The cave is not completely dark. The surrounding ice walls emit a light blue light, which is refracted through the thick crystal walls, forming a hazy halo in the entire space.
The ceiling of the cave is about three feet high, with countless stalactite-like icicles hanging upside down. They vary in length, and the longest one is nearly one foot. The surface of the icicles has sharp edges and corners, like countless hanging swords. The ice surface under your feet is flat and smooth, reflecting the image of the icicles on the top of the cave. It is like standing on a huge mirror. Looking down, you can see another world hanging upside down.
The surrounding ice wall was thick and pure. Qin Tiexin reached out and touched the ice wall beside him - it felt cold and smooth, like touching a piece of fine jade. He could feel the extremely pure ice-attribute spiritual power contained in it.
At the end of the cave directly ahead is a three-foot-square space. There is a six-foot-square pool on the ground, but the pool is empty.
On the ground beside the pool, there is a dark blue stone tablet. Next to the stone tablet is a skeleton with snow-white bones sitting cross-legged, with his hands folded on his knees and his head slightly lowered.
Li Yun walked to the skeleton, folded her hands, and saluted solemnly to the skeleton. After doing this, she stood up and looked at Qin Tiexin.
"This is senior Su Qiao."
"This pool was originally filled with a treasure called Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid. It was created by Su Qiao, who sealed his lifelong cultivation and the essence of both Ice Devil King here, and formed it after thousands of years of precipitation. He has been waiting here for a thousand years, waiting for a younger generation who can enter this place to pass on these things."
Li Yun did not tell the story of Su Qiao and Jiang Yi in detail - she had already promised Su Qiao those words and would not tell others easily.. But she still told the part that could be said. Su Qiao came from Central Heaven Great Region. He died here thousands of years ago, leaving this pool of marrow fluid and leaving a copy of fortuitous opportunity for the younger generation of monks.
Qin Tiexin After listening, he was silent for a while, and then bowed to the skeleton. "Senior, you are righteous."
Li Yun looked at the empty pool in front of him. "Junior Brother Qin, do you know what my cultivation level was before I went in?"
"Foundation Establishment Early Stage."
"What are you watching now?"
Qin Tiexin felt it carefully and confirmed. "Foundation Establishment Late Stage."
"Yes." Li Yun nodded lightly, "Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid transformed my Spirit Root from the ordinary water attribute Single Spirit Root into an ice attribute. Not only that, originally the purity of my Water Spirit Root was only about 80%. After being baptized with marrow fluid, the purity reached 100%, which is Earth Spirit Root!"
Qin Tiexin was slightly startled.
Earth Spirit Root!
This is the qualification that countless monks dream of. As we all know, Spirit Root is an innate characteristic and is difficult to change later. Spirit Root determines a monk's talent. The higher the purity, the faster the cultivation speed. A purity of more than 80% is Single Spirit Root. When Li Yun is started, it is a water attribute Single Spirit Root with a purity of 80%.
But there are two special kinds of purity. The first is Single Spirit Root that is 100% pure and does not contain any other attributes. It is called "Earth Spirit Root". In the entire Azure Xuan Region, Earth Spirit Root The number of them can be counted on one hand, and they are all True Disciple, the core of all major sects. And the ice attribute Earth Spirit Root, and the extremely rare Mutated Spirit Root, are born with a stronger ice affinity than ordinary monks.
Of course, there is another one that exceeds the 10% limit and reaches 110% purity of Spirit Root, which belongs to the legendary Heaven Spirit Root. The Lu Ming that was introduced and tested together with Qin Tiexin was Heaven Spirit Root with wood attribute, and was sent to the Sect on the spot.
"Then the half lotus flower you gave me..." Qin Tiexin looked at her, "What about that?"
Li Yun's eyes moved away slightly and fell on the bottom of the pool. His voice was calm. "The lotus is called Ice Marrow Jade Lotus. It grows at the bottom of the pool and has absorbed the essence of Profound Ice Crystal Marrow Liquid for thousands of years. It is the most precious treasure in the entire cave besides the marrow. When I found it at the bottom of the pool, it was already mature. I drank half of it and it became a special physique - Frost Physique."
She did not say that if she took the whole lotus flower, her Spirit Root would go a step further on the basis of Earth Spirit Root and transform into the ice attribute Heaven Spirit Root, and at the same time obtain a complete Extreme Ice Physique.
She didn't say that when she picked off the lotus and felt the surging power, her body instinctively longed to swallow it whole, but she stopped the desire abruptly and split the lotus into two halves.
She only said, "Junior Brother Qin, you discovered this place. Although you couldn't enter the cave because of your Spirit Root attributes, without you, I wouldn't have been able to get here. I absorbed the marrow liquid, but this lotus should be given to you half."
In fact, there is one last reason. Li Yun knows that Qin Tiexin practices much harder than himself. Although Five Spirit Roots has the lowest qualifications, he still practices to Qi Refining Eighth Layer. This lotus has the ability to "cleanse Spirit Root, remove the waste and retain the essence" Although Qin Tiexin cannot transform from Five Spirit Roots into ice attribute Single Spirit Root, according to her prediction, it is no problem to transform into Dual Spirit Root. In this way, his future cultivation speed can be greatly accelerated, and Golden Core is expected.
"Junior Brother Qin, after you took that half of the lotus flower, Spirit Root, did you see any changes?" Li Yun asked tentatively.
After hearing this, Qin Tiexin was silent for a while, then lowered his head and looked at his palm. He used his spiritual power, and the eight cyclones in Dantian lit up at the same time - gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow light flashed alternately, and in the blue light, there was a layer of faint white cold light.
"My Spirit Root." He paused, "It seems that some changes have indeed taken place."
Li Yun's eyes lit up. "What has it become? Triple Spirit Root? Or Dual Spirit Root?"
Qin Tiexin sensed it carefully again, and his expression became a little complicated. He confirmed it several times before raising his head and saying in an uncertain voice, "It's still Five Spirit Roots."
Li Yun was stunned.
"But..." Qin Tiexin stretched out his hand, and a small hexagonal ice crystal condensed on his fingertips, shining with crystal luster under the light blue light. "Water Spirit Root has an additional ice attribute."
Li Yun was silent.
Five Spirit Roots has become Five Spirit Roots with ice attributes. The essence has not changed, it is still the lowest level Spirit Root qualification, but Water Spirit Root has an additional ice attribute branch. This means that Qin Tiexin's training speed will not make a qualitative leap, and in the future, at most, it can only cast water and ice spells at the same time. That's all.
She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing.
She didn't know that Qin Tiexin had Five Phases Conversion Pearl, and his cultivation speed had already caught up with ordinary Dual Spirit Root monks; nor did she know that there was some special reason why the outside cold power could not change his Five Spirit Roots structure.
She only knew that the half of Ice Marrow Jade Lotus, which was enough to transform an ordinary monk, only played such a trivial role in Qin Tiexin's body.
If I had known this, I should have left a whole flower for Junior Brother Qin.
Qin Tiexin Seeing her silent look, he grinned. "It would be nice to have an extra ice attribute. At least it won't be so cold in this ice and snow in the future." He said it casually, as if he really didn't care.
Li Yun glanced at him, knowing that he was comforting her. She changed the topic and said instead, "Then Junior Brother Qin, please put these things away first."
She pointed to the ice walls around her. "The ice walls of this entire cave are made of high-purity Profound Frost Crystal. You are a weapon refiner, so you should know the value of Profound Frost Crystal."
Qin Tiexin looked around - those light blue ice walls were several feet thick and crystal clear. He knew the price of Profound Frost Crystal in the Wind and Snow Pass market. A good-quality Profound Frost Crystal could be sold for five yuan Spirit Stone. And here was a whole cave.
"My share of marrow fluid is enough." Li Yun's tone was very firm, "These Profound Frost Crystal should be yours."
"Senior Sister Li--"
"Stop pushing." She looked at him, "Your injuries haven't healed yet. I'll protect you first. You can recover from your injuries first, and then you can finish picking Profound Frost Crystal. Let's go back when it gets daylight."
Qin Tiexin opened his mouth, but finally refused and nodded.
He sat down cross-legged, took out a few Qi Recovery Pill and drank them, closing his eyes and doing his exercises. An hour later, he opened his eyes. The injuries in his body had basically healed, and his spiritual power had recovered by 70 to 80%. He stood up, stretched his muscles, and then took out a short pickaxe specially used for mining spiritual materials from the storage ring, and walked towards the nearest ice wall.
The hardness of Profound Frost Crystal is extremely high. Fortunately, with the strength of Body Tempering Ninth Layer and the engraved Stone-Breaking Spirit Rune on the short pick, it is not too difficult to mine. He knocked along the cracks in the ice wall layer by layer, removed the crystal clear crystal blocks in one piece, stacked them neatly, and put them into the storage ring.
One piece, two pieces, ten pieces, fifty pieces. The deeper you go, the higher the purity of Profound Frost Crystal in the ice wall. In the ice layer near the core area of the ice wall, he picked up several pieces of top-grade Profound Frost Crystal with light blue fluorescence - that grade of Profound Frost Crystal is almost impossible to see in the market outside, and is usually taken away by large sects and big merchants.
It took him nearly half an hour to put all the Profound Frost Crystal that could be mined in the cave into the storage ring. When he straightened up and wiped the slight sweat from his forehead, the Profound Frost Crystal in the storage ring had piled up into a hill. A rough estimate, it weighed at least a thousand kilograms.
He turned to look at Li Yun and found that she had entered a state of cultivation, with a light blue halo lingering around her body. Ice Icicle Sword was lying on his lap, gradually blending with her breath.
Qin Tiexin did not disturb her. He found a flat piece of ice beside the pool and sat down cross-legged.
As soon as "Primordial Unity Instruction" was running, he felt a difference. The pure ice-attribute spiritual power in the air poured into his body along his breathing and meridians, which was much smoother than when he was practicing outside. The eight cyclones in Dantian were still running stably, and the faint white cold light on the blue cyclones vaguely resonated with the remaining spiritual power in the surrounding ice walls.
He guided the ice attribute spiritual power to operate according to the route of "Primordial Unity Instruction". The bottleneck of Qi Refining Eighth Layer still needs time to stabilize after getting started. But after this trauma and hard battle, he vaguely felt that the spiritual power in his body had become more solid - the tempering of the battlefield was more effective than any meditation practice.
The cave became quiet, leaving only two long and steady breathing sounds, and the occasional subtle sound of water droplets sliding down the icicles on the top of the cave. Those water droplets fell on the ice, making a crisp sound that could be clearly heard in the silence. A blue-white light enveloped the entire space.
Under the light blue light, two figures, one on the left and one on the right, sat opposite each other, waiting for dawn.