"This crystal was incredibly cold. You mustn't touch it with your bare hands." Qin Fengming warned Venerable Feng Ji, who had stepped closer, while he himself remained standing still.
There were quite a few clusters of shimmering azure light here—enough for the two of them to divide.
"If even crystals radiating Ice Soul Energy cannot be collected, then I would be unworthy of someone who comprehended the artistic conception of the Ice Soul Law." Venerable Feng Ji paid no heed. He walked straight toward the cluster and reached into it for the crystal.
As his palm extended, a dazzling azure radiance wrapped around it. The light flickered, even deeper and greener than the glow radiating from the crystal.
At the same time, Qin Fengming sensed a mass of bone-chilling cold surging around Venerable Feng Ji like raging waves.
It was a coldness that even Qin Fengming had to use techniques to resist. It ignored a cultivator's protective spiritual light and acted directly upon the sea of consciousness within his body.
As Venerable Feng Ji's palm touched the azure luminescence, a mass of emerald light suddenly rippled up like smoke, and the void instantly became unstable.
Amid flickering azure light, Venerable Feng Ji's palm touched the crystal.
A burst of crackling rang out. A layer of crystal-clear ice appeared and suddenly spread upward along Venerable Feng Ji's palm and arm, as if it would freeze his entire body in the blink of an eye.
"Hahaha... Hahahaha... This truly is an Ice Soul Origin Energy crystal. It actually contains traces of the Ice Soul Law's artistic conception. The aura of that conception does not radiate outward, but exists only within the crystal. Such a divine object is comparable to the divine pills consumed by Mahayana cultivators."
Venerable Feng Ji showed not the