Free Web NovelChapter 577: Chapter 525: Lifeless Ice Realm
Sitting within the Cloud-Breaking Charge, Jiang Yuebai took a deep breath only after leaving the Doumu Realm’s boundaries.
"It’s great to obtain the items smoothly without too many twists and turns."
Thankfully, she was swift, and with Chu Xin distracting the Yun Family’s attention, otherwise, getting discovered by them would have inevitably led to a great battle.
"Now heading to the Heavenly Spirit Realm, I hope my master and the others are still there. After meeting them, I’ll go search for the Taixuan Pure Gold!"
The Candle Dragon Essence Blood had been successfully refined by Bai Jiuyou into just two drops.
One drop was used to modify the White Dragon Spear, while the other was reserved for cultivating the "Dragon God Transformation."
Once the Cloud-Breaking Charge left behind the waypoint position, it would automatically speed towards that direction. If not for the ill luck of encountering some Refining Void cultivators in a battle, it would take a month or two to reach the Heavenly Spirit Realm.
Jiang Yuebai sat cross-legged on a meditation mat, reviewing the entire incident, summarizing what she didn’t do well, her lapses, and the strengths and weaknesses of others involved in the whole affair, a long-standing habit of hers.
This allowed her to promptly identify her problems and ensure she wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes, leveraging others’ strengths to offset her weaknesses. Luck is ephemeral, but caution is within one’s control.
"...Stories of romance between humans and demons are all human-written, often ending with the demon sacrificing themselves to save the human—it’s truly absurd!"
Jiang Yuebai was glad she didn’t read such fictional tales or believe in the falsehoods within them.
The ability to write such stories is precisely because people can’t find the romance depicted in the literature in the demon world, thus pinning their beautiful imaginations on it.
However, people are not the same; she had previously encountered someone who killed his wife to achieve his path without hindrances, and also someone like Ye Shiming, young and naïve, who betrayed his country for love.
As for this Yun Muyuan now...
Tsk, hard to say!
In short, affairs of love are harmful and should be kept at a distance!
"Yun Songhe, that child, is also pitiable, his Secret Technique backfired before completion, luckily Yun Muyuan was sustaining his life, or he wouldn’t have made it to today. I hope Chu Xin has a way to heal him."
The two of them are now Acquired Extraordinary People. There are not many Extraordinary People in the Doumu Realm, and the Upper Realm’s attitude toward Extraordinary People isn’t like it is in the Earth Spiritual Realm. As long as they are careful, they can continue their cultivation.
As for Chu Xin, he kept his promise and gave her the items, but Jiang Yuebai’s feelings towards him weren’t great, hence she said "farewell indefinitely" at the end, genuinely not wanting to meet him again.
After reviewing the entire matter, Jiang Yuebai made a few notes in her journal, and then she took out the storage bag that Yun Muyuan had given her last.
There weren’t many things inside: over a hundred Spirit Stones, some Spiritual Wood for fire, and a few books.
The books weren’t about Cultivation Techniques or Martial Arts, but were notes Yun Muyuan had recorded during his cultivation.
Jiang Yuebai perused the notes carefully and found Yun Muyuan to be very dedicated to his cultivation, adept at reflection and even innovation.
This section of insights started when he first encountered the Undetermined Cold Ice with the Snow Demon, recording his understanding and application skills of the characteristics of the Undetermined Cold Ice.
At the Late-Stage Nascent Soul, he had also read extensively and created a High-Level Spell centered on the Undetermined Cold Ice: the ’Lifeless Ice Realm.’ Although it wasn’t completely finished, his vision was that, once completed, it could form an absolute defensive area around the body using the Undetermined Cold Ice.
With the ’Lifeless’ concept, anyone stepping into this ice realm would have no chance of survival.
The description was a bit exaggerated, but its effect was somewhat similar to Jiang Yuebai’s former Magic Artifact, the ’Lotus Purification Bottle,’ in forming a peripheral area around the body to actively attack and defend against intruders.
However, the Undetermined Cold Ice is surely stronger, and when the Ice Realm unfolds, it can be invisible and undetectable, requiring no stillness.
When confronted, using the characteristics of the Undetermined Cold Ice, guided by Divine Sense, it forms various shapes for defense or counterattack.
This spell was very enlightening for Jiang Yuebai, though she already had a great deal to cultivate currently, so she didn’t plan to practice the Undetermined Cold Ice for now, leaving it to Bai Jiuyou to perfect and cultivate.
Furthermore, Bai Jiuyou, being her Outer Body Incarnation, allowed her to directly share memories and experiences, integrating skills smoothly with slight practice.
As Bai Jiuyou liked ice, she allowed her to source it, using the finished product directly herself later on, realizing having such a clone wasn’t bad after all.
"From now on, the things I don’t have time to learn, I’ll just hand over to Bai Jiuyou, given how studious she is."
Jiang Yuebai’s idea was to combine this spell with the Primordial Magnetic Ruler, which featured the freely morphing characteristic of the Undetermined Cold Ice as well.
Although lacking the ability of the Undetermined Cold Ice to freeze Spiritual Energy and Divine Sense, it could interfere and block Spiritual Energy spells, with the Primordial Magnetic Black Sand condensing into weapons, its hardness and sharpness are not inferior to ice. The Primordial Magnetic Power can also break spell defenses, with higher hit accuracy.
So she planned to utilize Yun Muyuan’s exploration process of this spell to create the ’Lifeless Sand Realm’ with the Primordial Magnetic Ruler, further elevating the ruler’s grade. If an Artifact Spirit could be born, she wouldn’t need to control it; it could defend and counter by itself around her.
After devising her plan, Jiang Yuebai left her main body outside to guard the Cloud-Breaking Charge, and her Divine Thought entered the Lotus Platform Cave Heaven to find Bai Jiuyou.
Once inside, Jiang Yuebai was astounded.
After relocating to the rear of the Hidden Immortal Mountain, a Great Snow Mountain appeared, along with accumulating snow on itself, marking the onset of winter.
At the highest point of the Ice Field stood a strangely luxurious Ice Palace, manifesting and disappearing in the ethereal cold mist, exuding Immortal Qi.
Jiang Yuebai scratched her face, flashed into appearance outside the Ice Palace’s main hall, and instantly spotted the ice throne carved in the likeness of Nine Dragons Playing with a Pearl at the center of the hall.
Bai Jiuyou slouched across the ice throne, hands kneading a ball of Undetermined Cold Ice, morphing it into countless shapes.
"You sure know how to enjoy yourself!"
Jiang Yuebai entered, the cold wind billowing against her face, made her involuntarily shiver.
"This is my home, of course, I’m going to make it comfortable. Have you resolved your matters?"
Bai Jiuyou straightened up, set loose the bird formed by Undetermined Cold Ice, its crystalline collision sounds resounding while revolving around Jiang Yuebai, then swiftly transformed into sharp blades, embedding entirely into one spot on the ground.
The force was restrained, no intense explosion, but it penetrated straight through from the Ice Palace at the mountain peak down to the mountain’s base.
"Quite impressive!" Jiang Yuebai praised.
Bai Jiuyou pouted slightly, "I’ve realized I’m stronger at manipulating ice than other elements. This isn’t good, can’t let the Chaos Sacred Body go to waste."
Jiang Yuebai nodded, "It’s good you can clearly recognize this. Keep up the effort and try more Cultivation Techniques and spells in the future. Practice makes perfect, and a myriad of skills will always benefit you."
"Why don’t you learn yourself, not harboring good intentions!"
Jiang Yuebai didn’t argue with Bai Jiuyou, succinctly explained Yun Muyuan’s matters and left the cultivation insights from Yun Muyuan to Bai Jiuyou.
Both then proceeded to mind their own business, fully engrossed in their work, each focusing intensely without distraction, except when issues arose during cultivation that would gather the three clones and Bai Jiuyou to brainstorm solutions.
Although they were essentially herself, adopting different identities allowed for problem-solving from varied angles, often leading to inspiration.
The uncompleted ’Lifeless Ice Realm’ of Yun Muyuan, under the joint efforts of Jiang Yuebai’s three clones and Bai Jiuyou, complemented by the "Great Derivation Scripture’s" Numerology Validation Method for spells, only took a month to perfect.
Bai Jiuyou completely mastered it after three attempts, her innate talent sparking Jiang Yuebai’s jealousy, and she bit down in envy, syphoning not too much experience and insights from Bai Jiuyou, with the three clones collaboratively studying the ’Lifeless Sand Realm.’
Bai Jiuyou had high innate talent, so Jiang Yuebai relied on quantity and diligence to triumph!
Her main body, meanwhile, continued to sit day-by-day within the Cloud-Breaking Charge, incessantly refining the final three Fire Talismans using Fire Dragon Essence Blood, while absorbing the vast Spiritual Energy in the void for cultivation, thus steadily advancing in all areas of her cultivation.
The Cloud-Breaking Charge continued speeding through the void without incident for a month and a half, finally allowing Jiang Yuebai to witness a scene reminiscent of an hourglass, bordered by numerous realm fragments.
The smaller realm below was the Earth Spiritual Realm, so close yet unreachable for her.
Without a Passage Order jointly given by the Nine Great Star Alliances, passing through the Great Array outside the Earth Spiritual Realm is next to impossible. Even finding a way to smuggle in, being discovered would yield dire consequences.
Jiang Yuebai sighed, her gaze turned upward to the larger realm, where Earth Spiritual Realm cultivators who transform into Divinity Transformation were directly transferred.
The two realms were originally one, but split during the Heavenly Calamity of the Earth Spiritual Realm, at which time the founder of the Heavenly Interence Sect, Lu Xingyun, was merely a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator.
"Master said he would wait for me in Yinxian City of the Heavenly Spirit Realm, hoping he hasn’t returned yet."
Jiang Yuebai controlled the Cloud-Breaking Charge, avoiding the surrounding realm fragments, darting headfirst into the Heavenly Spirit Realm.
