The cold jade was not in the center of the grotto-heaven, but atop a towering peak at its edge.
Snow also covered the peak, though most of the grotto-heaven enjoyed springlike weather year-round, so there was ordinarily little snowfall.
Only the chill emanating from the cold jade itself had blanketed this small mountaintop.
As Ye Jingcheng landed before the Cold Jade Spirit, his brows knitted tightly.
The Malachite Stone Spirit landed beside Ye Jingcheng as well. With a terrified expression, it dropped to its knees and reported:
"Master, I do not know why, but even after administering spirit-awakening pills and special intelligence-awakening powder, including the pills you gave us back then, this Jade Spirit has yet to take form."
The cold jade itself emitted a third-stage chill, and it had once been part of a mountain of ten-thousand-year cold marrow jade. Its future potential was immense.
But Ye Jingcheng had been busy handling matters in the Central Region and cultivating in seclusion, leaving him no time to attend to it.
Only now had he finally found time to take a look.
Naturally, he would not blame the Malachite Stone Spirit. He knew whether the jade awakened had nothing to do with it.
He stepped forward and began releasing Treasure Radiance, directing it toward the cold jade where the Jade Spirit resided.
The Treasure Radiance slowly seeped in, but there was still no change. The cold jade merely seemed slightly more translucent, as though it still possessed no intelligence.
This naturally caught Ye Jingcheng by surprise. In the past, whether it was the Grotto-Heaven Stone Spirit, the Malachite Stone Spirit, or the Magnetism Mountain Spirit, all had developed intelligence after taking a single Advancement Pill. Though their intelligence had been limited at first, it had at least been there.
Yet the