"This piece of ice soul jade marrow is a perfect match for my constitution."
Feeling the wisps of pure taiyin cold qi emanating from the jade marrow, Luo Yue inwardly nodded.
The divine blood of her divine king body possessed an innate chill. She had chosen this stone in the first place because she had sensed her divine body resonating with it.
This jade marrow contained exceptionally pure taiyin cold qi, which would benefit her greatly.
Once I refine it, the bloodline of my ice divine king body should become a little purer...
That was what Luo Yue thought.
She slowly absorbed strands of pure taiyin cold qi and source power into her body, channeling them into her bitter sea to nourish her sea of bitterness secret realm.
Meanwhile, beneath the wash of taiyin cold qi, the luster of the Five-Colored Stone fragment resting deep within her life spring seemed to grow a little softer. It, too, appeared to be silently absorbing this pure energy, forming a strange symbiotic relationship with Luo Yue's cultivation.
"This Heaven-Mending Stone is remarkable. It can even nourish my flesh in return."
Luo Yue was delighted by the discovery.
Then she immersed herself in cultivating and refining the jade marrow.
For the next three days, Luo Yue sat cross-legged in the quiet chamber, devoting herself to cultivation.
Having learned her lesson last time, she now followed a cultivation path meticulously planned and calculated by the [Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu] at every step.
The Lo Shu aided her deductions, while the Yellow River Chart aided her comprehension. As star-track trigrams revolved, they arranged every step into perfect order.
In just three short days.
The ice soul jade marrow before her had shrunk by more than half. Pure taiyin cold qi and immense source power formed two concentrated torrents of icy silver, pouring ceaselessly into her bitter sea.
Nourished by the ice soul jade marrow, her sea of bitterness secret realm was advancing toward perfection at a downright terrifying speed.
Though this speed seemed inconceivable, it was only natural for her-after all, her supreme dao foundation had been laid with a fist-sized piece of divine source worth hundreds of thousands of jin of pure source.
Now she also had ice soul jade marrow worth thousands of jin of source to serve as further fuel.
With such a mountain of top-grade resources poured in, even a pig ought to have been built up into a flying spirit pig. How much more so Luo Yue, who possessed a divine king body and the support of the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu, and a Heaven-Mending Stone fragment?
The boundaries of her bitter sea, that vast and boundless cold river, had already become as stable as they could possibly be beneath the surging divine power from her life spring.
Its ice was a deep, shadowy blue, as smooth as a mirror polished from ten-thousand-year-old Mystic Ice. It radiated a terrifying chill capable of freezing all things, while the clear radiance of the cold moon suspended high in the void above the bitter sea grew ever more substantial.
Deep within her life spring, as Luo Yue circulated her cultivation method and the taiyin cold qi of the ice soul jade marrow washed over it without pause, the quietly resting, incomplete Heaven-Mending Stone continued absorbing through its flowing five-colored radiance.
Like a bottomless pit, it silently took a share of the incoming pure energy, while feeding strands of ancient, gentle chaos dao resonance back into Luo Yue's flesh.
This dao resonance was exceedingly faint, yet it acted like the most exquisite carving knife, silently repairing and perfecting the deepest layers of Luo Yue's divine body. Upon a dao foundation already "unbreakable," it bestowed the further depth of being "seamless and flawless."
"My life spring has reached perfection. Let the divine bridge rise!"
Deep within Luo Yue's ice-blue eyes, a river of stars seemed to freeze.
She sank her awareness into her bitter sea, sensing that vast, tremendous power, perfectly harmonized and responsive to her will.
Through her investment of resources without regard for cost and the aid of two supreme treasures, the first two minor realms of the sea of bitterness secret realm-the bitter sea and the life spring-had already reached the utmost limits imaginable to ordinary mortals.
Next came the third realm of the sea of bitterness secret realm-the divine bridge!
To enter the divine bridge realm, she needed to use her own divine power and Dao Principles as a foundation to construct a divine bridge across the vast bitter sea, linking the wheel of life to the other shore.
Once this bridge was complete, a cultivator could begin drawing upon the dao patterns of heaven and earth to wield mystic arts and divine abilities, bringing a qualitative leap in combat strength.
Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu, Heaven-Mending Stone, divine king body—let me see your limits!
Luo Yue gave a low cry in her heart.
Hum!
The five-colored Heaven-Mending Stone fragment deep within her life spring seemed to sense something. Its gently flowing five-colored radiance suddenly accelerated, and an indescribable, ancient dao resonance that pointed straight toward the origin of the Great Dao spread outward.
This dao resonance supplied no energy directly, yet it seemed to infuse the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu with inspiration for an entirely new, higher-order "algorithm"!
In an instant, the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu, previously sluggish in operation and dim in radiance, seemed to receive a powerful stimulant.
The tortoiseshell patterns and star-dotted scroll spun, collided, and reassembled at an unprecedented speed.
Countless profound trigrams and black-and-white points of light arranged and combined themselves in unprecedented ways, as though opening new paths through chaos.
Luo Yue felt her divine soul shudder violently. An incomparably clear blueprint for a divine bridge, perfectly suited to her "cold river reflecting the moon" Vision and the origin of her divine king body, branded itself directly into the depths of her consciousness like a revelation from heaven.
The foundations of this divine bridge sank deep into the cold river's bitterly frigid Mystic Ice, drawing upon divine power of utmost yin and cold. Its crystalline body seemed condensed from the purest laws of ice and taiyin essence, radiating an aura that could freeze all things into oblivion.
Yet within this supremely cold bridge flowed the strand of gentle chaos dao resonance fed back by the five-colored Heaven-Mending Stone fragment. Like a warm current of life injected into frozen veins, it endowed the entire divine bridge with a strange, endlessly renewing power that harmonized yin and yang amid its deathly chill.
The bridge extended upward, pointing straight toward the cool, clear cold moon in the void above the bitter sea.
Moonlight fell upon it, and projections of the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu's star-track trigrams flowed ceaselessly over its crystalline body, as though inscribing supreme dao patterns that could perceive heaven's secrets and deduce all arts.
At the bridge's end, mist swirled. The vague outline of the other shore could be seen, exuding an ethereal aura beyond the mortal world.
"Cold Moon Ice Soul Bridge-merge the chill of taiyin, embrace the resonance of chaos, grasp the workings of deduction!"
Enlightenment dawned upon Luo Yue. Without hesitation, she immediately set everything into full motion according to this perfect structure jointly "deduced" by the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu and the Heaven-Mending Stone!
Rumble-!
The world within her bitter sea shook violently.
The vast, icy divine power no longer merely washed aimlessly over the cold river. Guided by Luo Yue's will and constrained by the Dao Principles of the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu, it condensed furiously according to the blueprint branded into her divine soul.
"Ssshrk! Ssshrk!"
The crystalline ice foundations of the bridge broke through the hard Mystic Ice of the bitter sea. Like the sprout of a divine plant breaking through the earth, they grew upward with a mighty power capable of freezing space and time.
The bridge rapidly solidified and extended, the five-colored chaos dao resonance flowing inside it resembling
a network of blood vessels, granting this supremely cold bridge inconceivable resilience. Upon its surface, the clear radiance and trigrams of the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu were perfectly imprinted. The entire divine bridge seemed like a naturally formed dao-pattern magical treasure!
As the divine bridge took shape, Luo Yue's aura climbed steadily.
A pressure far surpassing the life spring realm spread uncontrollably. The temperature of the entire quiet chamber instantly plunged to absolute zero. Thick Mystic Ice glittering with dark-blue starlight immediately coated the walls and floor, while pale-blue crystalline snowflakes condensed in the air and drifted slowly down.
From the shadows, that searing divine sense swept over her once again, carrying astonishment that could scarcely be concealed.
The Jiang Family's Dao Protector clearly "saw" the astonishing transformation unfolding within Luo Yue's bitter sea.
That bridge fused ultimate icy cold, chaos dao resonance, and the laws of deduction. The solidity of its foundations, the ingenuity of its structure, and its terrifying potential far exceeded those of ordinary divine bridge cultivators.
This was by no means a realm that could be attained simply by piling up resources.
This was a truly flawless dao foundation, a divine bridge born in perfect harmony with nature!
In just a few days, from opening her bitter sea to constructing her divine bridge... Such speed, such foundations-she truly means to defy heaven! The hidden observer was shaken to the core.
At last, when Luo Yue's final section of bridge connected perfectly to the void above her bitter sea, answering the cool, clear cold moon from afar-
Hum!
The entire divine bridge erupted with dazzling ice-blue divine light, its internal five-colored dao resonance flowing through cycles of birth and dissolution!
A powerful aura, cold and vast yet bearing the sense of insight into heaven's secrets, burst thunderously from Luo Yue's body.
Divine bridge realm-attained!
Luo Yue abruptly opened her eyes. Deep within her ice-blue pupils, an ice bridge seemed to span the heavens, a cold moon hung high, and star tracks revolved!
She opened her palm. A strand of supremely pure divine power, containing the three dao resonances of icy cold, chaos, and deduction, danced at her fingertips, drawing wisps of ice-aspected dao patterns from the surrounding heaven and earth into resonance.
"It worked..."
Feeling the surging power within her and her clear connection to the Dao Principles of heaven and earth, Luo Yue felt a slight ripple of emotion.
Yet when she lowered her head to look before her, the ice soul jade marrow worth nearly several thousand jin of source had been reduced entirely to powder, its energy exhausted.
"My divine bridge has only just formed. Stabilizing my realm, deducing mystic arts, even breaking through to the other shore... The resources I'll need... Tsk." A trace of helplessness and pain at the expense crossed Luo Yue's small face, and her gaze involuntarily turned beyond the Luo Residence once more.
"Looks like I'll have to 'patronize' the Great Evolution Stone Workshop a few more times."
The Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu still floated within her sea of consciousness, while the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment quietly revolved deep within her life spring, like two bottomless gold-devouring beasts.