Chapter 1509: Purifying the Ice

"Upper Nine-Grade Ice Aspect!"

The gazes of Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge lingered on Lü Qing'er's smooth brow, where a crystalline core resembling the eye of a deity had appeared. Extremely pure and ancient ice-attribute aspect energy was surging out of it like a tide, and the temperature within a radius of a thousand li had plummeted to an extreme chill because of it.

Even Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge could feel a cold aura coiling around their bodies.

"She must have activated the Ice Sacred Seed within her body!" Li Luo said.

The Ice Sacred Seed could help one push one's frost-attribute aspect grade up to the Upper Nine-Grade tier. Given that Lü Qing'er was only at the Unparalleled Second-Grade, the eruption of such terrifying ice energy could only be due to this thing.

Combined with the fact that this Ice Star was saturated with ice energy, it made the Ice Sacred Seed even more formidable—like how he had previously drawn on the light energy of the Light Star to defeat Song Jing.

"Her condition seems a little off," Jiang Jiang Qinge said.

Li Luo nodded with a slight furrow of his brow. Lü Qing'er's gaze was far too icy at the moment, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, as if she were an ice sculpture. This was presumably the drawback of activating the Ice Sacred Seed. After all, unlike his Primordial Seed, his previous Upper Nine-Grade Light Aspect had been formed by fusing his own many aspects—belonging entirely to his own power and aspect.

But what Lü Qing'er relied on was the Ice Sacred Seed, and the Ice Sacred Seed was not something she had condensed herself. It had been refined from the heart's blood of a Li Tianwang. Although Lü Qing'er was extremely compatible with it, her own Unparalleled Second-Grade level was still insufficient to fully control such power.

Therefore, reckless use would cause her own emotions to be frozen and dulled by the Ice Sacred Seed.

Li Luo looked at the ice altar. At the center of the ice altar was a small pool of water, quite peculiar. Within it swirled a deep-blue pond water, continuously sending up blue mist. As this mist rose, even the void showed signs of freezing, demonstrating just how terrifyingly extreme the cold energy contained within was.

And this mist was now streaming into Lü Qing'er's body.

The ice sculpture that Lü Ruyan had become at the edge of the pool remained in the posture of reaching out toward the water.

Presumably, an intense struggle had taken place here between the two sides earlier.

"That should be the Frost God Water. Qing'er mentioned before that this was the objective for her and Lü Ruyan entering the Celestial Mirror Pagoda," Li Luo said.

"She's absorbing this Frost God Water, but it looks like absorbing it will cause the Ice Sacred Seed within her to grow stronger, thereby further freezing her emotions. If this continues, it probably won't be long before the Ice Sacred Seed within her fully awakens, and the Lü Qing'er of that moment may be entirely different from before," Jiang Jiang Qinge said, glancing at Li Luo.

Li Luo's brows knit tightly. "Her strength isn't enough yet. The full awakening of the Ice Sacred Seed won't do her any good. We have to help her."

Jiang Jiang Qinge pondered briefly. "Let me try and see if I can use the purifying effect of my Light Aspect energy to suppress the power of the Ice Sacred Seed somewhat."

Her slender, fair hands came together, her hand seals shifting rapidly. On her snow-like skin, sacred light patterns immediately began to spread, finally converging at her brow to form a sacred halo of light.

The Ancient Tracing Aspect Pattern.

And it was the Three-Wheel variant.

This was formed from Jiang Jiang Qinge's own three Middle Nine-Grade Light Aspects.

"When will your Primordial Seed be able to help you elevate your Light Aspect to the Upper Nine-Grade?" Li Luo asked curiously, gazing at the Ancient Tracing Aspect Pattern on Jiang Jiang Qinge's brow.

The Primordial Seed's fame resounded through the ages. In terms of tier, it even surpassed those many Sacred Seeds by a notch. After all, the so-called Sacred Seeds were refined by those Li Tianwang existences by imitating the Primordial Seed and combining it with their own great power. So there was no reason Lü Qing'er could borrow the Ice Sacred Seed to reach Upper Nine-Grade, while Jiang Jiang Qinge's Primordial Seed remained stuck at Middle Nine-Grade.

"The Primordial Seed needs to awaken step by step. If it happens all at once, it will affect oneself. Simply put, a sudden surge of overly strong power isn't a good thing—just like Lü Qing'er right now..."

"Furthermore, these Sacred Seeds are ultimately finished products, and they've been nurtured by generation after generation of inheritors, so they naturally contain vast power. But the Primordial Seed needs to grow stronger step by step," Jiang Jiang Qinge explained.

At this point, her words paused, and she added, "However, my Upper Nine-Grade shouldn't be far off either."

Li Luo glanced sideways. The Upper Nine-Grade that countless brilliant prodigies could only look up to seemed almost a little too easy in Jiang Jiang Qinge's case.

And while they were speaking, Jiang Jiang Qinge had already pushed her Light Aspect energy to its utmost, finally transforming it into rolling sacred flames that swept down toward where Lü Qing'er was.

However, as the sacred flames surged over, the "Sacred Aspect Crystal Core" on Lü Qing'er's brow sensed the threat and immediately erupted with profound light. Streaks of ice-soul cold light whistled out, colliding with the sacred flames.

The two collided continuously, yet they did not produce an earth-shattering roar—only the two streams of energy silently dissolving each other.

"Upper Nine-Grade aspect energy is indeed tricky." After a moment of stalemate, Jiang Jiang Qinge withdrew the sacred flames. She could have broken through Lü Qing'er's defense, but doing so wouldn't be saving her anymore.

"My Light Aspect energy's purification effect against her Upper Nine-Grade Ice Aspect power is still a bit lacking. It seems I still need you to step in," Jiang Jiang Qinge said, somewhat helplessly. Li Luo paying the price to activate his Upper Nine-Grade aspect was no small cost, but there was no other choice at the moment.

To purify Lü Qing'er's Upper Nine-Grade Ice Aspect, only aspect energy of the same grade would do.

Li Luo nodded without hesitation. He first retreated to Li Hongyou's side and asked for a "Three-Revolution Jade Dragon Pill," then once again activated the Myriad Aspects Wheel, fusing all the aspects within his body.

Billions of rays of light suddenly burst forth from Li Luo's body.

At his brow, an incomparably sacred "Sacred Aspect Crystal Core" emerged, like the eye of a deity.

Li Hongyou and Xi Chan were both utterly shocked. The Upper Nine-Grade Light Aspect was simply too far beyond them. In all their experience, they had never seen a Marquis Realm cultivator elevate their aspect to such a level.

And Li Luo channeled his vast, mighty Light Aspect energy into sacred flames, radiating the ultimate power of purification as they surged toward Lü Qing'er.

The ice-blue "Sacred Aspect Crystal Core" on Lü Qing'er's brow also launched a counterattack.

But this time, as the Light Sacred Flames surged over, the effect was astonishingly good. The power of purification spread, rapidly dissolving the ice-soul profound light emanating from Lü Qing'er's brow.

As streak after streak of cold light was forced back, the cold aura emanating from Lü Qing'er's body also began to gradually weaken. Finally, within her ice-sealed eyes, a flicker of emotion resurfaced.

Faint though it was, it was undeniably real.

Lü Qing'er's ice-blue pupils gazed at Li Luo as he slowly descended from midair. The "Sacred Aspect Crystal Core" on her brow began to fade, finally transforming into cold energy that flowed back into her body.

And as the power of Lü Qing'er's Ice Sacred Seed receded, the frozen Lü Ruyan also began to recover. The instant she recovered, all the aspect energy within her erupted, and she said sharply, "Lü Qing'er, it's my turn now, isn't it?!"

But the moment her voice fell, she saw the figures of Li Luo and Jiang Jiang Qinge descending from the sky.

At the same time, she also saw the "Sacred Aspect Crystal Core" on Li Luo's brow that had yet to dissipate. The sacred, dazzling Light Aspect energy caused her to freeze on the spot.