Chapter 119 - A walking contradiction

Some days passed and Jean was currently awake, standing over the bluestone wall. He checked his watch once and saw the data on it.

[8:10]

[5/12/1997]

[D: "Deathdealing"]

"Alright, now let's take a look at what this profound formula is made of…"

Jean rubbed a finger over the ice-cold bluestone wall, getting a small trail of profound energy used for the formation, and then he licked his finger.

After some time, he nodded, understanding how it works. Now he lowered the Lethal Dosage required for the formation to be activated.

Now it just needs to be cold for it to be active, as it is showing here. The words started to appear and glow with an ethereal light and Jean read the formula loudly.

"Frozen End Divine Arts."

"Main Formula."

"Ice, extremity of water, extremity of coldness. All things under heaven can become ice; water can be frozen into ice, blood can be frozen into ice, energy can be frozen into ice, the profound can be frozen into ice. Mountains, hills, and the skies all can be frozen into ice…"

The formula looked extremely simple for Jean, was he wrong about the hardness of learning it?

Of course everything can be frozen, the less the atoms move, the colder something gets. And if the movements reaches 0, there won't be any energy holding the matter warm, and it will freeze.

Like in the outer space, everything is cold as fuċk. The only reason why astronauts could survive is due to the radiations of the sun.

If there wasn't any star providing the astronauts with heat, their suit will be turned in a ice block.

...Oh right, no one here has ever heard of "Science".

Well, he is lucky he was able to read the braille… Otherwise he would be completely useless, like that time he was put into the hospital as a vegetable…

Anyway, the formula seemed extremely easy to understand, but the problem was to apply it…

...What is this feeling?

...Is it the Evil God's Water Seed?

Holding on his ċhėst, Jean started to repeat the formula, as if he was hypnotized.

The air around Jean started to turn into a mist, as a thin layer of ice was covering the floor under his legs.

Meanwhile, the doors behind him opened, letting Xia Qingyue enter the room. Usually Xia Qingyue would see Jean cultivating normally or do nothing at all, but this time, she saw him reading the profound formula on the wall.

She held a slightly surprised expression, but it was already too great of a change for someone who has a cold heart like her.

Inside, she was deeply surprised. In order to comprehend the Frozen End Divine Arts, Xia Qingyue did not spare to stay several months under the fourth layer of ice hell. Only by submerging herself inside profound ice, did she finally comprehend the ice attribute energy's core natural laws in a gradual fashion, and successfully cultivate the Frozen End Divine Arts.

Meanwhile, the Frozen Cloud disciples that made contact with it for the first time, facing this pile of profound formula, the only feeling they had was that it was "unintelligible".

For they who cultivated the Frozen Cloud Arts all the way to their perfection, even they had a low chance to learn the meaning of the formula in 3 months.

Yet, not only did Jean not do anything for the following 4 days, in a place that was held "Sacred" and "untainted" from everyone else.

Judging from the time on Jean's watch, it was still morning, and even Emperors still go to sleep.

This means that the time that Jean, someone who only made contact with it for the first time, and ordinarily used the famous fire attributed profound energy of the Phoenix itself, was able to enter the comprehension state in less than 12 hours!

And at this time, the mist of ice suddenly condensed surrounding him like he was inside a ball, and didn't dispersed for a long time. Gradually, as a hint of blue light flashed, an ice spirit suddenly appeared within the ice fog, and started to flutter around Jean's body as if it was alive.

Xia Qingyue's pink lips slightly opened, as her charming eyes shone with a glint of disbelief. This ice spirit wasn't an ordinary ice crystal condensed by the Frozen Cloud Arts' cold energy, but the spirit of ice formed when Frozen End Divine Arts' first stage is completely mastered!

How it is even possible for him to do this?! This is beyond comprehending a formula! This speed…

Another hour passed, the ice spirits surrounding Jean gradually increased in numbers. From one, to a dozen, then to several dozens, and hundreds… 

At this moment, his body suddenly emitted a wave of cold energy that pierced the bones and bored at the soul. At the same time, lines of silk formed by ice crystals quickly extended outwards from various spots on his body. Not long after, these ice crystal silks intertwined around his body, forming into an increasingly bigger and denser net of ice.

Xia Qingyue recognized this scene, it was a special state where every senses would be shut off.

Under this kind of extreme comprehension state, one wouldn't feel the ŀȧpse of time at all, and continuing for several days, or even several dozens of days couldn't be more normal. 

So she, using the recently-learned Profound Floating Technique, she didn't made a sound and left. She won't enter the room again until Jean will be awake, which might last some years.

In this case, it was better report it to the Mistress.

But she would never realize how FUCKING SHORT would be the time Jean needed to come out from this state.

…

[13:21]

[5/12/1997]

[D: "Deathdealing"]

The layer of ice around Jean's body and clothes was slowly melted down, and Jean's eyes snapped.

In that instant, the bluestone that surrounded Jean turned into white, covered in a thick layer of ice.

"So this is the Frozen End Divine Art… It is quite incredible for a core profound art of a simple sect. But I could feel something missing out of it…" Jean murmured.

Inside him, he could feel the profound art anchoring on the water attribute of his Profound Veins. However, the Profound Art felt incomplete. There was something fundamental missing here, it gave out a similar sensation to the World Ode of the Phoenix, which missed the first 4 stages of the Profound Arts.

But, unlike that profound art, the thing that was missing was a "requirement". It felt as if he didn't have the fundamental requirement to cultivate the profound art, but he still did it.

He was feeling like a walking contradiction.