Li Yun was silent for a long time after listening to Su Qiao's three conditions.
It's not because those three conditions are so stringent.
The first two are not difficult for her - put the bones next to the statue of Jiang Yi, and then go to Central Heaven Great Region to return the stone tablet when you are able.
She was silent because of the story Su Qiao told.
True Lord Snow Wind Jiang Yi. The woman who transformed her Qi and Blood and cultivation into Wind and Snow Pass, beheaded Devil King, and protected Qingxuan for thousands of years - she saw the ice crystal statue tens of feet high in the square every day, but she never thought that there was such a person standing behind the statue.
A person who came from the distant Central Heaven Great Region and has been waiting for her here for thousands of years.
She stood there, the afterimage watching her quietly without urging her.
After a while, Li Yun took a deep breath, raised his head, looked at the figure that had become somewhat transparent, and nodded solemnly. "Senior, I agree. I agree to all three conditions."
Su Qiao looked at her, his eyes lingering on her face for a moment. He nodded slightly. "I can see from your reaction that you are serious. If you just had a hint of perfunctory in your heart, you have become one with the water now."
He paused and said in a calm tone, "Go ahead. I will introduce the refining method into your sea of consciousness. This ray of consciousness of mine will not last long."
After saying that, he pointed like a sword and pointed it at the center of Li Yun's eyebrows. A section of Method Formula turned into a stream of light and appeared directly in her sea of consciousness, clearly showing how to guide Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid to penetrate into the meridians, how to use Dantian as a furnace to refine the extreme cold essence in it, and how to plant ice attribute seeds in Spirit Root.
Li Yun closed her eyes for a moment and kept that part of Method Formula firmly in mind. When she opened her eyes again, the afterimage on the stone tablet had dissipated. The figure in the moon-white robe seemed to have never existed, and only a faint, crisp breath remained in the air.
At the same time, an almost inaudible sound came from above the pool water. It was like some invisible barrier shattered and dissipated in the air.
A circle of extremely fine ripples appeared on the surface of the pool Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid, and a richer, extremely pure ice Spiritual Qi rose from the surface of the pool and filled the entire cave.
Li Yun stood by the pool, holding the article on refining Method Formula, and read it again carefully, not missing every detail.
The core of this article Method Formula is to introduce Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid into the body, use Dantian as the furnace, and use Qi and Blood as the lead to gradually refine the extreme cold in it Essence, allowing it to merge with its own spiritual power, meridians, and even Spirit Root. This pool of marrow fluid contains the lifelong ice cultivation of one Nascent Soul Cultivator, as well as two Ice Devil King is all the essence left after being refined. After thousands of years of natural precipitation and concentration, although part of it has been lost, the remaining energy is still extremely huge.
If it can be completely absorbed, it is enough for an ordinary Water Spirit Root monk to transform into a brand new ice attribute Spirit Root, and obtain part of the "Extreme Ice Physique" characteristics.
However, Method Formula also clearly states: This refining has released all restrictions on the pool water and must be completed before the pool water is frozen. Once the realization is interrupted or withdrawn, there will be no second chance.
Li Yun stood by the pool, looking down at the milky white marrow fluid. The surface of the pool was as calm as a mirror, reflecting her face. She was silent for a moment, then reached out and unzipped from her waist. Storage Bag. Talisman, Law Treasure, jade pendant, outer robe - she took them off one by one, put them into Storage Bag, and then placed Storage Bag on the ice by the pool.
Soon, she was left with only a close-fitting white gauze dress.
Cold Qi immediately came to her from all directions. Without the barrier of the talisman and Law Artifact, the extremely cold air in the cave directly touched her skin, and fine frost condensed on her arms, neck, and cheeks at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her breath instantly turned into white mist, and then condensed into fine ice crystals and fell in front of her.
She didn't stop.
She raised her feet and stepped into the pool.
The water in the pool was not deep, only reaching her waist. But the moment she entered the water, an indescribable chill rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head. She felt as if she was caught by something from the inside. Blood, spiritual power, consciousness, everything became sluggish the moment they came into contact with the marrow fluid.
She gritted her teeth and continued walking forward. The water covered her waist and her chest, and finally she sank into it, leaving only her head above the water.
The moment the marrow fluid covered her body, it was like countless fine ice needles were piercing the surface of her skin at the same time. But what was even more terrifying was inside her body - she felt that her blood was thickening, and she could clearly feel that every beat of her heart was becoming more difficult, her blood was stagnant, her meridians were so cold that she couldn't even mobilize her spiritual power.
Her consciousness began to blur.
The cold was so extreme that it was no longer cold, leaving only a numb and gradually expanding sense of nothingness. Her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and her body was sliding towards the bottom of the pool.
At the moment when her consciousness was about to break - a name emerged from the depths of her consciousness.
Junior Brother Qin is still waiting for her outside.
She bit the tip of her tongue sharply.
The stinging pain, along with the faint smell of blood that filled her mouth, restored her consciousness to a trace of clarity. She forced herself to open her eyes, floated on the water, gasped for the cold and biting air, and forced her body not to sink.
Then she started running "Gentle Water Instruction".
At first, Cultivation Method couldn't be driven at all. The meridians seemed to be frozen, and the spiritual power was solidified in Dantian, motionless. She tried once, twice, and three times - each time she was bounced back by the extremely cold power. The tingling pain in her meridians was unbearable. She took a deep breath and activated the remaining spiritual power in Dantian again. Gently and slowly, like warm water melting ice, starting from the center of Dantian, it gradually warmed the surrounding spiritual power.
She didn't know how many times she tried. Time became meaningless in this state.
Finally - she felt it.
Dantian In the deepest part, there is an extremely weak spiritual power that begins to flow.
Just like the first crack appeared on the frozen river, the crack slowly extended, causing the surrounding ice to break, and the water began to flow again. She immediately grasped this signal and slowly pushed the flowing spiritual power along the meridians. Following the Method Formula route that Su Qiao passed into her sea of consciousness, she guided the essence of the marrow fluid into the meridians bit by bit.
The first step was completed. She continued to guide the second and third strands without pausing.
The essence in Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid began to slowly flow into her body along the meridians she opened. The power was cold and huge, but it no longer violently impacted her body like it did at first. Instead, under the guidance of Method Formula, it flowed along a fixed route, passing through the arms, torso, and finally merged into Dantian.
Inside her Dantian, that blue Water Spirit Root is changing.
As Single Water Spirit Root, her Spirit Root purity is about 80%, and the remaining 20% is variegated, which is not top-notch among Single Spirit Root. But as Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid seeps into Dantian little by little, the 20% variegated color is slowly fading away, being washed, purified, and assimilated by the extremely cold essence.
A layer of faint, blue-white light appears on the surface of the azure Water Spirit Root. That is a sign that the ice attribute spiritual power has begun to adhere to it. Spirit Root is becoming more and more pure. Under that layer of blue-white light, a new attribute is growing.
Li Yun closed her eyes and concentrated on her body, not noticing the changes happening to her body. But she could feel that her Spirit Root was undergoing a change that had never happened before - cold, Sharpness, pure.
At the same time, in the pool of milky white marrow, there was an extremely weak breath, which was seeping out little by little through the tiny gaps in the ice wall. The breath was so light that it could hardly be captured with Divine Sense, but it carried a unique aroma - like the smell of a very rare flower blooming deep in the forest at the beginning of the snow. It was clear, sweet, and Penetration was extremely powerful and could be sensed by people at extremely low concentrations.
Outside the ice wall, the sky was starting to get darker.
Qin Tiexin was lurking under the boulder three feet away on the opposite side of the ice cliff, keeping a motionless posture and fixating his gaze on the direction of the ice cliff. The wind passed through the forest, bringing with it the faint sound of snow falling from the branches in the distance. Several night-roosting birds started up from the forest, fluttering their wings and flying away into the distance.
He had been here for almost an hour. There was no movement on the other side of the ice cliff, it was so quiet that nothing happened.
Suddenly, a very faint smell drifted into his nose.
It's very light, so light that it can almost be ignored. But after being strengthened by Body Refining, Qin Tiexin's sense of smell has also become very sensitive. The smell is very unique - not the smell of humus in the forest., not the smell of snow, nor the fishy smell of Devil Race. It is a refreshing, sweet fragrance, like a signal that heavenly materials and earthly treasures with strong spirituality emits when it matures.
Qin Tiexin's body tensed up almost the moment he smelled that smell.
What does this smell like?
He quickly determined the source of the smell - the direction of the ice cliff. He adjusted his position, took another deep breath, took the smell into his heart, and confirmed the direction. After his body received the smell, the blood flow speed increased, as if some instinct in the body had been awakened. He suppressed this reaction forcibly, and scanned the surroundings with vigilance.
This smell, did Li Yun touch something inside?
Qin Tiexin The moment he smelled that smell, his body reacted before his consciousness.
He stood up suddenly from under the boulder and glanced around - he didn't see any moving objects. The forest was still quiet, with only the sound of wind and the sound of falling snow in the distance.
But he did not relax his vigilance. The refreshing fragrance was still wafting around, and the sip he took in already made his blood slightly hot. This was not the smell of ordinary heavenly materials and earthly treasures. It was the smell that comes when some extremely advanced spiritual creature matures or is released. For any intelligent creature, it means great nourishment.
Qin Tiexin took three steps at a time, rushed to the ice wall, and stretched out his hand to stick to the ice. The ice wall was cold and silent, without any response. He could not see what was happening inside, nor could he feel Li Yun's breath. The formation completely isolated her.
He retracted his hand and without much pause, immediately took out several formation disks from the storage ring. These were all bought in Kannaibo City before coming here. Some were for concealing aura, some for isolating Spiritual Qi, and one was for preventing prying eyes. He activated the formation disks one by one, buried them in the snow along the edge of the ice wall, and buried them with gravel and ice chips.
The moment the array was activated, a faint light curtain enveloped the area above the ice wall. After a few breaths, the light curtain disappeared and the array began to operate normally.
But the strange fragrance still Penetration floated out from the gaps in the ice wall, despite the barrier of the formation. The ordinary arrays he bought couldn't stop this level of aura at all.
Qin Tiexin didn't try again. He quickly gathered his array, cleaned up the footprints he had left around the ice wall, and then roughly restored the snow he had trampled when he moved to its original state. Time was tight, and he could only do this.
After doing all this, he did not retreat to the boulder, but chose a slightly higher position on the opposite side of the ice wall - a rock that stretched out obliquely, which could barely cover his body, and his field of vision could cover the entire open area in front of the ice wall. He squatted down, took out the javelins from the storage ring, and lined them up on the rock in front of him.
Ten handles. Six handles Armor-Piercing Spear, four handles Frost Spear. He did not take Bursting Spear - the distance was too close, and the aftermath of the explosion might spread to the ice wall and affect the Li Yun inside.
He checked again that the short knife at his waist, the wolf fang bracelet on his left wrist, and the Edgeless stuck in the ice on his back were all still there. Then he squatted behind the rock, motionless, his eyes fixed on the forest clearing in front of him that was shrouded in dim skylight, and waited.
Waiting for the first customer attracted by that strange fragrance.