Don't take it, I switched to the ruthless way

Chapter 419 An unexpected surprise
Shi Yi turned around and went to the Arctic ice field, while Shi Yao continued to repair Yuan Shi.

Now that she had encountered the rare Snow Spirit Essence in the world, Yao would definitely use it to repair the cracks in Yuanshi as soon as possible.

Yuanshi is a spiritual sword of the ice attribute. Although it has not yet truly given birth to a sword spirit, it already has spirituality. The snow spirit essence is a great tonic for it, not only can it quickly repair the cracks on the sword, but it can also infinitely increase its ice properties, enhancing its chill and power.

In order to speed up the repair of Yuan Shi's cracks, Shi Yao used her own power to quickly melt wisps of snow spirit essence into the sword.

This process is not difficult, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Yuanshi is Shi Yao's natal sword. Any damage to the sword will have a great impact on Shi Yao's strength.

So even though the process of repairing Yuanshi was very time-consuming and labor-intensive, Shi Yao had to do it herself. She was unwilling to delegate to others, and even more unwilling to leave her natal sword easily.

It was seven days later when the cracks on Yuanshi's sword were completely repaired.

Most of the snow spirit essence in the ice jade carving had been swallowed by Yuan Shi, and now there were only 645 strands left, which were all put into the seven black jade ice beads worn on Shi Yao's wrist.

Each of the seven black jade ice beads originally sealed a wisp of snow spirit essence, and now with these six hundred and forty-five wisps added, there are a total of six hundred and fifty-two wisps.

The string of black jade ice beads in her hand could set up a black ice formation in an instant. Originally, the power was extraordinary when there were twelve beads, but it was not enough when there were only seven beads left.

Now with the addition of the power of these 652 strands of snow spirit essence, the chill emitted by the seven black jade ice beads is even more terrifying.

Shi Yao casually threw out seven black jade ice beads, and immediately a black ice formation was set up by the seven black jade ice beads. Its power suddenly increased by more than a hundred times compared to before, making it difficult for Shi Yao to resist it.

"Very good! From now on, the black ice formation created by these seven black jade ice beads can be used again."

Shi Yao nodded in satisfaction, stretched out her hand and put the seven black jade ice beads back on her left wrist.

Feeling the chill emitted by the black jade ice bead, even Shi Yao, whose body had been tempered many times, felt that this chill was extremely terrifying.

However, Shi Yao did not take off the black jade ice bead. Instead, she used its coldness to condense into a frost armor that covered her entire body. If someone attacked her secretly, this frost armor could withstand an attack and could also immediately trigger the black ice formation.

In this way, there is a mysterious ice formation protecting Shi Yao's body at all times and in all places.

After Shi Yao took away all the snow spirit essence in the ice jade sculpture, the coldness in the entire Hanxiao Palace suddenly dropped, and the power of the defensive formation outside the palace also decreased greatly.

It turns out that this ice jade sculpture is the core of the formation of this palace. The strength and opening of the formation of the entire Hanxiao Palace are controlled by it.

Looking at the ice jade sculpture in front of her, Shi Yao's mind moved, and she used her spiritual power to move the head of the ice jade sculpture from the Kun position to the Qian position, and then from the Qian position to the Kan position.

The ice jade sculpture moved underneath, and a small passage suddenly appeared in front of Shi Yao.

"It is said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Could it be that this underground passage leads to the place where Chi Bing usually retreats?" Shi Yao walked into the passage while sending out her spiritual sense to carefully explore.

The passage became wider and wider, and at the end was a cave that was even wider than the Hanxiao Palace. There were Yingyue stones scattered everywhere to illuminate it, so it was not dark at all. Above the cave, there were streaks of different sizes, like icicles, hanging down. On many of the streaks, there were drops of water full of spiritual energy that slowly slid to the ground, making a dripping sound.

The bottom of the cave is divided into three areas. One is an open space that leads directly down from the upper passage. From the scratches on the ground and the surrounding walls, it can be known that this is the place for daily practice. The second area is the spiritual medicine field in the center. The water drops dripping from the steatite above the cave have all seeped into this spiritual medicine field.
The medicinal field is very large, but there are not many spiritual plants planted in it, only nine; however, each of these nine plants is extremely precious, and their age is more than 500 years old, even some of them are 8,000 years old.

The entire body of the Di Yin Grass is covered with a thick layer of corrosive gas, which is very toxic; but if the Di Yin Grass grows flowers, its toxicity will be completely eliminated, and this layer of corrosive gas will be completely transformed into clear and spiritual gas. If a cultivator takes it, it can not only detoxify all poisons, but also wash away all dirt from the body and even the soul, making the mind clear and hopefully breaking through the bottleneck of cultivation.

However, in order to wait for the ground-yin grass to bloom, you have to wait for it to grow for ten thousand years, and it can only bloom at night. There is only one chance to bloom. If you miss it, you will never wait for a second time; because the ground-yin grass only lasts for a short half an hour from flowering to withering. After half an hour, the ground-yin grass will wither and die along with the flowers, and quickly become a pool of extremely corrosive venom.

"It's really rare to find 8,000-year-old Diyin grass..."

With the Di Yin Grass in front, Shi Yao didn't even bother to look at the other eight spiritual plants: Blood Jade Vine, Dragon Scale Tree, Purple Ghost Flower, Red Leaf Lotus, Blood Ganoderma, Clear Frost Leaf, Magic Pine Cone and Clear Wind Grass.

"But I have to wait another two thousand years before I can consume this Earth Yin Grass... and I have to keep an eye on when it blooms."

Fortunately, there is also a place suitable for growing spiritual herbs on the second floor of the Biluo Immortal Palace.

So Shi Yao carefully moved the Earth Yin Grass into the second floor of the Biluo Immortal Mansion. After placing it properly, she moved the other eight spiritual plants in as well.

"Only by keeping this ground yin grass beside you at all times can you know when it will bloom."

The last part of the cave is behind the spiritual medicine field, in a small corner of the cave.

There was an array formation in operation there, protecting a spiritual spring that was smaller than a washbasin. The water that was slowly seeping out of the spring was not ordinary spiritual water containing spiritual energy, but spiritual stone milk, which was produced by an entire spiritual stone mine that had been nourished for a long time and was blessed and operated by the array formation.

——That’s right, there is a huge spirit stone mine under this cave, and the formation of the Hanxiao Palace above is not protecting the snow spirit essence in the ice jade sculpture, but the spirit stone milk in this cave.

"I have only heard of the Spirit Stone Milk before, but I didn't expect that I would be able to see it with my own eyes today."

What a surprise!

Shi Yao strode forward and used her spiritual power to swallow a small sip into her stomach. She immediately felt the strong spiritual power filling her body, making her feel refreshed and all her fatigue disappeared. The effect was better than if she had practiced hard for a whole day.

"With this spiritual stone milk, I don't have to be afraid when I run out of strength in the future."

Shi Yao immediately took out a jade bottle and collected all the spiritual stone milk in the spiritual spring. She then pasted a talisman on the jade bottle to ensure that the spiritual energy of the spiritual stone milk in the bottle would not dissipate. Then she stood up and walked out of the cave.

"I will come back to get more when this spiritual spring is filled with spiritual stone milk again."