Netherfrost Spirit Water

Ling Pengyun looked with slight doubt into the depths of the passage, following the shattered bronze door.

With no bronze door obstructing the view, the scenery deep within the passage is clearly visible.

Deep inside the passage was a cave that was only two or three zhang in size.

In the left corner of the cave, there is a small pool that is more than two feet wide.

On the right is a stone bed, upon which lies a skeleton dressed in a tattered Daoist robe.

The chilling Spiritual Qi emanating from the cave originates from the water in the small pool on the left.

Upon realizing this, Ling Pengyun's expression brightened, his gaze fixed on the spirit pool and its water, his eyes filled with excitement.

"A spirit pool of ice! Dark Ice Spirit Water!"

Like spiritual veins, Spirit Vein are formed by the evolution of heaven and earth.

However, spirit pools are several times rarer than Spirit Vein.

It is only possible to be born on Spirit Vein that belongs to water.

An ordinary spirit pool can condense a mouthful of spirit water every ten years.

The Dark Ice Spirit Water within the spiritual pool here is a type of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water and earth, formed by the birth of heaven and earth, and is of the cold nature.

The spiritual water was something Ling Pengyun craved. He quickly stepped forward, walked to the spiritual pool, and carefully examined the Dark Ice Spirit Water within.

"Judging from the size of this spiritual pool, it is estimated that it can condense six or seven mouths of Dark Ice Spirit Water every ten years."

"There is quite a lot of Dark Ice Spirit Water accumulated in this spiritual pool. It seems that no one has come here to collect that spiritual water in the last one or two hundred years."

"However, this is actually a bargain for me. Although the Spirit Pool is only ranked first due to a hundred years of accumulation, the Ghost Pool water in that pool is not at the hundred-year level."

"But the Spiritual Qi contained in those Dark Ice Spirit Water is much stronger than that of the fifty-year-old Cloud Forest Spirit Water that I consumed in my early years."

"I'm afraid the Dark Ice Spirit Water within this pool is not far from being a hundred years old."

Ling Pengyun gazed at the spiritual pool before him, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light.

Then, he used his Divine Sense to scan the Spirit Vein deep underground.

When he discovered that the water-type Spirit Vein deep underground was of the First-Tier Superior-Grade and had extremely profound foundation, containing Spiritual Qi several times stronger than an ordinary First-Tier Superior-Grade Spirit Vein, comparable to the Spirit Vein of Lingyun Mountain, the original Clan Mountain of the Ling Clan clan, a look of joy immediately appeared on his face.

A strange light flashed in his eyes.

"If the First-Tier Superior-Grade Spirit Vein here can advance to the second grade, the Spirit Vein, will also receive its nourishment and be upgraded to the second grade."

"By then, this pool will be able to condense a hundred-year-old level of Dark Ice Spirit Water."

The Spiritual Qi Spiritual Qi contained in the hundred-year-old Dark Ice Spirit Water is several times stronger than that contained in the Second Rank Low Grade Pill Refining Spirit Gathering Pill.

Furthermore, since the Dark Ice Spirit Water is formed by the birth of heaven and earth and contains no impurities, the value of this hundred-year-old Dark Ice Spirit Water has increased, and its market price is extremely high.

A single sip of the hundred-year-old Dark Ice Spirit Water is worth about three hundred Spirit Stone.

After being excited for a while, once Ling Pengyun had calmed down, he took out several Glass Bottle from his Storage Bag and put the Dark Ice Spirit Water from the spiritual pool into each of the Glass Bottle.

While collecting the spiritual water, Ling Pengyun also took the opportunity to carefully calculate the amount of Dark Ice Spirit Water contained in the spiritual pool.

There were as many as sixty-five people.

If calculated by weight, it would be about five and a half pounds.

"Although these Ghostly Cold Water are only of the first rank, there are quite a few of them, which are of great use to me."

"Wind Shadow Peng and the Thorn Vine can also rely on this Cold Water to improve their cultivation and break through to the Qi Training Completion as soon as possible."

Looking at the Glass Bottle containing the Dark Ice Spirit Water in his hand, Ling Pengyun's joy grew even stronger.

Ling Pengyun placed a restriction on the Glass Bottle to prevent Spiritual Qi from leaking out, and then put it into his Storage Bag at his waist.

Once the Dark Ice Spirit Water was collected, the spiritual pool was empty.

It will take ten years before that spirit pool can once again nurture the Dark Ice Spirit Water.

And as long as the Water Vein here does not dry up, this spiritual spring will not dry up and will continue to exist.

Ten years' worth of Dark Ice Spirit Water is slightly more effective than First Rank Low Grade Qi Refining Pill.

Then, Ling Pengyun looked at the skeleton dressed in a Daoist robe on the stone bed on the right side of the small cave. His expression became slightly serious as he made some guesses.

"This place was indeed created by cultivators. Judging from the appearance of this skeleton, it should be the Master of this place, and this person has probably been dead for at least a hundred years."

"Without the erosion of time, this body would not have weathered to such a skeletal state."

"However, this skeleton was quite lucky in life, as it was able to be discovered in such a hidden place."

"Given that spiritual pool, the cultivation level of this skeleton in life must have been quite high."

With his thoughts returning to normal, Ling Pengyun walked to the skeleton, used his Object Manipulation Technique to search the skeleton thoroughly, and finally found two Storage Bag.

The Divine Sense imprints within these two Storage Bag were like rootsless floating because their Master were dead.

After more than a hundred years, the Divine Sense imprints within these two Storage Bag have become extremely weak.

Ling Pengyun's powerful Foundation Establishment Realm Divine Sense erased the Divine Sense imprints in the two Storage Bag in just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

The items among them were also summoned by Ling Pengyun.

The two Storage Bag contained very few items: two Daoist robes, two First-Tier Superior-Grade offensive and defensive Law Artifact, a dozen kilograms of Water Spirit Rice, a letter, and an Nameless book.

The two Daoist robes, Law Artifact, and spiritual rice had lost much of their Spiritual Qi over the past hundred years, with only a fraction of their original Spiritual Qi remaining.

Ling Pengyun didn't care about this. He could restore those Law Artifact to their full potential by adding a few more spiritual materials.

The real loss was just those ten or so kilograms of Water Spirit Rice, which were Spirit Stone.

Ling Pengyun moved his gaze, waved his hand to use his Object Manipulation Technique, took the letter in his hand, and carefully examined its contents.

The letter contained hundreds of tiny characters.

"I am a descendant of the Qi Family, my name is Qi De, and I am the first cultivator to emerge from the Old Qi Family in Tian Yuan Town under the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family."

"By the time you see this letter, I will probably have reached the end of my life."

"Since you have come to this place, you must also possess Spirit Root."

"There is a spiritual pool here that produces Dark Ice Spirit Water. You may use it as you please, but you must not tell anyone outside the area, especially the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family who manages my Tianyuan Town."

"The Ye family is not trustworthy. Although I had spiritual roots, I was taken in by the Ye family and embarked on the path of immortality."

"But the Ye Clan clan members ostracized me because I didn't have Ye Clan blood. They often deducted my salary and wouldn't let me do any safe work in the Ye Clan. This forced me to go out of the Ye Clan and enter the Serpent Dragon Lake area to hunt Demon Beast and earn Cultivation Resources."

"But it was precisely because of this that I discovered this place."

"In short, as a descendant of the Qi Family, you must not trust others, but only yourself or your own bloodline descendants."

"Furthermore, my Qi Family descendants have a First Grade Middle Rank Spirit Vein deep underground in this place. Because of this Spirit Vein, the Spiritual Qi here is quite good, more than enough for Qi Refining cultivators to cultivate."

"Once you enter this area, try to stay indoors as much as possible to reduce the risk of exposure."

"As for food, one can catch fish from the great river outside to fill one's stomach. Try to reach the Qi Training Completion before the age of sixty, relying on the Dark Ice Spirit Water produced by the spiritual pool, and seek the opportunity to Foundation Establishment."

"If you did not enter the Foundation Establishment Foundation Establishment during the optimal period, a hundred years later, you will also turn into... a handful of yellow earth, just like me."

"In my Storage Bag, there is also a formation inheritance. You can try to comprehend it. If you can become Array Formation Master, you can achieve great things..."

"If... the one who discovers this place and reads this letter is not a descendant of my Qi family, but a fellow Daoist who finds this place by chance, or perhaps they found this place by combining the two incomplete maps obtained from my Qi family lineage in Tianyuan Town, I hope that you, fellow Daoist, will take care of the Qi family lineage in Tianyuan Town, Hongye Ridge, Yunshui County, for the sake of the spiritual pool here."

"My Qi Family is not Lineage of cultivators, but merely mortals. If anyone in my Old Qi Family possesses Spirit Root, I would be grateful if you would take good care of them."

This letter ends here.

After reading the contents of the letter, Ling Pengyun made some guesses.

"I never imagined that this skeleton was a foreign cultivator from the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family. A hundred years ago, Huai River County had not yet been established here. It was still a place occupied by Demon Beast and belonged to the Serpent Dragon Lake area. This makes sense with the contents of the letter."

"However, several years ago, the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family in Cloudwater County was wiped out by the Peace Cloud Yang Clan. There were many changes in the process, and it is unknown whether the descendants of Qi De are still alive."

"The Azure Bamboo Wang Clan cultivator who carried the Fragmented Map and the map of the Hundred Spirits Sect's territory on me back then should not have obtained it from the descendants of Qi De."

"If it had been obtained from the descendants of Qi De, it wouldn't have been just a Fragmented Map."

"It seems we must make a trip to Tianyuan Town, which was originally under the control of the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family."

Ling Pengyun secretly made up his mind.

The main purpose of going to Tianyuan Town was to collect the Fragmented Map that Qi De left for future generations.

After all, the Azure Bamboo Wang Clan cultivator found two similar sections of the Huai River by relying on a Fragmented Map and Hundred Spirits Sect Terrain Map.

Another Fragmented Map has been found elsewhere, which means this place is at greater risk of being exposed.

Although this place is within the territory of the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan, the spiritual pool here is extremely valuable, and Ling Pengyun has no intention of giving it up.

The secondary purpose is to settle the karmic debts.

If any of Qi De's descendants living in the pastoral town still exist, he wouldn't mind giving them a sum of gold and silver from the mortal world.

Although the compensation in gold and silver was minimal, the Spirit Pool incident was still fortuitous opportunity for him; it was just that Qi De came first, and he came later.

If any descendant of the Qi Family possesses Spirit Root, Ling Pengyun would not mind bringing them back into the Ling Clan and providing them with some support.

Coming to his senses, Ling Pengyun summoned a ball of flame, which swept the letter in his hand into ashes. He then began to peruse the Nameless book.

That Nameless book was the very array lineage that Qi De had mentioned. It contained the methods for setting up several first-tier and mid-tier arrays, as well as the precautions for setting up these arrays.

However, the arrays recorded in this inheritance are all very common arrays available on the market.

More than a decade ago, the Ling Clan obtained a First-Tier Superior-Grade array inheritance from the Hundred Spirits Sect, which also recorded the methods for setting up these arrays.

"This Nameless lineage of array formations is only useful to the Ling Clan for its instructions on setting up arrays."

"However, judging from the array lineage, the skeleton must have been an Array Formation Master in life."

Speaking of formations, Ling Pengyun also thought of the First Rank Middle Grade Water Storage Array that he had previously destroyed.

He activated his Divine Sense and carefully searched the small cave.

Finally, he found traces of three formations inside the small cave. With the help of these traces, he also found the array plates that controlled the three formations.

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