When Wuqi arrived at the Imperial City of Sword Saint City, a full two hours had passed, and there were still two hours left before noon. Take me into the ice pool. ”

He said it anxiously, but after Abel heard this, his initial impatience turned into surprise in an instant. Abel asked in disbelief, "Little one." Are you kidding me? You want to go into the ice pool with your little strength, don't you want to live?"

"I can't care so much about it. Uncle, since you don't believe me. I'm on my own. My conditions are very simple, I only need you to take me into the ice pool, and you don't have to worry about whether I can get out alive or not. Wuqi replied categorically.

"But if you die with me. How will I explain to your master in the future?" Sword Saint Abel pondered for a moment, and he asked subconsciously.

"Master?" Wuqi couldn't help but be stunned, and Worthen's old but incomparably kind smile suddenly appeared in his mind, the smile was obscene but made Wuqi feel particularly warm.

At this moment, he suddenly had the idea of giving up, but then the figures of Chloyd, Nakorulu, Hughes, and Xiaobai appeared in his mind one after another. Chloyd was like slaughtering cattle and sheep, brutally cutting off the heads of Nakolulu and Hughes, and Xiaobai didn't even have a chance to escape, and was directly split in half by Chloyd's sword.

The bloody feeling suddenly hit like a tide, and Wuqi's body couldn't help but tremble. His expression regained his composure, but his heart began to struggle whether to choose a master or a partner.

In his opinion, Master and partner are equally important, and he does not want to see either side given up, but as long as he chooses either side, then the other side is doomed to loss.

It's too late to give up now and run away alone. At least that way, I won't die, and Master won't be sad.

Wuqi's heart suddenly had this thought, but then he shook his head and rejected this extremely selfish thought, and then thought: If Master knew that I had abandoned my companions to survive. What would he think? Since I was a child, Master taught me to value my friends and treat them as if they were my life.

He won't forgive me if I do that. But if I choose a partner and enter the ice pool, if I really die, won't Master die of sadness?

No, why did I suddenly become so indecisive? Was it really worried about Master? Or was my heart still the same coward who was greedy for life and afraid of death? Yes. Speaking of which, it's my own selfishness that is at fault, and I'm not really brave enough.

Nakolulu, Theseus, and Xiaobai all risked their lives this time because of my relationship. They must be expecting me back now, what if I back down now? yes. I have to give it a try, even if it doesn't work, even if I die, then I can die without regrets, Master, he won't blame me, he will definitely understand me.

After struggling in his heart for a long time, Wuqi nodded resolutely, looked at Sword Saint Abel, and said, "Uncle, it's okay. Master, his old man will definitely understand me. Take me in. That's my condition, please hurry, I don't have much time. ”

Ruo Wuqi's gaze at this time still had a trace of hesitation, as a sword saint who still had a trace of feelings for Wuqi, Abel would definitely open his mouth or directly stop it, but Abel couldn't find any fear in Wuqi's eyes, panic, and only saw the kind of resoluteness and determination in the eyes of a strong man who died generously.

He was immediately praised by Wuqi, a young man who was only twelve or thirteen years old, but showed the momentum of "I don't go to hell, who will go to hell", and couldn't help nodding in his heart, and then his face was straight, and he grabbed Wuqi's body and turned into a meteor in a flash, instantly piercing the sky, and disappeared directly into the distant sky.

Abel's flight speed was extremely fast, he flew all the way over three peaks, and finally smashed directly into the center of a small lake like a meteorite, and then rushed to the bottom of the lake in one go, breaking a huge pit in the deepest part of the bottom of the lake, and plunged into it with Wuqi.

Under the deep pit at the bottom of the lake is a tunnel of unimaginable length, and the lake water flowing from the bottom of the lake is frantically poured into the tunnel, like a flood that bursts the embankment, surging towards the low part of the tunnel, and Abel is going upstream, without any slowdown, just after passing through for about a few seconds, it suddenly rushes to the top, and a "click" sound suddenly rings in his ears. ,

At the same time, his whole person instantly jumped up from the water like a carp that had crossed the dragon gate, directly hitting the ice on the water surface, and entering a wonderful world. Wuqi subconsciously spit out two mouthfuls of lake water that choked on his lungs, and coughed violently for a while, before he woke up.

He looked around, and his eyes lit up, but after a while, his body trembled involuntarily, and he couldn't help but tremble.

"Uncle, the ice pool, this is it, it's so cold!!"

"It's not there yet, the ice pool is ahead, I'll take you there, come. Abel pointed to the cave surrounded by ice walls, and then pointed ahead, and then pulled Wuqi's hand, and the person roared to the deepest part of the cave to a pond with a radius of more than 100 meters.

He pointed to the pool water that was constantly bubbling out of the cold air under him, and said lightly: "This is the cold ice pool." Are you sure you want to go down?"

Wuqi nodded without hesitation, he subconsciously looked at the cold pool under him, and didn't feel anything terrible, but felt a little inconspicuous. But his eyes swept around the pond, and he suddenly gasped involuntarily. The whole pond is indeed not very unusual, but there are hundreds of ice sculptures around the pond.

The expressions and postures of the ice sculptures are different, but all of them are lifelike, as if they were real people. Seeing these ice sculptures, Wuqi suddenly remembered the iceman that the blind old man had said, and then asked a little nervously: "Uncle, how cold is this pool of water? Why are so many people frozen to death?"

"It's a hundred times colder than regular ice water. Ordinary people jump in, and it only takes a second, and they will instantly turn into those ice sculptures below. If you are a cultivator, your body can barely support it for a while. That's an hour at most. I couldn't stand it for an hour and a half at the most.

If he had come out a minute later, there would have been no Sword Saint in this world. Abel looked at the ice pool below him with palpitations, and said meaningfully.

Wu Qi's heart was shocked again, even a master like Sword Saint Abel could only hold out for an hour and a half, so how long could he hold on? He obviously wouldn't last more than an hour and a half.

Maybe not even an hour. But Wuqi suddenly thought of another question, so he subconsciously asked, "Uncle, how can I awaken the element?" I heard others say that if you succeed here, you will gain the power of the water elemental awakening, is this true?"

"Not bad," Abel nodded slowly, "This ice pool is something left over from our ancestors' million-year war. It is indeed recorded in history that someone successfully obtained the power of the awakening of the water element from the ice pool in that era. But there are not many, and there is no record of the method of awakening. So, I don't know. ”

"I got it. Uncle, then I'll go down. Thank you for sending me here. When I succeed in coming out, I will definitely go to you as soon as possible. After Wuqi finished speaking, he let go of Abel's hand, like a mud cow entering the sea, and fell heavily into the cold pool water, without even a splash, but made a dull "poof" sound, and no one could be seen again.

Sword Saint Abel sighed lightly, turned around and turned into a streamer, and disappeared into the sky above the cold ice pool. The surroundings of the cold ice pool returned to calm again, but Wuqi's mood at this time was not calm at all, he even had an urge to call for help, and the thought of regret was suddenly like countless silver needles, which frantically stimulated his mind, making his consciousness suddenly show signs of collapse.

The Ice Pool, as the name suggests, is just a pool. The coverage area is not large, and the depth is only three meters. Wuqi only lasted less than a minute at the bottom of the pool before he had to get out of the water because of the depletion of air in his lungs.

But he had just poked his head out of the water, and after taking a breath of air recklessly, the whole person suddenly trembled, his mind was suddenly unstable, and his body seemed to be suddenly struck by lightning, and he couldn't help but spasm.

It's so cold! I see! No wonder there are so many ice sculptures here. Since most of the cultivators who can come here are confident in themselves, but none of the cultivators who have successfully escaped from so many cultivators should be because of the cold air that permeates the pond. ,

When the air in the lungs is exhausted, you have to swim to the surface of the water to breathe, such a cold air, take a deep breath, the internal organs will definitely freeze instantly because the air is too cold, so there are so many ice sculptures here. It's terrible pool water.

After discovering this, Wuqi immediately quickly covered his open mouth, no longer breathing, but slowly swam towards one of the ice sculptures that appeared on the water, and after almost exhausting all the strength in his body, he finally climbed on the ice sculpture and sat down slowly.

It stands to reason that he should have been able to relax now, but Wuqi didn't dare to be careless, because just a small breath of air just now, he felt that a large part of his lungs had been completely frozen, and the frozen area was still spreading rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, but in the short half minute he swam to the ice sculpture, half of Wuqi's heart showed signs of freezing.

He immediately did not hesitate to use medical techniques to heal his internal organs, and at the same time dispel the cold in his body, although his limbs became stiff and white due to the soaking of the pool water, but Wuqi did not dare to be careless. When the cold in his body was completely cleared, he began to use medical techniques to slowly treat his severely frostbitten limbs.

This process lasted for more than an hour before it finally stopped. It's not that Wuqi's medical efficacy has suddenly decreased, but that the cold is constantly transmitting to his whole body through the ice sculptures under Wuqi's body, so Wuqi can't easily eliminate all the cold.

But after more than an hour of hard work, the ice sculpture under Wuqi's body from the top of his head to the top of his chest has been completely unsealed, so he has temporarily gained more than ten minutes of rest. For more than ten minutes, Wuqi was like a stake, standing motionless on top of the ice sculpture's head, staring intently at the still surface of the lake like a mirror, and not leaving a single glance.

More than ten minutes passed quickly, but Wuqi's efforts did not achieve the effect he expected, and his mood became more and more irritable instead of becoming calmer and calmer after coming to the cold ice pool, as the blind old man said.

He even doubted in his heart, and muttered to himself: "Why did I watch it for more than ten minutes, but I couldn't see anything? How can I reach the realm of stopping water in the mirror? Is the old man lying to me?"

The more Wuqi thought about it, the more frightened he felt, seeing that the ice sculpture head under him that was dissolved by him was covered with layers of thick ice again, he was not paying attention, his center of gravity suddenly became unstable, and his foot fell into the air, and his body suddenly fell towards the cold ice pool under him. Wuqi's heart sank to the bottom in an instant at this moment.

In an instant, there seemed to be an illusion in front of his eyes, as if there was not a pool of water under him, but a devil who seemed to swallow his whole body, and Wuqi's heart trembled, and he couldn't help but let out a scream from the depths of his soul. "Don't !!"