Chapter 532 - - Black Ice

Walking in this vast and seemingly endless glacial land, it was as if he was in a huge maze.

This was the legendary end of the extreme north ice plains. No one knew how big this glacier was, because no one had ever been able to see it all.

There was once a cultivator who travelled north among the glaciers for a few years, but he was still unable to find the end of the glacier. However, when he turned around and headed south, he left the glacier three days later.

Whether it was the north, east, or west, it was possible for a cultivator to lose himself in this glacier. However, if he headed south, he would leave the glacier three days later.

This glacier was indeed a huge maze, and it was an endless maze. However, this maze would never be a dead end.

Everyone believed that this glacier was the source of the extreme northern ice plains. Whether it was the cold tide that erupted from the ice plains, the blizzard that did not stop for several days or even months, or the aurora that filled the air, all originated from this glacier.

Therefore, when the news of Dianthus being able to aid cultivators in identifying the Alien Cultivator spread, anyone who had any thoughts about Dianthus was certain that this was the place with the most ice crystals over the course of tens of thousands of years, so the chances of wielding tears were naturally the highest as well.

Although Jia Hui did not quite believe what Yang Junshan had said before, seeing Yang Junshan walking through the glacier gorge without the slightest hesitation or uncertainty, Jia Hui somewhat believed what she had said. Could it be that he really had a method to find the Profound Ice?

Xuan Bing was actually ice that contained ice energy. As the name implied, Xuan Bing was ice that had existed for more than ten thousand years. The amount of ice energy contained inside was shocking, but it couldn’t be detected from outside.

Aesult, people usually only have two methods to judge the number of thousands of years worth of ice. The first method is to directly shatter the ice and sense the concentration of ice spiritual energy within it; the second method is to find the Grand Frost tear by a stroke of luck, and then confirm that the block of ice that gave birth to the tear is none other than the millions of years of ice. Of course, not all the ten thousand years of ice can give birth to Grand Frost’s tears, and the amount of ice that can give birth to Grand Frost’s tears is also extremely small.

The thousand year ice silkworm had a natural intuition about ice attribute treasures. Even though the Profound Ice it had found might not necessarily be ten thousand years old, it very rarely missed.

Following the Ice Silkworm’s reaction, Yang Junshan brought Jia Hui to travel through the glaciers, and very quickly, they met other cultivators who were also looking for Guang Hanshui’s tears.

Both sides looked at each other and then turned to different paths with tacit understanding. No one wanted their path to be grasped by others.

But after dodging for a while, Yang Junshan and Su Yun had already returned to the direction they were heading towards through another ravine. Finally, they stopped at the bottom of an ice cliff.

Jia Hui pointed to the bottom of the ice cliff and laughed: “This piece of white ice is obviously newly formed, it isn’t even a piece of profound ice. How could it be ten thousand years old?”

Yang Junshan’s face also revealed a trace of confusion, but the cold air above the stone bottle at his waist that was facing towards the bottom of the ice cliff clearly told Yang Junshan that he was right here.

Yang Junshan hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he still walked to the bottom of the cliff, and then fiercely kicked towards there.

“Crash!” Countless pieces of ice crumbled at the bottom of the cliff, and a row of sparkling stones embedded in the layer of ice appeared before them.

“Ice Spirit Stone?”

Jia Hui looked at the dozens of round and transparent objects embedded within the layer of ice, and suddenly said: “You can confirm the location of the ice attribute treasures, but you cannot determine the location of the Profound Ice.”

Yang Junshan knew that this could not be hidden from Jia Hui, and nodded: “Indeed so. But at the very least, it is much more reliable than headless colliding within the glaciers, and relying entirely on luck to find the ten thousand year old profound ice.”

However, since they had discovered the truth, they naturally wouldn’t let it go. The two of them worked together to dig out the dozens of ice spirit stones from the ice layer, and with this, they were able to destroy quite a few layers of ice at the bottom of the ice cliff.

Just when the two of them were digging out the last minute ice spirit stones, a cracking sound suddenly came from the inside of the ice cliff.

Jia Hui and Yang Junshan looked at each other and simultaneously ran far away from the ice cliff. A huge chunk of ice had fallen from the cliff behind them and smashed into it where the two were standing just moments ago.

The ice began to crack and fall from the cliff until the entire cliff completely collapsed, filling up more than half of the valley. If the two were a step slower, they would have probably been buried deep within the cliff by now.

“Hurry up and go! Someone else is about to come and investigate. I don’t want anyone else to notice.”

Yang Junshan urged Jia Hui, and the two of them quickly left the place, heading towards other areas of the glacier.

Not long after the two of them left, several beams of light landed near the cliff valley that was already filled with shattered ice.

“Which direction will you go next time?” Jia Hui asked.

“Let’s head east. I heard that other than heading south, there is no end in the other three directions of the glacier. Moreover, as long as we follow these three directions, the scenery of the glacier along the way will not be repeated.”

Just as Yang Junshan was about to bring Jia Hui to search for the ten thousand year old Profound Ice, Qi Min brought Junior Brother Ma and Junior Brother Qiao to the vicinity of the Boundless Glacier.

“Endless glacier, the source of the ice plains, a profound ice that has existed for tens of thousands of years. It seems like eighty to ninety percent of this Yang Junshan has also come here for the sake of GuangHan’s tears.”

“It won’t be that easy to cultivate Dianthus,” Junior Ma said loudly. “Not to mention if he can find the Great Frozen End ice tear, even if he can, without the help of any of the blood, bile, and frog poison that he just collected from the Ice Origin Beast, he would still be blind.”

Junior Brother Qiao chuckled and said, “The Boundless Glacier iuge treasure trove. As long as your luck isn’t bad and you aren’t frozen into an ice sculpture by the irregular cold flow, you will at least get something. At that time, won’t all of these things benefit the three of us?”

Qi Min waved his hand, and said: “Let’s go, into the Creek!”

Yang Junshan and Jia Hui awkwardly fled into a crevice between a glacier. The two could not help but heave a sigh of relief.

After harvesting dozens of ice spirit stones, Yang Junshan brought Jia Hui and found a few more locations inside the Ice Maze, but unfortunately, they still could not find any profound ice for ten thousand years.

In addition, when the two of them were walking through the glaciers, they also discovered many ice sculptures of living people. This was because when cultivators were walking through the glaciers, they would meet the cold stream, and because they couldn’t dodge in time, they would be frozen by the cold stream.

The glacier appeared to buge treasure trove, but it was still filled with dangers inside. Encountering the cold stream was the greatest danger. If one was unable to dodge it in time, even a cultivator would not be able to escape from being frozen.

The ice sculptures made the two of them much more cautious, but after much difficulty, they finally found a piece of profound ice, and just as the two was about to investigate if there were any Breath of Frigid Tears, a cultivator and three others suddenly barged into the glacier valley. They saw a sheet of profound ice in front of them, but they were not sure if it was the profound ice, so without saying a word, they attacked Yang Junshan and Yue Yang.

Yang Junshan and Jia Hui were forced to retaliate, but unexpectedly, a few cultivators rushed over after hearing the news, and a chaotic battle broke out with the ice, all the way until the last bit of ice was destroyed by the shockwave of the battle, and Yang Junshan and Jia Hui combined their powers and fought their way out of the encirclement, only then did they manage to escape.

After resting for a while, they reached an agreement. If they wanted to find the ice, they would have to go deeper into the glacier.

The two turned to the north. Unexpectedly, after walking for half a day, they encountered a sudden burst of cold flow from the glacier. An invisible cold source was likiver, wandering in the glacial ravine without any pattern.

Fortunately, the ice silkworm warned them in time. The two of them opened up an ice cave beneath an ice mountain, and after Yang Junshan laid down the formation, the two of them took turns to resist the cold current that seeped into the ice cave.

It took even longer than before to open up the ice cave from the cold source. Only then did the two realize that the scene around them had already changed beyond recognition after the cold current had remodeled it.

The passing of the cold stream source was good news for the two who had escaped the threat of freezing. This meant that no one else would come for a while from the nearby glaciers.

The two of them immediately started their unscrupulous search for Xuan Bing. Under the guidance of the ice silkworm, they finally found a piece of light blue colored Xuan Bing on the side of a hill high in the glacier.

This piece of profound ice had existed for an unknown amount of time. When Yang Junshan and Jia Hui came to this place, it seemed as if they had just experienced an avalanche, and exposed this piece of profound ice that had been buried here for an unknown amount of time.

“How is it, can you be sure it’s ice?” “There are no tears on the surface of the ice. Of course, it could be inside the ice…”

Jia Hui’s voice stopped abruptly. She then saw Yang Junshan take out a stone bottle from his waist, opening the bottle’s mouth, a 3 inch long meat ball crawling out, moving around the surface of the profound ice for a bit, then choosing a spot, he dove into the profound ice that was as hard as a spirit artifact.

Jia Hui’s throat moved as she stared aole on the surface of the ice, and said with a low voice: “I heard that the ice silkworm would spit silk, and this humble monk has always been preparing to weave a robe that belongs to me.”