Li Jin Obtained Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow

Over the course of half an hour, Li Jin, the Snow Maiden, and the Ice Empress dug out all the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal in the underground cavern.

A third of the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal even contained Ice Spirits, making it the finest of its kind.

The corners of Li Jin's mouth rose in a grin he couldn't suppress.

He could already picture the crystals forged into three-edged ice spikes with blood grooves, whistling toward his enemies under the control of his Spiritual Telekinesis.

The Ice Empress returned to human form and glanced at the Snow Maiden floating beside Li Jin. For the Snow Maiden's sake, she had worked hard to help Li Jin dig out the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. Now it was time to discuss the real business.

"Li Jin, we've finished digging out the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. Where do we dig for the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow?"

Li Jin came back to his senses. He hadn't forgotten the original purpose of this trip: to pack up and take away the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

"Follow me."

"Snow Maiden, use the Ice God's Pearl to protect me in a moment. Without Ultimate Ice protecting me, I can't reach the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow."

The Snow Maiden happily threw herself into Li Jin's arms.

"Big brother, I'll be sure to protect you well."

The Snow Maiden's voice was soft and sweet, and she spoke with utmost seriousness.

Holding the Snow Maiden, Li Jin walked over to a cold spring.

The Snow Maiden activated the power of the Ice God's Pearl, and streams of white vapor coated the surface of Li Jin's body like a membrane.

Li Jin motioned for the Ice Empress to follow him.

"The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow is deep in this cold spring."

With that, Li Jin jumped into the cold spring with a splash.

Anticipation flashed in the Ice Empress's eyes, and she jumped into the cold spring after Li Jin and the Snow Maiden.

They swam through the cold spring for a long time. Its temperature was so low that even a Titled Douluo would be frozen into an ice sculpture.

But Li Jin was thoroughly protected. He had eaten the ice and fire immortal herbs and possessed a Profound Jade Body, the Snow Empress's Soul Core was inside him, and the Snow Maiden was protecting him from outside with the Ice God's Pearl. The cold spring's low temperature couldn't hurt him in the slightest.

After swimming onward like this for ten minutes, Li Jin and the Ice Empress reached another underground cavern, breaking the surface with a rush of water.

It was hidden deeper, and the temperature was even colder.

This was a world of ice, with thick layers of ice all around, as though they had been compressed for hundreds of thousands of years.

Hard and dense!

They looked around and saw pure white ice crystals growing one after another from the thick ice. The crystals gave off fluctuations of pure energy.

"Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow! There's so much of it!!"

The Ice Empress's voice turned somewhat shrill with excitement.

Li Jin had already released the Snow Maiden from his arms.

"Ice Empress, I told you there would be plenty of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, but if you can't beat the Snow Maiden to it, don't blame me."

"Snow Maiden, hurry and put all that Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow away."

The Snow Maiden's big ice-blue eyes were full of delight. Even though her consciousness was still undeveloped, the instincts she had inherited from the Snow Empress told her how precious the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow was.

"Big brother, you're amazing! You found so much Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow! I won't let you down."

"Mine! It's all mine!!"

Clutching the Ice God's Pearl, the Snow Maiden flew toward one of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow crystals and used the pearl's power to draw it inside.

The Ice Empress darted out like a bolt and grumbled in annoyance:

"Li Jin, you big meanie, you're too cunning!"

"You said there'd be plenty of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and tricked me into digging a tunnel. Now that we've found it, you're making me compete with little Snow Maiden for it. How could I bear to really fight her for it?"

After rushing out, the Ice Empress hugged a Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow crystal and began gnawing on it. Her white teeth had an astonishing bite, and she chewed through the hard crystal as if it were shaved ice.

She looked so fierce that she might have been gnawing on some human who had made her angry, rather than Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

Li Jin also got out of the water and onto the bank.

The power of the Ice God's Pearl had coated the surface of his body with a membrane.

So he was dry all over, and the cold spring hadn't even wet his clothes.

He glanced at the Snow Maiden, who was swiftly collecting one Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow crystal after another, then at the Ice Empress, who had taken ages to finish gnawing on just one.

A mischievous smile curled his lips.

The Snow Maiden was his Martial Soul, after all, so she was naturally closer to him.

I have the energy in the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's shed body. His million years of cultivation are enough to let me cultivate all the way to becoming a level 99 Peerless Douluo.

The Snow Maiden can collect the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow through the Ice God's Pearl, and thanks to the special nature of a Martial Soul outside the body, she can cultivate on her own too.

That gives me double the cultivation speed, and solves the problem of slow cultivation with an Ultimate Attribute.

That makes everything perfect.

Li Jin stretched and waited off to the side.

Soon, half an hour had passed!

The Snow Maiden had collected a total of forty-two Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow crystals through the Ice God's Pearl, taking over ninety percent of them.

The Ice Empress had gnawed away for half an hour and only finished three Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow crystals. She was now full of resentment.

He had promised there would be plenty of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.

And this was what she got.

Liar, big liar.

The Ice Empress muttered to herself endlessly, as though she had suffered an enormous injustice.

Hugging the Ice God's Pearl, the Snow Maiden circled the Ice Empress and playfully stuck out her tongue at her.

"Nya-nya-nya!"

The Ice Empress could do nothing about it. This was the Snow Empress, after all.

There was no shame in losing to the Snow Empress.

Then the Snow Maiden flew back to Li Jin's side, looking ready to claim credit and demand a reward. "Praise me" was written all over her face.

Li Jin reached out and rubbed the Snow Maiden's long, silky hair, praising her with a smile in his eyes.

"Snow Maiden, you did great!"

The Snow Maiden's eyes narrowed in a smile, and she rubbed her head back and forth against Li Jin's palm.

The Ice Empress was just like a helpless husband.

Most of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow had been snatched away, and then she had to watch the Snow Maiden claim credit and demand a reward from Li Jin, unable to get angry at all.

She pouted, her cheeks puffed up with indignation, looking every bit the wronged party.

Li Jin scooped the Snow Maiden back into his arms, then looked at the Ice Empress.

"Bingbing, it's time to go."

"Don't be angry. Three Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow crystals are more than enough to get you through your fourth heavenly tribulation."

The Ice Empress felt a little better. Back in the Far North, she hadn't gotten so much as an ice shaving of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to eat.

Now she had left with Li Jin and eaten three Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow crystals. That was already an enormous stroke of fortune.

But she refused to back down, giving a haughty little huff.

"I'm only letting this pass today for the Snow Empress's sake. Otherwise, if I didn't get enough Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, I'd make a meal of you."

Li Jin shook his head and chuckled. The Ice Empress was a longtime tsundere too.

Holding the Snow Maiden, he jumped back into the cold spring.

"Wait for me!"

Seeing Li Jin and the Snow Maiden leave, the Ice Empress hurried after them and jumped into the cold spring.

They retraced their route and returned to the surface through the tunnel the Ice Empress had made.

A crowd still surrounded the crack in the earth, chattering away about it.

Some said there was a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast beneath the crack.

Others said there were rare ores beneath it.

Li Jin, who had already claimed the greatest spoils, dusted off his backside and left Condensing Frost City in high spirits, holding the Snow Maiden and bringing the Ice Empress along.