Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1216 Cold Pond
"Something is not right here." Shen Xiuyuan opened his eyes and said after running for a week. "The water spirit is too abundant. Water and fire conflict, not to mention that the fire spirit is excluded, not even a trace of metal and wood can be found, but only a channel is left for the earth spirit to pass through."

He had not yet reached the state of being able to see through spiritual energy at a glance, but when he was practicing, he could also observe the distribution of spiritual energy around him. It was just that the speed was not as fast.

The five elements of all things coexist with each other.

But except for extremely pure spiritual energy aggregates such as fire spirits, water spirits, wood spirits, etc., most objects have more than one five elements attribute, it’s just a matter of content.

Just like the Mingmin Mountain where they are now, it is indeed of earth attribute, but it also contains a lot of gold, fire, water spirit energy, and even wood spirit energy. It's just that the amount of these spirit energy contained is almost negligible in front of the huge earth spirit energy.

This includes cultivators with only one spiritual root, such as Shen Xiuyuan, who has a wood spiritual root. It doesn't mean that he has no other attributes in his body. If that were the case, how could he, a wood spiritual root, use fire magic to make pills? How could he cast magic that has nothing to do with the wood element?

That is to say, the proportion of the other five elements' spiritual energy is too small, and it cannot even reach the level of being aggregated into spiritual roots, so it cannot be measured by the spiritual ruler.

Similarly, the spirit root destroyed by the spirit-breaking pill does not mean that the spirit root is directly cut off and thrown away. Instead, the spirit root is broken open, infinitely weakened, and its properties are eliminated, leaving space for other spirit roots.

Usually, the properties of multiple spiritual roots are mostly complementary.

For example, Yu Sinian has the Earth-Gold Spiritual Root. If he wants to become a single spiritual root, he must have the Earth-Breaking Spiritual Root.

When the Soul-Breaking Pill breaks the Earth Spirit Root into tiny particles that are invisible to the naked eye, the pure earth attribute is weakened to the extreme. Then external force is applied to force it to be fed to the Gold Spirit Root, and it becomes the Gold Spirit Root's nutrient.

Even if the remaining earth spiritual energy particles are not completely absorbed and dissipate in other parts of the body, there will not be much left and they cannot be aggregated into spiritual roots.

This is the step to use the Soul Breaking Pill to break the spiritual roots, and it is also why it must be operated by a cultivator at the level of a Spirit Severing Monk - only a cultivator at the level of a Spirit Severing Monk who has refined his spiritual consciousness can grasp the tiny details and ensure the perfect effect.

Of course, if one simply wants to destroy someone's spiritual roots, and doesn't care whether to kill or bury them, like what he did to Madam Wen, that's another matter.

The biggest problem with the Canghai School's method of transplanting other people's spiritual roots is that it violates ethics and morality, and the technical difficulty itself. In theory, it is indeed feasible.

So, this is why everyone finds it incredible, but still decides to find out the truth.

It can be established, but it doesn't mean it's easy to do. If the other party is really insane, it's probably rare for a victim to survive like Madam Wen.

But after Jinyang, accidents happened frequently and the itinerary was changed again and again. I don’t know when I can really go to Canghai School.

Back to the present.

Not to mention that there are few such natural and pure spiritual spaces in the world. Even if we only say that water and soil are mutually exclusive, when the two meet, it is not as intense as the collision between water and fire, but it is not much better anyway.

Such a huge amount of water spiritual energy sealed off the fire spiritual energy active in the mountain, leaving only a passage for its mortal enemy, earth spiritual energy, to pass through. Jin Tong found it impossible to say that it was not man-made.

Mu Jingjing snapped her fingers, but the small flame that should have appeared at her fingertips did not appear.

Unconvinced, she used her fire power to condense a small fireball in her palm. As soon as she saw the flames, she heard a "pop". The fireball disappeared in an instant, leaving only a cloud of white smoke, which soon dissipated without a trace.

"I can't use my spiritual power either." Mu Jingjing frowned and crossed her arms. "It's getting colder and colder. If I stay a little longer, I won't freeze, right?"

This cave is an open space, not particularly large, with corridors connecting the front and back. The only special thing is this deep pool.

Du Xingyu had already run around the edge and came back.

"It may be because we took a shortcut and came down directly." He said to everyone, "The temperature in the corridors on both sides is not that cold. If we go further away, the temperature may have warmed up again."

"If the cold is due to this pool of water, then why is it hot?" Mu Jingjing asked, "Lin Fan, did you see anything causing the geothermal heat?" "No." Lin Fan shook his head, "Maybe it's because we were moving northward all the way down, closer to the desert."

As far as she knows, there are generally rich geothermal resources beneath desert blocks, and the distribution of rock strata and scarcity of groundwater resources are also important reasons for the formation of deserts.

Everyone knew that the desert was hot, so they naturally accepted Lin Fan's guess.

"But it's so abrupt that it's suddenly so cold here." Shen Xiuyuan said, "It's just telling others that there's something wrong here."

"It could also be a way of driving people away, telling them to leave quickly." Du Xingyu walked to the edge of the pond, used his spiritual power to roll up a few water droplets, and touched them with his fingers.

"Hiss!" He quickly retracted his hand and wiped it back and forth on his clothes. "It's so cold! It feels like an ice needle has pierced directly into my bones. Even if an ordinary person finds out there's something mysterious here, it would be hard for them to get over it, right?"

Jin Tong sneezed several times, sniffed his nose, and shivered: "Can we go down? Or should we go to the corridor next to it to discuss a solution?"

"Let's use the old method." Mu Jingjing also rubbed his arms, and hot air came out of his mouth. "If you want to go, go quickly. If you can't go, think of another way. If I stay like this, I will get sick sooner or later."

Mu Jingjing took out her cloak and after thinking about it, she put it on Jintong.

No one liked to stay in a cold environment for a long time, and they all looked at Lin Fan.

Lin Fan didn't feel too cold. He directed everyone to stand by the pond and let the water form a big bubble on the six people.

The water was cold, and the bubbles were made bigger. Du Xingyu also thoughtfully used wind to blow away the cold air inside, and at the same time padded everyone's feet so that they didn't feel like they were stepping on ice.

Everyone stood in the water bubble and could still feel the coolness, but it was not that cold.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Mu Jingjing stared at the blue deep pool and couldn't wait any longer.

Jintong originally wanted to say that she would wait for them on the shore, but her body, which had finally warmed up, made her hesitate.

It was too cold outside, and they were so deep underground. If she separated from them at this time, she wouldn't be able to find a way out...

Next time! Next time for sure!
A gust of wind pushed the bubble into the pool, and then the bubble slowly sank and was soon surrounded by blue.

"Why does the water look so blue?" Mu Jingjing asked curiously, "It looks like... undissolved paint."

"It may be because the metal content in the water is high," Lin Fan replied, "Maybe it's because of the absorption of gold spiritual energy, or maybe it's something else, causing the metal content in this water to be higher than usual, so it appears so obvious blue."

"No wonder." Shen Xiuyuan nodded. "Generally speaking, water is the source of all things and is always easy to breed vitality. But there is no trace of life here..."

"Such cold water," Du Xingyu said with a smile, "what can freeze it? Oh, right...how come the water is not frozen even though it's so cold?"

In Lin Fan’s popular science on “freezing point”, the bubble smoothly reached a place where gravel was piled.

"It's not deep." Du Xingyu crossed his arms, "No wonder it's so cold, otherwise, someone who can't swim could have reached it by accident."

Lin Fan controlled the water flow through the bubbles and flipped the covering aside.

As the turbid water gradually clarified, a huge stone slab with intricate carvings appeared before everyone.