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Chapter 88 Tianhua, Ice Heart (2)_1

Chapter 88: Chapter 88 Tianhua, Ice Heart (2)_1

"My goodness, we’ve stumbled upon a treasure!" Dugu Qianye exclaimed joyfully, then jumped into the pool, where the icy water made her shiver violently. She bent over and carefully searched for Tianhua’s meridians, before gingerly uprooting them, successfully transplanting Tianhua into the Refining Demon Pot. Inside the pot, Dudu had already prepared the spot, and after Dugu Qianye entered, the two planted it together. Once Tianhua was planted, Dugu Qianye asked Dudu, "Is this what you were talking about?"

"No. What I was referring to is under the pool. Have you not wondered why everything around is frozen, but the pool itself isn’t?" Dudu asked with a pout.

"I thought it was because of Tianhua," Dugu Qianye said.

"No. Although Tianhua is rare, it doesn’t require very strict growing conditions. If I’m not mistaken, there is an Ice Heart beneath the pool."

"Ice Heart? What’s that?"

"It’s somewhat similar to the Wanyuan Fire Seed that Sister Xiaohuo refined. If the Wanyuan Fire Seed is the ancestor of all fire, then the Ice Heart is the boss of ice and water. The person who refines the Ice Heart will command all the ice and water in this world. However, no one has successfully refined the Ice Heart to date. You should be able to," Dudu said.

"Me? Why?" Dugu Qianye asked.

"Because you have the Phoenix Golden Fire! At its core, the Ice Heart is essentially water, and water and fire counter each other," Dudu explained.

"Hmm, I’ll give it a try then," she said.

Having said that, Dugu Qianye stepped out of the Refining Demon Pot, this time wrapping herself with Phantom Power before jumping into the pool. After searching in the water, she indeed found a blue crystal stone the size of a thumb. She waded over, grabbed the Ice Heart, and immediately felt her hand freezing into a block of ice. Instinctively, she released her Phantom Power to separate the Ice Heart from her palm, then swam towards the side of the pool.

"Whew!" Dugu Qianye got out of the water, looking at the Ice Heart in her hand. "This thing is just too cold!"

"Master, you’d better start refining it now; it can’t be away from its place of origin for too long," Dudu reminded her.

Dugu Qianye thought about it. She didn’t know how long it would take to refine the Ice Heart; it was better to let the others go first, otherwise it might affect everyone’s schedule. She summoned Xiaoyin and Xiaojiu and instructed them to inform Mo Ziqing and the others to meet up with the rest in Blue City at the beginning of July, and to escort them to Blue City. After joining up with Xie Ping and the others, they were not to wait for her but head directly to Fei City, the Imperial Capital of the Cangqiong Empire. She would have Lan Mei to catch up with them.

After making the arrangements, she entered the Refining Demon Pot with the Ice Heart, found a spot to sit cross-legged, and looked at the Ice Heart in her hand. She took a deep breath and swallowed the Ice Heart in one gulp.

Piercing cold!

Dugu Qianye felt as if the areas the Ice Heart passed through were no longer her own, as if her meridians were frozen, leaving her with no sensation. She tried to mobilize the Phantom Power within her body to envelop the Ice Heart but immediately met with its fierce resistance. The Phantom Power was all frozen into actual ice blocks, clogging her meridians. Moreover, she could distinctly feel her muscles, bones, and everything in her body being frozen solid.

Dudu, Lan Mei, and the others stood around her, watching as she turned into a large ice block with the surrounding water also frozen around her, wrapping her in a transparent ice sculpture. They all looked worried as they saw her frowning in pain inside the ice sculpture.

"Can the master succeed?" Qingluan couldn’t help asking.

"She should be fine," Lan Mei said uncertainly.

One day later.

"The ice on the master’s body is starting to melt," Dudu announced.

Immediately, Qingluan, Lan Mei, and Liehuo all turned their gaze toward Dugu Qianye and indeed saw the ice on her melting away slowly.

Just when Dugu Qianye felt as if she was about to freeze to death, the Phoenix Golden Fire in her Dantian began to roam around her body, gradually thawing the frozen areas, only to be frozen again, and then thawed, in a continuous cycle.

On the other side, Xiaoyin and Xiaojiu returned to the camp and conveyed Dugu Qianye’s intentions. Although everyone had questions, they all understood that they could not ask, so at the end of June, everyone packed up their tents and left the place where they had lived for over two months.

"Ziqing, are we just going to leave like this and leave our brother alone in the mountains?" Dan Jingtian came up to Mo Ziqing and asked.

Mo Ziqing looked towards the distant mountain peaks and said, "Since she told us to leave first, she must have her own matters to attend to."

"But this is too dangerous. She is all alone after all, what if she encounters danger?"

"Don’t worry. If we really ran into any trouble, us going would only hold her back," He Yan said softly, joining in on the conversation.

"Uh, alright. When did we become the ones who hold others back?! Aww, aww, aww!" Dan Jingtian said, his face full of frustration.

He was now a Phantom King, for goodness’ sake, and considered a top talent anywhere else; how did he become someone who could possibly hold others back?!

"No, I have to work even harder," Dan Jingtian said to himself resolutely.

Not just him, at this moment, everyone had the same thought in their hearts: to train diligently and catch up with Dugu Qianye’s pace.

Blue City was located to the south of Cangmang Mountain and being the first city within the Mors Empire to enter the Cangqiong Empire, its geographical location was quite special. Also, because it was close to Cangmang Mountain, it served as a rest and trade point for those who came here for training, gradually developing into the largest city in the northern part of the Cangqiong Empire.

This aspect of Blue City was similar to Qifeng City, although its scale was nowhere near as large.

In the biggest inn of Blue City, a group of people was gathered around an old man lying on a rocking chair, each of them looking as if they had questions they were afraid to ask.

"What’s the matter, you all got collective constipation?" Old Man Xie opened his eyes and looked around at the students.

"Deputy Headmaster, when will the other students arrive?" someone finally asked, unable to hold back any longer.

"They’ll come when it’s time; what’s the rush?" Old Man Xie replied.

"But the date for the competition isn’t far off."

"I know," Old Man Xie uttered two words and closed his eyes again without saying anything further.

"I wonder how they are and what level they’ve reached by now."

"Exactly, I’m very curious about their current level."

"Keep waiting. For now, go back and study alchemy," Old Man Xie suggested.

All the people left Old Man Xie’s room. After everyone had left, Old Man Xie opened his eyes again, with a mix of curiosity and concern in his gaze. Ever since leaving the academy, although Dugu Qianye would contact him every two days, she had always refused to speak of their current strengths. Furthermore, she hadn’t contacted him for several days now, which made him worry.

At the same time, outside the city gates of Blue City, a group of disheveled individuals, about a hundred in number, arrived. The city guards, seeing them come from the Cangmang Mountains and in such a disheveled state, knew they had returned from training in the mountains. Anyone who dared to train in the mountains was respected by all, and they would not be despised for their disheveled appearance. Therefore, they could enter the city without much effort.