Ice Glow Worm

Hearing Yun Ming's words, Yun Ze scratched his cheek and said, "Doesn't our academy have Spirit Ascension facilities? Is it really worth being this sneaky?"

Yun Ming tapped Yun Ze on the head and replied, "If you were using an ordinary spirit, I wouldn't need to tell you, and I certainly wouldn't choose such a secretive method."

"But your spirit is the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Not only does it require far more energy to break through than an ordinary spirit, but when it does break through, it also absorbs some of the fortune from the place where the breakthrough occurs."

"Although your father doesn't fully believe in such things, when it comes to matters of destiny, it is better to believe it exists than to assume it doesn't. The records suggest that you should not let it break through at the Shrek Academy headquarters."

Yun Ze nodded. Once Yun Ming put it that way, he understood; it was still a matter of the infighting between the two factions.

This was actually a good thing for Yun Ze. If he could really absorb a portion of the Spirit Pagoda's fortune, who knew if they might lose the ability to summon so many Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.

Even if the Spirit Pagoda still wanted to smuggle in Fixed Soul Guidance Shells, Yun Ze would find a way to intercept them.

Early the next morning, with Yun Ming's help, Yun Ze quickly arrived at the Spirit Ascension Platform in the Spirit Pagoda headquarters.

At this time, the two staff members responsible for monitoring the Spirit Ascension Platform were both people who leaned toward the Shrek side.

The two of them stared intently at the Soul Guidance Screen, watching Yun Ze's movements in the Spirit Ascension Platform, ready to delete any important footage at a moment's notice.

Yun Ze was completely unaware of this; he was currently feeling the unique sensation brought about by the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Unlike the Spirit Ascension facilities in the Inner Court of Shrek Academy, the feeling of the Spirit Ascension Platform was closer to reality, as if even the scents were simulated.

This was due to a difference in design philosophy. The Spirit Ascension facilities at Shrek Academy were not used for combat assessments; there were other devices for simulated combat.

Therefore, Shrek's Spirit Ascension facilities were essentially like a mining game—large clusters of energy blocks that could enhance a spirit's cultivation. The only thing you had to do was shatter these energy blocks so the spirit could absorb them.

The Spirit Ascension Platform, however, combined the functions of combat and spirit enhancement, with the energy blocks manifested in the forms of spirit beasts that had appeared in the past.

Yun Ze was currently holding the Heaven-Propping Spear in his hand, not revealing his Heaven-Surpassing Spear martial soul, as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion provided spirit rings for both of his spears simultaneously.

There was no need for him to expose his second martial soul. Although the Spirit Pagoda personnel assigned here were, according to his father, people who leaned toward Shrek—plants placed by Shrek—

Yun Ze believed that even if they were plants he had placed himself, they might not be one hundred percent reliable. If it turned out to be a plant within a plant, he would be in for a rude awakening.

In any case, he wasn't entering the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform right now; it was just a Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, and he could manage without the Heaven-Surpassing Spear.

Thinking this, Yun Ze carried the Heaven-Propping Spear and walked out.

The Spirit Pagoda's Spirit Ascension Platform did not place him in a simulated grassland, but rather in the middle of an ice field.

Looking at the simulated ice field, Yun Ze was not harmed by the cold, but he did feel what it truly meant for the sky and the earth to be one color.

Everything was a deep, icy blue.

Yun Ze soon encountered his first opponent.

It was a Snow Demon Titan, one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North that had once dominated the region.

As a spirit beast with both mental and ice attributes, the Snow Demon Titan discovered Yun Ze's trail early on, but limited by the constraints of the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, it was merely a thousand-year spirit beast.

Yun Ze dodged the Snow Demon Titan's initial punch, kicked off its wrist, and used the momentum to leap upward.

Leaping high into the air, he thrust his spear like a dragon.

Using his own weight to press down on the spear tip, Yun Ze pierced straight through the Snow Demon Titan's chest.

The sharpness of the Heaven-Propping Spear gave Yun Ze the confidence to play like this.

The Snow Demon Titan didn't want to just stand there and be hit; it raised its arms to cross them in front of its chest, but it underestimated the sharpness of the Heaven-Propping Spear.

The spear tip went straight through the Snow Demon Titan's arms, pinning it to the ground.

Since one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North was no match for Yun Ze, the other spirit beasts on the ice field naturally became nothing more than experience points for him.

Yun Ze barely even used his spirit skills along the way, relying solely on his skilled spear techniques to slaughter his way across the Far North ice field.

Yun Ze wasn't blindly killing everything in sight; he was actually plotting something else.

According to the original settings, the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform and the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform were connected, and there was a guardian at the point where they linked.

Killing this guardian would yield a Spirit Bone as a reward.

In this era, the rarity of Spirit Bones went without saying. Even for Yun Ze, the first prince of Shrek, Yun Ming had only promised to give him a suitable Spirit Bone when he reached the Spirit King stage.

Now that this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was right in front of him, there was no way Yun Ze was going to pass it up.

Carefully discerning the direction, Yun Ze continued to fight his way toward the north.

After traveling about a hundred miles, Yun Ze suddenly felt the density of the surrounding spirit beasts thin out significantly.

The small spirit beasts like the Ice Silkworms he had encountered from time to time seemed to have been cleared out in an instant.

Yun Ze stopped in his tracks, knowing he had reached the right location.

Closing his eyes, Yun Ze began to sense the changes in the surrounding spirit power, attempting to locate the existence that kept other spirit beasts from daring to set foot in this area.

Outside the Spirit Ascension Platform, the two Spirit Pagoda staff members who leaned toward Shrek Academy also sensed Yun Ze's intentions and couldn't help but grow nervous.

One of them, who was clearly the leader, said, "If this Young Master Yun can really obtain that Spirit Bone, we'll have an explanation. At worst, we can just upload the recording to the Pagoda Master. After all, he entered legally and paid the proper fees; it's all reasonable and compliant."

The other person nodded and simply pressed a button, stimulating the emotions of the guardian spirit beast inside.

Yun Ze suddenly felt a tremor beneath his feet and, sensing something was wrong, immediately leaped into the air.

The ice beneath him shattered in that very instant, and a twisted, massive insect maw lunged upward, snapping shut just as it grazed Yun Ze's feet.

Had Yun Ze been even a second slower in his jump, his lower body would have been bitten clean off by the creature and dragged beneath the ice sheet.

Yun Ze now stood atop the Heaven-Propping Spear, using it to hover momentarily in mid-air.

His second soul ring flickered, and a golden halo enveloped the tip of the spear.

Following Yun Ze's swing of the long spear, six golden chains extended from the tip, firmly binding the insect beneath the ground.

Spear of Fate's Judgment was Yun Ze's second soul skill; this skill had two effects: first, it used the Chains of Fate to lock the opponent in place, and then, it would strike the opponent's vital point with a spear radiance possessing high penetration power...