Chapter 1174 - Gift of the Ice Phoenix (1/2)
Chapter 1174 - Gift of the Ice Phoenix
Yun Che kept looking for Mu Xuanyin for a long while, but still didn’t find any trace of her.
He began to think of a possibility… Oh right! Right now, the Conferred God Battle is going on. Don’t tell me that Master is watching the battle through some star tablet?
Could it be that Palace Master Bingyun didn’t inform Master of my return?
Yun Che was too pressed for time. He had no choice but to disregard other things and fly straight towards the Heavenly Netherfrost Lake.
Chilly fog was circulating in the sky above, as an absolutely beautiful gaze silently watched Yun Che’s figure heading into the distance.
“Sigh,” she let out a faint sigh, and her complicated and melancholic voice contained a deep sense of helplessness. There were fluctuations emerging in her mind, which had always stayed quiet, because of him.
“Should I break his legs…?” she said to herself in a light tone.
The barrier around the Heavenly Netherfrost Lake was unable to block Yun Che. He passed straight through it, and went to the place that he was most familiar with in the God Realm. He let out a faint breath, before directly jumping into the heavenly lake, and rushed straight to the bottom of the heavenly lake.
The Heavenly Netherfrost Lake contained an inconceivably dense cold aura, but he only experienced the pleasantness of his body and soul feeling extremely refreshed. Countless cool and refreshing auras hurriedly gushed into his body. These auras could not only transform into his energy, they could also make his profound strength and injuries recover at an extremely fast rate. The Heavenly Netherfrost Lake was one of the most important reasons for his cultivation progressing so swiftly.
But at this moment, Yun Che didn’t have the composure to enjoy these comfortable and refreshing auras, as he moved straight downward with the fastest speed possible.
One hundred feet…
One thousand feet…
Ten thousand eight hundred feet…
Fifty four thousand feet…
All of a sudden, clear and crystalline blue light appeared in the originally completely dark underwater world. A blue light in the shape of an arc appeared in Yun Che’s line of sight, which was coming from the cold vein at the bottom of the lake.
Yun Che quickly slowed down, and very soon, his legs stepped on a layer of crystal-like fragmented sand.
Although he had stayed at the Heavenly Netherfrost Lake all day and night for such a long period of time, it was still only his second time coming to the lake bottom.
Following the direction of the arc shining with blue light, Yun Che walked ahead slowly. Very soon, a glittering and translucent block of ice, which was in the shape of a water nut, came into his line of sight. It was quietly embedded inside the azure world.
Within the ice block was the dreamy figure of a girl who was in a curled-up position. Her jadelike arms were wrapped around her knees, and her beautiful neck was buried in between her knees. There was not a single piece of clothing on her body. Her legs were fine as white gems, and long and thin. Her jadelike feet were small and exquisite like a lotus. Her snow white skin seemed as if it was made of jade, possessing the brilliance of moons and stars.
Passing through the light blue water, shining white light was spilling down, blocking her face as well as the most forbidden place on a girl’s body from the view of others.
“Yun Che… why have you come here?”
Yun Che stood quietly for a while, thinking how he should put the thoughts in his mind into words. Inside his mind, he had already heard the dreamy, lovely and delicate voice of the girl.
Under the heavens, it was solely Yun Che who knew that the girl within the ice crystal before his eyes, was actually the only True God from the Primordial Era, in the whole Primal Chaos dimension who wasn’t annihilated completely.
Although she could only depend on this last cold vein to drift through life, and was just a fine line away from being annihilated thoroughly.
“If there comes a day when you feel that your power has become strong enough, and your willpower and resolve are sufficiently firm to undertake a heavy responsibility in the face of great waves, you can come to look for me again. I’ll tell you all the truth there is…”
“Furthermore, I’ll bestow all of my energy to you.”
“…This is still the last thing I can do and also… the best ending for myself that I could think of.”
Back then, she had personally said these words to him.
He had no idea what the “great waves” or “heavy responsibility” that the ice phoenix girl had mentioned were, so it was even more impossible for him to have sufficient “willpower” and “resolve”, but right now he was in urgent need of power… He required something that could quickly increase his power in a short period of time.
Having calmly pondered for a while, Yun Che finally opened his mouth, “Ice Phoenix Divine Spirit, I’ve come here… to make a very selfish request. I want to ask you to… bestow me some of your power.”
“…Why?” the girl inquired. Her voice was still so soft, as if he was hearing it in a dream.
“I… want to see a person. There are some things that I want to tell her to her face. I want to make her see my determination, and also… I want to be strong enough to be able to protect her someday,” Yun Che said in an incomparably serious tone. “I need enough strength to be able to meet her. If I fail to fulfill this wish of mine, I’ll certainly regret it for the rest of my life. Therefore, I ask you to help me.”
It was completely quiet in the azure world.
After a long time passed, the girl let out a light sigh, “I’m sorry, but I’m unable to agree to that.”
Yun Che, “…”
“Dividing my power will shorten the period of my existence, and I must exist until ‘that day’ comes. If you make a similar request on ‘that day,’ I’ll bestow you everything I have without the slightest hesitation… But I can’t agree to do so right now just for your selfish reasons. I hope that you don’t think badly of me.”
“…” Yun Che’s chest heaved slightly, but he wasn’t surprised or disappointed. He also didn’t continue to demand insistently, and smiled faintly instead, “It was certainly too selfish of me to make such a request. It’s only natural for you to not agree. I apologize for disturbing your peaceful sleep. I’ll try to look for other methods.”
Yun Che wasn’t surprised in the least by the refusal of the ice phoenix girl. When he was preparing to leave, the light and soft voice of the girl called him to stop, “Wait a moment… I may not be able to divide my power right now, but I can give you a part of my divine soul.”
Yun Che turned around as he revealed a look of surprise on his face.
“Although that would be equivalent to shortening the period of my existence too, I’d still have enough strength to exist until that day.”