The Conditions for Mining, the Road to a Divine Artifact

Obtaining the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow from the deep well beneath the Earth Dragon Sect required meeting many conditions.

The first was the consent of the Earth Dragon Sect's leaders.

Without their permission, anyone who wanted it would have to crush them with overwhelming force.

That was no problem for Huang Jinxu.

After all, the Earth Dragon Sect's current Sect Leader was already on his side.

The second condition was sufficient physical resistance.

The cold deep within the Profound Ice Cave approached absolute zero. It could freeze Soul Power and erode the soul.

Huang Jinxu had prepared for that long ago.

Though he did not possess Ultimate Ice, he had long since built a level-nine Soul Tool capable of resisting it. As for his soul freezing, he did not need to worry about that.

His spiritual power had already reached a level comparable to a rank-ninety-nine Limit Douluo's. Even without it, the seed left by the Life Ancient Tree would protect him.

Mining it was the hardest part.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow had a barrier of ice essence. Ordinary Soul Power would suffer a backlash upon contact. Only Ultimate Ice could break its surface and separate the marrow intact. Smash it by force, and the essential cold within would escape, sending its value plummeting.

Huang Jinxu had a solution for that as well. Everything had patterns; he only needed to treat it like a Soul Tool and take it apart.

After that came the question of storage.

That was no small problem.

The human body could not withstand a large amount of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow's essence at once. An ordinary Storage Soul Tool could not hold it, much less carry it out with ease.

Once it left the Profound Ice Cave, its power would dissipate. Even the