Chapter 57: Bad Things

Because of the appearance of this Thousand-Year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus, Long Xuan immediately decided to establish his own medicine garden at the fastest speed after returning. Spirit bees need a large amount of flower-type spirit medicine and cannot always rely on other people's medicine gardens.

This matter absolutely cannot be delayed any longer. He originally thought about drawing small array patterns with the Eye of Heavenly Mechanism. For the same area of array disk, he could draw a hundred times more array patterns than others.

By then, he would develop a new school of array formation, forming his own school. In the history books of later generations, he would be the founding ancestor of this school.

The array formation books traded from Di Xin were read by the avatars, and all the memories were assimilated to him.

But he had too many things to do and never had time to spare. Creating an array formation was not an easy thing and required him to spend a lot of time. He always had to have priorities.

Now that the transplantation of the Thousand-Year Ice Mountain Snow Lotus was imminent, he didn't have the time to research array formations, so he decided to make do with the array formations captured from Master Jin for a period of time.

The array formation materials from that battle not long ago were not damaged much. Since there were ready-made ones, he would take them and use them first.

Besides, the array formation set up by Di Xin was not simple. It was absolutely more than enough to block Gu cultivators at the Essence Refining stage outside. Without this power, how could Master Jin dare to settle in the wild? With the wealth of an artifact refiner, who wouldn't see him as a walking fat sheep?

After warming his body by the fire and supplementing his physical strength with food, he picked up a piece of wood from the fire, held a simple torch, and walked toward the depths of the cave.

He hadn't forgotten the main business. He needed to bury the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow in a place suitable for its growth. After it became Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, he would dig it out again.

Through his observation, this place had abundant spiritual power and a good trend of earth veins. With his half-baked knowledge of feng shui, he felt that this place was very suitable for the growth of Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, so he decided to bury this piece of Ice Marrow in the depths of the cave and wait at the edge of the cave entrance himself.

The cave was very long and narrow. When the torch was about to burn out, he finally reached the end.

However, a deep pit was chiseled out on the stone wall at the end. Looking at the traces, it was clearly dug by humans, and it hadn't been dug for long.

The pit emitted strange cold air, which was very similar to the aura of the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow.

Long Xuan was stunned. Master Jin wouldn't have dug the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow here, right? Wouldn't it be such a coincidence?

He was dumbfounded, which meant that he had inadvertently found the original source of the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow.

He swore that he only knew Master Jin dug the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow in the Great Snow Mountain, and he really didn't know where exactly he dug it. The Great Snow Mountain was huge. Where was he going to find the original burial site?

His purpose for this trip was to find a place to bury it casually, but he had never hoped to find its original source.

But many things in the world are like this: if you plant flowers intentionally, they won't bloom; if you plant willows unintentionally, they will form shade. This really gave him a huge surprise.

Whether burying it in a random place could allow the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow to continue to grow, he didn't have the slightest bottom in his heart.

But if he buried it at the original address, then the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow would definitely continue to grow. He could completely put his heart down. Long Xuan revealed an excited smile.

"The luck is truly not bad. Quickly bury the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow!"

After Long Xuan threw the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow into the deep pit, he immediately greeted a group of avatars to work, while he acted as a supervisor on the side, standing all the time.

During this period, the torch was about to burn out, and he picked up the wooden strips he had already prepared and made another torch.

It must be said that the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow is truly cold. Originally, the depths of the cave were cold enough, but once the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow came out, the cold air released almost froze him into an ice stick.

Although he was the farthest away at this time and the cold air was borne by the avatars who were burying the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, he was still shivering from the cold.

So after the avatars completely buried the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, he immediately walked back and decided not to stay in this place anymore.

Next, he just needed to wait patiently. He had calculated that if the conditions were completely met, he would only need to wait for about ten days.

During these ten days, he looked toward the depths of the cave to observe the progress of the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow. Every time he saw the progress rise a little, his mouth would reveal a smile.

Until ten days later, the Yan avatar ran from the depths of the cave holding the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow. The cold air released by the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow was far too terrifying compared to the Thousand-Year Ice Marrow. The Yan avatar holding it was frozen half to death.

Seeing this piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow that he had been waiting for for a long time, Long Xuan could no longer control himself and laughed loudly.

"Good! Good! I want to see what the Ice God Flame refined from Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow will be like. Major avatars, prepare the materials immediately..."

Under Long Xuan's command, another ten days passed quickly.

Refining the Ice God Flame is not like refining Gu; it really doesn't need too much time.

On the day the Ice God Flame was born, a blue-ice-colored flame descended out of thin air in the middle of the cave. The flame burned violently, releasing world-destroying cold air. Suddenly, the temperature in the cave plummeted, and ice layers formed on the ground and stone walls. At this moment, the entire mountain seemed to be trembling.

Long Xuan was almost frozen to death by this pressing cold air. He hid far away and didn't dare to approach at all, and didn't have time to appreciate it carefully. He immediately ordered the Yan avatar to refine the Ice God Flame.

You must know that swallowing flames carries huge risks. How can a flesh-and-blood body swallow flames? Most people will only end up being swallowed by the flames, and those who succeed are only in the minority.

But Long Xuan was smart. He didn't refine the flames himself, but let the Yan avatar do it.

You must know that all the cultivation results of the avatar can be returned to the main body. If the avatar succeeds in refining the flames, it is equivalent to him succeeding in refining the flames.

Even if it fails, it is only an avatar that dies, and the main body will not be affected in any way. If it succeeds, then he can sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor, which is simply perfect.

Obviously, luck did not descend on him. After the Yan avatar swallowed the Ice God Flame into his mouth, his body immediately formed an ice layer, and the whole person was frozen stiff. His vitality was also passing away rapidly, and he couldn't last long at all. Soon, he was about to die.

The most critical thing is that Long Xuan couldn't see the fire-refining progress, which meant that failure was a foregone conclusion.

It was also Long Xuan's own death-seeking. The formula required Thousand-Year Ice Marrow. If he followed the requirements and used Thousand-Year Ice Marrow to refine fire, with four avatars and four chances, his success rate would be very high.

But he insisted on acting on his own and replaced Thousand-Year Ice Marrow with Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow. Although there is only a one-word difference between Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow and Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, there is a heaven-and-earth gap.

How can the flame refined from Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow be simple? Its power is simply increasing geometrically, and its momentum has become heaven's might. How can it be something that a small Gu cultivator at the Spirit Gathering stage can swallow just because he says so?

Everything has its opposite when it reaches the extreme. Things that are too terrifying will instead spoil things.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 58 =====