The moment you step into the ice wall, Li Yun feels like you have passed through an extremely thin layer of water curtain.
Her body paused slightly, and the surrounding air suddenly became colder. It was an extreme cold that seemed to penetrate into the bone marrow and freeze the movement of spiritual power. The jade pendant around her waist lit up with a layer of warm white light, blocking most of the coldness from the body, but there was still a trace of Penetration protection that made her shiver involuntarily.
She stood firm and looked up ahead. This was a huge ice crystal cave.
The ceiling of the cave was about three feet high, with countless stalactite-like icicles hanging upside down, varying in length, the longest being nearly one foot, with a pale blue light glowing at the tip. The ice surface under her feet was as smooth as a mirror, as smooth as if it had been carefully polished, and her figure was clearly reflected - when she lowered her head, she could see another version of herself standing under the ice.
The surrounding ice walls present an extremely pure light blue, just like the color of the clearest mountain glacier lake after condensation. It is transparent and deep, reflecting rich layers of cold light in the weak light. The air is filled with an extremely pure breath of water spiritual power and ice spiritual power, which brings a biting sweetness when breathed into the lungs.
Li Yun stood on the spot, slowly turning around, scanning every corner of the cave. Her breathing became lighter unconsciously - after so many years of practice, she had never seen such a pure and complete ice crystal structure. This was not an ordinary ice layer, but Profound Frost Crystal.
Profound Frost Crystal is a rather peculiar ice attribute spiritual material. Ordinary Profound Frost Crystal is not uncommon. It is mostly born in extremely cold places. It can be used to forge weapons and increase ice attribute affinity and ice attribute Law Technique damage. It is a relatively common material.
But what Li Yun is looking for on this trip is not the ordinary Profound Frost Crystal, but the Profound Ice Crystal Marrow that has been condensed for more than a hundred years in the ultimate ice illusion. Rather than saying it is a kind of material, it is better to say that it is a type of heavenly materials and earthly treasures-the product of the ultimate condensation of the two attributes of ice and water.
It is said that after a monk with water attribute Spirit Root takes it, Spirit Root will develop the characteristics of Ice Spirit Root.
Li Yun is originally a water attribute Single Spirit Root, but prefers to use ice attribute spells. However, due to the limitation of Spirit Root, the power of the ice spells she cast has never been as powerful as those monks who mutated Ice Spirit Root. Therefore, after arriving at Wind and Snow Pass, she couldn't wait to search for it. Today she finally saw a glimmer of hope.
She knelt down and lightly touched the ice beneath her feet with her fingertips.
It felt cold and smooth to the touch, and a ray of extremely pure ice spiritual power was transmitted into the body through the fingertips and slowly traveled along the meridians. She closed her eyes and felt it for a moment, confirming her judgment: the ice covering the entire cave floor was entirely composed of extremely pure Profound Frost Crystal - from the cave roof to the ground, from the walls to the depths, it was all Profound Frost Crystal.
She stood up and continued walking forward. The deeper you go, the higher the purity of Profound Frost Crystal. The ice surface under your feet gradually became completely transparent from the initial translucency, like water frozen to the extreme. You can see the rock formations at the bottom at a glance. The ice walls on both sides are getting thicker and thicker, no longer containing bubbles and impurities, showing a pure and flawless texture.
After walking about twenty steps, she saw some raised crystals beginning to appear on both sides of the passage - they were Profound Frost Crystal clusters that grew naturally from the ice wall. These crystal clusters varied in size, some were only as long as a knuckle, and some were as long as the thickness of an arm. The surface showed sharp-angular geometric sections, which reflected light blue stars in the weak light in the cave.
These Profound Frost Crystal, if you knock off a piece and take it back, are enough to make the ice monks in the sect compete for bids. But Li Yun did not stop. She knew that the real treasure was still deeper. The jade pendant on her waist continued to exude The warmth resisted the intensifying Cold Qi. She could feel that the further she walked, the lower the temperature became. The chill had already been protected by the Penetration jade pendant, and a fine layer of frost formed on the surface of her skin. But she did not stop.
The passage turned a corner in front of her. When she turned the corner, her eyes suddenly opened up.
At the end of the cave is a space about three feet square. The ice wall here shows a deep, almost blue-black color, like the core of a glacier that has accumulated for tens of millions of years. And in the center of the cave is a six-foot-square pool.
The pool is not big, but the moment Li Yun's eyes fell on the pool, his whole figure seemed to be frozen in place.
The pool is filled with liquid. It is a translucent milky white liquid, as thick as slurry, with a faint cold light on the surface. There is no ice - in such an extremely cold environment, surrounded by Profound Frost Crystal, the liquid in the pool does not freeze, but maintains a flowing shape. The surface of the pool is as calm as a mirror, and occasionally there is a very fine ripple spreading outward from the center, as if something is breathing gently at the bottom of the pool.
Li Yun stood by the pool, his fingers holding the hilt of the sword slightly tightened.
Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid.
She had read its record in the sect's ancient books. There were only a few words, and the description was extremely brief. "Profound Ice Crystal Marrow, the extreme of water and ice. Normal temperature is solid, extreme cold is liquid. It can be obtained by changing marrow to bone, and water can be turned into ice." When she read this text at the time, she thought it was just an exaggeration by the ancients, and never thought that she would see the real thing with her own eyes.
Profound Frost Crystal is a solid at normal temperature. Only at very low and very low temperatures will it transform from solid to liquid to form Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid. And how low is the temperature here? She lowered her head and glanced at her waist. The jade pendant, the white light on the surface of the jade pendant has become extremely bright, and it is running at full strength, so that it can barely resist the surrounding coldness. Even so, she can still feel a bit of biting coldness on her fingertips, as if something is slowly penetrating the jade pendant's protection.
A six-foot-square pool is filled with Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid.
How many years has the owner of this cave been operating here?
Li Yun did not approach immediately. She forced herself to suppress the surging emotions in her heart and stood there, first looking away from the pool and scanning the entire cave carefully.
Then she saw two things. On the left side of the pool, against the wall, there was a corpse sitting cross-legged.
The corpse's bones were completely snow-white, and the bones were fine and dense. There was a faint cold light under the dim light in the cave, and it was as warm and white as jade. The bones were intact, sitting in a cross-legged posture, with hands folded on the knees, and the head slightly lowered, as if it was still in a practicing posture at the last moment of life. It is unknown how many years it had been sitting, but the bones were still intact Sturdiness, without any sign of weathering.
On the ground next to the corpse, there is a stone tablet.
Her eyes moved back and forth several times between the bones, the stone tablet, and the pool of Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid.
This place is man-made.