Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow

"Alright, you can cultivate here in peace, I'm heading down!"

Naturally, Xia Yu would not agree to Meng Hongchen's proposal to give up the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

Things had already come this far, how could he possibly give up just like that?

Since he had already come all this way, wouldn't he be taking a huge loss if he didn't pack up and take all of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow with him?

Therefore, after setting up a suitable environment for Meng Hongchen to cultivate in, Xia Yu activated his Self-Martial-Soul Fusion Technique without a second thought and swooped straight into the spring opening.

Upon entering the spring opening, the pressure increased once again as expected.

However, Xia Yu, whose defenses were maxed out, felt no fear and wasn't scared in the least.

He plunged downward at high speed. Although the temperature grew lower and lower as well, it still failed to stop Xia Yu.

Pop!

Accompanied by a sudden plummet in the pressure around him, Xia Yu burst straight out of the narrow spring passage and entered a much larger space.

Before he could react, an intensely terrifying, bone-chilling cold that seemed capable of freezing everything swept toward him.

Facing this coldness, even with the isolation of the Ghostly Frost Flame and the Indestructible Vajra Body brought by his martial soul fusion technique, Xia Yu was still frozen stiff and halted right in his tracks.

Tch, as expected of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cavern, a top-tier ice-attribute treasure land. Even after going to this extent, I can still be briefly frozen—truly impressive.

Feeling his stiffened body, Xia Yu couldn't help but feel a twinge of emotion.

It was a good thing he hadn't brought Meng Hongchen down with him. If she were to face this terrifyingly bone-chilling cold, the outcome would likely have been more grim than auspicious.

After all, this cold could freeze a fully-buffed Xia Yu in place temporarily; wiping out Meng Hongchen, a Soul Emperor who was not of the Ultimate Ice attribute, would be effortless.

Crack!!!

Under the combined efforts of his blood qi and soul power, Xia Yu's stiffened body gradually regained its mobility before long.

As he moved his body, the sound of bones grinding against each other echoed continuously, reverberating through the small Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cavern.

Next, I need to finish up quickly. I can't keep that little girl Meng waiting too long, or she'll start to worry.

After completely regaining his mobility, Xia Yu immediately sprang into action.

He cast his gaze straight toward the center of the cave, which was less than ten square meters in area, where pillars of white ice of various shapes stood erect.

Faintly swirling liquid could be seen within the ice pillars—it was none other than the top-tier ice-attribute heavenly treasure he had come for: the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

Without a moment of hesitation, Xia Yu opened with the Two Extremes Stillness Domain, bringing everything within the cavern, including the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, to a complete standstill.

After finishing all this, he then drove the Ghostly Frost Flame, sweeping it toward the frozen Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

Under the calcining heat of the Ghostly Frost Flame, the white ice pillars enveloping the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow quickly underwent a transformation, beginning to shrink gradually.

In the end, they were all refined into individual ice orbs.

During this process, because the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow had been brought to a standstill, not a single trace of it dissipated; all of it remained quietly inside the ice orbs.

Although I don't possess the Snow Empress's extreme affinity for the ice attribute, allowing her to suppress the dissipation of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow with her own soul power and spiritual power, I have the Two Extremes Stillness Domain. Why would I need anything so troublesome?

Looking at the 45 ice orbs suspended in midair before him, a smile couldn't help but surface at the corner of Xia Yu's lips. Evidently, he was still quite satisfied with his own masterpiece.

Then, without any discernible movement from him, rows of blue-purple soul tool formations surfaced on the surface of the ice orbs and rapidly spread across them.

Before long, dense soul tool formations had wrapped the ice orbs three layers deep on the inside and three layers deep on the outside.

As a Rank-9 Soul Engineer, soul tool formations were right in Xia Yu's wheelhouse.

Even a half-ruined Snow Empress had been able to seal the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow into a bracelet using secret techniques.

Thus, for Xia Yu to seal the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow with the aid of soul tool formations was simply a piece of cake.

Without any mishaps, under the seal of the soul tool formations, the ice orbs preserving the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow quickly restrained all their chill, transforming into ordinary blue-white crystal beads.

"Done!"

Confirming that all of the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow was properly sealed, Xia Yu telekinetically summoned the 45 crystal beads into his hand, strung them into a bracelet, and wore it around his wrist.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow was an entity of ultra-high energy, and the energy it contained was simply too massive. Storing it inside a spatial soul tool would cause terrifying erosion, and under mutual influence, bad things were very likely to happen.

Therefore, tossing the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow into a storage soul tool and leaving it there was not safe.

And that was the reason why Xia Yu had crafted the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow into a bracelet to wear on his hand.

It wasn't to show off or tell others that he possessed a top-tier treasure, but simply for the sake of safety.

"Time to go!"

After casting a final glance at the empty Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cavern, Xia Yu dove back into the spring passage without looking back.

Journeying all the way up and returning with a full harvest, he quickly arrived back at the bottom of the well.

"Wah, Brother Yu, you're finally out! An entire hour has passed, you had me so worried."

The moment she saw Xia Yu's figure appear, Meng Hongchen pounced over, carefully inspecting him to see if he had suffered any injuries.

As for Xia Yu, through Meng Hongchen's words, he learned that he had indeed spent an entire hour inside the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Cavern.

Come to think of it, during the process of harvesting the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, he truly hadn't felt the passage of time.

Still, it was understandable. Although Xia Yu's sequence of operations in the cavern had been as smooth as flowing water and seemed fast, he was either refining white ice pillars or sealing the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow; every single task required careful calculation and meticulous work.

The fact that Xia Yu had managed to wrap everything up in a single hour was already the result of him giving it his all.

If anyone else had tried to match his efficiency, they would simply be daydreaming.

After all, not everyone possessed the Two Extremes Stillness Domain to completely halt the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and prevent it from flowing and moving.

To tell the truth, if the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow were allowed to flow and move freely, collecting it would be quite tricky even for Xia Yu.

A momentary lapse in concentration could very well trigger a riot in the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

By then, forget about collecting it; he probably would have had to split his focus just to deal with the bone-chilling shockwave triggered by the riot.

All in all, an hour was already the absolute limit of what Xia Yu could achieve.

Any faster than that, and it simply wouldn't work.

"Right, Brother Yu, did you manage to get that so-called Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow?"

After thoroughly inspecting him inside and out multiple times to confirm that Xia Yu had indeed suffered no injuries, the boulder in Meng Hongchen's heart finally settled completely.

Only then did she ask about the spoils of Xia Yu's trip, and whether he had successfully obtained the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

To say that Meng Hongchen wasn't curious about the top-tier ice-attribute heavenly treasure Xia Yu had spoken of would be a lie.

Now that she had the chance, naturally she wanted to lay her eyes upon it.

However, she didn't see anything on Xia Yu that resembled the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow; instead, she only noticed that extra string of crystal-ball bracelet.

Yet Meng Hongchen failed to connect that bracelet with the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

After all, in her understanding, as a top-tier ice-attribute heavenly treasure—a terrifying entity that even spatial soul tools couldn't bear—how could it possibly be a tiny little crystal bracelet?

That was absolute nonsense.

Little did she know, she had just brilliantly overlooked the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in precisely this manner.