Ice Soul

The battle was over. Chu He hurriedly took out the White Jade Wine Pot and drank a few mouthfuls of Crystal Antler Wine.

After Chu He had advanced to Planetary Level, the Antler Wine no longer helped increase his Spiritual Force. It could only restore some of it in the short term.

Thanks to his vast, high-quality Spiritual Force, Chu He had been able to kill the King Rank monster without injury.

However, controlling eighteen Flying Daggers at full power for so long had severely depleted his Spiritual Force.

After killing the Ice Crystal Giant Python, his face had even turned pale. He felt so weak that he could barely stay on his feet, as if the next gust of wind on the snowy mountain would blow him over.

Fortunately, the Antler Wine replenished his strength!

After drinking the Antler Wine, a cool sensation surged straight to his brain. Chu He stopped forcing himself to keep going, swept the snow aside with a wave of his sleeve, cleared a patch of ground, and sat down cross-legged.

Within moments, his lips, which had lost all color, gradually regained their rosy hue.

When he stood up, Chu He had fully recovered.

Only then did he have time to inspect what the Ice Crystal Giant Python had dropped.

After it was killed by the Flying Daggers, the entire Ice Crystal Giant Python somehow seemed to scatter on the wind, dissolving into a rain of ice crystals that blew away.

Once the crystal rain, shimmering with rainbow light, had disappeared, all that remained was a White Jade Cold Stone three inches across.

Wisps of white mist rose from the surface of the Cold Ice Jade Stone.

Seeing this, Chu He hurriedly cast the Spirit Sealing Technique on it, but the wisps of white mist continued to drift upward.

"Hm?" Chu He controlled the Cold Ice Jade Stone, which looked like white jade, with his Spiritual Force and brought it before him for a closer look.

"So it's just cold air escaping, not Spirit Machines dispersing."

Having figured that out, Chu He put the Cold Ice Jade Stone away in the World in the Pot for the time being.

He still had the Ice Spring's source to dig up!

A King Rank Ice Crystal Giant Python had been living by the Ice Spring's source. That meant there had to be something valuable underneath!

The eighteen Flying Daggers joined together to form a drill and burrowed straight down.

Before long, Chu He reached the source.

A huge block of crystal jade, about one zhang long and two chi wide, lay on the ground. Its upper-right corner was clearly chipped, as though a piece had been forcibly broken off.

Judging by its shape, it looked almost exactly like what the Ice Crystal Giant Python had dropped.

"This... this is interesting!" Chu He took the smaller Cold Ice Jade Stone out of the World in the Pot and compared the two, then came to a conclusion.

"Could that python have bitten off a piece of this larger crystal jade and then hibernated here to digest it, eventually breaking through to Planetary Level?"

"But judging by what the Ice Crystal Giant Python dropped, could it actually have been on the verge of being assimilated by this enormous Cold Ice Jade Stone?"

"What a treasure!" Chu He's eyes immediately lit up.

The crystal jade that fed the Ice Spring was also giving off wisps of cold air.

A spring flowed over the crystal jade. Once it emerged aboveground, it formed an Ice Spring.

A giant python had swallowed a piece of it and hibernated here to digest it. During that process, it had nearly been assimilated by the crystal jade.

"I'll put this away and study it later. Even if I can't figure anything out, setting it inside a snowy mountain in the World in the Pot to produce Ice Springs would be great!"

After Chu He put away the crystal jade, the water flowing from the spring was still an Ice Spring, but the Spirit Machines in it had vanished.

After flying around a few times and finding no other worthwhile clues, Chu He headed back toward Northeast Base City.

Jinxiu Residential District, Villa 207, second-floor Martial Arts Hall.

After breaking through to Planetary Level, Chu He felt even more keenly that his strength was lacking.

According to the four tiers of councilor strength outlined in the original story, he was only a little stronger than those in the lowest, fourth tier.

He was roughly on par with Planetary Level 2 Warriors like Yan Hai and Jia Yi, or Planetary Level 1 Warriors who had signature techniques of their own.

On Earth, Hong and Thunder God were the only ones in the first tier. The second tier included Third Speaker Mohanderson, Fourth Speaker East, and Fifth Speaker Atkin.

All five of them were definitely stronger than Chu He.

There were also around ten people in the third tier who were about as strong as he was.

Everyone else was beneath consideration.

However, he had no Domain and no Kill Move. Aside from the quantity and quality of his Spiritual Force, there was nothing remarkable about him. He was no more than an ordinary Planetary Level 1, and Chu He was far from satisfied with that.

So he had to make the most of every moment to find ways to grow stronger.

He first studied the attribute of his Origin Force. Its icy blue color and biting chill clearly indicated that it was water-aspected.

He had no idea whether he possessed any special constitution.

After that, he planned to use it as a foundation to study blade techniques.

But right now, the only manuals he had worth studying were the Seven Star Blade Technique and the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade.

So Chu He decided to devote all his attention to the three Seeds of Divine Ability.

Even if he couldn't develop a combat secret technique, coming up with some secret techniques to help brew wine would be great.

A month passed in the blink of an eye.

On September 20, 2058, ten days remained until the Extreme Martial Arts Gym officially announced Luo Feng's death.

That day, Chu He stopped studying the Seeds of Divine Ability, a smile spreading across his face.

Things were much as he had guessed. He had given the crystal jade a new name: "Ice Soul."

The Ice Soul could indeed be used to produce Ice Springs containing Spirit Machines.

What's more, as it guided ordinary spring water to give rise to Spirit Machines, the Spirit Machines within the Ice Soul itself did not diminish.

While studying the Ice Soul, Chu He had started comparing it with the Seed of Divine Ability for the Spirit Guiding Technique, studying the two side by side.

He soon discovered that the Ice Soul's ability to guide Ice Springs into producing Spirit Machines really did correspond to something within the Seed of Divine Ability for the Spirit Guiding Technique.

In just one week, he had developed a secret technique called Spirit Cultivation.

As its name suggested, the Spirit Cultivation secret technique could guide plants to produce Spirit Machines. It could even improve a plant's seeds to a certain extent while cultivating their Spirit Machines.

Just then, a Jade Dew Grass that Chu He had used the Spirit Cultivation secret technique on produced a seed, and a new sprout emerged from it.

Even from the sprout alone, Chu He could tell that if he used it as the main ingredient in Jade Dew Wine, the result would be much more potent than before.

The old Jade Dew Wine could only be consumed and absorbed by Warriors, and it was no longer effective for Advanced War Generals.

As for the new sprout, its upper limit remained to be seen, but at the very least, even students could drink wine brewed from it.

For the Earth Humans, this new Jade Dew Grass would be far more useful than the old variety.

After moving the Jade Dew Grass sprout to a brand-new Herb Garden, Chu He went to the audiovisual room and summoned the general managers of Jiuzhou Group's Six Great Base Cities for an online meeting.

Ten days remained before the Extreme Martial Arts Gym announced Luo Feng's death. It was time to put his plan into action.