Chapter 454: Direction of the Earth Veins

Forty meters, fifty meters, sixty meters……

Finally, when the depth reached seventy degrees, the two finally felt their bodies suddenly loosen, and together they fell into a small cave.

Inside the cave was pure black, with not a drop of water; Tang Wulin instinctively drew a breath, and instantly, an extremely terrifying cold air followed his breath into his body.

In an instant, Tang Wulin felt as if everything in his body, including his soul, had frozen; his whole body stiffened instantly and remained stuck there.

His heart began to gradually speed up, the flow of his qi and blood gradually quickening, helping him resist this unbelievable cold.

At the same time, several beams of light lit up in the cave, and the inhabitants of Huo Yutong's Sea of Spirit reappeared, illuminating the scene inside the cave.

Inside the cave were strange ice pillars, only a dozen or so in total, crisscrossing, large and small, each pillar pure white.

Within those pure white ice pillars, a liquid could be seen flowing faintly, and the terrifying cold emanated from these pillars.

Unlike the extreme cold that retracts inward of the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, the cold here cannot be retracted at all; the air seems viscous, and the concentration of ice element has reached a point where even Huo Yutong cannot absorb it.

Only souls like the Ice Emperor, Snow Emperor, and Eight‑Corner Mystic Ice Grass are scarcely affected in this world—not just because they are mostly spiritual entities, but because they themselves are users of Ultimate Ice.

Like the pure spiritual‑attribute soul Spiritual Mourning Dark Soul Plum, it had already retreated into Huo Yutong's Sea of Spirit and refused to come out no matter what.

"This is the place; this is the Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow."

The Snow Emperor's sighing words explained the true nature of these pure white ice pillars: they are none other than the Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow, hailed as the ultimate of the ultimate ice.

Seeing Tang Wulin and Huo Yutong's somewhat pale faces, she gave a faint smile.

"Tang Wulin, Huo Yutong, you don't need to worry too much; you're just temporarily unaccustomed to this extreme cold. The area here is too small, and there's a lot of Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow, so the temperature is extremely low—even the lowest temperature I could create at my peak cannot compare to that here."

This place is indeed a human forbidden zone; if it weren't for Huo Yutong happening to possess the Ultimate Ice Martial Soul, even Tang Wulin would find it hard to stay here for long.

After all, the Snow Emperor is the third‑ranked existence among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, the true ruler of the Extreme North, the controller of ice and snow that the world has ever seen; even a temperature she herself finds inferior is unbearable even for an Ultimate Douluo.

She floated to before these Eternal Mystic Ice Marrows and said to all the souls:

"You should have just heard my conversation with Elder Ilex. This time, each of us will seal as much Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow as we can inside our bodies to prepare for Huo Yutong to condense a second Ultimate Ice attribute soul core in the near future. Yutong, you can also absorb it, but you must not absorb too much; a living human's body differs from ours souls, and if you absorb too much you will likely fall directly into slumber like Tianmeng did back then, and then everything will be over."

"Yes."

Everyone answered in unison.

With no objections from Ilex, the Snow Emperor holds the highest authority among the souls.

Under her command, Huo Yutong and the souls all came forward to the Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow and began to absorb it.

It can be seen that the souls' absorption speeds of the Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow are also markedly different.

Undoubtedly the slowest to absorb is the Eight‑Corner Mystic Ice Grass; as the weakest of the ice‑attribute souls, it can absorb only a single stalk of Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow at a time, and its absorption speed is very slow. Next is the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm; although it is faster than the Eight‑Corner Mystic Ice Grass, it is not much faster—partly because its former strength was weak, and partly because it has completely merged its origin power with Huo Yutong, so its absorption speed naturally has dropped.

The absorption speeds of the Ice Emperor and Huo Yutong are roughly equal; speaking purely of strength, Huo Yutong has actually surpassed the Ice Emperor she once was, but due to the difference between humans and souls, her absorption speed does not greatly exceed his.

Undoubtedly the fastest absorber is the Snow Emperor; as the current strongest controller of ice and snow, her action of absorbing the Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow is domineering—she grabs a stalk with each hand and begins to absorb, and even in this situation her absorption speed is clearly faster than anyone else's.

With everyone working together, the number of Eternal Mystic Ice Marrows in the cave began to decrease at an astonishing rate.

Tang Wulin does not need to absorb the Eternal Mystic Ice Marrow; at this moment he inevitably feels a bit idle, when he suddenly notices that not far away Ilex is sitting on the ground, his hand placed on the icy slippery surface, faintly frowning as if sensing something.

He approached Ilex and asked:

"Elder Ilex, what are you doing?"

Given his understanding of this god‑level expert, Ilex's actions surely have purpose.

Ilex did not answer immediately, but after feeling for a while he lifted his hand from the ground.

"I am sensing the flow of energy in the meridians of the earth."

"Earth's meridians?"

Hearing a new term, Tang Wulin hurriedly asked:

"What is it?"

Ilex explained: "Just think of it as the veins within the earth that contain abundant energy; usually the formation of a blessed land is closely related to the flow of these earth veins, so I tried to sense it, and found something off."

"What do you mean?"

After organizing his thoughts, Ilex spoke solemnly:

"The distribution of earth veins here gives me the feeling of being an eye of a great earth‑vein formation; this great formation likely has more than one eye, and if I'm not mistaken, the reason this place formed the Eternal Mystic Ice Cavern is that most of the energy in the earth veins has gathered here."

Tang Wulin stared for a moment, then quickly grasped the meaning behind Ilex's words.

"You mean that if we go look for other eyes, we might very well find other Eternal Mystic Ice Caverns?"

"Hmm, but that's not the most important part."

Ilex stroked his chin, thoughtfully saying: "Although this great formation has more than one eye, the core is definitely just one; if each eye can give rise to an Eternal Mystic Ice Cavern, what then lies at the core?"

"Or put another way, if this great earth‑vein formation was laid down by some mighty being, then over countless ages he has been continuously channeling the energy of the earth veins of the entire Extreme North to a single spot—what is he trying to accomplish?"

(End of Chapter)