A graceful woman in white robes was waiting there for him.
When the light faded, Han Li faced Bai Yaoyi and quickly asked, “Fellow Daoist Bai, is it true you’ve found the Profound Ice Flower?”
Bai Yaoyi looked at Han Li and sweetly smiled, “Of course. Originally, I believed it would take a month to find one, but I didn’t expect that you would stir up the Grand Elder to take action. With so many people looking for the Profound Ice Flower, it is only natural that it was found quickly.”
Restraining the joy in his heart, Han Li said, “That’s great! Let’s go find it!”
Bai Yaoyi pursed her lips and smiled, “Of course. I’ve been waiting here to guide you. However, the discovered location of the flower is rather far away. It is already outside the range of North Night Island. The trip will take several days.”
Han Li bellowed with laughter and forthrightly said, “That’s nothing. So long as I can pluck the Profound Ice Flower, I wouldn’t make journeying for even a year. Let’s go!”
When Bai Yaoyi heard Han Li, she beamed a smile at him and remained silent.
The two didn’t delay in the slightest and soon left the Hidden Arctic Dragon Border and left the city to head north.
On the way, Bai Yaoyi explained the precise location of the Profound Ice Flower.
“The den of a group of Snow Rage Beasts?”
Bai Yaoyi nodded and said, “That’s right. When the disciple that discovered the Myriad Year Profound Ice, he was inattentive and was discovered by the Snow Rage Beasts. He was pursued over fifty kilometers and was heavily injured. He nearly died.”
“Oh? Then what grade are these Snow Rage Beasts?” Han Li asked with interest.
Bai Yaoyi smiled, “I fear that I must disappoint you. They are only grade-six beasts. I fear they aren’t enough to warrant your attention.”
“Then there really is no point in capturing them alive.” Han Li chuckled.
“However, once we leave North Night Island, we will be entering the Ice Sea, the domain of demon beasts. There are countless demon beasts here, and the farther we go from the island, the higher the grade of demon beasts we will encounter. Of course, several days of travel is nowhere near enough to encounter a grade eight demon beast. However, many fearsome demons lingered in the depths of the Ice Sea, including grade ten demons. Even the Grand Elder of the previous generation once spotted a grade ten Ice Phoenix possessing true ancient blood. This single beast possessed enough power to overtake most of the palace!” Bai Yaoyi said with a grave tone.
“A grade ten Ice Phoenix?” Han Li felt his heart jump.
“There is no need to worry. The establishing ancestor of the palace had an agreement with the most powerful demon beasts of the Ice Sea after fiercely battling with them. So long as we don’t wantonly attack the high-grade demon beasts of the ice sea, the high-grade demon beasts will not appear within a half million kilometers of North Night Island. Low-grade demon beasts aren’t subjected to these restrictions. As for the demons that have attacked our palace in the past, they all gathered from other regions of the Great Jin. If the Ice Sea Demons were to involve themselves, our palace would’ve been destroyed several times over. Our North Night Palace was able to flourish until now because of this.”
Following a moment of alarm, a smile appeared on Han Li’s face. “So it was like that? Does that mean there shouldn’t be any danger on our trip?”
Bai Yaoyi shook her head, “Not necessarily! An agreement is only an agreement. Occasionally, there will be high-grade demon beasts that are thrown into a range and will come charging towards the sect. As a result, there will be palace disciples that fall to demon beasts every year. It’ll be best to be careful.”
Han Li looked at the pure glaciers below him and indifferently said, “But this journey will only last several days. How could our luck fail us in such a short time.”
Soon after, his body flared with azure light and his speed increased.
In truth, Bai Yaoyi was only making conversation. But when she saw him, her eyes began to wander and her body flared with light as well, following Han Li closely.
On the way, they hadn’t discovered any trace of high-grade demon beasts. Additionally, they hadn’t spotted many low-grade demon beasts either.
After three entire days of continuous flight, they arrived at a huge glacial ravine.
Chapter 1087: Ice Fiend
“This is the lair of the Ice Rage Beasts?” Han Li glanced down at an unfathomably deep ravine in the ice and frowned. Biting glacial winds blew out from it without end.
Bai Yaoyi floated at Han Li’s side and looked around them. Then she confidently said, “That’s right, this is the place!”
“In that case, let’s have them come out!” Han Li nodded and formed a spell seal. His entire body flickered with light and specks of starlight emerged in front of him. Then with a crackle, they burst into scarlet fist-sized fireballs.
“Go!”
With a sweep of his sleeve, a wall of flame enveloped the fireballs and launched them into the ravine, soon disappearing from sight.
Han Li and Bai Yaoyi proceeded to stare down with complete focus.
A long while later, silence still filled the ravine. The sounds resulting from the fireballs’ eruption never occurred.
Han Li and Bai Yaoyi looked at each other with an odd expression.
Han Li stroked his chin and said, “They are only grade-six demon beasts. They shouldn’t be able to silently destroy the fireballs. It seems there is a more formidable beast down there.”
Bai Yaoyi wore a solemn expression, “It is possible! The disciple hadn’t tread deep into the ravine. They only saw the Profound Ice Flower from a distance before being discovered by the Ice Rage Beasts.”
“Hehe, that’s fine. I’ll just use my spirit beasts to draw them out,” Han Li said with an indifferent tone. He slapped his storage pouch and summoned a dozen white streaks that circled once around him. They were foot-long Six-winged Frost Centipedes, each possessing translucent wings and a fiendish appearance.
Han Li let out a low cry and pointed at the Six-winged Frost Centipedes in the air. The centipedes buzzed with joy and wrapped themselves in glacial light as they dived down.
Bai Yaoyi betrayed surprise, but she said nothing.
Han Li had no concern for the Six-winged Frost Centipedes. Even a grade-eight demon beast wouldn’t be able to escape them if they launched a joint attack.
And not long after, the sounds of battle echoed from the ravine, drawing closer, turning louder before the battle was dragged outside.
Han Li pursed his lips and silently waved his sleeve, releasing a dozen golden streaks from his sleeve. They turned into a dozen foot-long golden swords, floating still above the ice reveal as they sparkled with light.
Bai Yaoyi smiled, believing Han Li would be able to deal with the demon beasts with ease.
A short moment later, a series of monstrous roars sounded from below. Afterwards, a series of white mist blew out from them, containing eight snow-white lion-like beasts. They appeared extremely frightened as if they were fleeing for their lives.
They were the so-called Snow Rage Beasts.
He launched a sword seal without any hesitation, causing several of his swords to tremble and launch themselves forward, turning into dazzling three-meter-long streaks.
Like a flash of lightning, they slashed across the white mist and arrived before the beasts.
Before they could even respond, the swordstreaks coiled around them.
With several miserable screams, the beasts were cleaved into two and their corpses sank back into the pit.
Soonafter , a world-shaking roar rumbled from the ground, followed by a huge explosion. A dense wind shot out from the ravine’s depths.
Han Li narrowed his eyes and saw an enraged ten-meter-tall demon beast.
It appeared mostly the same as the Ice Rage Beasts, but its fur glistened with silver light and its body was an entire size larger.
“Yi! That isn’t a Snow Rage Beast. That’s an Ice Fiend!” Bai Yaoyi yelped in shock. “What is such a high-grade demon beast doing here?”
Han Li blinked and took no further action. A dozen white streaks then flew out from the ravine and spat icy Qi at the silver-furred beast.
Although the demon beast was only a grade-seven demon beast, it had no fear of the Six-winged Frost Centipedes’s attack. Rather, the attack only served to incite it further.
Han Li raised his brow and coldly snorted. He extended his finger and azure light flickered from its tip, commanding the flying swords above him to strike at the beast.
At the side, Bai Yaoyi suddenly said, “Please wait a moment! The Ice Fiend is a rare ice and wind attributed demon beast. It will be useful if I can capture it.”
Han Li gave her an easy smile. “In that case, I’ll handle it and save you the trouble!”
With that said, he spat out a ball of purple flames. Then, the flames let out a chirp, shaped into a lifelike foot-wide bird before fluttering towards the Ice Fiend.
When the dozen Six-winged Frost Centipedes saw the bird approach, they immediately scattered in fear, leaving the Ice Fiend alone in the vicinity.
Although the Ice Fiend still hadn’t gained higher awareness, it still possessed a trace of intelligence. Under these circumstances, it could tell the purple flame bird was fearsome and immediately swept up gale-force winds, which formed a hurricane to aid its escape.
Han Li let out a cold snort and a light glinted from his eye.
The beast immediately felt needles assailing its mind and it let out a howl as it fell from the air.
Han Li had launched at attack with his spiritual sense, using the Soulfright Thorn.
Although Han Li hadn’t used the full strength of this attack, his spiritual sense was still equivalent in strength to a late-Nascent Soul cultivator. It wasn’t an attack that the beast could withstand.
With the opportunity given, the purple flame bird arrived in front of the beast and circled it.
As a large crackle sounded, a large ball of purple mist of light surrounded the Ice Fiend and enveloped the beast's body.
The purple flame bird then immediately unfolded its wings and disappeared back into Han Li’s body.
After the purple mist of light disappeared, a thirty-meter-tall black of purple ice was revealed, sealing the Ice Fiend within it. The violent winds surrounding the beast had slowly subsided, and the block of ice crashed to the ground shortly thereafter.
To the side, Bai Yaoyi came to her senses after being stunned by the entire affair. She summoned a large hand of white Qi to lift the ice to her.
“Many thanks, Brother Han! I’ll take you up on your offer!” Bai Yaoyi sweetly smiled at Han Li and she flicked her ringer, producing a sparkling black spirit beast pouch.
She tossed the bag into the air and a mist flew out from it, wrapping around the huge block of ice and drawing into the pouch.
Seeing Bai Yaoyi’s satisfied expression, Han Li smiled and pointed to the Six-winged Frost Centipedes circling in the air. With a series of hisses, the centipedes let out balls of icy mist and instantly disappeared.
Bai Yaoyi was startled by the sight of this, but Han Li soon explained, “While I use the Profound Ice Flower to refine medicine, I don’t want any low-grade demon beasts to disturb us. The centipedes will be protecting us nearby."
Bai Yaoyi sweetly smiled and nodded.
The two soon flew down the huge ravine in streaks of light.
The ravine was pitch-black. Apart from icy winds continuously circling the two, it was reminiscent of the two entering the Yin Yang Cave over ten years ago.
But when they quickly arrived at the bottom, the crystalline walls of the ravine could be seen. They were formed from profound ice, suitable materials for ice-attributed magic tools. However, only myriad year profound ice could be considered a rare, top-grade tool refinement material.
Ordinary profound ice was beneath the notice of the two Nascent Soul cultivators.
But when the two arrived at the very end of the ravine, they spotted a crystal vein that emitted a white light. Although it was jagged, there was a point on it that was clearly myriad year Profound Ice.
Han Li’s eyes then focused on the three white flowers on the wall.
These small flowers were only the size of a fist and appeared to be common wildflowers. But their roots were dug into the myriad year profound ice and faint icy Qi continuously roamed around it.
“Three Profound Ice Flowers. This should be enough,” Han Li muttered.
“There is quite a bit of myriad year profound ice here. It appears that disciple made quite an accomplishment. I’ll have to make sure he is rewarded.” Bai Yaoyi examined the profound ice and wore a smile.
Han Li then turned to Bai Yaoyi and said, “I will be plucking the flowers immediately for pill concoction. I’ve already prepared the other materials. Will Fairy Bai be returning first?”
With some thought, she said with a warm tone, “How long will Brother Han need to refine the pills. Would it be better for me to take a look at our surroundings? We aren’t far from North Night Valley. With the appearance of the grade-seven Ice Fiend, I feel somewhat ill at ease. I’ll be taking this opportunity to look around.”
After a short pause, Han Li gave a word of warning, “That would be good. Be careful!”
“Don’t worry, I’m only doing this in case of contingencies. The grade seven Ice Fiend most likely came into the ravine unintentionally. This hadn’t happened before. I’ll be taking off!” Bai Yaoyi pursed her lips into a bewitching smile and streaked into the air.
Chapter 1088: Two Demons
When Bai Yaoyi left his sight, Han Li looked back down and observed the three Profound Ice Flowers.
After some contemplation, he slapped his storage pouch and summoned a dozen various colored streaks, attaching themselves into the surrounding crystal walls. A blue mist then completely enveloped the vicinity.
With that done, buzzing shook the air as a swarm of golden beetles flew out from Han Li’s body, disappearing into the mist as specks of light.
So long as nothing particularly powerful approached, the mist should be able to protect him as he refined the Profound Ice Pill.
Feeling at ease, Han Li raised his hand and summoned a fist-sized cauldron that sparkled with silver light. As it floated in front of him, he summoned a variety of wooden boxes and small bottles from his storage pouch onto the ground.
He then changed his focus to the three flowers.
He waved his sleeve, producing three golden streaks that wound around the flowers, carving out the myriad year profound ice they were attached to.
He then pointed to the ground and three foot-long jade boxes warped out from sight and oddly reappeared below the three flowers.
Seeing that the flowers were gathered without a problem, he formed a hand gesture with a satisfied expression on his face. He then launched a series of spell seals into the blue mist surrounding him. The mist roiled around him and massively expanded, soon submerging the entire ravine from sight.
Apart from the icy winds whistling in the ravine, there was only silence.
...
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The blue mist was exceptionally dense at the bottom of the ravine and showed no signs of dissolving.
Then, light flashed from the distant sky and three streaks arrived at great speed, appearing before the ravine in only a moment.
The streak of silver light at the front of the three appeared dim as if its owner had been injured.
The red and green lights following it appeared dazzling and overbearing.
It was clear the silver light was being pursued.
The silver light faded to reveal a gorgeous white-robed woman. Her complexion was pale and a layer of faint green Qi covered her. She was Bai Yaoyi who had last been seen three days ago.
She had somehow encountered mishaps and had
been pursued until now. Her bodies were also under the effects of a vicious poison that even a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator couldn't resist.
When she arrived above the ravine, she quickly looked down and saw a roiling blue mist. She let out a sigh, relieved by the sight.
At that moment, the red and green lights pursuing her were only a few hundred meters away. A man’s voice spoke from the green light, “What? You’ve decided to stop running, knowing how badly you’re poisoned? If you’ve decided to forfeit your life, then this lord won’t hesitate to take it!” The tone of the voice was sinister and harsh.
Bai Yaoyi coldly snorted and dived into the ravine, paying no attention to them. With several silver flashes, she vanished.
The two streaks of light rushed to the opening of the ravine, and the figure of a man and a woman can be glimpsed from within them.
The two looked down at the blue mist with some hesitation.
The two were metamorphosed demon beasts with fully awakened intelligence no lesser than that of a human.
They were bewildered as to why Bai Yaoyi stopped running and decided to hide in the restrictions below.
Just as the two through to use their spiritual sense to explore below them, white mist rolled around them, following the appearance of a dozen snow-white winged insects, all possessing a sinister appearance.
“Six-winged Frost Centipedes!” The woman within the red light trembled as she shouted with joy.
“Those are Six-winged Frost Centipedes?” The man in the green light shouted.
“That’s great! So long as we can devour these insects, we’ll be able to massively boost our cultivation through Yin Yang Convergence!” The woman bellowed with hoarse laughter and her body burst in flames, releasing a dozen fire serpents.
They were each a foot-long and each of them had wings on their backs. With flames trailing from their mouths, they aggressively pounced towards the centipedes.
For a time, flames and icy Qi clashed, producing deafening explosions.
At that moment, the red light disappeared to reveal the woman’s full appearance.
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