Supreme of the Heavenly Realm
Chapter 482 - 479 Xuanbing Cold Flame

Chapter 482: Chapter 479 Xuanbing Cold Flame

Ye Xuan set foot in a mountain range teeming with dense spiritual energy. Everywhere he looked was lush and verdant, and those massive spiritual pillars burst forth from the mountains, shimmering with spiritual light. Sometimes, they even formed Spirit Rain, scattering down like a shower.

Seeing such a scene, Ye Xuan couldn’t help but be moved—it was only within such ancient relics that such rich spiritual energy could be found, a sight almost extinct in the outside world.

After searching around the mountain range for a while, Ye Xuan gathered quite a few medicinal herbs. Although these herbs were of mediocre quality, they were ancient, including a Fierce Sun Grass that, despite being Heavenly Grade, was three thousand years old. This maturity made it as valuable as a Supreme Grade herb.

After collecting some herbs, Ye Xuan once again employed the Shennong Qi Observation Skill to search for traces of Spiritual Medicine nearby. Before long, a secluded lake appeared before him, surrounded by a vast plain that stretched for a thousand feet, shielded at the back by steep mountains and flanked on either side by vast, pristine jungles that occasionally revealed fierce Demon Beasts hunting weaker creatures.

The lake, enveloped in thick fog, was indistinct in size, revealing only faint outlines.

"Hmm? Is that Cold Mist Grass, Ice Frost Jade Fruit?"

After dispersing the Demon Beasts around the lake, using the Shennong Qi Observation Skill, Ye Xuan discovered two starkly different herbs growing in the crevices of the rocks by the shore—one was a broad-leafed herb of ice blue color, extraordinarily cold, and the other was an ice blue herb bearing a bizarre fruit that was red and blue, with specks of frost adorning its petals and leaves like tiny white diamonds.

With a gesture, Ye Xuan plucked the two herbs from the soil, which then landed in his hands and were stored inside the Qiankun Ring.

Both Cold Mist Grass and Ice Frost Jade Fruit were Heavenly Grade Peak herbs, but as they were older than a thousand years, their efficacy was only slightly inferior to an Initial Stage Supreme Grade herb. For Martial Artists cultivating Ice Element True Yuan, these were treasures that could enhance their True Yuan. For Ye Xuan, they were of little use, but they were valuable. If auctioned, each could fetch thousands of Spirit Crystals—a tidy sum.

The lake was quite large; walking around its edge took Ye Xuan a full quarter hour. Of course, this quarter hour wasn’t wasted. Ye Xuan acquired five Heavenly Grade Peak medicinal herbs, more than a dozen ordinary Heavenly Grade herbs, and some Ice Element gemstones, all valuable.

These items were worth no less than a hundred thousand Spirit Crystals, unquestionably a substantial windfall for Ye Xuan. He knew he had only 30,000 or so Spirit Crystals on him, barely enough to maintain his daily cultivation practices.

"This lake emits a very pure Ice Attribute energy. Inside the lake water, there must be some Ice Attribute Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, far more precious than those found outside."

Ye Xuan’s gaze fell upon the surface of the lake. He could sense the pure Ice Attribute energy emanating from the water, which nourished the nearby Ice Attribute herbs. One could imagine that deep in the lake lay extraordinary Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.

Compared to the treasures within, those outside were hardly worth mentioning.

How could one leave Treasure Mountain empty-handed? Ye Xuan didn’t have many Spirit Crystals, and moving into the Martial Venerate Realm meant that cultivation consumed exponentially more Spirit Crystals. Moreover, practicing a Divine Grade Cultivation Technique doubled his consumption. Ye Xuan was acutely aware that his fortunes were insufficient—the higher the level of power, the more Spirit Crystals needed to ensure readiness at any time.

A ripple crossed his brow, and Ye Xuan activated his soul power, probing into the depths of the lake water.

"Hmm! My soul power was negated!"

Ye Xuan frowned as his soul power had only reached fifty feet deep before it was neutralized by an invisible, extreme cold force, rendering it completely ineffective.

"It looks like using soul power to probe won’t work. I’ll have to personally explore inside."

One must delve into the tiger’s den to capture its cubs, and Ye Xuan understood this principle well. After gauging the lake surface briefly, he activated his True Yuan, creating a protective shield around himself before plunging into the lake.

Upon entering the water, Ye Xuan immediately felt a chill surge from all directions towards his body. However, most of it was blocked by his Protective True Essence, completely isolating the icy chill outside, leaving him completely unaffected by the cold.

Woosh, woosh!

With his True Yuan circulating, Ye Xuan sank continuously, headfirst and feet last.

As he descended, the surrounding chill intensified.

Twenty yards!

Forty yards!

Fifty yards!

"My body is getting numb. What in the world is in this lake that even the True Yuan crafted by the Hidden Dragon Skill can’t fend off this chill?"

Ye Xuan felt as if his body was encased in a thin film that sealed off his body while the shocking chill permeated the True Yuan shield, reaching into his body.

Sixty zhang!

Eighty zhang!

One hundred zhang!

The Protective True Essence around Ye Xuan’s body formed frost, and an invisible icy chill stealthily penetrated through the Protective True Essence into Ye Xuan’s body. However, the True Yuan within Ye Xuan was more vigorous, and as soon as the icy chill entered, it was immediately annihilated without causing the slightest ripple.

"We’re almost two hundred zhang deep and still haven’t reached the bottom."

Deep in the lake, an oval-shaped ice crystal sank further, containing a silhouette inside. As the depth increased, the icy air had formed a thick layer of ice on the surface of the Protective True Essence, making it look like a single block of ice crystal.

Crack!

The ice crystal shattered, the first to succumb to the pressure.

Ye Xuan’s Protective True Essence also diminished slightly, and as the ice crystal shattered, Ye Xuan’s aura also significantly weakened. The coldness here already posed a threat to Ye Xuan.

"We’ve reached the bottom!"

As far as his eyes could see, Ye Xuan saw the bottom of the pool, which was made of hard rock, some areas shimmering with a silver-black hue, radiating a pale silver brilliance.

It was less like a layer of brilliance emitted from these silver rocks, but rather, it was a layer of fire, a very eerie flame, actively dancing on these rocks.

Ye Xuan stopped and his gaze landed on those strands of silver flame. He had just probed them with his soul power and found that from those silver-white flames, a chillingly cold aura was suddenly released, instantly freezing his soul power. Moreover, this chilling aura almost entangled him like finding its way along a vine, and thankfully, he disconnected that strand of soul power in time, otherwise, he might have truly drawn fire upon himself.

"Could this be the legendary Xuanbing Cold Flame?"

Ye Xuan’s eyes suddenly lit up, and then he fixated intently on those clusters of silver flames, becoming more certain of his guess. Xuanbing Cold Flame, similar to Molten Lava Earth Core Fire, was also a type of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire, except that the Molten Lava Earth Core Fire was a scorching fire born in extremely hot places, while Xuanbing Cold Flame was a cold fire, with attributes that were completely opposite.

Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire, after all, belongs in the category of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, which encompasses a much larger scope, such as Black Flame Ice, Heavy Heavenly Water, Silent Annihilation Divine Thunder, and such forces as wind, fire, thunder, and lightning, all belong to the realm of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.

In the Spirit Martial Continent, there was a Strange Object List, which listed ten extremely powerful Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects. Those listed unquestionably possessed incredible effects, either in attack, defense, cultivation, or recovery.

From what Ye Xuan now knew, the top ten strange objects were all in the hands of the Martial Saint Strong People, and others basically had no chance of touching them.

The Molten Lava Earth Core Fire that Ye Xuan currently possessed, compared to the Strange Objects on the list, undoubtedly still had a significant gap. However, after absorbing the power of the Ten-thousand-year-old Earth Core Fire last time in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, the Molten Lava Earth Core Fire was in the process of evolving, and the gap in quality compared to those Heaven and Earth Strange Objects had already diminished greatly.

If he could acquire this Xuanbing Cold Flame and then fuse it again with the Molten Lava Earth Core Fire, the final synthesized Spiritual Fire would undoubtedly be able to make it onto this Strange Object List. This was exactly why Ye Xuan was so excited.

"Fortune really favors me."

Ye Xuan took a deep breath. Such Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects were not easy to come by, with luck being one aspect, but mostly it was a matter of personal fortune.

As for how to fuse the two Spiritual Fires, Ye Xuan had his own methods.

For now, the most important thing was to first subdue this batch of Xuanbing Cold Flame.

Having made up his mind, Ye Xuan also acted cautiously. He quietly descended to the bottom of the pool, then a stream of True Yuan surged out of his palm in the lake water, rapidly twisting and transforming, turning into a ribbon-like form, slowly wrapping around those chunks of silver stones.

These silver stones, named Xuanbing Stones, were the hosts for the Xuanbing Cold Flame. The Xuanbing Cold Flame probably hadn’t been born for long, perhaps not even a thousand years, and its power seemed somewhat weak. However, this was precisely why Ye Xuan felt more confident in subduing it; otherwise, with his current realm in Martial Venerate, it would be very difficult to subdue it.

Ye Xuan slowly wrapped the Xuanbing Stones with True Yuan, and instantly, the True Yuan started sizzling. Under the scorching of the Xuanbing Cold Flame, the True Yuan could hardly last even a single breath before it would be directly annihilated.

Faced with this situation, Ye Xuan could only try again, but the end result was still failure. Just when he was feeling somewhat vexed, suddenly, a layer of slightly dark, fiery red flames surged upon his palm, emitting a scorching wave, and gradually, in combination with Ye Xuan’s True Yuan, began to slowly wrap around the Xuanbing Cold Flame.

The Molten Lava Earth Core Fire, having absorbed the power of the Ten-thousand-year-old Earth Core Fire, was already incomparable to its past self. Added to the fact that the Xuanbing Cold Flame was still in its infant stage, it was quickly suppressed by Ye Xuan.

PS: Lately, I’ve been working overtime a lot, and you’ve probably noticed most of my updates happen at midnight, I’ve really been too busy, and that’s just how it is for office workers, especially working at a game company. But rest assured, even if I stay up late to write, I definitely won’t stop updating.

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