Marrow Beneath the well, countless icy currents, carrying extremely low temperatures, attempted to penetrate the silkworm's molted shell, relentlessly drawing heat from Huo Yuhao's body.
However, the million-year-old ice silkworm's molted shell acted as a speed bump, crushing everything in its path.
The sound of water entering again came from behind. Su Tong, covered in a layer of extreme ice soul power, followed closely behind Huo Yuhao.
The two swam one after the other down the well.
As they descended, the temperature dropped lower and lower. Huo Yuhao, protected by the silkworm's molted shell, couldn't sense it, but Su Tong clearly felt the temperature approaching the extreme of ice.
Her soul power surged, her spiritual power rejoiced, and the surrounding extreme ice energy began to actively enter her body, transforming into soul power.
This was her sacred cultivation ground.
Since neither of them feared the extreme cold, their descent was rapid. Huo Yuhao arrived at the cave location marked by his spiritual power.
His hand explored the well's stone wall, finally finding a protrusion on the smooth rock face—the mechanism to open the cave.
According to the description from his previous life, the protrusion wasn't pressed down first, but rather pulled up, leaving a dent in the stone wall on the other side.
Huo Yuhao gestured for Su Tong to press it down, and Su Tong understood immediately, following the instructions.
Finally, he pressed the protrusion down again, completing all the steps.
Once the mechanism was fully activated, the stone wall trembled slightly, and a portal large enough for one person to pass through quietly opened.
Huo Yuhao pointed to the portal and then swam over. He originally wanted to communicate with Su Tong using his spiritual power.
However, the extreme icy energy here greatly hindered the transmission of spiritual power; simply put, the signal was poor.
Behind the portal was a cold current even colder than outside, but there was no water behind it, only an empty cave. The cave walls were all covered with a magnificent, icy blue metal.
This metal was the strongest ice-attribute metal—Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, also a natural soul-forging metal that could be found at this time.
In truth, Huo Yuhao remained skeptical about whether the forging techniques of the Dragon King Legend era could be replicated in the Peerless Tang Sect era.
After all, forgers today were still called blacksmiths, and Huo Yuhao had never heard of any spirit-forged works by the current master craftsmen.
Even the rules of Douluo Star in the two eras might be different, since Tang Hao was already in power at that time.
It was entirely possible for him to modify the planet's records related to forging.
Huo Yuhao touched the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals; even with the silkworm molt protecting them, he could still feel a chill.
He concentrated his soul power in his hand, grasped a piece of Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, and tried to tear it off, but it was useless.
These metals were too hard; currently, the only effective damage Huo Yuhao could inflict on them was his divine might.
Huo Yuhao took a few steps back and said to Su Tong, who had just entered,
"Su Tong, use your ultimate ice soul power to communicate with these ice crystals."
"You should be able to mine them easily."
Su Tong tucked her mask to the side, nodded seriously, gathered her ultimate ice soul power in her palm, and placed it on the ice crystal.
A feeling of closeness was transmitted to Su Tong's heart through her soul power, and then she pulled her palm outward, successfully mining a large piece of ice crystal.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao took out two brand-new storage soul tools and handed them to her.
"Put all the ice crystals in here."
"Anyway, no one wants them."
"Yes, teacher!"
Su Tong took the soul tools and began quickly mining the ice crystals on the rock wall.
The ice crystals here varied in quality; some possessed souls, some did not.
Of course, Huo Yuhao didn't discriminate; he took them all home, big or small.
When both storage soul tools were almost full, there were practically no more ice crystals left in the cave.
Without the Ice Crystal, the energy membrane outside the cave began to dissipate, and it wouldn't be long before the cave was filled with well water.
"Let's go deeper; the real treasures are yet to come!"
After looting the Ice Crystal, Huo Yuhao returned to the well water and continued to venture deeper.
Su Tong began to shiver from the cold; the biting chill was unbearable even for someone as icy as her.
She gritted her teeth and continued following her teacher until he stopped, revealing a deep blue spring before her.
"You can't go any deeper. You can't handle the temperature there. I'll go myself."
A surge of mental energy suddenly appeared in Su Tong's mind, her teacher's voice echoing in her spiritual sea.
Due to the interference of the icy energy, Huo Yuhao had to increase his mental output to barely maintain contact with Su Tong.
"Yuhao, the temperature of that spring is extremely low!"
"My silkworm molt might not be able to completely protect you."
Huo Yuhao shook his head. He had his own way of passing through the spring. Propelled by his telekinesis, Huo Yuhao plunged into the spring.
Just as the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm had said, the silkworm molt truly couldn't completely withstand such extreme cold. Huo Yuhao immediately activated the Reversal Technique. The
surrounding icy energy transformed into fiery energy.
The two energies clashed, and protected by the silkworm molt, Huo Yuhao successfully passed through the entire spring without hindrance.
Finally, they arrived at a small cave, where the temperature was frigid.
The cave walls were covered with strangely shaped, pure white icicles.
In Huo Yuhao's spiritual detection, the energy contained within any one of these icicles was no less than that of a single immortal herb.
It just lacked the various miraculous effects of an immortal herb.
"Yuhao, this is truly Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow!"
"One, two, three…"
"There are forty-five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow here!"
"This is a huge windfall!"
"If the Ice Emperor or the Snow Emperor saw this Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, they would definitely go mad!"
"This is enough for them to break through this and even the next life-limit."
"Yuhao, leave the rest to me. I'm familiar with how to handle Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow."
With that, the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm released its spiritual power, enveloping the forty-five pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. Then, they detached from the cave wall, shrank in size, and connected to form a uniquely shaped necklace.
"Alright, just put this back into your storage soul tool; the energy won't leak out."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's voice betrayed her weakness; dealing with so much Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow was no easy task for her.
After Huo Yuhao put the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow necklace back into his storage soul tool, he immediately left the cave, losing these treasures.
The cold spring began to collapse, turning into an ordinary spring. Before long, the surrounding extreme ice energy would dissipate.
Su Tong saw the changes before her eyes and sensed the decline of the extreme ice energy, realizing that her teacher had succeeded.
Sure enough, Huo Yuhao's figure quickly appeared in her field of vision, and then he grabbed her and quickly swam upwards.
"Splash~"
Two splashes echoed throughout the backyard as Huo Yuhao and Su Tong stepped back onto land.
Night was beginning to break, and Nan Qiuqiu in the distance was still fast asleep, silent and with enviable sleep quality.
Huo Yuhao left some rare medicinal herbs and a ten-thousand-year soul bone he had obtained from Yu Hongzhi beside the well.
This thing never had a chance to be used, so it was left to the Earth Dragon Gate as a reward.
After doing all this, Huo Yuhao pulled Su Tong and dissipated into the space with his divine power.
Actually, Nan Qiuqiu had already woken up, but she was bound by Su Tong's ultimate ice and her mouth was gagged.
She could only helplessly look at the dark sky and listen to the sound of her treasure being taken away.
Two lines of humiliating tears involuntarily streamed down her face.
(End of this chapter)
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