Beyond the Poison Miasma, Little White's Special Perception, Ice Element

Deep within Sunset Forest.

The air was thick with a mingling scent of humid heat and foul stench.

From time to time, low, heart-palpitating beast roars echoed out.

Deep within this vast green sea,

Qian Renxue and She Xian had already been wandering this forest for over a month.

More than thirty days was neither especially long nor especially short.

For an ordinary Soul Master, a month was enough to find a desirable soul ring in a place like Sunset Forest.

Over the past month, the snake-type soul beasts they had caught, knocked unconscious, or scared away with their aura numbered no fewer than eighty, if not a hundred.

Quite a few of them hovered around four thousand to five thousand years in cultivation.

They fully met the theoretical limit for She Xian's second soul ring absorption.

Yet not a single one had satisfied She Xian.

Bang!

With a dull, thunderous crash,

A massive creature over ten meters long and as thick as a bowl slammed heavily into the muddy ground, sending rotten leaves and dust flying.

It was a four-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Cold Green Python.

A huge bump had risen on its head, its eyes had rolled white, and its tongue lolled out as it lay completely unconscious.

Qian Renxue had knocked it out with what appeared to be an utterly ordinary palm strike.

"Another ordinary Cold Green Python... Its bloodline is as mixed as slop. What use is its cultivation age?"

She Xian kicked aside the half-dead four-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Cold Green Python by the roadside and irritably rubbed his throbbing temples.

His martial soul had almost harsh requirements regarding bloodline purity.

Ordinary pythons like this, built up through crossbreeding and long years, simply could not provide him with top-quality soul skills.

They might even taint the purity of his martial soul's origin.

"Do not be angry, husband. This wife would be heartbroken if you harmed your health."

Little White's sweet, gentle voice soothed him from the depths of his mind.

Qian Renxue slowly withdrew her slender, delicate hand.

Seeing the youth before her with his brows tightly furrowed and irritation written all over his face, her originally cold, stern expression softened unconsciously.

She casually took a pristine white silk handkerchief embroidered with golden snow edelweiss from her robes.

Accompanied by a delicate fragrance like snowy plum blossoms, Qian Renxue moved half a step closer.

Pinching the handkerchief between her long, fair fingers, she gently wiped the faint beads of sweat from She Xian's forehead.

Qian Renxue let out a soft sigh, her tone carrying the indulgence and helplessness of an elder.

"Sunset Forest is still too small."

"The soul beast ecosystem here is far less abundant than that of Star Dou Great Forest."

"There are quite a few snake-type soul beasts with suitable cultivation ages, but those with pure bloodlines are rare as phoenix feathers. They are all mixed-blood inferior specimens."

"And soul beasts containing dragon bloodlines are nowhere to be found."

Qian Renxue put away the handkerchief stained with the youth's sweat.

A trace of resolve and domineering flashed through those clear golden eyes like glazed crystal.

"Xian'er, since Sunset Forest cannot meet your requirements, I will never let you settle."

She paused, then declared firmly, "We will return to Heaven Dou City to rest for a few days, then I will take you to Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts."

"If Star Dou Great Forest still has nothing, then even if we must cross half the continent to the Far North Snowfield, I will find you the finest water- and ice-attribute soul beast!"

Qian Renxue's fiercely protective, utterly uncompromising attitude warmed She Xian's heart.

More than anyone, he knew how cold and imposing this noble young lady before him was in front of outsiders.

Yet before him, her "last disciple," she had never begrudged him any resource. She was even willing to travel thousands of miles for a single soul ring of his.

His teacher's desire for control was indeed extremely strong.

At times, she was even so overbearing that he struggled to cope.

But when it came to him, her disciple, she truly was willing to pour in resources and spare no expense.

"Fine. This little pond called Sunset Forest has just got too low a drop rate."

She Xian shrugged helplessly.

Just as he was about to nod and agree to return with Qian Renxue, heading back to Heaven Dou City for a proper rest first,

Suddenly!

A violent ripple erupted without warning in the spiritual world deep within his mind.

"Husband! Wait!"

Little White suddenly cried out from within his sea of consciousness.

"This wife has sensed an extremely special ice-element entity in the valley to the front left!"

She Xian's entire body jolted.

He instinctively asked in his mind, "An ice-element entity?"

"Could it be some deeply concealed ice-attribute soul beast?"

Little White shook her head, several traces of unconcealable confusion on her pure, breathtakingly beautiful face.

"No, it does not seem to possess the bloodline aura of a soul beast. It is completely different from this wife's origin."

"But that ice-element power is exceptionally pure, and yet it does not seem to be a living thing!"

She Xian's pupils abruptly contracted!

Little White's sensitivity toward water and ice elements was unrivaled in the world.

If even she described it as "exceptionally pure," it was definitely no ordinary object!

"Teacher! Wait!"

She Xian immediately raised a hand to stop Qian Renxue, who had been preparing to turn and leave.

He pointed toward the mist-shrouded, treacherous ridge to the front left.

"My martial soul just suddenly had an extremely intense reaction."

"Deep within the valley over there, it sensed a powerful and incomparably pure ice-element force."

"Ice element?"

Qian Renxue was slightly startled, her elegant brows lifting.

Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she made an immediate decision. "Go! Let us take a look!"

She immediately scooped She Xian up and turned into an afterimage, speeding toward the valley ahead on the left.

When Qian Renxue had flown more than ten li in the direction Little White indicated, her advance was forced to an abrupt halt!

It was not that she did not wish to proceed, but that something unusual blocked their way ahead.

What obstructed them was not some terrifying ten-thousand-year savage beast baring its fangs.

It was a terrifying poison miasma so dense that one could not see one's hand before one's face!

It was a patch of thick, dark-green poisonous fog.

Like a majestic city wall that blotted out the sky and covered the earth.

As it churned and flowed, it sealed the entire deep, perilous valley tightly within.

The green poisonous fog was so dense that it nearly condensed into liquid, while a nauseating, pungent stench and an aura of death permeated the air.

Not a blade of grass grew within dozens of meters around the outermost edge of the poison fog!

Such a vicious poison, lethal at the sight of blood and capable of easily corroding even earth and vegetation, was simply horrifying!

Snake Lance Douluo She Long and Pufferfish Douluo Ci Xue also appeared at this moment.

They stood to the left and right, shielding Qian Renxue and She Xian tightly.

Their Soul Power circulated silently throughout their bodies, perfectly protecting the two behind them.

"Young Mistress! You must not go any farther!"

She Long's stern, weathered face was filled with unprecedented gravity.

"This green poison miasma is exceedingly strange and sinister. It contains a destructive poison."

"This place was absolutely not formed naturally. It is the private forbidden territory established by an exceptionally powerful poison expert."

Ci Xue, who also dabbled in poison, stared fixedly at the endlessly roiling green mist and nodded in agreement.

"That is right. This poison is extremely potent."

"We naturally do not fear this mere poison fog, but Young Mistress and She Xian may be in danger if you enter."

Qian Renxue's expression darkened completely as well.

Only She Xian, standing at the very back, was now in a state of utter speechlessness.

Standing there with the corner of his mouth twitching, he frantically called out to Little White in his mind.

"Little White! Are you sure that thing with the powerful ice-element force you sensed is really inside the valley sealed off by this green poison fog?"

Within his sea of consciousness, Little White nodded with complete certainty, her sweet voice replying, "Husband, it is absolutely true!"

"That extremely cold, pure power lies deep in the core of this poison fog."

After hearing Little White confirm it once more,

She Xian's mouth twitched violently several times. He was completely numb!

Green poison miasma.

A sealed valley.

Peerless poison that killed at the sight of blood.

Two Titled Douluo confirming the presence of a formidable poison expert.

Something inside containing exceptionally powerful and pure ice-element energy.

The clues were piled up like a damn mountain!

Any transmigrator who had read the original story could guess where this was in an instant, even with their toes.

There was only one possibility: the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!