Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 276 Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow

Just as Ji Lin felt his whole body was about to freeze.

"Pfft—" Suddenly, Ji Lin felt a lightness in his body. He felt the pressure around him decrease sharply, and he fell into a small cave.

The cave was completely dark, but there was no spring water.

Ji Lin circulated the soul power belonging to the Heavenly Fire Judgment within his body, and only then did his frozen body feel a little warm.

Ji Lin took a deep breath and felt a chill being drawn into his body, giving him the illusion that his soul had been frozen.

Beside Ji Lin, emerald green and snow-white light shone, and the Ice Emperor and Snow Emperor simultaneously floated behind Ji Lin.

Illuminated by the snow-white and emerald-green light, Ji Lin discovered that it was a very small cave, no more than a dozen square meters in size.

Inside this cave, there are a dozen or so strange ice pillars, crisscrossing and varying in size. Each ice pillar is pure white. Even under the emerald light emanating from the Ice Emperor, they remain as white as jade.

Inside those pristine white ice pillars, liquid could be seen flowing within, and the terrifying chill emanated from these ice pillars.

Unlike the restrained extreme cold of the Ice Crystal, the chill here is impossible to contain. The air itself seems viscous.

The concentration of ice element had reached a level that made it difficult for Ji Lin to breathe. Only the Ice Emperor and Snow Emperor, who appeared in the form of energy bodies, could remain unaffected, and they had to be ice-attribute energy bodies.

"This is it. This is the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow," the Ice Emperor said with deep emotion.

Ji Lin also remarked, "Ice-attribute Soul Masters who cultivate here have no choice but to make rapid progress!"

Ji Lin counted carefully and found that there were about forty-five strands of Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Mysterious Ice Marrow in this cave.

Hyo-tei looked at Ji Lin and said, "Ji Lin, what are you planning to do?"

Ji Lin pondered for a moment and said, "Although cultivating here can lead to rapid advancement in cultivation, the temperature here is simply too low. Staying in this environment for a long time will harm you. I plan to have you store the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow in your Sacred Mark Space. When I cultivate, you can release the energy of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow stored in the Sacred Mark Space. In this way, my cultivation speed will no longer be restricted by the ultimate attribute."

Xue Di nodded and said, "That's good. Store up the energy first. It will definitely be of great use when you encounter a bottleneck or a critical situation."

Since the Ten Thousand Years of Profound Ice Marrow is to be stored in the Sacred Mark Space, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm is definitely indispensable.

Ji Lin summoned the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm along with the Snow Emperor, the Ice Emperor, and the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, and the three of them simultaneously began to absorb the power of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow.

The Ice Emperor transformed into its true form and floated to a piece of ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing marrow. A strong azure light suddenly burst forth, illuminating the small ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing cave with every detail clearly visible. Every piece of Xuanbing marrow seemed to come alive under the azure light.

Behind her, her emerald green scorpion tail lashed out, its gleaming hook piercing fiercely into the millennia-old mystic ice marrow before her.

With a soft "poof!", the entire Ten Thousand Years of Profound Ice Cave trembled. However, this change was only momentary. Immediately afterwards, streams of dark blue liquid could be seen rapidly entering her body through the Ice Emperor's sharp tail hook. Using her as a medium, the liquid was absorbed into the Holy Mark Space.

Compared to the Ice Empress, the Snow Empress was even more direct. She simultaneously spread out both hands, each grasping a strand of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. It could be clearly seen that rings of blue light were immediately drawn into her body and absorbed into her Sacred Mark Space.

Meanwhile, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had already expertly settled onto a ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing Marrow, diligently absorbing its energy.

Soon, most of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow was stored in the Holy Mark Space. Only a few were preserved by Ji Lin and stored in his storage soul tool. This was what he left for Ling Luochen and Meng Hongchen.

Among his acquaintances, only those two were of the ice attribute.

After the ten-thousand-year-old Xuanbing marrow in the cave was completely looted by the one person and three soul beasts, the Snow Emperor looked around and sighed softly, "What a pity about this place."

"What's wrong?"

Ji Lin asked.

The Snow Emperor said, "The formation of any ten-thousand-year-old ice cave can be considered a gift from nature. This one is no exception. Unfortunately, it's not located on my far northern ice plains. The external temperature here makes it difficult to sustain the development of a ten-thousand-year-old ice cave. Otherwise, perhaps in just a few years, if we leave behind a little bit of ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow, more could be formed here again. If I'm not mistaken, this ten-thousand-year-old ice cave came here with the changes in the earth's crust, and it wasn't originally formed here. Even if we don't take away the ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow, it will gradually disappear with changes in the external temperature. Now that we don't have the ten-thousand-year-old ice marrow and the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, it won't be long before this place completely disappears."

Ji Lin nodded and said, "It is a bit of a pity, but our gains have already been substantial enough."

Xue Di glanced at Ji Lin and said, "It's time to leave. Your cultivation should be improving rapidly in the near future. It would be best to find some time to go into seclusion and cultivate for a while."

"Um."

Ji Lin nodded.

He didn't linger, emerged from the icy spring, and quickly swam away.

The ice spring outside was still cold, but it was different from when he arrived. Without the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow, it no longer posed a threat to Ji Lin.

Ji Lin returned to a position 25 meters from the spring and re-entered the cave containing the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal. He had not forgotten to mine the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.

Standing in the cave, a layer of white light began to emanate from Ji Lin's body.

This is one of the three wonders of the Snow Emperor, a domain-type skill: Emperor's Cold Sky - Snow Dance Shining in the Sun.

The Ice Emperor also granted him a domain-type skill, the Domain of Eternal Freeze, which can be combined with the Snow Emperor's Imperial Frost Heaven: Snow Dance Radiant Sun to produce an effect greater than the sum of its parts.

However, since it's just mining Ice Extreme Crystals, there's no need to use the Fusion Domain.

The Emperor's Cold Heaven - Snow Dance Shining Sun contained immense ultimate ice soul power, which quickly enveloped the entire cave. Instantly, the ice crystals inside the cave began to glow with an icy blue light, and Ji Lin began to mine them without any hesitation.

Without the ultimate ice soul power, even digging out a small piece of ice god crystal would come at a huge cost, and even a Limit Douluo would not be able to operate for a long time under such ultra-low temperatures.

Only Ji Lin can reduce the difficulty of gathering by relying on domain-type soul skills.

Otherwise, if we let him dig piece by piece, who knows how long it would take.

He continuously pulled pieces of Ice Extreme Crystals from the cave walls, preserving them intact and harvesting them effortlessly.

The Ice Extreme Crystal contains a large amount of ice-attribute elemental energy, but its surface is not cold.

(End of this chapter)