Chapter Seventy-Four, Cold Lake Penance

"Bang!"

Under the quiet snow-capped mountains, above the ice lake, a loud sound that shook the earth suddenly sounded. Xiao Mo's body, like a cannonball, fell upside down into the bottom of the lake, because the speed was too fast, it directly tore all the ice on the surface of the ice lake, like an explosion, and snowflakes splashed everywhere.

Some hibernating fish were directly awakened by the great movement made by Xiao Mo, and they jumped away one by one, and it took a long time to regain silence.

Xiao Mo didn't care about it, the whole person sat cross-legged at the bottom of the lake, and there was a biting chill around him, which was ten times colder, dozens of times colder than the ice cellar he dug under his house at the beginning.

This chill, even with his cultivation in the Easy Realm, was a little unbearable, and he almost fled in the wilderness, which was unbearable.

However, isn't this exactly the environment he needs? Therefore, he can only endure the cold, and at the same time, he can't help but carry the exercises of the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra, which not only absorbs the endless cold air of the ice lake around him, but also resists the huge water pressure under this ice lake, which is different from the water surface.

Underwater is different from land, not only is the air thin, but also contains a huge amount of water pressure, if the meridians can't stand it, the blood vessels will burst and die.

The deeper the lake, the stronger the water pressure contained in the bottom, fortunately, Xiao Mo's cultivation is good, and this ice lake seems to be less than a thousand meters deep, under his perseverance and tenacious spirit, he can barely resist, but it is also difficult to breathe, his face is flushed, and his skin is congested, as if it is about to explode.

"Carry the heart element, settle the mind, surround the body with ten thousand colds, refine the soul for the spirit, and collect it!"

Xiao Mo closed his eyes, and the power of the heart element was transported, covering his body, resisting the water pressure for him, while his mind was completely immersed in the cultivation realm, abandoning his worries and forgetting his feelings, cutting off all distracting thoughts, only visualizing the wind and snow in the soul world, and the endless cold air in the surrounding ice lake, all towards the diamond-shaped ice spirit above his heart soul world.

This cold lake of ice, I don't know how many years it has existed in this Lingwu Mountain Range, the condensed ice and cold qi is very huge, it is like a mountain and a sea, Xiao Mo's absorption is not the same as the small Xiaoice cellar he built under his house, and the endless cold air, like thousands of streams returning to the sea, converges towards the diamond-shaped ice spirit, and then is sucked into it.

The diamond-shaped ice spirit suddenly shone brightly, and the original translucent color also completely changed to transparent, and even the transparency was mixed with a hint of pale white.

Xiao Mo knew that the "Ice Spirit Heart Sutra" has a total of four realms, ordinary ice spirit, ten-year ice spirit, hundred-year ice spirit, and thousand-year ice spirit, which correspond to the four levels of the realm of exercises, entry, small success, great success, and consummation.

And each layer of the realm also has different expressions.

In the realm of ordinary ice spirits, the ice spirits have just condensed, and they may still be turbid, and the fusion of cold qi and heart and soul is not close enough, so it looks a little turbid and mottled in color.

Ten years of ice spirit realm, the cold and the soul are completely fused, the two become one, all impurities are driven out, the whole will become crystal clear, round and flawless, and show a hint of pale white color.

Pale white Ice Spirit, that is, the manifestation of the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra cultivation to ten years of cold realm, will initially show a certain power, if it is attached to someone else's body, it will freeze the opponent's skin, so that their body sensitivity, movement speed, and even thinking speed during battle will show a certain degree of decline.

This is also the reason why the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra has been criticized by many people, it does not have too much attack defense, and can only rely on affecting the physical state of others to weaken the strength of the opponent, and the impact is often not very large.

If you encounter a person who has cultivated to be strong, and with a slight shock of the heart element, the cold qi created by using the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra can be instantly expelled, and even hurt yourself.

And in the same Xiaocheng realm, if they are cultivating the beast soul 'Yangang Qi Technique' or the weapon soul 'Soldier Armor Sword Sutra', it is enough for them to cast the spirit lion phantom or bless the sword path attack.

However, as long as you continue to cultivate and condense the cold qi, as the cold qi of this pale white ice spirit gathers more and more, its color will slowly change, turning into silver white, ice white, and moon white, and eventually its power will increase greatly, and its influence on others will become more and more serious.

If you cultivate to the realm of a hundred years of ice spirit, you can leave your body with cold air, turn water into ice, and even condense into the shape of any weapon to attack the enemy. At this time, it will have a certain degree of self-protection and protection, which is also an important reason why this realm is called the Dacheng realm.

If you cultivate to the realm of the thousand-year-old ice spirit, as soon as the chill comes out, it will truly exert terrifying power, except for the natural parasitic soul of the same realm, there are few exercises that can compare with it.

It is said that once the thousand-year-old ice spirit comes out, it can instantly change the weather state within a few miles, and the cold air penetrates through the body, directly invading the heart and lungs, and no protective heart element technique can do anything.

The strength is slightly weaker, and between the combinations, the heart veins are frozen and cracked, and they die unexpectedly, and they are all turned into ice and snow kingdoms, and all life becomes ice sculptures, and life and death are taken away. If you are strong, you will also be seriously affected, and your body muscles will atrophy, and you will probably not be able to attack, so you can only barely protect yourself.

Unless you can break out of the cold envelope, or solve the cold invasion at the root, you will only be able to wait for your life.

As for the higher 10,000-year ice spirit realm...... That is already only a legend, even if it is the Xuanming True Skill, it is estimated that it will take cultivation to a very deep realm to achieve it, relying on the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra, it is estimated that it will be difficult to reach that level in a lifetime, so there is no need to talk about it.

Xiao Mo knew that the four realms of the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra, in addition to the ten-year Ice Spirit Realm, which was divided into four levels: light white, silver white, ice white, and moon white, the Hundred Years Ice Spirit Realm was also divided into four levels, and the color of the first level was light blue.

They are followed by Lake Blue, Ice Lake, and Dark Blue, which correspond to Normal, Medium, Superior, and Elite powers, respectively.

Above the blue, it is the thousand-year-old ice spirit realm, and the thousand-year-old ice spirit will change color to light blue, followed by azure, ice clear, and stone blue. In the legendary 10,000-year-old Ice Spirit Realm, the color of the Ice Spirit even presents a magnificent purple color, which is like a blurry dream, but it is unattainable.

Legend has it that at the beginning of a thought, purple snow falls from the sky, hundreds of miles of ice are frozen, and life is frozen, regardless of human or beast, they must turn into a purple sculpture of emotionless and life, and truly reach the 'realm of slaughter'.

Now Xiao Mo's ice spirit has gradually turned transparent, and has shown a hint of pale whiteness, which is the transformation from the entry realm to the Xiaocheng realm. Wait until it completely turns pale white, which means that Xiao Mo's Ice Spirit Heart Sutra has been cultivated to the Xiaocheng realm, that is, the realm of ten years of ice spirit.

Feeling the almost crazy cultivation speed here, Xiao Mo was shocked and couldn't help but be overjoyed at the same time. Looking at the speed of condensing cold qi, maybe in just ten days and half a month, he can raise the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra from the entry stage to the Xiaocheng realm, but in the School Palace, this is an absolutely impossible speed, even if there is a 'Little Soul Fixing Pill' taken every day.

It seems that he didn't make a mistake on this trip, in the absence of enough pills to support his cultivation, how could he absorb such a pure and huge cold qi without risking his adventures and entering this deep mountain ice lake, and how could he speed up the transformation of the entry ice spirit, so that he could break through the realm and achieve small success?

However, although the cultivation speed here was very fast, Xiao Mo did not ignore the hidden dangers in it.

Because he found that only a few breaths had passed, his face had actually shown an abnormal purple color, and such a huge chill had entered his body, and the entire soul world seemed to be frozen, almost suffocating, and the cold that penetrated into his bones and muscles was like a steel knife cutting his skin.

His head became heavier and heavier, his body, hands and feet, as if they were not his own, became more and more stiff, and the skin all over his body was almost frostbitten, and the most serious thing was that after his internal look, he found that there were subtle cracks on the meridians, and they were constantly expanding.

"Oh no! my meridians can't withstand such a terrifying chill infusion, and they are cracking rapidly!"

"Once the meridians are completely damaged, it is impossible to repair them. Unless you find some rare treasures to repair the meridians and drive away the cold, but how can you get that kind of thing with your own financial resources?"

"You have to get out right away, and then find a way!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Mo is also a decisive person, he didn't hesitate at the moment, and at the moment when his body could still move, he suddenly supported his feet, and all the heart elements gathered on the soles of his feet and exploded at the same time, and suddenly he was like a cannonball out of the chamber, straight into the sky, and soon broke away from the water, bringing out a big splash, and finally his body flashed and landed on the shore of the lake.

Xiao Mo looked around and saw that there was no one in sight, so he immediately took off his clothes, grabbed a few handfuls of snowflakes from the ground, and quickly rubbed them against himself. It wasn't until the heat was generated, his body warmed up, and the crisis of the meridians freezing and cracking was resolved, that he couldn't help but sit on the ground and let out a heavy breath.

"Hey, I only saw the cold air of this snow-capped mountain and ice lake, which was beneficial to my cultivation of the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra, but I didn't expect that since the Academy Palace had not encouraged all the disciples who had cultivated the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra to come to this ice lake to cultivate in the first month, they must have some scruples. It turned out that in the initial stage of the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra, it was impossible to withstand such a huge cold lake qi, at least, it would not be possible until the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra was completed. ”

"But when the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra is completed, although the Qi of this cold lake is strong, what effect does it have with you at that time? Is there any way to solve the danger of freezing the body of the cold qi and the danger of this meridian breaking?"

"If you can't solve this dilemma, this snow-capped mountain and ice lake is just a piece of chicken ribs for yourself, and it's a pity to abandon it!"

Xiao Mo sighed secretly, but his mind was spinning, and he was anxious to think of a solution.

It is not his style to sit in the troubled city, and when he encounters problems, solving them is the choice he should make.

But after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't help but sigh.

This matter is obviously not so easy to solve, to the Taoist Palace for a thousand years, there are countless disciples who have come out, although there are relatively few people who choose the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra, but for thousands of years, the number of these people combined is also considerable.

But so many people have not solved the drawbacks of this Ice Spirit Heart Sutra, but have made it decline more and more, so we can see that there must be some difficulties unsolved.

If you can use the cold qi of the ice lake to quickly improve the realm, so that it loses its shortcomings of incompetence in the early stage and weakness in the middle stage, and directly reaches the power after Dacheng, then the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra can become a manifestation of science, and it is a more popular existence than the natural parasitic soul.

Because even if the power is the same, the cultivation method of the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra is indeed much easier than that of the natural soul. There are two types of exercises with the same power, one has a very low success rate, and only a few people out of a hundred people may succeed, while the other is very easy to get started, and you can cultivate to Dacheng with the help of a special environment, so it is not clear which one to choose.

But since the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra has been beaten into the cold, it means that most people can't do this method of quickly improving their strength, so it has an embarrassing position and is reduced to the bottom.

In fact, after thinking about it for so long, Xiao Mo didn't think of a way, and even this method, the predecessors must have thought of it, that is, to use some rare pills to protect the meridians and important parts of the body, so as not to be frostbitten and necrotic by the cold, and you can use the cold qi in it to cultivate.

If you can really do it, then you can borrow the power of the Ice Lake in advance, and you can cultivate it for a long time, make rapid progress, and solve all the drawbacks of cultivating the Ice Spirit Heart Sutra.

However, compared to this method, the conditions for achieving it are too difficult, and it can protect the meridians, heart and viscera and other important places from being frostbitten by the cold, and the elixirs needed are not only huge, but each of them is extremely precious.

Like the three-grade elixir that Xiao Mo had taken before when he was cheating on the Xiao family's death, the Heavenly King Protecting Heart Pill is an important pill that can protect the heart, which can ensure that people can retain their breath and ensure that they will not die when they are seriously injured.

But the value of one Heavenly King Protective Heart Pill is enough to bankrupt most of the outer court disciples, not to mention, just one Heavenly King Protective Heart Pill, not to mention that it won't take long, even if it can be used for a long time, the Heavenly King Protective Heart Pill alone is not enough.

In the body, the eight veins of the strange meridians, many acupuncture points, five intestines and six intestines, but not only the heart will be invaded by the cold, if you want to make up enough of these pills, the price spent is enough to directly buy a large number of treasures containing cold qi, absorb the cold qi and cultivate, it is not only mild but also not dangerous, where do you need to go to this ice lake to suffer this bad sin?

On the contrary, Xiao Mo was just a person who was destitute and didn't even have the last half of the merit coin on his body, how could he have the money to buy this rare elixir for cultivation?

Since this road doesn't work, then, maybe there's another way-

Suddenly, Xiao Mo's eyes lit up, and he thought of a method that maybe only he could do, and most of the other disciples had no chance of succeeding. And this method is that outside of Haicheng, the 'Flower Servant' Yue Wuming once taught him the secret method of Dao-level middle grade, Ten Thousand Flower Returns!

If it can be cultivated successfully, even if it is only an entry realm, refining the vitality of heaven and earth, and protecting oneself, so as not to be invaded by the cold qi, then it is possible to use the cold qi of the ice lake to quickly cultivate the 'Ice Spirit Heart Sutra'!