Ice Soul

The battle ended. Chu He quickly took out his White Jade Wine Pot and drank a few mouthfuls of Crystal Antler Wine.

After Chu He broke through to the Planetary Level, this Antler Wine no longer aided the growth of his Spiritual Force; it could only be used for short-term recovery and replenishment.

In the battle against the Ice Crystal Giant Python, it was thanks to his vast and high-quality Spiritual Force that Chu He was able to kill this King Rank monster without sustaining any injuries.

However, controlling eighteen Flying Daggers at full power for an extended period had drained Chu He's Spiritual Force significantly.

After killing the Ice Crystal Giant Python, his face had even turned pale, and his body felt weak and unsteady, as if the gale on the snowy mountain might blow him over at any moment.

Fortunately, he had the Antler Wine to replenish his strength!

After drinking the Antler Wine, a wave of coolness rushed straight to his brain. No longer forcing himself to stand, Chu He waved his large sleeve, sweeping away the accumulated snow to clear a patch of ground before sitting down cross-legged.

In a short while, his lips, which had lost their color, gradually regained their rosy hue.

When he stood up, Chu He had returned to his peak state.

Only then did he have the time to check the loot dropped by the Ice Crystal Giant Python.

After being killed by the Flying Daggers, for some unknown reason, the entire Ice Crystal Giant Python seemed to scatter with the wind, turning into a rain of ice crystals that dissipated into the air.

After the fine, multicolored, light-refracting ice rain vanished, only a piece of White Jade Cold Stone, three inches in diameter, remained on the ground.

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

Seeing this, Chu He quickly cast a Spirit Sealing Technique upon it, yet the white mist continued to drift away in thin strands.

"Hmm?" Seeing this, Chu He used his Spiritual Force to maneuver the jade-like Cold Ice Jade Stone in front of him to examine it closely.

"So, it's just cold air overflowing, not spiritual energy dissipating."

Having reached this conclusion, Chu He temporarily stored the Cold Ice Jade Stone into the World in the Pot.

Before him, the spring eye of the Ice Spring was still waiting to be excavated!

The fact that a King Rank Ice Crystal Giant Python had been inhabiting this Ice Spring eye meant there had to be something good underneath!

The eighteen Flying Daggers merged into a drill and dug straight downward.

Before long, Chu He reached the source.

A massive piece of ice crystal jade, about ten feet long and two feet wide, lay horizontally in the ground. Its upper right corner had a noticeable defect, as if a piece had been forcibly broken off.

Looking at its shape, it was remarkably similar to the item dropped by the Ice Crystal Giant Python.

"This... this is interesting!" Chu He took the smaller Cold Ice Jade Stone out of the World in the Pot. Comparing the two, he arrived at a conjecture.

"Could it be... that the python bit off a piece of this large ice crystal jade, and then slept here to digest it, which is how it broke through to the Planetary Level?"

"But looking at the final drop from this Ice Crystal Giant Python, I'm afraid it was almost assimilated by this icy boulder, wasn't it?"

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

As the piece of ice crystal jade that served as the source of the Ice Spring, it was also emitting wisps of cold air.

A spring eye flowed over this ice crystal jade, and after emerging from the ground, it formed an Ice Spring.

A giant python had swallowed one of these pieces, and in the process of hibernating and digesting it here, it had almost been assimilated by the ice crystal jade itself.

"I'll put this away first and study it when I get back. Even if I can't figure anything out, placing it inside a snowy mountain in the World in the Pot to specifically convert Ice Spring would be excellent!"

After putting away the ice crystal jade, although the water flowing from the spring eye could still be considered Ice Spring, the portion of spiritual essence within it had vanished.

After flying around a few times and failing to find any other valuable clues, Chu He turned back and flew toward Northeast Base City.

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

After breaking through to the Planetary Level, Chu He felt more and more that his strength was insufficient.

According to the four stages of Councilor-level strength summarized in the original work, he was only a notch stronger than the lowest fourth tier.

He was on par with Planetary Level 2 martial artists like Yan Hai and Jia Yi, or some Planetary Level 1 martial artists who possessed their own unique trump cards.

Currently on Earth, the first tier consisted only of Hong and Thunder God. The second tier included the Third Speaker Mohanderson, the Fourth Speaker East, and the Fifth Speaker Atkin.

The strength of these five individuals was definitely above Chu He's.

There were also about a dozen people in the third tier who were on par with him.

The rest were not even worth mentioning.

However, without a domain, without a lethal trump card, and aside from the quantity and quality of his Spiritual Force being worth noting, he was completely an ordinary Planetary Level 1. Chu He could not be satisfied with such strength.

Therefore, Chu He had to seize every moment to study how to become stronger.

First, he studied his Origin Force attribute. The ice-blue Origin Force, filled with chill, was clearly of the water attribute.

As for whether he had any specific special constitution, Chu He was not sure.

Subsequently, he intended to use this as a foundation to delve into blade techniques.

However, currently, apart from a set of Seven Star Blade Technique and a set of Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, he had no other secret manuals worth studying.

Chu He simply poured all his energy into those three Seeds of Divine Ability.

Even if he couldn't develop a combat secret technique, developing some secret techniques to assist in brewing wine would be excellent.

A month of time flowed by like water.

September 20, 2058. There were ten days left until the Extreme Martial Arts Gym officially announced the death of Luo Feng.

On this day, Chu He stopped contemplating the Seed of Divine Ability, a smile spreading across his face.

It was much as he had guessed before; that ice-crystal jade... Chu He had given it a new name: Ice Soul.

That Ice Soul could indeed be used to create an Ice Spring infused with spiritual energy.

Moreover, while guiding ordinary spring water to give birth to spiritual energy, the spiritual energy contained within the Ice Soul itself did not diminish.

In the process of researching this piece of Ice Soul, because of its unique properties, Chu He simply began to contemplate it in tandem with the Seed of Divine Ability for the Spirit Guiding Technique.

Very quickly, Chu He discovered that the property of the Ice Soul jade—guiding the Ice Spring to give birth to spiritual energy—actually had a corresponding match within the Spirit Guiding Technique Seed of Divine Ability.

In just one week, a secret technique named Spirit Cultivation was born.

The Spirit Cultivation secret technique, as the name implied, could guide plants to give birth to spiritual energy, and could even optimize the seeds of the plant during the process of cultivating that spiritual energy.

Just moments ago, a grass seed from a Jade Dew Grass upon which Chu He had cast the Spirit Cultivation secret technique had sprouted a new seedling.

Even looking at the seedling, Chu He could clearly feel that if this seedling were used as the main ingredient to brew Jade Dew Wine, its potency would be far superior to the previous Jade Dew Wine.

The previous Jade Dew Wine could only be consumed and digested by martial artists, and it had no effect on Advanced War Generals.

As for the wine made from this new seedling, not to mention its upper limit, at the very least, its lower limit was such that even students could consume it.

For the current human race on Earth, the utility of this new Jade Dew Grass was far greater than that of the previous one.

After moving the Jade Dew Grass seedling to a brand-new herb garden, Chu He went to the audio-visual room and summoned the general managers of the six great base cities of the Jiuzhou Group, intending to hold an online meeting.

With ten days left until the Extreme Martial Arts Gym announced the death of Luo Feng, it was time for his plan to be officially executed.