Chapter 423: Nine Nether Cold Pool

The depth of this Cold Pool had already far exceeded Su Haizhen's expectations! She and Zhang Nuo had chatted for a long time inside the tripod, yet it was only at this moment that the Four Spirits Square Cauldron finally landed at the bottom of the pool! Even if the Small Tripod's descent speed were too slow, it shouldn't have taken this long!

There was only one reason for this: the pool was incredibly deep! Looking up toward the mouth of the tripod, one could see nothing but a few streaks of blue electric arc sealing the opening, while outside was pitch black! Not even sunlight could be seen!

Although Zhang Nuo had anticipated that the Cold Pool would be deep, he hadn't expected it to be to this extent! He slowly released his Divine Sense, moving it toward the mouth of the tripod, but the moment his Divine Sense left the Small Tripod, Zhang Nuo's expression changed drastically, and he retracted it as if bitten by a snake!

"What's wrong?"

Given Zhang Nuo's experience, there were few things that could make him feel afraid, but at this moment, his face was pale to the extreme, and his chest was heaving continuously, as if his Divine Sense had just sensed something truly terrifying!

"My Divine Sense was almost frozen by the cold air outside!"

Zhang Nuo said slowly, but Su Haizhen could clearly feel the horror of this situation! Divine Sense was inherently formless and intangible; if even Divine Sense could be frozen, just how powerful was the cold air in this pool!

"Are we... do we still have a chance to escape from here?"

In Su Haizhen's beautiful eyes, the expression dimmed significantly. Although she and Zhang Nuo had been giving each other hope, when it came time to truly face reality, their hearts were very heavy!

"Heh! I never thought I, Zhang Nuo, would end up in such a situation!"

He gave a bitter smile. The current situation could be described as bad as it could possibly get. Fortunately, the Four Spirits Square Cauldron was a supreme treasure that blocked the cold air outside. Even so, Zhang Nuo had no idea how long the Small Tripod could hold out!

"But this life of mine has been worth it! Even in death, I have a beauty by my side!"

Feeling the atmosphere was very oppressive, Zhang Nuo suddenly changed the subject and teased Su Haizhen while looking at her.

"You... oh! At a time like this, you still have the heart to joke!"

Her pretty face flushed slightly, and Su Haizhen stamped her feet, laughing and scolding helplessly!

"I'm telling the truth!"

Zhang Nuo's face suddenly became serious! His intense gaze locked onto Su Haizhen's eyes!

"I..."

Feeling Zhang Nuo's gaze, Su Haizhen lowered her head in shyness, her heart feeling as if twenty-five little rabbits were scratching at it!

"Who has time to talk about this now! I have many Jade Slips with me, all obtained after the Su Family opened the Purple Mansion Immortal Cave of Chen Jie Xian Shan. Let's see if there is any information about this Cold Pool inside!"

Turning around, the young girl acted as if nothing had happened and began taking out one Jade Slip after another from her Storage Bag, chattering away as if trying to find a way to escape!

With Su Haizhen's intelligence, how could she not understand Zhang Nuo's intentions? It was just that perhaps now was not the time to discuss this, and besides, she was in no mood to talk about it!

Seeing her avoid the topic, Zhang Nuo paused for a moment, then exchanged a few pleasantries before helping Su Haizhen look for clues in the Jade Slips! Since these items came from the Purple Mansion Immortal Mountain, there must be many valuable things inside! To find a way out, the two had no choice but to read these Jade Slips carefully!

However, as one Jade Slip after another was read by Zhang Nuo and Su Haizhen, their expressions grew increasingly grave. The reason was simple: the things recorded in these Jade Slips were indeed useful in some cases, but they had absolutely nothing to do with their current predicament! As for this Cold Pool, it wasn't mentioned at all!

Several hours later, when Su Haizhen's fair hand picked up the last Jade Slip, she was almost in despair. But since she had already done everything else, she might as well finish this last one, so she sank her Divine Sense into it!

Zhang Nuo watched the young girl with her eyes slightly closed, and for a moment, he was captivated by her focused appearance! Being trapped in such a desperate place with a beauty by his side, this life was truly not lived in vain! But there was always one regret in his heart: the matter of the Great Underworld Mansion!

Yet, trapped in the Cold Pool now, even if he understood everything, what good would it do? As soon as Zhang Nuo rushed out of the Small Tripod, he would be frozen into an icicle! And it would be instantaneous!

Looking at the young girl's pretty face, Zhang Nuo thought of many things. If not for the Mysterious Heaven Spirit Insect, he, a child from a mountain village, would probably be just like his parents: farming at sunrise and resting at sunset. Although life would have been a bit plain, he would have eaten his three meals a day with relish and slept soundly!

By comparison, although Zhang Nuo was now a cultivator at the Nascent Soul Stage and his lifespan had been extended to a thousand years, he didn't live happily every day. He had to be on guard against everyone around him; even the slightest negligence could cost him his life!

Now, at the bottom of this Cold Pool, facing the threat of death, Zhang Nuo actually felt much more relaxed. With his current supernatural powers, there was simply no way to escape this place! His Divine Sense couldn't be released, and he had no idea what the surrounding environment was like!

Lost in thought, Zhang Nuo's gaze never left Su Haizhen's face. This face, perfect to the extreme, had no flaws whatsoever; any man who saw it would be moved! Being trapped with her could be considered a stroke of luck within misfortune!

Just at this moment, Zhang Nuo suddenly noticed a change on the girl's usually calm face, and then, with a faint smile, it instantly blossomed like a flower!

His heart stirred. Could it be that she had found a way to escape this place in that last Jade Slip? Zhang Nuo didn't disturb Su Haizhen but just watched her face! Before long, when the girl withdrew her Divine Sense from the Jade Slip, she gasped for air in excitement!

"There is actually an introduction to the Cold Pool of the First Immortal Mountain here!"

Blinking her star-like eyes, Su Haizhen was so happy she almost jumped up! She handed the Jade Slip to Zhang Nuo. Seeing her happy appearance, a glimmer of hope rose in Zhang Nuo's heart! He hurriedly took the Jade Slip and sank his Divine Sense into it, only to find that the content recorded in this Jade Slip was basically all about the Xianhuan Continent!

Especially which Immortal Mountain had what special items, all were listed one by one. When Zhang Nuo saw the First Immortal Mountain, he read: In the center of the continent, Spiritual Qi runs rampant; at the peak of the giant mountain, winter lasts all year round; all things stay away, and to touch it is to die! There is a fish in the pool, its name is Kun; after many years, it achieves the Dao, transforms into a Peng, and ascends to the Immortal World!

These few short sentences left Zhang Nuo quite shocked. Judging by the meaning of these words, there had once been a living creature in this Cold Pool long ago! And it had achieved the Dao right here in this pool! Finally, it ascended to the Immortal World!

What kind of creature could cultivate in a Cold Pool? Zhang Nuo was completely baffled. If the creature recorded in the Jade Slip really existed, it would first need an innate condition: cold resistance, and a high degree of it at that! After thinking for a moment, he continued to read further!

The following content was the reason why Zhang Nuo's eyes truly lit up. According to the records in the Jade Slip, this Cold Pool was named the "Nine Nether Cold Pool". Because the location of the Taidou of the First Immortal Mountain was quite special, it was both the place where Spiritual Qi was most dense and also the place with the heaviest cold air on the entire Xianhuan Continent.

And the "Nine Nether Cold Pool" was triggered by a Cold Vein nearby. Although this pool water was extremely cold, the cultivators on the Immortal Mountain back then used this pool to improve their cultivation rapidly! The reason was simple: all kinds of energy in the world do not appear out of thin air; they are transformed from the form of another energy!

Cold air is naturally no exception. The reason why the water in the "Nine Nether Cold Pool" was so cold was entirely due to the Cold Vein beneath it!

The Cold Vein was also an aggregate of massive Spirit Power, just that its form of existence was different from ordinary Spirit Veins. The cultivators on the First Immortal Mountain back then utilized this characteristic to continuously draw cold air from the Cold Pool and convert it into Spirit Power for their own use!

This wasn't what made Zhang Nuo the happiest; it was that beneath this Cold Vein, there was something else: "Purple Lightning Wild Thunder"!

Around the Cold Vein, because some Spiritual Qi was not fully converted during the process of transforming into cold air, these Spiritual Qi, after long-term metamorphosis, formed a unique form of existence! Lightning!

The formation of this lightning also had a great deal to do with some lightning-attribute ores in its surroundings. Over time, this formed lightning became an independent existence! Eventually, it evolved into "Purple Lightning Wild Thunder"!

It is said that this lightning, having been highly tempered by Spiritual Qi and cold air, is naturally rooted in Spiritual Qi and cannot tolerate the approach of any other form of power. This means that, apart from Spiritual Qi, "Purple Lightning Wild Thunder" is in a state of repulsion toward other things like Demonic Qi and Yin Qi.

Especially Demonic Qi, another power that is the exact opposite of Spiritual Qi! It couldn't get even half a step near the "Purple Lightning Wild Thunder"! He really hadn't expected that the "Purple Lightning Wild Thunder" Zhang Nuo had been dreaming of was actually right beneath this Cold Pool, but how to extract it had become the biggest difficulty!

He continued to read down, but that was all the introduction to the Cold Pool in the Jade Slip! When Zhang Nuo withdrew his Divine Sense from the Jade Slip, his face was not as happy as Su Haizhen's had been earlier!

"This only introduces the origin of the Cold Pool and how the 'Purple Lightning Wild Thunder' is formed; it doesn't say how to escape!"

Zhang Nuo returned the Jade Slip to Su Haizhen and said calmly! Hearing this, the young girl was stunned. Turning back to think about it, that was indeed the case. She had been depressed because she had flipped through too many Jade Slips without finding information about the Cold Pool, and now that she had suddenly found a clue, she had been so happy!

However, after a moment of thought, a smile appeared on Su Haizhen's pretty face again. She bit her lip strangely, and then said somewhat uncomfortably.