"Open..."
Not far away, a cultivator summoned a flying sword.
The flying sword soared into the air, wreathed in blazing fire.
It was roughly ten feet long.
After rising into the air, the ten-foot flying sword swung its tip downward and plunged in a furious spin, grinding hard against the solid ice.
Ice chips scattered wildly.
Mist gushed forth.
Within a few breaths, it had bored a hole two feet across.
Looking down through the opening, one could see that the ice was a hundred feet thick.
Beneath the ice lay gleaming, utterly clear water.
Once the sword pierced the ice, water rose to fill the entire hole.
The cultivator retrieved his flying sword, then jumped into the water with a splash.
He Pingsheng had no idea how cold it was, but he saw that shortly after the cultivator jumped in, the water filling the freshly bored hole froze again.
The ten-thousand-year ice marrow and ice-origin Jiazi dew were both beneath the ice. Anyone hoping to obtain them had no choice but to dive in.
But getting beneath the ice did not guarantee that one could obtain those things.
"Everyone, stand back. Let me try..."
Someone shouted on the ice, then activated a round shield around his body. Relying on its protection, he slowly approached the ice pillar.
The ice pillar was Water Dragon.
There were no heavenly materials and earthly treasures on the surface, but approaching Water Dragon across the ice allowed them to test their strength first.
Most could not get within a hundred feet.
No one knew what spirit root this cultivator possessed, but his cultivation was at the twelfth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm. Step by step, he approached the ice pillar.
He Pingsheng extended his divine sense to take a look.
At a distance