Chapter 93: Chapter 92: Cold Ice Structure

“Quite a kick!”

Wang Wu laughed happily in his heart.

He then slowly moved, crawling towards the poison fog core area.

This so-called poison fog core area was a circle with a radius of twenty meters surrounded by two Human Race cultivators. Although the isolating array had been removed, the residual radiation of the toxin was still much more intense than in other places, turning the ground a ghastly green.

Even in this place, those ground thorn tentacles had disappeared without a trace.

When Wang Wu entered this poison fog core area, he instantly felt his skin starting to sting all over, his Level 10 Danger Perception was screaming, and the feeling of numbness was returning.

At this rate, it would just take ten seconds for him to be paralyzed here again. If he were at full status and full satiety, Wang Wu wouldn’t really be afraid, but now he dared not linger for long. Instead, he quickly leaped forward, rushing to the spot where the two Human Race cultivators had set up their tent, and pried a fist-sized stone from the ground.

Then Wang Wu, as if escaping, jumped out of the poison fog core area, braving the dense attacks of ground thorn tentacles, and rushed to a tree fifty meters away. After three seconds of stillness, he entered Passive Concealment.

At this moment, his Life Value was already below 100 points.

However, it was all worth it. Although the stone was something those two Human Race cultivators were too lazy to recycle, for Wang Wu, it was extremely precious, even if it was just to glimpse a tiny secret of the Human Race Cultivation Realm.

Now, he was maintaining a lurking state while observing the stone, which was smooth on the surface, with beautiful natural patterns, and overall presented a dull indigo color.

This object was placed under that strange tent and should have a function similar to a supply-like Spirit Stone.

Wang Wu had clearly seen earlier that the senior brother glanced at this stone after packing up the strange tent and then left.

This detail doesn’t reveal too much information, but it is enough to prove three things.

First, this stone was once very valuable.

Second, this stone now does not have much value.

Third, this stone is not considered a precious item for Human Race cultivators, basically usable as a disposable battery, and once exhausted of its energy, it cannot be used again.

Wang Wu fiddled with it for a moment but couldn’t figure it out, so he tried a different approach by attempting to infuse it with Spiritual Qi.

But the result was self-evident.

It was simply impossible to infuse.

Because if it were really possible to infuse Spiritual Qi repeatedly, those Human Race cultivators, no matter how wealthy, would not discard it at will.

This is normal logic.

Wang Wu also couldn’t imagine an experienced adventurer in a perilous tropical rainforest ditching supplies that could be reused.

This has nothing to do with being wealthy, but is a fundamental adventuring discipline.

“Looks like this thing is really worthless, maybe I should just crush it and eat it.”

Wang Wu had a sudden idea and then laughed himself to tears, food can’t solve all problems, brother.

But just when he was about to give up, a thought struck him, since the regular Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi didn’t work, why not try Ice Spiritual Qi?

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, he acted. With a gentle tap of his left claw, a hint of Ice Spiritual Qi was unleashed, instantly turning the stone into a pit-marked, uneven, and incredibly ugly ice lump.

It still seemed there was no change; Ice Spiritual Qi couldn’t be infused either.

Wang Wu looked at the unsightly ice lump, unable to help thinking about the Deep Freeze released by Hei Youliang, so could the internal core of the stone be triggered through this ice structure?

For a moment, he was really imaginative, mainly because he was idle and bored, combined with an abundance of Ice Spiritual Qi, and most importantly, this was an object from the Immortal Realm, something with Cultivation Attributes; what if he could come up with some tricks, what if there was even a slight chance?

It’s the aftereffect of Earthlings reading cultivation novels; a native certainly wouldn’t act this way.

Anyway, fussing around wouldn’t deplete anything, right?

At this moment, Wang Wu was both clawing the stone while recalling the Deep Freeze structure he learned from Hei Youliang.

Even since he accidentally unlocked the fifth Bloodline Talent, he hadn’t had a chance to review it.

Now it could be considered a kind of rehearsal.

“Ding ding ding!”

As the claw lightly tapped, the stone emitted a faint metallic sound, very clear, very bright; just from this alone, it was evident that this was not an ordinary stone.

Wang Wu’s claw began to gradually exert force. According to the size of the force, he mobilized the Ice Spiritual Qi within, just as ink naturally flows out when writing with a pen.

This process was problem-free, this was part of the receiving and sending of Ice Spiritual Qi, which he had long mastered skilfully.

But now the issue was, he needed to condense, guide, and form an ice structure while releasing Ice Spiritual Qi, just like writing a square Chinese character with a pen.

Then Wang Wu understood how difficult it was.

Clearly, he had already recorded the ice structure entirely in his mind, but during the process of condensing and guiding, it wouldn’t listen.

It was like a seven-year-old child holding a pen, trying to write the character “bear”.

Was there a correct answer?

Yes, the character for “bear” is clearly and distinctly written there.

Can you copy it verbatim?

As long as you write it out, you can get full marks, but guess what? In the end, it looks like a drunken spider’s domineering bear post.

Really, it’s nothing.

Wang Wu’s current state is like this result. He failed to control the invisible pen, resulting in an instant leak of 12 points of Ice Spiritual Qi, freezing himself into an ice block, and simultaneously attracting a frenzy of Devil Vine attacks.

His Level 10 Passive Concealment State collapsed.

Luckily, the situation here is special, with trees covering the sky, making the Little Demons hesitant to go deep, and as for those mere Devil Vines, Wang Wu doesn’t even regard them as a threat.

Alright, it’s still a bit tricky. Wang Wu didn’t dare to retrieve the Ice Spiritual Qi, letting dozens of Devil Vines and a dozen barbed tentacles attack madly for a while, only then did he narrowly escape.

“This can’t be achieved in a short time, it requires long-term training.”

With this realization, Wang Wu began exploring the forest and found over a hundred colorful large mushrooms, a small pile of berries, and a dozen tubers similar to Yellow Ginger.

He cautiously devoured them like a little rodent, finally gathering enough to reach 300 Satiety.

With Satiety replenished, Wang Wu felt capable again.

And so he continued with the drunken spider’s domineering bear post…

This attempt was no better than the last, losing control in just a moment, with 11 points of Ice Spiritual Qi exploding, instantly freezing him into an ugly ice block and again triggering a monstrous Devil Vine attack.

A few minutes later, when the Devil Vines finally calmed down, Wang Wu started a new round of practice.

Honestly, finding such a unique, safe practice ground is very rare.

Moreover, he felt that after two failures, his control techniques were rapidly improving. After all, this wasn’t very difficult; the challenge lay in controlling the Ice Spiritual Qi.

Sure enough, on the third attempt, Wang Wu lasted a full minute, almost successfully condensing a big fluttering, clumsy snowflake on that stone, reaching nearly 30% completion!

Then he lost control again, but this time it didn’t turn Wang Wu into an ice block because a part of the Ice Spiritual Qi seemed effective, penetrating into the stone’s interior.

Wang Wu was overjoyed, feeling this was the dawn of his impending success, so even being wildly massaged by the Devil Vines was relished.

A moment later, he began the fourth attempt, feeling steady from the start, as if a miracle was about to be born before him with the control of the Ice Spiritual Qi finally taking shape.

Completion at ten percent!

Completion at fifty percent!

Wonderful!

“Swipe!”

Frost radiated, icy mist surged, and half of Wang Wu’s claw was frozen into a lump, losing control again.

However, this time the effect was better, with less than 5 points of Ice Spiritual Qi overflowing, the remaining completed part again seeping into the stone’s interior.

At this moment, the stone overall looked like a small basketball, though still uneven on the surface, it truly looked like a sphere, reflecting increasingly skilled control over the Ice Spiritual Qi.

Wang Wu, greatly encouraged, continued with the fifth and sixth attempts, achieving increasingly higher completion, and by the tenth attempt, he had condensed the Deep Freeze structure to ninety percent.

Now, he was fully confident that with one or two more tries, he could recreate such an ice structure.

But he unexpectedly found something odd with the stone because it had shrunk.

Originally the size of a fist, after being used as a target for ten attempts, it had shrunk to the size of a walnut.

“Is it erosion? But doesn’t seem like it.”

Wang Wu examined it carefully; now the stone no longer had its former dark blue color but leaned towards sky blue, resembling the blue snake scale on Hei Youliang’s chest.

It was beautiful, held in his paws, it could be mistaken for a priceless sapphire.

“So, was it too much injected Ice Spiritual Qi causing this? That can’t be it; pure Ice Spiritual Qi can’t be infused, it must be that ice structure!”

Wang Wu pondered seriously for a while, replaying the gains and losses of the first ten attempts multiple times until he thoroughly understood it, ready to begin the eleventh attempt.

He was very careful.

Because he’s not afraid of failure, only that a mistake in operation might destroy this wondrous stone, even though he doesn’t understand why it would change like this.

At this moment, his bear claw gently tapped, and the Ice Spiritual Qi within flowed like a spirit snake, released lightly and efficiently, not too much, not too little, neither rushing nor dragging. Wisps of frost arose, layers of ice flowers burst forth, and in just fifteen seconds, a maple leaf-sized crystal snowflake gracefully floated into being.

This is the scene seen from an external perspective, from an observer’s point of view.

But in Wang Wu’s own perspective, he didn’t even glance at the snowflake; he focused on the complete structure formed between the stone and himself, continuously operating.

It was so magnificent, so sensational, so mysterious and marvelous, even if it was like a seven-year-old child seriously writing the final stroke, it truly transcended Wang Wu’s understanding, surpassed his Realm, leading him into a whole new hall.

No expected shock, no light and shadow changes; at the moment of complete success, the crystal snowflake just gently and slowly drifted onto the stone, then transformed into a beautiful pattern imprinted upon it.

Success!

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