Yan Hongchen took out the ice flower and held it in his palm. The entire flower was crystalline and translucent, its petals layered one over another, while a faint dark-blue light slowly flowed at its center.
"This is Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow." Yan Hongchen's voice was quiet, yet everyone present held their breath. "It's an ice-attribute treasure Snow Empress gave me. Ice and water share the same origin, so I can absorb it as well. She probably wanted me to raise my cultivation quickly."
Jing Hongchen's gaze settled on the ice flower, and he frowned slightly. He extended a hand but stopped an inch away from it, sensing the bone-piercing chill before slowly withdrawing his hand. "Little Yan, are you planning to use the energy within it to cultivate the snow lotus?"
Yan Hongchen nodded and carefully put away the ice flower. "Yeah. There's actually quite a lot of energy in it, so it needs to be diluted. I can't handle it otherwise."
He raised his head, his gaze sweeping between Jing Hongchen and Yi Hongchen. "When Snow Empress first told me about it, a single stalk of Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow was enough to let the Titan Snow Demon King cross the bottleneck of three hundred thousand years. Snow Empress obtained quite a few of them. If she uses them properly, she could surpass the Evil Emperor by far."
Yi Hongchen found it somewhat unbelievable. The top three ferocious beasts were already existences comparable to Ultimate Douluo, and even Ultimate Douluo had their respective levels. Yet this could allow Snow Empress to overtake the Evil Emperor... It was enough to show just how terrifying the energy contained within this ice flower was.
He could not help asking, "What would happen if an ice-attribute Soul Master used this? Could they