Chapter 254: The Sword in the Ice

In most Northern Realm tribes, food is often not enough for the tribe's own people to eat, let alone having the spare capacity to raise small things like snow pheasants and snow rabbits purely to improve their meals.

From this alone, one can see that the "happiness index" of the people of the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe is at least second to none on the snowfield.

Just as Gao De was sizing up the buildings of the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe, the biting chill in the air had become heavier and heavier, and the drifting ice elements had become more and more intense.

The next moment, a bit of coolness fell on his face with the cold wind that made his face ache.

Gao De looked up and found that vast snowflakes began to drift down.

Sure enough, it was snowing.

Gao De stretched out his hand and watched the crystalline snowflakes fall on his hand.

On the snowfield, snowing is the most normal thing.

Therefore, Luo Yiqi and Catherine had no psychological fluctuations, just taking Gao De forward on the main road of Phoenix.

The two had a clear goal, heading straight for Elder Grant, whom they wanted to find.

As a tribal city with a population of over half a million, besides the Enduring Zhenbing clansmen, there were a large number of people from other tribes in Phoenix.

This place could be said to be the liveliest and most popular place on the entire snowfield.

Even though Gao De was currently only on the outermost periphery of Phoenix, the crisscrossing streets and city scenery were not something that could be seen elsewhere in the Northern Realm.

Although from his perspective, whether it was the layout or the style, the city scenery of Phoenix was still too rough.

But being able to build a "city" on the snowfield was in itself a very remarkable thing.

And besides the very rich ice elements in the Northern Realm itself, Gao De could also perceive that as soon as he entered Phoenix, the surroundings began to be filled with pure magic power.

This magic power concentration was almost equivalent to the magic power concentration contained in the basic cultivation room.

That is, the magic power concentration was around 10.

At the Sairisi Academy, the basic cultivation room is one of the benefits for official students, which can be used for free.

But it also has to be within a special magic array to have such magic power concentration.

In other places in the Sairisi Academy, the magic power concentration cannot reach this value.

And in Phoenix, any corner can reach this level of magic power concentration.

It can be seen that in terms of resources alone, the Northern Realm is indeed not inferior to the outside world at all.

Even from another perspective, due to the lack of development, the resource reserves of the Northern Realm are actually far richer than those of the outside world.

Whether it is magic plants, magic materials, or various spiritual lands, this is the case.

There is such a rich magic power even on the outermost periphery of Phoenix.

Undoubtedly, the core geographical location of Phoenix must be a high-rank spiritual land, which can make the surrounding area gather such rich magic power without a rune magic array.

A Fourth-Rank spiritual land, or a Fifth-Rank spiritual land? Gao De secretly speculated on the spiritual land rank of the core area of the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe.

On both sides of the main road, residential houses of different sizes and different appearances were arranged, interspersed with many "shops" hanging with cloth curtains.

Just at this moment, on Gao De's right hand side, an extremely young boy, looking no more than fifteen or sixteen, wearing animal skin clothes, rushed out impatiently and asked a local Enduring Zhenbing clansman: "Uncle, where is the location of the Sword in the Ice challenge?"

That middle-aged Enduring Zhenbing clansman glanced at the boy, seemingly not surprised, and pointed casually, "Walk to the end along this main road and there will be a square; it's right there."

"Thank you, Uncle!" The boy said thank you and hurried away again.

"The Sword in the Ice challenge has been held for more than three months; during this time, the number of challengers rushing to Phoenix is countless. So many failures have not extinguished their enthusiasm; now even a kid whose hair hasn't grown fully wants to come and try his luck..."

Clearly, not only did Gao De hear the conversation between the two, but Luo Yiqi looked at the boy's disappearing back and muttered a complaint casually.

Gao De's heart moved, and he also remembered the Sword in the Ice challenge mentioned by the two Snowfur clansmen when he first entered the Snowfur camp.

"It's been so long, hasn't anyone been able to pull out the Sword in the Ice?" He asked casually.

"Don't say three months; even after three years, thirty years, no one will be able to pull out that Sword in the Ice," Luo Yiqi shrugged and said extremely affirmatively.

"You are an outsider; you might not understand. Enduring Zhenbing, this kind of thing, even if it's just a little bit, even if you have the Ice-Born bloodline, it's hard to bear... no, that's not right, you should have deep personal experience..."

Speaking of this, Luo Yiqi suddenly thought of the Law-Forbidden Ice Needles still stuck in Gao De's body and said slightly awkwardly.

Subsequently, he quickly continued: "That little bit of Enduring Zhenbing, even under the premise of being attached to special materials that isolate the cold, was so terrifying. The Sword in the Ice of the Enduring Zhenbing tribe is made of pure Enduring Zhenbing, and its weight is even one hundred thousand times that of the Law-Forbidden Ice Needles."

"In this comparison, although the chill released by the Sword in the Ice is not one hundred thousand times that of the Law-Forbidden Ice Needles, it is definitely not on the same order of magnitude."

"Even in the Enduring Zhenbing tribe, I think only War Mother Su Naifa can fully control this Sword in the Ice..."

Luo Yiqi shook his head. "So, this Sword in the Ice challenge is ultimately just a moon in the water, a flower in the mirror. Even if the rewards they give are generous, it's fundamentally impossible for anyone to complete this challenge."

"Any Ice-Born magic user with some knowledge understands these truths; only these young people have this kind of drive," Luo Yiqi remarked.

"Perhaps someone really can do it," at this time, Catherine, who had been listening for a long time, suddenly spoke up: "The Enduring Zhenbing Tribe went to such great lengths to create this Sword in the Ice challenge and tried every means to spread the news throughout the Northern Realm; it couldn't just be to create some hype."

Luo Yiqi was stunned for a moment, and after thinking carefully, he felt it indeed made sense, then looked at Catherine again and suddenly reacted: "There's an inside story?"

Catherine nodded, indeed knowing something, "This matter involves an ancient ritual magic of the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe; they are looking for a very special person."

"However," Catherine paused and gave her own evaluation, "so many years have passed since that ritual magic; who can guarantee anything about the words of that year placed in today?"

After saying this, Catherine shook her head, sparing words like gold, and said no more. On the streets of Phoenix, the crowd was bustling.

But the liveliest part was still the road leading directly to the place of the Sword in the Ice challenge.

But Luo Yiqi and Catherine clearly didn't intend to join in the fun.

They took Gao De all the way to a small gray stone building.

"We will stay here for the time being during this period. We are going to find Elder Grant now; you can go in and rest first, or you can stroll around in Phoenix." Luo Yiqi handed the key to Gao De.

Worthy of being a high-circle magic user, actually having his own property in Phoenix... Gao De took the key, sized up the gray stone building in front of him, and thought secretly in his heart.

"Okay." At the same time, he agreed verbally.

After explaining these things, the two left, leaving Gao De alone in place.

Of course, the reason they were so casual was not that they believed Gao De would honestly listen, but because there were still five Law-Forbidden Ice Needles in Gao De's body.

The Law-Forbidden Ice Needles made Gao De unable to circulate mana, sealing his spellcasting ability.

The only one who could remove the Law-Forbidden Ice Needles was Luo Yiqi.

Both of them firmly believed that no magic user could endure the loss of spellcasting ability.

Therefore, as long as the Law-Forbidden Ice Needles still existed in Gao De's body, they didn't worry about Gao De running away at all.

Gao De also understood what their reliance was.

Although after evolving the Intermediate Ice-Blessed Body, those five Law-Forbidden Ice Needles no longer had any effect on him.

That is to say, in reality, the restrictions on him had long been lifted.

However, Gao De did not choose to just walk away.

The reason was also very simple: with Luo Yiqi's ability, he could track him even on the vast snowfield; even if he ran away now, he would sooner or later be caught back, and he would also expose his trump card.

At least until he figured out the way the two tracked him and the corresponding countermeasures, Gao De was not prepared to run away.

Using the key left by Luo Yiqi to open the door, Gao De walked in.

This gray stone building was not big, but it also had four rooms.

Gao De consciously chose the smallest one, then walked into the fire pit bed in the small room and sat cross-legged.

Subsequently, he took out the small bottle containing the two drops of Third-Rank Ice Marrow from his robes.

This was one of the "compensations" Catherine had paid him in advance.

On the road, Gao De had never used it.

It was mainly because he didn't know what the situation would be if he used such a high-rank Ice Marrow to improve the Mandola Magic Eye all at once, and whether it would take a lot of time.

In case there was a special situation, it was always somewhat inconvenient in the wilderness of the snowfield.

Now that they had temporarily settled down, naturally there was no need to worry about these things.

Gao De took a deep breath, activated the Mandola Magic Eye, and then dripped one drop of Third-Rank Ice Marrow into his pupil.

In an instant.

A majestic ice-elemental power that could not be described in words erupted from that drop of Third-Rank Ice Marrow.

Like a surging tide, carrying vast energy, it poured into the depths of his pupil.

Gao De felt as if his pupil was being washed by an ice river; this was an extremely refreshing and strange feeling.

Under such washing, his pupil began to improve rapidly.

After one "ice river washing" after another, lasting for half an hour, the ice-elemental power contained in this drop of Third-Rank Ice Marrow was finally completely consumed and thoroughly dissipated.

Gao De opened the Mandola Magic Eye, and his eyes became incomparably clear and bright.

The field of vision under the Mandola Magic Eye had become clearer, and the field of view had expanded.

Compared to before, this improvement was very obvious.

Subsequently, Gao De felt the improvement progress of the Mandola Magic Eye with his heart, and the next moment he couldn't help but sigh.

Third-Rank Ice Marrow is just too top-tier.

With just one drop, the rank of his Mandola Magic Eye jumped directly from First Rank (3/72) to (25/72).

This was an explosive improvement.

Converting it this way, the effect of one drop of Third-Rank Ice Marrow was roughly equivalent to 22 drops of First-Rank Ice Marrow.

Of course, in terms of value, it far exceeded this multiple.

Thinking this way, Gao De had already tilted his head back and dripped the second drop of Third-Rank Ice Marrow into his Mandola Magic Eye.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 255 =====