I tamed beasts and achieved immortality in the world of cultivation.

Chapter 137 The Abyss Secret Realm: Ice Soul Crystal

Chen Qing traveled north.

With his cultivation at the ninth level of Qi Refining, he was far more powerful than when he was at the seventh level. With the help of his spiritual power, the speed of the Azure Wind Boat increased by nearly 30%.

In less than two days, he had traveled nearly two thousand miles and arrived at the outer edge of Blood Spirit Abyss.

Chen Qing put away the Azure Wind Boat, and as the light fell on the clear dividing line on the ground in front of him, his pupils contracted slightly.

It was a boundary line visible to the naked eye. On one side was an ordinary wilderness, with withered grass and broken stones, nothing special; on the other side, the ground was covered with a faint dark red, and the air was filled with a faint blood-red mist, as if someone had soaked the entire world into diluted blood.

Chen Qing was familiar with that aura; it was the unique bloodthirsty aura of the Blood Spirit Abyss!

Chen Qing quietly extended his spiritual sense.

As soon as his perception of the sixty-nine-foot boundary crossed that dividing line, a cold and violent aura surged back along his spiritual sense, like a cold needle gently pricking him.

Fortunately, this malevolent energy was not very strong and had little effect on cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining. They could be kept out by simply circulating their spiritual power.

Of course, this is on the premise that you don't stay there for too long.

"No wonder those who can't make it in Lingyun Sect all run to this Blood Spirit Abyss. If they stay here long enough, they'll eventually become puppets who only know how to kill." Chen Qing muttered to himself, looking up to the north.

Jueyuan County is parallel to Linyuan County, and is more than 500 miles away from the Blood Spirit Abyss five years ago. In other words, he needs to cross this dividing line and travel for more than two hours across this wasteland filled with blood and evil.

Chen Qing glanced around, but instead of summoning his usual Azure Wind Boat, he donned a dusty gray flying sword and soared into the blood mist.

More than two hours later.

Chen Qing appeared in the sky above Jueyuan County, wearing an inconspicuous gray Taoist robe and a human skin mask.

The pale green "Abyss Secret Realm" rift stretched across the sky, about thirty feet long, slightly smaller than the one in the Myriad Beasts Secret Realm, but the light at its edges was equally intense, like a wound flowing with green blood.

Below the crack was a simple hall.

More than twenty cultivators were scattered around the main hall, all dressed in blood-red robes with blood-red tokens hanging at their waists, each exuding a wild and fierce aura. Chen Qing's spiritual sense swept over them, and his heart stirred slightly—there was also a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator inside the hall, radiating pressure outwards without any attempt to conceal it.

"This Blood Fiend Hall is said to have Golden Core cultivators, so why send a Foundation Establishment cultivator to oversee it? Doesn't that Golden Core cultivator want the Myriad Manifestations Source Core anymore?"

Chen Qing thought to himself.

The twenty-odd blood-robed cultivators immediately surrounded Chen Qing as he descended from the sky.

The leader was a burly man with a scar on his face, whose cultivation was at the ninth level of Qi Refining. He sized Chen Qing up and down, grinned, and said, "Another one who's not afraid of death. Kid, now that you're here, you know the rules, right?"

Chen Qing steadily suppressed his cultivation at the eighth level of Qi Refining, and cupped his hands towards the scarred man: "Fellow Daoists, I am new here, those who know, know. Seventy percent of the items in my storage bag when I came out belonged to the Blood Fiend Hall. If there is anything that catches your eye, feel free to take it. I only ask that you leave me a little something."

His words were both polite and frank.

The scarred man was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter, turning back to wink at his companion: "Did you hear that? This kid knows what's good for him! Unlike that hothead from yesterday, who refused to hand over the sword no matter what, and in the end we still threw him into the depths of the Blood Spirit Abyss to feed the monsters."

Several blood-robed cultivators laughed along, their laughter filled with vulgarity and undisguised smugness.

The scarred man patted Chen Qing hard on the shoulder: "Alright, go in. Come out alive. The Blood Fiend Hall doesn't eat the dead."

Chen Qing smiled and cupped his hands in greeting, then turned and stepped onto the flying sword, heading towards the rift, while keeping a watchful eye on things.

The pat the scarred man had just given him had actually left a faint, bloody mark on his shoulder; the technique was extremely subtle. If his spiritual sense hadn't far surpassed that of others of the same level, he probably wouldn't have noticed it at all.

In fact, the reason he didn't use the Azure Wind Boat but instead wielded an ordinary flying sword was to guard against this possibility.

Five years ago, Zhao Tu ran into me in the Lin Yuan Secret Realm. That guy was a cultivator from the Blood Fiend Hall. Although it was unlikely that we would run into each other by such a coincidence, we still had to be careful.

Passing through the crack, a dizzying sensation ensued.

A moment later, Chen Qing landed on a huge platform, his feet firmly planted on the ground.

This platform is similar to those in the Lin Yuan Secret Realm and the Wan Shou Secret Realm, covering an area of ​​several hundred feet and paved with dark blue-green stone.

However, those guarding the platform were no longer the Lingyun Sect disciples dressed in blue robes, but more than ten Blood Fiend Hall cultivators dressed in blood robes, each with a cold and fierce aura and unfriendly gaze.

The core creatures of the secret realm were not seen on the platform, indicating that, after six months, the Blood Fiend Hall was still hunting them down.

Compared to the Lingyun Sect, their speed is significantly slower.

When Chen Qing emerged from the crack, some of the people narrowed their eyes but did not approach him. They merely gave him a cold glance before looking away.

Chen Qing didn't pay them much attention. He quietly spread his spiritual sense, discerning the direction, and then headed towards the spot where the Foundation Establishment spiritual object resided—

It flew away at a direction more than 20 degrees north of the mark.

The location marked on the jade slip was not actually that far, only a little over a thousand li away as the crow flies.

If it were outside, Chen Qing could arrive in a day at his speed; but this abyss secret realm is full of strangeness.

Chen Qingfei discovered the problem after flying for half a day.

This secret realm is neither a dead land like the Abyss Secret Realm, littered with white bones, nor a wild wilderness overrun by monsters like the Myriad Beasts Secret Realm. Here, it is a world of ice and snow; as far as the eye can see, there is only white snow, and even the sky is covered with a layer of pale blue cold light, like a thin layer of ice that has been frozen through.

The creatures here are even more peculiar.

From the air, Chen Qingfei saw many semi-transparent humanoid figures wandering in the snow.

They resembled humanoid figures formed from frozen ice, without facial features, yet capable of movement and moving at incredible speed, covering more than ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) in a single leap across the snow. Even more bizarrely, their bodies seemed to exist between flesh and spirit, sometimes passing directly through solid ice layers, and sometimes solidifying into ice blocks to fight against demonic beasts.

"Snow Demon—" Chen Qing murmured to himself.

The name was mentioned in the jade slip given by Shi Xiuyuan; it was a unique creature in the Abyss Secret Realm, extremely difficult to deal with. Chen Qing had encountered it no less than a hundred times along the way, and had always avoided it from a distance.

One day later.

After wandering around for a while, Chen Qing finally found the location.

He stood on the ridge of a snow-capped mountain, with a vast ice field stretching out below, the ice covering the earth, a white expanse that seemed to go on forever.

At the edge of the ice field, several ice peaks rise abruptly from the ground. One of them is not particularly tall, but it is the only one in the hundreds of miles around with a dark crack in its waist.

"That's it. There's definitely the aura of a top-tier spiritual creature inside."

Chen Qing put away the Golden Scale Treasure-Seeking Insect he had obtained from Jin Yue, and behind him, a series of blue cracks silently unfolded.

Qingtian, Danyu, and Yinyue silently appeared beside Chen Qing, followed closely by thirty legion spirit beasts, led by Wenchang, Danqing, and Yinlang, standing in a row in the cold wind.

With a thought, Chen Qing sent three legions to scatter in all directions, spreading out like a large net towards the ice peak.

He then sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to concentrate.

One hour later.

Replies arrived one after another from various places.

There were many cultivators around, most of them at the late stage of Qi Refining, with a few at the middle stage. However, they were all in a hurry and did not approach the ice peak. There were also many snow demons, all concentrated in a few ice valleys, and they did not pose a threat for the time being. As for the demon beasts, there were only a few scattered ones, and their auras were not strong.

Danqing also explored the ice cave more thoroughly. It was very deep, but there seemed to be no danger.

Chen Qing opened her eyes.

With a thought, a silver moon wolf rushed out from among the thirty legion spirit beasts, its four paws lightly stepping across the ice surface and disappearing into the dark crack.

At the same time, Yin Yue walked to Chen Qing's side and lay down, her eyes slightly brightening, clearly also sensing the situation inside the cave through her spirit beast.

Inside the ice cave was a deep blue world.

The cave walls are made of ice that has never melted for thousands of years. A faint glow shines through the depths of the ice, illuminating the entire passage in a deep blue light.

The little silver moon wolf's paws stepped on the ice, making a soft cracking sound that echoed far and wide in the empty cave, sounding particularly crisp.

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It went all the way down.

The passage was winding and colder the deeper you went, with tiny ice crystals appearing in the air. A thin layer of frost quickly condensed on the little silver moon wolf's fur, but it didn't care. It just followed the subtle connection between itself and Chen Qing and the silver moon, and kept going deeper into the passage.

After wandering around for a while, the little silver moon wolf's eyes finally lit up.

This is an ice cave.

Or rather, it is a fairyland in the ice.

The cave is more than ten feet in circumference. The dome is a semi-transparent layer of ice, through which sunlight shines down, refracting into a seven-colored halo. The cave walls are covered with clusters of ice crystals, each cluster resembling a blooming ice flower, crystal clear.

In the very center, a crystal the size of a human head floated silently in mid-air.

It was entirely azure blue, crystal clear like ancient ice, yet unlike ice, it was not lifeless. The blue light flowed slowly within the crystal as if it were alive, and each flow emitted a faint ripple of cold air.

Wherever the ripples passed, tiny ice crystals condensed in the air, falling softly like stardust.

Ice Soul Crystal!

Chen Qing's heart skipped a beat.

He had seen this thing in the "Chronicles of Spiritual Creatures of the Canglan Domain"—

Ice Soul Crystal is born in extremely cold places, with millennia-old ice as soil and ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow as spring water. It takes three hundred years for one crystal to form.

It is not an ordinary Foundation Establishment item, but one of the main ingredients for refining the "Ice Soul Foundation Establishment Pill"!

The Ice Soul Foundation Building Pill is a whole grade higher than the ordinary Foundation Building Pill!

Ordinary Foundation Establishment Pills can increase the success rate of a breakthrough by 30%, while Ice Soul Foundation Establishment Pills can increase it by 40% or more. They also come with a protective effect called "Ice Soul Cold Essence," which can resist the backlash of spiritual energy and protect the heart meridian during a breakthrough. The effect is much stronger than that of ordinary Foundation Establishment Pills.

Most high-level cultivators would choose the more potent Ice Soul Foundation Establishment Pill for their descendants, even if these descendants already had a very high probability of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Therefore, this piece of Ice Soul Crystal is worth three Foundation Establishment spiritual items!

In monetary terms, it would cost at least six thousand spirit stones!

Chen Qing sat cross-legged on the snow-capped mountain, sensing the images transmitted from the little silver moon wolf's mind, and couldn't help but smile.

"I didn't expect there to actually be a Foundation Establishment spiritual item, and it's even an Ice Soul Mystic Crystal!"

He immediately got up and ordered the Silver Moon Wolf to guard the spot while he led his men over.

However, at that moment...

The little silver moon wolf's will suddenly snapped, as if it had been abruptly extinguished by something, cleanly and without warning.

Chen Qing's expression changed, and a cold notification popped up on the screen in front of him:

[Resurrecting fallen members of the Silver Moon Wolf Legion requires 200 Essence]

Silver Moon also suddenly stood up, a cold glint flashing in her dark green eyes.

"Aww—"

'

She let out a soft cry, her tail stiffening, and her gaze toward Chen Qing held a questioning look and a hint of barely perceptible anger.

Chen Qing's face darkened.

There's something in the cave.