Black Icestone
Thinking, Yang Xiao muttered, “It is a nightmare dragon,” before returning to Ancestral Dragon Ring.
Yang Tian tensely watched Yang Xiao leave. Fighting with the snake would alert everyone in the vicinity.
The nightmare dragon dove toward Yang Tian for the kill. Yang Tian knew his best option was to flee, and flee he did. The nightmare dragon stabbed Yang Tian’s afterimage when he took off. Then, it flapped its wings to blow a tornado after him. Had it not been for his aptitude with Unfettered Omnidirectional Steps allowing him to conjure clones, Yang Tian would’ve already been caught.
Seeing Yang Tian’s troubled expression, Yang Xiao laughed and teased, “Don’t kill the nightmare dragon. Anger their race’s adept, and you’ll have even more problems on your plate. Every member of their race has unique symbols. Once you slay one, a stronger one will come for you. Jump into the dark river up ahead and swim across.”
The suggestion rendered Yang Tian dumbfounded. He didn’t like the idea of jumping into the ice-cold river he hadn’t been close to before. Nevertheless, hearing the hiss and detecting the encroaching energy behind him, he dove into the river.
The enraged nightmare dragon went on a rampage around the river to search for Yang Tian.
“Hahaha, dork, hurry up and use your cultivation method unless you want to freeze to death.”
Yang Tian shut his pores and ran Dao Sutra to circulate his qi and blood again, relieving him of the cold. Having calmed down, he scanned the area with his crimson eyes. He then entered his body shrouded in a rainbow mist. The dao recital in his organs impacted the water surface around him because Dao Physique absorbed the cold energy to convert into qi and blood. Of course, that benefitted him.
Yang Xiao explained, “That’s Dao Sutra for you, using one’s body as a furnace to refine their qi and blood. It’ll do you a lot of good if you cultivate here for a long time.”
It didn’t take long for Yang Tian’s body temperature to boil the water. As a result, he had to sink over sixty metres deeper to expose himself to lower temperatures. He repeated the procedure before stopping at six hundred and sixty-six metres deep for that was his limit. “I do not have much time left; I cannot waste time here.”
“I’ll wrap you in my green flames so that you can explore deeper down. I’m sure there’s a catalyst down there.” Yang Xiao did as he said, boiling the water around Yang Tian.
Yang Tian took in a deep breath and armed himself with Star Pagoda in case he ran into trouble.
It was completely dark down there. The green flames started to wane several kilometres down. The water also stopped burbling. Battle Emperor’s would unlikely survive. At sixteen thousand five hundred kilometres deep, Yang Tian couldn’t stand the temperature, so Yang Xiao had to increase his output.
Eventually, Yang Xiao spotted a black boulder the size of four millstones. The patterns on it were black. “It’s Black Icestone!”
Black Icestone was a unique, rare and cold type of rock. This one was bigger than any Yang Xiao had seen before. The biggest one he saw up to this point was two-fists’ big.
Yang Tian could feel the cold energy from afar – bearing in mind he still had Green Celestial Flames enveloping him. Out of the blue, the boulder flew up to flee, demonstrating sentience. Yang Xiao grabbed it while Yang Tian was busy screaming his lungs out in amazement.
Yang Xiao smiled. “I don’t know how much it went through, but you’re right. That said, it has only just acquired its intelligence, which explains why it doesn’t know how to attack.”
Yang Tian: If only it was a divine material.
“It’s a product of nature. It must’ve absorbed the energy from the river for years; that’s my guess on how it acquired intelligence.” Yang Xiao stowed the boulder inside Ancestral Dragon Ring.
Xiaobai and Xiaoqing jolted when they saw the boulder appear. Xiaoqing swiftly flew over and scratched it.
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