Ice Seal Experiment
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The first snow of winter in Heaven Dou City arrived earlier than usual. Nan Feng secluded himself in the inn for nearly a month, the Tower Realm Light Membrane isolating the room from the outside world. Every day, he immersed himself in the Tower Spirit Space, tempering his foundation to level seventy-seven. His Peng Eye quietly shimmered with golden light in his pupils, the multicolored spectrum of his Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light aura covered a range of a thousand steps, and the spatial law of Shrinking the Ground to an Inch continued to settle in his meridians. On the twenty-third day after Huo Wu left, an ice-blue letter was slipped under the door.
The letter felt like a thin sheet of ice, cool to the touch, with fine, flowing ice patterns on its surface. It contained only one line of delicate handwriting. "Nan Feng, I'm at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy. I have a new idea regarding the synergy between ice attributes and tower Soul Skill. If you have time, please come over. --Shui Bing'er."
Nan Feng stored the Ice Scroll into the Tower Spirit Space. The Ice Scroll floated quietly beside the Life Origin Stone, its silver-blue ice patterns and emerald green life luster reflecting each other. He stood up and stretched his limbs, the Tower Realm Light Membrane retracting from the room to his body. The red ribbon on his left wrist fluttered gently in the morning light. When he pushed open the door, a thin layer of frost had already formed in the inn's corridor, and a crisp chill filled the air—the unique aura of Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.
The martial arts arena of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy was covered by a layer of silvery-white ice crystals. When the Nan Feng arrived, Shui Bing'er stood in the center of the arena, her long silver-blue hair fluttering gently in the cold wind, her light blue dress embroidered with Ice Phoenix patterns. A very faint layer of icy mist surrounded her, and each breath left tiny ice crystals in the air. Her Soul Power fluctuations were stronger than when they last met, around the peak of Soul Emperor, just one step away from Soul Saint.
She nodded slightly when she saw Nan Feng, her amber pupils reflecting the glint of ice crystals on the training ground. "You've come." Her voice was clear and cold like an icy spring, carrying a calmness unique to a laboratory setting. "I studied the Ice Crystal Amulet you gave me. The Primordial World Power remaining in the amulet resonated with my ice-type Soul Power. The frequency of the resonance was very special—it was like two completely different forces stimulating each other."
She took out a pale blue ice crystal from her sleeve. Inside the crystal was a wisp of dark golden light, the Primordial World Power that Nan Feng had infused last time. "Your Primordial Origin contains both extreme cold and extreme heat attributes." Shui Bing'er held the ice crystal up to the sunlight, where it refracted a seven-colored spectrum. "When I stimulate it with ice-type Soul Power, the extreme heat automatically retaliates. Conversely, if I stimulate it with fire-type power, the extreme cold will also retaliate. This chaotic unity is unlike any other Soul Power system I've ever seen."
Nan Feng walked to the center of the martial arts arena. His mind flashed with Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light of treasure appraisal. The Spiritual Power points of Shui Bing'er's Martial Soul were an extremely pure ice-blue, with fine silver-white patterns flowing along their edges—the unique ice-type Spiritual Power structure of the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul. Meanwhile, the ice crystals on the arena surface displayed clear Spiritual Power veins in Peng Eye. Each ice crystal pointed towards the spot where Shui Bing'er stood, like ice veins growing from beneath her feet.
"Your Ice Phoenix Martial Soul," Nan Feng said, "Is the epitome of the cold attribute."
Shui Bing'er nodded. "My Martial Soul follows the extreme cold path, Ice Seal, frost, and ice. But your Primordial Origin is a chaotic unity—extreme cold and extreme heat coexist, mutually restraining each other. If I use my ice-type power as a triggering medium, perhaps I can stimulate the extreme cold side of your Primordial Origin, forming a completely new ice-type divine power."
She took three steps back and assumed a starting stance. The Ice Phoenix Martial Soul emerged from behind her, and a phantom of a phoenix made of ice crystals spread its wings in the cold wind, its silver-blue light enveloping the entire training ground in a cool halo.
"Use your Tower Suppression me. Go all out," Shui Bing'er said. "I want to see what happens to ice-type power under the suppression of gravity."
The Nan Feng unfurled the Tower Realm. A cyan-gold light membrane covered an area of a hundred paces, and the gravity suppression within the domain increased by forty percent. The ice crystals beneath Shui Bing'er's feet sank several inches into the ground under the pressure of gravity, but she immediately poured the Soul Power of her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul into the ice layer. The silver-blue ice-type Spiritual Power spread in all directions along the ice veins. Under the pressure of gravity, it not only did not shatter but became even denser. The density of the ice crystals increased dramatically under the pressure, and each ice crystal seemed to be compressed from ten thousand years of ice.
Shui Bing'er's eyes lit up. She formed a hand seal in front of her, and the phantom of the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul emitted a clear phoenix cry. Silver-blue ice light surged from her palms, condensing into an ice pillar under the gravitational pressure of the Tower Realm. The ice pillar rose from the ground, continuously climbing under the pressure of gravity. The temperature on the surface of the ice pillar dropped sharply, and the surrounding air condensed into fine ice crystals in the extreme cold, which fluttered down.
"Ice Suppression Domain!" Shui Bing'er shouted, and the ice pillar suddenly exploded under the pressure of gravity, turning into countless ice crystal fragments that flew in all directions. The ice crystal fragments were reduced in speed by 70% due to the gravity suppression in the Tower Realm, but each fragment carried extremely cold ice-type Soul Power, freezing the air wherever it passed and quickly forming a thick layer of frost on the ground.
Nan Feng gathered the light membrane of the Tower Realm, forming three layers of shields on its surface. When the ice crystal fragments collided with the shields, the surface of the first layer of shields instantly froze, and the ice layer spread across the shield, attempting to freeze the entire Tower Realm. However, Nan Feng poured Primordial World Power into the Tower Realm, and dark golden light flowed within the cyan-gold light membrane. Under the impact of the Primordial World Power, the ice layer shattered inch by inch, melting into water droplets that slid off the surface of the shields.
Shui Bing'er stopped. The phantom of the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul slowly dissipated behind her, and the ice crystals on the training ground gradually melted in the cold wind. She walked up to Nan Feng, her amber eyes filled with an irrepressible excitement.
"When your Primordial World Power clashes with ice-type Soul Power, it automatically releases an extremely hot attribute to counterattack." Her speech was slightly faster than usual. "Moreover, the strength of the counterattack is exactly equal to the intensity of the ice-type Soul Power —this indicates that there is an inherent balancing mechanism within your Primordial Origin. Extreme cold and extreme heat counterbalance each other within your Primordial Origin, and any attack of an external attribute will trigger a counterattack of the opposite attribute."
Nan Feng retracted the Tower Realm to his body. Seventy percent of the ice crystals on the training ground had melted, but the frost on the ground still remained, shimmering with a silvery-white light in the afternoon sun. Shui Bing'er took out a new Ice Crystal Amulet from the Storage Soul Tool at her waist. The talisman was larger than the last one, and the ice patterns inside were more complex, as if it had been carved bit by bit with ice-type Soul Power.
"This talisman contains three months' worth of my ice-type Soul Power." Shui Bing'er handed the talisman to Nan Feng. "If you encounter a powerful enemy you can't handle in battle, crush it. The ice shield can block a full-force attack from Titled Douluo- level opponent. Moreover, when the shield shatters, it releases an Ice Suppression Domain, freezing enemies within its range and subjecting them to gravitational suppression."
Nan Feng accepted the Ice Crystal Amulet. The amulet felt slightly cool to the touch, and the ice patterns inside flowed quietly in his palm, like a frozen river of Spiritual Power. His Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light captured the amulet's Spiritual Power spots in his mind. Among the ice-blue spots were extremely faint dark gold patterns, which were traces left over from the Primordial World Power last time.
"Furthermore," Shui Bing'er took a step back, a complex expression flashing in her amber eyes, "If your Primordial World Power were combined with my ice element—it might create a new ice-based divine ability. In my research, I discovered that the extremely cold aspect of your Primordial Origin can be activated by ice-based Soul Power, while the extremely hot aspect can be activated by fire-based Soul Power. If both attributes are activated simultaneously, it might form a chaotic Ice and Fire Domain."
She paused, her tone carrying the caution of a scientist facing the unknown. "But this requires you to continue increasing your Soul Power. Although your Primordial Origin currently chaotic and unified, the balance point between extreme cold and extreme heat is too high. With my current ice-type Soul Power, I cannot fully activate it. Perhaps we can try when your Soul Power breaks through to level eighty or above, or when my Ice Phoenix Martial Soul evolves again."
Nan Feng stored the Ice Crystal Amulet into his Tower Spirit Space. The talisman floated beside the Life Origin Stone, its silver-blue ice patterns and emerald green life luster reflecting each other. The Primordial World Power remaining in the talisman caused a faint resonance in his dantian. He sensed that the liquid Primordial World Power in his dantian was surging slightly under the stimulation of the Ice Crystal Amulet, and the extremely cold side was drawn by the ice-type Spiritual Power, forming an extremely thin icy blue light thread in his meridians.
Old Huai poked its head out from the immortal tree, its semi-transparent remnant soul swaying in the Tower Spirit Space. "This girl has ideas." Old Huai's tone carried a rare hint of approval. "Ice Seal sealing combined with suppression, a double suppression. And she's right, the Primordial Origin in your soul is indeed chaotic and unified, and ice can help you balance yin and yang. If you can truly create Ice and Fire Domain, then you'll have another trump card."
Nan Feng looked at Shui Bing'er. Her long, silver-blue hair fluttered gently in the cold wind, and her amber pupils reflected the lingering icy luster of the training ground. She looked like an ice elf who had emerged from the Far North Ice Plains. She stood in the center of the training ground. Although the phantom of her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul had dissipated, the air was still filled with her unique, crisp chill.
"What level is the bottleneck of your Ice Phoenix Martial Soul?" Nan Feng asked.
Shui Bing'er paused slightly, then regained her composure. "Level 68. Stuck at the peak of Soul Emperor for a long time. The evolution of the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul requires a rare and powerful spiritual object of extreme cold. I've been searching, but suitable ones are too few." She looked at Nan Feng, a faint hint of expectation in her amber eyes, but she quickly suppressed it. "We'll talk about it when you return from the Abyss. Take care of yourself first. The Seventh Ring Nine Netherworlds Dark Python is waiting for you in the Abyss."
Without saying anything more, she turned and walked towards the exit of the martial arts arena. Her long, silver-blue hair fluttered gently in the wind, and her pale blue skirt brushed against the ice-crystal-covered ground. She paused at the edge of the arena without turning back, but her voice carried clearly.
"Nan Feng, in your Primordial World Power, does the extremely hot aspect resonate with Huowu's Huo Wu Blazing Sun Martial Soul?"
Nan Feng was silent for a moment.
Shui Bing'er didn't wait for his reply and continued walking forward. Her figure disappeared around the corner of the martial arts arena exit, and the silver-blue light gradually dissipated in the cold wind, leaving only the remaining ice crystals on the ground shimmering in the afternoon sunlight.
Old Huai shrank back from the Immortal Tree, its semi-transparent remnant soul settling down in the Tower Spirit Space. Nan Feng stood in the center of the training ground, the red ribbon on his left wrist fluttering in the cold wind. The Ice Crystal Amulet floated quietly in the Tower Spirit Space, its silver-blue ice patterns and emerald green life luster reflecting each other, and the Primordial World Power remaining in the talisman pulsating slightly in his dantian.
His Soul Power was stuck at level 77, not a multiple of ten. The Peng Eye shimmered quietly with golden light, the multicolored spectrum of the Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light covering a thousand paces, and the spatial law of Shrinking the Ground to an Inch continued to settle within his meridians. In his dantian, the emerald green light of the Life Origin Stone, the silver-blue light of the Sea God Divine Power Crystal, and the azure-gold light of the Soul-Suppressing Azure Lotus intertwined deep within his soul. The ice-type Spiritual Power within the Ice Crystal Amulet, drawn by the Primordial World Power, formed an extremely thin icy-blue filament, flowing quietly through his meridians.
Nan Feng turned and walked towards the exit of the martial arts arena. With a light step using the Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, his figure disappeared from the ice-crystal-covered ground. A year and a half later, his Soul Power stabilized at level seventy-nine. Then Abyss. Then the Nine Netherworlds Dark Python. Then the seventh ring.
The red ribbon on his left wrist fluttered in the wind. The Ice Crystal Amulet floated quietly in the Tower Spirit Space, its silver-blue ice patterns and emerald green life luster intertwining deep within his soul. Nan Feng walked out of the gates of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and headed out of the city. The late autumn wind swept fallen leaves across the official road, gradually engulfing his figure.