Earthheart Flame, Frost-Ice Soul, Iceheart Lotus Platform

Chapter 22: Earthheart Flame, Frost-Ice Soul, Iceheart Lotus Platform

After entering the Cold Spring, Ye Yun swam downward with all his strength. The terrain beneath the water was vertical, and he estimated that he had been swimming down for nearly five minutes.

Just then, Ye Yun suddenly caught sight of a glimmer of light. He immediately changed direction and swam toward it.

Gradually, as he drew closer to the light, its true form emerged. It was actually magma constantly bubbling outward, seemingly locked in opposition with the spring water of the Cold Spring.

The sight of this wonder of heaven and earth truly shocked Ye Yun. Who could have imagined that at the bottom of a cold spring, there would be an opening that continuously spewed magma? All one could do before such a scene was marvel that water and fire truly could mingle.

After his brief shock, Ye Yun continued swimming toward where water and fire intertwined. When he reached a spot not far from it, he discovered that the treasure he had come for was right ahead—but unfortunately, he could see it without being able to take it.

Before Ye Yun floated a cluster of crimson flame and an icy-blue stone.

The crimson flame was the legendary Earthheart Flame. It had evolved from the earthfire deep within the ground over countless years, a priceless treasure that innumerable alchemists dreamed of obtaining.

That blue stone was called the Frost-Ice Soul, condensed from the chill between heaven and earth. Ye Yun had seen records of it in the sect's ancient texts. They said that if the Frost-Ice Soul was consumed together with Jade Marrow Fluid, it could transform a person's martial talent, turning them into the mutated Ice Soul Spirit Body among Spirit Bodies. From then on, cultivating ice-attributed martial arts would allow them to advance a thousand miles in a single day.

This spectacle of water and fire merging had been caused by the power of these two spiritual treasures of heaven and earth. Judging from the traces of how this phenomenon had formed, it should have been caused by an earthquake in the earth veins. The tremors had collapsed the rocks at the bottom of the spring, allowing underground magma to erupt. However, because of the Frost-Ice Soul, the Cold Spring had gathered an immense amount of cold energy, preventing the magma from bursting through to the surface.

When the spring water was about to extinguish the magma, the Frost-Ice Soul's power drew out the Earthcore Flame hidden within it. When the two spiritual treasures of heaven and earth collided, they created the spectacle Ye Yun now saw.

Each time the Cold Spring's chill erupted on the night of a full moon, it was caused by the collision of these two spiritual treasures. When the Earthcore Flame surged with the magma and struck the Frost-Ice Soul, the tremendous impact caused the cold energy of the Cold Spring to erupt. That faint warmth in the spring water was the result of the Earthcore Flame's power.

A balance had already formed here. Once either spiritual treasure was taken away, the other's power would strike directly. That was why Ye Yun could see them but could not take them.

Besides, even if he could take them, with Ye Yun's current cultivation, neither of these spiritual treasures of heaven and earth was something he could touch. Otherwise, there would only be two possible outcomes: he would either turn into an ice block or be burned to ashes.

Spiritual treasures of this level could only be subdued by Core Elixir Realm martial artists above the True Essence Realm. Yet among the Great Chu Dynasty, there were no Core Elixir Realm martial artists in the open.

Ye Yun's mood shifted from initial excitement to disappointment. He had descended full of anticipation to seek treasure. It would have been better if he had found nothing, but instead he had found it and could not take it—all because his cultivation was too low.

Just as Ye Yun was preparing to leave an untold treasure mountain empty-handed, he noticed that there seemed to be something on the other side of the spring bottom.

Unwilling to return empty-handed, Ye Yun could only swim toward that side. As he swam, he silently prayed in his heart, hoping that thing would be a treasure.

As the seconds ticked away, Ye Yun's breathing began to grow somewhat hurried when he was almost there.

A Qi Refining Realm martial artist could hold his breath underwater for at most around thirty minutes. From the time Ye Yun entered until now, more than twenty minutes had already passed.

Ye Yun swam toward that thing with all his strength. Upon reaching it, he grabbed it in one motion. Without even looking at what it was, he stuffed it directly into his Storage Bag, then desperately swam upward toward the surface of the Cold Spring.

One minute, two minutes—Ye Yun's breathing grew heavier and heavier. Just as he was about to lose all strength, he finally broke the surface.

Gulping down mouthful after mouthful of air, Ye Yun felt as though he had survived a great calamity. After recovering a little, he swam toward the shore beside the Cold Spring.

Dragging his utterly exhausted body, Ye Yun returned to his residence and collapsed headfirst onto the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. Recalling everything he had just seen, it could be said to be the most magnificent spectacle Ye Yun had ever witnessed.

He had never imagined that two mutually opposing energies of heaven and earth, water and fire, could under such a coincidence create such a sight of water and fire mingling.

As he thought, his mind drifted to Core Elixir Realm martial artists. The Earthheart Flame and Frost-Ice Soul, two spiritual treasures of heaven and earth, possessed such immense power. How powerful, then, must Core Elixir Realm martial artists capable of subduing them be? At that moment, Ye Yun's martial heart became a little firmer.

After more than half an hour, Ye Yun's strength gradually recovered. He sat up, and with a thought, took out the thing he had just obtained from his Storage Bag.

The instant he took it out, the temperature in the entire room dropped another notch. Ye Yun examined it carefully. It was a palm-sized lotus platform, crystalline and translucent throughout, emitting a faint white glow. At the center of the lotus platform was a hole about the same size as the Frost-Ice Soul he had just seen.

Seeing this lotus platform, Ye Yun felt as though he had read an introduction to it somewhere before, yet he could not remember it for the moment.

After thinking for quite a while, Ye Yun finally recalled what this lotus platform was. It was called the Iceheart Lotus Platform, the accompanying spiritual treasure of the Frost-Ice Soul.

It had been born alongside the Frost-Ice Soul, which was nurtured atop it. If not for the Earthcore Flame and Frost-Ice Soul currently being locked in confrontation, Ye Yun would never have had the chance to obtain it.

The Iceheart Lotus Platform's effects were no worse than those of the Frost-Ice Soul. It could gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, greatly increasing cultivation speed. But that was not even its strongest ability. Its most powerful ability was that when one cultivated while seated atop it, one's comprehension could be improved by roughly thirty percent. The Iceheart Lotus Platform could be called a supreme treasure for martial cultivation.

The ability to improve comprehension was of immense help in raising one's mastery of martial arts. It was even more helpful to Ye Yun. The martial arts he cultivated already had a high degree of compatibility with him, and now he had the Iceheart Lotus Platform to improve his comprehension. Cultivating martial arts would simply be like receiving divine aid.

Ye Yun injected true qi into the Iceheart Lotus Platform. The platform slowly rose from his hand, then expanded in midair to roughly ten feet in size. The Iceheart Lotus Platform floated in the air as the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered toward it. After five or six minutes, all the gathered spiritual energy formed a spiritual cloud around the Iceheart Lotus Platform.

Seeing this, Ye Yun lightly leaped onto the Iceheart Lotus Platform, then sat down and circulated the Ice Profound Force to cultivate.

After cultivating briefly, Ye Yun discovered that the density of spiritual energy atop the lotus platform was roughly double that outside it. Moreover, under the effects of the platform's ability to improve comprehension, his entire mind felt incomparably clear, and his understanding of martial arts had become much faster.

After comparing the results, Ye Yun stopped paying attention to it and began his cultivation for the night.

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(End of this chapter)