Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 127 Allocation Plan

Compared to Tianmeng Bingcan, who hid in her dreams and was secretly saddened, but not so saddened.

Huo Yuhao, Xue Di, and Bing Di did not linger in the cave for long. Huo Yuhao naturally knew that apart from the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, there was no Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow here.

The reason I brought everyone here first was because of Di Ruier.

Because the atmosphere here was too cold, Di Rui'er stayed in this cave, waiting for everyone to dive into the ice spring to collect the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow before returning.

As the Eye of Destiny between her brows slowly closed, Di Ruier nodded to the three of them. Under the influence of her innate abilities, the fortunes of the Ice Emperor, the Snow Emperor, and Huo Yuhao all increased and stabilized to a certain extent.

Compared to the innate privileges of being an imperial auspicious beast, Huo Yuhao, although he can also control and influence the power of destiny, is far less effective in influencing soul beasts than Di Ruier's innate abilities.

The cave was not large, extending only about thirty meters inward. Under the emerald green light emanating from Hyotei, the densely packed dark blue crystal minerals of varying sizes were revealed to everyone.

However, after seeing this mineral, the initial excitement of Hyotei and Yuki-tei subsided considerably.

"Ice Extreme Divine Crystal is a by-product of the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Cave. It seems that this place is indeed the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Cave." Although the Ice Emperor was still excited, his tone revealed a hint of disappointment that he could not hide.

Snow Empress was also somewhat regretful, but she still happily comforted Ice Empress.

"Although the energy originally used to nurture the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow may be diverted due to the formation of the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, it is more than enough for Bing'er's healing and for repairing my essence."

Huo Yuhao, however, did not rush to collect these Ice Extreme God Crystals. After all, he did not have much need for them at the moment. He would analyze them with the Eye of Truth first and then take them away with his second martial soul.

"Let's make some preparations first, and then we'll dive into the ice spring to see how much ancient ice marrow this place actually contains."

After staying here for a while, the Ice Emperor and the Snow Emperor's ultimate ice soul power became fully active due to the coldness of the place.

Huo Yuhao didn't react much, but he had already released his second martial soul. He was near the Ice Dragon King, and the surrounding cold air, under the influence of the Ice Dragon King, seemed to have developed its own consciousness and avoided Huo Yuhao.

Although Huo Yuhao's body, after being tempered, could withstand the cold of this place, since his origin was not ice-attribute, there was no need for him to suffer for it.

Moreover, with the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, Huo Yuhao can also benefit from the feedback from the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul by absorbing it through the Martial Soul as a transfer point.

However, the proportion of benefits gained from this feedback is much less than what a proper owner of ultimate ice could obtain here.

This is why Huo Yuhao offered the information about this place as part of the deal.

Using the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul's control over ice attributes, Huo Yuhao gathered most of the cold air around the Ice Emperor to suppress her injuries and prevent her from suddenly unleashing a surge of soul power that could cause unnecessary trouble.

The previously turbulent soul power within Hyotei calmed down considerably. Blue ice mist surrounded Hyotei, flickering alongside the emerald light emanating from Hyotei herself, and was gradually being absorbed by her.

"Ice Emperor's injuries should be better now, let's go." Huo Yuhao then mounted the Ice Dragon King. Because of Huo Yuhao's martial soul, he controlled the Ice Dragon King's size to be relatively small.

He then opened the entrance to the cave and led the Ice Emperor and Snow Emperor into the depths of the ice spring. Around Huo Yuhao, a circular ice shell made of extreme ice isolated him from the surrounding water pressure and low temperature.

Further down to the source of the ice spring, the concentration of ice elements was so high that it seemed to solidify into a liquid, incredibly pure. Although it was still somewhat inferior to the water of the Lake of Life, it was not far off.

After entering the Ice Spring, the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul was like a dragon swimming in the sea without any pressure, since the environment here was not good enough to match its extreme purity of ice.

Under Huo Yuhao's lead, the Ice Emperor and Snow Emperor behind him moved somewhat slowly due to the influence of the surrounding environment.

However, given their cultivation levels and attribute levels, they were only slightly affected and the impact was not serious.

After diving more than fifty meters down from the source of the ice spring, Huo Yuhao, along with Bingdi and Xuedi, entered a new cave.

Although there are no springs around this cave, the temperature inside is even lower than the ice spring we just experienced; it just doesn't have the water pressure of the ice spring.

The cave is not large, only about ten square meters in size and about 1.5 meters in height.

In addition, dozens of strange, crisscrossing ice pillars grow in the cave, pure white as jade, with liquid faintly flowing inside, radiating a terrifying chill.

The viscous air felt like flowing ice elements; just one breath made Hyotei feel as if the hidden injury that had been troubling him was about to dissipate.

However, Hyotei knew that this was just an illusion caused by the extremely dense ice element in the area, while Huo Yuhao only looked around before losing interest in the place.

"The Eternal Ice Cave doesn't seem particularly special, except that the ice-attribute energy it contains is extremely pure. Perhaps it could be artificially modified using formations similar to spirit-gathering arrays in magic."

"However, this method can only be implemented in the far north, where there is a sufficient amount of ice element as a base, and it will likely take a considerable amount of time before it can be used."

"The Myriad-Year Ice Cave is more like a natural formation that is hard to come by. However, I don't think anyone on the Douluo Continent has studied anything similar. Perhaps we can ask Elder Yi for some advice later."

The Ice Emperor gazed at the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Profound Ice Marrow before him with some emotion, while the Snow Emperor sighed and said, "This place is located on the edge of the far north, and it must have been formed deep within the far north."

"However, it is probably due to the movement of the earth's crust that it came here, and the environment here can no longer support it to nurture new Ten Thousand Years of Profound Ice Marrow. The dense energy in the air is probably due to the dissipation of the Ten Thousand Years of Profound Ice Marrow."

"Only in this way can this Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Cave continue to exist. It's just a pity that after we take away the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow here, there is probably no possibility of new Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow growing here."

Huo Yuhao asked the two, "Ice Emperor, how much Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow do you need to repair your hidden injuries? And Snow Emperor, how much do you need to restore your origin and break through to level ninety?"

Upon hearing this, the Ice Emperor felt a pang of sadness. After all, in her opinion, she and the Snow Emperor had paid a price for coming here. Shouldn't the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow within be disposed of by them?

After all, the allure of the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to ice-attribute soul beasts is unmatched by any other treasure in the world.

The Snow Empress nodded and said, "Bing'er will need three Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows to fully recover from her injuries. If she can absorb eight more Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows, she should have no problem surviving the next great tribulation."

"As for me, I should only need seven pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to restore my origin, and then one more piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to condense my ninth soul ring. After that, I can just improve my cultivation step by step."

After a slight hesitation, Xue Di said, "Although it wasn't mentioned in the previous contract, as the one who led us to the Ten Thousand Year Ice Cave, the remaining Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow here should naturally belong to you."

"I just hope that you can give us eight more Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows on top of what I just said. Besides me, Bing'er, and Titan Snow Demon King, who is known as one of the Three Heavenly Kings of the Far North, there is also a ferocious beast in the Far North that has survived two Heavenly Tribulations."

"His third tribulation is not far off now. If he has eight ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing marrow, he will surely be able to overcome the next tribulation. It can also be used as an aid mentioned in our contract."

After hearing Xue Di's words, Huo Yuhao smiled slightly: "That's fine. The reason I asked that question earlier wasn't because I needed a lot of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow. I just needed to keep at least ten pieces of Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to do some experiments."

"Since our goals don't conflict, you need a total of thirty-seven pieces, plus my minimum requirement, while this Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Cave currently has forty-five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Ice Marrow. There should be more than enough to go around."

"Since you mentioned Titan Snow Demon King, if Titan Snow Demon King wants to increase his cultivation level in advance to prepare for the next great tribulation, in your opinion, how many millennia-old Xuanbing Marrow would he need to ensure he has sufficient cultivation and can overcome the tribulation?"

"As for Atai, his current cultivation level is actually far from the level required for the next great calamity. If we were to forcibly raise his cultivation level using the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, we would need at least two Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrows."

"As for the tribulation, if there is an auspicious beast to help, including the last five ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing marrow, there should be an 80% success rate. If Bing'er and I are in good condition, we can also provide some assistance."

Huo Yuhao nodded: "Then let's distribute them like this. The ten Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows will be mine, and the remaining Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrows will be taken by you, Snow Emperor. I suppose you have the means to store them."

Seeing the Snow Emperor nod, the Ice Emperor didn't say anything more. She simply went to the side and silently used her pincers to grasp the two strands of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, and began to absorb them.

A blue halo flowed across the Myriad Years of Profound Ice Marrow, which was then drawn into the Ice Emperor's body by the power of his ultimate ice soul.

Compared to Hyotei's simple and direct absorption method, Yuki-tei's method was much more special.

Her slender hands moved in the air, creating deep blue light patterns that rippled and changed before converging into snowflake-like runes.

Huo Yuhao blinked and recorded it. Then he stopped paying attention to Xue Di's actions and directly controlled the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul to freeze the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow through direct contact.

The ice shell formed by the absolute zero ice sealed off all the energy flow of these ten-thousand-year-old profound ice marrow, preventing any further leakage. Huo Yuhao then placed these solidly frozen ten-thousand-year-old profound ice marrow into his storage soul tool.

Seeing this, Xue Di also glanced at her, but continued to complete the task at hand for a full quarter of an hour.

Under her control, the remaining Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Mystic Ice Marrow had its energy completely absorbed by the snowflake runes and eventually dissipated.

Then these snowflake runes floated to the Snow Empress's side, shrank in the air, and transformed into an ice flower bracelet, which wrapped around the Snow Empress's wrist.

"Thank you for your help." Looking at the ice flower bracelet in her hand, Xue Di thanked Huo Yuhao softly.

Huo Yuhao shook his head: "There's no need for that. The strengthening of the forces in the far north will also benefit me."

Then Huo Yuhao looked at Bingdi beside him. At this moment, the emerald light that had been shimmering all over Bingdi's body began to subside, making her appear even more gentle and beautiful. The hidden injuries that had troubled her for many years had now completely disappeared.

Moreover, under the influence of the Myriad Years of Profound Ice Marrow, his original power was strengthened to an unprecedented peak.

With the threat of death gone, Hyotei's mind calmed down a bit.

As a ferocious beast, Ice Empress also has the ability to transform into a human, but she has never bothered to do so.

However, at this moment, Hyotei manifested in human form and stood beside Yuki-tei.

After transforming into human form, Hyotei had a delicate and beautiful face with a cold and aloof temperament. There were four emerald green magic patterns on each side of her cheeks, and her long dark green hair was draped behind her. Her skin was as white and translucent as ice and snow.

However, compared to her previous violent form as the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, the Ice Emperor now appeared gentle, or rather, somewhat embarrassed, as she knew that many of her previous actions now seemed quite inappropriate.

After gently embracing the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress spoke to Huo Yuhao on her behalf, saying, "Bing'er's previous rudeness was due to her impending death. I hope you can understand, Yuhao."

"It's alright." Looking at the now somewhat empty cave, Huo Yuhao had no intention of staying any longer.

For him, he had already dealt with most of what he needed to see and collect during his visit to the Myriad Years of Mysterious Ice Cave.

As for the emotional entanglement between the Ice Emperor and the Snow Emperor, and the messy things imagined by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, he simply couldn't be bothered with these complicated relationships.

So Huo Yuhao rode the Ice Dragon King directly towards the outside of the ice spring, which was the location of the cave he had previously visited.

After arriving at the cave, Huo Yuhao first had Ice Emperor and Snow Emperor take Di Ruier, who was somewhat weakened from constantly using her innate ability to guide the power of destiny to prevent accidents, out of the tunnel they had dug earlier.

Huo Yuhao then controlled the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul to collect all the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals in the cave. He then sealed the original cave with Extreme Ice to prevent the remaining ice spring from showing any abnormalities in a short period of time.

Without the presence of the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal and the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, the spiritual energy within this ice spring will completely dissipate and return to normal within a few years.

(End of this chapter)