Chapter 1586: A Mysterious Lake (1/2)

“Nie Tian,” You Qimiao greeted him.

He had a haggard face, sunken cheekbones, and a dying appearance.

However, his eyes shone brightly like stars.

With Nie Tian’s current cultivation base and accomplishments, he could see through You Qimiao’s problem even if his true form wasn’t here. “Flesh aura...”

You Qimiao had been badly injured after losing his battle against Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory of the Demons.

His injuries were mainly to his body and god domain.

A human body was frail. Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory’s flesh power must have penetrated You Qimiao’s body, gnawing at him day and night, so he had to use his extreme cold power and extreme hot power to fight against Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory’s residual power from time to time.

Many years before, Fang Tianyi of the Fang Clan had been severely wounded during his battle against Grand Patriarch Blood Warden, Cardy of the Demons, and his Saint domain had been tainted with Cardy’s flesh aura, which had made him suffer a lot.

With Nie Tian’s help, the flesh aura had eventually been dealt with.

The so-called origin demon power within Cardy’s terrifying flesh aura, which had been so dreadful, had been from Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory, the master of the Blood Purgatory Sea.

Cardy had also been Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory’s descendant.

“Sure enough, it’s the exact same issue: the terrifying flesh aura of the Blood Purgatory Sea is corroding your god domain,” Nie Tian said after carefully examining You Qimiao for a while. “Sorry. You asked one of the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect elders to tell me how strong Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory was, and asked me to think of ways to deal with your injuries. But I had too much on my plate, so...”

After the battle against Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory, You Qimiao had retreated to the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect’s headquarters and silently healed his injuries.

He had used a strand of his soul awareness to record the details of his battle against Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory before he had arranged for an elder to find Nie Tian and show him the record, so that Nie Tian could know how terrifyingly powerful Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory actually was.

You Qimiao had done this because he had thought that after his defeat, Nie Tian would most likely be the only human who would have a chance at stopping Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory.

In addition, he had also told Nie Tian that the flesh aura that Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory had left in him had been damaging his body and god domain. If he had to deal with it himself, it would cost him far too much time and energy, so he had wondered if Nie Tian could help him.

Nie Tian had had a lot of work to do at that time, so he had told the elder that he would help later.

However, he had been preoccupied since then.

“It doesn’t matter,” You Qimiao said with an expressionless face. “The power Grand Monarch Eternal Purgatory has left can’t hurt my foundation. It’s just quite troublesome. However, I do have a keen interest in the mysterious cold lake in the human birthplace that you’ve talked about.”

At this moment, Yu Suying arrived with her junior martial sister Han Qing. “Nie Tian,” she said.

Han Qing, who was young, fair and pretty, had a distant temperament. She was currently at the early God domain.

Nie Tian’s true soul examined her carefully, and unexpectedly saw a strange scene in her spiritual sea in her dantian region. “Mm!”

He saw a familiar lake in her spiritual sea.

The lake was as smooth as a mirror and covered with cold white fog. Many mysterious ice patterns that contained incomparably profound principles and truths of ice could be seen on the frozen surface of the lake.

Nie Tian suddenly came to a realization, and stared at Han Qing in surprise. “Is that the Frigid Depths in the Domain of Frigid Depths, that transformed from the broken domain of Ice Emperor Xuan Yu? Have you merged what’s left of the Ice Emperor Xuan Yu’s profound meanings of ice into your spiritual sea, and made it a part of you?”

Han Qing, who usually wore a straight face and kept to herself, nodded slightly.

Yu Suying chuckled and said, “That’s all thanks to you. I knew that because of you, Grand Monarch Ice Bones, who had hogged the Frigid Depths, was suppressed by your master Wu Ji and carried away to an unknown land by his River of Time, so that we could enter the Domain of Frigid Depths, where the Extreme Coldness Palace was located, and thus find the Frigid Depths. To my surprise, my junior martial sister only sat quietly in the Frigid Depths for several days, and the whole Frigid Depths fused into her dantian and became a part of her.”

Nie Tian marveled at it, saying it was unbelievable.

The Frigid Depths had been transformed from Ice Emperor Xuan Yu’s broken god domain. Back in the day, Grand Monarch Ice Bones had regained his strength through the Frigid Depths and studied the extreme cold power that the Ice Emperor had left behind.