Spirit Realm Chapter 699-704

Chapter 699: Fortune from Misfortune

Just as La Pu had said, the Limit Sublimation Art was an extraordinary secret technique.

When his physical body and the soul were frozen, and only the power of the bloodline could be mobilized with his emotions, it was impossible to cast any spirit art.

In such an unusual state, the Limit Sublimation Art that Duan Qianjie had taught him was not restricted by the wards at all. He could continue to cultivate it in this strange state.

As an ice statue, Qin Lie could clearly feel a kind of mysterious power forming out of his body. Albeit minuscule, this power did exist, and was slowly nurturing his body.

He gradually recovered his senses.

The Limit Sublimation Art would not cause his spirit power to grow, would not cause his soul power to rise, and would not influence his Soul Lake and True Soul.

This was a secret method that developed the potential of the physical body, slowly uncovering the its secret, increasing one’s talent and also increasing one’s bloodline power.

Sealed in the ice and having all of his cultivation methods and arts rendered useless, Qin Lie concentrated on the Limit Sublimation Art and immersed himself in the cultivation.

He gradually lost track of time.

Some time later, when he was still cultivating the Limit Sublimation Art, he saw the elegant Ice Phoenix come from the outside and land on a crystal palace of ice.

The Ice Phoenix had clearly been in a fight.

Its beautiful and crystal feathers were covered in dust and scattered blood. Only its eyes were still cold and sharp.

After it returned in its phoenix form, its ice-like feathers retracted. They formed an enormous ball of ice that glittered with icy light.

After the ball shattered, the Ice Phoenix once again turned into a naked young human girl.

Qin Lie focused and found that this human body didn’t have any wounds.

This meant that the Ice Phoenix should have won the battle outside. Those dragonmen, lizardmen, and the subordinates of Forefather Dark Wind might have been frozen and turned into new statues to be sealed in other glaciers.

After the Ice Phoenix turned human, it walked around the frost palace naked and continued to learn to speak.

Qin Lie silently practiced the Limit Sublimation Art.

He found that in this special state, he could continue to practice the Limit Sublimation Art without worrying about being interrupted.

Originally, one had to exhaust themselves in battle to obtain a chance to cultivate the Limit Sublimation Art for a while.

One could not maintain the state of absolute exhaustion of soul power, spirit power and physical body. This meant that the cultivation of the Limit Sublimation Art couldn’t be sustained for long.

Since Duan Qianjie started to cultivate the Limit Sublimation Art, he had been going around challenging people stronger than him to push himself to his limits, just to be able to cultivate Limit Sublimation Art for a brief moment. He would then unleash his potential and enhance his cultivation talent, which ultimately allowed him to possess his current strength.

But Qin Lie could continue to cultivate like this without needing to fight.

He suddenly rejoiced.

If not for the Ice Phoenix’s unique seal of ice, if he hadn’t been put into such an unusual state, he would not have been able to cultivate this astounding Limit Sublimation Art for so long.

Time passed…

Qin Lie was still cultivating the Limit Sublimation Art in his frozen state.

One day, he felt Frost Island tremble violently again. He saw the frost palaces shake.

The Ice Phoenix once again flew out.

Several days later, the Ice Phoenix returned in the body of a human female. Her picturesque face showed hints of exhaustion.

On her back there were a dozen wounds of different severity, some of which were even bone deep.

Qin Lie watched as she walked into an ice palace.

In the following days, it did not come out of the palace, and did not move around in its naked state nor try to practice the human language.

She was recovering.

Before she managed to recover from her wounds and leave the frost palace, Frost Island shook violently once again.

This time, even Qin Lie who was frozen in ice at the bottom of Frost Island felt a wave of trepidation inside.

He knew that someone truly strong had come to Frost Island.

The Ice Phoenix changed into its original form and once again spread its wings, elegantly leaving through a crack in the ice above.

“Not good…” Qin Lie shook his head inwardly.

He knew that the Ice Phoenix that had not healed from its wounds yet would face a great opponent this time.

The Ice Phoenix might be heavily injured or killed.

It was as he had expected.

After the Ice Phoenix left the frost palace, he felt that Frost Island was constantly tremuring. The terrifying vibrations caused several of the palaces deep in the Frost Island to shatter.

The violent tremors continued for an hour and then suddenly stilled.

A short amount of time later, the Ice Phoenix landed on the ice crystal palace covered in blood. When she landed, she immediately changed into the shape of young human female and then fell at the feet of the enormous ice sculpture of Ice Emperor.

Blood slowly seeped out of her body. In the cold air, the blood immediately turned into blood crystals of ice.

From far away, it looked as though a red crystals had wrapped around her body. She seemed to have sealed herself in.

Her eyes were tightly closed, and her long eyelashes didn’t tremble at all. Her soul aura also became weak and subdued.

She seemed to have gone unconscious from her serious injuries.

The cracks that had opened on the ice wall above the ice palace seemed to slowly heal under the influence of the cold energy.

This ice palace once again returned to a sealed state.

Wisps of white cold mist with flashing symbols mixed within came out of the ice walls, pillars, and shattered pieces of the ice palace. A visible ice seal slowly formed.

Entire frost palace was shrouded in the white cold mist.

Qin Lie noticed that the extremely cold energy flowing from the walls, pillars and stones turned into mysterious ice power that wrapped around the walls of the palace.

Under the effect of the ice power, the outer walls of the frost palace became colder and stronger.

Qin Lie immediately realized that the Ice Phoenix was wounded gravely this time. Before she became unconscious, she used a secret technique to activate the strongest ice seal of the ice palace, and used the remaining wards that the Ice Emperor had left to seal this palace.

She knew that she could no longer fight back so she made sure no one could invade this palace when she was unconscious.

During her slumber, Frost Island once again became full of action.

The people that came into Frost Island seemed to be searching for an entrance all over the island hoping to find her. As a result, they were destroying the glaciers all over.

After the initial shock, Qin Lie calmed down and continued to cultivate the Limit Sublimation Art.

“Zzt zzzt zzt!

Tiny flows of electricity formed in his muscles, bones, flesh and organs. They seemed to be cleansing his flesh, and using a mysterious method to nourish his body and excavate his potential.

He could feel the blaze divine characters imprinted on his bones and flesh suddenly become unusually lively.

The bloodline power that had recovered by almost three tenths started giving off waves of heat.

The blood that had been frozen slowly started to melt under the help of the blaze divine characters.

Time slowly passed.

After an unknown period of time, he suddenly stopped being able to practice the Limit Sublimation Art he had been able to cultivate all this time.

At this time, he found that his frozen blood started to wake and surged wildly!

The terrifying aura that carried the smell of sulphur awakened, turning blood in his veins into burning lava..

His bloodline power was rising!

The cold power that had frozen his body, soul, and spirit sea quickly melted as his blood boiled and the blaze divine characters became active.

Seconds later, Qin Lie suddenly shook. He felt as though his soul had woken up. His soul consciousness could spread outwards. The spirit power in his spirit sea felt as though it was filled to the brim and moved towards his soul.

“Snap snap snap!

Wondrously, when he woke up, popping sounds came from his meridians, each of them seemingly filled with joy.

“Drip! Drip!”

After the ice melted, it dripped off his body. The icy water carried the aura of the blazing flames and steamed.

He didn’t feel any cold in his body.

His spirit sea, bones, flesh, Soul Lake, and True Soul immediately recovered to their usual state.

He was not in a hurry to move. He first calmed his emotions, suppressing the savage anger to stop the power of the bloodline from producing the blazing waves of heat.

After calming down, he retracted the burning flames back into his body like tongues of flame. The blaze divine characters returned and imprinted themselves on his bones and flesh.

He regained feeling in his limbs.

He was still in the early stages of the Fulfillment Realm. His cultivation had not grown. It didn’t change at all.

However, he felt as though he had been completely changed, his body reformed.

He found that his mind was clear, his thinking had become faster. He was even able to solve multiple problems at the same time as though he could multitask.

Stretching out his soul consciousness, he immediately that its range and penetrative ability had greatly increased. Even his perception had been enhanced.

Circulating spirit power was akin to controlling a surging river through many channels. Now, the channels had been broadened, increasing the amount of spirit power they could hold, thicker, and even the speed at which the spirit power circulated had increased!

After a moment of thought, he took out piece of dried rank five spirit beast meat and swallowed it.

He carefully inspected the changes in his body.

Gradually, his eyes became brighter, and his expression more joyful.

He found that his stomach was now able to hold even more food, and his ability to digest had also been enhanced.

This meant that he could eat more food in one sitting and absorb it even faster!

This meant that the recovery of his physical body and his bloodline would increase in speed as well!

He knew that other than the lack of change in his cultivation, he had undergone a complete transformation!

Chapter 700: An Opportunity

Qin Lie realized that after cultivating the Limit Sublimation Art day and night in this period of time, the potential of his body had been developed.

The potential caused his spirit power, body and consciousness to be wondrously enhanced.

This was an advancement of his innate talent!

“An increase in innate talent means an increase in the speed of gathering spirit energy, absorbing spirit stone energy, and replenishing power of body and bloodline. In battle, higher speed of spirit power circulation and enhanced range and penetrative ability of soul consciousness will greatly affect my combat ability! I really gained fortune from this misfortune of being frozen in this place. I was also able to cultivate the Limit Sublimation Art, for so long, reaping great benefits.”

Qin Lie was overjoyed.

He walked out of the ice seal and inspected his body carefully. After getting a complete make-over, his anger towards the Ice Phoenix lessened greatly.

After stretching and moving his limbs to find that he was in an unusually good condition, he took out dried spirit beast meat from his spatial ring. He used the meat to recover from his exhaustion after using the power of his bloodline.

He wasn’t in a hurry to approach the Ice Phoenix.

He maintained a distance of a few hundred meters. He stood there as he chewed on dried meat. He felt his body digest and his power increase as he observed the Ice Phoenix.

After being heavily wounded, the Ice Phoenix was curled up in its human form. She was completely frozen in the blood that had seeped out of her and hadn’t moved.

Qin Lie only watched. Before his body recovered, he didn’t dare to spread his soul consciousness to inspect.

Multiple days later, after he finished eating all the dried meat in his ring, his exhaustion gradually disappeared.

He reckoned he had almost completely recovered.

He finally slowly walked towards the Ice Phoenix and came to the feet of the giant ice statue.

The Ice Phoenix was still unconscious.

Standing right beside her, Qin Lie could see that the countless beads of blood on her body had frozen, encasing her in a big crystal of blood.

Qin Lie finally spread his soul consciousness.

His soul consciousness formed a thread and slowly got closer to the blood crystal. Suddenly, an extremely cold aura seeped out of the crystal.

The wisp of soul consciousness that Qin Lie had released had been frozen and become an icy thread, unable to approach further.

“As expected of a Ice Phoenix that can transform…”

He murmured in a low tone and frowned. Then he retracted that wisp of soul consciousness and started to think again.

A while later, he lifted his head to look at the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven divine lights that had been turned into an ice sculpture, yet still floated in the air, looking extremely eerie. The seven rays of light still hung from the tombstone’s surface.

He was hesitating if he should break the Demon Sealing Tombstone free of the ice shell.

He believed that the power of his lifeblood essences and “blaze” divine characters would be enough to melt the ice on Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven godly lights.

However, the moment he released the Demon Sealing Tombstone, it would continue its pursuit after Ice Phoenix, attempting to seal the ice spirit… the Ice Phoenix.

In the end, the Ice Phoenix and the other six spirit bodies would forever disappear into the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

At most, the Demon Sealing Tombstone would give him three refined drops of blood.

Was this what he wanted?

“You are more intelligent than the other six spirit bodies, and strong. You know the secrets of the Graveyard of Gods and the Land of Buried Gods. You and the first voodoo creature also have an agreement. You know about Jia Yue, and you know the mysteries of this frost palace.”

Rubbing his chin, Qin Lie hesitated as he looked at the unconscious Ice Phoenix. “According to you, your ancestor… was the closest partner of the Ice Emperor. It should have been the Ice Emperor’s pet or mount. If I seal you at this time, all of the mysteries you know will be hidden in the Demon Sealing Tombstone.”

As he talked to himself, Qin Lie became even more indecisive. He didn’t know what to do with the Ice Phoenix.

He knew that if the Demon Sealing Tombstone was released, he might not be able to stop the Demon Sealing Tombstone from sealing the Ice Phoenix.

However, if he didn’t seal her when she was unconscious, what should he do when she woke up and recovered her strength?

Just as Qin Lie was hesitating, he felt the aura of the Spirits of Void and Chaos from the Soul Suppressing Orb.

His mind moved, and the six Spirits of Void and Chaos floated out of the Soul Suppressing Orb. He looked at them and realized their bodies had become smaller.

This was clearly caused by using too much power.

It was because of this that he hadn’t felt any movement from them since he broke free of the ice shell. The six Spirits of Void and Chaos were simply too exhausted, so exhausted that he didn’t even feel their presence.

“Not good!”

Seeing the six Spirits of Void and Chaos had shrunk so much after tirelessly trying to damage the frost power that had sealed him without eating for weeks, Qin Lie hurriedly took out spirit materials of six attributes from his spatial ring that he had gotten from La Pu.

“Clack clack clack!”

Piles of spirit materials lay in front of him divided into the six types.

The six Spirits of Void and Chaos looked weakly at the spirit materials. Their small eyes lit up and then, with Qin Lie’s help, they were shoved into the six piles.

Because he didn’t want to think about the Ice Phoenix, he looked towards the six piles of spirit materials. He saw the six Spirits of Void and Chaos slowly start to feed and the pieces of spirit materials gradually disappear.

Another day passed. Qin Lie still hadn’t decided how to deal with the Ice Phoenix.

“Boom boom boom!”

One day, he suddenly felt the ground and the frost palace shake.

He knew that the person who had wounded the Ice Phoenix finally found the frost palace hidden deep in Frost Island and was already destroying the thick ice walls outside.

After the violent trembling continued for a while, the Ice Phoenix slowly woke up. Within the blood crystal, the long eyelashes flickered and she slowly opened her eyes.

Then she saw Qin Lie standing beside her at first glance.

Her eyes which had been slightly dazed immediately filled with cold murderous intent. She seemed to immediately understand what had happened. “You, you were not sealed by the frost power? Was it because you also cultivate the core art of Ice Emperor?” she interrogated Qin Lie with her slightly unpracticed and awkward human language.

Qin Lie’s expression changed.

He had yet to decide what to do with the Ice Phoenix. In this moment, after the Ice Phoenix ruly woke up, he instinctively reacted.

He immediately ignited three of his lifeblood essences and shot them towards the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven icicles that were actually the godly lights.

At the same time, he dashed back in retreat.

Waves of power came from his spirit sea, flesh and blood. At his fastest speed, he prepared to receive the Ice Phoenix’s storm of attacks.

Behind him, the six Spirits of Void and Chaos had been still feeding on the six piles of spirit materials.

Feeling his sudden change, the six Spirits of Void and Chaos that had almost finished recovering suddenly floated from behind him like six little suns of different colors. They bared their teeth at the Ice Phoenix and seemed ready to fight.

The Ice Phoenix’s cold eyes skipped past Qin Lie and looked towards the six Spirits of Void and Chaos with slight shock.

“Those six became these?” the Ice Phoenix asked.

“Not really.” Qin Lie was on his guard as he said, “Using my blood, and the six Pure Soul Springs, their essence blood, soul blood, and my soul power, they had been formed through a method even I don’t know. They are called Spirits of Void and Chaos by other people. Right now, I’m raising them and helping them grow.”

“If I was sealed by the Demon Sealing Tombstone, would I also become like this?” the Ice Phoenix asked.

At this time, Qin Lie noticed that the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven godly lights were being defrosted by the flames of his lifeblood essences and the “blaze” divine characters.

The Ice Phoenix also noticed this.

It did nothing to stop him.

“I am not sure.” Qin Lie shook his head. “There were six Pure Soul Springs and they were all used. I do not have any more.”

The Ice Phoenix was silent.

A moment later, she suddenly said, “Open your Soul Lake and True Soul, channel the core inheritance you received from the Ice Emperor. I will return the inheritance that I took from you.”

Qin Lie was astounded.

Chapter 701: Scheming

“It would be best if you temporarily stopped trying to release the Demon Sealing Tombstone. Otherwise, in my present state, it will quickly seal me after it’s released from the ice.”

The Ice Phoenix uncurled and slowly stood up.

She was still naked. Her youthful skin was covered in mysterious phoenix patterns, which made her flawless beauty look eerie.

The crystal drops of blood that had spilled from her body slowly receded back into her body as she slowly stood up.

Her weak aura was recovering, and the cold energy around her grew stronger.

Qin Lie’s face became serious. Looking at the Ice Phoenix whos aura was strengthening, he didn’t dare to relax at all.

He was not sure if the Ice Phoenix was speaking truth or lying.

“The three that are coming are not the same as before. They are very strong. I… cannot win against them, I am severely injured.” The Ice Phoenix’s gaze was full of urgency as she said, “The walls of the palace contain the frost power of the Ice Emperor but it will not stand for long. They have already found it. There will be a day when the walls will crumble under their attacks. At that time, I most likely will not be able to escape. Rather than that, it’s better to be sealed again by the Demon Sealing Tombstone. In the future… maybe one day… I would be released.”

Qin Lie was silent.

“But before I get sealed, I hope that the inheritance of the Ice Emperor is passed on,” she continued.

“I don’t know if I should trust you,” Qin Lie said gravely.

“You are free to choose.” The Ice Phoenix suddenly sat down. Her white arms wrapped around her chest and slowly covered her breasts. She said with a bowed head, “If you do not want to receive Ice Emperor’s inheritance, I will not force you.”

After she said this, she stopped speaking. She even closed her eyes.

Qin Lie felt a headache coming on.

At this time, the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven godly lights that were sealed in the ice were showing signs of loosening as his lifeblood essences enhanced by the blaze divine characters burned.

The seven icicles were constantly flashing with prismatic light as though the seven godly lights were struggling fiercely.

It seemed that the Demon Sealing Tombstone and its seven godly lights that could seal Ice Phoenix would soon break free.

Qin Lie looked deeply at the Ice Phoenix. After a few moments of hesitation, a sudden thought flashed through his mind.

Three lifeblood essences thawing the ice encasing the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven icicles moved with his thought. They turned into bloody jade droplets that rained on his body.

He retracted the lifeblood essences back into his body.

In the air, the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven godly lights that were frozen stopped thawing after the blaze divine characters stopped burning.

The cold energy that existed in every corner of the frost palace came over and froze the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven godly lights again.

The Ice Phoenix opened her eyes.

“I can give you the Ice Emperor’s core inheritance and the treatise on his power that I obtained from this frost palace.” Her gaze fixed on Qin Lie, she continued, “You only need to open your mind to obtain the mysteries of the Ice Emperor that I have.”

“I still don’t want it.” Qin Lie shook his head.

“You do not want, or you do not dare?” the Ice Phoenix asked coldly.

“Do not dare,” Qin Lie said honestly.

Opening his mind would mean that he would be in an unguarded state. In this state, he could absorb the Ice Emperor inheritance from the Ice Phoenix, or his soul might be instantly extinguished.

Having temporarily stopped trying to release the Demon Sealing Tombstone did not mean that he was not on his guard against the Ice Phoenix, nor that he trusted her.

“You humans always overthink things!” The Ice Phoenix was disdainful.

“Better safe than sorry.” When Qin Lie spoke, his powers still circulated through his body without any signs of relaxing. “Where is the young female that you possessed in the Land of Buried Gods?”

“She is still alive. After the Graveyard of Gods exploded, my own body was released. The Demon Sealing Tombstone was in an unknown place so I did not need her human body as a disguise anymore.” The Ice Phoenix’s tone was cold as she said indifferently, “I threw her onto some desolate island. I also imprinted some of my understanding of the frost power into her memories. When she wakes up, she will find that everything had recovered back to normal, and she will also have obtained a deep understanding of frost for free. When she cultivates in the future, she will not meet any bottlenecks. This is how I repaid her.”

“Oh?” Qin Lie’s eyes were filled with puzzlement.

He found that it was increasingly harder to understand this Ice Phoenix. He didn’t know which things the Ice Phoenix said were truth and which were lies.

“There is a Ghost Eye clansman called the Seven Eyed Monster that should have entered Frost Island. Where is this person now?” Qin Lie asked.

“I have a vague recollection of that person. He was very strong. When fighting him, I had to use the frost energy flows the Ice Emperor left in the palace to freeze him.” The Ice Phoenix thought for a while before saying, “I threw him into the depths of a glacier. In my previous fight against these three people, that glacier exploded. The ice power that sealed him was also melted, and he had been set free. After this, he teamed up with the three to fight against me. My wounds… he’s responsible for some of them.”

When she spoke of La Pu, Ice Phoenix’s eyes betrayed hint of murderous intent.

Qin Lie’s eyes lit up.

Just as he continued to keep asking the Ice Phoenix about the mysteries of the Graveyard of Gods, the sound of explosions occurred again outside the frost palace.

The glowing crystal palaces collapsed.

Many glowing specks of mysterious cold energy shot out of the walls and and slabs of ice lying around. They gathered into swarms like fireflies.

The Ice Phoenix’s eyes turned cold and she said urgently, “I do not have much time! Either you open your mind and I will return the Ice Emperor’s inheritance to you, or… release the Demon Sealing Tombstone and have it seal me!”

“There is no other choice?” Qin Lie frowned.

“No!”

“You cannot flee the frost palace? Cannot flee from Frost Island?”

“The clansmen of the three have sealed the entire Frost Island. If I touch the barrier they have set up, I will immediately attract the three. If I could leave, I would have left a long time ago instead of staying in this palace!”

“That female white barbarian, she also cultivates a frost spirit art. Why do you not use the same method to possess her body and then use her to leave Frost Island?”

“She is too strong and her soul will be able to fight back. I cannot easily take over her body.”

“Couldn’t you kill her first?”

“Dead people do not have soul aura. Even if I take her corpse, the aura that comes out of the body will be mine. Other people will easily detect it. Only when she is alive will the aura that is released from her body be hers. That way, after I possess her, I can avoid other people’s inspection and leave.”

“So that’s how it is?” Qin Lie nodded and then his eyes turned cold. “What about me? I have the lowest cultivation of everyone here, and I also cultivate a frost spirit art. Isn’t it easy for you to possess me?”

The Ice Phoenix suddenly became silent.

Qin Lie smiled coldly, “Is it because you are wounded severely and your soul is relatively weak that it is too difficult to forcefully take over my body? So you… keep on tempting me to open my mind so you can come in?”

As he asked this, Qin Lie’s body flashed with arcs of lightning. The sound of thunder came out of his body.

He believed that his speculation was correct. In the next moment, he received a storm of attacks from the Ice Phoenix.

A change suddenly occurred!

The moment he finished speaking, dozens of icy threads suddenly flew out of a shaking frost palace on the side.

The crystalline ice threads flew and wove a beautiful Ice Phoenix. The phoenix moved its wings to form fierce whirlpools that consumed the nearby ice energies, icicles, ice lines, and arctic ice mist.

The originally crude Ice Phoenix formed from the ice threads gradually turned complex and detailed until it became tangible.

It looked like a newborn Ice Phoenix.

“Whoosh whoosh!”

As it flapped its wings, the Ice Phoenix made from ice energy, ice crystals, and ice seal characters all flew at Qin Lie.

A sharp aura that tore apart the ice walls and space turned into deadly sharp ice energy threads that shot towards Qin Lie.

Ever-present sounds of ice shattering were capable of freezing one’s soul. Qin Lie’s consciousness seemed as though it was about to freeze.

“As expected!”

Lava and raging flames flew out of Qin Lie’s body and formed a fiery flame source that looked like the sun.

His body rattled with sounds of popping joints and suddenly became heavy and built as though he had been pulled taller.

The thunder roared, while lightning wrapped the flaming sun that now carried a thick stench of blood. The whole scene turned into a terrifying storm with Qin Lie in the center.

Much of the icy energy the Ice Phoenix shot over instantly evaporated in the tide of flames before they could even get close to Qin Lie.

The Ice Phoenix that was charging towards him was facing both the flame energy shrouded in lightning and a Blood Dragon Qin Lie had made with Blood Spirit Art.

The Blood Dragon rose into the sky. Its crimson red body was covered in countless small “blaze” divine characters. Then, it shot tens of meters long lightning bolts from its eyes.

The dragon and the phoenix immediately started to wrestle in the air above Qin Lie’s head.

Tens of thousands of ice beams, icicles, bloody lights, lightning bolts, flame tongues, and thunder explosions resounded throughout the frost palace, as if two ancient beings that were made out of pure power fought with their lives on the line, throwing their entire surroundings into chaos.

The frost palaces were crumbling and collapsing.

The Blood Dragon and the Ice Phoenix were trying to tear each other apart. They wrecked havoc everywhere, constantly moving through the air and destroying all obstacles that barred their way.

Qin Lie sat in the middle of that chaos. Rays of blood and lightning mixed with the blaze divine characters floated out of his body and soared to the sky. They imprinted themselves on Blood Dragon’s body, increasing its power. The dragon grew bigger, heavier, and its aura became much stronger.

Countless icy lights, the seal characters on the ice walls, the icicles and the wisps of cold energy hit the Ice Phoenix.

That body of the Ice Phoenix was crystalline and possessed a distinctive sheen. When it flapped its wings, countless ice beams shot out like arrows.

On the other side, the Ice Phoenix’s true body was in the shape of a human female. Her small face was dark, and her silver eyes were cold and without any human emotions.

The phoenix patterns on her body was covered with seemed to come alive. They soared and dove on her body as though it was fighting, struggling and wrestling with its prey..

It seemed that the phoenix markings were the Ice Phoenix that was fighting against the Blood Dragon.

Chapter 702: Intelligence and Bravery

“As expected, you are the most intelligent of the seven spirits and also the strongest!” Qin Lie sneered.

As he spoke, the lifeblood essences shot out of his body again to land on the frozen Demon Sealing Tombstone and seven icicles.

“Yiyiyaya, yiya!”

The six Spirit of Void and Chaos released spheres of energy of their respective attributes.. They bared their teeth and waved their arms at the Ice Phoenix as though they held great hatred towards it.

“As expected, the humans are the most devious and cunning race!” the Ice Phoenix replied coldly.

The method she had thought of was a mixture of temptation, showing weakness, and pressuring. She tried to fool Qin Lie, and make him open his mind of his own accord. That way, she could easily take over Qin Lie’s body without having to fight.

In her view, the young Qin Lie would not match those human monsters that had lived for hundreds or thousands of years. He would not be so experienced and hard to tempt.

She had full confidence.

She had not expected that this human boy that looked to be in his twenties was so careful and cautious. He was able to maintain his calm facing such temptations. He could grasp the crucial points and face this matter with a clear mind to the point of exposing her scheme in the end.

She finally knew how the frail human race was able to rise up and take ultimate rule of the Spirit Realm, after the races allied together in the ancient era to overthrow the rule of the Heaven Fighting Race.

Even a mere human youth was so difficult. The humans… as expected, should not be underestimated!

The Ice Phoenix lamented inside.

As she was thinking, Qin Lie was also shocked. He was shocked at the intelligence of this Ice Phoenix.

Qin Lie’s impression of spirit beasts had always remained on the level of “developed body, but simple mind.”

He thought that high rank spirit beasts were just stronger physically, and their intelligence would not increase greatly.

The appearance of the Ice Phoenix shattered his knowledge of spirit beasts. He finally realized that spirit beasts with noble bloodlines that had the ability to transform into human form were not any less intelligent than high-level beings and races!

“Fortunately, she was wounded severely earlier and is now in an extremely weakened state. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even have a chance.” Qin Lie thought to himself.

As he pondered over the matter, he became even more alert. He released another few lifeblood essences to accelerate the thawing of the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

But he clearly underestimated the Ice Phoenix’s wariness toward the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

When the new lifeblood essences flew out of his hand, he found that a portion of the ice seal characters that were used to reinforce the walls of the frost palace moved and went to reinforce the ice shell on the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

The ice on the surface of the Demon Sealing Tombstone thickened again. Even the “blaze” divine characters in his lifeblood essences would need a long time to melt this reinforced ice.

In order to defeat him, in order to not be sealed again by the Demon Sealing Tombstone, the Ice Phoenix disregarded everything —

“I would rather be captured by the three people trying to break through to the palace, and become their pet rather than be sealed by the Demon Sealing Tombstone!” the Ice Phoenix screamed.

Thick and sharp pillars of ice flew out of the crumbled frost palaces into the sky. Controlled by Ice Phoenix’s frost power, they shot towards Qin Lie.

The ice pillars came like icy meteors.

The crystal pillars’ momentum was enhanced by frost concept inside the pillar and the ice energy flowing inside the cave. Its sheer power was enough to crush Qin Lie.

Qin Lie had to ignite all of the bloodline power in his body.

Blood Spirit Art, Heavenly Thunder Eradication, and Records of Geocentric Magnetism flooded his body and he released them like a volcanic eruption.

The six Spirits of Void and Chaos panicked when they saw the incoming pillars of ice and shrieked eerily.

Six lights of various colours were released from their small bodies. They formed a rippling six-layered barrier that covered them and Qin Lie.

When the icy crystal pillars fell into that six-layered prismatic barrier, they seemed to have become stones that sank into the vast sea. They seemed to be pulled along by the water, encountering great resistance. Their momentum was immediately stopped.

The barrier that was made out of six colors was still wondrously changing. It flickered between being clear and blurry, and seemed to exist between tangibility and intangibility.

Among the wondrous changes of the six-layered barrier, the terrifying momentum of the pillars of ice was swiftly being lessened.

The switch between intangible to tangible and back occurred numerous times during the blink of an eye. It greatly decreased the aura of the ice pillar. Its frost power had been weakened every layer. The tangible resistance force of the barrier also held against the great physical weight of the pillars themselves.

When those pillars of ice finally broke through the six-layered barrier and came from the sky, they had become powerless.

Qin Lie only had to twist slightly to easily dodge the barrage of the ice pillars. The frost energy that rained down on him was easily subdued by the blazing power of his bloodline after being weakened.

And so, he avoided another attack from the Ice Phoenix.

It was possible only because of the six-layered shield created by six Spirits of Void and Chaos.

However, after casting such a wondrous barrier to help Qin Lie block the Ice Phoenix’s terrifying attack, the six spirits became extremely weak.

They did not continue to feed. They seemed to droop, and flew into the Soul Suppressing Orb, becoming silent.

“Snap snap snap snap!

A sudden cracking sound came from the icy walls outside the ice palace. Then the entire Frost Island started to rumble.

Qin Lie’s expression changed. He looked coldly at the Ice Phoenix. “Once the ice walls are broken down, when the experts of the dragonmen, the Lizard Race, as well as the Forefather Dark Wind arrive, I want to see how you will fare then!”

His words caused the cold and emotionless Ice Phoenix to, for the first time, feel a hint of fear.

“Crack crack crack!

At the same time, the Ice Phoenix in the air suddenly cracked as the Blood Dragon shoved it into enormous piece of ice.

Threads of frost energy mixed with a strange soul aura flew out of the shattered Ice Phoenix and then landed onto the phoenix markings on the Ice Phoenix’s human girl body.

That was the essence soul that the frost phoenix had released.

“Pfft!”

The Ice Phoenix threw up a few mouthfuls of blood, which upon freezing became a long necklace made of bloody crystals.

This necklace was the evidence that her wounds had worsened. This meant that she was wounded severely again during her fight with Qin Lie.

The necklace did not land on the ice floor. She reached out and caught it, blood drops merging back into her palm.

Blood was also power. For her at present, each drop of blood was crucially important and could not be lost.

These mouthfuls of blood she threw up and then reabsorbed caused her terrifying and savage aura to weaken dramatically.

When she raised her head again, the cold and ruthlessness in her eyes had disappeared. She seemed pitiful and helpless.

“I do not want to be sealed by the Demon Sealing Tombstone, I also do not… want to become pets for those people outside. I want to be free. I just want to live. Please help me.” Gazing at Qin Lie, her expression was powerless and her eyes were imploring. She said pitifully, “I beg you, help me. When I get free and recover, I will repay you. You… saw my body. According to your human customs, you took advantage of me. If you help me escape this calamity, I swear to tell you all the secrets I know, everything!”

Seeing the invaders outside attack the ice walls even more fiercely, she knew that in at most an hour, all of the frost power that the Ice Emperor had left behind would be used up.

At that time, the three people who had severely injured her would be able to enter.

That would be her end.

On her side, she could not take over Qin Lie’s body, and wasn’t even able to kill him. After the Demon Sealing Tombstone was released, she would be sealed.

She didn’t dare to imagine what she would face when she was sealed in the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

She knew that compared to being captured alive and treated like a spirit pet, her fate in the Demon Sealing Tombstone would be even more difficult.

Because she had extremely high intelligence, she could adjust herself based on the situation and find the path most beneficial to her.

Due to her outstanding intelligence, she could clearly predict the future, and the fates she would have to endure.

Spirit pet or being sealed, none of these were the results she wanted.

When she found that the current her could not resolve the problem at hand, she changed strategies.

She begged.

“Apologies, but I do not believe you.” Qin Lie shook his head and said calmly. “Also, you do not have to pretend to be pitiful. You do not need to use emotions. You should know that these tricks are ineffective against me.”

“Then what do you want?” the Ice Phoenix said loudly.

“If you do not want to become the spirit pet of the people outside, and also not be sealed by the Demon Sealing Tombstone, then…” He paused for a moment, then continued, “Tell me what I should do to restrain you and control you so that you won’t attack me after you recover. How could you remain under my control? You are so smart, I think that you will have a way. We still have some time. You can think about it.”

Qin Lie took back all the power he released. He sat down with a calm expression.

The Ice Phoenix responded with wails and cries.

“I do not want to become the spirit pet of the people outside, and not your spirit pet even more! Lowly and pitiful human, in my eyes, you are an insignificant worm. If I hadn’t been severely wounded by the trio outside, I would be able to kill you at any time! You are so weak, yet you want to control me. Laughable! Laughable!

“Stop dreaming! I swear that even if I die, I will not agree! I will not do as you wish!

“Because your power is not enough to restrain me!”

Chapter 703: Compromise

The Ice Phoenix swore and harshly ridiculed Qin Lie. Her voice grew shriller and shriller until it sounded like a cold wind’s roar in the end.

She slowly started to lose control of her emotions.

But Qin Lie was unmoved by this.

He sat upright on the floor, took out pieces of dried spirit beast meat and chewed on them quietly. His expression was so calm it was scary.

Earlier, he had used the power of his bloodline fiercely and violently to resist against the Ice Phoenix’s absolute frost breath, summoning the “blaze” divine characters.

He needed to consume a lot of flesh to replenish this energy.

To him, the flesh of spirit beasts was the best kind of nourishment that would allow him to swiftly restore his physical strength.

He didn’t know what he was going to face later, but he knew that Frost Island wouldn’t be peaceful no matter what. Compared to the powerful evil spirits of the Ruined Lands, his strength was as insignificant as a speck of dust. That was why he needed to keep himself in the best possible condition.

While consuming the pieces of dried meat, Qin Lie also cast a glance at the shattered ice sculptures spread all over the ground.

When he was battling the Ice Phoenix, the dragonmen, lizardmen and Lu Heng’s subordinates were caught by the energy storm. Plenty of people had died horribly because of that.

Thankfully, the frozen Lu Heng, Qing Luo, Hui Jia and Bai Li weren’t caught in the crossfire due to his cautiousness.

Lu Heng, Bai Li, Hui Jia, and Qing Luo all owed him more or less some favors, so he was confident that he could leave Frost Island unobstructed with them as witnesses and La Pu backing him up outside.

That was why he could still keep his calm.

The Ice Phoenix continued to howl fiercely.

Despite swearing and ridiculing Qin Lie for a period of time, she didn’t notice any changes of emotions on his face. As the sounds of shattering ice and rock resounded all over the frost palaces more and more rapidly, her anxiety had heightened too.

Her swears abruptly came to a stop.

In the end, a dejected and helpless expression appeared on her exquisite but frigid little face, “What in the Spirit Realm do you want?” she asked again.

Her demeanor was obviously a lot less aggressive, and she showed the proper attitude of inquiry this time.

When she realized that she was at a dead end, that the situation was worsening and that this human brat was completely impervious to her demands, she ultimately decided to make a compromise.

“I don’t need you to become my spirit pet. I can… refrain from sealing you with the Demon Sealing Tombstone too.” Qin Lie looked up and said slowly, “But I need you to tell me everything you know about the Graveyard of Gods. I also want to know if the girl whose body was possessed by you is still alive. Also, I want you to return everything that rightfully belongs to me. Once you’ve fulfilled all these requirements, then you may leave whenever you want to. I won’t lift a finger to stop you.”

“But before that, I must have a way to control you and ensure that you obey our agreement!” Qin Lie said in an uncompromising tone.

The Ice Phoenix fell silent.

Dozens of seconds later, the Ice Phoenix suddenly said in a chilly tone, “I almost forgot the most important thing of this agreement—can you really help me? If you won’t use the Demon Sealing Tombstone to seal me, then how are you going to stop those people outside from capturing me? How are you going to stop them from turning me into their spirit pet? What ability do you possess that may aid me in averting this disaster?”

“You planned to possess me, conceal your soul inside me, and leave by emulating my aura earlier, haven’t you?” Qin Lie asked.

“That’s right.” The Ice Phoenix snorted.

“How would you deal with your true body after your soul has left it?” Qin Lie asked again.

“I’ve already obtained the ability to transform. If I were to move away from this human body, dress it up with some clothes, conceal the phoenix markings engraved on its skin and conceal all of my original aura with a secret art, then I can turn my true body into a cold and lifeless human corpse,” The Ice Phoenix said cunningly. “Once I’ve taken over your body, I would control you and leave Frost Island with my true body. It may be unusual, but it isn’t especially uncommon for you lowly human beings and your special fetishes.”

She had through this through from the beginning.

If Qin Lie was careless enough to open his mind to her at the time, she would’ve been able to take over him without any difficulties.

She would then be able to transform herself into Qin Lie and calmly leave Frost Island while carrying her true human body.

Once she left this region, her soul would reenter her true body, and she would become herself once more. She would be able to begin a whole new life.

When even more time had passed, she would be able to cover up the unique aura every spirit beast possessed and cultivate at any part of the Land of Chaos as a human girl.

“Truly intelligent. I am impressed. I am truly impressed,” Qin Lie praised her from the bottom of his heart.

“Can you help me or not? The frost palaces’ defensive formations would hold for another fifteen minutes at best! If you can’t help me then stop wasting my time!” the Ice Phoenix said irritatedly.

“Please use your special method to cover up your aura first. This is so that you may transform your true body into a normal human girl’s corpse. Then, have your soul leave your true body and open up without any resistance. I will seal your soul temporarily in a container,” Qin Lie said unhurriedly and calmly. “This way, I’ll be able to bring your… corpse… away just as you had planned earlier with the pretense that I have a twisted mind. I’ll be able to bring your soul and your true body out of Frost Island like this.”

Back when he was at Flame Volcano, he was able to create a seal of lightning inside the Soul Suppressing Orb that could prevent half of Xue Li’s soul from escaping.

At the time, Xue Li was at the Nirvana Realm and could be considered rather powerful.

The Qin Lie from back then was incomparable to the current one. Back then, his understanding of thunder and lightning energy was weak, and he was only at the second stage of Heavenly Thunder Eradication too.

If he could seal away half of Xue Li’s soul back then, then he could seal away the Ice Phoenix’s soul using the Soul Suppressing Orb just the same, if not better.

“You have a special spirit artifact that can seal away the soul? Would I be unable to escape once I get inside? Would I be refined into a mindless entity that had lost all of its memories if I enter it? Would I be stuck in a confused state forever?” The Ice Phoenix fired out a series of questions.

“You’ll come out exactly the way you come in. You won’t experience any change whatsoever,” Qin Lie guaranteed.

“How can I trust you?” the Ice Phoenix ultimately asked.

“You can choose not to.” Qin Lie shrugged with a relaxed expression on his face while he flung back the exact same words the Ice Phoenix said earlier right back at her. “Your choice.”

An internal struggle broke out inside the Ice Phoenix’s mind. She hesitated painfully and couldn’t come to a decision for a time.

She didn’t know if Qin Lie was lying to her.

She was worried that her defenseless soul would be destroyed by Qin Lie’s thunder the second it left her true body.

She had noticed that Qin Lie possessed a mighty thunder spirit art, and thunder was the bane of all souls.

The anxiety Qin Lie suffered earlier had befallen her now.

“Crack crack crack!”

The tough ice wall defenses outside were being blasted by all kinds of violent attacks.

They both could hear the sounds of ice walls being smashed into pieces.

These noises were like drum beats that pounded again and again at the Ice Phoenix’s heart.

Tremendous waves of pressure assaulted her like tides.

“From the sound of it, the defenses might not even hold for fifteen minutes. Once the frost palaces’ defenses are destroyed, and the people who had wounded you grievously come in, you will undoubtedly be captured alive and turned into a spirit pet,” Qin Lie said indifferently. “When that happens, I will no longer be able to help you. It will be too late for regrets then.”

His words finally shattered the final line of defense in the Ice Phoenix’s heart. She gritted her teeth and yelled, “I’ll make a gamble then!”

Qin Lie nodded and urged, “Then be quick! We don’t have time to waste!”

“Ssss!” The Ice Phoenix sucked in a mouthful of cold air.

Countless tiny frost lights gathered into an extraordinary stream of light and entered her nostrils.

She stripped a female martial practitioner of a white-colored martial practitioner uniform. Her naked, translucent body was shaking non-stop.

Wisps of icy luster sparkled from Ice Phoenix’s body.

The exquisite and mysterious phoenix markings on her body actually started vanishing in large patches as if an invisible eraser was wiping them from existence.

A dozen or so seconds later, not a trace of the bright markings could be seen on her naked body.

She grabbed the white-colored martial practitioner uniform and wrapped it around her naked body. She instantly transformed into a flawless, white-dressed beauty.

As the light of astonishment appeared in Qin Lie’s eyes, a ball of icy light rose above her head. Frigid streams flowed inside the light, and a lively phoenix elegantly extended its wings and danced in midair. The frigid streams circulated around the phoenix and slowly rose towards the sky.

Qin Lie didn’t sense any strong defiance from the phoenix’s soul inside that ball of light.

She was completely defenseless right now.

Gradually, the ball of icy light that contained her soul and thoughts finally arrived at Qin Lie’s chest area.

Right now, Qin Lie could instantly circulate Heavenly Thunder Eradication to the max and instantly destroy her soul into nothingness if he wanted to.

Qin Lie’s eyes sparkled with electricity as he stared coldly at the icy ball of light before him. He made sure that his powers were brimming to the point of near release, and he dared not let his guard down for even a second.

“Boom boom boom!”

Roars of thunder resounded continuously from his body, causing the Ice Phoenix’s tiny soul to feel worried and anxious.

She knew too that any abnormal reaction from her soul would cause Qin Lie to confront her with the most violent of thunderous energy.

That was why she made sure to exert every bit of effort in controlling herself. This was to avoid causing a misunderstanding that would result in her destruction.

She observed Qin Lie carefully.

“Enter my glabella!” Qin Lie suddenly exclaimed.

She subconsciously stared at the space between Qin Lie’s eyes.

A wisp of dark light appeared from between Qin Lie’s brows, and a pitch black orb the size of a rice suddenly appeared from it like a third eye.

She immediately understood that that was the spirit artifact Qin Lie was going to use to seal her soul.

After one last moment of hesitation, she ultimately entered the Soul Suppressing Orb as a ray of icy light under Qin Lie’s urging gaze.

Chapter 704: Argument

The moment the Ice Phoenix entered the Soul Suppressing Orb, she immediately noticed that she had entered into a vast and unfamiliar world. Suddenly, a magnetic field of thunder and lightning rolled down from above and enveloped her entirely.

Her soul was entrapped by the magnetic field without the slightest room for resistance. The surrounding lighting abruptly turned fierce and wild in an instant.

Trapped inside these rampaging lightning, the Ice Phoenix knew that her soul was being supervised at every moment. She would be met with the fiercest of attacks the second she tried to escape from this place.

There was no chance for her in soul form to resist against the bane of all souls, thunder and lightning, in a foreign land.

She quickly acknowledged the predicament she was in.

And so she stayed obediently inside the ball of lightning and discarded all thoughts of resistance.

At the same time, Qin Lie was quietly observing her until the moment she resigned herself to her fate. Finally, Qin Lie let out a sigh of relief.

This extremely intelligent and powerful high rank spirit beast had caused quite a lot of trouble and headache to Qin Lie.

If the Ice Phoenix hadn’t been heavily wounded in her fight against the three experts outside, Qin Lie was sure that there was no chance that he could seal her soul inside the Soul Suppressing Orb, even if he were to use every available trick in his book.

“I should remain cautious,” Qin Lie thought to himself.

While he thought this, he walked up to the Ice Phoenix’s true body and probed it with his soul consciousness.

Wisps of shapeless soul tendrils hugged around the female body, carefully probing for even the tiniest of auras.

His soul consciousness could only detect a cold and frigid aura. He didn’t detect any scent or energy unique to spirit beasts.

The Ice Phoenix wasn’t lying. She really did have a secret art that could perfectly conceal the presence of a spirit beast.

The phoenix markings that used to be on her body had all vanished too. In his eyes, the presence of this exquisite looking human girl corpse suggested that her realm wasn’t really high.

This also meant that it wasn’t all that valuable.

A thought slowly formed in Qin Lie’s mind.

“Crack! Crack!”

The ice ceiling above the frost palaces began to crack en masse.

The grandiose frost kingdom hidden at the bottom of Frost Island was about to shatter like a gigantic mirror that was being smashed repeatedly by a hammer.

“I have to act quick!”

With a thought, he sent a few of his lifeblood essences up to the sky to thaw the ice sealing the Demon Sealing Tombstone and seven godly lights.

The aura of absolute frost inside the frost palaces was obviously getting weaker as the place was being destroyed.

This caused the frigid aura that froze the Demon Sealing Tombstone to weaken as well.

Moreover, the separation of the Ice Phoenix’s body and soul caused the frost palaces to go completely out of control. Therefore, the Demon Sealing Tombstone was quickly released after the lifeblood essences had been sent to unfreeze it.

“Bang!”

Countless ice fragments exploded from the surface of the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the seven godly lights’ body. They fell like ice rain.

The light around the Demon Sealing Tombstone grew stronger, and it immediately started roaming between the frost palaces. The seven brilliant looking godly lights were swimming everywhere resembling seven long spirit snakes.

The tombstone was trying to find the Ice Phoenix.

However, the snakes of godly light found nothing out of the ordinary after circling around the area.

Moreover, Qin Lie was continuously sending his thoughts to the Demon Sealing Tombstone and summoning it back to his side.

In the end, the Demon Sealing Tombstone withdrew the seven godly chains and returned obediently to the spatial ring. It didn’t continue its rampage.

Qin Lie quickly circulated the frost spirit art.

Wisps of frost aura flew out of his body. Some of them landed on the Ice Phoenix’s true body.

The Ice Phoenix’s true body and himself became encased in ice under the frost aura’s effects.

Several dozens of seconds later, two frozen ice sculptures appeared side by side inside the frost palaces.

The explosions happening outside the frost palaces were growing more and more intense.

“Boom! Boom!”

The palaces collapsed like shattered glass as the huge chunks of ice fell from above. The countless hanging icicles scattered in all directions after they exploded into tiny bits.

The shocking commotion continued for a short while.

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh!”

Four rays of light flew over from far, far away.

When the lights descended and took on a physical form, they transformed into a huge dragonman, an elderly lizardman, Forefather Dark Wind, and La Pu.

“Hui Jia! Qing Luo!”

“Lu Heng and Bai Li are here too!”

“They’re just frozen by the Ice Phoenix and absolute frost stream; they’re not dead yet. We can revive them as long as we break the seal of frost around them!”

“Let’s find the Ice Phoenix first!”

After the quartet was done exchanging opinions with each other, they began flying around the still collapsing frost kingdom in search of the Ice Phoenix. Four tremendous soul auras swept through the entire place like four gigantic webs.

A while later, the quartet returned back to where most of the ice sculptures were present in failure.

“Dammit! She still escaped our grasp in the end!” The elderly lizardman stomped his foot.

The second he did so, ripples of scarlet energy immediately spread out to the surroundings and cause the shaking palaces nearby to instantly explode.

“Even if she managed to escape this place, she couldn’t get away from Frost Island. This entire island had been put under an airtight seal! If she tries to forcefully break through it, we will be immediately notified. She cannot escape!” The huge dragonman snorted coldly.

“That’s right! The seals and barriers outside Frost Island are connected to our minds. We’ll notice any disturbances immediately.” The emaciated Forefather Dark Wind also declared confidently. He had a dark green face and eyes that glittered with an eerie green light.

“Let’s release these people first,” Seven Eyed Monster La Pu suggested.

The trio nodded in agreement.

And so, the trio began releasing the seals on their subordinates such as Lu Heng, Qing Luo, and Hui Jia.

La Pu had noticed Qin Lie since the beginning. Without a word, he moved next to Qin Lie and stabbed his thin but sharp claws against the ice surrounding Qin Lie. He carelessly made a few random swipes and shattered all of the ice completely.

Just like Lu Heng, Qing Luo and Hui Jia, Qin Lie “slowly” came to wakefulness before letting out a cry of joy when he saw La Pu. Then, he said with a dazed expression on his face, “How long has it been?”

“It has been more than half a year since you left Seven Eye Island.” A strange light gleamed in La Pu’s eyes. The hint of a real smile also appeared on his old, terrifying face.

After La Pu woke up, he was informed by the dragonmen and lizardmen that Qin Lie had insisted on coming in even after learning how dangerous Frost Island was.

La Pu didn’t know that the ice spirit shared a strange connection with Frost Island and the Ice Emperor. He only assumed that Qin Lie had come in regardless of the danger of death for his sake.

This touched La Pu of the Ghost Eye Race greatly and made him feel warm on the inside.

For the longest time, La Pu had only aided Qin Lie to the best of his abilities because of the promise between the Ghost Eye Race and Qin Shan. But after this revelation, he was starting to see Qin Lie in a new light.

After today, even if Qin Lie were to lose Qin Shan’s wooden sculpture in the future, Qin Lie and La Pu’s relationship wouldn’t be any different from before.

“It’s been more than half a year already?” Qin Lie smiled wryly. “I didn’t realize I was sealed for such a long time. This Ice Phoenix sure is something.”

“Do you know where that phoenix went?” La Pu asked.

Lu Heng and the others were also being asked the same question by Forefather Dark Wind.

Qin Lie’s answer was the same as theirs, “I have been sealed inside the ice for far too long. I couldn’t see or feel anything, so I have no idea where it went.”

La Pu wasn’t surprised by his answer and thought that it was perfectly logical. He nodded and said, “Your realm is the weakest among all of them. You were pretty lucky to survive the falling ice slabs when the frost palaces were being destroyed.”

“Why aren’t you frozen too?” Although he knew the details of La Pu’s release already, Qin Lie still decided to ask the question.

La Pu briefly explained how he was released. Just like what the Ice Phoenix had told him, La Pu managed to break free of his ice seal after the shockwave of the battle between the Ice Phoenix and the other three martial practitioners had passed through his location.

“Don’t worry, there’s no way that Ice Phoenix will be able to escape. She had just recently evolved to rank seven, and the reason she was able to do whatever she wanted on Frost Island was because she was able to manipulate the power of absolute frost in this ruin. There was no way she would be powerful enough to conjure the frost stream capable of sealing me, so it was probably something that belonged to the former master of this place.” La Pu examined his surroundings before he lowered his voice. “I’ve managed to acquire a lot of rank five and six spirit beast corpses before we blasted open this frost kingdom. You don’t have to worry about recovering your bloodline powers for a short while after you leave Frost Island.”

“Thank you,” Qin Lie said softly.

La Pu grinned, showing him an incredibly ugly but sincere smile. He patted Qin Lie’s shoulders and said, “You are not like the other humans I know! You’re a compassionate and loyal friend! That is a good thing!”

Qin Lie was dumbfounded.

While the duo was speaking, Hui Jia and Qing Luo were also talking about what they knew about the Ice Phoenix. Then, they started pointing fingers at Qin Lie and whispering, “That human… he has the bloodline of the Heaven Fighting Race… it’s very pure and scary; earlier we…”

After listening to Hui Jia and Qing Luo’s explanations, the elderly lizardman and huge dragonman’s faces darkened as they turned to stare at Qin Lie with deep frowns.

At the same time, Lu Yeng was also reporting to Forefather Dark Wind what had transpired and the role Qin Lie played in this incident without bias. Beside them, Bai Li also echoed in agreement after she was saved by Forefather Dark Wind.

A hint of praise appeared in Forefather Dark Wind’s eyes. He nodded slightly at the duo.

“La Pu, what is the relationship between you and this human Yao Tian?” Suddenly, the elderly lizardman asked with feigned carelessness as a hint of coldness passed through his eyes.

“I’m very curious as well.” The huge dragonman also let out a cold snort before he started chuckling strangely. “You’ve always stayed at your Seven Eye Island, and you seldom interact with the outside world at all, much less the humans. Color us surprised to learn that this kid was willing to face death to help you, and that you were willing to attack the frost palace and frost barrier with all your might to save him!”

La Pu was caught off guard for an instant as the name “Yao Tian” was unfamiliar to him. However, he quickly figured that they were talking about Qin Lie and reacted quickly, “What’s so strange about that? Can I not know a human junior or two? Can I not have old friends?”

From their conversation and the look in their eyes, La Pu noticed the signs of something amiss.

“I’ll be frank. I wish to take this human away, La Pu!” the elderly lizardman said impatiently.

“I would also like to invite him to my island for a couple of days.” The huge dragonman licked his tongue. “I suddenly feel very much like eating human flesh.”