Chapter 539 - Dying

If he let Yang Junshan make a new ranking for the Soaring Sky Spirit Art, he would definitely be ranked first for the “Earth Spirit Art”. He had never seen the miraculous “Rainbow Spirit Art” before, but the “Earth Spirit Art” he cultivated had already saved his life more than once.

That day, Yang Junshan had first used his Mountain Monarch Seal to shatter the layer of ice on the surface of the ice plains, then, he saw that he had accidentally gotten into a difficult situation, so he simply smashed his entire body into the layers of ice. At the same time he unleashed his clematis, he had also made contact with the ground beneath the layers of ice several tens of feet deep.

The ice shards that had already shattered to pieces above Yang Junshan’s head had completely ambushed him the instant he smashed into the ice layer. The ice bear’s angry roar and the long cry of the Frigid Eagle could still be heard above his head, and even the huge tremors had spread onto Yang Junshan’s body through the ice shards above his head.

However, Yang Junshan, who had already made contact with the ground, was no longer in danger, he stirred the True Essence in his body to become even thinner, and forcefully used the Earth Escape Technique on the frozen ground beneath his feet. When he crawled out of the layer of ice once again, he had already appeared under an ice cliff more than ten kilometers away from the southern part of the glacier.

However, the moment Yang Junshan appeared at the bottom of the ice cliff, a gigantic Frigid Eagle coincidentally flew over his head, scaring Yang Junshan away. After waiting for an incense stick of time, there were no longer any movements in his surroundings, and he finally emerged from the ice layer.

At this moment, Yang Junshan did not understand anything about his surroundings. He did not know if the beast tide was just passing through, or if it had engulfed the entire glacier area, or if the beast tide had continued to expand, wreaking havoc on the ice plains.

What was the reason for this beast tide battle? Was there some sort of scheme behind it?

Previously, when they were being chased by the beast tide, Yang Junshan and Jia Hui had discovered the cultivators of the Ice Berserker Tribe. Then, could it be that the Ice Berserker Tribe was the mastermind behind this beast tide?

Yang Junshan did not know anything about this. Furthermore, he was currently injured and only had thirty percent of his strength remaining.

A layer of white gradually emerged in Yang Junshan’s eyes. It seemed as if two balls of white frost were gathering within his eyes, causing him to feel a chill down his spine.

The thick, leaden clouds above their heads had originally concealed them, but now, they were clearly seen by him. At the same time, he inwardly exclaimed about how lucky he was, because when the Frigid Eagle had spiralled over his head earlier, there was still a Frigid Eagle moving about within the thick clouds. One of the two Frigid Eagle was bright and the other was dark, as if they were on patrol.

After carefully waiting for a while, and seeing that the Frigid Eagle had left the layer of clouds, Yang Junshan took a look around. He did not see any savage beasts or dire beasts spying on him, so he finally came out from the bottom of the cliff and quickly left towards the south.

After a few days, Yang Junshan was finally able to leave the glacier area and return to the ice plains. Even though he had been extremely cautious on the way, he was still noticed by almost the entire way through the glacier area by the spies and had to deal with these savage beasts and dire beasts a few more times. It was fortunate that he had not met any Alien Cultivator s of the Frozen Barbarian Clan on several occasions.

In these few days of sneaking around the glaciers, Yang Junshan had already sensed that the entire glacier was probably under the control of the Icy Plains and Desolate Beasts.

The only thing that Yang Junshan regretted was that he did not find any trace of Jia Hui along the way, and did not know whether or not he had escaped danger.

On the way out of the glacier, Yang Junshan didn’t encounter any more obstructions from the huge beasts of the ice plains. At the same time, he didn’t meet any other human cultivators who entered the ice plains.

Three days later, Yang Junshan arrived at the base he had previously constructed under the ice hill in front of the Frigid Eagle’s lone mountain. There was a simple defensive formation that Yang Junshan had set up here, and it was one of the things he had prepared arecaution after he had been chased down by the Profound Constellation Realm cultivators earlier.

In the past few days, Yang Junshan travelled across the glaciers and the ice plains, and not only did the injuries on his body not improve, they seemed to be worsening as well. If not for the fact that his body was strong, he might have already been frozen to death on the ice plains.

Inside the nest below the ice hill, Yang Junshan first took out all of the medicinal pellets that he could use to heal his wounds. Other than the emergency reserve pellet, the rest were all spirit pellet, which to Yang Junshan, had very little effect.

He patted his head, and two more storage bag escaped from Yang Junshan’s body. One of them was Qi Min’s, and the other day, when Yang Junshan used Precious Techniques and Divine Powers to fight with Qi Min, the power of the formation was stronger than him, so when he was heavily injured, at the cost of destroying the Five Elements Lightning Light’s spirit formation, he killed the other two. Naturally, the storage bag ended up in Yang Junshan’s hands.

The last Precious Techniques and Divine Powers Qi Min unleashed was the Snow Wind Sword Sect’s secret Precious Techniques and Divine Powers, the “Heavenly Sword Qi”. This was the one ranked 247 amongst the three hundred and sixty-five Precious Techniques and Divine Powers s in the cultivation world, and it was far above Yang Junshan’s “Earthshaking Mountain Art”.

The only pity was that after Qi Min died, the Spirit Ranked flying sword also shattered.

The other storage bag was naturally picked up by Yang Junshan from the fallen Junior Brother Qiao. At that time, there was also a certain amount of risk, if not for the ice silkworm spitting out a five hundred meter long strand of silk, this storage bag probably wouldn’t even be able to get its hands on it.

Since the two storage bag were sealed with the secret arts of the Snow Wind Sword Sect, even if the master of the storage bag was dead, if he wanted to forcefully break it open, he would still be able to destroy a large portion of the storage bag. However, there was nothing he could do about that, unless Yang Junshan could learn the secret arts that the Snow Wind Sword Sect only used to seal storage bag s, and his cultivation level was even higher than Qi Min’s, or perhaps even three to eight years later, when the seal on the storage bag completely failed.

Yang Junshan obviously could not wait that long. He only needed to forcefully break open the two storage bag and other than the things that were destroyed during the process of shattering, the rest of the items were scattered all over the ground.

Yang Junshan first looked at the broken storage bag that Qi Min had and was greatly disappointed by the results. There were only a few things that remained, the rest must have been shattered into pieces the moment the spatial cracks appeared.

“Ha, an Ice Essence Stone. So he was also collecting this kind of thing!”

Yang Junshan looked at the few pieces of crystal clear ice in his hand, his original regretful mood somewhat improved.

This sort of treasure that could directly use the essence of the world’s energy contained within to increase its cultivation level would only appear every few years during the cold wave and was extremely rare. This was also the reason why Liu Qiu and Pure Yuan Spirit were so excited when they first found the Ice Essence Stone.

Previously, Yang Junshan had the help of the Thousand Year Frozen Silkworm, being able to find the nests of Ice Fox and Ice Bears in the ice plains, which was why he was able to gather five or six Ice Origin Stones. However, this Qi Min clearly didn’t have Yang Junshan’s methods, but he was actually able to collect a few of them.

Currently, Yang Junshan’s total number of Frozen End Stones had already reached nine. Although to Yang Junshan, every Origin Energy Stone only had half of its original usage, but nine Origin Energy Stones still gave him the idea of breaking through his Astral Transformation Realm’s bottleneck.

Other than the Cold Ice Essence Stones, Qi Min’s storage bag only had a few dozen jade crystals left. One jade crystal was equivalent to twenty crystal coins, which was two thousand Jade Coins.

That was to say that Qi Min actually had a total of fifty jade stones on him that were equivalent tundred thousand Jade Coins s. He did not know why had brought so many jade stones with him, but he had taken advantage of it all on himself.

Other than these two items, the rest of the miscellaneous items were things that Yang Junshan did not like. After tidying up a little, he kept all of them in his storage ring. These things were things that he did not care about, but they were actually useful items to the Martial Realm Cultivator of the Yang family.

In comparison to the disappointment he felt towards Qi Min, the Gangli Accumulation Realm cultivator, the harvest from the Astral Transformation Realm cultivator, Junior Brother Qiao, was beyond Yang Junshan’s expectations!

The first thing that lit up Yang Junshan’s eyes was the inheritance jade plate that was in the middle of a messy group of items. With this item, most records stated that the inheritances were at least on the level of a Spirit Arts Technique.

And after throwing his consciousness into the jade board, after going through so many life and death situations, Yang Junshan finally felt that his luck had returned a little!

The Substitute Feather Technique could use a Substitute Feather to replace a cultivator in the face of death!

This was one of the few secret techniques used to substitute for death in the cultivation world, a technique that could be used to save one’s life at critical moments. In Yang Junshan’s opinion, this was an inheritance that was not even traded for Precious Techniques and Divine Powers, yet it was casually recorded in a inheritance jade plate!

But when Yang Junshan thought about it again, although the Body Substitute Feather technique was extremely rare in the cultivation world, it was not very difficult for him to cultivate it himself, and it was also just like a normal spiritual technique. Hence, it was not strange for it to be recorded in inheritance jade plate s.

Yang Junshan had personally witnessed the secret technique of body substitute feather. At that time, Junior Brother Qiao relied on this technique to escape from the encirclement of Frigid Eagle, if his luck was not too good, he would not have died in the end.

It was just this piece of inheritance that contained the secret technique Body Substitute Feather that made Yang Junshan feel that his previous adventure was completely worth it, not to mention that this Junior Brother Qiao’s collection did not only contain these.

These were special jade bottles used to store precious pellets. Hopefully, there was a special healing pellet inside, if not, Yang Junshan’s injuries would definitely not be an easy matter to deal with after crossing the Northern Frozen Plains and the Liang Zhou.

Three treasured pellets, one was the “Life Accumulating Pellet” that Yang Junshan urgently needed to heal, and the other was the “Origin Freezing Pellet” that could assist him in stabilizing his cultivation realm. The third treasured pellet even caused Yang Junshan’s eyes to bulge out of his head, and even his own expression revealed a trace of suspicion as he muttered to himself: “Could it be a” Yuangang Treasure Pellet “that could be used to break through the bottleneck in his Astral Transformation Realm?”