew straight into the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator’s mouth.

Qin Lie detonated the energy inside his lifeblood essences using the Blood Spirit Art.

Three dull explosions came from the Giant Frost Crystal Alligator’s stomach. Then, an imperishable flame of lava surged wildly out of its mouth.

The Giant Frost Crystal Alligator abruptly roared in terror, rolling and twisting its body wildly before Qin Lie.

Three terrifying balls of flames burned fiercer and brighter inside its crystalline body.

In just ten seconds or so, this Rank Five Giant Frost Crystal Alligator was burned to ash.

Chapter 696: Ice Phoenix

Three lifeblood essences alone were enough to create a burst of flames so terrifying that it could turn an entire rank five Giant Frost Crystal Alligator into ashes.

Qin Lie’s eyes glittered with divine light as he backed off a small distance and turned around to look at the Silver Snake of Profound Ice that had whipped him earlier.

That spirit beast was currently embroiled in a fierce battle against Lu Heng.

Lu Heng’s Greenflame Longblade was dragging many fiery dark green tails of flame as he swung the weapon at the spirit beast.

These flames contained the power of frost and decay. It was imbued with a strange venom, and it could transform into the shapes of many foreign beasts according to Lu Heng’s wishes.

The Silver Snake of Profound Ice spat out many bright silver threads that looked as translucent as icy threads as it streaked through the air. The threads not only contained a terrifying will of frost, but were also immeasurably sharp.

The two combatants were equally matched.

Meanwhile, Qing Luo, Hui Jia, and Bai Li were all executing their own techniques and fighting a Silver Snake of Profound Ice each.

Although all four Silver Snakes of Profound Ice were Rank Six spirit beasts, their powers differed from one another.

Looking at the snakes’ size and the shape of the cold air that entangled their bodies, it would appear that the Silver Snake of Profound Ice that was embroiled in a fierce battle against Lu Heng was the strongest among them all. On top of that, the Silver Snake of Profound Ice was able to perform beyond its usual standards because it was fighting in this cold ice cave. It could probably unleash the power of a Rank Seven spirit beast.

A Rank Sevenn spirit beast was the equivalent of a Nirvana Realm martial practitioner. Even in the Ruined Lands, all Nirvana Realm martial practitioners were reputable people.

Thankfully, Lu Heng was obviously a Nirvana Realm martial practitioner. He suddenly began chuckling strangely as he wielded his Greenflame Longblade.

Clumps of green flames suddenly appeared out of nowhere, transforming into many terrifying dark green-colored heads.

The heads were of varying sizes and shapes. There were dragon heads, human heads and aqua dragon heads. There were actually sixteen clumps of flames in total.

These sixteen lifelike heads of green flames floated in midair and each fired a ray of green light several meters long from their eyes. The heads themselves were sparkling with green starlight as they joined to form a strange ancient formation.

“Uuuu, ooong, aaah…”

Many cries, screams, howls and ear-piercing abuses resounded from the mouths of the sixteen heads of green flames.

The sixteen types of soul auras turned into sixteen types of eerie strange negative auras such as chiliness, malice, fear, or hatred. They all struck the Silver Snake of Profound Ice.

The Rank Six Silver Snake of Profound Ice was bound by sixteen beams of green flames right after it was shaken by the negative bursts. Its twisting body slowed down obviously in midair.

“Crackle!”

The Silver Snake of Profound Ice twisted every joint in its body and caused a series of melodious crackle to resound in the air. A dazzling silver light shone from the Silver Snake of Profound Ice like a beam of cool moonlight.

Wherever the silver light went, a rich aura of absolute frost followed. The green flames were being extinguished one after another.

Lu Heng screamed fiercely as he swung his Greenflame Longblade. It was as if he had gone crazy for an instant.

Almost at the same time, the other three Silver Snakes of Profound Ice had struggled out of Qing Luo, Hui Jia, and Bai Li’s control and tore their way towards Lu Heng.

Three more beams of silver light flew through the air with seemingly enough power to freeze even space itself.

Wherever the silver light went, the suspended icicles nearby actually moved of their own accord and flew towards Lu Heng like sharp ice spears.

The Silver Snakes of Profound Ice had high intelligence, and they noticed that Lu Heng possessed the strongest cultivation out of all the combatants. His battle power was also the greatest of them all. That was why they had joined their powers in attempt to kill Lu Heng first.

The rest of the frost type spirit beasts grew restless as they began attacking the lizardmen, the dragonmen, and Lu Heng’s subordinates to stop them from supporting Lu Heng.

A will of absolute frost that could freeze heaven and earth itself appeared at the perfect timing to drop the temperature inside the ice cave to its absolute lowest point.

Lu Heng’s face became twisted in fear.

The combined strike of the four Silver Snakes of Profound Ice, the spirit beasts’ crazed charge, and the will of extreme force that had descended out of nowhere actually made him feel helpless.

“Whoosh!”

At a critical moment, a strange light abruptly appeared from Qin Lie’s fingertip and become suspended above Qin Lie’s head. It was none other than the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

Seven rays of colorful, divine light streaked towards seven directions with Qin Lie at the center like the chains of gods.

The seven godly lights stabbed into the ice holes where the spirit beasts came from.

“Crack! Crack!”

The wide ice cave and the solid ice walls suddenly shattered violently and caused the entire ice mountain itself to shake violently.

The cultivators frozen inside ice sculptures were instantly crushed into frozen flesh bits and dealt a swift and horrible death.

The will of absolute frost that had descended suddenly was completely crushed and dispelled under the sudden attack of the seven godly chains.

The wild charge and momentum of all frost type spirit beasts suddenly came to a halt.

The strange energy that had restrained their soul, controlled them and forced them to obey a certain someone’s will seemed to have dissipated in this instant.

The four Silver Snakes of Profound Ice that were charging towards Lu Heng suddenly slowed down.

A painful, struggling look appeared in the tiny, silvery pupils of these intelligent Silver Snakes of Profound Ice as they twisted their bodies non-stop as if they were resisting against something.

“Rrrrmb!”

The seven godly lights stabbed into the ice holes and sank all the way to the bottom of the glacier like giant drills.

A worldshaking explosion resounded from the glacier itself.

The entire body of the mountain shook intensely as the crowd inside it discovered that a huge hole had appeared on the ground at the center of the cave. It went straight underground.

“Thanks, kid!” Lu Heng nodded at Qin Lie.

“Down there!” Bai Li exclaimed.

Everyone lowered their heads to look at the hole that had appeared inside the ice cave.

Beneath the glacier, at the bottom of Frost island, an empty world of ice crystals revealed a tiny corner of its true appearance.

Through that corner, the crowd was able to see many magnificent ice palaces, ice sculptures of spirit beasts, and lifelike experts. There were also many ice crystals that were engraved with all kinds of strange pictures and lines.

A will that could freeze the entire world and every living being inside it was swimming at the frost kingdom beneath the caves.

The ice sculpture of a giant stood tall amid those frost palaces. The ice giant stood as straight as an ice sword and gave off an aura that made it feel like the ruler of frost itself.

A mysterious cold stream flowed inside the pupils of the ice sculpture and drew many different shapes. It was as if its purpose was to open the mysterious door to the domain of absolute frost.

Qin Lie looked at the ice giant’s pupils, the cold stream flowing deep inside it, and the bizarre scenes that appeared due to the conjuring shapes of the cold screams.

“Swoosh!”

The cold stream flowing inside the ice giant’s pupils actually flew out after Qin Lie had matched eyes with the giant.

A river of light mingled with the concept of absolute frost and billions of tiny ice light strands shot out of the giant’s pupils.

It went straight for Qin Lie’s forehead!

Qin Lie abruptly shuddered.

He immediately realized that the Frost Concept Diagram hidden deep inside the second space of the Soul Suppressing Orb had suddenly came alive.

The Frost Concept Diagram was covered in brilliant, interweaving webs of icy threads!

This Frost Concept Diagram seemed to have become a gigantic, mysterious web of attraction as it pulled the mysterious cold stream inside the giant’s pupils towards it.

“The Ice Emperor!” A thought entered Qin Lie’s mind.

He immediately ascertained that the ice sculpture of the giant was created in the image of the Ice Emperor. The frost concept flowing inside the ice giant’s pupils also came from the Ice Emperor!

The Frost Concept Diagram inside the Soul Suppressing Orb came from the land of absolute zero, and stemmed from inside the Eye of Frost.

Not only was the land of frost created through the Ice Emperor’s frost concept, the Eye of Frost was also an item that was left behind by the Ice Emperor.

It was obvious that this land where countless magnificent frost palaces were hidden beneath Frost island also had an inseparable connection with the Ice Emperor!

This meant that the Soul Suppressing Orb’s Frost Concept Diagram and the frost stream inside the ice giant’s eyes were of the same vein. This also meant that they both came from the same person—the Ice Emperor!

“Crack crack crack!”

The seven godly lights continued to open a path and widen the giant ice cave beneath them. They were overturning the frost palaces hidden beneath Frost Island little by little.

While everyone was paying attention to the anomalies beneath them, they also noticed that the terrifying cold stream inside the ice giant’s eyes was swimming into Qin Lie’s forehead like an ice river containing many tiny ice bits and tendrils.

The aura of absolute frost emanating from the ice river caused even Bai Li, a cultivator who cultivated a frost type spirit art, to feel fear.

Everyone who stood a little too close to Qin Lie subconsciously moved further away in fear that they would be frozen into ice by the cold stream inside that ice river.

The cry of a phoenix abruptly resounded from deep inside those magnificent palaces. At the same time, many terrible cold streams surfaced to the air.

An elegant looking ice phoenix flew out amidst those cold streams. It extended its translucent, icy wings, swung them and fired countless frost beams of light that looked like meteors towards Qin Lie.

“That is mine!” A tremendous will surfaced from the ice phoenix’s body as her cry resounded throughout the entire Frost Island.

“The Ice Phoenix! It’s the true body of the ice spirit!” Qing Luo exclaimed loudly.

“It is the new master of Frost Island!” Hui Jia also recovered himself.

“Take it down!” Lu Heng ordered.

The lizardmen, dragonmen, Lu Heng’s subordinates, and the quartet themselves unleashed their exquisite spirit arts and racial talents at once.

Hundreds of dazzling energy beams interweaved to form a gigantic, dense web of light. There were giant hammers, longswords, bone spears, disks, jade pillars, and all kinds of strange spirit artifacts mingled within the web of light. There were thirty or so spirit artifacts glittering with beautiful spirit light as they smashed onto the Ice Phoenix’s body all at once.

“Out of my way!” The Ice Phoenix let out a fierce soul cry.

It flapped its icy wings and conjured many terrifying icy tornados into existence. These tornados seemed to be made of ice blades as they erupted from inside and engulfed every direction.

The energy beams and strange spirit artifacts were all crushed into pieces when they fell into the tornados of ice.

Hundreds and thousands of ice pieces scattered from the tornados and stabbed towards the crowd.

Many dragonmen and lizardmen were instantly penetrated by the sharp blades and turned into ice instantly before they could bleed.

Lu Heng and the others were letting out strange battle cries as they flew towards the frost palaces at the bottom and attacked the Ice Phoenix.

“Bang!”

A frost palace dozens of meters high was actually pulled from the ground and disintegrated in midair under the Ice Phoenix’s cold streams.

The interior of the frost palace was shining with countless bright runes imbued with the frost concept. They scattered everywhere like snow, and immediately froze Lu Heng and the others in ice the moment they landed on their bodies.

The Ice Phoenix cried again as murderous intent shone from its icy eyes.

After suppressing Lu Heng, Qing Luo, Hui Jia, and everyone else, this elegant Ice Phoenix transformed into an ice beam and charged towards Qin Lie.

It was obvious that it was trying to interrupt the river of ice intent flowing into the space between Qin Lie’s brows and absorb the Ice Emperor’s inheritance for itself.

Chapter 697: Frozen

The Ice Phoenix’s beautifully lined ice wings flapped elegantly.

Another grand ice palace beneath i was pulled into the air and smashed into pieces.

The crystalline runes embedded inside the ice pillars were like the stars made of the Ice Emperor’s frost consciousness. As the frost palaces shattered, an entire sky of cold, starry light fell like a downpour of frost stars spilling from a flooded river of stars.

Lu Heng’s subordinates,lizardmen, and dragonmen were shocked beyond imagination when they saw the frost stars falling down from the cave’s ceiling.

They all scattered in an attempt to escape.

However, the frost stars numbered over tens of millions. They were touched by the frost stars no matter where they hid.

And so, many new ice sculptures were formed when the frost stars landed on their shoulders, heads and arms.

Except for Qing Luo, Hui Jia, Lu Heng, and a few other people, most of the martial practitioners on the ground had turned into ice.

When Lu Heng and the others recalled the many ice sculptures they saw everywhere within the frost palaces, their faces grew heavier and heavier.

It would appear that those ice sculptures were living beings just like their subordinates before they were touched by the frost runes and turned instantly into ice sculptures.

As more and more frost lights fell from the sky like fireflies, Lu Heng and the others could only defend themselves passively. They could no longer threaten the Ice Phoenix.

The Ice Phoenix let out a cry and overlooked Lu Heng’s group entirely. Its small, chilly eyes were focused completely onto Qin Lie.

“Puu!”

The Ice Phoenix’s large and elegant body turned into an icy beam that landed straight on the frost stream that was being transmitted to Qin Lie.

The ice river flowing out if the frozen giant’s eyes contained billions of sparkling icy lights, numerous ice fragments, and countless frost runes.

It was obviously the inheritance of absolute frost left behind by the Ice Emperor!

“Zzzt!”

The Ice Phoenix leaped into the strange ice river and rolled back and forth inside it, using it to wash its elegant body.

The countless ice dots looked like tiny frost stars. They seemed to seep from the ice river into the Ice Phoenix’s body and become a part of it.

It was intercepting the Ice Emperor’s inheritance flowing towards Qin Lie using a certain method.

Amazingly, the Ice Emperor’s inheritance and the many mysterious fragmented frost concepts inside the ice river didn’t reject the Ice Phoenix.

It was as if the Ice Phoenix had also accepted the Ice Emperor’s inheritance before and possessed an aura that won the Ice Emperor’s acknowledgement.

“Crackle!”

The seven dazzling rays of godly light were rampaging throughout the frost palace earlier. When the Ice Phoenix had flown out on its own, they each dragged a long tail of fire as they flew, circled around once and came hunting after the Ice Phoenix once more.

The seven godly lights changed its energy patterns repeatedly like seven shackles of law. One could see many vague mysterious threads and nameless divine characters inside the godly lights. As a loud chant resounded inside the mountain, the supernatural abilities came together to form a strange sealing formation that was specifically targeted at the seven spirit bodies.

“The Graveyard of Gods is gone, you will not shackle me in the outside world!” The Ice Phoenix flapped its wings.

One ice tornado after another appeared from beneath Ice Phoenix’s wings. Fierce explosions erupted as the godly lights had been stopped in their tracks.

At the same time, an energy of absolute frost that resonated with the frost palaces themselves appeared surged from inside the Ice Phoenix’s body.

“Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang!”

Thunderous, gong-like booms appeared from deep inside the many palaces erected in the depths of Frost Island. The ice walls, translucent ice pillars, and strange ice sculptures that made up these palaces contained many ice threads, ice lights, and frost runes.

Thick frosty energy surged out from many ice caves and formed many cold streams that swept through the entire place.

The seven godly lights that had appeared from the Demon Sealing Tombstone were struck by the seals of the frost palaces left behind by the Ice Emperor. They actually let out brittle, cracking noises that sounded like they were about to be frozen.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone that was so powerful that the ice spirit could do nothing but run away in the Graveyard of Gods seemed to have lost much of its power after losing its platform. It felt like the Demon Sealing Tombstone would never be able to seal the ice spirit ever again.

This was especially true since the Ice Phoenix had gone to Frost Island following a mysterious feeling the moment it escaped the Graveyard of Gods.

The Frost Island contained a temporary imperial residence built for the Ice Emperor, one of the members of the renowned Five Progenitors and Three Emperors. Not only did the frost palaces beneath this island contain a lot of seals created by the Ice Emperor, it also contained an extremely small amount of frost power the Ice Emperor had left behind.

Here, the Ice Phoenix was stronger than usual, but the Demon Sealing Tombstone wasn’t able utilize the Graveyard of Gods to its own advantage.

Demon Sealing Tombstone had been getting weaker over time and became no longer able to harm the Ice Phoenix.

“Give me the other Ice Emperor inheritance you’ve gotten as well!” the Ice Phoenix cried out fiercely.

The ice river that should be flowing between Qin Lie’s brows was stopped because of the Ice Phoenix’s forceful interruption.

Following the Ice Phoenix’s cries, the Frost Concept Diagram hidden deep inside the Soul Suppressing Orb actually started moving bit by bit towards the outside world as if it was attracted by a certain kind of energy.

Qin Lie discovered that he was powerless to stop this.

He could only watch as the Frost Concept Diagram floated out of the second space, then the first space and finally out of the Soul Suppressing Orb.

The Frost Concept Diagram slowly flew out from between his brows.

Then, the Frost Concept Diagram abruptly turned into a white frosty stream that contained many icy threads moving about as though they were alive. It was as if these threads functioned to teach others the true essence of the power of absolute frost.

“It’s a core inheritance! No wonder the true essence of absolute frost imprinted inside the eyes of the Ice Emperor’s ice sculpture would abandon me and choose you as the source of its inheritance instead!” The Ice Phoenix immediately grew excited when it saw the white frosty stream flying out of Qin Lie’s forehead. Its elegant and beautiful body even rolled around once in the ice river, causing countless little icy specks of light to scatter everywhere.

These icy specks of light contained many small segments of mind imprints. As if they possessed a mind of their own, some of them returned to the ice river while the rest fell into the white frosty stream, attracted by the Frost Concept Diagram between Qin Lie’s brows.

Every time a bit of icy light entered the Frost Concept Diagram, Qin Lie’s body would shudder, and his eyes would shine with an odd light.

The icy lights contained many wisps of information, and although the transmission was intermittent they obviously contained the secrets of the power of frost. They spoke of the essential source of the world’s power of frost.

Unfortunately, since the Frost Concept Diagram had already left his Soul Suppressing Orb, the connection he shared with the diagram grew weaker and weaker. The amount of icy lights that were entering the diagram was also too small, so he was unable to gain any deeper comprehension towards the power of frost.

He also noticed that this entire place was now filled with those icy threads and frosty specks of light, and the Ice Phoenix kept growing stronger. Now, not only were the seven godly lights unable to seal the Ice Phoenix, even Lu Heng, Qing Luo, Hui Jia, and Bai Li were frozen into ice sculptures.

Now, he and the Ice Phoenix were the only two living beings left in the place.

Even those Silver Snakes of Profound Ice, Giant Frost Crystal Alligators and Dragon Pythons were all frozen and turned into ice sculptures once more.

“My ancestor’s closest friend was the Ice Emperor. I was blessed with the Ice Emperor’s secret teachings of frost in my blood and in my soul from the moment I was born!” The Ice Phoenix extended its wings proudly once it saw that victory was confirmed. It made all kinds of elegant poses inside the ice river and used the tiny specks of light to wash its wings. “I was caught and restricted inside the Forbidden Land of Ice since a young age. I have carried out my responsibility as the ice spirit to freeze the Graveyard of Gods with my power over absolute frost and prevent the ancient elite remains from losing their powers. I was responsible for preventing the bodies from ever rotting.”

“Through the Ice Emperor’s secret teachings imprinted into my blood and soul, and through my own countless years of cultivation inside the Forbidden Land of Ice, I ultimately became the most powerful spirit form of the seven spirits! I am also the smartest one of them all!”

“For ten thousand years, I tried all kinds of methods in attempt to escape that pitiful, dark, and starless place called the Forbidden Land of Ice! Unfortunately, the seals applied by those dastardly Heaven Fighting Race were so powerful and terrifying that I was never able to escape my torment despite my own struggles and the aid of many living beings who entered the Forbidden Land of Ice. I wasn’t able to display the beauty and glory of the Ice Phoenix Race to the whole world!”

“It was only after you, the person who held the key to the Graveyard of Gods, reached the Forbidden Land of Ice and entered the Land of Buried Gods that I was finally freed.”

“I should thank you, for I would not have been able to escape the seals of the Graveyard of Gods with my own strength, even if another thousand or ten thousand years were to pass by.”

“It is you who helped to free me!”

“And today, you’ve gifted what I needed most from a faraway place and brought me a part of the Ice Emperor’s core inheritance!”

“There’s no way I’m willing to kill you just based on the various aids you’ve provided me. I’ll freeze you forever and turn you into a memento of the beautiful memories I’ve had!”

Once the Ice Phoenix was done talking, it inhaled and swallowed the Frost Concept Diagram floating above Qin Lie’s brows as he expected it to do.

At the same time, hundreds of clouds of absolute frost surged in from all directions and wrapped around him completely while he wasn’t able to do anything.

Qin Lie instantly turned into one of the many ice sculptures in this place.

Encased in ice, Qin Lie discovered that his nerves, bones, blood and even his dantian’s spirit sea were completely frozen. His eyes were open before he was frozen, and he wasn’t even able to move his eyeballs.

Frost energy had even seeped into his mind consciousness.

Ice actually started to appear magically in his clear, pure Soul Lake. Even the True Soul submerged inside his Soul Lake was slowly being frozen.

The fact that his body, blood and True Soul were frozen made Qin Lie felt like he was already dead. But strangely enough, he was still able to think and see right in front of him since his eyes weren’t closed. He felt like a living dead person, and it was a relatively novel feeling.

After the Ice Phoenix had swallowed the Frost Concept Diagram, it quickly absorbed the ice river inside the giant ice sculpture bit by bit.

After acquiring the frost concept diagram and the secret inheritance inside the ice river, the Ice Phoenix grew more and more sparkly and translucent. It looked like a living ice crystal that was carefully sculpted into the most perfect piece of art. It was so beautiful that not a single flaw could be picked from its body. It was so beautiful that one could get drunk from its beauty.

He noticed that the seven godly lights that still persisted in their task to seal the Ice Phoenix actually became frozen too.

The seven godly lights turned into seven giant ice beams whose tiny ends were connected to the similarly frozen Demon Sealing Tombstone.

The frozen Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven giant ice beams were turned into a wondrous sculpture inside the frost palace.

At first glance, the frozen Demon Sealing Tombstone suspended high in the air and the ice beams hanging off the tombstone’s body looked strangely natural for some reason.

The Ice Phoenix didn’t touch the frozen Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven godly lights. Instead, it roamed around the frost palace, reformed the destroyed ice walls above the frost palaces and returned everything in this place to its former appearance with the power of frost.

The dragonmen, lizardmen, Lu Heng, Bai Li, and all others had also been turned into many sparkly ice sculptures.

Qin Lie was no different.

The Ice Phoenix didn’t bother with the ice sculptures. Once it was satisfied looking at the restored frost palaces, it flapped its wings and flew elegantly into a certain area deep inside the palace. It would appear that it was going to study the Frost Concept Diagram it just acquired from Qin Lie and the secrets of frost it just obtained.

The ice sculptures of all poses and postures were the only things standing inside the frost palaces now.

Some of these ice sculptures looked like they were about to fall to the ground. Some were lying on their sides. There were also some who were lying upside down. There were actually very few people like Qin Lie who remained completely upright.

Qin Lie had no choice but to stare straight in front of him and think inside his mind.

While the Ice Phoenix had gone into a palace to study the Frost Concept Diagram, he was thinking and observing the front.

He could only observe the front anyway.

Before him, he noticed that Lu Heng, Qing Luo, Bai Li and everyone else had their eyes open just like him.

However, he noticed that there were no emotions and no luster inside Qing Luo and Lu Heng’s eyes at all.

His Soul Lake and True Soul were both frozen. Although he was still able to think, he couldn’t probe outwards with his soul at all.

However, he still knew from Lu Heng, Qing Luo and all other people whose eyes were open that they couldn’t see anything.

Although these people had their eyes open, they were so utterly frozen that they might not even have their minds with them.

If his current condition were to be called a state of living death, then those people could probably be considered dead for real.

They couldn’t move, couldn’t think, and displayed neither life nor soul activity. There was a chance that these people might awake little by little if they were released from their frozen state later on.

But right now, they were no different from a dead person.

He might be the only “living dead” person among all other frozen martial practitioners who could still see with his eyes and think with his mind.

It was a pretty novel feeling.

With his eyes opened and his mind in deep thought, he wondered why he was different from everyone else.

He was frozen by absolute frost before back when he was at the land of frost. He cultivated the Frost Arts passed down by the Ice Emperor, and his body was once tempered by the same frost aura, so he should be somewhat resistant towards the frost power the Ice Phoenix had applied on him.

After all, while it was true that the power of frost inside the Ice Phoenix’s body partially came from its natural racial talent, the other part also came from the Ice Emperor.

Perhaps it was the frost power that came from the Ice Emperor that kept him, the one who cultivated the Ice Emperor’s Frost Arts, in such a state.

He gradually figured out the reason behind his condition.

Chapter 698: Transform

Knowing that he could still see and think did nothing to help his current situation though.

—After all, he was still stuck inside a block of ice with no way out.

For the next ten days, all he could do was to stare straight ahead of him while being frozen, unable to do anything.

The Ice Phoenix never emerged since the day she went into that grand frost palace. It would appear that she was comprehending the Ice Emperor’s inheritance she had just acquired.

The lizardmen, dragonmen, and scouts sent by Forefather Dark Wind had all been turned into ice sculptures, shackled inside the frost palaces.

There were no latter reinforcements.

The glaciers had regained their former appearance, and the broken ice wall above the frost palaces was sealed too. The frost palaces at the bottom of Frost Island were covered up once more.

Qin Lie had already been forgotten.

Inside this absolutely quiet frost palace, the frozen Qin Lie tried again and again to break through the ice and free himself from this frozen state.

His muscles, bones, and blood were all frozen. His dantian’s spirit sea was also frozen. Even his Soul Lake and True Soul had been turned into ice. He tried many times to free himself, but discovered that he couldn’t seem to find even a shred of energy from his body to break out of this ice.

He could think, so he could change his emotions. He could feel anger and violent if he wanted to, and he had tried to activate the power of his bloodline like this.

He made a couple of attempts and was pleasantly surprised to find that he could still sense and even use a little of the power of his bloodline despite having his dantian’s spirit sea, bones, muscles, and blood frozen.

Unfortunately, it despaired him to find out that he had exhausted most of his bloodline powers when he was opening a way through the ice earlier.

Moreover, he hadn’t completely recovered his bloodline powers when he went away from Seven Eye Island and entered Frost Island.

After digging a hole through the ice and battling the spirit beasts earlier, he had exhausted nine tenths of his bloodline power.

Even if he managed to squeeze out the last of his bloodline power, it didn’t seem enough to break through the ice seal.

The depletion of his bloodline power also made him feel incredibly weakened. He needed to replenish himself with the tremendous amounts of blood and energy available in the flesh of spirit beasts to be able to recover faster.

But since he was frozen, he obviously couldn’t do so and recover his bloodline powers.

He still had the lifeblood essences he refined with the Blood Refinement Art, but they could only be used with the support of soul power and the circulation of the Blood Spirit Art.

He couldn’t meet either one of this requirements.

His bloodline powers weren’t strong enough, his lifeblood essences couldn’t be used, his soul consciousness couldn’t be unleashed, and his dantian spirit sea was completely frozen…

For another ten days or so, Qin Lie attempted to utilize many of the secrets he possessed, to no avail.

He had no choice but to stay frozen for now.

Another half a month passed.

He was staring towards the front while being frozen in an upright position inside a frost palace as usual.

Today, he saw rays of silvery frost light brimming from the frost palace the Ice Phoenix was in. After the icy light had been unleashed, the crystalline frost rays of light existing inside walls and pillars of ice began to flow like cold stars in a river of stars.

The Ice Phoenix’s crisp cries gradually took on a higher pitch.

Countless dazzling ice lights became scattered from the frost palace, looking like phoenix’ feathers.

The miraculous transformation continued for three days straight.

On the third day, the frost palace abruptly exploded into many pieces. Tiny bits of cold, frigid light spread towards the surrounding from the blast zone.

The palace instantly crumbled into ruins.

Another half a day passed.

A small, white hand stretched out from the top of the pile of shattered ice. It look translucent and shiny like it was literally made out of ice.

The little hand pushed the shattered ice away while the owner of the hand muttered something indiscernible with a small voice. Then, she walked out of the pile of ice ruins slowly.

It was a girl who looked to be around fourteen or fifteen years old.

She was completely naked. Her skin was jade-like, and her body was covered in many complicated and exquisite looking phoenix patterns, The patterns’ color was bright and natural, and they resembled nature itself when complemented with her delicate and bright figure.

At first glance, the patterns looking like many tiny, beautiful phoenixes that had curled themselves into balls across her body. It made her look stunningly beautiful.

The girl looked like she wasn’t completely developed yet. Her breasts were only slightly swollen, and her figure looked underripe and young.

The phoenix patterns that nearly covered the entirety of the girl’s body looked like bright, colorful tattoos that gave her an enigmatic and mysterious feeling.

The frozen Qin Lie stared straight at the naked girl, observing her perfect countenance and flawless body. He was stunned by the sight.

“She’s the Ice Phoenix!”

It took Qin Lie a few seconds to come to the realization that this naked girl who had walked out of a pile of ice was the ruler of this frost kingdom and the new master of Frost Island.

After obtaining the frost diagram, absorbing the ice stream inheritance flowing from the ice giant’s eyes, fusing and comprehending all of its teachings, the Ice Phoenix had obviously experienced a complete make-over. She now possessed a talent that only high rank spirit beasts would possess—the ability of transformation!

Transformation was an astounding talent that only spirit beasts of Rank Seven and above could obtain.

Moreover, not all Rank Seven spirit beasts could transform into all kinds of races through transformation of their body.

Only spirit beasts who possessed special bloodline and were incredibly noble and rare could master this talent after they had evolved to Rank Seven.

The Ice Phoenix was without a doubt one of these high rank spirit beasts.

The Ice Phoenix was obviously still getting used to the transformation ability she recently learned. The phoenix patterns on her body would sparkle while she moved, and sometimes she would lose control of her power and suddenly turn back into her Ice Phoenix form.

When she had transformed back into an Ice Phoenix, she would curl and cover up her entire body in icy wings before transforming into a large ice ball.

The ice ball would shoot out icy light continuously while it was rolling in midair, and the naked girl would walk out of the ice after the ice ball had exploded.

Inside the frost palace, Qin Lie noticed that the Ice Phoenix was continuously transforming between her Ice Phoenix form and naked girl form.

This scene repeated for several days straight as the Ice Phoenix slowly familiarized herself with the transformation ability.

After she had gradually mastered the transformation ability, she showed obvious curiosity towards her new body. She began staying in human form for prolonged amount of time and made baby-like sounds from her mouth. She was slowly learning the common language of humans, and refraining from using her ability to communicate with another person directly through the soul.

She was growing bit by bit.

However, she was ultimately the Ice Phoenix. She seemed unused to putting on clothes on this translucent and flawless human body.

Moreover, she thought that every person in the frost palace, be it the soul, the body or the eyes were completely frozen in a half-dead state. They couldn’t see her, hear her, or even possess their own thoughts.

That was why she continued to study her own naked body inside the frost palace without the slightest scruple.

Qin Lie quietly observed her.

At first, he was very interested in the Ice Phoenix’s naked human girl form. Since he had nothing to do anyway, he spent every day observing her.

Every inch of the Ice Phoenix’s human body was perfectly visible to his eyes, and so he attempted to look at it with a critical eye and find a flaw in this body of hers.

In the end, he discovered that he could find almost no flaws in her human body other than the fact that it wasn’t completely developed yet.

Over time, he grew numb towards the Ice Phoenix’s human body and lost the initial novelty he felt when he first saw her.

No matter how beautiful a thing was, it was only a matter of time before fatigue settled in.

During this process, he noticed that the power of his bloodline was slowly recovering even though he wasn’t taking in any food.

However, without the replenishment of flesh that contained powerful blood and energy, his bloodline was recovering at least dozens of times slower.

Still, it gave him a sliver of hope.

He knew that it was only a matter of time before his bloodline power would recover completely even if he were to do nothing.

Then, he would have a chance at escaping this place and getting out of the frost palace.

A few more days passed, and he suddenly realized that Frost Island itself was trembling.

A frigid light appeared in the Ice Phoenix girl’s translucent pupils. She muttered a few words beneath her breath before exiting the frost palace.

He knew that the Dragonman Race, the Lizard Race, and Forefather Dark Wind had either sent over a new batch of underlings or came personally to this place.

The rumbling sounds were the commotion caused by these newcomers. They were continuing their search for Frost Island’s master.

Qin Lie was the only one left after in this underground frost kingdom after the Ice Phoenix had departed.

He discovered that his life had become dull and insipid after the Ice Phoenix had left. He discovered that even his final bit of pleasure—the view of a naked girl—was mercilessly taken away from him.

The huge frost palace suddenly became truly cold and lifeless.

He started missing the days the Ice Phoenix was around the palace; the strange days she spent in her human form trying learn the common language clumsily.

After he was trapped for an extended period of time and discovered that he couldn’t escape even after using every method that was available to him, he gradually turned numb and even seemed to have accepted his fate.

That lasted until the day he sensed an abnormality inside the Soul Suppressing Orb.

The Soul Suppressing Orb was also frozen inside his forehead under the power of absolute frost.

He couldn’t circulate his soul consciousness, and thus couldn’t enter the Soul Suppressing Orb and the world inside it.

Without his thoughts, the frozen Soul Suppressing Orb seemed to be in an immobile state as well.

But although the Soul Suppressing Orb could stay immobile indefinitely, the six Spirits of Void and Chaos hidden inside the depths of the orb needed to feed after a certain time. They needed the replenishment of six types of spirit materials to be able to grow steadily.

The abnormality had come from the six Spirits of Void and Chaos themselves!

Even without his soul consciousness, Qin Lie knew from the slight shudder of his flesh between his brows that the six Spirits of Void and Chaos were attempting to break through the sealing power of frost with their own strength in so that they could fly out of the Soul Suppressing Orb.

The fact that he could sense it now meant that the six Spirits of Void and Chaos’ efforts had worked slightly!

With his understanding of the Spirits of Void and Chaos, he knew that they had probably awakened since the moment he was encased in ice. They might have even worked to break free since a long time in order to feed!

While he was struggling again and again using all sorts of methods to break free of the ice, the Spirits of Void and Chaos were also doing the same thing!

He wasn’t alone.

In fact, even when he had slowly grown numb to the point where he accepted his fate after numerous failures, the Spirits of Void and Chaos never gave up!

The fact that he could sense abnormality in the Soul Suppressing Orb meant that the Spirits of Void and Chaos’ efforts weren’t completely in vain!

“My willpower actually pales in comparison to theirs?” Qin Lie felt ashamed.

After realizing that the Spirits of Void and Chaos were also struggling to escape the ice seal, he finally regained his spirit and went through all of the secret arts and spirit arts he had ever mastered. He struggled with all his might to find a way to recover his strength.

He recalled his past and the knowledge he had read from many scriptures in attempt to reach a breakthrough.

In this frost kingdom where absolute silence reigned, time seemed to flow at an exceptionally slow rate.

He didn’t lack the time to recall his past.

“The Limit Sublimation Art!” A flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.

The Limit Sublimation Art Duan Qianjie taught him was a secret art that required the cultivator to continue cultivating on his feet and urging out the hidden potential of one’s life even when they exhausted their soul power, spirit power and physical strength after fighting a harsh battle.

This extraordinary secret art didn’t fully count as a spirit art as its propellant was neither spirit energy nor soul energy.

It was a mysterious art that could only be circulated after the cultivator had almost exhausted all of their spirit energy, soul energy, and physical strength. It was something that came from the very depths of one’s life potential.

Right now, he was completely frozen to the point where even his dantian spirit sea, his Soul Lake and even True Soul were completely frozen. He had also exhausted most of his bloodline power, and his physical body was weak and tired.

His current situation was very similar to what one might experience after a great battle, wasn’t it?

Was it possible to activate the Limit Sublimation Art despite his current state?

After the thought had surfaced to his mind, he calmed himself down slowly and recalled the details on how to activate the Limit Sublimation Art. he went through even the tiniest of detail in his mind so that he had every point figured out before he started.

Then, he began thinking about cultivating the Limit Sublimation Art in his mind without being able to use his body or soul consciousness.

He was only seriously thinking about it…

He recalled the various things that happened when he cultivated the Limit Sublimation Art. He imagined that he was cultivating it in full concentration, and that he was digging out his potential and summoning the most mysterious energies that were hidden inside his physical body.

An unknown period of time later.

Qin Lie suddenly discovered that an indescribable tingling sensation was slowly spreading throughout his blood, muscles, bones and internal organs.

It felt like a weak electricity that came from the deepest depths of the human body and was spreading bit by bit towards every part of his body.

His muscles, bones, and flesh were trembling softly as the mysterious energy wriggled like billions of indiscernible tendrils in a trajectory that indicated that the Limit Sublimation Art was working.

His frozen, almost senseless body slowly became sensitive and felt cold.

A strong sense of joy surfaced slowly from the bottom of his heart. The light of hope flashed across his eyes.

Despite being in a state where he wasn’t able to use his spirit energy, soul energy or physical strength, the Limit Sublimation Art could still be executed without problems.

He gained a deeper recognition of how extraordinary Duan Qianjie was.