Chapter 767

"This is troublesome."

Cao Bing looked at the shattered World Ring in his hand, unable to suppress a sense of melancholy.

If the World Ring could not hold it, he truly had no other means of taking the treasure from this icy pool.

The instant Cao Bing had tried to collect the icy pool, he had already clearly seen the treasure within it.

At the bottom of the icy pool was a small pool of golden liquid, and within that small pool of golden liquid was a round pearl emitting golden light.

However, this golden pearl was exceedingly terrifying. With Cao Bing's current soul strength, merely exposing it for that brief instant while collecting the icy pool had caused the Golden Pearl to freeze his soul.

"I can't collect it. This thing can easily harm even my soul. If I hadn't retracted my soul power quickly enough, its chill might have spread directly along my soul power into my soul. By then, even my soul would likely have suffered severe damage."

The thought still left Cao Bing with lingering fear. Yet with such a treasure right before his eyes and no way to claim it, he felt rather stifled.

"Ordinary storage artifacts probably can't contain this thing. No, judging by this, even divine artifact-grade storage artifacts would have difficulty collecting it. And forget higher-grade storage artifacts—I don't even have a divine artifact-grade storage artifact."

Cao Bing shook his head gloomily. The finest treasure he possessed was naturally Evil Skull Peak, but Evil Skull Peak was not a storage artifact. It had no way to take in, much less store, the Golden Pearl.

"Damn it, I've come to a treasure mountain only to leave empty-handed." Cao Bing cursed, but there was nothing he could do. "Could it be that I really