Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Ten minutes passed!
The four cold snakes looked at the pearl several times but eventually did not leave the water.
How could this be? The Frozen Ice Pearl had a deadly attractive power towards ice-type beasts, no lesser than the attraction of Bloody Black Gold towards gold-eating beasts. But why did these four snakes seem to be unaffected?
However, Yang Dingtian eventually realized the reason. For the snakes, this unfreezing pond already had sufficient ice-cold Xuan energy for them to absorb till the end of time. Although this Frozen Ice Pearl’s ice-cold Xuan energy was very thick, it wasn’t that useful for low-rank ice-type beasts.
This method won’t work. Yang Dingtian retrieved his Frozen Ice Pearl and eventually thought of another way, which was to provoke the anger of one of the snakes.
Thus, Yang Dingtian dug out many stones, picked one up, and threw it towards one of the cold snakes.
The snake avoided the stone and stared at Yang Dingtian angrily, expressing its anger by making some “Sii Sii” sounds.
Yang Dingtian ignored it and threw another stone. The snake avoided it again, and its small eyes continued to stare at Yang Dingtian with rage.
He threw another stone at the snake.
“Whoosh” That snake spit out an ice blade, which immediately cut the stone in midair.
Yang Dingtian threw another stone, and that snake angrily spat an ice blade towards him. He waved his flame feather, and the ice blade melted before even hitting him.
Then, he threw countless stones, causing all four cold snakes to become enraged and agitated. They all spat ice blades at Yang Dingtian, but those blades were all melted by his flame feather.
Finally, the four snakes had completely exhausted their ice-cold Xuan energy. However, they still did not come ashore. Yang Dingtian threw stones again, but his targets ultimately dove down into the pond. As such, he was out of ideas.
“Could it be that I need to get in the water?” Yang Dingtian was depressed. He couldn’t leave with nothing. “I’ll just go in the water since the four snakes have already used up their ice-cold Xuan energy.”
Yang Dingtian clenched his teeth, looked at the unfreezing pond exuding such a frigid aura, held his breath, and jumped in.
“Boom…” Yang Dingtian’s body broke into the calm unfreezing water.
“Ah…” It really was bone-freezingly cold. Yang Dingtian’s body kept shuddering, and his body heat vanished immediately.
He had expected a certain degree of coldness from the unfreezing water, but when he actually jumped in, only then did he realize that the temperature was far lower he could imagine.
Instantly, he felt his own body slightly seize up.
By now, the four snakes had already seen Yang Dingtian jump into the unfreezing pool. They instantly fiercely glared at him and rushed over at him. Each had a three-to-four-meter-long body and opened its mouth, baring its sharp teeth.
They weren’t so furious when Yang Dingtian annoyed them previously, but right now, their gazes were completely filled with violence and strong killing intent. This was because they regarded this unfreezing pond as their territory. They would naturally want to kill Yang Dingtian, a foreign enemy who had invaded their territory.
The four snakes instantly arrived, and Yang Dingtian waved the flame feather in his hand, preparing for battle.
The worst part was that his entire body was stiff at that point in time, and being in the water, his speed was many times lower than before.
“Sii Sii Sii…” Two of the snakes jumped out of the water, opened their mouths, and were about to bite his head.
“Whoosh Whoosh…..” Yang Dingtian’s flame feather rushed out of the water surface, shaking terribly. Although his speed was much slower, his techniques were still as unique as usual.
“Chak Chak Chak…” Instantly, two of the snakes in midair were chopped into dozens of pieces by Yang Dingtian.
Then, both of his legs went numb and cold as he was bitten by the other two snakes, and the cold poison spread so rapidly that both of his legs became completely numb and stiff as if they were no longer his. Those two cold snakes were latched onto Yang Dingtian’s ankle. Their long bodies were wrapped around his legs and were furiously trying to drag him down.
He had to leave the pool or it would be too dangerous.
Yang Dingtian didn’t have the chance to retrieve the cold snake’s demon nucleus from the water. He stabbed the flame feather into a rock by the shore and used the strength of both of his hands to propel himself out of the water.
Bang!
Yang Dingtian had used all his strength. Clutching the flame feather with both of his hands, he shot out of the water and landed on the ground by the pond. His entire body rolled across the ground.
The water snakes wrapped around his legs immediately let go and bounced off the ground, intending to escape back into the water.
Yang Dingtian moved the flame feather in his hands, and a bright light shot out.
“Whoosh Whoosh…” Instantly, one of the snakes in the air was sliced into two pieces by the flame feather and fell to the ground.
The fiery flame feather made a circle in the air and flew back to Yang Dingtian’s hand.
He immediately checked the injuries on his ankles. There were two deep holes that were already completely frozen. His entire leg had turned blue and was frozen.
However, Yang Dingtian still had the powerful Nine Yang Xuan Veins. After he left the unfreezing pond, the cold poison that was previously spreading upwards had gradually stopped, and a warm energy slowly returned to his legs. Both of his legs regained their normal temperatures and strength inch by inch.
In just five minutes, the blue, cold poison was forced out of his body by his Xuan Veins and dripped out of his wounds. Yang Dingtian’s legs returned to their normal condition.
Yang Dingtian walked towards the corpse of one of the four cold snakes and dug out its demon nucleus. It was an extremely beautiful demon nucleus that was crystal clear with different types of line marks.
“The fourth demon nucleus is in hand with only one left.” Yang Dingtian stowed the ice-type demon nucleus in front of him away, his heart filled with satisfaction.
Although there were some unexpected events that were even life-threatening, he eventually managed to get both gold and ice-type demon nuclei.
“It’s time to leave. Sister Ningning must’ve have waited all this time. Yang Dingtian reluctantly looked at the unfreezing pond because there might have been many precious items beneath the water surface.
“The most important thing now is the Yin Yang Five-Element Formation. Anything other than that needs to be put on hold. I must definitely not get into any trouble,” Yang Dingtian thought. He then placed the ice-type demon nucleus into the box and prepared to leave the ore mine.
At that moment, the voice of an old person sounded out. The voice was extremely coarse as if the speaker’s throat was burned in the past.
“Young man, I’ve watched you for a while, and there are a few things that I find strange. Could you explain them to me?”
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Yang Dingtian was instantly shocked. There was someone here? Who? Obviously, he’d already been here for some time, but Yang Dingtian had not realized it.
“Would Sister Ningning be in danger?” Yang Dingtian thought of another important matter.
“Who are you, elder? Why didn’t you show yourself?” Yang Dingtian tried to calm his breathing and slowly asked, but he was getting goosebumps.
“Your entire body is filled with precious treasures, but you’re only at the enlightenment period. When you were injured, you used a Fifth-Rank Full Restoration Pill. You even used Bloody Black Gold to bait low-rank golden beasts, used a Frozen Ice Pearl to attract low-rank ice-type beasts. And finally, you used your own body to bait the cold snake just for its first-rank demon nucleus.” The elder said, “This is all too strange. Any one of the things you’re carrying can easily be exchanged for tens of thousands of demon nuclei, so why did you risk your life for these demon nuclei?”
“Only if you hunt it yourself is it truly yours,” Yang Dingtian answered.
“Well said,” the old man answered. “But you are still hiding the truth. I think you want to use these demon nuclei to form a certain formation to achieve a breakthrough in your Xuan energy.”
Yang Dingtian was shocked. The Pig-Killing Swordsmanship was an absolute secret. How did he know?
“It is not difficult to guess. There are many formations in this world that need demon nuclei, and it needs to be demon nuclei hunted by the user himself. You are just an enlightener. You can’t use the ruling method to refine the soul or create a puppet soul. You can only be trying to achieve a breakthrough with your own Xuan veins.” The old man continued, “Every Xuan Energy Soul Eating Array is extremely mysterious. Can you tell me?”
The Yin Yang Five-Element Formation requires five demon nuclei to form a five-pointed star array/formation. Both of these things were not uncommon. What’s rare was that this formation only worked when both moons covered the sun, which only happened during the Yin Yang Festival.
The Yin Yang festival represents the creation of the heavens and the earth and is based on the fate of the universe. It is an event that is difficult to comprehend. Therefore, the most important thing in the Yin Yang Five-Element Formation is this formula. Without it, the formation would be useless.
“Elder, this is just a way for a beginner like me to break through. It won’t be useful for an elite like you,” said Yang Dingtian.
“I also have younger generations under me. This type of formation is very hard to find, so I want to know,” the elder said slowly.
“Oh!” Suddenly, an incomparably powerful force sucked away the box, which contained two gold demon nuclei and one ice demon nucleus, from Yang Dingtian’s hands.
This was a top master. He could snatch away things from a distance, and Yang Dingtian had no means to resist.
“You have worked hard to get these three demon nuclei, even at the risk of your life, so these three demon nuclei are definitely very important for you.” The elder slowly said, “So tell me that formula and formation. Otherwise, I will destroy these three demon nuclei.”
Yang Dingtian forcefully held his anger in and said coldly, “You are a master elder but have no manners at all, stealing from a member of the younger generation.”
“Manners? I never needed any manners,” the elder said.
“Bang!” The sound of an explosion was heard near the wall. Thick layers of ice were blown apart, and an old man with torn clothes and grey hair walked out from the hole.
It was a thin old man with thick eyebrows and a curved nose. He looked pitiful.
The old man took out the ice demon nucleus with his hand and said slowly, “I’ll destroy it if you don’t tell me.”
Yang Dingtian clenched his teeth and looked at him without saying a word.
“Bang….” The old man clenched his fist around the ice demon nucleus, breaking it. Yang Dingtian felt the pain in his heart.
Then, the elder placed the two other golden demon nuclei in his hand, looked at Yang Dingtian, and said coldly, “Tell me or I’ll destroy these two as well.”